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London, England, 1859-04-14 00:00:00

NATIONAL - PROVINCIAL BANK OF
ENGLAND,
112, Bishopsgate-street, London.
April 13, 1859.
The Directors of the National Provincial Bank of England
Hereby Give Notice, that the ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING of the Proprietors of this Society will be held on
THURSDAY, the 12th day of May next, at the hour of
Twelve, precisely, at the Company's House, No. 112, Bishops-
gate-street, in the city of London.
By order of the Court of Directors,
DAN. ROBERTSON, gent and Manager.
N.B.—The Chair will be taken at 12 o'clock precisely, not
12 for 1 o'clock.

OXFORD and CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
BOAT RACE, FRIDAY, 15th APRIL.
SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.
Frequent Trains will Run during the Day between Water-
loo-bridge, and Vauxhall Stations, and Putney, Barnes, and
Mortlake,

EPSOM SPRING RACES.—GREAT
METROPOLITAN STAKES.—FRIDAY, April 15,
1859.—The Shortest Route to Epsom is from the Waterloo-
bridge Station, by the SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.
Frequent Trains will run during the day. Ordinary Fares
will be charged down to Epsom till 11.15 a.m., and up from
Epsom after 7 p.m.
Single Journey-Ist Class, 2s. 3d. ;2d Class, ls. 9d. ;3d Class,
ls. 2d.
Return Tickets—lst Class, 3s. ; 2d Class, 2s. 6d. ; 3d Class, 2s.
Passengers holding these Return Tickets cannot return
Epsom until after 7 p.m. -
Additional Special Trains will run from Waterloo-bridge to
Epsom from 11.30 a.m. till 1.20 p.m. ; returning from Epsom
from 3.30 p.m. till 7 p.m. During which time the ordinary
trains will be suspended.
Fares, by these additional trains, to Epsom and back,
78. 6d. ; to or from Epsom, 4s.
No particular class of carriage can be guaranteed.
A Special Direct Train will leave Waterloo-bridge Station
at 1.50 p.m. punchially, and will arrive at Epsom in time for
parties to reach the Course for the Great Metropolitan Race.
Steam Boats call at Waterloo-bridge and Tfungerford-
bridge, going up or down the river nearly every five minutes.
Tickets may be procured on and after Wednesday, at
Messrs. Tattersalls ; the Universal Office, Regent-circus ;
Griffin's Green Man and Still, Oxford-street ; Golden Cross,
Charing-cross ; 53, Icing William-street, City ; the Swan-
Two-necks, Gresham-street, City ; and Waterloo-bridge sta-
tion.
By order,
Waterloo-bridge Station, April, 1859.

INDIA OFFICE, 13th April, 1859.
IT been brought to the notice of the
Secretary of State for India, in Council, that inconve-
nience may result from the payment of so large an instalment
as 50 per cent. of the Indian Loan on the 3d of May, and also
that Tuesday, the 19th instant, is observed as 'a holiday by a
portion of the community, the following amended advertise-
ment is issued in substitution of that dated the 11th in-
stant :

The Secretary of State for India, In Council, gives
notice that he will be prepared, at or before twelve
o'clock, on THURSDAY, the 21st instant, to receive
tenders for a loan of £7,000,000, for seven years; on secu-
rity of debentures (transferable either by the delivery of
the debentures respectively, or by deed), to be issued under
the provisions of the Act 22d Victoria, cap. 11, such deben-
tures to be of the respective amounts of £l,OOO and £5OO, and
to bear interest at the rate of four per cent. per annum, pay-
able by coupons attached, half-yearly, at the Treasury at this
Office, on the 16th August and the 16th February in each
year.

Holders of the debentures will have the option of claiming
Payment at par at the expiration of five years, from the 16th
August next, on giving one year's previous notice.
The tenders to be for sums of not less than £5OO, and to
state how much will be given for every £lOO of the said loan.
The tenders are to be delivered in, sealed, at the Treasury,
at this office, and to specify the debentures required, whether
transferable by delivery, or by deed, and the proportions of
each denomination of debentures.

A deposit of two per cent. upon the amount tendered must
at the same time be paid, to be returned in the event of the
tender not being accepted ; and parties tendering must be
careful not to enclose the deposit in the sealed tender.
So much of the amount tendered to be paid to the Secretary
of Statefor India in Council on the 6th May, 1859, as will leave
75 per cent. of the capital to be paid as under, viz. :-
25 per cent. on the 14th June, 1859, '
25 percent. on the 19th July, 1859,
'25-per cent. on the 16th August, 1859,
from which dates the interest of 4 per cent. per annum upon
the respective instalments will be calculated ; but parties who
so desire may pay up in full, aad will be allowed a discount at
the rate of 3 per cent. per annum upon the anticipated pay-
ments.

In cases of equality of tenders beyond the amount required
they will be subject to a pro rata diminution.
Scrip receipts will be given to the parties entitled, to be de-
livered up in exchange for the debentures when prepared.
No tender will be received after 12 o'clock on the said 21st
day of April, nor unless upon a printed form, which may be
obtained at the Accountant-General's department of this
office, or of Mr. Henry Scott, 16, Throgmorton-street _ _

J. tOSMO MELVILL.

NATIONAL FLAX COMPANY (Limited).—
Capital £200,000, in 200,000 shares, of £1 each. ss. to be
paid on application, ss. within three months from allotment,
and the remainder as the Directors may require it, in two
payments of ss. each.

TR USTEES.
henry Fenton. Jadis, Esq., Comptroller of Corn Returns,
Board of Trade.
J. T. Croft, Esq., 15, Regent-street, S.W.

DIRECTORS.
President—Sir John Dorat, Vice-Pres. R.S.L.
John Deddoe, Esq., Lickhill, near Stourpourt, Worcester-
shire.
J. T. Croft, Esq., 15, Regent-street, S.W.
Lieutenant-Colonel C. E. Dering, 47. York-street, Portman-
square, W.
Frederick Hamilton, Esq. Gresham-house, E.C.
T. E. Marshild, Esq., Ps.11:!nall, S.W.

Wallace Peddei, Esq., Wadhurst,SUWsez.
George Thornton, Esq., C.E., &c., 25, Queen's-road,
Regent's-park, N.W.
Standing Counsel—P. MacChombalch de Colquhonn, Esq.,
LL.D., &c., 3, Hare-court, Temple.
Bankers—Messrs. Heywood, Kennards, and Co., 4, Lombard-
street, E.C.
Solicitor—Mr. Vaughan Prance, 37, New Bridge-street, E.C.
kng-ineer—Mr.G. L. Fuller, C.E., 69, Lombard-street, E.C.

Secretarv--Mr. John H.' Powell.
Offices, 193, Gresham House, Old Broad-street, London, E.C.

ABSTRACT OF PROSPECTUS.

It has been for some years pasta matter ofnotoriety that
nritish and Irish linen manufactures, and also manufacturers
Of hempen goods, have materially suffered from a deficient
supply of flax and hemp. This state of deficient supply arises
from the fact that the cultivation of flax in Great Britain has
materially decreased instead of increased with the growing,
requirements of our linen manufactures. Our national com-
mercial statistics show that, out of 150,000 tons of flax annu-
ally consumed in the United Kingdom, not more than 50,000
tons are of home growth. In addition to this enormous im-
portation of flax for our linen manufactures, we have also im-
ported hundreds of thousands of quarters of linseed every
year for home consumption.
The linen manufacturers of the. United Kingdom have de-
clared that they are ready to take any quantity which can
be grown at home, and at such prices as will be more remu-
nerative to the agriculturist than the usual produce of his
lands.
The promoters of the National Flax Company are prepared
to prove to the agriculturists of this country that no more
profitable crop can be cultivated than that of flax, whenever
their system of rettories, and improved mechanical treatment
of flax fibre, shall be adopted in the localities of its growth.
The main feature of the Company's plan is, that it will take the
trouble of preparing the flax for market entirely off the hands
of the grower, by becoming the purchasers of the crop. and
thus leaving the grower entirely free from the hazards of bad
harvesting weather, and at the same time ensuring him a
certain handsome profitable return for all the flax he can
produce and deliver to the Company's depots and rettories.
The Company's operations will also embrace the whole of the,
requisite processs of preparing the flax and similar fibrous
substances ready for the spinner.
The system of preparation adopted by this Company is the
subject of a patent, the invention of Mr. George Albemarle
Cator, a gentleman who has made the cultivation of flax and
its preparation for the spinner his especial study for many
Years past, he having fully demonstrated the great economy
of labour and the very great improvement of the quality of
the flax fibre, which is the result of his improved system of
11ax preparation. The system will be found fully detailed in
the "Explanatory Pamphlet on Flax• Cultivation and Prepa-
ration," to be had free from the Secretary of the Company
and its aents in which will also be found an exposition of
the greatimportance of the home cultivation of flax, as in-
Suring a regular supply of raw material to the very impor-
tant national manufacture of linen and hempen goods ; half
Stuff for papermakers ; and of the importance of the seed for
linseed oil and oilcake.
As an example of the intended operations of the Company,
the following is quoted from the full prospectus of the Com-
pany:—
By rettories will be understood establishments where the
preparation of flax fibre from the raw plant for the spinner
and manufacturer will be carried out through all its stages.
It is estimated that two rettories, on the scale proposed as
the base of operations, will require eight patent machines,
and if constantly at work for, say, 309 days in the year, will
produce annually 1,200 tons of flax fibre, 7,500 quarters of
linseed, and 900 tons of tows ; and, allowing £5O per ton to
be obtained for the flax fibre, 565. per quarter for the lin-
seed, and £5 per ton for the tows, there is a gross yield of
£85,500.

Assuming that it will take as much as 10 tons of flax straw
unseeded to produce one ton of flax fibre, at a cost of £4 per
ton, and £lB per ton of fibre for all expenses, the total outlay
will be £69,000, leaving a balance to be divided of £15,900, or
nearly 30 per cent. upon £55,000 (the cost of the buildings,
plant, and machinery, together with a sufficient working
capital for two rettories), which is wholly irrespective of the
dividend that may be expected from license dues from other
rettories ; and, as the operations of the Company are ex-
tended, the dividends will be in proportion.
The peculiar advantages of Selby, in Yorkshire, and the sur-
rounding flax-growing districts, have decided the Company on
estab'ishing their first rettoorT the neighbourhood
ill.
A prospective enterprise
vatioo Of flax on the reclaimable hindosm, or which inngtlleeUTited
Kingdom there are some millions of acres, it is considered the
Company
may beneficially turn its attention to the acquire-
ment, in due course, of an available property in such lands.
The National Flax Company will, by increasing the culti-
vation of flax in the !eostr growing districts, tend to encou-
population of other parts of the country to acquire
rage the
the requisite knowledge of an industrial resource, by which
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All considered, the circumstances of the t
establish the proseof a new
and a most valuable the to the
'during- producers of the United
branch of business
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develop
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her prosperity.
Copies of the prospectus, and all further information, may
be obtained at the offices of the Company, 193, Gresham-
house, City.

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