The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-19 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1864.

In this as in nearly ell such cases there is a mistreat be-
tween the man and woman ; the complainant being of
slight stature and meek-spoken. Her evidence was thie—
f have cohabited with this man for • eonsiderable time,
and have three children by him. On Sunday, 21st of
last November 1 was in bed at 49, Old Nichol-street, Shore-
ditch, when he came home, and without any words, shack
roe on the side of my body with his fist and afterwards on
my chest. 1 last my senses and recollect nothing more
until I recovered at the London Hospital ; my bead was
then bound with surgical strappinp. I was quite well
notil he struck me, as I have sworn.
Fordhem 197 H—Between 12 and 1 o'clock on the more.
log of the day mentioned I wee informed that • woman was
in a dreadful condition at the house in question,
and haateniog there, found the complainant un-
dreesed and completely covered with blood, and lying
on a bed in au upper room. I instantly ran for
• doctor, who went hack with me, dressed a wound in her
head, and directed me to have her conveyed to the hospi-
tal, which I did. This morning she wee allowed to come
out, and I then, from her statement, took the prisoner
into custody. He denied the chugs.
Mr. Howard Dilworth, surgeon, of Spitalaquare, at a
subsequent hearinl before Mr. Ellison, deposed—l found this
woman complete state of collapse, and in fact had I been
a few minutes later she must have bled to death ; blood
was pumping eat in • jet as thick as my little firiger,
and spirted into my face as I leant over her. It proceeded
from a contused wound, that had completely divided the
temporal artery. I instantly secured the artery, put • pad
on it. and directed her careful removal to the hospital.
She wee in imminent danger.
Caroline Hodges, a daughter of the prisoner's, and who
called complainant her aunt, was required to give testi-
mony, she having been in the room when the outrage woe
committed, but it required the greatest perseverance to
elicit anything unfavourable to her father, who she swore
did not strike with anything but his fist, and then only
after complainant had pulled his hair and beaten him—that
he only hit once, and almost directly dressed and left the
house, moreover that she was tipsy.
Mr. Dilworth said that the injury must have been caused
by a blunt instrument used with great force ; neither blow
with • fist nor any fall could have produced it.
The prisoner, at the first examination, made a statement
in defence that differed from his daughter's, and on learning
DOW that he would be sent for trial made an effort to reach
the poor woman, whom he at the same time threatened
with upraised fists and coarse lauguage.
Remanded for completion of depositions.

FINANCIAL CORPORATION.—(TIIIS DAY.)
This day the first ordinary meeting of this cor-
poration way held at the London Tavern ; Mr. Goonsox is
the chair.

The Ca.tritmax said that the meeting was called because
the articles of association required that a meeting should
be held in the year I:it:4. The accounts would be made up
to the end of the year, and a sleeting would be called in
January, when a full statement of the company's affairs
would be made. At present all he could say was, that they
were going on s►t•sfactorily.
Mr. Minima and Quilter, Ball, and Co. were appointed
auditors.

Mr. Dowtm; suggested that the directors should take
ioto consideration the propriety of amalgamating with some
other finanjal company whose shares were at a greater
premium than their own, but whose capital wu not so
large; so as to equalise the two. He considered that finan-
cial companies were rather overdone in the City.
The CLIAIPMAN said it was impossible for him to give an
answer to such a question on the moment, but of course the
directors would give every consideration to all questions
which concerned the interests of the shareholders. All he
mould say was that aa far as they had gone their affairs were
satisfactory.
Mr. THovrsoN said there was a report in circulation that
the dividend would be a smaller one. He wished to know
whether the chairman was in a position to give an answer
as to whether that report was well founded or not.
Mr. WALFORD, the managing director, said that it would
be premature at that moment to state what the dividend
would be, but he believed it would be considered a satisfac-
tory one. (Hear, hear )
In reply to a question,
The CHAIRAI•N said that the question of a further call had
not been discussed, but when a call was made it would not
be a heavy one.
The meeting then separated.

LONDON, RRIOHTOY, AND SOUTH COAST
RAILWAY.-(THIS DAY.)

This afternoon, an extraordinary special general
meeting was held at the offices, London-bridge station; Mr.
L Sall:ST/a is the chair; for the purpose of considering and
sanctioning agreements for the amalgamation with this com-
pany of the Banstead and Epsom Downs Railway Com-
pany, the Horsham and Guildford Direct Railway Com-
pany.tbe East Grinstead,Groombridge, and TunbridgeWells
Railway Company, and the Brighton, Ucittield, and Tun-
bridge-walla Railway Company, and for the purpose of
caring_such amalgamation into effect.
The Cuatamax submitted the usual confirmatory resolu-
tions, which were carried, the heads of the proposed agree-
ments having first been read by Mr. Faithful, the solicitor.
Lich of the companies which under those agreements
wiU be amalgamatr 1 with the Brighton previously held
meetings and proposed resolutions, adopting them in so far
as they were respectively cortosru4xt

GENERAL INTERNATIONAL AGENCY COM-
PANY (LIMITED).-(THIS DAY.)

This afternoon, at an extraordinary general
meeting of this tympany, held at the of 17, Gre •echnrch-
street ; Mr. Cu•areats ID the char ; a report was read in
which the directors stated the re.sons which bad induced
them to enter into a preliminary agreement, with a slew to
an amalgamation with the General Financial and Estate
Agency Corporation (Limited).

After some discussion, the proposal of amalgamation was
rejected, and a resolution como to for the winding up of the
company. A meeting will take place on January 4, to con-
firm this resolution.

" On Friday evening last," writes "The Fla-
near" who corresponds with a contemporary, "when the
members of the Royal Academy of Arts were assembled
together, after the despatch of the business for which they
bad bees summoned, the presidset, Sir Charles
Eastlake, rose, pursuant to notice, to call ►tten-
tion to a communication from John Gibson. R.A., the
first sculptor of his day. It wee to the effect that be, John
Gibson, intended to bequeath at his death to the Royal
Academy a sem of thirty-two thousand pounds (.12,0001.) on
condition that that body slioc'd fit up and keep in perpe-
tuity three moderate-sized rooms for the reception of the
costs of all the testator's works. It is needless to say that
the veteran sculptor's generous proposal was received with
*nth ugh! sm."

THE " FENIAN,'"i CANADA..—TORCNIO, C. W.,
Dic. 6.—The esti lament in rep rd to the Fenian Brotherhood
re Tinier a, and is becoming more and more intensified. Lest
night en Orange lodge was broken open, and all its pro.
party destroyed by Fenian. Some fine portraita of queen
Victoria were dims ecafally mutilated. Ezcitemeat to-day
is running high, and fears of violence are entertained.

The SNOW STORM.—The piercing north-easterly
winds which have prevailed for the past few days have
been succeeded by an unusually heavy fall of snow, which
continued without intermission from an early Lour on Sun-
day morning until between 12 and I o'clock in the afternoon.
On the 16th there were 25 bathers in the Serpentine, the next
day 24, and yesterday there were IS. Although not a
particle of toe could be s,en on aoy of the ornamental
waters in any of the royal parka on Saturday morning,
yesterday the greater portion of the Serpentine in Hyde-
park wet frozen over, and the ice was three quarters
of an inch thick. Mr. Lambton Young, the
secretary, and Mr. Williams, the superintendent of the
Royal Humane Society, have given orders for a number of
men to be employed to day in erecting some tents for
temporary hospitals in the Regent's and St. James's
parks. These tents are to be fitted up with beds and hot-
eater baths, so as to afford assistance to any who may
become immersed. The society has also gone to great
expense in providing three new ice boats of improved
make to reader assistance in CAN of accidents. In the
suburbs the snow was of considerable depth, and in the
neighbourhood of Sydsobatu and Norwood there were very
heavy drifts, as also io the northern parts of the town. In
every omit space !snowballing was carried on by boys in
defiance of the police. The congregation of St. Clement
Danes, Strand. Oil leaving the parish church, were
attacked by an unruly rabble, who had been snow-
balling among themselves duneg the forenoon with•
out the police interfering, the officers being engaged in '
the vicinity of the church duriog Divine service. The
rioters finding that they were unmolested began to hurl
snowballs as hard as stones, and hate were knocked
off, and afterwards kicked and broken, and women were
knocked down. The riot continued for more than an hour,
when, in cooaeqnsoce of some panes of glass having been
broken, one of the ringleaders, about 30 years of age, was
given into custody sod locked up in Bow-street station.
Soon afterwards peace was restored by the arrival of addi-
tional
policemen. During the whole of the day the trains
arriving at the different metrvolitao stations were very
late, the machioery having been so much affected by the •
weather that frequent stoppages were rendered neoessery.
At one period in the morning the omnibuses ceased to run.
the roads being as slippery as glass. In consequence of
the depth of the snow in the 'treats of Chatham and the I
neighbouring city of Rochester all locomotion was at-
teoded with great difficulty, and in the country around the ;
snow is described as having fallen to a considerable depth,
nearly suspending all the ordinary traffic. la the railway
cuttings to the southeast of London the snow was un-
usually deep, and in consequence the passage of the trains
was considerably retarded.
SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 18. —The agents of the
North German Lloyd's at this port have received the fol-
lowing telegram :—" New York, Dec. 7.—The Bremen,
which sailed lithos oa the 3rd hist.. put back on the sth
with the loss of her vertical pin. She will sail again the
lath, sad may be expected off Cowes mill
the "

SHARE LISTS-MHIS DAY.)

Two o'CLocz.
The railway market continues quiet, and, with
the exception of a rise of per cent. in Midland
and Great Eastern, and a decline of it in Metropoli-
tan, the principal stocks are unaltered. Loudon and
North Western stock is now quoted 120 to ;
Great Western, 781 to 791 ; Midland, 1381 to
1391 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1161 to 117/ ;
Caledonian, 131 to 132 ; South Eastern, 851
to 86/ ; Great Eastern, 48 to ; Great Northern,
134 to 135 ; London and South Western, 97} to
98i ; and Metropolitan. 120} to 121.
The dealings in foreign and colonial railway
securities are extremely limited, and no change is
reported in prices.

100 all !Atlantic& 31. lAwrenos!
St. 100 Bontltor.&C.ln.g.lp.c.
00 . 2 . Do. Shares
SOl. all Buffalo & Lake Huron
10 all Do. Preference
PM 100 Buff., Brant,&Goderichl
6 p. e. Kil4. Aug.l, 187 i
100 100 Do. do. July 1, 1672
100 100 Do. do. June 1, 1874
St. 100 Cal. &B. tuatara 6p.e g.
et 100 Cape T. & Dock tip. e. g.
100 all Demerara? p.c.per.pret
St. 100 Fast. Bengal gu. 6do
St. 100 Nast Indian gu. 6de I
111 5 1)o..1 liatenalon I
St. 100 Oreind Trani' of Canals,
100 all Do.Equlp. 51.11.,6p.et
100 all Do. lat pref. Bonds
100 all Do. do. deterred!
100 all Do. Bid pref. Bonds
100 all Do. do. deterred!
100 all ! Do ird prat Mock
100 all 1)0. do. deferred
100 . Do. 4th prat Stock
100 all Do. do. deferred,
St. 'lOO Oreat Indian Peninsula
20 12 la. gnu. 6 per oentd
20 2 Do. New do
St. 1100 01'. of g. ct
St. 100 Do 41 per cent
St I Do
201 all Ot Western of Canada!
18 Do. New
100 WI 1n..01 c.Bda pay. 1573
100 all D 0.14 do. do. 1e77-81
10 2 Indian Branch. limited!
10 1 1 Do. New
K. 100 If adras guar. 6p. cant
WI. 100 Do, do. do
St. 100 Do. do. Of
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40 2 Do. Ift/th istewslon
St. 100 Belli. Corp. n ;,er c.
60 all Melb. and Hobson's Bay
20 a 0 N. Brun & C3in.cla Ad b.
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St. 100 &nide. rut 5 per mat'
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20,100 26 'lloupirabas
16.000. 66 J Australianertn.&
67,000 10 Berlin Waterworks
WOW 6 !Bombay Gas (Limited
6,000 60 • British American Land
531,7901: St. & A I. Mag. Tel. (Li. •
12,500 20 British Indian Tea
6,216, 326 Canada Company
60,000 10 'oansdianteanditiv(L
24000 110 Ceylon Csrapatip
20,0u0 25 City of Lon. Real Prop
20.009 60 Car Mime (Llm4
60,000, 10 Cum of Atricsaller.(l;)
60,000, 60 CommerclalUnloo.lns.'
60,009 j 60 000500 dated Dia.. (N
17,500 20 continental 17n.GaekL,
60,000 100
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12.0001 25 Cop.M.ling.,ftsteip.a.
100.0401 20 C. Fonc.ttliob. of Eng
100,000 20 Do
10,000 60 Do. of Mauritius (L )
10060256 St. Crystal Palace
1030,8201.1 SL I Do. Pritferenes
' 2/7,0006 St. I DL . et. Peep. Deb
10.000 1W Menem ma
20,000 20 F Imila Financial (L)'
60,00 u 20 F. India Irrigation, AO.l
100,0001 20 F~typtlaoCom.ATrd.ll
979.0751.: Si. Electrc Telegraph
70.000 6 Egg. and Ana Copper
20.040 50 Eng. end ForeltmCredit,
10,000'100 FA It. &Scottish Marl n (L-
-75,0001 60 Irtnancial Corporation.
0,000 60 Financial Discount (I,
Su,oool 20 'Fore-st. Warehouse (L.
10,0001 60 Gallivan (limited_ .)•
126,000' 10 O.Croditet Fin.of tols.(1.
10,0001 IS •Gen. Steam Naelliedlin
20.000, 60 Dome& julonial AA. (1.,
100,000 10 Hudson's IMF
20,060 ,Humber Iron Works:Ll
109,08' 60 Imp.dlier.Cdt.Ass.
10,0001 2 'lndian (Mrrying ;Um.)
160,000 20 Internat. Finan.See. (L)
300.tani I 20 InternaLLand Credit(L
60,006, 20 Itallaabrig. (Can. Car.)
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20.000 25 'lnud.andealedon.M.(l
60,000 10 Lon.CountylindAß.(4
12,000 6 ;Load.lSW•let Telex (L)
00,000 60 Loud- Flow. Lao. IL.,
20,000' au I Do. New
176,000' 61 Loud. G. Onsnibm&lL
10.0.0 50 Loud., Italian, Ac.Stni.
6,000 50 'Lund. bier. Discount 'L'
60,000 201 Lend-FrorloctaLMarine
60,0001 2u Madras lids& A Canal
60,006 30 f Do.
12.600 20 Mauritius Land,&o.(L•
12,0001 lu Alien. Tel. (1 ;
60,000 SO ' %Seidl Iron Works
21. to Natal fend &Col. C. (L)
00,0001 16 National Dia. Osm. (L.'
10,01.0, 60 National Financial (L;
20,000 NstionalProv.llerine
60,000100 National Stearn Nay.if:l
6,000 da Nerbud Coal & I.'l.
6,000 20 I Do. New
20.000 26 I N.7.enlaad T•ttiosan (L
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60.000 60 N.Dnt.AMerean. In. •f•
30,000 2 N••vaScotuiD•amiL
30,000 2 , Do. do.
60,000 26 ;Ocean Marine Insura
10,000 40 (inertial onmmer.loll.
10,000 60 Oriental Finanrial;Lim '
100 000 1 Oriental Gas (Lamuteo.l
60,000, 1 Do. New
60,000 10 Orient. Inland Skeat(L
26,000 10 Otago& Stlilandinvest
10,000 60 'Ottoman Financial ,L.
10,000 6 (Kiernan Gas (limited
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MONEY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'CLocz.

The stock markets to-day, though very inactive,
are firm. The funds remain at Saturday's quo-
tations. Home railways, in most cases, are
steady. Some of the speculative foreign stocks
are in betterdemand, the chief change being a rise
in Spanish Passive Bonds and Ceri.ificates.
The discount market continues firm, with a good
amount of business, and no transactions are reported
below 51 per cent. Short loans are in request in
the Stock Exchange at Se per cent.
At Paris to-day, according to Mr. Reuter's tele-
gram, the Three per Cent. Rentes were quoted
65fr. 30c., showing no alteration.
Consols are now quoted 891 to 1, ex div., for
money, and 894 to ex div., for the account
(Jan. 10). The official business report is as
follows : Three per Cent. Consols, for
money, 891, I, g ; ditto for account, 894 ;
Three per Cents. Reduced, 88g, ; New
Three per Cents., 88i, 4,1 ; Annuities, 1885, 141 ;
India Stock, abut ; ditto Five per Cent. stock,
103 ; ditto Four per Cent. Debentures, 1866, 98 ;
ditto Bonds, 35., be. prem. ; and Exchequer Dills,
45. dia.
,par.

Foreign stocks are firm. Spanish Passive Bonds
and Certificates have risen -to per cent., upon
the teas of the re-installation in power of
the Narvaez Ministry. Mexican, Greek, and
Turkish Cousolides are also * to } per cent.
better. Some of the present quotations are as
follows, viz.. :—Greek, 23 to } ; Mexican, 29} to
; Confederate, 61 to G 3 ; Spanish Paa.ive, 31*
to ; the Certificates, 13; to 141 ; Turkish
Bonds of 1858, 70 to 71 ; ditto 1862, 711
to 72} ; and the Consolides, 47i to
Transactions are recorded as follows :—Equador
New Consolidated, 12; Egyptian, 95} ; ditto,
second issue, 93,1 ; ditto 1864, 95}, 95 ;
Greek, for account, 23* ; Italian, for ac-
count, 64; ; ditto Maremmana Railway, 711 ;
Mexican, for account, 290 ; ditto, 1864, 271
Moorish, 95 ; Russian, 1862, 87f ; ditto 1864,
88* ; Spanish, for account, 4E4, I ; ditto Passive,
for account, 31*, ; ditto Certificates, for account,
14, 131, ; Turkish, 1802, for account, 72, g ; ditto
100/. bonds, 721 ; Venezuela One and a Half per
Cents., 91,.
Egyptian Loan scrip is quoted * to 1* prem. ;
Danubian, } dis. tort prem. ; Monte Video, 1 to }
prem.; Atlantic and Great Western Railway De.
bentures, 1 to 1 prem.
International Financial shares are now quoted
2} to prem. ; London Financial, 9} to
prem. ; General Credit, 21 to 3 prem. ;
Imperial and Mercantile Credit, 31 to prem. ;
Hudson's Bay, 16 to } ; Ottoman Societe
Generale, 2} to prem ; and Anglo-Egyptian
Bank,; to } die.
The committee have to-day decided to close the
Stock Exchange on Saturday, the 24ti iust, and ou
Monday, the 26th.
The scrip certificates of the United Danubian
Principalities Loan are now ready for delivery, iu
exchange for the letters of allotment at the Imperial
Ottoman Bank.

About 32,000!. in gold was sent into the Bank
on Saturday, and 53,000 sovereigns were with-
drawn fur Alexandria.

The Eastern exchanges, with one unimportant
exception, exhibit movements in favour of thin
country, so that, apparently, no important increase
in the demand for silver for that quarter need be
apprehended at present. At Shanghae, according
to the telegram received, the reduction amounts to
as much as ad., while at Bombay and Calcutta it is
id. At Canton a rise of Id. has taken place.
The mails from Calcutta, China, and Bombay,
which have reached Suez, are expected to be dis.
tributes in London about the 26th inst.

The directors and officials of a great number of
public companies are now engaged in preparing the
reports and balance-sheets to be submitted to the
general meetings early in the new year. It is to be
hoped that due recognition will be given to the
growing demand on the part of the public for fuller
and more explicit information than has latterly
been afforded. The accounts of public companies
can hardly be too full or precise, and the day is
rapidly passing away when shareholders will sit
down contented with the meagre information
hitherto doled out to them by those who are really
their servants, but who occasionally arrogate to
themselves the position of dictators. It will be as
well that the directors of public companies should
take note of the spirit of insubordination which is
rapidly finding place amongst joint-stock proprie-
taries. Directors are but stewards, and must
learn to render full accounts of their
stewardship. The manner in which many of
the periodical balance-sheets are framed is
simply disgraceful. The least information is per-
haps given by those companies which have proved
the most successful, and it is cm utin that but for
that success, which excuses everything, share-
holders would not submit to the practical insult to
their understanding involved in such scanty infor-
mation. Several cases have occurred during the
last few mouths which prove that losses of a most
senous nature may be concealed for years through a
dexterous manipulation of the figures of balance-1
sheets, and it is surely time, after the experience
of the Unity Bank, and similar disastrous adven-
tures, that a radical reform should be enforced.
Every bank, for instance, ought to be compelled to
state in a separate line the amount of the past due
bills held by it. To advert to another abuse, no
bank ought to be allowed to class its liabilities ou
acceptances amongst its deposits. Wink at
such a system though we may, it is
hardly too much to say that it involves a
deliberate suppression of the truth—a concealment
of facts with which both the shareholders and the
public, as customers of the banks, have a right to
be made acquainted. As regards our financial
companies, they are still young, and it is the more
important, therefore, that iu their earliest stage
they should avoid the censurable course which
has been pursued by too many other associations.
It is at this period a question as to the mode iu
which the financial companies should frame their
balance-sheets ; and the establishment of a good
precedent in the matter will be a great gain. We
contend that all these companies ought, without
reserve, much less concealment, to give periodi-
cally a complete list of the investments held by
them, with of course the amount in each case.
With these particulars before them, and with all
the companies' securities valued not at fictitious
but at the current market prices, shareholders
and the investing public will incur little danger
of miscalculating the intrinsic value of their pro-
perty. it is the more necessary that this matter
should be discussed, and the salutary influence of
public opiniowbrought to bear upon it, because, short
though the career of the financial companies has yet ,
been, there have been several indications of an
absence of correct principles. It is our hope and
belief that financial and credit companies will in
the future set their mark broadly and deeply upon
the trade and finance of this empire, but the wider ,
their scope, and the more important their functions,
the more essential is it that these associations should
be conducted upon the highest and soundest
I principles.
The West India steamer from Southampton on
Saturday took out 14,5001. in gold from the Lou- .
don and Venezuela Bank for Caracas. I

The annual meeting of the Brazilian Land and
Mining Company (Limited) is called for the 28th
inst. sod will be made special, to oonSrm the pur-
chase by the directors of the debt due by the Na-
tional Basilian Mining Association to the executors
of the late William Hamilton.

The first ordinary general meeting of the Little-
hampton, Havre, and Honfleur Steamship Coin-
pally (Limited) is convened for the 27th inst.
Notice is given of the closing of the transfer

books of the Rio de Janeiro City Improvements
Company (Limited) for the preparation of the half-
yearly dividend warrants.

SAIL lIDAY EVENING.

Consols, which closed yesterday at 89e, cx dlr.,
for the 10th Januar]; opened and closed to-day
at 80 to Fur money the last price was LBO to
The official bosun:ea report is as follows :
Three per Ccut. Consuls, for money, 89j, ;
ditto for account, MI."; ; Three per Uent,,. Re-
duced, 88E1 ; New Three per Cents., itei, ;
New Two-and-a-Hail per Cents., 71A : Bank Stock,
239 • India Stock, shut ; ditto Five per Cent.
Stock,i 103; ditto Four per Cent. DebeiAnres,
1866, 98.

The India Five per Cent. stock remains nt. Ay.
Exchequer Bilk were rather firmer, closing at :A.
die. to par.
The foreign 'lock market was dull, and in two or
three cases prices slightly receded. Italian stock
declined i per cent, and Mexican null Tnrki,li
Consoliiks about k. Ru-imian tour.and-a-Ha.f per
Cents. of 1859 rose about per cent. The trAns-
actions were very limited.