The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-30 00:00:00

MINCING-LANE.-THIS DAY.

The large public sees of Seger are proffering with some
degree of reediner, but not at improved rates. !leaned
renters doll, but without alteration in floss.
Coma. Good marry native Ceylon declined oa
'Change yesterday to 43e.. at whieh 600 bags were sold, bet
to-day, t►ey are quoted 435. to 445.; the market, however, is
very doll. _ .

COCOA.-400 bags Trinidad were offend ; about ball mold ;
fair to middling, at 375. to 40e. ; good and Ana red,
44a. to 44a.
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-14iiii4rzi.-200 bags, refraction 61 w 6, 265. to 26e. 6d.
P . 620 bags Penang sold in public male at 24 to
21 per lb
Ciovzs —Fine Penang mold in public ale at le. 44.,
which was a low price.
CINNANOX.—The quarterly public sale closed yesterday
afternoon ; 2.200 Wes offered and one fourth only sold, at
prices 4d. to 6d. per lb. under the previous sale.
Um remains dull of sale.
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COTTON.—A fair amount of basin's, done at fall prime.
Tza.—A limiud amount of business done, at het week's
prime.
In other articles no material alteration, bat the markets
hate opened with a dell appearance.

TALLOW MARKET.-THIS DAY.

The swim is pastally fiat. Oa the spot pries. have a
dowawerd tendency. New Tallow is steady. Petersburg
Y.C. oa th. spat is quoted at 36e. 9d. ; April sad May,
365. 64. ; October to Deonatisr, 38s. 64.

HAY MARHET.-THIS DAY.

Messrs. Cooper sad Davis report trade ham, at tin
following quotations:—Prime Meadow, 665. to 725. Linfo-
rior, 60a. to 635. ; Clover, 60a. to 86. ; Straw. 230. to 28a.

LEEDS, April 19.

Brocc•lxotixon.—The waist 'ascertain state of the
share markr. boa quits arcked openness here. This irmslog is
trameetioss were marked epos the bum% awl the mdp lake SIMAINI
a the t
were of a pr vete Manner. pulse InesndSpeeml Is hest Senile
Coacher marker h 7 nee'n'S seMien u
n inlisenli WEIS&

HAMBURG, April 26.

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BoleiNNALLl.—lleatb. Bergd., 90 bills ; Bails Haab.,
7111, Tei money; Colecillidl.inden, 93 bills, 30 mosey ; Mg-
Wittenberg, 37 664 sassy ; hided* WUllen
Northern, 40 Mr; Altana 93 Mk 921 wow ; Bleak.
stun, 13 bills ; liarnb. Bernd. Priority, rigs pr Orris. 1 bilis ;
Ditto Priority, Fonr.entl4.lleN par Owls. KO mow ;
Minden, Priority, YourAnda-Malfar calOiol44oLaway; Ditto,
Priority, 3 per Comte., 1014 bills; M Priority, 5 per
Cte.,lo4bllh; Mecklenburg, Priority,44 per „lOU 10111rneury.

GREAT INDIAN PENINSULA RAILWAY.
Yesterday the half-yearly meeting of this ems-
pear WU bill 4 Si the Loadoa TIMM. Lord WILLAXCLIFF7I
toot the chair.

Hr. R. said before the seal was pat to
the registry, ►e 'wished to ask whether the register included
the news of all parties entitled to vote, and if there were
say persons whose names were not so entered on the list ?
The CHAIRMAN replied that nobody was entitled to
vote by law except his name were on the registry.
Mr. R. W. CRAWFORD asked if all the registered
&embolden were included in that list ?

thq were not, as the shares
Guild net he tegletered tN the eMp was exchanged and the
call had been lowered, which could not occur, however, in
suSekat demise any proxies to be used at this meeting.
Mr. R. W. CRAWFORD would like to know by whose
negleet it wee that ea large a portion of this company u
30,000 vote. shou d all at once be disfranchised. The dine-
tors ought to have taken are fa time that the interest
of the Bombay shareholder should luxe been protected, and
not thus disregarded. He felt bound to make these obser-
vations, as he represented 16,000 shares in Bombay on this
occasion, and had proxies to that extent, but finding that
they would require to be stamped, and to use them would
ruder him liable to a penalty, of course they were now us-
las for the meeting.
The CHAIRMAN signified that the board bad no proxies.
Mr. ANDER TON protested against the use of proxlckat
all, as ceasing greet Irregularity.
Mr. BADLEIR, M.P., would be very sorry to see any
perdu in a great underteklog like this dicfranehieed—(hear,
hoar)—and he hoped his lordship would give some distinct
explanation on the subject.
The CHAIRMAN observed that no disposition (listed to
disfranchise say one. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. ANDERTON asked how much had been received on
these 16,000 shares ?

Mr. NICHOLSON (the managing director) said that
3,6441. had been paid while the com►any was in a provisional
state, but since that time 114,566 rupee, repenting's to-
gether on the first call about 12,0001. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. NICHOLSON then read the following report and
&wants:—

t' The directors have much pleasure in meeting the pro-
prietors on this occasion, the lint opportunity presented
',eau the act of incorporation. Since the shareholder were
lest assembled together, the act of parliament has been
puled for the incorporation of the company, and the formal
contract with the lion. But India Company has been exe-
cuted under the seals of the companies respectively. J. C.
Melvill, Biq.. the secretary of the lion. But India Company,
has been appointed by the hon. court the ex.o.fficio directu
at this heard ; an arrangement which tends very
much to facilitate the oomnignicationa with the
hon. court, and the Neural business of the company.
The amount of calls paid Leto the treasury of the lion. East
India Company in London, during the half year ending
December 31st, 1849 (including the sum of 25,0001 , the
amount of preliminary impasse Una led as capitol), was
95.0001. On the let of March, • further sum of 15.0001. was
paid into the immure. In India, the sum of 114,655 rupees
has been paid into tie treasury of the government of Bom-
bay; and a further cell in India (making, with the deposit,
a rum univalent to 20e. per sham) is declared payable In
Bay. It making the appointment of the permeneut staff ot
ofhoen and servants, the director. have been guided by •
principle of securing the utmost practical I dictum et • far
rate of vu lion, not forgetting whet litho to the qua-
lifications which they consideted to be indispensable on the
one hand, or to modem of true econ )tut or. the other, end
not forgetting the ddiereace of cireuinstances between Bug

land mth India. L raegariathig the tans dna ar
M r
O via Mr. Obegramm. Ste se intended MbeM
d the ommely WI% the direseare lead ties
deellme ble seeefese, Mr. Obegimaa hee-
ls, ask in mosey and siren,
as see aimed with the 'Sweets of
the ebeethethem. At the of the Hon. Bast Com-
pere the Oils of bee been disposed with, and the
to Wise has bees wholly sand.
111111:11Zefriabesseigeesant v4l devolve is the lees! sin-
WM% osesseed Lee= sting leader the authority el
the Leeds bawd. Use. the recsinmedation of Mr.
Rain Mmisb the beard appointed m chief resident
as~Metr, Mr. Joaoillni,
J. Berkley together with Mr. Kerr
aY St. Graham, two other well'eauslilled engineers, and •
theiffei assistants. The staff aerie out at Bombay early is
ithraery, and sonimeneed active operations without delay.
The directors have meek gratification In stating that the
govirnment of Bombay has most readily met and promoted
the views of the directors; and the seal and interest 'which
are maaifested in the undertaking by the engineering and
Shag slimes ef government—heartily Go-operettas with the
WM% et eds eempany,--give the direeten a well grounded
bap that the work will be rapidly advanced. At the date et
the hat despatches, the surveys Is the Island of Bombay were
eseveleted, and betties Bombay and Tusk the surveys
and working seeks were being proceeded with, and pre-
' Ihninary steps were already taken for staking out a portion of
the line, rassone Stith bad received the approval of the go
verament. Best mseseiel Mc:meats have been effected
is the diesels. sad &Con of the line of rail-
way ;by whisk, wi t adding to the testi' of the line,
°maiden:isle expense will be saved in oosseniesk.n. The
dismay appoinaed by the .speeial ass imathaes is ales Nag
until the present festal meeting ; and It will be amp( tent for
the shareholden to continue thus or any of them by re-elee-
ties. It will be necessary also to elect the directors who are to
compose the permanent committee in Bombay ; and for these
jots parposes the following rollmop will be at in nomina-
tion, :—ln England—Lord Wkarnelilf., William John
Hamilton Frederick Ayrtoa, John Griffith Frith, Robert
William Ken ard, William Nicol, Cornelius Nicholson,
Melvil Wilson. Is ladle—A. Male; C S., List •Colcnel,
P. M., hielvill, Major J. Swanson, Cureetjee Jaseseljee,
Jassronatk &usherette
it will be farther necessary, at this meeting, in confor-
mity with the act, to nominate and anoint two auditors
from among the body of shareholders. The statement of
accounts, up to the termination of the half-year ending
December 31st, 1819, will be found appended to this report.
The particulars of this statement, as well as the books of
accounts of the company. have been examined by the
setioastants of the Hon. East India Company, in addition
to the eared audit of a committee of directors."
The accounts were as follows :

CAPITAL ACCOUNT.
1849. Dee. 31. Da. C a. d.
To Amount received °annum In Eng-
land
To ditto In India 3,544 10 0
94,913 6 0
To ditto Interest from Bankers IS IS 0