The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-01 00:00:00

GERMANY.

Lettere from Vienna speak of the probable recal
of Baron Bruck from Constantinop:e to take the post
of Minister of Finance. In such a case, it is said
M. Prokesch Osten, who has had considerable eastern
experience, would go to represent Austria at the
Porte.

Prince Napoleon arrived at Stuttgard on the 17th.
The King's aide-de-camp was waiting for him at the
railway terminus, and he rode to the palace in one
of the royal carriages. A grand dinner was given at
the palace the same afternoon, at which Prince
Napoleon was seated at the right hand of the King.

AUSTRALIA.

THE GOLD DIGGINGS.

(FROM Orli OWN CORILP.:ITONDLNT.)
BALLARAT, JILT IS, N 3
It is now exactly ten weeks since 1 first sighted
the Port Phillip Heads, with a heavy gale blowing
on the land, and the sea breaking over the ill-fated
Sacramento, close under our lee—no very pleas,"
eight for a strange captain—without a pilot boat is
sight, nor did any appear in answer to our signals,
though we stood close in shore until the turn of the
tide, when the force of the set left us no alternative
but to try to find a channel for ourselves. So we led
the van of 16 largo ships, principally emigrant ves-
sels, passing within hail of the wretched passenger.,
dragging fragments of their elects through the surf
front the wreck, and reached in safety the inner wetcr
of the bay. When out of danger in the smooth
waters of the inner harbour, a British schooner
came alongside, as might be supposed, to congratu-
late us on our escape, but it proved to be the pilot,
who hailed us to cast anchor fur a few hours, ma
he went ashore for his things. As it seems these
holiday folk could not think of going, by the bye, is
their pea-jackets, and are so careful of their finery
that they would not carry them afloat. A similar
summons was seemingly conveyed to the entire doer,
for within a quarter of an hour we were all riding
with al fathoms of chain out, with a fair wind blow-
ing, that would have brought us to our destination,
while our l'alinurus was looking up his go-ashore
costume—a state of things which impressed me with
no very favourable opinion of the exe.utive, and ac.
! counts, without any comment, for the subsequent
wrecks, and the enormous loss of life and propene,
which have lately occurred in this port.
The next sample of colonial discipline was in no
way more commendable than the pilot service, far it
was well advanced into the following day, before the
port officer came on board to point out the discharg.
leg anchorage, and a further interval elapsed before
any customs authority appeared to permit the pas.
sengers to disembark. When at length all obstacles
were removed, a clumsy, unsightly steamer Came
alongside, and after a tedious river navigation
reached what turned out to be the wharf at dusk, in
the middle of a pelting rain storm, and a scene en-
sued which, to use the patent phrase, o battles se
description." The skipper of the s:eatuer, deter-
mined to have all clear fur a start by daybreak,
husth d the soaked and shivering passengers ashore,
into a lake of liquid mud, which, without exaggera-
tion, was fully hip deep to any one under middle
stature, and then he tumbl«l trunks, portmanteaus,
carpet bags, and bonnet boxes promiscuously into
the same slimy bed. Any attempt at identification
was simply impossible, so that those with weak
nerves determined to bit it out until daylight would
enable them to discern their luggage; those
with weak constitutions endeavoured to Hounder
through the mire in search of shelter. It was alto-
gether a serio-eomic scene of unequalled interest, in
which the cries of children, the sighs of mothers, the
moans of invalids, and the ejaculations of disappoint-
ment were ludicrously mingled with the reckless
jests of hardy voyagers, the quaint toasts and comic
songs of parties provided with an antidote to the ele-
ments, the hopeful predications of enthusiastic be-
lievers in the old adage about " bad beginnings," &c.,
and the various remarks and rejoinders that were
banded about, amongst which I was most amused
with the following Hibernian soliloquy, uttered in
tones of female earnestness :—" An this is the great
Australian climit is it, where people can strip naked
and go to bed in the open air, in under a gum tree,
with possums for a pillow, an the nightingales
asingin all livelong night—may the blackestd
luck overtake the liars, God forgive me, and make
them spind many aftlhirnoons like the present."
I managed to get a rough shakedown, under a
counter, at the Victorian rate of as., and went down
early in the morning to the wharf ; the rain, as the
decrying female querulist remarked, " pouring down
all the blessed night without intercession.' And
though I have often seen saturated crowds at Green-
wich festivals, and dissolving views by the greatest
living artists, I never saw any scene, real or imaginary,
to compare with the emigrant groups on that occa-
sion. The people and luggage all seemed ready to
melt. Linings, bonnets, and flabby hats, looked as
if reduced to the last ; shawl patterns running
into legend collisions; the overcoats dying out their
inmost essence, their wearers dripping from the nose-
points and finger-ends, as if afflicted with a gushy
dropsy ; while the packages about, if I must give a
comparison, looked like saturated lumps of sugar
just about sinking into dissolution in thick brown
coffee. But, as I before remarked, while I pitied
many, there were some Mark Tapleys amongst the
number whose bearing and philosophy provoked a
smile.

It was calculated that four thousand souls arrived
the same tide as ourselves, and the average for
eleven days after was over ten, many of whom
landed penniless, and would assuredly have become
victims to hunger and exposure, only for that admi-
rable institution the Emigrants' Home, founded by
the excellent and philanthropic Mrs. Chisholm. For
some few days the streets of Melbourne were
thronged with detachments of the new arrivals, yet
a few days more and all were absorbed like water in
the thirsty desert, without producing the slightest
depreciation in the wages rates of mechanics, ser-
vants, or labourers ; and so it still continues ; crowds
upon crowds pour in, and after lounging and gossip-
ping for a little, become mixed up in the wheel of
business and employment. In Francisco, though
wages were exorbitant for a period, the in-
flux of people quickly moderated the rates,
because the mining districts were comparatively in-
accessible, and parties could not think of venturing
without a team and necessaries; but here the dig-
gings are so comparatively contiguous, so easy of
approach, and so studded with stores, where every
requisite can be had, that no difficulty pre-
sents itself; superior to the hope, and almost ameent-
ing to certainty, that once there and the battle of
life is over. Thus those who remain in town can
command their own terms, and though you conform
to their exorbitant demands, you must be content to
give servants and tradesmen their own way in a
great measure, for if you take your brick-maker to
task for not coming early in the morning, he
may tell you to finish the job yourself;
or if you tell your cook, rather late in
the day, that you are bringing home a few friends
to dinner, she may most likely remark " she is sorry
she can't wait to dress it," as she is going out to the
nigger concert In the evening. I can speak from
personal experience of this intolerable species of in-
dependence. When, after fishing my :valise
from the mud, on the morning after arrival, I asked
an idle fellow who was enjoying the sport "if he
wanted a job ?" " What is it ?" he said. " To take
this to the hotel," I replied. " Would it require
two ?" he then asked. "Not it" " Then take it
yourself" was his answer. In fact, every species of
aspirant for place is certain of immediate employment,
except clerks, who are at a regular discount, and I
would therefore strongly recommend those nice
young men who take a daily stroll to Somerset-
house or Downing-street to eat their mutton chops,
and spar over their desks till park hour, to remain at
home, unless they are ambitious of getting en-
throned in orange stalls, or turning grooms to lucky
diggers.
What most annoys a new chum—as they term it
—is the rate of rent-2,5001. for a business pre-
mises ; 1,2001. for a middling shop ; 5/. per week for
an office, which is a sub-division of a small room,
about the size of one of those curtained recesses
where a London merchant retires to wash his
hands-31. per week for a niche in some suburban
slum, which is termed a sleeping apartment. Yet at
those unheard of prices, if you do not answer
the advertisement with the utmost prompti-
tude, you find another party in absolute occupation.
The price of simple necessaries is not so startling,
as I may instance, good beef, mutton, tea, sugar,
and even flour, but then the cost of putting them
into a consumable shape constitutes the grievance;
for what with servant's wages ranging from 35/. to
50/., wood at 3/. 12s. per load, and water at 65.6
cask, the expense of producing the raw material in
the shape of a roast leg of mutton or a loaf of breed,
would require the computative knowledge of a poll-
tical economist.
I must not omit noticing the fabulous price of land,
not only in the city but in the remote country. Wha,t
do you think of 2,50/. per foot, with only a depth of ~
feet. I cannot bring to mind the value of Lomloll
City or West-end property, but 1 fancy that in nei-
ther Cheapside, Piccadilly, or Belgrave-square could
any such proportionate rate be obtained, and the ut-

lessee I quote is not a solitary one ; not a day passes I
over in whist sales are not readily effected, which,
taking position and convenience into consideration,
seen outstnps it. Then, again, as to property in';
the outlets—such as rheum', Richmond, and St.
hi:de—which I may liken to Clapham Richmond, I
and Windsor, I know I am quits safe in asserting 1
that the prices obtainable in the former would out- I I
run by :So p r cent. the fair market price of land in
those beautiful and fashionable localities. Since I I
terse here there was a paddock of eight acres at St.
four miles from town, brought into the mar- '
Lc, which fuel been purchased a few months before ! 1
by Sir. Dalgetty, at what was celled the insane price j
a Low/. six weeks after the purchase he refused
i;:,isiot. fur the lot, and within rix months from the
original rale, and before the second instalment of the
purthase money fell due, it was resold in Messrs.
nnant and Ch's rooms for the prodigious sum of I
Neither is this a solitary ease; I could quote I
aeon., nay hundreds of others, which, if they would '
elt exactly compare with, would tread close on the
heels of the justly celebrated Dalgetty paddock-
Bat even 41.1 or 50 miles in the country, in any of I
thaw districts likely to be intersected by government '
roads, or in the highways to the diggings, land fetches I
&price calculated to lead to the be;ief that New Rol-
land is no bigger than the Isle of Wight, and that its
entire subsoil is a stratum of solid gold liberally
speckled with gems of the Koh-i-noor tribe. This
fictitious value is altogether attributable to the
strange obstinacy of the government in withholding
the land from hair public competition ; but it is to be
hoped that the new order of things will tend to open
up other than the mineral resources of this country,
and enable thousands who are anxiously awaiting
the opportunity of engaging in agricultural pursuits,
to "speed the plough," and give us bay, oats, but-
ter, and segetab:es, at under their present famine
rates—for 1 really have a great longing for a canter
no horseback from the mud of Melbourne after the
day's business is over ; but a guinea a day for the
bare keep puts the aspiration hors de combat. While
the desire fur a mouthful of nice buttered toast, with
a greasy compound ranging from 2e. 9d to 3s. 6d.
per lb.. or any turnips to your naked leg of boiled
mutton, with walaut.dyed turnips at 6d. a piece, is
equally wild and unattainable I pre-
ferreilthe Ballarat diggings because they are more
easily reached ; and from the stale of the roads all
public conveyances had been discontinued. 'started
alone, with merely the sum necessary for my ex-
penses on the road, as many bushrangers were
known to be on the track from several recent cases of
6 sticking up," as they call it here ; but I got to the
end of my first stage without molestation, having
met several parties of roaring diggers coming down
with their swag to winter in the town. I got three
companions for my second day's march, which was
through an uninteresting country, pock-pitted with
deep cattle tracks, or sheeted with mud; but our
third day's march I might call a trip by
water, fur our route lay through one ran-
tinuous shallow lake all the time, and the only
surety we had for direction was the detonating cracks
of the bullock-drivers' whips. On the fourth day we
got into an undulating district, where wo had the
satisfaction of liberating a poor fellow who was
"stuck up" for over thirty hours and robbed. He
happened to straggle from his party, and was pounced
upon by a noted " overseer of the highways, rejoic-
ing in the feudal soubriquet of " The Black Douglas."
We lost our reckoning this evening, and wet*
bushed ; but with the aid of a prostrate gum-tree and
some stringy bark, made ourselves as comfortable as
the apprehension of our sable neighbour would per-
mit, but he did not favour us with a call, and early in
the morning the random discharges of firearms
directed us to the head quarters of the Ballarat gold
fields. _ _

Bills due Mother banks, 17s. Ild. Deposits, 710,8771. 1134.4 d.
Total liabilities, 973,5611. 9s. 10d.—Assets: Coin and bul-
lion, 353,3391 17s. 4d. Landed property, 14,3841. 7r. 44.
Notes and bills of other banks, 7,7621. as. Notes and bills
discounted, and all other debts due to the bank,
473,86.4. Os. 4d. Total meets, 854,3171. 3e.—Capital and
Profits : Capital paid up, 820,0001. Rate per engem of last
dividend, 26 per cent. Amount of romped profit after
paying dividead, 213,8391 Ifs. 6d.
AUSTILALIAN JOINT STMAL BANK.—Liabilities: Notes
in circulation, 47,180/. 91. 3d. Bills in eireulatioa,
1,1171. 17s. 9d. Bills due to other banks, 1,6991.35. 2d.
Deposits, 129,4441. Os. 4d. Total liabilities, 179,2411.10 x. 6d•
—Assess : Coin sad bullion, 14.06,5921. 91. 6d. Landed pro-
party, 1,1631.175. Notes and bill. of other banks, 7091. 3s. 14.1
Balances due from other banks, 34,611/. 7s. 7d. Notes and
lulls uncounted, and all other debts due to the bank,
137,912!. Is. Id. Total assets, 231,0711.1115. 3d. Capital
paid up, 125,0001.—T0tal liabilities of the five banks,
6,265,5571. 19s. lid. Total assets, 5,442,814/. 14s. 6d.
Total of capital paid up. 2,444,9001. Amount of reserved
profits after paying dividends. 326,0221. 2s. 3d.
Letters from Adelaide of the 10th August draw at-
tention to the extraordinary p usage of the Australian
ltoyal Mail Steam Company's Travel Victoria, which
had reached that port in the unprecedentedly short
time of 30 days and 20 hours from Gravesend. This
steamer subsequently lett Adelaide for Melbourne, at
which port sho arrived in 64 days from Gravesend.
A tcbtimonial was presented to Capt. Champion by
the passengers.

ANGLO.CALIFORNL4N GOLD MINING
COMPANY.

Yesterday the annual general meeting of the share-
holders of this company wu held at the Freemasons'
T , Mr. Geonos E. Cortical, in the chair.

After the usual preliminariee the Secretary read to the
meeting the report of the directors and statement of the
accounts, of which the following is an abildgment:

" Of the liabilities 1,0001. is the proportionate sum voted
by you es remuneration to the directors, but, no profits
having been realised, the directors have not drawn that
amount. Another liability consists of a rum of 4,5./01., bor-
rowed from the bankers, 4,0001. of which was remitted to
California for the express purpose of enabling Bir Henry
Huntley to purchase the Fleuchan lode, in addition to the
property previously purchased by the company at Dicks-
burg. The acquisition of the Fleuchan lode was repre-
sented both by Sir H. Huntley and Capt. Davies, to be so
eswential to the interests of the company, that
the board felt itself justified in incurring this
liability; but whilst remitting the amount necessary
to secure the mine, the board gave Sir H. Huntley
only a qualified authority to complete the purchase; at
present that purchase has not been completed. The 4,0001.
has been drawn by Sir H. Huntley, and forms part of the
funds in his hands. The balance sheet shows the liabilities
but does not contain any estimate of the value of the mines,
machinery, etc., in California. The board recommends
that the capital of the company be increased to the extent
of 15,000 J.; that such capital be raised by the issue of
30,000 additional shares at par; such shares to be offered.
in the first instance, to the holden of original shares, pro
rola; any shares not taken pro rata, to be offered to the
holders of original shares; any surplus to be allotted gene-
rally by the board. During the current year much has
been done at Dicksburg in the way of preparation for
working the veins. Houses fur the officers and servants of '
the company and other buildings have been erected; •
level has been driven into the Bricket Ledge, • considerable
quantity of quarts has been raised, and, so far as the mill
on the property would permit, the quarts from the different
veins has been tested. The yield has varied in the different
veins from 41. to 101. per ton, and from the accounts trans-
mitted by the agents, and the concurrent testimony of per-
sona wholly unconnected with the company, as well as
free the feet of 20,0001. having been offered for a portion only
of Mae veins, it may be confidently assumed that the company
Clissis the mines at Dicksburg a very valuable property.
e ffiesmith machinery sent out last year arrived at Sae
itialif" Ia December, in perfect order. Two of Bases
gemiliers, with amalgamators and separators, were
Ia April last, and another of the crushers is
iildpgmL The engine and crushing rollers manufactured at
Mineiagtiam,amd despatched to California upwards of two
pars_ ago, elegiels our present stock of machinery. The
heard has 1111111pli the tie*, edsish has taken place in the
MosimmoNanOt of as toolles opmations, but which
but alms from aeons over WY* mar oadient director had
as mistral. Sir H. Huntley, Mat GIB Marysville making
ametonte for the transmission of the machinery to
Mo Disheharg mines, heard of NOM lout: ledges at a
giros mired Brown's Valley in Tabs county. The se
apes impostio• appeared to him so desirable an
sapid* . that he determined upon securing them
for the osogosy. The company is immediately, at
its ewe use, to set up the Cornish machinery,
to erect hilhgs and workshops, sink a well, make
roads, de. TM owners of the mines are to sell to the
company • eadieient extent of freehold land for the erec-
tion of the machinery, buildings, 6ce., and to grant a lease
of the mines with timber and pasture lend, and water
rights sufficient for mining purposes, for the term of twenty
years—that is, the term of ten years (which is all the law
allows) in the first instance, with • power to renew for the
further period of ten years at the aspiration of the first
ten ; the ea penen of erecting the machinery and buildings,
sinking we 16, and making roads, fie., to be paid out of the
firast mhos of the mines after payment of all expenses
the raising and crushing the quarts and separating
tie gpsild - after which the owners of the rains are to take
ane-learhs of the grow produce, and the company the re-1
oodaiag three fourths; the company to be at liberty to put '
as sod to the lease, and to remove their machinery build-
ings, de., at any moment they may think fit. Sir 11. Hunt-
ley, on his own responsibility, and without consulting the
Board, entered into the above arrangement with the Brown's
Valley Company, and determined to defer work-
's,' the Dicksburg Mine until Co arrival from
Segiand of the further machinery then en its
way oat ; the reasons assigned by him for this step being
that the quality of the quarts is the Brown's Valley Mine
is saporier to any he has yet seen in the coaatry ; that the
situation sews extraordinary advantages, being only 14
MHO flea tae sky of Marysville, over a fist country, and
boldag ems Nis prospect of ultimately being able to work
the mmeldisin with water power, without the aid of steam,
wide sity of this mine to Marysville will enable him
te set op the machinery in half the time, and at half the
outlay, required at Dicksburg, which latter circumstance
will MI of_perusimot benefit in working the mines. No
lima was Ifiloaor Sir H. Huntley had determined to
Meats the ommebinery at Brown's Valley, in getting every-
thing needy* _working the mines. By the end of Septem-
ber he atadelp d being able to set the machinery in mo-
tion. The mining works have kept pace with the erection
of the machinery. Sir H. Huntley states that two very
promising veins have been !aid open, a considerable quan-
tity et quarts has been raised, and below the surface the
locos appear, if anything, more promising than that at the
surface. The opinions expressed by Sir 11. Huntley and
Captain Davies as to the value of the Dicksburg Mines are
so degree shaken ; nor has he any intention of neglect-
ing them because he has acquired those at Brown's Valley.
Ia eoaelusion, the board must freely admit that in their own
as well as is other reports, both the time and outlay
required foe establishing a mining enterprise in California
have been greatly under estimated."
The total receipts of the company amount to 36,8251.
2s. 5d., and the expenditure to 28,8011. ls. 6d., leaving a
balance of 8,0241. Oe. 11d.
The Commas proposed the adoption of the report.
Mr. °Lauri. seconded the motion.

I was quite unprepared for their extraordinary II
aspect, so totally unlike those in the regions of Cali- ,
fornia, where for the most part the diggers encamp
along creeks, rivers, or on the windings of steep
ravines, where, after shovelling. away the surface
clay. they place their cradles in the stream, run
away their puff, and return to their tents almost as ,
free from speck or mire as they went out. But
here the operations are carried on on level tracts,
or easy slopes, without any water but what may
be retained on the surface, and holes about 3 ft. 6 in.
in diameter are sunk at immense labour and
expense, which in many instances are carried
down more than 100 feet before the stratum
in which the gold lodges is reached. It re-
sembles pump-boring at home, and from the hard
packed nature of all the intervening strata of subsoil
is a slow process, all the stuff being taken up by
.a
bucket and rude windburn ; and where the locality
fruitful the borings are so contiguous that it is a Der
vice of extreme danger for a nervous person to cross
the district, for it resembles& series of candle moulds
on a large scale, with the narrow margin shaped into
sharp ridges in order to stow away the excavated
stuff, so that if you go out to spend an evening in
your friend's tent you require to return before
cloak, though since my sojourn I have seen reel-
ing diggers returning from the grog. shops with
lanterns, and have not heard of a serious accident.
All the subsoil in every district that I have visited
is of a gamboge colour, whether it be clay or gravel,
so that tne diggings are of • bright yellow hue, and
the workmen look at a distance as if they were
clothed in chamois, and every implement on the
ground or utensils in the tent seem tinged with the
same unvarying colour.
In some places the precious metal runs in veins or
leads, and in others in patches, and those only who
are lucky enough to descend upon a vein or patch
get as much as a speck to reward their arduous la-
bour; and I have myself seen instances of a party in
one hole washing out as much as six ounces to the
tub, when their immediate neighbours were not get-
ting.the fraction of a grain. Those unlucky folk are
continually changing from place to place, and look-
ing out fresh diggings ; and if one of them chances
to bit, the news spreads like wildfire, and with extra-
ordinary exaggeration, which brings about what is
termed • rush, when you will see hordes racing in
every direction to mark out their claims. But
latterly this species of excitement is less contagious
from the fact that store-keepers have been known
to propagate false reports in order to bring a
crowd to their neighbourhood: and a shrewd black-
smith wince my advent galled about 10,000 by pre-
tending to mark out claims for every member of his
family, where the dray broke down with his tools,
and on his way up a passer-by carried about the
tidings, and the smith was soon busy and profitably
at work pointing picks and shovels for his dupes,
who forgave him in consideration of his tact and cle-
verness. In my next I will go more into detail.

Mr. Coon severely criticised the vacillation of Sir H.
Huntley, who alter telling the shareholden that leasehold
wee in California an unsafe town', surrendered his old
principle of freehold and took a Issas of Brown's Valley.
He considered that he was only good at anuses; aad look-
ing at the way in which the broken and the monied ;men
in the City regarded their shares, he would more, as an
amendment, the appointment of a Committee of Investiga-
tion.

The New Sara Wales Garet-amen! Gazette of Aug.
9 contain. a general abstract of the sworn returns
rendered premed to the Act of Council, 4 Vie., No.
13, of the average assets and liabilities, and of the
capital and rafts of the five undermentioned banks
of the colony of New South Wales, for the quarter
ending the 30th Jane, 1863. We will take the banks
in the order in which they
_ appear :
BANK Or New 80C111 WALEI.-Liabilities : Notes in
circulation, 380,1561. 14e. 3d. (This includes the Victoria
Broach). Bills is cireulatiem, 6,4291. 10e. 9d.; balsams
due to other hanks, 124,7831. (Ia this amount is Winded
10,6361. 10s., being liabilities of the Old Bank of New
South Wale,, guaranteed.) Deposits, 1,667,8861. 2..
Total liabilities, 2,179,2561. 2s. 7d. Assets-Coin and bul-
lion, 1,195,3981. 11.. 3d.; landed property, 16,3891. 65.;
notes and bills of other banks, 9,0241. 31. ; balances due
from other banks, 315,8701.8 e. ; notes and bills discounted,
and all other debts due to the bank, 630,794!. 6a. 7d. Total
ousels, 2,170,4761. Capital and profits-Capital paid up,
399,9001. Bate per annum of lut dividend, 10 per rent.
Amount of dividend, 16,0001. Amount of reserved profit/a,
after paying dividend, 44,9601. 11.. 3d. THE NEw STAMP 9.e[.-The following informs-
Tan CoMMIIRCIAL BANILING CoMPANT.-Liabilitiee- tins may help to elucidate the difficulties of some readers
Notes in circulation, 183,6881. 6s. 2d. ; balances due to respecting the new act. The receiver of a promissory note
other basks, 91. 7.. lid.; dep.wirs, 764,8741.8.. ld. Total at 30 days, two, or three sleuths; or a banker's draft at
liabilities, 948,5721. 2s. 2d. Auets-Coin and bullion, seven or fourteen days, is obliged to give a stamped rcceipt
398,6571. 12s. 6d. ; landed property, 11,2361. 2a. 3d. ; ha- for the amount. Railway companies ;are obliged to give
lances due from other banks, 373,3744 12s. 64. ; notes and stamped receipts for fares above forty shillings, received in
bills discounted, and all other debts due to the bank, cash over the counter at the station. Auctioneen are cora-
-388,0151. 99. Bd. Total assets, 1,171,3831. 16s. 10d. Capital polled to give stamped receipts for amount above forty shil-
and profits-Capital paid up, 200,0001. Bate per annum kings, for goods purchased at auctions. Farmers and cattle
of last dividend, 10 per cent., and a bonus of 2.5,0001. dealers are obliged to give stamped receipts for cora and
among the shareholders. Amount of dividend, 7.6101. cattle sold at fairs and markets. A ',tamped receipt must
6s. Id. Amount of reserved profit after paying dividend, be given fir monies paid on account of a bill delivered, nut
16,8941. 7.. ld. actually settled. Tradesinenare obliged tegive stamped re
Tna Bann or ArsTRALASIA.-Liabilities-Notes is Mr. mum for goods sold over the counter, such as grocers, dra-
eulation, 19.5,9891. 9s. Al ; bills in circulation, 66,8611. Pen, &c. But in all these cases the person paying the
11s. Id. ; deposits, 725,0851. 10s. 7d. Total liabilities, money must ask for the receipt, otherwise there is no obli-
-987,9361. 14s. 10d. Assets-Coin and bullion, 570,5891. nation as the person receiving money to give the receipt.
Os. 9d. ; landed property, 8,7691 4s. 7d. ; notes and bills of One merchant can draw a draft on another merchant for
other bask., 1,9371. 181. 6d. Notes and bills discounted, the amount of an account without :paging through a ban-
and all other debts due to the bank, 384,3181. 18r. W. her, provided the penny stamp is attached thereto, and an
Total assets. 965,3651. 2e 7d. Capital and profits-capitol acknowledgment on the back of the draft will be a legal re-
paid up, 900,0001. Rate per annum of last dividend G per esipt. Letters by the General Post, acknowledging the
cent., and a bones of 1/. 4s. per share equal to 6 per cent. safe snivel of promissory notes, bills of exchange, and
per annum, free of income tax. Amount of reserved profit other securities for money, are exempt from the stamp re-
after paying dividend, 50,3271. 7s. sd. ceipt duty ; the law in this particular is the same as it was
UNION BANK. or AtATKALIA.-Liabilities: Notes in previously to the passing of the new act. A receipt may be
circulation, 217,9321. Bills in circulation, 44,740 i. Ga. Gd. ' given as the back of a duly stamped draft for its contents.

Mr. Routosom seconded the motion, which was sup-
ported by Mr. Kirrvt.i.
Mr. GARnArr (one of the directors) would not oppose
the appointment of a committee to invistigate the conduct
of the directors, provided only a deputation of shareholders
should he also sent to California.

The CHAIkXAN then pot the amendment, which was on
a slow of hands lost by a large majority ; after which he
put the original motion, which was agreed to. lie then
proposed a resolution empowering the directors to raise
16,0001. additional capital in the manner recommended by
the report. This was seconded by Mr. Clarke, and after
some explanations from the chair, unanimously agreed to.
The election of directors and other routine business were
then proceeded with, after which the business terminated
with a rote of thanks to the chairman.

THE RUBSO-TURKISII QUESTIO.V.

CHARTIST MEETING IN FINSBURY.

Last evening a meeting, summoned by placard,
as held in the School-room of the Cowper-.suet Sehooli,

''rot;i4;litto."-eonsidera-Jon the above question, and oho
to consider what part England ought to take in the event
of a European war of principles with its inevitable eons,.
(locums. new governments, and Lew territorial arrange-
ments." . .

The two members for the borough bad been invited to
attend, but neither of them was present. Tne platform was
occupied almost exclusively by mem ten of the Chartist
party, amongst whom Mr. Bronterre O'Brien was the most
conspicuous.
Mr. Exits, a schoolmaster, was appointed to the chair,
and in a lengthened speech denounced the conduct of
Russia in its relations w.th Turkey.
Mr. BRONTLItRIE Wilkins stated that the meeting had
been called by a body of working men, and at their request
he had prepared a resolution, which he begged to move. It
denounced the conduct of Russia for occupying the Princi-
palities, and applauded the government of Tur-
key for declaring war against Kuala ; at the
same time warned the upprersed subjects of this
and other European countries, and e►pecially of France
and England, against permitting their respective govern-
ments to make resistance to Russian encroacbments

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a pretext for meddling with the internal policy or adminis-
tration of Turkey, or for counteracting the efforts of Hun-
gary and other oppressed nations to strike off the yoke of
slavery.
Mr. LOCKHART seconded the resolution; which, haying
becu spoken to by two or three other persons, was carried.