The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-17 00:00:00

EDEN VALLEY EXTENSION.

Meetings have been held during the last few days at
Leyburn, Hawes, &c., with the object of formirg a com-
pany to supply railway accommodation to Wensleydale,
Yoredale, &c. The proposed railway is intended to
leave the Leeds Northern line somewhere near Ripon,
and will accommodate the towns of Masham, Middleham,
Leyburn, Askrigg, and Hawes;

GREAT NORTHERN AND WESTERN OF
IRELAND.

Yesterday the half-yearly meeting of this company was
held at the offices, Duke-street, Westminhter, the Earl of
Lucan in the chair.
The report, en abstract of which has appeared in The
Sun, was taken as read.
Mr. SIMES expressed his satisfaction with the success
that had attended the labours of the directors in the recent
session of Parliament, both branches of the Legislature
having accorded to the company, notwithstanding the op-
position of the Midland Great Western, the right of cross,
ing the Shannon at Athlone, and so securing its indepen-
dence and prosperity. This success was greatly due to the
energetic conduct of the noble chairman, and he trusied the
time was not far remote when the county of Mayo would
acknowledge the way in which the noble earl had promoted
the railway communication of the district.
It was then moved by the CHAIRMAN, seconded by Mr
BURCIIELL, and carried unanimously, that dividends at the
rate of £5 per cent, per annum upon the preference capital,
of £3 17s. Gd. per cent. per annum on the £113,350 ordinary
capital held by the Midland Great Western Railway Com-
pany of Ireland, and £3 per cent. per annum upon the ordi-
nary share capital of the company other than that held by
the Midland Cempany, be declared, less income-tax.
After some discussion resolutions were passed cancelling
5,100 unissued shares of £lO each; authorised to be created
by the company's Acts of 1861 and 1862, and for issuing
in lieu thereof shares representing £51,000, in pursuance of
the provisions of the company's Running Powers Act of
1861, and for creating an additional capital of £30,000 under
the company's Capital Powers Act of last session.
A vote of thanks to the chairman and directors closed the
proceedings. ,

Naval and Military Intelligence,

The Royal paddle yacht Osborne, Commander Geo. K.
Bower, arrived in Portsmouth harbour yesterday at 10 a,m.
from Plymouth and Portland, with the Lords of the Admi-
ralty on board, on their annual tour of inspection. The
party consisted of the Duke of Somerset, Vice-Admiral Sir
F. Grey, Rear-Admiral the Hon. J. R. Drummond, and Mr
Childers, M.P., accompanied by the First Secretary, Lord
C. Paget, M.P., Capt. Hall, Private Secretary to the Duke
of Somerset; Rear-Admiral Robinson, Controller of the
Navy; Major Clarke, Director of 'Works, and Sir Richard
Mayne, Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.
Their Lordships landed at the King's stairs in the dockyard
soon after their arrival, and were received by the Admiral
in command, and the Captain of the Steam Reserve, with
the other naval officers in command of her Majesty's ships
at the port and the heads of the different departments of the
yard- They first proceeded to the office of the Admiral-
Superintendent, Rear-Admiral George Elliot, where they
remained until nearly 1 p.m., when they commenced the
usual inspection of the dockyard, commencing with No. 2
dock, in which the Erebus iron floating battery is lying.
Her bottom plates are is very good condition, with the ex-
ception of one tier, but her timber shelf-piece, on which
rests her al-moue-plates, is eaten away, and will have to be
replaced with new work. Her tier of plating next below
the shelf-piece is also very tault y in parts, and will require
extensive repairs. She is said to be intended for temporary
duty on the Sturbridge shoal. Their lordships next crossed
the caissons of the ship, basin, docks, giving a short notice
to each of the latter, in which are lying the Thunderer line-
of-battle ship, about to be cut down and fitted as a floating
platform for target butts; the Octavia screw frigate, and
Sparrowhawk despatch gun vessel, the latter almost entirely
reconstructed. Leaving the ship basin docks their lord-
ships next passed by the Victoria three decked screw, of
1,000 horse-power, fitting as the flagship of the future
Admiral commanding in the Mediterranean, but very likely
to be superseded in such duty when made ready for it by
some iron frigate. The new railway jetty was next reached,
where their lordships had an opportunity of observing one
of the earliest and still handsomest of the now almost use-
less three-deckers on their Navy List, the Duke of Welling-
ton, which was lying moored alongside the jetty. The dock
in which the Royal Sovereign is lying was reached next,
and a cursory notice was given to the band of teak sheath-
ing which she is receiving at the water-line, but their
lordships did not go on board. This teak band is now
being affixed to the Royal Sovereign's sides as rapidly
as possible, relays of workmen being engaged upon it day
and night. A few minutes were next spent tueking into the
empty No. 7 dock, and then a short walk past the mill-
wrights' shop and timber sheds brought their Lordships to
the residence of the Admiral Superintendent, where they and
the naval officers accompanying them partook of luncheon.
After a half-hour' interval the walk round the yard was
resumed, the party being still under the guidance of Rear-
Admiral Elliot, and accompanied by Vice-Admiral Sir
Michael Seymour. After visiting the iron foundry, their
Lordships passed through the smithery, where every fur-
nace appeared to be in fall blast, and to the ground north of
the smithery, where two dining-rooms are being erected for
the use of the smiths. Their Lordships next, passing be-
tween stacks of 41 inch armour-plates for the Royal Alfred,
went on board that ship in the shipway, where she lies
waiting her orders for launching, and remained on board
some 20 minutes. No. 11 Dock, constructing at the north
angle of the steam basin by George Smith and Co., was next
visited, after which their Lordships proceeded to view the
ground about to be taken into the dockyard boundary. Mr
Woods, civil engineer, pointed out and explained, by the aid
of plans, the bearings of the mud lands which it is intended
to convert into basins and docks, and their Lordships left
the dockyard by the N.E. gate for the proposed site for the
naval barracks and the new timber ground, where the main
timber stores are now being formed. Before leaving the
yard the large number of tested armour plates stored near
the convict prison attracted some attention, and among them
some specimens of wrought iron forgings in that shape from
the rolling mills of John Brown and Co., of Sheffield. The
first point of importance reached by their Lordships outside
the dockyard was the intended site for the Naval Barracks,
in one part of which a number of convicts are employed in
levelling the old fortifications, and in another a patent brick
making machine is at work turning out brinks at the
rate of 24 per minute. From the site for the Seamen's
Barracks the Board next visited the new timber ground,
and made a circuit of the ground there which inter-
venes between the dockyard and Landport, and which is
about to be incorporated with the dockyard. They completed
their circuit by returning to the dockyard by the shore line
of the new ground. Their lordships afterwards embarked
on board the Osborne, moored off the dockyard, where they
dined and slept.
The Admiralty yacht Enchantress, Staff Commander
Petley, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday afternoon from
Portland and the Needle fortifications, with Earl de Grey
and Ripon on board. His lordship joined the Board of
Admiralty on the Osborne on their return from their day's
inspection ashore.
The Urgent screw troopship, Capt S. Henderson, sailed
from Portsmouth last evening for Canada (Quebec), with
the following detachments on board :—Royal Artiltery--
Col ripen, Lieuts Brown and Saunders, and eight men ;
30th Regiment—Capt Clarkson and Limit Brain and 117
men ; 4th battalion 60th Rifies—Lieutol Ward, Ensign
e—Commandant Pullen
Turner, and 17 men ; Rifle Brigad
and 83 men; Royal Canadian Rifles—Lieut-Col Walker
and eight men; 110th Regiment—Six men; let battalion
15th Regiment—Capt Causse, Assist Surg O'Loughlan,
Deputy Purveyor Maekell, six officers' wives, 16 children
and four female servants, 12 soldiers' wives and 28 children.
The War Department steamveesel Balaklava, Mr Pellatt
commander, sailed last night from Woolwich Arsenal, ladenf
with guns, shot, carriages, powder, and other war stores for
De,vonport and Cork. Among the stores is the r f
70 pounder Armstrong. guns, reduced to aabridge,rer
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experiments on hoard the gunner•'
Heath, 0.13., at Pevonport.
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The following troopships,
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Admiralty to embark abeernegeihmarerent odf the Tin() from
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Dublin t
,tle, and the Mary Shepherd. The regiment
Hop© :—The Copenhagen, the
:r the Cape of Good
Rossiya Ca.. fficers, 912 non-commissioned officers and
consists of 39 0- c 2 women and children. After landing
rank and file, and 1' the regiment stationed there will THE TEMPLE CHuRcEt.--This beautiful structure,
the troops at the Cape
and proceed to Calcutta. The which has been thoroughly cleansed during the vacation,
in
embark in the saDeuehbliii), ~.xpected to take place early will be reopened for Divine service on Sunday, the 2d of
embarkation from
October. There will be a full choir, and the sermon will
nest mouth. . shipwright at Wool- be preached by the Venerable Archdeacon Robinson, 11,D.,
Mr Brain, acting assistant master I.
tott,sr shipwright at canon of Rochester.
wish, has been appellate aeßistent

Owing to the excessive heat which prevails the roan of
the masthouse in Devonport dockyard became ignited. on
Monday last, but the fire having been discovered promptly
it was soon extinguished, or a serious conflagration might
have occurred. _ _

A clerical error occurred in our military intelligence last
Thursday. It was the 61st, and not the 69th, Regiment
which embarked at Portsmouth for Irelond in the Tamar.
The 69th is quartered at Gosport, under the command cif
Colonel Mackirdy, and has been very successful in obtain-
ing recruits in Hampshire since its arrival from. India two
months ago.

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to such trifling matters as drainage, paving, and
other necessary measures. Towns sprung up
quickly where villages used to stand, and a dense
population speedily settled round them, with none
of the ordinary appliances that secure the health of
towns. The bees of the busy hives were constantly
swarming, but the new hives were ill-fitted for
their reception. The great distress will therefore
in this view become a lasting benefit. No less than
77 places were availing themselves of the Public
Works Act on August 15th. In many places, ac-
cording to the report, the works are being carried
on with reduced numbers, owing to the opening of
mills, and to the agricultural operations of this
season. Pres'on, Ashton, and Glossop are
the chief places in which there are yet
large numbers unemployed, but even in
these there is a considerable amelioration.
So satisfactory is the general state of affairs that
the Hon. Secretary prepared, on Monday, a resolu-
tion to the effect, that the grants of the committee
should henceforth be confined to the relief of per-
sons not receiving parochial aid. He remarked that
it was desirable that the whole of the districts
should be prepared for the cessation of relief from
extraneous quarters, and that this would be a good
beginning. Mr. MASON, of Ashton, made some
opposition on behalf of that district, and it was
ultimately determined to qualify the resolution by
the condition that the pauperism should not exceed
5 per cent, of the population. This was the wisest
course as meeting the exceptional cases, while pro-
viding for a gradual change, and certainly in the
hour of returning prosperity the country will not
begrudge a little additional help to those who have
so nobly borne the winter of adversity.

Siit,—The press has kindly given publicity to
the letter which I had recently the honour to receive
from his Eacellency Sid Taib E! Ydminy, the Vizier
or Prime Minister of his Sheriffian Majesty the
Emperor of Morocco.
A narrative, however, has since appeared de-
scribing the cruel treatment, attended with a fatal
result of a Jew in the province of Naha, at the
hand of its deputy-governor; and an apprehension
has arisen that the Moorish Government does not
really intend to fulfil its humane promises.
I believe the accompanying communications will
show that this apprehension may be dismissed.
The writer is an influential Jewish merchant of
Megador, and it will be observed how highly he
and his co-religionists estimate the beneficial effects
—present and to come—of the Imperial edict.
Prejudices and abuses of long-standing, parti-
cularly when fostered and sustained by religious
fanaticism, are not suddenly nor easily remediable,
even in well-organised States.
In a country like Morocco the advance of civili-
sation must necessarily be progressive.—l have the
honour to remain, sir, your faithful and obedient
servant, MOSES MONTEFIORE.
East Cafe Lodge, Ramsgate, Aug. 16.

Mogador, July 25, 1864.
Esteemed Sir,—l take upon myself the painful task cf
communicating to you a :cost deplorable event, which has
very recently occurred in the vicinity, within a few hours'
ride from this town.

A poor Jew, named Joseph Ben Eish M'sellim, a resident
of this town, while travelling for his usual occupation of
petty trading, in the adjoining province of Haha, had occa-
sion to present himself at the residence of the governor of
the province to prefer a complaint to the chief in command
respecting some money which he said he had been robbed
of and lost, It appears that the khalifs, or deputy gover-
nor, Sidi Housselin (then acting in place of the governor of
the province, Hadj Abdalla, who was absent), did
not credit the said Jew's story, and, under the impres •
sion that his statement was false, ordered him to be
punished with the lash, which was so severely applied
that the poor Jew was left dead on the spot, and some
hours afterwards his remains were buried there by some
Jews sent from hence to bring the body of the deceased
to this town for interm,:nt, but which was refused by the
khalifs.

The accounts concerning the Confederate invasion
of Maryland are extreme.y vague. Heavy firing
has been heard around Cumberland. It was sup-
posed that the Confederates would advance on
Pittsburg, Wheeling, and Cincinnati. They still
hold Hagertown.

General Averill is reported to be moving to-
wards Bedford, Pennsylvania, to operate against
the Confederates.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, AUG. 6 (Evening).

Money easy. Gold, 2594. Exchange on London,
282; on Paris, 2.74. Stocks steady. New York
Central, 1301 ; Illinois, 129 ; Erie, 1121 ; United
States 5.20 dole. Bonds, 108 j.

Cotton firm and advancing. Middling Upland,
178 c. Flour and wheat dull. Corn heavy. Pro-
visions quiet. Ceff:.o dull. Sugar and molasses
steady. Crude Petroleum. 50c. ; refined, 82c.

SOUTHAMPTON, AUG. 17.

The North German Lloyd's steamer New York,
sailing hence to-day far New York, with the Ger-
man, French, and English mails, takes out 130
cabin passengers, a general cargo, and jewellery,
value 145,500 francs, from Havre.

DENMARK.

FLENSBURG, AUG. 17.

A division of the Prussian flotilla, under the
command of Captain Jachtnann, is making a trial
trip in the Schleswig waters of the Baltic, It will
toach at Eckernforde and Fiensburg.

ALTONA, AUG. 17.
Baron Konnerita left for Dresden yesterday. He
a expected to return in about a fortnight.

GREAT FIRE AT LIMOGES.

PARIS, AUG. 17.

A dreadful fire broke out on Monday evening at
Limoges, and was only subdued yesterday. From
120 to 150 houses have been consumed. Measures
have been taken for the sustenance and shelter of
those who have suffered by the catastrophe.
The Emperor not being able to go to Limoges on
account of the arrival of the King of Spain, has
sent his aide-de-camp, Colonel Reille, to relieve the
greatest sufferers. The Empress and Prince Im-
perial have each contributed 10,000 fr.

The King of Spain arrived at St. Cloud at nine
o'clock last night. The Emperor awaited his
majesty at the entrance of the park. A grand
reception afterwards took place.

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

MALTA, AuG. 16.

The Syria left at 7 cm. to-day for Marseilles,
and the Baroda will leave at 2 a.m. tomorrow for
The Poonab, from Southamptm on the 4th inst.,
reached Malta on the lath at 10 a.m., and left at
4 p.m., for Alexandria.
The Euxine, from Marseilles on the 12th inst.,
arrived at 8 p.m. on the 14th, and left at 1 a.m,
on the 15th for Alexandria.