The Express.
London, England, 1865-06-27 00:00:00

HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY.-(THIS DAY.)

This afternoon a meeting of the shareholders of
the above company was held at Fanchurch-etreet ; Sir E.
Hun 15 the chair.
The report stated that the produce of this year in furs
has been rather larger than that of the previous ow, but
prices have in some lenience@ declined, and a portion of the
stock remains at Hudson's Bay, sod will not be re-
ceived until the return of the ships is the autumn.
Nevarthelem, the committee have felt justilied
in takiog this portion into account at a fair valuation,
as being fully secured, and have therefore determined to
declare a divideod of 10s. per share, payable on sod siter
the 12th of July salt, in oddities to the divideod of le.
already distributed in January. The total sum thus distri-
buted will leave a balanes about equal to that of last year,
to be carried forward."
The report was adopted.

ORIENTAL INLAND STEAM COMPANY.
(THIS DAY.)
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This afternoon the half-yearly general meeting of
this coconany was held at the Leaden Teem; Mr. J. 0.
BOLTON in the chair.
The report, which her already appeared, was token as
read.
The Cutninan moved its adoption, and stated that the
earniop for the half year, notwitbstaadiog the severity
of the cotton pan* had exceeded 20,5001. After
debiting the accounts with all the expenses of ships,
ofsces abroad and at home, and repairs, there
remained • profit for the half year of about 2,5001., and if
the state of orenzseroial strain ha been as satisfactory
during the six months 'edit' Meech 31 as in the owns.
perdu* half of the previews year, there would probably have
bees profit of 12,5001., which would have enabled the
director. to recommend a fair dividend. He entered into a
detailed statement of the operations of the half year, which
he said iodicated steady program.
Mr. BEBBINIKILS, jun., formerly an agent of the company
at Kurracbee, disputed the statements*, the Claims's, and
described the positionof the company eamoetureatisfactory.
He wee proceeding to support his amertioa ; but the meet-
iog passed unanimously a resolution not to hear him.
The reported wes adopted nem con., and the meeting
separated after her* posed the meal compliment to the
°Mumma.

Tics New Riziror or CilorrEn..—The Rev. Dr.
Jacobson, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, has, it is
mid, been offered and has accepted the bishopric of Chester,
vacant by the death of the late Dr. Graham. Professor
jicrobson is the chairman of Mr. Olatistoee's Oxford election
committee. The Advertiser says :—" Dr. Jacobson is, we
believe, the son of Dissenting parents, and was educated at
Hill-hill School, which for more than half a century has
been an educational seminary almost, if not ritoffethorr, 0011-
fined to the tuition of the children of Dissenters." The
Record says :—" It is not an appointment upon which we
can oongrandate the church, but it was one which, under
the circumstances of the doubtful ooziest at Oxford sad
Mr. Gladstone's position io the cabinet, was almost inevita-
ble. It is, however, fair to state that Dr. Jacobson is
neither a tractarian nor a neologien. He may even be
deemed orthodox, although in matters of religions opinion
he has exhibited that remarkable elasticity of principle
which a few years ego enabled him to join in an addrem of
confidence to Mr. Maurice, and more recently to propose
Dian Stanley as select preacher to the university. His
excessive prudent* or pliability, backed by the penned
claims of le r. Gladstone on the exigencies of the Oxford
election, have on the present manioc combined in his favour
the recommendation of the Dean el Westminster and the
Archbishop of York. Under all the circumstances we may
be thankful that the appointment is not worse."
No less than sir contests are now going on in
Wilts ; via., a contest for each division of the county, for
the Cricklade Hundreds, for the representation of Salisbury,
for Chippenham, and for Westbury.
A letter from Brussels, in the Journal de Liege,
states that the royal family of England have accepted as
invitation to visit the Duke and Duchess of Brabant daring
the month of August. Towards the end of that mouth
the Queen will go to Cobourg, where a meeting of the
family will take place on the occasion of the inauguration
of the monument erected to the memory of the Prince
Consort.
A Rile letter to the Courrier du Baa Rhin
says :—" Amanita by members of the Alpine Club are being
effected in all directions, owing to the magnificent weather
which has lately prevailed. On the 9th, • tourist of the
section of St. Gall climbed the Ringelkopf, the highest
peak in that canton, about 11,000 feet, and which had
never before been trodden by human foot."
A San Francisco paper says that the overland
mail from the east arrives regularly, making through trips
from New York ie twenty-six days.
The Savannah Herald states that Mrs. Jefferson
Davie intends to reside temporarily in Georgia.
An American physician says that the human
pales has quickened from seven to ten throbs • minute
daring the last fifty years.
Pending the completion of the tunnel of seven
and shall miles through Mout Crider and which, more
than four and • half miles remain to be pierced, will yet
require seven or eight years, Messrs. Brawny have taken
Alps towards the construction of a railway over the moue-
trio, to supply the break of forty-seven miles now existing
between St. Michel sod Buse in the line of communication
between France and Italy. The French government have
promised a mooessioe for the work on their ride of the
mountain, on the condition of its practicability being
demonrirated, sad the Italian government have un-
&Aram to grant what is required cia their ride.
An experimental line has accordingly been already
emeetrooted on she French sidebetesee laasieboarg sad the
summit—a distance of a mile and • quarter, and Captain
Tyler, of the Royal Regimen, was recently deputed by the
Board of Trade to visit it and report the results. That report
hassewbese printed, and its conclusion are of • very femur-
al‘therecter. "In occolusion," Oaptain Tyler dens, " I
lambs report, se the results of my observations sad eveni-
ngs* that this scheme for crossing the Moat Omsk is In my
*ldes practicable both mechanically and mumerelate,
end tbst the sewage of the monatais may theme he ambit
not aely with greater speed, cereainty, and essvemiewees
but also with greater safety than nadir the present image-

insets."
Mr. Jones, an extensive cosoh-bnilder in Boatis-
amptois, hoe hdortird oil his madman tisk so the Wotan
homilies is s Vs* tho 7 may swain it ocoottliog to tholo
owe oosolimlious paithosi mooviotioot without assnaltlig
hie politico sr isolinagnas.

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