The Express.
London, England, 1860-08-03 00:00:00

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THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 3, 1860.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(THIS DAY.)

The SPEAVTII took the chair moon after twelve.
The Lords' ameedirsealn on the Burnham 'Mal Harbour
and Railways BM, and the London, Chatham, sod Dover
Railway (31eIropoiiten Extension) Bill were mod sad speed
to.

Lord de Farm's Estate Bill, and Caithness Reeds (No. 2)
BM were onssidised sad ordered to be read a third time.
Beauchamp Almshouses &tate Bill, Danville's Estate
Bill, the Earl of Longford's Estate Wll, Viscount Lortoe's
Estate Hill, end Giustiniaars Naturalisation Bill, were read
a sealed time.

811131NE38 OF THE Horse.
On the order of the day for going into committee of
V. SHELLEY protested whist any vote bOng
taken after such short notice. That might be very convenient
to the Chief CominieeiMer of the Beard of Works, bat it was
highly inexpedient for the public interest. They were
Wied for a vote for one of the most buildings, to
be mud as • Foreign-once, that bed ever been proposed.
If they (the oppositioe) were sitting as the other side of
the house, sad a tory government attempted to proceed in
such *manner, they would he all open-mouthed spinet
such conduct.
CABS OF cheer` and law
L. c. Shieri,
THE CABZ OF THE REV. P. OX.
The (YDONOOHUE called attention to the dianiimed of
the Rev. L. C. P. Fox from the Chaplaincy of the South
Dublin Cnion, by the Ir:sh Poor Law Commissioners. In
April last the matron of the union in question suspected that
some extra ar.ieles of cle,liing hail been stolen, and she
directed a number of the female paupers to be searched.
They tainted on the ground that certain male offioers otter
Isaias were present, and a scene of great confusion occurred.
Several of them were taken before the magistrates, and Mr.
Fox, the Roman catholic chaplain, who saw much of what
had occurred, came forward mil made a statement. It was
in pert contreslicted on lied) by ,ono of the officers; but the
te coesklerahly altered the punishment which be
had Intended to indict upon the women. The master made
a report of the circumstance, nod the malt was that Mr.
Fox was &missed because he refused to vary or modify
his statement. Before, however, the commiesioners took the
step of sealing him away they made a propoeitioo that
the rev. gentleman and the master, who hail twice flatly
easteadieted each other upon oath, should both retain
their situatiena—a proposition which appeared to him (the
hoe. member) to show a culpable weakness on the part of
the commissioners, a Wing that there was no case whatever
amiost Mr, Fox, and a desire to screen the master.
He also contended that the evidence of Mr. Fox here even
appearance of truth, whereas that of the workhouse officials
would not hear the test of cremexaminntion. The state-
ment of the rev. gentleman showed that a most indecent
outrage Lad been committed. The clothes of the women
were turned up in the presence of the male officers, and in
one ease the rev. gentleman saw three men holding one of the
women on the floor, while they examined her under petti-
mate one by one. The him. gentlemen was proceeding to
make a very lengthened statement, when
Mr. BI..iCK rose to under, mil hoped that the hon. gen-
tleman, who had wasted nearly an hour in his account of
a now in an Irish workhouse, would have some mercy on
the house. (Cheese.)
The SPEAKER said the hon. member was in proceeds
of the house, aed the matter must be left to his discretion.
The O'DONGOHCE resuming, contended that the
woman wen quite justified in refusing to be searched in
the presence of men ; and that Mr. Fox would have neg-
lected his duty if be had not come forward in the manner
he Ma (Hear.)
Mr. BRADY did not think there were twelve men in Eu-
rope that would convict the meanest felon upon the evi-
dence ins which the commissimers had impeached the vera-
city of Mr. Fox—a man, be it remembered, of the highest
chancier and the most spotless virtue. (Meer, hear.)
Mr. CARI)WELL said the law vested the management
of a union in the guardians end not in the commissioners,
and they had had so knowledge of the search or authority
, over mai a proceediag. He cordially agreed that the poverty
and destitute condition of ye ene women in a warehouse
was only an additional reams why they should be treated
si:th Wedmore and reopen ; and he tilt certain that in
that remark he was e also the sentiments of those
;madames wbo wee@ with the difficult and deli-
cats duty of administering the poor law in Ire-
land. (Hear, hear.) The commimoners, at the invi-
leek* of the puirdians, had instituted an inqMry, which
lasted four days, into the formidable riot which had occurred
in the South Dublin workhouse. The evidence was very
conflicting ; sod it should be remembered that Mr. Fox
was cot actually in the room. He had only seen
it through a closed window, and he haul described
himself in am of his letters as so unmet ved that he could
hardly hold his pen. The commissioners did not
impeach the character of Mr. Fox; but the conclusioa
to which bath they anti the gentlemen who conducted
the inquiry had conic was that, on the whole, Mr. Fox
was not just'Be4i in describing the scene in the terms he
had used namely, " scandelous, abominable, sad obscene."
They believed the rev. gentleman's evidence was boos fide.
and gave x true account of his im • but they did
not belie% e that it was tree in fact They did net, there-
fore, consider themselves justified in dranisang the officers
of the °Mos ; and feerng that it ins impossibleto maintain both them mil the reverend gentleman
in their situations, if he refused to witle"aw his assertion,
that the coached of the officers had been "SCRIY.I•II)I73,
abominable, and obscene," as the rev. gentleman declined
to do that, they invited him to reeled, and on has refusal
they exercisd their power of dismissing him, not as a
punishment to Mr. Fox for any thine that he hied done, but
:
regalbecause they considered the step necemary, from a
to the safety of the estab',alimeet.

[Left sitting.]

BANK OP EGYPT.-(THIS DAY.)

An extraordinary general meting of this corpo-
ratko took place this day at the London Tavel a, Mr. TITE,
M.P., io the chair.

The Secretary read the following report
"The &rectors have now to lay before the sharehol.lers •
statement (aanexed) of their accounts fur the loan-year
ending the 30th June. The net profits, after making pms
ion forbad and doubtful debts, amount to 11,148/. 9a. 10d.,
from which the directors recommend that • dividend be
declared at the rate of 7 par cent. per annum, free of in-
come tax. After payment of the above divided (8,75 W.)
there will remain 2,1.18 f. Si. 10d. to be carried forward to
the next account.
. _

"liikbiiitie;.7.-Capital paid up, 250,0C3/. ; reserve feed,
13.10.1/. 3.. 3d. ; balm payable. carrycot and "Cher accouate,
311,031/. 92. ; profit and loam (balance as below), 11,1481.
Oa. 10t--615,3441. 2a. 3d. Assets, kc. : t.ah, 30,373/.
10s. IM. ; bills receivable, advances, and other securities,
3.v4ltitt/. 10.. 11RL ; °dice furnitv-e, WI/. Os. fid. —total
&meta, 613,314/. 2s. 3d. ; preliminary expenses, 2,(30/.-
613,344/. 2s. 3d.
_ _ _

'` Profit aad Lona, Jane 30, 1/190.—Da:—To dividend
at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum for the half-year,
payable oa the Bth August, 8,780/. ; to balance carried
to next account, 2,39.4/. 9s. 101 ; total, 11,148/. 9s. lad.
CL By net prosta for the last six mouths, after providing
for bad and doubtful debtx, rebate of interest, current
expenses in London and Egypt, and directors' remunera-
tion, 11,148/. the 104.

--
"th; foregningaccou nta have been examined by us, and
compared with the books at the office, and the balance
ststiment from the managers in Egypt, and we hereby
certify that the said sec...rota are correct.

•
"GEORGE WILLIAM Hoax
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•
"HENRI' LLOAD Montag
The CHAIRMAN, in moving that the report be adopted,
oleerved that the accounts showed that the beams. et the
lattik up to the 30th dyne last had bee& profitably con-
ducted, an as to enable the directors to pay • dividend ae
.o„--ested in the report, and to provide for had and doubtful
delis. One of the principal points to which the board 'bad
threctral their attention was the neceerity for diminishing
their expense., and that they bad sutxeti4tl in accomplish-
in"; dill object was proved ler the fact that there were
fitruierly two numagers io Egypt at 1,500/. a year each,
and the engagenieut of one of them expi-ing, he
had been succeeded in the office by • gentleman
at the reduced salary of NW. There wets now altogether
four gentlemen to whom their affairs were entrusted et Alex-
andria and ('earn, and the plan of management wus such as
to give grimed satiefaction to the directors. He was happy
to my that the Meneml exehatile which was announced
last year had been uniformly steady, and that the fluctua-
tions had been less than was umal. The exchange, which
on the diet December was 954, Lad by the last advicea risen
to !IN, as tampered with • par exchange of
In answer to questions,
The CHAIRMAN stated that the levinch at Cairo was the
most profitable of their eatablishitiente, inatenuch as the
business transacted there was purely.' a banking ehariacter,
whilst at Alexandria it was of a more varied description.
A puttrairron inquired whether the look could at this
moment he considered in a peal petition. He 'Laced the
question because the shares fluctuated in the market more
than seemed estiatactury.
The CHAIRMAN replied that there ram no arta-tenting for
the fact mentioned, as the stoek Exchange might be called
very capricious in Its dealinira, and it was no proof of un-
somidsees ita the beak that its shares fluctuated from tine
to Vim.

le answer to further questions,
The CHAIM/AN Mated the business of the hank was so
cowluetetl that no one gentleman cotikl possibly have ex-
clusive onetroL The 8 V 114t112 cheek sad coonteecheck
was uniformly adopted, and there was no possibility of
such tranwerbnw iwcurring as had led to the Puilhuger
frauds alluded to by an honourable proprietor.
The p.p..rt was then adopted, rod a dividend declared as
recommended then in,

A v..te "f thanks to the ehaismananddirecters terminated
the mevoug.

GREAT NORTHRRN AND WESTERN (OF IRE-
LAND) RAILWAY.--(THIS DAY.)

The sixth half-yearly meeting war held at
o'clock, at the boalon offices. Parliarnent.street, the
Earl of LUCAN is the chair. The report of the directors is
as follows :
" As we hare already reported, the first section of the
line from Athlone to Roscommon was opened
for peasengers on the 13th of February, awl for goods
some tune later. The traffic has exceeded our ex•

pectations, and we cannot doubt that, when the entire
line to Castlens is completed, the receipts will be large and
the undertaking remunerative. There is a balance of
4.. 11d, to the credit of the traffic receipt*, after
deducting ail working charges; but it is the opinion
of your directors that it would not be expe-
dient to declare a dividend on the present ooca-
sion, and they hope that hi this decision the shareholders
will concur. A contract has been entered into with Mears.
Smith and Knight for the construction of the railway from
(Nations to Castlebar. These gentlemen have wider.
taken that the first section to Claremorris shall be ready for
opening on the 15th December,lB6l, and the second section
to Casticbar on the 15th August, 1812."
On the motion of the Marquis of Sumo, seconded by Sir
Ggo. CAULFIELD, the report was adoptid.
A resolution was afterwards carried tothe effect thatthe
24,00010/. shares created under the original act of par-
liament be Lonvert.cl into capital stock at the rate of 10
shares for each It Y. stock, to be divided among the pro-
prietors according to their respective interest, and that
such conversion take effect as soon as the shtres shall be
fully paid up.
The meeting then separated.

SHARE LIST&-THIS DA)

Two Mom.
The railway share market opened this morning
with decided firmness, but has since become weaker.
The present quotations, compared with those of
yesterday afternoon, show a reduction off per
cent. in London and North Western stock,
and ff to per cent. in Midland and
Lancashire and Yorkshire. London and North
Western stock is quoted 104 to f ; Great Western,
74 to 74 ; ifidLuid, 1281 to ; Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 1091 to 110/ ; Caledonian, 94f to f ;
Great Northern, 119 to 120 ; South Eastern, 88f to
I ' • and Eastern Counties, 57 to f.
Great Western of Canada Railway shares have
risen to 111 to 12. Grand Trunk of Canada stock
is likewise decidedly better. The Indian lines are
steady.

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MONE} MARKET.-?HIS DAY.

Two o'CLoou.
The funds to-day are dull. There have been
some considerable sales, accompanied by revived
rumours of a coming French loan. Consols are
quoted about 1-16 per cent. lower than they closed
yesterday. British railway stocks opened with
firmness, but have since given way, and are now
quoted, in some instances, rather lower than at
four o'clock yesterday.
At Paris, this morning, according to Mr. Reuter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Routes opened at 68fr.,
and improved to 68fr. 25c., showing a rise of about
i per cent. since yesterday, owing to the official
notification that the convention respecting Syria
will be signed by the Plenipotentiaries at 3 o'clock
to-day.

Consols are officially marked 933, 4, and 1,
for money, and 931 and 4, for the account.
The present quotations are 9:311 to 4 for cash, and
934 for the 9th inst. The official business re-
port is as follows :—Bank Stock, 230 ; Three per
Cents. Reduced, 934, 94, 931 ; New Three
per Cents.,94, 934 ; New Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
774 ; 30 Years' Annuities, expiring in January,
1880, 134 ; ditto in April, 1883, 164 ; India Stock,
217 ; ditto Five per Cent. Stock, 1859, 1044 ; ditto
Four per Cent. Debentures, 1858, 974 ; Five per
Cent. "enlaced" rupeelpaper, 974 ; Exchequer
Bills, 3s. prem.
Turkish Bonds are quoted much the same
as yesterday afternoon—the Loan of 1854 at 761
to ; and that of 1858, 61 to 4. Spanish Bonds
are firm, and Mexican flatter. Russian scrip is
marked 1 to 14 prem. Sales are recorded as
follows :—Brazilian Four-and-a-Half per Ceuta,
1860, 88, 871 ; Mexican Three per Cents.,
for account, 214, ; Peruvian Three per
Cents, 734 ; Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
1860 (scrip), 1,4, prem. ; Sardinian Five per Cents.,
for account, 831 ; Spanish Three per Cents., for ac-
count, 484; ditto New Deferred Three per Cents., for
account, 394, 40 ; Turkish Six per Cents., 1864,
for account, 761 ; ditto Six per Cents., 1858, for
account, 614, 61 ; ditto Guaranteed Four per
Cents., for account, 1014, 101 ex div.
In the discount market the demand yesterday was
rather brisker, owing probably to preparations for
the 4th of the month. At the Bauk of England
the applications were to a fair extent, and more
numerous than of late.

The East Indian Railway Company have an-
nounced that the list for the unallotted balance
(between 300,0001. and 400,0001.) of their 5 per
cent. debenture loan will be, kept open until the
amount is completed.
The Bank of England have notified that to-
morrow (the 4th) the banking offices in that
establishment will be kept open till 4 o'clock,
instead of 3.

The amount of gold taken from the Bank yesterday
was 4,0001. There is an active demand for the
Continent. About 100,0001. of the 236,0001. by the
Kent has already been bought for exportation, and
the rest will be similarly disposed of, as well as the
86,0001. by the Atrato, and the 103,0001. reported
yesterday from New York by the Fulton.
The Ripon will take, to-morrow, for the East,
90,1541. in specie. The particulars are as follows :
For Hong Kong, silver, 30,6301., and gold, 12,500 L ;
for Calcutta, silver, 21,3351. ; for Shanghai, sil-
ver, 13,8331. ; for Alexandria, gold, 6,500/. ; for
Madras, gold, 3,296/. ; and for Foo-Choo-Foo,
silver, 2,060/.
The delay in the arrival of the Calcutta and
China mails is accounted for by the fact of the
Simla having broken her main shaft between Aden
and Suez, which compelled her to put back to the
former port. The passengers, cargo, and mails
were taken to Suez by the steamers Norna,
Madras, and Malta, which also had on board the
mails from Australia, Mauritius, and Bombay.
The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in
the London and County Bank was held yesterday,
and was of a very satisfactory character. The
half-year's accounts, after providing for bad debts,
expenses, income tax, rebate, and the usual mid-
summer dividend of 5 per cent. for the half-year
(being at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum), show
a surplus of 8,7081., which is to be carried
forward to profit and love new account. The chair-
man (Mr. W. C. donee) expressed his gratification
at being able to announce that the disasters in the
leather trade had not caused any loss whatever to
the bank, either present or prospective. The busi-
ness of the establishment is steadily increasing,
and great confidence was expressed in its stability,
as well as in the thoroughly cautious character of
the management. The Irish law proceedings are
resulting in the recovery of a considerable sum. 1
The report was adopted, a half-yearly dividend of
5 per cent. declared, and cordial votes of thanks
passed to the directors and officers.
It appears that the settlement in the Stock Ex-
change in the shares of the South Eastern Railway
Company of Portugal, fixed for Tuesday, will not
take place on that day, the representatives of the
company having applied that it may be postponed,
in order that the impediment to the quotation of
the shares iu the official list may previously he
obviated. That impediment, if we are rightly in-
formed, consisted in the incorporation in the com-
pany's articles of association of stipulations too
favourable to the directors. The difficulty will be
met by the withdrawal of these stipulations.
The committee of the Stock Exchange have
unanimously adopted the following resolution
relative to the unsettled transactions in the shares
ef the Buenos Ayres and San Fernando Railway
Company :
Resolved,—That unless the outstanding shares in the
Buenos Ayres Railway Company be delivered on or before
Monday next, the holders of tickets shall only claim pay-
ment from the member whose name stands upon the ticket
to pay.
The Eastern Counties Railway traffic return
shows this week an increase of 7831. ; the Midland
an increase of 3,9591. ; the Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire an increase of 6571. ; the Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire an increase of 4,412'. ; and
the North Eastern an increase of 2,0481.
The annual meeting of the Netherlands Land
Enclosure Company is convened for the 3dth
instant.

The annual meeting of the Royal Swedish Rail-
way Company is called for the 23rd instant at
Orebro.

At the Bankruptcy Court yesterday adjudication
was made against James Denny Chapman, ware-
houseman and draper, of Aldermanbury and of
WhitechapeL The bankrupt, who owes 10,0901.,
has absconded, and a reward has been offered for
his apprehension.

With reference to the silk market, the monthly
circular issued yesterday by Messrs. H. Waithman
and Co. has the following :

The silk market has been very quiet during the pact
month. Accounts from all the producing district, in Eu-
rope agree in stating that the crop will be somewhat larger
than last year, and by the next mail from China we expect
to hear of samples of the new crop having been received at
Shanghai, and some opinion as to quality and prospect'.
In the meantime buyers, both home and foreign, seem dis-
posed, as fares they can, to suspend purchases. The stock
of old silk is the warehouresis eonaiderablv reduced, and that
in the hands of the trade generally very light ; so that when
confidence in prices is once established, we may expect to
see more business doing. Dull and inactive as the market
has been, Prices on the whole have been well m•mt'!ned.
A few small sales of China silk have lately been made at •
concemion of 3d. to 6d. per lb. The China letters not having
yet arrived, we are unable to give our usual account of the
settlements, shipments, kc. Bengal silk has shared in the
general quiet, but prices are unaltered.

TiftilKDAT EVINING.

Consols, which closed yesterday at 03g to j for
the 9th instant, opened this morning at the same
quotation, advanced to 931, "buyers," and closed
at 931 to /, both for money and the account. Ths
official business report is as follows :—Three per
Cent. Consols, for money, 931, , 4, ; ditto for
account (August 9), 931, , ; Three per Cents.
Reduced, 94, i ; New Three per Cents., 931, 941,
94 ; India Stock, 217, 2114 ; ditto Five per Cent.
Stock, 1839, 1041, 1 ; ditto Four per Cent. Wien-

tures, 1858, 97 ; ditto Bonds, 5e., 6s. dis. ; Five
per Cent. "eufaced " rupee paper, 97*; ditto Five-
and-a-Half per Cont., 102 f.
Indian govemment securities remain steady.
Eachequcr Bills ware firm at 3s. to 6s. prem.
Turkish Bondi ware rather flatter to-day, and
declined about 4 per cent ; the Loan of 18b4
closed a: 76j t )4, and that of 1858 at 61 to *,
after being uni: 1 62. Most other foreign :stocks
were steady, a:l,i the business was of a more varied
character than for some time past. The scrip of
the new Rug.dan Loan was inquired for, and was
marked 11 prem.
Ottoman Ruth and Union Bank of Australia
shares were inquired for to-day. London and
County Bank were firm at 37 to 38. City Bank
declined V. Colonial Bank were marked 371. The
8 per cent. pr:fer,nee shares of the Netherlands
Land Enclosime Company were in demand. Great
Ship were dull, at 9s. 3d. to 98. 9d.
The closing quotations for shares in new
undertakings were as follow :--Ocean Marine
Insurance, 2.1 to 2* prem. ; Thames and Mersey
Marine, i to 1 prem. ; Universal Marine Insurance,
Ito prem. ; London and Provincial Marine,
to * dim. ; London and South African Bank,
to * die. ; United Kingdom Telegraph, to if
prem.
Colonial govoniment securities continue in good
demand for iavestmeut, and are rising. Au advance
of 1 per cent. occurred today in South Australian,
and per cent. in Canada and New South Wales.