The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-11 00:00:00

\VEST INDIES AND MEXICO.

Leavo St. Nazairo on the 1611 of each month for St.
Thomas, Havana, Vera Cruz, Now Orleans, Porto Rico,
Haiti, Santiago do Cuba Guadeloupe, Martinique.
JPAN, NORTH AND SOUTH PACIFIC, AND

CENTRAL AMERICA (via Panama).
LeaVe St. Nazaire on the Bth of each month for Mar-
tinique, St. Martha (United ,rates •of Columbia), Colon,
Aspinwall (Isthmus of Panama), La Guayra, Porto Ca-
bello, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, Demerara, Paramaribo,
Cayenne, &c., Callao, Valparaiso, &c., San Joso, La Union,
San Francisco, China, and Japan.
Hand books, with full details of all the routes of this
company, can be had of
STRINGER, PEAIBBROICE, and Co.,
Agents, 8, Austinfriars, London, E.C.

CONTRACTS FOR SUGAR TOBACCO, AND PORT
WINE.

CONTRACT DEPARTMENT, ADMIRALTY,
Somerset House, 6th August, 1868.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the
OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
'UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND do hereby Give Notice, that on Thursday, the 20th
instant, 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 undermentioned Articles, viz :
To be ten-
Quantities. derod

for at rates
•
SUGAR 500,000 Pounds 1 per 100
TOBACCO lOl,OOO , j Pounds
PORT WINE 2,000 Gallons per Gal.
When to ba Delivered.

One half of each quantity in three weeks from date of
Contract, and the remainder thereof in three weeks after-
wards, or earlier if preferred by the party tendering.
Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of the
Articles.
Separate Tenders are to bo 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 Sugar, Tobacco, and Wine to be exempted from the
Customs' Duties, and parties tendering are to state where
they are lying.
Each Tender for Sugar must specify the mark and land-
ing number of each cask or package, the ship in which im-
ported, and the country or place of its growth or produce ;
and an average sample (not less than 21b fel each import
mark) must be produced by the parties tendering, and not
an averae„o of different marks or several imports ; and any
parcel that is found not to be of the same mark or average
quality as the samples tendered and accepted will be re-
jected by the officers.
Each Tender for Tobacco must specify the several trade
marks and numbers, and the countries orplaces of its growth
or produce, and a fresh-drawn dock sample of each cask
or package must be produced by the parties tendering ; and
any cask or package that is found not to be of the same
mark, number, or quality as the sample tendered and ac-
cepted, will be rejected by the officers.
Samples of the Wine (two pints) for each import mark
must be produced by the parties tendering.
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 oneh-porson will be communi-
cated to him and to his proposed sureties in writing,
when, but not before, the rejected samples are to be re-
moval.
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 delivered at the
Department of the Controller of Victualling', AdMiralty,
Somerset House..

By ordcr,
ANTONIO BRA.DY, Registrar of Contracts
and Public Securities.