The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-14 00:00:00

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THE IMPERIAL MERCANTILE CREDIT
ASSOCIATION, Limited.
Capital subscribed, £5,000,(00.
Paid up, ZOl,OOO.
DIRECTORS.
JOHN CHAPMAN, Esq., Chairman.
Xenophon Balli; Esq. Charles Kelson, Esq,,
E. J. Coleman, Esq. G. G. Macpherson, Esq.
Mr. Alderman Dakin. W. Scholelield, Esq„ M.P.
James Dickson,Esq. Sir 5..). Scott, Part.
P. D. Hadow, Esq. H. D. Seymour, Esq., M.P.
J. 0. Hanson, Esq. 'Joseph Thornton, Esq.
W. IL Hariord, Esq. F. G. Westmorland, he I.
G. F. Holroyd, Esq. Alfred Wilson, Esq.
J. G. Hombre, Esq. M. Zarifi, Esq.
1 Capt. J. Gilbert Johnston.

MANdGERS.
henry J. Barker, Esq., and T. Fraser Sandeman, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Ashurat, Morris, and Co., and
Messrs. Edwards and Co.
The Association receives money on deposit for flied periods.
Makes advances on approved securities.
Negotiates Loans, and undertakes General Financial Busi.
nese

W. C. WINTERBOTTOM, Secretary.
Crosby louse, 96, Bishopgate-street Within.

THE IMPERIAL MERCANTILE CREDIT
ASSOCIATION (Limited).
Temporary Offices—Crosby House, Bishopsgate-street;
London, January 2, 'Bfs.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the TRANSF
BOOKS of this A ssociati n will be CLOS ED on and after
the Oth instant, until the 23d instant, both days inclusive,
preparatory to the General Meeting.
By order,
• W. C. WINTERBOTTOM, Secretary.

IMPERIAL MERCANTILE CREDIT
ASSOCIATION (Limited).
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. that the FIRST ORDI-
NARY GENERAL MEETING of the Shareholders in this
Association will be held at the London Tavern, Bishops gate-
street, in the City of London, on MoND A. V, the 23d day of
January, 1865, at Twelve o'clock at noon precisely, for the
purpose cf receiving the Report of the Directors and State-
ment of Accounts, of declaring a Dividend, and for general
purposes.
At this Meeting the Election of Two Auditors for the en-
suing year will take place.
By order of the Board,
W. C. WINTEItBOTTOM, Secretary.
Crosby House, 95, Bishopsgate-street, Jan. 10, 1865.

THE PALL-MALL GAZETTE:
An Evening Newspaper and Review.
It is difficult to des -ribe the plan of an enterprise like the
PALL-MALL GAZETTE without seeming to boast, or to
decry the efforts of others. But we are unwilling to lose the
advantage of a few words of cxp'anation, and we therefore
trust the candour of the reader for a just interpretation of
our meaning.
The PALL-MALL GAZ ifITTE will contain all the news
proper to an Evening journal But, addressed as it will be
to educated men and women, the space of the paper will not
be occupied by trifling chronicles, nor by hat excess of words
which adds nothing to the interest of newspaper records,
while it destroys their significance. Literary considerations
alone would determine ns to have our News Reports written
in plain English ; but beyond these there is the fact that the
lessons to be found in many au accident of human life or
social polity are lost in the turgid language inwhich they are
commonly narrated.
Events made known by the Morning Papers may be dis-
cussed in the PALL-MALL GAZETTE of the same day,
but they will not be reported anew. Trustworthy advises
from the Money Market will be included in the News of the
Day.
The rest of the paper (by far the greater rant) will be made
up of original articles, upon the many things which engage
the thoeghts, or employ the energies, or amuse the leisure of
mankind. Public Affairs, Literature, the Arts, and all the
influences which strengthen or dissipate F,ociety, will be dis-
cussed by men whose independence and authority are equally
unquestionable, and who arc accustomed to regard the public
exi.ression of opinion as a serious thing. This is the ch'ef
aim of the PALL-MALL GAZETT :to bring into daily
journalism that full measure of thought and culture which is
now found only in Reviews.
At the same time, we by no means intend to make the
paper pedantic or solemn. Humour is too powerful, as well
s tco pleasant, to be lett out of the design ; which will lose
none of the a.ivantages of occasional trifling. If a thing can
be raid better in verse than in prose. it will be said in verse.
Epigram, but not spite—but-1.-eq.., but not vulgarity—will
be readily admitted into its columns ; d
an since a joke is
of len as illustrati, e as an argument, good jokes will be wel-
Mine too
It will be understo Al that this advertisement is rather a
proclamation of idea and of effort than of promise. But
the proclamation is not made before a large number of able
writers have accepted the idea, and pledged themselves to

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THE NOWGONG TEA COMPANY of
ASSAM (Limited).
To be incorporated under the Joint-Stock Companies Act of
1862. Capital, £250,000, in 25,000 Shares of £lO each. First
issue 18,000 Shares.
A minim Dividend of 10 per cent. per annum payab e on
lst January and let July, guaranteed for Three Years by
the Vendors.
Deposit 10s. per share on application, and a further 108. per
share on allotment.
No call to exceed £ler share, or to be ade at a less interval
than Three Months from a previous call.

DIRECTORS.
George R. Barry, Esq. (late of, Serajgunge, Bengal), 6, Upper
Hyde Park-gardens.
Ewen Maodorell, Esq, 3f.D. (late of the Opium Agricultural
Department, Bengal , 20, St. Stephen's-square, Bayswater.
Alfred Mumford, Esq. (Messrs. Bartrum, Pretyman, and
Mumford), Director of the Upper Assam Tea•Cempany.
Alexander Stewart, Esq. late Deputy-Commissioner of
Custom', Guzerat, and Director of the North London Rail-
way, 2, Talbot-terrace, Bayswater.
William Thomson, Esq. (late of Calcutta), 2, East India-
avenue, India House, Leadenhall-street.
With power to add to their number.
BANKERS.
Agra and Masterman's Bank (Limited , Nicholas-lane, Lom-
bard-street.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Thomas and Hol;ams, Mincing-lane.
BROKERS.
Messrs. Lowndes, Surgey, and Woolley, 1, Royal Bxchange•
buildings.
SECRETARY.
Alexander Forbes, Esq.
Offices-2, East India-avenue, India House, Letdenhall-
street, B.C.
PROSPECTUS.
This Company is formed for the purchase of thirteen
valuable estates already in profitable cultivation, situated in
the Province of Assam, in British India, and for the purp,se
of further developing and extending their operations.
The property consists of 12,000 acres of freehold land, held
direct from Government, of which 2,182 acres are planted
with tea plants of the following ages—namely, 440 acres, 3
years old ; 902 acres, 2 years old; 440 acres, 1 year old ; and
400 acres, just planted.
The soil and c imate of this locality are second to none in
the province, as the following extract from the manager's
report to the directors of the Bishnath Tea Company, a neigh-
bouring concern, for the season ending 31st December, 1033,
and submitted by them to the shareholders, will show:
"The out-turn of tea and seed has been unprecedented in
Assam. The plantation in its fourth year has given an ave-
rage of' 390 lbs., and the two year old gardens of 240 lbs. of
lea to the acre ; and this has been obtained at no sacrifice to
the prospects of future years, but with careful and light
plucking, as is evinced by the present healthy appearance of
the plants, which, I have often been assure'l, are, in size and,
vigour, unsurpassed by any plantation of the age in Assam."
'I he dividends paid by the Assam, the Upper Assam, the
Jorehaut, Bishnath, and by several of the other tea com-
panies in Assam, vary from 20 to 30 percent., andtheir shares
are at a premium of 100 to 200 per cent.
The factories have the advantage of being traversed by
good roads and navigable rivers, and steamers ply between
Assam and Calcutta, affording great facilities for the supply
of labour and for the other requirements of the estates. Not
less than 8,000 acres cin be brought into profitable cultiva-
tion; and each acre. when in full bearing, is capable of pro-
ducing at least 400 lbs. of tea.
The plantations are calculated to pro Luce, during the first
year of the Company's operations (1861-65), returns sufficient
to yield 10 per cent. on the paid-up capital; and the vendors
guarantee a minimum dividend at the rate of 10 per cent.,
payable half yearly, upon the paid-up capital for three years,
divi-
dends, t be calculated from the date of the registration of the Com-
flaiuAmt the expiration of the three years the plants will
aumciently advanced 10 give progressively larger divi-
, until the whole have attained maturity and yield a
The price
whiles
b, n___
a.
instalments, to e ai for the prOperty is Z 163,000, payable
will enable the I.'_.."_eur
al with interest, at 5 per cent., extend-
eq:evse
terms
of six years.
they
directors consider to be most advantage-
ous, as,
tal is called ups
value ot the show the confidence of the vendors in the
the easy instalments as to payments
y or indirect,
returns before the greater part of the cap
and to rocuar young plants to grow up into full bearing,
timinc-hmaoßnaerye will
abs obt
ue
te paid
ly nte
friendsndertakin
direct]
proing;Porkblatea with the Directors and their
strictly confined to Y, and the preliminary expenses will be
necessary.
allotted either
he vendors to
allotted to thenZ; paulate that 6,000 of the slimes are'
to be
already subscribed r ot the remaining shares have been
public.
public. or, leaving 6,000
shares avallab.e for the

PARTICULARS OF THE ESTATES OF THE NOW-
GONG TEA COMPANDYivt•
Reraben
ASSAM (Limited).
Erie% of BorToNnedl-ille, Loongpoong,
I.coTHnsEistßsOoßtKtOheNDfacOtLo
and
Nowgong
Tobokee, Topotjeoree, and
District, on the banks of the rivers 14.11un an Nonoye, and
along the grand trunk road from Doboka to Nowgongl'
vary-
ing In distance from the station from 8 to 16 rniilges. xtent
of land, 6,000 acres ; of which 1,117 are planted.
2. THE BAMONEE DIVISION—
Consists of the factories ot Bamonee, Topotjooree, Am-
luckeeghat, Borhoolab, Ssssabat, Deejoomook, and Sepsnul-
lab, all in the Nowgong District, the principal factories being
within 7 mi.es of the station, and the others conveniently
situated on the banks of the rivers Kullung, Nonoye, and
De joo—near the old station of Rungagora, at distances
varying frorn Bto 20 miles from Nowgong. Extent of land,
0,000 acres ; ot which 400 are planted.
Prospectuses and Corms of application for Shares can be
had from the Secretary, or from the Brokers of the Com-
pany.

THE NOWGONG TEA COMPANY OF
ASSAM (Limited).
NOTICE.—NI Applications for Shares can be received
5f ter WEDNESDAY, the 18th inst., on which date the Share
List will be Closed.

By order.
A. FORBES, Secretary.