The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-04 00:00:00

/11HE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL
A_ SOCIETY (linsitedi are prepared to receive subscriptions
for the tune at par of capital stock In the HUDSON'S BAY
COMPANY, incorporated by royal charter, 1670.
The stock will be imued in Certificates of BYO each, and the
witabsibuts will be ptyaole se follows
CI being 5 per cent. on application.—To be returned jr the
event of DO allotment being made.
4 ~ 20 „ on allotment.
6 „ 26 „ on Ist September, 1863.
„ 26 „ on Ind November, 1866.
6 „ 26 „ on Ist January, 1864.

With an option of prepayment hi full 00 allotment, or on either
of the days fixed for payment of the instabsents, under discount
t Ththe rate of 4 per cent.
Hu per annum.
e sapital of the un's Bay Coen any has been duly fixed
at L 2,000,000, of which amount the International Financial
Society (Limited) have obtained, and are prepared to offer to the
public, £1,030.000.
The subscribers win be entitled to an interest, corresponding
to the amount of their subscrlpUon, in-
1. The assets (exclusive of hoes Y and 3) of the Hudson's Bay
Company, recently and specially valued by competent rakers at
LlS.Tflanded territory of the Company, held under their
°barter, and which extends over an estimated area of more than
1,400,000 square miles. or upwards of 890,000,000 scree.
S. A cash balance of £370,000.
The present net income available for dividend amongst stock-
holders of the ,Company secures a minimum Interest exceeding
liver cent on the above £2,000,000 Mock.
The Directors of the Hudson's Bay Company are as under:
The Bight Hon. Sir EDMUND HEAD, Bart., H.C.B. (late
Governor-GensuslaCenada), Governor.
CUBTLS MIRANDA LAMPSON, !sq. (C. IL lampoon and Co.),
_Deputy Governor.

Eden CoITU*, Itsq., Fenchurchetreet.
George Lyafl, IFeaelley•park. Barley.
•
Daniel einektakaps, (F. Bh and Co.)
James Stewart Hodpon, Esq. (Finaltay. Hodgson, and Cool
John Henry William SchrOder, lsq. (1. H. Schroder and Co.)
Richard Potter, Ent., Standish-house, Gloucestershire.
The Hudson's Bay Company were incorporated under a Royal
Charter granted by King Charier U. In 1070, by the name 01
Ile Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading
Into Hudson's Bay," and, by the Charter, a vast tract of territory I
was vested in the Company together with the sole right of trade
and commerce, and all "mines royal," so well then discovered
as not discovered, within the add serrttory.
The operations of the Isom , which, with slight exceptions,
have been hitherto exclustrdy of a trading character, have been
prosecuted from the date of the Charter to the present day.
It has become evident that the time has arrived when those
operations most be extended, and the immense roomers of the
Company's territory, lying as it doe. between Canada and British
Goisimbla, should be developed in accordance with the industrial
• 'lda of the age, and the rapid advancement which colonisation
has made in the countries adjacent to the Hudson Bay territories.
Tbs average net annual peeing of the Company (alter setting
*aside 40 per cent, of them as remuneration to the factors and
servants at the Company's mats and stations; for the ten years
ending the 31st May, BM, amount to 1.31.0•4, or upwards of 4
per cent. oa the present nominal molts' of f 2,000,000. A portion
.only of thin IDCOOIO has been diMiWted aa dividend. while the
remainder is represented in the meets and balances. The amnia
of the Company, in which the subscriber' will be entitled to an
interest corresponding to the amount of their subscription, will
oorwlst of goods in the Interior, on shipboard, and other stock in
trade, including shipping, business premises, and other buildings
for carrying on the fur trade, In addition to which
there be Stride immediately available for the proposed ex-
tended operations of the Company, derived partly from the cash
balance of the Hudson's Bay Company, and partly from the new
Lane of stock, and amounting In the whole to • SUM not less than
£370,000.
The Company's territory embraces an estimated area of mon
than I,4oo,ooosquere mites, or 8d4,000,0000f acres, of which* large
area, on the southern frontier, is well adapted for European
colonisation. The Mil of this portion of the territory is fertile,
producing, In abundance. wheat and other cereal mope, and Is
capable of sustaining a numerous population. It contains 1.400
miles of aavigable lakes and rivers, running, for the greater part,
cast and west, which constitute an Important feature in plans for
establishing the means of communication between the Atlantic
and Pactile Octane, across the Continent of British North
America, as well as for Immediate settlement In the intervening
country. The territory Is, moreover, rich in mineral wealth, in-
cluding coal, lead, and iron.
In addition to its chartered territory, the Company poetess the
following valuable landed property :—Several plots of hind in
British Columbia, occupying most favourable sites at the mouths
of rivers, the titles to which have been confirmed by. her
Majesty's Government: farms, building sites In Vancouver's
Island; and In Canada ten square miles at LaMothe, on Lake
Huron, and tracts of land at fourteen other places. •
The trading operations of the Company are chiefly carried on
In the tar-bearing and northern portion of the territory, where
the climate is too severe for European colonization. These
trading operations will be actively continued, and as far as pos-
sible extended, whilst the management will be judiciously
eoonomised.

Consistently with these objects the outlying estates and Ten-
able farms will be realised where the land la not required for
the use of the Company—the souther. district will be opened to
European colonisation, under a liberal and systematic scheme of
lard settiement. Fossedal= a staff of factors and officers who
are distributed In small centres of civilisation over the terra
the Coinpeny cin, without creating new and costly
meets, inaugurate the new policy of colonisation, and at
same time dispose of mining grants. At. •
With the view of providing the means of telegraphic and pude
communication between Canada and British Columbia. across
the Company's territory, and thereby of connecting the Atlantic
and Pacitle Oceans, by an exclu-ively British route, negotiations
have been pending for some time past between certain puttee
and per Meters government and the representatives of the
government of Canada, and preliminary arrangements for the
accomplishment of these objects have been made through her
Majesty's government (subject to the anal sanction of the colt.
aim), based upon a 6 per cent. guarantee from the governments
of Caned', British Columbia, and Vancouver island. In further
aid of these Imperial objecte, her Majesty's government have
signified their Intention to make grants of land to the extent of
about 1,000,000 acres, in portions of the crown territory traversed
by the proposed telegraphic line.
One of the first objects of the Company will be to examine the
facilities and consider the best means for carrying out this most
important work, and then can be little doubt that It will be
successfully executed either by the Hudson's Bay Company itself,
or with their aid and sanction. _

ler this. as well as for the other proposed objects, Mr. Edward
Watkin, who is now to Canada, will be commissioned, with other
gentlemen specially qualified for the duty, to visit the Red River
and southern districts, to consult the officers of the Company
there, and to report as to the best and safest means of giving
effect to the contemplated operations.
Applications for allotments of Certificates of Stock of Meath,
to be made to the International Financial Society (Limited),
their Offices, be, Old Broad-streets B.C. •
A reference in allotment will be given to parties hitherto
holders of stock in the Hodson s Bay Company, stud to the Share-
holders in the International Financial Society CLiniltedl.
No application will be received after Wednesday, Bth July, at
It o'clock.

lINDBON'S BAY COMPANY.
voitx or APPLICATION Mt ALLoTNICNT STOCK.
To the Directors of theleternAtional Assoclal docker

(Lmited).

Gentlemen.—l request you to allot me Certificates of no
mob uS the Stock in the v Company of Adventurers of England
trading into Hudson's Sm." and I hereby agree to become •
member of that Company, subject to Its rules and regulations,
and to accept such stock, or any less amount, that maybe allotted
to ms.—l em, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
:fame in full
Address In full
Date

N.B. If the applicant has hitherto been • holder of Hudson's
Bay dock. er is a proprietor of shares In the International Riau-
dal Society (Limited, the fact should be stated, together with a
memorandum of the woad of the holding.