The Express.
London, England, 1863-10-05 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 5, 1863.

It may not, therefore, be premature to sug-
gest to investors the superiority, even from the
financial point of view, of enterprises destined to
develop commerce and the arta of pro-
duction over those which are projected
to aid political adventures. Money advanced to
facilitate production, communication, and ex-
change, money employed to construct railways,
or establish steam packet lines, or found colonial
or international banking institutions, nearly always
fulfils its purpose ; while the British public
have only too much reason to know that money
lent to young States of untried characters or dis-
puted position in the world, has disappointed the
hopes of the lenders. It is understood that the
scheme of the Land Mortgage Bank of India is to
be brought out immediately, under the auspices of
the General Society of Credit and Finance. It
will be remembered that one of the objects origi-
nally proposed by the General Credit Society was
to bring together the demand of India for money
at 12, and the English capital seeking
investment at 4 or 5 per cent. Special
institutions of landed credit (credit fonder),
of which there are many on the Continent, are
unknown in this country, the great Insurance
Companies by their loans on mortgage to a great
extent supplying their place in England, and the
banks, with their peculiar cash credits, doing the
same in Scotland. No negotiable securities, how-
ever, arise out of the loans thus effected. The
superior advantage which Landed Credit Institu-
tions offer to the lender is, that they enable him
to supply the money required for a loan on land,
which is almost always a loan at a long date, and
at the same time have it as much at
his command as if it were invested in the public
funds. The advantages to be expected for India
from the introduction of a Mortgage Bank are ob-
vious and immense. There is no Eastern country
where the proprietors are not either ground down
by usury or destitute of the means of properly
carrying out their operations. But the situation
of India just now makes such institutions pecu-
liarly desirable. After a long period of stagnation
the industrial energies of the people of that vast
country have been stimulated by the increasing
demands made upon them for produce during the
last ten, and more especially within the last five
years, and money with which to enter and follow
the paths which thus open before them is the
chief want of these landed proprietors, for which
they are ready and well able to pay. The
scheme of the new Bank, when issued, will be
received by the public with much curiosity and
form a fair subject for criticism, but there can only
be one opinion about its object. The forthcoming
Anglo-Austrian Bank and the Anglo-Russian
Bank will supply further and much needed means
of assisting trade between England and those
countries. The outburst of political life in Austria
and the great social enfranchisement in Russia
are giving an impulse to all kinds of activity in
those empires, the effects of which cannot but be
felt in commerce. Whatever increases the wealth
of the world benefits England sooner or later, and
it is an additional advantage if we can find a sepa-
rate profit by directly helping forward that increase
in the first instance. It is not so when, as in
some loans to foreign States, we simply find money
to save a people the trouble of paying their taxes,
or supply potentates with the means of governing
contrary to the public interests.

The catalogue of forthcoming American books is
rather • full one. Longfellow is to publish " Wayside
lon and other Poems ;" 0. W. Holmes, " Soundings from
the Atlantic;" Whittier "In War Time, and other
Peels. ; " Rev. H. W. Beecher has • book called
"Freedom and War ; " Ralph Waldo Emerson pro-
mises • new volume of " &rya and Lectures;' Agenda,
the naturalist, is to publish his "Methods of the Study of
Natural ;History." Nearly all of these works have been
foreshadowed during the year by the " Atlantic Monthly."
Roseau CATHOLICS AT OXFORD lINIVRILSITY.
II is understood that at a meeting of the Roman catholic
nobility and gentry, held • few days ago, the question was
vigorously discussed as to the adviability of seeding the
youth of their families to Oxford at the approaching
term. Dr. Newman strongly counselled this step, which
was as strenuously opposed by others. The b•hnae of
opinion, however, was in favour of the movement, and in
consequeoce several catholic families are ►bout to send
their sons to matriculate at Oxford.

THE COURT AT BALMORAL. —Her Majesty the
Queen paid a visit to their Boyd Highnesses the Priors and
Prisons of Wales, at Abergeldie, on Sunday Francon.
Her Majesty enjoys bee favourite walks and drives daily,
end has joined the Prints and Princess of Wales, Prince
Alfred. Pitmen Helena, Princess Louisa, and the Prime and
Princess of Hesse, at plc-oic. She seems very much im-
proved since at Baimonl in May last. Oa Monday, Prince
Alfred and Prince Louis of Hesse went to the White
Month, deerstalking. The Prince of Wales went to
Ballochbuie Fora% and wounded a very fine stag, bet after
. gallant hunt, he was lost in the woods. Colonel
Koppel went to the Gairnsheil moors, and made a most
excellent bag. Oci Tuesday' the Prises of Wales, Prince
Alfred, and Prince Louis of Hesse, with the prnekeepers
and sillies, joined Colonel Farquharson on the Glenrallater
Forest, and hroaght down a number of tine stags—one of
which had a very peculiar head, having six pieta on one
horn, and only four on the ether. The Queen and
the princesses, attended by Mr. Brown, drove by
Abergeldie, Bednacroft, and Lochnsgar
Their royal highnesses save a greed ball to the
evening at Absageldis to all the servants about both the
trestles and the prnekespen and sillies, as also many of
the tenants on birth the estates of Balmoral and Abergeldie
the semis being efficiently condoned by Willis Blair,
assisted by his son and Mr. John Hoar% ci Aberarder,
having now and again been relieved by Me. Robertson, the
=. The dines was kept up with great glee until a late
is the morning. The servants of the Prince and Pri
ens of Prussia reached the castle on Thursday, and thel
prices. prisons, and family arrived on Friday. Their equip-
age is ea a large vale, and great reparations are made for
their reception, the tenantry having been requested to turn
out to give them a Melon' welcome.—Aberdeen Journal.
Era W. ATHERTON.—The Durham Advergiser
tusdentands that although he lass resigeed the °Sloe of At-
torney-General, Sir Wm. Atherton intends to Mats his men
for the city of Durham.

REPENSILNTATION or Covvrray.—The nornins-
ties is and for Wednesday seat, the no:alien on the follow.
bag day. The coateet will mod ►ikely be severe.
Ter Riourrisnorie—The result of the revision
at Liverpool is a gain of 440 to the liberal party. At Leeds
there isabwapind 100.

KTON COLLIOL —The examination of the various
competitors for the "Albert" Preece and °MOW prises,
for which his Royal Highness the late Prince Cowart gra.
cionely gave the yearly sun of 501. to be disposed of by the
provost and head meter, aceordieg to the judgment of
competent examieen, in prises fortes promotion of the
study of modern lanswires, will, it is expected, commence
on Weider (this day). The following are the dispositions
this Michaelmas :—(bptaim of the school. T. W. Martyn,
K. 8.; captain of the oppidans, W. W. Wood captain of
the boats, 8. C. Cochran • captain of the eleven, W. & Pri.
dean: ; mottle commandant of the Eton College Volunteer,
Übe Hon. N. Lyttehoo, the latter being also the prssideet of
the debating society. Old choices in the eiebt--8. 0.
Oedema, P. Willett, A. H. Hall, W. W. Wood. Old
choices I. the eleven—W. S. Pridesux. Hon. N. TAtteltot,
How. 8. Lytteltoo, C. Tape. H. Forsyth. The Rev.
W. M. Wollaston has commenced officiating as coe-
ds* in the place of the Rev. T. H. Roper, who hoe left.
The Rev. W. M. Wollaston was formerly os the Eton fain-
dation, and left at the election, in 1851. He bas sineo been
fellow and tutor at Exeter College, Oxford.— Windwr
Ezpresa

VISIT or Pintos Lona NArorsow TO Boum-
WARL—Oo Saturday hie Imperial Highness, who has
receetly strived is Louden, paid a visit to the borough of
Southwark, accompanied by his suite. He first made his
impaction of the railway station at London-bridge, and
expressed inch empties at the rapid maims la which the
muck. work for the Charinverces Extension IM:web:ln
executed. He next proceeded to view the newly
sad handsome range of warehomes on the site of the great
Are in Tooley-atreet in as well as the spot at which
Mr. Braidwood lost his life, and which is roarlorl by a
tablet commemorating the sad calamity. The diethigniiMed
visitant also viewed the neigh bouriog wharw as well es
the mere of buildings belonging to the late Alderman
Hiciphery, as also the extensive teat rasonfeatps7 of Mr.
B. Edgingtoo, in Duknstnist. at which his Impend High-
NIS made some purchases, which were ordered to be shipped
for Paris. The church of St. Saviour's, with the Lady.
Chapel, itc., were also visited.

Qc Court.

The Prince and Princess of Wales arrived at
Marlbovough.house, Pall-mall, at a quarter-past 10 o'clock
on Saturday night from the Kiog'a-cross terminus of the
Great Northern Railway. Their Royal Highnesses, attended
by Lieut.-General Knotty., Captain Grey, and the Mon.
Mrs. W. Grey, left Edinburgh in the forenoon.
Yesterday morning the Prince and Princess of Wales &t-
-ended Divine Service in the Chapel Royal, St. James's.
The sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Garden, sub.
dean. The anthem was, " Sing we merrily onto God"—
Crotch.

Captain Grey and the Hon. Mn. W. Grey were in at-
tendance on their Royal Highnesses.
The Duke of Cambridge we, also present at the service.
Captain Grey bee relieved Lieut.-Colonel Koppel in his
duties u the Equerry in Waiting to the Prince of Wales.

Despatches were seat as Eliittuday from the Colonial•office
to the Goveroon of the North American Provinces, Ber-
muda, Gibraltar, Yalta, Ceylon, Hoag Bong, and Libuan.

THE RECUSTRATIONS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY OF LONDON.
Thin morning Mr. Alfred Hanson, the barrister,
held hie seventh sitting in the Court of Commoa Mess, at
Guildhall, when the Tuition of the lists of pathless in the
wards of °Applegate Within and Without and Farringdon
Within was proceeded with.
Mr. None (Nobs', Carlin*, and Francis) appeared for
the Oily of London Conservative Registration Meociation,
and Mr. Sidney Smith and Mr. George Ledger attended on
behalf of the liberal interest.
In the parish of St. Glare, Silver-street, Mr. John Winter
claimed to be put on the register in respect of premises oc-
cupied by him at No. 5, Windsor-court, Monkwell-street,
Cnpplegate. The notice of claim to the overseer was in the
following terms :—" Not seeing my name in the list of
voters for the parish, I beg to all your attention to the
overseer in order that you may enter forthwith.—John
Winter, 5, Windsor-oonft,"
The Barrister, on referring to the claim as published by
the overseer, stated that there was no qualification stated
on it, and that being so he could not entertain it. Re most
have proof of due notice of the claim having bees given.
Mr. Sidney Smith raid if the claim wu pabliobed is
proper form, the notice served upon the overseers wee of no

--i'Ve'iii;;;ter—That may be no ; bet here the claim was
not published in proper form. He most have proof that the
claim was properly published, and that proof being wanting,
he oonld not entertain it.

The overseer said the fault was no doubt his, in not pro-
perly publishing Mr. Winter's claim. As to his qualification
there could be no doubt. _ _

The Barrister, however, said that the skim not having
time properly published he must disallow it.
The claim was acoordiagly rejected.

MARYLEBONL

This morning Mr. T. H7l;e7rell, the barrister
appointed to revise the lists of voters for tbsbxeula of Mari-
leboes, commenced the revisioa at the vestry-ball, Padding.
too, and afterwards proceeded to the coeut-boase, Itarylebone,
to revise the lista for the parish of Maryisbone and of St.
Pasoan. The present revision of this extensive borough is
not likely to occupy much time, as there are but few claims
and no objections. In the parish of Paddington there
were no claims nor objections, and in the two other parishes
about 12 in each.

WESTMINSTER.
Mr. Terrell will revise the lists for Westminster
on Thursday next, when a contest may be expected.