The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-16 00:00:00

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 keep a boy or girl for one year.
Contributions received by the London and Westminster Bank ,
214, High Holborn, and 41, Lothbury, N.C. •, and by
WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Secretary.
No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields.

ALDERSHOT.—ARMY CONTRACTS.—FORAGE.
Commissariat, Aldershot, South Camp,
September, 1868.
TENDERS will be received at this Office until
noon, on Friday, the 25th September, from persons who
may be willing to enter into CONTRACTS for the SUPPLY of
OATS, HAY, and STRAW,
. .

between the Ist November, 1868, and 30th April, 1869, that is for
six months, at Aldershot, and within the command.
Parties may tender for any of the above separately, or for the
whole.

Oats, per 100Ibs.
Hay, per ton.
Straw, per load of 86 trusses of 3Gibs each.

Also. at the same time and place, Tenders will be received for
the :.-upply of the following Articles, when required in substitu-
tion for Fos age :
From let November, 1863, to 30th April, 1869.
Bran, per 1001bs.
Oatmeal, per 1001bs.
Carrots, per 1121bs.
From Ist April, 1869, to 31st October, 186?.
Green Forage, per 1121bs.
The deliveries will be mad', into the Commissariat Barns or
Granaries as s equired, and the Commissariat will undertake the
issues to the troops..

Forms of Tender and conditions of Contract can be obtained
on application at this Office, by letter or in person, between the
hours of 10 a.m. and 4 Pam, where any further information that
may be required will be furnished.

R. ROUT 11,
Deputy Commissary-General,

CONTRACTS FOR SALT PORK.

Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, filth Sept., 1}368.
COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
I the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND, Do hereby give Notice that ou TUESDAY, the
13th October next, at Twelve o'clock at noon, they will be
ready to treat with such Persons as may be wiping to
CONTRACT for suPPlYing and delivering into her Ma-
jesty's Victualling Stores at the undermentioned Ports
the following quantities of

SALT PORK,
all of the cure of the present season, viz. :

Navy Pork.
DEPTFORD ..................4 800 tierces 4800 barrels.
lIAULBOWLINE ..........1,800 „1,800 „
Each tierce of Pork to contain 75 pieces of 41b. each, and
each barrel 50 pieces of 41bs. each, instead of tho number
of pieces formerly contained in the tierces and barrels.
The Pork to be delivered into the respective Stores as
follows, viz.—one-third of each quantity for each place by
the 15th day of January, 1869 ; another third thereof by
the sth day of March, 1869 ; and the remainder thereof by
the 30th day of April, 1869 ,• or any greater portion, or the
wholo, at any earlier period, if preferred by the party ten-
dering, and to be paid for by bills at three days after date,
which will be sent to parties as usual.
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. _ _ _

.Every Tender must specify the name of the person by
whom the Meat is intended to be cured, the Brand of the
Meat, and the place of cure.
Tenders for Pork of the cure of the United States of
America will not be admitted.
Persons tendering for more than one Port must give a
separate Tender for each Port.
Persons tendering must give a reference to a Banker for
each surety proposed ; and they are desired to take special
notice that the use of Wooden Hoops is abolished, and that
Iron Hoops only will be required for the Casks in accord-
ance with the conditions of the Contract.
A Form of the Tender may be obtained, and the recently,
altered conditions of the Contract, to which particular at-
tention is called, may be seen iu the Lobby of the Depart-
ment of the Controller of Victualling, Somerset House ; at
the Victualling Yards at Gosport and Plymouth ; or by ap-
plying to the Victualling Storekeeper at Haulbowline ; or
to the Collectors of he; Majesty's Customs at Bristol, Lime-
rick, Belfast, Waterford, and Newry; or to the Secretary
to the Postmaster-General at Dublin ; or to the Comman-
der conducting the Packet Service at Liverpool.
No Tender will be admitted for a less quantity than 100
tierces, or 100 barrels.
No Tender will be received after Twelve o'clock at noon
on the day of treaty, nor any noticed unless made on the
printed form provided for the purpose ; but it will not be
necessary that the party tendering, or an agent appointed
by him, should attend, as the result of the offer received
from each person will be communicated to him and to his
proposed sureties in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner of the enve-
lope the words " Tender for Salt Pork," and must also be
delivered at the Department of the Controller of Victual-
ling, Somerset House. •
The Contractors will have to pay one-half the amount
of the stamps on the Contracts and Bonds.
By order,
ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.