The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-30 00:00:00

THE SUBURBAN VILLAGE and GENERAL
DWELLINGS COMPANY (Limited).
Incorporated under the Companies' Act, 1862, whereby the
liability of each shareholder is limited to the amount of
his shares.
Capital, One Million, in 100,000 shares of £lO each.
With power to increase.
£1 deposit to be paid on application, and on allotment.
No future calls to exceed £l, nor to be made at less in-
tervals than threo months.
Where no allotment is made the deposits will be returned
in full. First issue, £200,000.
HONORARY PRESIDENT.
Sir S. Morton Peto, Bart., M.P.
TRUSTEES.
Andrew Lusk, Esq., M.P., Alderman. •
Professor Fawcett, M.P.
George Cruikshank, Esq.
CHAIRMAN.

John Everitt, Esq., Allhallow Chambers, Lombard-street,

E.C. DIRECTORS.
Jabez Burns, D.b., 17, Porteous-road, Paddington.
Wm. Hardwicke, Esq., M.D. (Deputy Coroner for Central
Middlesex), 70, Mornington-road.
C. Jones, Esq., 10, Grafton-street, St. James's.
Browniew Poulter, Esq., Blackheath.
G. Linnaeus Banks, Esq., 33, Cloudesley-square, N.
Robert White, Esq., Sydenham.
H. N. Barnett,
E Esq.,_ 1)7, Yonge Park, N
.b.!139v1,-P4knter, Esq., Leo .. rfr,
Edward rleales, Esq., 47, York-street, Portman-square, W.
E. Moore, Esq., 2, Aldridge Villas, Westbourne 'Park, W.
Edward Vigers, Esq., TavistockLodge, Upper Westbourne
Park, W.

RANKERS.

The Imperial Bank, Lothbury, and Victoria-street, West-

minster.
Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, Tritton, Twells, and Co., Lom-
board-street, E.C.
STANDING COUNSEL.

Frederick Prideaux, Esq., 3, New-square, Lincoln's-inn.

SOLICITOR.
John J. J. Sudlow, Esq., 4, Westminster-chambers, Vic-
toria-street, S.W.
ARCHITECTS.

Messrs. Banks and Barry, 1, Westminster-chambers, Vic-
toria-street, S.W.
SURVEYORS. _

Messrs. Leifchild and Cheffins, 62, Moorgate-street, E.C.

AUDITOR.
Charles Brown, Esq., Basinghall-street.
SECRETARY.
William Jones, Esq.

Temporary Offices-4, Queen-street-place, Cannon-street
West, E.C.

ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS.
How to provide healthy and comfortable dwellings for
the population of London is the most momentous and tile
most pressing social problem of our time. From the na-
tural growth of population, new dwelling-house accommo-
dation will, during the next ten years, be required for
600,000 people. During last year alone, according to the
statement of the Earl of Shaftesbury, 3,500 houses were
so destroyed, dispossessing 20,000 people of their homes.
Bills for authorising metropolitan improvement now await
the judgment of the Legislature, which will, if passed into
law, involve the demolition of 16,000 houses and the dis-
possession of their homes of not less than 100,000 people.
The condition of very much of the existing house pro-
perty (chiefly that occupied by the labouring classes) within
the metropolitan district properly so called, is so bad that
our sanitary commissioners are seeking authority from the
Legislature for the condemnation and destruction of thou-
sands of houses, which are nothing better than haunts of
misery, nests of pestilence, and fountains of wide-spreading
demoralisation.

Here, then, are accumulative evils to remedy, and accu-
mulative necessities to supply. The remedy for these evils,
and the supply of those necessities, will be found in the
provision, on the most extensive scale and at the most
rapid rate possible, of suitable dwelling house accommoda-
tion for all classes of the community.
To take advantage of a field of enterprise thus vast, and
to minister to requirements thus urgent, are the general
objects for which the Suburban Village and General Dwel-
lings Company (Limited) has been established.
It is now recognised alike by the philanthropist and the
statesman that dwellings for even the lower ranks of work-
ing men can only be secured in conformity with the estab-
lished conditions of commercial enterprise. Experience has
happily demonstrated that those conditions are perfectly
practicable. The middle classes, however, are not less inte-
rested in the objects of this company than are working
men themselves.

The company, in carrying out the objects contemplated,
propose to undertake tho following among other special
forms of business :--

1. The purchase of estates, within reasonable distance of,
and having direct railway connection with, London, on
which, according to their extent and character, complete
suburban villages may be raised, laid out on picturesque
plans, with regard to harmonious design, and with due
consideration to the means and requirements of various
orders of people.
2. The purchase of plots of ground, whether within or
beyond the bounds of "London Proper," on which blocks
of buildings may, with due attention to sanitary laws, be
erected either as homes for households, or as lodging-
houses for single men and women.
3. The representation of opportunities to all classes alike,
of becoming the purchasers of their own dwellings, by
various scales of payment (which have been very carefully
prepared), extending in the form of rent over a greater or
less number of years, at the option of the tenant.
The operations of the Company are not of a hazardous
character. A good substantial dividend, therefore, is
within the range of legitimate expectation. Several land
and building societies already in existence pay dividends
ranging from 12 to 15 per cent. per annum.
As the social exigencies alluded to in this prospectus
operate in a greater or less degree in all the large towns of
England, the Company will be prepared, as favourable op-
portunities present themselves, to extend its operations to
other great centres of industry and population.
Applications for prospectuses and shares may be made
to the solicitor, secretary, and bankers of the Company.
An Estate of upwards of ten acres, situate within three
minutes' walk of the Honor Oak Station of the London,
Chatham, and Dover Railway, has been secured by the
Directors as the site of the first village, on which opera-
tions will be commenced with all possible promptitude.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, King's-cross.
ii?atron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.
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This hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab-
lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor without
the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly de-
pendent for support on voluntary contributions and l acres.
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between
1,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the
benevolent, as the premises of this hospital are capable of
containing several hundred more beds, had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mas
:erman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co-;
Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; H.rries and Co. ; Ransom
and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ;
Barclay and Co. ; W lliams, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gur-
ney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Berners-street ; I. Barned and
Co., Liverpool and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5. _

BTANFPRD SMITIJ, fioactary.