The Express. — London, England, 1857-07-14 00:00:00

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A COIIIIAL COCA/Cm.—TICTIMS I —TON FIRST AAD AZOOND SLOW.. -AM VII 01.1111.ANZAIL—Cam can At J. PRINCIAITP. Two &sum LI VING TOO VAST. -Aad SLATER. lir. C. UAL -Dons oir= .Inie•fsdA ont AUNT. TAN twaile. DONN It UDC LA. Mom A. DMA, C. Dynakis4 A. Coate • Mir Lusa and -NITNNNKLY P 11.34.141. Mr. fibogiberd • Nis Nberaft-Aad THII IMPEIOH AND TBI 111L.11.-Conrece al I. lb NIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Afternoon. 71. Ala-- Afternoon Ss. a. LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 14. Ws are not alarmists ; but we must confess that the detailed news from India is of a graver com plexion than the telegraphic messages had led us to expect. What those persons can mean who state that "the crisis is looked upon as past" is beyond oar comprehension. That the mutiny will be put down we hope and believe ; but it has still to be put down, and its suppression will cost both blood and treasure. Thirty-two regiments of the Bengal army, with some companies of Artillery and Sappers and Miners, have mutinied. The insurgent force in Delhi is not composed exclusively of the Meerut mutineers, and the native troops stationed at Delhi, which made common cause with them. They have been joined by revolted regiments from Nusseerabad, Ferozepore, and elsewhere. This force has not been driven within the walls after one defeat only they have repeatedly ventured out to give battle to the assailants. Nor is Delhi the only point at which mutiny obstinately holds its ground. Although quelled at first at Lucknow, it bas since broken out there with greater violence ; and Cawopore, at the time of the latest despatches , was held in a state of siege by mutineers. The disbanded men and deserters, too, form an element of mischief calculated to awaken scarcely lees anxiety than the banded insurgents actually in some. They are disseminating themselves through the country, apparently with the design to foster and inflame any local discontents that they may find existing among the ryots. Some straggling parties are reported to have made their way to the neigh bourhood of Nagpore. If any considerable number of them can contrive to penetrate into the NIZ AM'S country, they may there find ample means of mis chief ready to their hands. An impression, we know, prevails among many experienced Indian officers that though the outbreak has been ostensibly provoked by the fears of the /Bodo° Sepoys that Government intended to assail the distinctions of caste, it will be found that the Ilindoos have been mere cat's-paws of Mabometan conspirators. How this may be we cannot pretend to say ; but months ago we were shown letters front a respectable Ma- Itometan native of the North-west Province, in which he expressed serious alarm on the score of secret machinations among his co-religionists; and the simultaneous movement of so many regiments upon and the proclamation of a King of Delhi. all point to one and the same conclusion. We will await with patience the publication of the papers promised by Lord PALM EASTON. We agree with the noble lord, that whet Government is called upon to publish is facts, not speculations. We trust, however, that full narratives of facts will be pub lished, and that the story will be taken up at the earliest indications of a mutinous spirit. There is reason to believe that the Barrackpore outbreak was not the first visible symptom of a bad spirit pervading the Bengal army. SiR ROBERT CARDEN deserves great credit for the exertions he is making to expose the nefarious proceedings of the Betting Offices. As most of our readers are aware, these mischievous establishments .. , are placed under the ban of a ecru stringent law. It was but the other day that one Meane,the ma. sager of an establishment of this description, most properly sentenced, by that able and vigorous magistrate the Recorder of London, to three months' imprisonment, for the proved offence of keeping open an office of the kind. It will immediately suggest itself that some strong motive must exist for inducing men to I carry on a traffic thus dangerous—a traffic in which the chances of detection are so numerous, and the consequences of detection so serious. A strong motive does exist—that motive of filthy lucre which is constantly found to lead men who live below the surface of public opinion, to look down upon the penal awards of law. In the case of this man Meaux - , it appeared from the statement of Mr. --unpins, who was retained to lead the prosecution, that is the short period of ten months the defendant had paid no less than 15,0001. into the Union Bank of I.on. don, and had drawn out only 8001. To men who have adopted as their rule of life the Horatian maxim, smoeurogue mods rem, a banker's balance of 14,2001. as the net profit of less than a year's professional industry, will, of course, far outweigh the brief ignominy of three months' hard labour. The enormous amount of these flagitious gains indicates, with lamentable cogency, the wide spread of the social diocese on which these men flourish They are the middlemen between the dopes and the blacklegs--the bankers of that licensed hell, " the Turf," which is at the present moment the source and the scene of more widespread ruin this any other temple which the folly of Ineffildnd has dedicated to the spirit of ipadation. The miserable feature of this Turf gambling is that it now spreads through all ranks and theses of society—nay, that it finds its mod anima votaries among those whose position is Ur mat dependent and whose means am the ma* pumarious. In the North of England, when tin bear his spread more fatally than anywhere else, there is scarcely a village to be found without its betting club ; and it has long been notorious that more money changes hands on any given Turf event" among the artisans of Manchester than among all the lordly patrons of the Jockey Clab. The disease is moreover spreading rapidly. Already the 16 THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY BYgNING, JULY 14, 1857. THE QUERN AT 8111NCER HOUSII. The.. Queen beamed the Earl and Countries Spencer with promos at a bell even at Spencer Reuss last even*. ' her MeMsty, who strived at twenty &settee atter tea o'clock, entered resting on the arm of the Xing of the Bel gians, the Earl Spencer conducting the Princess Charlotte of Belginm, and the Prime Consort leading the Commas. Spencer. The Princess Royal followed with Prince Frederick William of Prussia. After the tape of s few moments the Queen ascended to the bell-room, the bend playing the National Anthem. The foreign Ambassadors end Ministers awaited her Ma kayos arrival in brilliantly-decorated uniforms opposite the dais, and were graciously acknowledged by the Sove reign. The Queen having takes Me seat upon the chair of state, the ether royal personages present assumed places on either side of her Majesty, who fur moms moments engaged in an animated conversation with Countess Spencer the Prime Cosiest meantime passing round the room, awl graciously saluting the principal Wise present. At • given intimation from the Lord Chamberlain, the first quadrille was formed, liar Majesty leading of with the Earl Spencer, and the Prince Consort dancing with the Counters Spencer. The following danced in the same set :—Prince Frederick William of Prawn and the Princess Charlotte of Belgium, Count of Madera end the Princess Royal, Lord Althorp and the Primer. Mary, Prince Edward of Sete- Weimar and the Duchess of Manchester, the French Amble. 'odor and Madame Van de Weyer, Count Chotek and the Countess Peraigny, Duke of Manchester and Lady Louisa Hamilton, Mr. Thrum end the Marchioness of Staffer', Viscount Cutlerosae and Lady Clementine Villiers, Captain Seymour and Lady Cecilia Molyncus. Another quadrille having intervened, her Majesty com mended a third sat, and this time gave her hand to the Prince Frederick William of Prase* thu Prince Consort dancing with the Duchess of Wellington, the Earl Spencer with the Princess Charlotte of Belgium, Lord Althorp with the Princess Edward of Same Weimar, the Duke of Man chester with the Countess Peraigny, and Captain Seymour with the Duchess of Manchester. The ball now became general, her Mejeaty remaining anted on the dais, and occmionally joining in the dance. At midnight the Queen was conducted by the Earl and Counteae Spencer to the banqueting-room, where a grand supper was served on gold plate. Her Itiejeety retired shortly Wore one o'clock, attended, as oa her snivel, by the Earl and Countess Spencer, who, before the royal departure, received the Queen's gracious acknowledgments for the magnificent file provided for the entertahusent of her Majesty and her illustrious relatives. The festivities of the evening ware kept up some time after the Queen had taken her departure. ELECTION COJIMITTEEE-(THIS 1241%) LAMBETH. The committee met this morning at 11 o'clock, Mr. Ingham in the chair, when The examination of Mr. Truman wax resumed by Mr. N. James—lle raid that a central committee was held at the Elephant and Coatle,Vaniball, in row:melon with which there were several otheet, but the general committee at the Horne Tavern did not recognise the chairman of any sub-committee. As he said yesterday everybody who was paid was paid a• • canvasser only. In cross-examination he said that the system punned at the recent election for Lambeth had been suggested by him, and it was the duty of the canvas., to return the names of thine voters who had promised to vote fur Wilk neon as well as Hoard'. Their find proceeding was to send cinadare to upward. of 22,000 elector., and the postage ripener., he. on the fleet lot amounted to 1001. Many of them were returned in coneequenee of wrong add...ea In re-examination the esdnees was preascd very ninth to say why the weeds chairmen and cleric were printed on the pay sheets, but all that could be got from him was, that at the time they were printed it was imagined that there would be • committee and chairman at each, but afterwards when it was found that that was not the case, it was not thought necetwary to alter the sheets. By thee...mines—He elwnye C0118111•Ted that Morrie win chief superintendent mavenser at the Beehive, and ho could not captain bow it was that he stated that he was em ployed eleven days, only two of which be was employed in =yawing. On being farther questioned, he ad mitted that he had draws out the fain of the pay-sheets before be had read the Corrupt Prac tices at Elections het, end consequently heftere he knew that employing chairmen at committees was illegal. No doubt the persona who eigned as charceen were appointed as chief canvassers they called bin the bead of the canvassers. They could not have earlier, on the canvimaing of a large and populous borough like Lambeth without having these committees, and it would have hen difficult to have ma naged them properly without a proper head, although the general cemenittee looked very sharp after them. Mr. ltd. Barton, the recognised agent of Mr. ROO pat, was then re-called, and his reideve having been read over to him he was examined by Mr. Ballantine, when he mid that a general authonty was given to Truman to draw cheques, which were afterwards examined by the central committee. He was closely examined SS to what he expected to get from Mr. Rowell for managing the election, but stated that no conversation haul taken place betwee•hice. self and the hon. member en the eubjeet ; the time had gone by when he could send in any legal charge. Crom.exunined by Mr. Johnetone—The house which were taken for the purpose of phicarding over were not taken to secure the votes of the Dore/dere; that considend ion did not operete In the minds of thee who took them. All three candidates had committee-rmene at the Horne. Mr. Iteupell'e party were late in the field NIA got the mast morn. The Park Tavern was only engaged for clerks, because they lied no room at the Horne. They paid no more than waif cuatenoiry at the Berns, but it was a very expensive place. All the other houses were racist resennable in their charge. Ile had never interfered in election, before. Mr. Emmen whaled the thing to be properly done ; be said that be should like to have a good canvass, and to be re turned by as large a majority as possible. The Chairman said he wished it to be understood that the charge of treating had been entirely abandoned, and it was duo to the rotting member to say that the "opening" of public-bon... merely referred to Site opening of the outride, if he might use the expression. They were evidently en gaged only fur the convenience of the canvesaing or for the purpose of pealing bill., on them. The examination was preetediug when our report left. BURY ST. EDMUNDS. This election committee met this morning at 12 o'clock when Mr. James proceeded to reply upon the whole case for the petitioner. Ile contended that the 'Regan°ns in the petition had been eulestantially proved and that not a particle of the evidence brought forward by the sitting member con tradicted that of the petitioner. It was atun.l.nty shown that the pitting member, by his agent., had not only been guilty of bribery, but bribery and corruption of the worst and moat degrading description. ]Left speaking.] BATII. nix election committee met ngoin thin morning at eleven o'clock, snd proceeded with ILe scrutiny, but although a pest deal of diseuroion hap been going on all the morning, yet up to the time we went to preen not a Fines vote on either rade hod been struck off, ro that the sitting member and the petitioner remain in precisely the Amur position as they were left loot night, when tho number of votes for each won decimal to be equal. MAYO. - - - - - - • The committee met to-day at one n clerk. and remained in deliberation with cloned doors up to the time of our going to mesa The excitement manifested by the public to beer the derision wee crituiderable, end the lobby has been crowded with eager expectant' all the otorsisg. REM sYR iTION 01 , VOTF.Rs.—The Wordminater Metal R.ry istntion Society have issued a report of their laid year'• pronedings. They state that in the last year's re vision they sustained 375 objections and 38 claims, and that nothing has been done in connexion with the registration in cept by theamelvey They expires their belief that the recent return of their parent member, was mainly owing to a proper attention to the register. Attention is celled to the excessive charges made by Rome of the parochial of for making out lists, and which can only be prevented by at • tending before the reeking barrieter, as neither the rate payers nor the poor law auditor have any control after the revising barrister has eertitkd the accounts. The co mmittee have issued the following important notice, which ie equally applicable to all pirliamentary boroughs •—" Wistniinster ltegistration„—The liberal electors of Westminater are in formed that, in order to have their names placed on the list of voters for the ensuing year. it is neeemary to pay on or before the 20th of July inst. all peer rates and hours tax that became payable on orbefore the sth of January last. The quarter's house tax due at Christmas last must be paid on or before July 20th, although the same may not have been demanded. Forms of claims and any Information may be had of Mr. GILOWIE 111:00ETT, 4, Besurortthuildings, Strand. THE EIRIBITION OT ART TREASURES.—Prinre Louis Napoleon and suite visited Manchester yesterday, by the express train from Liverpool, which arrived at 12.30. The Mayor (Sir James Watts), the Town Clerk, and General Sir Harry Smith were in waiting, with carriages, and con veyed hie royal highness to the Queen's Hotel, where he had lunch, sad than proceeded to the Exhibition of Art Treasures, where he arrived at 10 minutea before 2 o'clock. The Prince was received by several member, of the committee, and was ' conducted through the principal galleries. He is expected to remain at the Queen's Hotel, Manchester, until Thursday. The King of the Belgian. is expected at Manchester en Wed• nestlay, and will alai stay at the Queen's Hotel. Amongst the , Mors et the Exhibition yesterday was Mr. Ruskin. Them was a good attendance; orreval special mine from the POtklieN Birmingham, and other places, haring brought a large number of persons. South disputes with the North its bad pre-eminence, and the records of our metropolitan police mule present an abundant crop of grooms, butlers, appren_ ticee, and clerks, driven by stress of odds to pawn their muter" plate or embezzle their employers' cash in the vain hope of making things even on the Derby or the Chester Cup, and so tiding matters over till that great stroke of fortune comes which shall make them the winners of thousands on the "Great Ebor Handi cap," or the " Doncaster St. Leger." There are darker consequences than even these. The self-murder that results from the despair of paying up these w elled debts of honour has ceased to be an aristo cratic crime. The remorse of the gambler, with all its frightful consequences, has passed lower and wad wider ; the " humble annals of the poor " can show tragedies once peculiar to the aristocratic hahituds of St. James's and the exclusive frequenters of "the Corner." In a word, the de scaelisation is vast, and its consequences pernicious; *skims of the public are enormous, and the gains of those who feed upon them proportionally great. The particular form of this widespread evil which Sir ROBERT CARDEN has been desirous of bringing prominently before the public, is the mode taken by the heads of the betting establishments for 'overtly advertising their abominable traffic among I thew most likely to be seduced into encouraging it. It seems that "the firms" have an organised system et circulars, which they take good care shall be weal u widely as possible among clerks, appme• lies% footmen, and, in short, all the lower grades et the flesh, the fast, and the feeble. Here is a spa& taco et one of these infamous incentives to reit t Doe ter,—lt is unnecessary for us to recapitulate our loom for adopting the mine mime over the Liverpool Cup, **Goodwood Cup, and the Great Ebor Handicap, which ha lieu attended with so much advantage over the mime ease Ina Suffice it to my that we are repined be bait do aleeddis winner of each of the above eveedeond ye Wotan milled moment of apprising you in ceder dot rang remit the sernutt you wish to invest. ri soon,/ re yly renowned you to invest libr.nlly ; the *Mb wilt k wry yea. To secure these odds you must reply imedlately, sad by return of post particulars will he ilua• The Ebor Handicap acceptances not yet being out well ruble you to get excellent odds, and the hone will start ea 1 a good prise. When we home good thing ,re must k cautious not to endan ger its success bypath:Wily, The winnings will be remitted on the following Monday. We aro, dear sir, yours faithfully, It sad C. The magistrate who, by exposing such a system as this, does what in him lies to caution the unwary against the snares so impudently set for their de struction deserves the best thanks of the public. Dupery so hopeless as to be beguiled by a protest against publicity in a public circular, is almost be yond the reach of warning; but there may be waterers and half-believers to whom the exposure may be beneficial ; and for their sakes it is well that it should have been made. FRENCH SCREW: OF AFRICAN EMIGRATION.— The following is a postage from a letter of Lloyd's agent at Fernando Po to the Committee of Lloyd's, dated June 1, 1837 :—" May 22. French transport ship Phrenix arrived from Lagos with 300 Krooboys on booed, bound to Martinique and Cayenne. Sailed 27th ult." EN frotul. The Duchess of Kent yisitcd the Queen y , ttertlay, and dined with her MnictuT in the evening. The Prince Consort prestded in the forenoon at a meeting of the Council of the Duchy of Cornwall, held at the Duchy office, Buckingham-gars, St. James's-park. There were also present the Chancellor, the Right Rom. Thomas Pem berton Leigh ; the Keeper of the Privy Seal, the Viscount ]frock; the Attendee-General. Mr. Mellow!, , the Trea surer, Colonel the lion. Charles Beaumont Phipps; the Duke of Newcsetle, Lord Portman, and the Seendury, Mr. J. R. Gardiaer. The Prison Consort, attended by Viscount Torrington and Coked the lion. C. B. Phipps, went to Ashford in the aßanoom, to open the new echoolo of the Welsh charity. Prises Fredenek William of Prussia went yesterday morn ing to Guildhall, to receive the freedom of the city of Li=on. lite royal biglinesa was attended by Count Brassier' (the Prurient Minister) and Baron de Bloltko (Aide-de-Camp), Sir Frederick Stovin (Groom in Wailing to the Queen), sod Captain the lion. D. de Roe (Equerry in Waiting to the Prince Consort). Prince Alfred inspected the Greet Eastern steam-ship at Prince Arthur and the Princesses Helena and Louisa took a carriage drive in the morning, Her Makety. accompanied by the Print= Royal and the Princess Charlotte of Belgium, took a drive in a carriage and km in the afternoon. Lord Alfred Paget and Lord Charles Fitzßoy attended on horseback. The Prince Consort and Prince Frederick William et Pros= rode on horseback, attended by Captain the lion. D. de Roe and Baron de Moltke. The Queen honoured Earl Spencer (Lord Steward of her Majesty's Household) and the Countess Spencer with her enespeaz lad evening, at Spencer House. St. James's Place. Her Majesty loft Backlash= Palace at ten volumes pest ten o'clock, secomsenad by his Majesty the King it the Bel gians and the - Prince Consort, the Prins= Royal, the Pris e= Charlotte of Belgium, the Count de Flanders, and Prime Fredmick Willi= of Freesia. The Queen wore a dress of white silk, coveted yid& aallis asp, ornamented with bunches of rhidirdenibeas seld lark velvet bows, ornamented with diamonds. The L.A , rhotiodesdrous end diamonds to sem soond. The Kkg ef the Belem. and the Prince Consort =rear IWO& oldie Order of the Getter. The Count de Flan , dire sad Prince Freekeick William of freesia wore the En signs of Foreign Orders of Knighthood. The royal snits condsted of the Viscountess Jocelyn, Countess &Yee, Firm. Eleanor Stanley, lion. Louisa Gor e don, Lord Byron. Viscount Torrington, the Count do doers kerke, Sir Frederick Skein, Lord Charism Fitelloy, Captain the Hon. D. de Roo, and Baron de Moltke, The royal party were conveyed to Spencer House in au of the Queen's de aarriages. Illestiners of the Oxford University Commission were held cm Thursday sad Friday law, at No. 17, Great Owen street, Weatminater. The Commissioners present were the Earl of ilarrowliy, the Ilea. Edward Twialoton, and the Dena of Wells. Deapatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-aka from the Governors of the North American Provinces. Their Royal Highnesses the Drachms of Cambridge and the Princess Mary ►onured the Eon and Countess of Westmoreland with their company at dinner, on Sunday evening, at the family nianef in in Cavendish-square. A distinguished circle were invited to meet their royal high ' names - His Excellency the Russian Minister and the Cm:intern Chreptowitch have left the reeidence of the Russian Legation for Germany, with the intention of meeting his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Rua is at K Swears. The Duke of Rutland has left town for South ampton, to embark on board his yacht. The Countess of Clarendon is expected to return to London from Germany the week after next. The Earl and Countess of Fife have left town for Yorkshire, err roots to Scotland. The Earl of Easton, M.l'., has gone on a cruise in Iris yacht. Accompanied by his aides-de-camp, Major Collin eon and Sir David Baird, Sir Colin Campbell left the Lon don-bridge station on Sunday, by the aspens mail train at 8.30 pre. At Dover he was received by Captain Smitbett and • number of officers of his favourite corps, the 42nd, with whom he entered into friendly convene during the few minutes previous to ernbanation, and on bidding them " good bye," expressed his alleursare that they would soon follow biro. On embarking In the Royal and Imperial mall steam-packet Iroperatrke, a spontaneous cheer marked the departure of the favourite chief. So hurried were the gene • rare arrengemente, that it was after bulling hoar. that it was bond he required money to "pay the way," and shop keepers end tradesmen supplied the "ready" for the expo , didon. Sir Colin Campbell should reach Calcutta about the lerth of next month. At Her Majesty's Theatre this evening the don *ewe, Julie. Marie Tugboat, who baa ban "winning golden opinions" at the Grand Opera of Berlin since Int year, makes her fast appearance in London this season in a new r Pala divatiommast onapeerd expressly for the occasion. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Tito DAT. The home me at twelve o'clock. PETITIONS. Numerous petitions were presented stalest the Divorce againstthe Paper Duty, sad against the proposed 101 l on CWo Su spec sks Bridge. GRAND JCRIES (METROPOLITAN POLICE DISTRICT) BILL. The hour. begin' ge into committee on this bal. Mr. BOWYER moved thatthe chairman doleavetherhair. As made this motion because the bill virtually proposed to abrogate a part of the British constitution. There might, be admitted, be defects in the grand jury system, but if on the system ehould be amended and not destroyed, es the bill pro posed to do. Ile wax iturprit.ed to find near • bill proceeding from such a quarter, and believed that the ho nourable and learned gentleman himself now re gretted what he bed done, for of all phenol London was the last where the provisione of sueh • bill ought to be applied, front the probability of politied cairn occurring in which the intervention of grand jut ten would he valuable se • protection to the rights and liberties] of the people. All old legal authorifice, and in particular Btark atone,wereepposdtotheprine iple of such a tell, and the int , er • venienee puttered by Ketone having to serve on grand juries, or to go before them, ought not to be contedered in a ease of this kind, and made an ermine for introducing the thin end of I the wedge (if not the thick end also) for the destru. non at this valuable institution. The honourable and learned =ran then referred to the provisions of the bill, end that ea much inoenvenietee wor'd arise under them tee rehear now. lie ales urged that the grand jury system was serviceable in familieriming the trading claws with the edminietration of criminal law, and raid that he coneidered the bill to be fraught with on much danger to society and the constitution of the country that be could not convent to its pretending further on that oceamion. Sir F. TIIESIGER complained of such a course being I taken, as no opposition had been manifested when he intr.- duesi the bill, and fully explained its provision.. It mho parried • occond reading without meeting any opposition to its principle, and he heard of no opposition being intended until the night of its being fined for committee. The hon. and learned gentlemen had said that he (Sir F. Theeiger) now regretted the introduction of the bill ; hut, such was not the clew, for be *toured the house that he had introduced it from a belief that the change it was intended to make was smuttily netersery. Evidence of the greeted Importance to that efect bad been given before the Statute Law Commis sion, se well as before a select committee of that house; and the bill itself was based upon the recommendations of that commiseien and that sleet committee. The bon. end 'tamed gentleman then reviewed the pre.;ders of his bill, end defended them by • repetition of the arguments used by hire on its original Introduction. (Left Sitting.] THE CITY BANK.—(TIIIS Deli) This morning the third ordinary general meeting I of the proprietors of the City Bank wax held at the London Tavern; Sir It. W. CARDEN, chairman of the board of directors. in the chair. The following was the report, viz.,—" Sines the directors bad the pleasure of making their last repurt, they have consi dered it advisable, from the steady increase of the hnei nem of the Bank, to make a farther RIM of 1.500 shores to the proprietors, at a premium of 104 per share, in the proportion of ono to every three shuts previously held. Upon this issue, 15,000/. have been received for premium and 32;235[. on account of instalments. Veen the accounts, wbish the directors have new the iiatio faction to place before the meeting, it will be area, that, after defraying all the current expenses of the establishment, in cluding the ueualpn,pertion of building expenses, providing for all Lad and doubtful debts, and allowing for rebate on bills diocounted, not yet due, the sum remaining at their disposed einounte to 25,0191. 1 la. lid., whbt ,-tables them to transfer 15,000,. to the credit of the " Reserved Fund," thereby inereasing that fund to 28,000/ ; to declare a divi dend at the rate of 5/. per =Bun per annum, and a bonus of Ilk. per share, both free of incense tax; also to carry forward the sum of 2,174/. 1 la. Ild. to the profit and loss account of the current half-year. The direetors, who ' retire by rotation on the present ore lion, are Aldermen Sir ' Robert Walter Cenien, M.l'., William Ilackblnek, E M.P., and James Nelson Smith, Eng., who, being eligible,, ' offer themativen for re-election. The dividend and beaus ! will be payable on =defter 'l,lestlay, the 21st July instant." The CHAIRMAN. in moving the adoption of the report, congratulated the proprietors up-in the continued prosperity of the bank. This belt ;car the proportion of hod debts made the current expenses somewhat larger than they were R. rewrted at the last meeting, but still the average of bed debts in the whole year WAR Is low what had been originally euticipatid. The bonen to be declared to-tlay would slake the di, Mend PHI per cent; he hoped the time would route when the dividend would be seven per cent. irrespective of the beaus, The charge for remind wet next half-year would be leas than it was this half. The bank paid . l,R.lo/. a year ground-rent, but recently the bank had underlet part of their premises to the ext, nt of 1,515/., and they had dial nine ricotta to let which were not required for the purposes of the bank. When these were let the hook would hive 2,000!. • year to meet 1,850/. The bunk premise. might be get down as having oust 30,000/.; and charging that sum at 4 per cent., would make the bank stand at the annual rental of only 1,2001. Adverting to the piece of the shame in the nuirket, be remarked upon the steely figure at which they stood ; and be attributed much of this, as well aa their gm, Kueperity, to the eirrumstence of the hank excluding the branch system. He fully relied upon one day seeing them standing in the position sad recognised aa the Bank of England, Junior. (A lough.) report wee unanimously adopted, after which the dividend was declared, and the retiring director. , having been re-elected, the proceedings terminated with the usual compliment to the chairman, °Skid's, and directors. PEEL RIVER LA!) AND MINERAL rAxr (Tills Dd 1./ Thin afternoon the fifth annual general meeting of the previewer , of the above company wee held at the London TRVCID, Mr. Orono Lisitt chairman of the beard of directory, in the chair. In the report which wee teed the directors bring before the elotn•hohlent the colonial sccounte up to the 91st of December, 1850, now made up for the fleet time, me cum oily with the London accounts, lup . to the eaten period. A. heretofore, the directors turned, the three subsidiary ntateuteitts. Vi 4.-171 1 ,11 account, capiud ac count, and revenue account, explanatory of the com pany's balance shcet—eigmd by the earldom. The compeny's suit profits for the year ending illet December, 18.56, are estimated In emount to 8,961/. oe. 101. This coin- Visit% the of 1,7701. 2e. hI. received for 7,262 old cure, which it in purposed to ettrry to a special fund, for the purpose of replacing them by the preheat of young cheep. Out of their balance the directors recommend that a dividend of le. per aline, amounting to 6,000/., be declared, 1 . ., of income-tax, payable on and after Monday, the '27th of July, 18.57. he (711101018 N entered into a detailed ecasount of the prearnt powition of the mespeny, mentioning venous ,awes which had militated against it. He named vat tows arrange ments which bad hmn entered into for extending the future operations of the company. The unpromising character of CO report gave rise to a dis cussion which had not terminated when our report left. LONDON AND GREENWICH RAILWAY. THE -POLICE COURTS, THIS DAY. MANSION-KW:SE. Joseph Nirhoken was charged with having in a state of drunkenness overturned a van in King William-street. A policeman said—This morning between twelve and one o'clock, I heard that a van had been upset in King William street, and that several perouns hail been aerionely injured. I took some of the injured people to St. Thomas's Hospital, and the prisoner soon afterwards called at the hospital in order to have his arm examined, and having stated there that he wail the driver of the van, was taken into custody. Anne Hockbill rid—l was in the pleasure van when it upset. The proprietor of the van had been driving at first, but afterwarth gave it up to the prisoner, who was under the influence xi drink. My son, who is twenty years of age, was at the time on the outside of the van, and his arm was broken. lie was taken to the hospital. The Alderman who was investigating the Cabe said he should puelpone the case for further examination. MARLBOROUOH-STREET. 2100100 1)002 CELLO. This day two young roes, who gave the samee of !elm The- MOB and fames IVrltinoreo and who were fashionably dreneed, were charged before Mr. 'Beidon with ringing the bells of the house of Mr. M. W. Leuttaall, tailor, Pantos-street. The complainant atatid that about half-past ars o'clock this morning be was alarmed by homing SODA of the door bells ringing. Thinking the house wee on fire, ho got up hastily and went down stain. On opening the street door lie found the pi koners there. They were intusicstr.d, and had a bunch of rotten flowers and water-cremes in theft hands. lie asked them what they wanted, when one of them offered him a bunch of flowers, end another home water cress.. Ile refused to accept either, upon which Williams observe) that if he would not take a bunch of rotten flowers he was sure ho wan nut fond of poetry. Mr. Beadon—llow often were - the bells rung ? Complainant—Three times, sir. One of the prisoners was bold enough to go for a poli.man. A policeman came, who eventually, upon ley representation, took the prisoners to the station-boa... Mr. Lewis, who attended for the prisoners, asked the complainant if there were not more persons at the door. Complainant replied that there were, and that he resided next door to a house of nu vary great repute. Mr. Lows—Yes, that is the case. There were other young men there who went to that house. The prisoners deny that they rang the bells of complainant's hove. Ihe prisoners were fined tre. each, the penalty for being drunk. The Sues were paid. THAMES. MED STEALING. was Stapleten, aged 17, described u &carpenter, brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with stealing a cage and a Lek, the property of Thomas Buyin, of No. 100, York stout, Commerciabrosd, East. James Burt, a police-constable, No. 154 11, elated that he ' met the prisoner at an early hour this mongsg, with a cage containing a skylark in hie howl Ile asked the prisoner where he obtained the cage and bird, and he immediately began trying, end sail lie had no home to go to, and wanted bread. Thome.. Bum, the owner of the cage and bird, said the cage was bung just outside his Oral-flour window. The lark wee one of the sweetest warblers he ever met with. Mr. Yardley—l tbiek it is better to hoar a lark up in the air than in a rage. The prosecutor—Yes, sir, that may be. We v - i't heir them sliming in the sky in London. Mr. Yardley—You may hear them in the fields, sod we them soaring aloft and singin3 beautifully at thia r :MI of the year. Tile prosecutor—lt is a hobby of minn to have a lark ka a cage. I lost two rages, with a bird in each, • fortnight ago from outride my window. Mr. Yardley—Then you shoc'd beng there up higher. Whatever may be the tome of the procreator in conlinmg a lark, the liberty-loving bird, in a cage. the prisoner has no right to take the lark or the cage. What is the value of the cagr The proueutor—lt in worth 10s., air. Mr. Yardley-1 suppose the lark if let loose would By away. The prosecutor-1 ca, sir, it would. r Mr. Yardley—Then 1 cannot convict the prisoner fur stealing the bird, for it is not domesticated. 1 convict of stealing a cage and sentence him to one month's imprison • ! went rod hard labour (THIS DAY) This afternoon the usual half-yearly meeting of the woprietora of the London and Greenwich Itoilway wan held at tho Cornpuly's otnet.. 173, Gresham Muse _OM liroad-street ; Mr. 311,1 AH WILSON, chairinan of the board of directors, in the chair. A dividend at the rate of Is. 3d. per Arun (clear of income tax) wari &dared on the old or unprivileged shares, payable by wet rant on and atter the lath inmost. The line hiring Iresod to the Soutb-Eariteis, the meetlag was merely formal. LONDON AND NORM WESTERY RAnirer MEETING.-(THIS DAY.) A Wharneliffe meeting (adjourned from June 2n) was bold at the Bunton-square railway elation, to authorise the construction of a railway from Nstle Douglas, in the stTorertry of Kirkcudbright, to l'ortistrick, in the county of Wigtown. Mr. CrNaos, who occupied the chair, ettplained that the only clause le the WI affecting that compony was one em powering the directors to contribute towards the under taking at any future time, If authoriord by the eharcholdere, and proposed the resolution git,ing the necessary went, which woe adopted NCNI. dia. TILE WEATHER AN') THE CRolll.—it is quite im pnepible to have more splendid weather than that which ham prevailed since our beet. At the period we last wrote, consi derable and heavy rain had fallen, and though in some few places it hail the eflect of partially "laying" the wheats, still the injury was of a very slight character and extent, and such as subsequent propitioue weether might fully retrieve. In other respects the rain had • highly beneficial tendency, and served to refresh the crops and impart new stimulus, especially on light and (Din soils. Since Monday r.ennight, the weather bee been 011 that one could wish both fur the growing crops and for the hay inakere, who have made great progress and cleared a large breadth, getting up the hay in emend condition. By this time, indeed. haymaking must be fast drawing to a elewe. As regards the wheat, no weather could be mere favourable for the " blooming" than that of the past week, and from all Wee we kern that that promote has been going forward under the most propitious circumstances. The eats are fast filling, and the prospect is rich in promise. Indeed, there would seem, so far as one may judge, to be every hope of en abundant harvest, and a correspondent from the eastern past of Sussex pronounces the crepe to be looking so " splendid ' that he has " no doubt the yield will be, in hie dletrict, much larger than in any year since Is47."—Sttriers .ddrertiscr of day. COLLISION OFF HOLYHEAD.-SIX LIVES LUST. DRITI6II AND lILVINETIC TELEGRAM) LIVERPOOL, TI ESPIT. The ship Carlyle, which sailed yesterday from this port for New York, has been obliged to put back, damaged and leaky, having been in collision off Holyhead with the Austrian barque Grayio Deo, from Liverpool to Trieste, which went down in two minutes. Six of the crew were drowned. MONEY MARKET.-THIS DAY. Two o'CLoar. The funds are flatter to-day, upon the detailed &deices from India. After declining 3-16ths pt.r cent., prices arc now quoted about 4 per cent. lower than they closed yesterday. Business in all departments of the Stock Exchange is quiet. Consols for the 6th August are now quoted 921 exactly, after receding to 921 to 1. For money, the price is 92. The Three per Cents. Reduced are marked 92 to ; the New Three per Cents., 921 to • Bank Stock, 21.5; India Stock, 213; Exchequer Bills, 3s. dia. to par.; Exchequer Bonds, 981 to 4 ; and India Bonds, 108. discount. . . Turkish Six per Cents. show steadiness, being marked 0 to 1. The Ouaranteed Four per Cents, have been dealt in at 1021 to 1, being in. demand. Other foreign stocks are quiet. The Fates comprise Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., at 97 ; Brazilian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., at 96; hutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., at 6 ex div.; Mexican at 221; Peruvian Three per Cents, at 531 ; Sardinian Five per Cents. at 891; Spanish Deferred at 231 ex div.; and Venezuela Active at 34. . The ship Walter hood has arrived off Plymouth, from Sydney, but is not known to have any gold on freight, and her advices have been anticipated. Amongst the bond fide purchases of the funds yesterday were, it is stated, one of 100,0001. stock, and another of 50,0001. The consideration that chiefly weighs upon the stock markets is the probable heavy expenditure connected with the operations in the new field of contest in the East. It is reported that the number of European troops to be despatched thither from this country, previously stated at 14,000, will be increased as quickly as possible to 20,000, or, according to some statements, even to 25,000 men. A rumour has also been circulated that the place of these troops . . . , will be supplied at home by a re-organisation of the militia. lime considerations yesterday caused the favourable features involved in a fresh fall in the corn market, and in the arrival of further con siderable supplies of gold, to pass almost un- noticed. The alteration in the appearance of the money market, however, has latterly become so decided as to demand special notice. Good paper is readily discounted in the open market at d per cent., and in certain quarters somewhat exceptional transactions have taken place at .5:.; and 51 per cent., so that the discount business of the Bank must now be greatly diminished, and its resources proportion ately increasing. At the same time there is every prospect of a further large addition being made this week to the Bank's stock of bullion. Under these circumstances a reduction of the Bank's minimum rate to 51 per cent. at an early date is fully ex pected. i In the Stock Exchange yesterday loans on govern ment securities were readily obtainable at 5 to Si per cent. The rate of discount at Hamburg declined on Saturday to 64 per cent. The 211,000/. in gold brought from Melbourne by the James Baines is expected to be delivered to day (Tuesday). The 221,400/., ex the ships Rox burgh Castle and Frances Ilenty, reached London yesterday, and was temporarily lodged in the Bank warehouses. Of the 462,0001. in Australian gold now awaiting disposal, it is expected that by far the larger proportion will be purchased by the Bank, the more espeeiully as this description of gold ii the least suited to the wants of the continental buyers. The amount of specie brought by the Europa from New York 0 91,200/., of which 'a portion is ffo bably on continental account. The sum destined tot this market will be in band to-day. The ex change at New York on Londou was rather less favourable. Of the 35,000/. in Russian gold recently imported, 10,0001. has been sold for the Continent, and the rest sent into the Bank. The Mexican dollars brought by the steams Atrato were sold yesterday for China at is. 0;d. per ounce, showing a reduction of Id. from the price realised for the supply by the previous packet. The ship Swiftsure and the steamer Indomitable were advertised to sail from Melbourne for London lon the 28th April, or two days after the James Baines. Assuming that they took their departure at the date fixed, these vessels have been 17 days at sea. The corn market yesterday was very henry, owing to the line weather, and to the prospect of an early and abundant harvest. Sales of wheat were with difficulty effected at a decline of 2s. to 4s. ter quarter from last Monday'® rates. Flour, of which the supply was large, was offered at a reduction of 3s. per sack. The imports of foreign breadsta into London last week were to a fair extent. To- day's list of arrivals off the coast includes no grain laden vessel from porta east of Gibraltar. It is expected that, if the weather continue favourable, reaping will commence in the men forward districts of England early next week. The crops in most quarters are still most favourably spoken of. Transactions took place yesterday afternoon in ralt petre at a further advance of 64. to Is. per cwt. Ths market for sugar and tea was very dull yesterday: 11 regards the latter article a downward tendency we apparent. It is probable that the disturbanies India may affect to some extent the course of price at the quarterly sales of indigo, fixed to miameaat today (Tuesday). We regret very much to hear of the death, only very . melancholy circumstances, of Mr. Geniis Lava, of the well-known firm of Messrs. Oliver* 'Aviv, and Peachey, solicitors, of the Old Jowly. We understand that Mr. Lavie fill from his home, SI Piccadilly, yesterday morning, and died very dea afterwards. The deceased was regarded as a authority upon all points of tommercialpractice. Telegraphic advices from St. Petersburg are s decline of 2to 3ro. in the price of tallow. On tla spot the quotation was 182r0., and for Augast,l7fas with lOro. down. 'fhe Herculean has arrived from Shanghai wit! 417,80011e5. of tea, and 1,819 hales of silk on height. A special meeting of the Seinde Railway Com pany is called for the 22nd inst., to formally SP: authorisesthe construction o f the Pardaub and also the establishment on the Indus. am"' Hyderabad and Mooltan, of a steam flotilla, in etc lesion with the railways. lONDIIIr 1T1517116 The news from India, though regarded as te r i grave, does not fully realise the Ossining ltrd s which were circulated late on Saturday afteol . ' The funds were consequently firm er in eliameter,V. market evincing an absence of the feeling of ansios uncertainty which formed its prominent ems' teristic on Saturday. Prices closed about the ore as at 2 o'clock on Saturday, so that the fall of IP 6 cent. subsequently quoted hasbeen recovered. Pentlill the publication of the detailed correspondence Os India, which will take place to•morrow morning4Bol operators hold aloof ; nevertheless the specullfil transactions were to-day considerable. As a feasts of more permanent importance, it is noticed that 9. 9 operations of the public in the Stock Exchange Wl' to-day in the direction of investments. Consols, it will he remembered, were quotedlidi to for the 6th August at the close of the PA Exchange on Saturday, and aftenvards ilea° about per cent. To-day the price wog: quoted 92 ; to 7, for August, recovered to 9 ' to 4, relapsed to 921 to and &IL at exactly 92Z. For money the last price Alm The official business report is as follows :—Tltteele Cent. Consols, for money, 921 92, 921; ditto, for count, 6th August, , ; ditto, for the og ing, l'ith July, 921 ; Threeper Cent;Reduced, IRELAND. DUBLIN, MONDAY EVENING. TEE MURDER OE MR. LITTLE. The adjourned invectigation took place at Capebstrcet orrice today. Boom new evidence was adduced, the moot important being th d given by Jomph Spollem, the second son of the arcuced, a boy under fourteen years of age, and which was considered to have strengthened the pee for the prosecution so far as being corroborative of the moo parts of the testimony given by Lucy Spilka, the daughter of tho prieoner. James Spollen, the cldect son, was elso examined, but his evidence we. not conaidered to be eels materiel. At Nix o'clock the Iwe wee brought to a conclusion, when it wee arranged that the prisoner was to be remanded, when the DO, information. will be read over and the formal appli cation made to commit Spollen on the charge of wilful mur der. Mr. Fitzgibbon, Q.C., conducted the care to-day fur the crown. DEV.RMINF.D SUICIDE.—On Sunday morning, Be p lira eenatalde 310 M woo on duty in Itvgenea-park, ho heard the teport of a pistol. He went toward the spot from whence the sound tattle, sod found s man sitting on the aide of the canal with his feet in the water. There was a pistol by his ride, and a part of his head was blown away. The deceoocd, who appears to bo a Getman, was taken to St. Panerao workhouse. He had in his pocket a card with the name " Jeruiett" open it. There was no money in his pocket. FATAL FIGHT AT SIIEVINGTON.—On Saturday afternoon loot, a young men named Henry Ashton, 19 years of age, who we, employed O.A a boatman onthe heeds and Liver pod Canal, wax killed in a tight 'Pith Henry Webster, another atrnian, at Sbevington, near Chorley. For some time put a grievonee bad evicted between the two men, who were mustn't, and on the day named they opted to settle the dispute by n stand-up light. In the third round Webster struck Ashton a blow in the region of the heart Aehton fell to the gro u nd from the etfeet of the blow, rose again, and died itemeilianly. Webster was deeply affected at the fatal result of the quarrel, owl gave hinisrlf up to the police. An inquest was to lee held on the body of Ashton yesterday (Monday). A WOMAN SUBSISTING FOR A WEEK SOLELY I ryes ATEll.—Early on Thursday morning a woman, named Mary Smithy, was discovered by one of the servants of John Crossley, Esq., in a little dark bole con nected with Mr. Crawley's reitlen, Manor Ileoth, Ilalifax. The poor woman presented a sad elatinken and emaciated appearance. She was taken into the house, placed by the lire, and woe treated with every consideration and kindness. When she was emaewhat restored, she woo confided to the care of one of the county constabulary, to whom elle told the following melancholy tale —She weld that, ten years ago, she was married in ftitmehestir to an itinerant violinist, end, until hie death, in February last, at Halifax, she bad tenet - lied with him about the country sing ing to the strains of his violin. Sinee her husband's death she bal been compelled to go alone singing at public-honoro, lien earnings were, however, eo small that they were in etiMeient for her subsistence, and at last ohs erawled into the plate in which she was found, to end her existence. She had been there a week and a day, and during that time she Lod not tasted of anything but water, which oho procured from a top in the yard near her biding place. She crawled to the top at night after all wee locked up, and again in the early morning before anyone woo stirring She had no friends or relatives, and thought to die, but could not. She wee broucht before n nutgistmte, who greatly etimutioerated her, end by bio orders she was conveyed to the workhouse. The hole in which she was found woe in the rear of the out buildings, and its exiotence was unknown to most of the servant o.—Nendateter Guardian. ATTEIPTED Suit IDE ox A RAILWAY.—On Wednesday evening lad, a moat determined attempt at self &at nict ion was made by a man named Thomas Moss, • hone dipper, of Whitechapel, by placing his head on the mils of the I.:Were Counties line, near Bamford, but was fortu nately prevontid. It appears that about seven o'clock in the evening John Bennett, a labourer in the employ of the railway company, was at work en a piece of ground naor the Whnlelonne:bridge, when he saw something lying be tween the line of rails, and on approaching it discovered a man lying with his head over the mina of the down line, his eyes bandaged with a handkerchief. lie immediately raised him and took him to Chadwell Heath, where he stated that his name was Moss. Bennett then gave him in charge at a police-mm*ode. The discovery was most fortunate, as had Moss not bean WS he riot have been killed, the dos.' 6.110 p.m. train being nearly due. On Thursday he wee charged before James Reeve., Esg., with attempting to de. "troy himielf, and was remanded for surgical examination, Mora declaring that he wee drunk on the previous evening, and caukl not tell hew Its came in the situation in which he was lunad.— loss Herat.