The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21, 1864.

LONDON ANT) SO UTH-WES'IERN
RAILWAY COMPANY.
NOTICE TS HEREBY GIVEN. That the next HALF-
YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS
of this COMPANY will he held at this Station on THURS-
DAY, the 11th day of February, 1864, at One o'clock p.m.
precisely, when the Directors will submit a Report on the
affAirs of the Company, a Dividend will be declared, and the
general business of the Company will be transacted.
And notice is hereby further given, that at the said meet-
ing it is proposed to submit to the proprietors the matters
following, viz.:—
Articles of Agreement with the Botley and Bishops Wal-
tham Railway Company, with reference to the working
of the railway of that Company, and otherwise in relation
thereto.
The creation and disposal of the further amounts of Share
Capital authorised to be cre ded by the "South-Western
Railway Act 1663," " Andover and Redbridge and South-
Western Railways Act 1863," and " The West London
Extension Railway Act 1863," respectively.
And notice is hereby further given, that at the said meet-
ing there will be an election of two Directors ie the places of
Captain Charles Edward Mangles and Charles Castleman,
Esq., who retire at this time in the usual rotation, and, being
eligible, offer themselves for re-eleJtion.
The transfer books of the Company will be closed from
Thursday, the 25th January, till Thursday, the 11th February,
1864, both days inclusive.
By order,
FREDERICK CLARKE, Secretary.
Waterloo-br'dge Station, London, Jan. 14, 1864.

THE CONSOLIDATED DISCOUNT
COMPANY (Limited).
No. 4, ABCHURCH-LANE.
Capital £1,000,000.

DIRECTORS.
George Walter Constable, Esq. (Messrs. Constable and
Wykesl, Mincing-lane.
George Denny, Esq. (Messrs. George Denny and Co.), Great
St. Helen's.
William Little, Esq., Director of the Cape Town Railway.
Wm. M'Arthur, Esq. (of the firm of Wm. and Alexander
M'Arthur, Australian Merchants), 4(3, Moorgate-street.
F. J. Sargood, Esq. (Messrs. Sargood, King, and Sargood),
London and Melbourne.
Thomas Shepherd Richardson, Esq., Director of the Buenos
Ayrea and River Plate Bank.
James Thompson, Esq. (Messrs. Le Gros Thompson and Co.),
Gutter-lane.
*Hugh Fraser Sandeman, Esq.
*Richard Manners Sa❑derson, Esq. Messrs. Sandeman & Co.
*Samuel Baker, Esq.
* Committee of Management.
BANKERS.
The London and Westminster B►nk.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Sole, Turners, and llardwick.
The business of this Company being in active operation, the
Directors are prepared to Discount approved Mercantile Bills
and to make advances upon negotiable Securities,
Money received on deposit, at call and short notice, at the
current market rates, and for longer periods upon terms to be
specially agreed upon.

THE ENGLISH and FOREIGN LIBRARY
COMPANY (Limited).
Capital, £lOO.OOO, in 10 000 Shares of £lO each ; £1 to be paid
on application, and £llos. on Allotment. If no Allotment
be made the Deposit will be returned.
DIRECTORS.
Major-Gen. Sir Henry C. Rawlinson, K.C.8., F.R.S., 1, Hill-
s t ree t, Berkeley-square, Chairman.
Right Hon. Viscount Bury, M.P., 48. Rutland-gate.
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, K.C.8., E.R.S., D.C.L., de.,
10, Belgrave-square.
The Very Rev. the Dean of Chichester, F.R.S.
Charles Neate, Esq., M.P., Oriel College, Oxford.
Coleridge J. Kennard, Esq., F.R.G.S., Fenchurch-street.
Ferdinand Freiligrath, Esq., Ballet of Switzerland, Royal
Exchange-buildings.
John William Kaye. Esq., 50, Lincoln's-inn-fields.
Robert Bell, Esq., F.R.S.L., 1 t, York-street, Portman-square.
(W itti power to add to their number.)
BANKERS.—The Consolidated Bank, 7, Fenchurch-street,
London.
BROKER.—George H. Ila,lewood, Esq., 7, Lothbury.
AUDITORS.
Charles Reynolds, Esq., Allhallovv-chambers, Lombard- st.
John Ball, Esq. (Messrs. Quilter, Ball. and Co.), Moorgate-st.
SOLICITORS. —Messrs. Bevan and Whiting, 6, Old Jewry.
SECRETARY (pro tem).—W. R. Prideaux, Esq.
Offices, 15, Old Bond-street.
1. It is proposed to establish a Public Circulating Library
on a more comprehensive plan, and with more complete ma-
chinery for the early and regular delivery of books than has
hitherto been attempted. The English and Foreign Library
Company guarantees the circulation of all new works of
value or interest immediately after publication. Daily deli-
veries will take place at all houses of town subscribers, within
a rad us of five miles.
1. Books will be provided for all readers without distinc-
tion of sect or party.
I :3. A Special Scientific Department will be established, em-
bracing Science and the Liberal Professions ; Theology,
Medicine, Surgery, Civil Engineering, Philology, and the
Mathematical and Physical Sciences.
4. Foreign Literature will form a prominent feature.
5. All important Publications relating to Eastern and Co-
lonial subjects will be collected, including Public Documents,
and Books published in India and the Colonies.
6. The Direction has been organised with a view to the
combination of literary judgment and commercial experience.
7. Arrangements have been made to purchase Ilookham's
Library, 15, Old Bond-street, the oldestin existence, contain-
ing a hundred years' stock, as the basis for the formation of
a Library of permanent value and vast extent.
8. Profits will be immediate on the opening of the Library,
the current subscriptions to llookham's Library yielding 12
per cent. on the purchase money, atter payment of all ex-
penses.
9. Shareholders will be entitled to special privileges (as
detaile 1 in advertisement below).
Prospectuses, with forms of application for shares, may be
obtained of the Bankers, the Brokers, the Solicitors, and at
the Offices of the Company, 15, Old Bond-street, W.

THE ENGLISH and FOREIGN LIBRARY
COMPANY (Limited).
Every Original Allottee of Ten Shares and upwards, who
is also a subscriber, shall be entitled to Three additional
Volum2s in respect of the first ten shares, and One additional
Volume tor every additional five shares up to one hundred
shares

THE ENGLISH and FOREIGN LIBRARY
COMPANY (Limited).
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the LIST of AP-
PLICA'i TONS for SHAKES in th s Company will be
CLOSED on WEDNESDAY, the 3d of Februa'y, after
which date the Directors will proceed immediately to allot
the Shares.

.... _
By order.
W. R. PRWEAUX., Secretary pro tem.
15, Old Bond-street, W.

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RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

A letter received in Plynnuth from a naval officer at
Yokohama, Japan, states that the English Admiral thought
the result of the Conference on the 15th November of so
much consequence that he sent despatches immediately to
Hongkong by the Centaur, which, at the same time, em-
barked invalids for England. It was expected at Yokohama
that when the Pelorus arrived in Japan the Pearl would go to
Hongkong. The Encounter and Scout have been nearly
five years in commission, and the of eers and crews of those
ships expect they will soon be sent home to be paid off. The
Rattler is at Nagasaki, and the Barnsa, all well, at Yoko-
hama. The Hesper arrived there early in November. Sbe
had been terribly knocked about, having lost jib-boom,
boats, bulwarks, So., in a hurricane. A large quantity of
stores and provisions is spoilt. The Hesper is considered
unfit to do duty as a Government transport.
Yesterday a naval court-martial, composed of Captain W.
K. Hall, C.B„ Cumberland, 70, guardship of the Chatham
Steam Reserve, President; Commander the Hon, G. D.
Keane, Cumberland ; Commander R. Studdert,
72; Commander T. L. Gaussen, Formidable, 81 ; and Com-
mander A. Barrow, Cumberland, assembled on board the
Formidable, 84, Capt. J. Fulford, flagship of Admiral of the
Blue Sir G. R. Lambert, K.C.8., naval Commander-in-
Chief at the Nore, for the trial of Lieut. William Walsh,
commander, and the surviving officers and crew of her Ma-
jesty's gunboat Lively, 2, 60 horse power, tender to the
Cornwallis, 60, 200 horse power, Capt. J. N. Strange, onthe
charge of having lost that vessel among the shoals on the
north coast of the Netherlands, east of the island of Schier-
monnick Oog on the morning of the 21st of December last,
during a violent hurricane. The Lively was engaged at
the time in searching for a fleet of fishing-boats and other
craft, which were reported missing between the Doggerbank
and the island of Heligoland. Mr. G. H. Knight, of the
firm of Essell, Knight, and Arnold, Rochester, solicitors to
the Admiralty, officiated as Deputy-Judge-Advocate, and
conducted the investigation. Lieut. Walsh was assisted in
his defence by Staff-Commander H. T. Ellis, of the Corn-
wallis. The witnesses examined by the Court were Lieut.-
Commander W. Walsh, who was in charge of the Lively
at the time she was lost, Mr. F. Bush, engineer, Mr. C,
Cox, gunner, together with the quartermaster and car-
penter. From their evidence it appeared that the Lively
left Berwick on the 19th of December with instructions to
cruise in the German Ocean between the Dogger bank and
the island of Heligoland, with the view of assisting any of
the fishing boats which were then known to be at sea, and
some of which appeared to have been lost. On the night of
the 21st of December, when in let 54 26, long. 5 47, the
Lively encountered a fearful gale, which continued with
unabated fury during the whole of that and the following
day. In spite of the untiring exertions of the officers and
crew, the vessel became altogether unmanageable. Her
foremast was carried away and hung over her side—there
was about four feet of water in her hold, which extin-
guished her fires and prevented the working of her engines.
During the height of the gale Mr. Home, the assistant-
engineer, was washed overboard and drowned, and the pilot
who had charge of the ship was found dead on the dock
from exposure, cold, and fatigue. The gunboat being at
the mercy of the waves was driven on shore on the Belgian
coast, the officers and crew being providentially rescued by
some fishing smacks, the men in which had heard their
signal distress guns. Nearly everything on board the Lively
was lost, and a day or two afterwards the vessel went to
pieces. During the whole of the trying period the officers
and crew appeared to have behaved in the most praise-
worthy manner. At the close of the case for the prosecu-
tion the Court adjourned for an hour to enable Lieutenant
Walsh to prepare his defence, which was read by the De-
puty-Judge Advocate. The defence was a recapitulation of
the evidence given by the witnesses for the prosecution,
and at the close the court was cleared, the members re-
maining in deliberation about an hour. On the court being
opened, the Deputy Judge Advocate read the finding, fully
and honourably acquitting Lieut. Walsh and the officers
and crew, and stating its opinion that the Lively was lost
through the fearful gale which prevailed, she being in her
right course at the time. The Court further stated that
Lieut. Walsh had done everything in his power to save the
ship. Capt. Hall, in handing Lieut. Walsh his sword, said
he did so with the greatest pleasure, the Court believing
that he, together with the officers and the whole crew, had
behaved as British seamen on the trying occasion.

The Megaara, screw troopship, Commander Edward Mad-
den, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday morning from the
West Indies with the 7th brigade of Royal Artillery, and
military and naval invalids and passengers. Those on board
belonging to the 7th brigade consisted of Brevet-Major G. L.
Chandler, Lieuts. Little and Davis, 6 sergeants, 2 trumpe-
ters, 7 corporals, 69 gunners, 6 women, and 11 children.
There were besides on board one man belonging to the Ist
battalion 14th Regiment, one man (Corps of Armourers),
wife and child, 13 invalid soldiers, 4 women, and 8 children
from various regiments in military charge of Lieutenant
Rutherford of the 2d battalion 21st Regiment, and in
medical charge of Staff Assistant. Surgeon Ferguson.
Capt. Mawe, 2d West India Regiment, came home'as pas-
senger on leave. The officers' wives on board were Mr.
Chandler and infant, Mrs. Ferguson and two children, and
Mrs. Mawe. The military invalids were transferred from
the Megoara yesterday immediately after her arrival at
Spithead, to the Royal Military Hospital at Netley. A few
naval invalids who also arrived in the ship were transferred
to her Majesty's ship Victory and the Royal Naval Hospital
at Haslar. The 7th Brigade of Royal Artillery will dis-
embark this morning and march into quarters in the new
fort at Brockhurst, one of the recently constructed line of
detached forts in advance of Gosport. The Megtora sailed
from Barbadoes Dec. 14, 1863, and has experienced a suc-
cession of heavy gales from S.W. to N.E. She was com•
pelted to call at Vigo to coal, and she sailed thence on the
9th inst. She sailed from Plymouth on her outward voyage
on May 39, 1863, and since that time has steamed 14,328
and sailed 9,078 miles, having been engaged in the relief
of troops stationed at the different stations in the West
Indies and on the West Coast of Africa. At Demerara
she was detained some time in repairing her air pump-
cover. She will be docked and refitted before again leaving
England.
The ships of war on the Australian station at the dates
of the last advices were the Harrier, 17, Capt. Sullivan; the
Miranda, 14, Capt. Jenkins; the Eclipse, 4, Capt. Mayne;
the Curacoa, 23, Commodere Wiseman; and the Esk, 21,
Capt. Hamilton. All these ships were at New Zealand.