The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-10 00:00:00

HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of
AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA-
RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY
DIVIDENDS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES)
offer many possibilities of obtaining
LARGE FORTUNES,
HENRY BEER and CO., BANKERS, PARIS,
Who have CEASED to contract for LOTTERIES, are NOW
SELLING BONDS for the said DISTRIBUTIONS. Per-
sons desirous to purchase for one of the next Distributions,
may receive, PREVIOUS to giving any order, the PROS-
PECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing WITH-
OUT DELAY, a line to
HENRY BEER and CO., PARIS.
THE NEXT DISTRIBUTIONS contain
SEVEN HUNDRED DIVIDENDS,
Amounting to £72,170,
The Lividends being
£25,000 £BOO £l5O £lOO £7O
5,000 600 120 90 60
1,500 400 110 80 50
1,000 200
And the following Distributions contain 25,200 Dividends
•
Amounting to £954,888, the Dividends Wing.
X 15,000 £6OO £7O 0 £37 10
7,500 3CO 50 0 37 0
3,800 209 42 0 36 0
1,800 150 40 10 35 0
1,200 100 39 0

pENINSULAR and ORIENTAL STEAM
NAVIGATION COMPANY.
Capital One Million, in Shares of 50/. each (one-fourth already

paid-up and invested.)
This Company is formed for establishing steam commum
cation on an extensive plan with British India, &c. The Di-
rectors are already under contract with tier Majesty's Go-
vernment for the conveyance of the East Indian mils and
public despatches, as well as those to the Peninsula and Me-
diterranean, the first vessel, with the mails for Alexandria,
being intended to start on the Ist of September, as per ad-
vertisement.
The Company is about to be incorporated by Royal Char-
ter, conferring limited responsibility, and the Directors deem
it xepedient to apprize the public that they have resolved to ad-
mit subscribers for a limited nun- tsr of shares in the under-
taking at par, and with that view a prospectus will be issued
in the course of a few days, by which time they expect the
arrangements for the Royal Charter of Incorporation will
be completed.
By Order of the Board.
B. M. WILLCOX,) Managing
AR_ ANDERSON,
Directors.
F. CARLETON,
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company's Offices, 51, St. Mary-axe,
London.

PENINSULAR and ORIENTAL STEAM
NAVIGATION COMPANY.

The NEW INDIA MA IL STEAMERS, under Contract
with her Majesty's Government.—First vessel under the im.
proved system for goods, passengers, and parcels :
The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's
New Steam-ship ORIENTAL, of 1,673 tons and 450 horse-
power, will start from Southampton, September 1, for ALEX-
ANDRIA, touching at Gibraltar and Malta only, carrying her
Majesty's Mails and despatches, and will arrive at Malta on the
9th, and at Alexandria on the 14th of September. The New
Line of Steam-vessels for the India mails will thenceforward
continue to leave England for Gibraltar, Malta, and Alexan-
dria, on the Ist of every month, and Alexandria for Malta, Gib-
raltar, and England, from the 20th to the 25th of every month,
►naking the passage each way, under ordinary circumstances, in
fourteen days. A branch steamer will run twice a month be-
tween Malta and the lonian Islands with mails, passengers,
goods, and parcels. Each vessel will carry a Medical Officer
appointei or approved of by Government, and the time occu-
pied in the passage home will be allowed in the quarantine.
Passengers for India, who may desire to visit the interesting
scenery and localities of Spain and Portugal, will have the pri-
vilege, free of additional expense, of proceeding in any of the
Company's weekly Peninsular mail steamers, and may thus
visit Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon and Cintra, Cadiz, Seville, Gibral-
tar, Algeciras, &c., joining the India mail steamer for Malta
and Alexandria at Gibraltar.
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A liberal table, with wines and every necessary, a ill be
found, and included in the fare. Female attendants for ladies.
Private family cabins, and a separate sleeping cabin for every
passenger under ordinary circumstances.
, A large and powerful steam-ship will shortly be sent out to
commence a line of communication between Calcutta, Madras,
Ceylon, and Suez, in 'connection with the line to Alexandria,
particulars of whch will be given in a future advertisement.
Swift and commodious iron steamers are about to be placed
on the Nile for the conveyance of passengers, &c., between
Atfe aid Cairo, by which they will be enabled with certainty
to reach the outward steamer at Suez, and the homeward
steamer at Alexandria, as soon as the mails.
Full directions for travellers to and from India, Egypt, &c.,
by the new and improved conveyance, are in preparation, and
will shortly be printed. Meantime further particulars may be
known on application at 44, Regent-street, Piccadilly ; Messrs.
Grindlay, Christian, and Matthews's Offices, 8, St. Martin's-
place, and 16, Cornhill ; at Mr. Waghorn's Offices, 34, Corn-
hill, London ; at the City of Dublin Steam-Packet Company's
Offices, Dublin and Liverpool ; and at the Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Offices, 51, St. Mary-
axe.