The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-12 00:00:00

Ai this ts the first Loan rated m Croe.troo for the

mead, the fonowbm Habana of the financial position of the
country are submitted:
The total fended debt of Sweden amounts to L2,700,000
The SUM ordinary imams from tame oa land, can

toms, and excise dulls. on distilleries, post-onloe,
and stamps for the year 1863, amounted to C1,915,000
The not surplusrevenna after providtng for all charges,
isteluchng interest and smorthation of funded or,
Clonal loan! in 1863, aattalkSel ...... .. E 300.000

Daring the lasts ars there has been invariably an sin.ual
sTrTIMMS.
national loans have been expended entirely on the Swedish
Railroads, and b) these means, together with the surplus revenue
of the country daring the lest 21 years. about 324 miles of public
rends have either been laid or repaired.
During the same period the sum expended by the state for
Swedish government Talbott& or other !hies, kr public roads,
drainage, deepening of water 000113111JACILiellt. and reclaiming
of the soil, amounts to £4.670.000.
The population of Sweden In 1810 wee shoat 4,000,000
in 1861 „
The value of the exports of Sweden In 180 was £1,760,000
In 1861 was 4.630,000

THE IMPERIAL BANK of CHINA
(Limited).
Iseorporated ander the Companies Act, Mt
THE CHEM HOMIER ;Limited) Is PIISPAItID to RE-
CCIVS APPLICATIONS for the CAPITAL of the MPHIL/AL
SANK of CHINA (Ilmited).
Capital L 1,000,000, to 50,000 Shares of L6O each.
Phst lame, 10.000 Shine
Deposit oo ApplimAke LI per Share, and di on Allotment.
Subsequent Cads not to exceed A 5 per *tare, and at Intervale of
not leas than three months.

No um will be awl* seta eller ebepeolrei!os of three months

boo tho 4M. of supianist.

It s Intended to call op more than £lO per shore; bet as
Milepost:lons of the Company Increase, and more share capital
cam be advantageously employed. farther Issues of shares wid be
mods, • preference being given to the then misting share-
holden.

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Richard C. Coles, . (Coles. Brown, and Co.), Loudon.
WE. Coate Curia. . Behar's. Lubbock. mid OD.). Loadoa.
Lest.-Ca Preach, of the Bombay sad Bareda
Railway.
James Leeklt. Bp., Director of the Credit Mobtike (Limited:.
Alezaadee Morrison, Bey , Director of the Bank of Otago.
Robert Barclay Reynolds, reg. (11eynolds, Mann, sad Co.), Lomita
sod UseepoeL
PMer 1011. log (Peter Bolt sad Co.;. London.
Bak Predk. 'Stuart Wortley, late limber of the Esti
lesbemy to Clam.
J. Msckrill Muth, Esq., 116. Old Broad-street, London, sod
Shanghac
(With power to add to their number )
Bsimakts—liesark Roberts, Lubbock, sad Co., London.
801.1CrfOrd.
Mesas. Edwards sad Co., West:Musket%
Mersa Newton, Brew, and Co., hickaisalaue.
IMOLL/I/L
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Ileum Field, Soo, and Wood 9, Waisitord-ooust, Throgosoetos.
Area.

Mews. Kehhie sad 3a bet 19.1-02eadoentUastreet. ZC.
Temporary Ornoes—At the Maas of the Credit Mobillet (U-
-nited), 00. limber(' street.
liocsxraar (no T131.:—1. Short. reg.

PROSPECTU&

China Is the only largeeatiniryto the civilised weed which
hes no direct bank lu London operating solely for it. Wheat
and It is obvious that avast fertile region. inhabited by three
hundred millions of Intelligent people who own Ca an epee'
mous batantal clads by means of native joint-Mock and private
banks of issue, and who have an (demise and Increasing
commercial intercourse with Europe, India, America, and Aus-
tralia, must present a lucrative laid for monetary operations.
Great Britain Imports from China sad Japan (vil China) up-
wards of seven million pounds of silk, and about one hundred
and twenty million pounds of teL The rapid Mramee of trade
Is thus shown :

-11Mporta of It:porta toad= Total Trade between
China of Britt& (Una and United
Traduce. Manufactures. Clyde.
1842 .. £3,966.200 £909,381 1.4,92,671
1861 .. 11,376,160 . 6,310.036 16.11114.186
The commerce between India and Chins has he dazing
the past twenty years from three to fifteen Wilkes starling.
The port of BbatsW alone exhibita an extraordinary develop.
meat. In 1841 It had no European trade In 186! the mine of Ita
export; was £14,094408, lee imports £41.868,1163 ;
. .

The bslanee of trade with China la paid lu bul
diver—of which the erpoet value wee to Ib6l. L102,311167-ga
£6,40.1,107. Cottontail°w becoming a lane name/ trade: daring
the last six months of DYIS more than twenty million pounds

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The Imperiit
Rant of China ban therefore been Yenned to
supply an acknowledged want oaths phut which has been so enc.
ceeefully canted out In Loudon by the banks for India, and other
similar insulations, the success of which the following table
will exemplify, and It le believed at least equal women will nark
the magneto, tide bank.

Paid up, term&
Name 01 Bank.
Bppeet[x • Prim per
Blum
Agra and United Service
Chartered Mercantile of Indla, London, and
Mina
Hindustan, Mina, andJapen 2l 10
Oriental IS OS

The Imperial Bank at Mins will transact all operations con-
nected with those of a bank of none, deposit, diacoant, and
ezeirearreeting and controithir authority will be In London.
Branch banks, with boards of local Directors, will be formed at
lien Long, Canton, Shanghai, Foochow. Titania—Pekin. and at
such other cities as mad Dam time to Woe he deemed adrhabia
The branches will be order the control of the tondo's board,
aided by the sverrision of an -General, as in the cue
with the Indian and inhale/ kmb, and the anthoriastion of
the government at Pekin has been sollcitad to allow the spode
Dania the Imperial Balk of hitt' to be ranched In payment of
eneliont duties and at Ohs tax eißmis throughout the =Om an
edictal oonespoodsoco now being carried oa by the bank with
Pekin for that object and as the Pekin government will not
trust the native local banks, It Is believed thls bank will become
to tho gowaismint Magas what the Impanel Oilimen MOM
IVlireiddeehellerrhe part of the government of China for rail-
ways and tehic cougnanication will rsader aearesery
eateadee das.fal operations, which the Imperial Bank of
Mans will be peculiarly favourably situated to undertake.
Applications for shares to be nude Ia the annexed toele. In
the event of no allotment of shams being made the &peon will
be returned in full. Shoulda lees number of share be allotted
than are applied tor, the deposit will be made available towards
the payment on allotment, and the balsam If any, refereed to
the &optima.
Prospectuses and forms of application for shares may be oh.
tinned at the offices of the Credit Mobilise (limited), 90, Loss-
tiard-atton, and from the beakers, Woken, and solicitors.

roam 0/ APPLIC4I7O3I POl MAUS.
To the Directors of the Imperial Dank of China abutted).
Gentausw—laving paid to your Waken, Mesas. Inborn,
Lubbock. and Co.. the ewe of being • deP•ali of
she share on shares in the above Company, I hereby request uses
you will allot me that number, and I agree to accept each nags*
or any less number you may allot to me. and I mines to py
the deposit on allotment, and to sign the Articles of Aasociatlon
a the Company .hen required . and authorise you to fn
sr Dame co the register of members for the number at shines
otted to me. _ . .

rand Signature
Name to toll
LeeMenne
Prelandou
Date April. 111111