The Sun. — London, England, 1865-02-17 00:00:00

It MEMBER! WE WAIT SUPPER t ot , POE YOU, after the Pantomime, at EVANS'. Fail FunTuRE, CARPETS, BEDDING, and the i t i L OORCLOTH. CARmAGN-FREN to any house In td a zk gdoril, regardless of amount or distance. First. class at second-class prises. Terms peculiarly liberal to fr o ,...A7nlen and Gentlemen. An immense stock to select Ever displayed in Showrcoms occupying an acre of ground. ~E 77 article warranted. it''',.SIiGYAIEN and GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR 00'.81 are respeotfully informed that Messrs. Cobbett anci eq uan r e, Publishing' an entirely New Edition of their un- Wm, " able et,OUSE FURNISHING GUIDE, illustrated by4lo Le,i ste id engravings of every description of Furniture and pest-i re s, with prices attached. A copy sent gratis and t '"lDlet e On application. This wetly work also contains 110, •,e estimates for furnishing on the following revised IL Six -roomed Parsonage £74 3 0 An Eight -roomed ditto A Ten -roomed ditto ........ 259 16 6 ottA Twelve-roomed d!tto i ther with a Price List of purified Bedding, and a mass informationto ail requiring househ)ld furniture, sk a „„%or bedding. References kindly permitted to Ci ergy- Noi r ," Zentl, men in or near Great Malvern. Southampton, Vlr e i l iAter. Bury, Rty, Preston. Grimsby, tyde, Plymouth. %tun "Voll. Brighton, Gainsborough, sls.rgate. Kidder- St ekr• We l lington. Croydon. Cambridge, itaines, Dorking. Wre...1 41111 8. Worcester, Ipswich, Feterborongh, St. David's, tin t s'arn. and above 500 other places in all parts of Great brie BE onTT and CO E .. General House Furnishers, Dept f ord- Ldon, .. 1411 CREDIT PONCIER AND MOBILIER OF ENGLAND (Limited) are prepared to receive SUBSCRIPTIONS for the CAPITAL of P I E CHINA STEAMSHIP AND LABUAN COAL CO MPA N Y ( Limited). Incorporated under the Limited Liabilities Act of 1862. b e Capital .£500,000, in 25,0)0 shares of £2O each. per share on application, and £4 on allotment, s et: 4 nd whice it is not contemplated II ng up more than Te auer Seam any further Capital required being met by the .7,e Of Debentures. • 440 Call to be made earlier than three months from date of allotment. the DMECTORS. ke n ' T. C. Bruce, Chairman of the Inverness and Perth Si W is aY Company, Chairman. gtee t „,'%.,Eltihiastone, Bart., M. P., Director of the Paci fi c neeha,7 nevi eraviation Company, Deputy-Chairman. CoSassoon. Esq., London, and D. Sassoon and 115,,101 Bombay and China. p'irar, Borradat e, E sq, Director of the Scinde and Panjaub h l l7 ay Compa. lie I n O to h ' Es q. , C. 8., late Secretary to H. M. Ambassador nr te wn4ln tta7 ,Al ers Ilankey, Esq., Chairman of the New Zealand WtOg Cooration. rd Pereira rp , Esq. London, late of (Dent and Co.) China. n ea t ol Miller, .Esq., M.P. (Leith, Director of the Eastern Tlon, , e, al Railway Comnany. rancis Drummond, Director of the Natal Land Cum- Asa 7„ . tocna Browne, Esq., Director of the London, Italian, lea_eadriatio Steam Navigation Company (Limited). Jaineeslader Sinclair, Esq., late A.E.I.C. Service, London. Chi a 1 1. Daniell, Esq., Chairman oft e Bank of Hindustan, Joh n i r t: a f and Japan Limited.. Nevi tc Yle, testa e Agent to the Austrian Lloyd's Ste a m gration Company, and Director of the Th a mes an d Hersey Insurance Company. eagra AGENTS. Bibb, Livingstone, and Co.. China. Agents da for an China a lessr:',„Sullth, -Kennedy, and Co., China. .Pa ' C umming, Beaver, and Co., Sin- Ve s ,,%re N ae aviga P ion Com pany. ge t i„ . ',,,!* Dent and Co , China. Agents for La- Iliddletoa, Harrison, and Co., buan Coal Com pany. BANKERS. The• Scnith. Payne, and Smiths, Lombard-street, E.C. B ank n ational Bank, Old Broad-street, E .C. le go',„,_ Rindusten, China, and Japan (Limited), in Calcutta, "'war, China, and Japan. SOLICITORS.N, Evans, and Co. ' Nicholas-lane, B.C. 11. Mackenzie, Esq., 77, Gresham House, B.C. BROKERS. villt..._e7B- Laurence, Son, and Pearce, 7, Angel-Court, Throg srrton-etreet, - ee s. Field, Son, and Wood , Itort on - street, E.C. 9, Warriford-court, Throe , - SECRETARY PR O TEX—Alfred Lowe, Esq. TEMPORARY OFFICES—i 7 and IS, Cornhill.. tliTth_isu.po. Wen ul Co has been formed for the Purpose lteo%larlB%,consolidating. and developing the enterprises 131111 Y," and Ther China and Japan Steam Navigation Com he Labuan Coal Company." fejt e oNect of the former C:mpany was to supply the much battereu of steam navigation in the China waters, and the i te , l Y was formed to work the coal mines in La vete norneo, and to supply the whole of the Govern atte h e u Mercantile marine in the East with steam fuel. It bitet eß ee found, however, that from the fact of those Com te° it g been formed with too small a capital, and on vele tat 'ulted basis, the requirements both as co upply of ealie4i and also the further development of the ai Tines, l be adequat t he met. It has, rtakings, a therefore, been to considered htre ßab le to merge two undend make one le - e Con, th —Pany, with sufficient meaes and . infleence to deve- Nee e v aluab'e business of both the old otnpanies; and in 'rare " a nne therewith, arrangements have been made for the tolliediate transfer by them of their resoective Fleet and Thr ie c , s i together with the Goodwill and valuable Plant ding Will, therefore, immediately acquire the the Trading Steamers Elgin. Nona. and Sterling, and a lloir t uga Titan, Vulcan, and Tienchang, already well ship 2 and profitably employed in China ; and the sailing lat:lldrornede a frigate of 2,003 tons burden, admirably Itihittneveloping for a coaling hulk. the shipping operations of the Company, in 'Aces to the building of Trading and Collier Steamers, 1te414 attention will be paid to the cotntruction of Tug gLadapted to the ever-increasing inland traffic of the h a e tsi a ," 4 . l4 , a rivere, where the demand for such shipping is las ea ,, , re,, It is Plata proposed to establi4i a Line of Steamers th t llla - e n ls ,2 ll Thay, Singapore, and Hong Kong. . te e L 1 ) -- "Paner will also at once enter on all the rights cf hg l eir D a tt an Coal Company, in Labuan and Borneo and all j- keel, a 'Plant, buildings, and stock of coal in the' former nen, „on take over their valuable contracts with her Ma- The L'ac'evernment. t e ? Ade tt ",. ll ,an f=oal has been contracted for extensively by to the "ad)", and will actually be the standard Steam Coal b 'ten - v at in the China waters and elsewhere in the East, s \v a i Xtensively used by leading Steamshipping Co ,Pltl the arrangements contemplated for storage, th - ,, 4l 4lie r W i ng at Labuan, and delivery at the different Go stati ns in the East shall have been completed, " e nt means of production and delivery being totally T he n to meet the constantly-increasing demand. in a e rep o 'qent Manager of the Lab u an Coal anal s e '' , states that the work , * now completed open a field ce e al a'Ait7 t he extent of above a million of tons, and teat a c i e t illen cetit reparation i s for the sinking of which have been 1 04 rept e nd the mac liner) , for which is on the spot—will olip f te me quantity available for working. or four mil ta'ria, the further quantity to be obtained being prac oraecirrhaustible. Oth er steps , steps therefore, will be taken to open this pit a ' el creZ r ,, a, and mine connect the . mines with the harbour of ila `4,111. In Port mineral tram railroad of about seven miles in le' te eei e rort Victoria, shies drawing 2 t feet of water can th' o e e eri 'mnie shore, and every facility is offered f n or nt th no e a ir l le ) Rernieally and rapidly loaded le, the e recti o n L.rts etervoal hulks will also be established in the e leading „able t " e nclii and China. demand means the Company will leatle ap :lneet the public for steam fuel at highly ittthe—"Lhre rates in addition to supplying their own fleet 'reee' n eeessarieoal. tidt Price of Coal in China—The present price at Hong 4 g 4 4 1. ,_n0al equal in quality to that of Luban, 455. per h v 'troth Inn price is exceptionally low. tG r eter a -- „ T he probable profit of the undertaking will be seen leceet - uee to the following figures. Experience has proved pf rais the coal and a ing on board ship at G e l' toe be 6s ine to 7s. per ten. pl 'raking it the price at 6s. 9d and n o „ct th e adding 3s. 3d for agency, management. Jte, the e t :abe rt : coal on bo rd ship at Labuan e ould stand te ceSamersper ton. Allowing for the Company 's erh a deliver e d, sae 15s. per ton, the cost of the Labu an Ns e.lieh t en er, wend be 255. per ton against 455., the 84, 11 1 at e llee of English coal equal in quality ; and it is mY pit that when the Company is fairly at work, it could 11;ePp e „t and dispose of 100,000 tons of coal annually. tot.n eeal and freight to cost 25s per ton, an i sold at tea t 00 , there will be a profit of 20s. per ton, which k • •.. , reduce of 100,003 tons only per annum is equal at £loo,ooo m t Of Steamers, say £130,00 4., ea , e,,, a ttin h t 50 000 tone are the first e r raised, 11nre there t " , is only 15s. per ton profit realised a thereon, ha, a still • alf a g i or ee with the profit on the steamers £ 67,000 per an te, IN ; ,40 Per cent. on r. paid-up capital of £ 250,000, or et 4 or interest on Debentures above 20 per cent. net „ I „end. - untment of the Shares will be made on the following 7e!riz. _ lee Wiip l ares party y paid up, and partly with £lO pad •yar ab ,Le reserved to • allotmew to the n oplicants who are ve "ttlnders in the e -tiering nompenies of thes £6,000 k alp ah ready been applied for, and the de;.osits paid to the ‘Zra Bankers . e fr tli k ),,ehar. with £5 paid, will be allot, e to Shareholders b e u i t flit Ponder and gobiln.r of England (Limited) s hares, with £ 5 paid. will Le all..tted to the general "lhe' h al als, f o rme f s may not be applied for 5h9 4 1)1. 14-41 1) or by the above. e o a„tei, ,„ 11 043 willalso be received for 5,000 fully paid-up "ti e '' e n which dividends for the whole amount paid - u p Xelared. %tn ° flares will wil l served for allotment in Bombay, ap- I for which be received by 31essra. D. Sassoon ~lllle()" gib _ ti,berlceason, Plans, Reports, and Articles of Association i inet4l . 4 eCted at the offices of the Solicitors. th' l ett e. 1°1144 for shares are to be made in the annexed form, eo_ •rh al) p'Poett the B •nkers of the Company, upon payment of 4 M e4 et th" £ 1 per share. It no allotment is made to the ate ° ,elio n e deposit will be immediately returned, without ~ and if a less number of shares be allotted an s t et ' t he deposit paid will, so far as necessary, be t h ro,n Wards the payment due on allotment. e o%4 ° ' Uses and Forms of A plication can be obtained at Vale4, B ot the Credit Fonder and Mobilier of England l ',eitoth 17 and la, Cornhill ; alto of the Bankers, Brokers, .ch pe‘and of the Secretary of the Company. It itlt C hutrY, 1865. OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES, WITH £5 PAID UP. Tp t 0. Cro be retained by the Bankers.) h e bi r& Z iore of the China Steamship and Labuan Coal Company (Limited`. li d u,! oil Paid to ' your Bankers (insert Bankers' names) the al) eat , being a depcisit of £1 per share on te e ,e -44 P above Company, I hereby request that h you s 111 n r f, lee s "gat number, and I agree to accept t rcli r s in. ar o e f ~ f t er e` l ' a peee, l4 mber you may allot to me. o rte- r o sine: and I agree to pay the deposi t tedue e on e allotment, lte la ltees" the Articles of Association of he Company, when 'Nein:" 1 euthorise you to iesert my name on the Members for the number of shares all to me. Usual sign, ture Name in full Residence P Profession 1p Date till.ir Lilly p aid _ up Shares are required, on the following $aL OF APPLICATION FOR FULLY PAID-UP SHARES. (To be retained by the Bankers.) ` 45 -4 cto.ta of the China Steamship and Labuan Coal 1 1 4 Cl eoti e Company (Limited). tu LS . Paid to vour Bankers (insert Tankers' names) the ar Allot a I, , !king. a deposit of £1 per Share on to th e above pany, I hereby request that you will 1 11: 4 ee ‘ 0 p e t e t t e a,t number of Fully Paid-up Shares, and t agree kti 11 th e Shares, or any less number you may allot to et A il lat of of fhe Prospectus. and I agree to pay the 114 "som !ueil shaves on allotment, and to . silr,n the Articles Yoli — t a ` l On nr the Company, when required, and I auth i o; e ttr,•.° On y name on the Register of Members o er ot Shares allotted to me. ZTsual signature ... Nene in full . Residence Profession Date rit i \.......„. .. P ti Ci3INA. STEAM-SHIP AND LABUAN - Allorr o , I'IAL COIIPAVY (Limited). ' '-', ' 'EN, that the LISTS of tot'i(3klel.,ATlB•!:ll.rEgli,ays this ( ompany will ( <‘' ''l c ,---,IIII IS S D I A. 7 (FRIDAY), 17th February, at (11,'„TLID'°' DAY moolicanta • and TO-MOR , ROW 'Pile - AY) - --- • -- 4. at Two o'clock, for t ountry iittutic the 18th 1,:x5.., ALFRED Te kr.or oyr , teeS:l7amd By .'order, Secretary, pro tem. 18 " 4.7 alos. _ No. 22,670. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17, 1865. ROYAL NAVAL, MILITARY, and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY (Esta blished A.D. 1837. under Royal Intronage), 17, Waterloo place, London, S.W. ARTHUR R. HAMILTON, Secretary. Agents wanted in towns not yet represented. NEW NOVEL BY THE REV. J. C. M. BELLEW. Now Ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. (Revised), SECOND EDITION of BLOUNT TEMPEST. By the Rev. J. C. M. BELLEW. K INAHAN"S LL WHISKY v. COGNAC BRANDY. This celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest FRENCH BRANDY, It h Pare, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by the Agents in the principal towns to England; or wholesale st Chatham, preparatory to some important altera tions being carried out at the Royal Engineer esta blishment, and the reappropriation of the non-com missioned officers, mess and the Sappers' recreation rooms, with a view, among other contemplated improvements, to the establishment of a canteen for the use of the non-commissioned officers and men. The members of the Board were accompanied during their tour of inspection by Major R. Harri son, who was deputed to visit and report upon the canteen recently established at Gosport. ft is announced at Chatham garrison that a change will shortly be made in the Staff at the Royal Engi neer Department, Horse Guards. The post of Deputy Adjutant-General, now held by Col. F. E. Chapman, C. 8., will be filled, it is understood, by Col. J. L. A. Simmons, C. 8., commanding Royal Engineers at Aldershot, while Lieut.-Col. the Hon. H. F. Keane, Assistant Adjutant-General, will pro bably be succeeded by Lieut.-Col. J. F. M. Browne, C. 8., now doing duty at head-quarters, Chatham. In accordance with new regulations adopted at the War-office, an order has been received at Chat ham garrison prescribing the future rate of allow ance of officers of the army when travelling on duty, without troops, at 20s. per day for general officers, 15s. a day for field officers, and 10s. per day for captains and subalterns. " This book is well written. The story is interesting and full of incident."—Athenaeum. Hurst and Biackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. S, GREAT WINDMILL -STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded "Kinahan's LL Whisky." In addition to the various infantry depots that have arrived at Chatham, consequent on the break ing up of several of the depot battalions, the parti culars of which have been given in The Sun, the de pot companies of the 80th Regiment have also ar rived at the garrison from the 15th depot battalion at Buttevant. The strength of the depot is 6 ser geants, 2 corporals, 4 drummers, and 54 privates, together with , the following officers :—Capt. J. L. W. Nunn, Lieut. W. P. Mortimer, Lieut. F. God dard, and Ensign A. H. Smith. In accordance with orders received at Chatham from the Horse Guards, the depot companies of the 81st Regiment are to remove from that garrison to Gosport. The strength of the 81st depot is 7 sergeants, 9 corporals, 3 drum mers, and 153 rank and file, together with the fol lowing officers :—Capt. W. E. Todd, Lieut. J. A. Deans, Lieut. H. J. Faircloth, Lieut. W. H. 11. Jackson, and Lieut. W. B. Knight. Mr. Richardson's experiments with a view of in troducing petroleum into the service for steam fuel have been suspended for some time in consequence of the bursting of the small grate used in the preli minary trials. The grate was of cast iron 3-Bths of an inch in thickness, and composed of several pieces of iron, with a surface of 2ft. only. It was worked under the boiler of an engine of 14-horse power, and succeeded, with four gallons of oil, in getting steam up in an hour and a half. The valve was then closed at 101 b. pressure. Steam was kept up for another hour, with the expenditure of an additional gallon of oil, the steam blowing off about half the time. The grate not being strong enough to resist the pressure opened at the joints. Mr Richardson subse quently submitted to the Lords of the Admiralty, by their desire, some working drawings of a design for a wrought-iron grate, available for practically testing the use of petroleum. The grate is now under construction in the steam factory of Woolwich dockyard. Its estimated cost is about £l5O. Mr. Richardson's design, with- various ameliorations added by Mr. Trickett, inspector of machinery, su perintending the factory, was yesterday laid on the floor, and the work was then put in progress. If the result anticipated is realised, the result will be most important. RACING FORECASTS. (From the Owl,) There seems to be but little chance of any very ex citing events coming off during the present season. There are no new horses that arc likely to be brought forward, and the few old platers which will be run again this year, as they have been for many years past, are not such as to create any great interest amongst the general public. The Ring, no doubt, will do its best to get up some excitement in various small matches, for the sake of the advantage to be gained by themselves in the great event which is to be decided in the autumn of this year, in the shape of the General Election Stakes, the date for which, however, is not yet fixed. The entries for this event are certain to be very large, and there will be plenty of money forthcoming at the proper time. In the meanwhile we may expect, during the summer, to see many hobbies ridden for the sake of the practice it will give those who intend to compete in the autumn. " Reform," which perhaps is the favourite horse at the present moment, has done a fair amount of work during the winter. The poor old animal has been brought out, however, so frequently, whether he was fit or not to run, that there is no question that he has suffered a good deal from the injudi cious way in which he has been treated. Belonging, as he does, to a large Confederacy, there Would seem to be too many masters, and these do not appear always to agree among themselves. Some excitement was caused a few days ago by a gallop they gave him over the ground at Leeds, under the management of the trainer Baines. On this occa sion he was mounted by a new lad, the son of the veteran jockey of Richmond Park, and it was more for the purpose of trying the lad than the capabili ties of the old horse. The boy rode him very wildly, and floundered about a good deal in his saddle, but it is possible that, with a little more experience and strength, he may become a useful lad in handicaps when he is not overmatched. In this case the horse was too strong for him, and fairly ran away. " Reform," however, is a very good animal, and, if carefully trained and ridden, will well repay those interested in him. There is some idea of his passing into the hands of Gladstone, the well-known trainer of '6 Financial Reform," '6 French Treaty," " In come Tax," and other most useful nags. F. Kelly has a horse which has not been much tried, but which is likely to come with a great rush early in the year. It is a colt by " Farmer," out of the old mare " Protection," g.d. " Conservative," by " Agitation." It is called " Malt," and is much thought of by its stable. It had a gallop on Wednesday last, but from what we hear the result was not satisfactory. There were symptoms of weakness about his pace, and rumours that he cannot stay. His pace is supposed to be good for a mile, but anything beyond that will be out of his power. An attempt was made by a mob of his admirers to get the horse taken up by Gladstone; but though the charge of it was not absolutely de clined, yet we have reason to know that that gen tleman has one or two others in his string which will completely destroy its chance of success. There is, however, a large commission out to lay upon the horse, and he will very likely go to a short price before the day of his public appearance. " Permissive Bill" is a leggy, weedy-looking ani mal, which, in our opinion, will never do much. He has no substance, and will give in the moment he is collared. He will, however, start, and may be at a rather better price before the great Stakes come off. He is at present training at Lawson's. There is a starter which at present is rather a dark one, but we have reason to know that before long he is very likely to rise to the position of second, or even first, favourite. " Recognition" is a fine horse, and shows promise of great power and en durance. He has been tried very highly, and though we fear that latterly, owing to reports of something being amiss, he has gone rather back in the market, yet he is, we believe, in much better condition than is generally supposed, and we caution our readers against laying heavily against him. He is supported by a strong party, and, if not a winner, will cer tainly run very forward. His first appearance will depend mainly on the operations of a certain party over the water, but his trainers here are very care ful, and will spare no effort to bring him out fit. Mr. Berkeley's "Vote by Ballot" will run, we lie suppose, as usual, to save the owner' s stake : but has no more chance of success this year than he has d,r T3l • ( , \•"' •411 I f- --- N . 7.. .. 7 I_ „ f:- , -tlkol DTE I itil,* 'lip 16-13 D izor r • -01 //02 PRICE 4d., STAMPED sd. had before, and may fairly be considered a regular duffer. " Foreign Relations" this year will attract but little attention. It is very likely there will be a few private matches made with him, but we think the horse did too much last year to come out very fresh this season. In our judgment he is stale, and goes very short. " Irish Church" and " Irish Distress" are the lot from the Sister Isle. We doubt if much will be made out of them. The first -named will most likely be steered by B. Osborne with his accustomed ability, and some day may be worth money. The latttr is much talked of in certain circles, but besides being a very moderate performer, is in very bad hands. Of Gladstone's horses " Income Tax" and " Fire Insurance" are spoken of as very promising, and most probably will carry the money of his stable. But everything in that establishment is at present kept very quiet. _ C. Villiers has a colt by " Poor-Law" out of " Metropolitan Distress," which is looked for with much interest, and Charles Wood will run " Indian Budget," a very respectable performer, but not in such good condition this year as the last. Colonel Sykes"' China" will, as usual, give the public some amusement by the extraordinary riding of its gallant owner ; and Lord Westbury 'is likely to have some fun with " Bankruptcy," which horse, we understand, has broken down badly during the winter. Our readers will see from this resume that there is not promise of great sport this year, and that betting at St. Stephen's is likely to be flat. Our own opinion is, as we have said, that . " Reform" and " Recognition" (the latter an uncertain animal) are likely to be worth attention, backing " Income Tax" and " Fire Insurance" for a place. REUTER 'S TELEGRAM COMPANY (Limited). Incorporated under the Joint Stock Companies Act, 18,12. . Capital £ 50, 00, in 10,600 Shares of £25 each. First Issue 4,00.) Shares, Of which more than 2,04 Shares have b.en already sub s r brd. Payment on application Xt. and on Allotment £4 per -hare ; it Is not intended to call up more thin £2O per share. At least Two Months to intervene between each Call. DIRECTORS. John Dent, Esq , 35, Grosvenor-square. Sir John Dalrymple Hay, Bar ~ M.P., Ie.R.S. Colonel James Holland, Deputy Chairman London and South African ank. James Sydney Stopford, Esq., Director of the Agra and Masterman's Bank. Julius Reuter, Esq., Managing Director. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Bishoff Coxe and Bompas, 19, Coleman-street. AUDITOR.' John B.►ll, Esq. (firm of Quilter, Ball, and Co.), 3, Moorgate street. BANKERS. The A gra and Masterman's Bank (Limited), 35, Nicholas-lane. BROKERS. Messrs. P. Cazenove and Co., 52, Threadneedle-street. SECRETARY (pro tern ) Mr. Frederick J Griffiths. OFFICES. 1, Royal Exchange-buildings, London. This CompanYis established to provide cap"tal for the pur chase and extens'on of the well-known Telegraphic Business of Mr. Ju ius Reuter. Mr. Iteutor has, by fifteen years' labour, org , nixed a most extensive system of Telegraphic correspondence, fgr obtain ing and communicating to his subscribers the earliest and most reliable Political, Financial, and Commercial Intern gepq. _ - - - . . A large revenue is now derived from this source, which is capable of consider4b e extensLn by the use of additional capital. The services of Mr. Renter as Managing Director have been secured for a term of years, and in the agreement for the transfer of the business is a clause by which Mr. Reuter is bound, in the event of his connection with the Company ceasing, either by the terminatiou of the perio 1 of his en gagement, or from any other cause, not to assist directly or indirectly in the prosecution of any bimilar business. Mr. Renter will continue to have the exclusive manage ment of the Telegra,,hic Department, which will be con ducted, as heretofore, with the utmost secrecf, fidelity, and impartiality. The whole of the profits from the Ist of January will be long to the Company. All applications for Shares must be made at the Offices of the Company, of the Brokers, or of the Bankers. REUTER'S TELEGRAM COMPANY Limited). NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that NO APPLICA TIONS for SHARES in this Company will be received after Two o'clock TO-MO RROW, SATURDAY, the 18th instant. By order of the Board, FREDERICK J. GRIFFITHS, Secretary, pro tern. Royal Exchange-buildings, Feb. 17, 1865. MR. and Mrs. GERMAN REED, with Mr. JOHN PARRY. in PRE RIVAL COMPOSERS, in which the Sisters Pry will appear, with THE BARD and HIS BIRTHDAY; and to cone ude with MRS. ROSELE Ale AT THE SEA-S WE. By Mr. John Parry. Every Evening (except Saturday) at Eight ; Saturday Afternoon, at Three. -ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRA LION, 14, Regent street. Unreserved seats, Is., 2s. ; stalls, Bs. ; stall spring chairs, ss. • OPERA DI CAMERA, the SOLDIER'S LEGACY, by Mactarren, and TOO MANY COOKS, by Offenbach. Every TUESDAY and T EIURSDAY, at Three. T HE U X F O R D, 6, OXFORD STREET, W. The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). ORPHEE AUX ENFERS (Off , nbachii brilliant Opera Comique), is achieving an unprecedented success. Vlde, the Song: "King of Bceotia ;" " The Hymn to Bacchus;" and the spirited "Hilliho " Chorus, by Eurydice, Diana, Cupid, and t horns ; the side-splitting " Couplets," by Minerva, Diana, Venus, Cupid, Pluto, and Chorus; and flaal Minuet and Galop. Principal characters by Misses Russell, Fitz henry, Barrie, Tyrrell, and Walmsley; Messrs. Greene and Laseelles. Also, MASANIELLO, in which Mons. LAVESSIERE, the successful new Tenors, from the Theatre Lyrique, Paris, will make his appearance. Musical Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Comedy, by Mr. WILLIAM RANDALL, Mr. GASTON MURRAY, LITTLE 808, SESTIL LION, and all the pro curable Talent of the day. CANTERBURY HALL. The Oxford and Cant-lrbury Hall Company (limited). HODGE PODGE, the most extraordinary Christmas Entertainment in Lon - doa (incluiang the whole strength of the establishment), every evening at half-past Nine o'clock. The usual Operatic Sele:tions by Hisses Russell, Baree, Hays, Godden, ; Messrs. 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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That an EXTRAORDIN.tRY GENERAL MEETING of the BRITISH NATION LIFE ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION will be held at the Offices of the Association, 316, Regent street, London, en SATURDAY, the nth day of February, 1865, at 12 o'cleck at noon precisely, for the purpose of empowering the Directors, under the 222 d clans of their eed of Settlement, to effect an Union of another Assurance Company with this Association. By order of an Extraordinary Board. HENRY LAKE, Manager. Feb. le, 1865. Naval and Military Intelligence. The Imperial Ottoman screw line-of-battle ship Kosovas, 80 guns. bearing the flag of Admiral Edhem Pasha, the Commander-in-Chief of the Otto man squadron now lying at Spithead, completed her screw trials over the measured mile in Stokes Bay on the 18th inst. most satisfactorily, under the supervision of Mr. J. Dinnen, inspector of machi nery to the English Board of Admiralty, and of the steam factory and reserve officials of Portsmouth Dockyard. The ship 'has been recently fitted at Southampton by Messrs. Maudslay and Field, of Lambeth, with engines of the nominal power of 700-horses, under the inspection •of the officers of the English. Admiralty. The Rossova's engine cylinders have a diameter of 77 inches, with a length of stroke of 3ft. 9in. The boilers have about 21 square feet of heating surface per nominal horse-power. The screw is two bladed, with a diameter of 19 feet, and a set pitch on the trial of 20 feet, but it :can be varied from 20 feet to 24 feet pitch, being bolted together on Mauds lay's principle. The screw's leading, corners are cut, as is the custom now with all screw blades in use in her Majesty's navy, on the Admiralty pattern. The screw is lifting, and is hung in the usual banjo frame. On weighing her anchor at Spithead for her trial over the measured mile in Stokes Bay the Kossova's, draught of water was 23ft. forward and 25ft. aft, the upper edge Of the screw being then immersed 2ft. 6in., the ship having 425 tons of coals in her bunkers, and being otherwise in all respects complete in stores, armament, and crew, and ready to proceed direct to sea from off the trial ground if required to do so. The wind was rather fresh from E.N.E. with a slight swell over the course. Six runs were first taken with full boiler power. This gave the ship a mean speed of 12.028 knots, the revolu tions of the engines being, maximum, 70 ; and mean, 69-833. The mean pressure of st eam i n th e cy li n d ers was 24-041 b., and the vacuum in the condensers for ward, 25-sin., and aft 26-sin. The indicated horse power was 3,606.63, or considerably upwards of five times the nominal power of the engines, a propor tion greater than has been achieved at any time be fore by any screw line-of-battle ship with the same nominal engine power over the Stokes Bay trial course. With half her boiler power, which followed on her full power trials, the ship attained a mean speed of 10.655 knots, the revolutions of the engines being, maximum, 60 ; mean, 59-25. The mean pres sure of steam in the cylinders was 16-41 b., and the indicated horse power 2,117 - 8. In testing the ship in turning, when she had been taken off the measured mile on the finish of her full and half-boiler power runs respectively, she was found to answer her helm very readily. At full power she made a half-circle to starboard in 3 min. 40 sec., and she completed the circle in 7 min. 16 sec. To port she made the half circle in 3 min. 15 sec., and completed the circle in 6 min. 35 sec. With half-boiler power, in turning to port, she made ibii_half -circle in 3 min. 32 sec., and completed the circle in 6 min. 57 sec. In turning to starboard her time was, half-circle, 3 min. 20 sec.; full circle, 6 min, 35 sec. The last test to which the ship's machinery was subjected on her trial was the facility with which she could be managed in obedi ence to orders sent below fromthe upper deck bridge, and the result of this was as follows :—Engines stopped, 21 sec. ; ditto started ahead, 27 sec. ; do. astern, 9 sec. The Kossova is an exceedingly hand some vessel, as may be imagined when we state that she was constructed from the lines of the Renown line-of-battle ship, improved by the introduction into them of two or three of the best points in the lines of the Revenge, the present flagship of Rear- Admiral Hastings R. Yelverton, C.B„ second in command of the British fleets in the Mediterranean. The 17-gun sloop Mutine has returned to Wool wich, after a trial at the measured mile, and is ordered to be prepared for immediate commission. Her destination is stated to be to relieve the Har rier on the Australian station. The Mutine has been repaired in every compartment, and has been fitted with a topgallant forecastle as a shelter for the crew. The same principle, it is stated, is intended to be carried out by Mr. Reed, the Chief Constructor, in all ships of that class belonging to her Maj esty's navy. The last piece of the keel belonging to the old 36 gun frigate Dartmouth was yesterday removed from the building shed in Woolwich dockyard, the demo lition of the ship being now complete. The whole of her timbers will be again available, and are still in good condition. The Dartmouth was partially built when the new system of shipbuilding was pro posed by Mr. Reed, and the work was discontinued. A large number of artisans have been placed on board her Majesty's screw steam corvette Chal lenger, 22 guns, 1,462 tons, 400 horse power, now lying in the large basin at Sheerness, and recently paid out of commission by Capt. John J. Kennedy, C. 8., at Sheerness, who are repairing and refitting the vessel again as quickly as possible for recommission. The depot of the 17th Lancers, consisting of Capt. Gonne, Lieut. Corbett, Cornets Symonds, Carter, and Bancroft, and about 110 non-commissioned officers and men, with their families, will arrive at Colchester on the 28th from 3laidstone to await the arrival of the head-quarters of the regiment, now on its way home from India. The regiment will replace the 16th Lancers, under orders to leave England for India in June. Staff-Surgeon Hollo way, of the 9th Depot Battalion, has been trans ferred to the 10th Depot Battalion, at Colchester, vice Dr. Williams, and consequent upon the reduc tion of the 9th Depot Battalion. An official notification has been received at Chatham garrison, from the Horse Guards, announc ing that 'to afford greater facilities for the comple tion of the number of non-commissioned officers allowed on the permanent staff of the disembodied militia, the Secretary of State for War, with the concurrence of the Field-Marshal Commanding-in- Chief, has approved the transfer to the militia of soldiers from the regular army after the completion of 18, instead of 20 y ears' ser vice, as heretofore. All men transferred from the I st Jan., 1 8 65 , will be allowed to them n to on ckonmilitia service as e q ui v alent to mcompleting th e p er i o d w hi c h w ill pensions. The f o ll ow i ng ar e the army entitler y t hservice, amended rates of consolidated Line and militia pay which each man will be awarded from the date of his transfer to that on which pensions willbe awarded on the completion of the requisite period of service : —Sergeants-major, 3s. 3d., and artillery 3s. 9 e ts y ; quartermaster- sergean t s an d ser geants performing th e duti es of quartermaster-ser geant and paymaster sergeant in corps of four crte per annajor, infantry com panies and less, infantry 2s. 9d., and artillery 3s. ld. per day ; serg eant-i nstructor of gunnery or musketry, paymaster - sergeant, sergeant, orderly room clerk, drum-major, or bugle-major, infantry 2s. Id., and artillery, 2s. 9d. per day ; drummer, trumpeter, bugler, or fifer, infantry ls. 4d., and ar tillery Is. 6d. per day. On Tuesday Major-Gen. Sir Robert Walpole, K.C.8., Col. C. B. Ewart, Assistant-Quartermas ter-General, Col. 11. D. Harness, C. 8., Director of the Royal Engineer establishment, Major J. Buck ley, Barrackmaster, and other officials were engaged in making an inspection of Dm:Lipton. Barracks, THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. • (From the Times' Correspondent.) NEW YORK, Jan. 31. Two of the ablest and most prominent public men of the North have lately expressed their opinion on the state of affairs—the one privately and confiden tially, but in words that have been promulgated far and near by the press ; the other openly, before an audience of 5,000 of his fellow-citizens. The first was Gen. Sherman ; the second, Gen. Butler. The one has the genius of silence, the other the talent of oratory. When either speaks America is glad to lis ten. In the one case it expects to hear wisdom, and in the other to be made acquainted with principles, if not with secrets. In neither instance has it been disappointed. Gen. Sherman thoroughly understands his coun trymen. Undazzled by his present enormous popu larity, he estimates their favour at its true value. He also understands the South, and for that reason is not led away by the sanguine hopes of a restora tion of the Union which have driven all classes of the Northern people well nigh wild with exultation. In a confidential discourse with a correspondent of the World at Savannah, and published at full length in that journal of yesterday, though, doubtless, with out the General's permission, he stated his opinion on the subject of popularity. " As to the popularity you speak of," said he,. " I know very well of what stuff it is made. lam popular as long as lam suc cessful. Not only the American press, but the Lon don papers, praise me as the great General of the age. Why? Because I have crossed a great extent of country, and by a long and perilous march have caused an important city to fall into our hands. All this is very well. But suppose, in the campaign I am about to undertake, I meet the combined forces of Lee, Beauregard, and Hardee, and fail ; what would be my fate then ? Why-, every laurel I have won, everything I have done, would be for gotten. There would not be a tree high enough to hang me upon. I should be dragged clown from the pillar of fame to rot in obscurity in some remote corner of the west ; and the great general would be a failure, an impostor." The incidental re velation herein contained is as instructive as the philosophy of the whole passage. Possibly, had he known that his words were to be flashed through the country over the telegraphic wires, the General would havehave been more reticent, and possibly,too, if the same correspondent should again trust himself within the lines, he may receive a different reception. Being asked if he did not think the war was nearly at an end, the General replied "At an end ! The war at an end ! So far from being at an end, the war is only about to begin. The policy of giving up their river and coast cities, although taking away some of the prestige of the Confederacy, is making it materially stronger than if it retained them in its possession ; while the opening of the same cities to trade by the Federal Government is efficiently sup plying the rebels with all the goods they used to re ceive by blockade-runners, at a cheaper price and with less risk and inconvenience to themselves." As the l i ppinion thus expressed by General Sherman happens to be the opinion of General Lee, the world need not be much astonished to hear at no distant day that Charleston and Wilmington have shared the fate of Savannah, that the war of Southern in dependence has entered its second period, and that greater events than any which have preceded will signalise the progress of the opening campaign. General Butler's speech to his fellow-citizens at Lowell was of a different character, though scarcely less important than the unstudied admissions of General Sherman. It was not only a laboured vin dication of his own military career, but a studied denunciation of General Grant. Having disdain fully brushed away the accusations brought against him by the co-operating admiral at Fort Fisher, and spoken of them as " the froth which is always the accompaniment of too lively porter," he reite rated in a manner not to be mistaken his previous innuendo that General Grant was criminally waste ful of human life. He accepted the depreciatory epithet of the "hero of Big Bethel and Fort Fisher," which his enemies had launched at him. " I am content—nay, I claim," he said, " to be the hero of the comparatively bloodless attack on Big Bethel, and of the wholly bloodless failure of Fort Fisher. But I do not claim to be the hero of Fredericksburg, of Chancellorsville, of the Chickahominy, of the Wilderness, of Coal Harbour, nor of that charnel house of useless dead in the mine before Petersburg." Returning to the subject, he said, " The explosion at the Dutch Gap Canal did not, perhaps, make so large a hole as the explosion of the mine at Peters burg, but it was not filled like that with American dead until it ran blood." Nor was the charge of cruelty and unnecessary waste of the lives of his soldiers the only one he bro - ught against his supe rior. He openly accused them of thwarting all efforts for the exchange of prisoners between North and South, and of purposely and unfairly leading the Confederate Commissioner astray upon the subject, and of consequently causing the death in Southern prisons of many thousands of Federal soldiers. It is difficult to see how General h Grant can can permit such assertions to be made without de manding a court-martial either upon upon his assailant, or how Mr. Lincoln call suffer a or Major-General to remain in the service who utters crest d p i s r a e , s ff e e n c e t e i on o f , words so obviously calculatedin theto if not to stir up a muti n y , the enemy. o Lincoln, General Butler, thoug h bitter a g ainst Grant and contemptuous against Porter, was careful to breathe n o word of disp a a n ra y gem pe e a n e t e a wi ga t in h stthAlre suth as no t . Disbelievingin conq uered by the sword, he urged his that was auditors to sustain the Government with all their energ ies, and to put their utmost confidence in the President, a man who was alik e " h onest, patriotic, a nd capable." He had no faith in the recruitment of the Federal armies by means of large bounties, for large bounties had ultimately to be paid by the people, and, besides being a heavy burden upon the i poor, had the fatal dioadvantage of not procuring the ~~~~~ ~~. ' services of the best men. Neither did the GenerC7- -- seem to be in favour of a forced conscription. His method was, like himself, clear and Preeisedieither: more nor less than an offer to every voluhfeer .4 ac certain portion of Southern soil, which he proposed to divide among the conquerors, as William the Norman divided among his captains a n d followers the acres of the Saxon people of England. It is likely that the General's meth o d, if adopted, would be popular, and that the scramble for Southern plantations would not be so exclusively left to Irish men and Germans as the scramble for bounty money, but would be shared by a rush of New Englanders and Down Easters, glad to exchange the hard rock and bleak skies of their own bitter corner of the Union for the fertile lands and balmy skies of the South. General Butler sees as far before him as the acutest Yankee of them all, and his plans and opinions may prove to be pioneers, and prepare a way in which the public will be apt to follow. Butler has but few friends in the day of his dis grace, and will probably have fewer still if he be dismissed from the army. He has already disco vered what General Sherman expects to discover if he do not continue to gain victories—that popular favour is no better than Caius Marcius found it in Rome, and that it is as safe " to swim with fins of " lead" as to depend upon it. Some- of the slavish Journals which in the plenitude of his power were ready to apotheosize him as the incarnation of nect aspa trioticin loyalty, th e mo d e l o f so ldi er l y v i rtue, an d the only t rue and incorruptible Cato of the Re ascertained him to be as deficient Re public, intellect ll have now a base natu re , h y onesty. True to the instincts of the refraining to hit a ma n spurn wthheengehneerisousdnwobnligaatnidonmotf the harder on that very account. They degrade their former Apollo into a gorilla, and shower against him all the vituper a tive vere e h p e it in hetsmiliof military over-copious vocabulary. v command of New York, as in the days before Mr. Lincoln's re-election, they would grovel at his feet, as they did then ; but now that he and military power seem to be separated for ever, they call upon the Federal Government to have him shot for in citementor to mutiny, as an example to every soldier and officer in the service. But Butler, rightly wrongly, intends to make a noise in the world, and threatens to create a much greater pother when out of office than ever he created when in command. The question of the draught in this city excites increasing interest, and, it must be added, ill-will. It is not only peace journals like the Daily News, and war-Democratic but anti-Administration jour nals like the World and the Express, but such thorough supporters of the Government as the Tri bune and the New York Times that expresses their sense of the impolicy, if not the injustice, of con tinually changing the estimate of the number to be provided by New York. It is true that a draught has been so often threatened without having been enforced, that the working classes, to whom it is most distasteful, and on whom the burden will fall most heavily, have accustomed themselves of late to regard the cry as of no more consequence than the shepherd boy's alarm of " Wolf !" in the fable ; but the need of the Government for men is this time so pressing, and recruiting by bounty has so egregiously failed in providing soldiers, either in quantity or in quality, that the alarm now entertained is far more real than on any previous occasion. To add to the unpopularity of the draught, there is a prevalent suspicion that the assessment upon the city is unfair, and is intended as a punishment upon the labouring classes, who with almost complete unanimity cast their votes for General M'Clellan at the Presidential election. Though no Govern ment could be so stupid as to act in such a manner without deserving to be ignominiously expelled from power, the absurdity of the sus picion does not prevent it from being generally entertained by the many, and industriously com mented upon and circulated by the few, until there has grown up a state of irritation in a high degree dangerous to the public peace. There are but 15 days before the draught must be enforced if Mr. Lincoln will not give way. In the mean while his principal supporter in the daily press, the New York Times, states emphatically that " if the enforcement do not lead to riots and bloodshed, it will not be the fault of men in position and influ ence." Both the people and the owners of real estate complain bitterly of the new assessment of the quota, from 4,400 to 21,000. It is impossible now to raise even the smaller number by means of bounties of $l,OOO a head between this and the 15th February, and if the number be not reduced and the time greatly extended, there is much reason to dread that when the first labourer shall be forcibly taken from his home to be converted into a soldier there will be an insurrection in this troublesome city of worse augury for the final success of the Federal cause than the defeat of Grant or Sherman. This Day, at all Libraries, in one vol., dewy Bvo., SHAKSPERE : His Inner Life, as intimated in his Works. By JOHN A. HERAUD. John Maxwell and Co., 122, Fleet-street. This Day, Never before Publi6hed, Price 25., THE SOILED DOVE. A Biography of a,Fast Lady, known as " The Kitten." London : George Vickers, Angel-court, Strand. No. 1., To-morrow (Saturday), 18th inst., THE EVENING EXCHANGE, a Journal of the Money Market and City News. 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K„ aged 18, fallen, both parents dead, S. B. aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. M. A. W. aged 17, fallen , both parents dead. S. D., aged 15, fallen, both parents dead. The new home the Committee wish to form would be for oung girls, almost children, from the age of a to 15, who have been led astray from the path A virtue. Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary, Mr. Daniel Cooper, 85, Queen -street, ckleapSiCie; VT by Messrs Barclay and c(),, Limbard-otreet, South Australia. We take the following from the South Australian Advertiser of December 27 : " The English October mail arrived in Adelaide Decem ber 10. " The Christmas holidays are being held, and the weather, though warm, is very fine. " The 28th is the anniversary of the foundation of the colony, and will be kept as a universal holiday. " The most important news of the month is the unex pected arrival of the Beatrice, Commander Hutchinson, from the Northern Territory, with despatches to the 12th of October. The intelligence brought was very unsatisfac tory, showing that the expedition was thoroughly disor ganized, through misunderstanding between the Govern ment Resident (Colonel Finniss) andhis officers. Provisions were also reported to be short. " The country, however, so far as it has been examined, is said to be very superior for grazing and other purposes. The climate also is spoken of as not being less healthy than the generality of tropical climates. " Two of the members of the Northern Territory Expe dition have died. The party, on the departure of the latest despatches (October 12), were, however, all well. " The Government Resident, upon his own responsibility, has fixed Escape Cliffs as the site of the capital of the Northern Territory ; and the entrance of the Adelaide River (called Farrows), for the port. Members of the ex pedition offer serious objections against the site of the capital. _ 1 ‘ Three tons of quartz have beenbrought by Commander Hutchinson from the Northern Territory for analytical examination. A number of spears and other weapons formerly belonging to the natives, as also other curiosities, have been forwarded by the Beatrice. " Commander Hutchinson's return with the Beatrice is on of his ill-health, and it is feared he will have to return to England for the purpose of reinstating it. He is, however, now much better. "The South Australian steamer, which left Adelaide in . October with a secon d expe diti on f or th e Northern T r h . tory, is expect e d b ac k i n i n th e course o f next week. route ise went by way of Torres St ra its, b u t her homeward s ssund. " The Governor has intimated his by the Western coast, callin g at King the Northern Territory. " Parliament was prorogued on Dece m ber 9th to January intention George of visiting 2Jth, with a view to its dissolutian. for the Queen's assent. Bill g ives four square miles "The Port Augusta Railway Bill h mile of railway they " His Excellency reserves the Conv icts Prevention Dill of country to any company a prominent point at the 4, Th e t ar iff q uestion . and growing will construct from j in if filta to the Far North. strong tendency next election s. Customs, and the establishment of abolition of toward the abo a free P"„ t * t have declined the Peninsular and Th e urovernmen y's overtures for a fortnightly mail service, Oriental Compan y's There Port o a " The crops are not nearly so good as last year ; a hot wind th ree weeks ago did considerable damage to the growing grain. "Large bush fires have occurred upon some of the nor thorn runs, including Canowie, Boobeorowie, and others. "An independent line of telegraph (apart from Victoria) i s in course of construction between Adelaide and Sydney. The directors of the Moonta mine have declared another dividend of £lO per share. 4, The number of immigrants that have arrived at Port Adelaide up to December 17 is 5,517, and the departures from the colony 2,471. " The Kanappa Mining Comp an y p ro p ose i ncre asing their resources by issuing £3,000 worth of new shares. " Parliament has voted £20,000 for the purchase of heavy guns for the defence of Port Adelaide. " The exports of South Australian breadstuffs this year amount in value to nearly one and a half millions sterling, and our united import and export trade this year to nearly four and three-quarter millions sterling. The quantity of wheat and flour exported this year to December 19 was 74,730 tons. 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