The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-08 00:00:00

THE GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE
ASSURANCE COMPANY.

Established 1821.
No. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C.
Subscribed Capital Two Millions.
Total Invested Funds upwards of £2,750,000.
Total Income upwards of £320,000.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that FIRE POLICIES
which expire at MICHAELMAS must be Renewed within
Fifteen Days at this Office, or with the Company's Agents
throughout the Kingdom, otherwise they become void.

All Insurances now have the benefit of the Reduced
Duty of Is. 6d. per cent.
For Prospectus and other information apply to the Com-
piny's Agents, or to
T. TALLEIIACH, Secretary.

FIOSPITAL for DISEASES of the THROAT,
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President —His Grace the Duke of GRAFTON.
The Committee of Management earnestly APPEAL for
FUNDS to help them to meet the heavy current expenses.
Upwards of 18,000 poor persons have been relieved in the
last six years.
GEORGE WOOD,__Secrelary.

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ITALIAN GOVERNMENT SIX PER CENT.
TOBACCO LOAN

Of 237,000,000 FRANCS, or £9,404,761
In Bonds of 500 francs each, and Bonds of 2,500 francs
each (corn five 500-franc Bonds).
Bearing interest at 0 per cent. par annum from ISt July,

1868:
Redeemable at par by half-yearly drawings in fifteen

years.
Placed on the same footing as the Public Debt of the
United Kingdom of Italy, and not to b) subjected to
any special tax.
Principal and interest, payable in Italy, and at Paris, Lon-
don, and Berlin, guaranteed by the Italian Government,
and 'specially secured upon the produce of the tobacco
revenues of Italy in accordance with the Convention of

the Italian Government; dated 25th July, 1868, sanc-
tioned by the law of 24th August, 18G8.
The payments of interest and principal, both in Italy
awl at' Paris, London, and Berlin, will be made in
geld.
The repayment of the principal in London will be made
at the fixed exchange of 23 francs .20 centimes to the
pound sterling.
Messrs. Stern Brothers bag to announce •that they aro
authorised to receive subscripticns bat' the above bonds,
which are issued for the purpose of effecting a loan to the
Italian Government, secured on produce of the tobacco
revenue of Italy, in pursuance' of the above-mentioned
convention.

The bonds are issued by the company entitled "Soci6t4
pour la ftegie co-interessee des Tabacs dans le Royautue
d'ltalie," established with a capital a fifty millions of lire
(£2,000.000), to which has been conceded by that conven-
tion the farming of the Italian tobacco manufacture for
fifteen years.
Tha manufacture and sale of tobacco in Italy are, as is
known, exclusively reserved to the Government, and the
profits therefrom form one of the principal sources of the
revenue of the kingdom. The returns from this source
are published monthly in the Italian Government Gazette,
from which it appears that the gross receipts in 1867
amounted to upwards of eighty-one millions of lire. This
did not include the revenue from the Venetian territory,
which is now adder', estimated at eleven millions more.
Tha convention (Arts. 5 and 23) stipulates that the com-
pany shall retain and set apart out of the revenues of the
tobacco manufacture sufficient moneys to provide for the
interest and sinking fund of the bonds, prior to any pay-
ment to the Government or the shareholders.

The bonds are guaranteed by the Italian Government,
and will be countersigned by a representative specially
appointed by the Government for that purpose.
The bonds will be issued in amounts of 500 f. and 2,500 f
each (the latter comprising five of 500 f.) They will be
expressed in francs and in the equivalent amount in pounds
sterling, at the fixed exchange of 25f. 20c., at which rate
the repayments in London of the principal will be made.
The bonds bear interest at the rate of 6 per cent. per
annum; thus on each bond of 2,500 francs the annual in-
terest will be 150 francs, which will be reduced to 136
francs 80 centimes by the deduction of the general Italian
income tax-of 8.80 per cent.
The interest will be payable half yearly, on the Ist
January and Ist July, in gold, in Italy, and at Paris, Lon-
don, and Frankfort.

The bonds will be divided into thirty series, each eon-
containing 15,800 bonds of 500 francs each, redeemable at
par, within fifteen years from the Ist January, 1869, by
thirty half-yearly drawings, the first to be made on the Ist
April, 1869. At each drawing one entire series will be
drawn. The repayment will take place three months
after the drawing, and will be made at par (without any
deduction for tax) in Italy, Paris, London, and Frankfort.
All payments in Italy, both of principal and interest,
will be made in gold, to the exclusion of all paper money.
The Dalian Government has stipulated that the holders
of bonds shall have the option of taking at par 47,400
shares in the company, of 500 lire each, at the rate of one
share for every ten 500 franc bonds, for which purpose the
Concessionaires, having subscribed for the whole of the
100,000 shares which compose the company's capital, have
appropriated thereout 47,400 shares. The time and manner
of exercising this option will be hereafter announced.
The price of issue of the bonds in England will be at
the rate of £Bl 7s. per 2,500 f. bond, payable by the fol-
lowing instalments :
On Application £lO 0 par bond of 2,500 francs.
„ Allotment lO 0 71 tt
„ 16th Nov., 1868
„ Ist January, 1869 l5 0 deducting £2 19s. 6d. (less
English income tax), for
Coupon of 75f., due Ist
January 1869.

„ Ist February, 1869. 15 0
„ Ist Mara, 1869 ... 16 7

£Bl 7

The first coupon of 75 francs por bond, falling due Ist
January, 1869, will be taken at .£2 19s. 66., without mak-
ing any deduction for Italian income tax, on account of
the instalment due the same day. On payment of the in-
stalment duo on allotment, Scrip certificates will be de-
livered by Messrs. Stern Brothers, which will be exchange-
able upon payment in full of the instalments for the De-
finitive Bonds as soon as they are prepared.
Subscribers dosiringto anticipate the payment of the re-
spective instalments will have the option of doing so under
discount at 4 per cent. per annum within a week after
allotment, or on any of the days appointed for the payment
of the instalments.
Taking into account the discount on payment in full,
the Coupon on Ist January, 1869, and the half-yearly
drawing, the loan affords to subscribers an interest equal
to 9 17-16-per cont. on their investment.
Interest at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum will be
charged on all instalments in arrear, but in default of due
payment of the respective instalments, the scrip and all
previous payments will be liable to be forfeited.
In case of the allotment being for a less number of
bonds than that applied for, the surplus of the deposit will
be applied towards the instalment due upon allotment.
Should there be a surplus beyond that instalment, it will
be returned to the subscriber forthwith.

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Where no allotment is made the whole deposit will be
returned without delay.
On the issue of the Definitive Bonds it will be arranged
to distribute them as much as possible over the several
series, so that a subscriber for thirty bonds shall re-
ceive ono reimbursable in each of the thirty half-yearly
drawings.
Copies of the convention of 25th July, 1868, the law of
24th August, 1868, and an extract from the supplementary
convention regulating the details of the bonds, can be seen
at the Italian Consulate, Old Jewry, E.C.
All applications must be made not later than the even-
ing of Thursday, October Bth, 1868, accompanied with a
deposit of 10 per cent., to the Imperial Bank, Lothbury,
London, E C.
Prospectuses can be obtained at London from Messrs.
Stern Brothers, Angel-court, D.C.
Subscriptions will also be received in Paris by Messrs.
A. J. Stern and Co. ; at Frankfort by Mr. Jacob S. 11.
Stern; at Berlin by Messrs. Robert Warschauer and Co. ;
in Italy at the Offices of the SociCtii Gen6rale do Credit
Mobilier Italian, the National Bank of the Kingdom of
Italy, and the National Bank of Tuscany.
Angel-court, London, E.C., October 5, 1868.

ITALIAN GOVERNMENT SIX PER CENT.
TOBACCO LOAN.

No
LETTER OF APPLICATION.
(To be retained by the bankers after payment of the
deposit to them.)
Messrs. Stern Brothers, London.
Gentlemen,—Having paid to The Imperial Bank
(Limited) the sum of £ , request you to allot to
Bonds to the nominal amount of pounds
francs), in the above loan, and hereby agree
to accept that amount, or any smaller sum that may be
allotted to , and to pay the further instalments
thereon as they become due, according to the terms of
your prospectus of the sth October, 1868.
Your obedient servant,
Address in full
Date October, 1868.