The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-06 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING AUGUST

'LIkW INTELLIOENLE.- 4TIIIB DAY.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.)
nr RR R. BARTLETT.
The bankrupt, who formerly kept the Clarence Hotel,
in Alderegate-street, asked for an order of discharge. His
debts were over 2.000!., and be Bled his petition in forml
pauperie, surrendering no estate.
Mr. Aldridge appeared for the official assignee.
The bankrupt slated that when he took the Clarence
Hotel be invested 1,2001. of his own money. He lost it all
in twelve months. The rent was 4001. a year.
His Honour granted the order.
(Before Mr. Registrar Roche.)
_ RE =MET GROROI XACDOWALD.

The bankrupt was described as late of Portsmouth and
Aldershot, captain in hoc Majesty's 97th Regiment,
and now a prisoner for debt in Winchester Gaol.
lie attributes ho, bankruptcy to insufficiency of income,
sickiwws of his wife in India, and expenses consequent
thereon, and the henry premiums he had engaged to pay
on borrowed money. The debts are about 2.600 i. The
bankrupt is still in custody.
This was the first sittaig. Proofs of debts were ad-
mitted, and Mr. J. B. Johnstone, military tailor, of Rock-
ville-street, Piccadilly, was appointed assignee.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(Tins DAY.)

(Before Mr. Serjeant Coz.)
ROBBERY TROY THE PIJUION.
Richard Brown and William Gawps were indicted for steal-
ing a silver watch, value W., the property of A. B. Pope,
Low his person.
The prosecutor was a government clerk, and as ha was
returning home from the office one afternoon (*Gorge
matched his watch and passed it to Brown. Both the
prisoners were immediately captured.
The jury convicted the prisoners.
Mv. Saieant Cox said the court would do all it could to
stop these daring street outrages. He asked if the priso-
ners were known, and several previous convictions were
proved against George. Mr. Cox said penal servitude for
at least seven years would be the fate of prisoners con-
cerned in these outrages who had been convicted before.
George was now sentenced to seven years' penal servi-
tude, and Brown to twelve months' imprisonment.

POLICE COURTS.-(THIS DAY.)

MANSION-HOUSE.
romosay BY • WEBOB•111"YS OLZBX.

Seigmund Rosenberg, a respectably dressed y man,
was brought up on remand before the Lord Mayor charged
with forgery and uttering a cheque for 3001., with intent
to defraud the City Bank.
The previous examination took place before Sir Robert
Carden about a week ago, and it then appeared that the
prisoner, who had been a clerk in the employment of
Mr. Louis Feick, merchant, South-street, Finsbury,
absconded on the 2nd July. It was afterwards
discovered that he had forged, and cashed at the City
Bank, a cheque for 30W., and a warrant was accordingly
issued for his apprehension. It was placed in the hands
of Detective-sergeant Funnell, who traced him to Paris,
where he was apprehended by the French Folios, and
be wis then conveyed to Boulogne and given up to
the English detective in accordance with the extradition
treaty between this country and France. It appeared that
the prisoner had spent the whole of the proceeds of the
cheque, with the exception of 401., and that a great part
of the money bad been spent in jewellery.
Mr. Falck was now called on as a witness, and stated
that he had an account at the City Bank. In the month of
April last the prisoner came to him with a letter of intro-
duction from Hamburg. He had no occasion for a clerk at
the time, but he engaged the prisoner temporarily till he
got another situation. The signature and the ruling up
of the cheque for 300/. was in the prisoner's handwriting.
The cheque was taken from a book he had in use, and
which was usually kept locked up in the safe.
Te prisoner said he was in great misery at the time he
did it; he had only 14s. a week, and could not live on it.
The Lore Mayor committed him for trial.

THAMES.
CHABOR OF BURGLARY.

latrirketonwirmy' aped 24 years,wasbrought before
Mr. Benson, charged with breaking into the premises of
Messrs. Kirkaldy and Co., in High-street, and stealing
therefrom 3601b5. of tallow.

It appeared from the evidence of several men in the
service of the prosecutors, that the contents of three casks
containing tallow were missed from the yard on Tuesday
morning last. The lock of the gates had been tampered
with and forced. The tallow had been taken over
the palings surrounding the prosecutors' warehouse,
and no trace of it could be obtained until a polioe-
constable named Henry Slinur, No. 294 K, went to
the dwelling of a man named uire, in King Edward-
street, Wapping, where he fo the whole of the tallow.
On Monday night, at a late hour, Slingsby saw the pri-
soner and Squire in • passage called Ellis-court, near
Mesas. Kirkaldy's Both men smelt very
stongly of tallow and Slmgsby then suspected that they
bad been enga in a robbery. Next morning the con-
stable heard that Messrs. Kirkaldy had been plundered
of tallow and had succeeded in tracing the whole of it.
Squire bad absconded.
The tallow produced by Slingsby was identified by the
prosecutor's men.
Mr. Benson remanded the prisoner for a week.

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An action for libel brought by Sir Joseph
MiCelina against Mr. Thomas Masters Usbourne was
opened at the &seises to-day.
The plaintiff alleges that having refused 13:bourne's
assistance to effect • financial operation in bank
shares, Uzbourne threatened to injure him, and
subsequently wrote a letter to the bank directors contain-
ing libellous reflections on the plaintiff's oluirscaor. The
defendant denies the libel and pleads privilege.

MONEY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

ONE O'CLOCK.

The markets for public securities are flat to-
day, and the general course of prices is unfavour-
able. In the absence of any boas fide purchases
on account of the public, the dealings consist mostly
of speculative sales for a fall. An increased demand
for money in the Stook Exchange, where the rate
on English government securities has risen to 2 per
cent., combined with an export demand for gold
for the Continent, tends to exercise an adverse
influence. Consols are dull, at the reduction of
yesterday. Several of the railway stocks have
given way, though not to an important extent.
Foreign bonds are offered, and exhibit a drooping
tendency. United States 6-20 bonds have eagle-
rienoed a fresh reduction.

The demand for money has increasefi, and the
rate for the beat bills is firm, at 1/ per oent., or
only I below the Beak minimum.

Consols are quoted 94 to / for money and
94/ to for the. account (Sept. 8), and the
Three per Cents. !echoed and. New Three per
Cents., 94 to /.

A (moderate reduction is apparent in several
of the railway stocks. Midland has declined
1 per cent. ; Gina& Northern A, ; and
Great Western, Great Eastern, and Brighton,
Caledonian, however, has improved 4; and
Metropolitan, 4. Subjoined are the quotations :
Caledonian, 78 to ; Londen and North
Western, 1161 to / ; Great Western, 501 to 4;
Midland, 107 to 1 ; London and South Western,
92 to 93; Great Eastern, 394 to 1; Brighton,
54 to ; South Eastern, 771 to ; Metropolitan,
117/ to 1; Great Northern, 1061. to 1074 ; Ditto
A, 1044 to 105 ; London, Chatham, and Dover,
204 to ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1301 to 131;
York and North Midland, 93 to 94 ; Berwick,
1044 to 1 ; and North British, 36 to 4.

Very few dealings have been recorded in foreign
stocks. Brazilian of 1865 and Italian of 1861 have
receded to 1 per cent., viz., to 761 to 77/ and 621
to 53, respectively ; while Egyptian of 1864 are 1
better, at 851 to 861. Chilian of 1867, 92 / to 931 ; Mexi-
can, 151 to 1; Peruvian of 1865, 79 to 1; Russian
of 1866, 921 to 931 ; Orel, 84 to 4; Spanish
of 1867, 331 to f; Turkish of 1858% 66 to 67 ; ditto
of 1862, 631 to 641; and ditto of 1865, 381 to 1.
The Indian Five per Cents. are at 114/ to 1151;
the Four, 1041 to 105 ; the Bonds, 235. to 288.
prem. ; and the Debentures, 1051 to 1. Bank
Stock, 247 to 249 ; and Exchequer Bills, 13a. to
18s. prem.
There is a moderate inquiry for bank shares, and
prices are steady. London and Westminster, 681
to 1; London and County, 511 to 524 ; Union of
London, 341 to 354 ; Anglo-Austrian, 7 to 1
prem. ; London and Brazilian, 30 to 25 dia. ;
Imperial Ottoman, to 1 prem. ; and Consolidated,
1 to 1 prem.
The only alteration in miscellaneous shares is a
reduction of 2s. 6d. in Hudson's Bay, the
present price being 151 to 1. National Discount,
111 to ; General Credit, 2/ to 2 did. ; Credit
Foncier, 21 to 3 per share; International Finan-
cial, 1/ to 11 dia. ; London, 22 to 21 dia. ; Tele-
graph Construction, 151 to ; Atlantic Telegraph
Eight per Cent. Preference, 31 to 4 ; and Anglo-
American, 214 to 1.

'United States 5-20 bonds exhibit a fresh fall
of 1 per cent., viz., to 701 to 711. Erie
Railway shares are quoted 381 to
391 ; being 1 per cent. better; Illinois
Central, 921 to 93 ; Atlantic and Great Western
Debentures, 39} to 401; and the Consolidated
Mortgage Bonds, 401 to 41.
The Intercolonial Loan is quoted 105/ to 1061 ;
the Swedish, 21 to f prem.; the Tamboff-Kozloff,
to 11 prem. ; and the Egyptian, par to prem.
The new French loan is at 11 to 11 prem.
The half-yearly meeting of the London and
North Western Railway Company will be held on
the 21st instant. A special meeting is also called
for the same day, for the following purposes, viz. :
For authorising a subscription towards the undertaking
of the Lancashire Union Railways Company, not exceed-
ing 70,000/. ; for authorising a subscription towards the
undertaking of the Carnarven and Llanberis Railway
Company, not exceeding 60,0001. ; for authorising a sub-
scription towards the undertaking of the Brynmawr and
Blaenavon Railway Company, not exceeding 15,0001. ;
and for authorising the directors to exercise the borrowing
powers of the company to the extent authorised by the
company's acts of parliament.

The half-yearly meeting of the Great Northern
Railway Company is convened for the 22nd inst.,
" to receive a report from the directors, to autho-
rise the exercise of the borrowing powers
(by mortgage or the issue of debenture
stock) granted by the following Acts, via.:—
The Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax Junction Act,
1864, and the Great Northern and Leeds, Brad-
ford, and Halifax Junction Railways (Amalgama-
tion) Act, 1865, 16,600/. ; and by the Great
Northern Railway(Junctions) Act, 1865, 54,000/. ;
and for other the general business of the com-
pany."
Advices from Mauritius to the 17th July
state that " the fever was said to be still preva-
lent when the mail left."

TWO 0' CLOCK.

Consols are without variation. Railway stocks
are flat, and a decline of I to j per cent. has
occurred in Great Western, Brighton, Metro-
politan, and Great Northern A. A reduction of
I to I is also observable in Italian of 1861, Peru-
vian of 1865, Spanish of 1867, and Turkish of
1865.

FOUR O'CLOCK.
The government funds are dull, at 94 for
money, and 94 to 1 for the account.
Railway stocks are inactive, but Metropolitan
and Brighton have improved to # per cent., viz.,
to 1171 to 1 and Mk to 1, respectively. Cale-
donian, 771 to 78}; South Eastern, 77 to # ;
Midland, 106} to 1071 ; London and North
Western, 1161 to e ; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
1301 to 131; and Great Western, 50 to 1.
Foreign bonds are without change of import-
ance. Italian of 1861, 321 to ; Orel, 83k to
841; Nicholai, 661 to ; Spanish of 1867, 331
to 1 ; and Turkish of 186,5, 381 to 1.
Baregold, valued at 130,0001., has been taken
from the Bank to-day for exportation.
The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway divi-
dend is announced at the rate of 61 per cent. per
annum, against 6} for the corresponding period
of 1867.

With reference to the new French Loan, which
was yesterday quoted 11 to 1 prem., the subjoined
notMcation, just issued by Messrs. Bischoffsheim

1868.

and Coldachmidt, may be recapittiluted kw, au
epton ising the conditions of the iseiheeripiioS: •
Moors. Blechoffneisi sad Goldedwoilt are outherhed
London French governmsot to opus lisie
for the above loan, from the Ostkutralltla
.taut, both inclusive. The pries of force IBM per cost,
with coupon attend, from let July, 1868, The deposit
on application is 3 per cent. ; that to to soy, tor every
1004 or 2,600 franca 110111iMil capital, 3L, or Ts frame.
The payment on allotment ie 18 per conk, hid tin
deposit. The aura recognize is to be paid in sag tree
monthly instahnents ; the let oo the Met September,
1868, and the last on 21st February, 1870. in Pena, or two
days •ws in London. The first lodgment will be re-
osind by Messrs. Biecho(aheim end Goisholunat at
26 franca per 11. starling, the others at the ex-
change of the day. No payments is advance under
will be received, and no Indian will be
allotted The French government will notify in the
latilerr the total amount subscribed. to this loam mad
the proportionate reduotion of applications. A statement
of the amount to be returned. to each subscriber will be
, communicated as soon as practosablo For emerints above
one hundred francs Beebe (F. 3333.33, or 138,. 6d. M.
nominalcapital), the French °ornament scrip will be de-
livered ; for smaller amounts the agent* will ill" their
own scrip. No o.mmiasiou of any kind will be charged.
Forme of application may be procured at Meows Bischoff-
aheim and idechmidt's °Moe, Fouiuler'o-oourt, Loth-
bury.—London, August 6, 1868.
The market for bar silver and Mexican dollars is
flat, with very little business. Bar silver is quoted
ss. 0 5-16 d. per ounce, and dollars 4s. 10Id., being
fractionally lower in each case.
The bidding. for bills on India took place yester-
day at the Bank of England. The amounts allotted
were: to Calcutta, 17.72,000 Ea. ; and to Madras,
2.28,000 Ba. The minimum price was- fixed as
before, viz., at Is. 101cL, on both Presidencies, and
tenders at Is. lOid. will receive about I/4 per
cent. Those above will be allotted in full. These
results show a little diminution in the demand for
the means of remittance to India.

The Anglo-Austrian Bank in London announce
that they are prepared to receive subecriptioas for
shares in the Royal Privileged Hungarian North
Eastern Railway up to noon on Saturday next,
the Bth inst. The shares are to bearer, and are of
the nominal amount of 2000. silver. The price of
issue is 14511. Austrian currency. It is mentioned
that the government guarantee will provide for
the payment of interest at the rate of 6 per cent.
per annual on the nominal amount of the shares,
and for a sinking fund for their extinction by
drawings by lot during the period of the comes.
sion. Anglo-Austrian Bank shareholders are to
be entitled to an allotment of one share in every
five, and Anglo-Hungarian Bank to one in every
ten.

The liquidators (Messrs. A. Young and John
Ball) of the Imperial Mercantile Credit Associa-
tion (Limited) notify that, in accordance with the
4th clause of the arrangement made by them with
the creditors in June, 1867, they are prepared to
pay to-morrow (Thursday), under discount, at the
rate of 5 per cent. per annum, the promissory
notes issued by them on behalf of the association,
which will become due on the 30th December
next.

The London and North Western railway traffic
return shows this week a decrease of 936/., com-
pared with the corresponding period of lasi year ;
and the Midland a decrease of 132/.

The directors of the Salisbury and Yeovil Rail-
way Company have agreed to recommend a divi-
dend on the ordinary shares at the rate of 5 per
cent. per annum for the past half-year, carrying
forward a balance of 2,3001.

At an independent meeting of shareholders in
the Credit Foncier of England (Limited), held
yesterday, a resolution was passed similar to that
agreed to at the meeting which took place on
Tuesdity.

At the meeting yesterday of the shareholders of
the London and South Western Bank (Limited) the
directors' report, recommending a dividend of Ss.
per share, free of income-tax, for the six months,
was adopted.
At the meeting yesterday of the Electric and In-
ternational Telegraph Company a dividend of 5 per
cent., free of income-tax, was declared for the
half year upon the stock of the undertaking.
The half-yearly general meeting of the City of
London Brewery Company (Limited) took place
' yesterday • Sir James Duke, Bart. n the chair.
The affairs of the company were statedi to be in a
very prosperous state, and an interim dividend of 31
per cent. out of the half year's profits was de-
clared. This appropriation will ab50rb20,527/. 10s.,
and leave a good balance to be carried forward ;
after adding 3,118!. 12s. to the reserve fund, and
providing the usual amount for depreciation of
leasehold properties. The reserve fund now stands
at 47,289/. 3s. 7d.

An extraordinary general meeting of the Metro-
politan Railway Company is convened for the
19th inst., " for the purpose, if so determined, of
passing a resolution, pursuant to the provisions
contained in the Regulation of Railways Act,
1868, to divide the paid-up ordinary stock of the
company into two classes, to be and to be called,
the one, preferred ordinary stock,' and the other,
' deferred ordinary stock,' and to issue the same
subject and according to the provisions and conse-
quences defined in the said act."
The half-yearly meeting of the Southampton
Dock Company is fixed for the 26th inst.
At a meeting of the London Rice Mill Company
(Limited), just held, a dividend was declared at
the rate of 10 per cent. per annum, 6,9151. was
added to the reserve, raising that fund to 20,0001.,
and 4,4071. wascarried forward to the new account.

Mr. Boyson, the director of the Land Mortgage
Bank of India (Limited), who recently returned
to England from an inspection of the bank's
affairs in the several presidencies, has been unani-
mously elected chairman of the company.
The first importation of this year's Bavarian
hops has been received into the warehouses of the
Hop and Malt Exchange and Warehouse Com-
pany (Limited).