The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-08 00:00:00

LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

Off KLICTSIO

MEETING. -(THIS DAY.)

HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES.
Panacea
Whitby

... J.
... 2

Six ran.
SWEEPSTAKES.

Inee
Sinter to Stn ford
Dundee

MATCH.
Midwife beat Duchess.
PLATE £lOO.

Friponaiar
Vindes

... 1

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24 ran.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 300 SOPS. T.Y.C. '
Mine Whip f, Empress, and Sunflower f are here.
PAID Foarerr.—lrishQueen and Perditior
RENEWAL SWEEPSTAKES OF 50 SOVS.
Countess Amy, Wild Briar, and Polly Perkins are here.

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HANDICAP PLATE. Cesarewitch 001111t-tiEM
Ostregor, 9st 31b ; lurk-worth, eot 121 b ; Friday, sat ;
Homers, 7st 121 b ; Rama, 7st 121 b ; 2tiaa Stophenaon
Tat 71b ; Tourmalin, Tat Sib ; Tat 41b ; Acton),
Tat 41b ; and la:map* let. All are here.l
PAID Ft/REMIT.— POOL and Douro.

OCTOBER PRODUCE STAKES. D.31.1=
Dumbbell and Mims Anne I are here.
PAID Foararr.—Thoraday, Sunbeam and Si
time.

LATEST BETTING.
CESAREWITCEL
9 to 1 apt Chepstow (t)
11 to 1 Lotherio (t)
11 to 1 Proserpina (t)
12 to 1 Lo Favorite (t)
33 to 1 Surney (t)
80 to 1 Lively (t)

LONDON BETTING.-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'cLook:r.w.
CFZAREWITCH.
8 to 1 apt Chepstow (t f)
9 W 1 Proserpina (t kw)
10 to 1 Lecturer (oft)
10 to 1 Potomac (off)
11 to 1 Bradamaute (t)
100 W 8 Lothario (off )
100 to 8 L Favorite (off)
100 to 6 Jollity (t)
100 to 3 Dubiety (off)
50 to 1 Burney (t)
60 to 1 Caithness (off, t 200 to 3)
100 to 1 Philosopher (t)
100 to 1 Rams (off)
100 to 1 Duke of York (off)

CAMBRIDGMBIRE.
Bto 1 agst Chepstow (off)
100 to 7 Scarborough (off)

BANK OP QUEENSLAND (LIMITED).
(THIS DAY.)

An extraordinary general meeting of the coin- II
peal was held at 1 o'clock, Sir JOSHUA BOWE in the 11
chair, to receive a statement from the board, and consider
a proposal for voluntary winding-up.
The CHAIRMAN expressed a deep regret at the
necessity for holding such a meeting. The accounts
from December up to June showed a profit of 12,1231. 13a.
1041., equal to 12 per cent., and until the news of the sus-
pension of the bank arrived from Queensland, the board
had no anticipation of the present result. The news
of the suspension of the Agra and Masterman's Bank
treated a panic in the colony, and owing to this
cause the bank had to stop payment on the 24th of July.
Under these circumstances the best course was, be
thought, to wind up. He then referred to the following
statement of accounts which was circulated in the room :
" Statement of Liabilities and Assets on 30th June,
1866.-Liabilities.-Dr.: To capital, 207,900/. ; trans-
ferred to special reserve fund, per general meeting, 22nd
May, 1866, 33,3921., leaving, 174,508/. ; to reserve fund to
meet bad and doubtful debts, 42,865/. 2s. 101. ; to circu-
lation, 23,2461.; to deposits and current accounts, 108,4191.
3e. 11,L ; to hills payable and otherliabilities,ss,K7l/. ss. 10d.;
to rebate on bills current, 30th June, 1866, 1,910/.155. Bd.;
to undivided profits on 30th June, 1866, 12,1t3/. 13s. 10d. ;
total, 423,9441. Id. Cr.-Assets :-By specie and cash
at hankers, 25,382/. Ba. ; by bills dismounted, bills re-
ceivable, loans andother securities, 345,9391. 4a. 51. ; by
overdue bills and loans-doubtful, 43,356/. se. Id. ;
by preliminary expenses, 3,0001. ; by bank premises,
furniture, &0., 4,3161. 4s. 701. ; total, 423,9441. 2s. Id.
Profit and loss account, June 30, 1866.-Dr : To current
charges, including salaries' rent, taxes, stationery, at Head-
office, 1,1931. 1.5 a. 3d. ; to ditto, at branches, 5,1331.
14s. 9d. ; together, 6,3212.105. ; to directors' and auditors'
remuneration, 640/. ;to balance, 12,1211. 13s. 10d. ; total,
19,0931. 3e. 10d. Cr. By balance from last account, 2' 7651.
10e. Id. ; by gross profits to 30th June, 1866, after
deducting rebate on bills current and paying interest
on deposits, 16,327/. 13a. 93. Total-19,0931. U, 10d."
The position of the company was, as far as the directors
could judge, that there was 184,0001., or 22/. per share to
be returned to the shareholders, and he thought that, con-
sidering all things, that was not a very unfavourable
result. (Hear, hear.)
In reply to a question,
The CHAIRMAN said the nature of the securities had
been carefully estimated, and the board believed they would
realise what was stated.
Mr. Mule (the secretary) then read a detailed statement
of the securities corresponding with the printed state-
ment introduced by the chairman.
In reply to questions from Mr. Horne,
Mr. blunt said the company had made no advances on
sheep farms proper, the advances of that kind being liens
on wooL The 346,0001. consisted of fair, good ordinary
banking assets. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Heim thought the shareholders onght to be satis-
fied if they received from 151. to 201. per share. He was
glad that in this case there was no cause whatever to
blame the board. (Cheers.)
The Ciratamair then moved a resolution to the effect
that the bank be wound-up voluntarily, and it was carried
unanimously.
The Secretary (Mr. Muir), Mr. Brockett (director), and
Mr. Kemp (accountant), having been proposed from the
chair as the liquidators,
Mr. DARVELL said he thought it would be best to delay
appointiug liquidators, as it was probable that liquidators
were already acting in the colony, in which case there
would be a double expense.
Two or three shareholders expressed it as their opinion
that the passing of a resolution for a voluntary winding
up necessitated the appointment of liquidators.
In reply to a question,
Mr. BROCKETI said there were no pressing debts.
The resolution was agreed to, and the proceedings ter-
minated in the usual manner.

REM A
Barometric pressure still coati
though it has decreased sliislit/y
lenamilr has Also fallen a little.
this morning on the sisittigh visas
ea tie coasts ot England.

dab over the British Isles,
aturday, and temperature
A westerly wlml3 prevail
moderate easterly winch

inues hi
since
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Lat, aud

CHOLERA IN THE NORTHERN TOWNS. A dm-
iderable amount of anxiety prevails in the. northern towns
with regard to the progress of cholera in the chief of them.
The true type of Asiatic cholera appeared in Newcastle,
Gateshead, North Shields, and Sunderland last week, and
there is great fear that it n.ay become epidemic in some
ti these towns. It Las ids° leen fatal in some of the outlying
villages in the county of Dc -Lim. Down to Friday the
disease had only manifested iteulf among the poor of the
towns mentioned ; but on the evening of that day Mr.
Illtinan, one of Lloyds' surveyors on the Tyne, dial of
cholera, after two days' illness. The authorities are on the
alert, and the seaports of the Tyne have been got into a
thoroughly clean and sanitary condition, and they are
taking the precaution in every fatal case of cholera to burn
the beds and bedclothes upon which the deceased persons
have died. Though every possible precaution appears to
bare been taken by the authorities the epidemic seems to
be making good its position in the manufacturing and
agricultural districts between Liverpool and Manchester.
THE USE Or THE ORGAN IN THE SCOTCH CHCB.CH.
—Yesterday special sermons were preached in St. Andrew's
&etch Church, Rodney-street, Liverpool, by the Rev. Dr.
Boyd (A.K.H.8., the author of " Recreations of a Country
Parson"), of St. Andrew's, Glasgow' on the occasion of the
opening of the new organ, which has been provided by con-
gregational subscription. There were crowded congrega-
tions at both service*. The preacher said he had never
beard anything like reason in the objections to
instrumental music—nothing more than a mere ap-
pal to ignorant prejudice. They might all know
bow the taste for this little improvement was
spreading in Scotland. In Glasgow ten churches had now
adopted it, while three years ago there was not one ; and
he had always found that the singing was more spirited
and unanimous than ever before. He trusted that their
organ might silence their voices, or its grand notes
rove a substitute for their own voice, but only lend
dity and force to it. The new organ is a very hand-
some structure, and is by Willis, the builder of the St.
George's-hall organ. It has ti stops, and two rows of
keys, with a compass from CC to G. There are two
octaves for pedals, six composition pedals, four for the
grand organ, and two for the swell organ. The total cost
will be about 700/. The organist is Mr. W. H. Jude.
articled pupil to Mr. D. C. Browne, organist at the Blind
Asylum. The music played during the morning service
was during the collection, " Angels ever bright and fair"
Pendell ; the second owlet* in A (Meridelsaohn) ; and
"Fic'd in Ilia everlasting seat" (Handel).--Liverpool
AWL

Surrey Chapel, Blackfriars-road, is coming
down, the congregation worshipping there having secured
the site of the Magdalen Asylum on which to erect its
saccessor —Sigais London Perez.
FOX-HUNTING.—One of the greatest charms of
fax-hunting undoubtedly is, that it disposes of all the
dirty weather which goes to make up three-fourths of an
English winter. Wet, and drizzle, and muggy fog (the THE CONDEMNED CONVICT JEFFERY. —The
characteristics of our brumous and insular climate, accord- wretched man, John Richarl Jeffery, who was convicted
at the last session of the Central Criminal Court of the
big to numerous French authorities), are the Genital on
is it trades. To the hunting man a rainy morning in wilful murder of his child, a boy 7 years of age, will un-
wintar, which to moat other country folk can promise dergo the penalty of the law to-morrow morning at New-
thing better than a long yawn with book or newspaper in gate. He does not appear to be at an impressed with a
sense of the awful position in which he stands, and it
band, and a prospect over a miserable stretch of sodden
would seem that from the period of his conviction down to
"intrYi means sport, and society, and enjoyment. It is
nothing to him that the ground rides saddle-girth deep, the present time he has exhibited an appearance almost of
and that be is splashed with mud from head to foot, so utter indifference, and at times his remarks and demeanour
long as the scent is good. He will only enjoy the more by are such as to amount almost to flippancy. He attends
contrast the charm of his own fireside, when he has cut the prison chapel regularly, and pays attention to the ex-
Ith slough, and makes his appearance in the drawl
me hortations of the Rev. 31r. Jones, the ordinary of the
nom before dinner hungry and happy, and Fttle tun' 1. prison, but it is very evident that they have little real
This, indeed, to my, mind, e a
constitutes one of the
principal effect upon him. He has been visited by some of the gen-
Leann which accrue from, fox-hunting considered in an Heinen who were in the babit of attending in the district
ethical light. It enables certain rich people occaaionally where he resided as Scripture-readers, and through whose
to realise some of the conditions of poorer humanity, to feel instrumentality' the prisoner was defended by counsel ;
themselves, if only for a short time, to be men, and not
hut, with the exception of a brother and sister, these are
only lordsor sq urea nr greet merchants and nianufactu the only parties who have seen the culprit since his con-
When he gets Mf his hone after a long wet day in the viction. In the ordinary course the execution would have
e/a taken place this morning ; but, owing to the disgracefulys, my lord is vciy meat in the same draggle-tailed con.
&tin in which his labourer Hodge is, just emerging from scenes that have upon some occasions taken place in the
the oozing ditch, in which be his been engaged for seine neighbourhood of the prison in the night previous to an
bees._, Plashing a fence. The hardness which it ne - execution. the authorities have resolved that in future the
'Wes, together with a small amount of danger that ac. sentence of the law shall be carried out on the Tuesday
etnannies it, takes fox-bunting out of the category of "K'n'ingL
hot_ .4sforta--such as hattue shooting, for example ,• than IMPROVEMENTS IN BETHNAL—Among the
!Inch know not any amusement more despicableand inane. local acts of the late session was one for the establishment
And one of the least favourable signs of the times, to my end regulation of a market near Columbia-square, Bethnal-
-I.6ndi lithe increasing fondness of the noble and wealthy green, and for the opening of a new street and the im-
ler this latter sport, if sport we mind call it. For the proveutent of other streets. It recites that the market
Vint of civilisation and refinement which has exorcised would be of public benefit to the Labouring classes resident
Loin the higher ranks of the community drunkenness and in the neighbourhood, and that Miss Burdett Coutts was
Aug, and that roughness which still bad something of willing to undertake the same with the land she possessed,
Sthiihood in it, is not an unmixed gain to society, if the and to purchase other lands for the purpose. The legia-
ftagnsh mind is to be emasculated thereby, and, losing )stare has conferred by the act the necessary provisions on
Its coanness, is to lose also its manliness and self-reliance. that lady to establish the market, and to continue the
sAftiestiltan'e Afagmine for October. same to her assigns, so that it should remain a public
A LIFE GUARDSMAN AT OXFORD.—Even those market, and confer on the neighbourhood the great benefits
• . intended by Miss Burdett Count. There are 27 sections
Nis go into the army, as a gentlemanly of passing a
Nil or two which they: do know what way
do -
not to with, are and a schedule to carry out the objects of the act.
tie
l' the better fora degree, especially after they have left SOLDIERS' GARDENS AT ALDERSHOT.—The autho-
..aorm. y and entered on the duties to which their several 1 cities at Aldershot are doing everything in their power to
tat ions in life way c ill them. We happen to know that encourage the practice of gardening in the camp. Prizes
relate Duke of Wellington had so decided a view on this ! are given every season for the best gardens to non-commis.
Paint, even before he was Chancellor of Oxford, that he ironed officers and men, and now it is announced that ofil-
;PI? always, if possible, give a young ensign or cornet cep and others who may wish to enclose the gardens round
Ns in order that he mieht complete his University their huts may have materials for that purpose by apply-
"Wle by a degree. We well recollect the sensation pro- ing to the Deputy Assistant-Quartermaster-General.
steed in the schools at Oxford by a young Life Guardsman Doubtless, the coming summer will see the " oasis" =hi-
Penning himself before the examiners with a ferocious rated to a considerable extent, for the various plantations
litoustache, in the days when an undergraduate would as which the engineers have been for some time planting
ton have thought of wearing a ring in his nose.— around the camp and on other parts of the manieuvring
upstemporart Reline for October. grounds will then add their beauties to that of the various
. v OFTICE MUSEUM ,
PATES &writ KENangarow.— gardens.—United United Service Gazette.
,_ Terther of visitors for the week ending Oct. 6, 2,848 ; CRYSTAL PALACE. HALF-A-CROWN DAY.
04thnumber since the opening of the Museum fres digv SATURDAY, OCT. 6. Admissions on payment, 1,130 ;
04th May, 1856), 1,081,601. ditto by season tithe* 4,431; total visitors, 5,561. •