The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-13 00:00:00

ORIENTAL GALLERY.-GREAT GLOBE,
Leicester-sqnare.—Extensive add ltions.—The Arms, Dresses,
and Ethnologieal lllastrAtions of the Manners and Customs of the
East.

The DIORAMIC and PICTORIAL TOUR of
EUROPE. from England to the g 7rlmPa and back.
The MODEL of the.EARTII. the SIE GR. of SEVASTOPOL. CRON-
,.,I4TADT the BALTIC and SWEABORG. With Illustrative LEC-
'I7IIE,%. Open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Admission to the whole
building, One Shilling; Children and Schools half-price.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—CONCERTS.—These
lJ Concerts, twelve in nunaber,'will take place
ou FRIDAY AFTERNOONS in May, June, and July, the
first being on the 16th May. They will be supported by the
following eminent Artistes :
Madame GRIST,
Mademoiselle JENNY NEY,
Mademoiselle DIDIEE,
Mademoiselle MARIA,
Mademoiselle BOSIO,
Signor LAIL ACHE, Signor RONCONI,
Signor GARDONI, Signor LUC RESI,
Signor TAGLIAFICO, Signor ZELGER,
Herr FORMES, Signor GRAZIANI,
Signor POLONINI, Signor GREGORIO,
Signor SOLDI,
And Signor MARIO.
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The Band of the Royal Italian Opera is engaged, and will
be considerably augmented. Mr. COSTA has also most kindly
offered his valuable aid, and will himself conduct a portion of
the Concerts.
The following Three Classes of Tickets are issued for the
present Season, available from the Ist May, 1856, to the 30th
April, 1857:

Season Tickets (not transferable) admitting the holder
to the Palace and Park on all occasions whatsoever, with the
sole exception of the 12 days on which the Concerts by the
Opera Company take place—One Guinea.
2. Season Tickets (not transferable) admitting the holder
on all occasions, including the above Concerts—Two Guineas.
3. Transferable Tickets, admitting to the above Twelve
Concerts and to the Flower Shows, but not available on any
other days—Two Guineas.
The number of tickets issued under Classes 2 and 3 will be
limited to such a number as can be properly accommodated
at the Concerts.
The Tickets may be obtained at—
The Crystal Palace (Centre Transept and Railway Entrances).
The Company's Office, 79, Lombard-street.
The London Bridge Station of the Brighton Railway Co.
The Office of the Brighton Railway Company, 43, Regent-
circus, Piccadilly.
The Railway Station, Crystal Palace.
Mitchell's Library, 33, Old Bond-street.
Sams's Library, 1, St. James's-street.
Messrs. Keith, Prows°, and Co., 48, Cheapside.
Mr. Hammond, 27; Lombard-street.
Messrs. Letts, Son, and Co., 8, Royal Exchange.
Mr. T. Knox Holmes, 441, Strand.
Westerton's Library, St. George's-place Knightsbridge.
Messrs. Cramer, Beale, and Co., 199, Regent-street.
Calder's Library, 1, Bathurst-street, Hyde Park Gardens.
Messrs. Mead and Powell, Arcade, London-bridge Station.
Mr. J. H. Smith, 22, Gresham-street, and
Mr. Brill, Royal Baths, Brighton.
Remittances from the country by Post-office order or other-
wise must be made payable to George Fasson. All ap lica-
tions must state whether the tickets are for Ladies or Gen-
tlemen, and none can be attended to unless accompanied by a
remittance.
The rates of admission to the Palace remain as before viz.:

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On Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and•Fri-
daYa—One Shilling. (Excepting on the Fridays on which the
Concerts take place.)
On Saturdays—Five Shillings.
Children under 12 years of age Half-price. (Excepting on
the Fridays on which the Coneerts take place).
The Palace will be opened on Mondays at Nine a.m. ; on
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, at Ten; ex-
cepting on the days of the Concerts by the Opera Company,
on which days, and on Saturdays, it will be opened at Twelve,
closing dailnabout sunset.
By order. G. GROVE, Secretary.

SOCIETE GENERALE des CLIPPERS
FRANCAIS. (En Commandite.) Capital,
20,000,000 francs, or 800,030/. sterling, in 200,000 Shares of
100 francs, or 4/. each. _

COUNCIL IN PAINS.
Vice Admiral Count Casy, Senator, and former Minister of the
Marine and of the Colonies, Paris.
Mons. Le Comte Simeon, Senator, Director of the Lyons and
Mediterranean Railway, Paris.
Rear Admiral T. Deloffre, former Prefect of Cherbourg.
Mons, Le Comte Williams de Nieuwerkerke, 104, Rue du Fau-
bourg St. Honore, Paris.
Mons, Ernest Lafond, 9, Rue St. Florentine, Paris.
Mons. S. Bellone, Shipowner and Manufacturer, 2, Rue de
Buffaut, Paris.
Mons. Auguste Odier, 33, Rue Neuve ,tles Mathurins, Paris.
COMMITTEE SUPERVISION IN ENGLAND.
Colonel G. E. Pratt Barlow, Chairman of the Southampton
'nook Company.
Phillip Patton Blyth, Esq.. Wimpole-street, London.
John Borradaile, Esq. (John Borradaile and Co., Calcutta),
Gloucester-place. London.
Chas. Saunders, Esq. (51`Calmont Brothers and Co.). Liverpool.
Captain Henry Shuttleworth, Elder Brother of the Trinity
House, and Director of the General Screw Steam-Shipping
Company.
I. Thomson, Esq. (I. R. Thomson and Co.), St. Peter's

Chambers, Cornhill, London.
Colonel G. A. Underwood, Director of the General Screw
Steam-Shipp,ng Company.
GERANTS—Graham, De Linares, and CO.
BANKERS.
In London—Messrs. Currie, and Co., 29, Coiuhill.
In Paris—The Bank of France.
LEGAL COUNCIL IN PARIS.
Monsieur Raveau, Notary.

Petit Bergonz,
Baudouin, Agree of the Tribunal of Commerce.
SOLICITO"RS IN LONDON. —Messrs. Oliverson, Lavie, and Peachey,
8, Frederick-place, Old Jewry.
OFFICIAL AUDITOR. —J. E. Coleman, Esq.
STOCK-BROKERS IN LONDON.--MOSSTS. Huggins and Rowsell, 1,

Threadneedle-street
AGENTS AND SIIIP-BROKERS IN ENGLAND,—Messrs. Cunard,
Brett, awl Austen, London, Liverpool, and Southampton.
OFFICES LN PARIS.-21, Rue Neuve des Capucines.
OFEICES IN LONDON.-11, King William-street, City.
In accordance with the resolutions passed at a Genera,
Meeting of Shareholders, held at the Offices in Paris on Sa-
turday, the 15th March, 1856, the objects of this Company,
which was originally formed for the commercial purposes of
communication between France and Ports in the Indian Seas,
With clipper-built Sailing Ships, have been considerably ex-
tended and the system of operations materially improved ; it
haivng been determined to unite the maritime enterprise of
the t.eo greatest mercantile communities in Enrope—England
and thnuce—and to substitute screw steam clippers, of first-
rate sailing capacity, with auxiliary propelling power.
The undertaking combines all the elements of success that
Can be contributed by each country. The newly-developed
commercial requirements of France afford high profitable em-
P,lnYment, and the cheap and long-established constructive
skill of England provides the best immediate means ; whilst
the capital, mercantile 'connections, and nautical genius of
both countries are united in a common object of the most
Important and remunerate character. Under such encou-
l'aging circumstances the Company have arranged to com-
mence operations at once by a line of Screw Clippers, of
about 2,400 tons average register tonnage, to sail regu-
larly from Havre to Calcutta, touching at the Ile de la
-*union (Bourbon), and such other intermediate Indian
Ports as may be selected. It is also proposed to open a
communication, upon an early day with the Brazils, and via
the Brazils, with the Cape of Good Hope. The BY/3s will call
at the port of Southampton, outward and homeward, to re-
solve or land goods, specie, and passengers.
To open these lines without delay, a fine fleet of clipper
screw steamers, of established reputation, has been purchased
from the General Screw Steam-Shipping Company, viz.:—
Jason. Argo.
*olden Fleece. I Queen of the South.
Indiana. I Lady Jocelyn.
Calcutta. Hydaspes.
By this important purchase the Company will be protected
from the loss which would necessarily follow from their capi-
tal lying unproductive while a new fleet was being built and
equipped, and be at once prepared to open their trades with
the most faithfully-constructed steam clippers in existence—
possessing the prestige of their previous employment, and
the very high character they have since sustained in the tran-
• sport of the British and French Governments.
A portion of the capital will be open for subscription in
Eugland and the Colonies.
Each application for shares must be made in the appended
form, accompanied by a payment of 25f. or 11. per share on
the number required, for which a voucher will be given. In
the event of less than the whole number of shares ap lied for
being allotted, the number paid is excess will be applied to-
wards the balance of 75f. or 31. per share, then payable.
Should no allotment be made to the applicant, the money
thus lodged will be returned, free of charge, within a week
from the day of general allotment.
Calculations carefully made by those most experienced in
the traffic of France, and the exports from Belgium, Switzer-
land, and Germany, via Havre, with the ascertained want of
steam communication between the ports selected by this Com-
pany, warrant the Directors in stating their conviction that no
Maritime enterprise ever commenced under more favourable
auspices, or with fairer prospects of yielding large returns to
the proprietary.
When the capital is fully subscribed, an application will be
Made for permisi-ion to convert this company, which is at pre-
sent established under the French commercial law as a Societe
en Commandite, into a Societe Anonymo, and the gentlemen
composing the Committee of Supervision in Enghnd will be-
come members of the Council in Paris.
Applications for shares accompanied bythe 25f. orl 1. deposit
to be made to Messrs Carrie and Co. 29, Cornhill ;to Messrs.
Huggins and Rowsell, stockbrokers, 1, Threadneedle-street ; to
Messrs. Cunard, Brett, and Austen, agents and shipbrokers,
150, Leadenhall-street, London ; 5, York-buildings, Liver-
Pool • and Canute-road, Southampton ; and at the Offices of
the Company in London and Paris.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
Messrs. Graham, De Linares, and Co. Gerants of the Societe
Generale des Clippers Francais.

Gentlemen —I hereby enclosne.the sum of £ , being
12. deposit on shares in the Societe Generale des Clippers
Prancais, and I request you will allot me shares of 100 f.
or 4i. each, and I hereby agree to accept such shares, or any
lea number that may be allotted to me, and to pay the re-
ritaining 75f. or 3/. per share at the time that may be appointed.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
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