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The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-06

SHERIDAN'S PRACTICAL JOKE ON RICHARDSON !

"Sheridan had Leen driving out three or four hours in a
hackney coach, when, seeing Richardson pass, he hailed
him and made him get in. He instantly contrived to intro-
duce a topic upon which Richardson (who was the very
soul of disputatiousness) always differed with him; and at
last, affecting to be mortified at Richardson's arguments,
said, You really are too bad, I cannot bear to listen to
such things ; I will not stay in the same coach with you.'
And accordingly got down and left him, Richardson
hallooing out triumphantly, ' Ah, you're beat, you're beat
Nor was it till the heat of his victory had a little cooled
that he found out he was left in the lurch to pay for Sheri-
dan's three hours' coaching."

Ex uno, disce—almost every morsel of a paragraph
in this laughter-moving omnium gatheruna of
comical sayings and doings ! " Good Things" being,
in truth, as entertaining a little Jest Book as any
that has appeared during this last quarter of a cen
tury. Lastly, here is Peter Cunningham's suggestive
series of calculations apropos to—
London, England, 1863-08-06

simply a question of cost between the Admiralty
and the contractors. English manufacturers say
they cannot supply a metal equal to t French
iron of Petit Gaudet and Co. at their pr Tent aver-
age contract price for finished plates of 35 per ton.
Her Majesty's iron steam storeslrp Wye, Master
Commander Roberts, was yesterday tndocked at
Woolwich, and the Industry was docked to be exa-
mined for repairs after collision.

The Ardent, Captain Parish, was yesterday put
out of commission, and the crew were paid off at
Woolwich. After receiving their pay at the table,
at which the Commodore, Sir F. Nicholson, was
present, the whole of the Ardent's crew, as well as
those of thq•Madagascar, brought home as passen-
gers, gave a simultaneous cheer for their captain.
:The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Lieut. W. C. Shuckburgh, to
the. Snipe; Richard O'Toole, assist.-surg., to the
Egmont; and W. E. M'Dermott, acting assist.-
surg., to the Forte.
London, England, 1863-08-06

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

The general features of our market have not undergone
any very material changes. Transactions in exports have
been somewhat larger, now that supplies are becoming more
liberal and prices are yielding. Indigo prospects are gene-
rally good; manufacture is going on rapidly. But little
doing in sugar. Saltpetre less active, larger supplies, and
prices drooping. Rice in moderate demand, at steady
prices. Raw silk in more request, and prices are firm. No
demand for Corahs at the late prices quoted. Linseed very
firm, and in active demand. More inquiry for rapeseed,
but prices unaltered. Jute quotes as by last report, with a
moderate business in progress. Hides very firm and scarce,
with an active demand. Shellac is declining. Lac dye in
good demand. D. T. sold at 54r. per maund. Safflower in
good demand, with an advancing tendency.
In imports we have scarcely any change to note in
cotton piece goods. Dealers continue to meet their current
requirements by purchasing at the last prices we quoted.
Stocks are becoming larger. The demand for yarns is again
improved, and prices are decidedly firmer.
In the money market there is no change to note. Rates
of interest and discount remain unchanged, and capital
abundant.

The Stock market has continued to fluctuate within the
rates we gave in our last report. There has been a mode-
rate business done, and chiefly in 5i per cents.
In the share• market prices of old stock have ruled stea-
dily. Great Eastern Hotel scrip has been in less demand.
Spence's Hotel Company is more asked for at advancing
quotations. Bank of Bengal are in demand both for cash
and for forward delivery at very full rates. The tea com-
panies are generally in favour. Ghola Ghauts have de-
clined to 35 and 40 rupees under completion of engage-
ments. They are gain firmer.
In exchange the transactions have ranged, with very
little variation, at our quotations.
In freights the more free arrival of tonnage has led to
a further decline.

The Volkszeitung says that a Prussian trader named
Gaspard Lange, travelling in the German Duchies of Den.
mark, was arrested in the city of Schleswig because the
words " Schleswig-Holstein " on his passport were united
by a hyphen instead of being separated by a comma. His
passport was declared to be informal, he was confined in
prison, and fined for not having proper documents proving
his identity,
London, England, 1863-08-06

THE ARMY.

The colonelcy of the 87th Regiment has been con-
ferred upon Major-Gen. Lord W. Paulet, C. 8., com-
manding the south-west district.
Major-General Sir Richard Dacres, K.C.8., Com-
mandant of -Woolwich garrison, has obtained a
month's leave of absence from duty. The command
has devolved on Colonel Sir David Wood, Royal
Horse Artillery, K.C.B.
The additional wing to the auxiliary hospital
erected at Woolwich, near the Royal Artillery
Barracks, at the back of Millro-lane, has
for now been
completed. It is to be appropriated female
patients belonging to the soldiers of the garrison,
the expenses of which will be defrayed by volun-
tary contributions.
The Salamanca transport arrived at Spithead
during Monday night, from Kurrachee, with the
following troops on board, time-expired meta and
invalids :—Lieut. Walker, 51st Regiment ; Colonel
Liddell, Bombay Infantry; wife, and family ; Capt.
Currey, Bombay Staff Corps; Lieut. Urquhart, 72d
Foot; Lieut. Sealy, 89th Foot; Ensign Stokes, 19th
Foot ; and men from various regiments.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

MIDLAND.

The directors of this company have just decided on re-
commending to the proprietors a dividend for the half-year
ending June 30 last at the rate of 51 per cent, per annum on
the ordinary stock of the company.
London, England, 1863-08-06

GREAT WESTERN.

The special general meeting of this company will be held
to-morrow for the purpose of electing 18 directors to repre-
sent the interests of the Great Western proprietors at the
Board of the amalgamated company. Since the last half-
yearly general meeting six vacancies were created in the
directory, which have been filled up by gentlemen selected
by the late shareholders' committee, It is believed, from
the good understanding that has been established between
the shareholdersiand directors, that the Board as now con-
stituted will be elected, and it is hoped that all the advan-
tages expected to arise from the amalgamation of the Great
Western with the other companies will be fully realised,
and that the agitation which has been prevalent for some
time past will be set at rest.
London, England, 1863-08-06

LYNN-TUESDAY.

At to-day's corn market samples of wheat sold at about
late prices. Harvest work has commenced here ; oats have
been cut for some days past. A good average crop is ex-
pected in all kinds of grain.
White ..44s to 48s j Barley .....--s to —s
Red.. 4os to 45s I Grinding ..28s to 32s
Beans .36s to 40s I Oats .2os to 245
New —s to s I Peas —s to .---14

COAL M
floes of Coal per Ton at
a. d. I

.ARKET.
the close of the market.

Carway and Duffryn.

Walls End.

Malting , - 19 6
alker Primrose 12 9
Eden Main l6 6
North Pelton Gas 13 3
Ships at marks

B. d

Haswell ..18 3
K elloe
Hatton lB _

'Riddell,,,,,, l6 3
)t,,13 ; sold, 13.

Foreign Mail. Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton ..Aug. 18.
via Marseilles Aug. 13.
Brazil and Cape Verds, by British paOtet. Sept. 3.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Aug. —.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Aug. 2.
via Marseilles Aug —.

Falkland Islands..
Gibraltar, via Southampton' Aug. 2.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Aug. 2.
via Marseilles Aug. —.
India (Bombay), via Southampton Aug. 10
via Marseilles Aug. 20.
Portugal.... ......
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Aug. 2.
via Marseilles Aug. 13.
Newfoundland .. Aug. 19.
Oporto and Vigo
U. S. and British N. America, Ly Brit. packet.... Aug. 13,
by U.S. packet....
b Cana dean packet. Aug. 7.
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Ty eneriffe Aug. 10
Bahamas, via New York Aug. 27.
Mexico..
All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru'.. Aug. .8. 1
California. and British Columbia. Aug. 13.

[ADVERTISEMENT.I—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills—
Painful Diseases.—Many simple maladies are permitted to
become virulent through persons' reluctance to expose their
infirmities to another. For rightly using Holloway's
esteemed remedies no counsellor is necessary; no adviser
beyond that contained in the accompanying directions is re-
quired. Film fistulas, and many other ailments which de-
mand secrecy, can be safely conducted by Holloway's oint-
ment and pills to an easy and permanent cure. They can
be confidetly applied in the most painful, irritating, and
dangerous diseases; they purify, soothe, cool, heal, and
radically cure when any treatment short of producing these
combined effects must result in unsuccessful if not disas-
trous consequences. The severest sufferers of every class
have been restored by Holloway's ointment and pills.
London, England, 1863-08-06

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Edinburgh & Glasgow.
Glasg. and S. Western.
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Ditto A stock

Ditto East Anglian st
GreatNorthof Scotland
Great Northern..
Do A stock
Do B do
Gt. S. an 1 W. of Ireland
Great Western ......
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Lancashite & Yorkshire
London and Blackwall
Lon., Bright.ok S. Coast
Lon., Chat., aud Dover
Lon. & North Western
Lon. & So•.th Western
Man., Shef., & Lincoln.
Maryport and Carlisle.
Do * shares
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Midland
Do New

Do Birming. & Derby
Hid. Gt. W. of Ireland

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Do Cray Line
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Scot N. E., Aber. stock
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South Eastern

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London, England, 1863-08-06

JOHN WHITE. Manufacturer. 228, Piccadilly.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, at King's-cross.
Patron—The QUEEN.
President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G.
Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq.
This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free
and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for-
mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti-
tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom-
panied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient
magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered
capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of
the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the
funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of
these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover,
it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more,
on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week.
_ _

The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an
EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued suppeirt,
to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that
daily present themselves.

Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward
Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and
Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Ferries and Co. ; Ransom and
Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Giyn
and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison
and Co. ; W Jliaras, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and
Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool
and at the Hospital.

STANFORD S. SMITH, Secretary.

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT
INSTITUTION

(Inoorporated by Royal Charter).
PATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
PRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland,
K.G., F.R.S.
CHAIRMAN—Thos. Raring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P.
London, England, 1863-08-06

APPEAL.

The Committee of Management have to state that, since
he beginning of the year 1860, the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab-
lishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the
Society, and other means, since its formation, is 12,800 ;
for which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, incl.
£16,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu-
tion has also expended £67,000 on Life-boats, Life-boat
Transporting-cart 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
has enabled them to establish their present magnificent fleet
of 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom.
Deeply sensible, however, of the meat responsibility that
rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient
state, and its Crews practised in the management of their
boats, which 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
Her Majesty the Queen • • • • • . annual 50 0 0
Campbell, the lion. Mrs. G. .• . • .. annual, 50 0
Clerk, Colonel, R.A. .. • • .. annual 11 0
Coutts and Co. Messrs., Bankers .. annual 10 0 0
Currie, Wm., 11:sq., . • • • • • 4th don.lo 0 0
Erie, Lord Chief Justice .. • • • • don. 10 10 0
leanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., K.C.B. .. 2d don. 25 0 0
Fenwick, G J., Esq , cost of a Lifeboat and Tran-

_
,
sporting. Carriage .. • • • • • • • . 250 0 0
'vvi.lihierollmousgsh,.
Harvey, Rev. G. G. and Mrs. .• .. don. 30 0
Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. .• .. .. 7th don. 10 0 0
Moore, Rev. G. B. .. .. .. .. (ion. 15 15 0
Smith, Mrs. George, Greenwich .• 30 0
Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.B. .. .. annual 20 0
Ladyship .. • • • • • • 16 16 0
• • •
Lbaya:ddy,,EWr
ees. Weston-super-Mare,
,ni.,- sourpde r
.-
.M a r e.,
.co 11 ec.t. e d b y her
annual 5 0 0
Donations and Annual Subscriptions will be thankfully re-
ieievheard
dbiethwie:ankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis,
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
d Rankers in the United Kingdom; and by the Secretary
John-et* Losq., at the Office of the Institution, 14,
'O3O, Adolph.% London, W.C.

)3 a;
London, England, 1863-08-06

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day,

BRIGHTON CLUB RACES—Tats DAY.
ET ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
1100 PLATE.

Lady Derby.... 1
Blanche of Lancaster ...
Keane

Six ran..
BRIGHTON CLUB PLATE.

Alcibiade
General Hess

Tonio
ARRlVED.—Rigolbocne, Zeloo, Independence, Durham,
Outpost, and Beaver.
LATEST BETTING.
ST. LEGER.

9 to 2 agst Ranger (offered)
100 to 15 agst Queen Bertha (offered)
Bto 1 agNt Avenger (taken)
10 to 1 agst Lord Clitden (taken)
22 to 1 agst Borealis (taken)
40 to 1 agst Clarior (taken)
50 to 1 agst Melrose (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Bonny Belle (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Judex (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Blondin (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Scamander (taken)

SHIPPING—This Day.

BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.

GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning.
Arrived, August 6.—Avondale, from Jamaica; Zeno,
from Miramishi ; Schryd, from Guernsey ; Princess Royal,
from Girgenti : Hawen Dale, from Leghorn; Princess
Guide, Palmerston, Rattram, and Firdar, from Quebec ;
Prometheus, from Sines; Witch of the Wave, from Deme-
rara; Cambrian, from Jamaica; Eniksen, from Cardenas ;
Victoria, from New York; Lochiel, from Madras; Jane
and Esther and Annie Morice, from Guernsey ; Helene,
from St. Petersburg ; Heinle, from Lulia ; Sea, from Caen ;
Onkel, from St. Petersburg

- - -
DEAL, Thursday Mornin
Passed.— Just, schooner, from Africa ; fronf
Vincent; Peterborough, from China; V,ctoria, bark, from
Mexico; Mangerton, and London, bark, from Quebec;
Shah Jehann, from New York—all for London;
Supply, from West, for River.
Anchored.— Sarah King, for Brest ; Jessie Annandale
for Salcombe--both for London.
London, England, 1863-08-06

DOUGLAS JERROLD'S DRY HUMOUR I

"A friend is anxious to awaken Mr. Jerrold's sympathies
in behalf of a mutual acquaintance who is in want of a
round sum of money. But this mutual friend has already
sent his hat about among his literary brethren on more than
one occasion. Mr. —'s hat is becoming an institution,
and friends were grieved at the indelicacy of the proceed-
ing, On the above occasion, the bearer of the hat was re-
ceived with evident dissatisfaction. ' Well,' said Douglas
Jerrold, how much does --- want this time?' Why,
just a four and two noughts will, I think, put him straight,'
the bearer of the hat replied. Jerrold—' Well, put me
down for one of the noughts,' "

Next take Earl Russell's evidence as to what we
would here venture to call—though it may appear a
bold thing speaking thus of such a" great gun" as a
Canon—
London, England, 1863-08-06

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.

PARIS, Thursday, Aug. 6.
L' Union of this morning remarks upon its own
latest advices from Rome that it is assured anew,
in those advices, that the health of the Sovereign
Pontiff continues to be excellent. His Holiness
does not suffer, it adds, as there was reason to fear
he might have suffered, from the excessive heat of
the season. He makes each day his habitual pro
menade, to the great satisfaction of the population
of Rome, who seize with eagerness every oppor
tunity of thus lavishing upon their Pontife-Roi,
these evidences of their attachment.
BOURSE, Aug. b.—The market closed as fob.
lows :

it per Cents. ...... 96 50 Italian Loan 72 10
Do. end month.... Do. end month 72 35
3 per Cents ..... 68 New ditto
Do. end mouth.... 68 Do. end month.... 72 50
Credit Mobilier..•. 1115 Russian
Do.
end month..
50 Austrian
Bank Shares ..... 3350 Spanish Threes.,, 52 25
Credit koncier ....1270 Rome Debt .. 5l
London, England, 1863-08-06

THE D UKE'S MOTTO.
HLNDRED A ND SEVENTY-SECOND NIGHT,
and Last Three Nights of the present Season.

ROYAL LY CEUM THEATRE.-
Under the Sole 3 lanagement of Mr. FECHTER.
Last Three Nig' hts of the present Season.
TUTS EVENING, to c :ommence with an Original Sketch,
entitled A SUDDEN A .TTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden,
Widdicomb, Miss Hen rade, and Mrs. Lee.
Alter which, at a Q tarter-past Eight, the Romantic
Drama, in Three Acts , and Pr3logue, entitled THE
DUKES MOTTO, by _Paul Feval and John Brougham.
'the principal character will be sustained by Mr. Fechter,
supported by Messrs. J. G . Shore, G. Jordan, J. Brougham,
rf. Widdiymbe, F. Chart es, Garden,
nd
Raymond, Dawson ;
Misses Carlotta Leclercq„ Kate Terry, E. Lavenue, a
Elsworthy. Doors open at 7, commence at half-past.
Acting-Manager, Mr. H. Barnett.

EN THE ATM ROYAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole Proprietor an c Manager, M. B. Webster.
1111
THIS EVENING, THI: IRISH TIGER.
After which, at Eight o'clock, a new drama, entitled THE
_FLAUNTED MAN; OR, T,E GHOST'S lIARGAIN, in
which will be exhibited 'Professor Pepper's adaptat!on of
the Great Spectral Illusion. Messrs. J. L. Toole, R. Philips,
ef ton C. J. Smith; Mrs. Alfred Mellon and Miss 11. Simms.
Followed by anew Burlesque, entitled ILL-TREATED
IL TROVATORE. Messrs. Toole. P. Bedford, R. Phillips,
Eburne, C. J. Smith, Rosier ; the Sisters Nelson, Carry and
Sara, and Miss K. Kelly.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough.
TO-NIGHT WHILE THERE'S LIFE THERE'S HOPE.
Messrs. W. H. Swanborough, Parselle, Vollaire, G. Honey;
Misses Ada Swanborough, L. Thorne, F. Hughes, Manders,
and E. Bufton.
Followed by (18th time) THE MOTTO, " I'M ALL
'THERE." Messrs. Haney, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier,
Clifton ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, F. Josephs, Maria
tkimpson, Wallace, and Jenny White.
To conclude with KEEP YOUR TEMPER.

Commence at 7.

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The Weather—Sun Office, Aug. 6, 1863.
London, England, 1863-08-06

SALISBURY AND YEOVIL.

The directors of this company have agreed to recommend
a dividend on the ordinary shares for the past half-year at
the rate of 41 per cent. per annum.

GREAT SOUTHERN OF INDIA.

It appears that this company paid yesterday a further
sum of £25,030 to the credit of the Secretary of State for
India, on account of the extension capital, guaranteed 4!
per cent., making a total amount paid on this account of
£lOO,OOO.
London, England, 1863-08-06

APPEAL.

The Committee of Management have to state that, since
he beginning* of the year 1860, the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab-
lishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the
Society. and other means, since its formation, is 12,800;
for which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and
£16,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu-
tion has also expended £67.000 on Life-boats, Life-boat
Transporting-carriages, 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
has enabled them to establish their present magnificent fleet
of 123 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, which 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 :

X s. d
Her Majesty the Queen .. • • • • annual 50 C 0
Campbell, the Hon. Mrs. G. .. . • .. annual 50 0
Clerk, Colonel, R.A. • • • • annual 1 1 0
C'outts and Co. Messrs., Bankers
..s.
....
dano.nn:ual2sllooo
1000
000
Currie, Wm. Esq., • ' • • ..
• • 4thdon.lo 0 0
Erie, Lord Chief Justice • • • • • ' },:asnpsohratiwz,CVairceri-aAgdemirt.d. Sir
.A.., K.C.B. .. 2d don. 25 o o
Fenwick, G. J. Esq., cost of a Lifeboat.. iti.addTonra.n-
-,,ncarveY, Re Henry, . and Mrs. 3 0 0
..artin, Sir Bart. .. .. .. 7th doll. 10 0 0
Moore, Rey. •
G• B• .. • • •• .. don. 15 15 0
801,1,th, Mrs. George, Greenwidh • • • • • • 30 0
:::::rciLoinvnagait,,iCoannoBl. Sir Anthony, K.C.B. .. • • annual 20 0
Thon,„,,
~ Lpady,e:
Lauyshi
• • 16 16 0
Willoughby d•E • • • • ' annual 50 0
Co., 59, Strand
CO.,
by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis,
and Bankers Annual •
Subscriptions will be thankfully re-
and Bankers rVoe,es:bt:::;:rpde r -.3. la r e.:10011 ec.t.e d by her
James
thel vie
sdsornal.: oil
Berries
Lombard-street;
raairetlls: stFthraeereeat
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huMaecre.tsoansrrssd.
oCcf ooudtutlaseioanms
tds.
Richard
Ausq., at the 'ol4e 'of they,lta 14,
LeyteriZlitueddflnn,
P.C.gdm • and b the Secretary
John-Street

~,IPECTACLES.—The Patent Newly-invented
Li Tinted Spectacles are patronised by the majority of the
Nobility, including Viscount Palmerston. They afford extra-
ordinary relief to weak, dim, and detective vision.—S. and B
SOLOMON S, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly.
London, England, 1863-08-06

ROGERS'S LONGEVITY I

"When Rogers made his appearance as a poet, Lord
Byron W 913 unborn—and Byron has been dead 31 years I
When Percy Bysshe Shelley was born, Rogers was in his
30th year—and Shelley has been dead nearly 34 years I
When Keats was born, The Pleasures of Memory' was
looked upon as a standard poem—and Keats has been dead
35 years I When this century commenced, the man who
died but yesterday, and in the latter half, too, of the cen•
tury, had already numbered as many years as Burns and
Byron had numbered when they died. Mr. Rogers was
born before the following English poets—Scott, Southey,
Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Moore, Campbell, Bloom-
field, Cunningham, Hogg, James Montgomery, Shelley,
Keats, Wilson, Tom Hood, Kirke White, Lamb, Joanna
I3aillie, Felicia Hemans, L. E. L.; and he outlived them
all."
London, England, 1863-08-06

THE LAUNDRESSES to her late Majesty
1. Queen Adelaide say, that " BRIGGS' AUSTRALIAN
S I'ARCH needs but to be tried to be approved." Sole
Wholesale Agent, Harper Twelvetrees, Bromley-by Bow,
London, E.

RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.
WHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS
(PERFECTED AND EXRIBITED TN TIIE GREAT
14:NMEITIONS or 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by upwards of
Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective
invention in the curative treatment of HERN I A.
The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects,
is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the
body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the
Bloc-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease
ind closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn
during sleep. A descriptive circular may he had, and the
truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the air-
otnnference of the body, two inches below the hips, being
sent to the manufacturer,
Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly.
A Single Truss, 168., 218., 265. 6d., and 318. 6d. Postage, ls.
A.Double Truss, 818. 6d., 428., and 525. 6d. Postage, is Bd.
&n Umbilical Truss, 428. and 528. 6d. postage, ls. 10d.
_Post:office Orders to be made payable to John White,Tost-
mace, Piccadilly.

NEW PATENT
ELASTIC
„STOCKINGS,
KNEE-CAPS, Am., for Varicose Veins and all cases of
Weakness and Swelling os the Legs, Sprains, &o. They are
porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on
111 re an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6c1., 108., to 168.
eadh. Postage 6d.
London, England, 1863-08-06

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.

To-day's market was fairly supplied with beasts as to
number, but their general quality was inferior. The few
prime breeds on offer sold slowly, at about previous rates,
the top quotation being 4s 101 b per 81b. Inferior stock was
very dull, at barely stationary prices. The show of sheep
was moderate. Downs and half-breds were in fair request,
at full currencies, viz., 4s 8d to 5s per 81b.; but inferior
sheep ruled heavy, at prices barely equal to Monday.
Lambs were in moderate supply and sluggish request, at
late quotations: There was a large supply of calves in the
market, and the veal trade was very dull. The most infe-
rior calves sold as low as 3s per 81b. Pigs and milch cows
moved off heavily, at late rates.

Per 81b. to sink the offal.
s. d. s. d.
Crse. &inf. beasts 3 4 3 8
Second quality do. 3 10 4 4 ,
Prime large oxen 4 6 4 8
Prime Scots, &c. 4 8 4 10'
Crse. & inf. sheep 3 6 4 0
Second qualityclo. 4 2 4 6

s. d. s. d.
Primecrs-wool d 0.4 8 4 10
Pme.S'thdowndo.4 10 5 0
Large orse. calves 3 4 4 0
Prime small do 4 2 4 6
Large hogs 3 6 4 0
Small porkers ... 4 2 4 6

Lambs, 5s Od to 6s Od.

Suckling calves, 12s to 20s ; and quarter-old store pigs.
LBs to 20s each.

TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY.
Beasts ....
Cows l4O Sheep and lambs .... 2,200
Sheep and lambs .. 10,800 IC?.lves
Calves
Pigs 350
London, England, 1863-08-06

HULL-TUESDAY.

At to-day's market there was barely an average supply
of wheat, which was taken off at last week's rates. Beans
were a moderate show, and supported their value. Barley
at about last week's currency. Oats in steady demand.
Peas as before.

Wheat.... Old white.... per qr, 47s Od to 50s Od
Old red
44s Od to 47s Od
Nev white ..
New red ....
Barley.... English malting 36s Od to 378 Od
Grinding 26s 6d to 288 Od
Saal and Oderbruck

Holstein and Danish 3os Od to 31s Od

Grinding
Oats English, old 26s Od to 28s Od
Archangel and Riga, per at osl2 id to 13d
Friesland and Dutch oBl3d to Oslnd
Swedish and Danish oBl2ld to Oslgcl
Beans ....English, old, per qr 43s Od to 45s 0,21
New pigeon 42s Od to 418 Od
New tick. 4os Od to 42s Od
Egyptian 33s Od to 34s 6d
Peas Foreign boilers .. 36s Od to 38s Od
Grinding
Tares ....Spring
Indian Corn
Linseed, feeding
52s Od to 568 Od

crushing - -- -- --- -__
Od to 52s Od
Linseed cakes (Hull) £lo 0 0 to £0 0 0
Foreign Bl5 oto 9 0 0
Rape cakes 6 2 6to 0 0 0
Bones 5 5 oto 510 0
London, England, 1863-08-06

SECOND EDITIO

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 o'CLocK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

BRIGHTON CLUB RACES—Turs DAY.
BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
£lOO PLATE.

Lady Derby A 1
Blanche of Lancaster
Keane

Six ran.
BRIGHTON CLUB PLATE.

Alcibiade

General Hess

Tonio
London, England, 1863-08-06

LONDON DISTRICT TELEGRAPH.

The report of the directors states that the accounts show
a steady increase in the income of the company and a con-
siderable decrease in the general working expenses for the
half year. The property has been maintained in efficient
working order. There are now 79 offices open in London
and the suburbs belonging to the company, besides which
messages are collected for this company's stations at most
of the other telegraphic offices in the United Kingdom and
the Continent. The directors have reason to believe that
public confidence increases in the working, and that, as a
rule, the business is satisfactorily performed.
London, England, 1863-08-06

SALISBURY AND YEOVIL.

The directors of this company have agreed to recommend
a dividend on the ordinary shares for the past half-year at
the rate of 4t per cent. per annum.

GREAT SOUTHERN OF INDIA.

It appears that this company paid yesterday a further
sum of £25,030 to the credit of the Secretary of State for
India, on account of the extension capital, gliaranteed 41
per cent., making a total amount paid on this account of
£lOO,OOO.
London, England, 1863-08-06

LONDON AND BLACKWALL.

It appears that ihe dividend on the ordinary stock of this
company for the half-year ending the 30th of June will be
at the rate of 3f per cent, per annum, being an increase of
10s. per cent, per annum as compared with the dividend for
the corresponding half of last year.
London, England, 1863-08-06

RA ILWAY B.

Cash. Account.
Orleans lOlO .. 1025
NorNothern
ditto .. ... .. 987 50 .. 987 50
. w . . ......... • • --
Lyons and Mediterranean 1030
.. 1035
Geneva.. ............. . 490 .. 490
Southern 685 —. .. 710
Western 527 50 ..
Eastern ....
Sardinian...... 420 .. 420
Austrian ......
North of S pain
Lou.bard
Saragossa 546 25 ..
659406
_25
681 25
Ditto to Barcelona

INDIA.
By the arrival of the Overland Mail we have
received the journals and correspondence that left
Calcutta on Juns 23. The steamer, the Bengal, put
back on the 29th with a broken screw, and the mails
were brought on by the Mooltan, which sailed from
Calcutta on July 3, arriving at Suez on the 28th.
The principal intelligence brought by this mail has
been anticipated, but from an extra of the overland
Hurkaru of July 2 we make the following extracts—
" CALCUTTA, Thursday, July 2.
"In consequence of a heavy gale from the south-
west, considerable damage has been done to ship-
ping in the Bay of Bengal. The Peninsular and
Oriental steamship Simla, which left Madras a little
after 10 a.m. on Monday, the 22d June, did not
reach her moorings until the afternoon of Sunday,
the 28th. The run frem Madras to the Sandheads
was made in 56 hours, but as the pilot brigs had
been forced out to sea, the Simla had no alternative
but to follow their example. It was not until her
third approach to the mouth of the river, that
she was able to obtain the services of a pilot. An-
other of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steamers, the Bengal, taking out the mails of the
23d of June, was disabled in the storm by the
breaking of her screw shaft, but fortunately suc-
ceeded in making the river. Her mails and• pis-
sengerstave been transferred to the Mooltan, which
had just before been sent into dock, and is decidedly
the slowest boat on this line.

The British East India Steam Navigation Corn

pang have been no less unfortunate than their mag-
nificent rival. The screw steamer Sydney, lately
purchased from Government, sailed from Calcutta
on Wednesday, the 24th, having on board some 540
men, women, and children belonging to the regiment
of Sikh Pioneers, bound for Colombo. But no sooner
did she fairly get out to sea than her total unfit-
ness to be employed on such service was proved
beyond a doubt. Between decks the water was fre-
quently knee-deep, and not a berth in the whole ship
that might not have served as a bath. The misery
of the poor suldiers, and their still more helpless
wives and little ones, was truly pitiable, but they
bore up manfully through their sickness, and worked
at the pump night and day. The greatest fear en-
tertained was lest the fire should be put out, the
danger of which was more than once very imminent;
however, by constant exertions and by throwing a
portion of her cargo overboard, she kept afloat, and
late on Saturday evening passed Saugor on her re-
turn to Calcutta. Another steamer, the Australian,

likewise purchased by this Company from the Go:
vernment, was compelled, in a similar manner, to
throw a considerable portion of her cargo overboard
on the run to Akyab."
London, England, 1863-08-06

Marriages.

-HANKEY—On the 4tll inst„ at Balcombe Church,
s--
Captain Henry Fanshawe Dawes, Grenadier Guards, the
D Acva ipEt
eldest son of Lieut.-General Davies, of Danehurst, Sus:
sex, to Ellen Christine Alexander, second daughter of
John A. Hankey, Esq., of Balcombe Church, Sussex.
NEWCOMEN—JERVOISE.—On the 4th inst., Arthur Henri'
Turner Newcomen, Esq , of Kirkleatham Hall, York'
shire, to Rachel, third daughter of Sir Jervoise Clarke
Jervoise, Bart., M.P., of Idsworth, Hants.
Deaths.

EAST.—On the 4th inst., Mr. Joseph East, of 11 Abchurch"
lane, city, aged 74.
GURNEY.—On the 3d inst., at Kilburn, Mr. Josh. Gurneif
of 56, St. James's••street, aged 66.
KINCAID.—On the 3d inst., at North Woolwich, John D'

Kincaid, aged 68.
MONTAGU.—On the 31st ult,, at Bath, Capt, M. MontagUf

R.N., aged 7G.
ORD.— On the 2d inst., at Tenby, James Pickering Ord'
Esq., of Langton Hall, Leicestershire, aged 74.
TIPPING.—On the 4th inst., at Liverpool, John Tipping'
Esq., aged 88.
WINDT.—On the 3d inst., accidentally, by a fall from bill
and Dinnington, Northumberland.
horse, Clayton de Windt, Esq,, of Blunsdon Hall, Wilts.

London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREW
of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE Sur/ Office No. 112 i
Strand, in the Precinct of the bavoy, in the County o
y&tddlesex.--Thursday, August 6, 1863.
London, England, 1863-08-06

NORTH DEVON.

, The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yester-
day, at the office, Gresham-house ; Mr. W. Tite, M.P., in
the chair.
Mr. Muria, the secretary, read the report.
The Cmitama.rt, in moving the adoption of the report,
said that, as the line was now leased to the South-Western
Company, it was unnecessary to mention incidents that
were formerly interesting to them. A Bill which con-
tained a clause authorizing the amalgamation of the under-
taking with the South-Western Railway on the Ist of
January next was submitted to the directors, but it was
subsequently stated that the date was inserted by mistake,
and it would be withdrawn. The directors of the North
Devon offered. all sorts of terms—five or seven years—for the
amalgamation to commence; but, as the South-Western had
power under the lease, they refused to fix any time for the
amalgamation to take place, and consequently the directors
of the North Devon Company refused to accede to the clause
which left it in the option of the South-Western Company
alone to fix the period of amalgamation. He could not un-
derstand why the South-Western Company would not fix a
time for the amalgamation, because sooner or later an amal-
,gamation would take place. The effect was to give the direc-
tors of the North Devon more trouble, and to put tne com-
pany to the expense of keeping up a separate establishment.
Since the lease had come into operation the South-Western
Company, from their superior credit,had reduced the interest
on leans, and hadpaid off at par £22,000 of the £30,000 guar,
anteed 6 per cent. stock of the North Devon, leaving £B,OOO,
for which the proprietors had agreed to take 5 per cent. in-
stead of 6 per cent.

Captain WARREN seconded the motion for the adoption
of the report,- which was agreed to.

Dividends at the rate of £1 16s, per cent, per annum were
doclared on £245,415 consolidated stock; at the rate of 18s.
per cent. per annum on the £25,000 A stock ; and at the rate
of £3 12s. per cent. per annum on the £25,152 B stock.
The proceedings ooncluded wioh a vote of thanks to the
chairman and directors.
London, England, 1863-08-06

SOUTH-EASTERN.

The revenue receipts of this company, after deducting
42,511 for collecting and delivering goods, amounted for the
four weeks ending the 18th of July, to £91,911, to which
was added £1,901 for rents and sundries, and £5,080 for the
steam packet service, making the total receipts £101,892.
From this was deducted £41,445 for -expenses, including
rates, taxes, tolls, Government duty, and expenses of steam
packet service, leaving a net sum of £60,447. The total
receipts for the 24 weeks ending as above amounted to
£498,257, and the expenditure to £248,631, leaving a net
balance of £249,626.
London, England, 1863-08-06

Royal Institute of British Architects.

Last evening the members of this institute, of
which her Majesty is the patron, entertained Mr.
Tite, M.P., at dinner at the Trafalgar, at Green-
wich, on the occasion of his retiring from the office
of president, which he had held for two years.
Professor Donaldson, the eminent architect, acted
as chairman, and the company was made up of all
the more distinguished members of the profession in
the metropolis and other parts of the kingdom,
including Mr. Gilbert Scott, Mr. Charles Barry, Mr.
Penrose, Mr. Pennethorne, Mr. F. P. Cockerel!,
Mr. P. Hardwick, R.A., Mr. S. Smirke, R.A.,
Mr. Owen Jones, Mr. Crace, Mr. Ashpitel, Mr. J.
Fergusson, Mr. B. Ferry, and many other archi-
tects and persons of note. All the "styles," in-
deed, may be said to have been represented on the
occasion. Thz Lord Mayor was likewise present,
as were also Mr. Hawkshaw, president of the Insti-
tute of Civil Engineers; Mr. Thwaites, chairman
of the Metropolitan Board of Works ; and Mr.
Bmtinck, MY. Judging from the cordial tone of
the meeting, and of the speeches made on the
occasion, the architects of the metropolis ap-
pear to regard Mr. Tite not only as an orna-
ment of their profession, but as having given
t hem as a body a social status, and opportunities
for advancing the study of their art unknown
to them until within the last 15 or 20 years, and
combined individual skill and knowledge into one
common stock for the public advantage, through
the medium of the Institute, which he was mainly
instrumental in establishing. Though they may
differ on many subjects connected with their pro-
fession, they would seem to be at one in these re
spects, from the highest to the humblest. In the
course of the evening Professor Donaldson, now the
president of the institute, proposed the health of his
predecessor, Mr. 'rite, in very complimentary terms,
dwelling on his merits and works as an architect
during a career of upwards of 40 years, principally
in the city of London, in which he was born and
educated, on the liberal assistance he had afforded
from time to time from his own private means in
advancing the general interests of the profession,
and on his fine archaeological taste. The toast was
drunk wi h great cordiality by the whole company,
and Mr. Tite spoke briefly in reply to the compli-
ment, recounting some of the more interesting inci-
dents of his professional experience, but, like the
speech of the chairman, interesting only or mostly
to the members of his own profession. The com-
pany separated about 11 o'clock.
London, England, 1863-08-06

MADAME TUSSAUD'S HISTORICAL GAL-
LERY—Established 27 years at the Bazaar, Baker-
street.—AMEßlCAN WAR. A Model of GENERAL
M'CLELLAN, in military uniform, late Commander-in-
Chief of the Federal Army, is now added.—CONTINUA-
TION of ANCIENT ENGLISH KINGS. Henry V., in the
costume of the period. Open from II till 10. Admittance,
Is ; extra rooms, 6d.

ESTABLISHED 1833.
BOWDEN'S ./E RATED GINGER BEER, in
glass or stone bottles, warranted to keep good twelve
months. Lemonade, Soda-water, votass, Seltzer, and every
description of Mineral Waters.—Manufactory, No. 3, White
Hart-street, Drury-lane, W.C.
London, England, 1863-08-06

MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Continued firmness prevails in the discount
market, where 38 per cent. is the general charge for
first class three montlis' bills, with exceptional trans-
actions at 31 per cent. The demand has been
greatly stimulated by the settlement of the account
in consols.

A further sum of £13,000 in gold was taken into
the Bank yesterday.
To-morrow (the Pith) has been appointed by the
committee of the Stock Exchange for a special set-
tlement in the shares of the South Kensington
Hotel Company, but trans7,ctions in them are not
to be recorded in the official lists.

The directors of the Bank of Egypt have issued
their report and statement of accounts to be pre-
sented at the forthcoming half-yearly meeting. Tne
net profits for the six months just concluded
amount to £13,895, and the usual dividend, viz., at
the rate of 7 per cent. per annum, is proposed.
Favourable mention is made of the name of Slr.
Philip Anstruther, the late deputy chairman of the
Board, whose death is lamented, and whose services
particularly his recent mission to Egypt to investi-
gate the affairs of the bank, are highly eulogised.
The last week's railway receipts ascertained up
to this day are in round figures as under :

1863. 1862.
Great Eastern
Great Western
Lancashire and Yorkshire..
Great Northern ..
South- Western
N orth-Western
Midland
North Eastern 57,347 54.734
Brighton
youth-Eastern 30,197 32,133
Scottish North-Eastern 6,200 5,633
Great Western of Canada .. .. 8,515 8,285
These returns continue in several instances to be
of an unsatisfactory character compared with those
of the same period of last year. On the Great
Western there is a decrease of £3,642, on the
Lancashire and Yorkshire of £873, on the South
Western of £1,624, on the Brighton of £9Bl, on
the South Eastern of £1,936, while the Great
Eastern shows an increase of £279, the Great
Northern of £l3, the North Western of £1,497, the
Midland of £827, the North Eastern of £2,613, and
the Great Western of Canada of £230.
The biddings for £400,000 in bills on India took
place to day at the Bank of England, the propor-
tions allotted being—to Calcutta, £220,000; to
Bombay, £160,000; and to Madras, £20,000. The
declared minimum price was, as on the last occa-
sion, ls. 114 d. per rupee on Calcutta, and ls.
on Bombay and Madras, and the applications within
the limits amounted to £1,980,000. Tenders on
Calcutta at ls. 1143. will receive about 11 per cent.;
on Bombay, at ls. 111 d., above 32 per cent., and
all above these prices in full. On Madras all will
receive in full.
London, England, 1863-08-06

SIIERIDAN'ES PRACTICAL JOKE ON RICHARDSON !

" Sheridan had Leen driving out three or four hours in a
hackney coach, when, seeing Richardson pass, he hailed
him and made him get in. He instantly contrived to intro-
duce a topic upon which Richardson (who was the very
soul of disputatiousness) always differed with him ; and at
last, affecting to be mortified at Richardson's arguments,
said, You really are too bad, I cannot bear to listen to
such things ; I will not stay in the same coach with you.'
And accordingly got down and left him, Richardson
hallooing out triumphantly, Ah, you're beat, you're beat I'
Nor was it till the heat of his victory had a little cooled.
that he found out he was left in the lurch to pay fur Sheri-
dan's three hours' coaching."

Ex uno, disce—almost every morsel of a paragraph
in this laughter-moving omnium gatherum of
comical sayings and doings ! " Good Things" being,
in truth, as entertaining a little Jest Book as any
that has appeared during this last quarter of a cen
tury. Lastly, here is Peter Cunningham's suggestive
series of calculations apropos to—
London, England, 1863-08-06

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.

PARIS, Thursday, Aug. 6.
L' Union of this morning remarks upon its own
latest advices from Rome that it is assured anew,
in those advices, that the health of the Sovereign
Pontiff contiaues to be excellent. His Holiness
does not suffer, it adds, as there was reason to fear
he might have suffered, from the excessive heat of
the season. He makes each day his habitual pro-
menade, to the great satisfaction of the population
of Rome, who seize with eagerness every oppor•
tunity of thus lavishing upon their Pontife-Roi,
these evidences of their attachment.
, BoußsE, Aug. s.—The market closed as fol-
lows

41 per Cents. ...... 96 50
Do. end month....
3 per Cents ...... 68
Do. end month.... 68
Credit Mather..., 1115
Do. end m0nth....1127 50
Bank Shares...... 3350
Credit Foneier .... 1270 -
ILA IL

Italian Loan 72 10
Do. end month 72 35
New ditto
Do. end month.... 72 50
Russian
Austrian
Spanitth Threes 52 25
Homo Debt .. 5l -
WAYS. •

Cash. Account.
Orleans ............
Northern . ...
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1030 .. 1035
Geneva.. 490 .. 490
Scuthern 685
__
.. 710 --
Western
Eastern ....
Sardinian 420 • • 420
Austrian
Lorrbard
North of Spain
Saragossa.. 6Bl 25 .. 690
Ditto to Barcelona
London, England, 1863-08-06

simply a question of cost between the Adniiralty
and the contractors. English manufacture rs say
they cannot supply a metal equal to t French
iron of Petit Gaudet and Co. at their present aver-
age contract price for finished plates of L 35 per ton.
Her Majesty's iron steam storesh p Wye, Master
Commander Roberts, was yesterday undocked at
Woolwich, and the Industry was docked to be exa-
mined for repairs after collision.
The Ardent, Captain Parish, was yesterday put
out of commission, and the crew were paid off at
Woolwich. After receiving their pay at the table,
at which the Commodore, Sir F. Nicholson, was
present, the whole of the Ardent's crew, as well as
those of the Madagascar, brought home as passen-
gers, gave a simultaneous cheer for their captain.
• jhe following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Lieut. W. C. Shuckburgb, to
the Snipe; Richard O'Toole, assist.-surg., to the
Egmont; end W. E. M'Dermott, acting assist.-
surg., to the Forte.
London, England, 1863-08-06

Births.

ARMSTRONG.—On the sth inst., at 12, Castlenau Villas,
Barnes, the wife of Edward John Armstrong, Esq., of 6

son.

BARNARD —On the 4th inst., at Cambridge House, Chel•
tenham, the wife of Major A. Cary Barnard, late 414
Regt., of a son.
rETRE.—On the 4th inst., at Coptfold Hall, Essex, tike
Lady Catherine Petre, of a daughter.
London, England, 1863-08-06

GREAT WESTERN.

The special general meeting of this company will be held
to-morrow for the purpose of electing 18 directors to repre-
sent the interests of the Great Western proprietors at the
Board of the amalgamated company. Since the last half-
yearly general meeting six vacancies were created in the
directory, which have been filled up by gentlemen selected
by the late shareholders' committee. It is believed, from
the good understanding that has been established between
the shareholdersland directors, that the Board as now con-
stituted will be elected, and it'is hoped that all the advan-
tages expected to arise from the amalgamation of the Great
Western with the other companies will be fully realised,
and that the agitation which has been prevalent for some
time past will be set at rest.