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CIONSOLIDATED BANK (Limited).—At a
kJ General Meeting of the Proprietors, held at the Lon-
don Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, in the City of London, on
Thursday, 23d January, 1868, JOHN FENDER, Esq., in
the Chair, the following Report was presented :
In laying before the shareholders their usual half-yearly
statement of accounts, the directors wish to draw attention
to the general stagnation of trade and to the low rate of
discount which havo prevailed throughout the last six
months. _ . -

The bulk has, during that period, made steady pro.
gress, and the number of its customers exhibits a continu-
ous increas _

The accounts show that, after payment of all current
expenses, interest to customers, rebate of interest on bills
iu hand, income tax, and directors' remuneration, there
remains a net profit for tho six months of £27,263 9 1
To which has to be added the balance from
last half-year of B,lBB 4 7

Making a total of
This sum it is proposed to appropriate as follows
To the payment of a divi-
dend, for the half-year, at
the rate of 5 per cent. per
annum, free of income
tax
To reserved surplus fund
(which, with interest
already added, will then
amount to £100,000) 3,100 0 0
To special reserve fund
(which will then be
£20,000)
Carrying forward to next
account the balance of 2,351 13 8

£35,451 13 8

It will be seen that in pursuance of the preCau-tionari
policy set forth in their last half-yearly statement, the di-
rectors have added a further sum of £lO,OOO to the special
reserve fund. _ _ _

The directors have to lament the death of one of their
most valued colleagues, Mr. James Aspinall Turner, the
late deputy-chairman of the bank. His services to this
institution, from his first connection with it to the period
of his death, merit their ample and grateful recognition.
The post thus rendered vacant has been offered to, and
accepted by, Mr. Murray Gladstone.
The directors retiring by rotation are Messrs. Matthew
Curtis, Thomas Fairbairn, Edward Ryley Langworthy,
Ivie Mackie, and John Pender. These gentlemen being
eligible, will be oropos.a for re-.l.wrion.
The meeting will also be invited to elect two auditors.
Messrs. David Chadwick and William Cooper offer them-
selves for re-election.

The dividend warrants will be payable on and after the
Ist February next.
J. P. HEYWOOD, Chairman.

BALANCE SHEET, DEc. 31, 1867.
DR. LIABILITIES.
To capital paid up : 200,000 shares of .£1
each XBOOOOO 0 0
To reserve surplus fund
To special reserve lO,OOO 0 0
To amount due by the bank on current,
deposit, and other accounts 2,184,783 7 1
To acceptances
To balance of profit and loss account,
30th June, 1867 B,lBB 4 7
To balance, being gross profits for the •
half-year ending 31st December, 1867,
after payment of interest to customers,
and making provision for bad and
doubtful debts

Cit. £3,247,427 16 1
ASSETS.
By investments in Government Stocks,
viz., New Three per Cents. and Three
per Cent. Reduced £107,602 8 8
By cash in bank, at Bank of England,
and at call
By bills discounted, loans, and other
securities 2,434,745 19 9
By bank premises, London (Thread-
needle-street and Fenchurch-street).„ 190,752 5 0
By current expenses, London and Man-
chester 13,372 10 11

£3,247,427 16 1

PROFIT AND Loss ACCOUNT.
DR.
To current expenses, London and Man-
chester' income tax, directors' remune-
ration, ttc.
To rebate on bills discounted, not yet due 4,506 1 11.
To proposed dividend, at the rate of 5

. -
per cent, per annum ----
20 000 0 0
To reserved surplus fund B, ,100 0 0
To special reserve lOOOO 0 0
To balance carried forward to next ac

count

2,351 13 8

• CR. •••••••••£53,830 6 6
By balance of gross profits brought down £45,142 111
By balance of profit and loss account,
June 30, 1867 B,lBB 4 7

£53,330 6 6

REPORT OF THE AUDITORS.

To the Shareholders of the Consolidated Bank (Limited).
We have to report that we have examined the accounts
and balance sheet of the Bank for the half-year ending
81st December, 1867, and have signed the &amo as ex-
hibiting a true and correct view of the state of the com-
pany's affairs, in conformity with the deed of settlement.
DAVID CHADWICK (Chadwick & Co.)I Auditors.
WM. COOPER (Cooper Brothers & Co.) f
15th January, 1868.

The Secretary having read the notice convening the
meeting, the report and balance-sheet were taken as read.
It was moved by the CHAIRMAN, seconded by Mr. J. P.
KENNARD, and resolved unanimously :
"That the report of the directors he received and
adopted, and that the same be printed and circulated among
the shareholders."
It was resolved unanimously as follows :
" That the following gentlemen, who retire by rotation
from the board of directors, be and are hereby re-elected
directors of the company : Messrs. Matthew Curtis,
Thomas Fairbairn, Edward Ityley Langworthy, ivie
Mackie, and John Fender."
"That a dividend for the half-year ending 31st Decem-
ber, 1867, be now declared, at the rate of 5 per cant. per
annum, free from income tax, and payable on the lat
February next."
"That Messrs. David Chadwick and 'William Cooper be
and are hereby re-elected as auditors of the company."
" That the thanks of the proprietors be give-, to the
chairman for his courteous conduct in the etatr, and to the
board of directors for their zealous att'.,ation to the affairs
of the bank."

"That the thanks of them:deting be given to the mana-
gers and other officers of the bank for their services dur-
ing the past half-year.'
JOHN PENDER, Chairman.
Extracted from the Minutes.

T. J. AGAR, Secretary.

CONSOLIDATED BANK (Limited).—
Subscribed Capital
Paid-up Capital . BOO,OOO
Reserve Fund lOO,OOO
JOHN PEMBERTON HEYWOOD, Esq., London and
Liverpool, Chairman.
MURRAY GLADSTONE, Esq., Manchester, Deputy-
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GARD-ENS:

There have been very few of late. A remark-
able new monkey from China, closely akin to the
luaus rhesus of Bengal, but tail-less—if naturally
so, which we are not quite satisfied about, especially
as the Chinamen have a custom of mutilating the
tails of monkeys ; but the Barbary magot (I. syl-
yawls) is again very nearly allied, and in this
species the caudal appendage is reduced to a mere
rudiment, while other kindred species are interme-
diate in this respect. A young tiger ;has been pre-
sented, and another common Indian antelope (Cer-
vicapra bezoartica). The female of the fine red
kangaroo (Macropus ruins) has produced one off-
spring. In the bird class we haV,e outy to atitiOtinee
the arrival of a pair oc the South American hawk-
parrot (Deroptylus accipitrinus); and of reptiles
only a couple of royal pyt'nons (Python regius).
This African serpent is known to the dealeft at the
" ball-snake," froth its remarkable habit of twisting
itself into a compact ball when handled, to an extent
that we have witnessed in no other snake;
The larger species or deef thoiV to much advan-
tage in their new abode, and we particularly call
attention to the Kashmir stag just now, with his
fine orange-coloured ruff, thr_iligh giiist be seen
dry to be epptedated, and we have not had over-
MUoll of dry weather lately. The Burmese t'lllimine
stag (Panolia eldi), which is in the smaller deer-
house, near the superintendent's office) has touitti
his horns much better than thete Was fdaSon to ex-
pect some tittle ago, awl next year he will probably
bear a fine pair. Hinds would be particularly ac-
ceptable of both these species. We are pleased to
observe that the ant-eaters (111-yrniecophaga jubata)
continue to thrive, although the first-received of the
two has had, from the time of its arrival, an unfor-
tunate protrusion which may affect its well-doing
on the return of summer. Prom recollection of the
pangolins (Manes), or " scaly ant-eaters," we have
an impression that the latter double up the huge
claws their fore-feet more completely or closely
clan is seen in the great ant-eater, but they have
not the same power of striking with the anterior
limb. We should be glad to see living specimens of
aie pangolins in the collection, for the animal is not
at all understood from the usual wretched repre-
sentations of it, which give it the appearance of a
lizard rather thaw of a mammal.
t several pangolins from
In India we have kept
ing this animal stands
time to time. When vvailY
high on its pillar-like legs, with the back much
arched, and it rests on the lnuckles of #s fore-
id-joi
limbs, or rather on the mint of the T4irgef digits,
• .

the huge claws of which are bent upward, as above
stated, The neck is often raised at a considerable
angle with the arch of • the back. It walks about
tolerably fast on a level surface, and not unfre-
quently raises itself on the tripod of its hind limbs
and tail, swerving the body about in every possible
direction. In common garden ground it burrows
with extreme facility; and it also manifests a very
strong propensity for clambering. Turned loose
into a room in India, a pangolin is never long in
finding out the ji/n/i/s
(a sort of curse Venetian
blind), and soon makes its way to the top of them ;
indeed, if a young animal, small enough, it will
work itself in and out of the
,ii/a/i/s, to the destruc-
tion of them sometimes ; and we have seen one sup-
port weighty the
its whole byre forext a while,rermtyof inthetetan-
il,
alone, and after hanging the
tionally fall to the ground.
eof thisg
animal is prodigious ; and itscapability
abstinence most extraordinary. The latter is one
of the various reptilian tendencies of the Edentata.
In the wild state it inhabits rocky jungle, and works
itself into the crevices of rocks during the day. It
has no means of defence beyond rolling itself into a
ball; and in this compact attitude it dies, as we
have more than once had occasion to observe. By
miscalled
Anglo-Indians the pangolin is commonly is
" armadillo." The name " pangolin" is m isayllsend
_pangoling or tangeling ; but there are three well-
marked Asiatic species, and more in Africa. In the
fossil state this edente genus is-also known as Eu-
ropean.
In all the jungle districts of India south of the
Himalaya, and in Ceylon, the only speciei is Monis
pentadactyla of Linnaeus (M. brachyura, Erxeleben
111. inauvita, Hodgson) ; at least we presume this to
be the species noticed in Dr. J. L. Stewart's " Me_
moranda on the Peshawur Valley," as the " kishaur,"
which is " by no means uncommon in various locali-
ties, attaining a length of four feet and upwards ;
its scales are much valued as a medicine by some
classes of Hindus." In the south-east Himalaya
the Chinese species occurs (the 111. aurita of
Hodgson, subsequently ..3/. Dalmanni of Sundevall),
which has the body-scales much smaller and more
numerous, and a distinct ear-conch, which the
other has not. Eastward of the Bay of Bengal,
from at least the province of Arakan southward,
the species is that of the Malayan peninsula
and archipelago, M. jaranica, which is
considerably smaller than the others, and
has some bristles growing conspicuously
between the scales ; very generally, also, the ter-
minal third or more of the tail is whitish, abruptly
separated from the brown colouring of the body and
base of the tail ; at least in Burmese examples, of
which we have seen several, both alive and dead.
We procured one thus coloured at Mergui, near the
neck of the Malayan peninsula.
A French author, Dr. Yvan, remarks that " the
Chinese bring up this creature purposely for the
table ; and the Portuguese of Macao, amongst
whom it is known by the name of the Bicho vergo-
guoso, are extremely fond of its flesh, which is very
white and tender. But it is quite a mystery to me,"
he adds, " how the animal is ever domesticated. 1
once preserved one, intending to take it back with
me to France ; and having occasion to be absen
from Macao a friend offered to take care of it for
me. On account of its nocturnal habits, the Chi-
nese domestics placed it in a little dark habitation,
where it appeared to be very comfortable. On the
first night of its imprisonment, a strange noise was
heard in the house, but next day nothing unusual
could be perceived. For several succeeding nights
the same strange sound was heard—a sort of me-
tallic noise, mingling with loud reports, as if some
heavy weight was falling. At last, but when too
late, the mystery was discovered. It was the pan-
golin,, which had pulled np cnrno of tina paving of
its cave, raised the stone step, and thus made its
escape, no one knew where. When caught, this
animal makes but faint efforts to get away, but, as
its hard, sharp scales act upon the fingers like the
blade of a knife, the captor is generally glad to let
his prey escape." It rolls itself up into a round
ball, and the scales are sharp as described ; but the
alleged domestication of it is nonsense, and it does
not readily take to feeding when iu confinement,
but it can well support abstinence for a fortnight
or more. We have got it to eat a mixture of
chopped meat and hard-boiled egg, with boiled
rice.—Land and Water.