The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-05 00:00:00

FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT, July 27, 1R57•
In continuation of the Notification, No. 27, issued from this De-
partment on the 20th instant, holders of 3% and 4% per Cent. Pro-
m'ssory Notes of this Government are hereby informed that, until
fUrther orders, subscriptions to the open 5 per Cent. Loan will be
received from them, partlo in cash, and partly in the said Promissory
Notes, in the following proportions, viz.: —3% •per cent. Notes in
the proportion of 2 rupees in notes to 3 rupees in cash ; 4;4 per
Cent. Notes in the proportion of 2 rupees in notes to 1 rupee in
cash, provided, however, that the total sums subsc ibed In notes and
cash are iii even hundreds.
Thus, a holder of a 3% per Cent. Promissory Note for 10,000
rupees will receive a.promissory note of 5 pnr cent. for 25,000 rupees
on delivery of his 3% per Cent. Note, and on making a payment of
15.000 rupees in ea.h ; while a holder of a 4% per Cent Promiralry
Note for 10,000 rupees w,ll, in like manner, 're- eive a
promissory
note at 5 per cent. for 15,000 rupees on delivery of
his 4% per Cent.
Note,and onmaking a payment of 5,0 0 rupees in cash.
It is also hereby 'retitled that the limit of 3 c: ores, prescribed for
the open 5 per Cent. Loan In the Notification No. 5. issued from
this Department on the 16th January, 1857. is removed.
(Signed) C. H. LIISIIINGTOY,
Secretary to the Government of India.
JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary,

CIBEAT WESTERN RAILWAY._
CHANNEL ISLANDS.--Tickets to Jersey and Guernsey,
via Weymouth, are now issued at the Paddington Station, enabling
passengers to break the journey at Chippenham, Dorchester, or
Weymouth.. _ _

- Fares, Rail and Boat: —3ls. and 21s.
Further pArticulars can be obtaiced on application at the Corn
pany's oMces.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
—WFDNESD Y, the 7th October, being set apart as 'a
Day of Humiliation, the 'T rains on this Railway will run as on Sun-
days, with the addition of the 10 0 a.m. down Day V ail from Pad-
dington, and the KO a.m. up Day Mail trom Bristol, which will run
as usual, except the Branch Trains between Maidenhead and Wy-
combe, Reading and Basingstoke, between Chippenham, Salisbury,
and Weymouth, tlloucesterand Hereford, and over the South Wales
Rallvvay.

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Return Tickets will be a ava lable from Tuesday, th 3 6th October,
until Thursday, Bth October.

Paddlngton,octo"ie-r-2,-18i7.

FUND for the RELIEF -of the SUFFERERS
by the MUTINY in INDIA.
SITBSCRIPTIONS continue to be received daily by the Right
11011.1 he Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-house.; by the Bank of En;-
and and all its branches; by the London Joint Stock Banks and
In,ir branches ; by all the private Bankers in the Metropolis ; and
by the Provincial Bank of Ireland and National Bank, and at their
brenche'.
The Committee meet daily at the Mansion-house. at 3 o'clock
precisely. H. B. HENDERSON Lieut.-Col., Hon. Sec.
DAVID FORREST.__Secretary
Mansion-house, Sept. 12, 1857:

AGENTS WANTED for the STATE FIRE
INSURANCE COMPANY, No. 3, Pall-mall East, London,
L..W_

This Company has upwdrds of ROO Shareholders. Capital
500,000/., with power to increa.e to 2,000,0001. Th Director., in-
vite applications for Agencies in places where the Company is not
represented. A liberal Commission allowed for the introduction of
business.
Further information may be obtained, either by letter or person-
ally, at the Offices of the Company.
PET 61t MORRISON, Managing Director.

JATIONAL PROVIDENT INSTITUTION,
48, Gracechurch-street, London.
For Mutual Assurance on Lives, Annuities, &c.
Established December, 1835.
DIRECTORS.
Chairman—SA..smm. HAYHURST Lucas, Esq.
Deputy Chairman—CllAßLES LUSHINGION, ESQ.
Francis Benno,h, Esq. Robert Ingham, Esq., M•l'
John Bradbury, Esq. I Robert Sheppard, Esq.
Thomas Castle. Esq. Jonathan Thorp. Esq.
William Miller Christy, Esq. , Tyler, Esq.
John Felthaqt, Esq. I Charles Whetham, Esq.
Charles Gilpin, Esq., M.P. I

PHYSICIAN.
3. T. Conquest, M.D., F.L.S. I Thomas Hodgkin, M.D.
BANials—Messrs Brown, Janson, and Co. ; and Bank of England
Soucrrou—Septimus Davidson, Esq.
CONSULTING ACTUARY—CharIes Ansell, Esq., F.B.S.
Abstract of the Directors' Report for the year ending 20th No-
vember, 1856 :
Number of policies issued from the commence-
ment of the Institution in Dec., 1835.
Amount paid in claims

Amount returned to the assured In abatement
of premiums In the 17 years ending Nov. 20,
1852.~..........