The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-11 00:00:00

LONDOIti, koIIDAY EVENING, APRIL 11, 1414.

, 'ITENEZIJEIA GOVERNMENT SIX PER
• CANT. WAN-1.1.600,000.
lu Bonds of £.600, 6200. end 4100.
The GENERAL CREDIT and NINA NCI COMPANY of
LONDON (Limited) beg to announce that they are authorised by
the government of Venezuela to OPFAR to the pull& a LOAN
for that State, to the silent of 41,600,000 nominal capital, upon
the following term.:
The Bonds will be Issued for stuns of EWA stoo, and 6100
each. They will bear interest as from the let October, Via, at
the rate of six percent. per annum, with coupons attached. pay-
able half.)esrly en the lit April mad Ist October, at the Otiose
of the Credit and Mance Company in London, In
sterling, or at the Offices of Mama Salomon Oppenhebn, Jun..
and Co., Cologne, in thalers, at the exchange of the day.
The price of isms Is LOO per 1100 Mod,, and payment will be
required as follows
L 5 on application.
610 on allotment, less ell half.year's interest accrued.
615 on Ist June.
LIS on let Ausust
Ll 6 on lit September, lees 66 haliyear's interest aocrued,
dim lat Oct.
Leo

&Mount at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum will be allowed
on pre-payments to fall, making, with allowance*. She price of
lane coder x.s.s.
In case of nonellotment the deposit will be returned. Should
a les, amount be allotted than that applied for. the deposit will
be made available towards payment on the allotment, and the
te/ance If any, returned to the applicant.
Ile object et the loan Is to effect a settlement of the general
financial condition of the country, to assist in making roads and
improved conmounications, inland and coastwise, to pay off some
g claims, and generally to develop the agricultural
re-
sources and Industry of the country.
The loan, interest, and sinking fond are secured by a special
of the whole export duties levbible at the ports of
tip rthpeaclaYlittiL, Guayra l'uerto Cabello. Maracaibo, and Cuidad
Bolivar. These are warranted by the Government as wholly on.
charged :or that, if any claims can be substantiated, they shall
be met °Mot the proceeds of the Loan), and as producing more
than sufficient to meet the charge of the present Lan. The pro.
duce of the export duties last year la stated to have been
£ZSI,SOO; and an increase Is expected. In the event of say
delkietuy, the amount Is to he made good by a further special
hypothecation of the uncharged Import duties at all the porta of
Venezuela.
The consent of Earl Russell has been obtained for the collection
of the Mules so hypothecated by bar Majesty's consuls at the
several per's, assodated with the Company s wine, and the re-
iptistte amount will be transmitted twlee a month to Use General
Credit and Finance Company of London. Out of the same,
8120,008 &year will be applied to the payment of the Interest and
redemption of the debt, as follows .
£90,000 to be applied In the trot instance to pa, meat of the
interest
£30.000 to a sinking fund this amount being augmented
periolically by the interest on bonds that shall have been
bought up or redeemed.
, The sinking fund shall be applied to the purchase of beads In
the open market, if Um price Is at or below par, or to their
redemption by lot in the usual way, U above par, year by year
until the whole shall have been paid off.
The flint purchase or redemption to take place lat October,
1914.

docementa relating to the anthorlastion of the loan. and
the ratinaition of the MOO by the Constituent Ammon) of
Venezuela under date 14th January, 1864, with notarial transla-
tions, are open for hopectlon eb the offices of the General Credit
and finance Company, 7, Lothbury, where applications for the
BOMB. In the monied farm. will be received.
Applications will also be received by the London and West-
Waiter Bank ; by the Union Bank of London : sad at Cologne,
by Main- Salomon OPPeflhatill, Itlo., and Co.. Amsterdam, by
Messrs. Lippniann. Rosenthal, and Co.
Prospectuses and tonne of applications may be had at 7. Loth-
bury, and of the broken.
London, 7, Lothbnry, April, 1864.

THE IMPERIAL BANK of CHIRA
(Limited!.
Incorporste•l under the Companies Act, 1082.
THE OEM BMA (Limited, Is PEEPARM to BE-
CEITS APPLICAT for tbe CAPITAL of the IMPILBIAL
BARE of CUINA
Capital £l,l 00,000, In 10,400 Shares of E. 50 each.
First leave, 10,000 Shares.
Deposit on Application £1 per Share, and Et on Allotment.
Subseguent Calls not to calmed £5 per Share, and at intervals of
not less than three month!.

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No call will be made until after the expiration of three months
p#ol. from tin date of allotment.
It la Intended to call op more than glO per share; but as
the o of the ()oniony increase. and more share capital
can be vantageously employed, further Issues of shares will be
made, a preference being mren to the then existing share-
holders.

DOUIVIVIA.

Melina C. Colas, Rag. (Coles,Ba;;;, and Co.), London.
Wm. Cbtton Curtis, tau. ,Roberts, Lubbock, and Co.;, London.
Lest .031. French, Vbairenan of the Bombay and Baroda
Railway.
erADI James Levitt. ' Director of the Credit Mobiller (Limited,.
Alexander if Esq., Director of the Rank of Otago.
Robert Bart itt ds, .q. (Reynolds, Mann, sod C 0.,, London
and Ur
Peter Reit ([,ter Roll and Co.; London.
Hon. Predk. Stuart Wortley, We Member of the Right
limbuaye to
J.
h anghs Mack. fil Smith. Fag., 35. Old Broadatreet, London, and
S
(With power to add to their number.)
BAIIIIMS—SIesirs. Rolmrta, Lubbock, and Co., London.

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tuurrruns
Mesas. Newton, llama, and Co.. Nicholaslane.
qttalcum Edwards and Co.. Westminster.
_

Kamm Yield. Son, and Wood, 9, Warnford-coort, Throgmortoo-
'try&

Matra Rabble and learberT29, Throadoendlestreet, LC.
Temporary oMoes—At the Oakes of the Credit Mobilise (L-
-ofted;. sO. Lombard street.
Accaxrtar trao SIX.;—T. Short. Los
Piliribrus.

Chisels the only large country in—ile civilised world which
has ue direct bank in London operating *okay for it benefit ;
and it IN obvious that a vast fertile region, inhabited by three
hundred millions of Intelligent people who carry on an enor•
I.IFI mows t.ge 11 means of native Mut-stock and private
banks issue, and who have ea extensive and ini rectini
coal Intercourse with Swope, India, America, and Aar
net present a lucrative field for monetary operations.
G Britain imports from China and Japan MA China) op-
Wane 411 seven million pounds of silk, and snout one hundred
and twenty million pounds of tea. The rapid increase of trade
Is thus shown

Can; Imports of Exports teatime Total Trade between
China of British China and Untied
Produce. Manufactaren Kingdom.
18411 f. 3,956.200 £988,351 £4,9215,671
1862 11,278,150 .. 6,310,028 .. 16,0E4,186
The Maim arcs between India and China has increased during
the pan twenty years from three to Aileen millions sterling.
The port of Shanghai alone exhibits an extraordinary develop-
:Doltas m
In 1354 it bad uo otropeao trade ; in lee the value of its
e wamas, its importsxl3,B63,96,ltotal,
g 37. .419.
The balame of trade with China is paid in bullion—chiefly
elver—of which the export value was In 1851, x10;316: lo 1862,
£3,494391. Cotton ls 01
becoming • large Mend trade :duels
the last six months of 1888 more than twenty million pounds
were exported.
The Imperial Bank of China has therefore been formed to
simply an acknowledged want on the plan which has been eo sac.
cesdnily carried out in London by the beaks for India, and other
similar institutions, the success of whir* following table
will *amplify, and It Is believed at least success will mark
the progress this bank. 111