The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-30 00:00:00

PROSPECTUS.

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This Company has been formed for the purpose of pur-
chasing and Carrying on the important and well-known busi-
ness of Engineers, Ironfounders, and Manufacturers of
Agricultural Machinery and Implements, which having been
established nearly half a century, has been conducted for the
last thirty years by Messrs. Barrett, Exalt, and Andrewes.
While these gentlemen will by this transaction the
accumulated profits of many years, they will yet remain large
ch reho, der -, and continue to give their active co-operation
in conducting the fbture business of the company.
The demand for machinery at home and abroad being so
extensive, capital to any ektent can be profitably employed
in its produetion, and the recent transfer of so many of the
first-class engineering firms in the country to CoMpanies
formed 'under the Act Of 18621 'Atone' Whoin may be named
Messrs. Fairbairn and Cld., and Messrs. Sharp, Stewart, and Co.,
of Manchestet% tressrs. John Brown and Co.. and Messrs. Cam-
mell and CO., of Sheffield, Messrs. Slaughter, Grinning, and.
CO., of Bristol, &c., is at once proof of the advantageous cha-
racter of the principle of association.
A provisional Agreement equitable and satisfactory, has
been entered into w:th the Vendors, which secures to the
Company, at a Valuation, the freehold known as "The
Katesgrove Iron Works, Reading," together with other
valuable freeholds and leaseholds, the goodwill, stock in
trade, plant, machinery, patent rights. &c.
The freeh Ads consist of water-side premises, having a
River frontage of 440 feet, with a roadway on the other side,
and an average depth of 375 feet, on which are erected the
large and commodious foundry, smithy, boiler shops, engi-
neers , fitters', and erectors' shops, replete with the necessary
tools and machinery. The engine-house with its horizontal
engine of 40-horse power, pair of boilers, baths, gas works,
offices, &C., as well as the lofty and massive store rooms,
pattern stores, Sze. A very large and commodious wood-
machine shop about 120 feet long by 30 feet wide, and a con-
verted timber yard occupies the site of another freehold.
The leasehold property consists of 10 acres of meadow
land, separated by the River Kennet from the Katesgrove
freehold, and easily connected at any time by a bridge.
The remaining works, on which are additional steam en-
gines of thirty-five horse power, are h, Id on annual tenure,
on which are the saw mills, stables, wood shops, store rooms,
iron house, and warehouses, smithy, sheds, show rooms,
offices, &c., the whole of which are conveniently arranged.
The connections and Agencies established by the retiring
Firm, both in this country and in the Colonies, as well as
throughout Europe, combined with the signal success which
their manufactures have attained, and the leading position
which they hold, their recognised standing at the Interna-
tional Exhibitions in England in 1851 and 1e62 and in France
in 1855, manifested also in the numerous and distinguished
prizes they have taken throughout Europe, cannot fail to
secure to this Company a r rosperous future.
As a guarantee of the soundness of the undertaking, the
Vendors have agreed that they will not receive any interest
on their shares unlit a minimum dividend of 5 per cent. has
been paid on the remainder of the subscribed carltal. which
agreement is to extend over a period of five years—while Mr.
William Exalt and Mr. Charles J. Andrewes,who have taken
respectively the Engineering and Commercial Manageme t
in the business, will, as soon as the transfer is complete, take
seats at the oard, and bring to bear their extensive and
valuable experience.
Whilst the Directors attach much importance to this agree-
ment with the Vendors, they think it right to state that they
have been advised by those capable of forming a correct opi-
nion on the subject, that the shareholders may fully antici-
pate a safe and remunerative dividend, and will therefore
pone, few can surpass it in this reasonable expec-
only add, in conclusion, that of the many enterprises now
before the
inasmuchthe as its ovrations will not be suspended for
single day ; its connection is made, the profits will therefore
be immediate, and the Directors have every reason to hope
that the services of the present executive staff, which has so
100 g and faithfully served the retiring firm, may be secured
to their successors.
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MALTA, May May 24.—Her Majesty's screw steam ship-of-
the line the Marlborough, bearing the flag of the Comman-
der-in-Chief Vice-Admiral Smart, K.H., accompanied by
the steam frigate Magicienne and the Cossack steam cor-
vette, left on the 20th for Corfu, to be present at the with-
drawal of the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian
Islands, and the other constituted authorities, civil and
military, as well as the troops, on the cession of the lonian
Islands to the Crown of Greece, which is fixed to take place
on the 2d of June. Her Majesty's steam transport Hima-
laya arrived on the 20th from Plymouth and Gibraltar,bring-
ing two midshipmen, six naval cadets, and ten engineers,
97 seamen, boys, and marines, to fill up vacancies in the
squadron ; Ensigns Prier, Hart, anti Galvey, of the 100th
Captain Colvin, of the 7th; Mr, and Mrs. Bowden and
three children, Mr. and Mrs. Webb, and Mr. and Mrs.
Wolley. The Himalaya leaves with the Tamar, for Corfu,
on the 24th (to-morrow). The ironclad screw steam fri-
gate Resistance arrived on the 22d from Susa, whence she
took her departure on the 20th of May. Her Majesty's
despatch steamer Pysohe left this morning for Zante with
despatches for the naval Commander-in-Chief and the mails
for the division in lonian waters. This vessel will convey
the Lord High Commissioner to Ancona, en route for
England. Her Majesty's steam ship-of-the-line Meanee
kas just quitted port for Corfu. The Tunedine steam sloop'
Beard arrived at Malta, from Alexandria, on the 19th
with a number of Ottoman passengers, and left for Tunis
on the 20th. The Egyptian steam frigate Nile, under the
command of Capt. Mason, of the Peninsular and Oriental
Company's service, arrived at Malta on the 22d May, having
on board Capt. Hamad Bey,bound to London to be lengthened
and refitted. The Ottoman despatch steamer Heki Cherif,
arrived at Malta on the afternoon of the 22d of May from
Tunis with despatches from his Excellency Haydar Effendi,
the Imperial Commissioner lately sent thither by the Sultan,
with which the same steamer left for Constantinople, after
coaling, early on the morning of the 23d. The substance of
these despatches was transmitted by the Ottoman Consul in
cipher, on the night of the 22d, through the medium of the
Continental telegraph lines to Constantinople."
The Orontes, screw troopship, Captain Henry W. Hire,
made a final and successful trial of her machinery at Ports-
mouth on Saturday, under the supervision of Capt. H.
Caldwell, C 8., the officer in command of the steam reserve
at the port. Four runs were made over the trial ground of
the measured mile, and the ship attained a mean speed of a
little over ten knots per hour with 121 b pressure of steam
and the engine making 50 revolutions. This result is rather
in excess of what had been anticipated, and if the boilers
only hold out and the engines continue to walk as satisfac-
torily as they did on Saturday, the Orontes may be looked
upon as a ship going at the rate of nine knots with light
winds and smooth water. What a falling off, however, is
here from the always-efficient Himalaya, upon which vessel
the Orontes is an " improvement" from Admiralty designs!
The Orontes has been nothing but a failure, comparatively
speaking, from the day on which she madti her first essay
under steam, and has been a constant source of annoyance
to all who had been concerned with her, whether it be her
designers, constructors, the steam factory officials of her
Majesty's dockyards, or the officials serving on board of her.
Her ohief engineer, a most indefatigable officer, has been
superseded by Admiralty order, and another appointed in
his place, and Capt. Hire himself has received a sharp re-
primand from the Admiralty for, it is presumed, stating
frankly his opinion relative to the Orontes' boilers and
machinery. As Captain Hire enjoys some reputation as a
troopship commander, and as his late chief engineer is ac-
knowledged to be a thoroughly efficient officer, naval officers
at Portsmouth openly express their surprise at the course
of events, and sayrnpathibe grt.tly witil butte ulriutrs. The
Orontes sailed from Spithead at noon yesterday for the
Mediterranean, where she will receive her orders as to ber
future movements from the Admiralty, through the Admi-
ral Commanding-in-Chief of the station. _ _

The paddlewheel steam sloop Centaur, 6, Commander J.
Creasy, from Hongkong, Jan. 11—Singapore, Jan. 23
Anjer, Jan. 29—Mauritius, March 6—Simon's Bay, April
3—Ascension, April 23—St. Vincent, May 10—and Ma-
deira, May 19, arrived in Plymouth Sound on Friday night.
The Pearl left Ascension April 21, for Portsmouth. The
Centaur spoke May 26, off Cape Finisterre, the ship Melody
outward bound. She brings home 85 naval invalids, includ-
ing Mr Parker, late master of the screw steam frigate Eury-
alus, 35; Acting Commander Mayow, late of the screw
steam gun vessel Sparrow, 5 ; and Mr. Inglis, late master
of the paddlewheel steam sloop Gorgon, 6. The Centaur
was put in commission in Sept., 1859. She has been chiefly
occupied in the East, and considerable changes have occur-
red is her officers and crew. Both the ship and her engines
will require repair. To-day she will be inspected by Port-
Admiral Sir C. H. Fremantle, K.C.B , after which her
powder r.nd ammunition will be discharged. She will then
be taken into Hamoaze to be dismantled, when her crew will
be paid off.
The screw steam gunboat Blazer, from Ireland, arrived
on Friday evening at Devonport, where she will be refitted
for active service.
Advices received from the West India and Pacific station
by our Southampton correspondent, report her Majesty's
ships Shearwater, Alert, and Columbine to have been at
Callao on April 28, The Aboukir. SO, Commander Cracroft,
C.B.—Liverpool, 39, Capt, Lambert—Challenger, 22, Capt.
Kennedy, C.B.—Rinaldo, 17, Commander Dunlop—and
Barracouta, 6, Commander D'Arcy, were at Port Royal,
Jamaica, May 9. The Royalist, 11, Commander Pollard,
left Kingston on April 25 for a cruise ; the Petrel, 11, Com-

mander Madden, on the 27th ; and the Steady, Commander
Harvey, on the 28th. The Virago, 6, Commander Johnston
left on the 2d inst. for Vera Cruz. The Pylades, Capt. Hood,
arrived at Grenada on the Bth of May from Barbadoes and
Tobago, with Governor Walker on board. The Duncan,
81, Capt. R. Gibson, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir
J. Hope, K.C.8., arrived at St. Thomas's on the 2d inst.,
and left for St. Domingo on the 3d. _ _ _

His Netherlands Majesty's steam frigate Zealand, 46
guns, Captain Pals Rycken, from Cape Town and St.
Helena, anchored in Falmouth Harbour on Saturday
afternoon, on her passage to Holland to obtain a supply
of fuel.

Orders have been received at the camp at Colchester
directing considerable draughts of officers and men of each
of the depot battalions at the camp—the 4th, 9th, and
10th—to be held in readiness to proceed to India to join the
service companies of their regiments. During the past
week the whole of the troops in camp were reviewed in
the Abbey Farm drill-field, under the general command
of Colonel Guy, C.B. ; the 4th depot battalion was under
the command of Col. Farren, C,B. ; the 9th depot battalion,
under the command of Col. Knox, C.B. ; and the 10th
depot battalion, under the command of Col, Street, C.B.
Various evolutions were creditably executed by the assem-
bled troops.
The enrolled pensioners of the Portsmouth dietrict, under
the command of Lieut.-Col. Meehan, have just completed
their summer training. The force, consisting of two officers
(Lieut.-Col. Meehan and Capt. Driver), and 370 men of all
ranks, was brigaded with the troops in Portsmouth garrison
on Southsea-common on the anniversary of bier Majesty's
birthday. Since then, on the completion of their allotted
time of annual drill, they have been officially inspected by
Col. Holcombe. of the 2d battalion of the Ist (Royals) Re-
giment of Infantry. He at the close of the inspection
expressed himself much pleased with the clean and soldierly
appearance of the men, and their thorough efficiency under
arms.

The Prussian military band has left Lyons to
return to Rastadt, where their regiment is in garrison.
The farewell demonstration given to them was most friendly.
A crowd assembled on the quay, where a steamboat was
lying to take them on board, and saluted them with the
loudest acclamations. On the evening before their departure
they gave a concert at the Salle de l'Alcazar, which was
densely thronged by persons from all classes of society, the
receipts for admission realising upwards of 9,000 fr.
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The scene was sad and impressive. President
Davis sat near the front, with a look of grief upon
his careworn face ; his cabinet officers were gathered
around, while on either side were the senators and
representatives of the Confederate Congress. Scat-
tered through the church were a number of gene-
rals and other officers of less rank—among the for-
mer General Ransom, commanding the department
of Richmond. Hundreds of sad faces 'witnessed the
scene; but the brave Fits Lea and other war-Avetiried
and war-worn men, whom the-dead Stuart had so
often led where the red battle was fiercest, and who
would have given their lives for hie, were away in
the fight, doubtless striking with a doable courage
as they thought of their fallen general.
The short service was read by the Rev. Dr. Peter-
kin, a funeral anthem sung, and the remains were
carried out and placed in the hearse, which pro-
ceedea to Holywood Cemetery, followed by a long
train of carriages.
No military escort accompanied the procession,
but the hero was laid in his last resting place on the
hill side, while the earth trembled with the roar of
artillery and the noise of the deadly strife of armies
—the one bent upon desecrating and devastating
his native land, and the other proudly and defiantly
standing in the path, and invoking the blessing of
Heaven upon their cause, to fight in better cheer for
the memory of snail as Stonewall Jackson and J.
E. B. Stuart.