The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-04 00:00:00

ONE HUNDRED and FIFTY-FIFTH SALE"
custom- nous& LONDON, December, 1902.—F0r SALE,
by order of the Honorable the Commissioners of her Majesty's
Customs, at the Commercial Sale Rooms, Mincluzilane. on MON-
DAY sheath, TUESDAY the 9th, and WEDNESDAY the 10th of
Doomalier, DM, at 12 o'clock at soon precisely, the following
GOODS for exportation or Tome consumption :—Anchors and
chain cables, boats. bnindy, cheese, mdse. cordials, dice. nail-
ing nets, Geneve glass, molasses, painters' colours, palm oil,
pepper, perfumery, preserved ginger, perfumed spirits, pickles
in vinegar, ruin, raisins, wars, saccades, spirits (plain and
mixed), scissors, sugar, ships' near, tobacco, tea, timber, whisky,
wine, watches, vinegar, and various other pads—The above
goods may be viewed at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom house,
Thamesetreet :at the St. Katharine. London, West loafs, East
India, and Victoria Docks and at the Tobacco Ground, Rotifer-
hlthe. to morrow 'Ender. the sth, and Saturday the 6th De-
cember. 1662, from 10 o'clock in the morning until S o'clock in
the afternoon . and on the days of sale from 10 o'clock in the
morning until 12 o'clock at noon: the tasting of spirit, and
wine being reetrlcted to the day it sale as regards the Queen's
Warehouse. Take notice, that ii•cois sold at this sale will not be
detested until after two clear days of the day on which they
are sold, and that no lots can be paid for at the office of the
Receiver-General after 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and that on
the days of sal, mosey will not be received by the Receiver.
General after 11 o'clock In the forenoon. Catalogues may be
had at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom-Dose, Thamesebreet,
Sd each.

THE SCINDE, PUNJAUB, and DELHI
BANK CORPORATION (Limited).
FatahHatted under the Companies Act, Mat with limited Liability.
Capital One Minx) sterling) in 60,000 Shama of kW each.

First 155ue725.000 Shares.
It ts not intended to call up more than £lO per Share.
With power to the SharenoWre to lacrosse the capitaii.
Deposit 5..1 per Share on A pllcstloa. odd per Bhare

1843-44.
1848-19.
1863-54
1854-69.
1881-82.

Mr. P. M. Deka. the Collector of Customs at Pumas*,
Nate* that this remarkable Increme la not attributable to any
fortuitous cause, but is perfectly natural, and proven how vast
the resources of the country must be."...

AA rettarde the Pan.blub, the trade of llaritaur alone hu been
officially valued at three and a half millions sterling per annum.
Cniritsur tithe chief emponum fur the commerce of the l'iniJaub
anal Central Asia. It has commercial relations not only with
Persia and Turkey, bat with Marseilles, Paris, London. and
other European cities.
_ .

Delhi moat also, with railway commnnication. become a real
Central entrepot In L pper India, similar to Una-User, la the Pun-
jaub, though on a vastly extended bode. Its trade In lee.)
annoeinted in vain. to L 4.000,000 sterllnc

The support of the Directors of the Sande, FunAIM, and
Delhi Railways, and the Indus Steam Flotilla (the united capital
of these imilerlakinsni amounting to sin millions sterling, , has
been secured to this Rink : and application has been made for
the privilege of circulating the notes of the government, and of
partieipating ill the other advantages conceded to Banks in
ndia
. . .

An increase of banking facilities In this great section of our
Indian empire has for some time been a desideratum. So far
back as Ibis, Sir Bartle Frere, then COMM4IIIOIIer is Scinde mow
Governor of Bombay , In his °Metal report for that year, ob-
served that " A banking establishment is al., required, but this
might be left to the regular course of trade to supply."
The sae ve. of Sank. conueeted with India appears by the
following tabular statement

iWbare
wham oar
maw. rug".

Caleutta,l6ooll,ooi,ooo
IIZOI V2lOOl
Agra, 1833. 1,000,0001
Bombay. 181°11,200,000
Do. HMI 45401
Do. 18541 500,001

The attention of the Directors will be given t.) the early fotma-
tlou of an adegua:e &ewe' fund, to be specially set apart and
1 0 vested.

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The chief office will be In London, and branches or agencies
will, In the first Instance, be opened at Kurrachee. Lthore, Cm.
ritaur, and Delhi, and In due time at Moolton. Shikarpore, and
Hyderabad; while powers will also be taken to establish
branches or agencies at other places of importance In the East.
The Bank La constituted under the Companies Act of 1062,
whereby the responsibility of the proprietors is strictly limited
to the amount of their nesptetye shares.

The preliminary charges will be manned to the necesary ex-
penses, no remuneration whatever being given fur originating
the Bank.

Applications for shares may he addremed in the annexed form
to the Interim Secretory. No. 248, Gresham-house, Old Broad-
street, or to Messrs. Iduggina and Rowse'', No. I, Threadneedle-
etrert, the Broken of the Bade, from whom copies of the pros-
pectus can be obtained.