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London, England, 1868-12-11 00:00:00

CONTRACT FOR STEARINE CANDLES.

Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, Dec. 5, 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 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
for 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, where
the conditions of the Contract may be seen.
No Tender will be received aftei: 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 writing, when, 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 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.

IRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON
FEMALE PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN-
STITUTION.

President—Rev. CANON DALE.
CONTRIBUTIONS 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, KC.; Francis Nicholls,
Esq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, E.C.
E. W. THOMAS Sec., 200, Euston-road, N.W.

_OND ON FEVER HOSPITAL is the only
.1.4 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 tho immediate vicinity of the Great Northern
Railway Terminus, King's Cross.
Patron—Hor Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN.
Vice-Patron—
His Royal Highness the Princo of WALES, K.G.

President-:-Ifis brace the Duke of BECCLEUCH, K.G.
This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, tho 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 en 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
destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged be-
tween 3,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit tho 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., Abchurch-lane ; also by Messrs.
Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ;
Herrios and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and
Co.; Smith, Papie, and Co.; Barclay and Co. ; Williams,
Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Borners-street ; and at
the Hospital from 10 till 5.