The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-11 00:00:00

CORK AND BANDON.

The directors state in their report that the increase in the
traffic receipts amounted to £749, as compared with the cor-
responding half of 1863. The working expenses exceeded
by £933 those of the corresponding half.year this included
the haulage of the Kinsale Junction Railway, timber for
renewing bridges, painting the Chetwynd viaduct which
was now finished, and materials for building and renewing
rolling stock. The balance showed a profit of £2,609 for
the half-year applicable for dividends, which the directors
recommended to be paid on the No, 1 preference shares, at

"or the
warrants ( oaf

' 171'; S PA PE it
;AtJ

• At?
/EA,
the rate of 51 per cent. per annum f ,
and also payment of the deferred efflt S
ence shares) for dividend due on the 30th of Jtrii7, 180
leaving a balance of £403 for next account. The Kinsale
Junction Railway had been worked for the past half year
with regularity and safety, and the West Cork Railway
works had progressed vigorously. About 15 miles of the
line had been completed between Bandon and Dunmanway,
leaving 2i miles of the first section now to finish, and it
was expected that it would shortly be opened for traffic,
which would be of considerable importance to the Cork
and Bandon Railway.
Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Duke of Somerset and the other Lords of tho
salty are expec'.ed at Devunp•,rt to•day. They d:ne at
Mount Wise to-morrow with Port Admiral Sir Chfizles F.
Fremantle, 1i.C.8., and on Saturday hold a levels in the
office of Admiral Superintendent Thom :s C . Symonds,
C.B. The number of receptions is limited to 30.

The screw steam stareship Fox,2, having embarked super-
numerary seamen, left Plymouth on Monday for Liverpool.
The screw steam sloop Racer, 11, with the gunboats
Wizard and Tyrian, lett Plymouth on Tuesday for the
Mediterranean.

The screw steam corvette Clio, 22, was appointed to have
Plymouth yesterday with the tugboat Turtle.
The plymouth divisiun of the Royal Marines, in three
battalions,
were inspected in the Brickfield, ou WedLesda
by Major-Gen. Stransham. Colonel Gascoigne, C. 8., the
y,
Commandant, directed the movements of the brigade-drill,
and Col. Conolley put the men through the manual pla-
toon, and bayonet exercise. The progress of the division
appeared to be satisfactory to the Inspector-General.
The Terrible, 21, 800 horse power, the largest paddle-
wheel steamer in the ,British navy, fitting for the first divi-
sion of the steam reserve in the Medway, will, according to
an announcement received at Chatham, he commissioned
for service in the Mediterranean as soon as completed.
During the time she was in dock she was almost rebuilt.
and her engines and machinery taken out and thoroughly
Put on board, and
reevpearyirtedx.pedHiteironloiswteor bme a
ussteedhinave bfittienegn
and preparing her
for commission.

The Tamar, screw troopship, Capt. Stirling, sailed from
Portsmouth yesterday morning for Dublin, with the 69th
Regiment on board.

The Medical Director-General of the Navy, Dr A, Bryson
visited Chatham on Tuesday afternoon, and was occupied
some time in the inspection of Melville Hospital and the
other medical establishments of the port, it being his first
official visit since his appointment.
The patent compositions to prevent fouling, with which
the Recruit, 6, iron paddle-wheel, 160 horse power, now in
No. 2 dock, Sheerness, was recently coated, have been
scraped off for the purpose of testing the relative merits and
deciding the superiority of the patents. In The Sun of the
sth inst. it was reported in the naval intelligence that the
port side of the vessel was coated with Mr Hay's composi-
tion, the starboard aft with Mr Crispin's, while the star-
board forward bad a coating of Mr Wilson's; that it was
found on inspection that the port and starboard aft parts of
the vessel, to which Messrs. Hay's and Crispin's patents
had been applied, exhibited a considerably greater amount
of fouling than the starboard forward part, which had been
coated with Mr. Wilson's patent ; but that Mr Wilson's
composition showed mere corrosion of the bottom of the
vessel, which is of iron, than the other patents. The com-
positions having now been removed, it is evident that there
has also been considerable corrosive action going on under
both Mr Hay's and Mr Crispin's coating, and that the bar-
nacles have eaten through the composition, and have be-
come so closely fixed to the bottom of the vessel that on re-
moving them the part to which they were attached, and
which had become corroded, was also removed. The result
is that if any there is less corrosion on the part covered by
Wilson's composition than on the parts coated with Messrs
Hay's and Crispin's compositions, and most decidedly con-
siderably less fouling.

THE TATES I' EDITION of "THE SUN"
supplied, as soon as published every Evening by
Iik;NRY 13UOOKS, Newspaper Agent, 21, Old Cavendish-
street, W.