The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-31 00:00:00

ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS.

The " London and Venezuela Bank" has for its proposed
operations a ground unoccupied. and is most urgently re-
quired. Preliminary negotiations have been in progress for
some months, and the project has been sub nitted to the
judgment of the most eminent Venezuelan merchants, and
has met with their unqualified approval. Support is promised
in highly influential quarters, and the Directors are assured
that the privilege of issuing Bank notes will be accorded by
the Government.
The banking facilities which Caracas has hitherto pos-
sessed have been very limited, but the fast that the Bank
of Caraeas, which will now merge 1,.t0 this establishment,
has -despite its restricted means—earned a net profit exceed-
ing 30 percent. per annum, leaves no doubt that the present
undertaking will result in complete success.
The following., published by Messrs. Matheson and Co.,
while inviting tenders for the Venezuelan Loan in June last,
will confirm the above statements :
" At present there is almost an entire absence of banking
accommodation in Venezuela. Possessed of every advantage
of climate and soil, within sixteen days' sail of England, the
existing monetary facilities are quite inadequate to the com-
merce of the country, and to the increasing production and
rapidly extending exports of its coffee, cocoa, cotton, h:des,
ezc. The advantages of this
Institution will be obvious to all, and as the rat,s of interest
range from 10 to 15 per cent. per annum, the profits may be
expected to be considerable."
It may 13,- added, that since that period, owing to the in-
creased and increasing demand for cigotal for the cultivation
of cotton, which is now being exported to England in large
quantities, it finds safe and profitable employment at much
higher rates than those quoted by Messrs. Matheson.
The want of an Exchange Bank in Venezuela occasions
the utmost inconvenience in buying and selling foreign
bills ; this Bank will supply the want, and as returns can be
made with far greater rapidity from Venezuela than from
India, where banking facilities of a like nature have been
found extremely profitable, it is certain this branch must be
still more remunerative.

The principal control of the London and Venezuela
Bank will be vested in the Board of Directors in England.
They will select a manager of known qualifications, who,
on his arrival, wi 1 have the assistance and advice of the
Directors in Caracas and La Gnayra, who are Europeans of
high standing in the country, and well known in connection
with Venezuelan trade and finance.

Full pro pectuses, with forms of appli ations for shares,
may be procured of the Bankers, Solicitors, Brokers, or Secre-
tary, at the Oi :eq of the Company, where the Articles of As-
sociation may be inspected, and every information obtained.

THE FREEHOLD and GENERAL INVEST-
MENT COMPANY (Limited).
(Incorporated under the Companies Act, 1862.)
Capital £250,000, in 10,000 Shares of £25 each.
With power to increase to £1,000,000.
First issue 5,000 Shares.
Subscriptions for more than half of which have been already
promised.)
Deposit on application Xi per Share, and £2 on allotment.
Calls not to mixed £2 per Share, with an interval of not less
than Three Months.
It is not intended to call up more than £lO per Share, but
as more capital can be advantageously employed, further
issues of Shares will be made, in the allotment of which a
preference will be given to the then existing Shareholiers.
Should no allotment be made, the deposit will be returned in
full.
DIRECTORS.
The Right Hon. Lord NIGEL KENNEDY, Montrose
House, Petersham, Chairman.
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Malden, 39, Lowndes-street,
Belgrave-square, and Loudwater House, Bucks.
Charles Kemp Dyer, Esq.. St. Albans.
Edward Barran, Esq., Milk-street, Cheapside.
George P. Lascaridi, Esq., Old Broad-street, Director Fi-
nancial Discount Company (Limited).
Norwo
Frederick A. Legg, Esq , 22, Sackville-street, and South
William W. Prole, Esq., Kensington Park-gardens East.
William R. Rogers, Esq., M.D , 56, Berners-street.
William Watson, Eq., Bristol, Director of the Bristol and
Exeter Railway Company.
BANKERS.
Metropolitan and Provincial Bank (Limited), 75, Cornhill;
and Oxford-street Branch, 88, Oxford-street.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Matthews and Greetham, 68, Lincoln's-inn-fields.
BROKER.
Alfred Ashton, Esq., 75, Old Broad-street.
AUDITORS.
Messrs. Harding, Pullein, Whinney, and Gibbons, 3, Rank-
buildings, Lothbury, E.C.
SECRETARY PRO TEM.
IL N. Collier, Esq.
TEMPORARY OFFICES.
1, New Broad-street-court, E.C.

The objects ofBRIDGE D PROSPECTUS.
A this Company are to purchase from time to time, such freehold or leasehold property in London, and its
neighbourhood as may present special capabilities for im-
provement.
The first step of the Comnany will be the purchase and
development of some first-class freehold properties at the
West-end, for securing which most advanta..2eous agreements
have been entered into, and the rental to be derived there-
from has been estimated by experienced valuers to produce a
sufficient sum to ensureinterest and dividend amounting to 15
per cent. and upwards (arising from property ever increasing
n ;m
andple de riuction for repairs, out-
when these properties are
completed and occupied, it is calculated they may be resold at
a profit of 50 per cent. to the Company.
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Full partiulars of the proposed operations of the Company
may be obtained at the Offices, No. 1, New Broad-street-court
and Forms of Application for Shares may be ob
where the Art c' es of Association may be seen; and Pros .'
pectuses
tamed from the Bankers, Brokers, Solicitors, or at the Offices
of the Company.

FREEHOLD and GENERAL INVESTMENT
COMPANY (Limited).
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the SHARE LIST
of this Company will be CLOSED on THURSDAY, the 2d
June, at 4 o'clock.
R. N. COLLIER, Secretary.
Temporary 9(110(.3, 1, tics Broad-htreei.court.