The Express.
London, England, 1863-08-07 00:00:00

BALANCE-M=l OP 711 LONDON AND COUNTY

BARLIAQ OOYPAPT, Joni 30, Die&
Ds.
To capital paid up .2600.000 0 0
Seem* fund
Janottat due by the Bank ice
customers' balances, ic...2.7.7116,126 2 10
Liabilities On acceptances and
endorsementa by the Bank
circular sotto, sad letters
at credit 789,266 11 9
9,664,492 14 7
. . . .

Profit and loam balance
brought from last account. 41,433 2 3
Gross profit for the half-year,
after making provision for
bad and doubtful debta 185.186 17 4
156,869 19 7

£4,416.6641• 1

Ca.
By cash on hand at head office
and branches 31,321,023 13 2
Cash placed at call and at no-
tice

.
-£!,300,46316 2
Invaders:6k, viu—
Cloverueleotsad(karsaleed
Stocks
Other stocks sod securities 164,775 6 5

000,401 9 8
Discounted bill, and advances to customers
In town and coontry
Freehold premises in Lombard street and
Nicholas-hae, freehold and leasehold pro-
fs:ly, at the branches, with fixtures and
Intrntirp .id to customers
37,366 0 10
Salaries and all other expenses at bead office
and breaches, including income tat on
profits and salaries 67,047 6 1

49,416,362 14 2

MORT AND LOOS Accomr
To interest paid to customers
=ces shove
an bills not doe, carried to new no-
coast
Sessrve fund 15,000 0 0
Dividend of 6 percent for the hall-yew 35,074 18 4
Balance curled forward

137.355 0 10
67,037 5 1

4199,899 19 7

By balance brought forward from last account £1,483 2 $
Gross pro& for the hary•sr, after making
provision, for bad and doubtful debts 123,336 17 4

4191 ,*5O le 7

We, the undersigned, have examined the teregoleg balance-
sheet, and beer found the same to be correct.
(Sieved, HENRY OVERTON,
R. R. SWAIN& }Radiant
JOHN WRIGHT,
Leaden end Comity Beak, 110th Jab', 18t3.
The tangoing Report having been read by the tieresstary, the
iiiienift11111111.11.41111MIR014101.111•Iia/Aft11•1=010# *depend:
TOM the Report ho received end adopted, and printed tor
the us of the shareholders.

Thiti lithooo 0[ the for the half yew ending 30th June,
IA be oMed to the reserve fund.

-1:171;a1The Nrohe of this Meeting be given to the Board of
Directors for the able manner in which they have conducted the
asks of the Coespeay.
SSW) W. CHAMPION JONIO, Chairman.
The Clialmaa having quitted the chair, it was resolved. and
carried w,
4. T aistc
Tat the cordial thanks of this Meeting be presented to
William Champion Jones, Esq., for his abbe and courteous con.
duct in the chair.
(Signed) W. NICOL, Deputy -Chairman.
istracted from the Minntea.
(Signed) Y. CLAPPISON, Secretary.

'LONDON sod COUNTY BANKING
COMP4NY.
_ _________ .

NOTICE IA HEREBY GIVEN, that a DIVIDEND on the
capital dock of the Comma) of II per cent, for the half-year
ending lOW Jame, WM, will be PAID to the Proprieten either
at the fled—•e, 11, lamnardatreet. er at any of the Company's
breach beaks, ea aad after MONDAY. the 17th 15M.—By order
of the Beard. W. MMEWAN, Omega Manager.
No. 11, Lombardatreet, August

GOLD CHAINS.—WATHERSTON and
Vt 21100Dliff be to call the attention of the pub& to the
PORN of IRYOICE winch they deliver with Odd Otani
Chains porehlued at their manneaokey ft
To worionanchlp of pattern chain. 181 tries law..
To (18) carat gold, weighing ea Awl Oa, at
1.1 ha. 81d. pee acme, Mint peke

Total

Upoa this syvtem, the QIJALMT, WILIGGT, and VALUE of
the gold are certified, and guaranteed to the purchaser; Walker
Mon and Brogdeu looking for a fair remuneration oo the work-
manship only, which I. charged aohorillig to the P.tricites
simplicity of the pattern.
WATHERSTON and BBOODICW. Goldsmlths—Manufactory.
Fo. id Haul
iettastreet, Coventgarden, London. W.C. Bets
°buskedm

Assays made of Chaim and Jewellery for In. esek—N.B. This
elablinhenent le closed ate in the *venue, sad on Saturdspiatl.

DES.

GENTLEMENare inviedto inspect the NEW
STOCK of WALKING and OVERC ATIL kept for In.
=za or silk al HAMILTON and KLEMM'S, Talon, 10.5,
oppcsitsZastsr-asa.

THE SUSPENSION BRIDGE, CLIFTON,
BRISTOL—The BUILDER of THIS DAY, price RI., by
post lit, contains Me View sad Page of Details of the Sus-
pension Bridge, Clifton—Metropolitan Railway and Street CO4ll-
- Itallaassque and " OcAltbsesque"— Roman Se-
pulchres Streettwegping by neon —" Sea Dehisces"—The
Buildings of Bishop Oundulph—Sanitary Condltioo of Cardiff—
Arelreologlcal Excursions—City Court of Sewer—Bnilding Items
—The &Mori HOMO, London Docks—Roobaster Old bridge—
Patanta—Chareb-boUding News-Bebsetbalidia=:::
Mon Yeekotwast, Cowsatgarden sod all

Ram:dna Pnaactinaa.—At the Wesleyan Con-
firms, is the course of dailies with candidate for the
ministry, some remarks having been made about some young
men whoever. considered mitt for the ministry on the ground
aloud of ability, the president spoke earnestly about the
necessity of considering the usual probation of ((wryest' as
▪ trial in every sense of the word. He said that if a man
had not gifts and gram for the work, be was not called to
it; and if so, it wu kiedoces to send him home u soon as
they could. The following conversation then occurred
" Mr. Brellsford said some young men were becoming read-
ing ministers rather than preaching ministers. They used
not merely notes, but note. extending over several pages,
end they turned over these pages evidently ma matter
• etinne, and habitually. The congregations felt
this very strongly, although they did not like to complain.
He feared the practice bad become a chronic disease. The
President—lf that be so, the conference will not do its duty
=lsm it deals with the men conoeined. No young man on
Wel who habitually read. his sermon is fit for the Wesleyan
ministry. (Cheers.) Mr. Brailsford said he was thankful
for that deliverance from the chair. (Cheers.) The Presi-
dent thanked the conference for the response they had
I gives. (Loud cheers.) It is all over, he said, with John
Wesley Methediam if young men on trial read their sermons
Haan; as • practice—reading as a habit, by men in full
seenamoa, is not Methoduticel. Bat reading on as owe-
I lion, I think no man with the example of Jobe Wesley 1
before his eyes will hesitate about fora moment,. Reading
upon an occasion may be a sacred duty • but reading as •
habit, reeding from week to week, at foll length, reading to I
ear ordinary ecegregationsA do not know of a Methodist
preacher who would eot deplore that. (Chews.)
I FOR THE FIRNT TIRE (HNC' ilia RIPOINATION.
—The Archbishop of York held his second ordination in
Task Winter on Sunday. The great feature of the service
wee the chanting of the priest's part of the Litany by the
araltbishop, which has certainly not been done in York
lignite, by an archbishop for a couple of hundred years—
probably not since the Reformation. The chanting of the
--tam% part was admirably done, and the full, .mares.
void and very iniptessive manner were entirely appropriate
to the luth.
_dignity and (Ace of the chanter. The-arch-
wsa. jig Maly, it is believed, te give en impetus to church
„,----„abi his prociaes by his own wall-known skill and taste
L the art— sees.
OATMEAL PALLOR, ONE SHILLING DAY.--
,TERGISDAY, AVGIIST 6.—Adatielione on payment, 5,010;
Oho by men tithe* 753; total, 5,763.