The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-24 00:00:00

—iii..timtss seconded the modal..
A SkIAREHOLDIS salted whether, as the report was so ;
favourable, they wen likely to have an increased dividend?? so
(Laughter.) He had hoped that before that there would SO
have been a much higher rent from the company's lands BO
and property generally. le
The CHAIRMAN said the subject of dividend was one on st•
which be felt bound to speak with great caution. Their 8t
flied annual income wee not more than sufficient to pay it.
what he considered the very high dividend of 6 per cent. et.
iindared at the last meeting. That dividend arose (ram en- 10
luemedinary receipts, such as could not always be realised. 161
As gimarded sales of land, they must take care not to kill al
ere pass for the sake of the golden eggs. (Hear, hear.) is
There was every reason Whops that they would have last
year's dividend again, but he could not hold out a prospect
of increase. The property, as a whole, was rapidly increu-
log in value, and he had no hesitation in saying that the
vela* of the proprty at Adelaide was far above wine it ap-
peared to be from the inventory rates.
A A SHARRHOLDER asked whether the directors had any $0
information as to the probability of there being any gold 11
worth working In South Australia ? 50
30
,
The CHAIRMAN said he could not give any positive .n- is
formation on the subject. There was undoubtedly a great
deal of gold in the colony ; but whether it could be prufit. di.
ably worked was another question. He believed that the U
prosperity of South Australia must chiefly depend on its li
agricultural resources, and its copper mines. Tree exports
it
of agricultural produce from Adelaide to Victoria, were
enormous. It.
The report was adopted unanimously ; and tha seating _
terminated with • vote of thanks to the chairman and 6t
directors. at.

- APOTIIECARIZe HALL—Names of gentlemen who I,
paved their examination in the science and practice of
medicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thum so
day, Dec. 2'2, 1853 :—John Rains, Bonsai), Derbyshire ; LS
Joshua Edward Adkins, Plymouth, Devonshire ; John 121
Hawkes, Wells, Somerset; Thomas Henry Mogen, Hall;
Lake Young ; Henry Wakefield, Russell-equate; Thomu
Roberts, 40, Bridge-street, 8 iuthwark ; Septimus Arden,
SWUM ; William Purl, Hoxne, Suffolk; Clarence Chap-
Miemseatershire ; John Jones, Raabe., Denbighshire ;
sad DafW Wilson Gear* Owynne, 114aq-terrace, Sloane.
West
TUE LATE GENERAL SIR A. MAGEENZIE.—This
gentlemen has left a variety of munificent bequests for re-
ligious and charitable objects. Among them are: to the
Church Pastors' Aid Society, 1,0001. ; to the Corsump-
Una Hospital, 1,0001. ; to the Se-Allah Hospital. 6001. ; to
the Northern Infirmary. Inverness, 6001. ; to the poor of
Inverses and of Dingwall, 1001. each ; to the Inverness
Dispensary, 1001. ; to the United Hospital at Bath, 300/. ;
to the Western hospital, ditto, 1001.; to the Bath Society
for the Relief of the Sick Poor, 2001. ; to the Bath District
Benevolent Institution, 2001. Several annuities and minor
bequests are then directed by the will to be made, and the
residue of the property, which was proved as uader 80,011 M,
is left equally to his nephews, Sit Roderick !Taney Mrs•
chime and Mr. K. Murchison.—lnrerness Advert, ser.
THE CRYSTAL PALACE COMPANY.—The directors
of this company, with their usual liberality, have Weed
tickets to each shareholder for admission to view the works
at Sydenham, with four friends, from the 26th to the 31st
of December, both days inclusive. As mast persona have •
holiday at this time of year, it is anticipated that this oppar-
tunity will be seized upon bmany to witness the peva
of an undertaking which fez outstrips in megetheie the
Peel lee' Palate of 1861.
MR. OBEYS IMAGINARY VOYAOlL—Amonpr.the
claimants for Christmas favours is the unpretending lecture
of Mr. Okey, at the rooms of the &caved B h Artists,
Soffolkstreet, Pall-mall. We have so recently noticed this
gentlemen's entertainment that it will he sufficient here to
my that an hour may be passed very pleasantly in listening
to his sparkling anecdotes, apt quotations, and acute obser-
vations on men and things, fashionable and unfashionable,
as they are met with in the various tourist-heated poetises
of the continent of Europe.
LIABILITY OY RAILWAY CO3IYANIES.—Is die
Liverpool County Court, on Wednesday, Benjamin /semi
°ugh, traveller fur Mears. Foster and Co.. general drape%
brought an action against the Lancashire and Yoshi/me
Railway Company for the recovery of 41. 19s. for lea 01
time and expenses incurred by the plaintiff through the
now delivery of • box containing patterns. Ili. Honour
gave • verdict for 21. 2s. 6i., allowing assts.—Limped
Courier.
VOLUNTEER COAST CWARD.—There are placards
es
the walls announcing the intended formation of a corps
of 10,000 men as a volunteer coast guard. We fear
the districts around Oban will turn out very few indeed,
though there are not many mote exposed coasts than ours
needing such protection in case of any foreign invasion. It
will, we suspect, require some very much greater iodises
ment than is held out by the government to arouse free
their torpor and inactivity our geaerslly Lay sea-coast men.
Perhaps the time may not be distant when the stied of
self-preservation may force us all to be patriotie.—Norat
British Daily Mail.
CoNSVIIPTION OF SMosE IN LEEDS.—The authori-
' ties of Leeds are actively engaged in abating the smoke
nuisance, by compelling manufacturers Os put into their
, furnaces aficient smoke-burning apparatus, and by re-
quiring the engine men to use them properly. Only yes-
terday (Friday) twelve parties were summoned before the
justices, some of them manisfuturers, who had neglected
to preside any smoke apparatus, and the others engine-
's!' who bed carelessly used the apparatus provided by
I their masters. In two instances the owe were adjourned
to allow the parties complained against to adopt the MOM-
mry alterations foe abating the smoke nuisance, and in the
others the defendants were each fined 40e. and cats.