The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-01 00:00:00

DUTCH RHENISII.

amounted to £7,7439 and for the corresponding period of last
The receipts for the fortnight ending the 15th ult.
Year to £7,656, showing an increase of £B7. The working
rxpenses for the fortnight amounted to £3,181, or 41.08 per
cent. of the receipts, and for the corresponding period of last
Y,,ear to £3,158, or 41.23 per cent., showing an increase of
The working expenses fur the year 1862-63 were
" 63 per em.t. of the receipts.

The half-
bef'orwe
asthei meeting, of this company was held on
Saturday at the
office,-
Abingdon-street, Westminster; Sir
DANUBE AND BLACK SEA.
Yearly meeting
S. Cunard in the chair.
bfreoTlmahreugieCelynirA.mlltNlN said there was no formal report to lay
but he could state that the last accounts
meager were favourable, and they had every
reason to be satisfied with the present position of the cora-
Pa2Y;torleVrhoeamt t,hbeyywnhotwehwtahnetserad
uwuanstaodfdthiteiotrnbaul
business
shwououselds
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than
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sufficiente ir present f
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tionormoci
quarters
ofcorn, while they wanted room for 200,000 quarters. The
estimated cost of the additional warehouse would be about
£30,000.

• The
meeting Was then made special, and some alterations
in the articles of association were agreed to. A vote o
thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings.

After h
crossing the RAILWAY BILLS.
earh,
-—g evidence relative to the plan proposed for
and Mr. V. Harcourt in reply,for the promoters, the commit-
tee passed the
Ouse, together with the case for the landowners,
bill of the North-Eastern for their branches
to hull and Doncaster, and for arrangements with the
South Yorkshire and other companies. The bill of the
Kettering and Thrap
~einstono for an extension to lluntingdon,
Ihe ease for the 'was referred to Dr. Massey's committee.
Edinburgh and Dunfermline Railway closed
bg. uncTP°Bed
and Mr. Denison opened that of the Edinburgh and Glas-
gow—competing line to Dunfermline via Qucenaferry, with
subsidiary branches.

The general meeting of this company was held on Satur-
---
EAST INDIA IRRIGATION AND CANAL.
day at the London Tavern ; Mr, Thomson in the chair.
The report, an
abstract of which has appeared in The
Sun, was -taken as
read
The Cun.in3tA,N,
last meeting the chi: f engineer had been occupied in or-
ganising an efficient staff. It would, however, take a long
limo before th in moving its adoption, said, since the
could complete the details of the plan they
had to carry out.
The works were progressing and some of
them were returning a profit, but not equivalent to the ex-
penditure. Tho information received from India showed

that the returns would amply repay them for the outlay.
It was the duty of the Government to encourage works of
irrigation, as they were of inestimable value to the country.
Their company was the first of the sort, and had no gua-
rantee, and was consequently free from Government inter-
ference. The dire tors would not make any call upon the
shareholders this year, nor until they had given satisfactory
proof that there would be a profitable return for the outlay.
Mr. BOUVEBIE, M.P.. seconded the motion for the adop-
tion of the report.
In answer to a question it was stated that the Government
was entitled to receive half the profits arising from irriga-
tion, domestic purposes, mills, &c., but nothing else, and
the company was entitled to the whole profit arising from
navigation.
The report was adopted unanimously, and the proceedings
concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman.

The Accident on the London, Brighton, and
South Coast Railway.

The line was cleared and the rails properly relaid
in sufficient time yesterday morning to enable the
655 a.m. train to proceed to its destination. The
company's engineers and officers are making a strict
investigation into all the circumstanees, but have as
yet made no detailed statement of the result of their
inquiry. It appears that Salmon, the engine-driver,
was not killed upon the spot, but that after linger-
ing in great agony from the scalds and burns he had
received, he died on Saturday afternoon at St.
Thomas's Hospital, Surrey-gardens. Tribe, the fire-
man, who was fearfully scalded and burned, and
who lies at the same hospital, under the superin-
tendence of Mr. Simon, was going on favourably up
to last night, and hopes were entertained of his re-
covery. The guardsmen at the Grenadier Hospital
in Rochester-row were at a late hour last night re-
ported to be doing well also, under the care of the
medical officers of the establishment, Drs. Lane and
Wardrop. There are 28 of them in all in the wards,
and between eight and ten of them suffer from se-
vere fractures and contusions. No fatal cases are
expected unless erysipelas sets in. There are about
a dozen other soldiers at the Wellington and St.
George's barracks, who are suffering from minor
contusions. Besides the persons just mentioned, the
passengers who have suffered the most severe inju-
ries are Dr. Cureton, rector of St. Margaret's, West-
minster, dreadfully injured about the face and legs,
and his daughter, whose legs are fractured.
Yesterday a special telegraphic message was re-
ceived by the commanding officers from her Ma-
jesty at Balmoral expressing her regret at the
catastrophe, and her sympathy with the sufferers;
and an answer was despatched in acknowledgment
stating that the men were going on favourably.
Special messengers were also despatched by the
Prince of Wales during the day to inquire after the
welfare of the wounded men. Among those who
visited the hospital during Saturday and yesterday,
and spoke to the wounded men personally, were the
Duke of Cambridge, Earl de Grey and Ripon, Earl
Howe, Lord Rokeby, Gen. Stanhope, Col. Lambert,
Colonels Beppel, Burnaby, Hon. M. Stanley, and
other officers of the battalion.

The following communication was on Saturday
received from Mr. Frederick Slight, the Secretary
of the Company :
" I have at present no more than a formal re-
port of the account, from which it would seem that
the train leaving Brighton at 5 p.m. yesterday
arrived at Croydon safely, and, that the Victoria
portion of it, consisting of 16 vehicles, left Croydon
four minutes late. Nothing occurred until its arrival
within the distant signal at the Streatham-common
station,when the engine began to oscillate consider-
ably,and immediately after left the line, turned over
on its siC. c and then exploded,which of course dragged
the carriages off the line, seriously injuring several
of the passengers. Mrs. Chilver, of New Burling-
ton-street, was killed, and also two men of the
Grenadier Guards; 20 other soldiers, and seven
other passengers were also more or less injured.
The driver and foreman of the train are both
injured dangerously, but the two guards
escaped. The matter is of course being investigated.
At present the cause does not appear clear, as the
permanent way is believed to have been in good
order, and the engine was one of several constructed
by this company in 1858 for running on this
portion of the railway."

The inquest on the bodies of Eliza Chilver, aged
53, Charles Stone, aged 40, and George Blundin,
29, privates in the Grenadier Guards, was opened
on Saturday at the Pied Bull, Streatham, by Mr.
Carter, the coroner. Mr. Harrison, of the firm of
Mr. White, solicitors to the regiment of Grenadiers,
attended to watch the case on behalf of the regi-
ment, and Mr. Faithfal on the part of the Brighton
Railway Company.
Emily Turner, servant in the employ of the de-
ceased Mrs. Chilver, identified the body of her mis-
tress; and John Mann, private of the Grenadier
Guards, identified:the bodies of his two comrades,
Stone and Blundin.
The jury having seen the bodies and the spot
where the accident occurred, and having returned
to the jury room.
John Mann was recalled, and said that he was in
the next carriage to that in which the deceased sol-
diers were travelling. The deceased Blundin he
knew to be In the train, as he had seen him put his
head out of the carriage window at Hay ward's-
heath, and he saw Stone get into the same carriage
with Blundin. Just before the accident took place
the carriages sway very much to and fro, chiefly to
the right, and in almost a moment the carriage in
which he was sitting was shivered to pieces, He
tried to get out of the window, hut before he could
do so the bottom of the carriage slipped away, and
he slid out on the ground. When he got out all
the carriages were of a heap, some of them being
capsized and turned over. Numbers of his comrades
were calling for assistance, and witness went to their
help. At least five minutes elapsed before he was
able to extricate the deceased men. Blundin was
lying on the ground wedged in between masses of
wood and iron. With the help of some others he
removed him from his position, but he was then
quite dead. He saw Stone about the same time.
He also was wedged in by iron and wood and a per-
fect wreck of broken carriages, and was near to
Blundin. A piece of iron was resting on his head.
When extricated he was dead.

Mr. Chilver examined, said--I am a medical prac-
titioner, residing at 14, New Burlington-street.
The deceased, Eliza Chilver, was my wife. We were
on our return from St. Leonards to London, and
travelling in a first-class carriage: After passing
Hayward's-heath there was more shaking of the
carriages than usual. I did not speak of it, as I
thought it might create alarm. My opinion was
that the carriages were not well braced up. The
motion afterwards suddenly became very uneasy,
the carriages rocked very much ; this increased to
a great extent, and it seemed that we were tearing
up the road, as if the carriages were off the line.
The swinging increased very rapidly, and the car-
riage fell over to the left side. I had hold of the
arm band, and kept my seat; my wife was thrown
on the floor. The carriage parted in several places.
I had not much difficulty in removing the deceased.
She was fearfully wounded in the face and head. I
do not know at what rate the train was travelling.
I can only say that it was going fast.
Dr. Robert Stewart, physician, of Streatham
(examined), said that about six o'clock on Friday
something had occurred on the railway near the
Streatham.common station. On reaching the spot
he saw the deceased lady lying on the side of the
bank. She was then living. She had sustained a
fracture of the lower jaw on the left side, and a lace-
rated torn wound from the angle of the left lip down
to the end of the jaw ; also a semi-circular scalp
wound on the back part of the head, apparently
about four or five inches in length. The injuries
were no doubt caused by violence, and were sufficient
to cause death. There was a quantity of gravel, or
dirt, in the hair, as though the head had come in
contact with the ground. She did not survive more
than half an hour after he saw her. Witness also
saw the two soldiers, one of whom (Blundin) bad
apparently been suffocated by steam or gas, or great
pressure. The other (Stone) received injuries to the
spine and neck. The deaths in both cases were the
result of violence.
At this stage of the inquiry the proceedings were
adjourned, in order to afford time for the attendance
of professional witnesses, and an examination by the
Government Inspector.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

SATURDAY REVIEW.—The difference which from

the first was obser;hle in the style of the Presidents
of the rival sections in America wean to extend
in full force to their subordinates. if anything/ the
contrast is more violent in the Generals than in the

Presidents. Mr. Lincoln's ;;Jused grammar and
blundering metaphors compared unfavourably
enough with the scholarlike ease of Mr. Davis's

composition ; and in all his troubles, he has shown
nothing of that calm imperturbable confidence in a
holy cause which distinguished the address of the
Southern President after the disasters which fol-
lowed the surrender of Fort Donnelson. Yet Mr.

Lincoln's manifestoes were the composition of an
honest man, endowed with at least a certain

amount of self-respect. They are utterly unworthy
to be mentioned in the same breath with the literary
effort with which General Hooker has just
astounded the world. Richly as the Northern armies

are provided with professors in the art of impudent
braggadocio, there is probably not one of them be-
sides " fighting Joe" who would have conceived the
bright idea of complimenting his army, just halted
from a secret midnight flight after three bloody de-
feats, upon " the celerity and secresy of their move-
ments," or who would have informed them that, by
running back across the river to avoid another
battle, " the army had given renewed evidence in
itself." There is something inimitably fine in the
bold language in which he announces the determi-
nation of his soldiers " to decline battle whenever
their interest or honour may command it, as
if that were the particular exercise of
military discretion in regard to which Ge-
neral Lee was likely to make an attempt to
force their inclinations. So long as declining battle
means running away, it is probable that the Con-
federates will give them every facility for fulfilling
their magnanimous resolution, and, lest they should
falter, will even assist it by an extraneous impulse
from behind. There is something, too, that is
worthy of admiration in the " new laurels" which
the Federal army is said to have added to its former
renown. The achievements out of which theie lau-

rels grow consist of " having made long marches,
crossed rivers, surprised the enemy in his entrench-
ments, and wherever they fought, inflicted heavier
blows than those they received." The last asser-
tion is strictly untrue, and if it had been true,

would have ma-de their hasty flight only more inex
_ .

cusable still. The other acliieveinents;" of making
long marches and crossing rivers," have probably
never before in the history of the world been made
the subjects of a commanding officer's felicitations,
especially when they ended in a midnight flight.

But the finest touch of all is the sentimental rehee

tion—" The events of the last week may well cause
the heart of every officer and soldier to swell with
pride."
To address such a congratulation to an
army which, after having been told that the
enemy's forces were its "legitimate property," was
again and again beaten and cut to pieces by those
forces, and was ultimately obliged to creep back
across the Rappahannock in the darkness of a
stormy night, strewing
gesover
whichwhich
was
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st
passed with twigs, lest
ththeerebidbrel army
such
its " property" should hear the footsteps of its a tale to such
owners running away—to tell
an army betokens a Quixotism of impudence which
leaves the imaginary creations of Falstaff, Parolles,_
and Bobadil deep in the shade. To be the most
reckless and shameless braggart on the American
Continent is a great distinction, and General
Hooker appears to have fully earned it.
SPECTATOR.—Though Jackson had, at Washing-
ton, before the war, the reputation of a hypochon-
driac, and nialade imaginaire, he does not seem to
have had any of the acerbity of the Puritan type of
piety, An Englishman who recently visited him
described him as a tall, handsome man, with-dark
blue, searching eyes, and with simplicity and consi-
derateness written in his face as well as his actions.
A general in full work who would take real pains,
as General Jackson did, to dry a stranger's coat for
him by a given hour is not of the gloomily spiritual for
type. And every one represents General Jackson
thoughtfulness and gentleness to others as only less
remarkable than his prompt military rigour. A
general may be the idol of his men who simply leads
them uniformly to victory. But the man who pro-
mised not in vain for his soldiers that they should
" stand like a stone wall" at Bull Run, who burst
like a thunderbolt upon poor General Pope's rear
when that commander thought him in his front or
far away—who, after a rapid and hotly contested
march through Maryland, struck successfully at
Harper's Ferry before the relief could come—who,
on his last battle-field, turned the enemy's menacing
position and inflicted a severe defeat—needed no
other power over his men than that of the military
confidence he inspired. But it is well known that
his real 'power over them was multiplied greatly,
not only by his habit of praying with them per-
sonally before and after battle, as a pious soldier
should, instead of abandoning them to a chaplain,
but by the rare self denial with which he insisted
on sharing their hardships, and the thoughtful
solicitude he showed for their welfare. No doubt
General Jackson has done as much to give an
imaginative character of grandeur and holiness
wholly undeserved (?) to the Confederate defence
and cause, as President Davis has done to give it a
tone of intellectual dignity and strength.
LONDON REVIEW.—The great Duke of Welling-
ton declared that the presence of Napoleon with his
army was worth 40,000 men; and since the begin-
ning of the century there is probably no officer of
whom the same could be said until Stonewall Jack-
son appeared upon the field. It is not difficult to
obtain the popular applause of an hour by some
dashing exploit, however foolhardy. But when a
soldier like General:Robert Lee confesses that if he
could have ordered events he would rather have
directed the fatal bullet against himself than against
his favourite lieutenant, the merits of that lieu-
tenant must have been indeed remarkable. Opinions
may differ as to the cause in which General Stone-
wall Jackson died, but this difference is only an
additional reason for endeavouring to ascertain the
real circumstances which gave the officer whose loss
every Southerner deplores his singular ascendancy.
And even the people on this side the Alantic, 'who
keep neutral between both parties, may learn a les-
son which may stand them in good stead when the
time of trial comes. Since the breaking out of the
civil war in America, there is nothing which proves
more conclusively the capacity of Jefferson Davis,
than the wisdom he has displayed in choosing
his instruments. When the Confederate army that
advanced to the banks of the Potomac, Gen. Beau-
regard was in command. As he was an accomplished
engineer, and the object at that time was to main-
tain an entrenched position, the meaning of the
selection was obvious. But as soon as the army
retreated towards Richmond, on the advance of
M'Clellan from Fortress Monroe, Beauregard was
replaced by Lee and Stonewall Jackson. And from
that moment until the present it would be difficult
to point out a single instance in which either the
military plans of the Commander-in-Chief or their
execution by Stonewall Jackson have practically
failed. Having determined upon pursuing a policy
of strict defence they have rigidiy adhered to it,
but at the same time, whenever a blow could be
struck, they have not failed to strike with all their
might. In the first place it is abundantly clear
that Jackson had his Division in a perfect state of
discipline, and his officers in perfect subordination.
It is said that when he filled the office of a military
professor in one of the Southern States, he exercised
the most singular power over the students. What-
ever qualities may be possessed by Southern lads, it
will scarcely be said that subordination is one of their
cardinal virtues. But the mere presence of Stone-
wall Jackson was sufficient to subdue them. He had
only to make his appearance in a room, and all was
still. And the same power which he exerted as a
Military Professor, he evidently exercised at the
head of a division. But Jackson was more than
a martinet. Like most great commanders, his men
were passionately attached to him, and were proud
to endure any hardships to execute his commands.
As the Duke said of his Peninsular veterans, " he
could go anywhere and do anything with them."
Ragged, footsore, and half-starved, Jackson's corps
made the most surprising marches—would suddenly
aapftpeerardeosntrtohyeinfigansukppalnieds raenadr
oboftaitnhinegenmeomsty
avalu-
ablend intelligence would return in safety to their
original quarters. In abort, he had enterprise.
But perhaps his leading characteristic was extra-
ordinary vigour guided by unerring prudence.
Throughout Jackson's career it would be difficult to
mention an instance in which any movements
which he undertook failed. He seems to have
_known precisely what his men could accomplish.
Undoubtedly he taxed his men to the utmost, but
he never seems to have called upon them to do more
than they
were able. If a workman has only a
certain quantity of material, his merit consists in
making the most of it. The shipwright must know
how to cut his timber, so that the smallest quan-
tity will be required. And in like manner the
ability of an officer may be measured by the pro-
portion which the men employed bears to the ex-
ploit which he achieves. There are few commanders
who have been more successful in this respect than
Jackson. When he had resolved to strike a blow
he approached with such a 'cresy and rapidity that
the enemy had scarcely time to prepare to meet
his attack, and once on the field, he launched
his troop! against the opposing force with a con-
centrated violence which proved irresistible.
EXAMINER..—Issue has at length been joined be-
tween the King and Parliament of Prussia_ That
it has been so long delayed is
matter neither of
wonder nor regret to those who intelligently sym-
pathise with the cause of law-made liberty against
the lawless pretensions of Divine Right. With

fatuous obstinacy the Royal plotter against the
freedom of the nation sticks to the text he took for
himself on the day he was crowned at Konigsberg.
He would govern on the paternal principle, demand-
ing allegiance from all and owning it to none, de-
riving his title to command from Heaven, and
responsible to it alone. [his was the theory
of the Stuarts and the Bourbons ; and where
it landed them after protracted conflicts
with the communities they were born to
torment and thwart and tyrannise over,
every one except their legitimate kinsman, the
King of Prussia, knows. If example had the power
to warn royal fools and offenders which it is sup-
posed to have in deterring ordinary mortals from
suicidal crimes, the House of Hohenzollern might
yet be saved from the fate the conduct of its princes
in past times has seemed so often to provoke. But
the experience of one dynasty appears of none effect
in teaching another ; awd as it Ns as in the beginning
of the seventeenth century, it is now, and we sup-
pose ever shall be, infatuation without end. It is
but justice to the representatives of the Prussian
people to declare that throughout they have shown
in every respect a maturity of judgment and a self-
control in temper, worthy of men long used to the
working of constitutional government. From first
to last their course has never swerved from
the practical and definite assertion of a plain
matter of fact claim, to exact beforehand a strict
account from the Minister of War, of the
number and cost of the army which they were
expected to pay out of the people's pockets. Re-
proved in stern but not discourteous language by
the House of Representatives for his lamentable for-
getfulness of his duty as a constitutional sovereign,
William I. has given way to the first impulse of
anger by closing the session in a manner somewhat
abrupt in terms, though not in point of time.
Whether the madmen who are about him will bid
him follow up the prorogation by a dissolution, or
whether they dream that by the end of autumn a
portion of the existing deputies may be induced to
waver from their present resolution and become
more amenable to the arbitrary caprices of the
Court, we know not, and the incoherent specula-
tions of such men are not worth guessing at. But
whatever they are, and whatever they may be, the
political future of Northern Germany cannot be
doubtful. An impulse has been given to men's
practical ideas as to the guarantees and safeguards
indispensable to the secure enjoyment of liberty,
which probably could not otherwise have been im-
parted to them. Many things not formally pro-
vided for by charter or statute would have been
generously taken on trust twelve months ago,
which men will never now be content to leave in
the debateable land of matters-of course. Nothing,
after what has happened, can be left henceforth to
the ex officio wisdom of Ministers, or the hereditary
wit of Kings. The wide neutral ground between
prerogative and privilege through the lawless at-
tempt to appropriate it by dint of encroachment,
has ceased to be common, and must now be rigor-
ously enclosed. It should be well for the Prussian
people that their King has made so clear to them
he course they must pursue.
COURT JOURNAL.—The excitement concerning
.he revelations made by Lord Henry Lennox as to
he state of things in the Neapolitan prisons is far

from abated at present, and the partisans of the
Turin Cabinet are doing all that lies in their power
to refute charges so damaging to their interests, as
vs ell as disgraceful to their system of administration.
But in this they fail egregiously, and Lord Henry is
proved right in every essential matter. It is true
he was mistaken as to La Perseveranza having been
seized, but the Italian Ministers were obliged to ad-
mit that a large number of other papers had been
suppressed by the police ; in fact, " suppression"
seems to be the order of the day. It is not unnatu-
ral that Count Arrivabene should endeavour to vin-
dicate his cause from the charges so tellingly brought
against it by Lord Henry Lennox, but_he wanders
away from the subject altogether in a letter ad-
dressed to a sympathising daily paper. He answers
Lord Henry by referring to Mr. Russell's Diary
in India," as containing an account of the bad state
of things in our prisons there, and considers it con-
clusive that the Italian Government may do wrong
in Italy because the English Government (as he
says) has badly-conducted prisons in India ! Count
Arrivabene has shown himself a brave man, and a
conscientious, though, perhaps, mistaken, lover of
freedom ; but really it is but a bad return for Eng-
lish hospitality, and the way in which, owing to his
nationality, and, of course, for no other reason
whatever, he has been received into the best circles
here, that he should turn round and accuse England
of mismanagement as an excuse for the oppression,
tyranny, and ill-government of his own country.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

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GRANTHAM—SATURDAY.
New white wheat, 45s to 510; red, 45s to 48s_per 36st.
malting barley, 358 to 39s per qr ; grinding, na to 30s
old oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, 388 to 40s ; peas, 36s to 38s.

NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY.
There was a somewhat limited show of wheat to-day
a firm demand was experienced, at fully former quotations.
—White wheat, from 48s to 5551; red wheat, 42s to bOs•
Barley—malting, 31s ,to 41s ; grinding, 27s to 29e.
Oats
old, at 25s to 31s Od ; new, 22s to 295. Beans sold at 415
to 458 per qr. Flour, 31s to 40s.

YORK-S.

,TURDAY.

Wheat, red 42s to 46s Uats.... 2os to 240
White do .48s to 52s Beans
••36s to 440
Barley .29s to 35s Peas to
Malt, 62s to 64s per qr. ; rye, 32s per qr ; flour, 313
to 36s per sack.

NORTHAMPTON—SATURDAY.
White wheat, 46s to 50s ; red, 43s to 478; fine, 49s
to —s per qr. Barley, 36s to 40s—grinding, 29s to 335;
Oats, 24s to 30s per 24 stone. Beane, 35s to 425. Peas,
34s to 408 per qr.

LE I CE STEIL—SATURDAY.
Old white wheat, —s to •—s ; new, 44s to 50s per. 36
stone. Old red, 48s to 52s per 36 stone. Barley, rualtiugy
new, 34s to 39s per qr.; grinding, 27s to 30s; old oats,
27s to 30s; new oats, 22s to 28s per 24 stone. Beaus
new, Ms to 39s ; old, 42s to 446 per 38 stone.

THE PERTUSOLA LEAD MINING AND
SMELTING COMPANY (Limited).
Incorporated under the Companies Act, 1862, with Limited

Liability.
Capital £250,000, in 25,000 Shares of £lO each.
Deposit on application. £1 per share, and on allotment a
further payment of £2 per share. Calls not to exceed £2
per share, at intervals of three months.
IRECTORS.
Charles Bell, Esq. (MessrDs. J. Thomson, T. Bonar, and Co.)
;lames H. Enthoven, Esq. (Messrs. H. J. Enthoven and Sons).
John P. Judd, Esq. (Messrs. Nathaniel Johnston and Sons).
John Orred, Esq., Ashwicke Hall, Gloucestershire.
Edmund A. PontUex, Esq (Messrs. Pontifex and Wood).
John I aylor, Esq.
Richard Taylor, Esq. Messrs. John Taylor and Sons.

BANKERS.
Messrs. Barnett, lioares, and Co., London.
Messrs. J. Earned and Co., Liverpool.
S DLICITORS—Messrs. John and William Galsworthy,l2, Old

Jewry-chambers.
BROKERS—Messrs. Joshua Hutchinson and Son, Angel-
court, Throgmorton• street.
MANAGERS—Messrs. John Taylor and Sons,
GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT IN ITALY—MT. Geo. Henfrey.

SECRETARY—Mr. W. G. Williams.
Offices-6, Queen-street-place, London.

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ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS.
This Company has been duly registered with limited lia-
bility.
Its object is the purchase of a large interest in the cele-
brated lead mines of Monteponi, in the Mend of Sardinia,
together with the extensive lead smelting establishment of
Pertusola and the Sarzanello Coal Mine in the Gulf of Spezz.
The purchase-money for these proirrties (including eleven-
twelfths of the Monteponi Mine), plant, engines, &c, is
£150,000, and it is estimated that £50,000 will be required as
floating capital, so that in fixing the nominal eapi' al at
X 750,000, a margin of £5.0.001 is left to enable the Company to
take advanta.v of such opportunities as may present them-
solve s of extending their interest in Italian. mines.
This Undertaking differs essentially in its nature from ordi-
nary mining enterprises. Its ea,ital being invested in the
purchase of mines and works, which are in full operation, and
yielding very large returns.
Full prospectuses with forms of application for shares may
be had at the offices of the Comp-ny, No. 6, Queen-street-
place, London, or of the Brokers of the Company, Messrs.
Joshua Hutchinson and Son. No application will be con-
sidered unless a deposit of .C 1 for each sharP applied for shall
have been previously made with the Bankers of the Com-
pany. This sum will be returned in full in the event of no
allotment being made.