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London, England, 1868-12-10 00:00:00

CONTRACT FOR STEARINE CANDLES.
Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, Dec. b, 1868.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNWED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and
IRELAND, do hereby give Notice, that on WED-
NESDAY, the 23d inst., at Twelve 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, all such
quantities of

STEARINE CANDLES FOR SIGNAL AND
FIGHTING LANTERNS,
• And of 24 to the lb,
as shall from time to time be demanded, under a Contract
for Twelve Calendar Months certain, and further until
the expiration of Three Calendar Months' warning.
Samples (not less than 61bs. of each) must be produced
by the parties tendering, and none to be tendered the ma-
terial of which is of a solidifying point below 128 degrees
Fahrenheit for Candles for Signal Lanterns, 125 degrees
foi Candles for Fighting Lanterns, or 120 degrees for
Candles of 24 to the lb.

Their Lordships 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, and which may be obtained
on application in the lobby of the Department of the Con-
troller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House, whore
the conditions of the Contract 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 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 to his proposed sureties in writivg, when, but not
before, the rejected samples are to be removed.
Every Tender must he addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words,
"Tender for Stearine Candles," and must also be delivered
at the Department of the Controller of Victualling, Admi-
ralty, Somerset House, signed by two responsible persons,
engaging to become bound with the person tendering in
the sum of £1,500 for the due performance of the Con-
tract.

By order,
ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

VIRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON
• FEMALE PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN
STITUTION.

President—Rey. CANON AWL
CoNTßrocrnorrs for the support of the Homes in 1868 are ear-
nestly solicited, which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. Blon-
vet, Salt, and Co., 73, Lombard street, 16.0.3 Francis Nicholls,
Esq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, E.C.
E. W. THOMAS Sec., 200, Euston-road,

ONDON FEVER HOSPITAL is the only
AA institution in the Metropolis for the treatment and
Prevention of contagious fevers.
CONTRIBUTIONS will be gratefully received by
Messrs. Dimsdale and Co., 50, Cornhill ; Messrs. Drum-
mond, Charing-cross ; Messrs. Coutts, Strand ; Messrs.
Hoare, Fleet-street; and by the Secretary, at the Hospital,
Liverpool-road, Islington, N.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern
Railway Terminus, King's Cross.
Patron—Her Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN.
Vice-Patron—

His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G.
President—His Grace the Duce of BUCCLEUCII, H.G.
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 fer 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 tho
destimto sick has for a considerable period averaged be-
tween 3,000 and 4,000 weekly.
Tho 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 aro received by their bankers, Messrs.
Brown, Hansom, and Co., Abchurch-lane ; also by Messrs.
Coutta and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ;
Harries and Co.; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and
Co.; Smith, Parme, and Co.; Barclay and Co. ; Williams,
Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Bernora-street ; and at
the Kospital from 10 till b.

£1,317,207 2 11
Examined and approved.
THOMAS ALLEN,I
ROSE,wI j- Auditors.
be seen, is £544,466
The total income oflithEeNY
year, it will
9s. 2d., and the total outgo £409,654 14s. sd. ; the diffe-
rence, or the sum laid by—viz., £134,811 14s. 9d.—raises
the fund again to £907,552 Bs. 6d.
The interest received during the year is £117,584 7s.
3d., arising from the productive portion of the realised
assets of £2,897,157, mentioned in the last year's report.
The whole assets, productive and unproductive, may there-
fore be considered as having improved at the rate of rather
mor,cohan 4 per cent. ; or, if the profit shown of £46,070
13s. 3d., derived from various extraneous sources, be in-
cluded: at upwards of £5 12s. per cent.
The premiums on new assurances are £14,596 ls. 9d.,
and of this sum £3,270 15s. 4d. has been expended in re-
assurances.
The claims on decease of lives assured are nearly iden-
tical in amount with those of 1866. They are less than
those of last year by nearly £19,000.
A considerable reduction, too, appears in the amount
of premiums paid for re-assurance, many of the risks
re-assured having terminated by death and other causes.
The expenses of management are less than those of last
year by upwards of £1,400. But they still include charges
incurred in the final closing of the two officeslast absorbed
by the company. The whole expenditure, however, in-
cluding income tax, is at the rate of little more than 5i
per cent. on the total income.
The balance-sheet is as follows :
Dn. LIABILITIES
Interest due to proprietors
Claims on decease of lives assured, and
additions thereto unpaid 61,530 4 5
Sundry accounts
Liability under sums assured, &c. (1867) 6,369,469 11 7
Proprietors' fund
Surplus fund as before 907,552 8 6

£6,977 13 3

Total £7,565,198 1 3
CR. ASSETS.
Amount invested in fixed mortgages £1,460,772 2 7
Ditto ditto decreasing ditto
Ditto ditto reversions 347,136 5 5
Ditto ditto funded securities 479,932 13 3
Ditto ditto temporary securities 142,424 011
Current interest on the above invest-
ments
Cash and bills
Advanced on security of the company's
policies 159,503 14 9
Agents' balances
Sundry accounts
Value of premiums (1867) ..... 4,506,167 18 0
Value of re-assurances 86,860 13 9

36,243 7 6
22,604 2 9

Total £7,565,198 1 3
Examined and approved.
The present dispositioßTnEofNOthßelYACSßomOApaSLEnLiyE'sNf 'uln
showndAsuisditors.
by this account. On ccmparing it with that of 1867, it
will be observed that further investments have been made
on mortgage and in the Government funds, and that about
£ll,OOO more has been advanced on security of the com-
pany's policies. Exclusive of the sum indicating the value
of the future premiums, the assets amount to £3,059,030
as. 3(1.
The direction of the company is now constituted as
follows :
The Right lion. Sir JOHN YOUNG, Bart., K.C.8., Chair-
ma n.
WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE, Esq., Deputy--
Chairman.
Charles Bischoff, Esq. Chas. Thos. Holcombe, Esq.
Thomas Boddington, Esq. Joshua Lockwood, Esq.
Charles Chatfield, Esq. James Murray, Esq.
Sir J. Buller East, Bart., Philip Rose, Esq.
D.C.L. George Russell, Esq.
Robert A. Gray, Esq. I Thos. Godfrey Sambrooke,
Wm. Augustus Guy, M.D., Esq.
F.R.S. Admiral Tindal.

ORITISH ORPHAN ASYLUM,
Iffi Mackenzie-park, Slough (formerly at Clapham-rise).
Instituted 1827. '
Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.
For the gratuitous board, clothing, and education of
destitute orphans from all parts of the British dominions,
and of all denominations, whose parents were once in
prosperous circumstances.
One hundred and seventy-five orphans now in the In-
stitution ; ample room for about 30 more.
Increased support indispensable, as this Charity is not
endowed, and is in the greatest need of further pecuniary
assistance.
Subscribers and the public are invited to inspect the
Institution, and judge as to the nature.of the Charity and
its peculiar claims.
The last Report can be obtained on application to the
Secretary.

THOS. TILSON, Chairman.
CHAS. LEE, M.A.
AUBREY C. PRICE, M.A., Hon. Sees.
ALFRED MACKE/%IZ E, Secretary.
Offices, 78, Cheapside, London, E.O.
Bankers—Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., Birchin-
,ane ; and Menu. Ileywoci, J3z9tlauro, Mancheeteni