iio RECOLLECTIONS OF FORTY YEARS. 



risky character of a company which has not got that 

 wonderful firman which England alone prevents being 

 issued, and by asserting that the company is irre- 

 gular in its constitution because Great Britain and 

 other countries are not among the subscribers. 



" My report to the Viceroy, dated December 31st, 

 1858, has given him a full account of the board meet- 

 ings held since the constitution of the company was 

 duly declared. His Highness having wished that the 

 French investments should not much exceed one-half 

 of the whole, in order that the company might, so far 

 as possible, maintain its universal character, we have 

 fixed the total number of shares as follows : 



Name of Country. Number of Shares. 



France 207,111 



Ottoman Empire (inclusive of the Viceroy's 



personal investment) ..... 96,517 



Spain 4,046 



Holland 2,615 



Tunis . 1,714 



Piedmont . 1,353 



Switzerland 460 



Belgium 324 



Tuscany 176 



Naples 97 



Home ........ 54 



Prussia 15 



Denmark ....... 7 



Portugal ....... 5 



Sums held in reserve for the subscriptions from 

 Austria, Great Britain, Kussia, and the Uni- 

 ted States, which the Viceroy authorizes me 



to guarantee for him should they not be taken 85, 506 



Total number of Shares forming the capital of 



the Company 400,000 



