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London, England, 1868-09-07 00:00:00

Brighton.
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WESTERN.
Commissariat Office, 20, East Emma-place, Stonehonse,
Plymouth.
Plymouth, Devonport, Tre-
gantle and Scracsdon Forts,
Maker Barracks and Heights.

Bristol and Horneld.
Exeter and Topsham.

SOUTH-W
Commissariat Office, St. T 1
Dorchester.
Portsmouth and Hilsea.

_ ON.
ictoria-street, London, S.W.
4. Hyde Park, Kensington,
Regent's Park, and Horse
Guards.
5. Sandhurst.
6. Windsor,
CHATHAM.
Commissariat Office, Barracks, Chatham.
Chatham.
WOOLWICH.

'ESTERN.
homas-street, Portsmouth.
Chichester.
I Netley.

LONI
Commissariat Office, na, Vi
1. Enfield.

2. Hampton Court.
3. Hounslow, including En-
campments on the Heath,
and Smeller Hall.

Commissariat Office, Itoyal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich, S.E
Maidstone. _ I Warley.
Shoeburyness. Woolwich.
Forms of tender and conditions of contract may be obtained
on application at the above offices, by letter addressed to the
Senior Commissariat Officer of the district, or in person, between
the hours of ten and four o'clock, and no tender will oe enter-
tained unless made upon the form so maintained.
Tenders on the printed' forms must be properly filled up and
signed, and no Tender will be noticed unless delivered at the dis-
trict office, under closed envelope marked " Tender" on the out-
side), before twelve o'clock noon on the 29th September.

LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.—AN
EFFECTUAL REMEDY, without confining the
bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant,
is admitted to be the best medicine for immediately re-
lieving cougbs, cold,, confirmed eases of asthma,, and inci-
pient consumption. It frequently cures persons whom the
faculty pronounce incurable, and admirably allays the
ticking which provokes frequent coughing. In approach-
ing consumption its effects are truly beneficial. Persons
deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffoca-
tion, may depend on relief in a few minutes after taking it.
Prepared only and sold by W. LAMBERT, Chemist, 8,
King William-street, Charing-cross, London, and by all
druggists, in bottles, 13d., an three quantities in one,
2s. 9d. each. Be particular, and ask for Lambert's Asth-
matic Balsam. The name and address are engraved on the
stamp.

SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS.
ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library,
and Dining-room, consisting of a new and elegant as-
sortment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obe-
lisks, Inkstands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper Weights,
&c., in Italian, Alabaster, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derby-
shire Spar, &c. Imported and manufactured by JAMES
TENNANT, Mineralogist to her Majesty, 149, Strand,
W.C., London.
Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of ROCKS,
MINERALS, and FOSSILS to illustrate the new edition
of Lyell's Elements of Geology ; they will greatly facili-
tate the interesting: study of MINERALOGY and
GEOLOGY, and can be bad at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 500
guineas each.
PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and
MINERALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT, F.G.S., at
149, Strand.

RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.
VVIIITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS
(Perfected and Exhibited in the Great Exhibitions
of 1851 and 1862) is allowed by upwards of Five Hundred
Medical men to bo 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 requi-
site resisting power is supplied by the lioc-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, and the truss, which can-
tot fail to fit, forwqzdel by post, on the circumference of
the body, two inches below tho hips, being sent to the
manufacturer,
Mr. JOIN WHITE, 228, Piccadilly, London.
A Single Truss, 165., 215., 263.6 d., and 31s. 6d. Postage,
Is. A Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage,
ls. Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage,
ls. 10d.
Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White,
Post-office, Piccadilly.

NEW PATENT
VLASTIC STOCKINGS,
KNEE-CAPS, &c., for 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 4s. Gd., 7s. 6d.,
10s., and 16s. each. Postage, Gd.
JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly.

(ENE HUNDRED & SEVENTY DESTITUTE
ORPHA.N CHILDREN are being maintained in the
ROYAL ALBERT ORPHAN ASYLUM, at the moderate rate
of £25 per annum each. Funds greatly needed.
CHARLES A. WALKER, Secretary.
Office, 54, Cheapside, London, P.O

FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON
FIrMALC PREVENTIVI4 d REFORMATORY IN
STITUTION.

President—Rev. CANON DALE.

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CONTRIBITTIMTS for the support of the Homes in 1868 are ear-
nestly solicited, which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. Blon-
quet, Salt, and Co., 73, Lombard-street, E.C.; Francis Nicholls,
Esq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, 16.0.
E. W. THOMAS Sec., 200, Euston-road, N.W.

GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL,
Caledonian-road, Islington, N.
Supported by Voluntary Contributions.
This Hospital has relieved 481,951 patients since it was
established at King's-cross in 1856. Patients aro admitted
free.
Bankers—Messrs. Barnet, Lloyds, and Co. 60, Lombard-
street, Messrs. Ransom and Bouverie, 1,
Sec., I • Smith. Esa. GEO. REID, Sec.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Groat Northern
Railway Terminus, King's Cross.
Patron—Her Most Gracious MAJESTY the QvtEN.
Vice-Patron—
His Royal Highness the Princo of WALES, K.G.
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President-Lifis Grace the Duke of BIICCLECH, K.G.

J. a. • • •
This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to
establish the principle of free admission to the sick poor,
without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is
wholly dependent for support on voluntary contributions
and legacies.
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
destimte sick has for a considerable period averaged be-
tween 3,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the assistance of the
benevolent, as the premises of this hospital are capable of
containing several hundred more beds had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contributions are received by their bankers, Messrs.
Brown, Hansom, and Co., Abehurch-laue ; also by Messrs.
Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co, ;
Herries and Co.; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and
Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Barclay and Co. ;
Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Bern:vs-Amt.; and at
the Hospital, from 1.0 till 5.

PREMIUMS in 1867 £160,553
being a larger revenue than in any preceding
year.
LOSSES by Fire in 1867 £292,125
NET PROFITS, after paying all losses and ex-
penses
LIFE BRANCH
Annual Average of new business in 1865-6-7 £BOl,OOO
Do. during previous Quinqueuuium £688,000
Amount added to Life Reserves in 1867 £128,583
Lirx PROPOSALS now effected will participate in the
increased share of Profits recently conceded to Policy-
holders. .

PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.
August, 1868.

C 0 MPAGNIE GENET ALE TRANSAT-
L AN T IQIJ E.
4, Rue de la Pala, Paris.
FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS.
NEW YORK.
Leave every 14 days, from Havre and Brest, for New York.
RATES OF PASSAGE.
From lIAvRE or BREST to NEW YORK.
First Class 7OO fr.
Second Class 425 fr.
Third Class
From Paris to New York, via Havre or Brest, including
railway ticket, 725 fr. ; second class, 440 fr. ; third class,
285 fr.
WEST INDIES AND MEXICO;
Leave St. Nazaire on the 16th of each month for St.
Thomas, Havana, Vera Cruz, New Orleans, Porto Rico,
Haiti, Santiago de Cuba, Guadeloupe, Martinique.
JAPAN, NORTH AD SOUTH PACIFIC, AND
CENTRAL AMERICA (via Panama).
Leave St. Nazaire on the Bth of each month for Mar-
tinique, St. Martha (United States of Columbia), Colon,
Aspinwall (Isthmus of Panama), La Guayra, Porto Ca-
bello, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, Demerara, Paramaribo,
Cayenne, &c., Callao, Valparaiso, &c., San Jose, La Union,
San Francisco, China, and Japan.
Hand books, with full details of all the routes of this
company, can be had of
STRINGER, PEMBBROKE, and Co.,
Agents, 8, Austinfriars, London, E.C.

CONTRACT FOR COALS FOR SAN PAULO
- DE LOANDO.

Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, Sept. 1, 1868.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
1. the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and
IRELAND, do hereby give Notice, that on TUES-
DAY, the 29th inst., at Two o'clock, they will be ready
to treat with such persons as may be willing to CON-
TRACT for supplying and delivering on board her Ma-
jesty's Steamships and Vessels at San Paulo do Loando
all such quantities of
SMOKELESS SOUTH WALES COALS
as may from time to time be ordered under a Contract for
Twelve Months certain, from the Ist of April, 1869, and
afterwards, until the expiration of six months warning.
A Form of the Tender and Conditions of Contract may
be seen in the Lobby of the Storekeeper-General's De-
partment, Admiralty, Somerset House.
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 authorized in -writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-band corner the words,
" Tender for Coals for San Paulo-de Loando," and must also
be delivered at the Department of the Storekeeper-Gene-
ral, Admiralty, Somerset House, accompanied by a letter
signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become
bound with the person tendering in the sum of £5OO for
the due performance of the Contract.
By order,
ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

CONTRACT FOR FLOUR AND CONES FOR THE
ROYAL HOSPITAL AT GREENWICH.

Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, 2d Sept., 1868.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the
OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND do hereby give Notice, that on TUESDAY, the
22d inst., at half-past One o'clock, they will be ready, at
the Office of the Director-General of the Medical Depart-
ment of tho Navy, Somerset House, in London, to treat
with such persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for
the supply of all such quantities of

FLOUR AND CONES
as shall from time to time be required for the use of the
Royal Hospital at Greenwich, under a Contract for Six
Calendar Months.

The Flour to be manufactured in the best manner, from
sound English Wheat, of the best quality, and to be of the
description known as "Best Whites ;" the Cones also to be
of the best quality, and samples (one pound of each) must
be produced by parties tendering.
The Contractor will be allowed the use of the Hospital
sacks.

The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty reserve to
themselves an unlimited power of selection in accepting
the Tenders.
No Tender will be received unless made on the printed
form provided for the purpose, which may be obtained on
application at the Department of the Medical Director-
General, Admiralty, Somerset House, or to the Steward at
the Royal Hospital at Greenwich, where also the condi-
tions of the Contract may be seen.
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 communi-
cated to him in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of
the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words
" Tender for Flour and Cones," and must also be deli-
vered at the Medical Department, Somerset House, signed
by two responsible persons engaging to become bound
with the person tendering in the sum of £5OO for the due
performance of the Contract.
By order,
ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

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The Printing and Machining of Newspapers, &c., done
on exceedingly favourable terms. Use of Editorial and
Publishing Offices, if required. Estimates forwarded on
receipt of particulars, with stamped directed envelope for
reply. Address—The Manager, " Sun" Printing Offices,
3, Church-row, Savoy, Strand, W.C.

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS
are earnestly solicited for the purchase of food and
clothing for the
126 boys on board the Chichester Training Ship.
150 boys in the Refuge, 9, Great Queen-street.
94 girls in the Refuges, 19, Broad-street, and Ealing

370 children.
£l5 will koep a boy or girl for ono year.
Contributions received by the London and Westminster Bank ,
214, High Holborn, and 41, Lothbury, IC.C.; and by
WILLIAM WILLI 4.MS, Secretary.
No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields.

NATIONAL ORPHAN HOME, Ham-common,
Richmond, Surrey. Founded 1819. Enlarged 1861.
Under the patronage of the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, E.G.,
whereby a home has been afforded for 280 Destitute Orphan
Girls of all ages, classes, and denominations, from all parts of
the kingdom.
The object of the Charity is to give orphan girls a plain Eng-
lish education, and practical instruction in tho kitchen, house,
and laundry, to fit them for domestic service; and, if not other
wise provided for when they attain 15 years of age, to obtain
suitable situations for them.
The Committee earnestly appeal for support. The Charity is
entirely sustained by donations and subscriptions.
HENRY KINGSCOTE, Treasurer
W H. WARWICK Secretary.
Office, 121, Pall-mall, S W

THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES
.tre as follows :
For Fallen Women.
28, Church-iow, /lamp- 150, New Kent-road.
stead. 48, Church-street, Stoke
13, Camden-street, Camden- Newington.
town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
-205, Great Portland street. wich.
For Young Girls in Danger.
27, Church-row, Hampstead.
9, lienstridge-villas, St. John s-wood.
St. Mary's Lodge, Buckhurst-hill.
Country Home—St. James's- street, Dover.
Temporary Home-85, Queen-street, Cheapside.
In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee
have under their chargo.threo homes for servants of good
character, in which aro admitted about 1,000 friendless
servants annually.
The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen
girls from 10 to 16. The committee ate deeply anxious to
open another house for this pitiable class.
The Society admitted to its homes last year 687 young
women and girls. It was compelled to refuse 524 appli-
cants, whose histories are recorded in the applicant's book.
The Society's Report (of which a contributor writes, "I
never road a report of any charitable institution which so
entirely commended itself to my mind and awoke my
sympathy") may be had on application.
The Society is under the presidency of the Earl of
Shaftesbury. Its bankers are Messrs. Barclay and Co.
The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the
benevolent. DANL. CODPBR Sec,
85, Queen-otreet, Cheapside,

B A.RRACK CONTRACTS
For the Supply of
PAILLASSE STRAW
IN GREAT BRITAIN.
WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, LONDON, S.W.,
Ist September, 1803.
NOTIC E IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the Secretary of State
for War is prepared to receive Tenders for the supply of Straw
for Paillasses at the various Barrack Stations in Great Britain,
fora period of One Year, from the Ist November next.
Tenders will not be entertained unless made upon the proper
printed Form, which may be obtained, with every requisite in-
formation, upon application at thAtvoflice, 4,r to the various Bar-
rack Masters, between the hours of 10 and 4 o'clock each day,
Sundays excepted.
The Tdhders must be sent to this Office, addressed to the
Director of Contracts, marked on the outside, "Tender for
Paillasse Straw," on or before Saturday, 12th inst., after which
day no Tender will be received.
The Secretary of State for War reserves the right of rejecting
any or all of the Tenders.

THOMAS HOWELL,
Director of Contracts.

IUANFIELD'S PATENT PICKLES are per-
fectly pure and uncoloured. To be had of all dealers,
and wholesale of JOHN BURGESS and SON, 107,
Strand (corner of Savoy-steps), London.

WHY incur the risks of Limited Liability, by
taking Shares in Civil Servies or Co-operative
Stores, when you can SAVE TEN PER °EST. by
PURCHASING of
THE EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY,
and can have the goods delivered at your own door ? Teas
of all descriptions from ls. 3d. per lb. upwards. Price
Lists post free, on application at the Company's Ware-
houses, 9, Great. St. Helen's-churchyard, Bishopsgate.

MR. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52,
Fleet-street, has introduaed an entirely new de-
scription of ARTIFICIAL TEETH, fixed without
springs, wires, or ligatures. They so perfectly resembl e
the natural teeth as not to be distinguished from the ori-
ginals by the closest observer ; they will never change
colour or decay, and will be found superior to any tenth
ever before used. This method does not require the
extraction of roots, or auy painful operation, and will
support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is gua-
ranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed
teeth stopped and rendered sound and useful in masti-
cation.
52, Fleet-street. At home from 10 till 5.

4, PAINLESS DENTISTRY 1"
A NEW PAMPHLET,
Free by post for four stamps.
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(Established 1815.)
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ATTENDANOE I)AILY.

THE GREAT SHIP RACE FROM CHINA

The 16,000 mile race among the large fleet of
the finest clipper ships in the world, with the new
spring teas from China, has this year been watched
with more than ordinary interest.
In all about 40 sailing ships were engaged in the
contest. •Their departure from Foo-chow-foo and
its neighbouring ports ranged over a space of 25
days. Of these ships were those which accom-
plished such extraordinarl quick passages in last
year's and the year before races—viz., the Ariel
and the Taeping, as well as others which have ob-
tained considerable notoriety for their quick-sailing
qualities, the Series and Fiery Cross.

This year's contest has at least displayed most
splendid seamanship on the part of the officers and
crews of the different clippers, and though there was
no prize held out, as in former years (a handsome
premium), there was no lack of the determined
courage and perseverance which characterised
their seamanship in former contests.
The leading ships in the race, with the days of
sailing, tonnage, and cargo, will be found detailed
in the following list :

May 27.—Sailed the Belted Will, 812 tons re-
gister, owned by Messrs. Busby and Co., classed
at Lloyd's A 1 for 14 years, with 934,4961 b. of
tea.

May 27.—Sailed, the "(Incline, 769 tons, a new
ship, built la3t year, owned by Messrs. J. Kelso,
with 1,088,3981 b. of tea.
May 28.—Sailed, the Ariel, 853 tons, owned by
Messrs. Shaw, Lowther, and Co., Royal Exchange-
buildings, built in 1863, and classed A 1 for 16
years, 1,221,0561 b. of tea.
May 28.—Sailed, the Sir Lancelot, 886 tons;
Captain Robinson, built in 1865, owned by
Messrs. J. Gunn, classed A 1 for 16 years, with
1,257,0761 b. of tea.
May 28. —Sailed, the Taeping, 767 tons, owned
by Messrs. Rodgers and Co., Glasgow, built in
1863, classed A 1 for 14 years, with 1,165,4591 b.
of tea.

May 29.—Sailed, the Spindrift, 899 tons, a new
ship, built last year, owned by Messrs. Findlay and
Co., of Glasgow, classed A 1 for 16 years, with
1,306,8361 b of tea.
May 30.—Sailed the Lahloo, 799 tons, a new
ship, built last year, owned hyMessrs. Rodgers and
Co., of Glasgow, classed A 1 for 16 years, cargo
1,231,3971 b of tea. Her first voyage, and consi-
dered the favourite.

May 31.—Sailed, the Black Prince, 750 tons,
built in 1863, owned by Messrs. Baring Brothers ;
cargo, 1,051,3001 b of tea.
June I.—Sailed, the Serica, 709 tons, owned by
Messrs. Findlay and Co., Glasgow, built in 1863,
cargo 957,5001 b of tea.
June 2.—Sailed the Fiery Cross, 830 tons, built
in 1863, owned by Messrs. J. Campbell and Co.,
of Liverpool ; cargo, 867,6001 b of tea.
It will be seen by the above that three of the
ships—the Ariel, Lancelot, and Taeping—left on
one day, May 28, and that the Spindrift sailed on
May 29, and the Lahloo on May 30. The next
heard of them was from Anjer, showing that these
vessels passed the Straits about June 22 and 23,
and from subsequent accounts most of the other
vessels passed down the China seas altogether.
The Ariel was the first ship to reach the Chan-
nel, She passed through the Downs at two o'clock
on Wednesday morning, and was hauled into the
East India Dock at noon that day.
The Spindrift was the next ship. She passed
through the' Downs at thirty minutes past twelve
o'clock on Wednesday forenoon, and got into the
East India Dock at twelve o'clock that night.
The Ariel was undoubtedly the first ship in dock,
but the Spindrift was the winning ship according
to nautical time by fifteen hours and a half, the
Spindrift having, it is said, accomplished the run in
little more than 94 days; the At iel, which left China
the day before the Spindrift, took about 95 days
12 hours. The repots made by the captains of
these two ships of their run are interesting.
The captain of the Ariel states : "We sailed from
Foochow on the 28th May. Passed Anjer on the
22d June. Rounded the Cape of Good Hope on the
19th July. Passed Ascension on the 2d August.
Crossed the line on the 6th of August, and reached
soundings on the 29th August. We passed the Sir
Lancelot for London on the 30th May; she had been
out two days ; in lat. 23.40 N., long. 118.26 E. On
10th June we passed the Undine ship for London.
On the 14th June we passed the Lahloo, when she

was 14 days out, in lat. 4.5 N., long. 113.3 E. Oil
the 18th of June we passed the Spindrift, 18 days
out, in lat 2.9 N., long. 109.33 E. On the 19th of
June we passed the ship Bel m d Will, and on the