The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-10 00:00:00

DANUBE AND BLACK SEA.

The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yes-
terday at the office, Abingdon-street, Westminster; Mr.
W. P. Price in the chair.

The report was taken as read.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report,
said that at the conclusion of the ordinary business they
would have to consider the expediency of increasing the
capital to £500,000. Although it was originally supposed
that £300,000 would have been sufficient for the construc-
tion of the railway and harbour at Kustendje, it was found
that more money would be required to provide accommoda-
tion for the merchants and traders in the shape of ware-
houses and machinery for lifting and preparing the grain
for shipment.,The sum of £400,000 capital was fixed upon
as forming the bases of the prospectus. This had been
increased last year by £40,000 for necessary works, and it
was estimated by their engineers that about £50,000 more
would be required to provide additional rolling stock, and
for improving the harbour, extending the quays, and pro-
viding further warehouse accommodation for the merch-
ants and traders to meet the requirements of a more ex-
tensive traffic. If the outlay of the additional sum he had
named should be as remunerative as they expected, the
board would not pledge themselves to limit the capital of
the company to L 500,000. Estimates of traffic had been
made which were founded on the rate of past increase, and
the natural increase of traffic where superior facilities
were afforded. Those estimates of traffic were very en-
couraging. It was estimated that the traffic in grain for
1863 would amount to 400,000 quarters, which, at is 6cl
per quarter, would give them a profit of Bd. per quarter;
but the actual amount carried was 325,000 quarters, and
there were 50,000 quarters of local grain. It was estimated
that 650,000 quarters of grain might be carried in 1865 and
850,000 quarters in following years, and so on up to 1,000,000
quarters per annum, the profits per quarter increasing with
the larger quantity carried. For the year 1864 it had been
estimated that the profit would be £19,133; for 1865 that
600,000 quarters, at 9d., would produce £22,500, which,
with passengers (£7,500) and other traffic, would yield a
profit of £32,500, and when the quantity carried amounted
to 800,000 quarters the profit would be £41,916, subject to
a deduction in each case of £1,500 for expenses in England.
So that, according to the estimate for the year 1864, they
would have a profit of L 17,500, and in 1865 of £31,000, after
deducting expenses in England. In 1864 the preference
charges would be about £lO,OOO, leaving £7,600 for pay-
ment of arrears now due on preference stock ; but if they
Placed the losses on revenue account up to May, 1863, to a
suspense account, which would be gradually liquidated, and
appropriated the profit on working the traffic during the
past half-year towards these arrears, there would remain
£4,000 for dividend on the ordinary shares. In 1865 the
preference charges would amount to £14,000, and, as the
arrears would then be cleared off, there would remain
£17,000 available for dividend on the ordinary share capital
of £325,000. The additional expenditure would enable
them to carry and otherwise accommodate the increased
traffic that had been estimated. The £lOO,OOO additional
capital they proposed to ask the proprietors to enable them
to raise included a sum of £35,000 which had already been
borrowed. As to the terms upon which the additional
capital should be raised the meeting or a committee ap-
pointed for the purpose would have to decide.
_ _

Mr. LEWIS seconded the motion for the adoption of the
report.

Mr. M'Garal complained that they had been seven years
without dividend, and now they were called upon to raise
a further sum of £lOO,OOO.
In reply to questions by Mr.FoRD, the general manager,
Mr. BARCLAY stated that the additional outlay would pro-
duce in rentals and otherwise a return of from 8 to 12 per
cent,

The report and statement of accounts were adopted.
It was agreed to raise the further sum of £lOO,OOO and to
place the loss on working the traffic to a separate account.
The retiring directors, Mr. Moon, Mr. Barwell, and Mr.
Gordon, were re-elected, and also Mr. R. Potter, the retir-
ing auditor.
The ordinary proceedings were then adjourned for a short
time, and the meeting was made special to consider the best
mode of raising the necessary funds.
On the motion of Mr. FORD, seconded by Mr. CROWLEY,
a resolution was passed referring the matter to a committee
of shareholders, consisting of Mr. 11PGaral, Mr. Robertson,
Mr. Ford, Mr. Crowley, and Mr. Berbeck to confer with the
directors as to the best mode of raising the £lOO,OOO, and to
report the result to the meeting on Monday next.
The special and ordinary meetings were then adjourned
accordingly to receive the report of the committee.

PRICE ...... ...4d.
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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS,

HERPILD.—The blood which Austria and Prussia
have shed so wantonly cries toHeaven for vengeance.
The brutal butchery which) with the approval of
the Grown Prince of Prussia and his cousin, has been
committed by the Anglo-Prussian army since the
abandonment of the Dannewerke' will earn for the
two great German Powers the execration of all civi-
?;sed communities. Wanton enough was the invasion
of Sri."
swig,
ig, when the object which tho Austrian
acrd 1,01131h:I Governments professed to seek wee
secured to them,The withdrawal of the November
Constitution mig ht h,ye been obtained without the
sacrifice of a single life. LLB that outrage upon law,
that violation of common humstaty, pales before the
infamous massacre which the overv7helming forces
of the allies have perpetrated in Angelo, in the
streets of Flensburg, and are continuing along the
roads running northward from that town. When
the Danes retired from the Dannewerke the pro-
feesed object of the Austrian and Prussian Govern-
ments was accomplished. Schleswig was theirs. The
purpose of the Danish army was to escape from the
Duchy as fast as it possibly could. It abandoned its
material of war; it sought to pass into Jutland or
cross over to Funen, and thence to Zealand, If the
allied commanders had been animated by the spirit
professed by their Governments they would have
contented themselves with achieving this result, and
would have allowed the Danes to escape. But, with
a ferocity which reminds one of the worst days of
German armies, they fell upon this retreating force,
with which they hardly profess to be at war, and
slew as many es they possibly could. Watch the
Danes out, force them out of the Duchy, that would
have been fair enough. To annihilate them, as the
Austro-Prussian commanders have sought to do,
was sheer savagery. Fast as the Danes retreated,
the Austro-Prussian " braves" were faster. The
small and shattered Danish army was attacked
again and again by forces far outnumbering
it. No losses it sustained satiated the fury
of the victors, who seem resolved not to stay
their bloody work until they have pat to the sword
every Dane. Is this slaughter a satisfaction for the
humiliations of 1850 ? Are the Danes butchered to
satisfy the Austrians for their discomfiture in Italy,
and the Prussians for the contempt with which
France has treated them ? The Prussian army was
sent to Schleswig fifteen years ago, by the avowal
of the Prussian Minister, to restore its character.
Is it sent now to inspire it with confidence ? The
relentless cruelty with which the present King of
Prussia suppressed the outbreak in Baden was in
its day the subject of general reprobation. It would
seem that the ferocity imputed to him as exceptional
is a family trait. His son and two of his nephews
share the glory of the bloody work which was done
on Saturday and Sunday in the pleasant land of
Angeln, in the outskirts of Flensburg, and which is
being zealously carried on to Apenraade, For
glory it will be deemed in Germany. The greater
the slaughter of the Danes the greater the satisfac-
tion amongst Radicals and Reactionists. The more
scalps the army has to show the better it will be re-
ceived by that pseudo-civilised community, the
louder will its heroic deeds be sung by the countless
bards. Saxons and Hessians, Swabians and Bava-
rians, will burst with envy to think that they were
not engaged in the glorious encounter. We shall
hear much from Germany about the valour of the
Germans, but it is a valour which will not be ac-
cepted out of that country. Three men will always
be brave when they have only one to oppose them,
and the poor fellow is wearied out and anxious to
make h;:21 escape. There is nothing for Germany
to take credit for in the massacre of thirty-five
thousand men :oh's, eighty-five thousand. How-
ever, the last Danish soldier having been mur-
dered, the Duchy will be at the disposition of the
Austrian and Prussian Governments, Will they
be satisfied with the slaughter they have made,
and now, having invaded Schleswig with the best
intentions towards Denmark, restore it to her with
a new constitution of their own framing ? If
we could place the faintest reliance on their profes-
sions we should assume that they would do so ; and
having chastised King Christian in love, put him
anew in possession of the states which they acknow-
ledge to be his. But we cannot place any reliance
upon their professions. They are satisfied that
England will not interfere; they feel sure of France,
whose consent at the worst they can purchase at the
expense of some of the small states which have been
annoying them ; and they have already given hints
that they mean to consider the treaty at an end.
The explanations of Lord Palmerston are anything
but assuring. Of what use is it for Earl Russell to
protest against the doctrine that the resistance of
the Danes annulled the treaty. His protests will
be treated with contempt. The officie I organ of the
Prussian Ministry roundly declares that Austria and
Prussii have not expressed the intention to uphold
the integrity of the Danish monaiphy ; and although
this statement is probably premature, its appearance
in such a journal indicates sufficiently tLat if they
have not yet made up their minds to repudiate the
treaty, they have a strong inclination to do so. The
language employed by the Crown Prince of Prussia
—whose part in this monstrous iniquity we will not
trust ourselves to characterise—in answering an
address at Rensburg, is significant, as showing that
his influence will be given to promote the violation
of the treaty and the establishment of the pretender
upon the throne of Schleswig-Holstein, if it should
not be found quite convenient that Prussia should
retain possession of the Duchies. Governments
which have not scrupled to shed such torrents of
blood upon so trifling a pretext will not now be
bound by a treaty which they have already violated,
and to which they only pretended to adhere so long
as there was a chance that England might act the
part which her honour and her interests called upon
her to take. They are satisfied now that England
will put up with any humiliation rather than go to
war; and they will consult their own interests only
in the disposition of the country which by a crime
fouler far than the partition of Poland they have
wrested from Denmark.
POST.—The amendment of the 3d and 4th Vic-
toria, cap. 54, proposed by Sir George Grey, consi•
derable as it was made to appear, is in reality, look-
ing at it practically, very small indeed. The
alterations which are suggested in the mode of
ascertaining the insanity of a prisoner are, that the
certificate of lunacy must be signed by two visiting
justices of the gaol in which he is confined ; that the
two medical men by whom the prisoner is to be exa-
mined and the certificate made are to be selected by
the visiting justices, and they must be physicians
or surgeons duly registered under the Medical Re-
gistration Act; and that the Secretary of State, on
receipt of the certificate, may, in cases where he
entertains doubt, order a further inquiry. Now,
reading the act as we have all along read it, as
permissive and not mandatory, in so far as it defines
the duty of the Secretary of State, this last and
most important provision is, in point of law, scarcely
required. It may serve to explain, but it certainly
does not, as we submit, change the subsisting
enactment. With respect to the selection of the
medical men who are to conduct the examination
of the prisoner and make the certificate, there are,
we apprehend, few if any objections that apply to
the magistracy as a body which are not equally ap-
plicable to visiting justices ; and as the irresponsi-
bility of magistrates for any official act not legally
corrupt has been so remarkably exemplified in the
case of the justices who signed the certificate in'
favour of Townley, this provision alone appears to
present no sufficient safeguard against the undue
influence a sharp attorney could bring to bear upon
the visiting justices of a borough gaol. There are
members in the present House of Commons who
could, if they pleased, give Sir George Grey in-
stances from the boroughs they repress
nt of at-
torneys who are as able to bias visiting justices
as they are to control the corporations to which
they act as clerks. So, also, the provision which
requires that the subscribing medical men shall be
registered physicians or surgeons, though right
enough as far as it goes, is obviously dependent on
the honesty or discretion of the selected justices.
It offers some security, and it will be said, as good
security as is
given in the signature of ordinary
certificates of lunacy; but Sir George Grey himself
is evidently not satisfied with it, and he therefore
reserves to the Secretary of State the power to make
further inquiry; and, in fact, on that reservation
the proposed amendment of the act will have to be
tested. Practically, there will be no difficulty in
a certificate of lunacy fr
obtaining GM visiting jus-
tices and registered medical men. Human ure
and psychological theories will operate generally
as they operated at Derby. If these amendments
had been in force, would they have prevented the
attempt to defeat the ends of justice, which unfor-
tunately succeeded, end has suggested them ? The
visiting justices must have ordered an inquiry into
the state of Townley's mind. It would have been
their duty to do so. But they might have selected
other medical men than those by whom the inquiry
was actually connucted ? Sir G. Grey has been very
particular in explaining that he believes the certi-
ficates he has received were made bona fide, after due
inquiry,and on positive conviction. We will assume,
however, that this would have been a case in which
doubtsmight have suggested themselves to the How(
Secretary, and that, iu tho exerciee of the discretion

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which it is supposed the law as it stance; does not
give, but which, as proposed to be rt.'netteled, /V.;
have been conferred, he determined up on,instituting-IVeir
further inquiry. What would have been the stepe-:'
first taken ? Townley must have been respitedNL S
putting the case argumentatively, we aro entitled
to take it that the certificate could not have been
sent earlier; and, indeed, a law of this kind must
contemplate an inquiry at the eleventh hour, and
of necessity, where the Home Secretary entertains
a doubt, the respite of the convict during further
inquiry. In fact, there would have been very little
if any difference in the proceedings. Of course,
under the amended law, Townley would not have
been sent to Pentonvilie. It cannot be intended
that in cases where the Home Secretary is com-
pelled to respite a convict to admit of further in-
quiry Tiring made, a commutation of the punish-
rnent is to follow as of course, though he be prove: 6.
to be perfectly sane. But take another case, ant.:
one that can easily occur under the law as it ie
proposed to be emended. Say that the inquire.
ordered and conducted by the visiting justices ewer
registered medical men results in a certificate o;:'
the prisoner's sanity. Does anybody think that
when a prisoner has money to employ an acute
attorney it will not be possible to instil
doubt into the mind of the Home Secretary end
obtain a further iequiry ? While, on the other
hand, if the prisoner be poor and friendless, what
will there he in the certificate to raise a doubt
which might possibly be the means of eetablishing
his insanity ? In practice, it seems but too pro-
bable that the rich criminal would, under the
amended law, maintain, at least, the advantage he
now has over the poor criminal, unless the Home
Secretary were to order a further inquiry in every
case, and, if that is to be understood, these amend-
ments might be very much simplified.

The Heroic Veteran—Count Flahault.

ONE OF THE LAST THE CHIVALROITS -
LOWERS OF THE GREAT NAPOLEON !

For the following singularly interesting account
of the career of the Count Flahault we are indebted
to the pen of the Paris correspondent of cur leading
contemporary :
The appointment of Count Flahault to the post of
Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour has
given general satisfaction. It is remembered that
he was a soldier two years before the order of which
he is now the head was founded by the First Con-
sul; and which, though often bestowed prodigally,
the genius of the founder seems to have preserved
in all vicissitudes from degradation or decay. Count
Flahault is the most illustrious survivor of that
wonderful period which comprises the Consulate end
the Empire,under which he held a prominent place.
He witnessed net merely as a spectator, but as an
actor, the tremendous struggles which shook Europe
to its foundations ; and was not the least in those
days when there were giants in the land. There ere
persons who figure as heroes in works of fiction with
less of the romantic in their career than the Chan-
cellor of the Legion of Honour. He was born in
Paris in 1785, when the first moaning of the
tempest which was to sweep everything before
it was heard. His father was an officer of
rank in the French army and died ca the
scaffold during the Reign of Terror, on the
charge of incivism and of being an aristocrat. The
friends of the family succeeded in conveying the
orphan child to England, where he was put to
school. The story goes that he suffered no small
torment from his comrades merely on account of his
nationality; so that whereas the Parisian Terrorists
put the father to death for not being sufficiently
national, the son was persecuted at school for
being too much so. When order was restored by
the strong hand of Bonaparte, M. Flahault returned
to France, but not to lead a life of inactivity. It
was a stirring period. The renown of Marceau,
General at 24, dying the death of a hero at 27, and
over whose grave the enemy as well as his own
army paid military honours; of Hocbe, to whose
other well-earned titles was added that of Pacifi-
cator of La Vendee," and who died, full of glory, at
29; and of others destined to a still loftier flight,
not to speak of the greatest of all, attracted to the
ranks of the army the youth of France. Bonaparte
was then preparing for his Italian campaign nod
for the victory of Marengo, which secured the sub.
mission of Italy, broke in pieces the second coa-
lition, and Pnded in the peace of Luneville.

Young Flahault enrolled himself in the corps

volunteers attached to the army under the First
Consul. At such a time, in such au army,
and under such a leader, gallantry in the field.
was sure not to pass unnoticed or unrewarded ;
and as the merits of the young soldier of tortuhe
were of a high order, he met with rapid promotion.
He was successively appointed to the staff of 11 urat,
Berthier, and Napoleon himself, and served with
great distinction in the campaigns of Portugal,
Germany, and Russia. He was named General of
Brigade, General of Division, and Count cf the
Empire in 1813. During the desperate struggle
maintained against such fearful odds by Napoleon
on the French territory in 1814, Count Flahault
was selected to conduct the negotiations for an
armistice at Lusigny with the alike, but the nego-
tiations were broken off the day Troyeswas retaken ;
the propositions of the negotiator being considered
inadmissible by the Powers. A merit beyond that
of the mere soldier attaches to Count Flahault's
name. He was not one of those to whom could be
applied the sarcasm which the ingratitude of those
who worshipped him while he was all-powerful,
and who abandoned him in his adversity, wrurg
from the Emperor. Count Flahault's deveJela
to his chief was the same to the last ; it
was pushed even to rashness. Having nobly
borne his part in the final struggle of Water-
loo, he did not yet despair; and after the abdiee-
tion of Napoleon he headed, with Lucien and Lab
doyere, the Imperial party in the Chamber of Peers,
of which he was a member, and made the most des-
perate efforts to sustain the dynasty in the person of
Napoleon's son. What a moment that was when.
Ney rushed in while Davoust was reading his
report of the military resources that yet remained.
to France in a most favourable point of view, and.
announced that it was all illusion; that it was ab-
surd to suppose that 60,000 men could then be
rallied ; that Marshal Grouchy could hardly
ter 10,000 or 15,000 ; that the Prussians were not
beaten, and that the allies would be at the gates
of the capital in six or seven daysl
In the midst of the vehement agitation whieT2.
followed these tidings Flahault did not despair ;
and he, Lucien, Joseph, and Labedoyere pre-
claimed Napoleon 11. Their efforts were vain ; the
Government of France was to be decided otherwise
than by debates in either the Peers or the Depu-
ties. When all was over, among these who were
forced to emigrate was Count Flahault. Owing,
I believe, to the influence of Prince Talleye
rand, his name wes struck
u
of exiles soon after the second restoratofiotheno ist
of
tihe.
Bourbons, and he was enabled to return to France..
The Revolution of July restored him to his seat in
the Chamber of Peers and to his rank in the army.
subsequentlyte
Duke
Hh
household s ewhaosl dof h oafttoacrlheeadns,thoadt
the
eevemraillidtailpT-
lomatic missions entrusted to him, and held the
post of Ambassador to Vienna from 1842 to the
Revolution of 1848. As General of Division he
was placed on the reserve of the army in 1849.
On the sth May, 1838, he had been named Knight
Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, of which ho
now is Grand Chancellor. _ _

Few have passed through more vicissitudes of
good and adverse fortune than Count Flahault:
As one of the oldest and most faithful followers of
the first Napoleon it wan natural that he should be
highly considered by the third of the name, whom
he represented as Ambassador in London, after
having represented Louis Philippe at Vienna.
Count Flahault is so well known in England that
it is superfluous to say his nobleness of character,
distinction of manner, and kindness of disposition
have grined him es much goodwill there as i❑. las
native country, and that his friends on both snlivs
of the Channel have learnt with equal satisfac;i:n
the honour so appropriately conferlecl by .he
nephew on ono of the most gallant geutleui" of
uncle's court and camp.

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11.CIE THIRD EDITION OF THE SUN,"
it Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,
on be had Every Evening of
G. It. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT,
No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park.

THE CITY MERCANTILE CLUB and
DINING HALL COMPANY (Limited).
(Incorporated under the Companies Act, 1862.)
Capital, £BO,OOO, in 8000 shares of £lO each.
Deposit, £1 per Share on application, and £1 on allotment,
Should no allotment be made the deposit will be returned
in full.

DIRECTORS.
Captain Capel Coape, Army and Navy Club.
John Sainsbury Davenport, Esq. (Deputy Commissary
General), Clarendon Lodge, Brighton.
Thomas Shann Derham, Esq. (of the firm of Wilkinson
and Co,), flax spinners, Leeds.
Frederick Augustus Legg, Esq., The Willows, South
Norwood.
Thomas Hardwick, Esq., Moorland-terrace, Leeds.
Thomas King. Esq., 23, St. Paul's-grove, Canonhury.
David Fraser Luckie, Esq. (Director of the City and County
Assurance Company), 26, Ashley-place, Victoria-street,
Westminster.
John Theodoridi, Esq., Merchant, Great Winchester-
street, Broad-street, City.
With power to add to their number.
BANKERS.—The London and County Bank, Lombard-
street, City, and Hanover-square.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Tippetta and Son, 2, Sise-lane, Bucklersbusy, City.
Messrs. Upton and Yewdall, Leeds.
SECRETARY (pro. tem.)—Mr, J. W. Tempest.
Temporary Offices-24, Bucklersbury (two doom from the
Mansion House.)
In introducing the City Mercantile Club and Dining
Hall Company to the public the Directors have pleasure in
knowing that they are supplying a great public want, it
being universally admitted that—
A Club adapted to the constantly increasing growth and
requirements of the commercial and mercantile world of the
City of London, and
A higher class public dining and refreshment hall are
greatly wanted.
lhe
Club, with its private dining, reading, and smoking-
roomsunclr for. the exclusive use of members, will be conducted
9e management of a committee. strictly upon the
Principles of similar establishments, with a small entrance
fee and subscription, and a moderate dining-room tariff,
avid of men of the commercial world. The
easdtaapbtleisdhtmoetaliy
t,
contain from 30 to 40 bed •rooms.
Holders of
a
ballot) be admitted har"
and upwards will (subject to the
to the membership of the club, without
entrance fee.
The public dining halls will be on a scale worthy of the
City. and capable of comparison with any establishment on
the Continent.
The Directors have purcbasedcity:ninonce
of the beat and most
central situations in the
uhyavinagp
a intimifietbraproxixr.ity to the
principal places of business,
(recently erected under the
,superintanden no 7 of buildings
an eminent
architect) in the centre of Ch.eeampaiindeen.
establishment. feet of floor space, and pre
re-
quirements of all branches of. the propose
It will be for the consideration of the Directors whether
it is desirable to let off the ground amt basement floors, the
residue of the premises providing ample space for the re-
quirements of the undertaking, and should these floors bs
k,o let off they will alone command a rental sufficient to
guarantee a substantial dividend upon the paid-up capital.
The Directors have carefully considered the probable
profits and returns of this undertaking, and their moat
moderate calculations show a dividend of from 30 to 40 per

cent. •
Toe Directors congratulate themselves on having secured
the invaluable; co-operation of several gentlemen whose
practical knowledge and experience will be truly desirable.
In consequence. of a large amount of shares having been
nlv,a,iy applied for (and a most encouraginz number of
aiplications made for Club membErship),the Directors are
o,topelled to add that the list of applications for shares can
remain open for a limited period only. In the meantime
applications for the Una'lotted shares must be made to the
B,:licitors or Secretary; the required deposit having been
pr,vi„osiy paid to the Bankers of the Company.
The Actleles of Association can be seen at the Company's

Offloca.

FORA OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
0. ----
To the Directors of the City Mercantile Club and Dining
Hall Company (Limited).
Gentiemen,—l request that you will allot me
Shares of £lO each, in the above Company, and I enclose a
cheque for the deposit of 11 per Share thereon : and I un-
dertake to pay th,, further sum of £1 on allotment, to pay
ail call); th-reon, and to execute the articles of association
when reqeired.
Dated this

day of 18
Nantes it: full
Residence
Profession or trade
Place of business