The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-25 00:00:00

Foreign Nail Packet List.

MAILS:DUB.
Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. MaY 19'
.. gay 13.
via Marseilles
drazil and Cape Verde, by British packet. May 4.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. AP
ril 29.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton.MßY 2' 6
via Marseilles ...April 2 •
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton April 'zi,
India (Calcutta;, and Ceylon, via Southampton MaY 2 3,
via Marseilles April
il 0
India (Bombay), vi.i Southampton
via Marseilles
Nay 4'
Portugal.... ........ .
Malta,2 E April
gypt, and Aden, via Southampton l'
via Marseilles April
Newfoundland
Oporto and Vigo
U. S. and British N. America, b) • Brit. packet.... April 21'
by U.S. packet.... .. ol_
by Ctoadian packet.Apr!l
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriii.9 Api'll
Bahamas, via New York'
.„ ,2$
Mexico.
All parts of West Indies, including Chili, kern, I April 28
California. and British Columbia. ....

Persons who have been in the habit of paying
weekll
borrowers of Sewing Machines will do well to appi7 at e
and become members of Messrs. Watts and Co.'s Se
Machine Clubs. By so doing they will not only saYe
money they now foolishly throw away, but at the same titnd
secure to themselves the possession of one of the best
an
most celebrated sewing machines in the world. Every ''d
formation given on application; or by letter addressed, Wi
a stamped envelope, to Messrs. Watts and Co., 12, Beaufort-
buildings, Strand, London, W.C., where mere rs are err"
rolled daily between 10 and 4 ; Saturdays, 10 anc,',
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—Consumption, all nervous, bilico'
liver, and stemach complaints, in every stage, are only egi
gravatea and accelerated by drugs of every description, 1;410
perfealy curable by Du Barry's health restoring Revale° cr
Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which 04,
been considered hopeless. We quote a few.—Cure No. 62,91 a
Miss Lange, 18 years of age, cured after the medical men Poi
abandoned all hopes of her recovery from the last stage
Pulmonary consumption, with fearful cough, expectorstioe+
exhaustion, spitting of blood, perspirations, hollow cheek*,.,
emaciated to a skeleton. She is now, thank God, a perfect',
healthy, blooming, fleshy girl.—N. Lange, Commissaire
Police. Cure, No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, of Feral P
Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood,
_11:1
derangement, and partial deafness.—Cure, No. 47,121. '„67,.
Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestP"
gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies.—Cure, 14°.
11,816. the Rev. James T. Campbell, Fakenham, Noel;
of indigestion and torpidity of the liver, which had resist
all medical reatment. In tins, lib, 2s 9d; 21b, 4s 6d;
11s; 121 b, 225; 241 b, 40s. Barry du Barry and Co., NO; Ili
Regent-street, London ; also Fortnum and Mason; all',,„„1-
grocers and chemists in every town of the United
[ADvEwrlsEßENT.l—Holloway's Pills.—Potent 1;15
fiera.—Hundreds of causes contribute to render the blc)m.
impure and thus to produce man's besetting maladies. Tu,
admirable Pills address themselves at first to cape' "ye
taints from the vital fluid, and in the second place to restn'
regularity and harmony throughout the organs of assittlil;
Lion, secretion. and excretion. Holloway's Pills imPrn.o
the digestive capability of the stomach, and gradually 4.10.
it strength fairly to appropriate any ordinary food o'o
wholesome in quality, and moderate in quantity. Tile a
Pills act benefically on the liver, kidneys, and bowelo n;1,0
so constitute themselves the "Protectors" of the dysp.ePV,
nervous, low-spirited, and debilitated. Unless digestion, be
occasionally corrected by such means, the blood Winn"
pure.

Births.
BARKER.-0a the 22d inst., at 10, The Terrace, Saxe:
ton-gardens-square, the wife of John E. Barker, P"'"
of a daughter.
r BAGOT.—On the 22d inst., at Blithfield, Staffordshire, the
Lady Bagot, of a son.
CURTEIS.—On the 21st inst., at Windmill-hill, Sil"elt
the wife of H. M. Curteis, Esq., of a son.
mi. ,-012 the 21st inst., at Bayswater, the wife of GOrge
Hal, Esq., of a son.
Marriages.
Botorril, —BARING.—On the 21st inst., at eldest
trat.
Carter, Esq., M.P., to MarYt rt„
daughter of the Right t
Aro.h enABBOTnEhtm- ,
va -
Hon. Sir Francis Baring,
M.P. sal
TRENCH—NARTINS.—On the .22 St inst„ at Saint Jar° ch,
Paddington, Captain the Hon. Ncilliaru Le Poer
third son of the Earl of Cluncarty, .t,O Harriet Marl.
Martins, only child of Sir William and Lady Martin

Deaths.
CHANCELLOR.—On the 22d inst., at Old Palace-Pre'
Richmond, Surrey, Edwin Chancellor, Esq., aged 3'.
CATTLEY.—On the 23d inst., at Bagthorpe Sows, Clar
ham, Lionel S. Cattley, Esq., aged 32.
HANCOCK.—On the 22d inst., at Bayswater, Lieuteurni•

Jona Hancock, aged 82. -
HARRISON—Oa the 20th inst., at Braintree, Essex,
S Harrison, Esq., aged 77. ht
MA.uND.—On the 21st inst , at Ssndown Isle of Wig- '
B. Maund, F,L.S., late of Broomsgrove, Worcestershire,
aged 74.
M'GILL.—On the 21st inst., at Tonbridget
M.D., aged 51.
S E 3hßno
A O K.
Seabrook,oath
e2Eotshq., inst.,aged 2.a2t Old Lodge, Springfield,
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London : Priza,ed and PO:nailed Dy WILLIA.II ANDIt
of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tun Sus Om No. 112,
Strand, .n the Preoinct of the savoy, n the County et
Lliatileeex,77Monday, Avril 25,
.1844.

T FIE INTERNATIONAL CONTRACT
COPANY, Limited.
Capital 211"rPerated under M
the Joint-stock Companies Act, 1862.
4000,000, in 80,000 Shares of £5O each, with
power .
Zirst issue 40,000 Shares, to
increase
of which 30,000 Shares are
e4(IY subscribed. £1 on application and £4 on allotment.
DIRECTORS.
a Excellency Senor M. Jose de Salamanca, of Paris and
Madrid
-W.ill,,iara Latham Bailey, Esq. (Messrs. Bailey Brothers
5i,11,',90.), Liverpool,
Itc; "an Gray, Director of the Land Securities Company.
bert Simpson,
Civ.- Esq. (Messrs. Fredk. Levick and Co.),
1, s te ‘,elyn Iron Works, and London.
Co.)
S. . Fletcher, Eiq. (Messrs. Alexander, Fletcher, and
S L. XO5, Esq., Bowling Iron Company,
Vmel Gibson Getty Esq., M.P., Belfast.
Bradford.
,Eavier (Messrs. S. and J. B. Bavier, Bankers), Switnr-
land.
,
vemtlesLevita, Advocate to the Austrian Legation, Paris.
IC, :'-'''Llls, Esq., Gresham House, Director of the Dub-
])
J.
and Drogheda Railway.
Geo; Drogheda
Esq , Director of the Bank of Hindustan.
ge P. Kitson' Esq King's Arms-yard, Director of
9 -
.o„.the Continental Banking Corporation.
'-'• Alers Hankey, Esq., 2.5, Old Broad•street.

BANKERS.
The Bank of London.

SOLICITORS.
MeSSrM. Sole, Turners, and Hardw'xit, 68, Aldermanbury.
aleßßOK:uns.
-8110• Seymour and Co., -Bank-chambers, Throgmorton.

street.
, OFFICES.
;1, king's Arms-yard.
SECRETARY (PRO TEbl.)
Frederick Wilkins, Esp.

I,The Corr
Malicia, JIMMY is formed as an auxiliary to the Great
It is 4 Associations recently established.
the ,not the province of these Institutions to carry out
tain..ll,„°lic works contemplated in the concessions they ob-
tio4 of They are therefore compelled to seek the co-opera-
dati , contractors whose capital and position offer an un-
ile„ea?le guarantee for the completion of the works, thus
113viog the financial associations of that responsibility.
all constamAly increasing scale on which public works of
ads are carried out, and the immense capital involved,
place them beyond the reach of individual contractors un-
,l4,ol3r.orted by joint-stock enterprise.
le company has, therefore, been formed for the pur-
aaccpose (Jf undertaking the execution of great public works,
arrangements have been entered into with well known
ljtelltra etors, by which contracts to the amount of £11,000,000
rung will be turned over to the Company.
Among other contracts handed over to the Company is
bat for the construction of the European Central Railway,
:etch has been secured on favourable terms, and will be
1111:neneed forthwith.
The active services of an eminent Contractor, whose busi-
-0l 4....
, nas ben secured, retained to execute e work
il terms highly advantageowillbue s to the Company, he t
rehtaining
tt, al'ge interest in the Company by receiving payment for
44e transf of his contracts in Shares with £5 only credited
thereon.
It la well known that many undertakings of great cog-
contractors
value have hitherto remained in abeyance for want
k'ontractors who can command the necessary resources to
Cure their completion. This Company, combining the in-
elice of a large subscribed capital, extensive financial co-
43erations at home and abroad, with administrative experi-
aliclecd ability, will secure such an amount of confidence
A ""e.part of governments. public bodies, and the great
teatienleial institutions, as will enable it to command an ex-
pe business on favourable terms.
at threeePectuses, with forms of application, may be obtained
tit Offices of the Company, also from the Brokers, Soli-
and Bankers.
be " the event of no allotment being made the deposits will
allotrieturned in full. Should a less number of shares be
availed Led than are applied for, the deposits will be made
bale towards the payment on allotment, and the
tnee) if any, returned to the applicant.

TAE INTERNATIONAL CONTRACT COMPANY
(Limited,.
PORU OF APPLICATION FOR SITLARES.
To be retained by the Banke,fB.

TO the Directors of the Internatio
Gent' (Limited,„
toir, emen,—Ylaving paid to r.Aal Contract Company
ah uon, the sum of £ your Bank ers, the Bank
rer
being a deposit of Li
are on
(Meat shares in
,„..e that you will all' 'she above Company, I hereby re-
-4 me that number ; and I agree to
itZIP,.t such shares, or any less number you may allot me ;
Articalagree to pay t'de deposit on allotment, and to sign the
I Itn,,eoB of Assoerstion of the Company when
ofdrequire , a 1
bersT rise you to insert my name on the Register Diem-
for the number of shares allotted to me
Usual Signature
Name in full
Residence
Profession
....._ Date

AMENDED PROSPECTUS.
PE IMPERIAL BANK of CHINA, INDIA,
and JAP.&} (Limited).
Incorporated under the Companies Act, 1862.
Introduced by
The CREDIT MOBILIER (Limite3).
Capital £2,00:o.000, in 40,000 Shares of £5O each.
First issue, 20,000 Shares.
Nprosit on Application £1 per Share, and £4 on Allot-
zleat
11),
-",Plant Calls not to exceed £5 per Share, and at inter-
vals of not less than Three Months.
11.° call will be made until after the expiration of Three
It Months from the date of Allotment.
I • is not intended to call up more than £lO per Share; but
as the operations of the Company increase, and more
'Share Capital can be advantageously employed, further
issues of Shares will be made, a preference being given
to the then existing Shareholders.
DIRECTORS.
Richard C. Coles, Esq. (Coles, Brown, and Co.), Lotion.
win Cotton Curtis, Esq, (Robarts, Lubbock, and Co.),
"madon.
French, Chairman of the Bombay and Baroda
railway.
(Limmit ed
• aes Levick, Esq., Director of the Credit Mobilier
).
Morrison, Esq
, Director of the Bank of Otago.
It
oobert Barclay Reynolds, Esq. (Reynolds, Mann, and
Peter
London and Liverpool.
b ter Rolt, Esq. (Peter Rolt and Co.), London.
r• Fredk. Stuart Wortley, late member of the Elgin
E Jassy to China.
01, Alackrill Sm,ith, Esq. (Mackrill Smith, and Co.), 35,
Broad-street London, and Shanghai.
(With power to add to their numbers.)
BANKERS.
Ilessrs, Robarts, Lubbock, and Co., London.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Newbon, Evans, alld Co., Nicholas-lane.
Messrs. Edwards and Westminster.
r4ROKERS.
Thro
.._sre•
taorton Field, Son, and Wood, 9, Warnford-court,
K
,essreet.
ars, Robins end Barber, 29, Threadneedle-street, E,C.
At th,., TEMPORARY OFFICES.
is
'4lll,B6:ees'tiutQa6 of the Credit Mobilier (Limited), 80, Lom-

SECRETARY (PRO TEM )
T. Short, Esq.

PROSPECTUS.
`ulishe - Imperial Bank of China, India, and Japan is esta-
q tho' to meet the increasing demand of the commerce
Wh.B° ceuntr'es for additional Banking accommodi!tion.
(he j9nit is onsidered that the total paid-up capital of
is tc, °int Stock Banks doing business in China and India
the`P.l.°Bented by the inadequate sum of £6,000.000, whilst
"loil-gregate of imports and exports with Great Britain
~`t amountedj in the year 1862 to a total of £70,000,000,
"ttler,,,u,e. apparent that there is an ample field for a new
Or -14Ing of this neture.
ever eat Britain imports from China and Japan an annual
°bola" of upwards of seven million pounds of silk, and
11.°110 hundred and twenty million pounds of tea.
the
'lied Kingdom increase
is of
shown as trade betunder ween China, India, and
:
Total between trade
India, China, and
Years. United Kingdom.
1854 ...................... £33,643,000
Th 1862 ..... ................ 70,540,000
tkriiile°lnmerce between India and China has also increased
titer, 'As the past twenty years from three to fifteen millions
The balance of trade with China and India is paid in
186.1°Q, chiefly silver, of which the export value was
in
£8,263,011.
estat';',e, Imperial Bank of China, India, and Japan has bees
ofagehed on the basis of similar institutions, the success
lie.,7"4,ich the following table will exemplify, and it is be-
ll '°Q at least equal results will mark the progress of this
;

Paid up Present
per Price per
Share. Share.
4gra and United Eervice.
....:: X.SO £145
Chartered Mercantile of India, ~5 70
o,London, and China ........ z
'4artered of India, Australia,
!tnd China
Aiadostan, China, and Japan 25 40
oriental
44 Imperial Bank of China, India, and Japan will tran•
east Deposit
all operations connected with those o.f a Banka of Issue,
stitfosit, Discount, and Exchange, in China he East
the as soon as necessary arrangements can be completed,
business of the Bank will be extended to the Australian
Colonies.
1,11 d* • and controlling authority will ble3 in Lon
t °I,- eßirrnencatihiltanks will be formed in the first instance
oth.,ghai, Hong Kong,
.Bombay, and Calcutta, and at such
411-17 r places as may from time to time be deemed advis•
o'. The Branches will be under the control of the
G Mott Board, aided by the supervision of an Inspector-
4etieral• The authorisation ofthe.Government at Pekin
I been solicited to allow the Specie_Nuottieess,of the Bank to
and an official
e4teceived in payment of Customs D
Pet'!BPonence is now being carried on by the Bank with
The
forthat object.
tall ;:a growing necessity and desire for the
render
introduction of
klecf, aY and telegraphic communication in China will
Wiirbsary extensive financial operations, which the bank
iv e favourably situated to underti!ke.
_<-..l°_l:r' sh applications for Shares will be received
_.
..

Name of Bank.

111-11 E IMPERIAL.BANK of CHINA. INDIA,
and JAPAN (Limited).—The following Circular has
berilaY been sent to each applicant for Shares in the lta-
The% Bank of China (Limited) :
Tpinaperial Bank of China, India, and Japan (Limited),
„ j-1,1:417),YarY Offices, 80, Lombard-street, April 22, 1804.
am instructed to inform you that in consequence.of
s,all'ireat encouragement held out to the proposed Imperial
4i4 of China (Limited), since the prospectus has been
eal3tied
the Directors have found it absolutely necessary to
V° the basis aid spherb of operations.
th, this object they have determined upon increasing
of S4Pital of the Bank to Two Millions, in 40,000 Shares
tts,,,-;° each, and issuing 20,000 Shares, instead of 10,000,
,-,hiall3' announced ; the title has also been made more
ktiltt,-re he •
wove vlz the Imperial Bank of China, India,
I :aPan (Lim' ited).
Deet„--111 further requested to enclose you the amended Pros-
to apd to place at your diEposai the option of confirm.
totie Withdrawing your Application for Shares ;
.but in
(apweggence of the very largo number of Sh!tres. applied for
tat ads of 92 000) no additional applications can be
Phtained. "
.4d,j4."„Q Board Meet ng for the purpose of allotment stands
'he :Pled to Thursday, the 28th inst. ; your decision must,
,1,,1;:`,°r,e, be received at this Office not later than Wednes-
‘4e. ,"th instant. at Twelve o'clock ; all such as are not
'eeived will be considered as withdrawn.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
THOMAS SHORT,
Secretary (pro torn.).

THE ENGLISH and FOREIGN CREDIT
COMPANY (Limited).
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the LIST of AP-
PLICATIONS for SHARES in this Company will be
CLOSED, for London, on WEDNESDAY, the 27th inst.,
at Four o'clock, and on THURSDAY, the 2Sth inst , for the
Ccuntry.

Ey order,
CHESTER E ARLES, Sec. pro tem.
2, Copthall• chambers, A nAel-court, Turogmor ton-
street, 22d April, 1861.

TE INDEPENDENT FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY (Limited). Capital One Million Stirling,'
in 40,000 Shares of £25 each. £1 per Share to be paid on
application. and Ll 10s. per Share pn allotent. Calls not
exceeding £1 per Share, at interials-Oniot less than Three
Months.
DIRECTORS.
John Downes, Esq. (Messrs. Downes and Scott), Upper
Thames. street, Director of the National Provincial
Marine Insurance Company.
George Haines, Esq., Merchant, 36, Lombard. street.
Johningledew, Esq., Cambridge House, Lee Park, Kent.
William Knight, Esq. (Messrs. William Knight and Co.),
83, Lombard-street.
Henry Ledgard, Esq., Forest-hill, Kent.
George S. Symons, Esq. (Messrs, G. S. Symons and Co.),
20 and 21, St. Dunstan's-hill.
John E. Tibbs, Esq. (Messrs. J. E. Tibbs and Son),
Threadneedle-street, Director of the Staffordshire Roll-
ing Stock Company.
James Lunham, Esq. (Messrs. James Lunham and Co.), ]'
231, High-street, Borough.
Jabez Voss, Esq. (Messrs. Voss, Meek, and Co.), Billiter-
square.
Walter Brodie, Esq., 13. Delamere .terrace, Hyde-park,
late Member of the House of Representatives, New I
Zealand.
(Influential names in Manchester and Liverpool will be
immediately added to the Direction.)
BANKERS—The Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, 79, 1
Cornhill, E.O.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Bennett and Stark, 4, Furnival's
Inn, Holborn.
SURVEYOR—James Edmeston, Esq., F.1.8.A., Crown-
court, Old Broad-street.
BROKERS—Messrs. Scrutton and Son, 81, Old Broad-street.
AUDITORS—Messrs. Cash and Edwards, Public
Accountants, 13, Tokenhouse-yard, E,C.
GENERAL AND RESIDENT MANAGER—Mr. Robert Steers.
SECRETARY—Mr. George Drew Hodges.
OFFICES-29, Nicholas-lane, Lombard astreet, E.C.
This Company haS for its purpose the transaction of the
important and remunerative business of Fire Insurance,
and that only, to the exclusion of other branches of busi-
ness not unusually associated with it, under the same direc-
tion,
and operating on one and the same capital. The
Directors are satisfied that the scope for the business of fire
insurance presented by this country and its dependenciesount
,
is, as a commercial speculation, deserving of param
attention ; and, the contract being one terminable annually,
the profits or loss arising determine in like manner, year by
year, and exhibit at once a company's financial position
and its resources.
While the partial remission at the fire insurance duty
now in the contemplation of Government, and applicable
only to the insurance of stock-in-trade, will afford a com-
paratively limited relief from the onerous oppression, the
Directors have resolved to allow upon payment for every
policy, and afterwards at each renewal, an immediate draw-
back, which, in many instances, will amount to a total ex.
tinction of the entire duty of three shillings per cent.
To the public at large, and to the greater proportion of the
manufacturing and mercantile community, this arrange-
ment will prove a highly acceptable advantage. The draw-
back allowed by a few of the, older offices by way of per
tentage on premiums, at intervals of years, is of im-
portance only to those who are rated at premiums ranging
chiefly from one guinea per cent. upwards, and is partici-
pated in only by those who may have premiums to be re-
newed at the period of the making of these returns; whereas
by the principle adopted by this Company, the owners of
the classes of risk of the more ordinary occurrence, are
they who will be the more substantially and at the same
time promptly benefited.
The concession to be thus made to the public will cer
tainly be the means not only of increasing in their respec-
tive amounts insurances now existing, but of multiplying
to a very large extent the number of insurance contracts in
this country and its colonial connections.
The insurable property in this kingdom alone, including
its enormous and increasing importations arising from the
wise interchange of tariffs, is believed to approximate to
£5,000,000,000, whereas 300,000,000 only is insured ;
thus leaving nearly three-fourths of the insurable amount
altogether unprotected from loss.
It would be difficult to find any class of investments which
has yielded such large profits as the shares of well-con-
ducted fire offices. The shares of the older offices have in-
creased in value immensely, being, in one case, at a pre-
mium of about 1,300, and in another of nearly 2,000 per
cent. on the sums originally paid up. The increased value
of the shares of offices established within the last 20 years
tends at from 80 to 200 per cent.
s It is under these circumstances, and considering the im.•
mense field presented for operations to come, that the direc-
tors have taken advantae.e of so favourable an opportunity
to offer to the public the'benefits of the principle of business
now adopted by them ; and they have every reason to
believe that by its special feature and the public support
which that must necessarily invite the undertaking will
speedily be productive of the best moneary results.
The executive will be entrusted to officers of tried experi-
ence in the busin re insurance, and the directors have
already matured arrangements for the immediate establish-
ment of five hundred agencies.
The directors desire to give the most unqualified assur-
ance to the public that nothing of the nature of frivolous
objections to a prompt and liberal settlement of claims for
compensation will ever be entertained or countenanced by
them.
of application for shares may be had at the offices
Forme
of the Comany, or of the Brokers, Bankers, or Solicitors.
In the event of no allotment being made, the deposit will
be returned in full.

INDEPENDENT FIRE COMPANY
(Limited).
The Directors of this Company have much pleasure in
announcing that, in consequence of the suostantial and
marked support wh.ch has been accorded tne Company by
wharfingers acd numerous commercial firms in the City, the
undertaking may be considered as of certain success, and the
,iLkRE LIST will be CLOSED in a few days.
By order,
GEO. D. HOD US, Secretary.
29, Nicholu-lanc, April 3, 1164,