The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-23 00:00:00

N°. 22,384.

CRYSTAL PALACE.-EXTRA TRAINS from
London-bridge, Victoria, and Kensington, on GOOD
FRIDAY, Easter Monday and Tuesday.

TEN PER CENT. MORTGAGE BONDS.-
STRAND MUSIC HALL COMPANY (Limited)
BONDS of £5O each, are now ready for issue, constituting a
First Charge upon the Property of the Company, repayable
in Three Years. and bearing Interest at £lO per Cent. per
Annum, p yable halt-yearly.

Apply at the Offices of the Company, 345, Strand, W.C.
or to Mr. G. T. Taylor, Stock and Share Broker, 11, Token-
house-y ard, E.C.

By Order of the Board,
FREDERIC LAWRANCE, Secy.

S ['RAND MUSIC HALL COMPANY
(Limited).
NOTICE IS HEREBY (4IVEY, That NO APPLICA-
TIONS for the MORTGAGE BONDS will be entertained
after Viri,3DNESDAY next, the ?3d inst., for London, and
THURSDAY, the 24th inst., for the country.
By order of the Board.
FREDERICK LAWRANCF, Secretary.

NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE
SOCIETY.

NOTICE.-LADY-DAY RENEWALS.

Mercantile and Dock Insurances at the reduced rates.
The business of the Company exceeds £70,000,000.
The duty paid to Government for the year 1862 was
£85,062, and the amount insured on farming stock,
£10,086,332.
A bonus of three-fifths of the profit-8 periodically made to
parties insuring, who have thus, from time to time, received
sums amounting in the aggregate to £440,000 ; and the Society
now holds a large Reserve applimble to a future Bonus.
The rates of premium are in no case higher than those
charged by the other principal offices making no returns to
their insurers.

For prospectuses apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey-
street, Norwich ; and 29, FL NET-STRE ET, E.C.

THE GENERAL CREDIT and FINANCE
COMPANY of LONDO (Limited) invite SUBSCRIP-
TIONS for the BRITI-H COLUMBIA and VANCOUVER
ISLAND INVEST VIENT COMPANY (Limited). Capital
£500,(00 with power to increase. First issue £250,(00, in
10.000 shares of £25 each. Deposit on application Ll per
share, payment on allotment £2. It is expected that not more
than £5 per share will be required to ',e called up ; subse-
quent calls, If any, will not exceed £2 per share, and will not
be made at less intervals than
sT E threeEs months.
Tntr .

Jarvoise Smith, Esq. —I---Henry Kingscote, Esq.
DIRECTORS.

James Anderson. Esq• (Messrs. Anderson, Thomson, and
Co.), Director of the Ban( of British Columbia.
James Caird, E,q., M.P.
George Campbell. Esq. (Messrs. H. N. Dickson and Co.,
London ; nd Dickson, Campbell, and Co., Victoria, Van-
couver Island).
Joseph Fry, Esq. (Messrs, Trueman and Fry), Director of the
Canada Agency Association.
T. W. L. Mackean, Esq., Chairman of the Bank of British

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Columbia.
Alexander Morrison, Esq., Director of the Bank of Otago.
Prideanx Selby, Esq., Director of the Vancouver Islnnd Land
and Coal Mining Company,

BANGERS IN LONDON.
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith

BANKERS IN BRITIEII COLUMBIA AND VANCOUVER ISLAND.
The Bank of Br.tish Columbia.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Baxter, Rose, Norton, and Co.
AGENTS.
The General Credit and Limited) Fin2nce Company of London
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• TEMPORARY OFFICES.
125, Gresham House, and at the Offices of the General Credit
raid Finance Company, 7, Lothbury.
SECRETARY (PRO TEM.)
Mr. Geo Stephens.

ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS.
This Company will raise moneys on debentures, and apply
them to mortgage of real estate and other substantial securi-
ties in the two colonies at the rates prevalent there. These
rates are from 12 to 16 per cent. per annum, The margin of
profit to the Company Ys apparent.
The Company wil purcuase property in the colonies to a
limited extent. It is believed that grants of land from the
Government may also be obtained, with a view to their being
settled under regulated conditions.
Company will also a. t as agents in sll matters of
finance and investment s between the home capitalist and
the colo,ial property holder.
The prospects of the shareholders are best exemplified by
the large returns on capital obtained. by the shareholders of
simi ar institutions.
The Board of the Company consists of gentlemen practi-
cally a quaintGcl with the North American possessions and
their requirements.•
Full information as to the availability of British Columbia
and Vancouver Island a, fields for investment, and forms of
applications for share., may be obtained at the Offices of the
General Credi- and Finance Company of London (Limited),
7, Lothbury ; or at 125, Gresham House, E.C.

SMITH, KNIGHT. AND COMPANY
4Limited).
Incorporated under the Companies Act, 1862.
The Mercantile Cred t AF sociation, in conjunction with the
Contra-t Corpora ion, will receive applications for shares
in the above Jompany.
Capital £4,000,100, in 80,005 shares of £5O each.
First issue, Forty Thousand Shares, of which 20,000 have
been already subscribed.
De• os,t on application El per share, and £4 on allotm-nt.
No future e 11 to exeged L 5 per share, and at intervals of
not less than three mon hs.
It is not contemplated to call up more than £lO per share ;
any further Capital that may b.. required will be raised by
the is ue of new share=, a preference being given to the
holders of existing shares.

DIRECTORS.
W. M. Baillie, Esq., Old Bank, Bristol,.Director of the Con-
tract Corp station.
Arthur G. Chapman. Esq., Lombard-street.
Charles Capper, Esq., Mincin 2, -lane.
Rich rd Cooke Coles, Esq , 4t. llel n's-place, Director of the
Itoyal Insurance Company.
Thomqs Dakir, Esq., Alderman, President of the Great
Western Railway of Canada, Uirector of the Contract Cor-
poration.
Geo. Knight, Esq., Great George-street.
Ippolyte Leonino, Esq. I. Leonino and Co.), Copthall-court.
Octav us Ommanney, Esq. Hallett, Ommanney, and C 0.,,
Director of the Contract Corporation.
Robert Porter, Esq., Director of the Bank of London and
Bank of New Zealand.
John Smith, Esq., Great George-street.
Geo. Thomson, Esq. (Mess s. Anderson, Thomson, and Co.)
T. Tubini, Esq. (B. Tubini and Co.), Threadneedle-street.
MANAGING DIRECTOR.
George Knight, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Edwards and Co., Westminster.
Messrs. Newbon, Evans, and Co., Nicholas-lane.
BANKERS.
Bank of London.
AUDITORS.
Messrs. Ccoper Brothers and Co.
BROKERS.
Messrs. P. Cazenove and Co , Threadneedle-street.
TEMPORARY OFFICES.
31 and 21, Threadneedle-street, and
1, Great George-street, Westminster.
SECRETARY (pro tem.)
J. C. Ilandfield, Esq.

1. This Company has been constituted as an auxiliary to
the " Contract Corporation."
2. The Company will undertake the construction of Rail-
ways and o her public works as dis luau shed from the busi-
ness of the Contract Corporation, which consists principally
of the negotiation and acceptance of contracts, and the finan-
cial measures connected therewith.
3. The two Companies will work in harmony, but inde-
pendently of each other.
4. The opera ions of this Company will be conducted by the
eminent contractors Messrs. Smith and Knight, who have
transferred their whole business and interest on highly ad-
vantageous
terms; all their valuable plant and existing
contracts (including that for the construction ot the Royal
Sardinian Railway recently entered into) being ceded to the
Company. The plant will be paid for in cash, and the re-
maining interest principally in shares, such shares being
taken with £5 only per share credited ;hereon.
5. The numerous applications to Parliament in the present
se,sion for powers to c )nstru,t branch and ad itional rail-
ways, and the well-known increasing demand for railways
and other public works, not only in .I,:urope and the colonies.
but in all parts of the civilised world, open a wide field for
the profitable employment of capital.
6. The Three ors consider that, wi h all the elements of
success, viz., a large working capital, the assistance of a
powerful finane'al corporation, c ,upled with the experience
anl superintendence ot parties conversant with the practical
details of the business, with an identity of interest, the pros-
pects of the Company are such as are seldom brought under
public notice,

7. In the event of no allotment of shares being made, the
deposit will be returned in full. Should a less number of
shares be allotted than are applied tor, the deposit will be
made available towards the payment on allotment, and the
balance, if any, returned to the applicant. Prospectuses and
forms of apilicat on for a area may be obtained at the offi:es
of the Company, of the Brokers, and of the Solicitors.
March, 1864. --
SMITH, KNIGHT, AND COMPANY (Limited).
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To be retained by the Bankers.

No.—
To the Directors of Smith, Knight, and Company (Limited).
Gentlemen,—Having paid to your bankers, the Bank of
London, the sum of .Z , be,ng a deposit of £1 per share
on shares in the atove Company, 1 hereby request that
you w,ll allot me that number, and I agree to accept such
shares or any less number you may allot to me ; and I agree
to pay the deposit on allotment, and to sign the Articles of
Association of the Company when requ!red, and I authorise
you to insert my name on the Register of Members for the
number of shares allotted to me.
Usual signature
Name in full
Residence
Pro ("ession
Date March, 1864.