The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-21 00:00:00

LOCAL SHARE MARIBTB.

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LIVERPOOL, JAN. 20.
dTOOIS EZORANGN.—The market again has been doing •
steady business today, and prices were about the same
as yesterday. Caledonian, 301—Dutch Rhenish, 0 dis.—
Birkenhead, L'pool, and Cheshire, 651—St. Helen's 5 per
cent. stock B, 1044—London and North Western, 106—
Eastern Counties, 9.8.9. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 06i
—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 331—South
Eastern, 224—East Lancashire, 23i—Midland, 824 / 4---
Great Western of Canada, 24k.

LEEDS—JAN. 20.
STOCK EICHANGE.—The market has been quiet to-day.
Midland, 82i—North Westerns, 8.3.9.—N0rch Eastern,
Leeds, No. 2, 4 prem.—Ditto, fifths, 101—Sheffield, BO'
therham, and Goole, 20,1

MANCHESTER, JAN. 20.
STOOL EXOHANGE.—The market wax a shade weaker to•
day, and very little business doing. Midlands, 82,4----
Sheffields, 33i—Leeds, 96/ $ 4—East Lancashire, 2361
Dovers, 22 5-16—Manchester Assurance, 7 pm,—Bank 01
Stockport, 4 9-16.

BIRMINGHAM, JA.N. 20.
STOOK EXCHANGE There w asa quiet market to•
day and a very dull business doing. Stour •
Valleys, 9--
Ditto, new, 2 pm,—Great Western, Birmingham Guarau•
teed Stock, 74i—Midlands, 821 i—Ditto, Birmingham
and Derby, 53i—South Stafford., 9i—Birmingham .Neif
Union Mill, 31—Ditto, Canals, 03.

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COURSE OF EXCHANGE.--YESTEIDAT.
m5terdaM............ 11 14 Gibraltar ...... •• •• • ••
Ditto, three months .. 11 1734 Leghorn .• •• •• .• •• ••• •• 29 56
Rotterdam ............ 11 173 E Genoa
Antwerp .............. 25 3234 Milan .•
Brussels ..•......... 25 32% Venice. . ••
•• • .. ..
•• ...... -
Eiamburgh .......... •••••••
.. 13 6% Naples •........ . .. 43
Altona ..•• ...........„ Palermo .... . • .... 129
Parls•• •• •• ••••.•• •• •• •. 25 22% Messina ••• ... 1294 i
Ditto, three months .. 25 67% Lisbor. ..
Marseilles ............. 25 V% Oporto ................ 513;
l4ourdeaux ........... i Rio Janeiro ..... .•• .... Frankfort-on- Maine .• .. 118% Buenos Ayres.... •• .... ---
Berlin •• •• ..•• •• •• •• .• New York,6o days' sight --
Vienna.. •• .......• .... 10 40 Philadelphia •• ...• .. • • Trieste.. •• •• •• •• •• ..
Petersburg ....•....... 37% Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 2
Madrid ..........„... 49 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Nadu.........•• ...... 49% Mexican Dollars .... 0 1
,'
i
8arce10na—.......... New Dollars
Seville.... ........... _,. Sliver in bars ....... 0 5 2/'

GENERAL TOM THUMB,
the AMERICAN DIV A RF.—Crowded Houses.—Patronised
thirteen years ago by her Majesty, Prince Albert, H.R.H.
the Duchess of Kent, &c., &c. Fshibiting every day and evening,
previous to visiting Russia, in Regent Gallery, 1,9, Qu tdrant, from
11 to 1, 3 to 5, and 7 to 9 o'clock. Re is beautifully proportioned,
and the Pmalleit man alive. His performances are remarkably
talented and enchanting. New Characters, Costumes, Songs, Dances,
statues, &c. The General continues to wait on the nobility and
gentry, at their residences, on due notice. His miniature equipage
Promenades the streets daily. Admission, Is. each, regardless of
age ; Stalls, 2s. and 35.; children half-price.
The General will REMOVE on the 2d February to the PRINCE
OF WALES BAZAAR, 207 and 209, Regent-street.

MESSRS. PETTER and GALPIN beg
re.pectfnlly to intimate that they have removed to their
newly erected premises, La Belle Saqvage-yard,

ONDON and SOUTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY.—OPENING of the DORCHESTER and WEY-
MOUTH LINE.
This Line will Open for Passenger Traffic upon TUESDAY, the
20th of January inst.
Trains leave the Waterloo•bridge Station, London, for Weymouth,
at 6 a.m. (for third class), and at 8 and 11 a.m. and 3 and 5 p.m.;
and from Weymouth to London at 6,8, and 11.55 a.m. and 4.15, and
9.43 p.m.
For full information see time-tables.
By order.
Waterloo-bridge Station, London, 17th January, 1857.

NASS Ail RAILWAY COMPANY.—
Societo Anonyme, or Chartered Joint Stock
Company, with liability limited to the amount of share, au-
thorised by decree, and by a special law passed by the Cham-
bers of Nassau,

Capital 1,600,0041/., of which 1,000,900/. in Nassau Four
per Cent. Guaranteed Bonds, and 200,0001. already subscribed
and paid up by the Wiesbaden Railway shareholders,
Share Capital to be issued, 400,000/., in 20,004 shares of
20/. each.
DIRECTORS-LOCAL BOARD.
MM. von Roesller, Director of the Ducal Bank of Nassau.
~ A. Hergenhahn, Member of the Supremo Court of
Nassau.
~ C. Grossmann, Ducal Notary, Wiesbaden.
0. Balk Sohn, Banker, Wiesbaden,
DIRECTORS IN ENGLAND.

Joseph Christopher Ewart, Esq., M.P. Original Directors
Theodore W. Rathbone, Esq. of the Wiesba-
den Company.
William Nicol, Esq.
Together with a Committee in Paris.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., London.
Messrs. J. J. Weller, Sons, Frankfort,

BROKERS.
Messrs. P. Cazonovo and Co., Lethbury.
Messrs. Joshua Hutchinson and Son, Angel-court.
SECRBTAItY—W. W. Lauder, Esq,
London Agency, 18, Cannon-street (E.C.).
The most important features in this undertaking are the
fallowing :
First—That twenty miles of the Railway are already open
for traffic, and eight more aro nearly completed.
Second—That about two-thirds of the Company's capital
being provided by the Nassau Government in Four per
Cent, bonds, every one pound per cent, added to the net re-
sults of the traffic above four per cent, will add three per
cent, to the dividend payable on the share capital ; and
Third- That a dividend of at least seven per cent, per an-
num is thus secured to the shareholders during construction.
The Nassau Railways will continue the Frankfort and Wies-
baden and the Wiesbaden and Rudesheira Lines from Rudes-
helm to the frontier of Prussia, opposite Goblentz. As the
Cologne
Railway already, open to Bonn and Rolandsworth is
being rapidly Completed to Coblentz, the line of railway com-
munication between Cologne and Frankfort will thus be com-
pleted by the Nassau Company.
The annual traffic between these two points considerably
exceeds 1,000,000 passengers and 1,000,000 tons of goods.
The concession is for a term of eighty-four years: it in-
cludes a branch line up the Valley of the Lahu, which will
start from Lahnstein on the Rhine, and extend to the eastern
frontier of the Duchy of Nassau, there to meet the Prussian
line front Giessen. The Lahn district is rich in minerals, and
its existing trade is sufficient to supply a largo and remunera-
tive traffic to the railway.
The first eight miles of this branch have been nearly conk-
Pleted (from Lahnstein to Ems) by the. Nassau Government.
The Company is to take possession of these works, and to pay
4 per cent. en the sums expended by the Government, until
repayment.
The Nassau Railway Company becomes possessed of the line
from Wiesbaden to Rudesheim on the terms accepted by the
general meeting of the former Wisebaden Railway Company,
ids., that those Shareholders of the Wiesbaden Company who
have not exercised the option of exchanging their old 61.
shares for an equivalent amount of Nassau 201. shares, will
receive interest at the rate of 4 per cent. during the construc-
tion of the works, and 5 per cent, after the opening of tho
entire railway for traffic, but will not be entitled to any fur-
ther participation in the profits of the Company.
Shareholders in the Wiesbaden Company to the amount of
about 40,000/, have elected to exchange their shares for shares
i* the Nassau Company.
The Nassau Railways will thus comprise 120 English miles
of railway, consisting of the following sections :

Miles.

1. The Lino from Wiesbaden to Rudesheim,
now open for traffic 2l
2. The Line from Rudesheim along tho
Rhine, passing through Lahnstein to the
frontier of Prussia, opposite Coblentz 40
3. The Line from Lahnstein to Ems, nearly
completed 8
4. The Line from Ems through the Valley
of the Lahn to the Prussian frontier
toward Giessen 5l

Total l2O miles.
14 addition to the assistance afforded by the Guaranteed
.D
"4•
8, the Nassau Government has granted many important
14J,.ages to the Company. For twenty-five years the
i„ "taY is released from the payment of any taxes. All
"nes belonging. to the State, and required for the Railway,
°lran gratuitously to the Company, together with the
build'
lug materials thereon, Stone, gravel, &0,, from the
Governmento quarries, are also placed at the disposal of the
°„.raPany free of charge.
~. lae.Rhine Railway will be constructed, like the Rudes-
'Om section, with a single lino of way, and with the earth-
works, bridges, &c ready for a second line, when require-I.
The Latin Rail n. ay will have only ono lino of way, with the
requisite sidings.
The estimates of most competent engineers show a margin
of upwards of 120,0001., after fully providing for all that Is
required for opening the 120 miles of railway for full traffic.
These estimates are confirmed by the tenders of able and
experienced contractors of undoubted solvency, and have
been,
moreover, tested and proved by the cost of the works
already executed.
The offieial trafic tables show that, taking only the present
traffic in the Lahn alley, the Rhine, the rectiptsenyi and one-fourth of the traffic along
suffice, on this moderate e the Nassau Railway Company will
per eent, to the SharehollelTate, to secure a dividend of 15
Consequence of the larger
portion of the capital being supplied inl•
Per
cenptp led in Nassau Government
Guaranteed,,Bonds at 4
RHINE RAILWAY.
250,000assengers (be one-fourth ing
traffic)p, at ld. per mile on 60 miles of the existing
goods on© fourth
250,000 tons of ............... £62,500
(being of the exist-
ing traffic), at 11d, per mile ..... ..... ......

........... 93,750

156,000

..... .. .......... 90,000

UNION ASSURANCE SOCIETY
(FIRE, LIFE, and ANNIIITItIS).
A.D. 1714.
Cornhill, and 70, Baker-street, London.
Collrge•green, llublin.—Cronengen-street, Hamburg.
Exchange-street West, and Tithebarn-street, Liverpool.
North Nelson-street, Edinburgh.
Instituted in the reign of Queen Anne, A D 1714, with large Invested
Funds.

DIRECTORS, &C.
CHAIRMAN—JOH \ RE NIINGTON MILLS, Esq.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—HENRY ALDWIN SOAMES, Esq.
James Bentley„Esq. ' John Paynter, Esq.
Thomas Bodley, Esq. I John Rogers, Esq.
Daniel Britten, Esq. Henry Hutt, Esq.
Nicholas Charrington, Esq. George Spencer Smith, Esq.
S. Preston Child, Esq. Richd. Horsman Solly, Esq.
William Gilpin, Esq. W. Foster White, Faq.
Thomas Lewis, Esq.- t•atnuel Wilson, Esq., Aid.
Thomas Mills, Esq., M.P. IStephen Wilson, Esq.
John Morley, Esq.

LIFE.
Reduced rates for young and middle ages, with guarantee of a
company in existence upwards of 140 years, and a large accumulated
capital. The last Bonus (l 855) gave additions to policies varying
from 25 to 70 per cent. on the previous seven years' premiums.
Lower rates, without profits. Two-thirds only of the premiums may
he paid until death. Decreasing and increasing rates of premium, and
half-yearly or quarterly. Medlca! fees allowed.

FIRE.
Insurances at the usual rates, and profits returned on policies taken
out for seven years by prompt payment. Lo se, occasioned by ex-
plosion of gas made good. The offices dos, on S itur.lays at two
o'clock, excepting In the fifteen days after each quarter-day.
Insurances now expiring must be paid on or beiore the 9th Janu-
ary, at the office in London, or of the respective agents.
WILLI tNI 11. LEWIS, Secretary.