The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-29 00:00:00

THE ORIENTAL HOTELS COMPANY
(tholle.).
Incorporated under the Companies Act, 1862, by which the
liatelity of each Shareholder to Weedy limited to the amount
of hem
Capital=,ooo, in 15,000 shame of 610 each, with power to
increase to One Million Merlins.
First lame, 12,800 shams, whereof a portion will be reserved for
India.
Deposit, Cl per stone on appiteatbm and CI on allotment. Calls
net to emsed a par grim, with an Interval of not loss than
three months between each call

Date2o6&.

81r JOHN MIS Cha!rmaa, late Lieutenant-

governor of Bengal.
Colonel Anderson, C. 8., Director of the Eastern Bengal Hallway

Company.
Deane Wadable, Bp., Arm of Henderson and Constable, Can-
non-atreet,
Fir Frederick Currie, Bart., Member of th. Council of India.
Colonel French, (barman of the Bombay and Banda Railway
Col:4l7Ell*nd. Director of the Agra and United Service Bank.
John Stewart, Req., Director of the Marine Insurance Company.
John Robert Thomson, Bag., Chairman of the London and South
African Bank.
James Henry Young, Faq., late of the Bengal Civil Service.

AUDITORS. -
T. R. Walker, Erg , 21, Hanover-square and
A Shareholder to be elected at the first (Moors' Meeting.

BLNILICILI IN LOT4PON.
--
The Age and United Service Bank (Limited!, 27, Cannon street,

The London and County Bank, Hanovervyttare, W.
BLNILEII9 IR INDIA —The Agra and United Service Bank
(Limited).
BoLicrroas.—lteara. tptons, Jolumon, and Upton. SO, itaatJn.
friars, B.C.
BZOKlR.—Francis Barnard, Sag.. 78, Lornbardobeek and LS
and 14. Cotmtpchamban, Combill, F.C.
SECIISTART • pro tem).—Macdonald Yates, Esi.
Temporary oflces-36,, CannTotreet. KC., and 6, Parliament,

street, Westminster.
The deficiency of hotel accommodation in India. China, and
other places In the East to which Europenas now retort In large
and annually increasing numbers, is a subject of general emu-
plaint ; and it is evident that the development of the means of
transit by ocean and river steamers, and by railways, which has
been In rapid progress now for some years, must imperfectly
fulfil all Its important objects, so far t I European intercourse
with the Beat Is concerned, until this Tani is adequately
anppUel
In England. and on the Continent of Europe, it Is now an
ascertained fact that the joint-stock system
11 may
first
most suc-
cessfullbe applied to the establishment of hotels of the
class. this be so where good private hotels before existed in
large numbers, there seems no reason to doubt that an equal
degree of commercial success Is attainably by the application of
e•pital, upon the some system, to the same object, In countries
where, though the demam I Is great and increa, it may almost
be said that good pile de hotels do not exist.
In Calcutta a Jotnt Stock Company has lately purchased and
undertaken the management of a hotel, and the prospects of the
enterprise. as a commerctel speculation. may be inferred from
the very high premium at which their shares are quoted in the
Calcutta market—see "Times" July 17. the "Englishman's
Weekly Mall" of June Bth, 1983, and" I nclimi
viz.-1..26 paid, present value £4I cx illy., equal to 70 per cent.
premium, and the payment of a dividend of 10 per cent. for the
half-year ending 30th April last, eqnal to SO per cent. per an-
num. Bombay offers n wide field for the establishment of a
hotel of a first-class character. The early complet on of vast
Uses of railway converging in the hived of Bombay, end the
. more frequent steam communication between that port and
' Europe, which will soon take place, must very much increase
the demand for such aceommadatton The Lame may Le said of

Madras.
I It is under these circumstances that the Oriental Hotels Com-
pany (Limited. is established, In the confident belief that the
application o' European capital to India in Ills form will he not
less profitable than 'metal. It In proposed, In the first Waterer*,
to supply the urgent requirements of Bombay and Point de Cialle.
There are other equally Imports t places which will naturally
engage the early att ration of the Company, such for example as
Idadrea, Singapore, and Kurrachee ; not to speak of many very
important railway stations in the Interior of India, where flier •
are now no hotels at all, and where. of a comparatively small
outlay. there Ise large geld for profitable operation,
• The larger clue of the Company's Hotels will afford all the
' conveniences of the beet Eur pray hotels, adapted to the climate
and to the habits of those for whom they arc intended; w' list,
I in even the mealiest class, the health and comfort of the Inmates
• will be carefully studied.
It is bitended to constitute local committees of management
In each Presidency where hotels may be established.
. In the event of two-thirds of 'he first Issue of shares not being
subscribed for no allotment will tube place, and the deposits
will be returned to the subscriber, withont deduction.
It Is proposed to pay to Shareholders it per cent. Interest upon
' Ithe capital as paid up entll the first dividend le declared.
Proepectimes and forms of application for shares may be hail on
application to the bankers, the broker, or the secretary.

PORE OP APPLICATION TOR SHARE.
To ho retained by the Bankers.
THR ORIENTAL HOTEL' COMPANY (Limited).
To the Directors of the Oriental lintels Company (Limited'.
Oentlemen,—Having paid to the bankers of the abovenamed
company the sum of d , I hereby request that you will allot
me shares in the sail company, and I wee to accept
such sham or any smaller number that may be allotted to me,
and to become a member of the company, and I authorise you
to place ray name on the register of members In respect of the
shares to be allotted to me and 1 scree to be bound by all the
conditions and regulation- contained in the memorandum and
arfAcles of asaociation of the company, to manner provided by
The Companies Act, 1811."
I undertake to pay the balance ;if any of the deposit of Z 2
per share OR the shares allotted to me within ten days after
notice of allotment, and in default thereof I authorise you to
cancel the allotment. and I agree that the deposit paid shall be
forfeited totbe company.
Dated this day of 1861
Name in full
Firm (if any)
Business or profession
Place of business
Residence