The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-08 00:00:00

EAST INDIA HOUSE, jextranT 29, 1851.
COURT.of-DIRE'JTORS of the EAST
INDIA COMPANY do hereby give notice,
That the TRANSFER HOOKA of the said Company's clock will
SHUT on TutrasnAr,, the 6th March next, at Three o'clock, and
OPENED again on TICUESDAY, the 10th April following :
That a GENERAL COURT of the said Company will be held at
their House, in Lesdenhall street, on WEDNESDAY, the 9rh April,
,1851, from Nine o'clock in the Morning until Six o'clock in the Even-
"E. for the Election of Six Directors of the said Company for Four
Years:
That the Form of a Letter of &Homey, and of a Declaration for
enebling Proprietors of East India Stock to vote by Proxy on this
may be obtained upon application at the Treasury in this
Rouge • •
the Lists ofthe Members of the sail Company will be reedy
to be delivered on Tuesday, 25th March, 1851.
JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary.

EAST INDIA HOUSE, Msacsi 26, 1851.
TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST
INDIA STOCK.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The Election of Six Directors of the East India Company being
Jointed for WEDNESDAY, the 9th April next, the farour of your
Vote and Interest is requested for the following Gentlemen, viz. t
JnH V COTTON. Esq.
JOHN LOCH, Esq.
CHARLES MILLS, Esq.
WiLLfA.M HENRY CHICHELEY PLOWDEN, Esq., M.P.
HENRY SHANK, Esq.
HENRY ST. GEORGE TUCKER, Esq.
Which will much oblige,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your most obe nent Servants,

J. A. Moore
J. Petty Muspratt
J. Oliphant
H. T. PrinseP
John Shepherd
M. 'T. Smith
W. H. Sykes
W. Wigram
Henry %Yule&
John C. Whiteman
ny. Alexander
W. B. Bayley

Robert Campbell
J. Caulfeild
Wm. Dent

Win. J. Eastwick
Russell Ellice
J. W Hogg

Richd. Jenkins
J. L. Lushington
E. Macnaghten
Ross D. Mangles
Jno. Masterman
W. L. Melville.

EAS r INDIA. HOUSE. MARCH 26, 1851.
ro THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST
INDIA. STOCK.

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Having served you faithfully and to the best of our ability for the
tillneveralriods during which we have through your kindness filled the
Portanpe office of Directors of the East India Company, we beg
Mop
at respectfully to offer ourselves to you far re•election on WED-
ittsDAY, the 9th of April nest, and to solicit the favaur or your sup-
Pert at the Ballot appointed for that day.
We are,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your most obedient
JOHN COTTONand most humble Servants,
JOHN LOCH
CHARLES MILLS
W. H. C. PLOWDEN
H. ShANK
H. ST. G. TUCKER.

THE BRITISH ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH
COMPANY.
(Incorporated by Act of Parliament passed 1850.)
• DIRECIORS.
JAMES SIMPSON, Esq., `C.E. and V.P. Inst. Civil Eng.,
. C Chairman.
~.. C. Cobbold, Esq., M.P. E. ilighton, Esq. C.E.
nr• Gilbertson, Esq. W. W. Pearson, Esq., M.A.
A• Ilenderson, Esq. G. G. Scott, Esq.
.4. ilighton, Esq. sen. T. Webster, Esq., M.A. F.R.S.
Solid Secretary—Mr. George Saward.
-ors—Messrs. Bell, Steward, and Lloyd, 59, Lincoln's Inn-

fields.
Broken—Messrs. Mullens, Marshall, and Daniell, London.
, The Directors of this Company call the, attention of the public to
their Prospectus already issued, and to the data upon which they
ground their expectations as to the very remunerative character of
their undertaking :
~ I. To the official statement of the Manager of the South-
4astern Railway Company's Telegraph that their profit from
the transmission of commercial messages alone during the past
Year was 5 per cent., while all their railway messages, which from
some stations amounted to 20,000 messages per annum, were
'eat free.

2. To the returns of various Telegraph Companies in America,
which pay, upon an average, dividends of from 8 to 10 per cent.
Der annum.

3. To the returns of the Prussian Telegraphs, which show a net
Drefit en commercial messages alone of 5 per cent. for the very
trat year after their construction, while all official and Government
intelligence is sent without charge, the Telegraphs in that kingdom
being in the hands of Government.
4. To the Statement of Accounts laid before the Right Hon. the
411h' Council about six weets ago by the old Telegraph Company,
Which
la the only one in full operation in this country at the present
Company
These accounts show that, including bonuses paid by that
during the past three years (amounting to the very large
',um of nearly 100,0001.), in addition to the ordinary dividends, the
Company have evidently cleared little short of 20 per cent. per
rrlum, and that, too, upon an enormous cost for telegraphs. The
tish Company will be able to construct their apparatus at little
there than one-half the cost of that at present in operation.
Their arrangements in Liverpool, ,Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow,
and other important towns, are rapidly advancing. and they hope
Very shortly to commence laying down their wires on various main-
Pink lines of railway, and thus to connect at first the most impor-
teat towns in the kingdom by means of their Telegraphs.
Applications for shares to be made to Messrs. Mullen, Marshall,
Rod Daniell, the brokers of the Company, Lombard-street, London ;
Messrs. Bell, Steward and Lloyd, 59, Lincoln's Inn-fields, solicitors
'?; the Company ; or to' the Secretary, at the Central Offices, Royal
''Xehange, London.

GRAVESEND STAR PACKET S.
Pore Cabin and Seconal Class Railway NINEPENCE to
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Saloon and First Class ditto, ONE SHILLING.
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Fore Cabin • 6d. Chief Cabin.... Dd.
Intermediate Piers •••••• • • • • .. 6d. 6d.
other Packets call at the Grays, Greenhithe, and Parfieet Piers.
The Packets call at the Piers as underlined (weather permitting).
FRONI TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND.
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