The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-16 00:00:00

PROSPECTUS.

The increase in the Mediterranean trade during the last
ten years. as shown by the official returns, amounts to
£23,000,000, to which the Italian, Greek, and Adriatic ports
have very largely contributed. In order to meet this increase
of trade, more steam tonnage from London has become a
matter of urgent necessity, the preference by merchants for
steam over sailing conveyance for their goods being such,
that the Directors have no hesitation in stating that nearly
the whole trade to and from the Mediterranean will shortly
be carried by screw steamers. It is calculated that at least
100,000 tons of fine goods are annually exported from London
to Italy and Greece, while upwards of 200,000 tons are an-
nually imported.
The Directors, in resolving to establish this Company, are
further encouraged by the facts—that two lines of screw
steamers have for some years been engaged with most suc-
cessful results in the trade between Liverpool and the 'tali ,at
ports—that the leading merchants in London, interested in
the Italian trade, have constantly urged the organisation of
the lines now proposed; and many of the merchants in Italy
and Greece, in order to show their confidence in the success
of the enterprise, have offered to contribute towards the
capital required, and otherwise to aupport the Company in
every possible way.
The objects, therefore, of this Company are the establish-
ment—

Ist. Of a line of Screw Steamers between London and the
ports of Genoa, Leghorn, Naples, Messina, and Palermo, to
sail with undeviating regularity at intervals of not less than
ten days ; and
2d. Of lines suited to the requirements of the trade between
London, Greek, Adriatic, and other ports in the Mediter-
ranean.

In order that the operations of the Company may be com-
menced without delay, the Directors have provisionally en-
tered into an arrangement with the Directors of an existing
line to take over their four new steamers, viz., the Alexandra,
Clotilda, Italia, and Venetia, and valuable connexion in the
Italian trade, by which the shareholders w 11 enter imme-
diately into a profitable business ; the price to he agreed upon
by arbitration, and to be accepted in shares of tie Company.
These steamers have been expressly built for the trade, are
of HO tons builders' measurement, and the engines of 120-
horse power, are by Messrs. Maudslay, Son, and Field. Or-
ders will be at once given for the construction of the neces-
sary additional steamers.

Calls will cot exceed 45 per share, nor will they be made at
less intervals than three months. To the extent of £?5 per
share Shareholders will be entitled to anticipate future calls,
receiving interest on such pre-payments at the rate of 5 per
cent. per annum.

Should uo allotment take place, the whole deposit will be
returned free of deduction.

No promotion money or other outlay beyond the necessary
expenses incurred in the La mation and establishment of the
Company wilt be paid.
A copy of the Articles of Association lies for inspection at
the Solicitor's Offices and at the Offices of the Company.
Application for shares to be made in the annexed form, and
forwarded to the Secretary, at the Company's Offices, or to
the Brokers or Bankers of the Company.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
no be retained by the Bankers.
To the Directors of the London, Itall.ln, and Adriafc Steam
Navigation Company (Limited).
Gentlemen,—Having paltl to the Bankers of the above-
named Company the sum of , I hereby request that
you will allot me shares in the said Company, and I
agree to accept such shares, or any smaller number that may
be allotted to mc, and to become a member of the Company.
and I autho! it,'e you to place my name on the Register of
Members in respect of the shares to he alloted to me ; and I
am.ree to be bound by all the conditions and regulations con-
tained in the Memorandum and Articles of Association of ,he
Company, in manner provided by " The Companies' Act,
1862."
Dated this day of , 1864.
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Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The iron-cased screw steam frigate Prince Consort, 35,
Capt. George 0. Willis, at Devonport, which was pit into
permanent commission for the first time on Thursday, will
have a complement of 600 officers and men, of whom 65
will consist of Royal Marines--viz., two sergeants, two
corporals, a bugler, and b 9 privates, under command of
Capt. Meheux and First Lieut. Young,husband. It will be
recollected that the Prince Consort left Plymouth on the
28th October last for Liverpool, and having encountered se-
vere weather, putinto Kingstown on the3lst. in St. George's
Channel during the storm she rolled excessively and suffered
much from the quantity of water retained on hoard. To re-
medy this defect some alterations have been made in her
scuppers. The combings of the hatchways both on the upper
and main decks have also been raised from 101 to 19 inches.
Although the Prince Consort lay only in the comparatively
quiet waters of llamoaze from the period of her completion
to last October, and was then but a few days absent, the
effects of galvanic action upon her iron plates, produced by
the proximity of the Muntz's metal below, had become mani-
fest. By the advice of Mr. Reed, Chief Constructor of the
Con-
sort has now been furnished with a hand of zinc all round,
Navy,betwee between the
of
hecopper
Hay, Admiralty chemist, the Prince
and iron, to protect the latter from in-
jury, and, like the Royal Oak, she is supplied with rubbing
pieces on her load line, to sheath the iron casing from the
friction of boats or anything else floating alongside.
The screw steamship Royal George, 78, was warped on
Thursday from the sheer hulk in Hamoaze to the north jetty
in
Devonport
ship °
for the purpose of being rigged and
prepared for a commission,
in place of the screw steam coast-
guard
Art
jdcaxok6yd,
60, Capt.
pt. Michael De Conroy, stationed at
Kingstown.
His Portuguese Majesty's corvette Infanta Don Juan,
from the eastward, arrived on Thursday at Plymouth.
Her Majesty's steam stereship Supply, Master Comman-
P
der C. Bawden, having been swung at Greenhithe for the
adjustment of her compasses, yesterday left the river on her
way to Gibraltar and Malta, laden with victualling and
dockyard stores from Deptford and Woolwich.
The paddlewheel steam sloop Hecate, Capt. Richards,
under orders to pay off on Monday next in the outer basin,
at Woolwich, has been dismantled and partially cleared of
her stores and fitment. Her masts, made at Portsmouth in
August, 18:50, were yesterday examined and proved to be
unfit for future service. The officers and men, of whom
there are 126, have been exceedingly healthy during the
seven years which they have served in the Plumper and
Hecate. Since they sailed from Portsmouth in the former
vessel, in December, 1856, they y have made a scientific voyage
round the world. Two of the ship's company only died
during that period—namely, the boatswain's mate at Van-
couver Island, and one sailor at sea.

Mr. Reed's iron-cased
sloop Enterprise, recently com-
ilowley, is ordered to be launched
of February next, with the whole
The armour-plates have all
aomft i sphs
eie orpnt
machinery
odar byed
h Commander
eo
itmyh me ao
Inno
tdic
been prepared in the bending department in Woolwich
Complete success. The ship-
wrightsperation of plating the ship are
working up to 9 o'clock at night, and will complete the pro-
ss
dockyard,
engaged with
i then
the moato
The Enterprise, after being
launched,ar in gwill
the b
to Woolwich, and replace the
corvette Wolverine in dock, to h
cede nest uo negd week.do w n
be pushed forward for sea.
The iron steam storesnip Buffalo, Master-Commander
Brown, from Rio and Ascension, was yesterday docked at
Woolwich, to be refitted. The officers and crew will be
granted six weeks' leave of absence. Her bottom, notwith-
standing the experimental composition proposed as an in-
fallible remedy against the adhesion of seaweed and barnacles
is clogged to excess, and will recl4ire to be coated anew.
Her Majesty's screw steam sloop pawn,
17 guns, 751 tons,
100-horse power, Master in charge John J. Gravener, was
taken out of the fitting basin in Sheerness dockyard, where
she has been brought forward for the first division of the
steam reserve of that place, to moorings in the harbour, on
Tuesday, to adjust compasses preparatory to proceeding on
trial of the machinery at the measured mile off Maplin
Sands. The trial should have taken place on Wednesday,
but in consequence of the extreme haziness of the wea-
ther it was postponed till the following day, when
she steamed out in charge of Captain W. K. Hall,
C. 8., commending the steam reserve at Sheerness. Mr.
Rumble, inspector of machinery afloat, superinteded the
working of the machinery. The following were the re-
sults:—Average speed at full boiler power, 8.578 knots;
revolutions of engines, maximum 90, mean 91'8, pressure
of steam 20, load on safety-valve 20, vacuum 26, speed at
half-boiler power 6.830 knots, revolutions, maximum, 71,
means 64.5. The vessel welt round the circle at full bailer
power, helm at an angle of 37 deg port, in 4 min 28 sec, re-
volutions 77, diameter of circle 228 yards, at full boiler
power, helm starboard 35 5 deg, in 5 min 31 sec; revolutions
63, diameter 254 yards. She is fitted with a common pro-
peller, with leading corners cut off, diameter 10ft, pitch 121 t,
length 2ft, immersion Bin, draught of water, 13ft Tin for-
ward, 14ft 4in alt. There was no wind, and the sea smooth.
The vessel was full-rigged and had six months' stores on
board. The trial was considered very satisfactory, and the
Fawn returned to moorings in the harbour to await com-
mission, when it is expected oho will proceed to relieve the
Greyhound, 17, screw eteamsloop, Commander Henry D.
ickiey, on the North America and West Indies station.
Tho investigation ordered by the Lords of the Admiralty
into the whole of the circumstances connected with the
equipment, fitting out, and departure from Sheerness of the
Confederate privateer Rappahannock, late her Majesty's
4 screw gun vessel Victor, 6, 350 horse power, which until

the period of her sale out of the service was attached to
the Chatham steam reserve ordinary, was completed a few
days since, and the result of the protracted inquiry, which
has been conducted by the Government throughout in
the most rigid and searching manner, was announced at
Chatham yesterday. It is satisfactory to find that none
of the officials connected with Chatham dockyard were in
the remotest degree connected with the illegal proceedings,
and were in no respect implicated with the movements
of that vessel after she had ceased to be a Government
ship. It has been ascertained, however, that certain officials
at Sheerness dockyard have been guilty of a gross neglect of
duty, and at the same time have committed an unwarrant-
able violstion of the neutrality laws. The Government have
accordingly decided on prosecuting the principal offender,
who, as already reported in 7he Sun, is one of the chief offi-
cers in the dockyard, for the leading part it has been ascer •
tained he took in the equipment and subsequent departure
of the Rappahannock from the Nore. Accordingly Mr.
Knight, of the firm of Essell, Knight, and Arnold, solici-
tors, Rochester, the agents of the Solicitor to the Treasury,
yesterday applied to the magistrates for a warrant for the
apprehension of Mr Wm. Rumble, principal engineer and
inspector of machinery afloat, who is charged with a viola-
tion of the Foreign Enlistment Act (59 Geo. 111., cap. 69),
hiring, and attempting to hire, certain seamen for the Con-
federate steamship Rappahannock ; and also for assisting
and aiding in equipping that vessel. The warrants were
granted and at once executed, the accused being taken into
custody, but afterwards liberated on heavy bail. No pro-
ceedings have yet been ordered against any of the other
officials, nor against the Government pilot whc piloted the
Rappahannock from the Nore.
The Lords of the Admiralty have directed that, with the
view of distinguishing the ammunition of rifled guns from
that for smooth-bore guns at night on board her Majesty's
ships, the handles of the leather cartridge• cases used with
rifled guns for naval service are to have a seizing on them.
On Thursday 50 convicts were removed from the convict
prison at Chatham to the Note by the Wildfire, paddle-
wheel vessel employed, in Sheerness harbour, for embarca-
tion on board the Clara, convict ship, waiting at the Nore
tocGonovveeryntmheemnt wtookßermuda, where they will be employed
on
The following appointments were made on Wednesday at
the Admiralty :—Commander Henry M. Miller to the Ra-
coon—Lieut John T. Bedford to the Rattlesnake—Lieut.
Henry M. Morgan to the Marlborough—Charles H. Cress-
well, acting engineer, to the Fiegard, as supernumerary—
Henry W. Arlidge, paymaster, to the Hector—Julian A.
Measure, paymaster, to the Prince Consort—Ebenezer B.
Nicholson, assist paymaster, to the Hector—W. H, J.
Aitken, assist paymaster, to the Prince Consort—Henry T.
Paramore, assist paymaster, to the Wellesley—F. D,
Tongue, clerk, to the Duke of Wellington—W. G. J. Hunt,
clerk, to the Hector—W. Clay, clerk, to the Prince Con-
sort—Richard M. Rees, assisticlerk, to the Hector—Robt.
L. Hoskyn, assist clerk, to the Prince Consort—and John
M. Bruce, assist clerk, to the Duncan.
Thomas Joseph Waters has been appointed a lieutenant
in the Royal Naval Reserve.