The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-02 00:00:00

PARIS.--THE GRAND HOTEL,
Boulevard des Capucines. Place de Nouvelle Opera,
opposite the Rue de la Paix, and near the Thearem.
Has been opened since July, 186 It contains 700 bed-
rooms, prices from 4fr. to 25fr. ; drawing-rooms, from sfr.
to 301 r. ; a magnificent salon, capable of dining more than
380 persons, and where there is a table d'hote at six o'clock.
Dinners and breakfasts are served a la carte in the cc free-
rooms, a' well as in the apartments. There is a reading-
room with the best English and foreign papers and publica-
tions, a music-room and a drawing-room for the use of tra-
vellers without any additional charge. There are also baths,
billiard-rooms, smoking divans, post-office ; cabs, carriages,
and omnibuses going to the railway stations. The servants
speak all langua,es. This superb hotel, po sessitur all that
modern luxury and comfort can combine, and situated in the
most fashionable part of Paris, is recommended to the atten-
tion of travellers.
Independently of their Two Hotels, the Compagnie—lmmo-
biliere has established an extensive Private Furn shed House
on the Boulevard des Capucines, opposite the ROTUNDA of
the GRAND ITOTEL, where Families can reside as in their
own rivate residences, and where they may rely upon find-
ing .the utmost comfort.

THE GENERAL FINANCIAL and ESTATE
AGENCY CORPORATION (Limited).
Capital £lOO,OOO, in 10,' 00 shares of £lO each, with power
to increase.
.£1 per share to be paid on allotment.
Incorporated under "The Companies' Act, 1i‘:62," whereby
the liability of the shareholders is limited to the amount
subscribed.

DIRECTORS.
Captain Raymond, R.N., The Mall, Chiswick, S.W.
A. G. S. Mainwaring Gordon, Esq., Crompton House, Wor-
cestershire, and 6, Aberdeen-place, Maida-hill, N.W.
W. Hennessey, Esq. (Messrs. king, Hennessey, and Co.), 12,
Abingdon-street, Westminster, S.W.
Edward Nixon, Eeq., Ormonde House, Bognor, Sussex, and
1 , Vi Aorta-road, S.W.
E. Shelley Esq., Estate Agent, Wolverhampton, and 2, Led-
bury-road. Bayswater, W.
(With power to add to their number.)
AUDITOR.

Stanley R. Bennet, Esq.(ciesSrsThennet and Gaskell), 31,
Nicholas-lane, E.C.

BROKERS.
Messrs. Shorter and Kind, 26, Birchln-lane, E.C.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Howard, Dollman, and Lowther, 141, Fenchurch-
street, E.C.
SECRETARY.
Francis R. Spry, Esq.
TEMPORARY OFFICES.
206, Gresham House, F.C.

PROSPE T US.
This Corporation has been formed for the purpose of
uniting the ordinary business of a Finance Company with
that ol an Estate Agency- -► want not yet supplied by any of
the existing Companies
The business of the Corporation will consist of two distinct
branches viz., Financial Trans,:ctions and Estate Agency
Business, and ccmpetent representatives will be appotate I in
the principal towns.
The Financial Department will consist of advancing money
on real and personal estate, whether intended for sale or
otherwise, and on such other securities as the Direct re may
approve. The Corporation will act also as agents between
mortgagors and mortgagees, and will negotiate subscriptions
or loans for British and toreign undertakings, the bona fides
of which w 11 be strictly investigated before they are sub-
mitted to the public.
The Estate Agency Department will embrace valuations ;
the purchase and sale of estates, lands, and houses; the
management of estates, and the carrying out of drainage and
other essential improvements ; also the sales of agricultural
produce, farming stock, and every description of properties,
by priva'e contract and public auction ; and it is intended to
hold periodical sales of freehold and leasehold properties.
That the value of finance business generally is abundantly
appreciated by the public is proved by the very large pre-
miums already attained by all the financial companies, and it
is well known that large fortunes have been ea iced by the
business of estate agent. This Company, with its moderate
capital, does not pretend to compete with the transactions of
the larger financial companie-i now existing, the Directors
viewing the financial business principa ly as an adjunct to
that of the Estate Agency ; and as the one department will
largely contribute to the business of the other, they are satis-
fied the combined operations must result in large div.dends
to the shareholders. Several lucrative transactions have
already been secured by the Corporation ; and although the
Directors consider the present nominal capital ample for all
immediate purposes, power has been taken to increase the
same should it be ultimately deemed desirable.
By the Articles of Association (which lie for inspection at
the 'temporary Offices of the Company), e,ch Director is
required to hold 2io snsires ; •and more than 2,1.0 shares
have already been subscribed for by the Directors and their
friends.

Prosrectuses and form of applications for shares may be
obtained from the Bans ers and Brokers, or at the Temporary
Offic s of the Company.

TEETH.—Mr. ESKELL'S INVENTION in
the construction of ARTIFICIAL TEETH has the
following arivantages :—A set of teeth, of excellent work-
manship and mechanism, can be made and fitted with the
most perfect accuracy and success, in a few hours, without
pain or extraction of stumps, and to answer all the purposes
of mastication and articulation. They are fitted without
wires or fastenings, and adapt themselves so perfectly to the
gums, that they are quite immoveable, except at the option
of the wearer. Invalids or residents in the country can ad-
just these teeth to many changes of the mouth without the
aid of a dentist. They are not so :fable to injury, are always
useful, and will last a lifetime. Comfort guaranteed. Trea-
tise explaining Mr. Eskell's Patent, &c., free for 7 stamps.
Inspection of specimens and consultations free.--B,Grosvenor-
street, Bond-street, W.; and at 39, Bennett's-hill, Bir-
mingham.

TIIE PIGEON HOUSE FORT.—When ho gets near
to the fort he will observe upon his left the remains
of her Majesty's ship Mermaid, brought here from Ports-
mouth,• cut down and converted into a store. Then comes
a row of wooden palisading,and next a drawbridge, crossing
which, and passing under a gateway, he will find himself in
a small courtyard, with cannon pointed, commanding the
road he has come; then through another gateway and he
will be in an oblong square, where he will find a flagstaff
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of nearly every calibre lie round about. Then come the
officers' quarters, a large commodious building, in which
no officer lives, and next to this are the magazines, the
powder depot for the whole of Ireland, where there are
some
tons of gunpowder deposited, also Congreve rockets, shrap-
nell shells, cannister and grape, and ammunition of every
sort, blank and ball, for Enfield and Whitworth rifles, and
the same for Armstrong guns. The next house is the bar-
rack-master's, which, like the lawyer's house in a village,
is far from being the worst in the place ; and then comes
another smell guard-rom, and another gateway leading on
to the breakwater. When returning he will observe a small
landing place to the right, used for the unloading of ammu-
nition, &c., which is conveyed from Woolwich in Govern-
ment vessels. From this landing-place to the entrance there
is only a wall loopholed about every 40 yards for defence.
The most interesting object is the armoury, the long build-
ing already mentioned, entrance to which may bo gained
by application to the head clerk; it is said to be the next in
importance to 'Woolwich, and a regular staff of workmen is
Employed here, Entering from the front by folding-doors,
the stranger finds himself in a small hall facing a staircase
about eight feet wide. In and around this hall are
numerous articles used in ancient warfare, coats of mail
and suits of armour of every kind, from that of the knight
to the mousquetaire, while pikes, bat',le-axes, and blunder-
buses adorn the walls, and festoons of bayonets, wreaths of
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to match, besides more than 1,000 six-barrelled revolver
pistols, In this building are arms for an army, and not 100
yards from them is the ammunition.—Dickens's All therear
Round,