The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-12 00:00:00

LONDON, MON DAY EVENING, N o EMBER. 12, 1855.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—The'
Directors hereby Give Notice that they will receive Money
on Loan, to pay off Debentures falling due, and are prepared to accept
Tenders for the same for 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.

CHAS. A. SAUNDERS, Secretary.
Paddington Station, 2d November. 1855.

LONDON and N
ItATL k AY.—CONTRACT
The Directors are prepared to re
the undermentioned Stores, viz.:-
NJ. of Contract—
!. Brass Sl'eet and Tulses for
Locomotives
„ Trott tubes
3. Copper
4. Canvas
5. Carpets and Rugs
9. Crucibles
10. Curled flair
It. C,,pper and Brass Work
12. Co`ours
12a Drysaltery
13. Coach Trimmings
14. Cotton Waste
16. Glass, Plato
16a. Glass, various
17. Hardware
17a. Brushes and Pencils
7b. Nails and Tacks
17c. Screws
7d. (144 Fittings
17e. Locks
17t. Lamp Cottons
Specification and Forms of Tens
day, November sth, on appiica
Euston Station, London

ORTH-W ESTERN
for STORES for the Year 185 g.—
:.eive Tenders for the Supply of

So . of Contract—
IS. Leather.
18a. Leather
19. Lead, White and Red
194. Lead. Ingot, Sheet and Pipe
20. Iron, Yorkshire
22. Iron Wo:k
' 14. 00, Burning, &c.
25. Oils, various, an] Turpentinl
26. Oil Cloth
28a. Augurs, Hammers, &c.
29. Tin Block
30 Tin Sheet and Speller
31. Varnishes
32. Sundries. consisting of Was-
ke s, Felt, Candles, Soap,
' Brooms, Pitch, Links,
Sponge, ,Hose Pipes, Fog
signals, Sieves-, Cement; Tn.
diarubt:er, Flaunel, Calico,
&c., &c.
34. Hats
35. Caps
!er may be had on and after Mon-
ion in writing, to the Secretary,

Forms of Tender for each Contr .et are printed separately, and
narties 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,
Prom Ten till Four o'clock, at the Company's Pattern Room, Euston
Station, and Any further information require .1 may be obtained on
ipplitatlon to the heads of the several departments.
Tenders to bo sent in on or before Ten o'clock on Monday,
Nov. 19th:

By order of the Directors.
CHAS. E. STEWART, Secretary.
Euston Station, October, 1855.

watt, 91, screw steam-ship arrived at Sheerness from
the Baltic at 8 p.m., on Saturday last from Hull, after
a very tempestuous passage, having Pprting a leak and
put into Copenhagen, where she was hauled up pn a pa-
tent slip to make good defect,. Commander Wise, who
was' in the affair at Gamla Carleby, is ordered to leaye
for Plymouth to-day.
A number of artificers in their various branches, ship.
wrights, smiths, joiners, &c., are ordered to commence
working extra hours at Sheerness to-day, to facilitate
the completion otthe screw mortar-ship Evrotas, now in
No. 2 dry dock.
Masts, spars, rigging, and sails are being prepared at
Sheerness yard for- eight of the new gnn-boats now build-
ing, ready for early service next spring. •
An 'examination of the hull and coppers of her Ma-
jesty's ship Merlin, Captain Sullivan, has taken place in
the dry dock at Woolwich, the result of which has
shown that, by the explosion of the Russian infernal
machine, three sheets of her Copper were stripped Off,
her bulkhead was driven in, and one of her timbers split.
' It is considered by the officers of the yard ainl the ship-
wright department that what prevented the ' de-
struction of the vessel was, that the force of the ex-
plosi.,p struck that part of the ship against which
lay the tallow tank. The tank was found started
from its positi,,n and thrown to a distance of six
feet, through the bulkhead of the engineers', store-
room. The crew of the Merlin were on Saturday 'morn-
ing paid down, one watch being granted 14 days' leave,
and subsequently all the hands are to be employed in
fitting and rigging gun-boats, to the number of, 120,
which will be ready for service by the ecninieneement of
• .
the ensuing spring.
The Plover and the San ifly gun-boats wereinn Satur.
day morning taken into dry dock to he stoppered.
The half-yearly inspection of therßeisell .Sap;
Miners took place On SatuzUsywAiting,at
The line was formed at 11 o'clock fo*-ttni

oers and

ground of the Commanding. Royal Engineer; who ,com-
menced his inspection by minutely examining each indi-
vidual of the corps assembled. The troop then broke
into open column of division, and marched past in slow
and quick and at quarter-distance column ; after
which the kits were inspected, the books, and barracks,
&e. The battalion paraded again at a quarter before 2
o'clock, and went through a complete field day's exercise
under the command of Lieutenant and Adjutant Lem-
priere, in skirmishing order.
The following appointments were made on Saturday
at the Admiralty :—The Rev. Josiah Thompson, of the
Illustrious, to be chaplain of the Royal Marine Infirmary
at Portsmouth ; the Rev. W. S. Davies, to be chaplain
of the Implacable ; the Rev. J. P. Oliver, to be chaplain
of the Meander ; Frederick H. Rose, to be assistant-
surgeon to Deal Hospital.
Various reguia'ions have been made for the organisa-
tion of a permanent corps of instructors in musketry, to
be in communication with the Commandant of the School
of Musketry at Hythe. In the order iesu€d from the
Horse Guards upon the subject the General Commanding-
in-Chief states that he relies upon the zealous co-opera-
tion of all, in order to insure the consolidation and well
working of a general system of instruction in rifle-shoot-
ing, by which the efficiency of the infantry cannot fail
to be greatly increased.

public mishaps on bankers and bank notes ? At all
times novelties, . though as useful as steam-eugines or
railroads, have excited much indignation, and the
poor wretches of Lmidites,. who • wer hanged for their
violence, broke t ) pieces the machinery that lightens toil
and enriches, almost • without labour. _Shame it -is that
men of authority, men swift. to threaten or punish them
for their ignorance, should lend their countenance to
such a general and mischievous prejudice, and ascribe
evils to an invention or an art, becaux6 it is new, that
have a veri, different source. Sir Robert Peel, how-
ever, fastenod on the prejudice against banks and bank
notes, and paraded all -the ragged, broken, and bank-
rupt bankers of whom he could collect an account—
as if in no other trade there Were failures—before the
House of Commons and. the public. When vast dis•
tress and disasters could be
,ascribed to men who must
of necessity, like physicians and clergy Men, be impli-
citly confided in, but of whose untrustworthiness the
eVidence in an inability to; pay their debts is much more
certain and Iconspicyous than the evidence of the unskit-
fulness of 4 physician `or•-the.falie teaching of a clergy-.
man, it was;an easy ta-k to hold'them up to opprobrium.;
and Sir Robert attained, almost by acclamation, an as,
_sent to the part of this plan which placed restvictions on
bankers, banking, and' bank notes. The measure was
to supply 4 statute their want of trustworthiness ;
and they eNhibited a disposition to opposelt. But they
were bough over at the eipense of the public. To coin;
perisate for ]the, restrictions on existing hanks, t ) .keep
the professiim select and pure, it was enacted that no
new .bank of issue should he es's.blished. This boon to
existing tCsaikers,- whichwits old guild - strictness cot!.
fined the acit to the then existing members of the 'craft,

and provid,
money dea;
fetter ontl

I only for their further decrease, pacified the
and they patiently submitted to a. little
miselves, on. condition of a much heavier

on all whO :night "wish to becovno
'lllcSowhi,ina4et.tert—if

the small one on them_