The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIMES.—The House of Commons agreed last
night, by e majority of two to one, to the purchase
of the site of the Exhibition Building. It had been
previously agreed that this vote should be first dis-
posed of, and that a little more time should be al-
lowed for the more controverted part of the propo-
sition. The purchase of the site, however, as Mr.
Gregory showed himself well aware, commits the
house very far. The site can only be used for the
promotion ot art and science, and, unless any gen-
tleman can discover new methods foe the promo-
tion of these objects, the site must either lie idle or
be used very much as Lord Palmerston and the
Chancellor of the Exchequer have proposed. They
do not propose to transfer to South Kensington
either the National Gallery or the learned bodies
now at Burlington-house. They propose to begin by
locating in the Exhibition Building the Museum of
Patents, now huddled up in one small apartment at
the South Kensington Museum, the National Por-
traits, now hat dly visible, and the Collection of Na-
tural History, which has long been bursting its
bounds in Great Russell-street. After the evidence,
the authorities, and the examples that have been
adduced, it can no longer be doubted that these
wants must be measured by acres, and that the
acres in the heart of the metropolis are too costly to
be bestowed upon objects not absolutely requiring
that position. With many of our readers, we should
be very glad to see all the public collections in-
stalled in magnificent and eternal edifices, as exten-
sive as the Cretan Labyrinth and as indestructible
as the Pyramids, in Trafalgar-square, or Piccadilly,
or the Strand. But everybody knows that we might
as well wish the Heavenly Jerusalem to be planted
to-morrow in Leicester-square, or the Garden of
Eden in Soho. It has been triad and tried, till no-
body will try it again. A vote is to be asked first
for the site, then for the building ; and if the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer should ever find the house
ready to invest in land at L'50,000 or perhaps
£lOO,OOO an acre, and to cover it with magnificent
edifices, the occasion will only provoke a new
war of architects, librarians, sculptors, painters,
naturalists, and other men of art and science,
proverbially the most irritable of the human
species. There is not the remotest chance of
the thing being ever done in the way that we
could wish, and in the way that a great nation
ought to do it. We must go to a suburb, and we
must house our more bulky and increasing collec-
tions where we can. If a man has only himself
to take care of, he may take a pleasant lodging in
Pall-mall or Mayfair; but if, with a limited income,
he has a large family of small children, he must be
content with a house in the suburbs. That is the
question which was settled in the House of Com-
mons last night. The figures spoke for themselves.
Two or three acres even in Bloomsbury, covered
with buildings in character with the British Museum,
will cost as much as 17 acres or more at Brompton.
Parliament can only be reckoned on for a certain
sum, at the outside, and, as space is indispensable
for the purpose, we must get as much as we can for
the money within a mile of Hyde-park-corner. In
anticipation, however, of the deferred debate upon
the purchase of the Exhibition Building, Mr. Gre-
gory undertook to represent a gentleman who gives
us in this way the benefit of his professional advice.
Mr. Mallet, who has formerly been employed by
Government himself, and who either expects or does
not expect to be employed again, has gone over the
building, and made himself thoroughly acquainted
with its defieiencies. His conclusion is that, except
the four walls, there is absolutely nothing there
that we should not have to replace with more sub-
stantial materials and more complete workmanship.
When this is the case, he warns us that we do, in
fact, owe' get the tour walls for our money ; and,
as those four walls have to be stuccoed and orna-
mented, and even then will be open to criticism, the
value received for our money sinks very low indeed
in Mr. Mallet's estimation. The argument is that
which has been stated elsewhere with an eloquence
and wit unfortunately much easier on the negative
side of all questions than on the affirmative. It is
so much easier to prove a house uninhabitable than
habitable, and to prove every human being a fool
than..the contrary, that we wholly despair of success
in this arena. Mr. Mallet, even when chaperoned
by Mr. Gregory, reads very flat after the brilliant
effusions we have perused elsewhere. While the
satirist makes his utter nonsense and absurdity at
least amusing, the architect is only savage, abusive,
solemn, and stupid. Even were we to grant every
word that he says—and we do not grant it—
that would still leave wholly untouched the most
important reasons for purchasing the building
as it stands, and making the best of it. In the
first place, besides the four walls, which are ad-
mitted to be something for the money, there is
the general plan, to which scarcely an exception has
been taken. As a mode of utilising a block of 17
acres, it is about as good a plan as could be sug-
gested. Government proposes to work upon that
plan. It does not propose at once to raise the whole
structure to that scale of solidity by which Mr. Mal-
let measures it and finds it wanting, but to proceed
bit by bit, as space is wanted. It is not necessary
to floor the whole building at once, or to warm the
whole building at once, or to give the whole half-
mile of Picture Galleries a fireproof floor at once, or
to substitute brick piers for the iron braces on which
the " stand-up " now depends all over the building
at once, or to complete the fittings all at once, or to
substitute planed surfaces for rough all at once. If
we begin with half the south Picture Gallery, and
three acres for the Patents, and five for Mr. Owen's
collection, we shall do enough for the present. The
rest of the building may remain in its present state,
which, after some very heavy storms of rain last
week, is, we may say, perfectly weather-tight. The
proposed destination need not touch the nave, which
will thus remain available for temporary exhibi-
tions, for flower shows, for promenade concerts, for
Volunteer reviews, for ceremonials, and for many
other purposes, which it will be very easy to sneer
at, but not so easy to prevent being both popular
and useful. The nave may always be kept open,
and retained in its present state, bearing the same
relation to the adjacent courts and galleries as -West-
minster Hall bears to the Houses of Parliament and
the Courts of Law. For this use it will not require
any change or much repair for many years. Of
course we could wish the situation higher, and the
floor more raised above the natural surface, but
the situation is, at least, many feet higher than that
of the Houses of Parliament or Westminster Abbey.
POsT.—The political isolation of Russia is becom-
ing daily more decided. The policy of the Cabinet
of Berlin having completely alienated the people of
Prussia from the Government of the country, her
only ally is a fast breaking reed surely destined to
fail beneath the hand that leans upon it. A few
more ill-judged acts of friendship on the part of
Prussia will place not merely that Power but Rus-
sia herself in direct antagonism with the rest ot Eu-
rope. She has therefore nothing to trust to but the
diplomacy of her statesmen, and it is not likely that
they will neglect the opportunity furnished by the
notes about to be addressed to St. Petersburg by the
Western Powers and Austria, to prolong tee situa-
tion over as great an interval as possible. The sen-
sible diminution of the ancient prestige of the em •
pire, the disorganisation of the army, the wretched
condition of the fleet, the exhausted state of the
finances, the still incomplete social reorganisation of
the country, the precarious position of the nobility,
the difficulty of exciting the fanaticism of the pea-
sants, the absence of any European ally, and, above
all, the feeble and undecided character of the Em-
peror himself, are so many reasons why those who
control the destinies of the empire wish for time,
and why to gain it they will appear in the first in-
stance disposed to grant concessions which may
delude Europe, and for a moment suspend any
manifestations of discontent which may be about to
break out in fresh provinces. That they will em-
ploy this period in so honest endeavour to reconcile
what is possible to Russia with what is satisfactory
to Poland, is more than we can hope; but that,
while professing to be actuated by liberal and
humane sentiments, the Government at St. Peters-
burg may in reality profit by the occasion to employ
measures of even greater severity than they have
hitherto done is extremely probable. Our last
accounts from St. Petersburg indicate already a ten-
dency in this direction. We learn upon undoubted
authority that, for the third time during the last
three months, a discussion has taken place in the
Cabinet as to whether it will be wise to leave the
Grand Duke Constantine still at Warsaw, or
whether it would not be better to recall him imme-
diately, and at the same time enforce more rigorous
measures against the insurrection. While on the
one hand it is desirable that no new incentive should
be given to foreign sympathy with the Poles, the
suppression of the insurrection at all costs is a point
of the first importance. It would seem that this
question has been discussed with much warmth,
and that opinions were all the more divided on ac-
count of the animosity and personal jealousy which
exists against the Grand Duke in certain quarters,
and which would seek to keep him as long as pos-
sible removed from St. Petersburg. The result of
these discussions is reported to have been that,
unless some unforeseen eventuality should arise,
the present status quo was to be allowed to continue
until the autumn ; that is to say, until the severe
weather and the closing of the navigation should
render any active intervention on the part of foreign
Powers impossible, while the cold would force the
numerous bands of insurgents to leave the forests
and seek a shelter more appropriate to the winter
season. When that time comes, if the comparatively
mild measures employed now have failed to suppress
the insurrection, the Imperial Government will
take advantage of the six winter months to re-
establish its authority at all hazards and at any
cost; and as the measures which will then be ena.

reflect credit on a member of the Imperial
ploved will be scarcely of a nature calculated to
it is likely that the Grazed Duke Constentine
then be recalled sad replaced by General Beig.
Meaniime, we cannot, congratulate either his Ini-
perial Highness nor General Mouravieff on the last
exercise of their authority. The hangLng of the
priest Konarski at Warsaw, and of Count Leo
Plater at Vilna, are acts which are certainly not
justified by the exigencies of the situation. Count
Plater was a leading member of one of the
wealthiest end most distinguished noble families la,
Poland; and although it is true that aunt E
foiled concealed on his estate, it is asserted that
he was ignorant of the tact, and innocent of all
complicity with the insurgents. Under any circum-
stances, he was entitled to a trial and a more
honourable death than that of a common malefactor.
We should consider that an earl in this country
must have taken a very leading part indeed in an
insurrectionary movement to justify his being hung
without trial in a public market place ; and it these
are the comparatively mild measures for which the
Russian Government intend to substitute others.
still more stringent, we, do not wonder at the Grand
Duke having been relieved from the duty of en-
forcing them, though we are at a loss to conceive in
what they are to consist. Meantime the summer is
passing away, and while the Great Powers are
changing diplomatic notes and making propositions'
the numbers of widows and orphans in Poland
crying aloud for help are daily increasing.
Unless some Power more energetic and cou-
rageous than the rest steps in, the autumn
will close upon a nation's agony, the time for
action will be past, and the protraction of
negotiations over the next few months will leave
Russia with her hands free at the end of them. The
result may be the momentary suppression of the
movement, but it will not be the extinction of the
national sentiment. Throughout every class this
feeling has gathered force and vitality just in pro-
portion as the prestige of Russian power has de-
clined ; and the experiences of the past year, though
bitter and disastrous, have been so far encouraging
that they have shown the extent of the patriotism
and the moral resources of the people, and the fire
which has now blazed with such fury it will need
more than a winter's frost to extinguish. If it be
the object of the great powers to secure the peace
of Europe, they must not be put off by vague pro-
mises and dilatory pleas on the part of Russia. It
isprobable that the notes will be sent to St. Peters-
burg at once, and there can be no reason why we
should not get an immediate and decided answer
upon the matter of the treve, or armistice, or what-
ever the interlude may be termed. If the reply of
Russia upon this point is unsatisfactory, it will be
impossible to let the matter rest at that stage. It
may be that Austrian statesmen foresee this con-
tingency, and are prepared with a new policy in
lieu of those propositions which have cost so much
discussion, but are of so little practical value. We
have already indicated whatin our view that policy
should be ; but if the occasion is allowed to slip
by, it may be taken advantage of by others, and
the peace of Europe may be endangered by the very
Powers who most desire to preserve it.
HERALD.—The proposal made by the Govern-
ment to expend £484,000 in the purchase of 17 acres
of land in South Kensington, and the completion of
the building used for the Great Exhibition of 1862
is one which is sure to elicit a 'mat variety of
opi-
nions, not only from members of the House of Com-
mons but among persons outside who have at heart
the interests of the nation and of the metropolitan
city. There is no doubt, we suppose, that a very
good bargain has been made when 17 acres of land
in a good position, one that at a future day way be
in the centre of London, are to be had at a price er
about £7,000 per acre. In the Oxford-street im-
provements the land cost £57,000 an acre. In
prolonging Coventry-street the price of 1119,000
an acre was paid. If 17 acres in South Kensington
are cheap at £120,000, the International Exhibi-
tion building is not dear at £BO,OOO. It would cost
much more to cover this space of ground with all
kind of shed for any sort of purpose. To this vote
of £200,000 we have no objection to make. We
cannot say the same of the £284,000 which are said
to be required for the completion of the Exhibition
building. For what is this enormous sum wanted P
The building is to be rendered substantial, the
front is to be stuccoed, and the glass domes are to
be changed into solid domes of brick covered with
lead. Might not the money be much better ex-
pended in developing into a handsome structure
what is now, by common consent, a very ugly
building and a great disfigurement to the western
part of the metropolis? Why do not the Govern-
ment take the advice of a committee of architects
on this matter ? Captain Fowke may be very
skilful in the art of constructing convenient sheds
for temporary purposes ; he is not the sort of man
whom Augustus would have employed in rebuilding
Rome, or Napoleon in beautifying Paris. The
building has many patent faults which need to be
rectified. The length of the nave is broken and
spoiled by the rise of six feet at each end. The
domes are squat and ugly, and give heaviness to
the ends of the building, leaving the centre weak.
Even the contractors, whose business it was not to
design but to execute, proposed to erect a large dome
in the centre as a plan far preferable to having two
smaller ones at the ends. Then the terminal towers
at the east and west angles, in nobody knows what
style of architecture, might be removed altogether
with great advantage. The ends of the transepts,
of flat unsightly woodwork, which completely spoil
the view from the Horticultural Gardens, should
surely be made into an architectural feature. Let
the building stand, by all means, and let it be com-
pleted, but do not suffer it to remain a damning
blot upon the taste of the country, an
occasion of scoffing to supercilious visitors from
the Continent, If the plan of restoration exhi-
bited at the building and in the South Ken-
sington Museum were carried out, we might have a
structure of which the nation need not be ashamed.
Lord Palmerston may despise architecture, and
think it impossible for any building in London
to be beautiful. For our part we think that for
half a million of money we ought to have a build-
' ing which should be pleasing to the eye at the same
time that it satisfied our material requirements. But
what is to be done with the building when we have
it on our hands P It is quite a mistake to suppose
that in retaining this structure we are in any way
providing for the enlargement of the British Museum
or the transfer of the National Gallery of Paintings.
The natural history collection could never be housed
under a building roofed with glass. If the great
building were given to Professor Owen he would
fill it with whales, and then ask for more room. The
contents of the National Portrait Gallery may be
conveniently housed in the picture galleries of the
late Exhibition. The Patent Museum, liable tonna
limited expansion, may perhaps be lodged it; the re-
mainder of the structure, which may be used also
on occasions for exhibitions in connection with the
Department of Sciences and Art and public soirees.
But one thing we do insist upon, whatever is done
with it. If we are to spend all this money, let us
have a fair return for it. The building must not
only be completed substantially, it must be ren-
dered worthy of the nation in an architectural point
of view. It must become an ornament, and not re-
main a disfigurement to London.

MULTIPLICATION GE' RATS.—Mr. 13nekland re-
lates that a celebrated rat-catcher told him a little dog
his, called Tiny, and under six pounds in weight,e,
killed 2,525 rats, which, at the end of three years, had they
been permitted to live, would have increased to the astound-
ing number of 1,633,190,200 rats
To-day's telegram is brought to us with lightning speed by
magnetic force. The same power, and with the same success,
is employed by Mr. Herring in his magnetic brushes. Dr.
liassall reports " I regard them as the most perfect brushes .1
hitherto made, as respects their mechanical construction
and their magnetical action." They are the remedy for grey
hair, neuralgia, rheumatism, N.B.—Counterfeits are
being made. Offices, 32, Basinghall-street, London.
Births.
BOWEN.—On the 12th inst., at Queen's-gardens, Hyde-
park, the wife of Charles Bowen, Esq., of a son.
CHADWICK.—On the 14th inst., at New Hall, Warwick-
shire, the wife of John De H. Mavesyn Chadwick, of a
son.
HARRIS.—On the 14th inst , at Brixton, the wife of Mr.
Horatio Harris, of a son.
Marriages.
DOWLING—FLEET,— On the 13th inst., at the Old Church,
Brighton, Frank Dowling, Esq., of Addlestone, Surrey,
to Isabel, youngest daughter of W. Fleet, Esq., of 2,
Richmond-terrace, Brighton.
GARNETT—SINGLETON.—On the 13th inst., at St. Mark's,
Regent's park, Richard Garnett, Esq , of the British
Museum, to Olivia Narney, only daughter of Edward
Singleton, Esq., of co. Clare, Ireland.
Deaths.
BoROUGIL—On the 14th inst., at 23, Grafton-street, the
Hon. Lady Borough, widow of Sir Richard Borouh,
Bart., and only surviving issue of Gerrard, Ist Viscongnt
Lake, aged 88.
BERTL—On the 14th inst., at 3A, King-street, Saint
James's, Florence Berti, aged 23.
CARR.—Oa the 14th inst., at Lee-grove, Blackheath, Ar-
thur Lascelles Beckwith, second son of Wm. Carr, Esq.,
F.R.C.S., aged 10,
PAYNE..--At Havre, suddenly, Henry Payne, Esq., of Ford-park, Mutley.plain, Plymouth.
WELLS,—On the 12th inst., at Dalston, Mr. Rchd. Wells,
aged .51.
WvATT.—On the 11th inst., at Ryde, Isle of Wight, Cap-
tain Henry B. Wyatt, R.N., aged 77.

London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS.
of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TILE SUN Office, No. 112.
Strand, fa the Precinct of the 3avoy, in the County of
iithllesex.—Tuesclay, June 16 1861

NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.
Established 1809.
Incorporated by
Royal Charter and Special Acts of
Parliament.
A..._ecuntulated and Invested Funds
d'unual neve4lle... 422,401
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Insuron th an-es Zranted both at Home and in Foreign Countries
c most liberal terms.
LIFE DEPARTMENT.
Every facility offered to Insurers.
Ninety per Cent. of the Profits divided among the Insurers
n the participating principle.
The new Life business *ransacted in 1862 as follows:
Policies. Ameunt In ured. Premiums.
1,037 £763,334 £23.641 0 0
Forms of Proposal and every infor,Tiation will be furnished
On application at the
140N1)0N

OFFICES :
.58, Threadneedle-street.
4, New Bank Buildinzs. Lothbury.
West-end Office B, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.

THE ADELAIDE (NORTH ARM) PORT
AND RAILWAY EXTENSION AND LAND COM-
SOUTH AUSTRALIA (Limited).
Capital £400,000, in 20,r00 shares of £2O each.
First issue 10,000 shares. Depo-it, 10s. per share, and 10s. on
allotment. Calls not to exceed £3, at intervals of not less
than three months.
A portion of the capital reserved for the Colony.
Five per cent. per annum guaranteed during the construction
of the works.
Payments will be received in advance of calls.
DIRECTORS.
George Lathom Browne, Esq. (Director of the Cape Town
Lordoc
bk and Railway Company), Old Broad-street, London.
Robert Cecil, M.P., 11, Duchess-street Portland-place,
London, W.
Frederick Doulton,. Esq., M.P. (Director of the London and
Colonial Bank). Manor Hous Dulwich.
John Henry Harrison, Esq. (Messrs. J. H. Harrison and Co.,
_Australian Merchants), Gresham-street, London.
w. J. Marshall, Esq. (Messrs. Wilson, Bowles, and Co., Mer-
chants), 9, Mincing-lane, London, E.C.
Hon. Alexander M'Arthur (Messrs. W. and A. WArthur,
Australian Merchants), 46, Moorgate-street, London.
George Peacock, Esq., Australian Merchant, 1, Lime-street-
square, London.
Albert Petty. Esq. (Messrs. A. Pell and Co., Merchants),
Finch-lane, London, RC, Y
Henry Spicer, Esq
London and Adelaide.
(Messrs. E. and H. Spicer, Merchants),
Hon. John Baker LOCAL BbARD.
Adelaide. (late Member of the Legislative Council),
I• ,
On. George Hawker (Speaker Of the Legislative Assembly),
Adelaide.
Captain Lipson, R.N. (late Harbour Master), Adelaide.
Hon. Col. O'Halloran (Member of the Legislative Council),
Adelaide.
Hon. 'rhos. Reynolds, M.P. (late Chief Secretary), Adelaide.
Hon. Abraham Scott, M.L.C., Merchant, Adelaide.

BAN Tus.
3resars. Barclay, Bevan, Iritton,ni and Co., Lombard-street,
London.
South Australian Banking Company, Adelaide.
BROKERS.
Robert MiEwen, Egg. Manchester.
Diessrs. Taunton and 'Co , Liverpool.
Ressrs. A. Serutton and Son, 81, Old Broad-street. London.

SOLICITORS.
Messrs, Phillips and Son, 11, Abchnrch-lane, London,
SECRETARY—W. H. Payne, Esq.
offices-36, Old Broad-street, London, E.C.

PROSPECTUS.

- - -
I. This company is formed for the purpose of affording
more convenient accommodation for the shipping and com-
merce of the colony of South Australia under the following
circumstances :

IL The colony of South Australia, with its mineral and
agricultural products, is admittedly rich in all things which
can tend to create an extensive and prosperous trade with
other countries, and nothing retards its elevation to the
highest point of commercial prosperity so much as the want
of convenient and sufficient accommodation for the shipping
resorting thereto. •
111. That portion of the Port of Adelaide to which the
shippingtr at present resorts is about seven miles irom the city
I that name, and situated at the extremity of an arm of the
sea, which after leaving the point known as the North Arm
becomes a narrow and tortuous channel, two miles and three
quarters in length, difficult to navigate without grounding,
and except at flood tide and with a favourable wind inacces-
sible to vessels without th expense of a steam-tug ; this ter•
rainates in shoal water, where vessels are crowded together,
for the most part aground, subject to all the risks of broken
ribs, broken backs, and conflagration—nor can these disad-
vantages and risks be remedied at the present shipping place,
as the water is shoaling up every year, and with ail the pre-
sent heavy and constant expense incurred in dredging can-
not be sufficiently deepened for vessels to lie afloat. (Se
Appendix.)
IV. The serious and important nature of this question has
'requently engaged the attention of the Colonial Government
and Parliament, and it may be safely affirmed that the effect
'')f the testimony of successive Governors and other authori-
ties, colonists and shipping masters resorting to the port has
down to the present day been condemnatory of the present
shipping place and in favour of the North Arm, as affording
the. requisite facilities for accommodating a large amount of
Shipping of any class, and of becoming*, as originally in-
nded, and still desired, the permanent port for Adelaide.
(See Appendix.)
V. At the North Arm is a magnificent sheet of deep
Water land-locked, forming a natural basin of great extent,
With smooth water and of easy navigation for vessels of the
largest burden ; and the site selected by the Company, unlike
the adjacent land, is elevated above the highest flood, has
deep water in immediate proximity to the shore, and an
abundant supply of fresh water, with a frontage to the
harbour of over 3,000 feet in length for wharf purposes, and
of over 1,500 laterally, immediately abutting on the site re-
served for Government Graving Docks.
VI. An advantageous arrangement has been made with
the proprietors of the land required for the purposes of the
Company, by which nearly two-thirds of the purchase-
money will be taken in deferred shares, to remain in the
hinds of the directors, on terms securing to the shareholders
a priority of dividend to the extent of 5 per cent., till the
profits yield sufficient to pay that amount of dividend on the
aggregate of the paid-up capital and deferred shares. The
remaining one third is to be paid in cash, at periods favour-
able to the shareholders. The property secured is about 700
acres (extending from the river across Lefevre's peninsula,
about one mile in breadth to the Gulf Anchorage), to be con-
nected with the western bank by means of a steam floating
bridge, and the Company has also arranged to purchase on
favourable terms additional land on the western bank oppo-
Site the site already secured, with a view to bringing both
Bides of the harbour within the sphere of the Company's
perations.
VII. It is intended to construct upwards of 2,000 feet of
Wharf frontage at once, where vessels of the largest tonnage
may lay alongside, and to erect wharves, warehouses, and
other conveniences, affording ample accommodation to the
shipping resorting to the port. Also an extension of two
miles of railway to complete the line already laid down by
the Government, from the city of Adelaide to the North Arm,
and a short line of four-and-a-half miles to the Dry-Creek
Station, on the Great North and Murray River Railway,
thereby effecting a saving of 12 miles of carriage between the
great producing districts and the port of the colony.
VIII. As proving the opening afforded for additional ship
accommodation by the increasing prosperity of the colony, the
commercial returns show that the exports and imports for
the year 1850 amounted to £1,416,389, that of 1860 to £3,423,307,
and that of 1861 to £4,063,155, the wharf dues upon which
amount to upwards of 1.30,000 per annum.
IX. The frontage of the proposed wharves, extending for
upwards of half a mile, where vessels drawing upwards of 20
feet of water can come alongside at low water, offers such
superior advantages as must obviously secure a large propor-
tion of this business, and thus a very large return to the
shareholders, as by colonial law the wharf dues for all goods
landed are levied according to regulated tariff. Other impor-
tant sources of revenue are supplied by the rental of commo-
dious warehouses included in the estimates, the aggregate
rental of which cannot be estimated at less than £12,000 S.
Year ; also by the railways, land, and other rentals, which
Will accrue from the large population which the operations
of the company will atract to their property.
X. The cost of the undertaking, including the purchase of
the land, the construction of wharves, railway
communica-
tion, and the e-ection of warehouses and other accommoda-
tion above-mentioned, has been carefully revised, and esti-
mated by the late Captain Moorborn, C.E., at a sum within
the first issue of the company's capital. It is also estimated
that the whole of this amount will not be required for two
years. Responsible contractors are prepared to execute the
works within the estimat . Any further capital will only
be raised as the increase of business and the advantage of
the company requires.
XI. The proprietors of the landwill place in the possession
of the directors securities to pay 5 percent. per annum on the
paid-up capital until the works are so far completed as to en-
able the directors to commence the business of the Company.
XII. The directors desire to draw attention to the impor-
tant advantages offered by the present undertaking, and con-
fidently refer to the map and the official documents set forth
in the appendix, which embraces the site of the Company's
Property, as establishing the necessity for, and the highly
remunerative character of, the proposed works.
Prospectuses, with maps and appendixes, can be obtained
at the brokers, solicitors, and of the secretary at the Com-
Pany's offices, 36, Old Broad-street, London, E.C.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Directors of the Adelaide (North Arm) Port and Rail-
way Extension and Land Company, South Australia
(Limited).
Gentlemen,—Having paid to your bankers, Messrs. Barclay,
Bevan, and Co., the sum of £ I hereby request that you
vigil allot me shares of £2O each in the Adelaide (North
Arm) Port and Railway Extension and Land Company, South
Australia (Limits d) ; and I hereby agree to accept such shares,
pursuant to the articles of association, or any smaller num-
ber that may be allotted to me, and to pay the calls on the
shares allotted. And I request you to place my name on the
register of shareholders.—l am, Gentlemen, your obedient
Servant, _ _ _ .

Usual signature
Name in full
Address in full
Date

nd YAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT
INSTITUTION
(Incorporated by Royal Charter).
PATnorEss—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
rRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland,
K.G., F.R.S.
CHAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thom Chapman, Esq., FRS VP
as • . • •
APPEAL.
The Committee of Management have to state that, since
the beginning of the year 1860, the Itoyai National Lifeboat
Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab-
lishments on the Coasts of E Scotland, and Ireland.
The number of lives saved by the Life-boatst of the
Society, and other means, since ts imciesdall2s,Boo ;
for which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silveorn
£16,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu-
lionlnd
has also expended £67,,D00 on Life-boats, Lite-boat
Transporting-eari iages, and Boat-houses.
The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of
the generous support which they have received from the
British public during the past few years, a support which
ha enbled them to establish their present magnificent fleet
of s 123 a Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom.
Deeply sensible, however, of the great responsibility that
rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient
state, and its Crews practised in the management of their
boats, whili can only be effected by a large and permanent
annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their
countrymen to aid them in upholding, and perpetuating so
great and truly national a work.
The Committee gratefully acknowledge the following con.
tributions

£ s. d
.. •
annual 50 0 0
Her Majesty the Queen • •
Campbell, the Bon. Mrs. G. :• ••
Clerk, Colonel, R.A. • • • • •
••
: annual
00
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51
01
Coutts and Co. Messrs., Bankers .. .. annual 10 0 0
Currie, Wm. I::sq., 4th dort.lo 0 0
Erie, Lord Wm.,
Justice.. • • •
Panshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A.,1.C.8.2dd0n.d0n. 2150 100 00
Penwick, G. J., Esq., cost of a Lifeboat and Tran-
sporting Carriage ... • • 250 0 0
Harvey, Rev. G. G. and Mrs. .. don. 30 0
Martin, Sir Henry, Bart .. .. 7th don. 10 0 0
Moore, Rev. G. B.•don. 15 15 0
Smith, Mrs. George, Greenwich „, „ „ 30 0
Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, annual 2 0 0
Thom.. s, Lady, Weston-super-Mare, collected by her
Ladyship .. 16 16 0
Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord .. annual 5 0 0
Donations and Annual Suhscriptionswillbe thankfully re-
ceived by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis,
Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard-street; Messrs. Coutts and
Co., 59, Strand; Messrs. Berries, Farquhar, and Co., 16, St.
James's-street, London ; by all the Collectors of Customs
and Bankers in the Unitedliingdom; and by the Secretary
Richard Lewis. Esq., at the Office of the Institution, 14,
John-street, Adelphi. London. W.C.

T"-_MOORE BROTHERS respectfully inti-
mate that their New Prospectus is now ready. They
especially recommend their improved Family Tea, reduced
to is. 2d. ; Souchong, reduced to 3s. 6d. ; mixed Assam, re-
duced to 3s. Bd._; and the finest Assam, reduced from 4e. 4d.
to 3s. lid. per lb.
MOORE BROTHERS, 85, London-bridge, City, B.C.