The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-28 00:00:00

Diaverots.

Geueral Sir JOHN BURGOYNE, Bart., R.E.,
D.C.L., Inspector-General of Fortifications, War Depart-
ment, Pall-mall, chairman.
,The Iron. W. Napier, Managing Director of the Lands Im-
provement Company, Old Palace-yard, Westminster.
Charles Balfour, ,Esq. ,(Messrs. Balfour and Co.), 39, St.

James's-street, and: Edinburgh.
Francis Edward Bigge, Bsq., Wateringbury, Kent, and
Union Club, Trafalgar-square.
Edward Chapman, Bkq. (Messrs. Chapman and Hall); 193,

Piccadilly • •
14eut.-Col. French, 8, Duke-street, St. James's, and Galway,
Deputy Chairman ,of ;the Bombay, Baroda, And Contral
India Railway Company. •
Henry S. Pitcher, Esq., Northfleet Dockyard, Kent.
William Pulteney Scott, Esq., 55, Lincoln's-inn-fields.
John Shorter, Esq. (Messrs. Shorter, Pownall, and C0.),.1,
Laurence Potuatney-place, Cannon-street. • ,
Thomas Osborne Stock, Esq. (Messrs. Burgess and Stock),
Lloyd's, and 18, Austinfriars.
Thomas Edward Symonds, Commander, R.N., Managing Di-
rector, resident at Galway.'
Charles Whiting, Esq., Beaufort-house, Strand.

BANKERS.
London--LThe London Joint Stock Bank, 5, Princes-street
Mansion-house, and 69, Pal-mall.
Dublin and Galway—The Provincial Bank of Ireland.

Solicitors—Messrs. Valance and, Valiance, 20, Essex-street,
Strand, London;
Auditors—J. E. Coleman, Esq., 3d, Coleman-street, City,
one of the 'Official Auditors appointed by the Board of
Trade ; George Cumming,,llo.,--lianagor.„ol Kent
"Ift ttittufeltd•PhirtimiefarertMetvideil& -
Brokers—Messrs. Field, Son, and Wood, Warnford-court.
Secretary (ad. int.)—E. Matthews, Esq.
Offices—London, 32, Regent-circbs, Piccadilly; Dublin, 24,

Upper Saekville-street.
Principal' Fishing Station, Galway—Manager, Mr, Thomas

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Wade. , -
Factor and Agent in London—Mr. George Stevenson, 10,
. - Billingsgate.
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This Company comprises within its objects anti operations
two branches of business :

(1.) A system of deep-sea fishing and the purchase and
curing of fish on the west coast of Ireland, the principal fea-
ture of the plan being the employment of steam-vessels as
carriers from the fishing grounds to the railways.
(2.) The manufacture of fish manure or fish guano from the
inedible fish and offal, and the extract of fish oil. '
The Directors refer with gratification to the observa-
tions of the press both in England and Ireland (set forth as an
appendix to a pamphlet, which, with fall detailed prospectus,
may ba had on application), expressing in the moiit forcible
manner favourable opinions of the undertaking, net only as
to its success in a commercial point of view, but cis likely to
be beneficial to Ireland.

As to the first branch of operations of the Company
namely, fishing and the purchase of fish, it may be stated
that the waters of the west coast of Ireland abound with the
choicest cod, turbot, soles, lobsters, and other fish, but
hitherto, owing to a variety of causes well known, these
vast resources' have not been turned to profitable account
on a large scale. The Company proposes. therefore to carry
out a system of general fishing on the deep sea banks, and to
purchase fish of every description throughout • the west coast
of Ireland. One of the principal features in this plan is the
employment of steam-vessels as carriers, by which the fish
will be collected daily at the several fishing stations, and
carried to the nearest railway. These vessels, in combi-
nation with the Electric Telegraph and fast trains on the rail-
ways, added to a plentiful supply, of ice, will insure a large
and regular delivery of fresh and cured fish in good condition,
within a few hours at the markets of Loudon, Dublin, Liver-
pobl, Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol, and all important
towns in the kingdom,

The Company's arrangements are in a sufficient state of
forwardness to justify the expectation that fishing operations
will be eomnienced in the month of October next.

The fleet will, in the first instance, Consist of two screw
steam carriers of about 150 tons, six welled vessels of about
90 tens, and six of about 50 tons. There will also be stor e
vessels for keeping fish and lobsters alive, and several boats
of from 30 to 35 feet long for seine and drift-net fishing.
A most abundant supply of marketable fish may be calcu-
lated upon, and arrangements have been made which will
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insure a sale of almost any quantity. In confirmation of
this fact, the Directors refer to the document in the Appendix,
bearing the signatures of the principal fishmongers in London.
As to the second branch, namely, the manufacture of fish
manure or fish guano, oil, and glue, from the coarse • and
inedible fish, and the offal of the curing stations.
It is impossible to overrate the importance of this branch
of the business.

It is an established and incontrovertible fact, that fully
one-half the fish taken either by trawl or line fishing, is
inedible or unsaleable, and heretofore the greater part has
been thrown overboard. In addition to this it is also known
that by the use of proper appliances an unlimited quantity
of every description• of coarse fish and ciustacea may be
readily procured on the western coast of Ireland. These and
the offal of the prime or marketable fish, the Directors intend
converting into pulverised fish manure or fish guano.
"As the subject of fish manure was one of such paramount

importance, the Directors requested Professor Way to examine
the process proposed to be adopted by this Company, accom-
panied by Mr. Hermann Schweitzer, chemist, of Brighton, and
Mr. Harman, Civil Engineer ; the result is that the opinions of
the Directors are fully confirmed both as to the plan which
they propose to adopt, and the value of this fish manure as a
product.
As to Capital—lt is at present proposed to call up only
40,0001. (of which one-half has already been secured by pri-
vate subscription), namely, 8/. per share, payable as follows-
2i. as atdeposit, and the remainder in three separate calla, at
intervals of not less than three months. The shares may,
however, be paid up in full at once, and in that ease interest
A Si. per cent. will be allowed upon all sums paid in antici-
pation of calls.
In estimating the amount of profit which may be realised
by this undertaking, the directors are anxious to avoid all
statements which might give rise to extravagant expectations;
but a most careful calculation of the annual expenses, and a
d3oderate estimate of returns, upon authentic data, show,
upon the first branch of the undertaking—namely, fishing,
purchase, and curing of fish—a return of from 30 to 35 per
cent, upon the capital.
The plan of operations and other information are fully de-
tailed in the prospectus, applications for which, and for the

explanatory pamphlet, and for shares,'are to be made to the
Solicitors, Brokers, or to the Se,:retary, at the daces of the
Company, either in London or Dublin.
Form of Application for Shares.

To the Directors of the London and West of Ireland Fishing
and Fish Manure Company (Limited)
32, Regent-circus, Piccadilly, London.
Gentlemen,— I request that you will allot me shares.
at 101. each in the above-named• Company, and I undertake
to accept the same, or such less number as you may allot me,
to pay for the same, and to sign the deed of settlement of the
Company, as and when required, and I enclose (have paid
into the bankers of the Company)* a deposit of £ .—Dated
this day of , 1856.
• Name in full
Profession or business
Residence in full
Reference
N.B. Each application must be accompanied by a deposit
of, or a banker's receipt for, 21. per share. Should the full
number of shares applied for not be allotted, a proportionate
part of the deposit will be immediately returned.
* Alter as the case may be.