The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-03 00:00:00

TEE ROBERTSFORS IRON WORKS
COMPANY, Lim!ted.
To be Incorporated under the " Companies Act, 1862," by
which the Liability of Shareholders is limited to the
amount of their Shares.
Capital, £300,000, in 15,000 Shares of .£2O each.
Deposit, Vs. per Share on Application, and .f 2 on Allotment.

First Issue, 7,5' 0 Shares.
No call will exceed .£2 Os. per Share, at intervals of not less
than three months.

No promotion money will be paid, and the preliminary
expenses will be confined strictly to the proper charges
only.
DIRECTORS.

Charles Burn, Esq, C.E., Little Fife House, Whitehall,
Director of the Ta'ris:ock Iron Works and Steel Ordnance
Company, Limited.
The Right Honourable Lord G.irvagh, Army and Navy Club,
Pali-mall, S.W.
D. C. Griffith, Esq., F.R.G.S., Messrs. Griffith and Barton,
Assayers to the Bank of England, and the Anglo-Mexican
Mint Company.
Edward Nixon, Esq., Ormonde-house, Bognor, Sussex, and
it, Victoria-road, S.W., Director of the General Financial
and Estate Agency Corporation, Limited.
J. 0. Tilston, Esq., Bayswater, Director of the General
Rolling Stock Company, Limited.
Charles Weber, Esq, Messrs. G. Hammond and Co., Swedish
and Norwegian Consuls, Ramsgate and Deal.
With power to add to their number.
BANKERS.
The Consolidated Bank, Limited, Fenehurch-street.
AUDITORS.

Messrs. Bennett and Gaskell, Accountants, 31, Nicholas-lane
Lombard-street.
BROMERS.

Francis Burnand, Esq., London and County-chambers„
Lombard-street.
W. Hannam, Esq., Manchester.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. R. and S. Muliens, 7, Poultry.
SECRETARY PRO TEM.
A. Robinson, Esq.
TEMPORARY OFPIor.S.
7A, Lawrence Pountney-hill, Cannon-street, E.C.

The Company is formed for the purchase of the extensive
estates of Robertsf ors and Fredricksfor comprising about
150,0.0 acres A freehold and crown lands, with large forests
and agricultural dlstricts,as also timber andiron works, ship-
bui'ding yards, &c., and which are situated in the county of
West Botten, in Sweden, five English miles from the harbour,
belonging to the estate, called Sikea, in the Gulf of ilothnia;
and also to extend the presen. manufacture of iron, intro-
duce Bessemer's steel process, to extend the yearly pro-
duce of timer for export, to build ships, and work the other
resources of the estate.
The estimated profits, as given in the detailed prospectus,
amount to about £66,000 per annum, or 41 per cent. on the
first issue of capital, £150,000, without calculating on any
extension of the trade in bar and hoop iron, timber, deals,
ship-building, and produce of cast steel for tools, &c., for
which there is a ready market.
The purchase money has been settled at £50,000 for the
whole of the property, mines, works, &a, have been care-
fully surveyed by an eminent engineer, Mr. Franz Hoff-
man ; and on his report his Majesty the King of Sweden has
granted permission to form a joint-stock company, and con-
firmed the valuation of the property at Egs. D. 1,000,000
Swedish, or £55,550 sterling.
The aricles of association, with plans of the estates and
samples, may be inspected at the Offices of the Company,
where also all the details respecting the properties may be
had on application.
Prospectuses and forms of application may be obtained of
fhe bankers, brokers, and at the Offices of the Company.