The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-18 00:00:00

Capital £1,000,000, in 50,000 shares of £2O each.

Deposit £1 per share on application, and £1 on allotment.
Scrip Certificates. which can be converted into Registered
Shares, at the option of tne holder, will be issued imme-
diately after allotment. These certificates will be capable
of transfer, by delivering from hand to hand, without any
necessity for registration.

DIRECTORS.
Rear-Admiral Currie, Bletohingley, Surrey, Chairman.

E. Lloyd Bagshaw, Esq , Bath.
J. Britten, Esq., Director of.the Bank of Wales, Basinghall•

street, and 35 and 31, London-wall.
G. Howard Fenwick, Esq., C E., late Resident Engineer
Madras Railway, Oatlanda Park, Weybridge.
G. W. Harris, Esq., Merohant, 5, Nicholas-lane.
The Hon. AuguAus Jocelyn, late Chairman Dundalk Steam
Packet Company.
Col. William R. Nedham, Royal Horse Artillery, Ramsgate.
George Pearce Pocock, Esq., Director of the Crystal Palace
Gas Company.
George Scammell, Esq., Director of the Submarine Telegraph
Company.

BANKERS.
Union Bank of London, 2, Princes-street, and Branches.

CONSULTING ENGINEERS.
Edwin Clark, Esq., and J. C. Gunn, Esq., 24, Great George.
street, Westminster.
SOLICITORS.
Mews. Davies, Son, Campbell, and Reeves.
BOKERS.
Messrs. Castello Brotßhers, Throgmorton-street.
AUDITORS.
Messrs. Alison and Waddell, Public Atectmtants, 14,
Walbrook.
SECRETARY (PRO TEM.)
Horace Fenwiek, Esq.
TEMPORARY OFFICES.
61, Cornbill—Entrance, 126, Bishopsgate-street.

ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS.
This Company is established to own and work Connecting
Steam Ships.
Connecting Steam Ships are designed on a new system,
which consists in constructing steamers in several distinct
compartments for carrying large cargoes, with great economy
of power, the compartments being all of one gauge, admit of
immediate disconnection from and re-connection to each
other; and of the transfer of the compartment containing
the engine, officers, and crew from one set of cargo compart-
ments to another, so that it can be kept in constant employ-
fit, while the inexpensive cargo compartments are detained
during the loading, unloading, or sale of their cargoes,
enabling,- one engine and one crew to perform the work of
three steamers of the ordinary construction, and realise pro-
portional profits.

It is intended to commence business by running one
steamer compartment, and three sets of Cargo Compart-
ments, to demonstrate the enormous advantages to be gained
by the system before proceeding to build the proposed fleet,
which will consist of Eighteen Screw Steamer Compartments,
and one hundred and ninety-eight Cargo Compartments, and
will deliver over one million of tons of coal to London, and
over three hundred thousand tons in Paris, annually.
Estimates of the cost of the proposed fleet, and details of
the annual expenditure and receipts have been prepared,
showing the large profit 01 more than 20 per cent. after
making. ample provision for insurance, depreciation, and con-
tingencies.

A prospectus with plans and drawings of vessels con-
structed on this system, detailed estimates showing the pro-
bable profits, together with forms of application for shares,
can be obtained, or will be sent post free, on application, at
the Offices, 61, Cornhill, entrance 13ishopsgate-street.

A few days ago a sexton was digging a grave at
Cardiff, when the next grave fell in, burying him nearly
up to the neck, He remained in that position two or
three hours, when he was dug out in a state of great ex-
haustion,