The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-07 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, 1868.

CLERKENWELL.
cßtn. I.V4ZATION Or • WIFE.
'1 arts ffodge,• bricklayer, about 45 years of age, was
.ght up on a warrant by George Moss, the warrant
.er of Sc. Mary, Islington, for having deserted His wife.
ry Hodge, and leaving her chargeable to the parish of
t,gton.
: appeared from the evidence that the defendant and
• wife were discharged from the workhouse on the sth
ty last, on which oocaoion the board allowed the de-
...at to have 10.., a pair of boots, two shirts, aril apair
• --,kings. On the 7th of May the wife was re-admitted
Las since been chargeable. Inquiries ware instituted
:.=ruing the husband, but nothing was beard of him
his apprehension on a warrant when he said be had
smiting at Kennington-lane and earning tie. a day ;
1,,d. sent three times to the workhouse to inquire for
• wtfe, and as he could learn nothing of her he thought
: t she was dead, and so therefore troubled himself no
orr.hout her.
The defendant said he was very sorry, and if allowed
take his wife beck again.
Larker sentenced him to one month's imprisonment
s hard labour.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
•• •UNTLE3IE24 " CHARGED WITH BRUTALLY ASSAULTING
THE POLICE.
roe Rielontoltd, of No. 3, Cecil-street, Strand ; Jaffa
of No. 4, Dyer's-buildings, Holborn ; Bohol
of No. 115 Gray's-inn-road; and Alfred
,rne, of ILOTO/gtol2-street, Itegent's.park, all
^nbed as gentlemen, were charged before Mr.
with being drunk and behaving in • disorderly
in Jermymstreet, and also with cowardly and
assaulting policmeonstables Cane, 35 C, and Ali-
t.; c,
,riKeers jostled against the police, who were in plain
end when remonstrated with one of the men
'one a. violent blow on the eye, and so severely
I wood as to produce a severe contusion on the side
ice. _ . _

Knox committed the prisoners for trial.
SOUTH WANK.
' NIIFD ( RANGE AGALNST A LICENSED VICTUALLED.
E,leur,l Pure/tate. teenager to Mr. Thomas Gram-
-130 proprietor of the Olive Bench wine and spirit
at the corner of the Waterloo-road sad the Lowe:
was charged with assaulting Mary Ann Davis.
complement, one of the wont-behaved young
in the district of the court, said that about

12 o'clock on the Ist instant she went into the Olive
Branch public-bonne to have something to drink. The
defendant was behind the bar at the time, and he not
only refused to servo kir, bat eseataked her face, and
knocked her down. Be jumped frees behind the bar, and
kicked her out of the booms. She was most brutally ill-
Mr. Edwin, who we retained for the defendant, denied
the charge altogether. His client was a highly respectable
young man, and Mr. Grammer had great confidence in him.
The prosecutria was well known to the police as a thief
and very bad character, and sa she created a disturbance
in the have the defendant wee compelled to turn her out
He used no more violence than necessary tondo it.
John Newbury, under-barman to . rammer, said
that the defendant told the complainant that he should
not serve her, as she was using bad language. The cam-
plainant refused to go, so that witness was compelled to
assist in ejecting her. She was neither struck nor kicked.
Henry Morton, 63 L, said that he saw the complainant
follow some gentlemen into the house, and knowing her to
be a notorious convicted thief he watched her, and saw her
try to force herself between the gentlemen. The defendant
told her to behave herself, and on her using disgusting lan-
guage he turned her out. There was no particular violence
mad.
The Magistrate observed that the defendant had done
no more than hie duty to his employer; therefore he dis-
missed the complaint.

THE SOLICITOR-GCNCRAL AND THE REPRESENTA-
TION or Hrherote.—The newly-appointed Solicitor-General
(William Baliol Brett, Fag., Q.C.), left town this morning
for Holston, to meet his constituents. An opposition to
the learned gentleman's return is contemplated.
THE Rev. B. Spnas.—The Times has the fol-
lowing :—" Sir,—l have just read your article on the
mysterious disappearance of Mr. Speke, and but for my
knowledge of the man I should be inclined to agree with
your conclusions. You will, I hope, out of regard to his
character and profession, allow publicity to the follow-
ing statement from one who is in no way con-
nected with his family, who has lemma him in-
timately, and who was the last of his friends who saw
him. He was my colleage in • curacy at Banbury— his fine
curacy. He was there most exemplary and earnest in his
duties, and when he went to take charge of a living in De-
vonshire he left the town with the respect and regard of all
the parishioners, whether rich or poor. When, soon after
his disappearance, I visited that town and infonned some of
his old people of it, they mourned for him as for a brother,
and instinctively felt be had been • victim to violence.
From Devonshire, 11 years since, he proceeded to his
present living, and during the whole of his incum-
bency he has seemed to live but for two things, hie
parish and his family. Though in an affluent position,
he has, for the sake of the poor, denied himself the
comforts, if not the necessaries, of life. His whole
time has been given to them, and almost the last I
thing he did was at his own cost to arrange • mode I
of relief for the distressed. It was a most touching spec-
tacle to see his people in church mourning for him on the
Sunday when his disappearance had become known, and his
recovery seemed hopeless. It happened that I travelled with I
him on the Wednesday from Chard to Salisbury, and that
we were almost alone during the journey, and though I
thought nothing of it at the time, I have since remem-
bered with satisfaction his perfect freedom from absence
of mind or forced spirits. It is, I am sure, perfectly in,- I
passible that lie can have purposed such • shameless
enterprise as to absent himself from hie home or his
work. He was by no means a likely MAU to be I
entrapped;. he was • very mire and abstemious moo in I
youth and at college, and has been so to my knowledge
ever since ; and the only alternative but violence is
•
sudden aberration of intellect, of which there were neither
personal nor hereditary symptoms. His family will be
grateful for the pOlieity you have given to his disappear-
ance, and it is at to be hoped that the unceasing and
varied efforts of his friends and the authorities may notate
to us a man whose loss is felt by this whole neighbourhood
to be a public calamity.—Your obedient servant, G. T.
GOWRING. Ilminster, Feb. 5."
LONDON GAS CoMPANIER AND CoNsCHERS.—In
the first of a series of articles on the gas supply of London
the Daily Nora points out the magnitude of the interests I
which are liable to be affected by legislation having foe its
object the regulation of the gas service of the metropolis.
According to official returns no leas than 530,3371. was dis-
tributed to the form of dividends by the 1:1 companies in
London, upon a capital of 5,84:3,1:Wf. The consumers have
also great interests to defend, no less than 1,500,00 W. a year
being paid to the London companies for gas. The great
benefit which the Act of 1860 conferred upon the com-
panies was that it relieved them from the fear of competi-
tion, and gave them tolerable certainty and a period of
rest. The immediate result of the " districting" arrange-
ment was • rise in the divideuds, which was
followed by • corresponding increase in the
value of share,. The agitation of last year, and which pro-
mises to be renewed, has shown bow much the enhanced
value of the property depended on a maintenance of the
monopoly, for since it began prices on all bands have
been quoted considerably lower. The parliamentary
committee of 18titi reported in favour of the continuance
of the system of " districting." on the ground that it con.
duced to economy of administration, and advised that
every facility Amid be given by parliament for the
further extension of the system of regulated
monopoly, either in the way of amalgamation of ex-
isting companies, or of the disposal of the interests of the
several metropolitan companies to parties representing the
ratepayers of London. The committee of 1867 proposed
to give the consumer greater control than be now enjoys
over the supply, and recommended that if the companies
refused to give a better supply at a cheaper rate, parla-
ment should authorise the transfer of the business to the'
City of London, the Metropolitan Board of Works, or
some other authority. The act of 1860 created ex-
pectations which have not been realised. It
seems to have encouraged a large number of '
persons to buy London gas shares, in the belief that they
had at length found the grand deaideratum of the invee-
tor—pronerty as sure as Three per Cents., yielding • re-
turn equal to the dividend upon old East India stock ; and
these purchaser' now regard any interference with their
interests as equivalent to confiscation. It is certain, how-
ever, that parliament has not handed the gas consuming
public over into the hands of the present companies, and
that unless they can make terms with their customers,
their monopoly will soon be brought to an end.
PoRrLAN I, CAIN Vl4 T ESTABLISHMENT.—Sonic little
excitement has been occasioned at Portland during the
past week by the detection and punishment of two of the
warders employed at the convict prison for being in un-
lawful communication with the prisoners under confine-
ment. The system of " trafficking" between the words.rs
and the convicts seems to have been on the increase of
tate, and consequently a vigilant watch has been set by
the authorities to check the unlawful intercourse which
has been serried on. On Friday last a warder,
named Morris de Young, was taken into custody,
charged with conveying letters out of the prison,
and supplying tobacco to a Belgian convict named
Milkienwies. The desire evinced by the prisoners
to obtain tobacco is manifested in the fact that 120 oz. of
bread is willingly exchanged for an 011DOe of " weed,"
while many of the convicts would readily forego a meal in
order to possess themselves of a small portico of that
luxury. The convicts teal, it appeared, intrusted letters
to the warder, who bad posted them, and had supplied 21b.
of tobacco in all to Milkieowiez, for which he was sen-
tenced to three months' hard labour. On Monday another
warder, named Peter Aldereley, was charged with •
similar offence, and was detected in the set of fetching •
parcel from the Weymouth railway station, containing
tobacco end money, which he intended to deliver to •
convict named Batt. He had also posted letters to a Mrs.
O'Brien, 42, Buttesland-street. Holton, and the parcel I
was addressed to" William Thompson, to be left at the
Weymouth station till called for. The offence was fully
proved, and he was sentenced to four months' hard '
labour.
TUE PENALTY OF REFUSING TO BECOME A I
SPICIAL CONSTABLE. —Yesterday, at the Leeds Town-ball,
before Messrs. Ellenhaw and Cooper. Mr. Thee. Addison
'Miley, of Gledhow, came forward in answer to a sum-
mons charging him with haring neglected to take the
oaths as a special constable. The summons was addressed
"Thomas Titley, Leeds," and stated that on the 31st
January, the defendant being then liable to serve as
• special constable for the borough of Leeds for one year,
an order bad been made upon him asking him to take the
oaths on the 4th February, but that he had neglected to do
so. Mr. Ferns, who appeared in defence, raised an objec-
tion to the summons on the ground that one of the
christian names of his client had been left out, and because
it described Mr. Titley as living in Leeds, whereas be
lived at Gledhow. The objection was not sustained, and
Mr. Titley agreed to accept the summons on the necessary
corrections being made in the document. In answer to
the bench, however, he said that he objected to serve, and
Ellershaw stated that in justice to those parties who
had henceforward to be sworn on being asked to do so, be
had no alternative but to inflict a penalty of 51. with costs.
The money was at once paid. —Leeds Meteors,.
TRIPLE Buirns.--f)ln Sunday morning a woman
named Susan KeliT, a pauper in Liskeard IJBioe was de-
livered of three children at • birth. They are all girls,
and are living, and doing well.—Waters Daily Mercury.
On Friday evening the wife of John Reed, jobbing gam
dense, of Springfield Wharf, Springfield, was delivered of
three children, girls, one of whom survived her birth only
a few hours. The two other with their mother, are
doing "as well as can be expected." but unfortunately
the husband is not, having been out of work for some tin's
past,—Chelmsford Chronicle.
COMPULSION AT TEILLINO.—The total number of
oases of fever at Teriing, in • population of 900, now
amounts to 260 ; the deaths to 30. Dv. Thames report to
the Privy Ormacil, which lies before us, discloses an utter
neglect ci the meet ordinary and decent sanitary provi-
sions, a disbuds( state of immorality, physical degene-
rw of the
povladon, overcrowding, and every condition
which eau imp neglect of duty by the local authorities.
The Witham board of gnardians is the " local authority"
in the sense of the Sanitary AAA, NM A main object of
that sat wee to enable the Home Secretary to eon local
authorities to do their duty in then matters. Here surely
is • case in which the government ought to He vitality to
the act by compelling complianse with the previsions
there made for the preservation of the public-health.—
British Necked Jorossi.

BETTING 11‘149101DFIV—CTX.19-DLY.h
•
2.30 r.w.
&somewhat numerous mortar to-day, suidbusiness
pretty good. There is, how•ver,, as uselisalar feature to
reseed. The Lincolnshire Handicap remained in about
the mama position as yeeterday, sad there was no away.
On the Liverpool Port Royal was again subjected to
considerable hostility, 40's and 50's being laid in plant, •
For the Chester Cup Abergeldie was not in such good re -
quest, 22 to 1 being offered against him without a response.
Beaming had an improving appearance, being backed at
20 to 1, while at a few points more a good amount of
business would have been transacted. Several bets were
laid on the Two Thousand and Derby, The Earl for the
latter race being in good request. Quotations :

LINCOLNSHIRE HANDICAP.
9 to 1 apt Czar (t and oil)
100 to 6 Ring Charming (0 aud off)
20 to 1 Cauthleen (w)
20 to 1 Mount Palatine (off)
100 to 3 Rhine Wine (t)
LIVERPOOL GRAND NATIONAL.
100 to 7 aid Fin (t)
100 to 7 Tennyson (0)
100 to T Tuiculanum (off)
100 to T— Daisy log)
21 to 1 Pearl Diver (off)
25 to 1 Helen (off)
25 to 1 Thalaesius (off)
33 to 1 Despatch (off)
50 to 1 Port Boys' (t & off)
CHESTER CUP.
10 to 1 apt Beaming (0)
22 W 1 Abergeldie (o, t2sto 1)
1000 to 35 Dab', (t)
1000 to 30 Paul Jones (t and off)
1000 to 30 Dealt (t and off)
1000 to 20 Bracken (t)
1000 to 15 Rhine Wine (t)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
100 to 8 apt Typhoeus (t and w)
1000 to 26 St. Ronan (t)
DEBBY.
100 to 6 apt The Earl (0)
45 to 1 See Saw (t)
1000 to 15 St. Ronan (t)
1000 to 15 Courtmantle (0)
2000 to 20 Franchise (0)

BANK OP EGYPT.-(THIS DAY.)

The twelfth annual meeting of the shareholders
was held at 1 o'clock, at the City Terminus Hotel, Mr. J.
Beamise-Mootte in the chair.
The report, which appeared some time ago in the Express,
having been taken as read,
The CHAIRMAN moved its adoption. He commenced by
expressing his deep regret at the compulsory absence of
the chairman of the board, Mr. Tine, adding
that that gentleman's health bad much improved
since be went abroad, and the directors hoped goon to see
him back. He then alluded to inquiries which bad been
made at the office by two or three shareholders
with regard to the accounts. As regarded the large
cash balance on the 31st of December, namely,
241,0001., which was one subject of inquiry, he
remarked that the existence of such a balance show the
great confidence felt in the bank in Egypt. The whole
whole
of the A 4,000/. put down in the accounts for government
securities, except about 5,0001., was in Treasury bonds,
and he was happy to say that during the 12 years
of the bank's existence all snob bonds had been
punctually met at maturity. No bad or doubtful debts
had been made during the last half-year—(hear, hear)—
and great credit was due to the managers in Egypt for the
manner in which they had conducted the business daring
such en eventful year as the last. The shareholders
must be their own judges as to the future, all the
directors could do ng to state that the bank
was in a sound condition. As they all knew, trade in the
east was not as flourishing now as it was some time no.
With respect to cotton he wished to state that the value
of the imports of cotton from Egypt into England in thu
srst
ten months of the last three years were as follow
10,546,0110/. ; 11466, 7,065,0001. ; 1e67, 0,310,000/.
The decline in the importations was not such as might
have been anticipated considering the enormous deprecia-
tion in the value of the staple in this country.
On the other hand, there had been an increase in
the cereals amounting to about 500,0001. The value of the
silk which had passed in transitit through Alexandria
in the first ten months of the last three years was
as follows:—ls4s, 5160,0001.: 1866, 3,121,000/. ; 11467,
3,068,0001. The bank bad been appointed the agent of
the British government in Alexandna, and it bed to trans-
act all the government business, including that of India.
It bad also the business of the Peninsular and Oriental
Coniny, and of the Telegraph Company. No institution
in pt stood higher than theirs, and they were on
friend y terms with other companies in that country.
(Cheers.)
Mr. THCRTWax (a director) seconded the motion.
After a short diecusaiou, in which satisfaction was ex-
pressed by two or three shareholders at the statement pre.
sented by the board, the report was adopted unanimously.
A dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum for
the last half year with a bonus of it. per share, making,
with the dividenel of the previous half-year, 18 per cent.
for the year, was then declared.
The retiring directors having been re-eleeted gooneing terminated with a vote of thanks to the .

LONDON COMPANY .-( PROVINCIAL TELEGRAPH
COM

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This day the ordinary general meeting of share-
holders was held at the company's offices, Cannon-street;
Mr. BIiEWAND in the chair.
It appeared from the report that there bad been an in-
crease in revenue for the half-year of 1,089 r. as com-
pared with the previous half-year, and of 906/.
over the corresponding period of last year. The
increase in the number of messages for 1867, as compared
with 1866 was 25,087. At the cline of the half year the
addition to the private telegraphs represented rentals of
5001. a year. the chief portion being government contract,
for a period of years.
The CHAIM! As congratulated the shareholders on the
lion they they had attained. They had been prostrated by
the lames sustained by the greet gal* in January. 1866.
But the works were so strengthened and improved since
that calamity, that a few shillings would repair the in-
jury sustained by the gale of last Saturday, one of the
severest ever known in London. (Hear, hear.) The wee-
surges were sent and delivered with speed and punctuality.
The government had leaned notices of their intention to
bring in a permissive bill for taking into their own
bands the telegraph system of the oountry. But
he understood that this only applied to the
public end not to private telegraphs. The object of the
government, he understood, was to extend telegraphs to
all the post-offices in the kingdom, and to establish a low
uniform scale for messages as was done in Switserland and
Belgium. He understood that certain companies intended
' to oppose the bill. They would not adopt that course, but
would wait till they knew what the government proposed
to do. (Hear, hear.) He concluded by moving the adop-
tion of the report.
Mr. DYER seconded the motion.
Captain 51,,x0.EA hoped the directors would endeavour
to obtain a reduction in the price demanded from them by
other companies, and would look M the quotation of the
shares on the Stock Exchange.
Mr. Hears was glad to find that the company bed poem
to the turning point, and hoped that the directors would
give the shareholders an increming dividend every half
year.
Mr. Hrromoes hoped that the 5,000 preference share
would be offered in the first instance amongst the sham
holders pro reel.
After some further remarks the report was adopted, and
• dividend et the rate of 10 per cent. per annum declared.

1191114111WARICETtrfINS
own edwon;
With the excepiian of the English hinds, which
have declined 1-16 to per cent., upon a few reali-
sations, the stock markets are firm to-day. .B& 1-
way securities are inquired for, and better in seve-
ral cases, owing to transaction* to close specu-
lative accounts. The dividends recently declared
by several companies are considered satisfactory
but the public still avoid making purchases. Fo-
reign Bonds are in request, especially the Viceroy
of Egypt's Loan, which has been bought to a eon-
siderable extent upon the announcement that the
government guarantee may perhaps be added to
this security. Portuguese scrip is unchanged.
Colonial government debentures are steady, and
banking and financial shares dull.
The applications for diseount are upon a very,
limited scale, while the supply of money is extremely
large. The general rate for the best paper is nto
lf per cent., but exceptional transactions have oc-
curred at lit. Loans on English government secu-
rities are offered in the Stock Exchange at 1 per

cent.
Consols are quoted 931 to 4 for money, and
93 7-16 to 9-16, or 931, for the' new account
(March 5). The Three per Cents. Reduced and
New Three per Cents. are inquired for, at 931 to
The railway market is firm, and prices show an
improvement. Great Northern original stock has
advanced 1 per cent. ; ditto A, as well as Cale-
donian and Great Eastern, 1 ; and most of the
other lines, Ito 4. Subjoined are the prices :
Metropolitan, 1091 to 1 ; Great Western, 461 to 1 ;
London and North Western, 118/ to 1191; Mid-
land, 106/ to 1071 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1261
to 1271 ; Caledonian, 791 to f ; South Eastern,
71 to 1 ; Great Eastern, 321 to f ; Great Northern,
110 to 4 ; ditto A, 110/ to 1114 ; London, Chat-
ham, and Dover, 18/ to ; North British,
361 to 37 ; London and South Western, 87 to 89 ;
Brighton, 461 to / ; Berwick, 1041 to 1051; and
York and North Midland, 97 to 98.
Canadian Railway shares are steady. Great'
Western are at 1611 to 7 ; and Grand Trunk, 151
to 164.
The foreign stock market is firm, but most of the
speculative descriptions are unaltered. The Vice-
roy of Egypt's Loan and Egyptian of 1864 have
advanced 1 per cent., the present prices being 751
to 76 and 91 to 92, respectively. Peruvian of
1865, however, are lower, at 761 to 774.
Chili= of 1867 are quoted 88 to 89 ; Turkish of
1862, 61 to 62 ; ditto 1865 (Five per Cents.), 324 to
1 ; ditto Six per Cents. (1805), 54 to ; Greek,
13 to 1 ; Portuguese scrip. 14 to 1 pram. ex div. ;
Spanish New Three per Cents., 361 to 37 ; Italian
of 1861, 431 to i; Mexican, 16 to 1 ; and
Russian of 1864, 881 to 891.
American securities have been dealt in to a
moderate extent. The 5-20 Bonds are quoted
711 to 1, being 1 lower. Erie Railway shares, 47
to 1, showing no change ; and Illinois Central, 874
to 1, a rise of 4.
Bank shares are rather dull, in consequence of a
preponderance of sales. Alliance and Oriental
have declined 10s. —viz., to 13 to 12 dis., and 414
to 421 respectively. Union of London are at 33;
to 341 ; Imperial Ottoman, Ito 01 dis. ; London
and County, 52 to 54 ; and London and West-
minster, 674 to 684.
The half-yearly meeting of the Great Western
Railway Company will be held on the sth of March.
The annual meeting of the Grosvenor and West-
end Railway Terminus Hotel Company (Limited)
is convened for the 26th instant.
A petition for the winding up of the Imperial
Land and Investment Company (Limited) is to be
heard before the Master of the Rolls on the 15th
instant.

HALT-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.
There is a demand for the English funds, which
exhibit a recovery of i per cent., Consols being
quoted 93} Foreign bonds remain firm.
Mexican have risen Railway stocks, however,
have receded to per cent., the most important
movement being in Metropolitan and Caledonian.
Private &deices from Egypt state that there is a
possibility that the Viceroy of Egypt will add to
the Pasha Loan the government guarantee. Should
this be done there is no reason why that stock
should not rank as high as the 7 per cent. stocks of
the Egyptian government, issued by Messrs.
Oppenheim, Nephew and Co., in the years 1862
and 1864.
The amount of gold withdrawn from the Bank
yesterday for the Continent was 77,0001.
The proposed dividend on Great Northern Rail-
way stock for the half year is announced at the
rate of 7} per cent, per annum, against 8 for the
corresponding period of 1866. This allows 31. 15s.
on the ordinary stock, 31. on the B, and 41. 10s. on
the A. The Bristol and Exeter dividend is also
announced at the rate of 41 per cent. per annum
carried forward
against 4i. Thu amount eft to be
is 1,1631.
The Great Western Railway traffic return shows
this week an increase of 2381. over the corresponding
period of 1867 ; the Great Northern, a decrease of
2,102/. ; the Great Eastern an increase of 2,2591. ;
the London and South Western, an increase of
1,913/. ; the London, Chatham, and Dover, includ-
ing the Metropolitan Extension and branches, an
increase of 4281.; the Metropolitan Extension,
separately, an increase of 1051.; the Lancashire and
Yorkshire, an increase of 2,5221.; the North
Eastern, an increase of 1,0851.; the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, an increase of 8941.;
and the North British, an increase of 1,6721.
The half-yearly meeting of the London and North
Western Railway Company is oontened for the 21st
inst., and will be made special, to authorise a
subscription of 80,0001. towards the Carnarvon
and Llanberia Railway Company, as wall as " the
conversion of the shares and stock of the South
Staffordshire Railway Company, the Bangor andl
Carnarvon Railway Company, the Vale of Clwyd
Railway Company, the South Leicestershire Rail- I
way Company, and the Birmingham, Wolver-
hampton, and Stour Valley Railway Company, and
the Preference Shares of the Warrington and
Stockport Railway Company into shares or stock
of the London and North Western Railway Com-
any." The directors will also seek power to
t exercise the borrowing powers of the company to
the extent authorised by the company's acts of
parliament." What amount of new capital is
referred to in this last clause has not transpired.
The Anglo-Austrian Bank have just issued
a prospectus, inviting subscriptions for shares
in the Anglo-Hungarian Bonk. The object of
this new undertaking is to employ capital in the
valuable and increasing field presented in Hun-
gary—a country of vast undeveloped resources.
It was originally proposed to establish at Pesth •
branch of the Anglo-Austrian Bank, but partly at
the instance of the Hunwisn government, • sepa-
rate national back has decided upon, having
its seat at the Hungarian capital, and a committee
in London. The prospectus, mentions that " the
chief manager, Mr. Stein, is well known to the
Anglo-Austrian Bank as • man 01 ability., efixpe-
rience, and integrity." The first capital isfixed
at 1,000,000/. ' or 100000,000 florins Lallyerl, divided
into 40,000 shares of SOL each, whish 15,000
will be offered for public subseripties
the 10th and 11th indent emnneowlY
In London, Perth, and Vienna. The sta-
tutes provide that the bank shall not open until
the above capital is subscribed, sad 40 per cent
psid up on each share, To meet this stipulation'
subscribes will be required to pay a deposit se
21. par share on anpliagten, and tio• ressaining 61.
on the 25th last It Is added that, "attar' the
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above amounts have been paid up the letters of
dbiaSsitt will be apotlyerged as soon as possible for
"fityrisional sharestO baker." The undertaking is
eonstituted under statutes approved by the royal
Hungarian government, and uaden which the
liability of shareholders is Malted to the amount
of their respective shares."
The report of the directors of the Anglo-lonian '
Steam Navigation Company, to be presented at the
general meeting on the 19th inst., states that the
company' trading during another year of " most
heavy commercial depression " has been attended
with a profitable redraft. The belancedtheet shows
a net profit of 3,4001., of which the directors re-
commend that 1,677/. be applied to the payment
of a dividend for the past year at the rate of
5 per cent. on the paid-up capital, and 1,500/. to the
establishment of a fresh reserve fund to meet the
depreciation in the company's vessels, in accordance
with the present depressed value of shipping pro-
perty in the market. A balance of 2739. will then
remain to be carried forward.
A general meeting of the Charing-cross Hotel
Company is called for the 24th instant, when a
dividend is to be declared.
The machinations of speculators, whether for the
rise or the fall, have of late been organised and
carried out with increasing skill and audacity.
A clever conspiracy to create a fictitious rise in
Midland Railway stock was defeated on Monday
last through the vigilance of the London Stock
E: change. By the post of that morning the fol-
lowing letter was received by Mr. Slaughter,
written on official paper, and purporting to give
moat favourable information on all the points in
which interest was felt :
Midland Railway, Derby, Feb. 1, IBe.B.
To the Secretary of the Loadoa Stook Exchange.—Sir,—
I am rreeqgnested to state that a committee of shareholders
and Midland directors had a meeting this ahernoos, when
a resolution was pared to abandon the *Atli and Carlisle
Ilse, the London and North Western board haying made
very reasonable Were for the working of the Scotch traffic
°for the Minister and Carlisle line. A second resolution
was pained to postpone several other projects for five years.
This will reduce the amount of new capital required to
very narrow limits. Further, the auditors have pearly
completed our ectionnts, which indicate a dividend at the
rate of iii. 10s. per cent. per annum for the pan half-
year.—Yours respectfully (signed) G. N. BROWN;
Secretary.—To. Slaughter, Esq., Stock Exchange,
London.
Unfortunately for the conspirators, they omitted
to seal the letter in the way in which letters to the
London Stock Exchange are usually sealed. This
omission on their part excited suspicion, and the
letter, the object of which is perfectly clear, was
not posted up as it was designed to be. There is
no security against attempts of this character be-
yond that of vigilance on the part of the estabhsh-
meats through whom the conspirators propose to
act. We are glad to find that the directors td the
Midland Company have uttered a reward of 30/.
for the discovery of the offenders ; and it is to be
hoped they will be detected. It will be remembered
that on Tuesday—the day following the one on
which the above spurious communimtion was re-
ceived—the Midland Hallway dividend was duly
announced by authority at the rate of .51 per cent.
per annum.
The following is the official return of the cheques
and bills cleared in the Beakers Clearing-house for
the week ending Wednesday, Feb. 5:
Thursday, Jan. 30 E10,19Q.000
Friday, Jan. 31
Saturday, Feb. 1
Monday, Feb. 3
Tuesday, Feb. 4 12,8102A011
Wednesday, Feb. 5 0.976.000

C 6,110,000
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Prradateri Cepa& d 14.560.00.
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eluding itzeisq
dim. loads. Caw
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Bab 648,1111

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Bankers' Clearing.house,
The total above shown is the heaviest by nearl
tire millions that has yet been published. The-
amount of bills due on the 4th, though still compa-
ratively light, seems to indicate some improvement
in the internal trade of the country. The chief
effect, however, has been produced by the Stock
Exchange settlement on Friday, the 31st, and,
from the magnitude of the amount—nearly 2O
millions--then reached, it is evident that there
is a decided revival of speculation in the railway
and foreign stock markets.
The return of the Bank of England for the week
ending Wednesday, Feb. 5, compared with that fur
the previous week, shows the following changes :
Circulation Moue r.35,642,755 Decrease r 610,7 X 5
Circulation motive 74,676,380 Increase 554,850
Public deposits .„. ..... 4,110,362 Increase 565,113
Other deposits
Government securities in
banking department 14,068,246 No change.
Other securities in banking
department 16,443,736 Decrease 1721,22
Coin sad bullion in both
departments
Seven day and other bills 648,296 Increase 40,!43
The Beet 3,326,913 Increase 26,561
Notes in reserve
Total reserve (notes 4t cools)
, in banking department 13,077.,854 Decrease 789,241
' The chief change is the heavy withdrawal of pri7
vate deposits, a portion of which, no doubt, had
been accumulated to meet the bills due on Tues-
day, the 4th, and although this movement has
been partly counteracted by a diminution in the
Bank'S•advances on private securities, and by an
influx of government deposits, the reserve has been
drawn down to the extent of 769,2414. The de-
cline in the coin and bullion is as much as 564,391/.,
which exceeds by about 35,0001. the amount °NJ-
cMlly stated to have been parted with fur export
during the week. _ -

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BANK OF ENGLAND.
An Amami persoast to the Act 7th sad tah .e. 22. or for the
wash as on 44 edoselay, the sth day of F4bray, 8
J DstmainciT.
Notes hosed C55,542,7e.5 Ooversinent dela_ /11,015.104
Other securities.. S,ls6.4su
Gehl ode and bel-
lies 90,642,755
War bates

-ii6,642.710

vittliart.
Gorinusea
.law L 14.088.144
lOtber beconska 16.44&73.3
I Nola
Gold sad Ulm
• • 1,11;40

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T. MAY,

'THURSDAY IMMO.
Consols, which closed yesterday at NU to 1,
both far meow and the new account (sth of March),
oponed this morning at the same quotation_ and
eloped at 94 to 1. The Three per Cents. Reduced
and New Three per Cents. were quoted at 3 o'clock
931 to 1. The olllcialbuidnees report bias Wows:—
Three per Cent. Como* for money, 931, 1, 101, I
ditto, for account, 931 ; Three per Cents. R•linced,
94 ; New Three per Cents., 931, ; Red Sea
Telegraph, 101 ; Bank Stock, 250 ; India Five per
Cent. Stook, 112, ; ditto Four per Cent., 101, 1 ;
ditto Four per Cent. "03
4aced rapee paper, 87 ;
ditto Five per Cent., 103 ; ditto Plve per Cent.
Debentures, 1055 ;ditto Bonds, 405., 45a., prem.
The Indian government Five and Four pea Cent.
stocks were inquired for and firm.
Exchequer Bills remain at 20s. to 255. prem.
Bank of Emiland stock was in demand, and rose
11., the last price being 248/. to 2501.
The foreign stock market was firm, with an
en-
creased amount amount of business, consisting almost en-
tirely of purchases. Egyptian Bonds (including
the Viceroy's loan) were in good demand, and im-
proved to 1 per cent. Turkish of 1854 rose 1 ;
ditto of 1862,} ; ditto of 1866 (Five and Six per
Cents.), to New Grenadian Three per Cents.
Peruvian of 1862, and Portuguese, ; Spanish
New Three per Cents., Mexican, and Portuguese
scrip, 1 ; and Italian of 1861, 1-16. The latter
were better at one period of the day. Brazilian
of 1865 were exceptionally dull, and declined 5.
There was a fair demand for bank shares, and
quotations were firm. Chartered of India Aus-
tralia, and China, Chartered Mercantile of India,
English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered, and
Oriental met with inquiry, and rose ss. to 111. ;
London and County declined 10e.
The shares at the financial companies were with-
out variation, at the following prises :—lnterna-
tional Financial, Ito 11 din, ex div. ; General
Credit, 2 9-16 to 7-16 die., ex div. ; and Credit
Fonder, 61 to 61 dia.