The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-14 00:00:00

NVENTORS and DEPOSITORS of WORK-
ING MODELS and of other specimens of the Useful Arts (as
well as the Visitors ofthe ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION)
are respectfully informed that the Directors have given their anxious
consideration to the new appointment of DEMONSTRATOR in
MECHANICS, whose duty will be to explain to Hui Visitors the
Principles and Uses of the above Specimens with clearness and
simplicity. The Lectures now comprise the ELECTRIC TELE-
GRAPH, as well as other objects of present interest. The beautiful
Optical Exhibitions, &c. Re.
Admission, ls. ; Schools, Half-price.

BIRICEN I I EAD DOCK COMMISSIONERS.
The Birkenhead Dock Commissioners are ready to receive
LOANS of MONEY for periods of five or seven years, under the
authority of their second Act of Parliament, passed Bth May, 1845,
at the rate of five per cent. per annum.
The interest will be paid half-yearly, on the Ist of January, and
Ist July, in London or elsewlere, as the parties lending may prefer.
Sealed tenders, stating the amount and term of years for which
tha money is proposed to be lent, to be addressed to the Commis-
sioners, endorsed " Tender for Loans "
By order,
Birkenhead, 10th of August, 1846.

RICII. lIIIsTD, Secretary.

ASTURIAN MINING COMPANY.
Notice is hereby given, that all Shares on which the Call of
1/. per Share, due on the Ist inst., shall not be paid on or before the
Ist proximo, will be declared FORFEITED, and the numbers pub.
lislied. By order of the Board of Directors,
K. MACKENZIE, Secretary.
No. 9, Austin Friars, Sept. 7,184 G.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the BUSINESS
of LETTER-FOUNDERS heretofore carried on in GREAT
NEW STREET, LONDON, under the Firm of ALEXANDER
WILSON and SONS, will be carried on from this time by the
undersigned FREDERICK COLLIER, under the same Finn.
The Operative' Department will be conducted by Mr. Alexander
Wilson, as heretofore.
London, September 8, 1846

FREDERICK COLLIER,

TO TIIE LETTER-PRESS PRINTERS OF GREAT BRITAIN

AND IRELAND.
ALEXANDER WILSON and SONS, Letter Founders, Great
Ness-street, London, beg to intimate, in reference to an Advertise-
ment which lately appeared in the names of Marr, Gallie, and Co.,
of Edinburgh, announcing the purchase by them of the entire Plant
in London and Edinburgh of the Glasgow Letter Foundry, that
Marr, Gallic, and Co., having this day, at the urgent solicitation
of Mr. Alexander Wilson, handsomely surrendered their purchase of
the London Plant in favour of Mr. Frederick Collier. of London, the
bu,iness there will be continued, as formerly, under the old Firm,
while the basiness which was carried on in Edinburgh, under the
Firm of A. and P. Wilson, will be conducted, as already advertised,
by Marr, Gallie, and Co.
London, September 8, 1846.

OFFICE of the GAS LIGHT and COKE
COMPANY.
19, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars.
London, Sept. 8,
.184 G.

Notice is hereby given, that the Court of Directors of the Gas
Light and Coke Company do hereby declare that a vacancy has oc-
curred in the Court of Directors, by the resignation of Sir David
Pollock, Governor.
Notice is hereby also gives, that a Special General Court of the
Proprietors of this Company will be held at this office, on Tuesday,
the 6th day of October next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, for the
election of a Governor, to supply the said vacancy ; and that should
a ballot be required it will continue open for four hours from its com-
mencement.

By order of the Court of Directors.
CHARLES BURLS, Secretary.
N.B. The chair will be taken at twelve o'clock precisely, and none
but proprietors admitted.

NATIONAL LOAN b'UND LIFE ASSUIt-
ANCE SOCIETY,
26, CORNHILL LONDON.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages
with respect to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured
has, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for-
feiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premiums paid (see Table) ;
also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in-
teresis.to meet other conveniences or necessity.
Assurances for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible
rates

DIVISION OF PROFITS.
The remarkable success and increasing prosperity of the Society
.lils enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare
a fourth bonus, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid
on each Policy effected on the Profit scale.