The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-06 00:00:00

QRA,-FELLOWS and CO., Shipbrolcers, 12'7.
Fenchureh-street, E.C, require MIDSHIPMEN and
FOUR Flrst-lass APPAENTICES In an A 1 clipper India-
man, 1,50) tons. Premium moderate, returne in wages.
Also stout Lads, without premium, for other ships. Wages
£35.

A.—VACANCIES for 'MIDSHIPMEN and
APPRENTICES in a first-class London shipping firm.
Premium moderate. Al•o apprentices without premium.—
Apply to SIMITONDS and Co.. S. St. Mary-at-hill, East-
cheap, E.C. Third ufficers and Stewards wanted.

Q.EA.—First-el/IFS APPRENTICES required
in an East In diaman.—E ar premium, name cf ship. itc.
apply to Messrs. Lain, and Co., tl7, Coleman-street, Bank.
o control over or interference in the outfitting exercised

ROYAL SOCIETY FOR, THE PROTECTION
OF LIFE FROM FIRE.

Established 1843.
PATRON—The QUEEN,
PRESIDENT—The Right Ho❑. the Lord Mayor.
The Public Presentation of the society's Medals will take
place on TUESDAY, July 7, in the Egyptian Dail, Mansion
flouse, by kind permission of the Lord Mayor, who will take
the chair at Two o'clock precisely.
Lades and Gentlemen desirous of attending are requested
to apply for Tickets at the Society's Offices, 47, Ludgate-
hill.

SAMPSON LOW, JUN, Secretary.

THE LONDON COCOA - NUT FIBRE
COMPANY (Limited).
Incorporated under the Companies Act, 1862. whereby the
Liability of every Shareholder is limited to the amount of
his shares.
Capital £20,000, in 20,C00 Shares of £1 each.
Deposit ss. on application, and 59. on tillotment. Calls not
to exceed ss. per share. No call V) be made within three
months from the Incorporation of the Company, and b-
su
sequent Calls at intervals of not less than three months.
DIRECTORS.
F. M. Hayward, Esq., 32, tt, orge-street, Hanover•square.
Major Bamford, 6, Sutherland street, Belgrave-square.
Frederick Angerstein, Esq., 133, &oane-street, and Carlton
Club.
Frank Cole, Esq., 76, Gower-street, Bedford-square.
T. Littlewood, Esq, Broom Hall, theffield.
J. Stevens, .Esq,. 6e, Cornhill.
With power to add to their number.

BA.NICEILS.

The English and Irish i;ni(iirnited), 25, Poultry, E.C.

SOLICITOR.
Charles Parke, Esq , 37, Moorgate-street, E.C.
AUDITOR.
Mr. S. T. Cooper, Public Accountant, 10, Basinghall-
street,..Er.C.
yeRETARY—Mr. C. H. Baker. _
N A.GER OF WORKS—Mr. James Lane:-
-Temporary Works—Arthur-terrace, llolloway.
Offices —No. 1, Sun-court, Cornhill.
ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. .

This Company is tormed for the purpose of manufacturing
Cocoa-Nut F.bre Mats and Matting under Letters Patent
granted to George Davies. dated the 2ftn April, 1862.
The principal feature of Davies's Invention consists in the
improved pile of the mat, and, owing to the mode of weaving,,
great durability is given to the fabric at a reduced cost of
manufacture.

The superiority of articles manufactured by this process
over the present method will be well understood in the trade
when it is stated that matting of all descriptions, and car-
riage and door mats, &c., have a thick fibrous pile upon the
surface hitherto unattained.

If no allotment be made, the deposit will be returned in
full.

Specimens cf the new and improved manufacture may be
seen at the offices of the Company, where applications for
prospectuses aid shares may be made.

TIVIE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL
SOCIETY (Limited) are Prepared io Receive Subscrip-
tions for the issue at par of Capital Stock, in the Hudson's
Bay Company.

Ineorpmated by Royal Charter, 1670.
The stock will be issued in certificates of £2O each, and the
instalments will be payable as follows :
£1 being 5 per cent. on application (to be returned in the
event of no allotment being made).
4 „ 20 „ on allotment.
5 „ 25 „ on Ist Sentember, 1863.
5 „ 25 „ on 2d November, 1863.
5 ~ 25 „ on Ist January, 1864.

£2O
With an option of prepayment in full on al!otment, or on
either of the days fixed for payment of the instalments, under
discount, at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum.
The Capital of the Hudson's Bay Company has been duly
fixed at £2,000,000, of which amount the International Finan-
cial Society (Limited) have obtained and are prepared to offer
to the public £1,930,000.
The subscribers will be entitled to an interest, correspond-
ing to the amount of their subscription, in-
1. The Assets (exclusive of Nos. 2 and 3) of the Hudson's
Bay Company, recently and specially valued by competent
valuers at .£1,023,60.

2. The Landed Territory of the Company, held under their
Charter, and which extends over an estimated area of more
than 1,401,000 square miles, or upwards of V:26,000,000.
3. A Cash Balance of £370,000.

The present net income, available for dividend amoncst
StockholdeTs of the Company, secures a minimum interest
txceeding 4 per cent. on the above £2,000,0J0 Stock.

The Directors of the Hudson's Bay Company are as under :
The Right Honourable Sir Edmund H ead, Bart., E1.C.8
(late Governor-Genera of C ada), Governor.
Curtis Miranda Lampson, Esq. (C. M. Lampson and Co.),
Deputy Governor.
Eden olville. Esq , Hudson's BAyHouse,Fenchurch-street.
George 1.3,0, Esq., 11 P., Headley Park, Surrey.
Daniel Neinertzhagen, Esq. (F. Huth and Co.).
James Stewart Hodgson, Esq. (Finlay, Hodgson, and Co.).
John Henry William Schroder, Esq. (J. A. Schroder and

Co.).
Richard Potter, Esq , Standish House, Gloucestershire.

The Hudson's Bay Company were incorporated under a
'Royal Charter granted by King Charles 11. in 1670 by the
name of "The Governor and Company of Adventurers of
England trading into Hudson's Bay," and, by the Charter,
a vast tract of territory was vested in lhe Company, together
with the sole right of trade and commerce, and all " mines
royal," as well then discovered as not discovered, within the
said territory
The operations of the Company, which, with slight excep-
tions, have been hitherto exclusvely of a trading character,
have been prosecuted from the date of the charter to the pre-
sent day.
It has become evident that the time has arrived when thwe
operations must be extended, and the immense resources cf
the Company's territory, lying as it does between Canada
and British Columbia, should be developed in accordance
with the industrial spirit of the age, and the rapid advance-
ment which colonisation has made in the countries adjacent
to the Hudson Bay territories.
The averasse net annual profits of the Company (after set-
ting aside 40 per cent. of them as remuneration to the factors
and se vants at the Company's posts and stations) for the 10
years ending the list May, 1862, amount ta £Bl,OOO, or up-
wards of 4 per cent on the present nominal capital of
£2,000,000. A portion only of this income has been distributed
as dividend, while the remainder is represented in the assets
and balanc s. The assets of the Company, in which the
Subscribers will be entitled to an interest corresponding to
the amount of their subscriptions, will consist of goods In
the interior, on shipboard, and other stock in trade, includ-
ing shipuing business, premises, and other buildings neces-
sary for carrying on the fur trade, in addition to which there
will be funds immediately available for the proposed ex-
tended operations of the Company, derived partly from the
cash balance of the Hudson's bay Company, and partly from
the new issue of Stock, and amounting in the whole to a sum
not less than £70,000.
The Company's territory embraces an estimated area of
more than 1,400,000 square miles, or 896,000,00 of acres, of
which a large area, on the southern frontier, is well adapted
for European colonisation. The soil of this portion of the
territory is fertile, producing in abundance wheat and other
cereal crops, and is capable of sustaining* a numerous po-
pulation. It contains 1,400 miles of n vigable lakes and
rivers, running for the greater part east and west, which
constitute an important feature in plans for establishing the
means of communication between the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans, across the continent of British North America,as well
as for immediate settlement in the intervening country. The
territory is, moreover, rich in mineral wealth, uding coal,
lead, ant iron.
In addition to its chartered territory, the Company possess
the following valuable landed property. Several plots of land
in British Columbia, occupying most favourable sites at the
mouths of rivers, the titles to which have been confirmed by
her Majesty's Government ; farms. building sites in Van-
couver's Island ; and in Canada, ten square miles at Lacloche,
on Lake Huron, and tracts of land at fourteen other p'aces.
The trading operations of the Company are chiefly carried
on in the fur bearing and northern portion of the territory,
where the climate is too severe for European colonisation.
These trading operations will be actively continued and, as
far as possible, extended, whilst the management will be
judiciously economised.
Consistently with these objects, the outl3ing estates and
valuable tarns will be realised where the land isnot required
for the use of the Company—the southern district will be
opened to European colonisation, under a liberal and syste-
matic scheme of land settlement. Possessing a staff of factors
and officers who are distributed in small centres of civilisation
over the territory, the Company can, without creating new
and costly establishments inaugurate the new policy of colo-
nisation, and at the same time dispose of mining grants.
With the view of providing the means of to egraphic and
postal communication between Canada and British Columbia,
across the Company's territory, and thereby of connecting
the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by an exclusively British
route, negotiations have been rending for some time past be-
tween certain parties and her Majesty's Government and the
representatives of the Government of Canada, and prelimi-
nary arrangements for the accomplishment of these objects
have been made through her Majesty's Government (subject
to the final sanction of the Colonies), based upon a five per
cent. guarantee trom the Government of Canada, British
Columbia, and Vancouver Island. In further aid of these Im-
perial objects, her Majesty's Government have signified their
intention to make grants of land to the extent of about
1,060,00 acres, in portions of the Crown territory traversed
by the proposed telegraphic line.
One of the first objects of the Company will be to examine
the facilities and consider the best means for carrying out
this most important work, and there can be little doubt that
it will be successfully executed either by the Hudson's Bay
Company itself, or with their aid and sanction.
For this, as well as for the other proposed objects, Mr. Ed-
ward Watkin, who is now in Canada, will be commis-coned,
with other gentlemen sp?cially qualified for the duty, to
visit the Red R ver and southern districts, to consult the
Officers of the Company there, and to report as to the best
and safest means of giving effect to the contemplated opera-
tions.
Applicstions for allotments of Certificates of Stock of £2O
each, to be made to the International Financial Society
(Limited), at their Offices, 54, Old Broad-street, E.C.
A preference in allotment w 11 be given to parties hitherto
holders of Stock in the Hudson's Bay Company, and to the
Shareholders of the International Financial Society (Limited)
No application will be received after Wednesday, Bth July,
at twelve o'clock.

HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR ALLOTMENT OF
STOCK.
To the Directors of the International Financial Society
(Limited).
Gentlemen _I request you to allot me Certificates
of £2O each of the Stock in the "Company of Adventurers of
England trading into Hudson's Bay," and I hereby agree to
become a member of the Company,* subject to its rules and
rentlations, and to accept such Stock, or any less amount
that may be allotted to me.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
Name in full
Address in full ''
Date '''''''• '''''
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N.B. If the applicant has hitherto been •a• holder of Hud-
son's Bay Stock, or is a proprietor of shares in the Inter na-
tional Financial Society (Limited) the fact should be stated,
together with a memorandum of the amount of the holding.