The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-15 00:00:00

CON TRACT FOR. BUIL
Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, Juno 11, 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 WEDNESDAY,
the 24th inst., at Twelve o'clock at Noon, they will be
ready to treat with such ersons as maybewilling to
CONTRACT for supplyingrand delivering into her Ma-
jesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford,
50,000 Gallons of BUM,
to ba delivered within three wooks from date of Con-
tract.

Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of I
the Rum.
Majesty's service, are to be tmken away from the said
stores except such as may be required for hir
theb c
y and
nasd ka
ts,
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 i
also an unlimited power of selection.
The Rum to be exempted from the Customs' duties, and
All
ls
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 Rum to be sent in pints for each import 1
mark, and the average strength of each mark Ex to
be stated, and not an average of different marks or I
strengths of several imports, 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-
tr., Her of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House, where
the Conditions of the Contract may bo seen.
No 'render will be received after Twelve o'clock at noon
on the day of treaty, and it will not be, required that the
party tendering, + +tering 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 samelet! a to be removed.
Every Tender must he ad drre
essed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear
in the left-hand
d mustalso corner the words,
" Tender for Rum," an be delivered at the De-
partment of the Controller of Victualling, Admiralty,
Somerset House.
By order,

ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contractf and Public Securities.

THE RESCUE SOCIETY-
'S HOMES
are as follows :
For Fallen Women.
48. Church-street, Stoke
28,s teCadb.urch-row, Llamp 150, New Kent-road.
13, Camden-street, Camden- Newington.
town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
-205- Great Portland street. with.
For Young Girls in Danger.
27, Church-row, I:ampstead.
9, llenstridge-villas, St. John s-wood.
st. mnry's Lodge, Buckhurst-hill.
Country Home—St. James's street, Dover.
Temporary Irome-85, Queen-street, Cheapside.
In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee
have under their charge three homes for servants of good
character, in which aro admitted about 1,000 friendless
servants annually.
The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen
girls from 10 to 16. The committee ale 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
Shaftesbury. Its bankers aro Messrs. Bheclay and Co.
The Committee very earnestly commend.its work to the
benevolent. DAINL. CON:ER, Sec.
0 85, Qum-duet, Cheapside.
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