The Express.
London, England, 1864-01-22 00:00:00

1.4.640,61111 17 3

et 8 9

PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT FOE THE
ENDING DEC. 31, 1863.
DL
To half a yeses current expel:ate at had °Mee L a d.
sad Cliaring.croes branch. bad and doubtful
debts, directors remonerattoo. dc.
To rebate of interest on Mils discounted not yet
dos, carried to prolit sod lon new account
To Charing-mess branch lease account IOU 0 0
To dividend for the had-year at the rani of 410
per cent. per annum
To bonus at the rata oft per cent. per same. air
al sa. per 'hare
To haN-year's interest on the nom tend at 44
pa med. par annum . ZENO • •
To man saw addedasmie.-- SUM • 0
To balance carried to profit and tomboy accoaat

HALF-YKAIL

By ishoce of ;won brought from
hat han.year
By ditto for current half-year

13,000 0 II
1,030 7 6

031,3131 11 3

A S. d.

. L 606 16 4
.44.727 16 11
41.364 12 3

TO balance,

RESERVE FIIND ACCOUNT.

ad.
.... 112.000 0 0

Bt amount from but halt-year
By additioos Intowitit down

L a d.
~ 100,000 0 0
.. 10,000 0 0

al 19,000 0 0

We hare ermined the above ectioeulMead lad them correct,
Jemmy 13. leak
OEO. THOMBON,
ALFRED LAMB. 1- Auditors-
01.01tOE DUN E.
It was resolved unanimously—That the report now read be
The Chairman announced that the dividend and bonus would
be psyabie on and utter Thursday, the Path January, at the bead
office. in Threadneedle-street.
It wsa unaniruoualy—That in conidderation of the valuable
services of the Directors and their cost•oued exertions in pro-
moting the interets of the Shareholders their remuneration be
Increased by the sum of £l,OOO per annum, to commence from
314 December, 101.
It was propmett—That in consideration of the increase which
bias takes place In the duties of the Auditors. from the extension
of the business of the bank their remuneratton be advanced for
the future to 30 guineas for each half yearly Milt.
rpon which en amendment am moved and cereled unani-
inotisly7
. . . _

_
That the Amnion' remoneration be L5O for each laldit.
It was 11100iTed unanimously—That the cordial thesis' of the
fiberrbolders be hereby tendered to the t. batman and Directors
for their saccendut niansgeneut of the affairs of the hank.
That this meeting, in tendering its thanks to the Mousse%
Secretary, sod other of of the bank, for their cootinsed seal
Im the discharge of their several duties, du take this opportunity
of recording the deep geese it entertains of the great services
rendered to the teak by My. Marshall and Mr. Allis.

iztmctai rom $s yw: i

- C. J. H. 1.1.1.=, Secretary.
Jaw SI. 1144.

BANK of L O N D O N.
Throadoeedle-.tie sad Charlaa-crom.
CRAntmAN—Sir JOHN VILLIERS SHELLIY. Bat, M.P.
Vlcseamuum—JOHN GRIFFITH FRITH, Faq. Sands,

::a oe.i

Maittellt—MATTlllii kill-SHALL Jun Eat
CrIULF-Yr ♦CW('NTS oilseed with parties properly intro-
duced, end interest allow rd its credit balances. provided such
balances are not drawn below £200.._

dei;slt, repayable oa wren days'
notice. interest on which Is regulated by Use market value of
gooney, so anocanwed from time to tints by paddle advertisement,
the present rate brier flee per cent.
CIRCULAR \i)l43 and Lend= of CREDIT issued free
Of charge, and all descriptions of banking badness transacted.
C. J. 11. ALLIS. Reeretar7.

THE CONSOLIDATED DISCOUNT
COMPANY ,Limited. No. 4. Abebureb-lm.
Capital 01.000.00.
DIRIIKTOU.

ceoese Walter Constable, Esq. plasm. Constable and Wylie')

Mllacing-lane.
Georg. Denny, Esq. ;Items. George Dena, and Co.), Great St.
Helen's.
Wllitain Little, Fao., Director of the Cape Town Italtway.
M. 31iArthur, Fag. of the firm of Wm. aad Alexander
MiArthnr, Australian merchants,. 4.1, !Imagine-street.
1. J. filstrzoil, Esq. 'Maws. Sargoost [lag aad aargood • London

and Mabotirne:
Thomas ehepberd Richardson, laq., Director a the Buenas
Ayres and River Nate hank.
James Thompson, Esq. Messrs. La Gros. Thompson and Co.),

Gutter-lane.
•H graws itanAcman,
•Richard MULIWTS nenderson, ad., Wawa Ssndemaa and Co
•Samuel Biker, IN..
Committee of Management.
RASIMR.II.—Tbo London and Westminster Bank.
SOLICIToRS —Messrs. Sole. Turners. and Hardwick.
The huaintos oi this Company being In active operation, the
Directors are garnered to 'Llscount *pyres thi Mercantile 818., and
be make advances upon nerntiabie esmuitions.
Mosey received on deposit. et call and short settee, et the
remest market rake, and tor Mow periods open tam Up be
specially speed own.

T .AMBKRTS ASTHMATIC BALSAM, an
-RA effectual remedy without conduit* Om bowels se sled
tpg the hood, truly itgkocions end pLusellt. ls nalaitted
be the best medicine for hossedriatety ntleelny amegba, colds,
eamanned case. of eathroa, ande, isciyiest onsamatira. It tno
gently cures penny whom the Bonny pronouns incurable.
admirably allays the iickbag with& provokes trwiseat eestghing.
Ica approaching c.nmampitom its elfecta me Indy bens/kis/
Persons deW•ed of sleep. menu lib. (lowa far nor al redoes-
Mon, ma &mod on retied is a few volatiles Mar biking 'L—
ally and sold by W. LAMPIIIT amid.; Bing Wil-
Item.street, Charomercws, Lowden. end by an drearlsta In
bottles,l3o., and there gquselWes Y mom to. Pd. Be partlemir
and ask for Lambert's ASWmatie Balsas. The wan and adagio
art aapavad oa the dam&

:PUMPS 00PAH1/42 sessushally
Mr Mei he lb. Porto ••4 Landon lbsopillab. vs*. Os owe se
Lea Cblihfor Itirsed. Loyd, Mirk awl Irma Cleft
ammo.. Wm: law ellosis •mela as maser of
abbot to wart sr dowele elossuft—i• 011-par
•111 &imam% herb abiniK

THE LONDON, ITALIAN, sod ADRIATIC
STRAY NATIO tTION COMPANY (Limited).
:MICR IS REMY °IVRY, that the LIdT of APPLICA-
TIONS for MARRS la tide Company will be CLOSED TO-
MORROW, the Sled toot after which date the Dlreakes
wooed immediately to allot the share&
By order of the Board.
011101.011 ORANT, See rotary.
Compearti Temporary Mom tai, Demoharch-etroet,
Jam. tf., IMM.

TEE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SOCIETY ,Lhetted, are
to might lIFIVORIFTIONS for the Capital of
TriarlAND SECURITIES COMPANY
'United).
e . .apltal LLOOO.OOO la 10000 Shares of tdo each, of which
11.000,000, Is 20,000 Shares of AU sack only to be issued at
present.
,C 3 per Share to be paid on allotment.
It is not contemplated to call more than CIO per Shoe in all
9r more than £0 per Shire ;including Ch on allotment, in the

the first year. • -
Incorporated, with lareited LlRAfifty, odes "The Conspanfes
Act. INdt'

Application will be stoatetoPrrtlt= In the neat session.
toe an Act widening powers.

nuncio-li.
His Grace the Duke of MARLBOROUGH. President.
The Directors of the International Pleaneial Satiety (Valted)
acting as a Menem Committee.
John limb, Eip.. M.P. Director of the Beak of IMAM.)
Mr James largemon, Bart. M.P.
Talks flentknall Cißohmrevilte. iv;
y, Bart., Y.P. M.P.
Mr Joie s
James Mackie, Zap.. Y.P.
Mr Lamar Palk, Bait, Si.?.
Mr Henn Strawy, Bart, M.P.
Apia= Derma, Esq., hill..
Hear, Warember, req. (DaHernia, Parphar, and Co.)
Mr Jain Gem, Dahlia.
flora fluinVLleo;lirector LandsimprovementOomptuty).
Hon. Wißlan Napier ifxreetor Landa Improvement Company).
Hon. Palm.
Blr Cletrisellada, Bart (Chairman IendshIIprOVINIIIM Company).
PROMTwella, bit (Mama. Barclay, Baran, and Os.)

Mews. lsrelay, Boma, /Mum, TweCs. sad Co.. Lombard.
elasmd, Landow
Mows. Iteries, Farquhar, sad Co.. St. James'astreet, loodoo.

Mewl. Bamboo,. DrieTinpie: sad Ward.
}London-

31;imen.'. W ‘ol7—aallag. 3, ClarieUrrow, Mansion.

111=.Hantar, Blair. ad Cowan. W.&, ltdinbargh.
Jahn Itaasantsra Caatwell, Ewa , t
John lanais. lA..

sliOnzelL
blesses. Seymour sad Co.. tit Filronimorkoa4trest
Warm P. Commove end Co., IM, Iluesdnesdle-street.
Oillem—latentadoaal Society's Temporary Oakes 54, Old Broad-
street LC. ; and t Old Palace-yard. Westminster. S.W.
Th. Directors of the International Financial Society, in nub.
Wadehle prospectus to the poldle, call attendee to the feet
Compaq bee ben established to supply en admitted
west In this smeary, where bladed property is ico negotiable
go a rod of credit than la say other of the Stake of Europe.
Oesnigoor will act as agenta !etyma the investing pablle
awl the borrower. They will also make advances repayable at
axed terms, or by terminable annuities, on leaded rotate. and
en every charge upon land, such am county and parish rotes,
rates levied as lasi ander public at private acts of parimisest,
royal ebseters, commissions of sewernimprovessent rent charges
La= Mates. town improvement rates. ground reale.
trasis dm.
An the memory preliminary steps have been takes for apply-
tag to puilamest in the ensuing nension fora special act In aid of
isw Oserapasife operstious sad with a view immediately to
secure to the Cosepeay a Sold for the oonanseneeneent of Mains's.
provisional and resouserstive arrangements have been nude for
operations elan extensive character in connexiou with securities
crested for the improvement of land, under the Lands Improve-
aunts Company's Ads of Parliament, and which are preference
charges es valuable private estates.
rpm the basis of the securities thus acquired, the Company
wilt keine liewniage Debentures at tiled eta of Interest. payable
tesifieorty, for shorter or longer tams as may suit menials:
sad wads • system of regietration will be adopted as will
effectively protect the lenders from any over issue of deben.
tares by the Company.
The Company acting by their debenture system, will be
enabled I. tarn over their paid-up capital many times is the
year It Is estimated that a working fund of Ctoo,ooo, being
!Tv=den, would be saddest to conduct • beelases in-
wrestles, et throe or tow millions per annum, and •
ended eseseatedoe upon that amount would prude.= an
lawns labia, after soaking the most ample dedisetious for
working somas sad reserve had, will leave • sem available
Gtr dividend vaillekest to remunerate the shareholders os an
talessolly blgh seats, es proved by the large profits made by the
Lads haprovemat Company in the tea yews they bees bran
in openings.
bite OP APPLicsllOll Pal YOWL
Ti the musters of the International Masada* Society
en, Obi BrasSsanliek LC.
derikose.,—, I request yea to shot ra• shams ad
hOO la Well Ilseerities Company (limtled) add II
=kWa number of th .t Ormigeny, and.s ono=
ear any i.e member thadE be MleUed I. me. and I
awed tie riw nem imay be ea the sell ma-
im Is esepen et tile Awes lona
I sm. Grallesaes.
Year obaileat berrest,
Nome lu YWn
Address be fan

lidinsos
Dale

'FRE TRIALS of the THEDOOLDS the
1. New Novel by DOTIVI Coot, Author oe ^ lace—may be
flew obtslaed at ea the Megrim sad Booksellers, In S volumes,
peg eve.
London • Seeman low, doe. sad Ilarstoe. 14, ImegatekUL

ROYAL HOITICTILTIIIIAL SOCIITY.—.We are is-
fanned that, having is view the ISCOltveseawst of the
stidv of scientific boner anwept all Ann the Royal
Horticultural Society offer the following prisms :—L One
silver, and two bronze medals for the three ben collecting
of wild plants of each operate county of the United King-
dom, dried, mounted ow paper, folio deny else,classified
woordin to the nand system, and labellede,
with the came
of locality where fogad, sad the date when found. In-
teethe' competitors may obtain the forms of labels en
mending twelve postage stumps to the Secretary of
the Royal Horticultural Society, South Kensiegtoe. 2.
Three gold medals will be gins for the three best of all the I
collections oat of all the amid twenty collections. Net
more than cos of the medals an be awarded in one musty.
The collections most be delivered ou or before Slet Damn
ber, 11164, to the Secretary et the Royal Horticultural
Society, South Kensiegten, carrier free, narked with •
number at cypher, and emompswed with • staled letter
containing the m11'61418 mime, the address. and the price
at which the wiliniee am be geld or nether mode. A
society's gold medal will also be awarded te envy exhibitor
of • new species of pleat found grown, ia as United
Kingdom.
STATISTICAL Socrm.—At the meeting on Tues-
day, Colon! Sykes. ALP.. F.R.S., pewidsat. is the chair,
the following radiants wan elected TAMS of the
society, viz. Smith, N.A., Welter
John Ely. sad Alfred Wyatt Sigma Zslctr
Bind, ILA., et Tema* reed • pew. "Os the eciatiner-
ad sad rowan= of Oen& !rink Nes* Anse.
ries, w titer giving a Wean of the hilly of this
important parties Of ger **aid easpies, wee eded-
y devoted le a ilkeence 4 the very estanne and to-
ting which, lying nails It fle=„11.1 home
as Motels* Whelps sel trastalresn

JANUARY. 22, 1864.

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(111011MIft nwasuis.)
THE SLEBWIG-HOLSTEIN QUESTION.

BERLIN, JAN. 21.

The ministers of Prussia and Austria are de-
tained in Copenhagen by the stoppage of steam
navigation.
It is asserted that the cabinet of St. Petersburg
has declared to several German courts that should
the London protocol be suspended, Russia would
immediately renew her claims to the Gottorp
portion of Holstein.
A royal order, dated 18th inst., directs Prince
Frederick Henry Albert to join the staff of Field
Marshal Wrangel.

SAXONY AND THE SLSSWIG-HOLSTEIN
QUESTION.

DRESDEN, JAR. 21.

The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies on
the IlleawirHuletein question has made fresh pro-
positions, to the effect that the government of
Saxony should energetically defend the dignity and
mitheeity of the Federal Diet against all measures
undertaken in opposition to the resolution of that
body, and should interfere at the Diet for the pur-
pose of obtaining the recognition of Duke Frederick
of Augustenburg. In case, however, it should not
be possible to obtain an immediate vote of the Diet
on the succession question, the Saxon government
should demand the admission of a representative of
the Duke of Augsuitesiburg to the Diet, and in com-
mon with other loyal States of the Confederacy
cause an immediate increase of the Federal troops
in Holstein ; finally, that Sleavrig should be occu-
pied by loyal Federal troops.
These propositions will be discussed by the
Chamber to-morrow.

The Federal

ALTONA. JAL 21.
have issued a circular

o the Holstein and Lauenburg police authorities,
which says :
"The attempts made in several places for the
organisation of defence societies oblige us to call
the attention of the authorities to the illegality of
such steps, by which complications must fleece-
eerily be entailed upon the country as upon indivi-
dual •communes. The police authorities must
repress all such attempts with the utmost energy,
and immediately report their proceedings."
The thermometer is one degree above freezing
point

GERMAN PRIVATEERS.
COPENHAGEN, JAN. 21.

It is believed here that several German States
bordering on the Baltic, which did not give their
adhesion to the Paris declaration of 18813, on mari-
time rights, will send out privateer steamers. It is
asserted that the authorities of Hamburg have
already voted the necessary funds.
The thaw continues.

BAVARIA.

MUNICH, JAL 21.

A meeting of delegates from the middle and
minor German States, to be held at Nuremberg. has
been decided won. The first invitations have
already been issued.

THE DEBATE IN THE CORPS LEI3ISLATTP.
PARIS, JAY. 21.

In to-day's sitting of the Corps Leilalatif M.
Picard attacked the law of public safety and the
decree of Bth December, 1851, which he said violated
individual liberty and the principle of separating
administrative from judicial powers, and (treated
arbitrary political offences from which it was impos-
sible to exculpate oneself.
M. Picard cited instances in support of his
views.

M. Rouland justified the law in question, and
showed that it was dictated not only by necessity
and sound judgment, but also by justice and
respect for every liberty. He concluded by de-
claring that the law would be maintained. As regards
the transitory regulations expiring in February,
1863, M. Rouland said the government hoped,
but could give no promise, not to be obliged to ask
for their prolongation.
M. Jules Fevre defended the cause of right and
law, for which he said there could be no substitute,
and the violation of which weakened and depre-
ciated all power.
The amendment was rejected by 203 against
35 votes.

The discussion of the amendment concerning the
liberty of the preen was then conuaeocad by
M. Jules Simon, who made a speech explaining and
criticising the law of February, 1862, after which
the house adjourned until to-morrow.
- . .

The President announced that he bad received
the budget for 1865.

THE REFORMS IN RUSSIA.
BT. PITERSBURG. JAIL Tl.

The official journal publishes an Imperial ukase
for the organisation of the provincial and district
representations of Russia, with the exception of
the Western and Baltic provinces, Archangel,
Astracau, and Bessarabia.

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.

WARSAW, JAN. 21.

The official Dziewnik publishes an account of a
severe engagement with the insurgents, under
Eitnianowicz, whith took place on the 4th instant,
near Zelechow, in the government of Lublin.
The same journal continues to publish *Mimeses
of devotion to the Czar.

CRACOW, JAI. 21.

The Chwiia of to-day describes the insurgent
winter quarters, which tun partly in villages and
partly in fortified barracks. The same paper states
that the severity of the winter greatly impedes the
operations of the Bamako keeps.
BERLIN, JAIL 21.

According to advice, received here from Poland a
fresh convoy of 500 ware sentenced to transpor-
tation to Siberia left Warsaw yesterday.
Four insurgents, including a German named
Ltidke, were hanged at Wloclawek on the 4th roar

ITALY.

TIJILIN, JAR. 21, Emma.

A circular bee been addressed by the Minister
of the Interior to the prefects of the Italian
provinces.
Having reminded t►em of the means adopted by
the party of action in 1862 to mislead the people
as to the intentions of the government and
to create agitation, which led to the af-
fair of Aspromonte, the minister says :—1
"There is ground for apprehension that the sane
artifices are again being resorted to. The mishity
ia, however, determined to unmask all these hp
*Agnes. Poseesing the confidence of the Sing