The Press.
London, England, 1858-05-08 00:00:00

THE IMPERIAL PLATE GLASmitedS COMPANY
of GREAT BRITAIN (Li).
PROSPECTUS.
Capital, 1.000,0001. sterling, in Shares of 101. each and Do-
bentures, of which 94,000 Shares are unsiloted; Depo,it ;It
per Share;
on application, and 21. ou allotment, ths re-
mainder to be payable as may be required—the calls will not
exceed 21. per Share—at intervals of not less than three months.
DIRECTORS.
R. W. Swinburno, F:sq., South Shields, and Red Bull-wharf,
London.
Joseph Gibbins, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birming-
ham Banking Company.
William tilenford gag., London, Chairman of the Thames
Plate Glass Company.
William Cook, Esq., St. Paul's Churchyard, London, and
Roydoir hall, Kent.
J. Frederick Ledum, Eaq., Birmingl stn, Director of the
London and North-Western Asilway.
Joseph Brown, Esq., Clareuee-terrace, Regent's-park, London.
Samuel Wilfred Lucas, Esq., 3irwtnghum, Chairman of the
Rirmiugliam Plate Glass Company.
James Allport, Esq., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Director of the
Midland Railway.
John Nl'/tae, Esq., London, Vice-Chairman of the Thames
Plate Glas Company.
Nicholas Wood. jun., Esq. ( Ffill, Wood, and Hughes), Coal
Exchange, London.
John Webster, (.Tohn Webster and Co.), 'Birmingham.
G. C. Warden, Esq. (R. W. Swinburue sad Co.), Newthunle-
mon-Tyne.
(With power to add to their number.)
INBPECTOha.

(Under the Joint•stock Companies' Act of 1856.)
tobert Stephenkou, Esq., 31. P., Great George-street, West-
,meter.
lohn Oliver Hanson, Esq., Great Winchester-street, London.
BANKERS.

f Union Bank of London, Prinoess-street, Mansion-house.
SOLIC ITU RS.
Messrs. Parker, Hayes, Barnwell, and Twisden, CO, Russell-
Et tare, London.
Messrs. Mixon, Son, and Anton, tB, Cannon-street, London.

13(tuKEIt8.

Messrs. Hill, Fawcett, and Bill, 29, Threadneedle-street,
London.

TEIIPORARY OFFICES.
99, Upper Thames-street, London,

The entire manufacture of plate glass in the British Empire
/AS been hitherto carried on by six companies, the dates of
whose establishment extend from 172 i to 1815.
it is now arriur4ed that all the manufactories shall be united
under one management, the companies having agreed to transfer
their interests to the Imperial Plate•glaas Company of Great
Britain.

Shares in full, to the amount of 380,0001., are already agreed
to be iaken by proprietors in the ex, sting companies, and de-
bentures to the extent of 270,00(11. bearing interest at 5 per
cent. per annum (being the whole of the debenture capital pro
posed to be raised) are already disposed of, leaving 37,000
shares of la each to be issued to the public.
It is the opinion of the hest authorities in the trade, that by
the concentration of the manufacturing arrangemerts, the cost
of production will be matetially reduced, and the Company
enabled to supply Plate Glass at a rate less than the average
of the last four years, although during that per,od prices have
been lower than were ever previously known.
This Company entering immediately upon the occupation of
works in active operation, and receiving the income of an ex•
itemise business, is in a wholly different position from other
undertakings, for it commences the realization of profits front
the first day of its existence, and establishes at once its remu•

neraiire character.
The business of the Company will be placed in the hands of
expel-kneed directors of the existing companies, with whom
will he associated men of general mercantile reputation. The
manufacturing management will be in the charge of persons
having the best practical knowledge and experience, and the
directors have secured for the proprietary the advantage of an
additional guarantee, by having appointed inspectors to report
annually on thelatTairs of the Company, under the Joint-stock
Cumpredes' Act of IaSG.
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the revenueoithe&ompany has been carefully estimated by
pudic.' men in the trade, from the actual sales and expenses
of the existing manufactories. Without assuming anything for
inereseed consumption, and taking a limited estimate of the
advantages of a centralized management, the profits, deducible
from the present sales. may be fairly expected to enable the
Company to pay dividends at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum,
after providing for contingencies and a reserve fund.
The Company wi❑ be registered pursuant to the Joint•stock
Companies' Acts of 185 n and IAB7, and the liability of the
shareholders will be limited absolutely to the amount of their
shares of 101. each, or the unpaid portion thereof.

Applications for shares are to be made to Messrs. Hill,
Fawcett, and Hill, 29, Threadneedle street, London, E.C., of
whom forms can be obiait.ed fur the purpose, and must be ac-
companied by the receipt of the Union Hank of London for a
l'aYmcnt of 11. per share on the number of shares applied for,
es part of the deposit on the shares which shall be allotted. In
the event of the allotment being less than the number of shares
so applied for, the surplus, if any, of such deposit, will be re-
turned. Should an allotment nut be made, the whole of the
money deposited by the applicatt will be refunded.