The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-27 00:00:00

FORM OF APPLICATION
TES FOR SCRIP
CERTA.

No.
To the Directors of the Company called "The Dublin
Trunk Connecting Railway,' per Messrs. Chadwick
Adamson, M'Kenna, and Co., Financial Agents, 27,
Great George-street, Westminster, and 64, Cross-street,

Manchester:
Gentlemen,—
Having paid to your Bankers the sum of £
hereby request that you will allot me Scrip
Certificates of £5O each in the Dublin Trunk Connecting
Railway Company ; and I agree to accept such Scrip Cer-
tificates, or any less number that may, be allotted to me,
and to pay the further sum of £1 per Certificate due upon
such allotment.
Dated this day of
Name in full
Firm, if any
Profession or occupation
Place of Business
Residence
Applications for Forms may be made to the Bankers, the
Brokers, or to the undersigned,, from whom all further in-
formation may be obtained :
Chadwick, Adamson, M.'Kenna, and Co., Financial
Agents, 27. Great George-street, Westminster, and 64,
Cross-street, Manchester.

1865.

SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS.
ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library,
a id Dining-room, consisting of a new and niegant assort-
ment it VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink-
stands, neantital inlaid Tables, Paper weights, &a, in Italian,
Mains er, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, ezo.
Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine.
ralogist to her tlajesty, 149, Stand, W.C., London.
Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of ROCKS,
MEN E RATS, and FOSSILS, to illustrate the new edition
of Lyell's Elements of Geology; they will greatly;militate
tae interceding study of MINERALOGY and GEOLOGY,
and can be had at 2,0, 10, 20. 50, to 100 guineas each.
PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE-
&ALOGY is given by Mr. TEN7cANr. at 149. Strand W.C.

Y the immediate vicinityOSPlT of the Grea t N orthern Rail-
,
way Terminus, King's-cross.
Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.
This Hospital, foundei in the year 1828, the first to estab-
lish the principle of ft ee admission to the sick poor, without
the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders. is wholly de-
pendent for support on voluntary contributions and legacies.
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
xddition to this, the average number of attendance of the
destitute sick has for a con iderable period averaged between
8,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the
benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of
co,,talning several hundred more beds, had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
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Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward MU-
ierman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by, Messrs. Coutts and Co.;
Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Harries and Co. ; Ransom
and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ;
Barclay and Co. ; iliams, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gur-
ney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. , Berners-street ; I. Earned and
Co., Liverpool; and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5.

STANkOItD SMITH, Secretary.

14, RUSSELL-STREET, COVE 'NT-GAR DEN,
LENDS MONEY on Personal and other Security, in sums
of £2O to £5OO, to be repaid by instalments extending over
one, two, or three years. The large Capital of this Associa-
tion enables it to complete its transactions without delay.
No inquiry or office fees, and strict secrecy observed. Bills
Discounted at short notice. Form sent free on receipt of' a
directed stamped envelope.
The Association also lends Money for the purchase of a
house by a tenant, or for the liquidation of mortgages, on
terms most advantageous to the borrower.
EDWARD HARPER, Secretary.

PARIS.-GRAND HOTEL DU LOUVRE.-
Establishbd in 1855.—Situated in the most Central
part of Paris, Rue de Rivoli and Place du Palais ttoyal—Six
Hundren Bed-rooms at from 31r. to Mr.—Sixty sitting-
rooms at from 41r. to 23fr.—a richly-decorated Dining Saloon
—Table d'Hote at six o'clock—Public Coffee and Dining
Rooms—Choice Wines—Dinners served h la carte both in the
dining rooms and the private apartments—Reading and
Conversation Saloons ; also Saloons for Musical, Wedding,
and other parties—all Newspapers and Serial Publications
received—Divans, Coffee, Smoking and Billiard Rooms—
numerous Bath-rooms—Carriages on the premises—first-
class Private Equipages at command -Omnibuses running
to all the railway st .tions—Pustal Letter-box—Telegraph
Office day and night—Photograph Studio—a staff of servants
speaking all languages.

THE NORTHERN ASSAM TEA COMPANY
• (Limited).
Registered under the Companies' Act, 1862, on 22d
October, 1864.
Increase of Capital to £400,000, by the Issue of 25,000
(B) Shares of £lO each.
£2 Payable on application, and £1 on the 10th July next.
Where no allotment is made the deposit will be returned
in full.
Until the Ist July, 1868, the B Shares will be entitled to a
Preferential Dividend (so far as the profits from the
Estates purchased from the Assam Company will admit)
of 10 per cent. per annum. Any excess of profits over
10 per cent. being divisible rateably between the A and
B Shares respectively.

DIRECTORS.
E. W. WINGROVE, Esq., Chairman (late Mackenzie,
Lyall, and Co., Calcutta), Director of the National Bank of
India.
Percival Battiscombe, Esq., Sevenoaks, Kent.
E. H. Higgs, Esq., Instow, North Devon, late of
Dibrooghur, Assam.
H. Stavely King, Esq., 39, Brook-street, Grosvenor-
square.
J. W. Mitchell, Esq. (Messrs. Mitchell and Aspinall), 8,
Great Tower-street, E.C.
Colonel T. H. Sissmore, Bengal Artillery, Haughton
Lodge, Stockbridge.
J. H. Young, Esq., 8.C.5., late Commissioner Burdwan
Division, Bengal.

CALCUTTA AGENTS.
Messrs. Thomson, Shaw, and CO.
BANKERS.
The London and County Bank, Lombard-street.
The Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London, and
China, Calcutta.
SOLICITORS. - -

Messrs. Hamber and Harrison, 20, King's Arms-yard, Moor-
gate-street, E.C.
BROKERS.

:essrs. Lowndes, Surgey, and Woolley, 7, Finch-lane, E.C.

SECRETARY.
Mr. C. H. Fielder.
OFFICES.
35, Bucklersbury, London, E.C.

The Assam Company, the first established for the culti-
vation of tea in India, being desirous of concentrating and
confining their operations to the Southern Division of
Upper Assun, and thus centralising the management of
their extensive properties, have determined on selling it to
the Northern Assam Tea Company (Limited), whose
estates are contiguous, the whole of the northern and eas-
tern division of their property in Assam, instead of adopt-
ing the alternative of promoting a new company to carry
thorn on, or placing them under separate management.
The present extension of capital, therefore, is for the
purpose of purchasing direct from the Assam Company the
whole 'of their outlying estates in the neighbourhood of
the Tingrie and Deehing rivers in Upper Assam, forming
their northern and eastern division, and consisting of the
following gardens :
The Tingrie Mookh, Hoogrie Jaun, Kehung, Naholia,
Cato, Tippum, Hookan Joorie, Towrock.
These comprise some of the fine old indigenous gardens,
respecting which so much has been written, and which
only require opening out to insure their profitable exten-
sion. They are at present producing the finest tea and tea
' seed in Assam—the latter in sufficient quantity to enable
the purchasers to plant out any extent of new land with-
out further cost on this head.

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The area at present under cultivation is about 1,000
acres, of which over 500 are in full bearing. The Gardens
are surrounded by lands for which grants have been ob-
tained to the extent of 10,000 acres, .all of which is very
superior and suitable for the growth of tea.
The Assam Company's right to the whole of this pro-
perty, together with all buildings, plant, implements, tools,
boats, and live stock, will be handed over to the Northern
Assam Tea Company for the sum of £lOO,OOO, to be paid
as follows :-
Bth June, 1865 £30,000
15th July, It
15th August, „
15th November, „

£lOO,OOO
The crop of tea of this season, and any furthor csrAmie ni
laud that -the euperintendent or agents of the Assam Corm
pany may have acquired up to the date of completion o
this sale, together with all cultivation commenced during
the current season, commencing Ist November, 1864, has
also been contracted to be transferred to this Company,
on payment of the sums actually disbursed since that
date.
No commissions or promotion money have been paid or
allowed.
In the allotment of shares a preference will be given to
shareholders in the Northern Assam Tea Company and the
Assam Company.
The Assam Company in 1863 disposed of their outlying
estates in the district of Cachar, for the purchase of which
a company was formed in Calcutta, called " The Central
Cachar Company," the shares of which company are readily
saleable at 25 per cent. premium. Those of the Assam
Company are at above 150 per cent. premium.
The success of tea-growing in Assam is now thoroughly
established. Indian teas are rapidly increasing in favour
and value owing to their great strength and pungency.
Further, it may be stated, that the recent reduction of the
duty has already caused a considerable advance in prices
here, and the supply is still inadequate to the demand.
In reference to the quality and capabilities of the lands
proposed to be purchased, the following extracts are taken
from the last reports :
The Resident Secretary in India of the Assam Company,
in his report on the property contracted for, says :
" The lands in this part of the province are the finest for
tea cultivation in Assam. The soil is not only the very
best, but the forests contain the most splendid timber, inex-
haustible in extent, which is not the case in the Southern
Division. It needs no foresight to predict that the pro-
perty the Company holds in this part of the country may
be made within the next ten years equal, if not superior, to
that which they will be in possession of at that time in the
Southern Division."
The following are also extracts from a report made to the,
Directors of the Assam Company by their Chief Superin-
tendent in January
i last, when he visited the property :
" That the land s first-rate there is no question or doubt,
but to effect such an object (that is, work it to full advan-
tage) it must be divided into a distinct field, and the
management given to the person residing. on the spot.
" I have now got the Deputy Commissioner to accept
three applications near Tingrie, for probably an area of
about ••,000 acres, including the land between Tingrie,
Hoogrie Jaun, and Kehung, along the banks of the Tingrie
river ; and this, with what we have already secured in
other quarters between the Deehing and the Tingrie, will
bring the Company's holding up to at least 10,000 or 12,000
acres ; and I would recommend the extending in this quar-
ter for the reason, that the land is very superior, and the
position likely to be much more healthy than any other
portion of the Northern and Eastern Division.
" The present gardens, if worked up to their capabilities,
would yield 2,000 mawalls of tea.
" The plants in the n'hrseries, which were put down last
year for the purpose of planting out, have come up very
well, some of them 18 inches and others 2 feet high.,
The estates have been frequently visited by the Manag-
ing directors of the Northern Assam Tea Company during
the last 13 years, and as lately as March last. He fully
confirms the favourable views above expressed, and is of
opinion that with comparatively small outlay the indi-
genous plants alone can be worked up to an annual yield
of 4,000 to 5,000 chests of tea.
Since the contract for the purchase has been concluded,
the Assam Company have received from their Managing
Director in India, and from a large Shareholder in both
Companies now visiting Assam, valuations of the property
greatly in excess of the price agreed to be paid.
On the above grounds, therefore, the acquisition of these
estates will render the Northern Assam Tea Company one
of the most influential and profitable in India.
Application for shares to be made on the annexed Form
on or before Wednesday, the 31st May, on which date the
list will be closed.
London, 23d May, 1865.