The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, HONDA

JOHN BURGESS AN!) SON'S Original and
Superior ESSENCE of ANCHOVIES, also MAN-FIELD'S
PATENT PICKLES, are perfectly pure and uncoloured. To he
had of all dealers and wholesale of JOHN BURUESS AND
SON, 107, Strand (corner of Savoy-steps), London. I

COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSAT-
- LANTI QUE._

4, Rue do la Paix, Paris.
FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS.
NEW YORK.
Lave every 14 days, from Havre and Brest, for New York
RATES OF PASSAGE.
From lIAvRn or BREST to NEW YORK.
First ~.31ass 7OO Cr.
S,cond Class 4'23 fr.
Third Class
From Paris to New York, via Havre or Brost, including
railway ticket, 725 fr. ; second class, 410 fr. ; third class
283 fr. . .

WEST INDIES AND MEXICO.
Leave St. IN-azaire on the 16th of each month for St.
Thomaa, Havana, Vera Cruz, New Orleans, Porto Rico,
Hut'. Santiago de Cuba Guadeloupe, Martinique.
JAPAN, NORTH Cuba,
• SOUTH PACIFIC, AND

CENTRAL AMERICA (via Panama).
Leave St. Nazaire on the Bth of each month for Mar-
tinique, St. Martha (United States of Columbia), Colon,
Asptawall (Isthmus of Panama), La Guayra, Porto Ca-
bello, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, _Demerara, Paramaribo,
Cayenne, &c., Callao, Valparaiso, &c., San Jose, La Union,
San Francisco, China, and Japat_.
Hand books, with full details of all the routes of this
company, can be had of
STRINGER, PEMBBROKE, and Co.,
Agents, 8, Austiufriars, London, E.C.

EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
Empowered by Special Act of Parliament.
For Life Assurance, Annuities, and Guarantee of Fidelity in
Situations of Trust.
Chairman— General Sir FREDERIC SMITH, K.H., F.R.S.
Policies payable during Life—lndisputable--Not liable to
Forfeiture.
Annual Income exceeds Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand
Pounds.
The Annuity Tables, offering special advantages to Annuitants,
and full particulars of the popular Principles of this Society, will
be found in the New Prospectus, which will be forwarded to
applicants post free,

HENRY LAKE, General Manager.
316, Regent-street, and 17, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London.

THE GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE
ASSURANCE COMPANY.

Established 1821.
No. 11, Lombard-street, Loudon, E.C.
Subscribed Capital Two Millions.
Total Invested Funds upwards of £2,750,000.
Total Income upwards of £320,000.
_

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that FIRE POLICIES
which expire at MICHAELMAS must bo Renewed within
Fifteen Days at this Office, or with the Company's Agents
throughout the Kingdom, otherwise they become void.
All Insurances now have the benefit of the Reduced
Duty of ls. 6d. per cent.
For Prospectus and other information apply to the Com-
pany's Agents, or to
T. TALLEMACH, Secretary.

ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY,
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.
FIRENERANC ff.

PREMIUMS in 1867
being a larger revenue than in any preceding
your.
LOSSES by Fire in 1867 -
NET Paorrrs, after paying all losses and ex-
L 56,373
penses
LIFE BRANCH.
Annual Average of new business in 1865-6-7 £BOl,OOO
Do. during previous Quinquonnium £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 31. DOVE, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.
August, 1868.

£292,125

KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL, Portugal-
street, Lincoln's-inn.—The Committee earnestly
APPEAL for FUNDS to defray the heavy current ex-
penses. Assistance is urgently needed.
F. ALFRED BEDWELL, Vice-Chairman.
JAMES BLYTH, Secretary.

rrlIE LONDON SURGICAL HOME for
DISEASES and ACCIDENTS of WOMEN, for
the Reception of Gentlewomen and Females of Respect-
ability upon a weekly payment. Under the management
of Mr. Baker Brown.

The private medical attendants of the patients are
invited to visit them, and to meet in consultation before
treatment.

Full particulars can be obtained on application to the
Lady-Superintendent, 18, Stanley-terrace, Notting-hill,
W. ; or to Mr. Baker Brown, 136, Harley-street, W.

ROYAL HOSPITAL for INCURABLES
West-hill Putney-heath.

Established 31st July, 1854.
This Institution exists for the comfort and relief of per-
sons (being above the pauper class) afflicted with incur-
able bodily disease.

Relief is afforded-Ist. By supplying a home, with
medical attendance, nursing, and all requisites for the in-
valid.

2d. By granting an annuity of £2O to patients at their
own homes.

A new wing to the Hospital has just been completed
at a cost of upwards of £lO,OOO, and FUNDS are urgently
NEEDED to liquidate the expenses incurred.
There are 120 inmates and 237 pensioners, all entirely
dependent upon voluntary subscriptions.
Nearly 300 approved applicants are awaiting election.
For the maintenance of present operations, for the ex-
tension of the benefits of the Charity, donations, and espe-
cially annual subscriptions, are earnestly solicited. Life
subscriptions, £5 ss. and upwards; annual subscriptions,
half a guinea and upwards, with votes in proportion.
Information will be supplied, with the greatest pleasure,
upon application to the Secretary, by whom contributions
Rill be thankfully received.
FREDERIC ANDREW, Secretary.
No. 10, Poultry, London, E.C., September, 1868.

ILIOME for the HELPLESS.—ST. JAMES'S
DIOCESAN HOMIt for FEMALE PENITENTS
(Hammersmith), under the immediate direction of the
Bishop of London. The work carried on by aSisterhood,
"in faithful accordance with the principles of the Re-
formed Church of England." FUNDS greatly needed,
COUNCIL.
The Bishop of LONDON.
Rev. J. W. Ayro ' Major-Gen. Rt. Hon. Percy
Rev. F. G. Bloomfield Herbert. M. P.
Hon. and Rev. F. Byng Rey. J. E.Kempe
Rev. 11. G. Baker Rev. W. F. Erskine Knollys

Rev. S. Brooke
The Lord Clinton

Rev. W. Cadman

E. Charrington, Esq.
Rev. E. L. Cutts, Chaplain
Rp.v. E. Capel Cure
Rev. J. E. Cox
Octavius Coope, Esq.
Arthur Currie, Esq.
Rev. J. Connell
Rev. C. W. Purse
C. J. Freake. Esq.
J. S. Gilliat, Et,q.
Rev. Dr. I' Hessey
H. G. Heald, Esq.
R. Hook, Esq., Treasurer
Subscriptions will be recei
Messrs. Harries, Farquhar,
Secretary, Rev. S. W. Lloyd,
ataminguel t 9 wheat wham

Bey. S. W. Lloyd
Rev. A. Martineau

ROY. W. P. 3laclag an

Rev. Daniel Moore;
Rev. J. Moorbouse
J. D. Morton, Esq.
Rev. Canon Nepean
Rev. E. Parry
John Pearson, Esq., Q.C.
Rev. G. F. Prescott
Rev. F. Pigou
R. T. Pigott, Esq.
R. R. Pym, Esq.
Hugh H. Seymour, Esq.
R. Wade, Esq.
Loftus Wigram, Esq.
,ved by any of the above ; by
and .Co; and by the Hon.
I, 14, Seymour-street, Port-
artiotim may 14 Addrogod

CONTRACTS FOR PEPPER AND TEA.
Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, 23d Oct., 1868.
THEcommissm NIERS for EXECUTING the
-1- OFFICE of LORD IIIGH ADMIRAL of tho
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND do hereby give Notice, that on MONDAY, the
2d of November next at ri w 1 v o'clock at noon, they
will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing
to CONTRACT for supplying and delivering into 1.1:!r
Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford the undermen-
tioned Articles, Viz.:—

To be tend;.red for
Quantitieß, at 11l t.•s.
PEPPER 12,000 Poun,l; per 100 Pounds.
T E
When to be nolivered—One-h&1 of each quantity in
three weeks from date of contract, and tb., remainler
thereof three weeks afterwaids, o: earlier, if pr,-f_trred by
the party tendering.
T..uders may be mat: for the whole )r any portion of
the articles.

Sep tra*e Tenders are to be made for each article.
Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when.
the Tenders are opeu!,d, of contracti g either for the whole,
.or for such part thereof only as they may deem fit, or for a
greater quantity, or of net 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 Pepp,,r (not less than Th.) must be pro-
duced by the parties teud,ring.
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, aad mast bauccOmpan'ed
by an. average sample (not less than 21b.) of each parcel.
Tenders faiNng 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 therewith.
No Tender will be r*eived unless made on the printed
form provided for the phrposo, 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 Contracts ma be seen.
No Tender will be received after' welve o'clock at noon
on the day of treaty ; anl..4Pirjt 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.

ARNIY CONTRACTS.—Tenders will be re-
ceived by the Commissariat Officers in charge of
the undermentioned Districts, until twelve o'clook noon on
the 27th day of October, 1868, for the supply of
BREAD AND MEAT

'or the use of her Majesty's Troops, from Ist December,
1868, to 31st May, 1869.
NORTH BRITISH.
Commissariat Office, 3, Hill-street, Edinburgh:
1. Aberdeen and Ballston 6. Glasgow.
2. Ayr. 7. Greenlaw.
3. Dumbarton, Fort Ma- 8. Hamilton.
tilde, and Paisley. I
11.9. Stirling.
4. Edinburgh, Leith, Fort, I 10. Perth, Dundee, 'and
I and Piershill Broughty Castle.
5. Fort George.
TERN.
rack-street, Hulme, Man-

NORT
Commissariat Office, Ba
chester
1. Ashton-under-Lyne.
2. Birmingham.
3. Bradford.
4. Burnley.
5. Bury.
6. Carlisle.
7. Chester.
8. Coventry.
9. Fleetwood.
10. HartlepoolnewDatteries.
11. Isle of Man.
12. Leeds.
13. Liverpool, Liscard, and
Porch Rock.

14. Manchester and Salford.
15. Newcastle-on-Tyne.
16 Northampton.
17. Paull's Point on the
Humber.
18. Preston.
19. Seaham.
20. Sheffield.
21. Stallingborough.
22. Sunderland.
23. Tynemouth.
24. Weedon.
25. Whitehaven.
26. York.
EASTERN.
Commissariat Office, Camp, Colchester:
1. Colchester. 4. Ipswich.
2. Great Yarmouth. 5. Languard Fort.
3. Harwich. 6. Norwich.
SOUTH-' ASTERN.
Coramissariat Office, 4, Castle-street, Dover :
1. Blatchington Battery, and Marrello Tower 74.
2. Brighton, with coast Forts from Newhaven to Shore-
ham.
3. Canterbury-Cavalry and Infantry Barracks.
4. Dover-Castle and Western Heights, including Castle
Hill Fort.
5. Dungeness and Batteries.
6. Eastbourne Redoubt, Langley Fort, and Martello
Towers, from 50 to 73.
7. Hastings Battery House, and Martello Towers, from
39 to 49. 1
8. Hythe, Forts Twiss, Sutherland, Moncrief, Dym-
church Redoubt, and Martello Towers, from 10 to
27.
9. Rye and Batteries, and Towers from 28 to 3R.
Shorncliffe, Sandgate Castle, Folkestone Battery, and
Martello Towers from 1 to 9.
11. Tunbridge.
12. Weimer and Deal.
WESTERN.
Commissariat Office, 20, East Emma-place, Stonehouse,
Plymouth.
1. Bristol and Horliold.
2.• Exeter and Topsham.
St,. Mawes.
43
.. Falmouth,plymout Pe
iirx,env(e
413ntit
)I.oiirst, and
,
d Outposts.
5. Sheldon Ileigllts and Point.
6: Maker BarractOind Tregantle and Scracsdon
' Forts_ PiA "
S-' Lawsaud.
O
, P 1
.Ifrs4
Commissariat Office, St. Thomas-street, Portsmouth :
1. Chichester.
2. Dorchester.
3. Hurst Castle.
4. Littlehamrton.
5. Parkhurst and East Cowes.
6. PolirtsematooutnllinandedlivOeurtapbolsetsa,t int
hc leu del no
mg
niWi
si
rc hirt tesrt, froer:
Portsmouth.
7. Puckpool.
8. Sandown Forts.
9. Southampton and Marcbwood.
10. Weymouth and Portland.
12. Y
Ga roml
doeunt oHill, Fr
rt e
slrhiwc taotteir NeedlesCli ff Ed,
pnodi
11. Winchester (for Bread only).
t,
wood Battery.Wanadrtnei.Pteltinert-'

LONDON.
Commissariat Office, 109, Victoria Street, London, S.W.:
1. Chelsea Barracks —for 4. liunslow, including En-
all tho Troops in campments including Eno
London. !feat h, & Kneller Hall.
2. Guildford. o. Sandhurst.
3. Hampton Court. G. Whaltham Abbey.
7. Windsor.
CIiATHAM.
Commissariat Office. Barracks, Chatham:
1. Chatham (Flour, two qualities, and Rice Flour for dust-
ing ; Livo Cattle and Sheep, or Dead Meat).
2. Gravesend, including "New Barracks," Tilbury Fort,
Coal House Point, and Shornmead (Bread and
Meat).
3. Isle of Grain (Broad and Meat).
4. Sheerness (Bread and Meat).
6. -Slough Fort (Bread and Meat).
WOOL Pilaf.
Commissariat Office, Royal Artillery Barracks, Wool-
wich, S.E.
4. Warley:
b. Woolwich' including
Deptford.

1. Maidstone.
2. Purfieet.
3. Shoeburyness.

SOUTIf
Commissariat Offic
1. Brecon.
2. Cardiff.
3. Miliord,ffavert.
4. Mumbles island, noar
Swansea.

WALES. -
;e, Pembroke Dock.
5. Newport, Monmouth.
6. Pembroke Dock,
7. Penally.

'ISLANDS.
•osvenor-stroet, Jersey.
3. Jersey.

CHANNEL
Commissariat Office, G,
1. Alderney.
2. Guernsey.
Forms of/render, and Conditions of Contract, may bo
obtained on application at the above Offices, by letter ad-
dressed to the Senior Commissariat Officer of the District,
or in person, between the hours of Ten and Four o'clock,
and no Tender will be entertained unless made upon the
Form so obtained.
Tenders on the printed Forms must be properly filled
up and signed, and no Tender will be noticed unless de-
livered at the District Office, under closed envelope
(marked ,4 Tender " on the outside), before Twelve
o'clock Noon on the 27th October, 1868.

PR INT I N G.—TO PROPRIETORS OF
NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, &c.
The Printing and Machining of Newspapers, &c., done
on exceedingly favourable terms. Use of Ed►torial and
Publishing Offices, if required. Estimates forwarded on
receipt of particulars, with stamped directed envelope for
reply. Address—The Manager, "Sun" Printing Offices,
3, Church-row, Savoy, Strand, W.C.

£NE HUNDRED .& SEVENTY DESTITUTE
ORPHAN CHILDREN are being maintained, in the
ROYAL ALBERT ORPHAN ASYLUM, at the moderate rate
of £25 per annum each. Funds greatly needed.
CHARLES A. WALKER, Secretary.
Oilice, 64, Chaapside, London, E.O

i)RITISH ORPHAN ASYLUM,
Mackonzio-park, Slough (formerly at Clapham-rise).
Instituted 1827.
Patron—ller 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.
Ono 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. Secs.
ALFRED MACKENZ E, Secretary.
Offices, 73, Cheapside, London, E.O.
Bankers—Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., Birchin.
lane Alooro. Tileywind, 13r9thero, Manclaoster.

BRITISH HOME for INCURABLES, Clap-
ham-rise. Instituted in 1861.
Patroness—H.R.H. the Princess of WALES.
This Institution provides a home for life, with good
nursing and skilled medical attendance, for persons over
20 years of age and above tho pauper class, who are hope-
lessly afflicted with incurable disease.
Pensions of £2O per annum are also granted.
The Home was opened in September, 1863 ; 71 in-
patients and 106 annuitants have been elected. Elections
in May and November. Forms of application may be ob-
tained from the Secretary. •
ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS and DONATIONS are
earnestly solicited.
Bankers—Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., 54, Lombard-
street, E.C. ; Messrs. Drummond, Charing-cross, S.W.
ED WD. WEAVER, Sec.
Offices, 73, Cheapside, E.C.

THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES
are as follows :
For Fallen Women.
28, Church-row, Hamp- 150, New Kent-road.
stead. 48, Church-street, Stoke
13, Camden-street, Camden- Newington.
town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
-205, Great Portland- street. I wish.
For Young Girls in Danger.
27, Church-row, Kampstead.
9, Henstridge-villas, St. John s-wood.
St. Mary's Lodge, Buckhurst-hill.
Country Home—St. James's-street, Dover.
Temporary Homo-85, Queen-street, Cheapside.
In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee
have under thoir charge three homes for servants of good
character, in which are admitted about 1,000 friendless
servants annually.
The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen
girls from 10 to 16. The committee aio 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 aro recorded in the applicant's book.
The Society's Roport(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 bo had on application.
The Society is under the presidency 9f the Earl of
Shaftesbury. Its bankers aro Messrs. Beesley and Co.
The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the
benevolent. DANL. CODPEA, Sec.
85, Queen-Area, Oheapaide.