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London, England, 1863-10-12 00:00:00

ARMY CONTRACTS,

Commissariat Office, Aldershot, Oct, 9, 1863.
TENDERS will be received at this Office, until
12 o'cicck, noon, on THURSDAY, the sth November,
1,63, from persons who may be willing to enter into Con-
tract to supply
PAILLASSE STRAW AND STRAW FOR ROYAL
ENGINEER SERVICE,
in such quantities as ma 3 be required fram the Ist December,
1863, to 30th November. 1861, for the use of her Majesty's
Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the com-
Ihrnd.
Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob-
tained on application at this office, by letter or in person,
between the hours of ten and four o'clock.
The Tenders must be properly filled up and signed, and
delivered at this office (under closed envelope, marked on the
outside "Tender for Supply of Straw)," and no Tender will
be noticed unles+ made on forms obtained from this office,
and delivered by the hour appointed.

THE ANGLO.AUSTRIAN BANK.-
To be constituted with Limited Liability, under a con-
cession from his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Austria.
bated sth October, 18fi3.

Capital £2,000,r 00, or 20,000,000 florins.
To be divided into 100,000 Scrip Certificates of £?0 or 200
210rins each, upon vahisk42 is to be paid on application and
£2 upon allotment, and a C .11 of £2 within one month after
allotment. These Certificates to be exchanged hereafter for
:Shares to bearer of £2O or £5O each, as arranged with the
A ustrian Government, as hereinafter stated. In such ex-
change One Certificate will represent one £2O Share with £6
Paid thereon, or Five Certificates will represent two £5O
shares with £3O paid thereon.

COUNCIL OF DIRECTORS.
11.11. Prince Leo Sapieha, President of the Gallician Diet,
and Member of the Austrian Reiehsrath.
Somerset A. Beaumont, Esq., M.P., London.
Baron Erggelet (Henikstein and Co.), Banker, Vienna.
G. G. Glyn, Esq., M.P., Banker, London.
Count Eugene Kinsky, Member of the Austrian Reichsrath.
Charles Klein, Esq., President of the Chamber of Commerce,
Vienna.
Alexander Schroder, Esq. (A. and C. Schroder), Trieste.
Baron Tinti, Member of the Austrian Reichsrath,
Winterstein, Esq., Member of the Austrian Reichsrath.
Count Edmond Zichy, Vienna (President of the Vindibona
and Anker Insurance Companies'.
Adalbert Zimier, Esq., Merchant, Vienna.
BANKERS AND FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS,
AugsburLr—M, Paul Von Stetten.
Berlin—Messrs. Mendelssohn and Co.
Frankfort 0. M.—Messrs. Grunelius and Co.
3lunich—Messrs. Robert De Froelich and Co.
Paris—Messrs. Mallet Freres and Co.
Trieste—Messrs. A and G. Schroder.
BANKERS AND FINANCIAL AGENTS IN LONDON.
Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street, E.C.
Messrs. Bircham, DaIrympIe,SOLICITORS Drake, and Ward, 46, Parl a-
ment-street, Westminster, S.W.

George E. Seymour, EsEci., 11°38x., Throgmorton-street,Eß E.C.
Francis BruCILE,REAS
Lg. IN(fitAtNelAyOwEißthr23i
eLssorNs.D;rNiiming
and
Gosche
(Aces_ Vienna-5, Habsburgor
n).
Gasse.
London-10, Birchin-lane, Lombard-street, E.C,

PROSPECTUS.
The Company is formed under a direct concession granted
by the Imperial Government, for the purpose of promoting and extending commercial and financial relations between
Austria and England. These relations are doily increasing
'ln importance under the influen of the political
and fiscal system which has beence definitivelyameliorate adopted d by the
es-U.strian Administration and Legislature.
The Company will carry on the ordinary business of a Bank
of Deposit. Discount, and Exchange, and all operations con-
withneed Bankingtransactione and Financial Agency. The
head office will be inVienna, with branches at Trieste,Prague,
Brune, and other towns in the Austrian empire in which it
May be found profitable from time to time to form establish-
ments.
In England, the interests of the Bank will be represented,
and the business conducted by the English members of the
Board, Mes,rs. Glyn, Mills, and Co. being the Financial
Agents and Bankers of the Company.
The lairectors point with sati•faction to their having se-
cured the services of Mr. Francis Breuer as th it London Ma-
nager. Mr. Breuer's experience of German Commercial and
Financial business acquired during 25 years' service with
the firm of Messrs. Fr uhling and Goschen—nectilarly qualify
him for the efficient performance of the important duties to
which he has been appointed.
The Concession has been obtained by the Directors, and
'made over by them to the Company, without consideration or
other charge than the preliminary expenses. which will be
limited to the disbursements made, and are of small amount.
4, The Company has not been brought forward until, by care-
-1,1-leis negotiation. it has been ascertained that its formation is
desired by the Austrian Executive, and that, besides the grant
Of a direct concession, the Imperial Government will be pre-
Afared to open an account current with the head efface of the
_lank, and to employ the branche4 of the institution in a va •
4lety of ways, in facilitating the revenue collections and other
°Perations of the Government, not overlooking the import-
ance of the measures which are being constantly direc'ed to
the complete re-establishment of the paper currency upon the
Soundest basis.
4, As some evidence of the satisfactory result of' the negotia-
Vona which have taken place the directors are authorised to
inset in this Prospectus the following extracts from a Minute
delivered to the Company by his Excellency M. Von Plener,
the Minister of Finance at Vienna, viz.:—
" Referring to the fact that one of the principal objects of
the establishment of the proposed Anglo-Austrian Bank, is
to facilitate operations in Austrian Securities, and having
regard also to the desire of the Imperial Government to aid
ts far as Practicable in bringing about a closer union between
he financial and commercial interests of Austria and England
than at present exists, the Imperial Government intends (so
far as it should appear to itself compatible with the success
of their financial measures—and with any legal direction
which may ue specially prescribed in reference to any parti-
cular operation)to give to the Bank the opportunity of under-
taking such financial operations - whether the issue of loans,
Placing of bonds or otherwise ; as the Government may de-
sire to effect on the London market.
"The Government also intends to open an account-current
With the Bank."
There cannot be any question as to the profitable nature of
the field for the operations of a banking establishment in
Austria, conducted on sound principles.
There are few recent changes of more importance and in-
terest than the remarkable advance which Austria has made
during the last few years under the influence of its thoroughly
rev riieed policy.
The harmony happily established between the Imperial
Covernment and the representatives bf the different orders of
e State, as assembled in the Reichsrath, has removed most
Of the impediments which formerly prevented Austria from
enjeying; the benefits of its vast commercial and agricultural
resources, Supported by the free debates of the Parliament,
the Government has been enabled to enter with vigour upon
a fiscal policy founded upon tree-trade views ; and to apply,
ihmany directions, measures specially adapted to develope
e wealth and enterprise of the country. River steam navi-
gation has assumed large proportions. The extent of rail-
ways in operation has increased from 1,710 English miles in
1855 to nearly 4,000 in the present year; and the railway
system has been actually completed up to a point which
leaves few of the leading districts of the empire unsupplied.
Still more important has been the marked increase in the ac-
tivity of private trade and in the magnitude of individual
enterprise ; and that this altered state of things is solid and
real, is sufficiently attested by the great recovery of the Aus-
trian finances during the last two years. Under the measures
passed in if 62, the paper currency is in rapid process of re-
form—and since June of that year, the Exchange on London
has improved from 140 to 110 in favour of Vienna The rise
in the price of Austrian Government Stock, since the same
date, being equal, upon an average, to 22 per cent.
Lbln the speech delivered by the Emperor, at the opening of
.? Reichsrath, in Jute last (1863). he was able to dwell pro-
henry on the improved aspect of affairs, and to state that
the finances of the empire have so rapidly improved during
arliamentary recess that the Government will not now
dreeauelrenectehae twelve millions of florins voted last year to cover
then anticipated.
Between 1851 and int the export and import trade of
Au trig may be said tic.have doubled ; but even at its present
amount of, Say, eo
.nttelions sterling, it is still very far below
the capabilities of 4riiillions of Austrian subjects, who
inhabit provinces ext,:n to an area ot 240,000 square
miles, in the most fertile and diversified parts of Southern
Europe.
When it is proposed, therefore, to extend to Austria the
appliances of Banking, according to sound English rrinci-
p les, it is important to bear in mind that the new institution
as not carried to a field already full or offering few advan-
tages, but is applied precisely under those circumstances
in which the success of Banks has been most conspicuous--
viz., to a rich country, and an enterprising people entering
with every encouragement upon the development 01 their
skill and their resources.
In the statutes, as passed by the Imperial Government, the
capital is divided into Shares of £5O or 500 florins each ; but.
in consequence of representations made to the Directors' and
in order to render the Shares of the Bank more readily nego-
tiable in the Principal money-markets of the Continent, the
Government has been solicited to authorise £2O as the de-
nomination of the Shares, and an assurance has been received
that such application will be granted.
To avoid delay in the establishment of the Bank, it has
been decided to issue the capital in Scrip Certificates of £2O
each, exchangeable hereafter (at a date to be announced. and
when £6 has been paid thereon) into Shares to bear as above
stated.

Under the revised Austrian Commercial Code, the payment
of £6 p..r £2O Scrip Certificate, equal to 30 per cent. of the
capital, will enable the Bank to commence business at once,
with the advantage of limited liability, and without further
demands upon its shareholders.
A Copy of the Concession and Statutes will be deposited at
the office of the Sol citors to the Company, 46, Parliament-
street, Vl, estminster.
,The be
made in London for Scrip Certificates
84.,tT1d be addressed to the Directors in England at the Offices
ae, Companyay ; but no application will be considered, unless
forthr y the receipt of Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co.
plied foarePosit of £2 per Scrip Certificate on the number ap-
This de
not beposit will be returned in the event of the application
in
applied Voceded to ; and, it an allotment be made, it will be
Fornv, jvards the full deposit of .£4 per Scrip Certificate.
the Bank
at the °meet' AJPlication maybe obined and will be received
Offices, 10, le_
lane, Lombard. street, E.C..
in Vienna; and ill London at the
October, i?c,Vin-
FORM OF APPLTATION FOR SCRIP CERTIFICATES.
To the Dir. ctors
Gentlemen,-44 E,,lagland of the Anglo-Austrian Bank.
Glyn, Mills, and co 0.-i, Paid to your credit, with Messrs.
that you will allot m. :lie Sum of £ , I hereby request
in thP A frzlo- Austria Scrip Certificates of .£2O each
such Scrip Certificates hank, and I hereby agree to accept
allotted to me, upon tilecr any smaller number that may be
Anis of the Prospectus, and to pay
the allottedpit of .42
ber to me, at such t:•
I am, GentlemScrenl,P Certificate upon the num-
line and in such manner as you
may appuiut.
Name in full
Address in full
ft
te__..Dou
ay.n

LO-AUSTRIAN BANK.
will,be received after Twelve
THE ANG
S
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN -.---,, That NO FART FIER
APPLICATION for SII,:t.TSF.,;
o'clock TO-MORROW ( ri,ESDAI.), the 13th October
FRANCIS BREUER, Malla.gef:
10, Birchin-ome, Lombard-street, E,c,
October 12,1363,

CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of
the BIRTH of SHAKSPE ARE, at Stratford-upon-
Avon. The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert
N. C. Hamilton, Bart., K.C.8., is Chairman) are now receiv-
ing SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may also be paid to the
account of the Tercentenary Committee, at the Stourbridge
and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks,
Stratford-upon-Avon ; Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and
Greenway, Warwick ; or their London agents, Messrs.
Smith, Payne, and Co., Messrs. Hanburys and Co., or Messrs.
Glyn and Co , bankers, London.
The Tercentenary Committee, in submitting the subscrip-
tion list to the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers
of Shakspeare for their aid and assistance. The Committee
st their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only
the birthplace of Shakspeare. but the centre of attraction to
all admirers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his
home, the town he loved, and where he lived and died.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, at King's-cross.
Patron—The QUEEN.
President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G.
Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq.

This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free
and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for-
mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti-
tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom-
panied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient
magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered
capable of admitting* into its wards a very large proportion of
the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the
funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of
these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover,
it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more,
on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week.
The Weekly Hoard feel it their imperative duty to make an
EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support,
to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that
daily present themselves.

Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward
Masterman, Esq.' Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and
Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Rerries and Co. ; Ransom and
Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Giyn
and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison
and Co. ; W .111 ams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and
Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool
and at the hospital.

STANFORD S. SMITH Secretary

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT
anoorporm lOatesdTibTyußToyalN
Charter).
Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
rnESIDENT—Vice-Adiii.rcr the Duke of Northumberland,
PATRONESS
FlTlA.TcßuMAlANß—mTAisThOl.T3RhaoriniigßiSip.,mßlan.P:,Elesci.R.,.FS:it.s V.P.
v
ReyaitoNstate that, since
have
Lifeboat Estab-
lishments Lifeboat
Institution DEECU
ot the
The Committee of ManagementAPPEAL
the beginning of the year 1861, the
Institution has expended £28,550 on various
lishments on the Coasts of England. Scotland,
bodajreland.
The number of lives saved by the Lite-
Society, and other means, since its formation, is
tor which services 82 Gold Medals, 733 Silver Medais3;2n
£17,200 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institund
lion has also expended £75,380 on Life-boats, Lice-boa-t
Transporting-caniages, and Boat-houses.
The Committee desire to express their grateful sense ot
the generous support which they have received from the
British public during the past few years, a support which
has enabled them to establish their present magnificent fleet
ot 125 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom.
Deeply sensible, however, of the great responsibility that
rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient
state, and its Crews practised in the management of their
boats, whi-h can only be effected by a large and permanent
annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their
countrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so
great and truly national a work.
The Committee grateful*, acknowledge the following con
tributions:—

Thomas,
Ladyship £s. d
Her Majesty the Queen •• •• •• annual 50 0 0
Campbell, the Hon. Mrs. G. .. .. .. annual 50 0
Clerk, Colonel, R.A. .. .. .. .. annual 1 1 0
Coutts and Co., Messrs., Bankers .. .. annual 10 0 0
Currie, Wm., Esq., .. .. .. .. 4th don.lo 0 0
Erie, Lord Chief Justice .. .. .. don. 10 10 0
Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A.. K.C.B. .. 2d don. 25 0 0
Fenwick, G. J., Esq., cost of a Lifeboat and Tran-
sporting Carriaze .. .. .. . .. 250 0 ()
Harvey, Rev. G. G. and Mrs. don 0 0
.. .. . 3
Martin, Sir Henry, Part. .. .. .. 7th I lon. 10 0 0
Palmer, Sir Roundell, 31. P., H.M.'s Solici-
tor-General • • • .. .. .. annual 2 2 0
Royal Yacht Squadron.!sii,clll,aadeyl',lW:seqs.ton.-s.uper-Mare, collectedby her
:: ..: ....
danonn.ualloloo 00 00
Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord ..
..
.. annual 5 0 0
• • • • • • .. .. .. 16 16 0
Donations and Annual Subscriptions will be thankfully re-
. eived by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis,
Perdzal, and Co., 76, Lombard-street; Messrs. Coutts and
Co..trand; Messrs. Berries, Farquhar, and Co., 16, St.
oJames's-street,so London ; by ad the Collectors of Customs
and Bankers in the Unitedlidn.gdom; and by the Secretary,
Richard Lewis. Esq., at the Office et the inbtitatiop, /1,
John-otrect, Adelphi, London, W.i.;.