The Express.
London, England, 1867-06-04 00:00:00

BANK OP BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.

(THIS DAY.)

The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders was
held at one o'clock, at the London Tavern, Mr. H. It.
FARRIR in the chair.

- -The report appeared in last Friday's Erpreas.
The CHAIRYAN, in moving the adoption of the re=
observed that the board were much gratified at
enabled to state that the 'maimr of the bank had been
progressing soundly and steadily. This was the
case notwithstanding great financial difficulties. The
distribution now recommended was larger than
any that had been made for some years, and he
saw no reason why the dividend should not con-
tinue to increase. The construction of the Interoolonial
Railway must lead to the expenditure of • good deal of
money, and that would tend to benefit the bank.
The report was adopted without discussion, and a divi-
dend of 455. per share having been declared, the proceed-
ings terminated in the usual manner.

This morning both Howes of Convocation
assembled for business.

The population of New South Wales, on the 31st
December last, was 431,414, of whom 239,823 were males.
The Sydney and Goulbourn, New South Wales,
mail coach was robbed by bushrangers on the 23rd
February last. Among the passengers was the well-known
Dr. Lang.

The yield of the various gold fields in New
South Wales was 13,000 ounoes daring the mouth of Feb-
ruary last.

The French frigate Nereide had put into Sydney,
New South W►les, on her way to New Caledonia, with
200 female immigrants.

We are authorised to state that the Archbishop
of Canterbury has become the patron, and the Archbishop
of Armagh the vice-patron, of the 'Poor Clergy Relief
Society.
THE PROGRESS OF THE BEI3BIO/Ir.—Parliament
has been sitting four months, and has produced twenty-
six public and, seventy-one load statutes, including the
number that received the royal sweat on Friday last.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT THE EALING STATION
or THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—A. dreadful and
fatal accident, which should serve as a caution to such
railway travellers as are in the habit of getting into car-
riages while train. are in motion, occurred at the Haling
station of the Great Western Railway on Sunday evening
about half-past 9 o'clock. As the Reading up-train, which
left that town at half-part 8 o'clock, was coming slowly
up to the platform of the Ealing station, one of the pawn-
gen, • respectable man about 30 years of age, being evi-
dently over-anxious to obtain his seat, attempted to catch
hold of one of the carriage bsndles. He mimed his footing
and fell beneath the train, one of the carriage wheels paw-
ing over his neck and killing him instantaneously. The
train was at once stopped, and so quickly that the second
wheel did not pass over the deceased. The carriages were
then disconnected, and the body removed to the Feathers
Inn, to await the inquest. The poor fellow was aooom-
psnied to the station by a young woman who, on witness-
ing the fearful occurrence, was so overcome that she
fainted. It is said that the deceased held a position in •
Srm in Drury-lane, and is understood to have left a wife
and child.

ACCIDENT AT ALDERSHOT.—Yesterday afternoon
—whilst General Renny wee making the half-yearly in-
spection of the 72nd Highlanders--a military tram waggon
with two horses and driver dashed through the companies
of the regiment. A number of the men were knocked
down, and the driver was also injured. Those who suf.
fared mast were conveyed to the hospital.
ADMIRALTY, JUNE 3. APPOINTKENTS. —Pay-
masters H. H. Wyatt, to the Oetavia ; and R. Allen,
to the Euphrates. Master Assistant F. C. Ganda, to the
Victory. Assistant-Surgeon Dr. A. J. Ireland, to the Pheebe.
Acting Engineer P. Richmond, to the Fisgard, for service in
the Speedwell. Engineers W. H. Green and J. Dearden,
to the Malabar. First-elass Assistant-Engineer W. T.
Searle, to the Malabar. Second-class Assistant-Engineer
W. Siddorn, to the Malabar.
THE CONDEMNED FENIAN If `CATTERTY.—The
commutation of the sentence of death on Captain Weal-
forty has been officially communicated to the convict.
OILYSTAL PALACE,—ONE SHILLLNO DAY. —Mom-
DAY, JUNE 3.—Admissions on payment, 1,487 ; ditto by
Isom tickets, 710 ; total visitors, 2,247.

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firnren. sr LIONTIFINO.-011 Sunday evening,
as Mr. Bush, • collector of income taxes at St. lees,
Hunts, was returning home from Huntingdon, he was
struck by lightning ; but the effect was not immediately
fatal. After lying some time he managed to get up and
crawl to his home. His friends were horrified to find his
face greatly disfigured, sad that be was suffering so much
as to make it doubtful whether he would live or not. In
the same district other accidents occurred during the
storm which prevailed there on Sunday.
A Cnut-Danar.—" Who wrote that article last
week about the English love for racing r said Donner. "It
was a very good article, wasn't it? said Pruth. "
dear fellow, don't I know better than to find fa.ilt with
any article in a paper you conduct! Everything is per-
fect, or at least you swear it is, and quite right
too. I only wanted to know whether that was by
Mark Derwent." " But what was the matter with the
article?" persisted Mr. Petah. "Again I tell you,
nothing. Only if it was Derwent's I wonder he
did not bring in • story I told him about
crabs." " Tell me. I am very fond of crabs."
" Not as instruments of gambling, I hope." " Gambling!
0, throwing crabs you mean." " A good shot, and yet a
miss, Pruth. What business have you to know anything
about dice ? No, sir, the story was this. A friend of
mine, • great contractor, who was making a harbour
somewhere, fancied that he did not get work enough
out of the men who went down in the diving-
bell. He felt that they wasted time, bat be
could not imagine how. So, one day, when they were
at dinner, he went into the bell. And them he found
seven large crabs, and on the back of each was chalked
the name of a favourite for the Derby. The men had crab.
races at the bottom of the sea."—" Sooner or Later," by
Shirley Brooks.
Tus Uss oe Foss.—The Indian wears his sables
as well as the delicate lady ; and butalo-skins form the
robes of the savage as well as the rugs of Engliab carriages
or Canadian sleighs. The soft rich velvet skin of the sea
otter adorns the person of the native of the North Pacific
as well as the cloak of the Chinese mandarin ; and the
delicate white ermine, with black-tipped tail, is the
choicest ornament of the Blackfoot warrior of the Ameii.
can prairies as well as the symbol of royalty and dignity in
this country. The wearing of skins seems, indeed, to be a
mark of each extreme of the human race—the most primi-
tive and the most civilised. Nature has supplied the eni-
male of northern climates with coats of unequalled quality
for keeping out the cold and enduring wear ; and these ad-
mirable properties, and the fact of the material being ready
made, no doubt induced our savage forefathers and their
contemporaries, in the first instance, to transfer such use.
ful coverings from the bodies of the inferior creation to
their own. But this is not the only cause of the almost
universal love for furs. There is • handeome appearanoe
about soft glossy fur of the finest kind, which is very
striking, and which has caused it to be valued as an article
of ornament alone. It may be questioned whether the
ladies who roll along in their menages wrapped in seal-
skin and sables do not regard the beauty of their clothing
quite as much as its property of warmth ; and it is the
combination of usefulness with • handsome appearance
which makes them prize it so highly. The mandarin,
however, wears the fur of the sea-otter—nearly the whole
supply of which be monopolises—pnrelyfortheeakeof orna-
ment. The Blackfoot chief prises the tiny ermine-ekin u
a garniture for his head, or a trimming for his fire-bag or
his medicine-belt. The same for is esteemed by Christian
primate as an emblem of dignity and regal power. It sons
borne alone on the coats-of-arms of the ancient earls of
Brittany ; and in England, in the time of Edward 11..
none but members of the royal family were permitted to
wear it. —l3locireood's Magazivic for June.

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102. T. W. 143 7
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N elm
Aberdeen 29.77 53 N.N.W. 1
Letth *.8154 W.N.W. 4
Ardrossan i 110.82 N.N.W. I 3
Oreencastle ,29.90166 B.W. 2
Valenti 20.0256 8.8. W. 2
Cape Clear 30.11 N. W. 4
it=.*.996s W.N.W. 1
—.19.91 W. I
Penzanes 30.10 N.W. 6
Brest soso N. W. I
Locket 80.141,66 N.N.W. 2
Rochefort 30.16 N. $
Plymouth 30.06 W. lb 1
Weymouth $0.06 W. $
Portsmouth 30.00 W. 19 1
Loadou 112.97 66 W.N.W. 2 :
Yarmouth 26.8717 N.W. 6
Scarborough 29.83 54 N. 3
Shields 29.85 54 N.W. 2
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The yeemnre of the stmosp&
was yesterday, and is still Incra
diminishing. Winds on the we
west. Much rain has fallen In
s generally cloudy.