The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-30 00:00:00

-11 OYAL INSURANCE
ROYAL INSURANCE BUILDINGS,
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 PRoFrrs, after paying all losses and ex-
penses
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.

CONTRACTS FOR PEPPER AND TEA.
Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, 23d Oct., 1868.
THE 4 COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the
OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
'iblef4,l)de hereby give Notice. that on MONDAY, the
2d of November next, 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 the undermen-
tioned Articles, viz.:—

To be tendered for
Quantities. at Rates.
PEPPER 12,000 Pounds per 100 Pounds.

TEA . lOO,OOO Pounds per Pound.
When to be Delivered—Ono-half of each quantity in
.hree weeks from date of contract, and the remainder
;hereof three weeks afterwards, or earlier, if preferred by
he party tendering.
Tenders may be made for the whole 3r any portion of
he 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 out their invoices in accordance there with.

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
attend at the office on the day of Contract, as the result
of the offer received from each person will be communi-
cated 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 ," 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.