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The Bill was approved. The next bill approved was to enable the Wrex ham and Minera Railway Company to make new 1 lines of railway. Ii I NAHA.N'S LI, WHISKY v. COGNAC T it • BRANDY. F i a tni( A t el r e eß, tr it at A e N d n O y ld . IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. at Bol d in Bottles, 3s. Bd. at the Retail Houses in London ; by ' Agents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 19, 1865. 8, GREAT WINDMILL -STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded "Rinahan's LL N°. 22,750. PRICE. 4dy STAMPED sd. STODARE ! STODARE ! ! STODARE!! ! The NEW end EXTKAORDINARY ILLU lONS which Colonel Stodare performs EVERY NIGHT, at Eight, and Saturday Atternoons, at Three. c mtinve to attract crowded and brillant audiences. Early application for the stalls is ri specttully solicited. THEATRE OF MYSTERY, EGYPTIAN HAL L. The great Indian basket feat termi nates each representation. 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GREAT WESTERN. Resolutions were then passed approving a modi fication of the lease of the Severn Valley Railway, and for making a railway from Bewdley to Kidder minster ; accepting a lease of the Leominster and Kingston Railway ; authorising a subscription of £20,000 to the Worcester, Bromyard, and Leo-. minster Railway Company ; sanctioning a working arrangement with the Forest of Dean Central Rail way Company, and approving the heads of ar rangement between the West Cornwall, the Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, and the South Devon for working the West Cornwall Railway, and for a lease or transfer of the undertaking of the latter company. ROYAL NAVAL, 'MILITARY, and bushedENßA LIFE ASSURANCE SO.;IETY (Esta ,A.D. 1837. under toy al i atronage), 17, Waterloo- Mee, Loudon, A ItT lIUR R. HAMILTON, Secretary. Agents wanted in towns not yet represented. MUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 1810), _ _ A special general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the Paddington Station, to con sider several bills now before Parliament. Mr. R. Potter, the chairman, presided. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3701.5., VIOLET 0 SBORNE. By the Lady EMILY PONSONBY. - • . 14, RU6SE IL-STREET, COVE NT-GAR DEN, LENI‘S MONEY on Personal and other Security, in sums of £2O to £5OO, to be repaid by instalments extending over one, two. or three years. The large Capital of this Associa tion enables it to complete Its transactions without delay. No inquiry or office fees, and strict secrecy observe +. Bills Discounted at short notice. Form sent free on receipt of a directed stamped envelop 3. The Association also lends Money for the purchase 01 a house by a ler ant, or for the liquidation of mortgages, on terms most advantageous to the borrower. EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. The particulars of the number, weight, and de scription of the armament to be carried by the iron clad frigate Bellerophon, 16, 1000-horse power have been received at Chatham from the War Depart ment, and the necessary works are being executed on board preparatory to the guns being mounted. On the maindeck she will carry ten of the 12-ton 300- pounder rifle Armstrongs, and five of the 110- pounder rifled Armstrongs, two forward and three aft, one of the latter being mounted on a pivot gun. On the upper deck she will carry only one gun, a 40-pounder Armstrong, mounted under the fore castle, Yesterday the Bellerophon shipped her iron masts, which arrived at Chatham from the Wood side Graving Dock Company's Works, Birkenhead, where they were manufactured, in the Medusa, 4, 312-horse power, Master-Commander J. H. Allard. According to the existing arrangements she will be docked on Monday next, for the purpose of having the remainder of her armour-plates bolted to her sides, and to be equipped for sea, there being fully six months' work to be completed on board. The Martin, 12-gun boys' training brig, Lieut.- Commander the Hon. James T. Fitzmaurice, ar rived at Portsmouth on Monday from Devonport. The Martin has been recently attached to the Im placable, training ship for boys at Devonport, but has now exchanged stations with the Sealark, late tender to the St. Vincent, boys' training ship at Portsmouth. "A pleasant, instrr,ctive, and wholesome novel. The great charm of the book des in its portrayal of the heroire's cha racter. Lady Emily Ponsonby does not rely for effect on melo-dramatic villains, but sees in love and truth and earnestness of purpose ne soul of human life."—Examiner. Durst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Mr. F. SAUNDERS, the secretary, having read the notice convening the meeting, yr R. and Mrs. GERMAN REED, with Mr. JOHN PARRY, will appear in their new entertain ment, entitled A PECULIAR FAMILY, by William Brough. New scenery by T. and w. Grieve. To conc.ude with SIRS. ROSELEAF AT THE SEASIDE, by Mr. John Parry. Every Evenine, except Saturday, at 8. Wednesday and Saturday at ernoons, Lt 3. ROYAL .GALLERY OF ILLU,TRATION, 14, Regent-street. Unreserved seats, Is., is. ; stalls, Is. ; stall chaiv, ss. May be secured in advance, without fee, at the Gallery. . . OPERA. DI CAMERA, every Tuesday and Thursday at 3, and SatUrdaY at 8. SPECIAL NOTICE. CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANt E SOCIETY. Established 1824. The Eighth Bonus w,ll be declaret in January. 1837, and all with -Profit Blicies in twee on the 30th June, 1866, will Daiticipato. Assurances effected before Jui,e 30th, 1865, will Participate on tvk o Premiums, and thus receives whole year's additional share of rrofits over later Policies. Tables of Rates and Forms of Proposal can be obt fined from a ny t.f the Society's Agents, or of GEORGE CUTCLIFFE, Actuary and Secretary. 13 , St. James's-square, London, S. W. Price 6cl„ by post 7d., ••• "CIHURCH AND QUEEN." 1..) FIVE SPEECHES delivered by the Right Hon. B. DISRA.ELT, M.P., 1860 -186 i. Edited, with a Preface, Ly a Member of the University of Oxford. • • - - - • TEA. —Just recei ve d, ex " Whinfell," excellent FAMILY TEA., off, , red to Families at Merchants' Prices, viz : —3s. per lb., recommended ; also, ex " Lochin var," Finest Anitoi Souchong, 3s. 61. ve y superior. Tea : common, Is. 101, 25., to 2s. id. tiamPles may be seen and had on application. Price List free. London : G J. Palmer. 32, Little Queen-street, Lincoln's inn-fields ; hiamilton, Adams. and Co., 33, Paternoster-row. A resolution was also passed unanimously for the issue of debenture stock to the amount of £7,114,349 in lieu of debenture bonds. The rate of interest on the debenture stock was not to exceed 4 per cent. per annum. T " 0 X FORD, 6, OXFORD STREET, W. The Oxford and Canterbury 1141 Company (limited,. ADELIA, by Donezetti, in which MIB9 RUSSELL will make her RE-A i'VEARANCE Tills EVENING, and the BROTHER AND SI •TER. by Sir Henry Bishop, will be performed during thin week. Principal artates ignor Spa,noli. M. M.krini, Mr. Green. Misses Russell •Barrie. and Mdlle. D'Aurla, with full Band and Chorus, conducted by Mr. F. Jonghmans. MIRIAM (l'Enfante Pianiste, aged 8. yearal will play " Blue Bells," par Osten, and "La Prierb d'une Vierge," par Leduc, This Evening. Comedy, by Mr. George Hodson (the celebrated Comedian and Mimic), Little .lob, Miss Kate Bate, Les Freres Talliott, the irotesque, D'Aubaus, Madame Ramsden, and Lea Freres Stonette. L"E : Its Nature, Varieties, and Phenomena. 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A PHOTOGRAPHIC CURIOSITY.- THE SUN n P o h w ot p og u r b a li p s r i d ng fl i c n - d sim m i a l y e be h t a n d e First Page of On Paper at Os. 3d. On Card ••• Ditto, framed ls. 6d. By order of all Booksellers and Dealers in Photographs, and at THE SUN OFFICE, 112,.Stiand. "'The Sun' evening newspaper has just issued a photo graph, 9 inches by 7, of its first page as it appeared on the 2d of last January. The card torms quite a literary curiosity, iv& is on of the best specimenirotmlnute typography ever published."—London Review. *4* FEisITON thought it right to state that their great success this session Was mainly due to the great assiduity and attention of the chairman to the interests of the company. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman, and the meeting was adjourned to the Ist of June next. Cloth, price 2s. 6d., AHANDBOOK for the MAN of BUSINESS, applicable to ail Deparcm.-nts of Commercial Engage ments. NEWSPAPER PRESS FUND. President—The Risht Ron. Lord liouortToN, D.C.L. The AN UN Gre at DINNER for 1865 will be held at Freemasons' Hall, Queen-street, on SATURDAY, l aaY 20, 1865. -------- Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. This Evening at Halt-past S. ven. Admission—a:ea, 6d.; stalls and balcony, Is.; private boxes, 10s. 6d. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN. London : F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row, E.C. R. SCOTT'S LIVER AND BILIOUS PIL LS.—A NEVER FAILING RENIEDY.—Pre •ren without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. con, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who after from bilious And dyer nomplaints, wind, palms, giddiness, iizzinebs of the eyes, &c. For habitual ostiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier ,1 the blood, they are, truly exoellent ; mild In their opera tion and grsteful to the stomach, they create appe ite, pro note digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. ;old by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross. 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It authorised a short line of railway to connect the London and North- Western and Great Western colliery districts. The capital was £60,000, of which each company would subscribe £30,000, and there was power to make traffic arrangements with the Wrexham and Minera Railway Company. Clauses 28 and 29 provided that the company should afford facilities for the exchange of traffic on arbitration terms. Mr. BROWN-WESTHEAD, M.P., seconded the mo tion for the approval of the bill. STEM IN Grace the Duke of St. Albans. Ifis Grace the Duke of Rut land. The Rt. Hon. Earl Russell, The Right Hon. Earl of Car digan. The Rt. Hon. Earl of Lich- London : F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row, E.O Demy Svo , price 25., ZOILISM: An Essay toward Pathological Analysis. An Eclogue for Eventide. By JOHN POYER, Author of "St. Thomas A'Beckett," " Anti- Colenso," &c. &c. MADAA.IE TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION. Established 30 years, at the Bazaar, Baker-street, London. 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The following distinguished already volunteered their valuable services :—Miss T.,rYne, Madll En ea • t (the Swedish vocalist), M_a_draae. ei SS, Viada 6 e al °us Dolby. —a r , rr i, s on, X . r m . G• S Perron, Mr. Weiss, Mr. Sims Reeves, &c. ".'ainer on table at half-past 5. Tickets, for w Miss Emily Soldene, .;v e. aPPlication must be made, one guinea each. 13 Y Order. HENRY G. WARREN. w ne, 6, Beaufort -buildings, Strand, W.Q. Hon. Sec. -- --- The WHEELER and WILSON Company have now Ma chines at £9 and upwards, which will do all descri tions of work for wn ch these Machines have so long been pre-emi nent, as stitching, hemming, frilling, Lathering, cording. binding, tucking, trimming, qiiiltu g, felling. and h-ve now added to their list a Machine for making Button-holes for Tailors, Mant'e Makers, &c. Instruction gratis to every purchaser, and Illustrated Prospectus gratis and post frea. Offices and Sale Rooms, '39, Regent-street, W. 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These Debentures are asued payable to bearer, and can there' ore pass oy simple delivery trom hand to hand, without endorsement, and are free from any further stamp duty. They are also issued to meet he requirements of Trustees and others—tranwerrable by Deed only, to be duly registered in the ccmpany's Books in the names of the Investors or their Assigns. Forms of Application can be obtsined of the Sccretary, to whom all eammunications must be addressed. By order of the Court, ALFRED LOWE, Secretary. London, 17 and 18, Cornhill, illay 4, 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 ziO and upwards, on the following terms, until further notice, viz. : At fourteen days' notice FOR FIXED PERIODS OF Not less than.... ..... 2 months, 51 per cent. per annum. Beyond 2 and up t0....4 months, 51 per cent. per annum. Beyond 4 and up tr.... 6 months, 51 per cent. per annum ; Any period beyond ....6 months, 6 per cent, per annum. Fo ms can be obtained of the Secretary, to whom all com. muoic dims must be addresed. 13y order of the Court, London ALFRED LOWE, Secretary. , 17 aud_l6, Cornhill, May 4,1565. GUIDE TO THE QUACKS Or LONDON. A Series of Papers relative to Quacks, which appeared in the " Medical Cbtular," with the signature of "Detector," has been republished in the form of a short pamphlet The reader of " eunch" should read this pamphlet also. He has often read, in the pages of "Punch," of certain Quacks, frau dulent and noisome, who obtain money by false pretences, and more money by menaces and extortion, front green young men. For their names, which " Punch" would not advertise, he has referred his readers to the lower corner of the advertisin4 columns of low newspapers, amongst which too many of Mr." Punch's" contemporaries, especially in the country, may still be enumerated. But now he begs to pub lish the information that a nominal list of these miscreants, with copies of their puffs and other particulars concerning them, n-edfut to be Known, will be found in the pamplil t above referred to, which is entitled " Revelations of Quacks ant Quackery." and is to be had at the "Medic tl Circular " Office, 20, King William-street, Strand, W.C. The vile practices, the monstrous impudence, the cruel rapacity, and the enormous gains of the obscene tribe of Quacks, the mischief they do, the ruin they work, even to the causation of suicide, are iully set forth in " Revelations of Quacks and Qackery." And mark especially that, as afortsaia, the names of the Quacks ate publisher. The pamphlet in question thus constitutes a regular Quack Di rectory. b con ulting which every young man may know where he may go if he wt.-hes to get p !nude, ed and destroyed Buy, therefore, reader, by all means boy " ttevelations of Quacks and Quackery." 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Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of ROCKS, IN It A LS, and FOSSILS, to illustrate the new edition of Lyell's Elements of Geology; they will greatly itoilitate, ttie interesting study of MINERALOGY and GEOLOGY, aid can be had at 2, a, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each. AurICA L INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE d.A.LOG Y it given by NIL TNNTL&N r, at 1 49. Strand W.C. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in 012 immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, King's-cross. Patron—Her host Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. Vice-Patron—His Royal Highness the Prince of WA LES, K.G President—His (4 race the Duke of BUCCLEUCII, K.G. This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab lish the princip'e of free admission to the sick poor, without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly de pendent for support on voluntary contributions and legacies. It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in itddition t this, the average number of attendance of the Destitute stak has for a con iderable period averaged between 3,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANrE of the bcnevotent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of co •talning several hundred more beds, had the Committee the requisite funds to maintain them. Contributions are received by the Treasurer. Edward Mas )erman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutta and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote , and Co. ; Smith, Payne, an d C o. ; Barclay and Co. ; W warns, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, G ur ncy, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. , Berners-efreet ; 1. Barnett and Co., Liverpool ; and at the Hospital, from to till 5. STANFOILD 621L1T17, Secretary. The Duke of Somerset, as First Lord of the Admiralty, held a levee yesterday afternoon at the Admiralty, Whitehall. Among the officers pre sent were General Sir Charles Menzies, Vice- Admiral Sir John Kingcome, Vice-Admiral Charles Crowdy, Rear-Admiral Henry Edgell, Rear-Admiral Douglas Curry, Capt. A. M. Lyons, Capt. H. T. Burgoyne, Capt. Oliver J. Jones, Commander A. G. Wootton, Commander H. M. Bingham, Com mander A. D. W. Fletcher, Commander G. F. Cot tam, Commander R. G. Tufnell, Commander G. G. Paterson, Commander W. F. Robinson, Commander B.' Sharpe, Commander T. S. Gooch, Commander S. P. Townsend, Staff-Commander G. Wright, and Mr. W. C. P. Grant (paymaster). The 24th inst. will, by order, be • observed as a close holiday in Portsmouth dockyard and the other naval establishments at the port in celebration of her Majesty's birthday. Three gangs of shipwrights are at present em ployed on board the iron frigate Warrior, in the steam basin of Portsmouth dockyard, giving her a new 4i-inch planking on each side of her main deck, fore and aft. The original 52-inch planking amid ships on the sack deck will not be removed, but will be dubbed down to 4 inches, the places where it is worn below the 4i inches being made good with inlet pieces of new plank. The wear of the planking on this deck, on each side and within the ship's armoured line, was considerable, and rendered the laying of a new deck necessary over this particular part of the ship's main deck. The wear of the planking was owing to the almost constant " dumb scraping" re quired for the sake of cleanliness, where some 700 men were berthed and messed between the guns. Foreward of the foremost athwartship armour bulk head, and abaft the after-armour bulkhead, on this deck, however—a very considerable space in each instance—there had been no such wear of the plank ing, but the same course is being followed through out, and the planking is being torn up in these un worn portions forward and aft of the line of armour plating. What gives a greater appearance of folly to this indiscriminate treatment of the sound and un sound portions of the ship's deck is that the excellent oak plank laid down by the Thames Ironworks Company when they built the ship is very superior to any planking now in store in Portsmouth dockyard. It is bare justice to the builders of the Warrior to observe here that the opening up of the Warrior's deck, to effect this renewal of its timber planking, has exhibited such excel lent qualities of material and of workmanship that it would be impossible to excel it. At the same time it illustrates the immense increase in strength given to a gun-deck by the iron frame of a ship, built as our iron ships are, as compared with the gun-deck of a screw wooden liner or frigate. Throughout the whole extent of the Warrior's gun-deck there is no sign of a drop of water having penetrated at any time through the seams or butts of her timber planking to the iron plating below, on which it was laid. The iron plating, with the removed rivets, and the beam edges, is also as fresh-looking as on the day it was put together. The Turretship Committee, with the Earl of Lauderdale as chairman, are continuing their in quiry, and have examined Capt. Astley C. Key, C. 8., of her Majesty's gunnery ship Excellent, and Mr. Scullard, chief draughtsman of Portsmouth dockyard, the designer of Capt. C. P. Coles's pro posed seagoing turretship. The latter, in his evi dence, was unfortunately not able to give answers to many questions put by the committee relative to the turrets and their guns, and it is still more un fortunate that Capt. Coles continues so ill at Vent nor that his attendance before the committee is for the present impossible, perfect quiet and rest being absolutely insisted on by his medical advisers. So far, however, as relates to the mere working of tur rets and their guns on board ship, the committee have invaluable evidence in the very complete report on the turrets and guns of the Royal Sovereign, drawn up by Capt. Sherard Osborn, C. 8., at the close of his command of that ship. The following is an extract from a letter written by an officer belonging to one of the ships compos ing Admiral Dacre's fleet which has returned from Lisbon : " The Achilles is by no means a bad ship at sea. She lifts to a sea better than any other of the ironclads, and has a very steady deck for her gun platform, only rolling 14 deg., to 26 deg. and 28 deg. of the Black Prince, the result of her flat floor, which gives her steadiness. She is quick and handy under sail, and nearly as fast as the others, but she has a tendency to sit by the head, notwithstanding she has no guns in her ten foremost ports. The Prince Consort tried her guns when rolling 26 deg. The 68-pounders were just under control, but not so the Somerset gun, or 6-ton smoothbore gun, iv hich has damaged its carriage and slide." If the Prince Consort's 6-ton guns werethus all but unmanageable with the ship rolling at 26 deg., what would she have done with 12 ton guns mounted on her broadside under like circumstances ? The scout, 21, screw steam corvette, which was commissioned on Monday last by Capt. Charles H. May, late of the Canopus, was taken out of dock to her moorings in Sheerness harbour after having had her screw propeller and valves examined and the bottom of the vessel cleaned. Several of the officers have been appointed and are joining the ship. She is intended for service on the Pacific station, and will have a complement of 275 men. The Serpent, 4, screw steam gun vessel, Com mander Charles J. Bullock, was inspected on Tues day last by Capt. Cha rle s J. Pulford, of the Cum berland flagsllipan for Vice-Ad m i ra l Si r Ch arles Talbot, K.C.8., d left She erness on W ednesday morning for Portsmouth, en route for China and Japan, where she will be employed on the survey ing service. The Tartar, 20, screw steam corvette, 1,296 tons, 250-horse power, Capt. John M. Hayes from China, was on Wednesday paid out of commission by Capt. W. K. Hall, C. 8., Superintendent of Sheerness dockyard. The crew have been granted 28 days' leave. The Tartar was commissioned at Sheerness Yesterday morning a religious service was per formed on board the Russian flagship Alexander Newsky, in Plymouth Sound, in honour of the re mains of the Czarewitch. It was attended by Baron Brunnow, the Russian Ambassador, M. Sabouroff, secretary, and Mr. Luscombe, the Vice-Consul at Plymouth ; by Port-Admiral Sir Charles Id. Fre mantle, K.C.8., Admiral Lessofsky, Admiral J. Symonds ; Lord Templetown, Commander of the Forces in the West ; Col. Owen, C. 8., R.E., Col. Millman, R.A., and other military commanders ; and by a number of officers belonging to the Rus sian, American, and British ships of war in port. The ceremony took place on the lower deck, in one portion of which, on the port side, the body of the Imperial Prince is laid in state. It is placed on a catafalque approached by three steps. The whole enclosed by rails, and draped with rich crimson velvet curtains edged with gold lace. The coffin ha s a velvet covering, ornamented with a profusion of flowers. The ceremony was performed by M. Papoff, the chaplain to the Embassy. Besides Gen. Annenkow there are on board the ship, in charge of the body, Gen. Ritter, aide-de-camp, the Prince's tutor and guardian, and Prince Bariatinsky, adju tant, his companion. The Russian squadron is ap pointed to leave Plymouth to-day. It will be 13 days on the voyage to St. Petersburg, viz.—five days on the passage to Christiansand, in Sweden, three days coaling, and five days passing through the Baltic and the Gulf of Finland. a Aajo r l ines r : c G o e m n m . S e n t r c a e i s ha hi m s , half-yearlyln spect or- G i n e n s p . e o c f t i R o n o y of f l M the Woolwich division of the corps on Tuesday, when he went through several departments, and examined the official books, quarters, and interior economy of the establishment. In the afternoon he mustered a battalion of 900 officers, non-commis sioned officers, and men on Woolwich-common. After marching past in slow time and grand divi sions they went through several evolutions, which the General was pleased to express himself very well satisfied with. lie especially commenced the marching in grand divisions. At the same time, he said, he had seen them do better. On the return of the battalion to parade the General inquired of the men, as usual, if they had any complaints, upon which 13 privates stepped to the front and stated their grievances. The General, upon resuming his inspection yesterday morning, investigated the com plaints, most of which were made by young soldiers who formerly belonged to Militia regiments, regard ing their enlistment and Militia stoppages. All the cases being satisfactorily disposed of, the General inspected the hospital, the men at ship's gun drill, &c., which concluded the first and second days' in spection at Woolwich. The following promotions and appointments, con sequent on the promotions of Messrs. Burdwood and Harwood, as accountant and cashier, under the new Admiralty regulations, have been announced at Chat ham dockyard :—Mr. E. W. Jeffreys, supernumerary senior clerk at Sheerness, to be confirmed ; Mr. H. N. P. Walker, acting senior clerk at Deptford, to be confirmed ; Mr. J. H. Morris, clerk at Devon port, to be senior clerk at Portsmouth ; Mr. H. C. Harvey, clerk at Malta, to be acting senior clerk at Pembroke. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Seymour H. P. Dacres, mid shipman, to the Black Prince ; Charles S. Hill, assist. -paymaster, to the Donegal; Robert K. Heaven, assist.-paymaster, to the Asia ; Gerard T. Napier, master's assistant, to the Caledonia ; James Morris, chief engineer, to the Scout ; Richard Taplin, en gineer, to the Cumberland, for service in the Pigeon, vice Farrant ; Nathaniel Farrant, engineer, to the Scout ; Thomas M'Farlane, first-class assist.-en gineer, to the Scout ; and Henry W. Fitzgerald, second class assist.-engineer, to the Scout. BANE OF FRANCE. PARIS, May 18. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day, together with the cor responding figures of the previous account : DEBTOR. May 18. May 11. fr. e. fr. c, Capital of the Bank.... 182,300,000 182,500,000 Profits in addition to capital (Art. 8, Law, June 9, 1857).. 7,043,871 81 7,043,831 81 Reserve of the Bank and its branches 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 14 Reserve in landed pro perty 4,000,000 4,000,000 Notes in circulation 807,978,225 817,660,875 Banknotes to order and receipts payable at sight 7,174,109 5G 8,694,705 87 Treasury account cur- - - - rent creditor Current accounts, Paris 147,165,994 37 137,402,764 81 Do. branch banks Dividends payable 786,530 75 833,216 75 Discounts and sundry interests Rediscounted the last six months Sundries Total CREDITOR. May 18. May 11. Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. c. Branch banks Commercial bills over- due Commercial bills dis counted, not yet duo 239,181,626 36 250,587,488 87 Do. branch banks 265,388,412 272,865,588 Advances on deposit of bullion M,727,696 35 29,455,596 35 Do. branch banks 7,067,786 6,066,795 - Do. on French Public Securities 14,707,700 Do. by branch banks 9,987,450 Do. on railway shares and debentures D. branch banks Do. on Credit Foncier Bonds Do. branches Do. to the State (con vention, June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 Government Stock re- 916,128 51. 3,415,457 77 14,297,300 - 10,341,950 - 30,011,500 - 80,231,500 18,936,750 - 18,701,150 507,100 - 529,600 388,900 - 377,700 60,000,000 - 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14 36,537,487 91 36,557,487 91 serve Do. disposable Rentes Immobalisdes (Law, June 2, 1857) 100,000,000 100,000,0 00 - Hotel and furniture of the Bank and landed property branches Expenses of manage- 8,500,265 - 8,489,265 - merit Sundries 1,464,186 99 1,439,942 63 9,497,814 23 8,260,413 68 Total 1,34833, 787 2-1 1,325,291,982 74 Certified by the Senator Gobernor of the Bank of France. ROULAND. The CHAIRMAN said that in November last notices of application to Parliament had been given for 160 bills which more or less seriously affected the inte rests of the Great Western Company. By arrange meats and negotiations the directors were enabled to reduce that list to 75 bills ; and the Great Western Company had to present 75 petitions to Parlia ment against those bills. The 75 bills had sub sequently been reduced to 36, of . which a list had been sent to the proprietors, informing them that they would be submitted for their consideration. Of those 36 bills one-half were not ready, or had been so far modified that they did not require to be submitted, or had failed in their progress through Parliament. He had told them at the half-yearly meeting in March last that a bill was then being promoted in connection with the East Gloucester shire Railway. It was a scheme brought forward by speculators, contractors, and engineers for competing with the Great Western throughout their whole dis trict from London to Bristol and to South Wales. The scheme was not required for local purposes, and was therefore promoted for the purpose of competing with the Great Western for their through traffic to Bristol and South Walca. They had, huweyor, duo-- ceeded so far in defeating the principal portion of it. The main feature of it was to make a secound route between London and Oxford to the East Glouces tershire line and a branch to Bristol, and as this branch was devoid of all local support, he thought they would also succeed in defeating this portion of the scheme. The Midland Company had applied to Parliament for powers to subscribe 100,000 towards the East Gloucestershire Railway ; the Great Western opposed the application, and Parliamentrejected that application. Looking at all the -features of the scheme, and the verdict of the House of Commons on those proceedings, he thought the Midland Rail way Company would be prevented, not only from subscribing the £lOO,OOO to the East Gloucestershire, but from previous arrangements with the Great Western, sanctioned by Parliament, they would be unable to make working arrangements with the East Gloucestershire Company. He hoped that those decisions would induce a better state of things. The directors had to accept accomplished facts to a certain extent, and were not disposed to obstruct local ac commodation. They were prepared to continue in a friendly spirit with the Midland and the East Glou cestershire Companies in carrying out what Parlia ment had sanctioned for the accommodation of local districts. They had succeeded during the present Session in maintaining their position in the district through which their line passed. There was no longer the same state of things that existed in 1845 and 1846. The Great Western Company had since that time made great sacrifices in respect of dividends to accommodate the various districts in their route, and that was a matter that ought to be taken into consi deration. The main line could easily accommodate double the present traffic on it, and so long as they were ready to supply local districts with the requi site accommodation, he relied on the justice and wis dom of Parliament to protect them from competing schemes that had been so far frustrated. Looking at the great requirements of the present day, they were bound to keep their line and rolling stock in the utmost state of efficiency, and to afford ample accommodation for the local traffic he thought the shareholders must not expect the working expenses to remain at their present level. He then explained the objects of the 36 bills they had on their list. The first on the list was the only one promoted by this company. It was a bill for conferring further powers on the. Great 'Western Railway Company for the construction of works and acquisition of lands, and otherwise in relation to their own under taking and the undertakings of other companies and persons. The bill authorised the raising of £300,000. _ _ Mr. FENTON, deputy-chairman, seconded the motion for the approval of the bill, which, after some observations by Mr. Legg, Mr. Adams, and Mr. Norris, M.P., was carried unanimously. The next bill authorised a joint station at Bristo' for the Great Western, Bristol and Exeter, and Midland Railway Companies. It would afford great facilities and accommodation for traffic, and would only involve a contribution• of £50,000 from each company. The bill was approved. The third bill was not ready. The fourth bill was for authorising the construction of a railway from Acton to Brentford. It would branch from the main line at Acton and further extend the suburban ac commodation. If sanctioned by Parliament the line would be adopted and worked by the Great Western Company. This bill was also approved. _ The fifth and sixth bills were not ready. The seventh was a bill to incorporate a company for mak ing a railway from the Peterston station of the South \Vales Railway to Cadoxton-juxta-Barry, with a branch to Sully, all in the county of Glamorgan. The line would be 12 miles in length, and the Great Western would have permissive powers to work it. The bill was approved. The CHAIRMAN said that No. 8 was not ready, Nos. 9 and 10 did not require their sanction, No. 11 was dead, and No. 12 was not ready. The next bill was No. 13. It authorised the construction of a rail way from the South Wales Railway to Fishguard Bay and of a harbour there. The object of the bill was to shorten the distance by sea between South Wales and the south of Ireland. It involved no liability on the Great Western. He then moved that the bill be approved, which was agreed to. No. 14 was a bill for making railways from the Hammersmith and City Railway, through Fulham to the north shore of the River Thames. It was stated that this was similar in its objects to No. 4, and if sanctioned by Parliament would be adopted and worked by the Great Western Railway Company. The bill was approved. The next was No. 15, to incorporate a company for making railways in the county of Worcester, to be called "the Halesowen and Bromsgrove Branch Railways." The capital was £120,000. It would form a junction with the Midland, and a friendly arrangement had been come to with that company for working the line when made at 50 per cent. of the receipts. The country was said to be full of traffic, and the bill was approved. Bill No. 16 was to authorise the Hammersmith and City Rail way Company to alter some of the works connected with their railway, to purchase additional lands, and to lease or transfer their undertaking to the Great Western and Metropolitan Railway Com panies. It was explained that under those arrange ments with the Metropolitan the Great Western would have access to a station at Finsbury, within three minutes' walk of the Bank of Eng land, for their through and suburban passenger traffic ; and by all arrangement with the London and North Western they would have access to the docks for goods traffic, via the North London Rail way. The bill was approved. A bill to confer further powers on the Metropo litan Railway with reference to certain lands and works, and to authorise the lease or transfer of the Hammersmith and City Railway and arrange ments with other companies, was approved. The following bills were also approved :—A bill to enable the Northampton and Banbury Junction Railway Company to divert a portion of their rail way to Chipping Norton and Blockley ; a bill to authorise the Stonehouse and Nailsworth Railway Company to extend theirrailway from Dudbridge to the Great Western at Stroud ; a bill to authorise the Stourbridge Railway Company to construct a branch railway to Stourbridge, and raise additional .• LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN. The adjourned special meeting of this company was held yesterday at the Waterloo Station—Capt. Mangles in the chair. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN the following bills were approved :—" A bill to provide for a con tribution by the London and South-Western Rail way Company to the undertaking of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company, and for the user by them of part of that undertaking." " A bill for the dissolution of the Tooting, Merton, and Wimbledon Railway Company, and for vesting their undertaking, railway, and property in the London and South-Western Railway Company, and the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Com pany, and for authorising the making and main taining of a junction line of railway at Wimbledon between the London and South-Western Railway, and the Tooting, Merton, and Wimbledon Railway.'s " A bill for authorising the Sidmouth and Budleigh- Salterton Railway Company to make and maintain a deviation of their authorised line, and'an exten sion of their authorised railway to Exmouth, all in the county of Devon; and also to raise further moneys." " A bill to enable the Sidmouth Railway and Harbour Company to make and maintain. a branch from their authorised railway in the parish of Sidmouth ; and for other purposes." On the motion of Lord OTIIO FITZGERALD, a vote of thanks was passed to the chairman, and the proceedings concluded. EDGWARE, HIGHGATE, AND LONDON. A special meeting of this company was held yes terday at the offices, Duke-street, Westminster— Mr. Farquhar in the chair. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, a bill was ap proved for authorising the Edgware, Highgate, and London Railway Company to construct a short line of railway to connect their railway with tho Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway ; and a vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. ROYAL SARDINIAN. In the account of the proceedings at the meeting of this company, which appeared in The Sun of Wednesday, it was stated that the calls were in arrear on 13,446 shares ; it should have been on 8,809 shares. RAILWAY BILLS. The Buckfastleigh, Totnes, and South Devon, the North London, the Bristol and Exeter and Devon and Somerset, and the London, Brighton, and South Coast Bills were passed by the Lords' Committees. In group 8 the case of the Skipton, Wharfdale, and Leyburn Junction Bill was pro ceeded with. In group 9 the case of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bill was considered. In group 10 the case of the London and North-Western (New Works, &c.) (England and Scotland) Bill was pro ceeded with. In group 11 the Great Northern and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Companies (Cheshire Lines, &c.) and the Cheshire Lines Bills were consolidated into one bill, to be entitled " The Cheshire Lines' Transfer Bill," and passed. In group 12 the Committee were engaged all day with the Wolverhampton and North Staffordshire Junc tion Bill. In group 14 the case of the Severn Junc tion Bill was proceeded with. In. group 19 the London and North-Western (New Works, &c.) (Wales and Ireland) Bill was passed. In group 22 the case of the Caledonian and Scottish C en t ra l Companies Amalgamation Bill was proceeded with. It was stated yesterday, under this head, that the East Somerset Railway Bill had passed ; it should to h hp a ep v o e ss b oi tn e i ben s t o h eft a t t ahn i e t dß w r a Bis Dorsett o r l e jte, a e itn c a t a e i l d wx , aoy o r n tch a os c m c o o p am u e ni es o the Somerset and The prospectus has appeared of the Railway Credit Company, which proposes to facilitate the formation or execution of railways and other public works; to provide contractors with advances and other material assistance ; to supply rolling stock and all descriptions of plant for works, and to act as financial agents. The capital required iS £2,000,000, and the first issue is to be half the amount, in shares of £5O each. The committee of the Stock Exchange have ap pointed Monday a special settling day in the shares of the Val-Sassam Mines Company and the City of Moscow Gas Company, and on Thursday next in those of the Consolidated Peruvian Five per Cent. Loan, all to be marked in the official lists. The share list of the Chichester and Midhurst Railway (extension to llaslemere) will close on Saturday next for London, and on Monday next for the country. The biddings for bills on India took place yester, day at the Bank of England, when the proportions • allotted were—to Calcutta £289,000, and to Bom bay £55,000. The minimum price was fixed at is. lOid. on Calcutta a nd Madras, a nd ls. on Bombay, b e ing 2 per cent. lower than on the last occasion ; and all tenders on Calcutta and Bom bay at and above Is. IN-d. will receive in full. There were no tenders on Madras.