The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-12 00:00:00

ANDS of the BALLOT..

TTNNE R of the FRU
A PUBLIC DINNFII
will be held at the Albion T;
.don, on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 1

t of the Friends of the Balla
avern, Alclersgate-street, Lon.
1859, at half-past 6 p.m.
RKELEY, M.P., will preside'.
A. W. Youncr, Esq., M.P.
John Locke, Esq., M.P.
R. P. Collier, Esq., M.P.
Guildford Onslow, Esq., M.P,
Sir J. S. Lillie, G.C.B.
Mr. Serjeant Gaselee:
Mr. Serjeant Parry.
Mr. Serjeant Woolrych.
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq.
Robert Charles, jun., Esq.
Wm. Barnard, Esq.
Edwd. Wilson, Esq., of Mel-
bourne (Victoria).
E. C. Whitchurst, Esq.
Parliament and other gentle-

The Hon. F. lIENRY F. BE
Major-Gen. Thompson, M.P.
Sir Chas. Napier, M.l'.
Wm. Roupell, Esq., M.P.
Sir Rd. Bethell, M.P.
Sir J. V. Shelley, Bart., M.P.
Sir Thos. E. Perry, M.P.
James Wyld, Esq., M.P.
S. 3t. Greer, Esq., M.P.
A. S. Ayrton, Esq., 31. P.
James Pilkington, Esq., M.P.
Frank Crossloy, Esq., M.P.
Donald Nicoll, Esq. M.P.
W. Sykes, Esq.,'M.P.
James White, Esq., 31. P.
And many other Members of
men are expected to attend.
Tickets, price £1 ls., to be had of Mr. Wm. Wickham, Hon
Secretary, Ballot Society's office, 5, Guildhall-chambers
Basinghall-street, E.C.

THE PANKLIBANON GENERAL FUR-
invite
NISHING IRONMONGERY COMPANY particularly
urchasers to view their su stock of splendid
Electro pSi ver-plated goods, viz.:—Dispherior Covers, Corner Dishes,
Waiters, Tea Sets, Tea Kettles, and Urns,Forks, Spoons. Fish-
eating Knives,&c.;Fashionable Stoves,Fenders and Fireirons,
e!egant Urns, of the most artistiC designs, Lamps, Gasaliers,
Brackets, andliall Lanterns. Warranted Table Cutlery, Tea
Trays,Ranges, Kitcheners, Hot Air Stoves, Baths, &c.
Toilette Seti. Tin, Copper, and Metal Goods, &c., &c.
Every article is marked in plain figures, and it will be per-
ce:ved at once the prices are one-third less than elsewhere.
N.B.—The best Colza Oil, 4s. 3d. per gallon ; Moderator
-Lamps, from 4s. 6d. each ; Pundonians, 45. 6d. ; Balance Ivory
Handle Dinner Knives, 11s. 6d. per dozen. See the new
Registered Safety Fire Guard. 56 and 58, Baker-street.
Illustrated catalogues, with Furnishing Guide, free per post.

PUBLIC READINGS- SOCIETY.

-- E.
Rev. W. H. BrookfieldC.
lOMMITTE W. Charles Kent, Esq.
Rev. F. D. Maurice. S. C. Hall, Esq.
Rev. J. M. Bellew. Wm. Howitt, Esq.
Rev. J. G. Lonsdale. Geo. Harris, Esq.
. Rev. Alex. Watson. E. Powell,. Esq. •
• Rev. 0. F. Owen. &c. &c.
The object of this Society is to establish Public Readings
for the Entertainment and Instruction of the Working
Classes. • '-
Its plans are to procure Public Halls, School-rooms, and
other convenient places, at a small cost, and to supply Evening
Readings from English Literature adapted to interest and
amuse a general audience ; such as the works of Shakspere,
Scott, Goldsmith, Dickens, Macaulay, &c., &c. Some seats
Will be reserved for those who can afford to pm-for the accom-
modation at tire uniform charge of sone shilling, which will
be their contribution towards the cost of providing for the
poor.

With this exception the Rooms will be opened to any Per-
son on payment of One Penny ; and no more will be admitted
than can be comfortably seated. As soon as the room is full,
the doors will be closed. The Readings will begin at Eight
o'clock precisely, and close at Half-past Nine.
N.B.—The aid of Subscriptions will be required to defray
the expenses of the Society. and those who approve the object
are requested to put down their names for some Annual Con-
tribution, however small.
Public Institutions, Clergymen, and Parish Authorities,
would much promote the objects of the Society, by lending
the use of Rooms convenient for the purpose.
Competent Readers are invited to give their assistance.
Communications, subscriptions, offers of rooms for the
Readings, &c., are to be addressed to the Acting Secretary,
Mr. Jo-EIN COLLETT, at our Chambers, 1, Essex-court,
Temple, or to
EDWARD W. COX, or
CHARLES J. PLUMPTRE, Honorary Secretaries.
NOTCE.
TO Next Reading of the Society will be as follows :
Tuesday, Feb. 15--At the School-room of St. Martin's-in-the-
Fields.
Wednesday, Feb. 16—At Wylde's Reading Rooms, Leicester-
square.
Thursday, Feb. 17—At the National School-room, in Theo-
, bald 's-road.
Friday, Feb. 18—At Wylde's Reading Rooms, Leicester-
square.
READERS `Rev. Alexander Watson ; Rev. 0. F. Owen ;
W. Cox, Esq. ; C. J. Plumptre, Esq. ; W. Charles Kent,
; U, Lawrence, Esq., &c.
The doors will open at half-past Seven, and the Reading
Will begin precisely at Eight. No admittance after the
Beading has begtm•
Admission, One Penny. Front Seats, Sixpence. Reserved
Seats, One Shilling.
*** Schools admitted free of any charge whatever.

ORIENTAL INLAND STEAM COMPANY
ja,a), (Limited) for the NAVIGATION of the RIVERS of
lA.• (Under Subsidy from the Indian Government.)
Capital—£2so,ooo, in 25,000 Shares of £lO each.
Now proposed to be increased to £500,000.

TRUSTEE.
'lames Allan, Esq., Managing Director of the Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company.

_ -
DIRECTORS.
Ch 'man—Colonel Grimes, Norwood, and Ampthill Lodge,
Southampton.
'ohn Bourne, Esq Billiter-street.
Captain P. Vere Cotton, R.N., Alport House, Whitchurch.
Captain W. H. Hall, R.N., C. 8., Director of the Peninsular
Ca and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
Ptain J. C. Hoseason, R.N., Highbeech, Essex.
J9mes Kennedy, Esq , late of Bury, Curtis, and Kennedy.
Su; John S_pencer Director of the Oude Railway Com-
PUY, Kew.

MANAGING DIRECTOR.
John Bourne, Esq.
ORS.
John Glenny, Esq.AU q. Strand.
George May, Esq., Gresham House.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. A. R. Hill and Son, Throgmorton-street.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., Birchin-lane.
SECRETARY.
John Mathewson, Esq.
Offices : 9, Billiter-street, London.
The Directors give notice that, in consequence of the great
and undiminished demandfor Steam Vessels upon the Indian
rivers, and the wide field presenting itself for their profitable
employment, they have resolved to double the capital of the
Company.
The Directors have the satisfaction of announcing that the
steamers and barges, consisting of twelve vessels in all, which
they forwarded from this country in August last, have now
• India, and will commence
fplyinp- upon the
arrived safely in'
rivers without delay. An „coal number ofd vessels of still
greater power is at present in preparation, and will be sent
out as soon as possible.
Before embarking in the present undertaking the Directors
had not only satisfied themselves of its eminently profitable
nature, but they had secured for it the marked co-operation
of the Indian Government, by the acquisition of a subsidy;
and the Government, both by the gift of land for stations,
workshops, and depots, of wood for fuel, and in every other
iwa,Y, has rendered every possible aid to the present under-
"aKing. At the same time the Directors have insured com-
plete exemption from Government control and interference;
and this is the only Company so distinguished which pos-
sesses any Government support.
tile The Directors have the satisfaction of finding that not only
Reports of the Company's servants in India, but the
;whole concurrent testimony of the advices received from that
:cmutrY, through whatever channel, completely confirms the
avourable anticipations they long since formed of the profit-
able character of the present undertaking. It would be ira-
Possible, however, within the limits of an advertisement, to ?[,:eapitulate the numerous evidences of this truth which the
Directors are constantly receiving ; and they content them-
selves, therefore, with giving the following quotation from a
l leading article in the "Times," which shows that simi-
i;nformation had been reaching that paper through its
"It i no'
',MIMI correspondents.
iFrom the 'Times,' Jan. 29, 1859.
row s On=y Government but the whole nation that seems
—l's. Any da during the last year we might have filled
O,uir Any
tradeh complaints of shipbuilders at the cline of of their owing in a great measure to the happy
rrmination of the' Russian War. But what do we now hear
_re to come.
about,r"llndia ? They wonder there what our shipbuilders are
Month after month they are expecting the steamers that
Indian General Steam Navigation Company ftelare this month,' says our correspondent, a dividend
bedl and upwards per cent. The Home Government had
ouPorequested to send out six river steamers, and it had sent
•nIY one, which, it said, would be enough." Next month,'
ntinues our informant, 'the Indian Government had to en-
Faje all the freight of six for two trips at a price which would
ve
new vessels wanted twice over. There is rxrm and work we are told, for 300 steamers on the Ganges
it,llo, flowing, as it does, through a territory with a popula-
;,",tiof 350 to the square mile, with an export trade of
rwuo,oooo, and an internal trade beyond human calculation.
wit
het h this vast opening- before us, there are found men in
vaste
Prime of life, neither schoolboys nor dotards, who can
their time in holding meetings and memorialising Go-
vernment to find them customers for their shipping. Many
a,time ere this has war ministered to peace, infusing a quicker element into its idle, dreamy soul. To this Mutiny, perhaps,
eil'i.c'we the real opening of the Indian navigation to British
terPrise, and the railways which are certain to follow. But
...113urri sat ; we have said enough to start our shipbuilders
'llO shipowners, if they are Englishmen."
haThe Directors have all along felt that neither the vessels
ch
tthey have already sent to India, nor those which they
e a present in preparation, could do much to satisfy the
great want of Inland Steam Natig.ation which exists in that
nnuntrY. But they have also all along felt that the only safe
Vay of entering upon such an undertaking was not to rush
.11t
Ilual it With sanguine precipitation, but to advance with
gra-
and cautious steps and without being dazzled the
larg'e pro*mect of profits, it holds out. The first steps,by how-
er, having been successfully taken, the whole of the exist-
ing Shares in the Company having been allotted, and being
at a premium in the market, and the field being so large as to
require a large capital to work it in an efficient manner, the
Directors are of opinion that the time is come when the capi-
tal of the Company may be advantageously increased, and
they have, therefore, resolved to raise the capital to half a
Million sterling without delay.
Applications for the new Shares must be forwarded to the
Directors, at the offices of the Company, 9, Billiter-street,
London, on or before the 28th day of February next.
A deposit of two shillings per Share to be made on appli-
cation, and the Bankers' receipt for that amount to be for-
Warded with the application for Shares.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Directors of the Oriental Inland Steam Company
(Limited).
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me of the
hew issue of Shares in this Company; and I hereby under-
allotted toept the same or any less number that may be
me, to pay the calls thereon when due, and to sign
the Articles of Association when required.

PURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court of
Chancery, made in a cause " WORN against SMALE,"
the creditors of JAMES SMALE, the elder, late of Wood-
side, in the parish of Croydon, in the county of Surrey, farmer,
who died in or about, the month of November, 1854 ; also, the
creditdrs of JAMES SMALE, the younger, late of the same
place, farmer, son of the said James Smale, the elder, who
died in or about the month of February„- are, by their
solicitors, on or before the 11th day of March, 1859, to
come in and prove their claims at the chambers of the Vice-
Chancellor kindersley, at No. 3, Stone-buildings, Lin-
coln's-inn,. Middlesex, or, in default thereof, they will be
peremptorily excluded from the benefit of tire said Decree.
Wednesday, the 16th day of March, 1859, at one o'clock in the
afternoon, at the said chambers, is appointed for hearing and
adjudicating upon the claims.
Dated this 7th day of February, 1859.

CHAS. PUGH; Chief Clerk.
3IASTERMAN and 111'FM,, 15, Clifford's-inn,
Plaintiff's Solicitors.