The Express. — London, England, 1866-02-02 00:00:00

F!l iw '' , r ;, ,.4 NEWSPAPER fr y 11,,:, L; ________ ...., SSaliclX3 -1 --.. Ai, • 2 • No. 6,082.) 112LACKWALL LINE of PACKETS.—For mELßouxris ("ort Phillip) Direct —llLersra GRESN'S i kip DOVER CASTLE, 1,200 tons, espial" ILL DLtCON, will Man East India Docks on 10th March, and carry an experienced w pm—Apply to F. GREEN and Co., 140, Leadenhallstreek MAY FROM YORK LIVERPOOL Olt QI7IE WEEK. NETOWN TO NEW , TWICE A THE LIVERPOOL, NEW YORK, and PHILADILPHIA STEAMAIIIP COY:PANT intend de *whin( their full.powered adete ll t Imo Berm Bteate.Bhips, carrying the naiad Strike m FROM LIVER POO L for NEW YORE. CITY OF DUBLIN, Saturday. Feb. 3, CITY OF 11ALTI MORE, Wednesday, Feb. 7, gad every Wednesday, and alternate Fridays and gaterdays. gag') passage by the mall stamen sailing every Wednesday, 3j 17, mid 11 resew, according to the accommodation. Cabin =by the Friday's and Saturday's steamers. LS guineas. t 6 passage Includes a full supply of cooked v ision s. fer Canada and the rafted States booked on tallisi r l antageous terms. For 'Vibe, particulars ap to INMAN. U, Wideretreat, lAvispool; or to Vill Ma MACEY. ill. LW vr=m4ftota. Leedom STEAM to NEW YORK.—IINITED STATES MAIL splendid and favourite slde•wheel *Nam of the New York and Havre Steam Ship Company paring resumed their places fn this service are appointed to liars for New York u follow.: From Harm VIP !Tuesday, Feb. M. Wednesday, Feb. 14. ranee Teeeday,.Mareb 13, Wednesday, March 14. AnIS O Fneeday, Aprll 10. Wednesday, April 11. tans: —lam LEE: seeoodsdoss, —roe taritherpartS- Otthra IP* to L'EEKBITTE.. KANE. sod Co. Para and R i m ; G. 0. sod K. W. PDX and Co., ITL34 and Co.. la, Chiapas, Lasko. lidnanth ;oe H. LONDON and COUNTY BANKING COMPANY. Natabnand 181. Subscribed Capital, £1,676,000, W 67,600 shares of LSO each. td -up Capital, C 730.000. Reserve Fund, 01e0,000. DDIZerOII9. Nathaniel Alexander, P.sq. ---- JOIM Fleming, am, X.P. Th o mas Pyrbagitsm Bernard, Frederick Harrison, Esq. Sag. Edward John Hutchins, len. ykio,, Patton Blytk Fag. William Chaarconat, Bag. John Willi= Burmester, EN. William Lee, ,IL P. Coln Child, E q. Witham Nicol, 03:1111AL MANAGER- Mani MoKOWNO, Sql. ASSISTANT 0121111 AL Nagaoka-William Howard, Esq. CHM, Insproros-W. J. Norfolk, Esq. MIT ACOOONTAIIT -Junes Gray, &R. Inrscross OF BAANCHAS-ii. J. Lemon, Am., and C. Shaming, Sag. NICAITART-F. elapplson. Esq. Head 011iae-11, Lombard-street. At the ANNUAL GENERAL MECUM) of the Proprietors, held ea THURSDAY, the let February, 1866, at the Loodon Tom, Bisboppito-street. the following Report for the year ending We N list Deownber, 1865, was ead by the Secretary. WLLLLLtI ICOL. rag r In the Lludr. REPORT. The Directors have the satisfaction to submit to tbe Proprie tors the balance.eheet of the Bank for the half-year ending Slat December last. They have to report that, after the payment of all charges, Interest to customers, and making ample provision for bad and doubtful debts, the net protits amount to 890,419 lea., which, added to £ 13,640 T x brought forward from the lasi account, produces a total of £113,041. From this sum a epeeist bonus, amounting to £4,81417.. 11d., • has been presented to officers whose salaries are under £3OO per annum. leaving £108,263 Sts. ld. for appropriation. The directors recommend the peyseent of the usual dividend of a per cent., with a bonus of fie per cent., tusking together 14 per cent. for the half-year, which will amount to £93,737 34.. this, added to the August dividend, will be 271 per cent. for the year, and leave £14.32714. 10d. to be carried forward to proet and keg new account. They have to announce the retirement In December of John Wright, Esq., for many years an Auditor. The Directors redstart by rotation are Coke Child, Esq., and Frederick Harrison. Esq., who, being eligible for re-election, offer themselves accordingly. The dividend and bonus ,together 82 lee. per skate), free of income tax, will be payable at the Head Deice, or at any of the trenches, on and after Monday, the 12th last. SALANCE4HINT of the LONDON end COUNTY BANKING COMPANY, Deoember i 1,1816. To capital paid up E7 1 0,040 0 0 To reserve fond To amount due by the bank for customers' balances, &a. 111.1345,748 6 10 To liabilities csi acceptances.. 1.000,053 la 5 10.851,815 0 3 To profit and loss balance • brought from last account.. 111,600 7 0 To grossi e nt a g r tbs pmerbies for bad and doubtful debts.. 381.299 I 6 111,969 8 6 £14.188,774 8 9 Ca. Hy cash on hand at head omce, and branches Dl ease placed at call and at notice 1,397,565 12 4 ti,001092 4 8 Investments, viz. : goyerunien, and guaran teed stocks Ey other stocks and securities 108,310 17 8 1,141,481 41 4 By discounted bills, and advances to customers in town and country 9,819,084 12 0 By freehold premises in Lombard-street and Nicholas-lane, freehold and leasehold pro perty at the branches, with fixtures and Wings 137,179 12 9 Dy interest pad to customers By Werke and all other expenses at head office and branches, including income tax on pronto By specla 1 bonus on salaries under £3OO per 90,642 7 6 annum L 14,188,744 8 9 PROFIT AND LOBB ACCOUNT. D 9.. To latereal7pa id to customers 086.868 7 1 To expenses, u above 130,5611 7 6 Toutelalluntwon salaries under.33Co per annum 4,614 17 11 To rebate on bills not due, carried to new account 45,668 IS 11 To dividend of Oyer cent. for the half.year To boom of 6e per cont. 48.743 6 6 To DeLuca carried forward £334,959 8 6 balance brought forward from last aceonnt £111,0130 7 0 Sy pow pr. fit for the half-year, after making provision for bad and doubtful debts Ar" ,B P. 8 We, the unAersigned, hare examined the foregoiniri;daTtce 'eat. and have found the same to be correct. (Signed) WILLIAM NORMAN, } Auditors. R. H. SWAINS.. London and County Bank, January RS, 1806. The foregoing report having been read by the secretary, the folloring resotuttons ws re propoesd and unanimously adopted I. That the report be received and adopted, and printed for the ate of the shareholders. . . 8. That a , tividen - d of 6 per cent., together with • bonus of 6 i per cent., bath tree of income tag, be declared for the half-year ending 31st December, 1865, payable on and after Monday, the 14th instant. and that the balance of 414,52 7 18a. 10d. be carried forward to profit and loss new account. 3. That Coles Child, Esq., be re-elected a Director of this Company. that Freder ck Harrison, Esq., be re-elected a Direc tor of tins Company . 4. That William Norman and Richard Hinds Bwalne, Rum, be elected auditors for the current year. I. That Robed &combo, Esq., be elected an auditor for the crest year. . _ . . . . - . Thsitiite thanks of this meeting be given to the Board of Directors for the able manner in which they have conducted the Affairs of the Company. 7. That the thanks of this Sleeting be presented to the Auditors of the Company for their services during the past year. & That the thanks of this Meeting be presented to William M'iterran, Y.sq , and to the principal and other officers of the Bank, for the real and ability with which they have discharged their respective duties. • • !Signed) W. NICOL, Chairman. The Chairman h►sing quitted the chair, it was resolved, and tented unanimously 9. That the cordial thanks of this Meeting be presented to itlttlasu icol, Esq., for his able and courteous cooduct in the their. (aned) W. CHAMPION JONES, DeputyChezman. (Extrscted from the Minutes., (Signed) F. CLAPPISON, Secretary. LONDON and COUNTY BANKING C IVO NOTICE IS HEREBY GEN, MPANY. that a DIVIDEND on the alaV Stock of the Company, at the rate of 81x per Cent., for ` et hen Doe endieg Met December, 1866, with a Bonne of B lrand-s•11 sit per Cent., will be PAID to the Proprietors laber at the Head Office, 21, Lombard-street. or at anT of the Feellwers Branch Banks, on and after MONDAY, the 14th enatiat.—By order of the Board. W. M.KEWAN, Geoseal Manager. lombarrlstreet, Feb. 2, 1866. :TaxINVIOORATIVZ NERVENIC FENCE The rand scientifically prepared and most powerful marl. Mrs emu.' eve, introduced; restores to their Donna coneettou the secretions, on the Integrity of which ported health lie. 'M.It lea specific to debility of all idled', and from Its eon moos her ingredients, pepethe end phosphate of midi. wore Mghly beneficial to the nervous and dyspeptio. ...m as. :a. per bottle, or four quantities In eme for Mu Bole Mews. Baumgarten and Co., 820, Ostord-Oirma. r..elmn.h.treet, RATING'S COD LIVER OlL.—Tbe Piped Imported this Beason.—The PALE NTWPOONDLANDi rime and tasteless ; the LIGHT /MOWN, cheaper end of good TW l t7 The demand for these 00s, most highly recommended gating. their owd Irina] properties, has so greatly increased, that Mr. bf nit anziens to bring them within the reach of all .7, now imports direct, the Pale from Newfoundland, and the hi I r a 1 ',754n, _tit! Name= Islands. The Pale be bed in Ir', ed . ; Piata. 9d. ; guar* M. The MA t Brown, z umoiL 4 ta• fa. dd. ; quarts. as.—At 79, It. nut.- ROUT or RHEUMATISM is vial! re li eved me mad Is a few days by Mod eeletreiw lEroneinc RAM% GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILIA Ololuimod through C lushl. k IL lid. sad 2s. 9d. per bor. QTODARE.—The HOLIDAYS.—THEATRE of MYSTERY, Egyptian-haII—MARVELS to MAGIC and VENTRI 1 1 1 SM, as performed by command before her Majesty the and the !loyal Family at Windsor, Tuesday Evening, Nov. 21, 1866. The marvellous SPHINX, the birth of Plower Trees, and node's's celebrated Indian Basket Feet, as ozdly performed by him.—EVERY ItVENING, at . Wednesday Saturday, at &-Btalls at Mitchell's, Uhl Bond-street, end Box-oOlce, Egyptian-hall.—Admission, is. and 3.: Stalls, as. " Almost agraculoue —Vide " The Times," April 18, 1866. THE OXFORD.—The MARKET GIRLS, by Offenbach, II 'Prorates', and the Schiller Centenary Can tata, by Ileyerbeer, will be performed by the whole of the Ope Company. The Hungarians will also introduce their National Entertainment THIS EVENING. Private boxes, 10., 6d ; stalls and balcony, Is. ; area, &I. NVESTERN INSURANCE COMPANY (limited), for FIRE, 7, Waterloo-place, London, and 77. King-street, Mane!meter._ Subscribed capital. £400,000. Paid-up capital. £BO,OOO. mu/aux—mini TOWLINiON HISSERS, Esq., Y.P. for Oldham. 01312nAL ltasaolla—Aß.TilUß SCRATCHLEY, Esq. The Western Company is the only London non-tariff fire office that dose not transact Ufe business In the tolled Kingdom, and is able therefore to offer special advantages to agents of life assurance societies. Wanted, fire superintendents or district managers for un represented districts. Remuneration by salary and commission. and the entire time of the party engaged to be devoted to the business. applications to be made, with fell references u to respecta bility and capabilities, to the secretaries, CHARLES lIARDING, London. WILLIAM BRIDGEd BOW, Manchester. CLERICAL, MEDICAL, and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 13, St. James's-muare, London, ii.W. Established 1834. reauporr—The Archbishop of CANTERBURY. atallutart—itight Hon. JOHN ROBERT MOWBRAY, K.P. • DErvn.csAuxur WILLIAM BOWMAN, Esq., F.A.S. Sir CHARMS LOCOCK, Bart, F.R.B. FINANCIAL RESULTS Off TUE SOCIETY'S OPERATIONS. The Annual lucerne, steadily Increasing, exceeds 4207.000 The Assurance Fund, safely Invested, Is over £1,491,000 The New Policies in the lain year were 493. assuring £387,074 The New Annual Premiums were The Bonus added to Policies at the last Division was £275,077 The total calms by death paid amount to £2,006,149 The following are among the distinctive features of the Credit System.—On any Policy for the whole of life, where the age does not exceed 00, one half of the Annual Premiums during UN first eve years may remain on credit, and may either con tinue as a debt on the policy, or be pistil off at any time. Low rates of premium for young lives, with early participation in profits. Endowment Assurances may be effected, without profits, by which the sum assured becomes payable on the attainment of a specified age, or at death, whichever event shall first happen. Invalid lives may be assured at rates proportioned to the in crewed risk. Prompt Settlement of Claims.—Claims paid thirty days after proof of death. BONUS YEAR.—SPECIAL NOTICE. All with-profit Policies In existence on June 30, 1866, will par. tielpate In the bonus to be declared in January, 196', so that persons who complete such assurances before June 30. 1866, will share In that division, although one premium only will have been paid. Tables of rates, forms of proposal, and the report Just tuned, can be obtained of any of the Society's agents ; or of OEORGE CUTCI.I/Irh.,' Actuary and Secretary. 13, Jaattata- square, Loudon, &W. THE . PANTHEON TURKISH BATHS, 3. Greet Marlborosgh-etreet. W. ladle.. Mender's. f.: 'gentlemen, en other days. PHILLIPS and COMPANY'S TEAS are BEST And CHEAPEST. STRONG to PINE 2s. 6d., 3a, Ea 4d. Most delicious Black Tea is now only Ss. 61. per pound. Pure, rice. rare, chuffs Coffee, Is. 4d., la. 6d., le, Bd. PHALIA and Co„ Tea Merehanta k : King William-street. L Asko, C. . . - - - A price currentfree. Sugars at market prices. PHILLIPS and Co. send all gads carriage free within eight miles of No. 8. King William-street ; 40s worth carriage free to any railway station or market town in England.—Phillips and Co. have no agents, nor any connexion with any house In Wor cester or Swansea. SAX/OK—LEA and PERRINEP WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE. This &Edon* evedinient. ced by connoisseurs TEL ONLY 1) SAUCE,' Is prepared solely by LEA and PEREINS. The pabtic are respectfully cautioned aptnst worthless hafts. Rona, and should see that Lea and tames are on wrapper. label. bottle, and siopqr. ARE for lAA and PICREINIT EAI7CE. 801 l wholesale and for export by the Proprietors, Worcester Kamm CROSSE and BLACKWELL; Messrs. B A LAY ant BONS. London. to., etc. ; and by grocers and oilmen MIIDIE'S SELECT LIBRARY. THE NEW SEASON NOTICE. All the BM BOOKS of the SEASON mad of the past twenty Jean are In circulation M MUDIICS SELECT LIBRARY. FIRST CLASS SUBSCRIPTION. ONE GUINEA PER ANNUM. . . Commencing at any data Book Clubs supplied on liberal terms. Prospectuses on application. NOBLE'S SELECT LIBRARY (Limited). NEW OXFORD-STREET. City Office, 4. KING-STREET, CHILLPSIDL HYAM and Co.'a JUVENILE CLOTHING. Hyam sad Ce., 06 and 67, Ottord.street, have special arrangements by which the Newest Modes and the most dear able materials are employed in the production of every descrip tion of Boys' and Youths' Clothing. HYAM and Co.'s GARMENTS and PRICES. The new Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred Overcoats and Capes, 165.61. to 421. ; Knickerbocker. Mon, Berms, and Osborne Suits, 15a. 61 to 455.; Jackets, Ss. 6d. to 265.; Trousers, 85. ed. to lfr ed.; Vests, dd. to 7a. ed.; Jackets and Vats alike 16s 6d. to 271. 6d. HYAM and Co., GENERAL TAILORS, CLOTIFTERS, HAMAR, HOSIERS, Re., &c.; C 6 and 67, Odord-atreet, W. • 21, *2, and 23, New-street, Birmingham: 42, Briggate, Leeds; and Westgate, Dewsbury. ARTIFICIAL TEETH.—lmportant Improve ment and Great Reduction in Prices. - Mr. EPIIRAIM IdOeRLY, Surgeon-dettLst, 9, Grosvenor street, Grosvenor square, sole inventor and patentee of artificial teeth on a soft, elastic, chymically-prepared indit-rubber gum. No unsightly fastenings being required, they are more natural, durable, and oomfortable than any yet introduced. They are self•ailhesive, render support to the adjoining teeth, are fitted on a perfectly painless principle, and supplied at charges within the reach of all. Clergymen, lecturers, and public speakers will find ills system particularly adapted to their wants; it combines com plete enunciation and perfect mastication. Consultation free. Ito cones on with anyone of the mine name. Established GM& TONIO BITTERS. WATERS' QUININE WINE The most palatable and wholesome bitter to existence. AN EFFICIENT TONIC, An unequalled stomachic. sad a gentle stimulant Sold by grocers, Italian MirthWWll:len. Wine merchants, con fectioners, and others, at Ma a dozen. Manufactured by WATERS and WILLIAMS, 2, Martin's-lane, Cannon-street, London. Wholesale Agents. Z. Lewts and Co., Worcester. DiMEFORD'S FLUID MAGNESIA.—The eal profession for thirty years have approved of this pore solution of mammals es the best remedy tor acidity of stomach, headache, heartburn, gout, and ludic...Lion and m a mild aperient it is especially acapted for ladles and children. Prepared by DINICRFORD and Co., Chemists, dc., 171, New Bond-s tr eet, London , and sold throu g hout the worldby all respectable chemists. Caution—See that Dinneford and Co:' te on sack bottle and red label over the cork. KAYE'S WORSDELL'S PILLS, the beet remedy for GOUT and ItilErtlATlSlf —l4old by all chemists, &c., at le. lid., 2a. ed., and 41. 6d. per box. LAMBE HT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM, an effectual remedy, without confining the Imams or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is admitted to be the best medicine for immediately relieving coughs, confirmed PAM of asthma, and Incipient consumption. It fre: quently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce incurable, admirably allays the tickling which provokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption its effects are truly benelle.ML Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffoca tion, may depend on relief In • few minutes after taking It.— prupaeud and sold by W. LAMBF.Itt. chemist, 8, King WIS. Liam-stmt. Charing-cross., London, and by all druggists, In bottles, 131 d., and three quantities In one, W. 9d. Be particular and ask for Lambert's Ast hm atic Balsam. The name and address ere engraved on the Maims WHERE SHALL WE GET MEAT? Lonipnan, Green. and Co. THE ART-JOURNAL Pries la ed. Monthly. LINZ INGLAYINGS IN THE FEBRUARY NUMBER. 1. J. R. Herbert. H. A.-Susannah, engraved by H. Bonne. Webster, R. A. - Spring. 'engraved y Pe W. lee. AW. W. Story.- A Sibyl engraved by b IL Medan. THE LITERARY CONTRIBUTIONS. 1. John Ruskin. M.A.-The Cestus of Agin*. S. W. P. Bayley.-Melts to the Paradi , e of Artists. S. William Chiffon, 18A.- Saxon, Arabic, Persian, and Early Venetian Glass. with 11 80velthen 8 4. 1. W. Irstrholt.P.B.A.-Ancient Brooches and Dress Fasten lug% with li Esamplea S. ft. C. Hall, AAA., and Mrs. 8. C. Hall-Robert Southey, with Five Diastgailees. 6. Bowl Shaw, F.S.A.-lllnminated Drawings. I. Mrs. 8. C. HaIL-Frederica Bremer : a Memoir. 11. Josses fronts.- Baptisttist Madan (Belgian Artist), with Copies from three ot ds gg. made. Beata, M.A.-Architectural Restorations. le Child Songs, with Two Zagranege 11. W. Evart Gladstone on Greek Ar‘ 11. Photo-Relief Printing. U. T he m% &MlAs' eacietp-tiou. AL T Kensington Portrait Lthibition. 16. The leis Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, P.R.A., de.. Lernies: Vistas sad OD.. la. trpimma. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, 1866. RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY CHAPEL, OXFORD,—The BUILDER of THIS DAY, priced 4 , 1.. BY poet contains : Yine View of Radcliffe Infirmary Chanel. word—The Influence of Improvements in Artillery on Human Habitattons--Chnrch Warming in the North—The Treasure, of Norfolk for the "coming' Portrait Irshibitioo at South Ken slngton-Architectnral Works in Germany—The late John Giessen, Settl The Development of Styles: Early English— Architect IL incatioo - Priam for Art-Workmanship : Society of Arts—The late Mr. David Henhouse, of Manchester—Air awl Light Case, dtc.—Ofilce, 1, York-street, Covent - garden: and all Booksellers. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (IXON OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, TEMUIDLT Rvartia. _ The semi-official prints try every day to explain away the promise in the Emperor's speech to eva cuate Mexioo. They take it for granted that the French troops will not retire until Maximilian's throne is altogether consolidated, which is tanta mount to saying they may remain there for the next twenty years, at least. This is certainly not what the public understood by the " frankness" of the Emperor's declarations, although a suspicious American tells me that his words, if well weighed, do not amount to more than this, " I said last year I was coming away, and now I say I am going to come away." Of course nobody can tell what the Emperor, of all men, may be really going to do, but this much is clear, that his language in Jan. 22 imported a decision to evacuate Mexico forthwith. A semi-monthly pub lication, the Berne Contemporaine, written gene rally under government auspices, makes the amus ing confession that France has got herself into the present " fix " by not having bad the courage to take part with the Confederate States, when all her sympathies were with the South, and she hoped the South would win ! This review says : When the Mexican expedition was undertaken the great American republic was a prey to an intestine conflict, which, it was hoped, would result otherwise than it has done. We were astonished at the time that France, which had pledged her flag and risked large sums of mousy in Mexico, did not recognise the government of Richmond. It was a mistake not to have done so. The only thing now to be done is to moil, the error, and get out of the business in the best way we can. The candour of this most true statement is ad mirable. We have here the whole question in a nut-shell, and M. Drouyn de Lhuys' elaborate despatches, trying to prove that French policy as to Mexico has never varied, are but barren scholastic ezercitations. The simple fact is that the wise Napoleon HI. did make a terrible miscalculation for himself. His wish being all the while father to the thought he did think the South was going to accomplish its secession, and on that assumption his Mexican scheme was very artfully planned. The South has lost, is utterly extinguished, not only as a belli gerent, but as a political entirety, and now the Mexican scheme has to be given up. That is the long and the short of it. But of course this plain truth cannot appear plainly in diplomatic de spatches. A great power like France must be let down easy. The Indlipendance Beige after having been, no body knows why, interdicted in France since De cember 24, is now (Feb. 1) again permitted, nobody knows why, to circulate. The first number, that of Jan. 31, is on Its good behavionr. Ido not find a word in it at which the French government could possibly take umbrage. Perhaps, however, what I have seen is an expurgated edition ad ustsm Prancorum, such as the /ndipendance was frequently in the habit of publishing, and the editor hu weeded out obnoxious matter more scrupulously than formerly. You in England get the true Brussels edition. The Court of Rome is said to have in its own opinion four great subjects for rejoicing at the present moment :—l. The number of Jesuits is daily increasing—[See statistics published by the Monde] ; 2. The pontifical government has at last effected a loan ; 3. Pius IX.. and all the Cardinals regard as an eminently favourable' symptom the way is which Napoleon 111. and Victor Emmanuel have both appealed to the " providential " government of the world ; and 4. The Holy Father has obtained from the French government all possible guarantees for the main tenance of temporal power. In consequence of the Countess Walewska being in mourning for a near relation there will be no balls this year at the palace of the Corps Legislatif. But there are " receptions" every week so brilliant that people only acquainted with the sad reality, and not the etiquette of sacred grief, must fail to un derstand the nuance. Strauss's orchestra every week encourages frolicsome steps round the promenade concert-room, and it is announced that at the Coun tess Walewska'e carnival promenade concert ladies must appear either in masks or dominoes. The Bourse was on the whole very dull, although Rents closed with the slight rise of 2}c. Mobilier fell 12fr. 50c. The effect of the announced project of doubling the capital, being coupled with condi tions of stricter surveillance and frequent publicity of accounts, which many think not congenial to the operations of that gigantic company, is not favour able. Italian rose Isc. ; Mexican rose THE BANK OF FRANCE. (surrza'a =passe.) PAM.% Fn. 1. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day, together with the corresponding figures of the previous account : Feb. 1. Jan. 25. DUrrol. - . -. .. Yr. a. -__. __. /r. e. Capital of the Bank ProOts in addition to capital (Art. 8, law of June 9, 1857). • 7, 044 ,77 8 2 7. 044 ,778 2 Reserve of the Bank and its branches Reserve in landed property Notes in circulation Ratak notes to order and reosipta payable at sight. Treasury accounts—current cre ditor Current accounts, Paris 143,6.6,780 47 13 0 ,870 090 66 Ditto branch beaks Dividends pm able 1./mounts and sundry interests 4,759,141 38 .1.• 31.144 31 Re-discounted the last six months 2,074,992 92 2,076,992 92 Sur lus of receipts not distri buted 752,9N SS &made. 9,641,310 56 10,493,016 61 1,629,301,167 67 1,447,692.543 82 Feb. 1. Fr. e. Jan. W. h. C. CILINTOR. Cash in hand and in branch Danko Commercial bills overdue Commercial bills di/connted not %et doe Ditto branch banks Advances on deposits of bullion 3,591,100 0 6,058440 0 Ditto branch banks 0,732,100 0 8,831,000 0 Advances on French public se curities 11.981,700 0 1; 1 80 000 0 Ditto branch banks Advances on railway shamus and debentures 29574,930 0 80,074910 0 Ditto branch banks 19,970,280 0 20.434880 0 Advances on Credit loader Ditto branch banks ....... Advances to the State (cony** Mon 10th June, 10671 Government stock reserve 1;00o...3o 14 16.990,150 16 Ditto disposabis 52,449,731 91 116,449,737 91 Nantes immobillsko 2 n 6 Inns, 11167) Betel and (=altars of the bank* landed property, branches • lowans or stertagement Sundries de11,900 0 617,700 0 4t8.400 0 4614e00 0 1,410,101,167 IT 1.447,0•11,6411 SI OattMad by Um ainater Oovetsor of tba beak at Imam ONltud) ROCAS& Sbfl Commander Thomas Bowan has boss ap praised a sawd man agent as nom lioalimortan station. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA IN HUNGARY. (BY ELICTRIC AND INPUNATIONAL TALIG ELPH CON PANT.) (nom on owl! )IT.) PESTH, Fu. L The Emperor and Empress of Austria received this afternoon a deputation from both Chambers. The Empress, answering in Hungarian, expressed her joy at appearing by the side of the Emperor in the centre of Hungary. She hoped the confidence that both reposed in Hungary would be responded to not by words only but by acts. Their duty was to keep in view not only the welfare of thin gary, but of the whole realm. (arum's nu ITALY. FLORENCE, Fr.B. I. The Senate to-day passed the bill by which the service of the State Treasury will in future be con ducted by the Bank of Italy. Advice. received here from Venice announce that be Central Congregation bad proposed that the sittings of the communal counuils should be legal without the presence of government commis sioners. The Congregation also requested that the new communal law should be put in force during the present year. THE AUSTRIAN CREDIT ANSTALT. VIENNA, FEB. 1. The Vienna papers of to-day state that Count Belcredi, Minister of State, and Count Larisch, Minister of Finance, yesterday received a deputa tion of the shareholders of the Credit Anstalt, and listened with great attention to their remarks concerning the recent decision of the government with reference to that company. The Ministers stated in reply that the govern ment desired to learn the opinion of the general meeting of the shareholders on the subject. "The government," they added, "will not be oppoeed to any mediation between the conflicting interests, and will strongly support any measured reform which may be brought forward with referenee to the Credit Anstalt." . . . The question will be discussed in the Cabinet Council to-day. SPAIN. BAYONNE, FIB. i. Advices received here from Madrid to the 30th ult. state that the Ministry had presented a bill subjecting the press and political associations to very stringent regulations. Public opinion greatly blames the Ministry, as hopes were entertained that, tranquillity being en tirely restored, they would first of all introduce the measures necessary for the re-establishment of public credit. THE RIVER PLATE. (By Telegraph from Limbos.) BUENOS AYRES, Dec. 27. Exchange, 501. Dollars, 25.20. Salted ox hides, 33 for 601bs. ; dry, 37 for 211ba. Tallow, 16k. Lumber, 40. INDIA. (By direct Overland Telegraph.) BOMBAY, Jaw. 24, 2.50 P.M. Manchester goods dull. Cotton steady. Oomra wuttee, 430 r. Exchange on London, 2s. 2ed. Freights, 355. Money easier. The latest London date is the 18th January. BOMBAY, JAs. 27. Exchange on London, 2e. 2d. CHINA. (By Overland Telegraph.) CANTON, Jig. 15. Total export of tea, 106,230,0003ba. Exchange on London, 43. . _ _ - , SHANGHAI, JeN. 9. Tea firm. Silk steady. Export to date, 47,500 bales. Exchange on London, Ce. 311. AUSTRALIA. MELBOURNE, Dec. 26. The shipments of gold during the month amount to 85,250 ounces for England, and 48,125 ounces for India. AERIAL NAVIGATION.—M. de Fonville sums up as follows, in the Ponthion de l'lndrstrie et des Arts, the services already rendered by the endesvours to turn aero nautics to some practical account. "Without balloons,• he says, "we should not know that partelia, antbelia, whieb Deed to be a subject of terror to superstitious populations, are caused by particles of ice suspended in the air by electric attraction ; we should not know that the law of progressive refrigeration is not found to hold good at great altitudes, or that in the sir there exists a sort of Gulf-streams, if we may be permitted to call them so, we slating of hot air, and affording so easy explanation of the irregularity of the seasons. Without Mr. Glaiaher'■ ascensions, it could not have been proved that the banded the spectrum are all of terrestrial origin, and that conse quently the astronomical theories built upon the supposed pert they play in the universe have no reliable foundation. It is not, therefore, possible to assign any limits to the utility of aerial navigation, each as it is now practicable, by the labours of distinguished philosophers.' EMIGRATION PROM LIVRISPOOL.—The govern ment emigration officials at Liverpool yesterday (Thursday) completed their usual a:motile returns of the emigration from the port of Liverpool, From these returns it appears that during the month of Jeoutry last there sailed "under the act " to the United States-21 ships, with 280 cabin and 3,483 steerage passengers, of whom 1,4 , 8 were English, 940 lriab, 1,039 foreigners. sod 86 *botch ; to Tit torts, 2 ships, with 3 cabin sod 276 steerage pm mows, of whom 110 were English, 149 Irish, four foreigners, sod 13 Scotch; to Queensland, one ship, with 2 cahin and 343 seterags passengers, of whom 190 were English, 131 Irish, and 22 Scotch—making a total of 4,387 paseengers. The number of vessels sailing " not under the act" were to the United States 12, with 479 passengers ; to Victoria 1, with 19 passengers ; to South America 4, with 49 paseeogera ; to the Watt Ladies 2, with 20 passengers ; to Africa 1, with 35 pessengers—total, 602, which, when added to the number sailing under the act, makes a pand total of 4,989, and this number when com pared with the corresponding month of 1865, when there sailed only 2,277, shows an increase in the past mouth of 2,712 passengers. &GINTY FOR THE ENCOVRAGZSIKNT OP TEI FIZZ ARM—Last evening Mr. Alfred Gilbert delivered an in teresting lecture before the the members of this society, "On the Life sod Works of Meyerbeer." The lecturer west beck to the earlier weeks of the petit composer : Rotailda e Coetanga, Margherita d'Artjou, end the Crociato lads/rife. dwelling particularly on his chef d'ceurre Roberto le Dsable, snd touching more briefly on his subse quent productions, with the exception of L'Afriereivic. His remarks were copiously illustrated by pussies from the works named, which were efficiently rendered by Madame Gilbert, Mies Foebrooke, kiss Palmer Links, Madame Andre, and Mersa. G. T. Carter sod J. Welch ; the piano forte sooompanimeete being given by Mr. Gilbert and Mr. Bernhardt. The whole performance went off most suc oessfully. fasvorAs PALtcs. Oars ninitzwo TRUZSDAT. Fn. L—Asbaliawes es gement, 1,546 ; dMs IP, mom lieimm, 1,228 ; IsMi sisters, 2,813. {STAMPED, ld. ADDITIONAL.] THE IMPERIAL VISIT TO PESTH. (FROM OUR Owl COHRESPONDECT.) PESTB, JAS. 29. One hour ago the Emperor, for the simond time within two months, arrived at Pestb. On this occasion the Empress accompanied him, an event which has been looked forward to by the Hunga rians with almost romantic interest. It is many a year since they have bad their Queen among them, and perhaps the youth and beauty of their present sovereign, and the charm of manner by which she won all hearts when lately the deputation went up to Vienna to invite her to the land of the Magyar, all added to the enthusiastic longing. The arrange ments and decorations for the reception were the same as some weeks ago. The weather, which for the last few days had been damp and foggy, quite changed this morning, and the bright blue sky could again be seen. Precisely at half-past two the train rolled into the station. All the first carriages were filled with different officers and attendants, and one after the other rolled by and there was no demonstration on the part of the dense mass assembled near the platform. But yonder the well-known figure of the Emperor standi alone in front of the carnage is ' sudden perceived, and tberettitt "Tortd sherds filled the whole building. He stood a moment acknowledging the greeting, and then entered the carriage, and immediately returned leading forward the Empress. At sight of ber, in a small Hunga rian cap of black velvet, and a short pelisse of the same bordered with sables, there was an outburst of joy, enthusiasm, and admiration. She certainly looked very pretty, and seemed extremely grati fied at the fervour of the demonstration. For, as a woman, she could not but feel it was not to the queen only they paid this homage, but that their loud acknowledgments were partly a tribute to her beauty. As the royal pair approached the spot where the burgomaster and other officers were standing, the Emperor let go the arm of the Empress, and stood a step to the side, as if to mark that it was she who, this time, was the specially welcomed guest. As he moved a little to the left he cast a glance upon her, and as he did so, a pleased expression passed over his face. From that moment he gazed straight before him, calm, and immovable while the burgomaster read the address. It was pronounced with all the warmth— or rather fire—which on such an occasion a Hunga rian would be sure to show ; and though the magis trate is advanced in years, the subject seemed to animate and make him young again; and there were passages when hie voice trembled as he spoke of the joy all felt to welcome their beautiful Queen. And now with redoubled fervour there rose loud cheers, and cries of " Elgen I" At one passage, containing a compliment, the Empress smiled, but immediately after, when the warm expressions fol lowed, and she was told that in her presence all saw the accomplishment of their most fervent wishes— that they welcomed her with love, and devotion, and fidelity—a sudden flush rushed over her cheeks ; there was a sparkle brighter than before in her eyes, and the slightest possible movement of the lips showed how much the words had affected her. I never saw her Majesty look so beautiful as in that moment when struggling with the rising emotion. When the burgomaster had finished, the Emperor replied, saying how much pleasure it gave him to bring the Empress to Peath, and that the hearty re ception greatly gratified him. All this took place immediately on leaving the railway carriage. The gentlemen and ladies in at tendance remained meanwhile in their carriages, Baron Sennyey only, the Hungarian tavernicus, stood close behind the Emperor. He had gone to the frontier to meet their Majesties, and accom panied them to Perth. This time the royal visitors started for Ofen in an open carriage and four, the postillions in rich gold-lace livery. When the Emperor came alone he drove off in a simple landau and pair. On this occasion, all along the line of route stands of every description were erected for spectators, for great as was the excitement when the Emperor came here in December, the presence of the Empress and the longing to get a sight of her made it far more so now than then. A number of young girls in white, with baskets of flowers, stood awaiting her Majesty, and on her arrival one of them offered her a nosegay of camellias and violets. A mounted escort of the citizens preceded the royal carriage, and the procession moved slowly along through the town. The bill of Ofen was covered with people, a vast mass of expectant human beings. To-night the town is to be illu minated. A committee of thirty members was formed on Saturday to draw up the address in answer to the I royal speech. The Deak party had a considerable I majority. One of the Hungarian papers, Politikai Hetilap, asserts that the address is already com posed, and that the committee will only have to ac cept it. The journal says further, that it cannot but think the address of 1866 will demand the same as that of 1861, "only the tone must be changed," for that, as I wrote to you some days ago, would not do now. It may have struck some persons that the order issued in Vienna from the Lord Chamberlain's office for a court mourning on the death of Victor Emmanuel's son was published immediately, and before an official intimation of the decease had been given. But the "Prince of Sardinia," as be was styled in the official document, was nearly related to the imperial family, his mother being a daughter of the late Archduke Reiner. And this was the cause. It is announced that Countess Konigsegg, Mis tress of the Robes of her Majesty the Empress, will, on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, between 1 and 3 in the afternoon, receive in her apartment in the palace of Ofen, a ll ladies and gentlemen who are " hoffibig," or, in other words, qualified to to to court. THE RELATIONS BETWEEN ITALY AND PRUSSIA. The Italian Ga=etta Ufficiale of the 29th ult. contains the following : • ' - - - Yesterday morning, at 11 o'clock. his Majesty gave • private audience to his Excellency Count Usedorn, Privy Councillor. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plecipo. tentiary of his Majesty the King of Prussia, who bad the honour of preventing to his Majesty our august Sovereign the insignia of the Black Eagle, an order of the Royal House, wad the Grand Cross of the Red Eagle. The recep tion took place in the grand apartment of the Royal Palace, and in uniform. The minister of the Ring of Prussia delivered the following speech on this occasion :—" Sire,—The King, my august master, has charged me to present to your Majesty, as I have the honour to do, the insignia of the Black Eagle, so order of his House, and also the Grand Cross of the Red Eagle, with the royal letters theretuito relating. Your Majesty will see in this a fresh proof of the sincere friendship and esteem which the King never ceases to cherish for your Majesty. Under the guidance of your Majesty, and with the concurrence of friendly sovereigns. Italy continues to conciliate the sympathies sod identify herself with the interest" of all Europe ; the international alliance recently effected is commercial affairs between Italy and Germany is afresh sod striking manifestation of this. The close union of these two nations, unknown is past yews, is ma of the grand results of our time ; it will perpe tuate itself, sire, under your auspices, and your Majesty will enjoy during lees end hinny yeltle the fruit' of your own work." His Majesty replied in the followisg tore : —"The friendship of his Majesty the King of Prussia is all the more precious to me because it is based upon • tan ditioesl uniformity of sympathies sod reedeneiee between our royal houses, and promises • future to Germany sad Italy worthy of two great assess. The sentiments ex pensed by your august sovereign on this occasion ere • fresh pledge of the good understanding which neutrally ought to MZibetween our two governmen ts . I offer the meet ly wishes fee the prosperity and the complete seepage 4111 Ffnalik," (TWOPENCE TRZ TINIAN MOVEMENT.--SZIZIIItZ OF ARMS IN DUBLIN. DUBLIN. THURSDAY NIGHT. At 2 o'clock this day the police seized in a store house, in Longford-lane, 160 pikes complete, 260 pike handles, 90 pikes of wood for handles., and 1 c the owner of Minnie of thenierifle pre m ises, blets has has Mr. ataken Whelan, a tailor, into custody. A very numerously attended meeting of noble men, country gentlemen, merchants, and prefer 'tonal men, including men of all parties and creeds, was held to-day, at the Rotund°, for the purpose of taking into consideration the condition of the country, and what steps should be taken to pre serve peace and order. The Marquis of Downshire presided. The speakers were the Earl of Erne, the Earl of Charleinont, Colonel Knox Gore, Lord James Butler, Mr. Napier, Lord Clermont, Sir Percy Nugent, Sir Victor Brooke, and Mr. A. Parker. Three resolutions were unanimously adopted—First, that the Fexian con spiracy had produced among the loyal inhabitants a feeling of well-founded alarm, and that it was the imperative duty of the government to use the most prompt and effective means to crush a co= so destructive - to the peace and pn,s t yrity of I t and also to afford full protection to the loyal and well-disposed of all classes. Second, that the go vernment be requested so to iocresse the military force in this country that no place where suitable accommodation can be found for troops shall be withoutthem, toawe tLe evil-disposed and encourage the well-affected and loyal of all classes acd creeds. Third, that it is the duty of all classes of the well affected and loyal of all inhabitants of Ireland to co-operate in maintaining inviolate the British connexion, the authority of our gracious Queen, and to support the executive in the defence of pro p party, law, order, and religion. The special commission did not sit to-day. A SERMON FOR THE SULTAN. (From tile Levant Herald, Jan. 24.) • During the past week an incident occurred at the palace which has been much, though not ppuublicl7, talked of in Stamboul, and which is worth recording at • typical, but happily vanishing, trait of "Old Turkey." As our local readers are aware, the Sultan is subjected dtirlog the first week of Ramszan to a course of Koranic prelec tions bye select ',emptily of moltabs, who. changing daily, expound to his Majesty the deep things of the faith with a freedom of address which the Sheikh-al-Islam himself would not vesture on soy other season of the year. On the evening in question it fell to the turn of en octoge narian hodja named Garr N union Effendi, the muderris a Haraidie, to take up the parable, and this he did with • " faithfulness," from the old conservative point of vie*, which is every te,r becoming rarer, and which on this occasion the extreme age of the censor alone excused. Taking al his text a plunge of the very narrowest oldie dory, he began by saying that he would avail himself of the full liberty of the occasion to tell his Majesty of a few home truths, in the interest of the imperial soul and of Islam in pneraL He then reminded the Sultan that one of his highest and proudest titles was the " Shadow of God"—first mourned by Soleyivan the Magnificent—but, said the hodja, " Y our Majesty has entered on • course of ac tion which is unworthy of this semi.divine nominative ; you are wandering from the straight line of orthodoxy, and pee =Mimi yourself to be beguiled into open imitation of the bifidels. What do we faithful wait with roam, with iron ship, or with telegraphs— that prime invention of Shelton? When our ancestors conquered Asia from Satuarcaod to the Marmora, they took no thought of roads, but swept over mountain sad plain as Allah had made both. But now your Majesty, forsooth, must have not merely roads but railroads, devices of the infidels to get into and overrun our country. What too, do we wept with iron ships We do not mean to conquer Franuistas, and amid not if we would. Nor, w..rat of all, do we want telegraphs, which the Devil and the (Swore together have devised for their owe evil ends against us sad our country. Paine, then, Vioestireet of the Prophet, and, abandoeung one and all of these trescherous novelties, fall back on, and be contort with, the ancient simplicities of oar faith and nation. When your predecessor, held fast to these, the Osmaolis were great and paramount. Then we had Do debts, no banks, no loans ; now we are overrun and borne down by all three. Bet, Shallow of Allah, the fault is Doe yours. Yoe are surrounded by evil councillors, by disloyal and half infidel ministers who regard only their owe intereste and are nothing for Islam. OM rid of them, and rally roiled you true Mamulmene who will preserve the country from these and all like mimes inecorations.* Slightly regularised in expreasios, such —reported to us at second-band from en 'sr-witness of she harangue—was the straits in which the old tory lectured the Sultan for nearly a couple of hours, till, unable to bear it logger, his Majesty raised his heads and made the usual sign for going to prayers. As the prischmeet had bees heard by an audience of some twetty primes, the ' affair was all over Stamboul the neat day, to the con siderable displeasure, it is said, of the Grand Vizier and more than one of the other ministers, to whom the pein of truth mingled with the much senile and bigoted non mom of the harangue was iodiffereetly agreeable. The Cattle Plague Commissioners met yesterday, the Ist February, at the House of Commons, Principal Floor, Room 1L Pressot—Earl Spencer, Lord Comber's*, Mr. Lowe, Dr. Berne Jones, Dr. Quoin, Dr. Parks, Mr. M'Clean, Professor Spooner, and the Secretary. THE HIINTERIAN MUSECSI.—A moat interesting and valuable addition has just been made to the above col lection in the purchase by the council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England of the skeleton of the premised whale, the " taliena mysticetua" of Lioncus, or better known in commence as the northers right whale, an animal which has been destroyed io such large ambers by expo• dittoes fitted out hoes the ports of thy, and other conotriee that the species is threatened with epeedy extinction. Noteritlistandieg this great slaughter, it is curious to add that no skeleton bag ever been brought to England, although the osteological characters off the soinial offered such re markable peculiari:iss that comparative anatomists had long been desirous of studying the perfect skeleton, as oppor tunity now afforded oy this judicious purchase of such a rare animal, which has now been mounted by that skilful articulator, Mr. Flower, under the supenoteodenee of Mr. Flower, F.R.S., the conservator of the muse. It may sot be meerally known that upwards of 250.0001. bare been *Reseda on this collec•im from the hoods of the college, exclusive of perliamentery mots. THE PRESIDENTSHIP OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY. Yesterday evening a meeting of the Royal Academicians was held at their house in Trafalgar-square, to decide on the election of a president in the room of Sir Charles Eastlake. decessed. On the 24'h ult., Sir Edwin Lendsear was elected by a large majority of the Royal Academicism who were then present, but he declined to serve. So skiing a feeling, ho.ever, was evinced that lie should be the SOW president that an adjournment was at (Ace agreed upon until last night. At that meeting it appeared that Sir Edwin Landover persevered in his intention not to serve, and the result has been that Mr. Francis Grassi. M.A., wee elected president. He is the fourth von of Mr. Francis Giant, of Engrg/do% Perthshire, and a brother of General Sir J. H. Grant, G.O 3. At the commencement of hie artistic career, be applied himself to the panting of sporting piece's, bat abueloeing this part of the profession, be devoted himself to the higher breaches of the art, sad in 1831 &alined at the Royal Academy. In 1842 be was elected an eseceiste. end is 1851 was advanced to the rank of a Royal Academician. Mr. Grant married the Mere of the Duke of listlasd. THE SCOTCH RAILWAY Soninite.—AL meeting of shareholders is the Caledonian, North British, and Glasgow sad Sonth-Western Railways was held in Glasgow on Wednesday, to reedy** report from a committee appoisted by a similar meet ng on 21st December last. 'I he object W the shareholders war, it will be remembered, to induce the directors of the several companies to 'gem to postpone or abandon some of the schemes of extension, alteratioa, sic., so largely announced by them, and the execution of which would involve so lavish an expenditure of capital. The committee reported that they bed ob tained interviews with the directors of each company with the result of inducing a withdrawal of several of the new schemes. Indeed, so auseessfal had their operations been that they are disabled to estimate the schemes am withdrawn as representing as expenditure of no lees than 7,786,0001., though even for three left intent be the aced' meat the still enormous sumo( 3,345.584 f. will be reqedred. The report was unanimously adopted ; as were trubsequeot resolutions in accordions with its object. The Rev. Mg. Msikiam attempted to introduce discussion on esside'y traise, bat the meeting declined to setertain the irrelevant subject. The foundation-stone of the great City offices now IS am mo. erection for the City Offices Company was laid yesterday in the preernee of the members of the beard and the directors, by Mr. Edward Memernaso, cue of the di rectors. This building, when finished, will add another maismedal palace to she bomber already ocesplesed is Ike Oily. The site extends from Bishopegatiestmet is to Old Broadoteeet. The drum was hoisted at Liverpool yourday evening, signifying a summed= of gales. 1 1 0