The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-31 00:00:00

EDINBURGH (Reduced Yires), from Irongate-
wharf. Tower.--Saloon, 20s • fore cabin, 15s; deck
(soldiers and sailors only), 7s Ad; return ti' Acts (available for
a month), 30s and 2.% rd. The cheanelst and qu,ckest sea
route by the solend d new ST EA.3ISH r PS 0i the LONDON
ant EDINBURGH SHIPPING COMPANY, sailing eve'y
Wednesday and Saturday, at .0 morning. Aoply at the
Spread Eagle, Regent-circus; or at Iro,ngate-wharf.

SEA.—VAC kNCIES`,nrPa
miDsPMEN and
APPItENTICES in a fi
Premium mod Prate. Al.° r .tat -elass London shipping: firm.
Apply to susnoNDs and
Pprenti !es without premium.—
co.. 38,
cheap, B.C. Third officers. and St St. Mary-at-hill, East-
. wanted.

SEA. —First-el'iss APPRENTICES required
in an East In d'Aaman.—F ar premium, namel'ship, (to..
ITV). to :Alessi's. lain, and Co., 27, Coleman-street, Bank.
o control over interference in the outfitting exercised

CHE AP EST PASSAGES to all the C"lonies.
ASSAGES giriran#ee at CfIEAPEST RATES to
-9', .31 r-F4ICA, t'ANADA, BRITISFS COLUMBIA, AUSTRA-
-I;aA, NEW ZEALAND, PORT NATAL, the CAPE, &c.,
by Mril •,team riaid Clipper oailin, Ships weekly Lora
LIVE itl'OOL, and other ports.
Steimers for AMERICA aad AN DA, every few days,
from £4 10s. to LA As., sailing packets £3.
Passengers met at all th,r! Stations and conducted to the
DoAs, thereby avoiding much imt:osition. trouble, and
aunoyan,,e. Free Grants of Land obtained and Outfits tiro-
Through Tierets isdrd to all the chiet Ports in Aus-
tralia and New Zealand, and the Towns and Cities of the
-united States and Canada, also to Halifax and St. Johns.
Fall particulars, tree of charge, upon applcation to
PEAR( E and C')„ First Floor. 100, Leadenhall-street, City,
Luuden, or 43, Union-street, Liverpool.
13,-," Parcels and packages collected, shipped, and invoiced.

ALBERT LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY,
7, Watee.oo-place, Pall-mall, London.

Established 1838.

NOT' 'E Is HEREBY GIVEN, That the HALF-
YEARLY DIVIDEND to the 30th &Am°, after the rate of
Seven per Cent. per Annum, is in szourse of Payment to the
Shareholders.
FRANK EASUM, Secretary,
July, 1863.

THE ORIENTAL HOTELS COMPANY
(Limited).
Incorporated under the Com .anies' Act, 1852, by which the
Liability of each .'.3l.lare..holder is strictly limited to the amount
of his S ares.
Capital .£'50,000, in 25,000 Shares of £lO each.
(With power to increase to One Million Sterling.)
First Issue 12,500 Shares, wher of a portion will be reserved
Deposit £1 e for India.
r Share on application, and £1 on allotment. ,
Calls not to ex ceed £2 per Share, with an interval of not less
three months• between each calL
DIRKCIP,
Sir Jolm/Ptter Grant, K.C.8., ChM
alinian, late Lieutenant- '
Governor oi Bengal.
Colonel Anderson, C. 8., Director of the Eastern Bengal Rail- '
r, way Company.
'-'reorg'e Constable, Esq., Firm of Henderson and Constable,
Cannon-,treet, E.C.
Sir Prederick Currie. Bart . Member of the Council of India.
Col'onel French, Chairman of the Bombay and Baroda
y.
Rail-
Colonel Holland, Director of the Agra and United Service
Bank.
John Stewart, Esq., Director of the Marine Insurance Com-
pany.
John 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 at. the First General Meeting.
BANKEPA IN LONDON.
The Agra and United Service Bank (Limited), 27, Cannon-
street, 143. C.
The London and Co'anty Bank, Fr.,snover-square, W.
MANKERs IN INDIA.
The Agra, arid Uni ed Service Bank (Limited).
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Upton!. , Johnson, and Upton, 20, Austin- 'riars, E.O
Francis Iltir.aand, Egg BROKER.
, Lombard-street, ar -s ,
78 L b d treet and 13 and 14
County-c 1 ambers, Cornhill, E.C.
SECRETARY (pro tem.)
31 acdonald Yates, Esq.
TeinrJorary Offices :-38, Cannon-street, E.C., and 5, Parli
ment-street, Westminster.
The defici,ncy o; Hotel accommidation in India, China,
:and other places in the East to which Eu, opeans 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 transi by ocean and river steamers, and by
years, must
railways, which has been in rapid progress now for some
imperfectly fulfil all i's important objects, so far
as European intercourse with the East is cone _rued, until
this what is adequately supplied.
In England, and on the u"ntinent of Europe, it is now an
:nice tained fact that the joint-stock system may most sue-
cessfully be apt' e."Zi to the establishment of Hotels of the
first class. If t !is be so where good private Hotels before
existed in lame numbers, there seems no reason to doubt
that an ( qua', degree of commercial success is attainable by
the applica:cion of cap tal, upon the sam system. to the same
object, it Couutries where, though the demand is great and
(10 net exist.
it may almost be said that good private Hotels
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
hafe. red from the very high prem um at which their shares
etre quoted in the Calcutta market, see "Times" Ju'y 17, the
" Englishman's Weekly Mail" of June 8, 1861, and "Allen's
Indian Mail," viz., £25 paid, present value, ..£42i ex div.,
equal to 70 per cent. premium, and the payment of a dividend
of 10 per cent. for the halt-year ending 10th 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
Lion 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
hemp any ,Limitedi is established, in the confi .ent belief that
'Application of European capital to India in this form will
n°44; be less profitable than useful. It is proposed, in the first
tastance, to supply the urgent requirements of 13 ,mbay and
Point de Galle. There are equally important places which
dvilt naturally engage the early attenton of the Company,
such for example as Madras, Singapore, and Kurrachee ; not
to speak of many very important rail Nay stations in the in-
terior 01 India, where there are now no Hotels at all, and
where, at a comparatively small outlay, there is a large field
for profltab e operations.
The larger class of the Company's Potels will afford all the
conveniences of the best European Hotels, a lapted to the
clam ate, and to the h .bits 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 to constAute 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 tor, no allotmew will take place, and the
deposits will be returned to the 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 Bros er, or the Secre-
tary.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
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 caller number that may
be allotted to me, and to become a Member of the Company,
anct I authorise you to ulace 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 condians and regulations con-
taine,i in the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the
Company, in manner provided by " The Companies Act,
1862."
I undertake to pay the balance (if any) of the Deposit of £2
per share on the shares all...tted to me within ten days after
notice of allotment, and in default thereof, I 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)
Flatness or Profes, ion
Place of Business
Residence

CIELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of
N.J the BIRTH of SHA.KSPE ARE, at Stratford-upon-
Avon. Th, Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert
N. u. Hamilton, Bart , K.C.8.. is Chairman, are now receiv-
ing SUBSCRIPTION'', 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 I ondon agents, Messrs.
Smith, Payne, and , Messrs Hanburys and Co., or Messrs.
Glyn and Co , bankers, London.