The Sun. — London, England, 1867-02-08 00:00:00

RAILWAY AND OTHER COMPANIES. LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN. With a view of making the public aware, at the earliest period practicable, of the dividend likely to be declared by this company at the ernming general meeting, Mr. Stephen Iteay, the secretary, states that the accounts, though not yet finally audited, or approved by the Board of Directors, indicate a dividend for the past half-year at the rate of 6:1 per cent. per annum. BRISTOL AND EXETER. The directors of this company have resolved to recommend a dividend for the half-year ending the 31st of December at the rate of 4i per cent. per annum, leaving a balance of £2,474 to be carried forward. SALISBURY AND YEOVIL RAILWAY COMPANY. The directors of this company, at their meeting yesterday, agreed to recommend a dividend on the ordinary shares at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum for the past half year, carrying forward a balance of £3,500. GREAT EASTERN. The directors of this company have just issued their report. It states that the total receipts for the half-year ending the 31st of December last were £996,294, and the working expenses, &c., £512,616, leaving net traffic £483,678, to which was added £3,718, the balance from the preceding half-year, making the total £487,396. From this was de ducted £97,774 for rents to other companies, £143,223 interest on mortgages and debenture stocks, and £32,150 interest on temporary loans, together £273,147, leaving a net balance of £214,249 applicable to the payments of dividends. This amount would pay in full the dividends on all the preference stocks of the company for the half year, amounting to £183,325, and leave a balance of £30,924, which, under other circumstances, would be applicable to the payment of a dividend on the ordinary stock, but in consequence of the arrears of preference dividends brought over from the first half of the past year, and the com pany's special acts requiring the whole year's income to be applied to the pay- . ment of dividends on the preference stocks accord ing to their priority, the net revenue would for this half-year require to be distributed u follows :-1, To pay the half-year's dividend upon preference stocks (14,844,772) entitled to full dividend for the first half-year----namely, £llB,BlB ; 2, to be applied in paying the full year's dividend upon preference stock next in priority (2,1,123,600 created under the Act of 1862) --namely, £56,130 ; 3, to pay a divi dend for the year equal to £3 6s. 6d. per cent. on the stock next in priority (21,181,895) of Five per Cent. Stock, created under the Act of 1863) — namely, £39,298. Having in view arrangements now in progress, the directors confidently antici- pated being able to pay those dividends, as also the deferred warrants issued in September last, on the 4th of April next. The traffic returns showed that the receipts from passengers bad been somewhat less than for the corresponding period of 1865. This bad arisen as well from the Shepreth and Hitchin line (171 miles) having reverted to the Great Northern Railway Company, and the open ing of the North London City Branch to Broad street, as also from the continued unfavourable in fluence of the cattle plague, with preference to market passengers, and the general monetary de pression of the country materially affecting the sea side traffic. In the absence of these unfavourable features the return would have shown a fair increase. The same causes had undoubtedly affected the goods and other traffic, but it was satisfactory to find that this class of traffic showed an increase of £25,163 over the corresponding period of last year, being equal to an increase of upwards of 5 per cent. With regard to the working expenses, they are re duced from 56k per cent. to 51 per cent., making, on comparison with the corresponding half of 1865, a gross reduction of £50,000. The attention of the directors had been constantly devoted to this sub ject ; but it would be readily understood that many reductions could only be gradually introduced, and the ectonnmiCal valley on which the board had been acting had not yet had sufficient time to fully develope itself. While the directors were thus able to congratulate the company on the satisfac tory progress of their revenue and the enlargement of the net balance from the reduction of work ing expenses, they had to regret that the additional capital which was necessary for the legitimate dis charge of their obligations was not yet raised. The directors, under the authority of a special general meeting, proposed the issue of a 61 per cent. stock ; but in consequence of the smallness of the sum sub scribed, the directors thought it fair to give to the parties subscribing the option of taking back their money if they preferred to do so. The result had been that of the sum subscribed for £65,579 re mained unrecalled, which the company had appro priated toward the completion of the Whitechapel coal depot, which would be opened for traffic on or before the Ist of July next, and thus a large in crease of revenue would at once accrue. The Board had anxiously deliberated upon the course which should be pursued to restore in the public mind that confidence in the value of the company's property which the sound character of the undertaking ought to insure. They were happy to be able to state that having communicated with Mr. Samuel Laing, M.P., late'Finance Mini,ter of India, that gentleman had consented, should the nomination meet with . the approval of the proprietors, to join the direction on the condition and understanding that he might restrict his labours principally to the financial affairs of the company. The Board, however, considered that if Mr. Laing was to undertake so onerous and responsible a duty, the company should show the appreciation of the exigencies of the position by voting to him the sum of £5,000. With a view to obtain a portion of the traffic with the northern and western districts negotiations had for some time past been in progress, and the directors trusted at no distant dap to be able to announce a satisfactory conclusion to their labours. With reference to the Parliamentary proceedings of the company in the present Session, the bills they bad introduced were intended to take power to deal with the Metropo litan extension as a separate capital, including in this title the whole of the railways, stations, and works which the company obtained powers to make in the years 1864 and 1865 ; to give the pre ference shareholders a modified right to vote at meetings of the company ; and to obtain power to run the company's steamers from llarwich to Dunkirk and Hamburg, and intermediate ports, in addition to Antwerp, Rotterdam, and Flushing, to which they were now limited. / the company had deposited with the Registrar of Joint-stock Com panies a copy of their half-yearly loan capital, which showed a surplus borrowing power at Dec. 31, 1866, of £863,867. The directors could not conclude their report without adverting to the distrust of railway investments 'lately engendered, which had had the effect of impeding the placing of debentures as well as share capital,without reference to the income or prospects of the company. With regard to the gene ral position of the company the directors desired to express to the shareholders their conviction that with an united and earnest action upon the part of the executive and the shareholders the fortunes of this great and important undertaking would be at length restored to the position which they ought to occupy. The directors could conscientiously say that they did not belici - e that the undertaking, apart from its ex ceptional financial state, was over in a more sound or healthy condition than at the Fesent moment.. The capital account showed that £23,018,072 had been received to 31st December last, and £24,120,200 expended, including £322,060 . during the past half year, leaving a balance against the comp any o f £1,105,128. TEWKESBURY AND MALVERN. An extraordinary meeting of this company w as held yesterday at the Westminster Palace Hotel ; Mr. Beeston in the chair. It was stated that the share capital authorised in 1860 and 1862 was £ 9 65,000, making, with £BB,OOO of debenture stock, £353,000. An agree ment wc.s made with the Midland Company to work the line for 50 per cent. of the gross receipts, with n additional payment for station accommodation. The line was opened in 1864, and had cost at the rate of £31,104 per mile. The receipts had been during the two years and 4i months from the open ing of the line £8,370, which, deducting 50 per cent. for working expenses, left a net return of £2 7s. 6d. per mile per week. Mr. MAN moved resolutions to the effect that certain of the directors be called upon to resign, and that others be elected in their place ; that the direc tors be requested to forward to all interested in the line a plan for a compromise—namely, that the de benture-holders should have 4 per cent., the Lloyd's bondholders 2 per cent., the landowners and other creditors a 5 per cent. preferential stock, and the shareholders to receive per cent. Mr. M'ANDREW seconded the motion. The CHAIRMAN defended the directors from the charge of neglecting the company's interests. They had threatened the Midland that they would com plain to the Board of Trade as to the manner in which the line was managed, and the answer made was that the lire was in an incomplete state, want ing stations and goods depots ; but as the company could not obtain more money the directors were powerless. As to the cost of the line, great difficul ties had been experienced in raising money to make it. As to the directors being called upon to resign, it would relieve them of onerous duties, for which they had no pay whatever. After a long discussion, the motion was not adopted. ULSTER. The report of the directors states that the expendi ture on capital account during the half-year ending the 31st of December last amounted to £10,698. The receipts on revenue account for the past half year amounted to £77,870, against £73,230 in the same half-year of 1865, showing an increase of £4,640. The working expenses, exclusive of rates and taxes, amounted to £35,114, being an increase of £3,486 over those of the corresponding half of 1865. After payment of interest on bonds and de benture stock and rent of the Portadown and Omagh line there remained a balance of £28,893, out of which was deducted £21,345 for interest on the 4+ per cent. preference stock and dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum on the ordinary shares of the company for the past half-year, less income-tax, pay able on the 23d inst., leaving a balance of £7,638, of which £4,000 was carried to the reserve fund and £3,638 to the next account. The outlay on permanent way renewals had been unusually large, and it was proposed to expend £7,000 on waggons, &c., and £5,000 for sidings and other works to accommodate the traffic. The Capital account showed that £1,430,580 had bee expended, leaving a balance . . against the company of £59,580. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. • The traffic receipts on this company's lines for the week ending •the 19th of January amounted for passengers to £6,030 ; for mails, &c., to £1,130 ; and for freight and live stock, to £ls,22o—total, £22,380, and for the corresponding week last year to £21,000, showing an increase of £1,371. LONDON AND COUNTY BANK. The annual general meeting of the proprietors of this company was held yesterday, at the London Tavern—Mr. Hugh C. E. Childers, 1\1.P., in the chair. The report for the half-year ending December 31st last stated that, after paying all charges and interest to customers, and making ample provision for bad and doubtful debts, the net profits amount to £101,998 15s. This, added to £17,468 16s. 6d., brought forward from the last account, produces a total of £119,467 lls. 6d. The directors recom mended the payment of the usual dividend of 6 per cent., together with a bonus of 8 per cent. for the half-year, both free of income tax, which absorbed £105,000, and leaves £14,407 1 ls. 61. to be carried forward to profit and loss new account. The divi dend for the whole year 1866 will thus be 25 per cent. .11 t the meeting in February, 1866, it was intimated to the proprietors that the diractors pro posed to increase the capital of the bank, and at the meeting in August, 1866, the proprietors, by a resolution, adopted the recommendation of the directors. It will be proposed to act upon this re solution (which will require formal confirmation) by the :issue of 12,500 new shares, to be offered pro rata amongst the proprietors as they appeared on the register on the 4th inst., the date when the trawler books of the company were closed, such shares to be issued at the price of £4O each, being a premium of £2O per share. The total number of shares will then be 50,000. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the re port, said that there were two matters upon which he would have to address the proprietors, the first of which was with respect to the business of the year, and more especially to that of the past six months; and the second, the augmentation of the capital. In August last his colleague, who was then in the chair, congratulated the meeting upon the state of the bank and upon the manner in which it had gone through the crisis, and he thought now, at the completion of the year, they had equal reason for congratulation, for the bank never stood in a better position than it did at the present time. (Hear, hear.) Their success was mainly owing to the good management of those who administered their affairs under the board, and the steadiness with which the shareholders had uniformly supported the bank and maintained its position. (Hear, hear.) Hardly any of the shares were sold dining the crisis by those who had been shareholders for a consider able time, which was an evidence of the high opinion they had of the concern. lie thought those who attempted to injure the bank in the first half of the last year might well regret the attack they had made upon an institution so ably and well supported. (Hear, hear.) With regard to the accounts, he would first refer to the debtor side. The amount due by the bank for customers' balances, &c., was £12,057,000 12s. Bd., against £11,843,000 in the previous year; therefore, in spite of the financial crisis, the balances stood higher last year than they bad ever stood since the establishment of the bank. With respect to the liability on acceptances he had not much to say, for that item varied from time to time according to circumstances. It now stood at a million and a half, and he believed that they had never lost a shilling by their acceptances. On going to the other side of the accounts they would see that the cash andsecurities amounted to about £3,200,000 against £3,900,000 in the previous year. If that £3,900,000 enabled the bank to meet the crisis in May last, the £3,200,000 would be ample when the bank rate of discount was at 3i or 3 per cent. With respect to the Government stock, that item did not stand quite so high as it did last year. The amount had been on the increase 'since the date of the ac counts, and that was a policy which the directors in tended to follow up. With respect to their premises, they would see they were set down asbeing of the value of £176,313, which was an increase of between £30,000 and £40,000 since last year. He had no hesitation in saying that in the event of a sale they would find the premises very much undervalued, and that account, therefore, stood in a very satis factory condition. He came now to the item of pro fit and loss. They would see that the gross profits for the half-year, after making provision for bad and doubtful debts, amounted to £319,957, which was not quite so much as had been shown in other similar periods. He thought that on one occasion it had amounted to as much as £340,000, but when they considered that under theadverse circumstances of the past year they had been enabled to pay a dividend of 25 per cent., they must be satisfied with the amount of profit the bank had 'made. It was always the duty of directors to carefully scrutinise every account, and see that ample provision was made for possible contingencies, and in such a year as the last that duty exited in a marked degree. The directors had taken care that the amount set aside for bad and doubtful debts should be ample ; therefore the £319,957 might be looked upon as the amount of profit ascertained after a careful scrutiny of that kind. They would observe that the salaries and all other expenses at the head office and branches, including income tax, were set down at £99,813, , which amount was somewhat in excess of that of last year, but that excess was occasioned by a care ful and practical revision of the salaries of their offi cers, which he was sure the proprietors would not regret. There was one item to which he thought the attention of the proprietors and of banks generally ought to be directed, and that was the expense to the bank occasioned by the light coin which passed through their hands. He found that during the past three half-years there had been' a great increase in that item. In the second half of the year 1865 the loss from light coin passing through the bank was only £l,lOO. In the first half of 1866 it amounted to 1.2,300, and in the second half of 1866 it was no less than £4,300. These figures might appear very large, but he was bound to state the business which they represented was also very large, for no less than £81,630,000 in coin passed through the head office in Lombard-street during the half year. He believed that that was a business almost unprecedented, and might account to some extent for the large loss by light coin. But the amount of loss was steadily increasing, and it was a matter de serving of their attention, and one which ought to be brought before the Government of the country. There was a large increase in the number of their accounts. This time last year the total number was 47,585 ; in June they stood at 48,634, and at Christ mas last they amounted to 50,389, showing an in crease in the number of accounts in the year of 2,804, which was a good evidence of the progress the bank was making, both at headquarters and at the branches. With regard to the proposed increase of capital, that matter had already been under their notice, and the proprietors at the meeting 6 months ago had approved of the scheme. The necessity for that additional capital had been occasioned by the increasing business, and when raised it would no doubt tend still further to increase it, as well as the number of shareholders, which would be greatly to the interest of the bank. There were at the present time 37,500 shares in the company, upon which £2O had been paid, and it was now proposed to add to that 12,500, making in all 50,000 shares, or a paid up capital of £1,000,000, by issuing the shares in the proportion of one new share for every three ex isting shares. The new shares would be issued at £4O, half of which would be carried to share capital and the other half to revenue, which would raise the capital to £1,000,000 and the reserve to £560,000. When the new shares were issued on the last occa casion they were issued at £4O, which amount was called up in four payments of £lO each at intervals of four months. On this occasion it was proposed that there should be five payments of £8 each, at intervals of six months instead of four months, so that the amount would be distributed over two years.. The first payment would fall due on the 30th March next; the second on the 30th August; the third in February, 1868 ; the fourth in August, 1868 ; and the fifth in February, 1869. This would enable the shareholders to have five half years' dividend, out of which they could pay up the capital, the dates having been arranged so that the instalments would fall due just after the payment of the dividends. Of each £B, £4 would carry dividend and bonus from the date of payment, and every shareholder would have the privilege of paying up the full amount, which would also be entitled to dividend from the date of payment. ➢lr. W. C. JONES seconded the motion. In reply to Colonel Spong, The CHAIRMAN said that the amount in govern went securities was £695,953. The report was adopted, and a dividend in ac cordance with the recommendations contained therein was dec'ared. The retiring auditors, Messrs. W. Norman and R. Swaine, were re-elected ; and Mr. Frederick Francis was elected an auditor, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the disqualification of Mr. Robert Escombe. • The proceedings were then brought to a close with a vote of thanks to the chairman, directors, auditors, and officers. Naval and Military Intelligence. 41 MALTA, Feb. 2.—The English screw steamer Montezuma, belonging to Messrs. Smith, Sundius, and Co., charter.d by the Government for the con veyance of time-expired men and invalids to Eng land, arrived on the 31st ult. from Constantinople, and having embarked here four officers, 44 men, 18 women, and 17 children, leaves port to-day home ward bound :. Capt. Clarke, R.E., director of . Adm iralty works, also leaves to-day on return to Eng land, via Marseilles. News has been received here by the Malta and Alexandria 'Telegraph of the ar rival of the Psyche and Caradoc from Alexandria. Col. Chandler, KA., did not leave Malta in the latter vessel as reported, although his name was on the list for passage by her. Some particulars have been received of the loss of the Maltese yacht Me lita, on the coast of Albania. She was wrecked at a place called Fanara, between Parga and Prevesa, and soon afterwards went to pieces, nothing being saved but the lives of the four naval officers on board, and the grew of three persons. They sub sequently arrived at Prevesa on horseback, in a deplorable state from exposure to cold and rain, with insufficient clothing. As there is a Vice-Consul at Prevesa, we 'maybe sure our shipwrecked country men will meet with all the assistance they may re quire. Le n t s te bta is o'taerrdthe one ee sfosrreol twoma t thhecera Piraeus, arao ufsMajesty'ssmallpoxan d ship tha t F h t i a v t o ed was in il a e ao f lr e t d m a li y ltd s she tf y i N n V g a wa s tbo i y n a t c dh o de n s t Gh e q ar et u e e tk n h :Be diseaseo a r placed d o f lltesis occurredta n c on is t qua rantineyg r p a e And that the gdneral health of the crew was good. Cholera still lingers in some parts of Sicily. At Empedoele (Mole di Girgenti) several attacks have recently taken place. It •Li reported that her Majesty's ship Terrible, 21, Captain Commerell, V.C., may be expected shortly in the Mediter ranean, and that she will b • out ring guns for her Majesty's ship Ocean, and supernumeraries for the squadron. Information has reached this island that it is the intention of the W .Department to increase very materially the armament of th Fortress of 'Malta, an d that for this c purpose it has been resolved to spend half a million sterling. The Maltese papers speak veryhighly of the exem plary conduct of the 84th Regiment, which is under orders to be in readiness for embarkation. f or Ja maica, and [have much pleasure to laable e to add my testimony to the truth and justice of th • observa tions. I may, however, go further and say, that since the departure of one or two regiments, some of the members of which were constantly getting into hot water with the natives and the police, the conduct of the troops in garrison generally has been most praiseworthy. A fancy fair is to be held at the Aubence de Provence on the 12th and instant, under 9 h under the patronage of Lady Clarence Paget, Lady Houlton, Houlton, and Mrs. Trower, in aid of the funds for building and endowing the English church at Sliema. Notwithstanding the liberality of Dr. Trower, Bishop of Gibraltar, and his family, the sum falls very far short of the necessary amount. The sum contributed i5£2,162 145..6d.; that required £4,000. We still are without rain,. and greatappre hensions are entertained lest there should be no water for our summer's supply. For some time past prayers have been offered up in the churches of all denomi nations. The Right Hon. Seymour Fitzgerald, the newly-appointed Gevernor of Bombay, attended by his secretary, Capt. Felgate, and Capt. Fitzgerald, passed through Malta on Wednesday last, on his way to assume the government of the Presidency. The English steam yacht Ceres, the property of Col. M'lver, returned last night from a tour in Greece and the Holy Land. The Curacoa, 23, unarmoured screw frigate,l,s7l tons, 350 horse power, Comr. Sir W. S. Wisencon, C. 8., arrived at Shithead at 4 p.m. yesterday from the Australian station,and on anchoring at Spithead exchanged the customary salutes with the flagship of the Port Admiral and Naval Commander-in- Chief of the port and south-west naval station. The Terrible, 19, paddle frigate, Capt. John E. Commerell, V.C., C. 8., sailed from Spithead at daylight yesterday morning for the Mediterranean, the weather having somewhat . moderated, but a fresh wind prevailing from the north-west. The unarmoured screw corvette Charybdis, 17 guns, 1,506 tons, 400-horse power, Capt. Algernon M. L. Lyons, sailed from St. Helen's roadstead, south of Spithead, at daylight yesterday morning, on a term of service on the coasts of Australia and New Zealand. The Pandora, 5, screw gun-vessel, whose arrival at Spithead was announced in The Sun of yesterday, from the West Coast of Africa, steamed into Ports mouth harbour yesterday afternoon to dismantle and pay out of commission. - The Cossack, 20, screw, unarmoured corvette, 1,296 tons, 250-horse power, Capt. White, arrived at Spithead on Wednesday from the Mediterranean station, sailed from Spithead yesterday afternoon for Sheerness, to dismantle and pay out of commission. The Fox, 2, storesl►ip, 1,131 tons, 200-horsepower, Staff-Commander H. A. Moriarty, arrived in Sheer ness harbour yesterday from Woolwich. She will take in stores, and proceed to Portsmouth and Ply mouth. The Jaseur, 5, screw gun-vessel, Commander W. H. Grubbs, has been brought into the large basin of Sheerness dockyard to be dismantled and paid out of commission, after a cruise of nearly four years on the West Coast of Africa. The Cameleon, 17, screw sloop, 952 tons, 200- horse power, is being rapidly brought forward for commission in the large basin of Sheerness dockyard. A large number of shipwrights and riggers arc en gaged in making her ready for the pennant. The screw steam frigate Bristol, 31, Capt. Love son E. 11. Somerset., having been repaired and re fitted, left Plymouth, on Thursday, to resume hor duty on the West Coast of Mika. The iron screw steam troopship Tamar, 2, Capt. F. W. Sullivan, C. 8., from Ireland, arrived at Ply mouth yesterday. The paddlewheel steam-vessel Medusa, Staff- Commander T. Potter, left Devonport yesterday for the westward, in search of a vessel in distress, said to be the steamship Bremen, with 300 passengers, which has had her rudder damaged. Yesterday Major-Gen. F. Murray, in command of the forces in the Chatham district, paid an offi cial visit to the Royal Engineer Establishment, and inspected the officers and men attached to the head quarters of that corps at Brompton Barracks. The whole of the officers and sappers, forminz companies, including the four depot companies of the corps, together with the mounted A troop of the Royal Engineer Train, were drawn up in the barrack square, under the command of Col. Sim mons, Director of the Royal Engineer establish ment. After the customary salute on the arrival of Gen. Murray, the companies were formed in open columns, when the inspection commenced. At the termination a few mancouvres were gone through, and the officers and men dismissed to their quarters. Gen. Murray then visited the barrack buildings and the departments of the Royal Engineer Establish ment. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Edward S. Richards, to the Indus, for service in the sailing reserve ; R. J. C. Grant, master, to the Terror ; H. G. Archer, mid shipman, to the Rodney ; E. Robinson, assistant paymaster, to the Black Prince, additional, for Ad miral's office ; E. P. Rimell, assistant paymaster, to the Racoon ; IV. Dark, engineer, to the Rodney ; and 11. Thornton, acting engineer, to the Cumber land, for the Fearless. . Royal National Lifeboat Institution. Yesterday a meeting of this institution was held at its house, John-street, Adelphi ; Thos. Chapman, Esq., F.R.S, V.P., in the chair. There were also present—The Right Hon. S. Cave, MT-, Sir E. Perrott, Bait, Commodore Tarleton, R.N., C.B Controller General of the Coast-guard ; A dmiral Hall, C. 8., Sir F. Outram, Bart., Admira l Gordon, ~ A. Boekfeur, Esq., Captain Egerton, R.N., W. H. Harton, Esq., Admiral M‘Hardy, John Griffith, Esq., Colonel F. Clayton, G. Lyall, Capt. Ward, R.N., inspestor of the boats to the institution ; and R. Lewis, Esq., the secretary. The minutes of the previous meeting having been read, 'fhe committee expressed their deep sympathy with the families of the five poor fellows who perished on Wednesday morning ini the Paddow life boat whilst nobly attempting to save a s hi pwrecked crew ou the Doom Bar Sands, and decided on voting 200 guineas in aid of the subscription now being raised by the Rev. Richard Tyacke and other gen tlemen for the relief of the poor men's families. Taking into account the few fat character of there lifeboat services, that about 6,000 persons go afloat on all occasions in the boats every year, and that during the last 14 years the institution has only lost 18 lives, it must be a source of congratulation to every one that so small a percentage has been sa crified compared with the noble service done in that period, and the large number of brave men en gaged at so much hazard in the work. Rewards amounting to £337 were voted to the crews of various lifeboats of the institution for putting off during the past month, and saving the crews of the following wrecked vessels :—Brig Chase, of Shields, 5 ; sloop Emma, of Portsmouth, vessel and 3 ; schooner Mary Tatham, of Chester, 4 ; sloop Shamrock, of Liverpool, 3 ; schooner Mizpah, of Dartmouth, 8 ; Da nish bar q u e Aurora Borealis, of Rebe, 1 0 ; smack O liver Lo yd , of Cardigan, 3 ; smack Turtle of 6; A s b eh er o y o s n t e w i. itli,3; schooner Salome, Selina Ann,' of Looe, 5 ; schooner Heiress , of Teignmouth, 6 ; ship, John Gray-, of Glasgow, 13 ; French sc h ooner ack Anemone, 5 ; brig Emanuel Boucher, of Whitby, 6 ; brigantine Seraphim, of Dunkirk, 8 ; lugger Espoir, of Nantes, 6 ; Prussian brig Antares, of Greisscvald, 1 ; smack Coronation, of Bideford, 4; schooner Teazer, of Ipswich, 1 ; Schooner Gem, of Hull, 2 ; schooner Jeanne d'Are, of Nantes, vessel and 5 ; smack Noah, of Cardigan, 2 ; smack Catharina, of Barmouth, vessel and 4 ; schooner Clyde, of Yarmouth, 5 ; brig Mary, of Newcastle, vessel and 10 ; barque Chowden, of Sunderland, vessel and 12 ; schooner Jane Ellen, of Aberyst with, vessel and 5 ; brig Benton, of South Shields, 6 ; barque Marie Anaelie, of Quimper, vessel and 13 ; sloop Perseverance, of Liverpool, 2 ; brig Annie, of Milford, vessel and 10 ; and brigantine Estelle, of Preston, vessel and 6. Total, 182 lives and 9 vessels saved by the lifeboats. Rewards amounting to £257 were also granted to the crews of other lifeboats of the institution, for going out during the past month with the view of rendering assistance to distressed vessels and their crews. The silver medal of the institution and a copy of its vote on parchment were ordered to be presented to Lieut. William 11. Elton, R.N., chief officer of the Coastguard at Lyme Regis, Dorset, and £5 to his boat's crew of five men, for putting off during a heavy gale from the _ south-west, and saving, at much risk of life, three men from two wrecks, on the Bth ult. The silver medal of the institution, and a copy of its vote on parchment, were also voted to Mr. T. M. Rees, for saving, by being lowered down high cliffs, at great risk of life, during a very dark and stormy night, four men from the schooner Two Brothers, of Holyhead, which was wrecked on the Pembrokeshire Coast on the sth ult. The silver medal and £2 were also voted to Mr. James Harrington, for wading into the surf an d savin g , at considerable risk of life, four men belonging to the brig Charlotte, of Sunderland, which was wrecked on the East Sear North Landing, Flamborough, on the Ist of January. Various other rewards were also granted for raving life from various shipsrecks on our coasts. A gratuity of £2O was also voted by the institution in aid of the subscription now raising for the fami lies of the six brave men who perished on the occa sion of the accident to the Calais lifeboat on the 17th ult. It was stated that the Prince of Wales had fixed the 28th inst., at two o'clock, on which to preside over the annual meeting of the institution, to be held in the Egyptian Hall, Mansion-house. New lifeboats h a d b een sen t by the institution dur ing the past mouth to Bouhuer, Barmouth, Port rnadock, Winchelsea, and Courtunicsherry. In every case the railway and steam-packet companies had, as usual, conveyed the boats free of charge. Public ' demonstrations had taken place with the Boulmer and Courtmaesherry lifeboats, at Nottingham and Dublin, on the way to their stations. Payments amounting to £2,300 were ordered to be made to various lifeboat establishments. A communication , was read from Capt. Mayne, the agent of the New South Wales Government, requesting the co-opera tion of the institution in superintending the con , struction of a large lifeboat, on its plan, for that Government. A letter was also read from the Han . seatic Minister, asking the assistance of the society in having seine large lifeboats built for the German Lifeboat Institution recently formed at Bremen. A contribution 0f.£265 had been received from the Western Cominereial Travellers' Lifeboat Fund, towards defraying the cost of a lifeboat. Admiral the Earl of Carysfort had also sent a donation of £lOO ; and Sir W. Erle, late Lord Chief Justice, had likewise forwarded a second donation of £lO ; £5OO had also been received by the society—a legacy bequeathed by the late T. T. Taylor, al., of South port. The institution decided to form a station at Mullion, Cornwall, and to place there the lifeboat Draper, the cost of which is now being raised by the Wesleyan Methodists, in memory of the Rev. D. J. Draper, who perished in the steamship London. A report was read from Capt. Ward, R.N., inspec tor•of lifeboats to the institution, on his recent visit to various stations. The proceedings then closed. COURT OF CO aDION COUNCIL. A Court of Common Council was held at Guild all the Lord Mayor in the chair. THE IRISH SOCIETY. On the motion of Mr. Burkitt, lately deputy governor of the Irish Society, Alderman Rose was reappointed governor of the society, and Mr. Bur kitt took occasion to say that at the last meeting of the society a unanimous and most cordial vote of thanks was presented to the governor (Mr. Rose) for the manner in which he had discharged the duties of the office. (Cheers.) On the nomination of the Governor, the Court unanimously elected Mr. Francis Wyatt Trus3ott to be the deputy governor of the Irish Society for the ensuing year. (Cheers.) THE OFFICERS OF THE CORPORATION. Those officers of the corporation whose appoint ments are annual, and rest with the Common Coun cil, from the Town Clerk, Mr. Frederick Wood thorpe, downwards, 59 in number, were re-elected. 4w-0-4,..Qp_sc_nalnely, of the Registrar and the Iligh Bailiff of the Sheriffs' Court, the appointment was limited to three months. PROJECTED GAS BILLS. Mr. J. P. BONTE3IS, chairman of the special gas committee, presented a report respecting authority to take the necessary steps to oppose the Gas Light and Coke Company and the Imperial Gas Bills now before Parliament. The Gas Light and Coke Company's bill empowers the company to raise new stock to the amount of £650,000 by issuing new shares, to capitalise £360,000 in respect of profits alleged to have been expended on their works, and borrow £477,500 on mortgage or bonds. The com mittee said they last year succeeded in obtaining the rejection of a bill containing powers of a less ex tensive kind than those in the present bill. The bill, they said, might also in some respects be con sidered antagonistic to the Metropolis Gas Bill about to be introduced by the Government. As to the Imperial Gas Bill, there was a clause in it which might enable the company to lay down mains and pipes through the City to connect the different works of the company. The committee were of opinion that they shoul4 be. empowered to take steps to secure a modification of this clause, and prevent any of the mains or pipes of the company being laid in the City. The report was agreed to, and referred back to the committee for execution. TILE CATTLE PLAGUE. Mr. RUDKIN, chairman of the markets committee, stated, in rclly to Mr. Turner, that the cattle plague had again broken out in Lay cock's Dairy, in the neighbourhood of Barnsbury Park, where it previously broke out. Leery animal in the shed had in consequence been ordered to be slaughtered, and great pains had been taken to prevent the disease spreading to the Metropolitan Cattle Market. SANITARY PRECAUTIONS. Dr. SAUNDERS, pursuant to notice, moved the ap pointment of a special committee to inquire into the sanitary condition of the dwellings of the poor of the City of London, and the general precautions adopted by the commissioners of sewers to remedy the same dur:ng the recent outbreak of cholera. Dur:ng the epidemic Dr. Saunders was at the head of a body of medical visitors specially appointed by the guardians of the City of London Union under an order in council, and it was in consequence of what had come under his observation, and of those with whom he acted in that capacity, in the shape of nuisances dangerous to the public health, that he had felt it his duty to bring the subject under the consideration of the Common Council. The motion was seconded by Mr. RIGBY, who animadverted upon the alleged neglect by the com missioners of sewers of the sanitary condition of a house in which fever had appeared in a virulent shape after their attention had been repeatedly called to the matter. lie cited the case of Holiday yard, the nuisances in which were called to the notice of the commissioners, and said they sent as their inspector the landlord •of the property in the yard, and he had to report upon the condition of his own premises. _ _ Mr. DE JERSEY, chairman of the commissioners of sewers,opposed the motion on the ground that it was not desirable to enter on such an inquiry except in a thoroughly comprehensive spirit ; that the curt had in this case no guarantee that it would be so conducted ; and that, therefore, the expenditure would be useleSs. He described the measures Adopted by the commissioners to arrest the epidemic in the City, and showed how, with respect to the re moval of nuisances while the cholera was present, their exertions had been thwarted by circumlocu tion and the neglect of the medical visitors of the City of London Union, of whom Dr. Saunders was one, to perform the duty imposed on them by the Privy Council of reporting daily as to the existence of nuisances to the commissioners of sewers, on whom the duty devolved of removing them. He showed that during the visitation of cholera 12,213 houses in the City had been inspected by the sani tary officers of the commissioners, and 3,016 orders made to remove nuisances, the excution of which was carried out under the supervision of those offi cers. He gave instances of the circumlocution and neglect to which he had referred, and complained, as unjust and untrue, of a reckless statement in a pamphlet, attributed to Dr. Saunders, in which the writer said in effect that he ascribed all the short comings of the commissioners to "a culpable disre gard of all their duties." Dr. MUNDAY bore emphatic testimony to the promptitude with which nuisances had been removed, and under the authority of the Commissioners of Sewers, while the epidemic prevailed. Mr. PEDLETZ,WhO was, with Dr. Munday, a mem ber Of a sanitary committee of nine, appointed ex pressly by the Commissioners in the emergency, re ferred to the assiduity and energy with which they and the officers of the commission, especially Mr. Haywood, the engineer and surveyor, acted on the occasion, and to the success of their exertions in ar resting' the disease. Mr. Deputy FARRAR, while believing it was not the intention of the mover of the resolution (Dr. Saunders) to throw any imputation upon the com missioners or their sanitary committee, considered this a squabble between two medical men, and he believed that squabble would have gone on if the pamphleteering to which it gave rise had, been continued at the expense of the ratepayers. Dr. SAUNDERS explained that the complaints were not directed against the Commissioners or their sanitary committee, but his contention was that the subordinate officers of the Commissioners were not equal to the requirements of such an emergency. Ile indicated the purity of the motives of the four medical men and himself, who were appointed dur ing the visitation of cholera. They and he acted ) he said, from a strict sense of duty on the occasion, in exposing, in the public interest, nuisances which came under their cognisance, rather than from a de- sire to " make things pleasant." At the conclusion of the discussion, which was conducted with au un usual amount of personality and acrimony, Dr. Saunders wanted to withdraw his motion, but the court peremptorily refused to allow him. On a divi sion it was negatived by a large majority, viz., 76 to 9. The court then adjourned. THE WATER SUPPLY AT BIItKENIIEAD.-:--After three years of disappointments the water committee of the Birkenhead commissioners have at last bored down to 508 feet, at the Flaybrick-hill works, from which they now obtain daily 1,500,000 gallons of splendid water. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIO JOURNALS. TDIES.-Th e energetic language in which Lord Derby delared on Tuesday evening that it would be impossible to 'carry any measure of Reform through Parliament unless all parties were disposed to subordinate for a time party triumphs to the public welfare admitted of but one interpretation. A special appeal is to be made to the patriotism of the Legislature. We are arrived at such a pass that it is, as Mr. Gladstone says, of the first necessity the question of Reform should be settled. "It stops the way." The continued agitation of the sub ject may serve to create fresh difficulties, but can not smooth the road out of the embarrassment of our position. Lord Russell observed in the House of lords that almost all the monster meetings which had been held during the recess had pronounced in favour of manhood suffrage, but he supposed no one h •lding a responsible position looked forward for a moment to any such extension of the privileges of voting. He•was, no doubt, right in his opinion, but it is evident that the delay of another year may foster the delusion that revolutionary changes are pos,dble. If the session upon which we have just entered is t) be given up to a mere struggle for place, any proposals that the Government may make will be declared insufficient almost before they are known, and the members of the Opposition must make a higher bid and commit themselves to deeper pledges for the sake of power. It is very possible that such tactics, if adopted, might succeed, but success would bring its own punishment. The triumphant party would find itself once more un able, perhaps, indisposed, to give all that its pro mises had led the world to expect, and Parliamen tary Government would be gravely discredited. If, as we understood, the Administration intend to propose on Monday what the guarded language of the Royal Speech and of the heads of the Go vernment in each House led us to expect, we cannot deny that there is much to be said for the form of procedure. Five times within fifteen years has a Reform Bill been presented to the House of Com mons by the Ministers of the Crown—four times by a Liberal, once by a Conservative Government — and each time only to be defeated. This of itself is a 44trong ar. , ' llllllillt fur believing that the method of proceeding by bill, if again followed, must again cud in failure ; and it is well known that a dis passionate observer, who combines at once the austerity of, a political philosopher and the expe rience of a practical statesman, long since recom mended another course. Lord Grey suggested a reference to a Committee of the Privy Council, but the plan is open to the double objection that it is practically an absolute novelty, and that it presup poses a total abnegation of NI inisterialresponsibility. The last objection we must hold to be fatal; and fortunately a better plan, tried in our own time, lies close at band. The position of the India Bill in 1858 was in many respects an exact parallel to the position df reform in 1867. A great calamity had happened in India, and the House of Commons re solved that the 'authority of the East India Com pany should give way to the direct control of the Crown. The House of Conimens committed itself to this resolution, and then awoke to the difficul ties of carrying it into effect. A bill for the go vernment of India was introduced by Lord Pal merston, but was not received with complete satisfaction. The defects of the bill became more apparent the more it was considered, and when Lord Palmerston's Government was defeated on the Conspiracy Bill the possibility of obtaining from the new Ministry a better scheme for the govern ment of our Eastern Empire was looked upon as a happy incident of the event: It would be cruel to recur to the disappointment that followed upon the production of the India Bill No. 2. It is to this hour a puzzle how such a scheme could have re ceived the preliminary sanction of Lord Derby's Cabinet. The state of affairs was embarrass ing, if not alarming. The House of Commons had resolved on putting an end to the double rule of the East India Company and of the Board of Control, but could find nothing to take its place. Two Ministers had tried to devise a scheme worthy of acceptance, both had failed, and meanwhile India was under a provisional Government. In this dilemma Lord Russell, then a member of the Lower House, tame to the assistance of the country. He proposed that both Bills should be laid aside, and the method of proceeding by Resolutions should be adopted: This was, in fact, a proposal that the principles of the Bill to be finally adopted should be agreed upon before any of its details were framed, and - that these principles themselves should be arrived at by discussion in Committee of the House of Commons. The Administration was not to escape responsibility, as it was its duty to frame Resolutions, but the Resolutions might be moulded with comparative, freedom without necessarily in volving the fate • of the Ministry. Such a plan had on the face of it one • recommendation — that it afforded a way of escaping a perpetual wrangling over details ; but Lord Russell urged its adoption on other grounds. ‘qt was de sirable," he said, with truth, " that the House should discuss the question of the future govern ment of India without raising a party debate . . and if Resolutions might be discussed in a Committee .of the whole House it would be pos sible to ascertain what the opinion of the House was as to the mode of government to be adopted," and he added that he felt strongly the method of Resolutions to be the only method by which party discussion could be avoided. No one would accuse Lord Russell of undue haste in reccmmending a deviation from the ordinary precedure, and it is instructive to note the reasons which, in his estimation, justified the course he proposed. In addition to those we have cited he declared that they had seen the plans proposed by two different Governments, and he thought neither measure would receive the full concurrence of the House without undergoing very considerable alteration. If we could view proposals to reform our Home Government as dispassionately as new schemes for the government of India, free ing our minds fur a moment from the heat of party _strife and the prejudices of personal interest, we should see how exactly the reasons advanced by Lord Russell for proceeding by resolutions in 1858 apply now. There have been similar failures, and there exists a similar embarrassment in treating a question of the highest importance. We need scarcely add that the course proposed by Lord Russell was adopted, and adopted with signal success. Fourteen resolutions embodying the, principles of the future government of India were brought into the House of Commons, and, after comparatively short discus sns,ainodLtbhredlesadtaiangleyre, so a l s l t l lo n dn aNnverseedereefitnairtye,lyfoseatntdledi;t w t e h r e e r i e l s o t t a w n d a n i t n i t a r b c o r d p u r c e e com pletepossiblbeiltlo.'there withdraw tion passed s upbn before would a tl n i a d t a t h s e b o s r c t h e timeme a l s v a s finallyfix ed not work, the end of which it would require r • evision ; but we all know that it has proved singularly free from defects, and' Parliament will indeed have reason for congratula tion if, nine years after • passing any Reform Bill, there be as little demand for fresh alterations as there is now for further amendment of the Govern ment of India. It may be a great assumption that Reform can be treated apart from party interests, but we trust there is no ground for thinking so ill of our public men as to believe them incapable, amid their personal differences and the contests of a just ambition, of being animated by a paramount desire for the public good. There is, however, one condi tion essential to the success of such an appeal to the House. It must be made with all the frankness with which it is desired it shall be met. The Go vernment must deal honestly and fairly with the House of Commons if it ventures to ask the House of Commons to unite honestly and fairly with it. The Rinisters of the Crown, must show the spirit they. would evoke, and if they do so they may find themselves justified in the hope that the session of 1867 will be signalised by the settlement of a pro tracted and threatening difficulty. POST.—The Admiralty is the best abused' of all the Government departments, and we are not sur prised even at this early period of the session, that Mr. Seely should have given notice of his intention to make the mismanagement of the Board of Admi ralty the subject of a special motion. The English people are particularly sensitive about their Navy, and it would perhaps be unreasonable to expect that, under any system of management, however perfect, the work now done by the Board of Admi ralty would meet with universal commendation. It must, however, be admitted on all hands that the objections so often advanced against the manner in which the Navy, with all its accessories, is managed are not entirely capricious. The constitution of the Board of Admiralty is in itself so anomalous, that one. would a priori be inclined to expect that the business transacted under its supervision would be indifferently done. Passing from " My Lords" to the subordinate departments, one is met at every turn by evidences of an organisation in which the want of supervision and control is constantly con spicuous. These defects are universally conceded ; and if Mr. Seely were merely to content himself with asking the House of Commons to affirm that such mismanagement existed, and if ,such affirmation would remedy the evil, there would be no question of the motion being carried unanimously. But it is much easier to destroy than to construct, and although Mr. Seely may be enabled to make a very good case against the Admiralty, it is by no means so clear that he will be in a position to submit a scheme which, if adopted, would rcruedy the evils of which be complains. Not that we mean for one moment to suggest this as a reason why no change should be ef fected, for thus applied such an argument would tell against all reform whatsoever. We simply desire to call attention to the real difficulty of the task which Mr. Seely has not been the first to undertake. If in no other respects; the English people are ex tremely conservative in the maintenance of their executive departmentS in the same form in which they have been handed down ; and those who will take the trouble of studying the modifications which have been made from time to time in the adminis tration of the several departments of the State will have no difficulty in satisfying themselves that abuses must be very gross, and proposed remedies very efficient, when a departure from the recognised routine is formally sanctioned by the Government or by Parliament. A good many persons who recognise the deficiencies of our system of Admiralty management are nevertheless averse from hasty experiments being made in a matter affecting the efficiency of our fleets, and of the dockyards in which they are built. Apart from the question of administration, it has always been a moot point whether, in rezpect to the construction and repara tion of ships, it would not be better for the Govern ment to go into the market like ordinary consumers. instead of being themselves their own shipwrights. This ii a matter entirely independent of that which Mr. Seely proposes to bring to the notice of the House of Commons; but it is nevertheless worthy of notice, because the chief ground on which such a change has been suggested is the improvidence and peculation which are assumed to be incidental to our present system of dockyard management. It has been contended that, adopting the principles of free trade, and relying on the natural results of competition, the Government would be enabled to provide at a much cheaper cost for the wants of the navy in private dockyards than in their own. It is, however, doubtful whether, even throwing out of account special circumstances to which we will pre sently allude, this would be the case. By being themselves competitors in the shipbuilding trade, the Government necessarily keep down prices, whereas if they trusted to private individuals to supply their wants, they would find themselves com pelled to pay the prices demanded, however exorbi tant those prices might be. Nor would the assumed existence of competition protect the Government from being victimised, since their wants, more espe cially in the event of war, becoming imminent, would necessarily tax to the utmost the resources of even the most patriotic and most honest ship builders. But, dismissing these considerations, the necessity under which the Government would be placed of not only providing for the protection of private dockyards, as they do at present for their own arsenals, and of taking care that a suffi ciency of raw material and of stores were always kept on hand for their use, would render' it im possible for any Government, and more especially that of a great maritime State, to place its sole reliance in private firms for the supply of everything requisite for the service of its navy. If peculation and waste in public dockyards are to be effectually guarded against, if serviceable vessels in sufficient numbers are always to be found ready for the use of the State, if ships are not to be constructed at an immense cost simply. to be cut down or transformed at an additional cost into something for which they were never originally intended, if ruinous experiments in the art of ship building are no longer to be made, no ironclads. to be put in commission merely as an initiatory step towards being re-docked and dismantled, some radical change must be made in the entire theory_ of Admiralty management. What that alteration should be it may be difficult to say, and we sin cerely hope that WI.. Seely will be enabled to sub mit some proposal which will recommend itself to the acceptance of the Government and the House - of Commons. The objection so frequently taken to the change in the heads of departments which attends a change of Ministry is one which is more apparent than real. The fact of a Conservative First Lord or Secretary being replaced by some Liberal statesman who has never in his life, except from motives of curiosity, boarded a man-of-war or entered a dockyard, does not in any appreciable degree tend to the prejudice of the Admiralty. It is in the constitution of the Board, the divided *responsibility and the insufficient supervision and control which are exercised over subordinate chiefii, that the evil consists. It is the defects which flow from these causes which Mr. Seely has announced his intention of exposing, and for which it is fair to assume that he is sanguine enough to believe that he can suggest a cure. COUNTRY MARKETS. MANCHES TER-THURSDAY. The demand for wheat was only moderate, but the best samples of English could not be obtained at less money', while damp and inferior sorts declined is per. Ar. In foreign no change was apparent. Flour met a slow sale , at a reduction of 6d. per sack. Oats and catineal were rather in favour.of buyers. Both English and Egyptian beans declined 61 per qr. Indian corn also receded 6( 1 per qr. BIRMINGHAM-THURSDAY. At this day's market there was a short supply of English wheat, which was Cleared off at fully the currency of this day se'nnight. Barley dull, but firmly held for previous rates. Oats only taken in retail. Beans and peas less in quired for. BURY ST. EDITUNDS-WEDNESDAY. We had not a large show of wheat at thismarket to-day, and where sales were effected farmers were compelled to submit to a decline of la to 2s per qr. Barley tyuding downwards and 2s per qr. cheaper. Peas, beans, and . co , ts_ a dull trade. BRISTOL—THURSDAY. Our market this morning was inactive foi wheat, and a decline of is per quarter took place. Malting barley was very dull, and fully is per qr. lower. Fine quitlities "01 oats maintain their value, but black and secondary wltite are freely offered at 6d per qr. reduction. Maize scarc e and dear. Beans quiet. EDINBURGH-WEDiTESDAY. Wheat on the top, Os 6d up average, 11 6d dow n * Barley on the top, Os 6d down Overage, Os '2d down , Oats on the top, Os 9d up average, la ld up:' t Beans on the top, 4s Od up ...average, is Od up. _ Total supply and sales. Wheat 1068 qrs sold 470 Barley 1858 qrs sold ' 854 - Oats 2282 qrs sold 1530 - Beans l5B qrs sold - 67 i' Average prices. ,_ . .. , Wheat, 56s 7d 1 Oats 29s 8d Barley, 3Bs 7d 1 Beans - 43s 8d Town -made flour sells as follows :—White, 55 - s Od ; e*tia superfine, 54s 3d; superfine, 51s Od; fine, 49s Od. - ' GLASGOW—WEDNESDAY. - . This day's market was well attended, with a better feel ing. Wheat sold at a decline of is to 2s per qr. German flour ruled is lower. Barley and oats iu favour of buyers. Indian corn receded Gd per qr. Foreign Mail Packet List. _.0.-- MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Feb. IU. Ditto, via Marseilles . - Feb. :3. Brazil and Cap Verde, by British packet. Mix. 0. Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Elope, Ascension, and St. Helena Feb. 2 7 China. Penang. and Singapore, via Sonlhampton—Fcb 19. , Ditto, via Xarseilles Faikland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton lid) 13 Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Feb. 13 ... . Ditto, via Marseilles .. Feb 7. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Feb. 1 3 . Ditto, via Marseilles Feb. 7. Mauritius, via Southampton Feb. 1 9 - Ditto, via 31arseiLe3 Feb. 1 3 Newfoundland ••.. Feb. 13. Portugal .... ..... • Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon. .. United btates and British North America, by Bri tish packet. Ditto, by United States pac k et, via Southamp- ton - Ditto, •ia Cork Ditto, Dy Canadian packet, via Londonderry .. Feb 8 Births. CANNING—On the sth inst., at 12, Sussex-terrace, lIY d(3- park, Lady Canning, the wife of Sir Samuel Canning, °f a daughter. FLOWER—On the 6th inst., at Enmore Park, South Nor- wood, the wife of Henry T.-Flower, of a son. MEAD—On . the 7th inst., at 51, Leinster-square, lly de park, the wife of Alfred Mead, Esq., of a daughter. f TYLER—On (the sth inst., at Chesham, Bucks, the wife Captain Charles J. Tyler, Royal Artillery, of a son. Marriages. BAYLY—HAMILTON —On the 6th inst., at High Cliff Chur ell ' Hants, Major Frederic Bayly, of the Madras Staff Corps, third son of the late W. Bayly, Esq., of Weston 1 1 ", 1 , 1 1 Suffolk, to Florence Charlotte, daughter of Ker Bai"" Hamilton, Esq - . - ; C. 8., late Governor-iu-Chief of the Lee ward Islands. - MADDSDAY—MAYDEw—On the 6th inst., at Trinity Chntedl.l, s Marylebone, Herbert Charles, son of the late J. lay, E..q., of Hyde-park-square, and Lambeth, to lkirtil en f Georgina, eldest daughter of Charles Mayhew, ° Cheater-terrace, Rcgelit's-park. Deaths. BOWMAN—At 5, Arnersham-park Villas, New Cross, li r ' Robert Bowman, C.E., aged 68. CROFTS - On the sth inst., at Mantles, near Blyth, Notting' hamshire, Wm. Croft; Esq., aged 85. Dixos—On the 6th inst., at Wimbledon; Wm. DiXOD, 611.1 of 10, Bedford-row, London, solicitor, aged 45. Go lder, GOLDEN—At the Naval Hospital, Plymouth, «•G• R.N., aged 46. Lord GRAY—Ou the 31st ult., at 18, Champs Elysees, the Gray of Gray. f 11, PHILLIPS -On the 6th inst., James Phillips, Esq ., Abchurch-lane, Loudon, aged 77. EtwasELL—On " the 6th inst., at Cumberland Lodge, treatharn-bill, Jacob Russell, Esq., aged 82. w.s. London : Printed tad Published by IV IL LIA.II AN of No. 112. Strand, Witter at Trta Sum (Woe: No. l; f Strand. in the Frochet of the Savoy, in the Cue Middlepez.—Friday, February 64867. THE SIN, LO,Nt ON, FRIDAY EVENESG, FEBRUARY 8 1867.