The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-30 00:00:00

EDINPURGH (Refinced Flres), from Irongate-
wharf, Tower. Saloon, 20s : lore cabin, 15s; deck
(soldiers and sailors on y),7s rd; return tickets (available for
It month), 30s and 23s rd. The cheanest and quickest sea
route by the splendid new ST E AMSHIPS of the LONDON
and EDTNBURGIT SHIPPING compANy, sailing every
Wednesday and Saturday, at 10 morning. Apply at the
Spread Eagle, Regent-circus ; or at Irongate-wharf.

THE LONDON MAIN-TRUNK UNDER-
GROUND RAILWAY COMPANY (Limited.)
This Company has been registered, and an influential
Board of Directors is in course of formation for carrying out"
the above project. Any particulars or information can be
obtained on application to Mr. CHARLES BAYLISio. 30,
Poultry, London.

THE ORIENTAL HOTELS COMPANY
(Limited).
Incorporated under the Corn yanies' Act, ISW, by which the
Liability of each Shareholder is strictly limited to the amount
of his Snares.
Capital .V5n,000, in 25,000 Shares of £lO each.
(With power to increase to One Million Sterling.)
First Issue 12,500 Shares, whereof a portion will be reserved
for India.
Deposit XI per Share on application, and £1 on allotment.
Calls not to exceed £2 per Share, with an interval of not less
three months between each calL

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.
Sir Frederick Currie. Bart . Member of the Council of India.
Colonel French, 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. Robert Thomson, Esq., John 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 at 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 United Service Bank (Limited).
SOLICITORS.

Messrs. Uptons, Johnson, and Upton, 20, Austin- riars, E.O

Francis Burnand, Esq., 78, Lombard-street, and 13 and 14
County-chimbers, Cornhill, E.C.
SECRETARY (pro tem.)
Macdonald Yates, Esq.
Temporary Offices :-36, Cannon-street, E.C., and 5, Parli
meat-street, Westminster.

The deficiency of Hotel accommodation in India, China,
and other places in the East to which Ens opeans now resort
Tn large and annually increasing numbers, is a subject of
general complAnt ; and it is evident that the development
of the means of transit by ocean and river steamers, and by
railways, which has been in rapid progress now for some
years, must imperfectly fulfil all Its important objects, so far
as European intercourse with the East is concerned, until
this want is adequately supplied.
In England, and on the continent of Europe, it is now an
asee, tained fact that the joint-stock system may most suc-
cessfully be applied to the establishment of Hotels 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.
In Calcutta a joint-stock company has lately purchased
and undertaken the management of an Hotel, and the pro-
spects of the enter, rise, as a commercial speculation, may be
Hire, red from the very high premium at which their shares
are quoted in the Calcutta market, see "Times" July 17, the
"Englishman's Weekly Mail" of June 8, 1863, and "Allen's
Indian Mail," viz., £25 paid, present value, ZVI ex div.,
equal to 70 per cent. premium, and the payment of a dividend
of 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•
fion between that pert and Europe which will soon tak?
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 lent 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
wilt 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
where, at a comparatively small outlay, there is a large field
for profitab e operations.
The largerolass of the Company's Hotels will afford all the
conveniences of the best European Hotels, adapted 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 toconstitute local committees of management
in each Presidency where Hotels may be established.
In the event of two-thirds of the first issue of shares not
being subscribed for, no allotment will take place, and the
deposits will be returned to the subscribers, 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 SHARES.
To be retained by the Bankers.
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