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      No. 495. Sept. 17, 18590 The Leader, 106...

      No . 495 . Sept . 17 , 18590 THE LEADER , 1067

      Joint Stock Companies.

      JOINT STOCK COMPANIES .

      At The Extraordinary Meeting Of Sharehol...

      At the extraordinary meeting of shareholders in the QixoMAji Bank , the net profits for the halfvear , including £ 3 , 236 brought forward , were stated afr £ 26 , 030 ; of which the report recommended that £ 5 000 he added-to the restore fund , and that a dividend-for the six months at the rate of 8 per cent per annum be declared . At Constantinople steps have been tak « n to secure the punctual remittance of the dividends on the loan raised last vear A commission has been appointed , consisting the trovernment

      of six persons , members of , wno have associated with them Mr . Gilbertson The duties of this commission will be to a certain extent to regulate the finances and to make suggestions to the Turkish Government . Except at Beyrout , the business of all the branches has improved . Mr . Layard also mentioned that as it : was the wish of the shareholders at the last meeting that they should have a regular superintendent of the whole business of the bank , both at Constantinople and at the branches , the directors have elected to that office Mr . Gilbertson . JJead

      The directors of the Central Mineeal Mining Comfant ( Limited ) have declared their first , dividend of 4 s . per share , payable on the 26 th instant- ' ,, The report of the Intercol / ontai . Rotai * MAii . Steam Packet CompanxV just issued , states that during the first year of incorporation the directors had established an exclusive monthly mail service between Sydney and the principal ports of the colony of New Zealand , giving equal facilities to the towns and settlements of Sydney ^ Nelson , Wellington , Auckland , Canterbury , New Plymouth , and Otago . The company had received a further sub-000

      sidy of £ 6 , 000 , in addition to the £ 24 , per annum from the colonial government for running a boat monthly between Sydney and Auckland direct . The fleet of the company consisted of four spl endid steamers every way suited to the service required . The accounts had not yet arrived , but the managers ' report established the fact that the earnings , ¦ without the subsidy , were fully equa l to , if not in excess of , the gross expenditure , which would l eave a balance of £ 7 , 600 18 s . 5 d . in favour of the company . This amount , after deducting £ 4 , 820 13 s . lid . for depreciation , enabled the directors now to propose an ad interim dividend at the rate df 7 \ per cent , per annum . .

      The ninth dividend of 20 s . per share is announced on the shares in the 3 Pkies : land Gas Company . The directors of the Bank op Australasia announce a half-yearly dividend of 24 s . a share , being at the rate of 6 per cent ; per annum , and also a bonus of 56 s , a share , making together £ 4 a share , or equal to 20 per cent . per . annum .

      Railway Intelligence.

      RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE .

      The London Ani> North Western Railway Tr...

      The London ani > North Western Railway traffic return shows this week an increase of 3 , 359 Z . ; the Great Northern an increase of 309 / . ; the Great Western an increase of 2 , 656 Z . ; and the London and South Western an increase of 1 , 518 Z . A branch railway to Hawkhurst , Kent , is under serious consideration . A . competent surveyor lias viewed the country , and reports that a line can be made at a moderate expense , if the landowners are consenting parties . The project is a branch from Btchingham-station to the west of Highgate , near

      High-street , or to the east of Highgate , near Pipsden , having in view in each case a continuation to Cranbrook , and probably thence to Staplehurst . A starting point would then be given to Tenterden , through Benendon and Rolvendon , and a direct line would be established from Hastings and the South Coast line to the South Eastern at or near Staplehurst , and which at no distant time may , by filling up . the blank from Etchingham to tJckfleld , become a direct inland government Hue from Portsmouth to Dover .

      A New Tjba Company. —A" Indian Letter Sa...

      A New Tjba Company . —A" Indian letter says We notice the formation of the "Bengal Tea Company , limited . " It has possession of 25 , 000 bigahs of tea land in the district of Cncliar , of which nearly 500 are cleared , and upwards of 400 planted . Some of the trees are one and two years old , exclusive of those of indigenous growth . The directors aro Caloutta morohants . The capital is 2 J lakhs of rupees , divided into 2 , 500 shares of Rs . 100 each . Tub Coai . Thade . —During the month of AugiiBt the quantity of eonl and coke exported from the various coal ports in Groat Britain was 628 , 702 tons « coal , and 29 , 194 tons of coke . Of this quantity 179 , 000 tons of coal and" 10 , 881 tone of coke were snipped from Newcastle : 75 , 853 tons of coal and M 43 tons of coke from Snnderland s 52 , 295 tons of coal and i , 892 tons of coke from Hartlopool and west Hartlepool . These three places aro the

      principal ports for the great northern coalfield . Liverpool exported 70 , 324 tons of coal and 874 tons of coke , while the Welsh ports of Cardiff and Swansea shipped between them 130 , 00 a tons of coal . The quantity of coal shipped from the same ports to various places in the United Kingdom was ' 810 , 211 tons of coal and 9 , 682 tons of coke . Of this by far the greater quantity . was shipped to London from Newcastle , JSunderland and the Hartlepoolsv These three ports alone shipped 440 , 941 tons of coal and 2 , 126 tons of coke . The other principal ports are Newport , which shipped 46 , 987 tons of coal ; Maryport , 33 , 523 tons of coal , and Whitehaven ( in July and August ) 35082 tons of coal .

      , , New Route for the Atlantic Cable . —Colonel Shaffner and a party had sailed from Boston . TJnited States , in the barque Wytnan , with the object of surveying a new route for a telegraph cable to England . He proposes to start for the gulf of St . Lawrence , then coast along the shores of Labrador to Hopedale , or about 56 degrees north , latitude , sounding occasionally to find a deep bay , for the American terminus of his cable ; thence pass to South Greenland , sounding there , and examining the country for an underground line , in case it should he Greenland thence

      necessary to have a line across ; the route will reach to Iceland , where bays will be sounded and -shores examined for land line . The expedition will then go to Faro Islands , where the wires will branch , one line running southward , to Scotland to reach England , the other to Bergen , Norway .. The longest cable will be from Labrador to Greenland—about 500 miles ; from thence to leer land , between 360 and 500 miles , according to points touched ; from Iceland to Faro Isles , 270 miles- ; from Faro to Scotland , 200 miles j from Faro to Norway , 300 miles .

      From The London Gazette. Tuesday, Septem...

      FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE . Tuesday , September \ 3 . BANKRUPTS . James Bolitho Goggin and Richard Veale ^ Londonwall , mantle manufacturers ,, ,. Richard Nicholson , Much Hadham , Hertfortshire , agricultural merchant . _ . • Frederick Boslull , High-street , Southwark , seedsman and . florist . ¦ ' John Watson Hamilton , Birmingham , stock and snare broker . ' ¦ ' David Galer , Woolwich , grocer , tea dealer , and provision dealer . ¦ . ,, Owen Evans , Liverpool , innkeeper and victualler . Nicholas Coressy and Paul Maximps ,. Threadneedlestreet , merchants . ' , ' . ' , ¦ ,, Henry Grant , Cardiff , Glamorganshire , ship chandler . William Hookway , Canton , Llandaff , Glamorganshire , builder and victualler .

      SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS . William Gardner , Glasgow , builder . Friday , September 16 . BANKRUPTS . Henry Achlin , Great Coram-street , Russell-square , shoemaker . „ William Robins , St . John ' s-street , St . Sepulchres , William Alston , High-row , Silver-street , Notting-hill , Middlesex , draper . John Crawford Wilson , Wood-street , City ,

      warehouaaman . Edmund Snook , Bath , pork butcher . Henry Degetau ; Manchester , merchant . John Shawcroft Hamilton , Kingston-upon-H ull , auc tioncer . _ ,. , Henry John Waring , Mortimer-street , Cavendish square , window glass dealer . SCOTCH BANKRUPTS . D . and J . Scott , Auchinblae , tailors . William M'Loan , Glasgow , smith . David Jack , Glasgow , envelope maker . Robert Renton , Dalbeattio , draper . William Wilson , East Kilbride , grocer .

      Books Received. Domestic Stories. A Now ...

      BOOKS RECEIVED . Domestic Stories . A now edition . Smith , Elder and The ' Two Homos . By W . Mathews . Smith , Elder and Co . Tha Parents' Cabinet , No . 10 . Smith , Elder and Co . Through Norway with a . Kjnapsaoh . By W . Matthew Williams . Smith , Elder and Co . Handbook of the British Association for the Advancement of Science . Longman , Greon and Co , The Pootical Wor 7 ts of Thomas Moore , Part G .

      Longman , Green and Co . Moore ' s National Airs , No . 4 . Xongman . Green and Co . Tales from Bluohwood . W . Dlackwpod and Sons . Almost a Heroine , 8 vols . Hurst and Blackott . Iioaoa Bella , 2 vols . Jamee Blackwood . Olaucus ; or , The Wonders of the Shore . By Charloa Kinicaley . 4 th edit . MacMillan and Co ., Cambridge . Tho Biblical Itoason Why , with an Introduction . By a Clergyman of the Church of England . Houlstou and Wright . The British Soldier in India . R . C . Lopaao and Co . Smugglers and Foresters . By , Mary Itosa Stuart Kettle . Hodgson . _ „ JEostatios of Genius . By J . W . Jackson . A . Wall , Virtue and Co .

      Dr. H. James*, The Retired Phywhilst In

      DR . H . JAMES * THE RETIRED PHYwmist in

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      VALUABLE MEDICAL , BOOKS GRATIS . The Professors of the Royal Institute of Anatomy , Science , and Medicine , 369 , Oxford-street , London , have resolved to issue Gratuitous Editions of their colleague . Dr . W . B . Marston ' s instructive Lectures , believing them to be of vital importance to those to whom they are addressed . No > 1 . —NERVOUS DEBILITY ( the result of a pernicious secret habit ) , Loss of Memory , Dimness of Sight , Prostration of Strength , 'and General Incapacity , addressed specially to Young Men , shewing the . means of restoration to health and happiness . . . . ¦ No . 2 . — MARRIAGE and its OBLIGATIONS , addressed to those who desire t 6 become parents . No . 3 . —THE GREAT SOCIAL EVIL . All the painful diseases which result from it , with Dr . Marston ' s Unfailing System of Treatment , by which Mercury ; is altogether dispensed with . . .. Applicant must state simply which . Lecture ia required . Enclose two stamps to prepay postage ; and address , Treasurer , Royal InstituteI of Anatomy , & c , as above , which is Open Daily , at an Admission of One Shilling ? , and contains the most Superb Collection of Anatomical Models and Natural Wonders in the whole world . - Dr . Marston Lectures daily , and a Professor is always in attendance to impart instruction , and give information upon any Medical or Physiological Subject .

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      AN ACT OP GRATITUDE . A Clergyman having been cured of Nervous Debility * Losa of Memory , Indigestion , and other fearful Symptoms , desirous of imparting to his suffering fellows the moans whereby his own restoration was so marvellously affected , will send a book , containing the necessary information , on receipt of two penny stamps to prepay postage , addrcssod M . A ., 1 , North Cumberland Place , Bayswater Middlesex .

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      YOURSELF ! WHAT YOU ARE ! AND WHAT FIT FOR I —The Original Graphlologlst , MARIE COUPELLE , continues her vivid , useful , andinteresting delineations of character , from an examination of tho handwriting , in a stylo peculiarly her own , norm ; before , attempted in this country , and which cannot oven bo huccosHl'ully Imitated by those win ) pretend to title useful , and pleasing science All who denlrc to know themsel v « -h or tho true character of any friend , ahould send a Hpoelmon ot writing , stating sox and ago , and tho loo ol Huiiout penny stamps , to Miss CoupoUo , W , Castle-street . Oxfbrd-Htrcof . London ; and they will receive in u flow days a lull and minute detail of ' tho talents , laatos , allbclioiia . virtues , lalling-s , & c , of the writer , with many traits hitherto uiihubneWl , and calculated to bo iiHoful throngh Ulo .-Kroin 1 . N .: " 1 oonHiUor your skill BiirprJuinff . ' —U . S . : " \ our do-Borlption ofhor character Is mnarkably cornet . —> V . H .: "Your ii » toroHtn > tf answer Is quite truo . "—Jl .-W * . : " Your sketch is marvollbudly con-oct . '' -M hh F ,: JI . Miimii hovb the character you went mo Is truo . "—M ms W ., I \ . : ' ipu have deHorlbetl 1 » 1 h oharaotor vuryaccurate y . — Wm II . S . : "I am alralfl IiIm character is au you doHcrlbo It . "— "Wo boo no more dimciilty in graphlology than jilirouolouy , and wo Iiavo lltllo doubt thatTin Innumerable liiHtam ; t . -H tliu character la reiitJ will ) equal precision . "—Jt'amili / Jleraul .

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      AN ACT OF GRATITUDE . Of \ AAA Copios of a MEDICAL tfOOK for } Z >\ Ji \)\ J \ J uratuitoiiB circulation . A Nkiivouh Hvv-FKHUit huvlug been effectually cured o £ NervouH IJubillty , LohhoI Memory , Ulmnesti ol' . Sight , LaBMituUtt , ami Indl-K .. » tlon , ruMiiUliitf ft-om tho early vrror ^ ol youth . Jjy ollow-Fntr tliu hiHlruolioiiH tflvon U \ a MKD 1 UAL WOltK , 10 conbldora It hit ) duty , 111 gratitude to the author , und lor tho beneilt of otliern , to publlBh tho moaiiH uued . Ho will . tlmrwlUre , Beiul . freo , secure ft'om obaorvatlon . on roCtilpt ol . a directed ouvelope , and two utampu to prepay pobtauo , a copy ol tho book , containing every Informal Ion required . AddrttMS , Jasikh >\' ah < aob , Kho ,, Wllford llouito , JJurtoncreaoent . TavlBtOOk-Bquaro , London . W . O .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 17, 1859, page 23, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17091859/page/23/