The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-21 00:00:00

ST. JAMES' HOTEL,
Co,ner of BERKELEY- STREE P, Piccadilly.
This HOTEL will be OPENED to the publie on SATUR-
DAY, the 2d of May next.

By order,
G. T. OLDYIELD, Se mtary.

Dated April 17, 1863.

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IMPF,RIAT, OTTOMAN BANK.
The Imperial otiomanlk and its !Pounders have the
honour to anaouneo that they have contracted for a Loan
with the Ottoman Gov.rnment, which is to be issued on the
following terms
'MAN LOAN of 150,00 ,0001. (.£0,000,000 Sterling`,
In 30a,0 0 Vondz, of siiot, yieldin;,, an annu It interest of 3 f.
each, payable 15f. Ist Januar:: and 15f: Ist July.
The Bends are to be paid off at 5000 ea,ll, in 231- years, by
half yearly drawings, the first of which will take phce in
Noy,mber next.

-...4;lications for -Bonds will to. received -from Saturday,
ISth. to Thursday. 21d April, 1s 61.
Price of Issue, 2601. rer Fond, payable A 9 under:—
.4.10 n Application ..`251. 10 1 -01. .
or 1 0 eon Application.
,
On A llotment....7A 2 10 4 on Allotment.
10th ditty lOOl., or 3 19 4
1011 September loot ,or 319 4
10th November COL or 2 7 7

3COI ,or :Cl.l 5 7
The throe last instalments may be paid in advance, interest
being allow d at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum.
The Bonds b ar intere-t f cm January Ist, 1i63. and the
first Connon of 15 francs will be payable on July Ist. Taking
into account toe amount of interest accrued, and the terms
allowed for the subsequent payments, the real price of the
Bond to the Subscriber is 312,. 54e., giving an annual interest
of 815 per cent.
The Bonds being repayable in 21i years, at the price of
5001'.. a profit of 1 JOE is secured, representing a supplementary
int rest of I'RO per cent. per annum, raising the total rate of
interest to 10135 per cent

Ihe f ayment of the interest and sinking
fund requires an annual sum of
To meet this charge the Turkish Government has hypothe-
cated the following revenues :

Annual.

Ist—Special Ifs enucs, not pledged for
forme- Loans, estima ed at 28,000,000f.
21—A First Charge on the direct Taxes,
amounting to 6,000,000f.
34—The b'lance of the Revenue hypothe-
cated for the Loan of 1E62, estimated by
the Government at
The Dividends will be payable in Paris at the Office of the
Soci6t6 Gen4rale du credit Mcbilicr.
In London, by Messrs. Glyn, ,t ills, and Co., on behalf of
the Impe ial Ottoman Bank, at the Exchange of the day.
, The Contractors have reserved to the Ottoman Govern-
tient the ritrht cf increasing the nominal amount of the Loan
by a slim of fifty millions of francs capital, their decision to
be made within three months. This supplementary Loan
cannot be issued before 14 January, 1864, and the holders of
Bonds of the present Loan will have a preferential option of
subscribing to the subsequent issue, on the terms to be sub-
sequently announced.
The proceeds of this supplementary issue will be applied,
through the Imperial Ottoman Bank, to the withdrawal of the
debased coinage now in circulation.
Applications received at the Agencies of the Imperial Otto-
man Bank, 4, Bank-buildings, London, and 15, Place Ven-
dome, earls.
Prospectuses may be obtained at the Agency of the Impe-
rial Ottoman Bank, 4, New Bank-buildings, and from Mr. G.
E. Seymour, 38, Throgmorton-street.
In the event of the applications exceeding the amount of
the Loan the allotments will be made pro rati.
Calculating the rate of exchange at 25f. the £ sterling, the
Bond, repayable at £2O each, are issued at £l-'i Bs., and yield
an annual interest of £1 45., or making due allowance for the
interest a^crued and the terms allowed for payment of the
instalments at the rate of 8 76-100ths per annum. The diffe-
rence between the price of issue and that of repayment re-
presents a further interest of I 89-100ths per cent., making a
total of 10 65-100ths per cent. per annum.

OTTOMAN LOAN, 1863.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
To be forwarded to the Agents of the Imperial Ottoman
Bank, 4, Bank-buildhu s, London, after payment of the
preliminary deposit to the Bankers.
Having paid to Messrs Glyn, and Co., the sum of
£ ,I I ereby request an allotment of Bonds of
the above Loan, and I hereby agree to accept such Bonds, or
any sm.lier amount that may be allotted to ire, and to pay
the instalments thereon, as mentioned in the Prospectus of
the said Loan.

Sip:nature
Address in full
Date

ARMY CONTRACTS.
TENDERS will he received at this Office ❑ntil
Ncon on the sth of MAY, from persons who may be
Willing' to enter into Contracts to supply

BREAD AND MEAT,
in such quant:ties as may be required for the use of Her
Majesty's Land H oree; stationed in the following places,
from ist Ju to to 30th Novemb r, 1863:-
1. Brompton House, Hyde-park, and Kensington.
2. Regent's-park, St. John's-wood, and Portman-street
Barracks.
3. Wellington Barracks, Buckingham Palace, and St.
George's Barracks.
4. The Tower.
5. Hounslow and Kneller Hall.
6. Hampton Court.
7. Windsor.
8. Brighton, with Coast Forts from Newhaven to Shoreham.
9. Croydon.
10. Sandhurst.
Sep Tate Tenders for Bread and for Meat must be male for
each of the above-mentioned Stations or Barracks as sepa-
rately grouped and numbered.
Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob-
tained on application at this Office, by letter or in person,
between tho hours of ten and four o'clo k.
Tenders on the printed forms mu t t e propel ly filled up
and signed, and no Tender will be noticed un'ess delivered
at the undermentioned Office. undi r closed envelope (marked
ou th, outside, "Tender thr Commissariat Supplies"), before
Noon on the sth MAY next.

W. 11. MATURIN
Deputy Commissary-General.
Deputy Commissary-f eneril's Office,
5, New-street, Spring-gardens, London, S.W.,
10th April, 18•;3.