The Express.
London, England, 1864-05-10 00:00:00

LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

Oa =come ritsiasAra.)
YORE MEETING.—(THIS DAY.)

CRAVEN STAKES. Ose mile.
Donnybrook, Clamor, Little Stag, sod Bandarilla ere bare.
ZETLAND STAKES. Nye furlongs 44 yards.
Jig, Skyrocket, Saloon, Rondoletie, Gaimauve, Venni,
Spring Goa, Beummer, and Similitude are hare.
GREAT NORTHERN HANDICAP. Two ranee.
Win ti. Limosisa, Welcome, Doane Canoe, Footasoy,
Alice, East Lancashire, King Unarming, Gwrilla, Gre•ille,
Goldylseks, Dr. Rooks, Vacuna e, Major Trust, and Clown
are Were.

Rua roarer.—Adveaturer, Watchman, Count Carom.,
Whitothorn,,Lord Zetkad, and Oklaainatar.
KNAVESIIIRE PLATE. Half a mile.

Dawdler, (";pocin; f, Waterloo. Si. to Asehans, Light,
Jceephiae,War Whoop, Sprigs Gas, Tahiti's, Mumble,
Basdariiia, and Laomodon ars hon.

UNION HUNT PLATE. Two toils and a half.
Rue Bernie, Young Tollertoe, The Jew, Lady Sulks,
Strth rid, Delphi, Goth, Bonnets o Blue. Chance, Southern
Cross, Loey, Emperor, Jamie Taft, Caller Oa, Aoe of
Spades, Kathleen, and Rosemary. All are here.
Oran Asarvm.s.—Exoeller. Hrs. Naggleton, Caller 09,
Weatherglass, Little Hanealt f, Newmarket, Chiegoot the
Jester, Tottenham, Miss Armstrong, Baby Blake, Lytham,
Waterloo, Neophyte, Meyerbeer, Irish 80111i4•02414 ray
Masser, Wilwer, aad You. Aladdin.

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY.
(THIS DAY).

This day the adjourned extraordinary general
meeting, convened in emordinee with the Wbarediffe order
of the Home of Lords, took plum et the King's-cross
Station. Mr. Paces, ILP., presided.
At the previous meeting out of • list of 16 balm only five
bad made sufficient in parliament for the decision
of the shareholders to be taken with respect to them, and
us the present occasion only one other hat paned the House
of Commons, namely. "A bill towable the Greet Northern
Railway Company to exteed the Royston tad Medlin
Railway to Cambridge ; to use certain portions of the Great
Easton Railway, and to make arrangements with aertait
other companies." The object of the measure is to enable
the Great Northern Company to extend the Repaint sad
Hitchin Railway (which im bald by them io perpetuity) from
its fermium at Sbepreth to • junction with the Bedford
and Cambridge Railway. and to construct railways
into tae town of Cambridge, sod to the Great Eastern
Railway. It enables the company to widen and to oriel
part of the Bedford and Cambridge Railway, to use • por. lion of the Great Eastern Railway, sod to enter into traffic
arrangements with both those companies. It is proposed to
empower the company to raise by shares and stoek any
sum not exceeding 1600001.. and by mortgage or debenture
stock • sum not exceeding '63,C30/.
On the motion of the Ciweasg, the following resolutions
were agreed to :
"That the bill iotitaled a ' bill to enable the Great
Northern Railway Company to extend the Royston and
Hitch's Railway to Cambridge ;tow certain poeticise of '
the Great Pastern Railway and tomake arrangements with
certain other companies, be and the same is hereby mi. 1
proved."
' That this meeting be adjourned until Tuesday, the
31st May inst., at 12 o'clock at noon, at this stetioa.

THE LONDON AND SOUTH AMMAN BANK.
Inns DAT.)

At noon to-day the third annual meeting of the
ehateholdere in the above bank wee held at the London
Tavern, Mr. 3. R. Trionsoir in the chair.
The accounts show a surplus of 39,548/. Is. 4d. ; out of
which a payment au account of dividend (amounting to
16,000(,), was made in October last, for the half•year
width( 30th Jane, leaving an unappropriated balance
of 23,5481. Is. 4d. The directors now proposed to declare
a dividend for the half•year ending 31st December last, on
the original capital, and on so much of the new capital as
was paid up in full at let July last, at the rate of 8 per
mat. per &axiom, free dimmer tax. They further proposed
to place to the credit of preliminary expense account
1,608/. 6a, and of the reserve food 2,0001., and to carry
forward the bathes, 5391. lte. 44,, to the nsx► account
The report was adopted.
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Pates or Baton.—The prices of wheaten bread
is the metropolis am from 6id. to 741. • of household ditto,
bid. to 6d. Some hikers are Rollin from 41d. to SJ. per
t& lost, weighed on delivery.