The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-10 00:00:00

THE ALLIANCE BANK.

A meeting of the proprietors of the Alliance Bank
was held yesterday at the London Tavern. Mr. Stokes
(the gerant) said that the company being a French one,
the usual meetings of the shareholders were held in
Paris ; but it was felt by the English members of the
direction that the English shareholders should be made
aware of the position and prospects of the undertaking,
and that they should be consulted as to the course it
would hi wise to pursue. This had been made more
particularly apparent by a meeting of a particular clasQ
of shareholders, held a short time since, from which
others of the shareholders were excluded. It was well
known that the bank had been established for the pur-
pose of tking advantage of the favourable opportunities
for the employment of capital arising from the growing
commercial intercouse between London and Paris, and
the progress of civilisation in Turkey. ,Had the com-
pany been formed as an English one, it would have been
necessary to have had shares of 1001. each, with 501.
paid up, with a liability of a caq for the remaining 50/. ;
whereas, by making it is French company they were
able to make the shares of 201. each, without any lia
bility when the whole of that amount should be called
up. The company's operations had hitherto been prin-
cipally confined between Paris and London, for they
had only very lately commenced doing business at Con-
stantinople, and had not results on that subject to pre-
sent to the shareholders. The most simple operations
of business between Paris and London had been in the
exchanges, which Afforded a profit of something like
201. 16s. per cent, interest, without any risk whatever.
Tbey bad also carried business on at Paris in an ordinary
way of banking, and instead of paying the usual com-
mission had eff-eted operations at a reduced rate; They
had also realised more than 1,0001. in aiding new
companies in France to bring their objects before the
public of this country. The accounts of the bank to
the 30th June would, of course, be laid before the
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7,8151. 12s. The preliminary expenses, the payment of
which would be extended over three or four year:. were

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holders with whom they had 'consulted were of °pinto,
that at the present moment, when there were calls to
the extent of 12,0001. in arrear—and that in a new con-
cern of three or four months only—it would be unwi▪
se
to declare a divide nd ; that it would be taking money
out of a concern, when, to make it as profitable as its
plan of operation was well calculated to make it, more
capital should be embarked. The directors were desi▪
r-
ous of an expression of feeling on the part of the meet-
,ng as to the advisability of forfeiting the shares which
had not been paid up, and they also wished the share-
holders to nominate from among themselves gentlemen
who might be deemed eligible to fill the vacant seats at
the b.)ald. In answer to questions from shareholders,
it was stated that 4,500 shares had been taken in Francs.
The number of shires was 10,000, of which 1,950 were
held by the directors and a lame number by their im-
mediate friends. About 88,0001. has been paid up. It
was further stated by Mr. Stokes that be has the certi-
ficate, in the Emperor's own writing, that the position
of the company is regular as to limitation of liability,
and that they have power to carry on every operation
as (what is called in Parik) a "credit cornpqny." It vasunarrmously resolved that the shareholders present,
notwithstanding the gratification they felt at the profit
realised during.the few months of the bank's operations,
as shown by the figures submitted, were of opinion that
it would be inexpedient to declare a dividend at present,
and therefore recommended to the council an adjourn-
ment of the dividend until the end of the year. A reso-
lution was passed, expressing the opinion
off' the share-
holders that the ebares on which the calls are not paid
by the ist of August next ought to be forfeited. Mr.
C. Turner and Mr. Rotherham, of Liverpool, were una-
nimously solicited to become candidates for the direc-
t:—

THE SARDINIAN ARMY.—The following details of the
losses of the Piedmontese army in the Crimea are official.
The Piedmontese army in the East was; augmented by
successive reinforcements to 17,584 men. Up to the
31st of October, 1355, it lost 1,632 men, of wl4om 1,211
died of cholera, 170 typhus fever, and 2,51 from wounds
and other causes. Of this number 56 were officers, 18
employes in the commissariat, and 1,563 rank and file.
The official returns from the 31st of October to the time
of the evacuation are not yet completely made up, but
the loss may be estimated at 900 ; so that the total loss
of the Piedmontese army engaged in the war will be
about 2,532 men.—Express.

great Majendie admits int one of his lee-
SCIENCE GLORIOUSLY APPLIED. —SUIe ?BRING CHANGED
yet done, little to check
td
He says that with all their knowledge they
are groping in the dark. Why is this ? Simply be-
cause they have not discovered a key to the causes of
the maladies they seek to cure. Herein, it mould seem,
Professor Holloway has surpassed them all. Instead of
trusting to a hap-hazard exhibition of rtereotyped pre-
parations, he sought in the disordered human organisa-
tion the secret source of its condition. Lie found in it
that ruddy fluid which is the element of every organ,
and he knew that if the poison in that element were dis
charged or neutralised, the body which it fed, renewed
and sustained, would be restored to health. He sue.'
ceeded in discovering and combining vegetable antidotes
which were equal to the task. This was the origin,
twenty years ago, of his famous Pills
,and Ointment
Now the world rings with their fame. Disease is met
and vanquished, whether developed int!rnally or on the
surface. His medicines break up the magazine of
poison in the spletn, and, like the heads of the Hydra
when out from the pestiferous holy, the disorders die
for want of sustenance. This we understand to be the
philosophy of the operation of Hollow ay's Pills and`
Ointment. What are honours, entolutnent, applause,
to the man who has wrung from animated nature the
secret of the origin of disease, and from the vegetable
kingdom the means of arresting all disc area at the foun-
tain head ?