The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-31 00:00:00

THE BANK OF FRANCE it--irait
8141 .

(sivrines wages.)

PARIS, Atxpi,
The following is the return of the Eso
France for the week ending to-day, blew,
the corresponding figures of the prelim'
woo miaow se.
rr. e,
Capital of the s. 0
192,600,000
Pruett in addition to capital
(krt. 8, aw of June 9, 1947) . • 1.044,179 2 teitTh
Reserve of the Beak and Bs
branches
Reserve of landed property •• • • 4.009000 a IPAII
Notes is circulation
Seat notes to order sad receipts
payable at sight 99.939,0114 71
Treasury sooonet—innvent a kik%
ditor
.09.371
Current accounts, Yob I64SKSIS.nu on36
448,.0
Ditto branch banks Se.SOS ON o
Dividends payable
Discounts and sundry interests
17,41
Re-discounted the hut six 5,636,010 43 5
months
Surplus of receipts not distal- 1.3765 t
fated
Sundries

1077,793 Q COI%

coo in land and In bralichi------.73774A548114:11:3°.411240 4"---;'4.111111.1144141:10197711(1
7,335,310 0 ismti
C°alnbercC°79o4baalLtwciAlial.bibanubWilis ffiridisc°62l4d"
' 34329913377900: oso en!
Ditto
Advances on deposits of bullion 23,841,000 0 tut II
Ditto branch banks 11,457,40r 0
Advances on French public as II. ,
=life'
Ditt ) branch banks 7,939,000 • 1111241
Advance, on railway shares Oita 1
and debentures
Ditto branch banks M574400 0
Advances on Credit Fonder kW^ 1
_

Bonds
Ditto branch beaks 510,000 0 41,4 I
Adven. to the State (conven-
tion 10th use. 1857
Government stock reserve 12400,750 14 Wiwi
Ditto&
Bootee sr:Orilleees (law hid
Jun*, 18571 100,000,000 0 likes 1
Hoteland fareitersof * & shank
landed proven, branches .
Expenses of managenteut
Sundries
------ -

1,757,068.9111 di Ulm...
calmed by the Depoty-Oevenine of the Beak of Amax
(ete) Allo

LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOPES AMlglat
(THIS DAY.)

The twenty-seventh half-yearly_genenl
was formally opened this afternoon at WerAnsissrwr
in hia
Hotel ,• but, accordance with a notice head sinsh
date of the find advertisement, there was aasp:l
adjournment to St. James's-hall. The promsdisgs
place in the great hail, the floor of which was
to shareholders, and the galleries to debentumkik
Upon the front of the platform two tables very*"
in line, the one on the left being oonnisd by thnlbsew,
and that on the right by the member of no
committee. There was an unusually large
shareholders, but the hall was far from monied. iy
directors entered the ball at a quarter-put el
o'clock, and were received with some
Lord tionnsa (the chairman of the company) vawitiald
chair.

The report, the substance of which has appoint b
Express, was taken as read. The reoeipta
crease of 25,8381. 17a. 10d., and the expenses salami
20,955/. 7s. tkL upon those of the corresponding pow
1865.

The Ctianues9, after referring to the retirees*
ill-health, of Mr. Holroyd, fir C. Roney, and St C.
spoke of the increase in the receipts, and reusehias
the public utility of the line was shown by tholes' eig
4,901,441 passengers had been carried during the Gays&
He regretted very much the position in which theempig
was now placed. Owing to no fault of the dieseige,h‘
to the fact of 400,0001. of debentures
a period when they could not get them
from the state of the money market and 01ir"."4
gations presaing at the woe time, they were compaile
ask the indulgence of their creditors, but the esme
made upon the application to Chancery had premed*
interruption of the traffic. The line certainly sensiGe
interest upon most of it. debentures in the lest ketple.
They had now nearly a complete line, and, with the
sults which their traffic had already shown, and the esp.
rience of the Caledonian and other lines, the dim-Weikel
every confidence that the present difficulties would In
o •ercome, and that the company would in heart bow
permanently prosperous. The directors would rateppie
the appointment of the shareholders' committee.
Lord HARRIS seconded the motion.

-- ---. ---.. -- .—.....--.
Sir JOHN Cowrie, from the bodyot the hell, milk
thought the legislature was to some extent mpoesiblele
the difficulties in which the shareholders now teal
themselves.

Mr. C. fir ROST moved the appointment of s courites
of investigation consisting of Messrs. G. H. Barbary T.
A. Hankey, W. Hartridge, F. Heritage, W. B. Mel,
G. Hodgirinson, A. T. Hotham, C. Surgey. ad C. C.
Turner, with instruotions to report at an adjoined nit
log to be held on the 15th of October.
The discussion was proceeding when our report ws
despatched.

THE REPRESENTATION OT BR/COIL—On Moak
evening a most crowded meeting took place at the Bea
Town-hall. It was convened by Mr. David Mope
Thomas, the popular liberal candidate. The leered gee
Oman was most enthusiastically received. Is tie
course of his remake he stated that by some ere*
standing on the part of sonic of the liberals of Meell
Lord Churchill bad been invited down under the nese
sion that there would be no other liberal candidate
field. Under these circumstances the question ma de
ther the liberal party should be divided. He (lit. 'll}a{
had beard the explanation and arguments of tie Men
committee, and after carefully mundane, degree,
and setting aside all personal conaiderataces, bat so
to the conclusion that the chance of a tory wee
would be augmented by such a course. (Great
Though, therefore, he had the prior claim, eel
offered to allow a public meeting to decide berme
and the noble lord, which offer was not ecesietv*
(laughter)—he felt that be should be beet swag*
true cause of those principles he profaned if ha per
vented delay, urged union, and banded his emus
the noble lord to place the liberal cause in a raged
perfect safety. (Tremendous cheering.) Had thirties
no tory in the field he would have done otherwise; cal
when ho could test the opinion of the liberals TiWN
endangering the party he might again
.coses reeP
them. Lord Churchill, who had been invited by mg:
Thomas to be present, then came forward, and reseed
a high eulogium upon the learned gentleman, nib
shortly after left the ball amidst prolonged end mar
emetic cheering.
FUNERAL or THE Ray. DE. FlKAlL—Yeeterel.
(Wednetelay)morning the remains of DeEdgervere reerlC
from Dublin to Belfast by the 8 o'clock train. TM bale
fired for the place of interment—Malone Cemetery—no
1 o'clock, long before which time a very great none/
the ministers of the General Assembly from:11 II
Ireland had assembled to accompany the fu
to the grave. The clergy walked in procession tir=
two, the professors of the Theological College bail hi
front, immediately after the mourners. In the nerd
the pro ..Oons came a long line of carriages. Ted!
Presbyteries of the General Assembly were repriented
the funeral—those of Belfast, Route, Munster, Gashrs
Armagh, Newry, Banbridge, Templepatrick, Ards, mit
herafelt, Glendermott, Drosnore, Tyrone, Athletic, Dar
gamma, Carrickfergus, Dublin, Down, Derry, sad Mr
mena.—NortAern Whig.
BROTHER IGNATIUS IN LoNDON.—Last 51(0111
pulpitaitft of
ea enormous congregation was assembled in the nestle's'
secreted church of St. Michael and All Angels. Shassdikie
as brother Ignatius, of the Norwich monastery. To IS'
menthe
RiLhyjamtheesproL.miciesednerapLpeynneran,
forcemies Laude
gentleman, who seems a very young win, was &Wail.
surplice and black hood, a white scarf (so far as meld th
seen in the distance) being worn Across his implies 81.0
left to right. He has a very fine voice, which at tiess!!
uses with crest effect, and he preaches extempsrLint
fluency, animation, and a fair amount of gestaciuuaa
t_M
took his text from Acts vii., v. 47, "Put Soloman law
him an house." After a Laboured account of the Isreflid
in Egypt, and the application of it to Christian, in haii•
age to sin, Mr. Lyne entered on an elaborate sampanrid;
of Solomon who built the temple as being the Pe" .0!
Peace with Christ as the Prince of Peace who bed
ibisedeepehu:odh.ent:nuotinhemcoucarsehoolicsf 6:66,s:et:on Mr. Lye sail
that all who loved Christ were members of the nom—
far, tic'
would not deny that differences existed, yet *era
of all who loved Christ should be the prayer' .
Caristians.
of tho
ARISTOCRATIC PRIDE.—III the attack .
-
.sa
a me
Prussians on Oweleim, Galicia, a snrgeon, while —.—
attending on the battle-field to some wounded Alga
was taken prisoner by the enemy, the Prussians
been compelled to retire. Dr. Fried haw OW
the same of the captured surgeon—might bag
drawn with the Prussian troops bed his femropkg,
allowed of his leaving the grievously wounded
asoldicztrieltwuithpopeut, mwsiedicablroatligdh.
tfaastelysanprixelfAcaneaustri:
fiord/gloom,
Posen. It was agreed that he should be ex
..ped *INA
captured kind-hearted surgeon, who, w? twee
happens to be a Jew. When Count Lippe awe' "1... A fi#
drew back, paying that he did not want to be exceardrj.,,,—•
a Jew " Indeed sot r dryly remarked the
sad simply ordered him beck to the caerenehn• "
aid that the capture of Dr. Friedlander under the
ream described was the immediate canes of Aenn
secession to the Geneva Convention for widow ••••
wounded upon the field.—Jetrie Chronicle.