The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-17 00:00:00

THE INTWATIONAL FINANCE SOCIETY

(LIMITED).

The first report of the directors of the Inter-
national Financial Society (Limited), to be sub
mated at the meeting on the Ist March, has been
issued, and we subjoin it in extetwoo:

In submitting to their shareholder. this, their first re-
port, the directors think that they may with justice oon.
gratooote themselves on the rerun of their labours. The
accounts embrace the operations of the society up to 31st
December last, and show that the net profit, after deducting
all current expenses, and writing off all preliminary ex-
penses, amounts to the sum of 199,9601. 18s. 11d. The
etpital called up is 750,001.. or 51. per share, of which
one-half was paid on the 28th May, and the remaining
half on the 13th July last. The directors are of opinion
that, in this early stage of the company's operations, it
world be unwise to divide too large a proportioe of
the profits, notenthetanding the favourable wadi-
timid under which they have entered upon the
pew you. 'They, therefore, recommend that the
balance be applied as follows :-Ist. 19,9311. 10s. Id. to
payment of intermit at 5 per rent per annum on the called-
np capital, in eoefonnity with clam, No. 164 of the arti-
cles of emaciation. 2nd. 77,5681. 9a. 11d. to bans; to
make, together with the above interest, a dividend of 13s.
per share, free of income tax ; equal in all to 25 per cent.
I per aonum. 3rd. 18,(E31. 19a. sd. to reserve fund, in coo-
formity with clause No. 25 of said articles. This, after de-
, ducting the neessaary iusoants for directors' commission,
and income tax oil the dividend, will leave a bassos of
766801. 19e. sd. to berried forward to sew amount, which
balance, together with the amount of 16.0001. 19e. sd.
placed to reserve fund, leaves a total of 91,6811. 1114. 10d.
undivided. The directors have secured permanent offices at
the building sow in souse of erection at No. 60, Thread-
needle-street, which they believe will be ready for mon-
' potion about June next. Mr. R. P. Harding and Mr. Edwin
H. Galaworthy bare been appointed auditors, and their re-
maceration will have to be fixed by the meeting. The same
gentlemen offer themselves for re-election.

The following is the balance-sheet, se nude up
to the 31st December :

DL
To capital account, viz.
Deposit of I/. 10s. per share
Os 150,000 shares 4375,000 0 0
Pkat call d 18. 1l per share
on 130,000 shares 375,000 0 0
1750,000 0 0
10 sundry creditors Mitt It
To prat and loss :
Balance at the credit of this account

411.188,126 11 1

Co.
By omit at boaters, In hand, sad on deposit.— CAM 17 7
By sundry debtors:
For athances on sscarlty, &c. SUMO U 0
By Hudson's Boy Company-17.140 shares at par 347,000 0 0
By sundry In% estments ,at cost price)

_61.1811,1116 U 1

The manner in which the balance of 199,9501. at
the credit of profit and loss account is to be appro-
priated, is clearly shown in the annexed :
To directors' COMMiliioll, so per
aetlele of association No. 707 C4,9116 15 1
To Interest at the rate of 6 per cent
per annum on pald.up capital . £19931 10 1
To bonus of 10s. Id. per share 77,500 0
To amount to auks op dividend and
bonus to 13a. per share
97,500 0 0
To Income tax on above amount.... 20363 16 0
To amount earned to the credit or
reserve fund, as per article of asso-
dittos No. IS
To balance carried forward to prolit
and lou new account
NMI 18 10

L 199,960 18 11

Tau NET/ Rirome Balms has Oyez
notice that he Mends, cm the Sib of March, to bring
in a ball for extendiog the borough fraisAise to
peracios paying a 61. natal. This is the measure which
the whirm proposed when they wanted to term Lord
Derby out, and dropped when they bad maceseded.
It is • measure to which reformers in parliament sod
in the country are deeply pledged. It is a debt of
honour. doe to the people—more Lima • debt of homer—a
solemn party compact. The time lam come to exact pay-
ment with • determined tone. The reform question most
be made a sine quid non. Faint argumentation and mild ap-
peals will not avail. People must say, and they are preparing
to esy it--uumbers have already mid it in this city--" We
will stir for Roth* and for nobody till this debt is paid."
If Palmerston and Co. dishonour their own accoplemes. Tat
them pay the penalty of dishonour. Our watchword Is
"reform—woe to the whip if they go to the coustry with-
out it."—Norfolk News.
FATAL FALL INTO Alt OPEN STREET CUTTINO.--
Yeateiday ottoman Mr. Humphreys, Middlesex dormer,
held se inquest at the Loodou Hospital upon the body of
Emma Ehrhart, aged 30 years, who wee killed bywahit.
l
into • deep cutting or exesvatioa is Thmass.street,
amid. It appeared from the eviderice that the deceased
was • shopwomae. employed at Mr. Panned* confectioner,
in Cambia, and that every night she went home to her
father's house, is Thomas-street, Whiteohapel. For tea
days past the Board of Works have had hi course of coo.
.emotion • More sewer down Thomas-street. Oa Thursday
night last deceased did oat return home as usual, end the
next morning she was found lying deed at the bottom of
the a:aeration, In front of her father's deer. Her neck sad
spine had bees broken by the fall. It was proved that
there were poles around the cutting as • preteetlea, bat ia
one place they were merely laid on • monad of earth. It
was supplied that In the darkness the unfortunate deceased
walked over the mound into the cutting. The Jury returned
• verdict "That deceased was totted dead hems a teal as the
bottom of • certain excavation in the Ant* bat how she
awns to fell the evidence did not prove."