The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-03 00:00:00

IN what " Happy Lana" earll eea you after the
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KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY v. COGNAC,
BRANDY.
This celebrated Old IRIS II WHISKY rivals the finest
FRENCH BRANDY,
It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome.
Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by
the Agents in the prin3iPal towns in England ; or wholesale
at

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

TEE PROVINCIAL BANKING CORPO-
RATION (Limite
Established under the Companies Act do).
f 1862, with Limited
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Capital, .£2,0-0,000, in 40,0001 shares of £5O. First issue,
2,),000 shares, with power to increase to .£4,000,0:0
Ten Thousand Shares have already been subscribed for. The
remaining, Ten Thousand are offered to the pub ie.
Deposit, £1 per Share on application ; Li on allotment.
Calls not to exceed £5 at intervals of not less than three

_ _ _
mouths.
It To not intended to call up more than £'s per share, and
should no al otment be made, the deposit will be returned
in full.

DIRECTORS.

Jams Goodson, Esq., Chairman of the Great Eastern Rail-
way Company, and Director of the Guardian Assurance
Company.
T. W. Fleming,' Esq., M.P., 10, Lancaster-gate, Hyde-park.
G. F. Holroyd, Esq., Director of the Mercantile Credit Asso-
ciation, and London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Com-
pany.
W. Tabor, Esq., Bishopsgate-street, Director of the Impe-
rial Bank, an i British and Californian Banking Company.
R. C. R. Cocq. Esq., 75, Inverness-terrace (late C. H. R. Cocq
and Co., Tutworin, Madras Presidency).
Andrew Walls. Esq. (of Lloyd's), Leadenhall-street.
John Hickie, Esq. (fickle, 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 Cora-
panics.
J. W. Holland, Esq., Forest-hill, Director of the Financial
Corporation.
P. G. Van-der Byl, Esq., 5, Upper Hyde-park-gardens,
Director of the English and Scottish Marine Insurance
Company.
Riohard 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, Throgmorton-street,
Londcn.
Horgan and Penny, LiverpooL
Green, ,Esg,, Leeds. _ _

James Dimcdi, Eaq , Manchester.
AUDITORS.
Samuel Barrow, Esq., Ironmonger-lane, E.C. (Barrow and
Gates', Public Accountant.
Edgar Smallfield, Esq., Dowgate-hill-Chambers, Public Ac-
countant.

SECRETARY (PRO TEM.)
R. 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 Asso•iation.

It is not proposed to do any banking business in London;
but in addition to acquirinE; the goodwill and business con-
nections of ex'sting banks, i is intended to open branches
in provint ial 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 joilt 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 cf 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 a matter of doubt that the principle is still more ap •
plicable to the country, where the resources and credit of
private flrri2s are much more limited The increase, also, of
trade in the country generally has crea ed a demand for fur-
ther banking accommodation, while itis 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.:—
Paid. Present Prices.
The National Provincial £l2 .. £44
The London and County
The Provincial Bank cf Ireland 25 93

In fu:rther illustration of ihe profitable character of the
business
f the forty-one Joint-stock Banks established dur-
ing the past three years, it will be found on Inspection of the
;
official list th.:lt, 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
seen at the Office of the Solicitors.

THE PROVINCIAL BANKING
CORPORATION (Limited).
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the SHARE LIST
0 this Comp.nv wilt be CLOSED, both for Town and
Country, on THURSDAY, the sth May, at 4 o'clock.
It. GARDEN, Secretary pro tem.
Temporary Offices, 24, 0 d Jewry.

EASTERN EXCHANGE BANK (Limited),
LIVERPOOL.
Incorporated, with Limitedct, 186 L ability, under tile Companies
A 2.
Capital £2,000,000, in 100,c00 Shares of £2O each.
First Issue 50,030 Shares._

Deposit on Application of £1 per Share. Further payment
on Allotment, Z 2 per Share.
not less than One Month after
First Call, not exceeding £?,
Allotment.
Further Calls not excee,...'ing £2los. per Share, at intervals of
not less that. - Three Months.
£
It is not intended to call up incre than 10 per Share.
DIRECTORS.
George M. Bowen, Esq (Thomas Manning, and Co.), Liver-
pool.
Thomas Chilton, Esq. (Holderness and Chilton), Liverpool.
Edward Comber, Esq. (Edward Comber and Co.), Liver-
pool ; Comber, Son, and Co., B .mbay.
ltobert Dirom, Esq. (Dirom, Davidson, and Co.), Liverpoo' ;
Dirom, Hunter, and Co., Bombay.
Chas. Edward Dixon, Esq., Liverpool (Dixon Brothers
and co.. 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.), Liver-
pool • Lawrence and Co., Bombay.
Andrew Ala colmson Esq. (J. and D. Ille.colmson and Co.),
LiverpooL

BANKERS.
Liverpool The National Bank of Liverpool.
London The National Bank.
Ireland The Eranches of the National Bank.
Manchester Union Bank of Manchester.
Leeig London and Northern Bank.
Glasgow Mercantile and Exchange Bank.

SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Lace, Banner, Gill and Lace, Liverpool.
BROKERS.
Liverpool.—Messrs. Thomas Tinley and Sons.
London.—Albert Ricardo, 13- 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 formed to supply
a want which has been long felt, and its value will be imme-
diate y recognised.
Although Liverpool enjoys an immense export and import
trade, and is the port through which the valuable manufac-
tures cf 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 ava 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 i a head-quarters in Liverpool, con-
fleeted with the East.
The profitable nature of Exchange business is we'l known,
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
witb. Exchange operations.

Paid up Present
per Share. Price.
Agra and United Service Bank £5O £145
Chartered Mercantile Bank of London,
India, and China
Orlontal Bank Corporation
Chartered Bank of India, Australia,
and China 2O ...... 41
&lank of Australasia 4O
IMperial 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 formed, 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-c'ass
London Banking Agency on mutually advantageous terms.
he busine • s of the Bank will hiefiy consist in negotiating
mercantile bills of exchange, granting drafts, in negotiating
smd 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 seen-
Titles, the receipt of dividends, and efftet remittances between
the sevei:al places, mending London, at which its Agencies
and Branches will be established.
The Bank is founded under " The Companies Act, 1562,"
whereby the ce,spec'ive liability of each Shareholder is
limited to the :amount of his Shares.
There will be no COO f ‘r promotion; the remuneration of
the Directors will be axed 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 Rcceipt for £1 per Share.
In case the amount so paid should exceed £3oci* Share on
111 e number of Shares allotted, the surplus will be returned
'butlt it should fall short, the balance must be pa id within
seven days after notice of allotment, or in default, the allot-
zaent will 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.
.EASTERN EXCHANGE DANK (LIMITED).
First Issue 50,0;0 shares.
To the Directors of the Eastern Exchange Bank (Limited).
Gentlemen,---gesncr paid to the bankers of the above-
named Company the g-uza of £ , I hereby request that you
avitt allot me shares in the said Company, and I agree
Ito accept such shares oT any smaller number that may be al-
lotted to me, and to he,some & member of the Company;
and I authorise you to pl any name on the register of mem-
bers in respect of the share A-
to allotted 10 me, and I agree
to be bound by all the conditions a.7(1 regulations
in the memorandum and articles
o
f AI;sgeiation of the Com-
pany. I further authorise you to —forward rs..sv dress as below, the certificate for shares hp O.
11
mmayy ad-
allotted
e
to me. any

101.

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