The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 29, 1864.

110 ?ERSONS SEEKING LANDED
ES'iATES, TOWN AND COUNTRY RisSIDENCES,
FREEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD INVESTMENTS, AND
PROPERTIES GENERALLY—
To BE HAD GRATIS, at the principal Railway Bookstalls
throughout the kingdom, or at the Auction and Estate Offices,
No. 67, Chancery-lane, London, Messrs. E. and H. Lumley's
"FREE PROPERTY REGISTER," containing It varied selection
of landed and house properties now in the market, from
the nobleman's mansion, with its manorial domain, to the
cottage with its few acres.
OWNERS OF I OFERTIF.S wishing to Sell or Let can em-
brace the oppot tanity that the medium of this Register
affords, by sending the particiVars of their properties to the
Estate Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London, as the Messrs.
Lumley can in most cases introduce imillediate customers,
where the property is of an eligible chara ter, thereby avoid-
ing the disaavantages of delay and its attenaaut incon-
veniences.
'MERE IS NO MARGE incurred, unless a tenant or pnr-
inset is introduced through Messrs. Lumley.'s Agency,
tad then only the usual moderate commission.
Auction and Laud Offices, 67, Chancery-lane. London.

•
VUR NIT U RE, CARPETS, BEDDING, and
12 FLOORCLOTH, CARTHAGE-FREE to any house in
the kingdom, regardless of amount or distance. First-class
goods at second-class prises. Terms peculiarly liberal to
Clergymen and Gentlemen. An immense stock to select
from, displayed in Showrcoms occupying an acre of. ground.
Every article warranted.
WatilitGYMEN and GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR-
NISH are respectfully informed that Messrs. Cobbett and
Co. are publishing an entirely New Edition of their un-
equalled HOUSE FURNISHING GUIDE, illustrated by4lo
ddm,-able engraving's of every description of Furniture and
iseasteads, with prices attached. A copy sent gi atis and
post-tree on application. This costly work also contains
complete estimates for furnishing on the following revised
scale : •
A six-roomed Parsonage £74 3 0
An Eight-roomed ditto
A Ten-roomed ditto ........
• A Twelve;roomed ditto
L'ogether with a Price List of purified Bedding, and a mass
of valnable informationto all requiring household furniture,
carpets, or bedding. References kindly permitted to Clergy-
men and gentlemen in or near Great rttalvern, Southampton;
Chichester. Bury, Ely, Preston, Grimsby, Ryde, Plymouth,
Wells, Oxford, Brighton, Gainsborough, Margate. Kidder-
minster, Wellington, Croydon. Cambridge, Staines, Dorking,
St. Alban's, Worcester, Ipswich, Peterborough, St. David's,
Wrexham, and above 500 other places in all parts of Great
Brita.u.
COBBETT and CO.. General House Furnishers, Dcptf ord-
bridge, London. S.E.

TVO TICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the
DIRECTORS of the CITY OFFICES COMPANY
(Limited) have this day made a Ca I of £2
at Ihos. per Share
and
on
the Shares of the Company, payable Te Agra
Afasterman's Bank (limited), N.cholas-lane, on or before
TUESDAY, the 24th of November next; and Interest, at
the rate of 10 per cent., will be charged on all Calls not then
paid.
By order of the Board,
G. W. BENWELL, Secretary.
N.B.—No Transfer of Shares, upon which the Call bee not
been paid, will be rejstered.
27th October, 1864.

LONDON AND LANCASHIRE
INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Fire Capital, £1,000,000. Life Capital, £lOO,OOO.
London: 73 and 74, King William-street, E.C.
CLIAIRMAN.
F. W. RUSSELL, Esq., M.P. (Chairman of the National
Discount Company).
DEPIITY-CTIAIRMEN.
Fire—Mr. Alderman and Sheriff DAKIN.
Life—J. 11. MACKENZIE, Esq., Gresham-house, Cld
Broad-street.
The increase in Government Duty for 18E3 over) „ „,,
1812 Is the largest of any London office. v z.: j
The Fire Premiums for 1863 amounted to more thin .E6',000
Being an Increase over 1862 of nearly ......... .£409,0 0
The New Lite Premiums for 18E3 we e...• 3
Home and Foreign Insurances on f ivourable terms.
For Life Rates Stir PS Features, pectuses.
W. P. CLIREHUG EL General Manager.

THE QUEEN INSURANCE COMPANY.
Capital, Two Minims Sterling.
Queen Insurance Buildings, Gracechurch-street,
London, E.C.
Queen Insurance Buildings. Liverpcol.
At the ANNUAL MEETING of the Proprietorn held at
LiVerp,ol, on the 27th October, 1804, BERNARD HALL,
req., Chairman of the Company, in the chair, the Directors'
Report fur the year stated :
That the Fire Premiums for the year amounted to .£101,035
Being an increase over the preceding year of 30,785
That 352 Life Policies were issued i0r..... 205,088
Being- an increase over the preceding year of 57,508
That the New Life Premiums were......
Being an increase over the preceding year ot 2,421
That the Life Income was .. 23,531
And that upwards of ID per cent. ot the tntire Net
• Premiums was added to the Life Fund.
That the Subscribed Capital was increased t 0.... 1,878,720
That the Paid-up Capital was increased to .. 18',671
That after providing for al! outstanding Claims,
the Fire Reserve would stand at 114,312
Making the Fantle in hand, atter providing for the
Divid nd
A avidend was declared of 2s. per ;hare, being 10 per
Cent. short on the paid up Capital.
The Ch ,irman, in his a tdrers to the thareholders, dreW
their attention to the following unusual adva.tage afforded
among others to Lite Assurers by this Company : -
The Outside Expenditure for the General Management of
the Company, chargeable to the Life Department, is abso-
lutely restricted blny the Deed of Settlement to Ten per Cent.
of the Net Lite e. ost i restriction
shows that the into:estcome of th Thise
participating Po iloy Holders
tve closely watched and carefully attended to by the Com-
pany. Attention is especially called to this point, as the pro-
portion of premiums expended for management must largely
influence Profits and Bonnets.
The Lite Bonus declared in 1803 averaged 48 per Cent. of
the premiums paid by the assured, and was in soma cases as
high as 75 per Cent.
J. MONCRIEFF WILSON, General Manager.
JOHN E. LEYLAND, Secretary.

THE IMPERIAL MERCAN TILE CREDIT
ASSOCIATION, Limited.
Capital subscribed, X. 5,000,100, la 100,000 shares of 110 each.
Paid up, 00,,C00.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
JOHN CHAP.SLA.N, Esq., Chairman.
Xenophon Ball!, Esq. Charles Belson, Esq,
E. J. Coleman, Esq. G. G. Maophers,m, Esq.
Mr. Alderman Dakin. Si. H. Pelly. Bart.
James Dickson, DA. W. Scholefield, Esq„ MP.
P. D. Radow, Esq. Sir S. I). Scott, Part.
J. 0. Hanson, Esq. H. D. Seymour, Esq., M.P.
W. H. Harford, Esq. Joseph Thornton, Esq.
G. F. Holroyd, Esq. F. G. Westmorland, hs j.
J. G. Hombre, Esq. Alfred Wilson, Esq.
Capt. J. Gilbert :Johnston. M. Zarifi, Esq.
RANKERS,
The Bank of England.
The Agra and Masterman's Bank, Limited.
The Bank of London.
The Union Bank of London. •
Eir W. Miles, Bart., and Co., BrlstoL
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Edwards and Co., and Messrs. Ashurst, Morris, and
Co.
MANAGERS.
Henry J. Barker, Esq., and T. Fraser Sandeman, Esq.
This Assoehtion receives money on deposi t at notice, and
for fixed periods, on terms to be agreed upon makes advances
on approved securities, and effects purchases and sales of
stocks, shares, and debentures; negotiates loans, and under-
takes general financial business.
Communications to be addressed to the Managers.

By order.
W. C. WIN TERBOTTOM, Secretary.
TEMPORARY OFFICES.
Crosby House, 90, Bishop ate-street Within.

SOllO ESTATE, HOUSE, AND GENERAL
BUSINESS AGENCY OFFICES.—Persons requiring
Freehold or Leasehold Property, or having Business and
Houses to be dispose,' of, should apply to Mr. CHARLES
MURRAY, Auctioneer and Valuer, 20, Gerrard-street,
Soho, W.
Valuations for Probate Administration, Fire Claims, Rail-
way Compensations, &o. Rents Collected.

3lArDesAtoMrerEof
yyouth RACHEL,.and
t
beauty,
hegreat
tatesn, s anopportunitydonly
to caution the aristocracy and nobility against persons who
are vending dangerous compounds, the principal ingredients
of which are composed of the most deadly leads and other
cosmetics, for bleaching and whiting the lace, such com-
pounds being spurious imitations of Sfadaml Rachel's
Arabian 'toilette requisites, which can only be obtained at
her residence, 47A, New Bond-street.

EET H. -IMPROVED MECHANICAL
DENTlSTRY.—Professional abilities and great artistic
skill have been most successfully combined in the production
of ARTIFICIAL TEETH. upon a new principle. The real
value of the perfection of the art of Dentistry will be experi-
enced by all wishing to avail themselves of professional
assistance by =suiting Mr. ALBERT, 34, Great Russell-
street, Bloomsbury, whose experience has enkbled him to
effect such admirable, convenient contrivances by artificial
means, and which are so perfectly efficient

DINNEFORD'S PURE FLUID MAGNESIA
has been, durirg thirty years. emphatically sanctioned
by the Medical Profession, forivy accepted by the
Public, as the Best Remedy Acidity of the Stomach,
Heartburn. Headache, Gout, and Indigestion, and as a Mild
Arient for delicate constitut more es. dlfor Laes
and Children. Combined withions the, A coidulap
tedLemon Syrup
it forms an agreeable Effervescing Draught, in which its
Aperient qualities are much increased. During Hot Seasons,
and, above all, in Hot Climates, the reaular use of this sim-
ple and e egant remedy has been found highly beneficial.
Manufactured (with the utmost attention to strength and
purity) by DINNEFORD and CO.. 172, New Bond-street,
London ; and sold by all respectable Chemists throughout
the Empire.

'NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and
.111 most useful invention of the day, AQUA AMARELL A.
Messrs. JOHN GOS NELL and CO., 3, Kinr-court, Lombard-
street, London, Perfumors to her Majesty, respectfully offer
to the public this truly marvellous fluid. which gradually
restores the human hair to its pristine hue—no matter at
what age. The Agua Amarella has none of the properties of
dyes ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the system, and
when the hair is once restored one application per month will
keep it in perfect colour. Price one -guinea per battle, or in
half bottles, Ks. ill Testimonials from art fetes of the highest
order, and from individuals of undoubted respectability, may
be seen on application. Messrs. John Goenell and Co. have
been appointed Perfumers to her Royal Highness the Princes 5
of Wales.

--
The enormous piggery et Portesham, in Dorset,
now contains a herd of swine nearly 4,000 in number. The
animals are chiefly fed oa wheat and maize. Pig meat is 2s
a score dearer than it was this time last year, owing to the
scarcity of butchers' meat in general.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—Holloway's Pills are the most
gentle yet most effective aperients, and therefore hotter cal-
culated for a family medicine than any other drug. They
always set the stomach right, rouse the liver, stimulate the
kidney, and thoroughly cleanse the whole system. Hollo-
way's pills are most useful in chronic weakness of the
et( mach induced by luxurious living, sedentary habits, or
other causes. They have restored the emaciated to health
after every other means had failed. While they are puri-
fying they are strengthening, while regulating they are in-
creasing nervous and muscular power. These pills do not
excite any violent action iu the body; .hence they are spe-
cially euitcd to the young and feeble, whose constitutims
may be irretrievably injured by more powerful medicines.

certainly have indignantly repudiated any-such attempt.
The gentleman whom the English Government dispatched
to Berlin were told that they need not alarm themselves.,
and might go home. What reduction might bo made in
the new tariff would be made in favour of the whale world ;
but political circumstances might prevent anything being
done for a considerable time. The promise has been ful•
filled.

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week.

Railways.

Miles Opened. Receipts.

1664. 18C3.

1864.
X

Belfast and N. Counties 134 13( 27.01 2,057
Ite!fast and County Down 49 49 G9l 610
Myth and Tyne . 23 28 1,9;6 1,9 3
Bristol and Exi:ter - l2ll 1211} 6,31 6, L4O
Caledonian
Cambrian

Cockerzno uth & Workington 8i 81 357 3i 0
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 362 331
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage Ol Gi 161 154
Cork and Youghal .. . 321 321 415 385
Cornwall Ol 01 1,032 1.600

Deeside l- 17
Dublin & 14ellastJunction 63 63
Dublin and Drogheda 75 75
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd 9ll 64
Furness, dr.c 5O 5 i
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.r&E.Union
Great Northern 387 853
Great North of Scotland 5B 68
ti t. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 711
¶lt.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 8875 3735
Great Western l2lO 1109
Hull and Homsea .. 13
Inverness & Aberdeen Jum .. 1065 1065
Inverness & Perth Junction 1195 195
Irish North-Western 145 145
Kent Coast 27 27
Lancashire & Yorkshire 403 401
Limerick and Ennis... 241 241
Limerick and Foynes 261 2(4
Llanelly 46 461
Llynvl Valley
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 6l 6
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2671 2611
London, Chatham, & Dover 725 725
Do. Metropolitan Extension 116 105
Man.,Sheilleld,& Lincolnsh
Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 95 95
Maryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6514 641
Midland GLWestn. of !rind 262 2591
Monkland 714 715
Monmoutlish. Rail. & Canal 44 44
North British. Edin.. Perth

and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 1095
North London 9
North Staffordshire 254
Ithynuiey l9k
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern 133
Somerset and Dorset 66

South Devon ..... 701
South-Eastern 3OB
Taff Vale 67

365 339
1,455 1.461
1,715 1,612
277 191
2,480 1,095
2,924 2,4 t 5
9,221 8,699
33,305 32,173
36,971 33,031
1,619 1.704
611 632
0,639 9,626
6432 k 62,7.16
109
1,441 1,24 T
2,065 1,535
1,896 1,617
1,110 475
34,592 34,474
226 148
153 96
683 527
302 407
166,544 69.9( 6
1,829 1,837
24,461 22,t 27
20,431 19,925
13,073 5,900
1,480 1,345
18,134 17 711
1,246 I,t 5
1,64! 1,209
2,267 1,901
47,756 42,595
6,4.6 6,181
3,483 1,683
2,712 2,432

5834 22,;67 21,298
1003 6 ,675 57,6:4
U 3,139 3,1 0
262 8,508 8,121
194 810 159
113 6,664 6,438
118 5,8,0 b,(85
68 958 679
75i 3,679 3,521
306 24,9, 2 22,357
57 6,713 6,836
105} 2,503 2.10
1U 166 t( 4
431 2,827 2,108
31 3 6 836
77 1,159 1,290
274 811 829
621 5,187 1,943
10 679 6'o
13 1, • 45 065
85 1, 01 819

Ulster lO5l
Vale of
Vale of Neath 431
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l
Waterford and Limerick 77
West Cornwall 271
W.Hartlepoolilarbr.&Ltail 521
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO
Whitehaven Junction l3
Whitchaven & Furness Jun 35
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Austrian B2B
Bahia and San Francisco
Belgian Eastern J unction 26i
Bombay, Baroda, & Ccn. India 1851
Detroit and Milwaukie lB9
Dutch Rhenish
Eastern Bengal
Eastern of France 1135
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada 1335
Great Central of Belgium 22./
Great Indian Peninsula 6 3
Great Luxembourg 334
Great Southein of India
Great Western of Canada 345
Madras 63:
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 651
Northern of Canada ... 9B
Northern of France 697
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman .. 4Bl
Paris, Lyons & Mediterrn lBO5
Paris and Orleans l6ll
renin, biwo 771
Scinde l(5
South Austrian
Southern of France .. 770
Victoria
Welland 25
West Flanders 75
West &N- %Vesta of France 9

828 40,724 35,308

78f 1;001 .519
2,4 3.:7 42.
185} 1,211 3,C62
185 5,045 6,155
1904 15,15 4,54
1302 7',2:3 01,274
0332 23,143 15,898
1335 27,142 21,751
220 6,141 5,725
153/4 11,032 4,578
134 4,922 4,3 6

79 562 461
3, 5 12,155 13,773
447 0,378 (.1.3
050 19,537 20,305
91 3,665 i,73)
697 6.54 t 9,833
44. 1,033 ow

481 '595 Ecii
1713 154,174 140,688
1191 7,056 70,613
77; 6 6 445
105
1494 65,930 68,911
OSO 27,u30 k 0,5 g
196 7,030 7,1•#1
25 477 15,7
75 1,251 1,063
950 53,192 44,635

The Erith Expluion,

Yesterday Eirl Do Grey and Ripon received at
the War 011Ile a deputation from the inhabitants of
Erith and Belvedere to present a memorial relative
to the Into catastrophe, and especially calling fcr
inquiry into the management of Purileet and
otter Government magazines.

The deputation was headed by the Von. Archdeacon
Smith, vicar of Erith, and included the following gentle-
nun :—Dr Broom, J. Parish, Rev. J. Bernan, W. Onyer,
A. T. Jay, C. Hortridge, W. Everett, A. Wells, A. Hall,
F. K. Daldy, J. L. Bidmead, C. Beadle, jun., Captain
M'Killop, It.N., mid J. Roos, tecrotary to the committee.
Tho following is a copy of the memorial:—

To the Right Honourable Earl do Grey and Ripon, her
Majesty's Seeretety (1 Sate for War.

" The memorial of the undersigned inhabitants of the
parish of Beth, in the county of Kent, showoth,
" That by the recent fearful of explosion of gunpowder in
their parish, which has resulted in much loss of life and de•
struction of property, their attention has been drawn to the
legislative enactments regulating the manufacture, packing,
conveyance, and storage of gunpowder.

"That upon careful consideration of the same they are
compelled to regard them as inadequate to the duo proteo-
tion of life and property.

" Your memorialists therefore pray that- it may please
you to take the matter into your serious and immediate
consideration, and to adopt such means as may seem to you
best calculated to secure a searching investigation into the
operative effects of the present enactments and orders which
regulate the manufacture, packing, storage, and conveyance
of Government powder, as well as to the manner in which
such enactments and orders aro complied with and o =led
out. And that, pending the investigation prayed for, you
will, if possible, cause the establishment at Purffeet to be
closed, in order that the testing operations, the loading,
unloading, and shipment of powder (fraught as your me-
morialists believe with appalling danger) may be ousponded.
" Your memorialists urge the prayer of their memorial
upon your attention, under the oonvidion that, in common
with a large number of her Majesty's subjects, they are in
great jeopardy and peril, and that it is possible to frame
such enactments and regulations as shall prevent a recur-
rence of the late fatal disaster.
" Signed on behalf of the memorialists, in accordance
with a resolution passed to that effect, this 14th day of 0o-
I ber, 1564.

" CUAILLES SMITII, Vicar of Erich.
" HERBERT 131100/1, }Churchwardens."
" JOIIN PARISI!,

Archdeacon SMITH stated, in support of the memorial,
that tho deputation had great confidence in the Government
both with regard to the control and supervision at present
exercised over their magazines and manufactures, as well as
in the attention they would give to the important matters of
consideration referred to in the memorial ; and therefore the
deputation felt it a satisfactory duty to bring under the
notice of the Government every circumstance in connexion
with the late calamity which might lead to the prevention of
similar occurrences, as well as to suggest whore the manage.
ment or enactments relating to gunpowder wore weak or de-
fective. The Archdeacon, after alluding to the terrible
effects of the late disaster, for which his parishioners as well
as surrounding localities had suffered so severely in loss of
life and property, alluded most pointedly to the dangers
which some believed to be attendant upon the establishment
at Parthot. In the late explosion, he said, about 60 tens of
powder blew up, but at Purfleet no loss than 2,300 tons wore
stored, or more than 40 times the quantity. Should an ac-
cident occur the consequences were incalculable ; but it was
not too much to say that the surrounding districts would be
destroyed, and London itself affected to a most fearful ex-
tent. If in asking that Purfieet might be temporarily closed
it was asking that which the Government could not grant,
the deputation would urge upon his lordship the necessity
of making a most searching investigation into its manage-
ment as well as into all the circumstances attending the
storage of gunpowder at the Government magazines, and
the points for consideration were these :—Whether it is
necessary to store largo (or almost unlimited) quantities
of powder in ono magazine—whether a number of small
magazines, sufficiently far apart to be beyond the limits
of danger to each other, would not Le as serviceable—
whether the present magazines aro constructed upon the
best and Barest principles, or whether modern science may
not suggest improvements—whether the casks in which the
powder is packed are of the most suitable material, and
whether in shape and make they aro adapted to effect per-
fect security against leakage—who her in the transit of
powder, by rail or river, between the powder mills and the
several magazines, such rules and regulations are laid down
and enforced as to prevent the probability of danger—
whether the testing operations at Purfleet etnnot be rt.
moved altogether from the eontigui'y of a magitw;nc—
whether the rule should not be strictly enforced, " that
nothing but powder should be stored in any powder maga-
zine," and whether the ball cartridges now at Purfl,et can
not be stored elsewhere—whothir the regulations for barges
moored alongside when unloading or shipping powder aro as
stringent and cautiously carried out as is required by the
tremendous consequences involved.
Capt. M'KILLor, R.N., called attention to the necessity
for proper regulations for lighining conductors, and referred
to the dangers arising from passing steamers, some of which
wer3 in the habit of taking iu powder from barges which
were taken in tow, the operation of removing the powder