The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-20 00:00:00

1;279,491 ... 1,37.2,218
295,108 ... 98,541
1,247,684 { D.P"ita • I'l 7,966
Acceptances 134,726

064,899,697

1:58,642,072

We conclude our notice with a comparison of
immediately realisable assets with liabilities to
customers. Some wide discrepancies occur,
especially in the cash. As the latter item,
however, includes money at call (or, strictly
speaking, on loan), the difference is more apparent
than real. The Union, for instance, have consi-
derably more than half of what they reckon to be
equivalent to cash in hand lent out in this way.
PROPORTION or CASH, GOVERNMENT AND GI:AMSTER
STOCKS TO LIABILITIZS.

Per Gent.

London and Wertminstar 0,565,402 ...
Union 7,356,037 ...
2,4.'14,878 ...

London Joint Stook.

City
Alliance

796,437
402,891

Imperial

379,760
PROPORTION OF CASH ALONZ.

London and Wertminater £2,473,681

.. 321

Union

London Joint Stock
City
Alliance
Imperial

4,252,327

1,3:4,878
469,390
402,891
327,285

Per oast.
... 111
... 35i

.. 271

• Deposits and &swiftness not separately specified
last year.

According to the present arrangement the Queen
and the Royal Family will (says the Court Journal) return
to Windsor Castle from Osborne on the 17th of February.
Tan PRINCI AND PRINCESS or WALES.—Their
Royal Highnewes the Prince and Princess of Wales have
passed the last few days in comparative quiet at Sandring-
ham House. The Prince has attended meets of the West
Norfolk Hunt, one of which took place at Sandringham,
when the assembled field was hospitably entertained by
his royal highness. It is stated that her Majesty will
visit the Prince and Princess of Wales at Sandringham
during the Easter holidays.
The Princess Mari and his Serene Highness the
Prince of Teck have been staying during the peat week
with the Earl and Countess Vane, at Wynward Park.
Amongst the guests invited to meet the distinguished
visitors were the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough and
Lady Cornelia and Lord Randolph Churchill, Viscount
and Viscountess Poweracourt, Viscountess Boyne, Vis-
count Lasoelles, Viscount Cole, Viscount Newport, Vis-
count Petersham, Lord and Lady Wenlock and Hon. Miss
Lawley, Lord Dalmeny, the Bishop of Durham end Hon.
Mrs. Baring, Sir George and Lady Julia Wombwell and
Lady Caroline Villiers, Mr. F. Vyner, &c. The company
were to separate on Saturday.
Tho Duke and Duchess do Chartres aro expected
to-morrow at Althorp Park, on • visit to the Earl and
Countess Spencer.
His Excellency Muaurus Pacha, accompanied by
his family, will return to the Turkish Embassy in Bryan-
sten-square on Thursday next from Roehampton, where
his excellency and family have been resident since the
death of the much lamented tembassadress.
The Duke of Leinster has arrived in town from
visiting Mr. Repton, M.P., and Lady Jane Renton, at their
seat in Bedfordshire.
The Earl of Malmesbury arrived at his residence
in Stratford-place, on Saturday, from Heron Court, neer
Christchurch, Hants.
Sir John Pakington (Secretary of State for War)
and Lady Palington entertained at dinner, at their
residence in Grosvenor-place, on Saturday, Field-Marshal
Sir John Burgoyne, the Lord Chancellor and Lady Chelms-
ford, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Disraeli,
the Right Hon. Gatherne Hardy, fif.P., and Mrs. Hardy,
Sir Roderick I. Murchison, Ac.
The Right Hon. Robert Lowe, M.P., will pay a
visit to Liverpool during the present week, being the guest
of Mr. P. H. Itatlibone. On Wednesday evening Mr. Lowe
will be present at the annual dinner of the Liverpool
Philornathic Society, which will take place in the large
room of the Law Association in Cook-street. On Thurs-
day be will meet a number of gentlemen interested in the
question of education.
Mu. Pairizzi.—This gentleman, who has been
in • precarious state from suppressed gout, hes since
Thursday last been gradually improving, and hopes are
now entertained of his restoration to health.
The Prince Napoleon and Princess Clothilde
dined on Thursday en petite (mite (only six persons being
present) with IL Nigra, the Italian Minister. The Prince
and Princess are at the Palals Royal, but it is probable
that M. Nigra will, before long, quit Paris for a short
tour.
Five thousand persons were invited by the
Prefect and Madame Hanssmann to the Hotel daVille ball
on Thursday. Fortunately for the dancers 2,000 invites
had severe colds, and so only 3,000 were present at the I
brilliant scene.
The inventive genius of the Yankee nation seems
to be inexhaustible. At the Patent-office in Washington,
during one week last month, 315 patents for entirely new
inventions were issued. The total number of patents that
have been anted since the establishment of this bureau
in 72,151. A model of each invention is deposited la the
rooms of the office, which are always open to the public,
and • visit to them is one of the Monet interest.
Mr. Young, the commander of the boat expedi-
tion sent oat to ascertain simply whether, as the Johanne
men reported, Dr. Livingstone had been killed neer the
head of the Lake Nimes, or had gone on into the interior,
telegraphs from Plymouth—" I have returned from Lake
Nylons. Dr. Livingstone had gone on in vasty. The
Johanna men deserted him. I will be up the Seat train."
Tax ABYSsINIAN CAPTIVES.—An extract from a
fitter from the Rev. H. A. Stern, one of the Abyssinian
captives, and addressed to the Rev. W. W. Andrew, of
Hethersen, Norfolk, appeared in some of the
papers on Saturday. The date was, however, wrongly
bulkaa " Deo. 3," it should 7 have
beam "Magda's, Nov. 9." It may be added that Mr.
Stern complains of "galling fetters which emboli his
!bake," and of "a daily wasting of his strength." else of
"mental anxiety and dreadful monotony." Mr. Stern
cantina's:" I contemplate, however, my Saviour and
Kis seaweed my trials pale before His yarrow and agonies.
Thank God, there is • home where the exile will meet
with • blamed reception. I feel persuaded that the events
in which I and my fellow captives are involved did not
sass: without • gracious design. Abyssinia wants the
I papal, and frees my sinttaintanes with the country and
people, I bellows it is prepared te receive it ; but it needed
a iserthie roosiadro to abet the &sow, sad it is "Moot
s akomooloro oloaso b ksosadiso over the hand. If
the iamb of linked saloads to the church of Abyss's:de
vie boa a reconciliation, sad takes her affectionately to
bar ,arose and oompsegenate heart, the pure and saw-
Oka troth the gospel planted to then alldas lksigkts
may sadly extend a benign and saving influence arse the
valleys and mountains now plunged in deeming suresti-
- tics sad pus idolatry."
701 ZION AFFAIRS. PALACEL. HALE-A-CROWN DAL—
The arrival of the body of Meximillan tl Vienna L SAMDAT. JAS. 18.—Aasetaskiee ors payment, as
commented upon by several of oar oontemyomuiet. It is the i ditto by Nam= tickets, 1,919 ; 5.1.1 'dittos, 2.747.