The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-20 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECE

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—Tho
Directors hereby Give Notice that they will receive Money
on Loin, to pay off Detnnteres falling due, and are prepared to accept
Tenders tor the same for a period of 3, I, or 7 years. at 4 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.

BOMBAY.—Shippers per CAIRNGORM will
please take notice that all Goods Inuit be alongside and
cleared by Friday, the 21st inst., as the Ship will positively clear at
the Custom-house on Saturday, the 22d.
The undersigned will n st he responsible for the shipment of Coods
not alongside, &c., accordingly.

J iMES THOgiONT, & CO.,
6, Billiter-square

OTTOMAN CLUB.-A GENERAL MEET-
ING of the Members of the Club will he held on MONDAY,
list of December, at the Club House, at Three o'clock.
By order of the Committee.
CATEL A. CUR WOOD, Bon. Sec.
Ottoman Club, 14, Regent-street, Dec. 18th, 1855.

QOUTHWARK BRIDGE. - NOTICE IS
k HEREBY GIVEN, That a Dividend will be Payable o❑ the
lith of JANUARY, to the Proprietors of the New Shares, and to the
Subscribers of the 13/. advanJed on the Old Shares of the Southwark-
hri,ige, and that the Transfer Books of the Company will be closed
from the 25th lust., until the lith of January next.
JAM ES LEITH, Secretary.
Office, Queen-street-place, 19th Dec., 1833.

METROPO L [TAN LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY.

No. 3, Princes-street, Bank.

BANK of Lo,NDON.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.)
, 600,01.
HEAD BANstinci-llonsE Capital
—Threadneedl 00e-street (late the Mallet
commerce).
CIIARING-eROSS BRANCII-150, West Strand.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
CnarastAn.—Sir JOHN VILLIF.RS Sil ELLEY, Bart., M.P., 20,
Park-lane, and maresfield-park, -unsex.
Vice-CrimamaN.—JOHN GRIFFITH i, MTH., Esq. (Frith, Sands,
ant Co.), Austin-friars.
John Edmund nderdon, Esq., Devon.bire•terrace, HYde-park.
Major William Elsey, IL
Rank 'louse, Acton.
Thomas Gooch, Esq. (Gooch and Cousens, London-wall), Brixton-
rise.
Jeremiah Greatorex, Esq. (hradbury, Greatorex, and Co., Alder-
manbury), Spring-hill House, Upper Clapton.
Alexander Constantine lonides, Esq. (firm of louides, Sgouta, and
Co.. Gracechurch-street),
Charles Joyce, Esq. (Arm of Charles Joyce and Co., Moorgate-strect),
Gloucester-gardens, Hyde-park.
Thomas Lace, Esq., M.P., Albemarle-street, and Malmesbury,
Wilts.
Henry Morris, Esq., late of the Madras Civil Service, 25, Mark-lane,
City.
Sir Henry Mv.ggerldge, Alderman and Sheriff oi London, St. Andrew's-
hill, City, and Streatham-common, Surrey.
Alfred Wilson, Esq. (Venable*, Wilson, and Tyler, Queenhitho),
Firgrove, Weybridge, Surrey.
TERMS OF BUSINESS.
Current or drawing accounts are received, and interest allowed on
balances.
DEPOSIT Am:7l;l'B.—The rate of interest now allowed on depo-
sits at ten days' notice of withdrawal is 5 per cent. on sums of 101.
and upwards.

BuEsningelsisshunadnedrtrakoreenig.n Agency and el-cry description of Banking

ADVANTAGES OFFERED TO CUSTOMERS BY THE BANK

OF LONDON.
PROFIT —Receiving a fixed rate of interest on their balances, the
customers participate iu the profits without incurring the risk of
partnership.

. .
SECUILITY.—A capital of 600,0001., of which 300,0001. is paid up an 1
invested.

This capital, or any portion thereof, cannot be withdrawn.
Further security is afforded by four hundred partners, whose ha.
bility is not limited to the amount of the capital or of their respec.
tire shares.

PUBLICITY.—The assets and liabilities of the Bank are published
monthly in the " Gazette."

auditors to examine the accounts are appointed by the share-
holders.

+. full account of the position of the tank, attest d by the Audi-
tors, must be pillished at least once in every year.
SNCRECY —While complete publicity as re•zards the position of the
Bank is provided for, the pecuniary affairs of the customers are pro-
tected y declarations of secrecy executed by the Directors, Mana-
ger, and the officers of every grade.
(By order).

MATTHEW MARSHALL, Jan., Manager.
DENJAIiIN SeOTT, !Secretary.
Threadneedle street, December 6, 18i5.

STAR PACKETS from the TERRACE PIER,
GRAVESEND, 9, 2.
RE NSWICK WHARF, BLACKWALL, on the arrival of the
following Trains from Fenchurch-street, 10 3%, weather permit-
ting.
The Packets will call at the Rosherville, Oreenhithe, Puttee,
and North Woolwich Piers.
To or frum 4lrave eiiO anu L0nd0n.......... 10d. .. 19. 2d.
„ .4ravesend and Blackwell or Woolwich Bd. .. Os. 10.1
„ Erith and London.-- •• •• .• • Bd. .. Os. 10d
„ Erith anl Blackwell or W001wich......
t etween Gravesend and Intermediate Piers.. 6d. .. Os. Bd.
October 23, 1855.

AIR. HOWARD, Surgeon-Dentist, 52, Fleet-
IL
street, has introduced an entirely new description of ARTI-
FICIAL TEETH, fixed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They to
perfectly resemble the natural teeth as not to be distinguished from
the original by the closest observer; they will never change colour or
decay, and will be found very superior to any teeth ever before used.
This method does not require the extraction of roots, or any painful
operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is
guaranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth
rendered sound and useful in mastication.-52, Fleet-street. At
home from ten till five.

[AnvlnTimmlNT.-I—Holloway's Ointment and Pills
wonderfully efficacious for the cure of Wounds.—Mr.
Woodall, of Barlby, near Selby, was afflicted with an
abscess at the back of his neck for a considerable time,
and notwithstanding he was under the treatment of a
most eminent surgeon in the neighbourhood, yet be
could not, by the various remedies applied, heal the
wound ; he therefore determined o❑ giving Holloway's
ointment and Pills a trial, and by these invaluable medi-
cines alone be bas been perfectly cured, and is now in
excellent health. Sold by all medicine vendors through-
out the world ; at Professor Holloway's establishments,
244, Strand, London, and 80, Maiden•lane, New York ;
by A. Stampa, Constantinople ; A. Ciuidicy, Smyrna ;
and S. goods, Malta..

Naval and Militiry

The Queen of the So ath steam-transport, Capt. Beale,
embarked yesterday at Portsmouth dockyard the follow-
ing troops for Malta, with a quantity of stores for the
same depot :—Brevet-Major Mein, Lieut. Cumming,;
Ensign Badgley, 1 sergeant, and 46 men of the Ist Royal
Regiment of Foot; Ensign St. Aubin, 1 sergeant and 20'
men of the 3d ; Ensigns Kuper, Bastablo, and Davis, 2
sergeants, 1 drummer, and 92 men of the 4th ; Captain
Dashwood, Lieut. Gethin, Ensign Cox, .4 sergeants, 6
drummers, and 61 men of the 20th ; 1 sergeant, and 13
men of the 23d ; Ensigns. Wade and Humphreys, 2 ser-
geants, and 54 men of the 28th ; Capt. Welby, Ensigns
Protheroe and Kerr, 1 sergeant, 2 drummers, and 32
men of the 48th ; Ensign Peach, 1 sergeant, 4 drum-
mers, and 3 men of the 77th ; Capt. Cross, Capt. Baynes,
Lieut. Gilby, Ensigns Fox and Foote, 4 sergeants, and
310 men of the 88th ; Ensign Chapel.; 2 drummers, and,
13 men of the 96th ; Surgeon Blake, of the 55th ; and
Assistant-Surgeon Gihaut, of the 17th. The Queen of
the South wiil not leave Portsmouth until this morning
she is full of stores, and carries her troops and munitions
comfortably. She makes 15 knots under steam and sail:
The steam-transport Indiana arrived at Spithead yes!
tearday, from the East, with invalids, and the following
passengers in medical charge of Mr. W. H. Aidersey,
surgeon of the ship :—Lieut.-Col. -Lindsay, 63d Regi.
ment ; Lieut.-Col. Warden, 19th ; Capt. Stewart, 93d ;
Capt. Moody, German Legion ; Lieut. Tonkin; R.N. ;
Lieut. Laurie, 34th Foot ; Mr. Harrington, Purveyor to
the Forces ; Lieut. Caldwell, Land Trainport Corps ; Dr.
Whipple, R.N. ; Mr. Addams, Ordnance Department, 1
hors; 19 invalid seamen, 8 marines, 37 servants, and
others. She spoke the following vessels :—On the sth
lat. 37 N, long. 10 E, the British transport Cul-
loden ; on the sth, in bit. 37 N, long. 3 E, the
brig Macedonian ; on the 9th, off Cape de Gatte, the
Grace, of Liverpool ; on the 12th, off Cape Trafalgar,
the Egyptian Witch ; on the same day, the French ship
Anne, who wished to be reported ; on the 13th, off Cape
St. Vincent, the screw-steamer Carnak. The Indiana is
ordered to be paid off out of the transport service.
The Canadian steam transport, No. 176, arrived at
Spithead yesterday from the East. She brought 1 cor-
poral and 13 privates of the 9th Regiment, in charge of
two military prisoners ; 1 private of the 3d Buffs, ser-
vant to Major Green ; 1 civil servant to Captain de
Norman, of the Turkish Contingent ; 2 invalid seamen,
from the merchant service, Mrs. Bayliss and child, from
Constantinople ; 1 nurse from Renkioi ; Dr. Gibbon
(medical officer in charge) ; Mr. Trotman, assistant do.;
Mesdames Bramwell, Osborne, Gibson, and Smythe,
lady nurses ; Mrs. Windsor, 2 children, and nurse ;
Miss Barclay and nurse ; Mrs. Rogers (matron) and 5
hospital nurses, 1 laundrywoman, 6 wardmasters, 2
cooks, and 15 orderlies; 11 invalids and 1 woman and
child from Smyrna ; Captain J. B. Young, 51st Regt.;
in charge of troops, and 1 civil servant ; 7 non.corninis-
sinned officers of the Royal Artillery ; 70 invalids from
various regiments ; 2 warrant officers, late of her Ma-
jesty's ship Hibernia ; 1 captain's steward, late of her
Majesty's ship Swallow ; and Mr. James Forward,
head storekeeper of Smyrna Hospital. When the Cana,
diau left Gibraltar on the 12th the following ships were
there :—The Keselaw, windbound from Arica for New

York ; the brig Arabella Fullarton, from Genoa foi
London; the transports True Briton, No. 114; Go.
mein, No. 26 ; Bombay, No. 24 ; St. Hilda, No. 11 ;
and Indian, No. 197. The Canadian is ordered to be
paid out of the tranEport service.
The paddle-wheel :steam-frigate Vulture, 6, Captain
Frederick IL 11. Glasse, which left Kiel on the 12th
inst., arrived in Plymouth Sound on Monday evening.
The screw steam:sloop Conflict, 8, Commander Wm. C.
Chamberlain, and the screw steam frigate Euryalus, 51,
Captain Geo. Ramsay, which left Kiel on the 13th, ar-
rived at Plymouth on Tuesday morning.
The screw corvette Cossack, 20, Capt. Cockburn, and
the screw ship Desperate, 8, Commander N. D. White,
went from Plymouth Sound into Hamoaze on Tuesday.
The Dutch ship New Holland, from Batavia for Am.
sterdani, put into Plymouth Sound yesterday morning.
On the 13th inst. in lat. 47 35 N., she saw a brig on fire,
the stern burnt out. The schooner Elizabeth, Captain
Price, of Newport, 40 days from Tarragona, for New•
castle, put into the Sound yesterday. About 10 dap
since her mate, Mr. Thos. Phillips, was knocked over.
board by the spanker boom, and drowned.
In consequence of the'Soadinian Government having
discharged 9,000 men, on whose services they have .no
further claim, and who are at liberty to .enter the British
Italian Legion, this force will before long be complete.

Colonel Hudson, the Inspector of the Legion, who
now completing, at his office in the War Department,
list of candidates for appointments, is still in want of

row good English subaltern officers who can speak Ita.
Tian, and whose colonels will vouch for their knowledgl

of their duties as captains of companies.
Yesterday 500 i,rtisans, handier:atm-nen, and navvies
very carefully sele6ted for the duties which they wi

have to discharge, embarked with their officers on boar'
the Jura steam transport, and proceed at an early lioul
to-day direct to the Crimea. They form a portion of Sin
Joseph Paxton's Army Work Corps, and have bee
organized by him as a special body always available
for the work of the Commissariat, hitherto very expen
sively 'and ineffectively performed by Croats an(
other labourers hired in the East. They will not b

placed under Mr. Doyne, but will have a chief civi
lian superintendent of their own in Mr. Wakefield
an active and zealous officer of the Works Corps, whos(

experience in the colonies well qualifies him to fill thei
situation. The formation of this body was not a sow
gestion of the borne authorities, but originated in a di-1
rect application from the Commissary. General at thi
seat of war, who has g ,t only half the number of men
he asked for. The application was founded on the benefil
which the Commissary General saw other department
of the army deriving from the Works Corps, and is
satisfactory testimony to the usefulness and excellent or:
ganisation of the navvies. Not more than five week
have elapsed since Sir Joseph Paxton received the ati4-
thority to form this body, and it is already on its way tAi
the Crimea, fully equipped and provided for the service
which it will have to execute. It is worthy of notice,'
also, that the numbers presenting themselves for admisl
mion into the corps were frequently at the rate of 1,00
a day, and that the fellows who thus presented them
selves are not lads, but stalwart brawny men inured tcl
labour, and each capable of getting through more work
than ary three of the Croat labourers now employed]
Such is the estimate of their value made by the Commis.;
ssry-General. Their wages, therefore, though somewhat
above the scale at home, present a large economy as con'
trasted with the cost of Turkish labour, and the greate
portion of the amount remains in this country for th
support of the men's families during their absence. They
were mustered early yesterday morning near Sir Joseph,
Paxton's house at Sydenitam, and proceeded thence in ay
body by railway and steamer to Deptford, where the
Jura was moored. A military band was in attendance
to keep up their spirit., which, however, appeared to
require little stimulus of the kind. Sir Joseph aCCODI
panied them on board the transport to see that every
airangement bad been made for their cmnfort and wel,
fare on the passage. Miss Marsh, who has acquired
much influence among the navvies at Sydenham, was
also present, distributing religious books to the men and
giving each a word of kindly advice at parting.
The experimental iron mortar float No. 1 of that seriesi
which was towed down to Shoeburyness from Woolwich
a few days ago for experiments, returned yesterday
morning. Her mortar (an ordinary 13-inch) fired 3g
rounds on the first day's trial, and ou Tuesday the proof
was continued. It was intended to have tested-this newly-
constructed mortar-vessel to the extent of 300 rounds
with the ordinary charge, when, at the 66`.1 discharge
on the second day, the mortar split in equal divisions, in
precisely
To f
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portions,titselfa has e m
however,sustainedann erbeing a snt lmoBeat
damage carriedB wbeyondbeab rg neither
ofnd theteironle
bed.i
r
coating of the mortar bed, which, at the first concussion,
shrank and sprang from the woodwork, ripping out the
screws with irresistible force at each successive explosion,
thereby strengthening the opinion of the superiority of a
wooden framework in the formation of the mortar-bed.
The annexed circular memorandum had been issued,
directed to regiments and depots at home and abroad :
"Horse Guards, Dec. 14.
" Commanding officers aro requested to cause all per-
sons intrusted with the care of regimental ammunition
to be strictly enjoined to avoid the use of iron hoops or
iron nails in the heading up of cartridge barrels, or the
presence of iron or grit amongst the percussion caps, car-
tridges, or loose powder, if any should accumulate from
broken cartridges taken from the men's pouches.
it The use of iron nails in lotening on cards of address,
when ammunition may be packed for return into store
conveyance from one place to another, is also to be
strictly prohibited.
61 By command.

" G. A. WETHERALL."

The subjoined circular has
.been addressed to general
or other officers commanding in the several districts and
stations at home and abroad
" Horse Guards, Dec. 12.
ir sir,—In transmitting the enclosed copy of resolu-
tions (a detailed account of the meeting on the 29th ult.
for the Nightingale Fund) adopted at a meeting held
for the purpose of giving.the public an opportunity of
expressing their approbation of the noble and benevolent
exertions of Miss Nightingale for the improvement of
the discipline and superintendence of military hospitals,
the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief desires that
you will be pleased to cause the same to be notified to
the commanding officer of every corps and department
in the army under your command, in order that all ranks
may be afforded the opportunity of contributing to-
wards a fund which has for its object the extension of
those laudable and charitable views of Miss Nightingale
by which the army has already so materially benefitted.
"I have, &c., "G. A. WETHERALL."
In a paragraph going the rounds of the papers respect.
ing Col. Henry White, of the Longford Militia, there
are two slight inaccuracies. The gallant officer was a
lieutenant, not captain,. in the 14th Light Dragoons,
and in the particular action referred to he had but one
horse shot under him, and not three, as stated.

The following appeared in our late edition last
night :
ADMIRALTY, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
An erroneous impression appears to be entertained
(arising from the publication of an imperfect document)
with respot to the examination which is to be held
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