The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-30 00:00:00

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BirPRVS. 8, MONDAY EvElrilsG, J AlitrAICY 30, 1865.

COMMERCIAL MEETINGS AND REPORTS.

Below we giro the substance of the report of the
direclurs of the Provincial Banking Uorporation
(Limited), to be submitted on the 6th February :
The alternate have to report that, since the special
of proprietors, held to November last they have earimrd2
en aneepment lot the ansalganistlon of the Bank of Walls
with this corpoestioa. The amalgamation is upon equal
terms, and Mies effect frees the Ist of January Merit. me
' directors Love every reason to believe, from the profitable
field for Makin operettas existing in South Wales, the
tubas and prceperity of which are larply increasing. that
this arrangement will peeve advantageous to the wpm.
roe. Two new Menthes have also hem opened—me in the
hdgware-rind, and one at Kingerod ; the business of the
bank in therefore now carried on at 29 branekee. As or
pears from thentinocupanyiag belanoe-sbeet, the pose reata
et the b thefom Oa commencement of boners. oa lb. Ist
lithe
e 3let of December last, amount to 15,81101.
lbs. 5d.. from which have to be deducted interest poi-
rest and decant amour and exposer • amoun to
12,700/. 14s. 4d., leaving abalones of ,1201.55. ld. Uedar
ordinary eireumetimer the &heron would lave ream-
mended that the whole of this balance should he carried
forward to the next scampi ; but le the present case such
• course would not be equitable to the proprieties of the
oorporetioa, unless • prepertisaste amount were carried
forward by the Bank of Wiles. The direeton, therefore,
remmineud the payment of a dividend at the rate of 5 per
amt. per annum, whisk will sheers 2,344/. 4s. 6d., leaving
• disposable Nme of 776!. Oa. Bd. It wilhbe is. the recol-
lection of the proprietors, that in the report of the special
meeting held in November last, It wee stated that it might
possibly be expedient at the conmencerneat of the present
year to make • call of • moderate amount. The requirements
of the corporation, however, are not such ma to reader it
expedient, in the opinion of the directors, to make • tall at
parent.
The directors of the Fore-street Warehouse Com-
pany (Limited), (late Morrison, Dillon, and Co.),
have issued their report, to be presented at the
meeting on the 3rd Feb. We extract m follows :
The dimoton beg to submit the 'ascents for the half-
year ending 13th January, 1865. II will be seen that the
net profits of the badmen durieg that pored. atter payment
of interest, inesmeglaz, sad mere ether expires, sad emir-
ing allossase far bad sad doubtful debts, amousted to
23,7321. 12s. ad. ; which with the balance brought forward
ea the loth July last of 6,611!. Os. fid., make a Orel of
219,8431. 13s. Pd.; tarok it is recommended shall be appro-
priated as Geri :—To !beers. Brown and Slater, in cos-
funnily with their respective agreements, 8,0411. tis. 4d. ;
to the parent of a dividend (free of income-tax) of 10 per
cent per mama ea the 'Mire capital of the compay, lw
lathiest at 5 per cent oe the portion uncalled, be at the
net rate of lire. Bd. per dare, 17,250/. ; lateral ea sums
paid in anticipation of calls, 111. CM ltd. ; to any forward
to the next acoount, 4,5311.4 a. W. • total, 29,843/. 13s. 2d.
As no formal report and balance-sheet can be
submitted until nett August, when the first annual
meeting of the Merchant Shipping Company (late
Solute Brothers) will take plies, the directors bays
issued a circular to the shareholders giving a state-
ment of the manner in which the company's ships
are now employed according to the latest intern-
puce from abroad. They state as follows :
The accounts for Buller voyages of the wren ships whirr
have arrived M Leedom eines the fonnation of Ala com-
ply have bees laid before year directors, all showing very
satisfactory results ; and they have already sees enough'[
the working of this business to justify them in declaring es
laterim divirad for the half-year cadre this Ist day el
February next, at the rote of six per cent. per annum.
Dividead warrants will be forwarded to the shareholder,
at their registered address's, mare as or after the let el
March next ; sad the dinettes have no doubt whatever
that when the accounts for the year have been made up and
&iodised in August, the 's slam will he loud be
be in a prosperous condition. ant call kr been
payed until sow, in gronsegamos of the meat severe
monetary priming ; sod may use further call will be made
before the lint gemnd meeting of proprirstoes takes place.
The report of the directors of the Eastern Bengal
Jute Manufacturing Company (Limited), to be laid,
before the shareholders on the 30th instant, recom-
mends from the profits of the (arms, interest on
loans, and guaranteed commission, • dividend at'
the rate of 10 par cent. per annum upon the capital'
of the company, as paid up on the 31st Deoember,
1864.
The first general meeting of shareholders of the '
London and Venezuela Bank (Limited) will take
place in May next, according to the articles of ars-
ambition, but the directors meanwhile have issued
a circular, by way of reporting progress and in-
forming the proprietors as to the prospects of the
bank. It appears that the decree relating to banks
in Veuezuela, promulgated on the 4th July last,
among other advantages, gives the power to issue
notes to the extent of twice the effective capital in
the bands of the bank. The directors hereupon
observe :
You will at mice see the time& of this, as, being part of
the perish': law of Venemer, it raves the directors to take
as entirely indepeadoot position, perfectly free from all
'mammoth influence or usterfereacia, and to panne these
rules of legitimate booking which modern expertise. has
proved to be so emiseatly successful. As there is sew so
paper currency is the country, sad the metallic eurresey
se composed of the coins of many different asthma,
whirr involves great ineoeveniesce, it is anticipated that sa
public wonders in the back becomes mono sod mom
established, the notes will, from their iseaveernee and
portability, circulate largely ; and in fact the amount that
can he Maid will only he restarted, es above stated, by
themourent of min held by the beak. .The notes now pre-
pense end brag sent out by enceerive mailsare of me
hundred, twenty, ten, and five dollen currency respectively,
the last being the lowest denonsinatiee allowed by law.
The business of the bank at Caracas was to be com-
menced on the 2nd lost, conducted by an efficient
staff sent from England, and under the control of
four local directors, who are all Europeans of high
standing in Venezuela. It it further mentioned
that the available capital of the bank " is all being
safely employed at a minimum rate of 12 per cent.
per annum."
At the annual meeting of the York City and
County Bank, held on the 26th inst., the directors,
report stated as follows :
The directors have the eatiefactioe to state, in this their
thirty-fifth unseal report, that, after aurae provision for
bad and doubtful debts, and crediting the reserved surplus
fried with 1,2181.8 e. 2d. (interest at 4 per mot.) there females
a profit for thear 1864 of 22,01541. 19a. 3d., from which
they recommend • dividend of 8 per mat on the increased
capital, sod • bonus of 30s. per share (together 17,5001.),
free from income tax, adthat the balasmof 4,528/. 19e. 3d.
be carried to the reserved surplus furl, which will than
amour to 36,207!. 12a. Pd.
Before dividing the profits the directors voted
bonus of 10 per cent. to the staff, and also voted a
gratuity of 1,0001-to Mr. Smallwood, the general
manager, in recognition of his long and valuable
services.

Tan Fo!max ENLIITTYINT Acr.—"Ten Quaes
r. CovuserT."—This case came before Mr. Justine Cromp-
ton, at chambers, on Saturday, os the part of the defen-
dant, who had, a few days mace, bees oommitted by Sir
Thomas Henry, from Bow-street Pollee-court, to the
Central Criminal Court, to take his trial for an alleged
offence against the Foreign Enlistment Act, in biting sea-
men for the Confederate States. An application had bees
made to remove the indictment into the Court of (Some'
Bench, and granted, and Mr. Le Riche (Gregory and Row-
elide) now applies fora special jury to he nominated to try
the indictment. Mr. Hannan, as counsel for the Treasury,
opposed the applicetios, as so indictment had been pre-
ferred. Mr. Le Riche urged that the erasion at the Central
Criminal Court would be held on Monday, when Captain
Corbett would have a bill preferred against him. The plea
would be " Not Guilty." One of the reasons to remove
the mum was that a specMl jury was necessary. Mr. Jus-
tice Crompton refused to grant the application, em no in-
tik-target bad bees found, and, until a bill bad been found,
he should not further interfere. The application was
refused. . _

NEW FOOT BRIMS OVEN THZ ELBOINT'S
At the north sod of the broad walk of the Repot's- perk, the
suspension foot bridge crowing the Regent's Canal bu been
substituted by an iron arched bridge, which bee just bear
thrown open to the public. The lower portioes of the piers
are of granite, sad the ripper part is of Bath store. The
top enrolee of the piers or pedestals which comes shove the
heads of the passengers Is carried round three sides, but
entirely omitted on the fourth, which is the inside swat the
bridge ; just as if a square pier had berm got out, and after-
wards out in half from top to hotted), and oar halt placed
ors one aide of the bridge, and the ow. Oa the other side.—
' Baibiinp Rams.
PNEUMATIC DTAPATcH COMEANY. —The sixth
ordinary general meeting of the shareholders of this ma-
w, was held oa Saturday at the offices, Vietorla-street.
Westminster. Ceptaia Harsh, vice-ebairman of the beard of
dhuctor a, presided. The Coinage, is moving the afkiingsull
of the report, which bee bets published, regretted the
difilculties and emierqueet delays that had attended the
sedortakiag, sad expressed his belief that after all It
would, before long, be =wheeled], and emernsecially es
great a snorer se could be exceoted. The report bawls,
been adopted, sad the retiring direetere sad auditors re-
sleeted, the busier' imerdeded with a vole el Shanks to
the chairman.
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ImAtenno,foAte next number of the defendant's
new
minllhsdt Chia! elihten—Hu col all that you required,
Hewitt, been almely done by the islinedeat and by this
islacard I
Bovill—We want his aviators le these terse.
The Lord Obis! Baron—l cannot help suspecting that the
object of the plaintiff is Dot so much to ensure the per-
tormsoos of the terms w to have the defendant to a cored.
West degraded.
Mr. Dub—Just so. My affidavits state that the objeet
Is to humiliele the defendant before his fellow-towasossa.
The leased counsel added that no chugs had been reitir
sated Moos the apolopteitlust under the circumstances
the rule ought to be
The Lewd Chief Baron-117;het wah desired has been ac-
complished, what Se the use of the defendant signing the
term' f
Mr. Quoin also appeared co the same side.
Mr. Bevil', is support of the rule, said that if the de.
fendsot would admit that the grow obarges ha bed made
wore without foundation, his cheat would be soak's& but
it was become he did act do this that the prosiest rale was
applied for. Instead of doing that which hie eounsel told
him be ought as • roan of bower to do, he mast shamefully
tried to evade the apology. Anything more dishonourable
be could scenely conceive, and he was not surprised that
the defendant was sot represented by Mt. Coleridge on the
pessest common.
Mr. Temple mid Mr. Ooleeidge had thought that he
ought not to appear oo this motion.
Mr. Bovill observed that there weretwo other aminserfor
the defendaot at the trial, Mr. Field, Q. 0., sod Mr. Wills,
who wore DOW also absent, and they also Meted that the de-
feodan t was bound to net es a min of heaoar. The libel com-
plained of coutained the wet estrageose charges of fra4
forgery, and theft of papers that were ever published, and
nothing more serious could have been stated against the
plaintiff. Be was therefore compelledto seek redress at
their lordship.' hoods.
The Lord Chief Baron said that the testimony and wmout
of a contested *WU= seemed to have taken pommies of
the minds of the patties.
Mr. Bovill hoped his lordship would not consider that
that justified the defendant is the *ours* he had pursued in
Bbalhag the plaintiff.
The Lord Obis! Baron said ha meant nothing approach-
irig to such a *Woo.
Mr. Bovill read some of the affidavits, and submitted that
there would be no humiliation in the defendant signing the
Hans.
The Lord Chief Baron said he was by Do means wound
of that. He could well sodsrstand a man &ayes', " I wiU
sedum any punishment or torture rather than riga, because
doleg so will degrade me end place me in a sort of pillory."
The learned counsel, Mr. Born!, had not concluded his
--Nest whoa the mart mac

CRIMINAL COURT OF APPEAL.
JAS. 28.
(Wore LordOhisfJostke Zr). Justineßlackburn, Kadin&
sad Mellor, mad Mr. Bann Ohrumell.)
MINA V. 11.10SNISZN.

The prisoner, Adalphißjorneen, was indicted Were Baron
CluinneU, at the lest winter eonamision for tie musty of
Benthmiden, for the wilful murder ea the high seas el one
Heinrich Paul Boherck. The jury amaithad the primmer of
murder, but found him guilty of menskeghter, sad the
verdict was to be taken for the purposes of the pnseet case
to be current, subject to the points of law heroism/ter stated
respecting the jurisdiction of the court to try the prisoner
for the offence. The aeon was committed on bawd the
barque Gustav Adolph, ea the 21st of June last, on the high
ow, at a point about five days' mil from Pernambuco, and
about 200 miles from the nastiest had. In opening the case
to the jury the comusel for the prosecution stated that since
the prosecution had been Mediated doubts had arisen
as to whether the Gustav Adolph was • British
ship, so as to give juries:lotion to the court
to try the prisoner for an offices committed
on board the barque on the high aces, and that be should
place at the disposal of the prisoner's counsel, if desired,
aU the documents in the pressmen of the preseoution for
clearing ep those doubts. The fasts relating Is the con.
miasion of the offence oa board the ship haven boon
it wee further proved that the ship in question was =I
Kiel, in the Duchy of Holstein, in the kering of 1864, mid
was registered in the port of London on the fed of
April, 1864, but of foreige build ; that she sailed from Hiel
to Leedom ; theme on the voyage in the came rd which
the offence was committed. All the officers and mew were
foreigners, the prisoner being the second mate, and the
deemed the master. The ship was selling under the English
flag on the 21st of Jam, 1864. The crew were told before
mailing that Mr. Rebder was the sole ewers. He was
set • hers Englishman. It was objected that the
quabfication of Mr. Raeder to be an *wrier of a British
ship according to the 18th section of that act ought to be
proved, and the teamed baron admitted the certified copy
of the register as prim* facie evidence that the ship Gustav
Adolph was • British ship. In consequence of the modem
statement of the counsel for the prosecution the prisoner's
counsel called for certain letters, which were then put in
widows by the prosecution at the request of the prisoners
mussel, trandernng the ship from the original owner,
Mr. P. Elder, of Hamburg, to Mr. C. A. Itelider, of Lon-
don.
It was admitted by the cou noel for the predigestion that Paal
Elder wasnot a natural born Britiah subject, aid that they
had no °redeem of his having received letters of deeisation,
or having been naturalised. It was submitted on the part
of the prisoner that these letters showed • partnership
in the vowel between Helder sad Shier' and that it was
shown by the 18th, the 30th, the 103rd, sad other sections
of the Mercantile Shipping Act, that the owner of • bee*•
ficial interest in • British ship most be qualified is the
same mower as the owner of • lepl intend ; that even
admitting the registration of the ship in the named Rehder
by the proper officer to be porn► facie proof of Helder's
qualification to be an owner of • British ship, it could be no
evidence of Elders' qualification, end therefore the letters
proving Ehlers' interest in the ship rebutted the prime facie
evidence that she was a British ship. The learned judge re•
spited sentence upon the prisoner, who is now in custody,
until the next mime, and mooned for the csonsideratiou of
this court the following questions :—lst, Whether he ought
to have received the certified copy of the resider of the
ship as prim& facie evidence that the ship was • British
ship ; 2ad, if it was rightly received as prime facie evidences,
whether the letters of the 31st December, 1983, and 13th of
January, 1864, taken with the admissim as to the status of
Paul Ebler, rebutted that prim& fade evidence ; and 3rd.
whether upon the evidence there was sufficient proof that
the Gustav Adolph was a British ship.
Mr. Prideaux appeared in support of the conviction, sad
Mr. Harrington, who defetided the prisoner at the trial.
argued sadist the conviction at the request of the learned
heron who tried the case.
The case was set concluded when the court rose.

THE POLICE COURTS.
GUILDHALL._

Frederick Wok Polie;in, 38, was charged with embenle-
mint before Mr. Alderman Abbis. The prisoner had hese
as traveller, clerk, and agent to Marrs. White and
Johnston.,.ld t elortro-platers, of Sheffield, which firm had an
office at London-wall, and bad been entreated with a large
stock on the understanding that all orders were to be imme-
diately communicated to the firm at Sheffield. He bed not
only supplied orders to customers and received the mow,
which he failed to account for, but he had obtained gold
watches and other jewellery on the credit of Masts.
White and Johnstone, which he had peeped, sad de-
frauded his employers in one way or another to the 'about
of over 1,300/. As the firm could obtain no account, Mr.
White came to town, quertioned him, and demanded to be
taken to some of the customers whose accounts appeared
I not to have bees paid. The prisoner wait with him, and
when the customer happened to be a foreigner Poidevin took
Mr. White in with him, but always spoke in a foreign
language, which Mr. White did sot understand, and he then
told him that the eurtomer had made a promise to pay on
a certain date. When the customer was an Englishman he
Wt Mr. White outside. In all these eases the accounts had
been paid but not accounted for. The other cases were of
the primpsr obtaining gold watches and jewellery, which he
had pawned. He finally abecoeded, but was apprehended,
and five duplicates were found epee him. At his house
then wen 47 other duplicates found relating to property
belonging to the prosecutors, and amounting to over 100/.
is pledges
Committed for trial.

THE WEATHER.-DIEGRACZEUL SCENE IN
TED PAIIIKE4I •

The heavy and continnous fall of ewe, ithich
took plies dohs( the whole day on Friday lash errs sew
*sided is the 'seeing by a hard frost Wok iesesesei Is
intensity up to yesterday morning, the tbessessbsrcc
Saturday eight reghteeleg only 1$ deg., der 111 deg. bedew
freezing point ; bet at 9 o'eleck yesterday ekersiss IS Medi
rhea to 25, and had further rises at soon to SI, a Gehl rail
rapid thaw having eat in at that time. The sweertty of the
frost rine. Fndsy night bad rendered the lee es the sates
is the various parks tolerably Brm up to IS yotereloy, and
a large number Of skaters sod sliders were sealed to Whelp
is their favourite excretes during the morning. le the
enema; however, precautiocs WWI taken, as far es poet-
ble,to keep the public off the toe, which lied beeussedirejeretu.
Numerous immersions took plass, but so laid easidast
was reported. Within the euslesers is St. James's-pmt
from two until rive (Mock, there was was esellasel them
at uproarious excitement and oonfusion, remain bes
seowballing curried es by wend huodroda of roughage&
boy; and several poreciee were seriously Waved by
the missiles, beteg sospseed es they were Dot of
the comparatively harmless soft snow, but of frees.
lumps of snow. The resets sad g
ungaue of lads
present being disappelmeed in getting to the
toe, began the snowballing by farming themselves tato two
adverse parties, sod unmercifully pelting each other. Bed
they mallard themselves to this there would met bare bees
much cone for complaint, bats getting Need of *tin *eh
other, and requiring something more exeitiag, the two
parties united wad began as iodised:Dimes attack span the
crowds of peewee peaceably walk* sleet the basks of the
water, aid from throw* snowballs they at het got to
t_ltr_ltis lumps of lee. Their favourite objest
to be to kopek off the halo d reepect-
:Vd7:esed people oe to the be, and
is that, to pelt the hat with stems sad piety ofs lee, sa
they bad forced it ender water, every saleroom* of this
kind being begirt with toed deers by the thyme&
blackguards sad wisebierees boys wise had be Will ems
oolleoisd. Bewail penises, hesides beteg the eir
wised
manner were injured by letutb IMO"wars
wars se . Some el thegthi keeps sefeseriedweew
sizioally to interfere ler the preterites it the • lbw
assailed, but wore theassideesempelled bebethe
retreat before the formideble dreip of 'Timm
wore so pelican:tee to be MIS. Abet leer efeksk the
bridge across the WSW was awead with wee, • gamey
sad children, lookleg at the sew Wag plasm thee the
hanks, whets midway showeee d esseir-eslie fell m
them, and several hundred rowers rushed es to the=
from the Westminster side, driving all these apse le is-
discriminately before them. Is the esoftelen tW amid
several woman sad children were lismiked download in-
jured,t sad sumersos robberies were wwww.ittal, while so
doub rim the Immediate ebjest of the semen spin the
bridge. The there thew .were eselisesd sotil dusk,
wheat all respectable tied poses* deposed era* berths
left the isoloserh ttoper=tra, gsWiliag Wed of their
smareceset, greasily a