The Sun. — London, England, 1855-11-17 00:00:00

The above banks publish the following facts with regard to their positions :—• I. The entiro amount of subscribed capital in the six joint stock banks in London is 12,704,2001. 11. ,The amount thereof paid up is 2,817,0351. 111. The amount of deposits, or customers' balances, is 29,376,410/. IV, The total number of shareholders is 4,097. V. The number of shares issued, 187 084. Thus is presented proof of known security, extent of busi ness, and general financial resources. These establishments hold half•yearly meetings, and lay before their connections full accounts of their progress and general operations. This course cannot fail in inspiring with confidence all who have any dealings with them, while it gives to the public the means of forming an opinion as to their responsibility. InREASED VALUE OF JOINT-STOCK BANK SHARES. It is proved to demonstration, that joint-stock banking, under proper supervision, affords a most legitimate and un usually profitable field for the investment of capital. The dividends paid by the banks above quoted vary from 6 to 25 per cent., and the latest quotations of their shares show an increase of 55 to 225 per cent. on their paid-up capit d. The real increase, however, in the value of the shares may be bet ter understood, by the fact that the paid-up capital of these six banks is 2,817,0351., and that its present m irket value is 6,912J16/. It has thus increased two-and-a-half fold, so that every 1/. has now become 21. 10s., and there is every prospect of this amount continuing to increase in value. COURT OF DIRECTORS OF THE UNITY BANK. GOVERNOR. J. J. MECHI, Esq., Tiptree Hall, Kelvedon, Essex. WILLIAM JOSEPH BRUCE, Esq., 16, Duke•street, West- minter, and 4A, Hyde-park-place, Cumbeiland-gate. G. L. P. EYRE, Esq. (Messrs. Trinder and Eyre), 1, John- . _ . street, Bedford-row. THOMAS CARLYLE HAYWARD, Esq. (Messrs. Hayward and Sons), 93, Minories ; and 3, Highbury-park North, MAJOR HENRY STONES, LL.B., 33, Nottingham-place, Regent's-park. ROBERT GARLAND, Esq., Thames-chamber, York-build ings, Adelphi, and Belfiore-lodge, Highbury. THOMAS H. BAYLIS, Esq., Cannon-street, City; and 4, Nottingham-terrace, York-gate, Regent's-park. Dr. LLOYD, 4, Suffolk-place, Pall-mall. ROBERT JAMES SNAPE, Esq., 2, Stone-buildings, Lin- , . coln's-inn. EDWARD GOULD BRADLEY, Esq., Heathland-lodge, Harivetead. MAJOR MARTIN MULKERN, Ightfield-house, Alsop terrace, Regent's-park. BANKERS. THE LONDON AND WESTMINSTER BANK. SOLICITOR. THOMAS TAYLOE, Esq., 27A., Bucklersbury, London. BROKERS. Messrs. R. and J. SUTTON, 22, Royal Exchange, London. GENERAL MANAGER. GEORGE CHAMBERS, Esq. (from Messrs. Barnett, Hoare, and Co.) SECRETARY. HENRY LAKE, EN. Each of the directors is duly qualified, having subscribed for twenty shares, and paid the deposit of 1,0001., in accord ance with the deed of settlement. THE NEW PRINCIPLE INTRODUCED BY THE UNITY BANK. Regarding the distinctive principle of the Unity Bank, it has been suggested that there must be a detraction from the profits of the shareholders, by reason of 50 per cent. being given to the customers of the bank. This idea can only have arisen, however, from the want of a careful consideration of the whole subject. In the first place, it'is necessary to re rnember from whom the profits of a bank are derived. They are not made from the share capital. The very first ingredi ent for the formation of profits is a customer. The amount of profit must, therefore, be governed by the amount of busi hess transacted ; and the larger the business. provided it be Properly conducted, the larger will be the profits. It must be borne in mind, also, that the real extent of the dividends must depend on the number of cents. of profits, and that 50 per cent. of the profits, extending over large transactions, may be far greater than 100 per cent, derived from more circum scribed business. If, then, the customers of a bank consti tute its profits, the customers should be induced to transact their business with the bank, and thereby the profits of the s hareholder, instead of being 'reduced, will be augmented. The inducement held out to the customer, however, should be such as does not involve or complicate the badness of bank og. It should not be by the promise of some peculiar accom usodation, or some particular and increased rate of interest, or by any departure from that sound system of joint-stock banking which has stobd, the test of years of experience, and Procered so great pr6k3erity. But it should be, as it is in the Ui tity Bank, an advantage 'which interferes in no degree with established principles, but merely allocates a portion of that which has already been declared to be profit to those who have been the makers of it. Assurance companies have been accustomed to apportion certain of their profits, by way of bonus, to their assurers ; and so general has become the re cognition of the right of the assurer to this participation, that assura, see association would now be established without Luis assent ial to success. The justice of the principle consists this—th at as the assurers make the profits of the company, they ought to be participators in its prosperity. What is j u st In asst trance will be found just also in banking. The customers of a bank make the profits of the bank, and they ought also to be participators in its prosperity. It has been asserted, also, that the 50 per cont. of the pro fita proposed to be divided, while it would detract from the Profits of its a hareholders, would be but a trifling benefit to the customers. It might, in the first place, be replied that no benefit is co, ssidericl " trifling" by those who rightly esti mate pecuniary affairs ; that the benefit, if trifling, is in addi tion to all the otlier benefits usually derived by banking at a joint-stock bank ; and that no correct data can be formed of the profits which will be made. On the other hand, it must be remembered th at hitherto persons have taken their bank log account where personal feeling, accommodation, or con venience of locality r might lead them. Now, for the first time, by the introduction •of the principle of mutuality, self-interest is appealed to. And when, to the large number of the puhlic attracted by this all -powerful stimulus, is added the number of the connections o f the Unity Insurance Associations in all parts of the country,. who have a peculiar identification with and interest in its success, it may fairly be stated, that ante cedent data are not sufficient to form an estimate of the ad vantages which both the shareholders and customers will derive from the Unity _Bank. Great difficulty existu in estimating the effects likely to be produced by the establishment of this new and most desirable feature in banking. Et is one that must become highly popu lar with every commercial interest, and with every class of the public, because its simplicity and advantages are at once to be seen and appreciated. To those great commercial bodies which are compelled to have large cash balances; constantly at their bankers', it will prove to be a serious consideration, and a most important source of profit. The railway, dock, gas, water, steam navi gation, insurance, and other companies, professional mon, merchants, brokers, gentlemen of fortune, and traders of all kinds, will duly estimate the difference in the system now proposed, from that heretofore existing. fine, as joint stock banks became a public necessity, as is now proved, so will the principle of mutuality —whereb y those admirabl e in stitutions may be rendered still more serviceable to the public, and in no way less safe .demand the best consideration of the community at large. BUSINESS TO BE UNDERTAKEN. All the usual business of banking will be undertaken ; and arrangements will be made for extending the transactions of the Bank in every desirable quarter. CURRENT ACCOUNTS will be made up half-yearly, namely—to the 30th of June and the 31st of December, and interest will be allowed at the rate of 2/. per cent. on them. DEposir Accorms.—With respect to these, the rate of in terest allowed on money placed at seven days' notice will be 11. per cent. under the rate of discount on first class bills adopted by the Bank of England, regulated thereby. The bank will give receipts for the sums so deposited, or, for tte convenience of depositors leaving England, promissory notes, or bills, including interest as well as principal, at not less than six months' date. The bank will undertake the agency of country and foreign banks, whether joint stock or private, and will afford every accommodation to travellers and others with respect to eircu lai notes and letters of credit. It will receive all kinds of ine§me for its customers, including annuities, dividends, mili taty, naval, and civil officers' pay. It will undertake the sale and transfer of stock in the public funds, itc. ; and will be responsible for the safe custody of title deeds and other seen riLies belonging to its customers, to which they will at all times have convenience of access. Application for prospectuses and forms of application for the remaining shares, to be made to Messrs. R. and J. Sutton, stock brokers, 22, Royal Exchange ; or to the secretary, at the principal offices, 10, Cannon-street, City. HENRY LAKE, Secretary. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. T TIIE DIRECTORS OF TIIE UNITY JOINT-STOCK MUTUAL BANKING ASSOCIATION. Gentlemen,— I request th it you will allot me shares of 1001. each in the above association, and in considerat'on of such allotment, or any less number you may appropriate to me, I hereby undertake to pay the deposit; or first call of 101. per share thereon, and 401. at the time of incorporation. UNITY JOINT STOCK MUTUAL BANKING ASSOCIATION. Principal Officea--Unity-buildings, 8 and 10, Cannon-street, city. • CLOSING OF THE SHARE LIST. NOTICE is hereby given that no further applications for SHARES in this bank will be received after Friday, the 3Uth of November. By order, HENRY LAKE, Secretary. Unity-buildings, 9th Nov., 1855. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. --THIS EVENING, and every ev en i ng d ur i ng th e week, the GRAND ELEIJSINIAN SPECTACLE of MAGIC and MYSTERY, by Professor ANDERSON, the Great Wizard of the North, in 12 acts, with ever-changing variety of incidents, continuous surprises, novel and extraordinary effects. Magic and Mystery is an entirely new entertainment, pos sessing distinctive characteristics and peculiar phases of amusement. It is not a monologue, for the audience them selves perform their parts with the principal actor, some of them on the stage and others in front ; it is not an exhibition, for though everything becomes metamorphosed before the eyes of the visitors no one can be positive that he sees any one thing ; but it is a comedy really performed by the aom pany ; a melodrama replete with startling positions and unex pected deaonements ; a magnificent spectacle, with 2,000 of the public every night to appear as auxiliaries ; and an ex travaganza, in which all that seems to be is entirely beyond the bounds of probability. Professor Anderson returns his thanks to thronged and fashionable audiences which have nightly filled the Lyceum Theatre to overflow, and by means of whose generous aid he has been enabled to announce Magic and Mystery for con tinuous repetition. He believes that no professor of his art ties at any time or in any place been honoured with an mount of success so extensive, so decided, and so unusual. Fie would attribute that success to three causes; first, that in his present entertainment he has placed before his visitors the results of a life sedulously devoted to the attainment of perfected skill in one peculiar art, and to perfect which he has travelled the globe in every clime; secondly, that he has spared no trouble nor expense to put this entertainment on the stage in the most elaborate manner, by the employment of the first mechanicians and artists of the day ; and thirdly, that, while endeavouring to provide amusement for those who honour him with their presence, he has not forgotten that it is possible to afford information also, and that the oppor tunity should not be neglected of exposing conjuring where ever it has been used for nefarious purposts, or whenever by resorting to the conjuror's arts, in an illegitimate manner, the designing have succeeded in making dupes of the credulous. The 937 letters on the subject of spirit-rapping, which Pro fessor Anderson has received, from the time of opening the • heatre np to the present date, bear witness to the great in terest taken on the subject of this singular delusion ; whilst many of them bear melancholy evidence to the dancers which .ttend a belief in the superstitious nonsense of the " Spiri tualists." Judging simply by the correspondence which has resulted, Professor An lerson's exposé of spirit-rapping and his illustration of the so-called table phenomena, have pro duced a sensation unequalled by any previous attempt to ex pose a mischievous and impudent juggle. It is impossible ,or Professor Anderson to reply at length to a tithe of the communications which reach him on the subject. He regrets that many of these should come from ladies and gentlemen who, from their position in society and their well-known in tellectual attainments, he would least have expected to have been converts to a belief so preposterous in itself, and so easily susceptible of being controverted and disproved. Every evening, from the Lyceum stage, Mr. Anderson's opinions on spirit-rapping are expressed, and every evening, within the Lyceum, how tables can be made to rap is exhibited sad elucidated. It is respectfully requested' that this eublic exposition will be accepted generally as -- Professor Anderson's only mode of replying at full length to his multitudinous correspondents. He regrets that the ❑ames of the great and learned of the land should have been made to figure in the documents emanating from the spirit-rappers, as for instance the following, ex tracted from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septem oe r2O, and taken by,that journal from the New York Spiri 'teal Telegraph. It purports to emanate from an American spirit-rapper, Mr. D. D. Hume :—" Sir David • Brewster frankly confesses that he is 'sorely puzzled' at what he has witnessed,- and Lord Brougham acknowledges himself to be thoroughly nonplussed. Both of these noted men brought the whole force of their keen discernment to bear upon the =elution of the phenomena; but the presence of substantial, actual hands, and the demonstrative strength of the spirits who thus clothed themselves for the time, and moved mate rial objects about the room, proved to be too much of a ques ' ion for them to master." Mr. D. D. Hume, the author of the above, has recently left England, and the following account of who, and what he is, occurs in the Family Tie raid, No. 648: —" This young man, who is a Scotchman by birth ? and now in Italy, is a remarkable medium for all the manifestations without apparatus. Barnum. who is well-known throughout the Anglo-Saxon world as a splendid.humbug, offered him 2,000 dollars per annum if he would perform at his museum in New York. Barnum then took it for granted that mediums could be Fought. He was somewhat astonished when his offer was refused. Hume, on telling the fact in London lately, simply and honestly remarked, that the money would have been very acceptable to him, for he was poor, young (under 20), an or phan, and in very bad health : but he would have been afraid of losing his power as a medium, and he would sooner lose his life. The refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful. He inquired into the subject; and now Barnum, one of the greatest humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is one of the firmest believers in spiritualism." It is cer tainly surprising to find such a paragraph as this in the editorial article of an established journal, the editor of whom might be supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe in spirit-rapping--does spirit-rapping gain or lose by this accession to its adherents ? and, with Barnum's endorse ment to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likely to be negotiated ? Professor Anderson would believe not ; hut, when he finds that educated clergymen of the Church of England have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross a swindle, when he finds that the incumbent of Wortley (the Rev. N. J. Godfrey) positively asserts Lis belief in it, and writes a book on the subject, he considers it t be time for him to state that which he knows of the mechanism by which it is effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the iforning Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir David Brewster, relative to that which he saw at Cox's Hotel, in company with Lord Brougham. He distinctly states that which the Wizard of the North proclaims every night—that spirit-rapping is nothing more than conjuring applied to bad purposes. In the Morning Advertiser of the following day, however, there is an answer to Sir David's letter from one who was present when he and Lord Brougham had their séance with the spirits, in which the writer says, that " the table (a large dinner-table, I believe) moved about in the most extraordinary manner, and, among other things, a large ac cordion was conveyed by an invisible agency to my hand and then to Lord Brougham's, in which, held by his lordship's right band, apart from any person, it played an air through out." With such a statement, printed for the edification of the people of the 19th century, with the facts before us that the most talented men of the day are permitting themselves to be deluded by these juggling spirit-mongers—that the greatest novelist of the age is now engaged in making it the subject of a new work, and that a " spiritual convention" has actually been advertised to be hold in St. Martin's-ball, Professor Anderson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual 'sts of America, as given by him nightly at the Lyceum, will be received by the people of England as genuine honest at tempts to provide an antidote for the bane of the spiritual jugglers. . - In the course of the last five weeks 100,017 persons have visited the Lyceum Theatre,—a larger number, it is believed, han has ever before been assembled within its walls in so short a period. Magic and Mystery is repeated every even. ing, the programme being continually changed. Grand fashionable Day Performance. or Saturday, November 17, at 2 o'clock ; the programme being thus arranged ; Part I.—Act 1. The Mesmeric Couch : or, the Clinical Capabilities of the Atmosphere : in which the Wizard will do by magic that which some suppose to be effected by mesmer ism, and illustrate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in the air. Act 2. The Aqua-Avial Paradox ; exemplifying the power of producing animated nature from fire and water only, and the possibility of eliciting from the simplest elements the most complex forms of ornithological existence. Act 3. Le Livre des Reeueile Choisies : or, Puck's Own Pocket Book, with Puck himself within it. Typifying the 3vening's entertainment in the production of the very volu minous from a small volume, in the extraction of magnitude mt of minuteness, in developing bulk where no space appears for its existence, in discovering odd things in odd places, and in bringing forth unexpected wonders from the most unlikely place for to be found, Act 4. Magical Locomotion ; or, Transition without Trou ble. In which - will be comprised—the Adventures of a Wed ding Ring, the'Peregrinations of a Bank Note, the Transfor mation—black into white, and the Discovery of every Article in the position which would seem the most inappropriate. Act 5. L'Eerin de Verre ; or, the Casket of Crcesus. Into which, though made entirely of glass perfectly transparent, and suspended so as to be - risible to the eyes of all present, the Wizard will cause the money of his visitors to transport itself, and rain into the casket, though its lid be closed, locked, and the key in the possession of the audience. Act 6. Clairvoyance Extraordinary ; or, the Transparency of Opacity. Act. 7. A New Bottle of Bacchus ; or, the Novel Wine and Spirit Store. An improvement upon the " inexhaustible _ bottle," in asmuc h as the Wizard's bottle w ill no t on l y b e in exhaustible, but will change its contents, ad infi n it um , a t th e. word o f command, producing soda-water, butter-milk, Epsom salts, Port, Sherry, brandy, gin, rum, whisky, noyeau, or any other wine or spirit required; and finally proving to be fill ed with pocket handkerchiefs perfectly dry, and occupying the whole space when tightly packed. Act 8. Half an F lour with the Spirits ; or, an Expose of gpirit- rapping. Int roducing the - spirit-rapping table and tocsin of the invisibles. Act. 9 . G ra nd M ystic Amalga m in which the property of , he Wizard's p a t r ons will under go some strange metamor phoses, and, amongst others, their handkerchiefs become transformed into the flags of v i ato _ SCr i aiirnioai rY Comus, in which be who the banners of Eng e e 10. T,hTurkey, Eh n c a n a t n e d d ;e a ts himself will be under the and, Act.F magic spell, and appear to the audience, under circumstances least expected, in a posi 'ion as peculiar as perplexing. Act, 11. The Mystery of the Charmed Chest ; or, the Nucleus of the Night's Wonders. To comprehend which the audience will have the goodness to observe, i n an earlier part of the evening, the chest suspended (like Mahommed's coffin) in mid-air, into which all things will travel, and out of which all will be produced. Act. 12. The Homological Evaporation ; or, the Shortest Route to the Antipodes. Illustrating the easiest mode of ridding ourselves of a troublesome friend, and the advantages of the newly-discovered dia-terrestrial passage from the west ern to the eastern hemisphere. Doors open each evening at half-past 7 ; commence at 8. Private boxes, 1/. 1 ls. 6d. and it. ls., to be obtained at the Box-office, or at the principal libraries ; stalls, 4s. ; dress circle, 3s. ; upper boxes, 2s. ; pit, ls. ; gallery, 6d. The •Box-office is open daily, from 11 till 5, under the direction )t Mr. Chatterton, jun, Grand fashionable Morning Per formance on Sfatirday November 17, at 2 o'clock. Doers open at half-past 1. UNITY JOINT-STOCK MUTUAL BANK , ING ASSOCIATION, PRINCIPAL OFFICEP.q Unity Buildings, S and 10, Cannon-street, City. LEICE3TER-SQUARE MUNCH'. 1, New Coventry-street, Leicester-square. CLOSING OF THE SHARE LIST. The directors are happy to announce that, in consequence ef the large number of shares that have been allotted and paid upon, the share list will be closed on Friday, the 30th November, after which date no applications will be received. Arrangements have been made which will enable the bank to commence business early in January next. This bank, to be incorporated by royal charter, is estab lished for the purpose of founding the principle of MUTUAL BANKING, whereby customers, who create the profits, be come entitled to a participation in them, by way of interest on their cash balances. The principle of mutuality has been for many years acted on by insurance companies, and their policy-holders have participated to a very great extent in the bonuses, with much advantage to the institutions and the shareholders. By banks, however, to this period, MUTU ALITY has been neglected. The whole of the profits result ing from successful operations have been given to the share holders only. ADVANTAGES OFFERED BY THE UNITY BANK. I. To shareholders, 5 per cent., from the date of payment, on all paid-up capital, as well as 0 per cent. of the profits. 11. To customers, in addition to the ordinary amount paid on deposit and current accounts, interest on their cash ba lances, equivalent to 50 per cent. of the profits. This Is the plan on which the UNITY JOINT STOCK MUTUAL BANEINO ASSOCIATION is established. By it is created, for the first time, an identification of interest between the customers and shareholders of the bank, who thus become mutually con cerned in the extension of its business. It will be the means of opening up new business, preserving a connection once formed, and productive of -practical benefits to the public generally. CONDITION OF LONDON JOINT STOCK BANKS. Thesuecess of joint stock banks in London is readily ad mitted, as - well as proved by the statements periodically issued by those great commercial institutions. In support of this, the following table is submitted, showing the condi tion of each of the six metropolitan joint stock banks which have published accounts, the original cost of the shares, their present market value, and the dividends payable thereon ; • • "2 . • le " ' l4 NA= OF BANE. :511— g - ' 05 :73 ° tg .4c.) g a, r.; £ £ London and Westminster .. 1834 1,000,000 20 47 161 4 London Joint Stock 1836 600,000 10 32M 25 Union Bank of London 1839 422,900 10 30 20 s ??,. London and County 1839 394,135 20 393 12 • Commercial Bk. of London 184( 300,000 20 31 10 Royal British Bank ... . .... 1849 100,600 50 • • 6.1 N O . 19,696.1 I further undertake to execute the deed of settlement when required. Dated this day , ISS . 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Naval and Military Intelligence • The Great Britain steam-transport, Capt. Gray, em barked 1,354 men, and the folloaing officera of the Bri tish Swiss Legion yesterday at Portsmouth dockyard, for conveyance' to Balaklava :—Col. Dickson, Lieut.- Col.. Blarer, Major Fornaro, Captains ReWart, De Wil liere, Oberlin, Baron de Gingius, Frepp, and Honeggar; Lieutenants Petitpierre, Maghel, Hostache, Cruper, Mi chel, Berger, and Schiffmann ; Adjutant Stampfii ; En signs Humerwadel, Scharrar, Von Buren, Gingoux ; .and. Hunefec ; Surgeon Berri ; Assistant-Surgeons Werd .7 mutter and Schwabe,- Dispenser Bion, Quarteraiaster. Twigg, P.tymaster 'J. Wray, and Paymaster D. Simp son. These were all of the lst battalion. Of the 2d battalian there were Major Hufelin, Captains Roth, Stutz, Muller, Vonoux, Pfeiffer, and Grassi ; Lieut 4. Bahler, Ischensmid, Vurst, Kruttle, Ernst, Haslar, and Laudersett; Adjutant Von Travers, Assistant-Surgeons Muller and Buchser, Quartermaster Goldley, Paymaster Beatty, and Paymaster's Clerk Early. These levies were escorted to the place of embarkation, as they arrived, in two divisions, each played in by the band of•the 80th Foot ' • they presented the appearance of an unusually fine body. pf men, of mature age, well built, and hardy in constitution. The Great Britain willleave with theca . for their destination this morning ater post time. The steam-transport Niagara, Capt. Shannon, em barked at Portsmouth yesterday 19 officers, 521 men, 49 women, 68 children, and 5 horses belonging to the Royal South Lincoln Militia, of which Col.-Sibthorp, M.P., is the Colonel-in-Chief. The officers consisted of Capt. Moore (in command), wife, aid family; Capt. Parker, Captains S. Robertson, S. Brenestord, and J. Beasley, Lieuts. Fitzimons, C. Telford and wife, A. O. Tuke ' J. M. William-, W. A. Heiden, and M. S. Wi'lians, En signs E. D. Johnson, R. Fredd, J. Whitshed, and P. W. Worsley ; Captain-Adjutant 0. Norris, Surgeon Ferns- ley and three children, Assistant-Surgeon W. Dymock and wife, Quartermaster J. Gammon, wife, arid!five children. She proceeds to Queenstown to disembark them, and returns with 15 offieersand 407 men of the Westmeath Militia, also a detachment of the 69th Rev., consisting of six officers and 84 men, women, &c. She left Portsmouth yesterday, at 3 p.m., direct for Cork., The steam gun-boat Hind arrived at ;Portsmouth yes terday from the Baltic, and went into harbour. La Hogue, screw steam-ship, Capt. Ramsay, discharged her powder and shot in Plymouth Sound, and went up Hamoaze on Thursday. The hired steam-ship Ripon, with Land Transport Corps and provisions for the Crimea, left Hamoaze early yesterday morning. When passing between St. Nicho las and the Main she met H. M..'s screw steam•sbip La Hogue going up harbour. The two exchanged salutei by dipping ensigns, and the craw of La Hogue gave three hearty cheers, which were acknowledged moat warmly by their departing comrades in arm , . The Ripon passed the west end of the Plymouth breakwater at 8.45 a.m. The crew of the Sanspareil, 70, Capt. Williams, struck lower yards and topmasts at Plymouth on Thursday, and the ship way towed to the shear hulk to have her fan unshipped previously to being taken into dock. She is to be fitted with all despatch. The paddle-wheel steam-vessel Cara:loc, Lieutenant- Commander Derriman, from Portsmouth, arrived at Plymouth on Thursday,. fur Marseilles, where she will embark Lord Canning, Governor-Ge;m-al of Tudia.- • The Gleaner gun-bo a t, t en d er t o th e Aj ax , l e ft Sheer ness at noon yesterday for Plymouth. " An Admiralty order hae.arraved at Sheerness for the Phoenix, 6, screw steam-sloop, Commatider Arthur Tower (just appointed); to be paid off. All the seamen who are entitled to long leave are to be immediately discharged to the Waterloo'; and op the Phceoix being paid off her crew are to be transferred to the Waterloo.. She has been taken into No. 1 dry dock; In order to obviate her propensity for rolling; it has been recommended that he should be doubled from her extreme breadth at her bends downward to the floor heads, and rolling bilge pieces fixed on her. The Horatio, 8, screw steam-ship, Captain the Hon. Arthur A. Cochrane, was taken into No. 3 dry dock, Sheerness, yesterday, for a thorough overhaul of hull, and machinery. On her outward passage from Sheerness with the Glatton floating battery she called at Ports mouth, where it was found necessary, from complaints made, to inspect her accommodation for officers and men. The Right Hon. Sir M. F. F. Berkeley, K.C.8., M.P., and Admiral Martin visited her for that purpose, and it was found that in consequence of the confined state of the lower deck, which is only 5 feet 5 inches from deck to beam, the average temperature with a portion of the ship's company below was above 100 degrees. The ship's crew consists of 200 men, who were at that time all berthed and messed on the lower deck. It was immedi ately ordered by Admiral Berkeley that mess tables and stools should be supplied for the ship's company living and sleeping on the main deck for the future. The gun room on the lower deck, intended for the accommodation of the gun-room officers, 10 in number, frequently (by supernumeraries) increased to 17, did not con tain 400 cubic feet of space. About 80 cubic feet more were granted them by Admiral Berkeley's order. The temperature ranged from vunimunt 95 to 110, and that in a constant vapour bath while tinier way with steam up, which kept at least 25 per cent. of the ship's com pany on the sick list. Owing to this and other causes, nearly one-half of the Horatio's crew have deserted her sinie the Ist of January last. She has been taken into dock for the purpose of remedying these serious inconve nish months oes. It will require at least three to refit her. Her Majesty's ship Dee, Master Commander Pullen, sailed yesterday from Woolwich with boilers and ma chinery for Portsmouth. On the previous evening, dur ing a dense fog, Joseph Ostlan, a Quartermaster of the Dee, fell into the basin, but was fortunately extricated by the police, who were in attendance with lanterns and , drags. They were assisted by a workman of the dockyard named Bradley, who has been instrumental in saving the lives of two other persons similarly situated. A man belonging to the Rhadamanthus likewise fell into the basin alongside his ship, and his body was not discovered until life was extinct. The Beaver, lighter, was yesterday morning towed down to Sheerness by the Monkey, with boilers and machinery for the Porcupine. The George Hawkins, steam-transport, passed Wool wich on Thursday for Greenhitne, where she will be swung preparatory to her departure for the East. She takes out medical stores for the army, and carries a mail. Mr. Charles William Fothergill, Woolwich Division of Royal Merines, is pr.iinuted to Si•cond Lieutenant, and appointed to the Portsmouth Division ; and Mr. H. J. Pascoe, likewise of the Woolwich Division, to be Second Lieutenant, and to join the Cbathaua Division of that corps. Mr. E. W. Baker, chief engineer of the third class, R.N., serving in her Majesty's ship Hogue, has been promoted to the second class. A number of medals for distinguished services has been received at bead-quarters of the Rqyal Sappers and Miners, at Woolwich, for distribution among the follow ing non-commissioned officers and privates, all of whom, with one exception, are still serving at the seat of war, whence a representation of their services has been for warded :—Colour•Serjeants Henry M'Donald and Michael M'Leod ; Corporals Joseph J. St►nton and Samuel Cole ; Second-Corporals John Paul and Wm. Trimble; Lance-Corporals Joseph Thos. Collins, Wm. Jenkins, and Chas. Kintry ; Privates Wm. Harvey, Wm. Orr, Wm. Bruce, Alex. M`Caughey, Jas. Moncur, Neil M'lnnes, and Andrew Fairservice. First-Lieutenant D. W. Curry, son of Admiral Curry, C.B , of Devonport, died ou the 22d ult., at the hospital at Therapia. He served with the Marine Battalion from their first landing in the Crimea, and commanded a bat tery under Sir Colin Campbell at Balaklava. He was also senior subaltern and acting adjutant to the Marine detachment in the Battle of Inkerinan, after which he held the appointment of Quartermaster at Balaklava. Ultimately his health gave way, and two days after the fall of Sebastopol he was removed to Therapia, where he died. The largest slip in England is the new one in Chatham dockyard. Its dimensions are-300 feet long, 114 feet wide, and 90 feet high. It was commenced in 1851, and has 60 iron pillars and 6 travellers. The ends are glazed. A 30-gun floating battery is to be built in it immediately, to be ready for hunching in March next. An additional length of 40 feet is being given to the second and third wet docks at Chatham, to admit of the largest vessels in the navy being floated in for repairs., The non-commissioned officers and men of the ? a /r e Regiment, now on active service in the Crito d ea,il for the subscribed their working pay to create a fa widows and orpbaus of soldiers who have ,dgiehdasinbethene Crimea. The following letter, received by a resident in Cork men of the 57th among oth e r s , : "The non-commissioned officers andk , pay from Oct., Regiment having subscribedtheir r i_, fund wo tot the benefit of 1854, to Feb., 1855, to create widows and orpbaus of soldiers° io have died in ti 11. for y our the officers of the 57th Crimea, Lieut.-Col. Warre and. • you Regiment have great .satisfaction in notifying to that the sum of 41., being 31. f o ° u r r Y° o u rd rs e e r if on anl child, will be paid to you or your order Messrs. Cox and Co., armyagents, Craig's-court, London. amm•••••••••••1 THE MILITIA. The North g a yo . Militia moves fr om C astlebar to Sligo; the F'll "" g h Militia from N ewry to Dundalk ; the Louth R • fles from Dundalk to Cavan awl Belturbet, re placing the Cavan Militia, ordered t o E ngland ; the 2d 'Cheshire from England to Newry. ALL-HALLOW FAIR.—The number of cattle on the stance on Wednesday would be about 4,500, compos( d of all descriptions, with several lots of fre.b ones forward yesterday. Best descriptions would be fully 5 per cent. down from Tuesday, while the smaller sorts of cattle will be 7 to 10 per cent, down, with every appearance of a very heavy finish, and an immense number of High• land and Irish cattle unsold. Highland cattle will be 10 per cent, down from Doune on the inferior kinds. \tr. Swan, salesman, sold a lot of three-year-old short horn bullocks to Mr. Murray, Kersknowe, at 141. 19.,....„ and an ot h er lot of the sane description at 14/.; , lot, , t „ . four-y ear o ld s to Mr. Calder Tanderlane, at 18/. 1 b.! a lot of s ti r k s a t 71., t o Mr. Rint Sul, Fii b e s sbi t r o e. I‘ a i n r o , another lot at 7/.; a lot of half-bred Hill, Leckerstone, at 17s. 6.1. a-pieces Several other sines andla 400 blayk m faced e wes a t 101. p er clad score. men sold at similar prices, but in some in stances not so extensive.—North Boilish, Daily Mail. LONDON. SATURDAY EVENING, I\ OVEMBEit 17, 1855, NORFOLK EASTERN COUNTIES, and EASTERN UNION RAILWAY 'COM PANIES.-(Arrangements with Reference to the Expenditure of Money on Works. -Amendment of Acts.) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That application is in tended to be made to Parliament in the next session for- an Act for making provision, with reference to the construction of works authorised to be executed by the Norfolk Rail way Company, the Eastern Counties Railway Company, and the Ea-tern Ulioir - Railway . Company; or - any or either of them ; and for requiring or enabling the said companies respectively from time to time to contribute money out of their corporate funds in such proportions as may be specified in the said intended act, or as may be mu tually agreed upon between them, towards the construction of such works, and for enabling the said companies respec tively to make advances of money from time to time to each other, for or towards the construction of such works, or to set aside and appropriate to such purposes such part as may from time to time be agreed upon of the nett revenues of the said companies, or to guarantee the repayment of any prin cipal sums which from time to time have been or may be ex pended, raised, or advanced by any of the said companies for the purposes of such works and the interest thereon. And it is proposed by the said intended act to alter, amend, extend, and enlarge some of the powers and provisions of the several acts following, or some of them, that is to say, local and personal acts, 6th and 7th Wm. IV., caps. 103 and 106, Ist and 2d Vic., cap. 81, 2d and 3d Vic., caps. 77 and 78, 3d Vic., cap. 52, 4th Vic., caps. 14 and 24, 4th and sth Vic., cap. 42; 6th Vic., • cap. 28, 7th Vic., caps. 19, 20, and ' 35, 7th and Bth Vic., caps. 62 and 71, Sth and 9th Vie., caps. 85, 110, and 201, 9th Vic. cap. 52, 9th and 10th Vic., caps. 258, 356, 357, and 367, 10th and 11th Vic., caps. 92, 156,157, and 158, 15th Vic., caps. 30, 33, 51, 84, and 108, and 1 -ith and 17th Vic., caps. 87and 117, and 17th and 18th Vic., cap. 220, and of the several acts next hereinafter mentioned, that is to say, local and personal acts sth Vic., cap. 82, 7th Vic., caps. 4 and 15, Bth and 9th Vie., caps. 41, 45, and 154, 9th and 10th Vic., caps. 132 and 169, 10th and 11th Vic., caps. 64, 94, 98 and 99, 11th and 12th Vic., cap. 30, 15th Vic., cap. 25, 17th and 18th Vic., caps. 130 and 180, and of the several acts next hereinafter mentioned, that is to say, local and personal acts, 7th and Bth Vic., cap. 85, Bth and 9th Vic., caps. 94 and 97. 9th Vic., cap. 53, 9 h and 10th V c. ' caps. 76, 97, 106, an d 280, 10th Vie., caps 11,- 18, 19, and 21, 10th a n d 11th Vi c ., ca ps 137 174. and 225, 12th and 13th Vic., cap. 92, 13th and 14th Vic., cap. 54, 14th and 15th caps. 58 and 66, Vie., 15th and 16th Vic., cap. 148, and 16th and 17th Vic., cap. 221, and of the several acts next hereinafter mentioned, that is to say, local and personal acts, 9th and 10th Vic., cap. 172, 10th Vie., caps. 12, 13, and 20, 15th Vic., cap. 65, Bth and 9th, Vic., caps. 48, 55, and 126, 9th and 10th Vic., cap. 270, 10th and 11th Vic., caps. 170, 171, and 275, 12th and 13th Vic., cap. 52, 14th and 15th Vi c ., ca p. 101, and 16th and 17th Vic., cap. 193. . And on or before the 31st day of December next printed copies of the said intended act will be deposited in the Pri vate Bill-office of the House of Commons. Dated this 15th day of November, 1855. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—Tte Directors hereby Give Notice that they will receive Money on Loan, to 'day off Debentures falling due, and are prepared to accept Tenders ior the same cor a period of 3,5, or 7 years. at 5 per cent. per annum, Application may be made to the undersigned. By order of the Directors. CH tS. A. SAUNDERS, Secretary. Paddingtoa Station, 2d November, 1855. R OYAL SWEDISH RAILWAY COMPANY KOPING TO HULT. Notice Is hereby Orel that ,11 Shares in this Company, upon whici the Final Call of 2/. per Share became due and payable on the let October, 18.55„ will. acconiing to the Statutes of Vle Company. be Hanle to Forfeiture it the Call be not paid on or before the let day of December next. JOHN BADLEIIi., Chairman. London, 18, Cannon-street, Nov. 12, 1855. G REAT INDIAN PENINSULA RAILWAY COMPANY. Call of 21. per share on the " 1 xp2rimental" Shares, now 31. paid, making 51. per share called up. Call all. per share on the " Extension" 'Shares, now 4/. paid, m tking 51. per share ,alled up. _ _ NOTfCE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That, In pursuance of a Resolu tion of the Bo int of Directors, the prearieto sin this ;`ompany, hold ing " Experimental" or " Extension" Shares upen which 3/. per share and 41. per share respectively is already called, arc required to pay a further instalment of 2/. and 11. per share upon each such share (making in each case 5/. per share), on or before the 27th slay of December, 1855, at the - Bank of Messrs. Ilevwood, Kennard. , i, and Co., 4, Lombard-street, London; and if such Call be net paid on or before the said 27th December, the proprietors of the aforesaid shares will not be entitled to interest upon any portion of their shares, but will, nevertheless, be chargeable with interest upon the arrears, at, the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, and the shares will become liable to forfeiture, under " The Companies' Clatues Coasoll dation Act," 1845. (Slimed) CORNELIUS NICHOLSON, Superintending Director. 3, New Broad-street, London, Nov. 15, 1855. P.S.—The Register will be• Closed, pursuant to the above calls, Iron the 21st Nov. inst., and no Transfers can be effected after the 21St inst., untilthe calls are paid. G EELONG and MELBOURNE RAILWAY CO IiPANY. Incorporated by an Act of the Victoria Legislature, Feb. 8, 1853. Capital £350,000, in 17,500 Shares of £2O each. Bearing a Minimum Interest of Five per Pent. per Annum, gua ranteed by the Colonial .Government 'for Twenty-one Years, and payable Half-Yearly, viz., on the 20th April and 20th October, in the Colony and in:London. DIRECTORS. Elected by the Shareholders. CHARLES NUTTAI,L THORNE, Esq., J.P., President. William G. APKellar, Esq., J.P. I Charles ibbotson, Esq., J.P. James B. Hutton, Esq. Appointed by the Colonial Government. Charles Edward Strutt, Esq.. J P., Immigration Agent. George P. Belcher, Esq., Sub-Treasurer. ENGINEER—Edward Snell, Esq. SECRETARY—Martin Sholl, Esq. • LONDON OFFICE. MANAGER—S. J. Cook, Esq., 36, Cannon-street (late Treasurer to the Colonial Government, and a Director of the Company). AGENTS—Messrs. Larnack and Walker, 37, Cannon-street. EXAMINING AND CONSULTING ENGINEERS. Daniel Gooch, Esq., C.E. (Great Westera Railway). Henry Stothert, Esq. (Stothert and Slaughter, Bristol). SOLICITORS—Messrs. Goodwin and Co., 3, Lancaster-place, Strand. BANKERS. . London Joint Stock-Bank, and Bank of New Routh Wales, The F , lIRTEI HALF-YEARL Y REPORT, made by the Direc tors and adopted by the Shareholders in the above Company, dated 3d July last, has just been received, by the Marco Polo. The earthworks and bridges were so far advanced that tenders had been already taken, and others invited, for the laying of the per manent ay in several sections; and it was confidently anticipated that the line would be entirely cotnpleted and open in the early part of the ensuing year, and within the originelly estimated capital of 35 ~0001. The shares already allotted in England have provided funds for the purchase and shipment of roll! 'g stock and materials (the greater portion of which is now delivered °rem the sea), which, with contracts still in progre4s, wi I be sufficient to complete the perma nent way and open the traffic throughout between the capital of Victoria and the terminus at Geelo , g. When it Is remembered that Melbourne, in the year 111,52, num bered a copulation of 25,1100, and Geelong was a mere village, with its 8,000 deriving their tr•>de and support from the scattbred sheep and cattle sta , lons far removed in the interior: and lhat.now the fernier ranks with our third-rate English towns, having a fixed, increasing, and busy population of 120,0)0, and the latter,' keeping' a-head of its former proportion, being now estimated at nearly 60,000, it Is almost impossible to overrate the prospective advantage off red by the connecting link of these two seaports within the noble bay of tort-Philip. The colonial government, fully impressed with the importance of this great basis o/ communication between the principal towns com prised in this undertaking and the great gold fields of Ballarat and Mount Alexander, had ordered surveys to be made for two trunk Uses railway, intended to he a.topted and carried out under legislative authority, for facilitating the intercourse with these im portant and populous districts. The st• ictest economy has been observed hilierto in the prosecu tion of the Company's plans of operation, no expenses having been incurred beyond those indispensably necessary for rhe actual for mation of the line of railway. ' • No greater proof can, be eddaced of the popularity and Confidence with which the results of this enterprise are regarded by its prOent shareholders than the ready manner in which they have met the calls in a colony where the Current rate of interest is from 8 to 12 per cent , the Government guarantee being scarcely more than anti valent to a minimum rate of interest in this country, viz.,s per'dent. Upon 10,000 shares allotted in the Colony seven calls had been made, amounting so 141. per share; and tee capital, therefore, will most probably ba fully paid up aboat June next. Nearly 10,000/. had been pa d up 'a anticipation of calls, and many shares have been transferred from the colony to the London register. The maximum dividend allowed under the. Act of Incorporation is 25 per cent , and, from the valuable grants of land and other privi leges con"eded by the Local Government, the level nature of the country through which the line passes, the absence of great parlia mentary and legal expenses, costly bridges, earthworks, tunnels, or viaducts, it is not unreasonable to expect, on the thorough comple• Lion of this pioneer Railway, that this large dividend will he fairly reached, and a reserve fund still secured for progr salve improve. ments in the permanent development of its future resources. The greater portion of the shares re.erved for .illotment in England are already subscribed and paid up in foil (i.e , 201. per share). The residue, viz., 3,000, are now finally off red to the public previously to their re-transmission to the colony for distribution there. It is necessary that they should be p dd up in full, and the interest of 5 per cent will take effect trom the date of payment, and the share certificates, bearing the seal of the Company, u , lll be so endorsed. Prospectuses, Reports, Register of Contracts, Plans, Working Coloured Sections of the Line, and Specifications may be seen, and all further inforMation obtain d on application at the Office of the Company. S. J. COOKE, Manager. Geelong an .1 Melbourne Railway Office, 36, Cannon-street, City, Nov. 1, 1855. Form of Application for Shares. To Messrs. Larnach and Walker, 37, Cannon-street, London. Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me --- guaran teed shares of 20/. each in the Geelong and Melbourne Railway Com pany, at —; and I hereby undertake to accept the Seals d Cer tificates, and to pay for the same on receipt of the Allotment Letter. Name.... ••• Address.. Profession or Business Usual signature Date.......... ..... JOZEAU'S COPAHINE, or SACCHARATED tj CAPSULES, approved of by the drench College of Physicians, , uccessfully administered in the Paris and London Hospitals, and acknowledged by them to be the best remedy for a certain disorder. (See " Lancet" of Nov. 6, 1852.) A copy will be forwarded on appli cation.—Price per 100, 4s. 6d. ; 50, 2s. 9d. To be had of the investor, ABEIEL JOZEAU, sole French chemist, 49, Haymarket, London, and all the principal chemists. PUBLICATIONS. TWELFTH AND CHEAPER EDITION. Now ready, in 1 vol., with 15 illustrations, 68., bound, THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS. By ELIOT W RWURTON. " The re-appearance at this monient, in a cheap form, of th's Admirable book Is ingularly opportune." —Telm Bull. Hurst aid /Hackett, Publishers, and to be hal of all booksellers. On Thursday, the 22,1 of November (Atinanack Day), will be published, In Twenty-eight p ages, st i tched, price 4‘1.. T HE HOUSEHOLD WORDS ALMANACS, For the Year 1856. Households Words Office, No. 16, Wellington-street North, Strand NEW ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF MOORE'S IRISH MELODIES. • On Tuesday, the 27th inst., will be published, In one 'volume, square crown 8 vo. (uniform with the edition of Moore's "Lelia noon." illuatrated under the superintendenoe of the late Charles Heath) price 21s. cloth; or 3 Is."6d. handsomely bound in moroico. JOORE'S IRISH MELODIES, ill us t ra t e d with Thirteen fine Steel Plates, engraved fiom original Designs by a. W. Cope, R.A. P. Cresw.ck, R A. A. L. Egg, A.R.A. W. P Frith, R.A. London : W. E. Frost, A.R.A. W. Muheady, R.A. J. C. Horsley. J: Sant, A.R.A. D. Maclise, R.A. F. Stone, and J. E. Millais, A.R.A. E. M. Ward, LA: ;man, Brown. Green, and Longman. ESTABLTSFIED 1837. B RITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE COM. PAN Y. , Empowered by Special Act-of Parllttment. - - ; BRITANNIA MUTUAL LIE AS - s'CACITA.TION, M Empowered by tier ajestrs . Royal Letters Patent. 111s.roa-GENERAL ALEXANDER, Blackheath-park, Chairman. Every description of Life Assurance business transacted, at the lowest possible rates consistent witirsecurity to the assured. E. R. FOWI'EIt, Resitent Director. ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary. 1, Princes-street, Bank, London. THE TRUST and LOAN COMPANY of UPPER CANADA. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVE', That an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of Shareholders in this Company will be held on TiIURSD tY, the 29th instant, at I o'clock p.m., at the Offices, G 5, Moorgate•street, for the purpose of declaring a dividend on the Capital Stock of the Company. The Transfer Books will be closed from the 20th inst. to the Ist December. By order. T. MACDONALD, Secretary. 65, Mxmgate-street, Nov. 14, 1955. ARGYLL ROOMS.-LAIIRENT'S CASINO NOW OPEN for the winter season. The followinL rule will be performed by his celebrated Band durine he week : March aux Flambeaux. Waltzes —The Lis f the Valley (D'Albert), Zephir 'Atte (Gung'l), Fenella (Tinney) , thel Newcome (Laurent), La Sultana (liosislo). Quadrilles--.-1 I lot du Pastel o.amotte), Les flugenots (Laurent), Palermo (D'Al •ert), Bride of Lammermoor (Tinney), II Trovatore (Tutton) , olkas—Des Hulands (Lamotte), Italie (Gavlelo), The Lillian (D'Al ,ert), Des Cotteous (Bousquet), The Zouaves (Laurent). Galops— he Imperial Guards (Laurent), The Hecla (Streather). Schottiich , —La Guirlande do Pleura (Bosquet), La Varsoviana (Laurent). Prin. trial Cornet a Piston, M. Boulcours.—Doors open at 8. Admission oe This Evening, the 17th, H. Laurent's new Varsoviana will be played for the first time. PURSUANT to an Order of the High Court of chancery, made hi the matter of the Estate of William Luff. late of No. 49, Theobald's-roa ,in the county of Middlesex, deceased, &nd in a cause of Auguste Le Miere, against Sarah Luff. widow, tin l'redltors oft e said William Luff, late of No. 49, Theobald's•road, in the county of Middlesex, cheesemnnzer, deceased, who died in or about the month 0: Octo er, one thousand eight hundred and tilt, two, are, by their Solicitors, on or before the fifteenth day of Decem ber, one thousand eight hundred and fifty Ilve, to come in and prove their debts, at the Chambers of the Vice-Chaimellor Kindersley, No 3, Stone-buildings, Lincoln's-inn, Middlesex ; or in default therm they will be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said Order Friday, the twenty-first day of December, 1855, at three o'clock in the a'ternoon, at the said Chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating; upon the Claims. Dated this 13th day of November, 1835. CHARLES PITH!, Chief Clerk. HENRY DI NN, Solicitor for the Plaintiff, . . 3, Great Knight Rider-street, Doctors' Commons. TO LOVERS OF FISH.-100 GENUINE YARMOUTII BLOATERS for 6s , package included. THESE HIGHLY ESTEEMED DELICACIES AND CHEAP ARTICLE OF FOOD ' forwarded to all parts, on receipt of penny postage stamps or P. 0.0 (preferred). Send full and plain direction, county, and nearest sta tion.—Address THOS. LETTIS, jun., Fish Curer, Gt. 'Yarmouth. "This is the third season Mr. Lettis has supplied us with Yar mouth bloaters, and we find the quality excellent.—J. Brashowe, house steward. Blenheim Palace.—Oct. 20, 1854." " Mr. Lettis,—As,soon as you send out your genuine bloaters, I shall be glad to have a supply as usual; those I had last year gave great satisfaction.— %. F. Courroux, Ambassador's Court, St. James's Palace.—Oct. 1, 1855." QIR WM. BURNETT'S DISINFECTING FLUID, for destroying all Offensive Smells and purifying Sick tooms, Ste. Its cost is less than One Farthing per Gallon when &Med. for use. Sold by all Chemists, and at 18, C,Ninon-s.treet,- City. Gallons, is. Quarts, 2s. "Pints, la. Half-pints, 64. • ' ' COMMITTAL OF THE REVE.RIEND DR. VAUGHAN. • At th6•Lambeth Police -court yesterday, the Rev. Dr. John Vaughan, incumbent of St. Matthew's Church, Brixton, appeared before Mr. Elliott to answer the charge preferred against him by Mr. Prior and Mr. Ed wards, the churchwardens, of falsifying the parish re gisters f , q. his own pecuniary advantage. One of the cases, that of Rav e n, was h ear d on M on d a y, and re ported in The Sea of Tuesday. Yesterday the other charges set out in the summons (Begbie and Webb) were proceeded with, Mr. Clarkson appearing, as be fore, for the churchwardens, and Mr. Ballantine, with Mr. Prideaux, on behalf of the rev. defendant. Mr. Clarkson said he proposed in the first place to take the case in reference to Begbie, who died in G u y' s Hospital, in the pr rich of St. Ol ave , Southwark. Appli cation was made for burial at St. Matthew's, and a cer tificate was produced, which on the face of it showed where the death took place. Double fees were paid. In the rough book St. Olave's was inserted, but in the re gister the residence was stated to be at Brixton ; and in the rough book the words St. Olave were struck out by the doctor on his return from abroad, and Brixton -place substituted. Mr. George Goodeve, bootmaker, of 16, John-street, Crutched-friars, said that James Begbie was his step son. When he was four years old he came to witness from Calcutta, and lived with him until he went to Guy's Hospital, in September, 1854. On the 20th of Novem ber he died in Guy's, and witness was there. Ile never lived at Brixton-place. He was buried at Brixton Church. Mr. William Stainer, the registrar of deaths for St. Olave's, in which district Guy's Hospital is situate, proved that on the 25th of November, 1854, be regis tered the death of James Begbie, which took place in the hospital. Miss Elizabeth Goodeve said she lived in Camber well-lane, and was the aunt of James Begbie. He never lived in Brixton-place. He never lived in any place in England except with his step-father in Crutched-friars. Mr. Plummer,. the undertaker of the funeral, and wit ness, paid the double fees, 1/. 155., to Malby. (The re ceipt was produced.) If the register represented that Begbie died-in Brixton-place it was entirely untrue. Mr. Rogers, solicitor, produced a certified copy of the register of burial of Begbie, and had compared it with the original, the whole of which was in Dr. Vaughan's hand writing. Under the printed head of address were the words, " Brixton-place." In the rough book he found an entry made in the handwriting of the Rev. Geo. East man, the curate, with the exception of the amount of fee, which was in Dr. Vaughan's handwriting,,, he thought. By Mr.Ballantine—Tbe a mount inserted in the book would represent that the person buried was a parishioner. Mr. J. W. Plummer, of Brixton - place , said he was parish clerk of St. Matthew's. Begbie died, and he con ducted the funeral. He had since been dismissed by Dr. Vaughan. The entry in the rough book was in Mr. East man's handwriting, with the exception of the fee, 6 8 ., which was in Dr. Vaughan's handwriting. Six shillings would be the proper amount for a parishioner. Witness had no recollection of seeing the certificate, and did not know who had it. Witness on that occasion received ls. Bd. as parish clerk, b e i n g the fee he was entitl e d to for a parishioner. By Mr. Ballantine—lt would be the duty of the un dertaker (witness) or the sexton (Malby) to give the officiating minister the cer tificate. Dr. Va ug h an h ad never complained of his sinokiog in the church or the vestry. He had certainly complained that his clothes smelt of smoke. He had been eng a ged in posting bill s calling a meeting in reference to Dr. Vaughan, and he carried out his instructions, which were given to him by Edwards and Mr. Prior, the churchwardens. He posted one of the bills directly opposite to Dr. V aug h an ' s house. The churchwardens gave him special directions where to post the bills. He got a paper giving him the necessary directions from the house of Mr. Gearing, in Acre-lane, Brixton, where Mr. Eastman, the cu ra t e , lives. Mr. Eastman gave him the paper. It directed him as to the precise places on which he was to post the bills. By Mr. Clarkson—He never posted any bill s i nsu l t i ng to or abusive of Dr. Vaughan. Those he was entruste d with merely announced the meet ings int , nded to be held. Mr. G. Malby, the sexton of St. M a t t h ew ' s, said he saw Dr. Vaughan about the interment of Begbie. 11, informed the rev. gentleman that Miss Goodeve had ap plied for the interment of a person who had died in the hospital, and asked him whether he would take it. Dr, Vaughan said he would on payment of double fees. Witness received 1/. 155., being the amount of double fees, fiom Mies Goodeve, and paid the doctor 19e., being his proportion of the double fees. At the time of the funeral he delivered the certificate to the Rev. Mr. East man, who officiated. Witness produced the receipt he gave to Miss Goodeve for the double fees. By Mr. Ballantine —He never told Dr. Vaughan in the presence of his son, the Rev. Matthew Vaughan, that though Begbie died in the hospital, he had lived in Brix ton-place, and had worked for Budd, the baker. He did not know that the doctor was falsifying the accounts until he heard the churchwardens talking about it, and then he examined the books. Mr. Eastman, the curate, I,enerally performed the funerals, and did not always re ceive the certificates, which had in some cases been pre viously given to Dr. Vaughan. By Kr. Clarkson—lt had been the practice of Dr. Vaughan to enter the certificates in a rough book on a Sunday morning, 'and then Mr. Eastman would perform the ceremony. . Mr. Alfred Staff Prior, one of the churchwardens of St. Matthew's, said he had received requisitions from the inhabitants to call a. meeting, and be did so. In the case of Begbie and Webb he received half of single fees. On the 27th of August witness called Dr. VaughaTa's attention to several cases in which the fees were unsa tisfactOry, particularly to one case, in which a certificate of death, granted from St. Matthew's, Brixton, was re fused at the Bank. of England, on the ground that the place of abode had been altered. On the following morn ing witness, with his colleague Mr. Edwards, met Dr. Vaughan at the church, and called his attention to the case of Begbie. In the rough book the death was stated to have occurred in St. Olave's, but in the church regis ter it was altered, to Brixton-place.. Dr. Vaughan said that Mr. Eastman had discovered his mistake after en tering it in the rough book, and had requested him (de; fendant) to put it correctly in the register. By Mr. Ballintine—He bad never said, When walking Co church with Miss Vaughan, that things would never go right in the church until three persons were got rid of, namely—Plummer, Malby, and Eastman. He had remarked on the occasion, that it was very disgraceful that Dr. Vaughan and his curate should differ, and re commended that if they could not agree, they should ,art. He had never said anything of the same character in reference to Malby or Plummer. Mr. Edwards, churchwarden, spoke to the same facts as those stated by his colleague. The Rev. George Eastman, curate of St. Matthew's, was next called—He said he bad been curate since May, 1353. Dr. Vaughan was then the incumbent. Dr. Vaughan said, that for the purpose of keeping the regis ter clear, ho would enter the burials from the rough book into the register, as he had done during the time his son was curate. He performed the service over Beg bie. The entry in the rough book. was in his hand writing, with the exception of the fee—six shillings. He bitered St. Olave's parish, from the certificate he pre tamed.- That entry had been struck out, but not by niin ; nor did he put in the figure G. He never rt quested Dr. Vaughan, or any one else, to strike out " St. ...Mayo's," and was not aware that it had been struck out tail his attention was called to it. By Mr. Ballantine—He frequently buried without a :ertifieate, but he had always seen the entry from a cer tificate in the rough book shortly afterwards in Dr. Vaughan's haild-writing. The church register was always looked up. Dr. Vaughan contending that 33 he vas solely responsible for it he should keep possession )f . it. - Ilir. Prior recalled, stated, that in the cases of Raven, Begbie, and Webb, the churchwardens had only received their share of single fees. Mr. Richard Gibbs, one of the committee appointed to inquire into Dr. Vaughan's alleged offences, said be went through the register with Dr. Vaughan, who, on "coming to Begbie's case, said " I have all the particulars of that case." He took from his pocket a book, from which he read that Begbie lived at the back of Brixton place, and that he worked for Budd, the baker. He Ldded, " If you doubt my word, I will take my oath of it." This was the case for the prosecution, so far as regards the case of Begbie. Mr. Ballantine proceeded to address the court. He admitted that there bad been great irregularities in the parish, for which Dr. Vaughan, being the incumbent, was prima facieresponsible, and that the churchwardens were consequently quite justified in instititing a rigid inquiry,. .9.s in the case of Raven, last Monday, he threw the whole blame on Malby, the sexton, upon whose evidence be contended the whole case rested, and who, in order that he might escape, had implicated Dr. Vaughan in the crimes of which he alone-was guilty. The Rev. Matthew Vaughan, incumbent of St. John's, Brixton, was called and examined by Mr. Prideaux. He said he was the son of the defendant. He remembered going to St. Matthew's Church at the end of last No vember, and saw his father and Malby. Dr. Vaughan had the rough burial book before, him. The doctor was making an entry, and said to Malby, " Now, is it St. Olave's ? There are only single fees." Malby said that Mr. Eastman had made a mistake, for his residence was in Brixton-place, or in the rear of Brixton-place. Dr. Vaughan ran thriOngh St. °laves and wrote in Brixton. place. Malby said Begbie worked for Budd, the baker. By Mr. Clarkson—Witness's mother and brother were present, and' he - thought also his sister Decima. By the Magistrate—Dr. Vaughan was in the constant habit of making entries from the statement of the sexton., without certificate, on the promise Of the sexton that he would produce it in a day or two. Mr. J. M. Vaughan, of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, another son of the defendant, confirmed the statement of the last witness as to the conversation between the doc tor and Malby. When Dr. Vaughan mentioned the case of single fees in Begbie's case, Malby said that although Begbie died at Guy's Hospital, he resided at Brixton-place, and it was only customary to take single fees in such cases. This was the defence in the case of Begbie. The last 'case, that of Jane Webb, was then pro ceeded with. Mr. Frost, the registrar of Clapham; said he registered the death of Webb on the 6th of June, and gave an un dertaker's certificate. She lived at 53, Park place, Park roan, Clapham. No part of Park-place was in the parish of Brixton. Miss Anne Webb said she was the daughter of the deceased. Her mother never lived in Acre lane, Brixton, The funeral took place at St. Matthew's, Brixton, as the husband of the deceased was buried there. Witness paid 1/. 155., being double fees, to the undertaker, Plummer. It was shown that in the register the residence of the deceased had been altered from Park-place, Clapham, to Acre-lane, Brixton, and that --ingle fees only were ac• counted for, whereas the double fees were handed to Dr. Vaughan by Malby, the sexton, in the presence of Plummer. • Mr. J. M." Vaughan said be was present when the en try of Webb was made. Malby paid the doctor single fees. Mr. Elliott said that as the case ha,d now been brought to a close, a very painful duty devolved upon him. During a somewhat lengthened experience, it had never been his practice to commit a person for trial except un der a conviction that he was guilty, and he regretted to say, in reference to this case, that be felt bound to send it to a jury, Dr. Vaughan was then fully committed for trial, and the various witnesses were bound over in the usual manner. In answer to a question as to bail, Mr. Elliott said he should require two sureties of 5001., and the doctor him self in 1,0001. The required sureties were entered into before the breaking up of the court, and Dr. Vaughan was liberated from custody. The rev. doctor's summons against Malby the sexton for alleged perjury in the County Court of Lambeth (where the doctor summoned him for 121., stated to have been lent to him), is to be heard on Mon day next. Malby has retained Mr. Parry for the defence. It is said that the doctor has expressed his determina tion to preach at St. Matthew's Church next Sunday morning, unless prohibited from doing so by the Bishop of Winchester. CAPTAIN DEVEY, OF THE MERMAID. —The underwriters of the ship Mermaid have presented to Capt. Devey, who navigated the ship and her valuable gold freight safely to this port, the munificent sum of 1,000 guineas. The shipowners and merchants of the port are about to present him with a service of plate and a complimentary address.—LiveTool Mercury. Mn. G. GODWIN ON THE HOMES OF THE THOU SANDS. —The lecture-hall of the Polytechnic Institution was on Monday evening filled from floor to ceiling to hear a lecture from Mr. G. Godwin, F.R.S., editor of the Builder, o n "The Homes of the Thousands," a sub ject which his long and praiseworthy endeavours to wards effecting an improvement eminently qualify him to enlarge upon. The bearing of the question on the moral and religious well-being of the poorer classes was illustrated in a clear and forcible manner, and the evi dent earnestness of the lecturer's sympathy with the un fortunate dwellers in overcrowded, ill-drained, and im perfectly ventilated houses elicited from his thronged and most attentive audience repeated manifestations of ap plause. The account of his examination of the low lodging-houses and wretched tenements of Drury-lane, Gray's-inn-lane, Whitechapel, the Mint, and other re sorts of poverty, was full of interest, though of a pain ful character ; and Mr. God win's statements were admirably elucidated by a set of large coloured drawings representing some of the houses, both externally and internally, in the localities which he visited. In one neigh bourhood he found 50 houses without water, a condition of things which rendered cleanliness impossible, and gradually destroyed the feeling of decency and self respect. Vice and disease were the natural consequences of these defective arrangements, and much of the na tional disgrace of intemperance might fairly he attributed to the languor and exhaustion occasioned by breathing foul air, which caused a craving for stirnn'ants. The average duration of life in the localities he ha d described was reduced, by these causes,to 17 years , whilst in Rutland it was 45 years ; and 25,000 lives were annually sacrificed in the metropolis alone through the want of better provision for health in the homes of the poor. The lecture was one of a course specially intended for the industrial classes, and to which Mr. Jacob Bell, Dr Spicer, Dr. Pettigrew, and Mr. Pepper have already contributed their talents. Sir Robert Peel is announced to lecture in this course, but the honourable baronet's subject has not yet been notified to the public. These I I lectures are invariably well attended, and the interest taken in them is evidmitly on the increase. IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY. T RIESEIVIA.R.—On the 29th of May, 1855, an IL injunction was granted by the High Court of Chancery, and :al the 11th June following was made perpetual, against Joseph ranklin and others, to restrain thorn, ander a penalty of one thou ,and pounds, from imitatiniz this Medicine, which is protected b} :royal Letters Patent of England, and secured by the Seals of tilt: , i• Ptarmacie de Paris, and the Imperial College of Medicine, ':ionna. TREESEMAR, No. 1, 3 a remedy for Relaxation, Spermatorrhcea, and Exhaustion of Pt; -litem, whether arising from excesses, accident, or climate. To those persons who are prevented entering the married state b: e consequences of early errors it is invaluable. TRIESEMAR, No. 2, Occtually, in this short space of three days, completely and entirel , radicates all traces of those Disorders which Capivi and Cubeb ave so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the hcalti 4* a vast portion of the population. TRIESEMAR, No. 3, • s the great Continental 'Remedy for that class of Disorders, whtcl tufortunately the English physician treats with Mercury, to the iv 3vitable destruction of the patient's constitution, and which all VP 4rsapariliz in the world cannot remove. '1 RIESE:WAR, No. 1,2, and 3, are alike devoid of taste or smell int of all nauseating qualities. They may lie on the toilet task ' , about their use being suspected. 3old in tin cases at 11s. each, free by post, 2s. extra, dividel int , oarato doses, as administered by Va'pearl, LaHumana, Roux &c.—To be had Wholesale and Retail in London of Johnston, 6S. ~r nhill; Hannay and Co., O. Oxford-street; and Sanger, 150, Ox ,l-street ; it. H. Ingham, druggist, 46. Market-street, Manchester ; . Bradbury, bookseller, Deantgate, Bolton ; J. Priestly, chemist, 52 Eord-street, Liverpool; Powell, bockieller, 15, WestMoreland-Street ; Dublin; Winnall, bookseller, High-street, Birmingham. ELEGANT PERSONAL REQUISITES. ROWL ANDS' MACASSAR OIL.- The s 'ccessful remits of the last half-century have proved beyond question that this unique discovery possesses peculiarly nourishing powers in the growth, restoration, and improvement of the human Hair. Price 3s. Gd., 75., family bottles (equal to four small), 10s. 61, and double that size, 21s. ROWLANDS' KALYDOR, an Oriental Botanical Preparation for improving and beautifying the complexion, rendering the skin soft, fair, and blooming, and eradi cating all cutaneous disfigurements. Price 45.. 6d. and Bs. 6d. per bottle. • ROWLANDS' ODONTO, or Pearl Dentifrice, prepared from Oriental Herbs with unusual care, transmitted to. this country at great expense, and of inestimable value in preserving and beau , ifying the teeth, strengthening the gums, and in rendering the breath sweet and pare. Price 2s. 9d. per box. • ** Beware of spurious imitations. Th e on ly genu ine of each 'hear ,, s the name of " BOWL %ND i" preceding that of the article on the wrapper or label. Sold by A. ROWLAND and SONS, 20, Hatt.° i-garden, London, and by Chemists and Perfumers. , 172 ~-~ ~'~ , ~~ 1.71 _ s~~ $'L ;~{.~ „ v THE EBB IN ARTICLEST OP , ob 1 SUMP TION. (From the Times Oity Article.) .:„ The late rise, not only in corn, but in istigal . „tea; , !and most articles of daily consumption, is attractingeerioue attention. Its influence - , upon the entire mass of the . _ population at the approach of winter will be sue' that no pains should be spared to make them acquainted with its true cauSee, since there is nothing that could be more readily turreA to purpOses of paliticai discontent, while " with regard to the moneyed claSses the question as to the probable extent of our future imports must .be a main eletnent in all their calculations. The chief point is to prevent people from falling into the error of supposing that the evil is entirely and necessarily a result 'of the war, and that it will consequently go on increasing until that is stopped. The .failure of the harvest in France, Germany, and Northern Russia would have caused high prices to be maintained for breacistuff4, whatever might as respects have: been our ; other articles, the advance has been owing to the sudden recognition on the part of the dealers of the lovi point to which the stocks in hand have been allowed to fall. Unquestionably, this diminution has, in a considerable measure, been-occasioned by the war, in consequence of the active consumption which has been stimulated among the operatives and others to whom the Govern ment expenditure gives unusually profitable employ ment ; but in some tew cases it is attributable to the same cause as that which has infitneaced the corn-market namely, deficient crops, and in a much greater num ber to the extreme caution of importers, under thadread of a scarcity of inciney. Many of the circumstances, th4refere, which haveproduced the present state ofeffairs are in a degree temporary or aecidental. It is true that allowance must be made f, or the cessation of grain supplies from the Black Sea-and the heavy charges laid upon tal low and hemp for -their overland transit : but, on the olher hand, the war has greatly stimulated the wheat production of ) .the United States and Canada, which' will soon do much:to compensate for the closing of the Russian ports - ; while the same thing, to a lea extent, has taken placerin India and other countries which have sent us eubstitutes.for tallow and hemp. Hence, when the present range 'of prices shall have brought us those supplies which must be their natural result, and the eco nomy they will cause shall also have had time to pro durce its effect, there will be ground to :infer that the markets may gradually revert nearly to their ordinary range, or, at all events, be en bjuct to no other disturb ances than such as are inevitable from adverse seasons. Whether the.general rise which has now taken place has already reached the utmost limit warranted under the immediate circumstances is a qnestion . involving too many personal interests for apu opinion to be volun teered, even if the data on which it could be formed gave any elements of certainty. That many observant firms, however, have for some time predicted an advance to be inevitable is well known, and that the diminution in the stocks of several of the chief articles of consumption such as cotton, sugar, coffee, rice, &C. —was such as to Coufirm-that view will be seen from the following com parative table of the quantities of the principal articles held on the Ist of November last and at the correspond ing date of the two preceding years : STOCKS. November 1. 1854: 1853. 1855, Cotton, in U. Kingdom (bales) Sugar, in do. (tons) Do., on the Continent 31,000 44,000 20,400 Tea, in 17.Ki1l gdo co (16)54,615,000 62,870,000 64,612,000 Coffee, in do. (tons) ~. . 18,100 12,5 0 10,500 Do., on the Continent 43,410 37,9 9 40,820 Indigo,inLondon (chat) 23,3 q 24,5 8 17,43 Rice, in do. (tons) Silk, in do. (bales) 17,764 29,717 24.764 Saltpetro, in do. (tons) 3,054 7,840 4,871 Riles, in do. (number) 250,000 249,0 0 172,000 Tallow, in do. (casks) 21,612 30,070 23,092 Cocoa nut oil, in do (tons) Ruin; in do. (puuchns) 11,420 18,120 23,670 Do. (hhds) Hemp, in do. (tons) Flax, in do. (tons) 726 2,214 1,110 The items in this list showing the heaviest'falling off as compared with last year are cotton and sugar, espe &ally the latter. Of the future adequacy of the supplies of cotton from the United States the accounts of the pre sent crop are sufficient to inspire confidence. In sugar the rise which has taken place is altogether unprece dented for suddenness and extent since 1814. Never theless, a large crop is available from the Mauritius, and in Brazil, although the cultivation has been severely checked in some districts by the loss of slaves from cholera, the last growth is supposed to have been nearly an average. In Louisiana the supply is said to have been diminished, by the substitution of cotton planting. As regards coffee the deficiency of stock is less, but the rise has also been far more moderate than in sugar, and the present crop at RiO is - described as not being half as great as that of 1854 -It was, however, then enormous. .The Java crop is likewise asserted to be short. Tea, in stead of a diminution, shows` a considerable increase of stock, but still it has experienced a decided rise. This seems attributable not merely to sympathy, brit to the representations of some of the houses in China that although the exports have shown no' diminution since the rebellion, the extent of cultivation is rapidly becom ing smaller. In none of theme cases, however, does there appear anything to warrant the apprehension of permanent scarcity. The influence of high prices, both in bringing in supplies and stimulating produc tion, is seldom sufficiently estimated ; but it will be found, on looking back to the most remarkable in stances of excited markets, that after the lapse of a few months effects have usually begun to manifest them selves which • have proVed of long duration. The quotations for sugar attained this week would, it is asserted, for the first time for many years, pay for its importation from China. What has already been attracted froM California and India ; and the latest letters from the United States, after describing the activity of purchasers of breadstuffs on European account, say " the supply . from the west is equal to the present or probable future demand." In the present instance the ultimate effect of large arrivals of any ar ticle is likely to be increased by the demand for money, not only in this country, but at some of the chief seats of production, such as the United States and India.. It is to be borne in mind, moreover, that .this demand- for money, as far as England and the continent ^re con cerned, will augment in proportion to the amount of goods that may be sent us. At the same time, it is sa tisfactory to know that all our purchases in America will, if experience can be relied upon, be rapidly followed by the transmission of orders from that side for an eqnal quantity of our manufactured goods, The same may also be said of Brazil and, in a minor degree, of other countries. Consequently, although the probability of baying to pay for an unusual amount of imports during the next half-year is calculated to add materially to the .pending anxieties regarding the money-market, it way be inferred that the inconvenience will soon be succeeded by a general extension of our home industry. THE DISCOVEhY SHIP RESOLUTE FOUND IN Tlll IC d. On Saturday last the barque Alibi, of this port, Capt. Stewart, belonging to the Aberdeen Arctic Company, returned here from Davis's Straits. She sailed from this on Aug. 10, and arrived out in lat. 63.52, long. 64.49, on Oct. 1. The weather was then very adver,,e, boisterous gales prevailing from the northward, accompanied ,t 7 frost and s now s h ower ., an d f r'm the c l ose - pac k e d: _. ° of the i ce th e vesel was prevented reaching her d! t_! nv nl tion, viz , the fi , 4hing ground in Cumberland zoo° whither she had been preceded by Capt. Pnny'w Lady Franklin and Sophia. Matters continued of c hange, when state for 19 days, without appearanceaving. seen no Bri she again set sail for this country, b loth thisthe ship Resolute, and Cape Elizabeth, spoke the discovery Melville Island in 1853 fisht o leaving whale tb ships.e country, O n the h m e i l d 7 wa ll 3r u _ it bet w t :e f' n d C ay a s p e pr M ev e io rc u y s at and Kellett, and was now e p rßaddington, of the American by which ca Captains sl Sir was E . abandoned er of New London (U.S.) The Whaler George ElearY, in the possession of (. 131 a . Resolute was boar ded by Capt.Buddin g ton and 10 of his 17th September last, off CPpe M ercy, die. crew on the taut 35 or 40 m i les , and was found i n good condition, with about four . feet water in her hold. Captain Bud pr.ize at . Whale Fish Island. The • E , intentions when Captain Stewart left were to moat have drifted in the peck from Melville Island throu t , ,I ) Barrow's Straits, Lanc t Soundand down as,er , Baffin's Bay, t') where she was picked up, a distance of Reso lutewl i i n n g t n t e:r n with his about 25 or 30 degrees. Captain Stewart received from Captain Buddington Captain Kellett's epaulettes, left on board the Resolute, to forward on his return home.— Aberdeen, Journal. Kll. n S 4._ THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. 'SIR,--The Chairman has desired me to request the favour of your inserting in The Sun the circular which he has this day addressed to the sharobolders of this company.—l remain, sir, your faithful servant, CHAS. A. SAUNDERS, Secretary. " To THE SHAREHOLDERS OF THE GREAT WWII" . RAILWAY COMPANY. "Gentlemen,—At g yesterday, i2 otice, which port or rumour was brought underinynewsoapers, the board meetin g to has been circulated I find in some of the , serious division among the effect that there had been a i f a dividend was re your directors, and that an influential myself) had threatened to resign it member (me a a n i r n e : , i t to your interests, I a ru commended for the currentul,,,aie.,ycear. As this is at 0 thatthere ' assure you once is no feel it is my duty to mour which may prove pre; ,f such statements. foundat on for either. I f divisions, Tye olleagues and myself have " Instead o anitnous. hy have appointed a com mittee most I.ID . I promised at the last meeting, carefully to mittee, as exa mine into all rn the affairs of th e company. That co , mates,. h as been sitting for some tine. It is continuing the examiration with i perfect cordiality from week to w eek, and endeavouring to promote every practicable retrenchment and improvement of the system. ~ To announce the result of such inquiry before it is c ompleted would he premature, but I may say that un less some unforeseen circumstance shoutl arise, your directors have every reason to believe that the balance dispo- Wile among the original shareholders will be larger this half year than it was when I had the honour to meet you a', Bristol. obedient servant, have the h onour t o b e , gen tl e men, your t ____ . servant, " S. H. WALrorx, am "I*" y. " Paddington-station, Nov. 16, 18 55 . . .