The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-07 00:00:00

No. 22,397

r i PERSONS SEEKING LANDED
EL'A. ATES, TOWN AND COUNTRY RESIDENCES,
FREEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD INVESTMENTS, AND
PROPER VIES GENERALLY—
To DE HAD GRATIS, at the principal Railway Bookstalls
throughout the kingdom, or at the Auction and Estate Offices,
No. 67, Chancery-lane, London, Messrs. E. and 11. Lumley's
"FREE PROPERTY REGISTER," containing a varied selection
of landed and house properties now in the market, from
the nobleman's mansion, with its manorial domain, to the
cottage with its few acres.
OWNERS OF PROPERTIES wishing to Sell or Let can em-
brace the opportunity that the medium of this Resister
affords, by send►ng the particu'ars of their properties to the
Estate Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London, as the Messrs.
Lumley can in most cases introduce immediate customers,
where the property istof an eligible chara ter, thereby avoid-
ing the disadvantages of delay and its attendant incon-
veniences.
THERE IS NO CHARGE incurred, unless a tenant or pur-
maser is introduced through Messrs. Lumley's Agency,
and then only the usual moderate commission.
Auction and Land Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London.

VENEZUELA GOVERNMENT SIX PER
CENT. LOAN —£1,5,0,000.
In Bonds of £5OO, £2OO, and £lOO.

THE GENERAL CREDIT AND FINANCE COMPANY
OF LONDON (Limited)
Be to announce that thcy are autbori,ed by the G overn-
meng t of Venezuela to offer to the publics Loan forthat State,
to the extent of £1,50,000 n urinal Capit il, upon the fol Lo-
wing terms :
The Bonds will be issued for sums of MOD, £lOO, and £ 00
each. They will bear interest as from the ist October, 3863,
at the rate of six per cent. per annum, with Coup uls attached,
payable half-yearly, on the Ist April and Ist October. at the
Offices of the General Credit and Finance Company in Lon-
don, in sterling, or at the Offices of lleEsrs. Salomon Oppen-
helm, jun., and Co , Cologne, in thalers, at the exchange of
the day.
The price of issue Is £6O per £lOO Stock, and payment will
ba reauired as follows :
£5 on application.
£±n on allotment, less £3 half-year's interest accrued.
£l5 on Ist June.
£l5 on ist August.
£l5 on Ist September, less £3 half-year's Interest accrued,
due Ist October.

£6O
Discount at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum will be allowed
on pre-payments in full making, with allowances, the price
of lime under £55.
In case of non-allotment, the deposit will be returned,
Should a less amount be a lotted than that applied for, the
deposit will be made availab e towards payment on the
allotment, and the balance, if any, returned to the applicant.
The object of the Loan is to effect a settlement of the
general financial condition of the country, to assist in mak-
ing roads and improved communications, inland and coast-
wise, to pay off some existing claims, and generally to
develope the agricultural resources and industry of the
emntry,
The Loans. Interest, and Sinking Fund are secured by a
special hypothecation of the whole export duties leviable at
the ports of tne Republic, La Guayra, Puerto Cabello, Mara-
caibo. and Ciudad Bolivar. These are warranted by the Go-
vernment as wholly uncharged (or that, if any claims can be
substantiated, they shall be met out of the proceeds of the
Loan), and as producing more than sufficient to meet the
charge of the present Loan. The produce of the Export
Duties last year is stated to have been £221,500, and an in-
crease is expected. In the event of aoydeficiency, the amount
is to be made good by a further special hothecation of the
uncharg,ed imp,rt duties at all the ports of Venezuela.
T",e consent of Earl Russell has been obtained for the col-
lection of the ies o hypothecated by her ajesty's Cons
nuls
at he secfral Ports, associated with the Company's Agets,
and the requisite amount will be transmitted twice a month
to the General Ire lit and Finance Company of London.
Out of the same, '20,050 a-year will be applied to the pay-
ment of the Interest ILO redemption o the
thes follows
£lO,OOO to be applied in the first instance to payment of
the interest.
£30,000 to a sinking fund ; this amount being augmented
periodically by the interest on bend!, that shall have been
bought up or redeemed.
lied to the purchase of Bonds
The sinking fund shall be app
in the open market. If th price is at or below par, or to their
year
redemption by lot in the usual way, if above tar, year by
until the whole shall have been paid off.
The first purchase or redemption to take place Ist October,
1864.
The documents relating to the authorisation of the Loan,
and the ratification of the same by the Constituent Assembly
of Venezuela, under date 14th January. 1861, with Notarial
translations, are open for inspection at the offices of the Ge-
neral Credit and Finance Company, 7, Lothbury, w
be
here
applications for the Bonds, in the annexed form, will
received.
Applications will also be received by the London and West-
minster Bank;
By the Union Bank of London •
And at Cologne, by Messrs. Salmon Oppenheim, jun., and

Co. ;
Amsterdam, by Messrs. Llppmann, Rosenthal. and Co.
Prospectuses and Forms of Application may be had at 7,
Lothbury, and of the Brokers.
London, 7, Lothbury, Aprll, 1864.

FORE OF APPLICATION.
VENEZTJELA. GOVERNMENT SIX PER CENT. LOAN.
To the Geneial Credic (Limited}ce Company of London

Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me
in the above Loan, on which I have made the
required Deposit of 5 per Cent on and I
agree to accept that amount of Stock, or any less sum that
may be allotted to me, and to pay the further instalments
thereon, according to the terms of the prospectus.
I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant.
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