The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-20 00:00:00

LOSITANIAN MINING COMPANY.

The first annual general meeting of the share-
holden in this company was held yesterday at their offices,
Queen.street•placo ; Mr. Lorrus Lowariza in the chair.
The directors' report stated that the numeral properties both
showed and yielded copper ores in sufficient quantities to be
worked profitably, and the sales from one of the mines had
already been such as to leave a handsotas profit upon the
capital employed. The directors would piles forward the
farther opening of the mines with all prudent despatch.
The necenery machinery bad been purchased and sent out
for the Nibs' Mime, and a steam-engine will be sent to
aljustrel as epos as it is needed. From the sale just made
of two imagoes of ores raised before the 30th June, a head.
some profit upon the working aessowat would result, and the
directors had decided ou the payment of a dividend of
2s. 6d. per share. skewed* to the annoeusetunsat in the
prospects", a call of 11 per share in addition to the original
I deposit of 11. per share was to have bees made on the Ist of
Jemmy ; but it had been found unnecessary to make a call
for 'Dore then se. per share. The remaining 15e. will be
called for as capital may be required.
The statement of accounts from the 6th March, 1834, to
I the 30th June, 1865, showed a total receipt of 14,6091., of
which 12,6001. was ea capital account, and 1,9091. fur ore
sold. A supplemental account showed that a farther Dim
had bean received for ores, which, with 1,8001., the esti-
mated produce of ores sow at Sesame" end the former Woo,
made a total Minis for ogres of 5,4041. 131. bd. ; and there
was a disposable baba*, of 2,4041. 13e. sd.

SY. ANDREWS RAILWAY COMPANT.—The report
by the direeton to the half yearly meeting of this company
states that on the capital acesout tbe receipts have bees
26,6601., and the expenditure 26,3131. 16s. 74., leaving a
balance of 2381.45. 6d. Oa the account the receipts
for the half-year have been 1,6301.6,. 2d., and the espeadi-
tan 4621. 19s. 74., leaving a helms. of 1,0671.65. 7d. for
division, ta be applied as fellowsr—For interest on
&banning, less btoorne-taz, 1111. 4s. 7d. ; dividend to
sharebelden at 4} per osat., less inoome-tax, 4111. 16e. 3d. ;
Edinburgh, Pertn, and Deader; Rellway Company for mile-
age in full, 6411. 61. 7d.-1,01341. ss. 6d. ; leaving a surplus
of 31.15. id. The :receipts for passengers sad goods lest
half-year ass, it is stand, barely up to the corresponding
period of last year,et they are upwards of 3001. above
the haltyear ending July 31, 1863. The directors ream-
mead that the usual dividend of 4} per sent., lees income
tax, be paid to the ehusholdets.
SERIOUS EXCISE INFORMATION.—At the Petty
8111401111 at Wickhembrook, James Broom Harvey, manner,
at Hendon Hall, was charged with having, as Ike 6th of
Nay last, a eoucb of steeped barley, one of the moveable
boards of whisk was only 6-10 tbs of as inch thick, the least
legal *Maass betas two inches, whereby be bad subjected
hilesell le a paisley at 100 k, sad forfeiters .1 the grain
IS the conch hams. The thin board was placed seat to the
arosad, mot sae of the two legal ones over it to deceive the
eye, the MIME being removed cut of sight. Mr. Harvey, wbo
appeared disired that the woekmen had used the illegal
board without his ksowldege ; but the supervises sad
alms wen Mt a Migrant opinion, and the collector was
to amine Mr. Note, the edese, for the
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a modems' s ember ••• fess days holm, sad that the
en& hew& bed bees mimed is shams a lbw essethe
Woe% lbws Iles. Is two babes, without gliviag Bathe,
floseby lumessleg the sees of the .each Mesa_
stmts.
the moos apes Is lees of they. The am-
demoted the ash, =1 MYNA 1110 reeky SU, adding
that they would wells Maspell sossaratlas te the
heard lee tarthar Wee , eosin the
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wee is hate suet est-the Mt pesky el libie—Burp Peet.

MR. FIDITOIPS PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURES,
OF THE CRIMEA.

This extremely interesting collection of photo-
graphs, produced through the agency of collodion, was
opened yeeta day for private inspection:A It is for publi•
cation, and consists of 280 piefures talus by Mr. Fenton,
at the instigation of Messrs. Thomas Agnew and Bon, of
Manchester, during the spring sad summer of the present
year, and is intended, as est forth in the prospectus, to
illustrate faithfully the scenery of the earny—to display pro-
minent Incidents of military life, u well as to perpetuate
the portraits of those distinguished °Mars, Eng-
Hat and French, who have taken part in the
sou memorable siege of flobastopoL The work is
dedicated to her Majesty, and produced under the auspices
of his Majesty the Emperor of the French, to whom Mere.
Agnew and Fenton have had the honour of submitting the
*Dilution, end who has manifested the greatest interest le
the undertaking. The genius of good fortune must have at-
tended Mr. Fenton during hie live mouths' artistiamilitary
rambles through the camp. His' operating vae—et which
he has given a picture—being frequently an o►est of
suspicion with the Russians; himself weaseled by a shell;
his liniment shot in the hand by a ball from a
rile; se entrat the views actually updated under
fire, are circumstances which do not certainly tend to lessen
the interest felt in Messrs. Agesw's venture. Albeit Reties
has an irresistible charm in the appeal It makes to the
imagination, the charm of this exhibition results from the
circumstance that fiction is out of the gaieties, and that the
spectator Is dealing with nought but fact. There is a rigid
look of reality about all those pictures, whether of human
or still life, that imparts to the (allay is Pall-mall the
aspect of a museum of fragment in miniature from the seat
of war. The collection cannot fall to be viewed with intense
interest by a paLlio, well papered by reading, to sympathise
with the touching scene, and incidents of which it is com•
posed. The public exhibition of the collation common
this day.