The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-23 00:00:00

RECORD COLLECTION.

The following is a copy of a circular which has
been addressed to the Foreign Commissioners at the Exhi-
bition :

Office (or thelixecutiveCommittee,Exhibiti"n

Building, lit tts:ngten-road, London, October, 1511.
Sir,—ltelerring to a tanner circular addressed to you
upon the proposal to form a collection of samples, plans,
and drawings of articles exhibited, 1 am instructed by the
executive committee to acquaint you that, besides the valu-
able contributions offered by you, they have received liberal
offers from the commissioner; of other foreign countries, as
well as from lsrge numbers of the exhibitors of our own
country, and they arc thus inclined to hope that the collec-
tions in progress of formation may in due Clue ',iconic deve-
loped into systematic illustrations of tho produce of All coon-
tries, raw as well as manufactured, which may he of the
greatest value to the commerce of the world. 'f he foreign
commissioners, in putting at the disputed of her Majesty's
commissioners spciiinens of the produce of their country
exhibited, have naturally expresses( a wish to be furnished
with samples of our own produce ; and the executive com-
mittee, having represented these wishes to her Majesty's
conintiisioners, have been instructed to consider the beat
mode of furnishing you with such specimens as they ran
obtain, by purchase if necessary, from the exhibitors of
our own country. It will he obvious to you that it would
Inc impracticable to form collections of sp,eitneus of the
British part of OW Exhibition equally ample for every
country, and I have therefore to request that you
will be geed enough to specify what articles
you consider would be of most value to your
countrymen, in a commercial and manufacturing
point of view, and those of which you would therefore de-
sire that specimens should be furnished to you, and with
thin view I beg to suggest your tilting up a limn which
I have the honour to enclose, using us much as possible tied
descriptions of articles in the official descriptive and illus-
trated catalogue.
1 have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant,
IL A. TILER,
For &L. lituur Wv.trr.

THE MONMOUTHSHIRE AND GLAMORGAN-

SHIRE BANKING COMPANY.

The petition just presented to the Master of tlso
Rolls for bringing the et airs of this company uncl'a• the
operation of the act of parliament for winding up joint
stock companies unable to meet their pecuniary engage-
ments sett forth that it was established in 18:14i, with a
capital of 190,0001., in shares of 251. each, and that a deed
of settlement was executed by the sulaseribers for that
purpose. From 1831), when the company commenced their
trade, until 18. 1, they continued to carry on tin it
at Aherearenny, Chepstow, Monmouth, Newport,
Pontypool, and Treilegar, the principal place of business
being Newport, where it was curried on by Mr. John
Fraser, one of the registered public officers of t!aa said
company, as the manager. Changes from time to time
took place in the hotly of proprietors the shares were
bought and sold, and transfers were made. Large profits
also, it is alleged, aerc made, or were considered to be
in if:li,, and accordingly considereblz sums were all.wed to
the shareholders, as dividend, on their shares, until
the 6th of October last, when the Comm reial li.mk of
London, who were th: London correspondents of the tom-
pauy, declined to honour their drafts, upon which the
company was compelled and ceased to carry on lo.iiio•s,
and on the ith of October a public notice to that effect
was affixed to the bank doors.

The petition then pnic,cds to give an official stitenunt of
the aswu alit liabilities (no full or correct account of
which has yet been pOlislictl) as follows, and which WM
presented to the shareholders at the meeting at Newport,
front which the press was excluded :

Existing liabilities _ _
£5:4,703 2 2
Lo-..s likely to accrue truns bills discounted
and rc,liscounted

DiS3,7IAI 2 2

Cash
£10,311 9 3
Bills of exchange 30,194 1 2
Overdrawn aecounts
Due from sundrie%
Further a uount in hand 3,917 10 9

li0,0:17

Available.—lortgagcs, collieries, life poll.
cies, shares, buiithugs, ut netthil plot 58,119 0 0
Securities in hand of Loutku Juiut•stua:lc

11.tuk

230,308 0 0

£403,162 9 0
Dormant accounts

The petition further acts forth that it will be biund Um:
the item, 631,7831., entitled '• dormant accouut*,'' CO t`tiStl
of advances of money that have beta improperly m Ale by
the director: of the company, either iu whole or in part, to
so:ne one or more of the directors or shareholders in tho
company, or to the customers thereof which are uncovered
by any s.,curity nul that the whole or greater part of tho
said "dormant accounts" will be lost to the cutup:my ; and
that after realising the whole of the assets of the company,
there will be a sum, amounting to nearly 400,01.1/. to ho
made up by tho shareholders of the company in discharge of
its liabilites. The petition presented by Mrs. Mare trot
Rankin, of Weldon Super Mare, through her soaeimrs,
Messrs. Emmet and Knight, concludes, by atating that pro-
ctedings are now being threatened by creditor* agai,..t in-
dividual shareholders in the company, tbr the reentry of
th, it debt*, that calls in arreur are due from carious share-
holders, and prays that an order absolute to refer the inr:a-
tigation and settlenw ot of the company's afraira to one or the
Masters in Chancery nay be made, as no sufficient metal
for that purpose, awl to compel contribution to meet losses
c zist, excel,. under the •provisiuns of the Joint Stuck Cum-
panics Wiuding-up acts.

THE Sesernall BENCII.—Lord Rutherford, it is
rumoured, is ut.uut to resi,..•rn his seat un the tench at the
sitting of the court in November, and retire into the
quietness of private lite. 11l health is assigned as the reason
which has induceal his lordship to take this step, which, wo
feel assured, a ill nut only be a matter of unfeigned regret
to a wide circle of personal Mends, but of incalculable loss
to the country.—.\ urili British
THE FULHAM:tiIt IfEettlatTlONs oF INnat.—A
very good example of the way in which the m tech of eivi-
lisatiou turns sense into nonsense, is supplies! by the fur-
lough regulations of the service,' of the }last India Com-
pany. At least to all the Europeans in its pay, the East
India Company is, on the whole, an exceveingly good
master. The furlough regulations, framed beture any
steam-vessel had buffeted the broad Atlantic a nit its pad-
elks, and before locomotives whistled their way through the
world, were itensilde enough. The same rt•gulations being
still harem, are as unsuited to the service at a set of i tag
',10th... might be for a eeaclou.an's uniform. . . Each
meniher of the East Judie Company'a service is allowed, after
completing ten years of actual duty iu India, a furlough of
three yeara on his private attain. Ile receives furlough pay
according to the branch of service to which he may be-
long, and the rank he has attained be it; but if ho emit, s to
Europe, this pay is so small that it does not puy more tiaan the
expenses of his journey home and back, leaving him melting
to expend in Europe. An officer may obtain a furlough of
two years to Europe, even before the completion of hi• first
ten years' service, if be can satisfy the local goveractent
that the business un which he returns home is absolutely
urgent. But in this cage ha will receive no pay a Litre. r.
Another exception is made also in the case of sickat ss el.. n,
upon the certificate of his medical attendant, an officer an
obtain sick turitnigh for a period of three yen..., rem tiring
pay, if he should go to Europe, according to the rate formerly
mentioned for an European furlough grunted after 10 years'
service. In every case of an officer proceeding to Europe,
whether on furlough, sick certificate, or urgent private
affairs, ha forfeits his Indian pay and allowances, both
staff and regimental. Furthermor.., he forfeits all Oahu
to return to whatever staff employ he may have left,
and has to wait for the good fortune which rainy rein-
state him in his old position, by the windfall of a new
appointment. The time cla;.ing between the date of any
officer's departure from India until his return, in c• ass• he
takes his holiday in Europe, is nut under any circumstances
allowed to count as a portion of the servit•e which entitles
to a pension. But if an ottieer contents himself with the
enjoyment of his furlough "within Indian limits," Use cane
is entirely lift 'rcpt. For six months he. may at any thus
obtain leave of absence on his private affairs, un ! if he has
not over-passed the limits, will receive his full pay and
allowaucta, with the half-pay of any stuff uppoiutin. lit that
he may ho holding' lie may have sick leave for two years,
to the Cape of Good Hope, China, Egypt, New South
Wales—tor these are places " within Indian limits"—and
still draw his full pay and allowances, his hull-staff pay, if
he have any to draw, and when he returns will rt tent to the
full possession of his stall' .ippointment. The period of his
absence, also, is allowed to count as a period of service.
It'llit•ti these regulations were constructed, the jatire-y to
England, before steamers were in use, and overland mails
were known, was round the Cape, and occupied
five months. It MS (hay considered that itt eau
of any emergency wl•ieh would esquire the pre-
sence of all available officers and troops, an officer in
Europe could nut return in obedience to ta ht111:111.0, in
much less time titan a twelvemonth. That was aseriotts all: dr;
heavy discouragement was therefore put on European tun
loughs. • The consequence has been, and now ia, that %micas
driven to seek an European climate, by an almost irrepara-
lily shattered health, very few indeed of our Indian friends
revisit us until the expiration of their Indian service, ex-
tending in most czars to thirty, and sometimes to funly, or
even fifty years. Tim Court of !Erecters once upon a time
even sent to the Board of Control a pen-and-ink sketch of
a new set of regulatious adapted to the new state of things.
But the Board was sleepy. The company's "afraid, have
not made au outcry; there has been no pressure free w.th-
out ; and so, since the whole thing was so simple, it ap-
peared the most natural proceeding possible to tie a bit of
red tape round the case, and put it on a shelf. It is a
matter, to be sure, that concerns many true and faillgel
men, for the settlement of which thousands wait, sick at
heart, dreaming at home. But since the thousands are so
quiet and respectful, the official gentlemen in difficulties
neglects them, as people who give little trouble. while he
spends his time on those who are more clamorous to get
their dues.—Dicknis's " Household Words."

RAILWAYS AND TELEGILMIS IN BEISLIN.—A
letter from Berlin, of the Pith inst., states that tlw railway
which has b.:en constructed in that city fur the purpas.e of
connecting the dill', rent termini is completed, ant nu-
merous trains have been seen running between the sutiona
of the Franefort-ear-l'Oder, Stettin, and Putsaani line.. 117
an order of the police, the trains, in crossing the streets, UM
compelled to gu at a very slow pace, and ut the eur.ar
of all the street, near which a line passes bells are pi. dto
warn fait-passengers when a train as approaching. Electric
tcla graph, hare just been established m Berlin front the
central police-office to the different poliee-offices in Din
capital.

STEALING A MAIL CART.—On Tuesday morning,
while the mail cart driver of the Deptfurd and Greenwich
" ride" was waiting for the letter-hags inside the pest-
office in Deptford.broadway._aerew ;am., jumped into the
vehicle and drove off. No traces of them could be found;
the driver was compelled to make the but of hit way in a
cab to St. Martin's-le-Grand, leaving the delinquents and
the vehicle and miss:ng horse to the invcstig,atiou of the
police. Shortly afterwards it was discovered that a mall
cart had been Keen on the road leading to Itotherhithe.
Thence the fellows were traced to the Six Bells, Lucas-
street, Itotherhithe, where the vehicle and the horse were
found left in front of the tavern door, the drivers having
decamped. Information of the occurrence having been for-
warded to the Post.office, Mr. Cook, the foreman to Mr.
M'Natnara, the mail contractor, hastened to Itotherhithe,
for the purpose of investigating the twitter, which rez
mains in the hands of the police, as the parties who have
ventured upon this foolish joke have not siuce been heard of.
SPANISH BANDITTI.—An act of great audacity was
lately perpetrated near Avila, a town about thirty leagues
from Madrid, on the road to Seville. At about nine in the
morning, on a Sunday, six men, well armed, and mounted,
took possession of a small inn by the roaidside, and, after
having made their arrangement', stopped and robbed every
person that passed. By five in the evening they had about
one hundred horses or mules shut up within a narrow spare,
and forty persons tied hand and foot. They did not
maltreat any one, and even gave their prisoners some food.
Near the close of the day a post chaise passed, coated:dog
two men, ladies, and a child. They rifled these travellers
completely. taking away even ladies mantles and bonnets.
At last, when nieht had set in, the robbers task their depar-
tare, carrying with them nine mules hiaded with booty, and
nearly ten thousand francs. Front some words which fell
front one of r.eni, it is conjectured th it t't• wer.. e--
ing the arrival of a rich family from )•t^'- •
intended to hold to ransom. Fortuna%
party tools some other road.

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