The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-29 00:00:00

EAST INDIA HOUSE, OCTOBER 27, 1847.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST
INDIA COMPANY do hereby give Notice,
That a QUARTERLY GENERAL COURT of the said Company
will be held at their House, in Leadenhall-street, on WEDNESDAY,
the 22d December next, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon.
JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary.

EAST INDIA HOUSE, OCTOBNI 27, 1847.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST
INDIA COMPANY do hereby give notice,
That the Transfer Books of the said Company's Stock will be
SHUT on THURSDAY the 2d December next, at Three o'clock, and
OPENED again on THURSDAY, the 13th January, 1848.
That the Warrants for the Dividends of the said ctock, payable on
Thursday, the Gth January, 1848, under the 11th Section of the Act
3 and 4 Wm. IV., cap. 85, will be ready to be delivered on that day.
JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary.

GRAVESEND via BLACKWALL RAIL-
WAY, and STAR and BLACKWALL PACKETS.

REDUCED FARES.
Railway and Boat included in one Payment.
No other Packets call at the Grays or Greenhithe Piers.
From The Terrace Pier, Gravesend, at 734, 634, 934, 1134, 1,3,
4, and 5. Sundays, at 734, 834, 1134, 1,3, 4, axd 5.
From the Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall, at 9, 10,11, 12, 1%, 3%,
6 and 534. Sundays, at 9, 10, 11, 134, 334, 5, and 534. The TRAINS
Starting one quarter of an hour before each of those times.
Fore Cabin and Second Class Railway, SIXPE SCE ;
Saloon and First Class ditto, EIGEITPENCE.
BOAT TICKETS.—TweIve Months, 4/. 4s. ; Six Months, 21. 155. ;
Three Months, If. 15s. ; to be had of the Collectors on board the
packets ; Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend ; or of Mr. Saunders,
Rrunswick Wharf, Blackwall.
October 19, 1847.

GREAT WESTERN RA.ILWAY.
TENDERS FOR LOANS.
The Directors of this Company are ready to receive TENDERS
for LOANS on security of the Company's Debentures, in sums of
Sot less than 1,0001. each, at 51. per Cent. interest, payaltle half-
Yearly, and for terms of Three, Five, or Seven years.
Applications to be made the undersigned.
CHARLES SAUNDERS, Secretary.
Loudon Terminus, Paddington, August 20, 1847.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.
REGISTRATION OF YORK EXTENSION SHARES.
The Holders of Scrip Certificates for these Shares are requested to
transmit the same to this Office on or before the 30th day of October
/text, with their names, professions, and descriptions distinctly writ-
lens in order that the same may be correctly entered in the Register
Qf the Company. Shareholders who have not applied for their Scrip
Certificates will be duly registered as they now stand in the Books of
the Company; and all Shares not claimed by the actual holders of
Scrip Certificates on or before the said 30th day of October, will be
registered in the names of the persons to whom they were originally
delivered or allotted.
N.B. This does not apply to those Shares upon which WI. per
Share have been paid.

By order of the Board,
C. P. MONEY, Secretary
Blahopsgate Station, September 30, 1847.

CBELTENHIM.
TO HOTEL-REEPERS, WISE-MERCHANTS, AND OTHERS.
TO be LET on LEASE.,..or SOLD, with
im-
mediate possession, the LANSDOWN HOTEL, situate in
one of tbe most fashionable parts of Cheltenham, and occupied as a
Private and Family Hotel and Boarding House, the out-door wine
trade of which is capable of considerable extension. The modern and
►ell-arranged furniture to be taken by the in-coming tenant at a
fair valuation. The present opportunity, is well worthy the attention
of persons of capital wishing to embark in the above line.
For particulars apply to Messrs. Young and Gluing, house-agents,
and Messrs. Bubb, Lingwood, and Bubb, solicitors. Cheltenham ; or
to Messrs. Wire and Child, solicitors, 9, St. Swithin's•lane, London.

THE PRESS.—WANTED, at CHRISTMAS
NEXT, by the Proprietor of a Provincial Journal in the
Midland Counties, a Person as EDITOR and REPORTER. The
most respectable references will be required. A share may be had
in the business.