The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-19 00:00:00

CONTRACT. FOR RUM.
Contract Departm 'tit, Admiralty, Somerset
lions June 11, 1838.
FIE COII-NIISSIONERS for EXECUTING
.g. the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADAIIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRLTAIN and IRE-
LAND, do hereby give Notice, that on WEDNESDAY,
the 21th 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 Ma-
jesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford,

50,000 Gallons of RUM,

to bo delivored within three weeks from date of Con-
tra^-t.

Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of
the Rum.
All the casks, except such as may be required for her
Majesty's service, are to be taken away from the said
stores by and at the expense of the party whose Tender
is accepted.
Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when
the Tenders are opened, of contracting either for the
whole, or of 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.
The Rum to bo exempted from the Customs' duties, and
parties tendering are to state where it is lying.
Payment for the Rum will be made for the Proof Gal-
lons to one-tenth of a gallon, the liquid contents being as-
certained to the half gallon.
Sample of the Ruin to be sent in pints for each import
mark, and the average strength of each mark Ex to
be stated, and not an average of different marks or
strengths of several import; and any parcel of Rum that
is found not to be of the same quality, mark, or average
strength of the sample tendered and accepted, will be re-
jected by the officers.
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 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 writing, when, but not
before, the rejected samples are to be removed.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and boar in the left-hand corner the words,
"Tender for Rum," and must also be delivered at the De-
partment of the Controller of Victualling, Admiralty,
Somerset House.

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

COMPAGNIE GENJRALE TRANS-
ATLAATIQUE, 8, Place Vendome, Paris.
FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS,
CHINA, JAPAN, NORTH AND SOUTH PACIFIC,
AND CENTRAL AMERICA (via Panama).
Leave St. Nazaire ou 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 Francisweo,ECshTinlaiiaDVEJs NapAan.
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York.
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.825 fr.t According to •
700 fr.f Cabin.
Seco'nd Class . 425 fr.
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From Paris to Now York, via Havre or Brest, includ-
ing railway ticket, 850 fr. and 725 fr., according to cabin ;
Third Class
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second class, 440 fr.; third class, 285 fr.
Hand-bocks, with full details of all the routes of this
Company, can be bad of
STRINGER, PEMBROKE, and CO.,
Agents, 8, Austinfriars, London, E.C.

TLIE- RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES
%re as follows
For Fallen Women.
28, Church-row, llamp- 150,x New Bent-road.
:IBariiaznieC-p:is
tul:racah
Cottage,.- Church-street, t reet , Stoke Gree-
n-205, een
-
stead.
St. John s-wood.
with.
'lluckhurst-hill.
For Young Girls in Danger.
21035 t:
oCawarmne.adtenp-osrttrieaentd,
.street. Camde-
I
Country liome —St. Jar
(11.1gst reci:hv-row,
igoow‘s:
James's street, Dover.
Temporary Hotue-85, Queen-street, Cheapside.
In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee
have under their charge three homes for servants of good
9, ll2e7rist
character, in which are admitted about 1,000 friendless
St. 141aCrriyi
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 read 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
Shaftzsbury. Its bankers are Messrs. Ba...ciay and Co.
The Committee very earnestly commend its wont to the
1 benevolent. DANL. COOPER, Sec.
85, Queen-street, Cheapside - 4