The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-01 00:00:00

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t'..- ,liarvip.l,lor4 Was
~ :at the r.,) . 1411: Ilotcl ; Mr. W.
in the chide.
^ot t alit' I. .1., •h. werepresetretl:
. ist subliti , I.l...pritttuts the
kink for t ..r crialing the 3tlth
the t•' : ...t th.o, after !al-
'
it _tea ant •Ti an • I.inn'ts,
I iitel .I.e. • .11' Cie net profits
.. • . A. .it. , h. 7/. 1 ba. ti,l.
.1 the I • .•. I...iota:a a total of
•1. Tait•y ha.e. ..I I..•• oarsil half-yearly
, ,• r rent., wit': • a.t a.er a VIII. 1

h•LI ,•
To. :

t' •• ' ' i•• r cent. • • ~1,
• . i••• 1 lraea •1. L. to be care ti .1
f. 11,. lit r. The lilt ailt•w•l
_ . ! • • ••r irti.••• t will
. 011't • the braillilb. uu
the Nth in .4
•

::nth 1•• t; Dr.: To capital
e • • •; to reserve fate'. ...5d,501,.; to amount
1 • . ,ti: for cie.tottot balances, &c.. 12,032,334/.
t... ; .•!. : on a,c• ptaticia, covered by guar.ut-
t. ••• • it: itieti, 1,197.1• 111 s. 10.1. ; together,
. • ;to profit an 4 loss balance brought
t, 11,44;7/. lIR. ; to grow profit for the
lt.o ‘• ; . atter making provision for bad and doubt-
ful debts, 219,0:•7/. 10s. 1.1. ; to4vtiter, •Is. 741.
ei,!, hand at head it Ices anti branches, and
E with .ork of E S:i2 England, 1,,744. 19R. 114.; by cah
pl,e-1 rat c.ll turd at notic". covered by securities,
1.-1.•1.'•',11. I sd. together, 3,•2•44,3:1/. 111 s. 7.1. ;by in-
•. att•l guaranteed stocks,
!O other stock, and securities, ri.t,s9::/.
ye. Id. to_tether. 117.4.79-4. 17s. ra. ; by di.-
counted Mitt,. and advances to coßtnnters in town and
eonatey, :7,11:9. ; by liabilities of customers
for dt..ft.... pt••• 1 by the bank, 10s. 10d. ; to-
g, th. t. It., 15s. ; by fr. lo•lil prentiwi in Loin-
lcir•!,tri.t.t. and Nicholasdano, freehold and leasehold pro-
v at the 14.3,1101e5, with tittnrett and fittings, 201,61'_'/.
;6.1. ; I y iot,re‘t paid to ctottoniers, :i1,1112!: On. 111,1.
by ,31.tri. •!,:il all other expere.or at head office and
brotelte, it Ice-:it income•tax on profits and salaries,
95,1-4 /. s 1.--toad, 14,911,71/. l:;..::1.
"PrJ:it Account.-I>r.: To interest paid tocuti-
korner., so above, r. 1,111•2/. Us. 104. to expenses, as above,
914,1.11/. 19s. s.l. ; to relate on bills not due' carried t.
new account., 44,4 7s. Sal. ; to dividend of li per cent.
for the half 190. 7d.: to bonus of C. per cent.,
1::R. ; to balance carrital forward, 7,1151/.
g0ta1.._%;.;,•,2-•/, Is. 7.1. : 11y htlatice brought fur-
-.

ward from last account, 14. M7/.lls, ; by gross profit
for the half-year, after soaking provision for bad and
donhtful debt., 219.1157 f. Ins. LI. ; total, 20:1,52N. In. 7,1."
The l'ilariteAN. after congratulating the shareholders on
their assembling in such a 'spacious andeommodionerooen- -
the Lire hall of the new hotel, and thus encapiug incon-
venient crowding—moved the adoption of the report and
accounts. I!.• add he trusted they had satisfied the share-
hol lers that the London and County Bank was isprosperous
and ,•\ roadie establishment. The total number of accounts
was -.1 imo. the aggregate of deponits exceeded 12,000.1101 V.,
and the di. :demi, notwithstanding the adverse circum-
stances of the times, was equal to that of last
year. (Cheer,.) The new shares had all been taken
up, the p ,i.l-un capital was rtrtl,oo/., and the
reserve fend stood at :tsri,oool. In cousequenoe of tho
extol-ion of lardnesn it had become necessary 1., ob.
tabs increased space in Lombard-street, and a le.. e of
an adjoining' house had been secured for Id years. The
act of parliament relating to hunk shares was designed
to afford security to hank proprietors' and he was 'sanguine
that Hi the ir crity that could have been fairly expected
weal.l hi realised. Three railway companies had obtained
from that bank advances of money, but the
total did not exceed 745,000/., a fact which could not
but he satisfactory to theta:mm:ly. ((heers.) The season
Do far was propitious for the coming harvest. tllear,
hear.) lie thin referred to the items of the halance•sheet
for the purpose of showing the satisfactory position
of the hank. The leasehold and freehold premises
hail. be observed, recently been revalued, and
the result wan to show 100,00 W. in excess of the amount
entered in the ledger. The new scrip shares, he added,
now came into the receipt of dividend for three months
before they hail done anything towards earning prefits,
and be concluded by declaring that no success could ever
induce the directors to engage in uuy dangerous or specu-
lative brininess. (I %rem.)
Mr. Cuts urns, M.P., seconded the motion, which was
adopted without any discussion.
A dividend of 0 per cent. and a bonus of 5 per cent.
having been declared, the proceeding terminated with the
usual votes of thanks.

A BitrrE.—A farmer, living in a small village in
the neighbourhood of Isle Brewers, grossly ill-treated his
wife on Sunday. He thrashed her with a large stick until
he was weary. He then dragged her into his barton, and
with a large plough chain deliberately chained her by the
leg to the post. After struggling violently she managed
to break the lock, and with a heavy plough chain dragging
after her she contrived to reach a neighbouring village,
and calling upon a friend, a policeman was sent for, and
after a while the chain was filed through and the unfortu-
nate woman liberated. —.tikerborne.lo,,rnal.
HARVEST PROSPEers IN IRELAND. —We are
thankful to be able to my that accounts of the condition
of the crops which have come into our hands, from almost
every part of the country, are in the highest degree
favourable. Great progress has been made during the
last fortnight, and in some places the cutting of oats
has already begun. The wheat crop is especially fine in
the central and southern counties, where there is rather
more than usual grown this year. The hay crop, the
saving of which was retarikd by the unsettled weather
of SONIC ten days back, has been well saved since,
and the yield has been abundant. The potatoes brought
to market are fine, and from no quarter is disease
reported, although the time when it usually appears
has arriveiL The turnip crop in seine districts has missed,
but this is chiefly referable to late sowing. The far-
mer's worst enemy is procrastination in the early work of
the year. These prospects, and the fact that cattle are
entirely free from other diseases than those that may be
said to be established in the country, ought to produce a
general content, and a buoyancy of feeling serviceable to
trade. It may he observed, also, that the demand for
labour has put a check upon emigration,which has recently
been diminishing both from the southern and the northern
ports.—belp'iii.Emeis9 Mail. _

Fun THE MARINES.—A proposition is on foot to
start the gigantic undertaking of running a tunnel tinder
the Atlantic Ocean, in order to connect the New and Old
World together by means of submarine railway. The most
eminent engineers both in America and Europe have been
consulted, and they have drawn up a report which is per-
fectly femilils, and only requires time and money to carry
out, while the capital, although stupendous, will be forth-
coming. So far as calculated approximately, it will require
five hundred million English pounds, or two billion five
hundred million dollars. Plenty of capitalists are ready to
engage in this marvellous undertaking, and as soon as the
plans are arranged the money will be advanced. The pro-
pined plans are in themselves the wonder of this skilful
age of engineering science.—Nero York Iltnne Journal.
CLYSTAL I'ALACK.—The great repetition display
of fireworks, as on the occasion of the Sultan's visit, takes
place to-morrow evening.
Too. " Aueumettrs."—Our hearts bleed for a
large anil respectable class of gentlemen, the barristers,
Tian and roan. towbose lips the cup of preferment seemed
cc the point of being offered, when the leaders to whom
they had plighted their allegiance cruelly and most unex-
pectedly betrayed them. Why did they abandon the prin-
ciples of their youth? Was not Sir Roundel! Palmer a
to ry once—at all events, a follower of Peel, while Peel yet
called himself a tory Did he not come in for Plymouth,
not tiny umfiy years ago, on the strength of his attachment
to church and state in both sections of the United King-
dom, and hi. apecial guardianship of Oxford from dis-
beaters? Did not Mr. Coleridge imbibe toryiain with his
mother's milk, ail grow and thrive upon it till lie reached
middle life? W (Jul.! he not have been, like the late At-
torney-General, a toy still, pure and simple, but that
against tones tli high place, of his profession seemed to
he closed by a decree which could not be reversed? Cruel
fate!—hard and most iniquitous destiny !—to place these
shining lights, and many others of a more aubdued lustre,
exactly where, in the progress of time, neither their old nor
their new principles were to be of the smallest use to
them ! Nor among the gentlemen of the long robe in
Edinburgh can there be much less of weeping and gnashing
of tot th. No doubt the prizes of the law are neither so
many tor so rich in scutland as in more favoured England.
finch as they are, however, they hail become the property
in I, of liberals, and especially of liberals who had
not Vsen always such ; and now, after so many sacrifice.. I
made--after opinions ch.inteil, principles thrown over, old
ties broken• new obligations assumed--to find that it would
hate been 1.-tt,T to abide by the habits of their earlier life
—this
is redly too had ! We quite admit the fact. The
es' e of these poor gentlemen is a very hard one, certainly,
la their can ,yes, and, with some alight qualifications, in
°gm Pao i; all this wet-ping and wailing, let us mk, jus-
tified by the event! Is there not. nn the contrary, POllle
alight Lick of reasonableness in their grief, as there is in all
ri,f which is excessive ? The liberals have been in power
wit:i short Ala uncertain intervals, rather more than 31
P'o,. It w... scarcely to he expected, in the common
ter r.e of thaw, that they should retain power touch
lorgee Eeeit in the palmy days of the first Georges, whig
tenure of olh reached 40 year. and no more. There
”'s no very lust ground of complaint in the abstract,
6"-"se, io Ili, .lays of William and our own Victoria, it
l'hodd fall .Lilt of this term by half a decade. l'nfortit-
ildxly, hos, sir, the breakdown, just as this half-decade
ya. is :Mi.. iig, threw a shadow over the thirty-and-tive
yel-• hel goii, before. Just as a shower of pref. r-
?Seta was to fall, horn Russell made a move in a
Ltrition wh. i, carried his thirsty and heartbroken fol.
'ewers heyoml it. influence, and nothing is left to them
ti.-it the c aisciousness that they deserved better things
they are not likely to get them. Thesiger,
•. Pso ill. are in clover ; Palmer, Coleridge, ni-1
ethers ispia;:y deserving, must still crop the thistles. And
/11.b:-ships dieritfships, sail we are afraid to say how
niaiy "flier things besides, have all gone to Scotch
tones .1,0 adhered to torvisin when toryiom had little• dm
recisoim al it. except that it 'as, synonymous with con-
sistem patriotism.--/Mac!. woods dlayu:ine for August.