The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1861.

CONTRACT FOR PIG LEAD.
Department of the Storekeeper-G eneral
of the Navy,
Somerset-place, 29th Jan., 1861.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the
OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED
of GREAT RTAIN IRELAND DO
HEREBY KINGDOM
GIVE NOTICE, and
That on TUESDAY,, the
12th February next, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat
with such Persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for
supplying her Majesty's Dockyard at Chatham with

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PIG LEAD,
under a contract for six months certain, and further until the
expiration of three months' warning.
A form of the Tender may be seen at the said office. No
tender will be received after Two o'clock on the day of
treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party attends, or an
agent for him duly authorised in writing.
Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words
" Tender for PIG LEAD," and must also be delivered at
Somerset-place, accompanied by a letter signed by two re-
sponsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person
tendering, in the sum of £lOOO for the due performance
of the Contract.

CONTRACTS FOR FRESH BEEF, MUTTON, BREAD,

VEGETABLES, &e.,

For the Royal Marine Infirmaries at Woolwich and Chatham.

ADMIRALTY, 28th January, 1861.
rHE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the
-I- OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED
KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO
HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on TUESDAY, the 26th
February next, at half-past One o'Clock, they will be ready
at the Office of the Director General of the Medical Depart-
ment of the Navy, Somerset-place, in London, to treat with
such Persons as may be willing to Contract for the supply
of all such quantities of all or any of the following articles as
shall from time to time be required for the use of either one
or both of the Royal Marine Infirmaries at WOOLWICH
and CHATHAM, from the Ist day of April next to the 31st
day of March, 1862, viz. :
BEEF and MUTTON,
BREAD,
MILK,
tirL~'lA S.
Samples of the Soap, together with the conditions of the
Revised Contracts, to which particular attention is called,
may be seen at this Office or by applying to the Purveyor at
the Infirmaries at Woolwich and Chatham.

No Tender will be received after half-past One o'clock on
the day of treaty, nor any noticed, unless the party attends,
or an agent for him duly authorised 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-
place, accompanied by a letter signed by a responsible per-
son, engaging to become bound with the person tendering in
the sum of £lOO for the due performance of the Contracts for
Beef and Mutton, for Bread and for Vegetables, and in the
sum of £5O for each of the others.

NOTICE.-BUCKLEYS' SERENADERS.-
LAS r WEEK but TWO of the Season, owing to.
several Provincial Engagements entered into previous to
their appearance in London. The Programme will be changed
every week so as to enable them to produce all their most,
Popular Novelties, the 3urlesque Operatic Selections will be
varied, ineluding " Lucrezia Borgia,' "Cenerentola," " Tro-
vatore," and "La Sonnambula." Doors open every night at,
half past Seven. A Day Performs.nce every Wednesday and.
Saturday. Doors open at half-past Two. Stalls, 35.; Area,
2s. ; Gallery, ls.
St. James's Hall, Piccadilly,
19th January, 1861.

MR. W. S. WOODIN'S NEW ENTERTAIN-
MENT, the CABINET of CURIOSITIES, POLY-
GRAPHIC HALL, King Wil iam-street, Charing-cross,
TO-NIGHT, and EVERY EVENING (except Saturday), at
Eight. Private boxes, £1 ls. ' • Stalls and box stalls, 3s. ;
area. 2s. ; amphitheatre, ls. A plan of the stalls may be
seen, and seats secured (without extra charge), at the Box-
office, from 10 till 4. Morning Performance, Saturday, Jan.
19.

EVANS'S Magnificent MUSIC and SUPPER
ROOMS, Covent-Garden. MACKNEY has returned
to this Establishment. Suppers as usual after the Theatres.

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. -ARG Y L L
ROOMS.—GRAND MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT
with the Celebrated BAND, Forty in number (established
eleven years), chosen from the Philharmonic Concerts, Royal
Italian Operas, and the Household Troops. Conducted by
Mons. Lamotte. Cornet-a-piston, M. Boulcourt.—Dancing
at Nine o'clock.—is. admission.

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS,
High Holborn.—The most elegant entertainment in
the world. The dancing area is most extensive. The reading
and smoking rooms on either side of the spacious galleries are
replete with every comfort, and the refreshment rooms at-
tached to the ball room are unrivalled even by Oriental
beauty. The wines and refreshments are of the highest qua-
lity, and the band, conducted by Mr. Packer, stands alone for
its excellence. Admission, is. 1

O rICE 0 DIVIDEND. -BAVIIL. OF
DEPOSIT (Established A.D., 1844), No. 4Firlf-inall
East, London, S.W.—The WARRANTS for the HALF-
YEARLY INTEREST, at the rate of 5 per cent:per annuiy t
on Deposit Accounts, to the 31st u't., are now READY for de-
livery, and payable daily between the hours of 10 and 4.
PETER MORRISON, Managing Director.
January, 1861.
Prospectuses and forms sent free on application.

RIIPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.
WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS
is allowed by upwards of 200 Medical Gentlemen to
be the most effective invention in the curative treatment of
HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its
effects, is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the
body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the
Moe-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease
and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn
during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had,7 and the
truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir-
cumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being
sent to the manufueturer,

Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly.
A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, is.
A. Double Truss. 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, is Bd.
An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. C€l. Postage, is. 10d.
Post-office Orders to be made payable to John Witite,lPost-
office, Piccadilly.

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.I±4 Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of
the Legs, Sprains, &c. They are porous, light in texture,
and inexpensive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking.
Price 3s. 6d., 7s. 6c1., 10s., and 16s. each. Postage 6d.
JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly.

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TILE NAVY.

Rear-Admiral R. Smart has been ordered to hoist
his flag in the Princess Royal.
Her Majesty's steam storeship Rhadamanthus,
Master Commander Sturdee, sailed from Woolwich
yesterday, with a cargo consisting of two steam
boilers and some small gear, for the screw steam-
ship Black Prince, 36, to be launched at Glasgow
on the 12th of next month. The plates for casing
the sides have been manufactured at the forges of
Messrs. Napier, at Glasgow. The Rhadamanthus
also shipped the four huge cables recently employed
in launching the Warrior to assist the launch of
the Black Prince.

The iron paddlewheel despatch vessel Caradoc,
Lieut. and Commander. M. Buckle, in commission
sinee March, 1858, was yesterday taken into basin
at Woolwich from the Mediterranean to be stripped
and paid off.

The new screw steamsloop Serpent, having
received her masts and rigging at Woolwich, yes-
terday proceeded to Sheerness under her own
steam, in command of Mr. Hall, for the ordinary
at that station.

The new screw steamsloop Chameleon, 17 guns,
fitted out at Woolwich, was yesterday hauled out
into the river in a forward state for commission.

The Myrtle has commenced shipping a cargo of
Armstrong shells from Woolwich for Portsmouth.
The Affiance has sailed from. Woolwich Arsenal
laden with the new armament for Broughty
Castle, Dundee. The Spirit is under orders to load
with military stores from Woolwich for Alderney.
The 'Alguina yesterday commenced shipping a new
armament for Holy Island, Llandisfarne, and am-
munition for Leith; and the following transports
have been chartered by the War Department to
load with war stores from Woolwich for foreign
stations :—The Dunsandle, Earl of Carlisle,Knight
Bruce, Packfield, Diadem, Southern Cross, Nimrod,
Sebastian, Black Prince, Persian, Fortitude, Anne
Lucy, Broadwater, James Holmes, Candahar, and
Northfleet. The steamer Stella yesterday went
alongside the Arsenal pier to ship stores for Malta,
Steam was got up yesterday on board the gun-
boat Lark,in Hamoaze, to try her machinery.

Three guns have been landed from the screw
steam frigate Narcissus, 51, Captain Risk, flag of
Rear-Admiral Sir B. Walker, in Keyham steam
yard, and have been replaced by three on the Arm-
strong principle—viz., one 100-pounder and three
42-pounders. A considerable number of hands paid
off from the Royal Albert, 121, have joined the
Narcissus, which only wants about 30 able seamen
to complete her crew.
The paddlewheel steamer Geyser, 6, Commander
G. M. Jackson, arrived in harbour at Chatham on
Monday evening, with a party of 70 Royal Marines
on board, under the command of First Lieut. C. F.
Daly, and First Lieut. R. J. Pascoe, from the Royal
Albert, 121, at Plymouth, to join head-quarters.
After landing the Marines at the dockyard the
Geyser immediately proceeded to the Nore to tow
the Trincomalee, 24, which had left Chatham that
morning, to Sunderland, to serve as a training ship
for the volunteers belonging to the naval reserve at
that port.
Yesterday the shipwrights at Chatham dockyard
commenced fixing the false keel for the line-of-
battle screw steamer Bombay, 81, in the 4th dock,
undergoing alterations from a sailing ship to a
screw steamer. She is expected to be completed
andl undocked before the close of the present finan-
cial( year.
The discharge from the Devonport Dockyard,
Feb. 23, will include 8 smiths, 2 millwrights, 2
saw yers, 28 labourers,B joiners, and 44 shipwrights,
in a 11 92 men.

The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Thos, H. Fraser, master,
to the Pembroke, for the Coastguard; John E.
Gag •e, master's assistant, to the Geyser; Henry F.
Alit irich, assist-paymaster, to the Princess Royal ;
Art hur W. Wade, assist.-paymaster, to the Hogue;
and Charles Langley, assist.-clerk, to the Princess
Ro:fal.