The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-18 00:00:00

No. 16,769.
LONDON,
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PERTH AND INVERNESS RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management intimate that a portion only
of the Scripholders having signified their consent to the measure pro-
posed, of returning Ms. per share, and there being every probabgity
that the Railway Dissolution Bill will be passed in a few days, they
have determined not to make a wile return of deposit until it has
been sanctioned by a General Meeting to be held under the pro-
vision of the Act.

By order of the Committee,
PETER ANDERSON, Secretary.
Colonnade Hotel, Haymarket, 16th June, 1846.

FEAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
k.. 11 CALL fbr THIRD INSTALMENT of 51. PER SHARE on
251. SHARES, making 10/. paid.
The Directors of the Great Western Railway having resolved, at a
meeting held this day, to call, under the provisions of the Acts of
Parliament, for an instalment of 51. per Share on 251 Shares ;
Notice is hereby given, that the Proprietors are requested to pay,
on or before the Gth day of July next, to any of the undermentioned
Bankers, the said sum of 5/. on each of their respective 251. Shares ;
viz.:—
London.... • • Messrs. Glyn, Hallifax, Mills, and Co. ; at the Great
Western Railway Office, 29. Gresham-street, City.
Bristol •••• • • Messrs. Miles, Harford, and Co.
Messrs. Bantle, Ames, and Co.
Stuckey's Banking Company.
The West of England and South Wales District Bank.
Liverpool .. • • The Bank of Liverpool.
Cheltenham .. The County of Gloucester Bank.
Reading .. • • Messrs. J. and C. Simonds and Co.
By order of the Board of Directors.

• CHAS. A. SAUNDERS, Secretary.
London Terminus, Paddington, June 4, 1846.

raIDLAND AND EASTERN COUNTIES
iv IL RAILWAY COMPANY.
An ADJOURNED MEETING of the Scripholders of this Com-
pany will he held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, London,
on MONDAY next, the 223 inst., at one o'clock precisely, at which
the rotes of parties who did not vote at the Meeting held on Monday,
the 15th inst., will be taken and recorded.
WILKINSON and COBBOLD, Solicitors.
4, Queen-square, Westminster, 17th June, 1846.

GREAT NORTH and SOUTH WALES
RAILWAY COMPANY.
The Shareholders who have not delivered in their Receipts, or
Scrip, and received the dividend thereon of Eleven Shillings per
share, are hereby requested to present them on Wednesday and
Thursday, the 24th and 25th of June inst., after which period the
office of the Company will be closed.

W. WEST, Acting Secretary.
8, St. Mildred's-court, Poultry, June 17, 1846.

(.1 REAL' NORTH of ENGLAND RAILWAY
COMPANY.-MORTGAGE LOANS.

The Directors are prepared to receive tenders for a limited amount
of lean on mortgage in lieu of securities falling due, in sums of not less
than 1,0001. each, and for periods of three, five, or seven years;
interest at the rate of four per cent. per annum, payable half•yearly.
Communications to be addressed to the Secretary, at the Company's
office, Darlington.—By order,

Darlington, Jane 1, 1846,

J. 3f. SPARKES, Secretary.

LAND AGENCY, or STEWARDSHIP.
Wanted, by a man In the prime of life, with flrst•rate recom-
mendalions for integrity, experience, and ability, a situation as
LAND AGENT, or AGENT and STEWARD.

Letters (pre-pald) to be addressed to L. L., care of John Dingwall,
Esq., 8, Tokehouse-yard, London.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR
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-thins of the nremiunas paid (see Table) ;
also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in-
terests to meet other conveniences or necessity.
Assurances for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible
rates.

NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK OF
ENGLAND.
The Directors of the National Provinaal Bank of England hereby
give notice, that a Dividend at the rate of Five per cent. per annum
for the half•yair ending the
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the Company's Stock on and after the 16th04f6, wJuliyllbe next,P awYhaebnie on
Dividend Warrants will be obtained at the Company's office, 112,
Bishopsgate-street, or at the different benches.
The Transfer Books will be closed on and after Monday next, the
22d inst., until the dividends become payable,
By order of the Court of Directors.
DAN. ROBERTSON, Manager.

KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL
The Committee of Management beg to inform the friends of
this Hospital, that his Grace the Archbishop of CANTERBURY has
consented to take the Chair at a NIEETING, to beheld on SATintiiAT,
the 27th of Tune, In the New hall of Kitg's College, for the purpose
of raising a fund for the purchase of a site, and for building thereon
a new hospital. The Committee earnestly entreat Noblemen and
Gentlemen who may be friendly to the hospital, and axious to pro-
mote the religious education of medical men, to lend their aid and
influence in obtaining as large a meeting as possible upon this im-
portant occasion, not only for the sake of forwarding the object im-
mesilatcly in view, but to show becomin4 respect to the Most Reve-
rend Prelate who has so kiudly consented to preside.
M. BIGGS, M.A., Chaplain to the Hospital.
King's College, London, June 17.

THE PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL
BENEFIT ASSOCIATION AND BENEVOLENT FUND,
42, Moorgate-street.

Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P.
Thomas Hankey, jun., Esq.

TRUSTEES.
IW. G. Prescott, Esq.
Baron L. de Rothschild.

TREASURER OF THE'BENEVOLENT FUND.
John Abel Smith, Esq., M.P.
Forms of proposal Tor MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE, to meet
every contingency, Annuities, Endowments, Loans, &c., and the
FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT, with every information, may be had
at the Offices, where donations and subscriptions to the Benevolent
Fund are received.

Table of ProniUm payable yearly, half-yearly, or quarterly, by a
person of the age of 25, to secure the sum of £lOO, to be paid at
death, or on his attaining the respective ages of 50, 55, and 60,
whichever event shall first occur,:— .

LAge Fifty.

Agt Fifty-five.

Age Sixty.

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25 13 16 411 19 010 19 813 5 511 13 310 16 9121821 9 6 314 11
Follies may be effected daily. By order of the Board,
May 22, 1846. • '' THOS. MULLINDEtt, Sucre

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QHOWER BATHS with CURTAINS, 2s. each
Purchasers of any description of Bath should visit Wm. S.
BURTON'S (late RIPPON and BURTON'S) Bath Show Room,
which contains, besides toilet -sets japanned in imitation of fancy
woods, china, &c., in enormous variety, all the requisites for the
season, so arranged in one room, devoted exclusively to articles of
that character, that patterns, sizes, and sorts can be instantly selected,
and at thirty per cent. under any other house, where attention is paid
to the quality. Full-size Portable Shower Baths, very strong and
japanned, with curtains and copper valve, 9s. each. Pillar Shower
Baths, with copper conducting tubes, brass force-pump and top,
complete with curtains, and japanned, from 60s. Hand'Shower Baths,
'pannekl, 3s. 6d. The Omni-directive Bath.—Detailed catalogues,
with engravings, as well.as of every ironmongery article, sent (per
post) free.

- WILLIAM S. BURTON'S (late RIPPON and BURTON'S)
Stock of general Furnishing Ironmongery and Baths is literally the
largest in the world, and as no language can be employed to give
a correct idea of its variety and extent, purchasers are invited to call
and inspect it..-39, Oxford-street (corner of Newman-street).
Established in Wells-street, 1820.

STEAM COMMUNICATION WITH
PORT JACKSON via SINGAPORE.
A letter on this subject has been recently addressed
to Mr. Secretary Gladstone by Lieutenant Waghorn,
R.N , detailing the plan proposed for establishing regu-
lar steam communication between Singapore and Port
Jackson, and showing the advantages which must accrue,
both to the colonies and to the mother country from its
establishment. Before, however, detailing his own plan
Lieutenant Waghorn thus states his objections to a plan
formerly proposed for establishing a route to Australia
via Panama.

"The possession of the Isthmus of Panama, for pur-
poses of transit, has, it is well known, been desired, with
much eagerness, by successive French Administrations,
almost from the day that•the colonial and Indian acqui-
sitions of England began to be a source of jealousy to
that country and to Spain. Whatever might be the
actual value to France of a passage through the Isthmus,
its agitation, at all events, served her views• by en-
couraging the idea of that being the only route; because,
by so doing, it helped to divert attention from the real
route to be sought ; namely, one promoting a more inti-
mate connexion with the Eastern or Chinese Archi•
pelago—whose islands are far too numerous to mention,
indeed so numerous, that over many of them the British
flag has never yet waved.
"About seven years ago, the French engineers who
then surveyed Panama, estimated the expense of cutting
a ship canal through that mountainous region, at one
hundred and fifty millions of francs, or six millions
sterling—an outlay altogether and at once decisive
against any plan involving it. But, independent of this
insurmountable pecuniary objection, the first and only_
stopping place between Panama and Port Jackson is dis-
tant no less than 3,668 miles from the former, being one
of the Marquesa Islands, where the French appear to be
carrying on a second Otaheite affair ; and where, if the
most recent and best-informed writers are to be cre-
dited, the maintenance of a proper station would be all
but impossible ; in so barbarous a state are the natives,
and so utterly incapable of being taught acquirements
that would be useful, or the abandonment of habits that
would be destructive to a depot of Europeans. Objec-
tions to the Panama route might be multiplied; but it is
superfluous to add another. Everything is against it ;
nothing is in its favour ; and it is to be hoped we have
heard the last of any such wild and insane crotchet in
connexion with England at all. Its fallacy and absurdity
become transparent on a moment's examination; though
it may look very well on the map, to those whose ac-
quaintance with the map is confined to the school-room,
and who do not reflect that space is to be reckoned, not
by rule and compass, but by the facilities or difficulties
of getting over the distance."
Having thus disposed of the Panama proposition, he
proposes his own plan via Singapore, of which he gives
the following tabular summary:—

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