The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-07 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBEit 7. 1855.

seats himself will be under the magic spell, and appear to
the audience, under circumstances least expected, in a posi-
tion 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, in an earlier part
of the evening, the chest suspended (like Mahommcd'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 Ilia-terrestrial passage froth the west-
ern to the eastern hemisphere.
Doors open each evening at half-past 7 ; commence at 8.
Private boxes, 1/. lls. 6d. and 1/. ls., to bo obtained at the
Box-office, or at Cie principal libraries ; stalls, 4s. ; dress
circle, 3s. ; upper boxes, 2s. ; pit, Is. ; gallery, 6d. The
Box-office is open daily, from 11 till 5, under the direction
of Mr. Chatterton, jun. Grand fashionable Morning Per-
formance on Saturday. November 10, at 2 o'clock. Doors open
at half past 1,

FRIEND of the CLERGY. CORPORATION,
for allowing pensions not exceeding 401. per annum to the
Widows and Orphan unmarried Daughters of Clergymen of the
Established Church, and for affording temporary assistance to neces-
sitous Clergymen and their families, throughout England, Wales, and
Ireland.
The next Election of Pensioners will be held at the'LondonTaYein,
Bishopsgate-strset, on TUESDAY, November the 27th ;
ROBERT BaxTna, Esq., in the chair; .
when four ladies Sri l be placed on the funds.
The Rev. JOSEPH BROWN, Ot.A: Hon. -
. The Rev. JOIIN EDMUND COX, M.A., F.3.A. j Secs.
HENRY BRA.MALL, Secretary. -
The Report, List of Subscribers, &c., may be had at the Offices of
the Corporation, 4, St. ➢Martin's-place, Trafalgar-square. •

ESTABLISITED 1837.
BRITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE COM-
PANY.

Empowered by Special Act of Parliament.

BRITANNIA MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION,
Exppowercl NT, RoakaAtefti-I'ateittl4r—
ME3cAtinEtt, Blackheath-park, Chairman.

Every description of Life Assurance business transacted, at the
lowest possible rates consistent with security to the assured.
E. R. FOSTER, Resident Director.
ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary.
1, Princes-street, Bank, London.

LONDON and N
RAIL ,V AY.—CONTRACT
The Directors are prepared to rec
the undermentioned Stores, VIZ.:—

ORTH-W ESTERN
for STORES for the Year 1855.

lye Tendon for the Supply of

No. of Contract- No. of Contract-
1. Brass Sheet and Tules for 18. Leather.
Locomotiv,s 1 a . Leather
„ Iron tubes 19. Lead, White and Red
3. Copper
19a.2.22420...0i1, 0 Iron,ke Lead,
ie.Sheet and Pipe
4. Canvas
Burning,
5. Carpets and Rugs
9. Crucibles
10. Curled Hair 25. Oils, various, and Turpentin 3
11. Copper and Brass Work 26. Oil Cloth
12. Co'ours 28a. Augurs, Hammers, &C.
12a. Drysaltery 29. Tin Block
13. Coach Trimmings 30. Tin Sheet and Speller
14. Cotton Waste 31. Varnishes
16. Glass, Plate 32. Sundries, consisting of Bas-
lra. Glass, various ke s, Felt, Candles, Soap,
17. Hardware Brooms, Pitch, Links,
17a. Brushes and Pencils Sponge, Hose Pipes, Fog
17b. Nails and Tacks Signals, Sieves, Cement, In-
17c. Screws diarubber, Flannel, Ca! co,
17d. Gas Fittings &c., &c.
17e. hocks 34. Hats
171. Lamp Cottons 35. Caps
Specification and Forma of Tender may be had on and after Mon-
day, November sth, on application in writing, to the Secretary,
Easton Station, Londcn.
Forms of Tender for each Contr,ct are printed separately, and
parties applying should state the particular Contract or Contracts for
which they propose to tender.
Patterns may also be inspected on and after Monday, Nov. sth,
from Ten till Four o'clock, at the Company's Pattern Room, Euston
Station, arid any further information require 1 may be obtained on
application to the heads of the several departments.
Tenders to be sent in on or before Ten o'clock on Monday,
Nov. 19th.

By order of the Directors.
CHAS. E. STEWART, Secretary.

Easton Station, October, 18'.5.

GEELONG and MELBOURNE RAILWAY
COMPANY.
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 Cent. per Annum, gua-
ranteed by the Colonial Government far Twenty-one Years, and
payable Staff-Yearly, viz., on the 20th April and 20th October, In the
Colony and in London.

DIRRCTORS.
Elected by the Shareholders.
CHARLES NUTTALL-THORNE, Esq., J.P., President.
G: 111.kellar, Esq., J.P. I Charles I hbotson, Esq., J.P.
Janes B. Hutton, Esq.
Appointed by the Colonial Government.
Charles Edlv Strntt, Esq., J.P., Immigration Agent.
George F. Belcher, Esq., Sub-Treasurer.
EIWINEER—Edward Snell, Esq.
SECRETARY—Martin Sholi, Esq.
LONDON OFFICE.

MANAGER—S. J. COO%, Esq., 36, Cannon-street (late Tresaurer to
the Colonial Government, and a D'reetor of the Company).
AGENTS—Messrs. Larnack and Wa'lcer, 37, Cannon-street.
EXAMINING AND CONSULTING ENGINEERS.
Daniel Gooch, Esq., C.E. (Great Western Railway).
Henry Stothert, Esq. (Stothert and Slaughter, Bristol).
'

SOLICITORS LAles.srs. Ooodwin and Co., 3, Lancaster-place, Strand

BANKERS,

London Joint Stock Bank, and Bank of New South Wales,

The F /CRT II HALF-YEARLY 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 Marce Polo.
The earthworks and Midges were so far advanced that tenders
had been already taken, and otners invited, for the laying of the per-
manent way in several sections; and it was confidently anticipated
that the line would be entirely completed and open in the early part
of the ensuing year, and within the origin?"y estimated capital of
350,0001.

The shares already allotted in England hare provided fonds for
the purchake and shipment of rolling stock anti materials (the
greater potion of which is now delivered or on the sea), which, with
contracts still in progress, 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 remeinhered that Melbourne, in the year 1852, num-
bered a population of 25,110, and Geelong wan a mere village, with
its 8,000 deriving their tr,de and support from the scattered sheep
and cattle stations far removed in the interior ; and that now the
former ranks mills our third-rate English towns, having a fixed,
increasing, and busy population of 120,000, and the latter, keeping
a-head of its !boner proportion, being now estimated at nearly
60,000, it is almost impossible to overrate the prospective advantage
of :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 of communication between the principal towns com-
prised in this rffle, taking and the great gold fields o: Ballarat and
Mount Alexander, had ordered surveys to be made far two trunk
lines of railway, intended to be adopted and carried out under
iegislat,ve authority, for facilitating the intercourse with these im-
portant and populous districts.
The strictest economy has been observed hitherto in the prosecu-
tion of the Company's plans of operation, no expenses having been
incurred beyond those indispensably necessary for the actual for-
mation of the line of railway.
No greater proof can be adduced of the popularity and confidence
with which the results of this enterprise are regarded by its present
sharehollers than the ready manner in which they have met the
calls in a colony where the current rate of interest is from 3 to 12
per cent ; the Government guarantee being scarcely more than equi-
valent to a minimum rate of interest in this country, viz.,s per cent.
Upon 10,000 shares allotted in the colony seven calls had been
made, amounting to 141. per share ; and the capital, therefore, will
most probably be fully paid up about June next. Nearly 10,0001.
had been pa 'd up ;n anticipation of calls, and many shares have been
transferred :rem the colony to the London register.
The maximum dividend allowed under the Act of Incorporat'on is
25 per cent, and, from the valuable grants of land and other priv*-
leges conceded by the Local Government, the level nature of the
country through which the line passes, the absence of great parlia •
mcntary and legal expenses, costly bridges, earthworks, tunnels, or
viaducts, it le not unreasonable to expect, on the thorough comple-
tion of this pioneer Railway, that this lame dividend wi '1 be ,ar'ly
reached, and a reserve fund still secured for progressive improve
ments in the permanent development of its .utare resources.
The greater portion of the shares re•erved for allotment in England
are already subscribed and paid up in full (l.e , 201. per share). The
residue, viz., 3,000, are now finally off, red to the public previously
to their iv-transmission to the colony for distribution there. It is
necessary that they should be psid up in full, and the interest of 5
per cent. will take effect from the date of payment, and the share
certificates, bee-ing the seal of the Company, will be so endorsed.
Prospectuses, Reports, Register of Contracts, Plans, Working
Coloured Sectiona 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.
Geeloa.g an I Melbourne Railway Office,
36, CllllllOll street, City, Nov. 1, 1855.

Form of Application for Shares.
To gessrs. Larnach and Walker, 37, Cannon-street, London

Gentletnen,—l request that you will' allot to me --- guaran•
teed shares of 201. each in the Geelong and Melbourne Railway Com-
pany, at ; and I hereby undertake to accept the Seal,- d Cer-
tide Ates, and to pay for the same on receipt of the Allotment Letter.
Name.. . .
Address .... • • ..
Profession or Business . .....
Usual signature
Date

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•
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SALE OF STORES.
THE Principal Officers of her Majesty's War
Department doh reby give Notice, that a quar.tity of Harness,
Blankets, Horse Cloths, Rugs, Hair Cloths, Wadmiltilts, Slow Match,
Serge, Leather, Canvas, Clothing, Lead Ashct, Files, Junk, Jute,
two Boats, Spades, Shovels, l'ickaxes, hatchets, Barrows, and about
eighty lots of Old Wood, &c., will be sold by public auction in the
Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, on THURSDAY, the 15th November,
1855, at eleven o'clock In the forenoon precisely.
May be viewed from 10 till 4 o'clock on the three days previous to
the sale. _ . _ _

Catalogues may be had at the War Department, Pall-mall Tower
of London ; and the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich.

FOR SALE by Auction at the Office of Ordnance
in tie Tower, on MONDAY, tile 12th of November, 1855, at
I I o'clock in the forenoon precisely, the following STORES, viz.,
Great Coats, Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Surveying Instruments,
Fate Engines and Hose Accoutrements, Mu (Ittet Stocks, Ra.-;F3
and woollen), Tools of sorts, &c.; the OILDNANCE STATE BARGE
end SHALLOP. Also, various Stores, salvage from the Wreck of
the Imperatfce.
May Le viewed, from ten till four o'clock, four days prev:ous to the
sale. _ _

Catalogues may be hal at the Ordnance Office, Tower.

CONTRACT FOR MOULMEIN TEAK TIMBER.
Department of the Storekeeper General of the Navy,
Somerset-place, Bth November, 1855.
THE Commissioners for Executing the Office of
Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
:nd Ireland, DO FIEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on TUESDAY, he
27th instant, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such
Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying her Majesty's
Dockyards w:th
4,640 Loads of MOULMEIN TEAK TIMBER,
to be delivered in the years 1856 and 1857, according to a d;stribu-
tion which, with a form of the tender and the conditions of the con-
tract may be seen at the said office. No tender will be received after
two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any be noticed, unless the
party attends, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing.
Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
and hear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Moulmein
Teak Timber," and must also be delivered at Somerset-place. accom-
panied by a letter signed by twe responsible persons, engaging to
become bound with the person tendering in the sum of 5,0001. fbr the
due performance of the contract.

ARGYLL ROOMS.-LAURENT'S CASINO
NOW OPEN for the winter season. The following
Musio will be performed by his celebrated Band during
•ho week : March aux Flambeaux. Waltzes —The Lily
~f the Valley (D'A Wert), Zenith- Lufte (Gung'l), Fenella (Tlnncy),
Ethel Newcome (Laurent), La Sultane (Bosisio). Quadrilles—Le
Poi du Pastel (Lamotte), Les liugenots (Laurent), Palermo ( D'Al-
bert), Bride of Larnmermoor. (Tinny), II Trovatore ('rutton).
Polkas—Des Hulands (Lamotte), Italic (Gaviolo), The Lillian (Ll'Al-
tier!), Des Coucous (Bousquet), The Zottay.s (Laurent). Galops—
The Imperial Guards (Laurent), The Hecht (Streather). Schottische
—La Guirladdo de Flours (Bosquet), La Varsoviana (Laurent). Prin-
cipal Cornet a Piston, M. Boulcours.—Doors open at 8. Admission
!)nn

TO LOVERS OF FISH.-105 GENUINE
IARMOUTEi BLOATERC for 65., package included.

THESE HIGHLY ESTEEMED DELICACIES AND CHEAP
ARTICLE OF FOOD

orwarded to all parts, on receipt of penny postage stamps or P. 0.0.
(preferred). Send full and plain direction, county, a nd-ueartst sta-
i on.—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.—A. F. Courrous, Ambassador's Court, St. James's
Palace.—Oct. 1, 1855."

The Expedition to the Mouth of the Boug.