The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-07 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

POST.—To be able to hope in spite of discourage-
ments destructive of hope is to possess a quality
which has on great authority received a high place
among the Christian virtues. We are not, there
fore, at liberty to scoff at those who solace them-
selves with the expectation that great good will
come of the Conference to be held in London on the

affairs of Denmark. \Ye will try to imitate those
excellent persons who hope the best under all cir-
cumstances and despair of nothing. We will not
suffer ourselves to dwell upon the interference with

anything like calm discussion and judicial equani-
mity which must result from the effects upon dif-
ferent parties of each day's telegrams from the seat

of war. We will recount no more the chances

against a peaceful solution which lie in the fact that
both the assailants and the assailed are possessed

by foregone conclusions. Nor will we spoil any
possibility of a successful issue by throwing
into the arena a single apple of discord out of the

many that lie about on every side. We will be con-
tent to watch and wait, giving the Conference, in

the meantime, our good wishes. It will do a good
work if it succeed in terminating the war and
placing the long vexed question of Schleswig-Hol-
stein upon a footing of permanent rest. It may do
this, and we shall be glad to see it. But some things
it can never do. It can never justify in the eyes of
Europe the barbarity with which the war has been

conducted. It can never wipe out the stains of
blood needlessly shed which will long disgrace
the policy of Austria and Prussia; nor can it
allay the indignation with which the people of
this country regard the proceedings of Germany.
From various causes—not the least among which
must be counted the family alliances which of late
years have been contracted—there was till re-

cently a strong sympathy between the people of
England and the Germans. That feeling has
gone, and no Conference can resuscitate it. The
feeling uppermost in almost every Englishman's
mind is that two powerful States have combined to
deal out the hardest possible measure to a weak one.
That in doing so they have gone out of their way
to be unsparing. Not only would they grant no
terms, no armistice, no cessation from the daily
stretch and struggle of almost hopeless self-defence,
but they have done what they resolved to do with
a ferocity that was needless, and a self-glorification

that was inhuman. The bombastic orders of the
day by Prince Charles would lead one to suppose
that his solliers had performed prodigies of valour
in the face of a superior enemy, and had won glory
through perils that had no precedent. Whereas
the only credit to which they are entitled is
that which two able-bodied men might claim
for pounding a small boy within an inch of his
life, or for attacking a defenceless woman. Talk
of glory ! Has the military glory of Germany
come to this that it must be freed from the better

inatincts of humanity before it can achieve con
quest ? Is it any glory to swarm over a small ter
ritory like rats, and then boast of the havoc which
the many have wrought among the few ? Is it
glory to shower fire and shot amongst women and
children, and to slaughter brave men by the brute
force of ten to one ? Let those who can glory in
such deeds ; let the two great Powers of Central
Europe perform their prodigies of power over weak-
ness; and let their princes proudly proclaim the
heroic actions of superior numbers. These may be
glory in the eyes of Germany, but in England the
triumphs count for tyranny, the achievements for
monstrous cruelty, and the proclamations for mere
swagger. The heart of the nation is with Denmark
as the heart of one man, Not one in ten, perhaps
not one in a hundred, can give.a rational account of
the quarrel, or state the bearings of the Holstein
question. But ninety-nine out of every hundred
know that, be the question what it may, Austria
and Prussia have adopted a tyrannous mode of solv-
ing it. They may know little of Danish or German
treaties, but they know right from wrong, glory
from rapine, fair fight from foul, reason from passion,
and the necessary evils of war from its needless bru -
talties. The conduct of Germany is regarded in this
country with downright abhorrence—so much so,
that it requires the utmost prudence on the part of
our statesmen to keep the popular enthusiasm from
shouting aloud for Denmark at every opportunity and
goading the Government into war. No doubt, neu-
trality is the wise and right course for this country,
but the reasons are prudential rather than popular.
There is scarcely a dinner-table amongst the highest
classes where the wantonness of Austria and Prussia
is not spoken of in terms of severe reprehension. In
the less reserved circles of the middle and working
classes the utterances are louder and deeper; and
whether it be the unreasoning obstinacy of the
Court of Berlin, or the overweening love of power
at Vienna, or the paltry politics of Frankfort, or the
intrigues of the score or so of petty Sovereigns of
even more petty principalities which make up the
federation, the theme need only be German to draw
forth at once expressions which imply the reverse
of compliment and affection. We are not saying
that this is right, still less that it is wise ; but it is
a fact. The German policy and its attendant
cruelties—for they deserve no better name—have
scandalised the English mind. If counsels, long
trained to rise superior to passion, did not at once
control the impetuosity, while they command the
confidence, of the whole country, the Channel fleet
would leave for the Baltic in four and twenty
hours, and Europe would blaze up with war.
It remains to be seen what the Conference will
do. We have seen what it cannot do. At the same
time it is certain that something must be done.
This terrible assault on Denmark must be stayed
somehow. There is a point at which the neutral
Powers of Europe must reconsider their attitude.
Not the most pacific of European politicians is pre-
pared to see Denmark spunged out of the map. Yet
the Germane show no signs of holding their hand ;
and the heroic Danes still sell their lives at the
dearest price known to inherent bravery and aggra-
vated sense of illetreatment. Welcome, then, the
Conference, hopeless as its prospects are I Welcome
anything that will but make an effort to stop the
waste of blood, to secure that necessary fighting
shall at least be fair, and that judicial wisdom shall
undertake the problem which passion fails to solve.
HERALD.—The bare suggestion that France had
accepted the project of a Conference to arrange the
Dano-German difficulty, with the popular will as a
basis, or, in other words, that the Duchies should
decide according to the views of those possessing
most power and influence among them, has very
naturally drawn attention to a subject of the
greatest importance to the present and future
well-being of States and dynasties during times
when some, at least, of these are considered not
to be firmly established. If the dangerous prin-
ciple that the supposed will of the people is to
supersede treaties regularly and solemnly ratified be
conceded, then there is not a power in Europe
which may not well tremble for some part of its
possessions. There is no kingdom so blessed with
peace or united in its people which might not be
disturbed with the prospect of independence held
out to any of its sections. What has happened in
Italy may well happen in Germany, in Russia, and
elsewhere. When Earl Russell produced his famous
dispatch to Turin, counselling the doctrine of na-
tionalities, a member of the House of Commons rose
and declared that on that principle our tenure of
Ireland would not be safe for a day, for that uni-
versal suffrage would pronounce for a severance of
the connection with England. Extreme and most
unlikely as this statement appears when uttered in
a time of internal union and peace, on reflection, and
guided by experience, it will not seem so entirely
absurd and without foundation. If the men of intel.
ligence and property in Ireland had alone to deter-
mine the matter there could be but little doubt of
their loyal conclusion. But the decision would fall
to numbers, that is, to prejudice, hatred, and igno-
rance, and to unscrupulous ambition acting on these.
The momentous question would thus be left to the
most incompetent and corrupt of judges. This must
be the result of en appealto the popular will every-
where. There may, of course, arise exceptional exi-
gencies where even the choice of numbers, the vox
populi, if that could in some measure be obtained,
would be preferable to any other arbitrament to de-
cide the vital problem of the government of a nation.
But that the great Powers' of Europe should allow
a principle so purely revolutionary to enter the field
of diplomacy is to believe that they would delibe-
rately propose the sentence of their own disinheri-
tance and condemnation. Our French correspon-
dent calls attention to the emphatic opinion of M.
Guizot on the question of universal suffrage, deli-
vered before it had strength to found the Second
Empire, and to combine various sections of the Ita-
lian governments into one kingdom. "No doubt,"
says the statesman and philosopher, " it should be
the object, and it is the natural result, of good social
institutions to raise progressively a greater number
of men to that degree of intelligence and indepen-
dence which qualifies them to participate in the
wielding of political power; but between that prin-
ciple of free government and universal suffrage held
up as the first and fundamental law of human so-
ciety, what a gulf ! What utter oblivion of an infie
nite number of facts, rights, and truths which justly
claim their rank and their share in soclalorganisa-
tion." Now, this forgetfulness of facts, rights, and
truths is just the difficulty that Conservatives have
always to contend against when opposing the popu-
lar views on the suffrage of which Mr. Bright, Mr.
Baines, Mr. Locke Kirg, and other prominent men
of the extreme Radical school are the champions. It
is very easy to talk of the rights of the working
classes to a free voice in the election of members of
Parliament, but in reality there is no right at all.
The power to choose representatives in the Legis-
lature is the very highest in the kingdom—the
security and permance of all our institutions
rest upon this. It is preposterous to assert that

this supreme authority is lodged in the ignoran
masses of the community alone; for this is the sole
force and only result of universal suffrage, manhood•
suffrage, or such a low qualification as must amount'
to this or lead to it inevitably and soon. If the
overwhelming working classes had any such natural
right it would be most wise to abolish it. Bat they
have not; for the State is held together by mutual
sacrifices and concessions as the price of protection
and peace. Political privileges, like all ()there
existing in a nation, must result from labour, must
be the price of toil, must be the fruits of thrift and
saving, giving a man exclusive property, and
therefore a firm stake in the well-being of the com-
munity and kingdom. He must hold this property
either as the immediate recompense of his ova
exertions, or inherit it from persons having a right
to confer it upon him. There may, it is true, be an
amount of intelligence unallied to property, which
ought to entitle a man to the franchise, but this can
never be as sound anti incorruptible a basis for the
suffrage as the qualification of property, for the
man who has most to lose will most dread needless
and perilous change and revolution. The repetition
of some very obvious political truths is not altoge4
ther an unnecessary duty now, when even our Go-
vernment are not very chary of how the question of
the suffrage is to be treated so long as a tenure of
office is still secured to them. We do not suspect
Lord Palmerston himself of any extreme opinions,
but there are members of his Cabinet who eagerly
desire to see the franchise lowered to the accession
of numbers, or who, in other words, would place
the real Government of this country in the hands
of a wavering, unpropertied multitude. The six-
pound borough vote, the ten-pound county vote,
without any sets-off or counterpoise, must lead to
this democratic conclusion. The upper and middle
class votes would be swamped by the swarming'
working classes, who would obey their
leaders and study what they considered to be
their own immediate and special interests, DO
matter how ruinous to the permanent welfare of
the kingdom. The adoption of the ballot involves
this question of universal suffrage; for where yen
destroy the open vote you exclude the non-electors
from their sole right in the representation, and thus
you make it only just that every one should enjoy
the same electoral privilege. We do not fear that
the proposal to adopt the popular will as a new
feature in diplomacy will be acceptable to the
crowned beads of Europe, although it should prove
to be the facetious suggestion of an Emperor, if
indeed the suggestion has been made; but the dis-
cussion of this novel idea is in itself a ground for
exposing its danger, not only to international eon.-
cord and peace, but to the stability of domestic
institutions. When universal suffrage is named in
connection with the Dano-German question, it is in
some measure recommended for adoption as the rule
of adjustment every where. It ought, therefore, to
meet with no manner of entertainment. Wo all
know what it means. It argues the will of the
most influential, the most powerful, the most able
in the state to corrupt or compel all the others. It
does not imply the real voice of the people or their
independence or freedom. It is the open auction
mart of slavery. Nor is it singular that our own
English Radicals should be on the same monopolist
track. When they contend for a wide extension of
the suffrage and disregard the claims of the middle
classes, they are on the rapid line which has led to
the restriction of liberty and the ultimate conirol of
the popular will by a dictatorship. Bat it is re-
markable that members of the British Government
should fearlessly entertain and avow opinions
proved by all history, and by recent experience in
particular, to be incompatible with any form of free
and liberal government.

COUNTRY MARKETS.


MONMOUTH—TUESDAY.
The local markets have been thinly attended during the
last week, and the average quotations are as follows
Wheat, white.. 5s 3d to 5s 9d I Barley...". 38 4d td 2s sa
Ditto red. .0s Od to Os Od Oats ..... 28 2d to 2s 9d

LYNN—TUESDAY.
At to-day's market there was a moderate attendance and
a fair show of wheat, with a dull trade, and the prices of
week were barely obtained for all descriptions.
White wheat 45s to 46s Barley . 34s to 36s
Itcd..
Beans .32s to 34s Oats..
Small

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THE GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY.
Office, Horseferry-road, Westminster,
6th April, 1861.
I1)0 HERRBY GIVE NOTICE, that, pur-
suant to the Bth Bye-Law of this Company,
HENRY WILLIAMS CHISHOLM, Esq.,
one of the proprietors of this Company, has given me notice
wri ing of his intention to stand for the office of an Audi-
„,t the Elec ion, appointed to take place at this Office, on
4 U ESDAY, the 19th instant, at Twelve o'clock preaisely.
By order,
JOHN ORWELL PHILLIPS, Secretary.

THE WEST OF ENGLAND WOOLLEN
ItANUFACTITRING COMPANY (Limited).

DIRECTORS.
-nr
Egq , Sprinz-mount, Champlon-hi Lon
c'n Britten, Esq. (Messrs. Britten and Co.), on-wall,
i.-'°ndon,
—s'et:Gen. Carmichael, C. 8., Hyndford House, Brompton,
Edmonds, Esq., J.P , Berryfield, Bradford-on-Avon.
Marshall Hall, Esq., J.P., Barri-ter-at-Law, Blacklands-
j.Pßrk, Caine,Wilts, and Temple, E.C.
rn Philllps, Esq., Rawtettstall, near Manchester.
''93. Early bmith, EFq. (Messrs. Early and Smith, Woollen
-0. 2terehants and Army Clothiers), London, ',NI E.
"' El- "Watts, Esq , Woollen Merchant, Leeds.

SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Parke and Pollock, 63, Lincoln's-inn-fields, W.C.,
London.
BROKERS.
Messrs. Proom Brothers, Change-al'e3, Cornhill, London.

BANNERS.
The Alliance Bank (Limited), Lothbury, London.
The capital invested wiil be turned over at least four times
Year, BO that a profit of 25 per cent. per an um may be safely
ea culated on.
eaprospectuses, forms of application, and every information,
/I be obtained at the offices of the Company, 28, Cornhitl,

THE WEST OF ENGLAND WOOLLEN
PILANUFACTURING COMPANY (Limited).
urfOTICE.—No application for Shaft will be received after
*4"°III)AY, tne 11th inst.

By order,
R. BULGIN, Secretary.

London. 28, Cornhill, April 4, 1864.

THE INTERNATIONAL LAND CREDIT
COMPANY (Limited).

Capital Eight Millions, viith power to increase.
First issue £6,000,000, in 300,000 Shares of £2O each, of
'which 250,000 are subscribed for on the Continent, the re-
maining 50,000 being reserved for England. £1 deposit on
APplication, £1 on Allotment.
There will he two Calls of £2 each during the present
Year, after which it is not expected that further Calls will
be made.

DIRECTORS.
ENGLISH BOARD.
°llairman—GEOßGE WORMS, Esq., Director of the
General Credit and Finance Company of London
(Limited).
Sir Stuart Alexander Donaldson, Director of the General
Credit and Financei Company of London (Limited).
t•Ord Robert ,M.P.
pAnnel thi. lion. W. Patrick Talbot.
T
• anus Emerson Tennent.

CONTINENTAL BOARD.
Molphe Dechamps, Ministre d'Etat, Ancien
Ministre des Affaires Estrangeres, Membre
.de la Chambre des Representants.
4-10..tre deDecker, Ancien Ministre de 'lnt4rieur,
Membre de la Chambre des Representants.
Comte d'Hane-Steenhuyse, Proprietaire.
Uonate de Liedekerke-Beaufort, Membre de la
Chambre des Representants.
Andre Langrand-Damonceau Proprietaire.
.*:lottard Mercier, Ministre 'd'Etat, Ancien
..ionsenistre
Nothomb, des Finan Ancien4lPh Ministre de la
Justice, Membre de la Chambre des Repre-
sentants.
Marquis Theodule de Rodes, Proprietaire.
Comte
Adhemar du Val de Beaulieu, Proprie-
taire.
Comte Ignace van der Straten-Ponthoz, Pro-
prietaire.
erdinand Schaefer, Directeur-en-Chef de la Banque de
Credit-Foncier et Industrie!, Vienna.
Lo n
-a BANKERS.
on—The General Credit and Finance Company of
London (Limited).
Brussels—Banque de Credit-Fonder et Industrial.
IriTenna—The Branch of La Banque de Credit •Foncier et
41ad tie triel
Paris—.The Branch of La Banque de Credit-Foncier et
Industriel.
Arnsterdam—La Societe Generale de Commerce et d'ln-
ustrie.
Pestla—The Hungarian Mortgage Bank.

Bruxelles.

SOLICTORS.
Messrs. Bevan and NI/hitting.
Messrs. Baxter, Rose, Norton and CO.
BROKERS.
Messrs. Laurence, Sin, and Pearce.
Messrs. J. and A. Scrimgeour.
OFFICES.
The General Credit and Finance Company of London
(Limited), 7 Lothbury.

SECRETARY, PRO TEAS.
Edward Hamilton Anson, Esq.

PROSPECTUS.

This Company is based upon existing institutions on the
Continent, which have been already worked with signal
success.

The founders of the International Land Credit Company
have previously established—
In Belgi Credit Banque Hypothecaire Beige and La
I3aoque de Foncier et ladustriel (the Belgian Mort-
gage Bank and the Bank of Industry and Land Credit).
In Holland, La Banqe Hypothecaire Neerlandaise (the
A etheriands Mortgae Bank).
In Austria, the Vindobona Mortgage Assurance Com•
_ .They have all prospered. The success they have met
itli is established by authentic documents. It may be
„aid, without exaggeration, that the results are brilliant ;
for these Companies have produced to their Shareholders an
average dividend of 20 per cent., and some of them much
'llhe experience acquired by the working of these Com-
rehies has led to the conclusion that, in order to give full
velopment to the principles which have proved so alto-
,s-'eaaful, it is desirable to found a Central Company of an
I ztternational character, the main functions of which should
he, to raise capital by the issue of bonds and " lettres de
gage" in the great money markets of Europe, to be em-
rled through associated local Companies in purchases of
tatl(l, or loans upon real property, in countries where the
ata of interest is high.
tat Banque Hypothecaire Belge, acting on this prin-
elPle, and established nearly three years ago, has, with a
ftlinal capital of £480,000 only, succeeded placing on the
Belgian market alone such an amount of " lettres de gage
that its shares with £6 paid have risen to and maintained
themselves at £lB.
b The caital raise in Belgium at 4 and
ugh cent. has
de Credit
employed principally in Austria, thrLa Banque
.1;;) Credit Foncier et Industrial, which has a branchgat
iehtla completely organised, with a staff thoroughly
the
in Austrian affairs ; and it is shown by the books of
44e Company that of all its operations of purchase and sale
'll. Austria, not one has realised less than 20 per cent., after
l',Tducting all expenses, while generally they have reached
4° Per cent.
r,4Bllch being the result of Companies limited to the Bel-
amp money market for raising capital, it is evident that
still greater results may be obtained by forming an Inter.
national Company, with a share capital large enough to
fl
money
the planing of bonds and" lettres de gage" on the
'''',2heY markets of England, France, Holland, and Ger-
many, as well as of Belgium.
Accordingly, the present Company has been founded,
under the English Law of Limited Liability, and with an
Office and Uirection in 1. ondon, as well as at Brussels; ar-
rangements have been made with the Banque Hypothecaire
elge for a complete fusion, while a treaty has been con-
cluded with the Banque de Credit-Foncier et Industrial,
which ensures the benefit of their experience, and a large
and profitable business from the commencement, a mini-
Aum dividend of 11 per cent. on the paid-up Share Capital
being secured in any event, as the result of the first year's
'working.
It is also proposed to enter into an arrangement with the
Vindobona. This Society, which has existed at Vienna
Tor five years, and has a capital of 10,000,000 florins, gua-
kantees the regular payment of interest upon mortgage-
debts, as well as the principal when due. By this means,
all the business done in Austria will be rendered perfectly
secure.
The Vindobona is in the most flourishing state. It has
paid the first year 6 per cent., the second 12 per cent., the
third 15 per cent., and at the next meeting it is expected it
will distribute 25 per cent. Particular attention is called to
this point. This guarantee is one of the features which
Bsentially distinguishes this Company from other Land-
Credit Comna&es.
the
pounds (16) per share will be called in the course of
present year, inclusive of the payment of £1 each on
applicationand allotment; after which, it is not expected
at
any further Calls whatever will be made. The Share
_ Capital paid up will thus be £1,800,000 ; and the profit
teeured for the first year under the above arrangements will
emill further increased as additional Capital is raised
.°lll year to year by the issue of Bond and "lettres de
'ftgeir and as the securities of the Company become natu-
„ ed on the chief money-markets of Europe.
in 250 the amount of £6,000,000 Capital now issued, £5,000,000
440000 Shares have been taken and paid upon on the
Consistent and 50000 Shares are reserved for England, of
to 'oh 15,000 are already subscribed, and 35,000 are offered
wae public by subscription at the General Credit and
9.ance Company of London (Limited).
te,.e Articles of Association of the Company, duly regis-
-1g; in London on llth Febrnary last, under the Act of
2 lie at the Offices of the Solicitors, where they may be
cerused.

To the Directors of the International Land Credit Company

(Limited).
4 Qentlemen,—llaving paid into your Bankers the sum of
i I request that you will allot me Shares
Phtehreeblynter agree national Land Credit Company (Limited), and
to accept the same, or any less number that
that be allotted to me, and to pay the Calls in respect of
pi:
tahares so allotted when due; and I authorise you to
of place Y name on the Register of Members for the number
Shares al:otted.
I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
Name in full
Profession or occupation
Address
Date

'TIRE EMBARRASSED in Town and Country
Itui,,ehould read " THE PLAIN GUIDE TO BANK-
legm,4 CY AND COMPOSITIONS," showing what can be
eretY done, and the 'mot cost. To be had gratis and post
Kr' °I Mr. Wetherfieled, Solicitor of the Court, 25, illoorgate-
V.,. Bank.
13111 Debth reOOVOTed 011 00M0 1101110/11 Without 1471 ea-
gto tc client&

THE ORIENTAL FINANCIAL
CORPORATION (Limited).
Incorporated under the Companies Act, 1862," with
Limited Liability.
Capital, £1,000,000, in 20,000 Shares of £5O each.
(With power to Increase.)
First issue 10,000 Shares. Deposit on Application £1 per
Share, and £4 on Allotment.
Calls not to exceed £5 per Share, and at intervals of not less
than three months.

DIRECTORS.
W. C. Brown, Esq„ Richmond, Surrey, Deputy Chairman
of the Joint-Stock Discount Company (Limited).
W. H. Smith, Esq. (W, Ji. Smith, Barry, and Co.), Lon-
don and Calcutta.
Major-General Clarke (late Commissioner of Revenue in
Oude), Norwood.
John Brown, Esq. (late of Grant Smith and Co., Calcutta),
Culvers, Hadham, Herts.
J. P. Cornforth, Esq., London and Liverpool (and of J. P.
Cornforth and Co_, Bombay).
W. B. M. Lysley, Esq., Director of the Bombay Gas Com-
pany, Queen's-gardens, Hyde-park.
Stephen Clark, Eeq.,London and Madras.
R. Russell Carew, sq., 26, Westlsourne-terrace, and Car-
penders-park, Watford.
BANX.ERS.
The Mercantile and Exchange Bank (Limited), 4, Lom-
bard-street, and 41, Mincing-lane, London ; and 17,
Brown's-buildings, Liverpool, and 35, St. Vincent-place,
Glasgow.

AUDITORS.
Messrs. Johnstone, Cooper, Wintle and Co., Public
Accountants, 6A, Lothbury.

SOLICITORS.
William F. Farmer, Esq., 17A, Sise-lane, Bucklersbury.
Messrs. Andrew, Atkins, and Irvine, 6, White Hart-court,
Lombard-street.

BROKERS.
Messrs. George Burnand and Co., Lombard-street, London.
Messrs. Taunton and Co., Liverpool.
SECRETARY (pro tem.)
R. D. Jacob, Esq.
TEMPORARY OFFICES.
1, White Hart-court, Lombard-street.

PROSPECTUS.
The object of this Company is to promote Financial,
Commercial, and Industrial enterprise in India and the
East by the applieation of English capital, for the legiti-
mate and remunerative employment of which there is ample
and constantly extending scope.
The success of the operations of the Financial Companies
in England has now been satisfactorily proved ; and a
similar institution, adapted especially to the requirements
of the East, and combining on its direction the needful
experience, will have a field for profitable operations equal,
if not superior, to any other.
The Corporation will act as General Financial Agents,
will make advances on approved securities, and will pro-
mote the development of the internal resources of the
countries in which it may operate, by assisting in the
establishment of sound industrial undertakings and enter-
prises.
The Corporation will also undertake on commission the
investment of funds placed in its hands, either in the pur-
chase of property, or in lending it out on mortgage and
other securities. It will receive deposits at rates to be agreed
upon ; and it will take powers to issue bonds or obligations
on the secutity of its mortgages and subscribed capital.
The revenue of India has risen in a few years from
£26,000,000 to £47,000,000, and the aggregate import and
export trade during the same period has more than doubled
itself. The increasing development of her natural produo •
tions, and the successful cultivation of tea, coffee, and other
staple articles, together with the h'gh rates there current
for money, compared with those upon which it can be bor-
rowed in this country, make the opening very favourable
for the establishment of a Company of this description.
Powers will also be taken to extend the operations of the
Corporation elsewhere as may be found expedient.
Arrangements are in progress by which the business may
be speedily commenced.
Prospectuses and Forms of Applications for Shares may
be obtained at the Temporary Offices or of the Brokers or
Solicitors. The Memorandum and Articles of Association
may be inspected at the Offices of the Solicitors. In the
event of no allotment being made, the deposits will be
returned without deduction.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR STARES.
To the Directors of the Oriental Financial Corporation

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Gentlemen,—Having paid into your Bankers the sum
of £ I request that you will allot me
Shares in the Oriental Financial Corporation (Limited), and
I hereby agree to accept the same, or any less number that
may be &lotted to me, and to pa) the Calls in respect of the
Shares so allotted when due ; and I authorise you to place
my name on the Register of Members for the number of
Shares allotted.
I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
Name in full
Profession or Occupation ....
• Address
Date

THE ORIENTAL FINANCIAL CORPORA-
1. TION, Limited.
Notice is hereby given, that the SHARE LIST of this
Company will be CLOSED on MONDAY NEXT, the
11th instant, for London, and Tuesday, 12th, for the
country,

By order,
R. D. JACOB, Sec. pro tern.
1, White Hart-court, Lombard-street, April 6, 186.1.

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