The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-14 00:00:00

ART UNION of LONDON.—SUBSCRIPTION
ONE GUlNEA.—Prizeholders select from the Public
Exhibitions. Every subscriber has a chance of a valuable
prize, and an impression of a large and important engraving
13y C. W. Sharpe, from the celebrated picture by W. P. Frith,
ILA., the property of her Majesty, LIFE at the SEASIDE.
Now ready for delivery.
GEORGE GODWIN, i Honorary
444, West Strand. _ LEWIS POCOCK, J Secretaries.

GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO
PANY.—lncorporated by Act of Parliament, 71, Lom-
bard-street, London.—Notice is hereby given, that the
HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the PRO-
PRIETORS of this Company will be held at the Company's
°ffices, 71, Lombard-street, on Tuesday, the 22d inst., at Two
o'clock precisely, pursuant to the Act of Parliament, to trans-
act the usual business, and to declare the dividend for the
half-year endiiig the 31st December, 185 S.
MARTIN PRATT, Secretary.

London, Feb. 1, 1859.

OINOPOLION TAVERN AND HOTEL
FOR GENTLEMEN,
Nos. 1, and 2, Brownlow-street, High-Holborn.
The Best Served Dinner in London for is. ad.
A Succession of Joints, &c., from One till Seven o'Clock.
Henekeys, Abbott, and Co.'s Wines and Spirits.
Private and Smoking Rooms.

PUBLIC READINGS SOCIETY

COMMITTEE.
Rev. W. 11. Brookfield. I W. Charles Kent, Esq.
F. Rev. D. Maurice- S. C. Hall, Esq.
Rev. J. M. Bellew. Win. 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
Air the Entertainment and Instruction of the Working
Classes.
t.tB plans are to procure Public Halls, School-rooms, and
er 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 pay for the accom-
tnodation at the uniform charge of one 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-
!T.'', on Payment of' One Penny ; and no more will be admitted
'Han can be comfortably seated. As soon as the room is full,
Vie doors will be closed. The Readings will begin at Eight
o'clock precisely, and cies° at Half-past Nine.
N.R.—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. JOHN COLLETT, at our Chambers, 1, Essex-court,
Temple, or to
EDWARD W. COX; or
CHARLES J. PLUMPTRE, 4.
1 Honorary Secretaries.
NOTICE.
The 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. iS—At Wylde's Reading Rooms, Leicester-
square.
READERS.—Rei. Alexander Watson ; Rev. 0. F. Owen ;
W. Cox, Esq. ; C. J. Plumptre, Esq. ; W. Charles Kent,
Esq•; U. Lawrence, Esq., &c.
The doors will open at half-past Seven, and the Reading
will begin precisely at Eight. No admittance after the
Reading has begun.
Admission, One Penny. Front Seats, Sixpence. Reserved
beats, One Shilling
*** Schools admitted free of' any charge whatever.

ORIENTAL INLAND STEAM COMPANY
for the NAVIGATION of the RIVERS of
--"1-n-A-- (Under Subsidy from the Indian Government.)
Capital—£2so,ooo, in 25,000 Shares of £lO each.
Now proposed to be increased to £500,000.
James Allan, Esq., Managing TRUSTEE.
Director of the Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
,ellairinan—Colonel DIRECTORS.
Grimes, Indian Service, Norwood, and
Ampthill Lodge, Southampton.
Itohn. Bourne, Esq., 9, Billiter-street.
Captain F. ere Cotton, R.N., Alport House, Whitchurch.
Captain
Hall, RN., C.D., Director of the Peninsular
and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
Ca and
J. C. Hoseason, R.N. Highbeech, Essex.
.2aines Kennedy, Esq., late ofßury, Curtis, and Kennedy.
sir John Spencer Logan, Indian Civil Service, Director of the
Oude Railway Company, Kew.
MANAGING DIRECTOR.
John Bonrne, Esq.
• ENGINEER.
Edward Cooper, Esq.
SUPERINTENDENT IN INDIA.
Lieutenant Wood, Indian Navy.
RESIDENT ENGINEER IN INDIA.
Robert Leys, Esq.
AUDITORS.
John Glenny, Esq., Strand.
George May, Esq., Gresham House.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. H. It Hill and Son, Throgmorton-street.
BANKERS IN ENGLAND.
Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., Birchin-lane.
BANKERS IN INDIA.
The Oriental Bank Corporation.
SECRETARY.
John Mathewson, Esq.
Offices : 9, Billiter-street, London.
The Directors give notice that, in consequence of the great
and undiminished demand for Steam Vessels upon the Indian
rivers, and the wide field presenting itself for their profitable
~enloropPloany.Yment, they have resolved to double the capital of the
...
„The Directors have the satisfaction of announcing that the
!learners and barges, consisting of twelve vessels in all, which
they forwarded from this country in August last, have now
arrived safely in India, and will commence plying upon the
rivers without delay. An equal number of 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
Way, has rendered every possible aid to the present under-
taking. 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.
The Directors have the satisfaction of finding that not only
Tthe Reports of the Company's servants in India, but the
Whole concurrent testimony of the advices received from that
country, through whatever channel, completely confirms the
favourable anticipations they long since formed of the profit-
able character of the present undertaking. It would be fm-
Possible however, within the limits of an advertisement, to
tePapitulate the numerous evidences of this truth which the
irectors are constantly receiving ; and they content them-
selves, therefore, with giving the following quotation from a
recent leading article in the " Times," which shows that simi-
Indi an
lar information had been reaching that paper through its
correspondents.
From the ' Times,' Jan. 29, 1859.
"It i 8 not only Government but the whole nation that seems
"11188. Any day during the last year we might have filled
our columns with the complaints of shipbuilders at the de-
of their trade, owing in a great measure to the happy
termination of the Russian War. But what do we now hear
aril In ? They wonder there what our shipbuilders are
ar out. Month after month they are expecting the steamers that
d:
Ito come. ' The Indian General Steam Navigation Company
bee this month,' says our correspondent, a dividend
ef and upwards per cent. The Home Government had
eoout requested to send out six river steamers,..and it had sent
cillY one, which it said, would be enough." Next month,'
ntinues our inforinant, 'the Indian Government had to en-
tage all the freight of six for two trips at a price which would
~ave
and
the new vessels wanted twice over. There is
;rat and Work, we .are told, for 300 steamers on the Ganges
ane,' !Inning, as it squarerh a territory with a popula-
41i`" 350 to the mile, with an export trade of
yesi', and an internal trade beyond human calculation.
, , With this vast opening before us, there are found men in
the Prime of life, neither schoolboys nor dotards, who can
7aste their time in holding meetings and memorialising Go-
!e..nnent to find them customers for their shipping. Many
',time ere this has war ministered to peace, infusing a quicker
neernent into its idle, dream soul. To this Mutiny, perhaps,
;owe the real opening of the Indian navigation to British
ce e
rb yrPrise, and the railways which are certain to follow. But
and _urri sat ; we have said enough to start our shipbuilders
81.•
—lPOwners, if they are Englishmen."
Directors have all along felt that neither the vessels
Which they have already sent to India, nor those which they
tat present in preparation, could do much to satisfy the
want of Inland Steam Navigation which exists in that
Ft',7°lllltrY. But they have also all along felt that the only, safe
3Y of entering upon such an undertaking was not to rush
Tto it With sanguine precipitation, but to advance with gra-
sual and cautious steps, and without bein,sr, dazzled by the
large prospect of profits it holds out. The first steps, how-
vet% having been successfully taken, the whole of the exist-
Shares in the Company having been allotted, and being
bat a premium in the market, and the field being so large as to
eiluire a large capital to work it in an efficient manner, the
_rectors are of opinion that the time is come when the capi-
-24 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
Company,e forwarded to the
pirectors, at the offices of the , 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.
The New Shareholders will stand on precisely the same
terms as the Original Shareholders, and will participate In
the dividend as soon as it is payable.
Calls will not be more frequent than once every three
months nor for more than £2 per share, at anyone time. Five
per cent. will be paid upon all calls until the dividend is de-
clared, and upon all payments in advance of calls.