The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-28 00:00:00

THE ORIENTAL floyeris COMPANY
Incorporated under the (CLoirn miaeni)e..e'A ft, 1502, by which the
Liability off ach Shareholder is d
strictly united to the amount
of his S;'ares.
Capital .V 51,000. in 25,000 Shares of £lO each.
(With power to increaseto One
portion will be Million Sterlg.)
First Issue 12,500 Shares, whey of a inreserved
for India.
tt,i,l.Drneesepnomis,otitnt£tohiesxpbceeerteSahare on application, and £1 on allotment.
wet2npeearegicamit, with an interval of nut less
DIRECTORS.
Sir John Peter Grant, K.C.8., Chairman, late Lieutenant-
Governor of Bengal.
Colonel Anderson, C. 8., Director of the Eastern Bengal Rail-
way Company.
George Constable, Esq., Firm of Henderson and Constable,
Cannon-street, E C
CSiorloPnreel French, Chairman
E.C.
. Member of the Council of India.
Chairman of the Bombay and Baroda Rail-
way Company.
Colonel Holland, Director of the Agra and United Service
Bank.
John Stewart, Esq., Director of the Marine Insurance Com-
pany.
Joan Robert Thomson, Esq., Chairman of the London and
South African Bank.
James Henry Young, Esq., late of the Bengal Civil Service.
AUDITORS.
T. R. Walker, Esq., 21, Hanover-square, and
A Shareholder, to be elected t the First General Meeting.
BANKERS IN LONDON.
The Agra and United Service Bank (Limited), 27, Cannon-
street, E.C.
The London and County Bank, Hanover-square, W.
BANKERS IN INDIA.
The Agra and Uni ed Service Bank (Limited).
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Up; ons, Johnson, and Upton, 20, Austin-'riars, E.O
BROKER.
Francis Burnand, Esq., 73, Lombard-street, and 13 and 14
County-eh ambers, Cornhill, E.C.
SECRETARY (pro tern.)
Nacdonald Yates, Esq.
Temporary Offices :-36, Cannon-st reet, E.C., and 5, Peril
went-street,Wtstminster.
The deficiency .of Hotel accommodation in India, China,
and other places in the East to which Europeans now resort
in large and annually increasing, numbers, is a subject of
general compl int ; and it is evident that the development
of the means of transir by ocean and river steamers, and by
railways, which has been in rapid progress now for some
years, must imperfectly fulfil all Pe important objects, so far
as European intercourse with the East is cone rned, until
this want is adequately supplied.
In England, and on the tientinent of Europe, it is now an
asce tamed fact that the joint-stock system
Hot most suc-
cessfully be applied to the establishment of ls of the
first class. If this be so where good private Hotels before
existed in large numbers, there seems no reason to doubt
that an equal degree of commercial success is attainable by
the application of capital, upon the same system. to the same
object, in countries where, though the demand is great and
increasing, it may almost be said that good private Hotels
do not exist.
7n Calcutta a joiat-stock company has lately purchased
ane undertaken the management of an Hotel, and the pro-
specti of the enter, rise, as a commercial s peculation, may be
hate} red from the very high prem, um at which their shares
are quoted in the Calcutta market, see "Times" Jury 17, the
" Englishman's Weekly Mail" of June 8, 1863, and "Allen's
Indian Mail," viz.,paid. present value, £42i ex div.,
equal to 70 per cent. premium, and the payment of a dividend
ot 10 per cent. for the half-year ending 30th April last, equal
to 20 per cent. per annum. Bombay offers a wide field for
the establishment of an Hotel of a firs, class character. The
early completion of vast lines of railway converging in the
island of Bombay, and the more frequent steam communica-
tion between that pert and Europe which will soon talc
place, must very much increase the demand for such accom-
modation, The same may be said of Madras.
It is under these circumstances that the Oriental Hotels
Company (Limited) is established, in the confi ,:ent belief that
the application of European capital to India in this form will
not be less profitable than useful. It is proposed, in the first
instance, to supply the urgent requirements of Bombay and
Point de Galle. There are equally important places which
will naturally engage the early attention of the Company,
such for example as Madras, Singapore, and Kurrachee; not
to speak of many very important railway stations in the in-
terior of India, where there are now no Hotels at all, and
y
where, at a comparatively small outla, there is a large field
for profitab e Opel ations.
the largerclass of the Company's Fotels will afford all the
conveniences of the best European Hotels, a:lapted to the
climate, and to the habits of those for whom they are in-
tended ; whilst, in even the smallest class, the health and
comfort of the inmates will be carefully studied.
It is intended t o must .tute local committees of management
in ,-ach Presidency where Hotels may be established.
In the event of two-thirds of the first issue of shares not
being subscribed for, no alltmen' will take place, and the
deposits will be returned toot he subscrib rs, without deduc-
tion.
It is proposed to pay to shareholders 5 per cent. interest
upon the capital as paid up, until the first dividend is de-
clared.
Prospectuses and forms of application for shares may be
had on application to the Bankers, the Broker, or the Secre-
tary.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHIRES.
To be retained by the Bankers.
THE ORIENTAL HOTELS COMPANY (Limited).
To the Directors of the Oriental Hotels Company (Limited).
Gentlemen,—Having paid to the Bankers of the above-
named Company the sum of £ I hereby request that
you will allot me shares in the said Company ; and I
agree to accept such shares, or any s nailer number that may
be allotted to me, and to become a Member of the Company,
and I authorise you to place my name on the Regist, r of
Members in respect of the shares to be allotted to me, and I
agree to be bound by all the conditions and regulations con-
tained in the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the
Company, in manner provided by "The Companies Act,
1812."
I undertake to pay the balance (if any) of the Deposit of £2
per share on the shares allotted to nie within ten days after
notice of allotment, and in default thereof, 1 authorise you to
cancel the allotment, and I agree that the Deposit paid shall
be forfeite., to the Company.
Dated this day , 1861.
Name in full

Firm (if any)
Vusiness or Prof es,ion
Place of Business

Residence