The Express.
London, England, 1863-10-08 00:00:00

LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

(By uranuo TZLIGILLPIL)
BEDFORD NESTING.—(THIS DAY.)

SCURRY 14AND!Cig. Half, mile.

Mir Juir,liar IT6.1;161;i.; fulidio,loTero. Vigil,
Doe% ore Letve, Lady Abhor, sod Mn. Somerville are
here.

ENTRY FOR QUEEN'S PLATE. Three ranee.
beans, Blindly, Quiperdown, Gibraltar, Reserve, Ras-
p/7, Onsteriatioa, Wet* and Abernethy. AU are here.
Jamul/a —Denies, Pseeeripion, Vet, and

Hilly Grove,

COVENTRY ELECTION-(THIS DAY.)

(11T XLMILTNIC AND INTINNATIONAL 'TZLZGRATIL)
Irmo* 001 OWN 001USTONDCNT.)
Sun OW TO POLL AT 12.30.
?reborn (comervative)
Peel (liberal)

ORIENTAL INLAND STEAM COMPANY. I(
(THIS DAY.)

A meeting of the proprietors was held at noon at to)
the London Tann., Colonel Glum ia the chair, to eon- so
Mew the puma sad tlsaseial condition el the company, 20
and to router with the directors on the 000110 to be adopted. n
The MAMMAL is opine( the proceedings. first referred ,
to the financial eondition of thief:on- may. He said thankd.
up capital amounted to 30,0001. which was increard
by a lota of 50,0001. from thei tankars to about so
400,0301. The assegai meets amounted to 290.0001. or if
300,001. The profits of the working of the lades steamer LI
aloes had athirst defrayed the whole of the exposes* in
Isdia and is London, shooing what might be expected with ;
proper 'management The lose recently sustained was gi
attributable partly to the nesaccemful attempt to navigate rd
tbeflutlej sod partly to the great reduction of freights arwog li
from the Americas war. In order to enable the company SI
to Magid difilerallias and work memorially, the following
mem were proposed by the directors :-Ist, to transfer two _
at hart of the company's steamers. the Mane and the 1
Gages, together with four or five banes, from the 1
Chaim to the Indus, which might be done
without risk in February ; secondly. to cell on the most
favourable terms that ofeald be obtaioed the remain.
lag vessels of the company, and to close es soon as
wrisible the (Xleatth army. Far then purposes.
however, it was neesseary to pay a the loan of
MOON. from the bankers. The shareholders was
asked to amen to a proposal to isms preference shares.
He believed that if that meat were given the difficulties of
the onropany would be et to god, whereas a refusal most be
elieutroas to the oommay. It was proposed to issue at ooce
6,541101. preferesee therm, which would seise 65,0001., re-
seswiag 3.563 to be hereof ter apportioned.
MI. BERZY2TLZ, • director, moved, and Colonel BOSH
secosded, a resolution to the effect that it is expedient to
Mee the usallothed and forfeited shares to the company as
pretenses shone, and that the preferential divideod to Ce
situ:bed he tiers sham shell sot exceed 8 per cent
A SHAIIIIOLDIM thought that 8 per cent would he an
ergeessive dividend. and most unfairly prejudice the iotereste
of the ordinary ebareholdees.
The OHLJERNAN observed that old steamboat companies,
is a meth better position than that one, were obliged to
pay a preferentiel dividend of 71 per cent.
It reply to a question.
The Ourattaa stated that the lodus had earned about
10,0001. set ; as that if these were five vessels they might
reseesably export a profit of 50.000/.
Kr. TATUM opeeldered the position of the company very
assatirteeten, sad thought beet course would be for
these witelead emellitenoo in the undertaking to forma new

compa;;.leavieg others toretire. (No. Dar He considered
it his duty to petition the Court of Bankruptcy that the
ea might be wound up. He eentseded that it was
usrlaPesapror the company to proceed is its present course,
sad that an inquiry ought to be made by an accountant
into tts present poetics. (No. no.) He was proceeding to
Men the appoistment of a committee, when
Mr. HILL (the company's solicitor) remarked that no
gentleman in WOW of calls could mhos motion.
Mr. TAILOR, lotwithsteeding this objection, pro-
posed a motion, for • committee of inquiry, to inquire
Into the erudition and prospects of the company
aid the propriety of marestruetieg the nmosgemeot,
when the Chairman said that ea the ground mentioned by
the noliciter bmionld not receive it ; but on the oirjeetioe
being repeated Mr. Taylor handed his amendment to Cap-
tale HEMARBOII. who proposed it to the meeting.
Mr. Clang= seconded the amendment.
After some remarks from the CBAIILIUN in reply, in the
course of which he referred to the fait that the board had
just received a valuable aceresioe in Mr. Rogerson, Mr.
Oaks, and Mr. Womter. • desultory ditenesion took place
with regard to the precise position of the company, and the
=Umbria mew of releasing it from its present
The ameadment was ultimately rejected by a large ma-
jority. The Menai resolution was then corned with only
two cterentients.

The whole of the fleet of the Royal Mail Com-
pany is about to be surveyed by the Admiralty. in conse-
quence of tila commencement of a new mail contract
obertly._ . . _

The Tropical Department of the Crystal Palace
sew =Wen a dos speetrass of the African tweed fruit tree
(Ssoephalark• tridenta) bearing ite 'okras' fruit.
We saw yesterday a regular old veteran of a
wsn:or sad patriot. His same is Jobs T. C. 'McCaffrey.
He wee raised in KnoxviUs, Tenn., is soventy•threeErweez
Leeold, sod had fifteen sou and three daughters.
sews were is the Cake actor until the step of Vicksburg,
where four of them were killed. The old man himself enlisted
lathe Troth Minsk at Fayetteville, Ark., over a year Br.
sad was lately diecharpd. He served eight mouths in the
Madder war, twelve mouths seder General Jackson, thirty-
two mouths is the Mexican war, and twelve months in the
premed mar. Ha has three brother. and three stepsons
saw Y W Usk. anev..—tit. Lours Republinega.

LeTtrzooriCiessitAiOxersue Coariurre(Lairrin).—.
Trak receipt" fat the week sods, Oc% 1, 10,925/. 60. 2d.