The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-29 00:00:00

BOYS.

SUCCESSFUL. UNSUCCESSFUL.
Cooper, Frank Harry.... 543 B•nfell. Clement 278
llarshall, Wm.
Compton, Freak Chas.... 390 Powell, F. W 179
Remington, Herbert .... 381 Bickley, J. II l'io
Shenton, Fredk..... ..... 332 Andrew4' J. ri 122
l'amPbell, Ed. Ja5....... 315 Potter, F. J lO7
rode, Clement
Anthony, Gerald
Claridge, N. A.
Hartley, G. N. It 23
Freeman, G. A
GIRLS.
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PhiUlf s, Isabella, K. • • • • 699
Bouts, Cecilia Mary 445
Bayles, Flor, nee M 4Ol
Worsfold, Emily
Bolton, Isabella
Miller, lelorenee
Ryder, Emily E 295

Swann, S. R.
Hurley, F. Louisa .., 283
Walker, Eliza C.
Smith, Harriet E 99
Bernard, Agnes 36

LENDON, Secretary.
Dee. 28, 1863.

Offices, 76, Cheapside, E.C.,

NORTH BRITTSH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.
FIRE DEPARTMENT._SPECIAL NOTICE.
This Company is now prepared to ISSUE POLICIES for
Mercantile Insurances in the Port of London at the reduced
scale of rates.
Particulars may be had at the Offices, 28, Threadneedle-
Street.

GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
No. 11, Lombard-street,`London, B.C.
Established 1821. •
Subscribedsspital, Two Millions.
DIRECTORS.
Sir MINTO FARQUHAR, Bart, M.P., Chairman.
CHARLES WILLIAM CURTIS, Esq., Deputy Chairman
Henry Hulse Berens, Esq., G. J Shaw Lefevre, Esq.,M.P.
Henry Bonham Carter, Esq. John Martin, Esq.
Charles F. Devas, Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. James Morris, Esq.
Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. Henry Norman, Esq.
James Goodson, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, Esq.
Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P Abraham J. Itobarts, Esq.
John G. Hubbard, Esq., M.P. William Steven, Esq.
Fredk. H. Janson, Esq. Henry Vigne, Esq.
AUDITORS.
Lewis Loyd, Esq. Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq.
Cornelius Paine, jun., Esq. I Noel Whiting. Esq.
Thos.Tallemach, Esq., Secretary I SamL Brown, Esq., Actuary

LIFE DEPARTMENT.—UNDER THE PROVISIONS or AN
ACT OF PARLIAMENT, this Company now offers to new In-
f urers EIGHTY PER CENT. of the Profits, at Quinquennial
Divisions, or a Low Rate of Premium without participation of
Profits.

Since the establishment of the Company in 1821, the
Amount of Profits allotted to the Assured has exceeded in
cash value £060,000, which represents equivalent Reversionary
Bonuses of £1,058,000.

After the Division of Profits at Christmas, 1859, the Life
Assurances in ' force, with existing Bonuses thereon,
amounted to upwards of £4,730,000, the Income from the Liie
!;ranch £207,000 per annum, and the Life Assurance Fund,
independent of the capital, exceeded £1,618,000.
• -

FIRE DEPARTMENT.—lnsurances are effected upon
every description of property at home and abroad at mode-
rate rates.

No expense is incurred in effecting a new Insurance be-
yond the paym:nt of the Annual Premium and Duty, when
the Premium amounts 'to ss.
Claims liberally and promptly settled.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that FIRE Policies
which expire 'it Christmas must be renewed within fifteen
days at this Office, or with Mr. SAMS, No. 1, St. James's—
street, corner of Pall-Mall ; or with the Company's Agents
throughout the Kingdom, otherwise they become void.
Application for Prospectuses and Agencies to be made to
the Secretary.

THE CONSOLIDATED DISCOUNT
COMPANY (Limited).
(The Directors reserve to hemselves the right of changing

the name of the Company.)
To be incorporated under "The Companies Act, 1862," by
which the Liability of each Shareholder is limited to the
amount of share 4.

Capital xionmoo, in 20,000 Shares of £5O.
First issue. 10,000 shares. licposit on application £1 per
share, and £Z on allotment. No future call to exceed £5
per share, and at intervals of not less than three months.
It is not intended to call up more than £2O per share.

DIRECTORS.

George Walter Constable, Esq. (Messrs. Henderson and Con-

stable', Cannon-street.
George Tynny, Esq. (Messrs. Georcro nponv and Co.). Great

St. Trelerrx: • -
William Little, Esq., Director of the Cape Town Railway.
M'Arthur, Esq. (of the firm of Wm. and Alexander
M'Arthur, Australian Merchants), 46, Moorgate-street.
.....
J. Sargood, Esq. (Messrs. Sargood, Rim:, and Sargood),
London and Melbourne.
Th mas Shepherd Richardson, Esq., Director of the Buenos
Ayres and River Plate Bank,
James Thompson, Esq. (Messrs. Le Gros Thompson and
Co ), Gutter-lane.
*Hugh Fraser Sandeman, Esq:
*ltichd. Manners Sanderson, Esq. Messrs. Sandeman it Co.
*Samuel Baker, Esq.
* Committee of Ma.nazement.
BANKERS.
The London and Westminster Bank.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Sole, Turners, and Hardwick.
BROKERS.
James Shepherd, Esq., Auction Mart, Bartholomew-lane.
Messrs. t:andeman and Dobree, 2, Royal Exchange-building's.

Offices—No. 4, .A.behurch-lane.

PROSPECTUS.
In forming this Company the Directors have secured the
en-operation of Messrs. Sandeman and Co.. of Abchurch-lane
whose well-known and long-established business it is the
object of this Company to take up and develope.
The Company will conduct all the operations of ordinary
discount business.
The terms on which the business of Messrs. Faudeman and
Co. has been purchased justify the Directors in anticipating
a profit of at least 10 per cent. per annum on the paid-up
capital.
The Company will take possession of the premises now oc-
cupied by Messrs. Sandeman and Co., as from the Ist qay of
January, ani the business of the Company will commence
from that day.
No promotion money has or will be paid, and the expenses
Will be strictly confined to the necessary payments.
Prospectuses and for ms of applications for shares may be
ob,ain, d at the Offices of the Company, of the Brokers, and
Of the Solicit .rs.
In the event of no allotment being made the deposits will
be returned in full : should a less number of shares be al-
lotted than are applied for, the deposit will be made avail-
able toward+ the payment on allotment, and the balance, if
any, returned to the applicant.

"THE GHOST CLUB" at the
CANTERBURY HALL.—New and Interesting
Spectral Tableaux.—Mr. C. MORTON is enabled to announce
that, through the medium of Professor Pepper's World of
Shadows, a "GHOST CLUB" is nightly held at the CAN-
TERBURY HALL. The object of the Club is not the re-
peopling of the Haunted Houses of London; hut, through
the agency of Phantoms, to present vivid (if transient)
pictures of the drama of real life, both in its serious
and mirthful aspects ; and, by means of spectral tableaux,
to recall, and still further Impress on the mind, some
of the teachings or pleasantries of the best writers. At pre-
sent, the two orders of Slavery—the Slavery of the South,
and the "White" Slavery of a more boastful civilisation,
receive emphatic illustration ; and these life pictures will be
rapidly replace' by others. The pages cf Shakspere and the
elcler Dramatists, of Scott, Hood, Ingoldsby, Dickens, &c.,
will, in turns, furnish subjects for illustration.
All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual,
including Operatic Selections, ; Comedy by tTnsworth
(the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, George Hodson, E.
Marshall, and George Hutcherson.