The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, L(*DON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 2, 1868.

OND ON- AND 'NO RTH -WES TE RN
AA • RAILWAY.
LIVERPOOL AUTUMN RACES,
NOVEMBER 3,4, 5, and 6, 1868.
First and Second Class RETURN TICKETS, issued
at Euston Station to Liverpool on MONDAY, November
2, and intervening days, will be available to return by
any train (Irish and Limited Mails excepted) from Liver-
pool to London up to and including Saturday Novembor 7.
Return Tickets to Liverpool, issued at Kensington,
Chelsea, Bvtters,a, Clapham Junction, Broad-street, Shore-
ditch, Dalst 3n Junction, llighbury, and Camden-roml, on
November 2, and intervening do ys will also be avaib.ble
for return to Loudon up to and including November 7.
For further particulars see bill
W. CA WKWELL, General Manager.
Easton Shtiou, October, 1868.

ON DON ,AIsLD N OM:II-WESTERN
RAILWAY.
S ETRE WS BUR Y RACES.
NOVEMBER Dth, 10th. llth, 12th. and 13th, 1868.
First and Second CIaStaIIETURN TICKETS i,;sued from
JONDON (Euston, Kensington, Chelsea, Batteis .1, and
Clapham Junction), to SHREWSBURY on SATURDA
the 7th November, and following days. will be available
to Return by any Train (Irish and Limited Mails ex-
cepted) from Shrewsbury to London, up to and including
Saturday, the 14th November.
RETURN TICKETS to SHREWSBURY from Broad
Street (City Terminus), Shoreditch, Dalston, Higbbury,
and Camden Road, will also be available from the 7th to
the 14th November, inclusive. For further particulars
see bills.

W. CA WKWELL, General Manager.
Euston Station, Oct. 24, 1868.
NOTE.—The 5.0 p.m. Train from Euston will, on Sin-
day the Bth November, be continued through to Shrews-
bury, the same as on the Week Days, for the conveyance
of Passengers and Horses and Carriages.

GRE AT WESTERN RAILWAY.—
LIVERPOOL RACES.
NovEMBrR 3d, 4th sth, and 6th.
RETURN TICKETS to RIP.KENIIEM/0141..IVER-
`POOL- is,:ud-at Paddington, Victoria, Battereei4
West Brompton, and Kensington, on Monday, November
2, and following days, will be available until Saturday
November 7, inclusive.
J. GRIERSON, General Manager.
Paddington, October 24.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
SHREWSBURY RACES.
NOVEMBER 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13.
First and Second Class RETURN TICKETS issued to
Shrewsbury on SATURDAY, November 7th, and follow-
ing days, from any station on the Great Western Rail-
way, will be available for Return up to Saturday, No-
vember 14th, inclusive.

A FAST SPECIAL TRAIN, by which horses can be
sent without change, will leave Paddington for Shrews-
bury at 4.0 p.m. on 'SUNDAY, November Bth, calling at
Slough, Reading, Didcot, Oxford, Banbury, Leaming-
ton, Warwick, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Shiff-
nal, and will return from Shrewsbury at 5.30 p.m. on Fri-
day, November 13th, taking passengers for the same
stations.
Paddington, Oct. 29.

J. GRIERSON, General Manager.

TREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
GOODS can now be collected and delivered alongside the
BRITISH and NORTH AMERICAN MAIL STEAM PACKET COMANY'S
(CUNARD) STEAMERS in the
MORPETH DOCK, BIRKENHEAD;
and the Great Western Company receive Goods for conveyance
to or from BIRMINGHAM, WOLVERHAMPTON, SzonanainGE, and
other places in the South Staffordshire and Worcestershire Dis
tricts; CARDIFF, SWANSEA. NEWPORT, ABERDARE, MERTHYR-,
and other places in South Wales ;
M
LONDON, ANCHESTER,
BRISTOL, GLOUCESTER,
and other places in the South an West of England on the Great
Western Railway and Lines connected the-ewith.
Full particulars may be obtained from the Goods Agent, James
Street, Liverpool, and Morpeth Dock, Birkenhead; at the various
stations on the railway; or of Mr. Grant, Goods Manager, Pad-
dington.
Paddington, Oct. 12, 1868

J. GRIERSON, General Manager.

TOIIN BURGESS AND SON'S Original and
t/ Superior ESSENCE of ANCHOVIES, also MA.NPIELD'S
PATENT PICKLES, are perfectly pure and uncoloured. To be
had of all dealers and wholesale of JOHN BURGESS AND
SON, 107, Strand (corner of Savoy-steps), London.

C UE.OMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSAT-
LANTIQ

4, Due de la Pais. Paris.
FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS.
NEW YORK.
Leave every 14 days, from Havre and Brest, for Now York
RATES OP -PASSAGE.
from ILwetE or BnEsT to Nsw Youx.
First ',lass 7OO fr.
Second Class 425 fr.
Third Class .......
From Paris to Now York, vlO Elavre or Brest, including
railway ticket, 723 fr. ; second class, 440 fr. ; third class
285 fr.

WEST INniE AND MEXICO.
Leave St. Nazaire On the lath of each month for St.
Thomas, Havana, Vera Cruz, New Orleans, Porto Rico,
Haiti. Santiago de Cuba, Guadeloupe, Martinique.
JAPAN, NOIITII ND souTri 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.

THE GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE
ASSURANCE COMPANY.

Established 1821.
No. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.O.
Subscribed Capital Two Millions.
Total Invested Funds upwards 0f....£2,750,000.
Total Income upwards of £320,000.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that FIRE POLICIES
which expire at MICHAELMAS must be Renewed within
Fifteen Days at this Office, or with the Company's Agents
throughout the Kingdom, otherwise they become void.
All Insurances now have the benefit of the Reduced
Duty of ls. 6d. per cent.
For Prospectus and other information apply to the Com-
pany's Agents, or to
T. TALLEMACH, Secretary.

ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY,
ROYAL INSURANCE. BUU.DINGS,
Lombard-street, London, and Liverpool.
EPITOME of ANNUAL REPORT for 1867.
The "ROYAL" has never had a larger body of Constituents
than now.
FIRE BRANCH. _ _ _

PREMIUMS in 1867 £460,553
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 £56,373
LIFE BRANCH.

Annual Average of new business in 1865-6-7 £BOl,OOO
Do. during previous Quinquennium £688,000
Amount added to Life Reserves in 1867 £128,583
LIFE 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.

CONTRACT FOR IRON CHAIN CABLES, IRON
MOORING CHAINS, &c.
Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, Oct. 26, 1868.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and
IRELAND, do hereby give Notice, that or-TUES-
DAY, the 24th November next, at Two o'clock, they will
be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing
to CONTRACT for supplyintr and delivering into Store
at her 11: ;,'sty's Ducky:lrks uttWoolwich, Chatham, • beer-
ness, Portsmouth, and.Devonport, all such
IRON CHAIN CABLES, IRON MOORING CHAINS,
and articles appertaining thereto, as may from time to
time be ordered.
The average annual expenditure of the last three years
may be aseertained, and a Form of the Tender and C,ra-
ditions of Contra t may be obtained at this avert:neut.
No Tender will be received after Two o'clock ou the day
of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party attends,
or au agent for him dully authorized i❑ writirg.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Sk.cretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words,
"Tender for Chain Cables, &c.," and must also be delivered
at the Department of the Storekeeper-General, Admi-
ralty, Somerset Rouse, accompanied by a letter signed by
two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with
the person tendering in the sum of £2,000 for the duo
performance of the Contract.
By order,
ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

CONTRACTS FOR PEPPER AND TEA.
Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, 23d Oct., 1868.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the
-A- OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND do hereby give Notice, that on MONDAY, the
2d of November next, at Twelv-3 o'clock at noon, 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 Deptford the undermen-
tioned Articles, viz.:—

To be tendered for
Quantities. at Rates.
PEPPER 12,000 Pounds per 100 Pounds.
TEA . 100,000 Pounds per Pound.
When to be relivered—One-half of each quantity in
three weeks from date of contract, and the remainder
thereof three weeks afterwards, oc earlier, if preferred by
the party tendering.
Tenders may be made for the whole )1* any portion of
the articles.
Separate Tenders are to be made for each article.
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 in accepting the Tenders.
The articles to be exempted from the Customs duties,
and parties tendering are to state where they are lying.
Samples Of the Pepper (not less than 21b.) must be pro-
duced by the parties tendering.
Each Tender for Tea must specify the import mark and
number of each parcel. the ship in which imported, the
dock or warehouse where lying, and must be accompanied
by an average sample (not less than 21b.) of each parcel.
Tenders failing in any of these conditions will not be en-
tertained.
No Tenders will be received unless made in accordance
with the above denomination of quantities and rates; and
contractors in claiming payment for articles supplied are
to make outttheir invoices in accordance therewith.
No Tender will be received unless made on the printed
form provided for the purpose, which may be obtained on
application in the Lobby of the Department of the Con-
troller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House, where
the conditions of the Contracts may be seen.
No Tender will be received after Twelve o'clock at noon
on the day of treaty ; and it will not be required that
the party tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should
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but not before, the rejected samples are to be removed.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of
the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words
" Tender for ' " and must also be deli-
vered at the Department of the Controller for Victualling,
Admiralty, Somerset House.
By order,
ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.