The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-15 00:00:00

1888

plained of the great logs el cavalry horses by being sub:
jected to cemmissariat tran9pnrt duty ; and suggested
that baggage-ponies might be obtained in Asia Minor at
per head, as a more economical as well as proper
and more efficient mangement. Ile concluded by ex-
pressing a hope that his division would be relieved from
this onerous and destructive duty.
Mr. Layard—Was any reply returned to that letter ?

Lord Lucan—No ; none whatever. Before he left
Varna the whole of the depot had been broken up, and
there was not a baggage-horse to be found ; but where
they were sent to he had not the slightest idea. If any
awed in the Crimea they soon died or were stolen.
uld not say whether the baggage horses and
• .Ozhich did come from time to time were marked
100414iikommissariat mark or not.
;ISit.:l.;ard—Under whose supervision wa; this por-
tion of the-transport train ?
Lord Lucan— He believed they were under the di-
rection of a Mr. Smith, one of the commissaries.
[LEFT SITTING.]

BANK 617 EAGLAAA-(PRIS DAY.)

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This day the half-yearly court, according to the 12th
'bye-law of the corporation, was held fur the purpose of
considering of a divideni.

The el &r Tai taken by JOHN GELLIBRAND HUBBARD,

The accounts stated that the net profits of the half-year
ending the 23th of February last Were 600,2221. 12,.
making the amount of the rest on that day, 3,600,254/.
4r. 10d., and, that, after providing a dividend of 4 per
cent., the rest would be 3,018,134/, 4s. 10d.
The Court of Direction, therefore, proposed,
" That a dividend of 4 per cent. be made of interest
and profit for the half-year, free of income tax."
This proposition having been put to the meeting, was
carried unanimously.

The meeting was then informed that the dividend
warrants would be delivered and paid on Saturday, the
7th of April.

The other routine business having been transacted,
.he Court adjourned.

THE LATE FIRE AND LOSS OF FOUR LIVES

IN MARYLEBONE.-(THIS DAY)

This morning, at ten o'clock, Mr. Wakley resumed
the adjourned inquiry in the Marylebone Workhouse,
touching the deaths of the four unfortunate persons who
perished in the conflagration which took place on Wed-
nesday night, the 7th inst., under circumstances already
detailed in The Sun. The jury, acting under a recom-
mendation from the Coroner, returned a verdict to the
effect, that there was no evidence to prove how the fire
originated ; at the same time adding, that there was
great blame attachable to some person or persons for not
giving the alarm to the unfortunate residents of the pre-
mises when the fire was first discovered.

General de Marquenal has been appointed to the
command of the Ist brigade of the Ist division of
the army of reserve at Constantinople.

ACTS OF PARLIAMENT.—The },resent session corn
menced on the 12th December, and the number of public
acts passed in the period is six.
The screw steam-ship Indian, Captain M`Master, sailed
from the Mersey yesterday from Balaklava, with cavalry
and ordnance stores.

VAN DIEMEN'S LAND COMPANY.—At a meeting of
this company, held yesterday, Mr. J. Cbattley presiding,
the report and accounts were unanimously adopted.
Mrs. Morris, who, it will be recollected, was charged
with an extraordinary act of forgery in Herts, was to
have been tried at the assizes for that county, but the
prosecutor did not appear, and his recognisauces were
estreated.

MAILS FOR THIS BRAZILS.—Tho steam-ship Consti-
tution, Captain Cobb (late of the Swordfish), will leave
Liverpool for the west coast of South America on Satur-
day morning, at 10 o'clock. She w ill call at Rio Janeiro,
for which port ft, be takes a mail. Letters posted in Lon-
don on Friday evening, and Liverpool on Saturday up
to 8 a.m. will be in time.

Notwithstanding the statement in the Moniteur, some
doubts still are expressed as to the opening of the Ex-
hibition. From a very good source we learn that the
opening will positively take place on the Ist of May.
A despatch from Behobia states that the bridge over
the Bidassoa, between France and Spain, had been car-
ried off by the inundation of the river.
Letters from the French head-quarters, dated 27th
February, state that the Russians were throwing up
formidable works of defence at various points, and that
they had sunk two more ships at the entrance to the
port of Sebastopol. They feared an assault, and were
making every preparation to meet it. It was said that
they were establishing a battery (,f heavy mortars at
Kaniara, from which they hoped to throw shells into
Balaklava.

The Electoral Committee of the Society for Liberating
Religion from State Patronage and Control has at
length been organised, and S7tinuel Morley, Esq., has
consented to be its chairman. The work a the commite,
will be to prepare the way for a huge accession to the
senatorial strength of the society at the next general
election.--. Nonconformist.
TUE COLOSSEUM, REGENT'S PARK.—Yesterday this
place of amusement was offered for sale under the ham
mcr by Messrs. Winstanley, at the mart, by order d th,
Court of Chancery, to reinibur,4e the in ,rtgage thereon.
The building is held under the Crown for tii) year
a ground rent of 2631. per annum. The auctioneer stated
that the property, including the erection of the building,
hal cost the different owners about 200,0001 , but tin
only offer was 20,0001., which being below the reserved
price the property was declared bought in.

THE MARTLEBONE EXTRAMURAL CEMETERY. —On
Tuesday the ceremony of consecrating the Extramural
Cemetery for the parish of Marylebone, situate at Finch-
ley, was performed by the Bishop of London, in the
presence of the lion. and Rev. J. T. Pelham, the rector,
and a number of the clergy, members of the public
boards, and influential ratepayers. The St. Marylebons
Extramural Cemetery is situate at the East-end, in the
parish of Finchley, and is in extent about 26 acres.

LLOYD'S PATRIOTIC FUND.—The committee of the
fund established in 1803, and known as Lloyd's Patri-
otic Fund, have notified that, in consequence of the sub-
scriptions under the Royal Patriotic Fund being limited
to the relief of widows and orphans of those dying in
active service during the present war, they have resolved
to apply the means remaining in their hands to other
classes of sufferers. They will therefore give gratuities
to soldiers, seamen, and marines disabled from wounds,
and discharged the service in consequence, and also to
such relatives (not widows or orphans) as depended for
support on those killed in action. The total held by
the committee is valued at about BE,OOO/., subject to
the payment of some annuities amounting to 1,6001. per
annum. They have also certain rights of nomination
to the Royal Naval Asylum and Schools.
According to a notice in last night's Gazette, relating
to the system for granting pastoral leases in Australia,
established by the order in Council of the oth of March,
1547, the Governor of the colony of Victoria is hence-
forth to have the power of fixing at his discretion the
money rent to be paid for suck leases in that colony, or
for the renewal of them. This measure is, of course, to
have no effect on contracts already in existence.
TIIE MYSTERY.—By our advises from the Cape we
learn that the little lugger Mystery, of 16 tons, had
made the passage from Penzance to Simon's Bay in 60
days, and had proceeded thence to Table Bay, where she
took in stores and a mail, and had departed for Mel-
bourne. When leaving Simon's Bay she beat out without
making a tack, and all the vessels in the bay dipped
their ensigns in honour of the adventurous little barque.
She sailed for Melbourne on the 24th of January.
THE MONEY MARKET.--It is remarked that the signs
beginning to be observable if greater confidence in the
money market are not likely to be counteracted by
such revelations as are obtained in connection with the
various commercial failures now announced from time
to time in the provinces and elsewhere. Although
during the last six months uneasiness has been con-
stantly occasioned by isolated suspensions, which were
feared as the precursors of more extensive mischief, it is
srtisfactory to find not only that nothing has thus far
warranted a belief in any really unsound state of the
commerce of the country, but that out of such disasters
as have occurred it is scarcely possible to pick more
than two or three which can be attributed to any causes
that could affect the legitimate trader. Last week a
couple of cases were announced in Birmingham, where,
after the system of accommodation bills bad been car-
ried to its utmost stretch, the parties stopped respec-
tively for 60,0001. and 90,000/., the assets in one
instance being estimated at 6s. Bd., and in the other
at 2s. in the pound. In London the same thing
has been noticeable, and among recent stoppages
has been one. of a firm for 100,0001., who are
shown only a few months back to have entered
into enormous speculations without a shilling of
capital at their command. In the Bankruptcy Court
yesterday there was also a case in which liabilities on
Liverpool accommodation bills were shown for 40,500/.,
while the direct debts were 2,200/., and the estimated
assets 1,200/. The difficulties at Liverpool a few months
back were almost all of the same character, although on
a mere distinguished scale. Looking therefore at the
fact that none of these thing-4 are to be attributed to a
pressure which can be supposed to have arisen either
from the war or any other recent cause, since in each
case the accommodation pap, r system was of of I stand-
ing, ar4d those who have once begun that practice are
'learned sooner or laser, there is ne reason to suppose
that the field of fair ceterprise hes susteined any irreme-
diable damage, but rather that there is ground for con-
gratulation at events having cut short the progress of
those who with every day's continuance in business
would merely have increased the amount for which they
were finally to fall.--Tii,ics.
The New Zurich Gazette states that the com-
mission formed by the committee of the people
to examine as to whether a charge of high
treason ought not to be brought against the
principal authors of the disturbances in the
canton of Ticino has just denounced to the
Council of State the names of MM. Stoppani, of
Ponte Polari, of Moriote, Airoldi, of
I Lugano, Franzoni, of Locarno, and Advocate Cat-
• tames, of Fordo.