The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-08 00:00:00

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announced the following dividends itte halt.
year. via. :-Irwich, te pee cent.
menet fee 41160 eerresponding period-el .154
'York; Staffibmg ; Leta,' 2/. eftllt; -
lisle, of against 6f ; sad Darlington, Slavin/ k.
The dividend just announced (61 par mat. per
annum) by the London and North Western Belt-
way Company is at the erase rate as that de-
clared for the corresponding period of last ram
At the meeting yesterday el the Indo-Europsaa
Telegraph Company (Lmiited), the directors'
=4;(lwhich has already • bees imblished, wee
. The cheirman stated that the under.
taking as established with a viewto carrying eat a
trustworthy line from England to Indy for whiok •
ooescessions have been obtained from the North
German Confederation, Russia, and Pbrsia. Not
only will the line be the moot direct, but it will •
taw entirely avoid Turkish territory, where se
many delays ars constantly occurring in the .
Irearmiseion of messages. The shares hswe not ;
been subscribed for to any extent by the pubes..'
but have been chiefly taken up by large mercan-
tile houses in London, Manchester, Bodin, Ham-
burg, Bremen, and Bt. Petersburg.
A meeting of the Mediterranean Extension
Telegraph Company (Limited) was held yesterday.
when a dividend of he. per share on the preference
and 3s. on the ordinary shares was declared.'
A meeting of the Metropolis &wage and Essex
Reclamation Company was held yesterday, but
reports rs for the press were refused admission.
h half-yearly meeting of the North Rasters
Railway Company is fixed for the 21st instant at
York.

The half-yearly meeting of the Dublin Trask
Connecting Railway Company is called for the
24th inst.

The annual meeting of the Royal Swedish.
Railway Company is called for the 31st inst. at
Orebro. in Sweden.

The following official memorandum relates to
•
the Delhi Railway:
Dunaj;tAe past four months the sum of 1.015,9011. has
been paid to the credit of the Secretary of State for India
on account of the capital of the Delhi Railway, the pro.
prietore of shares in the undertaking having availed them-
saliva to a large extent of the option of paying the amoaat
of their share, in full. The works on this line are making
rapid progress, and the company are
ni.now enge=s
staff of drives to. work the section from
to Üballah, aboutengia 120 miles in length. which 11 expeoted
to be opened by his excellency the Viceroy in October
next. 'This section will bring the railway from Calcutta to
within ninety mile* of Simla, and within fifty miles of the
base of the hills. The Delhi Railway is a continuation of
the trunk line of the East Indian, and the section from
Delhi to Ifimhallah should prove verb remunerative to the
proprieto . the more especially as it has been constructed
th for ae bl
Indian.y low sum per mile than the average oat.
of East

An extraordinary general meeting of the Hop
and Malt Exchange and Warehouse Company
(Limited) will be held on the 18th instant.

Annexed are the quotations of insurance, gas,
dock, waterworks, and canal shares, as given in
the Stock Exchange list of last evening
Insurance.—Commercial Union, 5 7-16 ; London, 461 ;
Ocean Marine, 191 ex div.; Universal Marine (Limited)
61 to ax dm.
Gas Light and Colta.—Bombay (Limited), 4ex div. •
City. of Moscow Gee, 6 ; Great Central, 14.* ; baperialt;
I 13-16 ; Imperial Continental, 991 ; Weston; 141 ; ditto
B, 8.
Docks.—Millwall Freehold Land and Dock, 32 to 304.
Waterworks.—Berlin, 15, f, 1, 1 ; ditto New, 91; Beak
Loudon, 114 ; Druid Junction, 764, 4f.
Canals .--Grand Junction, Mt.

The following letter, fro-m
the Anglo-American
Telegraph Company, describes the position of the
fracture of the 1866 cable:—

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