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

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KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY v. COGNAC,
BRANDY.
This celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest
FRENCH BRANDY,
It i 4 Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome.
Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by
the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale
at

8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, W.
Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded
"Xinahan's LL Whisky."

TUE PROVINCIAL BANKING CORPO.
Established under
RATION (L the Companiesimited ).
Act of 1862, with Limited

Lability.
Capital, £2,0'0,C00, in 40,000 shares of £5O. First issue,
20,000 shares, with power to increase to £4,006,060
Ten Thousand Shares have already been subscribed for. The
remaining Ten Thousand are offered to the pub ic.
Deposit, £1 per Share on application ; £4 on allotment.
Calls not to exceed £5 at intervals of not less than three
months.

It is not intended to call up -1-n—ore than £l5 per share, and
should no al otment be made, the deposit will be returned
in full.

DIRECTORS,

James Goodson, Esq., Chairman of the Great Eastern Rail-
way Company, and Director of the Guardian Assurance
Company.
T. W. Fleming, Esq., IER, 10, Lancaster-gate, Hyde-park.
G. F. Holroya, Esq., Director of the Mercantile Credit Asso-
ciation, and London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Com-
ipan v.
W. Tabor, Esq., Bishopsgate-street, Director of the Impe-
fiat Bank, an British and Californian Banking Company.
R. C. H. Cocq. Esq., 75, Inverness-terrace (late C. H. R. Cocq
and Co., Tutacorin, Madras Presidency).
Andrew Walls, Esq. (of Lloyd's), Leadenhall-street.
John Vickie, Esq. (Indite, Borman, and Co.), Leadenhall-
street, Director of the London, Buenos Ayres, and River
Plate River.
Alexander Thurburn, Esq. (late Joyce, Thurburn, and Co,
Alexandria and London), Director of the South Wales
Railway.
Brinsley Nixon, Esq., Queen's-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.
P. G. Van-der Byl, Esq., 3, Upper Hyde-park-gardens,
Director of the English and Scottish Marine Insurance
Company.
Richard Michell, Esq., Ladbroke-square, Director of the
Great Western Railway Company.

BANKERS.
Imperial Bank (Limited), Lothbury.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Harrison and Lewis, 24, Old-jewry,
BROKERS.
Messrs. Towgood and Strachan, 33, Thro
London. gmorton-street
liorsfall and Penny, Liverpool.
It. Green, Esq., Leeds.
James Duncuft, Esq, Manchester.

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AUDITORS.
Samuel Barrow, Esq., Ironmonger-lane, E.C. (Barrow and
Gates), Public Accountant.
Edgar Smailfield, Esq., Donate-hill-Chambers, Public Ac-
countant.

SECRETARY (PRO TEM.)
K. Garden, Esq.
TEMPORARY OFFICES.
24, 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 the purchase of some private
and joint-stock country establishments, which will form the
basis of a large and flourishing bank ; and, for that purpose,
full powers for the increase of capital have been taken in the
Articles of Asscriation.
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 provincial 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 joint-stock establishments, following
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 ot banking carried on b public comanies is
admitted to be so advantageous in Lony don, where p
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, of
trade in the country generally has crewed 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
Similar objects are now quoted as follows, viz.:—

The National Provincial Paid. Present Prices.
The £44
The London and County
.. 85
The Provincial Bank of Ireland 25 ... 93
In further illustration of the profitable character of the
business of the forty-one Joint-stock Banks established dur-
ing the past three years, it will be found on inspection of the
official list that, out of that number, the shares of alt 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
seen at the Office of the Solicitors.

THE PROVINCIAL BANKING
CO ItPOR A.TION (Limited).
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the SHARE LIST
of this Compftnv will be CLOSED, both for Town and
Country, on THURS DAY, the sth May, at 4 o'clock
R. GARDEN, Secretary pro tem.
Temporary Oflizes, 24, 0 d Jewry.

EASTERN EXCHANGE BANK (Limited),
LIVERPOOL.
Incorporated, with Limited Lt ability, under the Companies
ct
A, 18.
Capital £2,000,000, in 100,c0062 Shares of £2O each.
First Issue 50,000 Shares.
Deposit on Application of Ll per Share. Further payment
on Allotment, £2 per Share.
First Call, not exceeding .£!, not less than One Month after
Allotment.
Further Calls not exceeding £2 ios. per Share, at intervals of
not less than Three Months.
It is not intended to call up more than £lO per Share.
DIRECTORS.
George M. Bowen, Esq (Thomas Manning, and Co.), Liver-
pool

- Thomas Chilton, Esq. (ifolderness and Chilton), Liverpool.
Edward Comber, Esq. (Edward Comber and Co.), Liver-
pool ; Comber, Son, and Co., B mbay.
Robert Dirom, Esq. (Dirom, Davidson, and Co.), Liverpool ;
Dirom, Hunter, and Co., Bombay.
Chas, Edward Dixon, Esq., Liverpool (Dixon Brothers
and l 0., Alexandria).
William James Fernie, Esq. (Fernie Brothers and Co.),
Liverpool.
Patrick Hunter, Esq. (Browne, Hunter, and Co.), LiverpooL
Edward Lawrence, Esq. (Edward Lawrence and Co.), laver-
pool ; Lawrence and Co., Bombay.
Andrew Ala'colmson Esq. (J. and D. Malcolmson and Co.),
Liverpool.

BANKERS.
Liverpool The National Bank of Liverpool.
London
Ireland The National Bank.
The I of the National
Manchester Unionranches Bank of Manchester. Bank.
Lee 's. London and Northern B ink.
Glasgow Mercantile and Exchange Bank.

SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Lace, Banner, UM and Lace, Liverpool.
BROK RS.
LiYerr,ool.—Messrs. Thomas Tinley and Sons.
London.—Albert Ricardo, E,q., 11, Angel-court.
Manchester.—Messrs. Shore and Kirk, 14, St. Ann's-square.
SECRETARY.
A. E. Pelly, Esq.
TEMPORARY OFFICES.
17, Brown's-buildings, Exchange, Liverpool.

PROSPECTUS.
The Eastern Exchange Bank (Limited), is f ormed to supply
a want which has been long felt, and its value wiU be imme-
diate y recognised.
Although Liverpool enjoys an immense export and import
trade, and is the port through which the valuable manufac-
tures f Lancashire and Yorkshire pass, it hAS not a single
Bank connected w,th the Mediterranean, the East Indies,
China, or Australia.
The exports of British and Irish produce and manufactures
to the above countries for the year 1863 amounted to about
forty millions, and by far the greater portion was shipped
from Liverpool, whilst the produce received in return into
Liverpool was of Rya' ue of upwards of sixty millions, making
a total of one hundred millions sterling.
Whilst London has upwards of fifty Banks, with branches
in different countries, established for the purpose of affording
every facility in Exchange transactions, there is no Bank of
this description, with its head-quarters in Liverpool, con-
nected with the East.
The profitable nature of Exchange business is we'l lmown,
and the practice which has become so general of attaching
Bills of Lading to Bills of Exchange renders this the safest
description of Banking business.
Some evidence of the safety and profitable character of the
business is afforded by the present values of the undermen-
tioned Banks, whose chief sources of profits are in connection
with Exchange operations.

Paid up Present
per Share. Price.
Agra and United Service Bank £5O £145
Chartered Mercantile Bank of London,
India, and China
Oriental Bank Corporation
Chartered Bank of India, Australia,
and China 2O 41
Bank of Australasia 4O
I &iperial Ottoman Bank lO 2l
Bank of New South Wales 2O
The Eastern Exchange Bank (Limited), will have its head-
quarters in Liverpool. Branch Banks will be furmed, in the
first instance, at Alexandria, Bombay, Calcutta, China, and
Australia, and as the business develops, at other places.
The Directors of the Eastern Exchange Bank will make
arrangements for London business, constituting a first-class
London Banking Agency on mutually advantageous terms.
'I he busine • s of the Bank will chiefly consist in negotiating
mercantile bills of' exchange, granting drafts, in negotiating
and collecting bi is payable at places where the Bank has
Branches or Agencies. It will issue circular notes and let-
ters of credit, will undertake the purchase and sale of secu-
rities, the receipt of dividends, and effect remittances between
the several places, including. London, at which its Agencies
awl Branches will be established.
The Bank is founded under " The Companies Act, 1562,"
whereby the respective liability of each Shareholder is
I!mitea to the amount of his Shares.
There will be no fee for promotion; the remuneration of
the Directors will be fixed by the Shareholders at each
annual Meeting ; and the preliminary expenses will be con-
fin ,d to indispensable outlay.
The Articles of Association lie at the Office of the Solicitors
for inspection.
Applications for Shares must be accompanied with a
Banker's Receipt for £1 per Share.
In case the amount so pAid should exceed £3 per Share on
the number of Shares allotted, the surplus will be returned ;
but it it should fall short, the balance must be paid within
seven days after notice of allotment, or in default, the allot-
anent wits be cancelled and the deposit forfeited.
If no allotment be made the deposit will be returned in full.
Applications for Shares may be sent through the Solicitors
.or Brokers of the Company, from whom Forms of Application
may be had.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES,
To be retained by the Bankers.
YAASTERN EXCHANGE BANK (LIMITED).
First Issue 50,0:0 shares.
To the Dir Mots of the Eastern Exchange Bank (Limited).
Gentlemen,--Thwing paid to the bankers of the above-
named Company th° sum of £ , I hereby request that you
will a lot me shai,?s in the said Company, and I agree
to accept such shares or an smaller number that may be al-
lotted to me, and to become a member of the Company ;
and I authorise you to place my on the register of mem-
bers in respect of the shares to be allotted to me, and I agree
to be bound by all the conditions and regulations contained
in the memorandum and articles of association of the Com-
pany. I further authorise you to forward by post to my ad-
dress as below, the certificate for any shares which may be
allotted to me.

Dated this day of 1864.
Name in full
Firm (if any) ---
Business or profession
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