The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-12 00:00:00

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BANK OF HINDUSTAN, CHINA, AND J.41'.12:
(THIS DAY.)

This day an extraordinary general meeting of
the company wu held at the company's premises. No. 1,
Bank buildings, to confirm certain resolutions passed by the
company in extraordinary general meeting on the 2ith day
of August last ; Mr. SPOONZR in the chair.

At previiins meeting it was resolved that the agree.
meet, dated the 24th day of Aug Oat, 1864, between the
company of the ant part, and the Imperial
of China, India, and Japan (Limited), of the
other part, be approved ; and the directors
authorised to affix the seal of the company to the %Gm,
and do all things pecessary to carry it into effect ; that the
capital of the company be increased by the creation of
30,000 pew shares of 100/. each, to be Owned at ,„
per share premium to the persons, and upon the terms
stated in the before-mentioned agreement; and that
the resolution of the board to the above effect be ratified
and confirmed ; that the directors be authorised to add (oar
directors to their present board, to be selected by them from
the existing board of the Imperial Bank of China,
and Japan (Limited).
The CHAJRNAN proposed a motion confirming the for.
going resolutions.
Mr. YOUNG seconded the motion, which was carried, after
which the meeting wanted.

IMPERIAL BANK OF CHINA. INDIA, AX!,
JAPAN.-(THIS DAY.)

This day a meeting of shareholders was L•eld at
the offices in Walbrook for the purpose of confirming certain
resolutions passed ►t the extraordinary general meeting hell
on the 25th of last month, Mr. J. M. sierra in the alit.
The object of the resolutions passed at the former meeting
was to amalgamate this bank with the Bank of Hio.bman.
China, and Japan. and to wind up voluntarily the attain of
the Imperial Bank.

The CHAIRMAN proposed. and Mr. LMICK W0t1463,7
resolution for confirming the resolutions passed at tt.
meeting of the 2.5 th of August.

In reply to a SHAREEOAER,
Mr. CRITAGE, the solicitor, said that the mode of
settling the claims of any dissentient shareholders was by
agreement between the parties or by arbitration, end the
usual price allowed for the shares was the mai ktt 'cos
the day.

The resolution was agreed to, and the meeting separated.

IMPORTANT LIFEBOAT SERVICES.

SELSEY, NEAR CHICHESTER, Seer. lu.

I have to report (writes the Rev. H.. Fester, the
Hon. Secretary of the Seise,. Branch of the National ble.
boat Institution), that the brig Governor Maclean. 21.; toil,
laden with ivory, cotton, and palm oil, bound from Africa
to London, was wrecked a few days since on the
Shold Point of the Owen Sandbank. The Schley lifeboat
of the National Institution instantly proceeded to the
wrecked vessel and rescued seven of the crew, the remainder
five in number, having been taken off by a Dover lugger.
The lifeboat's crew were also instrumental in rendering
other important services on the occasion ; having assiqed in
cutting away the masts that the ship might right. and
in towing her clear of the shoal. The vessel was ultimately
towed, by government and private steam-tugs, into Ports.
mouth, completely water-logged, and will be placed on the
mud. The cost of this valuable lifeboat was presentt.l to
the institution in 1860 by members of the Society of Friend,.

THE COVET AT BALMORAL.--011 Thursday her
Majesty, accompaaied by her Royal Highness the l'rincess
Helena, sod their highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Saxe-Coburg, drove from Balmoral, via Invercauld.house
and Allanquoich, which was reached about 2 p.m. Here
ponies and men from Balmoral were in waiting, and the
whole party having mounted, rode up Gleoquoich,
Dearly to the hoary pine forest of the Beechen, which is
proximate to the foot of Ben-a-board, where • sump-
tuous luncheon wee carteken of. After • brief sojourn,
and a delightful walk through the wild and Mcturesque
district around, the royal party returned to Braemar,
via Old Mar Lodge and Lion of I)ee. Al the latter
place, a brief stay was made to view the unique beauty
and unparalleled scenery that surrounds the Falls. At the
Invercauld Arms Hotel horses were changed. Mr. Fisher
was in prompt attendance, and personally attended to the
requirements of the royal party. A large and respectable
assemblage of visitors and others lined both sides of the
area in front of the hotel, and greeted the royal party with
a warm salute, which was very graciously returned by her
Nosiest) and the other occupant. of the royal carriage. The
horses having been changed, the Queen and party drove on
to Balmoral at half-past 6 p.m. The day was delightful,
end only • slight shower of rain fell, which in nowise
incommoded or marred the enjoyment of the royal sojourn-
ers.—Dundee Advertiarr.

SCARBOROUGH.—Her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Cambridge, who is at present a visitor at thin fashionable
watering place, may be seen daily driving herself in a small
carriage with only one attendant. Her royal highness ham
expressed herself much pleased with Scarborough and its
vicinity. She has already visited Hay bore, Wyke. sod
Hackness—the latter being the seat of Sir J. V. B. John-
stone, Bart., M.P. The Spa at Scarborough has also been
honoured with a visit by her royal highness. His Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge, and Princess Mary of
Cambridge, are expected on a visit to the Duchess next
week.—Leeds Mercury.
THE ROMAN CATHOLI BISHOPRIC OF EDIN-
RURGB.—We (Edinburgh Courant) understand that the
Very Rev. John Strain, D.D. hitherto president of St.
Mary's Catholic College, at Blain, mar Aberdeen, has
been appointed by the Holy Ste successor to the late Dr.
Gillis, as bishop vicar apostolic of the eastern district of
Scotland. Dr. Strsia, who was born, we believe, in our
city, is at present in Rome, but he is expected to arrive in
Edinburgh shortly. His oonseantion, in all probability,
will take place on so early day.
BAD limex.—Mr. Phillips, the principal of the
laboratory of the Inked Revenue Department, reports that
in the last financial year 26 samples of beer and of materials
found in the possession of Emceed brewers have been
analysed, and of these 20 were found to be illicit ; the pro.
hibited ingredients being, in 14 samples, grains of pandas,
one of these samples containing, io addition, tobacco ; in
two others ooeculus indicus was present in large sod dee-
gerous quantities ; two samples 000tidoed capsicum ; and
the remaining two proto.sulphate of iron. Generally the
prohibited materials employed in the adulteration of beer
are not injurious to heath, the object of the fraudulent
brewers or retailers of beer being more to lemmas the bulk
of their goods than to render the beer stupefying by the
addition of noxious materials. Still, he says, there can be
little doubt that the practice of adulterating beer with
poisonous matters, such as tobacco and maculae indices is
more prevalent than might be inferred from the mien
number of detections made, as the fraud is difficult to dig-
cover unless the offender be taught in the act of committing
it. Considering therefore this circumstance, and the abo-
minable character of the offence, Mr. Phillipe is of opinion
that it would be ooly just to the community to make public
the names of those persons convicted of adding cocculus
indicus or other deleterious substances to beer brewed for
sal* ; and be feels po hesitation in stating that the two in-
stances of the use of the dangerous drug in question occurred
in the neighbourhood of W irksworth. in Derbyshire. sad that
many of the detections of the nee of grains of paradise were
also made in the suss district He states also that the
experience of many years has led him to the conclusion that
the adulteration of beer with drugs, as distinguished from
the mere dilution or increasing of the bulk of the article, is
more prevalent in the Midland Counties and the West
Riding of Yorkshire than in any other pane of the kiugdom.
TRIAL BY NRHSPAPEIL—The necessities of the
vicious sesastionism introduced of late into the column
even of better-class London journals has led to an unfair
and indecent prejudgment of the use against Franz
Muller. Almost every paper published within sound
of Bow Bells hurried to convict the miserable
.cap-
live the moment the news of his arrest arrived.
Our excitement-levies contemporaries could sot so much as
wait a few hours mom for t • report of the preliminary
examination. The fact of the capture was annouoced on the
6th, and nest morning, on the basis of a mere telegram. it
was declared—" If it be true that the bat and watch of
the murdered man have actually been found on the pri-
sm:les person, it would be idle to entertain or
pretend any doubt as to his criminality." This
empbatie expression of opinion has since been almost daily
reiterated, and supported by speculations and assumptions,
however apparently tenable, equally offensive. The single
difference between those articles and the shameless com-
ments of the lowest Transatlantic prints on the same topic
is that the English Wain accompany their precipitate
fioding with verbal tributes of respect for the judicial pro-
mos. They intimate that the scared has yet to be tried ;
but their obeervatioos amount practically to the suggestion
that the jury will only meet to confirm • decision at which
public opinion has already arrived. We may believe that
comments of the met will not interfere with • fair trial.
There are pester safeguards in this country against popu-
lar dictation than elsewhere. The sense of justice is hap-
pily strong enough among as still to couoterweigh the
evil tendency of a depraved criticism. But how long will
that feeling survive such intrusions into the domain of jodi.
cial investigation as we are seemed iu reproving! How
long will the scrupulosity of the reflective serve to
control the morbid effects of journalistic temerity ! Have
cams never occurred in which the course of justice was
interrupted by public clamour! Jorymee are not more
than mortal, end the mind of the coolest is effected insen-
sibly by prevailing opinion. We operas, however, that we
retard the matter more seriously is another of its upsets.
We arsjealous for the honour of the press. The power
wielded by it, with the sanction of the most enlightened,
is increasing rapidly, and he is its greatest enemy
who stows that trust. No reader of a variety of daily
prints is issessible to passible social dangers from its abuse.
Were the occasion fitting, those threatened degradations of
the press might be examined in detail. At present we are
concerned with the single evil of trial by newsesper and
we grieved that them should be so much posed for the re-
preach that in the columns of certain leading joaroals the
proprieties of justice are frequently sacrificed to the demand
for what is vulgarly considered pungent writing.—Dutlio
Erening
' Front the let of January to the 25th of August.
this year there arrived at Chicago 727,500 barrels of flour,
6.245,172 Umbels el wheat, 10.167,683 bushels of corn.
4.341. 825 bushels of oats, 2'.fft,318 bushels of rye, sod
152,763 bushels of barley.—A Puritan paper.