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

IN what " Happy Land" can I .ree Ton after the
_IL "Opera?" 1 only know of One HAPPY. LAND
In which a Gentleman May Sup—EVANS', COVENT-
GARDPV, my dear fellow!

TUE PROVINCIAL BANKING CORPO-
RATION (Limited).
Established under the Comp'lilies Act of 1802, with Limited
Liabiiity.
Capit .1, £2,000,000, in 40,000 shares of £5O. First issue,
20,000 shares, with power to increase to £4,000,010
Ten Thousand Shares have already been subscribed for. The
remaining Ten Thousand are offered to the pub is
Deposit, £1 per Share on application ; XI on allotment.
Calls not to ex.secd £5 at intervals of not less than three
months.
It is not intended to call up more than £,5 psr share, and
should no al otment be made, the deposit will be returned
in fulL _

DIRECTORS.
Jamn Goodson, Esq., Chairman of the Great Eastern Rail-
way Company, and Director of the Guardian Assurance
Company.
T. Fleming. E.:(1., Laticaster-date, ITyde-park.
G. F. Ilolroya, 'Esq., Director of the -Mercantile Credit Ass )-
elation, and London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Corn-
nv.
W. Tabor, Esq., Bishonsirste-street, Director of the Impe-
rial Bank, an British and Californian Banking Company.
R. C. It. Coeq, Esq.. 73, Inverness-terrace (late C. H. R. Cocq
and Co, Tutarorin, Madras Presidency).
Andrew Walls, Esq. (of Leadenhall-street.
John Trickle, Esq. aliekle. Borman, and Co.), Leadenhall-
street, Director of the London, Buenos Ayres, and River
Plate River.
Xexander Thurburn, Esq. (late Joyce, Thu' burn. and Co..
Alexandria and London), Director of the South Wales

Railway.
Brinsley Nixon. Esq Queen's-gate-gardens, Director or 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), Lothbnry.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Harrison and Lewis, 24, Old-Jewry.
BROKERS.
Messrs. Towgood and Strachan, 33, Throg,morton-street,
London.
Horstall and Penny, Liverpool.
It Green, Esq., Leeds.
James Duncuft, Esq, Manchester.

AUDITORg.
Samuel Barrow, Esq., Ironmoager-lane, E.C. (Barrow and
Gates,, Public Accountant.
Edgar Smallfleld, Esq., Dowgate-hill-Chambers, Public Ac-
countant.

SECRETARY (PRO TEM.)
E. Garden, Esq.
TEMPORARY OrricEs.
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 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 istion.

It is not proposed to do any banking business in London .;
but in addition to acquiring the goodwill and business con-
nections of existing banks, is intended to open branches
in provincial cities and towns where, owing to the increase
of wealth and population, a satisfactry business can be esta-
blished.
The recent amalgamation of twi of the largest private
banks in London with j ci.it• stock establishments, foitowing
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, of
trade in the country genera ly has crea ed a demand for fur-
titer 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
simimr objects are now quoted as follows, viz. :
Paid. Present Prices.
The National Provincial £l2 £ll
The London and County
The Provincial Bank Ireland 25 ..
In further illustration of Ihe profitable character of the
hu,iness of the forty-one Joint-stock lianks 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 Associathon may be
seen at the Office of the Solicitors.

THE PROVINCIAL BANKING
CORPORATION (Limited).

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the SHAME LIST
of this Corniyquv will be CLOSED, both for 'Town 'end
Country, THIS DAY, TIIIIRS DAY, the sth lla y, at Four
o'clock.

R. GARDEN, Secretary pro tem.
Temporary Offices, 24, 0 d Jewry.