The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-03 00:00:00

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LONDON and COUNTY. BANKING
COMPANY (Estaldlited 1864).
hasearlhed =V W. 411,674000, is 37,600 lams vi lea each.
Paid-up Capital, £780,0011.
Bovare• fund, 1360,006.
.DELICTORIL
Ma/hunts! Alexander, Fug. I John fleming. Req.
John lidmraut Anderdon. Esq. Frederick Wanison, Esq.
Thos. 'lgham &mod, Esq. Inward Jobs
Philip •on nlyta, WinlasaClu‘ancs. Seq.
P.
John linfroester, Req. William Los, ~
Odes Child, Esq. William Nicol, .
GILIMILAL MANAGZIL-- Mt= N'Yewan,
caw pus. zeron—W. J. Norfolk, Rag,
ANNUM? 011111:1AL MA111•0111—W1111am Howard, Esq.
CNIZV AOCOMITANT—James On 7. Zig.
11111PWIVIB or Baancasa-11. !mom Esq., and C. lharing,
Sacnirrear—ttlappisoo, req.
Head Office-41. Lombe-detreet.
At the HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETINupG of the Pro-
Weld on THURSDAY, the Sled of Aet, at
heeLlon Tavern, Riehopermteetreet, the forftlßM Report
for the half-year ending the 00th Jane. 1800. as read by the
hgretary.
WILLIAM NICOL, Esq., in the Chair.
REPORT.
The Directors, in submitting to the proprietors the balance
sheet of the bank for the half-year ending the 10th June lag,
tare to report that, after payment of all charges, interest to
customers and making ample provision for bed and doubtful
debts, the, net pronts amount to £85,440 173. Bd. Thia, with
£11,527 18s. 10d. brought forward from the last account, pro.
duces a total of £80,968165. 6d.
They have declared the weal dividend of 6 per cent. for the
half-year, with a bonus in addition of 5 per cent. (equal to 44
per cent. per annum), which will amount to 64500, end
leave £17,4611 lie. lid, to be tarried forward to profit and loam
hew account.
Mr. John Edmund Anderdon has been elected a member of

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the oar
d.
Mr. Hugh C. E. Childers, M.P., who retired from the direr-
bon on assunthm the poeition of Secretary to the Treaaury in the
late government, being now relieved from the dutice of his
°See, will, at the request of the Directors, resume
his seat at the board.
The dividend and bonus (together £2 ia per share„ free of
branchesax, will be payable at the bead oMoe, or at any of the
, on and after Monday, the 19th inst.

'LLANO; UM of the M
PAN Y June
LONDON and,
'OK COUNTY BANKLYO
CO, 30th

ENGRAVING on WOOD.
Very description of PICTORIAL WORK ter Publishers,
Printers, and Advertisers sup ed at moderate dunes Price 7.
NAAR, 114„ Wand, Laudon. Rook and Scale of
sent free by return of poet.

To capital paid up
To reserve fund
To amount due by the Bank
for customers' balances,&c. 010,716,422 16 1
To liabilities on acceptances 2,032,490 10 1
12,730,714 6 2

L 750,000 0 0
250,000 0 0

To profit and lost balance
brought from last account 14,627 18 10
To gross profit for the half-
year, after making provi-
sion fur bad and doubtful
debts
302,828 9 8

QATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY.
JOHNSTON Co. beg to Inform the public thq
wUI CLOSE their DRAPERYand FURNISHING WARM. 4: OUSHe
at TWO o'clock MI SATURDAYS.
GREAT WESTERN HOUSE,
109, 110, 111, 112, ZDOWARE-ROAD, and
1, t, *, THWAITE&PLACE, London,
Wilda a low path of IS. Ettptankrond Station, on tko Metro-
aßailway, and fire minutes" walk from the Great Western
tly Station.—July, 1106.

GENTLEMEN'S DRESS. Gentlemen who
require good and fashionable MI I, and do not
mind paying a fair price, can depend on the beat hitateriali and
Want style at
HAMILTON and KLIIPTONM, 10S, STRAND.
N.B. The Trouserings are of patterns and textaraathat tenant
be excelled.
106, Wand. opposite I:eta-ball

EASY as A B C.—Alphabetical Arrangement of
the Railway Stations in Great Britain.—ifeuopoutan and
Suburban Railway armagmata Yam from London, Distances
from London, Cab Farm-from the London Stations, Hotels in
London, Hotels In the Country, Amusements in London, Pros
Exhibitions la London, Steam Vessels leaviog London, Paris from
London, Tourist Arrangements for the Summer, and other in:or-
/Wien to travellers, In the A IS C RAILWAY GUIDE for August.
Price ed., post free St—Landon : W. Tweedle, 337, Strand.

INTERIOR of COLOGNE CATHEDRAL.—The
SPADE In WAR.—The BUILDER of THIS DAY, price 44.,
by post 5d., costshts:—Fine Interior View of Cologne cathedral,
se restored—The Lesson el the Hattie of Sadowa : Value of the
Spade sad Pick—The London Comma of the Archeologicaleill
statute—The Ptctatres sad Tapestry in Hampton Court
Architectural Landscape Gardening—The Southern Embankment
of the Thames—The Epidemic —Management of the Public Works
Department In India—The Preventina of Accidents—Nan-mating
machine— rark-lane—ttaphatte, &c.-0111ce, 1, York-street, Co-
, vent-garden ; and all bookaelleru

The will of Mr. Thomas De La Rue (of the firm
of Mears. T. De La Rue and Co., cardmakers, Nos. 109
to 113, Bunhill-row), lately reading at 84, Weetbourne-
terrace, and formerly of the Hassella, Bedfordshire, was
proved in the London court by W. Warren, Req., and the
Rev. W. Laster, the joint acting executors and trustees.
The personalty was sworn under 60,0001. The testator
had carried on foe many years an extensive business in
partnership with his sons, Warren l)e La Rue and
Frederick De La Rue, as wholesale stationers and playing
Fa- and ornamental cardmakers. His will is dated July 4,
roes 1861, and he died June 7, 1866, at the age, of 73.
viHedes
leaves his wife an immediate legacy of LOOW. and di
4- the rest of his property equally between his Wife, his two
1 and sons, and his three daughters.--City Prow
la,
1 lea ROYAL COLLSOZ OP SUROEONB OP ENGLAND. -
N tun The following members of the college, having undergone
the necessary examinations, were admitted licentiates in
• •
- midwifery at a meeting of the board on the Ist instant :
1 fa Mesas. William Folkes, Duckinfield, diploma of member-
me ship, dated May 9, 1860 ; William John Wey, Plymouth,
May 7,1883 ; G•eorge Owthwaite Spencer, Upper Gordon.
street, April 26, 1865 ; William John, Haverfordwest,
April 26, 1866 ; William Monckton, Brenchley, Kent,
COMM! April 26, 1866 ; Joseph Loane, Dock-street, Whitechapel,
May 8,1866 ; John Quick, Penzance, May 8, 1866 ; Charles
to new George Edmonds, Southampton-street, Camberwell, May
9, 1866 • Richard Holt Robinson, Manchester, May 10,
1866 ; deorge Moore, Birmingham, July 24, 1866 ; Thomas
Bell Hay, LS.A., Caledonian-road, July 25, 1866 ; Richard
Matthews Pryoe, LS.A.,Caerows, Montgomeryshire, July
28, 1866; Richard Cresswell, Lewisham, May 10, 1866;
William Harris Butler, Old Charlton, Kent, July 15, 1865 ;
count and John Macdonald, Kidderminster, LR.C.S.K, August
nailing 6, 1858, and LR.C.P.E., October 4, 1864 (not a member).
HORSLEYDOWN REGATTA.—This regatta for a
new skiff and money prizes, by free watermen, took place
the I yesterday, and was, as usual, very creditably managed by
meet Kr. W. E. Blackwell, the umpire. First heat.—S. Hart,
'ohNO 1; J. Wheeler, 2 • C. Blackwell, 3. A good race, won by
NE, two lengths. Ber:ond heat.—J. Chapman, 1; C. Lloyd,
2; J. Wheeler, 3. Won easily. Third heat—Lloyd, 1 ;
John Wheeler, 2 ; Blackwell, 3 ; Wheeler, 4. Won by
1 by ti four lengths. Fourth heat.—Hart, 1 ; J. Wheeler, 2 ;
unant Chapman, 3 ; Lloyd, 4. A capital nice, won by two
opted, lengths. Final heat. —Hart, 1; Wheeler, 0. A fine race,
many won by three lengths.
.f F5O TERRIBLE EXPLOSION AND Loss oe LIFE NEAR
lid in CONSTANTINOPLR.—A few minutes before 9 a.m. on Thurs-
-11-yeal
day, the large cartridge and rocket factory below Maori-
e she
• Inn, on the Msrmora, exploded with terrific force, de-
of th
stroying the whole pile of workshops and above 70 lives of
ilea the hands employed on the works. In the absence of such
y hav investigation as would follow a similar occurrence in Eng-
land, it is impossible to ascertain with any degree of ;m-
-imeo
other racy the direct cause of the disaster ;but • careful digest
they of the half dozen of official and other versions of it which
have reached us gives the following as the most coherent
NI(( and likely statement of the origin and extent of the
: we calamity. The whole group of buildings forming the
Barout-khaneh comprised nine magazines, of which
ng b four contained from 800 to 1,000 barrels of powder each,
•ous the fifth about 1,500 barrels, and the remaining four about
De 6,000 barrels each—or a total of about 30,000 barrels ,of
about 501 be. each. Nearly in the centre of these separate
'PIK buildings was another large compartment which formed the
laboratory of the establishment, in which cartridges and',
B. rockets were manufactured. In this last it was that
the accident originated. Here on Thursday morning
ivu about 100 hands were employed, some in making now
I Si.
O: cartridges, and the rest in ripping up and extracting the
at : powder and bullets from old ones. The official account is,
ly's that one of the sixty or more Jews employed at this latter
orde work, in using a hatchet to open a case of cartridges,
lone struck fire with the tool, an igniting, it blew up the
whole stock of powder—amounting in all to, it is said,
nearly 50,00011*. Tlur destruction of the building and
a I all in it was of course the instant result ; but, marvellous
aB, to tell, the whole of the other magazines escaped. The
Prit roof of the nearest, which was only some 200 yards off,
non
_ was shattered, and a quantity of sulphur inside it set on
NE fire by burning splinters. Several of its barrels were also
II 4 thrown down and burst by the shock, and on Halil
for Pasha—who hastened to the spot from his house close
tges by on the first explosion—entering the magazine, he
as found the loose powder extending in a broad trail to the
r. a edge of the smouldering sulphur. It is paying this con-
se rageoua functionary noundeserved compliment tosay theta,
tett his instant personal extinction of the sulphur and
clearance away of the gunpowder is to be attributed the
Ins escape of this, and with it the whole group of magazines.
an Badthey caught, the explosion of thelaboratory would have
O been as a pop-gun to • cannon, and for miles round, up
and into Stamboul itself, the devastation mart have been
sipuniversal. As it is, tl'e Porte return of the autuakties
a i states the dead at 72, and the wounded at 24. Of the
ad I former 60 were Jews, 11 Armenians, and 1 a Turk ; of the
----- ' latter, 3 Jews, 17 Armenians and 4 Turks. Fragments of
KEATING'S PERSIAN INSECT DESTROY- ' the killed were, it is stated, picked up more than half a
ISO 14"/M0L—FLEAS. Bags, Codayschost Biotic* mile from the so of the disaster; of the laboratory
le it, Moths, ac., are Instantly destroyed by this Powder. which itself not one stick or stone was left upon another, its very
quite harmless to animal We. Imported and sold In packets.
21:21. EL. and es. ed. each, orrettsta, tree by ter It lite being torn up as if a huge &ell had fallen and ex-
stamps, and Is. at on of at. Also fatties with ploded upon the spot.—Leasur Heredd, July 25.
tsttssrar. le e. and its. each, by T. TING, Cliadd. 75, ilk A FATAL FRIAL.—An old man employed as
Churchyard, London. I ship-keeper at the Queen's Dock, Liverpool, boasted that
he could ;milk on board his vessel on the ropes which
moored her to the quay. He attempted the feat, but had
gone three paces when he fell into the dock and
WY

(101:1T or RHEUMATISM isquickly relidisbeved
and
and owed la •R HE (Ws by that Meo.
KM'S GOUT bow
UMATIC rum obtained womb
«I%adk.Ulild sad ft Mt b".

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(ammmmmanics.)
THE.MUUL

that the number received during the twenty-four hour.,
shall not exceed the eying powers of the cable during
that period of time. Should the number of message,
received during the twee -tour hours exceed the trans-
mating powers of the cable, the second day would begin
with a portion of the =eerie, left over from the first day,
and in the cause of a short time thin daily seouraniation
would amount to so much that letters by mail would reach
their destination sooner than menages by telegraph, aa. I
by law, all mseesges must be sent in the order in which
they wen
There only one legitimate way that I can see of
limiting the messages that will pour in frost every past of
Eurepe, Asia, and +U 0. to be transmitted to the whole of
the North American Continent, and vice verse and that is
to make the price such that it shall limit the mumps
sufficiently to keep them within the okaying power of the

cable.
From an experience of over eighteen years, dating frotn
the very commencement of the telegra as a public insti-
tution, and from the experience gaineby moans of the
submarine cables connecting Alexandria and Malta with
Europe, I feel perfectly convinced that even a sum of 2Ds.
per word will not limit the teak sufficiently to keep the
line between America and Europe free.
When we consider that the submarine line between
Alexandria and Malta, which forms the connecting link
between but a mall part of Egypt and Marla, has • very
large amount of business, how 14 it pomade that two wires
can do the baldness between Europe, Asia, and Africa on
the one side, and America on the other t The manager of
the Malta and Alexandria line reoccomended that awn or
21. per word should be charged through the Atlantic cable
to limit the messages to the capacity of the line.
As soon as one line of oosamusication is Web/Joked
between America and Europe it will widoelandlinirkaa44
be immediately followed by others to meet tits
demand which experience shows Invariably to follow the
opening of telegraphic ecaueenicatem between distrait*
pointe—l am, sir, yours faithfully, ,C. F. VAILZT+
The Electrician of the Electric and International
Telegraph C1°117.417'

C. W. Field, Fie., Palace Hotel, Briekiagnsc.„___
The suggestion contained in the above letter has
been adopted, though it is still an open question
whether the demand for communication through
the cable will not, even at the present rate of
charges,' exceed what it can do. "Europe, Asia,
and Africa, and the whole of the North American
continent," will, as Mr. Varley writes, communicate
through the Atlantic coil, and a low battery power
will be prudently used, both night and day. While
on this part of the subject the statistics put forth•
by the company dter the breakage of last year are
worth quoting :
ESTIMATILDRIMMIL—Auumingthat the chile for trans-
mission of messages between the Old and the ew World
be fixed at ss. per word, and that the gird of working be
limited to only five words per minute during 24 hours per
day, and allowing 300 working days in the year, one cable
would produce a gross annual revenue of 540,0001„ to be
divided as follows :—Working expenses, say 25,0001.
interest at five per eent. on 100,000/. Atlantic Telegraph
Debentures, 5,0001.; Telegraph Company,
125,0001.; Atlantic Telegraph Company's Preference
Shares, 600,0001.8 per cent., 48,000/.; Atlantic Telegraph
Company's Ordinary Shares, 600,0001.4 per cent., 24,0001.;
Balance divided—Anglo-Americea Telegraph Company,
156,500/. and Atlantic Telegraph Company, 156,500 i. Total,
540,0001. To the tfiil,ooo/. above shown as ng to the
Anglo-American Telegraph economy from the revenue of
the cable, the sum ot 25,0001. must be added, granted as a
subsidy by the New York, Newfoundland, and London
Telegraph Oompany, which will make a total income of
306,5001., or ova. 50 per cent. net upon the capital of the
Anglo-American Telegraph Company.
Al the price charged is V. instead of &a. per word,
the above sum—always assuming the official calcu-
lations to be correct—must be multiplied by four.
If the cable of 1865, over which the Anglo-American
Company has the same rights as that of 1866, be
raised, the amount must be multiplied by eight.
In other words the annual revenue of the company
on a capital of 600,0001. will be by its own show-
ing, two millions four hundred and fifty-two
thousand pounds. These figures are startling as an
Arabian Nights' story. But it must be remembered
th.:t the whole enterprise has been looked on for
years as a romantic dream. 'The promoters of
Atlantic telegraphy have borne the brunt of luke-
warmness, ridicule, and opposition, and the vast
rewards they seem oa the eve of grasping are not
half so extravagant as their project was pronounced
to be by sound men of business not many weeks
ago-

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SHOCKING SUICIDE ON THE NORTH LONDON
RA IL WA Y.

An inquiry was held by Mr. John Humphreys, the
Middlesex coroner, last evening, at the Queen Elizabeth
Tavern, Graham-road, Dalstor, respecting the suicide of
Joseph Gosling, aged 75 years.
Ellen Gibson, No. 9, Arundel-street, Kingsland, daughter
of the deceased, said that her father was a mariner. He
had lately been in great distress, and • few days before
his death he discharged himself from the Hackney work-
house. On Sunday last witness went to see him in the
German Hospital, where be had been removed after he bad
thrown himself under a train. He said, "If I had had a
night's lodging this would not have happened." If any one
was to blame for what had happened, blame was certainly
attached to witness's sister and to her husband. On Fri-
day he went to the house of witneee's sister and her hue.
band, and at 10 o'clock at night they turned him out of
doors, and he lay down on the cold stones near his
daughter's house. The husband then came out ; he told
a police-constable to move him off the stones, and said,
"If you don't, I will kick him off." It was very bard to
turn an old man out at that time of night. Witness had
only two rooms to live in, or she would have given him a
lodging. He had made three attempts upon his life, and
he was not a man of sober habits.
On Saturday last at 6 o'clock in the evening the deceased
entered the Stoke Newington statior of the North London
Railway and paid RI. for a ticket for Dalston junction, and
be was then allowed to pass on to the railway platform.
George Naylor, fireman, said that at 6 o'clock last
Saturday be was standing on the engine of the Broad-street
down train when he saw the deceased walk to the front
of • train at the Stoke Newington station, jump off the
platform, and throw himself in front of the engine. The
buffer of the engine struck him on the head and knocked
him down. The train, which was the up one, was entering
the platform at the time and witness called out to the
guard " There is a man under the engine !" The engine
ran over the man's legs and feet.
Dr. A. Burgess said that the deceased was admitted into
the German Hospital on the night of the occurrence.
There was a severe wound on the aide of the head, and
his leg was so utterly smashed that amputation had to be
performed. He expired on Monday from the effects of his
injuries.
The Coroner said that when the eon-in-law of the de-
ceased found the old man in his house at night he ought
not to have turned him out, and compelled him to sleep
upon the stones. He might have waited until the morning
even if he had an objection to • person who drank being
in his house.
The jury returned • verdict " That the deceased died
from the effects of injuries received through being run over
by a certain railway train under which he had thrown
himself for the purpose of destroying rife, whilst in a state
of unsound mind."

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Eton College will close to-day (Friday) for the
autumn vacation, the Great Western and South Western ,
Railway Companies running special trains for the con-
'evince of the boys to their homes. An extra week has '
been given to the school on account of the marriage of
Princess Mary of Cambridge.
Ku. BRIGHT AND THE DCTILIE REFORMERS.—
The reformers of Dublin are procuring signatures to •
letter inviting Mr. Bright to a banquet on a large scale in j
that city. It is intended to obtain the names of the mem-
bers of country town councils also. The list is headed by
I Mr. J. F. Maguire, 11. P., Mr. J. B. Dillon, M.P., the '
O'Donogbue, M.P., Sir John Gray, M.P., an
Dubli d Mr. N. d
a
D.
Murphy, M.P. The Lord Mayor elect et nan
number of magistrates and merchants have likewise signed
the document. It is purposed to secure the largest avail-
able building for the celebration, and to invite other lead-
ing English politicians to take part in the demonstration.
The terms of the invitation are these :—" We, the undfor
er-
signed, admiring your public character, and grateful
your eloquent advocacy of the rights of our country, re-
spectfully request your acceptance of a public banquet at
Dublin on as early a day as your convenience will admit."
VALUE Or PROPERTY AT THE EAST-END.Yester-
day a oompeneation case was held at Poplar, "Lewes v.
the North London Railway," to arm the vales of a
freehold, known as the Plough Tavern, beloognig te • gen-
tleman named Lewis. The claim se made was a very
large one. Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., and Mr. Prentice, Q.C.,
were for the claimant ; the Solicitor•Generel and Mr.
Noonan for the company. A verdict at 8,5001. was
agreed upon after they had viewed the proodass.
Tax LATE ROWLEY AT THE MANCEESTER STAMP-
orris..hariss Batt, who had been remanded on sus-
picion of breaking into the Stamp-office, Manchester, and
starling bills, sta, tan, to the value of 12,01301.,
sore
brought before Sir Thomas Henry, at the Bow-street Po-
lies station, yesterday afternoon, and was again remanded.
CAUSAL PALL= -- ONE S=unOS DAY:
THURSDAY. AVOCET 2.—Adiainsices on moist, 4,336
ditto by mama tickets. 1,367. Total viatra. 5,6613.