The Express.
London, England, 1857-01-21 00:00:00

MINES.-THIS DAY.

Two o'Cl.oo‘
The market for British mining stocks is steady.
but with only a moderate amount of business. Ong
Wheal Alfred shares are more offered.
In the Stock Exchange this morning Cobro shares
have been dealt in at 6431 ; Imperial Brazilian at li;
and National Brazilian at 3.
Mining
glizetaltaq East Gunnislake,2oa. ; Great Fortino,
3,• Great Hews, . 6d., 21e., 22a. 6drjtiffolmbadt, 291.,
21..; finance DOI'S, 411, ; North C , 11, 7; North
Prancee, 12, ; North Pmhaldarva, 31; orth Laney, 43;
Par Conn* 22,}; South Cant Brea, ; Sithney Sale,
6,1; Santiago, 3, 1 , Tamar Como* Me. 6d., 26e. fal.
26e, 27e. 6d., 300. ; Wait Camden, 140, 146 e. ;
Wh
Margaret, 41, 1.
In the Steel Exehsge
Wan Candor, 1424.; Wait Bard, 341; North Basset,
36, 341; Providence Mutes, 731, 74 ; Great Wheal Alfred,
91 10, 91; North Freon., -12, ; Wheal Edward. 3;
North Cray, 61; Wheal Harriet, Me., 238.,265. ; Pedant-
drea, 268.

COMMERCIAL AND MAREBT&
MARK-LANE.—THIS DAY.
The attendance of buyers in Mark-lane this morning was
very limited, and the Manama transacted of frac a retail
character, at about the rates of Monday last, for 'both Foreign
and English. American Sour in good supply, and easier to
purchase.
Barley dull sale at Monday's quotations.
Short anivals of oats enable factors to maintain preview
value.
Beane Erin, peas dull.
ANNUAL. INTO LONDON,FIIOII .111 L 19 TO JAN. IL
XIS. ;PTO JANE
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MINCING-LAINFE.—THIS DAY.
itemill.—The market to inn at the advance ef 6d. to lc
quoted yesteeday on all good consuming qualities. Reined
stoma,: 11110.010. ea. to 6s. ea.
Corra—_'lye teal* sales ere ping off briskly at the
extreme p. et Lt moth.
Tm.—Tho ameba is generally lino ; there have been
= of geed emesen Coogou at Ili& without finding
Rics.—The merhel Is quiet at yesterday's prime.
Itru.—Dsmersra proof has been sold at lle. today.
Pamaro.-400 bags to public mle void at aid. to Ofd.Parnuc—l6o bap mid in put& sale 41d.
Corrow.-140 sales reported.
In other articles so materiel alteration.
TALLOW MARKET.-111113 DAY.
The market is quiet to-day. The Mowing am ma
potations • —Town tallow, 60s. to 60s. 6d. nett sash; Pe-
tersburg Ir. C., on the apt, Ms. 6d.; Jen. to March, W.;
April to June, 665. -
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BOROUGH HOP MARKET.—THIB DAY.
Pb.... Palisades and Smith repori that the demand
for hope mitMUM goad, at Piny late prima
COAL MARKET.—THIS DAY.
liarr&A ; Eden Mani, 17a. 6d.; TanSeld Meow,
140. ad. ; Walla End Riddell, 16e. 9d. • Walle End tk.sfortl,
16s. 9d ; Walla End Briton South, 113 e. 9d. , Wall's E.Ht
Stewart's, 19e.; Well. End Ten, 196.-104 clips at
market.

LONDON AND W'ESTMINSTER HANK
(THIS DAY.)

Thin afternoon the usual hidrjelirly general meet-
ing of the proprietors of the London and Westminster Blink
was held at the Bank, in lothburyi DAVID Ss inactive
Esq., Alderman, In the ann.
The following was the report
" The directors have the pleasure to report the', aftee
making provision for all bad and doubtful debts, paying the
Income-tax, setting spirt the sum of 2,0001. towards the
new buildings In Leathery, Bloomsbury, Temple-bar, and
Southwark, and preventing a gratuity of 10 per cent. on thele
salaries to all the officers of the establishment, the net prate
of the bank foe the but 101 l year 11011311 DI to 111,7651 Be. 7d.,
which, added to 8,610!. Ss. Bd., the mappre. 004 profits el
the preceding half-year, make a toed of 95,2051, 12e. 3d.
Out of this amount the directors have added to the rest or
surplus fund the sum of 2,287!. fe. Bd., asking the total
amount of that fund 160,0001. • and they, now declare a
, dividend to the shareholders at the rate of As per cent. per
annum, and also a bonus of de per cent. apes the paid-up
capital. After theme payments are media there is an
pmprated balance of 978/. fie. 7d., which remains to the
Credit of the profit and loss acroent. The voeency is
the direction, occasioned in the la your by
the lamented death of the late Mr. Burmeister,
has been supplied by the election of William Tile, Esq.,
M.P., F.RX, and that occasioned by the resignation of Mr;
Alderman Farncomb has been supplied by the election of
Dummy Dobree, jun., Peg., subject to the confirmation uf
the present meeting. Mtn this confirmation. the three
directors who go out by rotation will be Henry Boeungeet,
Eaq., Bonamy Dobree, jun.. Req., and David Sidemen;
kieq.,ell of whom offer themselves for re-election.''
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report,
congratulated the proprietors upon the prosperity of the
establishment. The deposits amounted to 11,500,0001., and
since the account was mode up, they had coesiderably in-
did not amount to mom than
9,000,000 e now they considerably exceeded 11,000,000/,
and that fact showed the estimation in which the bank
was held by the public. The mu of 2,000/.
bad been set apart for the improvement of the
bank buildings, while additions had been made
to the snaring of the takers of the hunk--e
judicious course to follow, as it was only fair tbut those
whose labours secured it shouted share in the prospeiity of
the establishment. The dividend and the bonus together
sniounted to 9 per rent. upon the hisleyear, and 16
per cent. upon the year--amon satidactory result
indeed, teeing that it had been arrived at after a very:meld
examinetien of the accounts, and after due provision had
been made for every liability or contingency. Adverting to
the subject of the `lest," he decreed that it had hitherto been
restricted to 150,0001., but looking to the large increase in the
motile and obligations of the bank since the resolution men
be appealed to the meeting to allow the
interest of that sum to be added to the "rest" until the "rest'
itself became more commensurate with the increased end
increasing liabilities of the bank.
The report was adopted, after which the dividend wag
declared payable on the 26th instant, the election of the
new directors waa confirmed, and the retiring directors re-
elected.
Some dierwerion then more upon the expediency of increas-
ing the reserved fund, Auld it was enggeetsd from the chair
that the following resolution should be passed, via:—
" Resolved,—That the sum of 9781.6 x. 7d., being the ba-
lance of unappropriated profits of the last half-year, be carried
to the rest, and that curb fund de continue to best
interest the rate being at the dierretion of the
dievtors, and also that undinsible eun..lue of profit and loss
at the end of each year be added thereto unto the sum of
260,000/. be atteined, otherwise determined try •
resolution of a general meeting.
The CH tlitllAN RIMOITAfed that au the evertors, with
were of opinion that the intemet
mended flat ouch a stock should
othfetheeleepti bank o
imperativelynof Mr. ite,
d,
be taken.
It less objected, however, that the resolution, Snag
the "rest" at 140,000 e, required that no alteration
should be made in the amount without previous metier, and
it was ultimately arranged that the question should staid
over until the next half-yearly meeting, and that M the
meanwhile the interest accruing on the "rest" should be kept
in suspension.
'llls proceedings terminated with the usual compliment to
the manager, Akins, and dimetore.

The Gazette de France remarks that the crime for
which Verger was condemned to death at Paris on Saturday
is one not quite unexampled in the hirtot7 of the OaMeer'
church. In 1784, N. de Pricy, Bishop of Boulogne, a
prelate much esteemed for his ammeter and learning, way
marinated in one of the churches of his theme by a young
candidate for the priesthood, whom be had retuned to ordain.
The bishop was attired in hie pontifical robes at the time of
the murder. The ammedn, whose name was Pacenti, suffered
the pushy of MM.