The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-02 00:00:00

SECRETARY-Mr. W. G. Williams. -
Offices-6, Queen-street-place, London.
ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS,
This Company has been duly register,d with limited lia-
bility.
Its object is the purchase of a large interest in the cele-
brated lead mines of Monteponi, in the Llind of Sardinia,
together with the extensive lead smelting. establish ~ent of
Perinsola and the Satzanello Coal Mine in the Guilt of Spezz.
The purchase-money for these prop rties (including eleven-
twelfths of the Monteponi Minel, plant, engines, ,f7c ,
£1.50,e00 and it is estimated that .C 50,100 will be required AS
floating capital, so that in fixing the nominal capi al at
£)50,000, a margin of £0.00". is lett to enable the Company to
take advantarre of such opportunities as may present them-
selves of extending, their interest in Italian mines.
This undertaking differs essentially in its nature from ordi-
nafy mining enterprises. Its canital being invested in the
purchase of mines and works, which are in full operation, and
yielding very large returns.
Full prospectuses with forms of application for shares may
be had at the offices of the Company, No. 6, Queen-street-
place. London, or of the Brokers of the Company, Messrs.
Joshua Hutchinson and Son. No application will be con-
sidered unless a deposit of £1 for each share applied for shall
have been previously made with the Bankers of the Com-
pany. This sum will be returned in full in the event of no
allotment being made.

THE PERTUSOLA LEAD MINING and
SMELTING COMPANY (Limited).
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That NO APPLICATION
for MIA RES in this Company will be received after SATUR-
DAY, the Clth day of June next.
W. G. WILL TAMS, Sec.

THE ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN BANK
(Limited).
To be established under the Companies Act, 1862, for awry-
ing on business in.Ruesia-by vir,*:.§.-efon-earslnsfve Canoes=
sion granted 153, the _lmperial Russian Government.
Capit“ 0,2,500 uOO, in 25,000 Shares of £lOO each,
With power to increase.
£5 per Share to be paid on Allotment.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Robarls, Lubbock, and Co., 15, Lombard-street, E.C.
BROKERS.
Messrs,. Ricardo, 11, Angel-court, Throgmorton-street, E.C.
SOLICITORS.

Messrs. Ashurst, Morris, and Knight, 6, Old Jewry, E.C.
This Bank will be established under an exclusive conces-
sion from the Imperial Russian Government (limiting the
liability of the shareholders), with permission to open estab-
lishments in such cities and towns throughout the Russian
Empire as the Court of Directors may deem proper.
This Bank will ne the first established in the Russian Em-
pire on Eng-JBh principles of banking. In fact, in the interior
of Russia, with the exception of Moscovv, the e is virtually
no banking accommodation whatever; although, in order to
keep pace with the rapidly increasing production and com-
mercial development of the Russian Empire, banking facility
has become an absolute necessity.
The exports of Russia dur ng the last thirty-five years
have trebled in amount, and the average exports to England
alone, in the years IWO, 1861, and 1862, amounted to nearly
£14,000,000 sterling per annum.
The rate charged by the State Bank at the present moment
18 5i per sent., and in the open market the best mercantile
paper cannot be discounted under 7 per cent. When the high
standing of the firms engsg;ed in the Russian trade is borne
in in ml. it is evident that the St. Petersburgh trade alone
will yield a large profit to a well-regulated Bank; and when
it is remembered that in the interior interest rules (according
to districts) at ti om 8 to 15 per cent., it may fairly be assumed
that the prospects of this Bank are even better than tho'e of
the London Joint-Stock Banks, of which the four principal
have, as is well known., paid Dividends of from 15 to 24 per
cent, per annum on their paid-up Capital.
The Court of Directors will be formed from the most in-
fluential of the shareholders in accordance with the terms of
the preliminary concession already obtaned. No payment
Will be required nor liability incurred until the shares have
been duly allotted.
In the meantime applications in the annexed form will be
received by the Brokers, Messrs. Ricard 11, Angel-court,
Throgmorton-street. E.C. ; and at the Temporary Offices of
the Company, 69, Lombard-street, E.C., at both of which
places the forms may be obtained.
GEORGE WARD CHALLIS, Secretary, ad int.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Directors of the English and Russian Bank (Limited).
Gentlemen,--I request you to allot me shares in
the English and Russian Bank (Limited), and I hereby agree
to accept such shares, or any less number that may be allotted
to me, and I request you to place my name on the Register of
Shareholders in respect of the shares allotted me. on the
understanding that I come under no liability, fur preliminary
expenses or otherwise, until the Court of Directors has been
formed and the shares duly allotted.

I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
Name in full
Address in full
Reference
Date

THE LONDON AND LISBON CORK WOOI
COMPANY (LIMITED).

CAPITAL. £iCO,OO9, IN 20,000 SHARES OF £5 EACH.
Deposit on Application 10s. per Share, and £2 on Allotment.
No further call except at Three Months' Notice.

Incorporated under the Companies' Act, 1862, by which the
liability of each Shareholder is limited to the
amount or his Shares.

SIR HENRY J. LEEKE,DIRECTO K.C.B.,RS . K.H., M.P., Chairman,
London.
George Braginton, Esq., Director of the London and Pro-
vincial Marine Insurance Company, London
Thomas Cotterell, Esq., Director of the Bank of Hindostan,
China, and Japan, London.
William Loeder, Esq., Messrs. Loeder, Knapp, k Co., Mer-
chants, New Broad-street, London.
Michael Rimington. Esq., Banker, Torrington, London.
Count de Peniche, Peer of Portugal, K.C,
~ Jul, Member of
the Portuguese Legislature, Lisbon.
Viscount de Montforte, Peer of. Portugal, K.C.C., Member of
the Portue nese Legislaure, Lisbon
Viscount da. Praya, Peer oft Portugal, K.C.C., Member of the
Portuguese Legislature, Lisbon.
Sent. M.M. Couto. D'Alberga. Freyre, Counsellor to H.M.
the King of Portugal, ex-Member of the Cortes, K.C.C.,
K.T S., Managing Director in Portugal, Lisbon.
(With power to add to their Number.)
BANKERS.
Messrs. Barnett, Hoare& and Co., 62, Lombard-street.
SOLICITORS. Messrs. Lumley and Lumley, 2,
SECRETARY.
Moorgate-street Bank.
Samuel Oldfleld, Esq.
Joseph Sebag, Es q., IBROKER.
2, Throgmorton-street, Bank.
AUDITORS.
Messr& Johnstone, Cooper, Wintle and Co., 5, LothbllrY•
12, OFFICES.
This Cora St. Benet's-place, Gracechurch-street.
pany is f
tugal, to carry on th°e Coe tinder the highest auspices in Pot-
Vantages that hitherto Trade on a large scale, with ad-
The Directors hay have never been combined.
terms of years, on hive a large monopoly in supply for
most renowned Corkapsersodeiending over the largest and grant the sole right to take &erlnti district& These Leases
lug as many as 15,000 to 30,0 0 Cork Trees, forests, some contain-
rees, in the districts of
Montemor, Evora, Arraiollos, Es re z. Portel, Vianna, and
Fronteira, in the province of Aleni-r
Jo.
The title and extent of these Leases have been ver fled by
an independent agent at Lisbon deputdd by the Solicitors of
a London Bank.
The South-Eastern Railway of Portugal will place this
large district of Cork-producing country in immediate com-
munication with the Port of Lisbon. The Rkilwav is open
to Vendas Nevas, and is about to be opened to St. Jago, and
in the present year the Branch Lines to Evora and Beja will
also be completed.
The Directors have s df r 96years ample land ad' •
Lug the It ii 'Cllre o JOin-
a way Juncti necessary or the erection of
vvarehooses d
'the Cork Tradeaother Buildings.
strumentallt
yoffiles at present carried • n through the in-
igraveos, persons who, travelling fr, in
forest to forest,purchAa
at great labour and exer the ground parcels of Cork,which, places, where it is prepParedeiotheY carry to Lisbon and ..ther
export The money for these
purchases is usually borrow dr
e y them at high rates of in-
terest, frequently at 20 to 30 pe
increasing the cost of the Cork 4 etehnits.,ithereby considerably
The waste attending the preparationarelem of expense.e
the. Cork for the
market is about one-half. The Company having large dis-
tricts of Cork Forest, with a central depot at •
the Railway
Junction at St. Jago, and the establishments in
the heart of
this Cora-producing country, already in full work, at Azarnj a,
Igrejinha, Alcacovas, and Portel, will be enabled to effect a
large saving in the waste and transport alone, as t he cost of
carrying Cork to the chief preparing and shipping ports, in a
rough state, adds very considerably to the first Cork in the Forests, and the cos of the
present large waste in prepar-
ing the Cork will be very greatly reduced in the amount.
The For eats sewed by this Company now produce with
the inadeiluate and imperfict means hitherto employed, the
eestimated annual value of £12,500, in marketable Cork, as
stablished by the average shipments of the produce during
four years, and which it is calcuated will be in-
creased by the superior available means of I
the Company to
at least double the amount formerly obtained. The demand
and consumption of Cr rk in England has increasedsince
the
year 1848 three hundred pe
beycmcl the actual in
ans per cent., and is still increasing far
supply, thus offering a certain
basis for the pretitabele ern Ol rent of capital.
The Directors have sel7
estimated at 1,100 tonsured,which"
its year'sj crop of Raw Cork,
therefore enabled to commence busnePsrepaatration, and are
sales of Cork which have already been ( fresctedfilloente'illinedc five
pany's Stock, consisting of about 170 tons have realised
about £4,390 net, in addition to which a cargo Doi tone, ex
steamer Mavrocordatus, arrived at the Londoncks on the 15th of May.
for the whole of the Leases, togetoion
h
The Purchase Money
al, and the last year's
with the Plant in Portugal,
will not exceed X36,00-o
ang market,
f
Cork, now preparing for
Of this £B,lOO only being
less than the estimated value er
Cork in hand, will be paid for in
cash, the remainder is to b
the Co rupany'S Plant and
eak
en in Shares of the Company
half-paid up, with the same liability for calls as all °thee
Shares.
following statement for the
The Directors will submit the
the
result.
first year, with the greatest confidence ence in
Months
The pi esent Crop will produce in London, within Six
At least 500 tons of Cork, of an average value
of £3O per ton Gross £15,000 0 0
At a cost of—For Labour
in Portugal,£3,ooo 0 0
~ Part Rent 4OO 0 0
~ Freight and Landing 2,000 0 0
~ Rent, Salaries, &c l,lOO 0 0

--- 6,500 0 0

Estimated Commission on £8,500 0 0
Consienments expected by the
callEe
Company, sa £1,500.
called uualp to 10i per cont. upon the entire Capital about to be
The advantages posses-ed by this Company are-
1. Tof Country.he exclusive right of taking Cork over a vast extent
2. 'I he co-operation of the Landed Proprietors, Members
of the Foreign Direction.
3. The present Crop of 500 tons, which is coming forward
ha ve
1 rr,m
already arrived in London and elsewhere) ; and
at the first Public Sale of a part thereof; by Mr. T.
SIDNEY SMITE, of No. 42, Lombard-street, it realised
considerably mere than the Price s
rectors in the above Statement. fated by the Di-
The- chief management of the affairs of this Company will
be vested in the Directors in London, and subject to the fu-
ture control of the 'Shareholders.
The Foreign Directors have stipulated that not less than
10 000 of the Shares (but including those Laid on purchase ac-
coUnt)s hall be offered for allotment to Subscribers in Portugal.
If no allotment be made the deposits will be returned in full.
Applications for Shares must bemade in the Form anneXed
and accompanied by a Banker's Draft or
to the Prospectus,
cheque upon a Banker, for a deposit of 10s. per share.
of Application for Shares maybe
Prospectuses and Fornis
~._
obtained at the offices of the Company, also of the Solicitors
and Brokers of the Company,