The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-02 00:00:00

DIRECTORS.
jarnes Goodson
any , Esq., Chairman of the Great Eastern Rail-
-way Com, and Director of thee as
Assurance
Company.p
'T. W. Fleming, Esq., 31. P., 10, Lancaster-gate, Hyde-park.
G. F. Roiroyd, Esq., Director of the Mercantile Credit Asso-
ciation, and London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Com-
pany.
Tabor, Esq., Bishopsgate-street, Director of the Impe-
rial Bank, an i British and Californian Banking Company.
C. It. Cocq. Esq., 75, Inverness-terrace (late C. H. R. Cocq
and Co,, Tutacorin, Madras Presidency).
Andrew Walls, Esq. (of Lloyd's), Leadenhall-street.
John Hiekie, Esq. (Hickie, Berman, and Co.), Leadenhall-
street, Director of the London, Buenos Ayres, and River
Plate River.
Alexander Thurburn, Esq. (late Joyce, Thutburn, and Co.,
Alexandria and London), Director of the South Wales
Railway.
Mrinsley Nixon, Esq., Queens-gate-gardens, Director of the
Home and Colonial Assurance Company.
Lightly Simpson, Esq., Director of the London and Lanca-
shire Insurance and of the Great Eastern Railway Com-
panies.
J. W. Holland, Esq., 'Forest-hill, Director of the Financial
Corporation. 3,
Upper Hyde-park-gardens,
I'. G. Van-der Byl, Es,
Director of the Englishq. and Scottish Marine Insurance
Company.
L
itiohard Michell, Esq., adbroke-square, Director of the
Great Western Railway Company.
BANKERS.
Imperial Bank (Limited), Lothbury.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Harrison and Lewis,
BROKERS.
Messrs. Towgood and Strachan, 33, Ak
Ahrogmorton-street,
London.
Horsfall and Penny, Liverpool.
R. Green, Esq., Leeds.
James Duncuft, Esq' Mar:aiater.
AUDITORS.
&Mild Barrow, Esq., Ironmonger-lane, E.C. (Barrow and
Gates), Public Ae:,:ountant.
Edgar Smallfield, Esq., Dowgate-hill-Chambers, Public Ac-
countant.

SECRETARY (PRO TEM.)
B. Garden, Esq.
TEMPORARY OFFICES.
21, Old-Jewry, E.C.

PROSPECTUS.
This company is established for the purpose of acquiring
the business and connections of ex,sting provincial Bank-
ing Establishments and of carrying on, generally, the opera-
tions of Country Banking on the Joint-Stock principle.
Treaties are now pending for tbe purchase of some private
and joint-stock country establishments, which will form the
basis of a large and flourishing bank ; and, for that purpose,
Hull powers for the increase of capital have been taken in the
rticles of Association.
It is not proposed to do any banking business in London;
but in addition to acquiring the goodwill and business con-
nections of ex,sting banks, I. is intended to open branches
In provintial cities and towns where, owing to the increase
of wealth and population, a satisfactory business can be esta-
blished.
The recent amalgamation of tw ) of the largest private
banks in London with joiiit stock establishments, fo:lowing
.other combinations of a similar nature, and the continuous
advance in the price of banking shares generally, afford con-
clusive evidence of the advantages of the principle of joint-
stock association in banking business.
If the system of banking carried on by public companies is
admitted to be so advantageous in London, where the pri-
vate establishments are generally large and wealthy, it can-
not be a matter of doubt that the principle is still more ap .
plicable to the country, where the resources and credit of
private firms are much more limited. The increase, also, et
trade in the country genera ly has crea ed a demand for fur-
ther banking, accommodation, while it is only in the metro-
polis that the requirements of the mercantile community
have been adequately considered.
The Shares of the three Banks in London constituted for
Niiiiitar objects are now quoted as follows, viz. :
Paid. Present Prices.
The National Provincial ........ £l2 Zl4
The London and County...... 24 at,
The Provincial Bank cf Ireland.. 25
In further illustration of the profitable character of the
business of the forty-one Joint-stock Ranks established en"-
jog the past three years, it will be found on inspection ot the
official list that, out of that number, the shares of all but
two are saleable at a considerable advance on their paid-up
capital.
Prospectuses and forms of application for shares may be
obtained at the Temporary Office of the Company, or of the
Brokers or Sol citors. The Articles of Association may be
ecen at the Office of the Solicitors.

THE PROVINCIAL BANKING
CO IiPOR A.TION (Limited).
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. that the SHARE LIST
of this ConW wit! be CLOSED, both for Town and
Country, on THURSDAY, the sth May, at 1 o'clock
R. GARDEN, tictretary pro 1 em.
Temporary Offt.:es, 24, 0 d Jewry.