The Express.
London, England, 1864-07-27 00:00:00

ABSSTS AND LIABILITIES.
AMISS.
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Gold sad silver oda al ►males
Cash on hand at the husk al ml. advances
on bullion, sad at call .
Government funds. malopase Id* exchequer
bonds, and debentures 221,948 IT 2
Advances on government sleek, and sundry
secured loans at Yen dens and current
accounta
Inn dlmosusted
lank prsausss, Lambs sad Malian 4/,,514 2 19

5574.= e 0

!04,63613 4

tald-ap capital
Notes la chaulation
Due by the bank on dapodt receipt; arrant
acoomata. do
Red or andli ided profits at MD date

11,1%.0111 It ft
71/1.741 17 19

.44.060136 ills

PROFIT AND LOW ACCOUNT.
lan Da.
leb.—To balf-yeat'a dividend at I per east par
wawa un 11A000 sham a. 30 paid C"4,000 0 0
To albs dllitlead al lea per share on dub 10,000 0 0
inna 30.—T0 balance at credit al mat and boa
at 'Do date

LY 4761.741 17 10
By Walks, being red sir asdivklect prollta at
December, 100 s

ly see proai for the half-year to
3?.th Jane, 1%4, niter tatting off

fel debts £109.71!S 1 0

ast4M rebate of interest ua bills not
doe
09,50; 1 0
By premium of L 25 per Ware on
110,000 shame, Maned aperably to
resolutheas of the and sad Mk
March, 1004

4768.741 17 10
By these accounts the proprietors will observe that in addi-
tion to the :MAW& proot es the issue of new shares the
set ordinary profits of the beak for the half-year to the 30th
June amounted to 89,5671. la. 1n estimating the progress
of the bank, this sum loss to be compared with a profit of
49,6671. 15a. 10d.. which was the amount earned for the
oorromionding half-you' of /863. The &rectors have, how-
ever,declared their ordinary sod extraordinary dividseds at
the mese rates as on the last occasion, feeling that until the
new sad old shares shall stead up to so purl amount, vit.
301. per share, it will be momequitable to accumulate is the
reserve feed the amount of prone realised in excess of the
Weld dividends latterly psid. For the half-year ending
the 30th June the dividend es the old shares is therefore
declared at the rate of 8 per cent. per damn. with en extra
dividend of 16e. per share, making together 2/. per share for
the belt-year, and the dividend on the new shares is
declared in gross at 6s. Bd. per share, the
diridenda on -both being free of income tax. The
increase to the rest or undivided profits (including the
premium ou new shoe..) will, therefore, after the payment
of these dividends, amount on the half-year to 542,9001.
7e. Bd. On the 18th hottest the dbectors opened their
fourth metropolitan branch, at Pimlico. They have also
taken preruhoe at Belfast, and will oxim in that important
town in a fen weeks. The next annual general emetieg of
the bank, conformably to the reeolutioas of the special
crmeetings of the .7th and 6th instant, will be held en
del y, the 31st January. 1865. The directors hope then
to INISKALSOII to the proprietors an equally satisfactory state
of affairs, as there is ample evidence of the pelvis( appre.
cistion by the public and tie CUSLOIII6III of the bank eat the
policy whereby this institution has expended its capital aid
=Tt reeeerms in ea equal ratio with it. general lia.
ad to an extent proportionate to the business it
itudertakee to coadoet. The divideads and extra dividends,
free of dooome tax, will be payable at the bend
13, Old Broadetreet.E.O., sad at the several breathes of
the bank, os and altar Monday, the Bth August nut.

CRINOLINL—A Vienna letter states that in the
aristocratic circles of that capital it ia cow ooseidered most
ettli.h for ladies sot to weer nimbus is public amemblies.
This cheep appears to be the result of an example set by
the Empress of Austria.

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