The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-23 00:00:00

THE CONSOLIDATED DISCOUNT
COMPANY (Limited).
No. 4, ABCIIURCH-LANE.
Capital... £1,000,000.
DIRECTORS.
George Walter Constable, Esq. (Messrs. Constable and
Wykes), Mincing-lane.
George Denny, Esq. (Messrs. George Denny and Co.), Great
St. Helen's.
William Little, Esq., Director of the Cape Town Railway.
Wm. M'Arthur, Esq. (of the firm of Wm. and Alexander
M'Arthur, Australian Merchants), 46, Moorgate-street.
F. J. Sargood, Esq. (Messrs. Sargood, King, and Sargood),
London and Melbourne.
Thomas Shepherd Richardson, Esq., Director of the Buenos
Ayres and River Plate Rank.
James Thompson, Esq. (Messrs. Le Gros Thompson and Co.),
Gutter-lane.
*Hugh Fraser Sandeman, Esq. }
*Richard Manners Sanderson, Es% Messrs. Sandeman & Co.
*Samuel Baker, Esq.
* Committee of Management.
BANKERS.
The London and Westminster Bank.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Sole, Turners, and Hardwick.
The business of this Company being in active operation, the
Directors are prepared to Discount approved Mercantile Bills
and to make advances upon ne-otlable Securities.
Money received on deposit, at call and short notice, at the
current market rates, and for longer periods upon terms to be
specially agreed upon.

THE ENGLISH and FOREIGN LIBRARY
COMPANY (Limited).
Capital, £lOO.OOO, in 10 000 Shares of £lO each; £1 to be pid
on application, and £llos. on Allotment. It no Allotment
be made the Deposit will be returned.
DIRECTORS.

Major-Gen. Sir Henry C. Rawlinson, K.C.8,, F.R.S., I, Hill-
street, Berkeley-square, Chairman.
Right Hon. Viscount Bury, M.P., 48. Rutland-gate.
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, K.C.8., D.C.L., erc.,
10, Belgrave-square.
The Very Rev. the Dean of Chichester, F.R.S.
Charles Neate, Esq., M.P., Oriel College, Oxford.
Coleridge J. Kennard, Esq., F.R.G.S., Fenchurch-street.
Ferdinand Freiligrath, Esq., Bang of Switzerland, Royal
Exchange-buildings.
John William Kaye. Esq., 59, Lincoln's-inn-fields.
Robert Bell, Esq., F.R.S.L., 1 t, York-street, Portman-square.

(With power to'acla to their number.)
BANKERS.—The Consolidated Bank, 7, Fenchurch-street,
London.
BROKER.—George 11. Hasiewood, Esq , 7, Lothbury.
AUDITORS.
Charles Reynolds, Esq., Allhallow-chambers, Lombard-st.
John Ball, Esq. (Messrs. Quilter, Ball. and Co.), Moorgate-st.
SOLICITORS.—Messrs. Bevan and Whiting, 6, Old Jewry.
SECRETARY (pro tem).—W. It. Prideaux, Esq.
Offices, 15, Old Bond-street.
1. It is proposed to establish a Public Circulating Library
on a more comprehensive plan, and with more complete ma-
chinery for the early and regular delivery of books than has
hitherto been attempted. The English and Foreign Library
Company guarantees the circulation of all new works of
value or interest immediately after publication. Daily deli-
veries will take place at all houses of town subscribers, wi, hin
a rad us of five miles. _ .

2. Books will be provided for all readers without distinc-
tion of sect or party.
3. A Special Scientific Department will be established, em-
bracing Science and the Liberal Professions ; Theology,
Medicine, Surgery, Civil Engineering, Philology, and the
Mathematical and Physical Sciences.
4. Foreign Literature will form a prominent feature.
5. All important Publications relating to Eastern and Co-
lonial subjects will be collected, including Public Documents,
and Books published in India and the Colonies.
6. The Direction has been organised with a view to the
combination of literary judgment and commercial experience.
7. Arrangements have been made to purchase Hookham's
Library, 15, Old Bond-street, the oldest in existence, contain-
ing a hundred years' stock, as the basis for the formation of
a Library of permanent value and vast extent.
8. Profits will be immediate on the opening of the Library,
the current subscriptions to Hookliam's Library Yielding 12
per cent. on the purchase money, atter payment of all ex-
penses.

9. Shareholders will be entitled to special privileges (as
detailed in advertisement below).
Prospectuses, with fonts of application for shares, may be
obtained of the Bankers, the Brokers, the Solicitors, and at
the Offices of the Company, 15, Old Bond-street, W.

THE ENGLISH and FOREIGN LIBRARY
COMPANY (Limited).
Every Original Allottee of Ten Shares and upwards. who
is also a subscriber, shall be entitled to Three additional
Volumes in respect or the first ten shares, and One additional
Volume for every additional five shares up to one hundred
shares

THE ENGLISH and FOREIGN LIBRARY
COMPANY (Limited).
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the LIST of AP-
PLICA't lONS for SHARES in th a Company will be
CLOSED on WEDNESDAY, the 3d of. February, after
which date the Directors will proceed immediately to allot
the Shares.
By order,
W. H. PRIDEAUX, Secretary pro tem.
15, Old Bond-street, W.

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