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METROPOLIS SEWAGE and ESSEN RECL AM NT foN LO stPANY. Incorporated by Special Act of Parliament. In 21,000 Scrip Capital £2,100,000, Certificates of £lOO each, to'bo hereafter Deposit on divided into Shares of £lO each. a pplication £2 per Certificate, with further pay ment of .£8 on allotment, and £lO on 2d October next. The Subscribers will, in exchange for their Letter of Allotment and Bankers' Receipt, receive Scrip Certificates, which,wic on payment of the sum of £lO, payable on 2d Oct., ", will be exchanged, under the provisions of the Act of Parliament, for Registered Shares of £lO, and the Shareholders will be credited in the books of the Company 42 in respect of each Registered Share. DIRECTORS. The Right Hon. the Lord De Tabley. G. Sclater-Booth. Esq., M.P., Member of Sewage Commit tees 1 864 and 1865. The Lord Richard H. Browne. James Pattison Cuirie, Esq. Maurice Drummond, Esq. Arbuthnot G. Guthrie, Esq. Charles J. Lambert, Esq. Joseph S. Lescher, Esq. The Hon. Henry W. Petra. Col. Sir William Russell, Bart., C. 8., M.P., Member of the Sewage Committee, 1864. Major the Hon. S. P. Vereker. J. W. Perry Watlington, Esq., M.P. ENGINEERS. G. W. Hemans, Esq., C.E., &c. J. F. Bateman, Esq., C.E., F.R.S., &c. CONSULTING CHEMIST. Professor J. T. W ay, M em b er of the Royal Commission on Rivers, and of the late Royal Commission on Sewage. BANKERS. Messrs. Glyn, Mills, Currie, and Co. Messrs. Drummond. Messrs. Sparrow, Tufnell, and Co. (Essex). The Union Bank of Scotland and Branches, 1 The Uni on B an k of Manchester, The Bank of Liverpool, The Birmingham Banking Company, J. Barber Kennedy and Co. (Dublin), The Northern Banking Company (Belfast), Will also receive Subscriptions. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Baxter, Rose, Norton, and Co. Messrs. West and King. BROKERS. Messrs. P. Cazenove and Co. Messrs. Seymour and Co. SICRETAItY (pro tem.).—Walter A. Michael, Esq. Offices-60, Threadneedle-street. The International Financial Society are authorised to receive Subscriptions for the Share Capital of this Com- PanV, Which has been incorporated by Special Act of Par liament for the purpose of Utilising the Sewage of the Northern Area of the Metropolis, the Concession of which has been granted to Messrs. Napier and Hope. The Concession from the Metropolitan Board of Works to Messrs. Napier and Hope, as now confirmed by Act of Parliament, is scheduled to the Act, and both may be in spected at the Offices of the Company. The Concession has been vested in the Company on con dition of the payment to Messrs. Napier and Hope, under the provisions of the Act, of £50,000 in fully paid-up shares of the Company and a small contingent per-centage of the not profits. The Concession recites that in the opinion of the Board the works proposed by Messrs. Napier and Hope are cal culated to effect the three following objects, namely :- 1. To divert the Sewage from the Thames. 2. To render it innocuous by its application to growing crops. 3. To realise the great money value of the manure con tained in it. The first article c on f ers upon M essrs. N ap i er an d H ope "the absolute and exclusive right to and property in the sewage" for a period of 54 years from the passing of the Act, but makes the following provision in reference to the Application of the net profits resulting from the scheme after the expiration of four years from the passing of the Act. Previous to the expiration of that period all the profit results to the Company. After deduction of the annual charge for " money bor rowed," and of the " wor ki ng an d esta bli shment expenses, " the net profit shall be applied 1. In payment of interest at 5 per cent. per annum on the share capital. 2. In payment in equal moieties to the shareholders and the Metropolitan Board of tho further profits up to 15 per cent. 3. In division of profits exceeding 15 per cent. and up to 25 per cent. between the shareholders and the Metropolitan Board, in the proportion of one-fourth to the former, and three-fourths to the latter. 4. After 25 per cent, the division again to become equal. The olject of these stipulations is, that while the Metro- Politan Board are virtually to receive half the profits, yet, that, in order to give a greater security, and therefore greater value to the shares, the shareholders are to have a Preferen ce to the extent of 5 per cent., which is made good to the Metropolitan Board between the points of 15 and 25 PPer cent., at which latter point each party receives 121 per er cent., the division is then continued equally. Thus, the share capital of the Company derives the advantage of the entire capital , approaching three millions sterling, ex eended by the Board on the north s id e o f th e Th ames , f or e collection of the Sewage at the point of its delivery to th e . A C t the expiration of 34 years the Board have the right, 1 3. giving two y ears ' not i ce, to requ i re a rev i sion by arbi tration of the above apportionment of profits. The Concession stipulates for the construction of a circu lar bri c k culvert, 9 feet 6 inches in diameter, shown by th e red line on the accompanying map, and running from the Northern Outfall Sewer to the East Coast of Essex, and further, for the reclamation of the tract of foreshore and tans, coloured pink on the map (about 7,000 acres),the in being to irrigate the lands in the district through ae the surplus upon reclaimed land. A contract has been entered into with Mr. Win. Webster (who ha s constructed more th an one - t hi rd o f the main draina ge Outf work o f th e metropolis, including the Crossness t all), for th e construction of the work mentioned above, exether with the necessary pumping stations, for the sum 1 2 r f 1,853,448. To this must be added theamount to be paid ,9,3 lessrs. Napier and Hope in shares, as before mentioned, the cost of land, engineering, Parliamentary, and legal ex rnses, superinto d d anwement, together with intere t " en'e' an ni rusts at per cont. per annum on the capital during the ruction the culvert, estimated at a total of £546,552; I ' l l £2,400,000. The Act authorises the Directors to raise e amount of £700,000 in debentures, but of this, as above ~ueT 6 "r, only £300,000 will in all probability be required. ho Company have ho right of taking, without any pay during the first four years, as much of the sewage as ley can utilise. From this source an immediate return Illay be obtained, so that the return upon capital during construction should be much in excess of the interest pro- Vided. t .,n PaYment on the 2d October next of the £lO per Cer .incate then clue the Certificates of £lOO will be exchanged fo r Registered Shares of £lO each. According to the calc u l a ti ons ma d e t h e eventual revenue of the Company is estimated at about £720,000, and the Working expenses and management at £50,000. tApplications in the annexed form should be loft with the ankers, who w ill no t , h owever, receive any applications nless accompanied by a deposit of £2 per certificate on the number of certificates applied for. In cases where no allotment is made the deposit will be returned in full, and should a smaller number than is applied for be alloted the balance returnable to the applicant will be applied towards payment of the amount due on allotment. In cases where an allotment is made the deposit paid on application will be liable to forfeiture if the balance due on allotment be not paid within the term fixed by the letter of allotment, and the allotment will be liable to cancellation. Default by sub scribers in due payment of the £lO per scrip certificate, pay able on 2d October, 1865, will, in like manner, render the s crip certificates su bj ec t t o cancellat i on, and the amount theretofore paid thereon to forfeiture. Prospectus and Forms of Applications may be obtained from the Bankers and Brokers, and at the Offices of the Co mpany, No. 60, Threadneedle-street, E.C., London. METROPOLIS SEWAGE AND ESSEX RECLAMA TION COMPANY. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES, To be left with the Banks. No. To the Directors of the Metropolis Sewage and Essex Reclamation Company. Gen tlemen,—Having paid to the sum of X , bein g a deposit of £2 per certificate on certificates, I request you to allot to me certificates of £lOO each, rin the Metropolis Sewago and Essex Reclamation Com ny, in con f ormity with the Prospectus issued by the Inte rnational Financial Society (Limited) ; and I hereby agreo to accept (subject in all respects to the terms of the said Prospectus), such certificates, or any less number that may be allotted to me, and to pay the sum due on all o t ment t h ereof, at such time as may be fixed by the Letter of Allotment, and to pay the further suns of £lO per certificate on 2d October, 1865. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, Signature Name in full Address in full Residence Date . SEWAGE EMORANDTJM ON AND ESSEX METROPOLIS RE T C H L E AMATI a O s N ub S je C et H o E f M pu E b . Iic in_ This scheme has for so long terest, and has been so fully discussed b p at ro it .. i a u nnecessary now to add more in epectus than give a'very brief sit • en st b ifica tb ti e on Pr o e f ss tia t e h d y ap. estimate of the tary proceedings in relation to it, an m j m u ar of the parliamen profit likely to accrue to the Shareholders. made to Par- It was for the necessary powers to construct the works named in the concession that Aication was lia tn. t ti, e , r t ; Powers also being obtained . the culvert ; I ,' -uengie Flats , and for the construction of . be for the reclamation of t r ee "vn by the blu line on the map should it hereafter Pang. rued expedient to develops the operations of the Cora -410-After the second reading of the bill in the House of Cow per, L',:,,hich was sup)ported by t . he . Right Hon. Wm : C n London n ,, r M ajesty's. First Commissioner of Works, it wa , Lsrie petition of the Corporation of the City of of theent before the referees that the engineering features aa fenwB. might bethoroughly (5 schenle i n " T he s stimate is an e tairt Referees are of opinion that there are no objections sufficient', " ri ng point of view, and that the e Th e R efe r., w i ere M. D. Hassard, Esq., M . P., liam Gib fore" The prep o e s dg, lart., and Colonel Stuart, M.P. Select Colu m 4 te " ,-,n r i taking was received inuir Sir Wil • •ed into by a andaprofitable ecial in struction from theli,e,House, who tothe a lll s o p s t useful Sea Afterge on the northirtean`-'st-Ltort, inq n uire o i f n a long the Metropolitan Side ot o • ( I f s T si T g harnes." the euephoeninthe evidence, LIP (heir rep or t as d_ patient inquiry, the Committee summed l( , follOws • °table mode ot ap porti P on useful a nd rofi your Committee are of opinion . that e w hich has been submitted to them is a 1 ing the sewage of the northern f the metrop li P Y I they have no reason to sup- Z e is tt any inore-i°lsesivalnOr profitable scheme could be T 1 11 1; Committee consisted of 14i,•,eA "go Advocate General. Mr. Taverner John Miller. - ayrton ,_ - "r• Brad y . Mr. Paget. ~ lr ' Clay; . Mr. Sclater-Booth. Colonel Smyth. alr. xr,fght. Mr. Turner. be e t! the the discussion which ensued on the presentation of Report to the House, Sir George Grey and Mr. Henley ,I expressed their ap royal of the scheme. inittee of tbe Ihe ac•}l° was again ') "nit * , •?d into very fully by a Corn- Rot; so ofTo l (1 - , ul- where the bill passed through all the different stages,' Lords s dhaving received the Royal ",ssent, is now an Act of Parliament, and has become la . w. un the division in tbe House of Lords upon the third reading, 49 peers voted in favour of the bill, and only 4 against it, hth Royal Highness the Prince of Wales being °lle of the 49, and giving to this bill the countenance and NP.. 22,794. support of his first vote ever recorded in the House of Lords. Of the value of Sewage as a manure there is, as stated in a leading article upon this scheme, published in the " T imes" of the 2d March last, "no dispute." The only question in regard to the Sewage of London being, as the " Times" says, whether that value is " £400,000 or £4;000,000 a year." This latter figure is the estimate of Baron Liebig and the Corporation of the City of London for the Sewage of both sides of the metropolis, or, roughly, about £2,666,666, as the yearly value of that portion of the Sewage which has become the property of the Company by virtue of their agreement with Messrs. Napier and Hope ; but the Direc tors concur with those gentlemen in believing that this es timate is greatly exaggerated. However, the culvert which the Directors have contracted for is of an internal diameter of 10 feet, instead of 9 feet 6 ; and by means of the greater carrying power thus obtained, together with the means at their disposal for storing the sewage in the reservoirs of the Metropolitan Board, they will be enabled to utilise at least 120,000,000 tons of Sewage per annum, and from this they look for an eventual net profit to be divided with the board of upwards of £650,000 a year. The experience of 40 years' application of sewage upon pure sea sand, and other soils, near Edinburgh, and of seve ral years upon various soils near Croydon, shows that when the Company's operations are fully developed and in full working, the return from the Company's own land should be not less than £210,000, and this would absorb 35 mil lions of tons of Sewage, leaving 85 millions available for sale to the farmers along the line of culvert, which in the same ratio of value would produce not less than £510,000 a year, making a total of £720,000 ; and this figure is singularly borne out by the experience and opinions of those most conversant with the subject, and is quite within the estimates given in evidence before the Houses of Par liament. One farmer, Mr. Wagstaff, of South Oxendon, who farms 1,200 acres on the line of culvert, stated upon oath that he would be prepared to give twopence per ton for such quantities of the Sewage as it suited him to take —a value strongly insisted upon by many high authorities ; at which rate the yearly value of the whole would be no less than One Million Sterling. Another rough estimate of the realisable value of Sew age which has been given in evidence by many authorities, namely, one penny per ton all round, would produce £500,000 a year, so that the estimated return of £720,000 arrived at by independent calculations is as near as possible the mean between these two estimates. A TLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN CO HPAN Y. NOTICE TO BONDHOLDERS. In conformity with the terms on which the Second Mortgage Bonds of the Pennsylvania and Now York Sec tions of this Railway were issued to the public, the first annual drawing of 4 per cent. on the gross amount of these Bonds took place at the Office of Messrs. E. F. SATTER THWAITE and CO., in presence of the undersigned Notary, when the following Bonds were drawn : PENNSYLVANIA DIVISION. 38 Bonds of 1,000 dollars each. 5, 11, 16, 36, 39, 106, 138, 160, 187, 198, 200, 210, 239, 264 283, 339, 405, 468, 476, 480, 510, 516, 519, 528, 624, 652, 727, 735, 760, 765, 776, 783, 804, 810, 873, 884, 913, 946. 20 Bonds of 100 dollars each. 954, 982, 1,001, 1,003, 1,039, 1,054, 1,166, 1,179, 1,198, 1,200, 1,237, 1,249, 1,262, 1,333, 1,363, 1,392, 1,407, 1,425, 1,433, 1,448. ____ NEW YORK DIVISION. 16 Bonds of 1,000 dollars each. 29, 94, 100, 119, 121, 135, 137, 166, 168, 227, 242, 311, 319, 332, 390, 395. 24 Bonds of 500 dollars each. 1,433, 1,435, 1,448, 1.454, 1,499, 1,500, 1,509, 1,548, 1,549, 1,554, 1,564, 1,565, 1,582, 1,593, 1,607, 1,623, 1,686, 1,698, 1,731, 1,733, 1,736, 1,785, 1,838, 1,977. 40 Bonds of 100 dollars each. 422, 428, 434, 473, 483, 484, 527, 528, 598, 618, 652, 686, 725, 767, 830, 831, 842, 906, 935, 997, 1,060, 1,070, 1,096, 1,126, 1,127, 1,164, 1,200, 1,208, 1,214, 1,252, 1,253, 1,254, 1,261, 1,297, 1,298, 1,312, 1,317, 1,361, 1,371, 1,387. Present—W. GRAIN, Notary Public, 31, Threadneedle , . _ street, LOndon, 6th July, 1865. THE LONDON, WINDSOR, and GREEN WICH HOTELS COMPANY (Limited . The LAST DAYS for receiving APPLICATIONS for SHARES in this Company will be TUESDAY next, the 11th kat., for London, and THURSDAY, the 13th inst., for the Country. By order, GEORGE LESLIE, Secretary. 29, Nicholas-lane, July 5, 18 5. R EUTER'S TELEGRAM COMPANY (Limited). NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the FIRST ORDI NARY GEN ERAL MEETING of the Shareholders in this Company will be held on MONDAY,the 24th inst., at Twelve o'clock noon precisely, at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate street, London for the reception of a REPORT from the Directors, the declaration 01 a DIVID END, and such other business as may be brought before it. _ And no•ice is hereby further given, that, on the termina tion of the ord nary business, the Meeting will then be made Special for the plhipoBC of deciding upon the fol owing Reso lution, viz.:—" That clause 77 in the Articles of Associmt on be altered by striking out the following words, commencing in the 4th line of such clause, `and the security of shares in the Company.' The Tianifer Books will be Closed from the 19th until the 2(th inclusive. _ _ _ By order of the Directors, FREDERICK J. GRIFFITHS, Secretary. 1, Royal Exchange•buildings, London, July 8, 1865. THE CREDIT FONCIER AND MOBILIER OF ENGLAND (Limited). Authorised Capital Capital Sübscribed .... • . 500,000 Capital Paid-up Reserve Fund. . 200,000 Dividend Reserve Fund 70,000 • DIRECTORS. The LghtHEvonicJK, AM E E s S q. STUART Merchan, WtOKRiTnLgEB Deputy- Y, Governor. J Arms-yard, Governors. JAMES NUGENT DANIELL, Esq., London, James Childs, Esq., London. Alexander Dunbar. Esq., Old Broal-street, London. Charles Ellis, Esq., Lloyd's. Adolphe Hakim, ondo.n Esq. (Messrs. Pinto, Hakim Brot her s , an d Co.), l'he Hon. T. C. Haliburton, M.P., Chairman of the Canada Agency Association. London. William Harrison, Esq. (Messrs. Young. Bevan), Director of th e Th ames an d Mersey Insurance Company. Harrison, and Richard Stuart Lane, Esq. (Messrs. Lane, London. Charles E. Newbon, E sq ., L on d on. Hankey, and Co.), Henry Pownall, Esq. J.P. Russell-squara, London. Joseph Mackrill Smith. Esq. (Messrs. Illackrill Smith and Co.), Old Broad -street, London. Edward Warner, Esq , M.P., London. John Westmorland, Esq. (Director of the Royal Insurance Company), London. Albert Grant, Esq., F.S.A., M.R.1., Managing Director. BANKERS. The Agra and Masterman's Bank (Limited). Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths. The National Bank, London, Dublin, and its Branches in Ireland. The Alliance Bank (Limited), London, Liverpool, and Man chester. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Newbon. Evans, and Co., Nicholas-lane, E.C. BUSINESS TRANSACTED. This Company negotiates Loans for Colonial and Foreign Governments : Co-operates in the Financial arrangements of British and other Railways ; Makes Advances to Corporations, Town Councils, and other Public Bodies ; Negotiates Loans for Publio Works ; Assists in the introduction of Industrial and Commercial undertakings ; Makes advances upon approved Stocks, Shares, Bonds, &a ; Makes temporary Loans upon eligible Freehold and Lease hold Securities. ALFRED LOWE, Secretary. London, 17 and 18, Cornhill, Jane 15, 1865. DEBENTURES ISSUED BY T HE CREDIT FONCIER AND MOBILIER OF D ( Limited. ISSUE OF £500,000 DE B ENGL ENT AN URES WITH INTEREST PAYA.BLE QUARTERLY. The Directors have decided to issue Debenture Bonds of the Company for the amounts and bearing interest as under, viz.:— In sums of .£lO, £2O, £5O, £lOO. £250, £5OO, and .E l ,OOO, with coupons attached. INTEREST. For three years 6 per cent. per annum. For five years For seven years .. rt 7 " 30th Interest payable quarterly —v i z., on the March, 30th June, 30th September, and 30th December in each year, at the Company's Bankers. The distinctive feature in the debentures issued by this Company is their perfect securit y subscribed. paid- up, and uncalled, and the gener a l i nves t e d ; the amount of the capital assets of the Company, as well as the large reserve fund, affording the most ample security to the investor. These Debentures are issued payable to bearer, and can therefore pass by simple delivery from hand to hand, without endorsement, and are free from any further stamp duty. They are also issued—to meet the requirements of Trustees and others—transterrable by Deed only, to be duly registered in the Company's Books in the names of the Investors or their Assigns. Forms of Application can be obtained of the Secretary, to whom all communications must be addressed. By order of the Court, ALFRED LOWE, Secretary. London, 17 and 18, Cornhill, Jane 15, 1865, DEPOSITS RECEIVED BY THE CREDIT FONCIER AND MOBILIER OF ENGLAND (Limited). RATES FOR MONEY ON DEPOSIT. This Company receives MONEY ON DEPOSIT in sums of .£lO and upwards at the undermentioned rates from this day UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, viz. : At 14 days' notice At one month's notice 3j per cent. per annum. FOR FIXED PERIODS Or Not less than 3 twin ths and up to 6 months, 4 per et. per an. Beyond 6 months and up to 9 months 4} per or. per an. Beyond 9 months and up to 12 months 5 per et, per an. Beyond 12 months and up to 24 months si per et. per an. Forms of application can he obtained of the Secretary, to Whom all commuoic,tions tnuEt be addressed. By order of the Court, ALFRED LOWE, Secretary. 17 and 18, Cornhill, Loudon, June 15, 1865. DR. SCOTT'S LIVER AND BILIOUS PILLS.—A NEVER FAILING REMEDY.—Pre oared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. Soott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who luffer from bilious and liver nomplaints, inligestion, wind. Tama, giddiness, dizzinero of the eyes, &o. For habitual xuntiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier .1 the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their opera tion and grateful to tile stomach, they create appetite, pro mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross. London, and by most druggists, in boxer, is. Ifd., and three times the quantity in one, 26. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious an d Liver Pills. The genuine pre a square p. 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Sir,—l have received and laid before the Queen your despatch of the 19th of June, with a copy of Mr. Seward's note on the subject of the cessation of belligerent rights. her Majesty's Government are sorry to find that the reservations and explanations which accompanied the order of the 2nd of June are deemed unaccept able by the Government of the United States. Her Majesty's Government did not expect, indeed, that the United States, after the course they have hitherto taken, would now acknowledge that the original concession of belligerent rights was either necessary or just, or sanctioned by the law of nations. Her Majesty's Government, however, having, in common with all the maritime powers of Europe, acknowledged the belligerent rights of blockade on the part of the United States, and having recognised the existence of a belligerent against whom that right was exercised in conformity, as they are con vinced, with the law of nations and the practice of centuries, could not be expected on their part to shrink from the consequences of the course they had deliberately adopted. Her Majesty's Government, therefore, considered that a due regard for national faith and honour required that any Confederate vessel of war called upon to depart from her Majesty's ports, harbours, or waters should have the benefit of the 24 hours' rule. But you will ob serve to Mr. Seward that this rule is then to be enforced for the last time. Consequently no Confederatevessel of war taking advantage of this rule could ever again have the benefit of it. Her Majesty's Government have, in a like spirit, allowed that vessels lying in her Majesty's harbours or waters, or which, during the space of a month, shall come into these harbours or waters, shall be permitted to disarm and assume a peaceful charac ter. Otherwise vessels at sea, ignorant of the ter mination of the war, might be driven without coals or sails to perish on the neighbouring rocks, or to founder at sea. Such inhospitality would not be come the character of the nation for good faith and honour, or for humanity. But you will observe that her Majesty's Govern ment have instructed their authorities in distant ports distinctly to apprise the commander of any such Confederate vessel that he is to expect no further protection from her Majesty's Government, except such as he may be entitled in the ordinary course of the administration of the law in time of peace. The 24 hours' rule will not be applicable to such case. The Government of the United States will, there fore, be entitled to maintain that such vessels are forfeited, and ought to be delivered to the United States upon reasonable application in such cases made. Only such application must be made good in a British court of law it the vessel is found in British waters. In the case of a vessel captured at sea by a naval force of the United States, under whatever flag, the claim ought to be made good in a court of law of the United States. Her Majesty's Government will further illustrate their views on this head by the enclosures to this despatch. Part of these enclosures consist of despatches to and from Paris. Her Majesty's Government never can admit that, in presence of a great war which interrupted and destroyed a friendly and useful commerce extending along 3,000 miles of the American coast—a war reducing great numbers of industrious families of both nations to poverty, and afflicting a whole continent—the Governments of England and France should not, as far as possible, act iri concert, in pursuance not of any formal en gagement, but a mutual understanding. Her Majesty's Government, however, are gratified to find that the United States no longer claim the belligerent right to search British vessels, and that the normal relations of the two countries are practi cally returned to the condition in which they stood before the civil war. Her Majesty's Government trust that these ex planations, founded upon views which her Majesty's Government have maintained in a spirit of just neutrality, will prove to be favourable to the estab lishment of a lasting and intimate friendship be tween the two nations.—l am, &c. (Signed) RUSSELL. The Services of Admiral Fitzroy. We are glad to learn that attention is being called to the claims which the family of the late Admiral Fitzroy have to assistance from Government. Their case is a very strong one. Since 1825 three expedi tions, each lasting five years, have been sent to survey the coast of South America. The second of these, under the command of Admiral Fitzroy, was most successful and important. It opened up the route now usually taken through the straight of Magellan, by which the dangerous navigation of Cape Horn is avoided, and it led to observations and discoveries which have made an epoch in the recent history of science. Those well qualified to pronounce an opinion say it may be compared to its advantage with any five years' survey in the re cords of the Admiralty ; yet the expenses to which the country was put by it was small. The first ex pedition to which we have referred to cost £lOO,OOO, the last expedition £75,000, and that of Admiral Fitzroy only £40,000. He thus effected a saving to Government of from £35,000 to £60,000. This, however, he did in a great measure at his own cost, as many necessary expenses incurred on his per sonal responsibility were disallowed at the Admi ralty. In obtaining proper surveying instruments, all absolutely necessary for the proper discharge of the work he had to perform, he spent £3,000. Hav ing no tender or small boat allowed him, similar to those furnished to the other two expeditions, he was obliged to hire two:small decked boats, of from 7 to 11 tons, to execute the survey in small bays which his vessel, the Beagle, could not enter. Their hire cost him £l,lOO. Before receiving from the Admi ralty any intimation of disapproval of the hire of these vessels, he purchased a schooner astender to the Beagle. He hadher fitted up, and the cost of doing so, and the hire of the crew who manned her for a year, amounted to about £2,000. His whole expenditure, then, beyond the sum allowed at the Admiralty amounted to £6,100, for which he was never com pensated in any way. He had to borrow money to discharge the liabilities he had incurred, and his losses involved him in difficulties which embarrassed him through life. Admiral Fitzroy rendered other valuable services to the country. The latest and the most important of these were of course his labours in the Meteorological Department of the Board of Trade. It is only necessary to allude to " Fitrroy's drum" to recall the advantages which have resulted from the extension round our shores of the means devised by him of forecasting the weather. The work was not accomplished without immenselabour ; and indeed it was to the over exertion of body and mind which it involved that we must attribute the p rem ature loss of this distinguished officer. He re mained at his post long after he should have aban doned it. But the value of his discoveries had been doubted, and he feared that the work he was so much interested in would suffer through the diffi culty of finding any one compel ent to discharge his varied duties. Admiral Fitzroy died poor. His assets amounted to £3,400, his debts to about ; and he has left a large familyonany, of whom are unprovided for. A Letter claim than they have to assistance from Government it would be difficult to imagine. We therefore trust that their case will meet with the consideration due to the memory of au officer who upheld the high reputation of our navy by his scientific discoveries, by the zeal and efficiency with which he discharged the difficult duties intrusted to him, and by the ability and energy he displayed in establishing a system of meteorological observations which has already been the means of an incalculable saving of life and pro perty in all parts of the world.—Times. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 10, 1865. REMEMBER, YOU WILL SEE YOUR FRIENDS at " EVANS'. " Atter the Opera we shun Sup there! KINAHAN'S LL BRANDY. WHISKY v. COGNAC T ode !rated Old IRIS [I WHISKY rivals the finest FRENCH BRANDY, It i 4 Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Sd., at the Retail [louses in London ; by the Agents in the principal towns in England; or wholesale at 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. 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The amount of Latin that is required for writing prescriptions is so very small it can b e eas il y acquired. Mr. Roebuck—l suppose there are not 50 per cent. of the medical men who could write them if you re quired the terminations ? Dr. Quain—l will not say- that. In the course of the same examination Mr. Roebuck asked —Do you know in France all proscriptions are written in French ? Dr. Quain—lt is often illegible French ; and, moreover, the thing prescribed does but littl e goo d or harm Mr. Roebuck—ls that your opinion o f F rench physicians ? Dr. Quain—From experience I can say that the French generally prescribe what does very little good, and certainly does very little harm.—The Reader. • THUNDERSTORMS. — The long drought in the North and East Ridings was terminated on Friday night by a succession of thunderstorms, which were repeated on Saturday, accompanied with heavy rains. No accident of consequonco is reported, and the benefits to the crops by the rains are very groat. The weather for several days has 15300 extremely hot. A most violent thunderstorm occurred at Birmingham on Saturday. It lasted two hours, from 1 to 3 o'clock p.m., and during the whole of that time there poured an imWense torrent of hail and rain. The hail stones were of enormous size, and so thoroughly frozen that they lay in masses on the roofs of buildings. The heavy peals of thunder and lightning flashes followed in rapid succession, and a considerable amount of damage was done. A WARNING TO LADIES.—The Publicite of Mar seilles announces a new kind of strike—that of bachelors. Not fewer than 6 , 000 young men, it states, of that place, between the age of 20 or 30, held a meeting in the open air a little way out of the town, and entered into an agreement not to ask any young woman in marriage until a complete change shall have been operated in the manner of living, and particularly in the dress of the fair sex. The young men insist on greater simplicity in every respect, and a return to the more modest habits of a cen tury or two ago. The Volunteers. The Victoria Rifle Volunteer Corps (the let Middlesex), which was an organised body of riflemen long before the present Volunteer movement, and has supplied officers to many of the metropolitan regiments, was officially inspected on Thursday evening by Colonel Erskine, the Inspector- General, at the Kilburn rifle range. There were four com panies present, under the command of the Duke of Wel lington, Major Greenhill being the second in command. Tho regiment performed the usual exercises of an inspection during a heavy fall of rain, and the Inspector-General said with regard to the drill that he bad seen but few faults, and much which he approved. The officers did their work quickly, their orders were remarkably distinct, and in fact the soldierly bearing and smartness of the regiment loft nothing to be desired. A company of the Harrow Vo lunteer corps kept the ground. On Friday last the officers of the Victoria Rifles dined with their Lieutenant-Colonel the Duko of Wellington, to meet Colonel Erskine. In the course of the evening they were joined by many members of the corps, for whom supper was laid out in the banquet hall and adjoining rooms. Several well-chosen songs were sung in the Waterloo Gallery by Mr. Wighton, accom panied by Mr. Aspa, Captains Templer and Bridgewater, and Lieut. Cunningham, of the 18th Middlesex (Harrows), having with a detachment of their men kept the ground during the inspection, also received an invitation to the dinner. On the following morning, at an early hour, four baggage waggons, laden with all requisite materiel for the Victoria camp at Wimbledon, loft the head-quarters at Kil burn, escorted by a party of 40 men. Tho camp, as it was last year, will be in charge of Lieut. Tomkins, an officer well and favourably known to all frequenters of Wimbledon. The Paddington Rifle Volunteer corps was inspected on Wednesday evening, in Regent's-park, by Colonel Wright, the deputy Inspector-General of Volunteers, the 29th Mid dlesex keeping the ground. There was a fair muster of the regiment, which was under the command of Capt. Lochner, the commandant being absent through illness. After the evolutions, Colonel Wright expressed his gratification with the manner in which the corps had drilled, and specially remarked the smartness of the officers, which he said had saved the regiment from being at a loss through the absence of its commanding officer. The Middlesex Ten to represent the county in the county matches at Wimbledon, and to shoot for the China Cup, have been selected by a certain number of the best shots being chosen to shoot through two competitions. The result has been that the following gentlemen will represent the county under Captain Field :—Mr. Little, West Middlesex; Mr. Hamerton, 12th Middlesex; Lieut. Marriner, West Middlesex; Ensign Pixley, Victories; Sergeant Gould, Bloomsbury ; Mr. Thornbury, Victories ; Mr. Dawo, Vic tories ; Captain Morris, West Middlesex ; Mr. Leete, Queen's Westminster ; and Mr. Hooper, of the same regi ment. On Saturday evening the let Surrey Rifles had a grand fete in their new and commodious head-quarters at Camber well, which were opened a week since by the Lord-Lieuten ant of the county. There were spirited athletic exercises and various amusements. The visitors had full opportu nities of inspecting the unique head-quarters, which com prise a drill-shed 150 ft. by 52ft. open drill ground, armoury, canteen, lockers for the members, and every requirement for a good regiment, which the let Surrey certainly is. The official inspection by Colonel Erskine, Inspector- General of Volunteers, of the 26th Middlesex Rifle Volun teers, being a consolidated battalion formed of her Majesty's Customs, and St. Katharine and London Dock Company's Rifle Corps, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Gray, with Lieutenant-Colonel Manning and Major Collet as field officers, and Captain Elliot, the adjutant, took place on Wednesday at Battersea Park. The regiment, which mustered upwards of 700 of all ranks, was paraded on the Custom-house quay, and proceeded thence by steamboats. The battalion having been drawn up in review order to re ceive the inspecting officer, he minutely inspected the ranks, and the regiment having efficiently gone through the manual and platoon exercises, taking the word of command from Lieut.-Col. Manning, the usual movements of an inspection were proceeded with, including forming open column from line, marching past, which was most cre ditably done ; aployin g on front, centre, and rear compa nies advancing in line, volley firing by companies from right to left, file firing from right of companies, and a volley of whole line, advancing in direct echelon of companies from the right, changing front to the left, reformiug line, a change of front on the left company, right thrown back, forming quarter distance column on centre company, form ing square, &c. At the conclusion of the inspection Colonel Erskine addressed the regiment on its appearance and effi ciency, and made various suggestions. He said he was well satisfied, and should make a favourable report of the regi ment to the War-office. The ground was kept by a detach ment of the 2d Middlesex Artillery Volunteers, commanded by Capt. Harold Engelbach. Lieut.-Gen. Sir Hugh Rose, G.C.8., K. 5.1., has been pleased to accept the honorary colonelcy of the 26th Middlesex—an honour that is most gratifying to the members of tho corps. He was unavoid baly absent from the inspection, having boon obliged to leave London for Dublin, to take command of the forces in Ireland. The fifth annual meeting of the Edinburgh and Mid lothian Rifle Association took place last week in the Hun ters' Bog, llolyrood-park. It was resolved, on account of the difficulty of procuring long ranges, and the attendant expense, to confine tho rifle competition to Volunteers, using the Enfield rifle in Hythe position. The extreme rango available was 600 yards. The meeting began on Monday and closed on Saturday. The gathering was numerous and the shooting was highly satisfactory. The prize, entitling the winner to compete at Wimbledon for the Prince of Wales prize, was shot for at 500 yards, seven rounds, and won by Mr. G. Gray in 24 points and hits. The first of the city prizes, open to all Volun teers, was shot for at 600 yards, seven rounds, and taken by Sergeant Clews, 3d Renfrew, on a score of 21. The Association Cup was gained by Mr. J. D. Bruce, Edinburgh Rifles (200 yards, seven rounds) in a score of 25, and the Lord Provost's cup, value 200, was taken by the same gentleman in a score of 24,at 500 yards, seven rounds. The Writers to the Signet prize was won by Ensign Menzies in a score of 24, at 600 yards, seven rounds. PRICE 4d. STAMPED 511 The Caledonian Challenge Shield, with gold St. Andrew's Cross, was won for the year by Mr. Macleod, Edinburgh Rifles, in a score of 46, at 200, 500, and 600 yards, five rounds at each. The President's (Duke of Buccleuch) first prize was shot for at 200 yards, seven rounds, and was taken in a score of 26 by Mr. Arnet, Fife Artillery. The carbine competition was headed by Corporal Carter, Midlothian Artillery, in a score of 20, at 200 yards, seven rounds. Numerous other prizes were competed for, and the whole arrangements for the meeting proved highly successful. On Saturday the prizes were delivered by the Lord Advo cate in a public meeting in the Music-hall. The fourth annual meeting of the Aix rdeenshire Artillery and Rifle Association commenced on the Links of Aberdeen on Tuesday, and terminated on Thursday evening. The weather was favourable throughout, and some excellent shooting was made in the various competitions. The chief prize of the "Wapenschaw," as the meeting is locally termed—the Aberdeenshire Bugle, with £24 in money, was carried off by the 4th Elginshire (Rothes) Rifle Corps ; the secondprize in this contest, a couple of dozen of champagne, presented by Messrs. Stewart, wine merchants, falling to the 4th Aberdeen City Company. The Battalion Challenge Cup, with £2O, was won by the Ist Aberdeenshire Com pany, and the Artillery Modal, with £lO, was awarded to the Ist Kincardineshire Volunteers. The All Corners' prize at the long range was divided between Major Ines and Private Wilken, these gentlemen having made the same scores. The Wimbledon Meeting for 1865. -0 , If anything were necessary to prove the deep hold which the love of rifle-shooting has taken of the English people it would be the fact that not oven the excitement, tumult, and conflict of passions attendant on a general election can put a stop to the great annual trial of skill at Wimbledon. The test is a severe one. Since Volunteering first attained anything like importance there has been no general election in England, and the period now fixed for the electoral con tests throughout the kingdom is identical with the limit of time covered by the programme of the National Rifle Asso ciation ; yet more men have intimated their intention of coming into camp, a greater number of entries have been made this year for all the valuable prizes, than at the corre sponding period of any of the former anniversaries. The main features of this notable gathering aro now so widely known as scarcely to render description necessary. There is not a corps at the furthest extremity of the Highlands that is not familiar with its stirring scenes by day and its social gatherings at night, from the most trustworthy of all sources—the reports of delegates sent up by themselves to sustain the regimental fame in the contests for the Queen's Prize. Competitors from distant colonies, from far away Australia itself, have been squadded with the Queen's sub jects nearer home, so that to those regions also an intimate acquaintance with the sights and sounds of Wimbledon has penetrated. But as that lying nearest our own doors is often passed over in ignorance of its real attrac tion, or, in these days of long ranges, merely because the custom is to look beyond it at more distant objects, it may be that there are in London itself some who have never seen the picturesque encampment at Wimbledon. If so, they should lose no time in repairing the error ; the site is one of the loveliest imaginable, and the animation and eagerness exhibited by all in camp will not fail to be com municated to them as soon as their eye takes in the general outlines of the place. if they know anything of the art of rifle shooting they will find it studied here upon a scale such as is practicable, or at any rate practised, in no other part of the kingdom, with a cosmopolitan taste, too, for any novelty that enhances the stimulus or elicits peculiar skill is tried upon an extended scale. This year, for in stance, the Swiss targets, which before were used, as it were experimentally, have been introduced at many of the ranges. If the visitors know nothing of shooting, but merely come to view the general effect, or to regard the British Volunteer under his social aspects, they will derive information, and no doubt satisfaction, from a walk through the camp. There they will find him, under can vas, it is true, but surrounded with many of those comforts which the British colonist, better than any other, knows how to extemporise, in possession of a capital refreshment room and commissariat, a club-room, a bazaar, a library, and, to crown all, an Industrial Exhibition. A little further on visitors will discover special enclosures removed from the main camp, in which watch and ward are maintained with especial strictness. Within these enclosures two of the metropolitan crack regiments, the Victorias and Lon don Scottish, spurning the comparative freedom of Volun teer life over yonder, "the military lodging-house," as they call it, have come down to conduct their encampment according to strict military regulations ; and, moreover, volunteer for all and every kind of service that the autho rities may require at their hands. Tho offices of the Association also should bo regarded attentively, lying within a neat ring fence, where a whole department, which in any other country would be a Govern ment department, compresses, by the energy and in dividual ability of its members, the work of months into two short weeks. Having visited these various points of interest, cast their eyes over the widely waving area of flags and bannarets, particularly one range of giant flagstaffs stretching right across the plain, and " dressed" so accurately that, in standing close to the first of these poles not one of the others can be seen, strangers probably will be in a mood to avail themselves of the tramway to and Putney stations. r o o f ac th h e t p h l e a t further extremity lyingof t the e b e g tw o erun,end the w c i h m c b o l e n d s o i snt Information concerning every point connected with the meeting will be found in those compact sixpenny volumes about double the size of a railway ticket, which are so many miniature libraries. From their contents it will be seen that several now prizes have been introduced this year, and among these conspicuous mention is due to the Challenge Cup, value 500 guineas, contributed by volunteers in China. The questions connected with the " International" matches have been happily and wisely settled by the recognition of Irishmen as legitimate competitors, both for the Elcho Challenge Shield and in the International Enfield Match. In the latter contest, which has been hitherto one for pure love of country, a magnificent testimonial, value .£l,OOO, is now being raised by a committee, under the presidency of Colonel the Hon. C. Lindsay. A railway prize has been instituted by the South-Western Railway Company, who subscribe £5O for the purpose, and rewards are offered this year, for the first time, to the 5-grooved Enfield rifle, which is in the hands mainly of non-commissioned officers and mounted Volunteers, but not eligible in the ordinary Enfield matches. The carbine prizes have been largely increased, and it may be said of the prize list generally that it has undergone judicious and generous revision. The rule which last year prohibited winners of one of the larger prizes from winning a second has been rescinded, being found in practice not to bo attended with all those benefits which Volunteers who advocated its adoption had anticipated. The Wimbledon Cup, however, which last year was offered to prize winners as a solace for the re striction thus imposed upon them, has not been discon tinued in consequence of the change, but is presented again wader conditions suited to the altered circumstances. Some of the most interesting matches will be decided this year at' a much earlier period than has been usual hitherto. The Public Schools' match, for instance, which till now has been always a prominent feature in the second week's shooting, will bo held to-morrow, when the Inter national Enfield match will also take place. In consequence of the sad accident which occurred last year to one of the markers, a private in the Guards, it has been thought expedient to make a change in the surgical department. So far the proceedings of the association had been wonderfully free from casualties, but this mishap showed that if any serious injury happened again it was likely, among mon following military pursuits and leading for the time a military life, to be one of a military charac ter, and therefore, in the opinion of the Council, it was pro per that army surgeons, accustomed to the care of gunshot wounds, should be in charge of the hospital arrangements, and solely responsible for their administration. This deci sion, however delicately conveyed, was not one that could be altogether satisfactory to the Volunteer medical officers who have attended former meetings at Wimbledon, and it is understood that they dissent very strongly from the views of the Council. The working of the new system is one that must be tested by results. As far as the military authorities aro concerned, looking to what has already taken place, it is not surprising that they should desire to have upon the spot a medical officer of the standing and experience of Surgeon Major Wyatt, of the Guards. Wimbledon-common, apart from the business which more immediately loads to its occupation by the Volunteers, is sure to connect itself incidentally with something of novelty to the public. On Saturday experiments took place there with the object of showing that powder, without any per manent injury to its destructive qualities, can, at will, be rendered non-explosive. A Mr. Gale, of Plymouth,althoug h labouring under the privation of loss of sight, has in course of 11 years' patient study devised the means of preventing the explosion of gunpowder, which same gunpowder, the instant that his preparation has boon withdrawn, may be sct fire to and exploded. His secret consists in the admix ture of a sandy substance, which by separating the grains of powder, prevents them from igniting simultaneously. The grains iu immediate contact with the match or red het iron thrust into the mass aro of course consumed, and go off in smoke, but there the matter ends. Fire is not ' communicated to the other grains, and there is no explo sion whatever. When tested by weighing on Saturday, after the uninflammable materials had been sifted away, it was found that the gunpowder had lost about a sixth of its volume during the experiments. The remaining five-sixths exploded instant] that they were brought into contact With agencies similar to those which before had proved ineffec tual. Mr. Gale expressed his willingness to sit upon a barrel of gunpowder on the common, and allow a red hot poker•to be plunged into it, provided he were first allowed CANTERBURY HALL. 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