The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-11 00:00:00

ADVERTISEMINTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning, Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION, at ONE CHARGE.

EAST INDIA HOUSE, Maim' 11th, 1844.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST
INDIA COMPANY do hereby give notice, in conformity with
the By-Law of the said Company, cap. 7, sec. 6.
That the following PROPRIETORS of EAST INDIA STOCK,
qualified agreeable to Law, have signified in writing to the Secretary
their desire of becoming CANDIDATES, at the ensuing ELECTIO*
of SIX L'IRECTORS, on WEDNESDAY, the 10th Aptil next.
Sir ROBERT CAMPBELL, Bart.
- JAMES WEIR HOGG, Esq., M.P.
Hon. HUGH LINDSAY,
Major-General ARCHIBALD ROBERTSON,
Lieut.-Col. WILLIAM HENRY SYKES,
Sir HENRY WILLOCK, K.L.S. •
JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary.

WEST LONDON RAILWAY COMPANY.
KNIGHTSBRIDGE EXTENSION SHARES, to be issued
to the public pursuant to resolutions of General and Special General
Meeting of Shareholders, held at the office of the Company on Wed-
nesday, March 6, 1844.
Capital £129,200, in 6,460 shares of X2O each. Deposit £2 per
share. Calls not to exceed £3 per share, at intervals of not less than
three months. _ _

Interest at £5 per cent. per annum on deposit and calls until.com-
pletion of the Knightsbridge Extension Line.
Preference rental dividend of XI per share, and further contingent
dividends, as mentioned in the resolutions of the Proprietors.
Written applications for shares to be sent to the Secretary of the
West London Railway Company, 11, Abchurch-lane, London, on or
before the 16th day of March instant, when the allotment will be
made. By order of the Directors,

JOHN THOMPSON, Sec.
Office, 7, Abchurch-lane, March 7, 1844.

WEST LONDON RAILWAY.
At a General and Special General Meeting of the Share-
holders of the West London Railway Company, held at the Com-
pany's offices, 11, Abchurch-lane, in the City of London, on Wed-
nesday, the 6th day of March, 1844, it vgis unanimously resolved :-
1. That this General and Special Gential Meeting of the Share-
holders of the West London Railway Company, called and sum-
moned in pursuance of the provisions of the Company's Act of In-
corporation, do resolve that the Directors of the said Comaany shall
proceed in the next session of Parliament to apply for an Act or Acts
of Parliament, authorising the said West London Railway Company
to extend the West London Railway from its present Terminus, at or
near to the Kensington Canal-basin, to, at, or near to Knightsbridge,
in the county of Middlesex, by such line and such direction and with
such Terminus as the said Directors shall determine upon anct_thhik
Most expedient, and that the said Directors shall **lg.-strafe- neces-
sary steps for the purpose.
2. That the Directors shall in the meantime, until such Act or
Acts of 'Parliament be obtained, make such purchases of land and
other property, and enter into such contracts for works and other
purposes, and cause such works, excavations, embankments, and
other things to be carried on and completed, as they shall think
proper for the purpose of making and completing such extension
railway.
3. That a capital or sum of 129,2001. shall be raised for such ex-
tension, divided into 6,460 shares, of 201. each, to be called " West
London Railway Knightsbridge Extension Shares."
4. That the Directors be authorised, when they shall have ob-
tained Parliamentary power for the purpose, to issue such shares,
and in the meantime to issue such certificates or scrip receipts in
lied thereof, as they shall think fit.

5. That the said sum of 201. per share shall be paid as follows,viz. :
a deposit of 21. per share at such time and place as the Directors
shall appoint, and the remaining 181. per share in calls of midi
amount and at such times as the Directors shall from time to time
require. Each call, however, not to exceed 31. per share, and to be
payable at intervals of not less than three calendar months from
each other, and not less than twenty-one days' notice of every such
call to be given by advertisement In, at the least, two London
newspapers.

6. That interest, after the rate of Si. per cent. per annum, be paid
on such deposits and calls from the respective times of the same
being paid to the time of the said extension line being opened for
public traffic, each interest to be payable on the sth JUly and the
sth January in each year.
7, The preference dividends to be payable to the first-class pre-
ference and Thames extension Shareholders shall not be postponed or
prejudicially affected, but shall continue to have the priority assured
to them by the former resolutions of the Proprietary.
8. The Knightsbridge extension Shareholders shall, from the time
of the completion of their extension line, have (subject to the pre-
ference given to the Shareholders referred to In clause 7) a preference
rental dividend of 11. per share, to be payable out of the
profits of the ►hole line of railway belonging to the Company, as
well original as extended, with priority over the second 'class pre-
ference and original shares of the Company ; and that, subject to
such dividends, and tosuch preference as aforesaid, any surplus profit
there may be in the current year shall be divided equally amongst
all the Shareholders, whether holders of original, first or second class
preference, or Thames or Knightsbridge extension shares, in. propor:
tion to the number of their respective shares, the holder 4.each ex-
tension share being in the division of such surplus profit entitled to
'the same dividend as the holder of an original share.

9. As the capital proposed to be raised far exceeds the estimated
cost of the site and works of the proposed extension line, and is in-
tended to provide also a fund for the purchase of land, and other va-
luable property, which the Directors have reason to believe the Com-
pany will be required to buy, and which, if so bought, may be resold
without injury to the undertaking, such excess of property, if so pur-
chased, shall, with all convenient speed, be resold, and the proceeds
applied in the purchase and extinction of Knightsbridge extension
shares, in manner mentioned in clause 10, next following; and if the
Company be not required to purchase more land than is actually
wanted for the site of the line and terminus, then the surplus capital
arising fl•om calls shall in like manner be applied in the purchase and
extinction of shares in manner after mentioned.

10. When and so often as there shall be, either from the resale of
land and property, or otherwise, as before mentioned, an excess of
capital to the amount of 4,0001. at the least, the Directors shall (hav-
ing previously obtained the consent of a General Meeting of Share-
holders) cause advertisements to be inserted in two London news-
papers, informing the holders of Knightsbridge extension shares that
a sum, tote specified In such advertisement, is applicable to the pur-
chase of Knightsbridge extension shares, and calling on such Share-
holderss to send in tenders of the lowest price at which they may be
disposed to sell their shares, and the Directors shall accept the lowest
tenders, and apply the money mentioned in the advertisement in
the purchase of shares so far as such money will extend, and, from
the time of such purChase, the shares so to be bought shall be extin-
guished, and merged in the undertaking ; and this operation shall be
repeated as often as there shall be funds in the hands of the Directors
available for the purpose.
11. A portion of the shares mentioned in the third reselution to be
fixed by the Directors shall be set apart for the present Shareholders
of the Company, and the remaining shares shall be offered to the
public. . •
12. That by notice, in at least two of the London newspapers, each
registered Proprietor of shares shall be required to give notice, iu
writing, to the Directors, of his intention to take and become the
Proprietor of the shares to be appropriated to him, and that the same
new shares, or as many of them as shall be required, shall be appro-
priated to such of the Proprietors as shall, on or before the 16th day
of March instant, give notice in writing to the Directors, at the
Company's offices, Abchureh-lane, London, of the intention to take
up such new shares.
13. That every Proprietor not duly paying, on or before the day to
be named by the Directors, such deposit of 2/. for each new share, or
neglecting, by himself or his assigns, to sign the Parliamentary under-
takings when required to do so, which will be prepared for the signa-
ture of the Prpprietors engaging to pay the above remaining instal-
ments, shall be deemed and taken to have rejected his proportion of
such new shares, or of so many of them in respect of which he shall
have refused or neglected to pay such deposit punctually, or to sign
such Parliamentary undertakings as aforesaid ; and the Directors are
empowered and directed by this Meeting either to distribute and
appropriate such of the said shares upon which the said deposit shall
not have been duly paid, or in respect of which the Parliamentary
undertakings have not on request been signed, or which shall not have
been duly applied for, amongst those Proprietors of the Company
who shall in such form as the Directors' may require have expressed
their willingness to take and purchase a larger number of such shares
than the proportion to be appropriated to them, or to offer the same
to the public, as the said Directors shall think fit ; and in making such
further distribution or offer the Directors shall fix such terms of im-
mediate payment of the deposit as they shall think fit.
14. That in case any holder of such scrip or new shares aforesaid
shall neglect to pay punctually any one of the said instalments on any
of his shares, at the respective times hereinbeforo mentioned or re-
ferred to, he shall be charged with interest at the rate of 5 per cent.
per annum upon the instalment or instalments in arrear until duly
paid; and furthertnore, so long also as and during the time such in-
stalment or instalments shall be in arrear and remain unpaid on any
of his shares, the instalments he shall have paid to the Company on
all the shares held by him shall cease to carry interest, and no inte-
rest shall accrue or become due thereon until his arrears of eslls on
each and every share held by him shall have been duly paid and sa-
tisfied ; and further, that in the event of any instalment being in ar-
rear and unpaid for the space of two months from the time appointed
for payment, the said Directors shall be authorised to declare the
share or shares forfeited on which such instalment shall be in arrear,
and the same shall immediately on such declaration being passed by
the Board of Directors become and be absolutely forfeited. • •
15. That this Meeting do authorise and empower the Directors to
carry out the foregoing resolutions by all proper legal instruments.

BY AUTHORITY of his MAJESTY the
EMPEROR of AUSTRIA.—WiII take place irrevocably on
the 16th of March, 1844, the DISTRIBUTION of NINE beautiful
ESTATES of a value front 1,480,054 Francs, and MONET PRIZES
from 150,000 Francs down to 125 Francs of Common Bonds, and in
the Special Distribution of the Red Bonds 32,509 gains will be obtained,
and each Red Bond most gain a higher or lower amount. Price of a
Common Bond, 1/. ; a Red Bond, 27. ; for 51. Five Common Bonds and
one WI Bond ; for 101. Eleven Common Bonds and Two Red ; for
201. Twenty-three Common Bonds and Three Red.
Apply, without delay, to Messrs. JACOBS and Co., Bankers, Frank-
fort-on-the-Maine ; or to save Postages, Letters nay be addressed to
Mr. Jacobs, 34, Wellclose-square.

WILSON'S SCOTTISH ENTERTAIN-
MENTS,
MUSIC ALL, STORE-STREET, BEDFORD-SQUARE.
THIS EVENING, March 11, at Eight o'clock
Mr. Wilson will give his celebrated selected Entertainment on the
SONGS OF SCOTLAND.
Pianoforte, Mr. LAND.
PART 1.--My ain fireside—Saw ye my wee thing ?—Auld Robin
Gray—The Laird o' Cockpen—Lizzie Lindsay—Scots wha ha'is wi'
Wallace bled—Mary Morrison—Get up and bar the door.
PART IL—Farewell to Lochaber—My boy Tammy—My Nannie's
awa—Allister WAllister—There's nae luck aboet the house.
In the Press, the MUSIC in MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.
Front Seats, 2s; 6d. ; Each Seats, 2s. ; Private Boxed for Six, 155.;
for Eight, 11. Programmes and Tickets may be had at the Manic-
shops, and at the Music-hall.
Mr. WILSON will, in the coarse of the season, produce the follow-
ing, which be has had some time in preparation :—Jacobite
Relies—
Wandering Willie's Wallet—The Jemeses of Scotland—The Wallace
and the Brace—A, Maiver wi' Jamie Hogg.

PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE, 50, REGENT-
STREET FEB. 15, 1844.

BONUSES DECLARED, 529,3061. 17s. 7d.
Notice is hereby given, that all persons who hold Policies in this
Office, bearing date prior to the year 1534, may receive the present
value of the Bonuses which have been added to their Policies, upon
application at the Head Office, or to the Agents through whom the
Policies were issued.'

GEORGE BEAUMONT, Actuary.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
The various ARTIFICIAL LIGHTS in Ancient and Modern
Use are familiarly explained by Dr. Ryan, at Two o'clock daily ,
illustrated by the LAMP of the ANCIENTS, the FIRT IMPROVE-
MENT by ARGAND, the RUDE, the DRUMMOND, the BOCCIUS,
the PELLETAN, the CAMPHINE LIGHTS, New FRENCH
LAMPS, &c., &c. The.. First Lecture, by Professor Bachhoffner,
Ph. D. M.A., is at a Quarter-past Three o'clock. ARMSTRONG'S
HYDRO-ELECTRIC MACHINE at Three o'clock and at Eight in
the Evenings. NEW DISSOLVING VIEWS, DIVER and DIV-
ING BELL, Among the recent Deposits is the HEAD of a
MUMMY from THEBES, very remarkable.
Admission, Is.; Schools, Half-price.

TEMPLETON'S MUSICAL ENTERTAIN:

At the MUSIC HALL, STORE-STREET, BEDFORD-SQUARE.
On WEDNESDAY Evening next, the 13th of March, Mr. TEMPLETON
has the honour to announce that he will introduce, for the first time,
the most attractive portion of his Two popular Entertainments, en-
titled " MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS," and ":THE BEAUTIES OF
BURNS," compressed into one act each.

Tickets and Programmes to be had at the principal Music shops
and at the Music Hall, Store-street. Front seats, 2s. 6d.-; Back
seats, 25.; Boxes to contain Six, 15s. ; to contain Eight, 11.
To commence at Eight o'Clock.

CELTIC ENTERTAINMENT.—Under the im-
mediate Patronage of the Highland Society of London.—The
celebrated HIGHLAND PIPERS and DANCERS, who had the
honour of performing before her Majesty and Prince Albert, and the
Nobility of Scotland, at Taymouth Castle, have engaged to give their
SIXTH GRAND CELTIC ENTERTAINMENT in the Music Hall,
Store-street, Bedford-square, on TUESDAY Evening, March 12, 1844.
The five performers will appear in full Highland costume.
Reserved seats 2s. 6d., back seats 25., private boxes for six persons
155., and for eight persons 11. Tickets for the hall may be had at
Messrs. Cramer, Addison, and Beale's, Regent-street; Messrs. Duff
and liodgson's, Oxford-street; Mr. Chappell's, Mr. 011ivier's, Mr. F.
C. Leader's, and Messrs. Mori and Lavenu's, New Bond-street ; Mr.
H. Fentum's, 78, Strand; Messrs. Monro and May's, 11, Holborn-
bars ; Messrs. Keith, Prowse, and Co.'s, 48, Cheapside ; at the Music
Hall ; and at Mr. Cameron's, 3, Great Ryder-street, St. James's.
Doors open at half-past 7, and commence at 8 o'clock precisely.
Children under 12 years of age half-price.

THE FIRST ANNUAL SALE of INDIA,
BRITISH, AND FRENCH SHAWLS, Silks, Satins, Velvets,
Cloaks, Furs, Printed Cashmeres, Worked Mnslins, Fancy Goods,
Damask Table Linen, &c., &C., will commence on MONDAY the 11th,
and continue till the end of March.

GRAHAM and SMITH (late Everington and Graham), having added
vast connexions to their house by the economy of a ready money
system, applied to rich and fashionable goods, as -well as to the plain
and useful, beg to announce their determination, that in Mure the
overplus stock, extremely reduced in price, will be sold en the pre-
mises each year, previous to the commencement of the Spring Trade.
By this arrangement considerable advantages will be distributed
through their own connection, instead of pursuing the old plan, which
for thirty years has given an immense mass of beautiful goods, at
little more than halt-price, to shippers for foreign sale.
10, LUDGATE-STREET, seven houses from St. Paul's.
India Shawls bought or exchanged.

THE AMERICAN ROCKING CHAIR.
None arc genuine unless they have " Luck, Kent, and Cum-
ming" printed on the bottom. This ('hair, so much admired by all
who have visited America, for the remarkable ease, pleasure, and
comfort which it affords, is just imported and for SALE at the exten-
sive Carpet and Upholstery Establishment of LUCK, KENT, and
CUM \I ING, No. 4, Regent-street ; Carpenters' Hall, 68, London-wall ;
and William Cumming and Co., 98, Hatton-garden. It is asserted
with confidence, that there is no piece of furniture in use in civllsed
society more sought after and approved of when known.
Tho price is 255., with a liberal discount to the trade. Stout per-
sons and invalids will find these chairs invaluable.

INDIA.