The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-03 00:00:00

AMERICA.

NEW YORK, Nov. 21 (Morning).
(Per the Edinburgh.)

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Toe Union ticket has been elected in Delaware.
The Democrats withdrew from the contest, and
iesued a protest stating that the military intimida-
tion was such as to prevent a fair election. and that
they would petition Congress to declare void an
election controlled by powers unknown to the con-
stitution.

It is reported that an effort will be made to
annul the Maryland election on the same grounds.
The Richmond papers of the 18th announced
the arrival at Wilmington of the steamers Dundee,
Flora, Banshee, Syren, Alice, A. D. Vance, Hansa,
Antonice, Despatch, and General Scott.

SOUTHAMPIOS, DEC, 3.

The North German Lloyds' steamer Hansa, from
New York on the 21st ult., passed the Needles at
10.30 a.m. to day.

The London and Provincial Turkish Bath
Company (Limited).

The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of
this compan
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the
Parliament,
11'mmara, 76, Jermyn-street, on 111onday. Mr.
Stewart Erskine Rolland, the chairman of the com-
pany, presided.
The directors
George Crawshay, Mr. Percy
Mr. S. H. N. Da Costa, and
.irS.mjiatmti,eBMLnejowrePoore,
The following report of the directors was read :
,4 In submitting the balance sheet of the six months end-
ing Oct. 31, the directors have to observearthadt therein are
town.
included the three slack months of the year,
the frequenters of the bath are principally out during which
which
Nevertheless the balance of profits for the last halt-year
upwards of £2soinincrease of the previous one. The retum
for the current month of November show a considerable rise
in the receipts as compared with the month of October.'
The company having commenced operations with an insuffi-
ciency of capital, a portion of the land and building lying
on the south is as yet unemployed, and certain parts of the
original plan remain uncompleted. Without any such
changes, however, the extension of the habit of bathing
would bring in very large returns; as from the moment
that the remunerating point is turned (as is now the case),
the increase of the gross returns becomes almost entirely
net profit—and the building, as it stands, could accom-
modate four times the number of persons who at present
visit it. There are many indications that such an in-
crease may be expected : viz., the station of those who are
the most constant frequenters of the bath, the satisfaction
expressed by those who do frequent it, and the positive
amount of relief in illness known to have been experienced.
In elucidation of the last point it may be mentioned that it
is now no uncommon thing to find some one who has made
a long journey to take a single bath; in some cases being
ordered to do so by his physician. In the report of No-
vember, 1862, the debt is stated at nearly £6,00D
(X 5,584 98. Id). The debt has now been reduced to £3,000.
Various alterations have also been required in the bath after
this year's experience. Still the directors are able to pro-
pose a dividend of 6 per cent. In the report of November,
1562, thedirectors state that ' the expenses of the manage-
ment, &0., will be subject to little if any increase, even with
a greatly increased income.' This expectation has been
fully borne out, as the expenses have during the current
year been materially reduced. The directors have not felt
themselves at liberty, so long as the debt of the company
remained unliquidated, to incur the necessary charges for
converting to profitable use those rooms in the house not
occupied in the service of the bath. They are now, however,
happy to be able to state that they have been able to make
arrangements by means of which this has been effected. To
do this, it has been found necessary to take out an hotel li-
cense. In their opinion the returns already made are exceed-
ingiy encouraging, considering the difficulties that surround
the attempt. With respect to the note of the auditor on
the vouchers of the hotel department, the directors
have investigated the matter, and find there is nothing to
complain of but an informality. The advantages are so ob-
vious to persons coming up from the country to take the
bath of having comfortable ac,artments under the same roof,
especially in the case of positive invalids, that the directors
beg to suggest to the shareholders that they should take
every opportunity of making it known that such accommo-
dation is now provided. For the better elucidation of this
branch, the statement made upon the subject in the report
of 1862 is here introduced :

" T.ELE HousE=The original plans proposed were for
the conversion of the premises in Jermyn-street—formerly
the St. James's Hotel—into the bath. The stables in the
rear having been subsequently obtained, new plans were
proposed for the erection of a structure of a very different
order—that which now exists. The premises in Jermyn-
street consequently became a dead weight, unavailable as a
separate property, and yet necessary as a means of commu-
nication. These premises have consequently been appro-
priated to the general purposes of the bath, supplying pas-
sage, office, boardroom, coffeeroom, shampooer's apartment,
storeroom, accommodation for the servants of the establish-
ment. It is the intention of the directors to appropriate the
apartments still unemployed to the extension, as occasion
offers, of the refreshment department. Until the building
operations were concluded no portion of the house could
have been disposed of. Since the opening of the bath the
house has rendered to the company the full value of the
yearly charges which it occasions. It is not possible at pre-
sent to give a detailed scheme, but it may be mentioned
that the directors propose to combine a coffeeroom, reading-
room, and sleeping apartments, with the service of the bath.'
" The directors are of opinion that if the capital of the
company be so far increased as to pay off the debt, now
reduced to £3,000, and to leave a certain sum available for
the completion of the building and its improvements, a
very large return may be confidently expected, as based
upon calculations that have hitherto proved accurate. It
being provided by the Act 19 and 20 Viet., c. 47, that one-
third of the directors shall retire annually in rotation,
Messrs. Da Costa and Lowe now retire : they beg leave to
offer themselves for re-election. Mr. R. Richardson, having
retired from the direction, Major R. Poore, Bth Hussars, is
proposed for election in his place. The year for which the
present auditors were elected having expired, it is necessary
to elect auditors for the ensuing year. The directors beg
to propose a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum,
from the Ist day of May, 1863, on all shares then paid up,
and a proportionate rate on all shares subsequently paid up
in full, according to the date of payment, amounting to
£469 4s. The following resolution was carried at the
general meeting in Nov., 1862: —' Holders of 40 shares and
upwards shall be entitled to a free admission to the bath,
unless revoked at a general meeting.' "
In the course of the meeting, Mr. Crawshay id
that, not having been present at the meeting of his
brother directors when the report was drawn up,
he wished to know why the divilendthdaectltahreed
profit
not 8 rather than 6 per cent., eee-ngh-
earned seemed to fairly warrant.
gt
ae laaragnegrcraamte_.
The chairman explained that,
pang, it was thought
Mr.
better btoelkne-ep an available
available
balance in hand to meet any contingencies.
Crawshay said he was satisfied.
of
votethanks to the
In acknowledging the
ifs,diitrecwtooursl,d tbheecocmheaimrmuacn
chairman and board
stated that, satisfactory as the present state of the
oh
£B,OOO were
subscribed, to enable the directors to carry out
company'smores o if additional affairs
c capital of about
what was contemplated, for developing and increas-
ing the
resources of the establishment.
13Yem-
pending that sum of money, the company would
be entitled to have their lease from the Crown
extended to a very long period.

A SIGHT TO SEE! or the latest specimen of
.nglish Taste in the Fine Arts.—The most un-
fortunate specimen of street fountains is that recently placed
at the south end of Bryanston-square, as a memorial of the
late Mr. W. Pitt Bryne. It combines, says the Atheneum,
almost every characteristic of vicious design. Primarily it
errs in combining imitation of nature with conventionalised
or architectonic forms, This is unlucky enough, but as
the last-named forms are ill composed and weak, not to say
downright ugly, the thing presents strong reason for re-
monstrance, justifying a hope that it will not be suffered to
remain. Upon a base of three semicircular steps,—a very ob-
je•tionable form in plan, because presenting a false feature at
the back,—is raised a pile of imitative rock-work, once con-
sidered pretty in suburban tea •gardene,but now scouted even
in such places. On the top of this rock-work is placed a large,
also imitative, shell, serving as a basin for the fountain.
From the shell rises a sort of pedestal, an unhappy com-
bination of lines and mouldings. This bulges out at the
sides from a comparatively slender stem, and, on the whole,
ogue
suggests one of those oddly-shaped " ornaments" v
mace,
about fifty years ago, and derived, at a painful gist
from the outline of a lyre. Nothing could bue:B.our; :11,1;
chosen than the details of the mouldings
as poor. This strange pedestal sustains an
mothers'
time,
edges of this portion of the design ; they arueruvunurultfaprraeoaiwseeilsl
like those in fashion for the tea-table
in
except that where the lid of the utefno
those peculiarly unin-
lions once considered approPri3jeany
is a ring of mouldings, sustaining
standard on each aide,
uld meet the body,
:o:teens, with the medal-
teresting decorations. A puny lamp
completes a whole which
but independent of the
structure,
the day to shame, and fills the
puts the Art-teaching.
went.
observer with atoms
DIE COVENTRY RIBBON WEAVERS are now, many
of them, in greet diotreeo.