The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-21 00:00:00

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• GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY COMPANY Of
C ANADA.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the Transfer Books of the
above Company will be Closed from Monday, the Ist day of January,
to Monday, the 15th, both days inclusive, for the purpose of making
np the Half Year's Interest:accrued on the" A" Series, Queb:c and
Richmond,St.Lawrenc3 and Atlantic, and Toronto and Guelph Issue
lorGrand Trunk Shares.
Those Proprietors registered on the 31st December will have a
,Warrant forwarded to them for the amount oflnterest to that date.
Notice is also liven, that the Interest at the rate of six per cent.
per annum acc•Afing on Debenture Certificates, No.l (or Company s),
and Debenture Certificates, No. 2 (or Government), up to the 31:t
December, will be payable on and after the 1 lthJanuary. Each,
holder of these Certificates will be required to deposit the same at
this oflicr, for examination, and they will be returned in three days
afterwaT:ds, with a warrant for interest payable at Messrs. Glyn and
Corapa ay's, 67, Lombard-street, London.
By order of the Board.
WILLIAM CHAPMAN, Secretary.
()Aces, 21, Old Broad-street, London, 15th Dec., 1854.

DIVISION OF PROFITS.—All persons
Assuring their Lives (on the Participating Seale) is the
PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE A,SO-
CIATION before the end of the present year, will be entitled to
Share in the 'next QUINQUENNIAL DIVISION of PROFITS to
Dec. 31st, ma.
BONUSES paid in Cash, or added to the Policy, or applied to
Reduce the Annual Premium. The steady increase of business, and
the extremely favourable-rate of mortality among the Company's
Assciras, fully justify the Board in anticipating a still further lin-
provv.ment on the liberal amounts already declared by way of Bonus.
lif,sidence abroad and foreign travel permitted on extremely mode-
rata terms.- A liberal sum given for surrendered policies.
For Prospectuses showing the peculiar advantages of the Associa-
tion, and for all further information, apply to the local agents, or at
the Chief Office, 15, Moo gate-street. London.
WM. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary.
15, Moorgate-street, Dec. 4th, 1854
Vw_IIARDIAN FI
ASSURANCE

RE AND LIFE
C 3MPANY,

-street, London.
!TORS.
11AR, Bart., Chairman.
Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
Stewart Marjoribanks, Esq,
John Martin, Esq., M.l'.
Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
James Morris, Esq.
Henry Norman, Esq.
Henry R. Reynolds, jun., Esq.
John Thornton, Esq.
James Tulloch, Esq.
Henry Vigne, Esq.
'TORS.
A. W. Robarts, Esq. ` Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq.
:Lewis Lloyd, jun., Esq. l John Henry Smith, Esq.
George Keys, Esq., Secretary.
Griffith Davies, Esq., F.R.S., Actuary.
LIFE DEPARTMENT.—Under the provisions of an Act of Par-
liament, this Company now offers to future insurers Four-fifths of
the Profits, with Quinquennial Division, or a Low Rate of Premium
Without r)articipation of Profits.
The r.ext division of Proffts will be declared in June, 1855, when
all participating Policies which shall have subsisted at least one year
at Chrlstmas, 1854, will be allowed to share in the Profits.
At the several past divisions of Profits made by this Company, the
Mowersionary Bonuses added to the Policies from One-half the
Profits amounted, on an average of the different ages, to about One
per Cent. per Annum on the sums insured, and the total Bonuses
added at the Four Septennial Divisions exceeded 770,0001.
FOREIGN RISKS.—The Extra Premiums required for the East
and West Indies, the mritish Colonies, and the northern parts of the
United States of America, have been materially reduced.
INVALID LIVES.--Persons who are not in such sound health as
would enable them to insure their Lives at the Tabular Premiums,
nr.ive their Lives insured at Extra Premiums.
LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their values, pro-
vided such Policies shall have been effected a sufficient time to have
littai•Aed in each case a value not under 501.
ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, received

No. 11, Lombard-
MEC.
Sir WALTER R. FARQII
FRANCIS HART DYKE
Henry Hulse lerens, Esq.
John Dixon, Esq.
'Sir W. M. T. Farquhar, Batt
T. Hankey, jun., Esq., M.P.
John Harvey, Esq.
John G. Hubbard, Esq.
George Johnstone, Esq.
John Labouchere, Esq.
John Loch, Esq.

AUDI'
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marl registered.
Medical fees paid by the Company, and no charge will be made for
Policy Stamps.
Norms is HEREBY GIVEN, That Fire Policies which expire at
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.

ORNAMENTS for the DRAWING-ROOM,
LIBRARY, and DINING-ROOM, consisting of a new and
elegant assortment of Vases, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks,
Inkstands, beautiful inlaid Tables, raper-weights, &c., in Italian
Alabaster, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c. Imported ad,
manufactured by JAMES TENNANT (late Mawe), 149, Strand,
London. Mr. TENNANT arranges elenlentary Collections of Shells,
Minerals, and Fossils, which will greatly facilitate the interesting
Study of Conchology, Mineralogy, and Geology, at 2,5, 10, 50, to 100
guineas, each.

AURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL ROOMS.-
..R.4 During the course of this week will be played by Laurent's
Oreaestra :—Overture, Geraldine, Balfe—Waltzes : Vermahlung's
To aste (first time), Strauss; La Jardiniere, I abltsky : Jubilee. Tin-
; Le Carnaval de Venise (by desire), H. Laurent, with Varia-
-I.(ons for all the principal performers. Quadrilles : Le Palais de l'Al-
briar, H. Lamotte ; La Guerre, Boslsio ; Le Serment (first time),
Itamain ; Lammerm•or, Tinney. Schottische: Carlotta (first time),
'Zerbini. Polkas : llusen, Strauss ; Bacchus, Strauss ; The New
.Annen (first time), Strauss. Gallops : The Baltic, Wagner. Les
Gruddrs, H. Laurent. Principal Cornet a Piston, M. Boelcourt. All
Information, relative to music, to be obtained at the music reposi-
tory under the orchestra. Doors open at Eight; commence at half-
parit. —Admission, One Shilling.

ROYAL PANOPTICON of SCIENCE and
ART, LEICESTER-SQUARE.
LECTURES for the WEEK :—Dr. lioad on Electricity, with de-
'monstraions on the large electrical machine, Monday, 8.15. Dr
lattha'at on Languages, Wednesday, 8.15. Mr. G. F. Ansell on
Chemistry, Monday, Tuesday. Thursday, and Friday, at 3.15 ;
Thursday, 8.15. ' Mr. L. Buckingham on the Arctic Regions, illus-
trated by dioramic views from sketches by Lieut. S. Gurney Cress-
'Well, Tuesday and Friday, at 8.15 ; Wednesday and Saturday, at
.2.15. Principal Attractions :—Luminous Fountain, daily, at 4.55
and 9.55; Moving Panorama, and Dioramic Views of Verona, at
2.40 and 7.40; Grand Performance on the Organ, by Mr. W. T. Best,
at 4.15 ; Cofmoraina of St. Petersburg, Monday, Wednesday, and
Friday; Cusmorama of Moscow, Tuesday, Thursday, and FaturdaY ;
•Heinke'a "Diving Apparatus and the Subaqueous Light in the Crystal
Cistern., 9 and 7.5 ; Distin's Flugel Horn Union, 9.15.—D00rs open
In the morning at 12, in the evening (Saturday excepted), at 7.
Adns'ission, Is.; Schlols, and Children under 10, Half-price ; Seascn
-.A.dastssion, 11. Is.; Life Admission, 10 guineas.

PATRON—M. R. IL ,PRINCE ALBERT.
ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
Continued improvements, increased attractions, fresh deco-
7ations. Re I,ghted under the PatehtS of John Leslie, Esq.
LAST EVENING of Miss:GLYN'S READINGS :—MA. BETH on
Thursday, the 21st inst., at Eight.
LECTURES on CHEMISTRY, by J. 11. PEPPER, Esq.
'LECTURE on NINEVEH, by Mr. COOPER, the ARTIST and
COMPANION of LA.YARD, illustrated by PANORAMIC VIEWS
taken by himself.
Opening of the New Flail, with LECTURES by Dr. BACMOFFNER,
Illustrated by the Hydro-Electric Machine, the most successful
Electrical Apparatus in the World.
A Beautiful Series of Forty-nye COSMORAMIC VIEWS of
EITSPAA and the Costumes of the Inhabitants.
The DISSOLVING VIEWS maintain their old reputation, with
lie,ines of the War, Sebastopol, &c.
The OXY-HYDROGEN MICROSCOPE, as usual.
Admission, Is. ; Stalls, 2s. and 3s. ; Schools and Children under
Ten yearsrof ate, half-price.
A SPLENDID OPTICAL DIORAMA, with NOVEL PHANTAS.
31AGORIA. EFFECTS, illustrating the VOYAGES of SINBAD the
SAILOR, is in Preparation, with Taros other Novelties, for
CHRISTMAS.
The Large Th.atre, which is usually opened 'every Saturday
ivening, will not be opened on the evening of the 23d instant, as i
*twill be required for preparing the Optical Diorama and other Novel-
t
ties for Christmas.