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London, England, 1856-03-06 00:00:00

THE TURKISH GAS COMPANY.
Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and
8 Victoria, cap no.
Capital 100,0t0l. (with power to increase), in shares of P.
each, to.be fully paid up on allotment.
(The holders of original shares will be entitled to a pro rata
interest in Al future extensions of capital.)
DIRECTORS. _ _ _

Joseph Brown, Esq., 10, Clarence-terrace, Regent's-park, Di-
rector of the European Gas Company.
Lewis Cubitt, Esq., 52, Bedford-square.
George Bowness Carr, Esq., Laurence Pountney-place.
Captain James Barber, 136, Leadenhall-street, Chairman of
the Oriental Gas Company.
Charles Fiecielarson, Esq., 2S, Chesham-place, Elder Brother
of the Trinity House, Director of the Oriental Gas Com-
John George Hammack, Esq., Boxlands, Surrey, Chairman
of the Rateliff Gas Company.
Robert Henty, Esq., Densworth, near Chichester.
Benjamin George Keun, Esq., (Kelm and Co , Constantinople,
and Lavino, Keun, and Co., Smyrna).
(With power to add to their number.)
Bd-NRERS—The Commercial Bank of London.

MANAGERTN .00;STA-IZOPTE --611arles Keun, Esq. (Kenn and
Co., Constantinople.)
AUDITORS.
MeL. Backler, Esq., Secretary to the European Gas Com-
pany. John Gill, Esq., Secretary to the Ratcliffe Gas
Company.
C,NFart.TrNo ENGINEER—George Lowe, Esq , C.F., F.R.S.,
Lagineer-in-Chief of the London Chartered Gas Company.
eittaciToza—Ptlcssrs. Hughes, Kcarsey, Masterman, and Co.,
London.
BROKERS—Messrs. Hill, Fawcett, and Hill.

The effects of civilisation, which have spread far and wide
from Europe to the remotest parts of the world, have not
failed, in spite of ancient prejudices, to penetrate gradually
the Turkish Empire, and it is not too much to say that a
Meplete revolution in the manners and customs of Ottoman
Subjects is rapidly progressing, and that but a short time will
elapse before Turkey and its population will enjoy the advau-
',ages of European institutions.
The project now submitted to the public has been for some
tibia under the consideration of leading and influential parties
in Constantinople. Turkey has hitherto been, and
.still is,
deprived if many useful and even necessary provisions for
the comfort and ornament of its numerous cities, not except-
ing the capital itself. Forem st amongst its most urgent re-
quirmneuts must be placed the adoption of Gas, now whoby
Unknown there ; and it has been ascertained that the intro-
duction of this admirable and economical mode of public and
Private lighting will be hailed as a boon by all classes of the
P.epulation, from the lowest up to its high-minded and en-
lightened Sovereign, under whose immediate patronage it is
Proposed to place the present un ertaking.
The Ottoman Empire affords a wide scope for the opera-
tions of this Company, as the following facts will demonstrate.
Constantinople has a mixed population of Itussulmans, Euro-
Peens, Greeks, Armenians, he., approaching a million of
souls ; it contains a large number of palaces and public edi-
fices. The Sultan alone has several immense palaces; the
Sublime Porte, where the Government afiliirs are carried on,
forms of itself a small city ; there are also extensive barracks,
colleges, manufactories, caste, theatres, club-houses, and other
Places of public entertainment, several hundred mosques and
bathhouses, a large nunel,er of which, for the comfort and
convenience of the inhabitants, are kept open during the
Whole night, as the time most suitable for the enjoyment of
that oriental luxury.
Steps have been taken to procure from the Sultan of Tur-
key a firman or concession, securiug to this Company for a
term of years the exclusive privilege of supplying with gas all
Places within the sovereignty and dominious of the Turkish
elupire.
Two of the directors, one heving an intirnatt knowledge of
the country, tho other being practically acquainted with all
tlloe details in relation to the manure iture of and lighting by
gale have already left this country for Constantinople, with
I fall Powers to conclude the necessary arrangemeres.
Coals are to be had in Turkey, and it is believed that Eng-
' Lush enterprise will work the native collieries more vigorously
than hitherto ; but shipping employed extensively between
the countries, especially in the grain trade, will always carry
coal in lieu of ballast from England at a moderate rate.
The coke, tar, and other products arising from the menu-
&dune of gas, are sure to meet with a ready market.
Calculations have been made as to the expenses of the present
mode of lighting with olive oil, and the directors are enabled
to state that gas can be supplied at a rate wiiic i will compare
ao favourably as to render certain its genera' adoption.
Power will be reserved to take advantage of the privileges
°f any law that has been or may be passed for limiting the
liability of shareholders in joint-stock companies.
The directors have every confidence that the privileges they
are seeking will be granted exclusively to this Company; but
from any cause they should deem it advisable to abstain
"ill proceeding to carry out the objects of the Company, the
l'aPital will be returned, lessprelimivary expenses, which shall
Ilet exceed one shilling and sixpence per share.
Applications for shares to be made, on or before the 10th
lest., at the offices of Messrs. Hill, Fawcett, and Hill, 29,
Threadneedle•street.

CONTRACT FOR LIGNUM
Department of the Storekeeper General of the Navy,
Somerset-place, sth r, arch, 1856.
THE Commissioners for Executing the Office of
Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
g Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on TUESDAY,
.ge 18th instant, at Two o'clock, they will ne ready to treat with
'll!ch Persons as may be willing to Contract tor supplying her Majesty's
rekYord at Portsmouth with
0 Tons of ST. DOMINGO LIGNUM TIT:E, of from 4 to 15 ins
diameter, and
5 of WHITE BAHAMA LIGNU3I TILE, of from 33 to 4
ins. diameter.
A form of the tender may be seen at the said office.
No tender will be received after two o'clock on the day of treaty,
'?r will any be noticed, nnless the party attends, or an agent tor
4,M duly authorised in writing.
„ Pfiery tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
Vie hear in the left-hand corner the words "Tender fur Liitnum
tie," and must also he delivered at Somerset-place, accompanle
b
letter signed by a responsible person, engaging to become bound
w th the person tendering in the sum of 2001. fur the due performance
Sr the contract.

E iST INDIA. HOUSE, srn Marten, 1855.
INTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the an-
nexed CODE of REGULATIONS for the AD 4.ISSION of
41,NDIDATEN at the EX A MIN ,TION: to be held for the
:`,.P.POINTMENT of ASSISTANT SURGEONS in the SERVICE of
10 EAST INDIA COMI'ANY, has • een framed by the Board of
C.A.°lllmissioners for the Affairs of India. under the provisions of the
Act 16th and 17th Viet., cap. 95, sec. 38.
kao
-ULATIONS FOR TUB ADMIS3ION OF CANDIDATES FOR TOE APPOINT..
,SENT OF ASSISTANT•SITEGEON IN TOE 'TIIVICE OF TOE INDIA
COUP &NT.
All natural-born subjects of her,Majesty between 22 and 28 years
Lage, and of sou, d bodily health. may be candidates for admission
—2 th,t service of the East India Company as as,,istant Surgeon,.
OieY must subscribe and send into Dr. Sc tt, the l'hysician to the
"40nourabls East India Company, 10 days before the period fixed for
eith examination, a declaration to the to lowing effect :
( :hristian and surname at full length), a candidate for em
L 'oTtrient as an Assistant,urgeon In the servico of the East India
s'4llPany, do hereby declare, that I was years of age on the
~ day of last, and that I labour under no constitu-
rbal disease or physical disability that can interfere with the due
'44Charge of the duties of a medical officer ; and I also attest my
~.
Z4dlness to proceed on duty to India within thrte months of reccir-
..4„,my appointment."
declaration must be accompanied by the following docu-
ments _

oo—f of age, either by extract from the register of the parish
is Which the oand date was born, or by his own declarat on pursuant :
. the Act S and 6 WM. IV., c 62.
2. A certificate of moral character fro n a magistrate, or a minis-
of the r' ligionts denomination to which the candidate belongs,
Who has personally it own him for at least two preceding years.
A diploma in surgery, or a degree ir, medicine, provi :ed an ex-
(7ination in surgery be required fur 5u2.11 degree, from some body
""tnPetent by law to grant or confer such diploma or degree.
4
• A certificate of having attended two courses of lectures, o' six
.iOntlis each, on the practice of physic, earl of having attended nor 1
tiz Months the practice and clinical instruction o the aticsicians at
'wine hospital, containing at least, on an average, one hundred in-
rttlentv ;or of having attended one cow', eo' lectures of s.x months i
the practice of physic, and clinical instruction for twelve months. i
i„V oerthieate of having attend, d for three months the practical
.itrtiction given at one of the public asylums for the treatment of
Los insane.
A certificate of having attended for three months one of the in-
atutions or wards of an bospital especially devoted to the treat.
*lent of ophthalmic disease.
Candidates who may not have been able to attcod the practice of
VI Asylum for the insane, or of an ophthAl oh: hospital, for 3 months
426V10UJ to their offerng themselves for examination, will not be
*eluded from examination, but will, if successful In wising re-
esnlinendation for appointments, be required to produce certificates
~f
having attended such practice during the interval between the
'lllntsination and the tine of proceeding to India.
j• A certificate of h ,ving attended a course of lectures on mid-
:".ferYs and of having conducte at least six labours.
*IN
•• A certificate of having acquired a practical k, owledge of cup-
Candidates may also, at their option,. send in certificates of attend-
iiLlet at any hospitals, or out any course of lectu-es, in additiou to the
Attendance on a course of military surgery, and the practi-
"*Latudy of surgical operations on the dead body, are recommended.
The Examination will include tho following subjects :
I. Surgery in all its departments.
2. Medicine, including the di,eases of women and child-en, The-
Aeati, e, au 1 Hygiene.
3. Anatomy and Physiology, including Comparative Anatomy.
L. Natural History, including Botany and Zoology,
LThe following are the books recommended in-
-eulogy, and Comparative Anatomy—
°Unties of the Structure of the Animal Kingdom, by Rymer Jones,
ILCsbottrs Elementaire d'Histoire Naturelle, par Milne Edwards.
' Lindley's School Botany, or
Lindley's Elements of Botany.
a The Exarainaton will be condueted—
„l• By Means of written questions and answers.
4. object examinations and experiments, when the =bleat ad-
-1111.t4 Of Such tests.
ll._ By practical examination of patients, and by operations on the
body.
4. By viva voce examination.
neat
persons who shall be pronounced by the examiners to be the
utat qualified in all respects will tie appointed to fill the requisite
'l',ll)er of appoLnlinems as assistant-surgeons in the East India
C°mPany's Service, and, so far as the requirements of the service
MIl Permit, they will have the choice of the Pre-ideney in India to
WZuloh they shall I e appointed, accordma to the order of merit iu
7hlch they stand on the list resulting from each examination.
All assistant-surgeons are required tv subscribe to the military or
Irteclizal, and medical retiring funds, at the presidencies to which
they may be respectively appointed, and to the Military Orphan So-
` sty also, if appointed to Bengal.
All assistant-surgeons who shall neglect or refuse to proceed to
idle under tho orders of the Court of Directors, within three months
ihria tbe date of their appointmen , will be .onsidered as having tor-
felted it, unless special circumstances shall justify a departure from
ei
de regulation.
„, A copy of these regulations, and any further information, may be
ITtainsed on application to the Secretary of time Military Department,
tst India House.
Tito examinations will take place in the months of January and
'T,LY in each year ; and due notice will be given by public adver-
14,011ent of the daps appointed, and of the probable number of can-
mirlates to be selected.
/he Examiners for Assistant Surgeons in the Honourable East
1,.
la Company's Service, having received maay inquiries as to the
Object and extent of the Examination in Comparative Anatomy,
irlogy, and Botany, have considered it desirable to announce that
the objects are,—
1. Ti, ascertain who of the Candidates have devoted especial atten.
Oh to any of these sciences, and are hence qual.fied to undertake
4,es requiring a knowledge of them, as well as the general duties
their profesSioth Proficiency in these sciences will, in classifying
the Caudidates by merit, be entitled to great consideration.
2• 'lO encourage all Candi hates to acquire an elementary know-
-,.730 of the structure and affinities of the principal natural faininies
Anhaals and of Plants, with the general p rki upon which these
ane,onatrueted, and the functions anti relations tf their most linper-
4,
•'1 rgans.
. Ta promote the study of Natural History as a most important
,„,,
41M( t or preliminary to a liberal medical education; that of Corn-
kizikarative Anatomy, Zoology, or Botany, if properly cultivated, by
I.,._earit of swim as, for even a short period, being eminently calcu-
ri to develops habits of close observatioa, and to strengthen those
ex_Werls of reni upon observed facts, which must be habitually
wi'tf,cised by medical men everywhere, but which must be exercised
r,_,greatest energy and prom ptitue by those who pactise in a
ellagtio, and who are often thrown wholly upon their own
Tl 7 "L
Wills 6 Moral examination in these sciewes vr,ll be elementary, and
. brace a wry limited range of techn cal terms At he written
ti,,viOlitation a considerable number of questions will be put, with
stte,w Of allowing each Candidate to /mica such subjects as he luis
the ~ndldthereby, of enabling the Examiners to ascertains
tts,„ra, Beniardepartmcats of science in which the verbal exaniina-
,„" should be conducted.
Op t,it:i
th these ClUididates wh o have attained proficiency in any branch
bra,„(,* schilltost, the verbal examination will be pursued in the
salscted,ilo as to ascertain the full extent of their kno•yiedge.
this t: now announced that the next examination will be held at
Probw.,"° On the
slumberl4th July next, and .ucceeding days, and that
slumber of vacancies in the medicsl establishment ot• the
"Clildlr Company, to ho then MIA up, will lie thirty.

J.9.311:3 C. 31EL1'LLL, Secretary,