The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-20 00:00:00

RESERVE FORCE of ROYAL NAVAL
VOLUNTEERS.
LEAVE FOR LONG VOYAGES—Special Leave for
Voyages exceeding Six Months will be granted to ALL
VOLUNTEERS on the following Conditions :-
I.—The Leave is to be for one Ship, and for one Voyage only
at a time, and to be renewed for each Voyage. The Ports
or Countries at which the Ship is to touch must be all
specified, or if any of these are not specified the Voyage
must be limited by the Articles to Twelve Months.
2.—The Volunteer must have completed his Twenty-Eight
Days' Drill for the Year before the Leave will be given.
3. On an Emergency the Reserve may be called out for Ser-
vice at Home or Abroad. If the Volunteer is then abroad,
he must, if summoned, join any of H. M. Ships abroad;
under the same penalties, in case of refusal, as in case of
refusal to join in the United Kingdom.
4.—The arrears of Retainer due will be paid on the Volun-
teer's return in the Ship for which Leave is given.
s.—The Admiralty reserve power to withhold this Leave if
at any time on an Emergency the Volunteers a,:e required
for the defence of the Country. They also reserve pomer
to withhold the Leave' at the end of each Volunteer's
first' Five Years of Service, when he may, if he pleases'
quit the force.
6.—Subject to these Reservations, it is the intention of the
Admiralty to grant Leave upon the above Conditions for
the first Ave Years of the Service of each Volunteer who
joins the Reserve under the present Regulations.
AGE OF ADMISSION.
During the Year 1860 the Age of Admission will be extended
from 35 to 40.
For further Information apply to a Shipping Master.
Board of Trade, Whitehall,
December 12th, 1859.

CONTRACTS FOR RUM, SOAP, SUGAR, PEPPER,
AND SPLIT PEAS.

Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and
Transport ServiceS, Somerset-house,
17th December, 1859.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the
OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED
KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO
HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on THURSDAY,
the 29th instant, at Half past One o'clock, they will
be ready to treat with such Persons as may be Willing. to
CONTRACT for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's
Victualling Stores at Deptiord the undermentioned articles,
viz..—

RUM
SOAP
SUGAR l5O tons.
PEPPER
SPLIT PEAS BOO quarters.
. .

When to be delivered—Half of each in three weeks, Rai
the remainder in three weeks afterwards, or earlier if pre-
ferred by the party tendering.
Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of the
articles. _ .

Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when
the tenders are opened, of contracting either for the whole,
or for such part thereof only as they may deem fit, or for a
greater quantity, or of not contracting for any, and also an
unlimited power of selection.
The Rum, tigar, and Pepper, to be exempted from the
Customs' duties, and parties tendering are to state where they
are respectively lying.
Samples of the Rum to be sent in pints for each import mark,
and the average strength of each mark ex to be stated,
and not an average of different marks or strengths of several
imports, and any parcel of Rum that is found not to be of the
same quality, mark, or average strength of the sample ten-
dered and accepted, will be rejected by the officers.
Samples of the Soap (not less than a bar), of the Pepper
(not less than two pounds), and of the Peas (nof less than
two quarts), must be produced by the parties tendering.
Each tender for Sugar must specify the mark and landing*
number of each cask or package, the ship in which imported,
and the country or place of its growth or produce, and an
average Sample (not less than 2lbs for each import mark) must
be produced by the parties tendering, and not an average of
different marks or several imports ; and any parcel that is
found not to be of the same mark or average quality as the
samples tendered and accepted, will be rejected by the officers.
The samples produced by persons whose tenders are not ac-
cepted, are requested to be taken away by them immediately
after the Contracts have been decided.

No tender will be received unless made on the printed
form provided for the purpose, and which may be obtained on
application at the said office, or to the officer conducting the
Packet Service at Liverpool, or to the Collector of Customs at
Bristol.
Particular attention is called to the recent modification of
the conditions of the contract, which may be seen at the said
office, and at Liverpool and Bristol.
No tender will be received after Half-past One o'clock on
the day of treaty, and it will not be required that the party
tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should attend at the
Office on the day of Contract, as the result of the offer received
from each person will be communicated to him and his
proposed sureties,in writing.
Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words" Ten-
der for ," and must also be delivered at Somerset-
house.