The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-04 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIMM—We are now in possession of those papers
papers which mankind must form their judgment
as to the true nature and bearing of those transac-
tions in Canada which have so greatly irritated the
press and the people of the United States. For
once we feel very much inclined to sympathise with
them in the first outburst of their indignation. The
outrage which had been inflicted upon them by per-
sonstaking their departure from the neutral terri-
tory of Canada was of the foulest description. It
had nothing in it of the nature of war, but was
really robbery and murder striving to shelter itself
under that all-atoning name. The success of a hun-
dred such outrages as the St. Alban's raid could not
by any possibility have influenced in the slighteit
degree the result of the American civil war. It
is not by plundering banks and murdering clerks
that the destinies of great nations struggling for
existence or independence are to be decided, and,
for our part we shall heartily rejoice if the perpe-
trators shall be at last given up, to be dealt with
not as honourable enemies, but as criminals exposed
to the just vengeance of offended law. We have
purposely abstained in a matter of so much import-
ance from offering any opinion on the rights of this
question until we had before us the arguments of
counsel and the decision of the judge ; the point
at issue is one of some intricacy, but we hope we
may make it clear enough to enable our readers
to judge of the question for themselves. By one
of the clauses of the Treaty of 1842, of which we
have recently had the benefit in the case of Mul-
ler, provision is made for the extradition of, cri-
minals taking refuge in the territories of the two
contracting parties. This Treaty required an Act of
Parliament to give effect to its clauses, and by that
Act of Parliament (the 12th of Victoria), it was
provided that such fugitives might be arrested by a
warrant under the hand' of the Secretary of State
or of the Governor of any province, and that if it
appeared that there was sufficient evidence against
him he was to be given up to those who made the
requisition. But it being thought likely that in
some cases it might be found more expedient to
leave the regulation of the details of the execution
of the treaty to be settled by local legislatures, it
was provided by the fifth section of the Imperial
Act that in case a local legislature should make pro-
vision for carrying the treary into effect by substi-
tuting some other enactment, the Queen in Council
might suspend the operation of the Imperial Act
within the limits of the colony the Legislature of
which had made such provision. The Legislature
of Canada did make this provision by an act passed
in the 12th year of the present Queen, and the. Queen
in 1850, by order in Council, suspended the Impe-
rial Act so long as the Canadian Act of the 12th
Victoria should be in force, and no longer. Had
matters remained here the thing would have been
perfectly clear. By the Imperial Act the fugitive
must be arrested by a warrant signed either by the
Secretary of State or the Governor of the colony.
Under the Colonial Act a warrant signed by a judge
of one of the courts was sufficient. By the joint
efficacy of the Colonial Act and of the order in
Council, the Colonial was substituted for the Im-
perial Act, and it was not necessary to obtain the
signature of the Governor-General. But the mat-
ter did not stop here. The Canadian Legislature
consolidated its acts ten years afterwards, and the
manner in which the consolidation was effected was
by repealing existing acts and re-enacting them,
with or without alteration. The 12th of Victoria
was thus repealed and re-enacted. From the mo-
ment of its repeal, as it seems to us, the suspending
efficacy of the order in Council was gone for want
of something to act upon, and the Imperial Act,
which had been held in abeyance for ten years, re-

vived. But the matter did not stop even here.
Two years after the act which had been re-enacted
in the Consolidated Acts was materially varied in
its leading provisions so that not only had
this specific Act to which the order in Council
applied ceased to exist, but its provisions, which
were at first preserved by the consolidating Act,
had ceased to exist also. The St. Alban's raiders
were arrested under a warrant issued by a Judge,
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which was valid if the Colonial Act was in force, but

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invalid if the Imperial Act had revived. The JUdge
held the Colonial Act which had been re-enacted and
varied was not in force, and for our part we cannot
conceive how he could have possibly held otherwise.
A Colonial Act can have no force of itself as against
an Act of the Imperial Legislature. That force was
in this instance imparted under the special authority
of an Order in Council. When that Order in Council
ceased to apply the Imperial Act must clearly prevail.
So far, therefore, we thing that America has no cause
of complaint against us. The Judge appears to have
decided according to well recognised principles of law,
and though the point was highly technical it appears
to have been clear enough. The fault was not in him,
but, in the first place, in the blunder of the Colonial
Legislature, and, in the next place, in the oversight
of the legal advisers of the Canadian Executive.
But, admitting that the Judge was right in his law,
was it clear that the Judge was bound to treat the
matter in the summary manner that he did ? Was
he bound to discharge the prisoner before him ?
And if so, was he bound to discharge all the other
prisoners whose cases he had not heard ? Of course
we speak on this point with hesitation and diffi-
dence. The Judge assumed that it was a question
of jurisdiction. To us it would seem rather a
question of the process by which the fugitives were
brought before the Court than of the jurisdiction
of the Court. The application, as we understand
it, was not on a writ of Habeas Corpus. The
prisoners were brought up on the warrant of the
Judge, the evidence against them was gone into,
and the case was remanded to hear the other side.
Is it quite clear that after the merits of the case had
been entered upon at large it was competent to
the prisoners to take this highly technical objection
to the validity of the process which brought them
there ? Even supposing this view to be incor-
rect, was it incumbent on the Judge to give such
effect to an objection so highly technical and so
easily remediable as to discharge six prisoners
accused of such heavy offences, without even hearing
what could be said in any case except one, and with
the certainty that by so doing he was entirely
defeating the ends of justice ? He took time to
consider his decision on a point which he stated
himself to be one of intricacy and nicety. Would
he have done wrong if he had taken for the consi-
deration of a question so knotty and so important a
period long enough to obtain the signature of the
Governor-General, and thus to have cured effectu-
ally this purely technical slip, if it should really
have been found to exist ? = We are not impugning
the integrity or the ability of the Judge, of whose
antecedents we know nothing, but we certainly
think that there was some want of discretion in the

precipitate and almost violent manner in which he
cancelled the • whole proceeding, and probably
enabled six great criminals to escape from the hands
of justice. A warrant has of course been signed. by
the Governor-General, but we fear that it is exceed-
ingly unlikely that these prisoners will be recaptured
in so vast, so thickly wooded, and so thinly peopled
a country as Canada, where there must be many
Confederate refugees who would strain every nerve
to facilitate their escape. But we go a step further,
and maintain that if the Judge had no alternative
but to act in the way that he did, the authorities of
Montreal ought to have taken upon themselves the
risk and the responsibility of detaining these pri-
soners, even without legal warrant, for the
very brief period which would have been re-
quired to obtain the requisite warrant signed
by the Governor-General. The question was one
of great importance ; on it might have de-
pended the issues of peace and war, and any one
refusing to allow the ends of justice and the very
legitimate demands of a neighbouring nation to be
defeated by a merely technical objection might
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reckon with the utmost confidence on obtaining a
legislative indemnity for his conduct. We do not
know where the Governor-General was, but he
probably was not beyond Quebec on the north, or
Toronto on the south, and might, therefore, have
been communicated with by railway and telegraph
in a few hours. We are not in possession of infor-
mation sufficient to enable us to state on whom,
beyond the Judge, the blame of this signal miscar-
riage of justice attaches ; but strong and unjusti-
fiable as the language of the American journals has
been, we certainly feel that they have good ground
for feeling indignant at a transaction that contrasts so
unfavourably with the prompt and efficient assist-
ance which they gave us in the case of Muller. We
must not expect that in the heat of a tremendous
civil war persons having a legitimate subject of com-
plaint will confine themselves within the exact
bounds of reason and justice •, and we have every
reason to be satisfied with the decision of the Ame-
rican President, which has so opportunely checked
a fermentation the results of which no man could
foresee. At the same time we would point out that
the Executive Government is not responsible for the
miscarriage of a Judge, and that one of the prin-
cipal objects of the institutions under which we
live is to remove our tribunals, so far as possible,
from any such influence. But nothing appears to
be alleged against the authorities of Canada beyond
the timidity which prevented them from taking a
very bold and hazardous resolution, on a very diffi-
cult question, on a very sudden occasion ; and
whatever fault may be found ultimately to attach to
the colonial authorities, judicial or executive, 'the
people and Government of this country had no
power in the matter, and have no other wish
than that the provisions of the Extradition Treaty
shall be carried out with the utmost fairness and
fulness, in a spirit of strict impartiality, neither
straining the law to promote the escape of the
guilty nor to bring:the innocent within the power
of their enemies.

HERALD.—In the speech made by Mr. Bright at I
the opening of the New Exchange at Birmingham,
on Monday, we are glad to recognise a moderation
which is not often discoverable in the orations of this
able but somewhat misguided gentleman. For once
in his life he makes no direct attack on the House
of Lords and the aristocracy ; he allows the British
lion to wag its tail in peace, and forbears to de-
nounce the constitution, the law of primogeniture,
and the National Church. For once he is content
to speak of the American war in terms with which
we do not feel much inclined to quarrel, describing•
it as " an inevitable but temporary struggle, at
which mankind look on with wonder and with bated
breath." For once, too, he speaks kindly of his
country, and says that we may be " deemed the
greatest people on the face of the earth." An orator
who has been wont to indulge in the gloomiest
cynicism—who has favoured us from time to time
with the darkest predictions of the future, of a State
whose misfortune it is to be ridden rough-shod by
a " governing class," warmed, perhaps, by the
genial influences of the banquet, flies off into a
strain of optimism which is in strange contrast to
the usual tone of his discourses. The time is com-
ing, he tells us, when war will cease on the earth,
when the nations will reduce their armaments and
live in peace. Wars of conquest are gone by, there
is no more jealousy between nations. "We stand
on a loftier eminence than our forefathers did. We
stand as it were on the shoulders of preceding gene-
rations." With the dreamer in Locksley Hall he
imagines already the advent of the age of reason.
He fancies that he lives in the time of which it may
be said--

Now the war drum throbs no longer, and the battle flags
are furled,
'Tis the parliament of man, the federation of the world;
Now the common-sehse•Of most shall hold a fretfuLrealm
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in awe,
And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapped in universal

We wish much that 'we could go along .with
Mr. Bright in his rhapsody, as we differ from him
when in his jaundiced vein. The one seems as
unnatural and as overstrained as the other. We
have yet to learn that the world is so much better
than it used to be ; that the jealousies, heartburn-
ings, and rivalries, which in all ages past have led
to strife between nations, have ceased to operate as
occasions of deadly enmity. In that millenium yet
to come, when evil passions shall have become ex-
tinct in individual minds, and not till then, can we
hope to meet with them no more in those vast aggre-
gates which are but made up of individuals. At the
close of a decade which has seen every nation in the
world at war, which has witnessed the war in the
Crimea, the war in Italy, the war in Denmark, the
war in India, with numberless lesser conflicts in
Asia and Africa, which leaves us in the midst of a
strife on the Western continent so vast in its pro-
portions, and so destructive in its progress that we
cannot find a parallel for it in ancient or in modern
history, it seems somewhat premature to speak of
universal peace. It is an insult to our understand-
ings
tell us that the nations have no further de-
sire for ter,jtorial aggrandisement, that wars of
conquest are to IN; regarded as things of the .past.
Are we to be persuaded that the Emperor Nicholas
had no design upon Turkey ; that the Piedmontese
in 1859 entertained no ambitious cs_rojects ; that the
annexation of Savoy was.forced upon the Emperor
of the French ; that the Germans never ioAlly in-
tended to dismember Denmark ; that the Prussi7tns
at this moment have no hankering after SehleSwig-

Holstein ? What is the American war but a most
audacious and persevering attempt to subdue, by
force of arms, an independent people that has just
as good a right to its nationality as the people of
the North ? Perhaps it would be difficult to find
any ten years in the history of the world in which
there has been more strife and bloodshed, in which
ambitious designs have been more openly avowed
and more daringly carried out than in the -period
between the end of 1854 and the end of 1864. It
is hardly yet time to tune our voices to the hymn
of universal peace. The opening of a building which
is designed for commercial uses suggested to Mr.
Bright the leading idea of his speech. Mr. -Bright
has his panacea for the ills of the times. Is it
in the levelling of claM distinctions, the destruc-
tion of the throne and the aristocracy, the organ-
isation of Government on a basis of universal
suffrage ? We might have anticipated that he
would have laid some stress upon these ; that he
would at least have alluded to his favourite scheme
for the Americanisation of the effete institutions of
this country. He did nothing of the sort. By an
ingenious tour de force he transferred his stand-
point to a newer and More promising level. It is a
trick not unknown to able logicians, to lay hold of
the taunts of an enemy and transmute them some-
how into an occasion of congratulation ; to seize
upon the premises of an adversary, and deduce from
them conclusions exactly the reverse of his. The
greatest and most dangerous of England's enemies
once gibed at us as a " nation of shopkeepers." Mr.
Bright adopts the title, and enrols it proudly on his
escutcheon. Those who envy our power and in-
fluence have compared us to Carthage, and pre-
dicted for us her fall. Mr. Bright accepts the
parallel, and boasts of the resemblance. Ile tells us,
and certainly we never;heard it „before, that " ma-
nufacturers and merchants are too modest." "They
are becoming more important in the world than
warriors and statesmen, and even than monarchs
themselves." " The power of these heretofore great
authorities is waning, whereas " the power of the
industrial interest is waxing greater." Labour,which
was the curse of the first man, is the glory of his
posterity. The triumphs of the hand, in which man
competes with the brute and with brute forces, are
nobler than those of the mind, in* which lie takes his
place with angels and emulates God. The manu-
factgrer of carpets is greater than the poet who
" lived not for an age but for all time." The
superintendent of power-looms is the superior in
every respect of the statesman who struggled with
Napoleon and shaped an epoch. The seller of cot-1
ton is greater than the hero of Trafalgar, or the
mighty genius who conquered at Waterloo. It is
written that " as mortar sticketh between the joints
of a wall,, so doth sin lie between buying and
selling." Mr. Bright does not seem to be of this
opinion. .Virtue and barter with him are exchange-
able terms, and a perfect state of society can only
be anticipated when every one does his best to
emulate the successful pedlar. Perhaps the nearest
approach to his Utopia is to be met with among
those countrymen in remote parts of Norway who
extemporise an exchange of their own by every
fjeld and fiord, who welcome the traveller by ask-
ing whether he will " trade" for his carriole, make
a bid for his brandy-flask, and ask how much he
will take for his gun. There are classes in Eng-
land who neither know anything of trade nor aspire
to know anything of it, We suppose they are to

be shut out from Mr. -Bright's future. We are to
be a nation of shopkeepers, and those who are not
shopkeepers have neither part nor lot in it.

Fleecing a Simpleton.—Curious Case of
Mistaken Identity.

On Monday evening a middle-aged man, of respectable t
appearance, was charged before ,Mr. Elliott, at the Lambeth 'Police-court, with being concerned, with another man not,
in custody, in stealing two five-pound, bank notes and siX
sovereigns, the moneys of Jeremiah Platt•
The prosecutor, a person 26 years of age, and who
scribed himself as a gentleman's coachman Put of place,
said that on Saturday morning, at about 10 o'clock, he went:
into a coffee-house in the neighbourhood of Charing-cross,'
and sat down at the same table with the prisoner, who wag
a perfect stranger to him, and whom he had never sem.
before. While having some refreshments the prisoner asked,
him if he was looking for a place, and he replied he wag
that of a coachman to a gentleman. The prisoner said he
had a relation an auctioneer, who, he felt certain, would
procure for him the situation he wanted; and while speak-
ing on the subject a tall, well-dressed man, of gentlemanly
appearance, came in and sat at the same table with them.
This person said that ho had just received a legacy of
£1,500, and should have no objection to lend any honest
man money, and that as the prisoner and himself (witness)
appeared to be honest persons he should lend them as much
money as they were able to produce. The prisoner said
he could produce £5O, and asked him how much Le had.
He said he thought ho could produce £2O, but must go to
his lodgings for it, and the prisoner also said he must g'
home to get his £5O. It .was then arranged that both
should go for their money, and that the " gentleman"
should remain at the coffee-house until their return. The
prisoner accompanied him (witness) as far as Totten-
ham-court-road, and promised to meet him there on his
return, when they could go together to the coffee-
house. He (witness) then proceeded to his lodgings, 1,
Eversholt-street, Oakley-square, Somers-town, and took
with him two £5 notes and six sovereigns—all that he he d
got—and hastened back to Tottenham-court-road, where
he found the prisoner waiting for him. They then pro-
ceeded together to the coffee-house, and outside found the
gentleman of property waiting for them. That person said
the coffee-house was too much crowded to settle their
business comfortably in, and suggested that they should
take a cab, for which he should pay, and drive to some re-
spectable publichouse. A cab was called and all three got
in, and drove over Westminster-bridge to the Hercules
publichouse, Hercules-buildings, Lambeth, where they
alighted and went into the parlour. The prisoner called
for three glasses of cooper, and paid for them, and then
asked him (witness) how much money he had got. He told
him 161., and gave him two Si. notes and six sovereigns,
which he took and placed all in the hat of the gentleman,
which was placed on the table, and appeared to put some-
thing in it himself. He then said they had better go out
and get a couple of receipt stamps,, and he' accordingly left
the house with the prisoner. On getting some distance the
prisoner told him he had better go back and see that the
gentleman• did not go away, but on going back he found
ho was taco late, for the gentleman had disappeared, and
with him the 161. (Laughter.) He then ran after the pri-
soner in the hope to find him, but he, too, had disappeared.
(Renewed laughter.) In reply to a question from the ma-
gistrate, the witness said he was perfectly certain that the
prisoner was one of the men, and the person he had been
describing. He said that on Saturday, immediately after
his robbery, he had given information to the police, amid
on Monday morning, while walking in the neighbourhood I
of Charing-cross, he met the prisoner and gave him into

custody.
Wilson Parsons, an exceedingly sharp boy of 15, a waiter
at the Hercules, said he recollected the last witness aua
two other men coming to the honse on Saturday last, ae
swore positively that the prisoner was the person who had
called and paid for the three glasses of cooper. The wit'
ness was desired again to look' at the prisoner, which 11°
did, and again declared with the utmost confidence that ho
was the man.

The prisoner, in reply to the charge, declared he wfts
innocent of it, and -kneW no more about the trausactiol'
described than any gentleman present. He also'nientione€l
the names of several gentlemen to whom ho was 'know'',
and said that if time were given him he would prove bi 4
entire innocence of the offence imputed.
Mr. Elliott accepted his own rectignisances to appear
the following morning, when he 'attended with a wholo
host of respectable friends, who gave evidence in Di°
favour. One Of the witnesses called was his brother, who
swore that froin 11 o'cloCk on 'Saturday until a late to:
in the evening he hadnot been out of his sight ; and IV
magistrate; in discharging the accused, said he left 00
court without the slightest stain on his character.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL--Ts iIESDAY.

At to-clay's market there was a fair attendance of tl
town and country. trade, who, however; showed less dcsb
to buy than was expecled, and only a moderate busing
was done. Wheat may be quoted 3d per..loolb. dearer 0,
the fortnight, but rather a slow 'sale. Flour was held for
per barrel and sack more money, which checked the (1(
mand. Oats and oatmeal, with a very limited demaV
were without alteration in value. Barley, beans, and p°
were rather more inquired for, but cannot be quoted dear,'
Indian corn was offered at 27s 3d for fine Danube, witho'
finding buyers, and 27s would have been taken at the clo
of the market.

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THE CREDIT FONCIER and MOBILIER
of ENGLAND (Limited).—NOTlCE of RE-
kOVAL.---Notice is hereby given that on and from
2d Jan., 1865, the business of the Company will be carried
on at their New Offices, 17 and 18, Cornhill, instead of at
their late offices, Lombard-street and Walbrook.
By order of the Court of Directors,
ALFRED Loudon, Dec. 31, 1864, 17 LOWE, Secretary.
and 18, Cornhill.

CHRISTMAS RENEWALS.—NORTH, BRI-
TISH and MERCANTILE INSURANCE COM-
PANY
Incorporated by Royal Charter and Acts of Parliament.
Accumulated and invested funds X2,233,927
Annual revenue 497,263
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
POLICIES should be'RENEWED within Fifteen Days
from the 25th inst. Receipts may be had of the various
Agencies and Branches, and at the Head Office.
London, 61, Threadneedle-street, E.C., Dec., 1864.

' AGENTS REQUIRED.
THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY is
prepared to entertain applications for Agency Ap-
pointments from gentlemen having command of Fire and
Life Business, either in London or the suburbs, or wher-
ever the Company is not fully represented.
The Royal has always been conspicuous for its liberality
and promptitude in the settlement of Claims.
Its annual Income is now over £600,000
And its Funds in hand exceed
In the year 1863 alone more than £156,000 was added
to the available funds.

Tho Royal now grants Insurances on Stock and Imple-
ments in Trade, &c., at half the former charge for duty.
Transfers of Poicies from other Companies received
*without charge for Policy, whatever the amount.
Address, JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secy.
Royal Insurance Company, 29, Lombard-street.

THE NOWGONG TEA. COMPANY of
ASSAM (Limited).
To be incorporated under the Joint-Stock Companies Act of
1862. Capital, £20,000, in 25,00 Shares of .£,O each. First
issue 18,000 Shares.
A minimum Dividend of 10 per cent. per annum payab'e on
Ist January and Ist July, guaranteed for Three Years by
the Vendors.
Deposit 10s. per share on applicatiin, and a further 10s. per
share on allotment.
No call to exceed £ I per share, or to be made 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 Maimon ell, Esq, M.D. (late of the Opium Agricultural
Department, Bengal , 20, St. Stephen's-square, Bayswater.
Allred Munatord, Esq. (Director of the Upper Assam Tea
Company), VS, Upper rnames-street.
Alexander Stewart, Esq. late Deputy-Commissioner of
Customs, 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, Leadenhatl-stre_t.
With power to add to their number.

BANKERS.
Agra and Masterman's Bank (Limited , Nicholas-lane, Lom-
bard-street.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Thomas and llohams, Mincing-lane.

BROKERS.
Messrs. Lowndes, Surgey, and Woolley, 1, Royal Ilxchange-
buildings.
AGENTS IN INDIA.
lareesrs. Thomson, Shaw, and Co.
SECRETARY.
Alexander Fenbes, Esq.
Offices-2, East India-avenue, India House, Leadenhall-
street,,E.C.
PRSPCUS.
This Company is formO E
orT
ed t the purchase of thirteen
valuable est tes 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 proper'y consists of 12,0e0 acres of freehold land, held
direct from Government, of which 2,182 acres arc 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
100 acres just planted.
_The soil and c imate of this locality are second to none in
the province, as the following extract from the m nager's
report to the directors of the Bislinath TC3. Company,
Duni:luring concern, for the season ending 3 at December, ic6 ,
tl,,!ubmitted by them to the Ehareholders, will show :
AB,l lie out-turn of tea and seed has been unpre edented in
rag
39101110bplautation in its foui told h give 2
tea toot h s , and the two year gardens of n4aanibasr. eo-f
prOfip2cts
The e act e; ; and this has been obtained at no sacrifice to
of future years, but with careful and light
thu,,e,l\inz, as is evinced by the present healthy appearance of
Vi wh'eh, I have often been assurea, are, in size aril
"urP,ssed b a y plantaton of the age in Assault.
--te dividends pal bnYthe Assam, the Upper Assam, the
uereh
13i4hnath, and by several ot the other tea com-
iti.;:',B al Assam, vary from 20 to 30 percent.. and their shares
The factories have the advantage of being traversed by
good roads and navigable rivers, and steamers p'y between
Assam and Calcutta, affording gm' at facilities fur the supply
Of labour and for the other requirements of the estates. Not
less than 8,003 acres c.n 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 ' uce, during the first
to ear Or the Company's operations (1861-05), returns sufficient
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 fur three years,
to be calcu ated from the date of the registration of the Com-
pany At the expiration of the three years the plants will
De sufficiently advanced to give progressively larger divi-
dends, until the whole have attained maturity and yield a
maximum return.
The price t be paid for the property per,ooo, payable by annual instalments, with interest, at 5 cent., extend-
ing over a period of six years, as follows, viz.:—
On formation of Company .. £IS,COO
31st January, 1866 . • • • 20,000
Slat „ 1867 . • ••
• 25,0C.,0
31st „ 1868 ••• • • 80000
31st „ 1989 . • .. • •
3.,,000
31st „ li7o .. • • 88,000

• £163,000
These terms the directors consider to be most advantage-
ous, as, while they show the confidence of the venders in the
value of the property, the easy instalments as to payments
• 'will enable the young plants to grow up into full bearing,
and to yield large returns before the greater part of the capi-
tal is called up.
The undertaking originates wiih the Directors and their
friends. No promotion-money will be paid to any one, either
airectly or indirectly, and the preliminary expenses will be
strictly confined to such as are absolutely necessary.
9, 'The vendors stipulate that 6,000 of the shares are to be
allotted to them; 6,000 of the remaining shares have been
already subscribed for, leering 6,000 shares avallab.e for the
public.
PAR'

TICULARS OF THE ESTATES OF THE NOW-
GONG TEA. COMPANY OF ASSAM (Limited).
1. THE BORKONDO LEE DIVISION.
Consists of the factories of Borkondolee, Loongpoong,
Tobokee, Topotjeoree, and Rembeng, all in the Nowgong
District, on the banks of the rivers Kullung and Nonoye, and
along the grand trunk road from Doboka to Nowgong ; vary-
ing in distance from the station from 8 to I& miles. Extent
of land, 6,C00 acres ; of which 1,117 are planted, and of the
following ages, viz. :
Three years old..
Two years old .
One year old
Just planted

• • • . .. 230 acres
• • .. • . 537
• • •• • • 150 0

Total .
•• 1,117 „
2. THE EAMONEE DIVISION Consists of the factories of Bamonee, Topotjooree, Am-
luckeeghat, Borhoolah, Sessabat, Deejoomookk, and Sepanul-
lab, all in the Nowgong District, the principal tactories being
within 7 mi.es of the station, and the others conveniently
situated on the banks of the rivers liallang, Nonoye,
De joo—near the old station of Rungagora. at dist and
ances
varying from Bto 20 miles from Nowgong. Extent of land.
ages, acres ; of which 1,005 are planted, and of the following
viz
Three years old
O)wo years •
ne Year old
Ju,t Planted .:

• • • .. 210 a,Tem.
• • 365 ~
• • .. 290
•• • • ..200

Total

1,065 „

No
...
!ORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Elrectors of the Nowgona Tea Company of Assam
z 4entlemen,rfolng (Liidmited).
pa to your Bankers the sum of
bein a dosit 10s. per Share o
Hiares in the above Company,f I hereby requestn
that you
will allot me that number, and I agree to become a Member
of
nuthmber yoe said
-°lllPany, and to accept such Shares, or any less
may allot m • '
or in defalt thEreof that e
deposit shall be forfeited and I authorise you to enter m thy
name on the Register of Members in respect of the ..hares
you will allot to Inc.

Name in fu'l.
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Date

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