The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-17 00:00:00

f;NING,IIJIINE 1862.

SPORTING-THIS DAY.

ASCOT RACES-THIS DAY.

TRIAL STAKES.

Duke Rollo _

Twelve ran,

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1862.

JUNE.
25
Ilampton
Carlisle

Ascot
Beverley lB
Newcastle

Odiham .... 1
Bibury Club
Newton
Stockbridge 3
Winchester
Newmarket
Worcester
Liverpool

Abingdon
Pontefract
Hungerford ... l7
Nottingham
Southampton 2 t
Stamford.. 24
Marlborough 25
Goodwood
,UST. - -

Radcliffe 4
Brighton ..
Brighton Club
Lewes .. 8
Wolverhampton .. 12
Reading ..... l4
Wenlock l5

York
Stockton 2
Egham
Lichfield 2
Bridgwater 2B
Ludlow

MR. THALBERG'S SECOND MATINEE.

This celebrated musician has returned to this
country only to renew with fresh renown his extra-
ordinary repute as a pianoforte player.
Yesterday he gave his second matinee, at the
Queen's Concert Rooms, leaving two more morning
performances—the only other occasions on which be
can appear before a London audience this season.
It is not surprising, therefore, that the room was
crowded with a most elegant and critical audience,
the elite of the aristocracy of the fashionable world.
The entire performance was by Mr. Thalberg,
whose extraordinary power of performance was thus
shown in quantity as well as quality. He com-
menced with a selection from his " Soirees de Pau-
silippe," in which he gave an andante and an
allegretto movement, the letter rising into the
Tarantella.
In expression and delicacy, whether applied to
loud or low utterances, Mr. Thalberg is unsurpassed;
and his notes roll in harmonious thunder, crackle
with the vehemence of lightning, or dissolve into
lucid drops falling from a fountain. He carries a
feeling to its very utmost expression, but never
pushes it beyond itself intto affectation or mere fan-
tastic folly. This pecular capacity of dealing with
a theme was particularly exemplified in a quartetto
by Rossini, and in his fantasia on the Last Rose of
Summer.
Altogether, this matinee may be pronounced one
of the most important and delightful of the season,
and doubtless the two next performanceson the
28th instant and the 7th proxime, will be eagerly
looked for by all professors and admirers of piano-
forte music.

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN BANKING CO.

MEETING THIS DAY.

A meetirtg has been held to-day of the South
Australian Banking Company. The profit and loss
account gave the following results :—Balance as per
last statement, £44,513 2s lld ; annual profits from
all offices, £46,382 lie ld; together, £89,895 14s.
Dividend, July, 1861, £20,003 15s ; ditto, January,
1862, £20,003 15s; income tax, £1,181; total,
£41,188 12s; leaving a balance of £48,707 2s, sub-
ject to a deduction of £4,870 for the reserved fund;
the net profit for the year being then £43,837 2s;
from which the directors recommended a dividend
of 10 per cent per annum, free of income tax, The
chairman, previously to submitting the motion for
the adoption of the report elicited several ques-
tions from the proprietors, and in reply he stated
with regard to the failure of Messrs. Fisher, who
were sheep farmers in the colony, that the direc-
tors did not anticipate any loss, although they
could not arrive at any very accurate information
at the present time. The Colonial-office had stated
their willingness to comply with the request of the
bank to increase their capital. The new shares thus
raised would be distributed pro rata among the
shareholders, :each of whom holding four shares
would be entitled to one new share. The reserve
fund, which already amounted to more than
£90,000, would, it was thought, reach £lOO,OOO
in the course of the year, and with that increase
it was proposed to augment,paripassu, the capital
by an additional £lOO,OOO. This additional capi-
tal was required for the several branches este-
iished, and practically on account of the great
extension of the commerce of the colony. A motion
for the payment of the dividend was then carried,
and the retiring
_directors re-elected.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Tms DAY.
The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock.
PR LVATE BUSINESS.
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Bristol and South Wales Union Railway, Bristol Port
Railway and Pier, Briton Ferry Dock and Railway, Car-
marthen and Cardigan Railway, Cowbridge Railway,
Reading and Reading Union Gas Companies, Shrewsbury
and Welchpool Railway, Swansea H.artour Trust, West
Cheshire Railway, and Liverpool Fire Prevention Acts
Amendment.