The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-23 00:00:00

EICI,.T PER, CEN r. OBLIGATIONS.
Interest payable half-yearly, in London, Paris, Frankfort, and
Hamburg.
THE GALVESTON, HOUSTON, and HEN-
RSON RAILW Y C,i IPANT- Is now prepared to re-
ceive applications for 5,0,0 Obl'gitions of 201. each, r:deetnable in
nine years, with a Premium of 21 each.
The annual Drawings to commence on Ist March, 1860.
.The Obligations are secured on the Revenues of the Railway, and
on the Free Grant of Land, which is albite rate of 10,240 acres for
every mile of Railway constructed.
Th • Interest, at the rate of 8 per cent. per annu ", is payable in
London on the Ist January and the Ist .Tuly on pr•sentation of the
Coupons at the Commercial Bank of London, Lo•hbury
subscribers for Obligations are entitled to one Free Sharo for every
Obligation subscribed.
Full parti mars may be obtained on ap ,lication at th n Agency of
the Company, 4, Skinner's-pace, Bize-lane, City, or of Messrs. Price
& Brown, 4, Change-alley, City,

IVI ETIt 0 P 0 LIT AN COUNTIES 1 IFE
ASSURA.NCE SOCEFITY, 27, Re,rent- ”eet kvat,tre-
place. Lone S.W. Life dssuraneo, annuities, endowments, and
loans on advantageous terms.

F. FERCITTSON CANITZOIIX, Nanaeer.

HE INTERNATIONAL LIFE
ASSIIIIkNCE SOCIETY,

142, Strand, London. •
Empowered by Act of Parliament, for LIFE I+;UP,ANCE, SUR
VIVORSUIPS, ANNUITIES, ENDO WNIENTS, &c.

DIRECTORS.
EDMOND STIEPPARD.SYMEA, M.D. Chairman.
Wm. Kenworthy Browne, ESQ. Henry J. llodgson, Esq.
Samuel Kin ;-Church, Esq. John Moss, Esq.
John Elliotson, M. 1)., Cantab., John Symest 'Esq.
Joseph Thompson, Esq.

SECRETARY TO TOE BOARD.
Alexander Richardson, Esq.
ookassroNDlrNo SECRETARY.
Augustus Monde', Esq.

AUDIORS.
Professor Wheatstone, F. 11.8., anTd
Professor J. ga(lford Y0,,0 Lt,

MEDICAL REFEYEE OEIt2I.L.
J. Elllotso, M.D., Canttl, , F. It S., 37, Conduit-street

ACTUAaY.
13.13. AFOorlibuse, Esq., PULA'S..
ASSISTANT sr-mem%
Barker Woo'house, Esq.

RANKERS.
Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street.
60LICITORS.
Messrs. Gregory, Gregory, Skirrow, and Roweliffe, Bedford-row

The next Qa:
Ilay. 1860.

iquennial Division of Profits will be declared to

:ainples of Bonns"np to May, 1855 :

Policy Bonus in Permanent
Sum addition Bow's in Re,•uction co
taken Age.
oat in Assured to Su n Cash. Annual Pre-
Assured. iniant.
.......—...... ______
£ £s. d. £s. d. Xs. d.
1888 55 3,000 867 17 7 42. 1 4 56 3 8
1841 48 4,000 749 4 0 325 16 0 32 0 4
1845 59 2,000 232 18 0 156 15 0 16 6 0
184 g 60 2,000 154 2 8 103 16 S 10 1; 2
1881 155 2,800 120 17 0172 14 6 67 7

The following' are amongst the advAntages offered by the Inter-
ational Life Assurance Society :
The Society was established in 1838.
Two-thirds of the prod ts are divided amongst the assured every
a tre years.
Its subscribed capital is live hundred thousand pounds.
Its investments, at the date of the last annual report, amounted
one hundred and seventy-one thousand pounds.
Its annual income is ninety thousand pounds.
The number of policies now in toree exceed six thousand.
About one thousand new policies are added every year.
Since its commencement the Society has paid in claims upward,
of three hundred and twenty thousand pounds.
Tor prospectuses and every other information, apply to the Chair-
Ihan, 142, Strand.

EDMOND S. SYMES, Chairman.
142, Strand, I ondon,

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and
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ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE
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poALQ, 17g. p4r ton, large; Derbystpir., 18s. Gd. ;
Clay Cro,s. 204.; Snatone, 20% ; onr Best Coals*, at
228. 6d, cannot be surpassed. Cash only. .Address T. JONES
Manager, Northern and Eastern Railway Coal Offices, 32, Great
Itarlboro'-street, Regent-street, W.; or 127, Ahany-Street, Re-
gint'a-park, v W.

tn '‘ESTABLIgIiMENTS
.417 are thus divided :-
130• ITI, REGENT-S REET is their Depot for Paletots, Uni-
forms, Gentlemen's Evening and Morning Dress.
'No. 116, for he manufactn,e of the Guinea Trousers.
-No. 119, fer Half• Guinea Waistcoats.
No. 120, for Wateroroofed guinea Capes, and Servants' Liveries.
No. 142 is their new 1. stablishment for Ladies' Riding llahits and
Mantles in Fur and cloth,
No. 144 contains their other new Department for Clothing yoling
gentlemen with the taste, excellence, and economy whereby Messrs.
.NICOLL have secured wide sp'ead confidence
The Wholesale Warerooms are at the rear of the Regent-street
meiniseg, viz, 29, 30, 31, and 41, WA R W ICK-STRE ET,
The City Depot is at 21 and 22, CDRNH[IJ..
'The addresses of the various Agents are dilly advertised in the
Ournals of the United Kingdom and the Colonies.

SOUTH WALES RAILWAY.—Tho Directors
Ly of this Company are now prepared to issue a •limited amount
of DebentuT e Stock, to meet Debentures fallmir din. This stock
bears interest in perpetuity at the ra eof 41. p-r cent. per annum,
and takes priority over all shares or stock of any description what-
ever in the Company. Interest u on it 's paid 1141f.vearly.
EIiED. G. SAUNERS,
Offices, South Wales Railway, 10, EamboJrne-tDerrace,Secretary.
Paddington, Feb 22d, 1855.

AIrONT BLANC TS OPEN TO-NIGHT,
IV V •

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the Royal Oallery of filintration, 14, Regent-street, and at Cramer
Beale, and Co.'s, 201, Regent-street.