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London, England, 1856-03-07 00:00:00

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 Farquharson, Esq., 28, Chesham-place, Elder Brother
of the Trinity House, Director of the Oriental Gas C(•m-
John George Hammack, Esq., Boxlands, Surrey, Chairman
of the Rateliff Gas Company.
Robert Henty, Esq., Densworth, near Chichester.
Benjamin George Keun, Esq., (Keun and Co., Constantinople,
and Lavine, Kenn, and Co., Smyrna).
(With power to add to their number.)
BANKERS—The Commercial Bank of London.
MANAGER IN CONSTANTINOPLE—CharIes Keun, Esq. (Keun and
Co., Constantinople.)
AUDITORS.
H. McL. Backler, Esq., Secretary to the European Gas Corn-
Pan'''. John Gill, Esq., Secretary to the Ratcliffe Gas
Company.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—George Lowe, Esq. C.E., F.R• S.,
Engineer-in-Chief of the London Chartered Gas Company.
Sotsciroas_Messrs. Hughes, Kearsey, Masterman, and Co.,

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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
Complete revolution in the manners and customs of Ottoman
Subjects is rapidly progressing, and that but a short time will
*lapse before Turkey and its population will enjoy the advan-
tages of European institutions.
The project now submitted to the public has been for some
time under the consideration of leading and influential parties
la Constantinople. Turkey has hitherto been, and Call is,
deprived of 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-
quirements must be placed the adoption of Gas, now wholly
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
population, from the lowest up to its high-minded and en-
lightened Sovereign, under whose immediate patronage it is
Prevesed to place the present undertaking.
The Ottoman Empire affords a wide scope for the opera-
tion.' of this Company, as the following facts will demonstrate.
Constantinople has a mixed population of Museulmans, Euro-
Teals, Greeks, Armenians, &c., approaching a million of
souls; it contains a large number of palaces and public edi-
seec. The Sultan alone has several immense palaces; the
Sublime Porte, where the Government affairs are carried on,
terms of itself a small city ; there are also extensive barracks,
Colleges, manufactories, cafés, theatres, club-houses, and other
places of public entertainment, several hundred mosques and
bath-houses, a large number of which, for the comfort and
eeavenience of the inhabitants, are kept open during the
*hole 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, securing to this Company for a
term of years the exclusive privilege of supplying with gas all
Places within the sovereignty and dominions of the Turkish
empire.
Twa of the directors, one h tying an intimate knowledge of
the country, the other being practically acquainted with all
the details in relation to the manufacture of and lighting by
gas, have already left this country for Constantinople, with
full powers to eonclude the necessary arrangemen•s.
Coals are to be had in Turkey, and it is believed that Eng-
lish enterprise will work the native collieries more vigorously
than hitherto ; but shippins employed extensively between
the countries, especially in the grain trade, will always carry
coal in lien of ballast from England at a moderate rate.
The coke, tar, and other products arising from the manu-
facture of gas, are sure to meet with a ready market.
Calculations have been made as to the expenses of the present
bkode of lighting with olive oil, and the directors are enabled
to state that gas can be supplied at a rate which will compare
Co favourably as to render certain its genera, adoption.
Power will he reserved to take advantage of the privileges
(If any law that has been or may he passed for limiting the
liability of shareholders in joint-stock companies.
The directors have every confidence that the privileges they
are seeleng will be granted exclusive'," to this Company; but
if from any cause they should deem it advisable to abstain
trona proceeding to carry out the objects of the Company, the
eapital will be returned, lesspreliminary expenses, which shall
het exceed one shilling and sixpence per share.
Applications for shares to be made, on or before the loth
Inst., at the offices of Messrs. Hill, Fawcett, and Hill, 29,
Threadneedle street.