The Express.
London, England, 1865-02-04 00:00:00

HUNTEW ST&K.IIB, Aboso 3 intim

Stook Wllig, Di putt, Maio, Dubious, Jinni Jon..,
Dustlos, and MS Joys,* aro bon.

OPEN STEEPLECHASE., About 3i miles.
Onrods, Goessiawk. Bellyeasy,
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lad Dna ire hon.

BANE OP WALES.-(THIS DAY.)

The fourth ordinary general meeting of share-
holder was hold to-day at the Loudon Tavern.
The tollowleg Is the direeke's report :
rile directors bar the pleasure of submitting the fol-
lowlag report and baleameher for the half-year ending the
Slat December last. The sanazed set shows that
the gra profit for the last six mouths, including 2031. L
111 e. 842. mkt forward from last amount, amounts to 1
10,3744 105.3 d., cud that, after deducting correct exposes, fi
directors' ruaneaentkin, sad auditors' for, there remains • ht.,,
balsam of 1,9401. 3s. 7d. Out of this out the director re- •"',.
eramsod that 1,8061. 16s. 01. be appropriated for a dirt. 5
deed at the rate *A 5 per rat per manor for the half-year. is
The shareholders have already hese informed by circular is
that arragementa have been oosoloded for an amalgam- 114
don Y. this beak with Ur Poniard Basking Corporatioa gKt
upon.equal terms. Your directors were induced to take this
step in oreasequesos of the rapid development of** bashers as.
of the Weir branches regal:*
morecapital than MA at
their disposal, and the Lap_ sable resources of the Pro•
viacial Beating Corporation met that want without Deceed• Et-
bring a farther call upes the ehershellers. It is eatistaatery e".„.
to state, afternoon a:perigees of the working of the ocen-
bred banks, that tido tube of interest will considerably
add to the future games@ of the amalgamated bank mad eas-
Me It at all times to mar every requirement of the breeches.
Your direst ern roar mike this last report to the shale- et.
hears without seeder* their thanks for the aegfideaoe ISt
Pared in them, sad they have so doubt that their property :44.•
-being now pleoed upon a substaatial Basle-will mate- es.
telly raceme in value.
.4Balance sheet to Demeaber, Deorasher 31, 1864. Dr.: IS,
To capital, 72.4354 •to reserve, 5004 •. to amount doe og It
correct, deposit, and other amount', 164,222 f. 16e.; to grog
prod% From kat awes* 2831.165. Bd.; Wetted shares, 17
2,5004 ; profit after making provisics for bad and yy
doubtful debts, 7,6701. 13s. 7d.; together, 10,3741.
10.. 3d. ; total, 247.5324 8a 3d. Cr.: By pre- to
iga exposes, 6,2781. 12a. 6d. ; by cosh ea baud Itlandtarlankers. 38,9041. Be. 3d. • by freehold sad leasehold Lee
C=TisficiliT,lll7:l6.l.s. 921. 6briAlsoccalindoted,
ka., 174, • 2s. Id. by carnet including ar-
rears ei diseases' fees, he.. 6,4081. 19i. led. ;by interest 18
pie, 2,0271.145. 7d.: 247,6321. 6s. 3d. st.
• Proat and Lam clogreat.-Dr. : To eurreat exposes as 11‘..,
above, 6,4064 12a. ld. ;to interest paid, 2,0271. 14.. 7d. ; Ig
to dividend at 5 per met. purr annum, 1,8081. 15e. • to K
berms carded forward, 1311. Ba. 7d. ; total. 10,3744 M.
10e. 3d. Cr. • Br per prod!, 10,3741. 101. 3d. ; toad, 91.
10.3741. 10a 3d.4 111
The Ca•ramair (Hr. J. N. Distill) Is movie( that the N
report and streamed of seermats be adopted, exprigeed his M.
patifirtion at the paid= be which the property of the i
beak wen plead by the anialpatation with the Provincial
Seeking Com y, addle( that the dinettes felt that hav-
ing the propeeirea the =saw it was carried t•
ant sad the mere more* the better, and therefore they IL
bad sated upon the powers entrusted to them by the deed of
Non. The Usk had all afoot experiered warder- to
istile rtfraulty from their too limited capital, and snarl sk
attempt" had been made to remedy this by mitts' with it.
tome other oompay, bet the Provieciel Banking Compay
was the first that offered them equal terms, and the board St.
were determined apes weevily* nothing less. The Previa st
-
dal Company bad what this company wasted, viz., a large to
capital. sod this company had what the other required, viz, • gt.
Imp beldam onneetra, sad together he bed ao doubt tt.
of • very large sad profitable bushier Ho was happy 54.
M add at they carried ever with them to the male- eh
mated company their own , and that their liminess
would continue to be oond upon the same principles
as before, sad without urterruptioe to the beams in any ,
way.
Mr. BRCIIHFIZLD seconded the motion, and admitted the
dietaries of the director in carrying out the nagotiatices
with secrecy sod without calling the proprietors together,
although at first be felt some jealousy on this point. Ho
urged the importers* of daring profraimal auditors, hide-
pendent of both direction sad shareholders.
CisLaworraY,.eooot the gatlitoes, spoke in fame: olf

'acanthi duly quilided shareholders— as 'editors. Ha VI
wag aa>raged that the directors had amens& a who dims-
tam in carrying oat the amalgamation, but thought as a
general rule dirsotors ought not to have the power of si
amalgainatiag with other isatitution without eciesolting
the shareholders. He gangland, upon looking into &-
tails, whether the terms of the amalgamation in this oars 8
IMO quite equal ; es the oestrary, be believed he mold
show that the Proviacial Company obtained an advantage.
Captain Joicre (director)eadoreed the Chairman's nate-
mast as to the advanhasee of the amalgamation, which he
end was band open perfectly actual sod fair tonne to both. 1
He bad no doubt that at the first meeting of the amalga-
mated oompaoy • very (avowable balance-than would be
presented. The bank would now number 800 shareholders
and a capital of a million. It was satisfactory to know
that acoottliag to the arrthgenant no nil mold m
be ade
upon the shareholders of the Bank of Wain until I
100,000 t. was called up from the shareholders of the Pro- !
Tindal Bask, and so far as haulm there was sow pect of '
say call hens made, at least for the prosiest, he Pro-
vincial shares.
After a remark from Mr. L. SCHLIIIITZIGIM as to the im-
proved position in which the shares of this back must hence-
forward stand is the market, the motion was carried I

usaisimortsly.
The dividead, at the rate of 5 per mat. per alumni, pay- u
able on and after 13th instaat, was then declared.
A vote of thaoks to the auditors followed, and 25/. was m
awarded to them for their 1111ffiCIII.
A resolution acknowledging the services of the manager in 1
Lauda', the proviecial manager, and the other officers, 11,
wee proposed by the Chairman and carried; and after a ;
brief acknowledgmest from the menager, the usual i
compliment to the Chairman and board of &rectors con- *
eluded the procesdinp.

"Early in the summer," says the Athenian',
" the publication of • 'magnificent series of photographs, -I
of the greatest interest in an ethnographical sense, will be
mmuneneed under the auspices of the lodise govern-
ment. This will be comprised in five folio volumes, II
coutaiaing in the aggregate 400 Photograph!' of the Poonlo
of India in all their Important races and castes, their
Ip
costumes, manners and customs, their modes of living and
manufacturing proceems, from that of the man sod his 2,
craft which are concerned in the humblest trades, to those t
who practise the immemorial skill which produces maguill.
ceut shawls and Mamba of cloth of gold or silver. Here
we have the native goldsmith at work, spinning metal
into filigree ; there the embroiderer, there the smith, the
potter, the cook, the weaver, the carpenter, lie. Dr.
Forbes Wotan and Mr. Kaye, of the India Museum, have
this work in charge, and will contribute its appropriate
text."
FLIGHT 01, THE SLAVIN PROM RICHMOND.—As
Mahomet and his followers fled from Meima before the per.
mentors of the Arab idolaters, the sou of Hun are flying
from this city to avoid an imaginary impending conscrip-
tioe. The opinion obtains among them that they are to be
pat into the Confederate rooks with muskets in their halide;
and, not liking the prospect, they are rousing off nightl7 in
The military authorities have shut up the principal
Clittays leading to the Yankee Saes ; bat the negroes
escape for the meet part through the woad'. A. few of the
most idiotic follow the roads and are captured. Mr. Jos.
Mettert, of Ileary's meshy, lie Saturday night, arrested
oa
the Mechankuille pike, about smite from the city, James
and Charles, slum of Mrs. Janus Timberlake, of Hanover,
who had in their respective market carte two nevus who
were evidently prepared for a trip to Yankeelaad. Theme • ,
engross were John James. slave of Peter Webster, and
Jobe, slave of Dr. Edward Egos. Mr. Mettert brought
the four back to the first "taboo-bowie, when, on search,
the two last mentioned were famed to have 150 dale. seises
in Confederate cots in their stockings, sad each of them
was wearing four or five shirts and three or tour pairs of
pmts.—Richmond Whip.
WRECK Or • LEITH SCREW STEAMER NEAR FILET.
—On Thursday morning, about 3.5, dark* • dense fog,
the screw steamer Volunteer, bested from Leith to Rotter-
dam, struck upon a rock near Filmy Brig. The crew bed
only just time to save themselves by taldag_te their owa
boat*, in which they landed as Filmy. The veiled was
See built, nearly new, was commanded by Captain John
Cues, sod had a crew of 22 men. She left Leith the pre-
vious moraine at 5.30, laden wish VA toes of iron sod 150
tons of general merchandise. It was her first voyage sines
undergoing a thorough repair. Tbe_ship.broke in two is the
afternons. From the wreak • aonsideesme quantity of goods
In hales were rescued by ooble•
SMOKING AT ETON.—The plague, of which the
Eton scholars bad bees so much afraid in Ellsabeth's days,
returned again with far greater virulence la 1662 and the
following years. It does not seem that on either amides
it was very fatal in the school itself ; at least bates
deaths are recordedin the Etea registers. But it
rise to • remarkable ordinance u to the use of tobacco.
which poetess!' curiously with modern Dos rules. Let
old Thomas Hearse give it In his own words :—" Eves
children were obliged to smash ; end I remember that 1
heard formerly Tom Rogers, who was yeoman beadle. say
that when he wee that year a schoolboy at Bake, all the
bays of that school were obliged to week is the oohed
every reputes, and that ba was never whims: so much la
his life see he was us marshes for net mnaMeg."—DiarY.
IL W.—Later boa teminisemiess emu* the whippings
with smoking is a different way.—Bhscileours Mapuine
fer February.