The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-21 00:00:00

MON3IOUTHSHIRE.

The half-yearly meeting was held yesterday at
the offices, Newport ; Mr. C. Bailey, M.P., in the
chair.

The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report
(an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun.
He said that the increased working expenses arose
through the additional cost of repairing engines and
waggons. Their law charges were also a little
heavier. They had had a heavy Parliamentary
campaign in the, last Session, and, with the excep-
tion of one bill,, they had been successful. The
Blaenavon and 1?ontypool scheme was defeated, and
if it had passed he did not think the promoters
would have foun dthr capital. The Pontypool, C aer-
leon, and Newport .1 was obtained, bathe didnot
gunk the project woul d affect this company much. The
traffic on tb.e line way, increasing in the most satisfac-

tory manner, and the prospects of the company were
good. A large company contemplated sinking to
the lower coal measures at Aberbeg, and a large
amount of additional traffic would eventually flow
from this source. He concluded by congratulating
the shareholders on having a 6i per cent. dividend.
Mr. BATCHELOR seconded the adoption of the
report, which was agreed to.

A dividend at the rate of 6i per cent per annum,
payable on October 5, was unanimously declared.
Mr. WuirrAKER suggested that steps should be
taken to get the stock quoted on the London Stock
Exchange.

The CHAIRMAN and M. PHILLIPS explained
that the matter had been under the consideration
of the directors, and they had no doubt that the
stock would shortly be quoted.
The meeting was then made special, and resolu-
tions were passed authorising the directors to sub-
scribe £20,000 toward the undertaking of the
Alexandra Dock Company ; Mr. E. J. Phillips
being nominated a director to represent the Mon-
mouthshire Company at that Board.
A vote of thanks to the chairman brought the
proceedings to a close.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The iron-clad frigate Bellerophon, of 16 guns,
upon the trials of which the future construction of
the British navy so much depends, had steam up
for the first time late on Tuesday, and yesterday
steamed out to the Nore and back for the purpose
of affording the engineers who have built her engines
(Messrs. Penn and Sons) an opportunity of turning
her engines round for an hour or two preparatory
to taking the ship upon the measured mile to-day,
and likewise for the purpose of affording Mr. Reed,
the chief constructor of the navy, who was on board,
an opportunity of making a preliminary trial of the
balanced rudder with which this ship is fitted. Messrs
Penn were represented in the trial by Mr. Matthew,
and the run was attended by most satisfactory
results. Although this was the first time of steam
being admitted to the powerful engines of this ship,
which are fitted with surface condensers and all
recent fuel-saving appliances, the ship, as soon as
she was clear of the sand-banks off Sheerness,
started off at a speed of nearly 14 knots, and after
running for two or three hours returned to the har-
bour to await the full speed trials of to-day. The
action of the new rudder was most remarkable, the
ship turning completely round at high speed from
one direction to the opposite one in 1 minute 48
seconds.

The Helicon, paddle, improved despatch vessel,
Commander Morgan Singer, was placed in dock
yesterday at Portsmouth to clean her copper, &c.,
and prepare for her trial with the Salamis in the
Channel. Both vessels will now start under equal
conditions, the Salamis having been docked very
recently.
The Vimiera, sailing convict ship, belonging to
Dunbar and Co., of London, yesterday received on
board at Spithead 95 convicts from the convict
prison at Portsea, and afterwards sailed for Port-
land and Plymouth to fill up her complement from
those prisons previous to finally sailing on her foreign
voyage.

The engines of the Valiant, screw iron frigate, on
the trial of the ship and her machinery in Stokes
Bay, on Monday, gave an indicated horse-power of
3,560, or nearly five times their nominal power,
with a maximum number of revolutions of the
engines of 61. This gives a fair promise that when
the Valiant is commissioned and brought down to
her load water-line she will prove to be the fastest
vessel under steam of her class.

The Florence Nightingale, a vessel built by the
Engineering Shipbuilding Company at Millwall for
the special conveyance of invalids from the Solent
to Netley Hospital, has been received by the autho-
rities of Woolwich dockyard for inspection and
approval prior to being sent to Portsmouth for ser-
vice. She is iron built and is flat, drawing only
2ft. of water. She is masted and rigged fore and aft,
so as to preserve a steady buoyancy, and is hand-
somely fitted up, in accordance with the purpose for
which she is intended._ There arc cranes to lift the
invalids on board when in their cots, and below
easy chairs, sofas, &c., of the most approved form.

A new steam launch, fitted with machinery by
Messrs. John Penn and Son, of Deptford, yesterday
went down the river from Woolwich on trial. Her
steam power is of eight horses, and speed about seven
knots. The trial was satisfactory. She is intended
for the flagship Bristol, now being fitted at Sheer-
ness for the coast of Africa.

The screw steam frigate Arethusa, 35, Capt. R. J.
J. G. Macdonald, from Portsmouth, which arrived
in Plymouth Sound on Tuesday, was removed yes-
terday into Hamoaze for the purpose of being docked
and having her bottom examined, preparatory to
another trial with the Constance and Octavia.

The screw steam troopship Dromedary, Com-
mander J. H. Allard, from Sheerness, which arrived
at Plymouth on Tuesday, has been filled up with
coal, and now awaits final orders for proceeding to
her station, the West Coast of Africa.
Col. Borton, C. 8., commanding at Colchester, has
appointed Major Anderson, 56th Regiment, Capt.
Grain, R.E., and Surg. ICellie, 17th Lancers, a per-
manent garrison sanitary committee, in accordance
with a circular memorandum lately received from the
Horse Guards. Capt. Hill, of the Ist, is ordered to
proceed to India ; Lieut. White, of the 6th, is to
join the service companies ; and Lieut. Lambard, of
the 54th, is to join the depot until the arrival of the
service companies.

The time-expired and invalided soldiers brought
to England in the ship Louisa, the arrival of which
at Spithead has been announced in The Sun, were
yesterday disembarked from the ship and forwarded
to their several destinations—the invalids to the
Royal Victoria Military Hospital at Netley, and the
time-expired men to their regimental depots. The
Louisa afterwards sailed for London.

The Orontes, screw troopship, Capt. 11. w.
Hire, is under orders to sail from Portsmouth for
China. She will call at Plymouth Sound with
supernumerary naval officers and seamen for ships
on the China station. Officers ordered a passage
in the ship, we are requested to state, should be on
board on the 25th inst.

The following appointnients have been made at
the Admiralty :—Commander W. A. Gambier, to
the Formidable, for service in the Bristol ; Com-
mander R. A. E. Scott, to the Research, vice
Wilmshurst, appointed to the Fisgard, for service
in the Prince Albert ; Commander Arthur J. Innis,
to the Alert, vice Majendie, promoted; Lieut. P. E.
Luard, to be lieut. and commander of the Havock
gunboat, vice Barkley, promoted ; Lieut. Malcolm
M'Neile, to the Greyhound ; Lieut. Walter
Bridges, to the Helicon ; Sub-Lieut. Gerard N.
Noel, to the Basilisk ; Hussey C. Vivian, naval
cadet, to the Constance ; Corbet C. Edwards,
assist.-paymaster, additional, to the Octavia ; Chas.
W. King, assist.-paymast.er, to the Narcissus ;
Allen C. Dennys, acting second-master, to the Vic-
tory, as supernumerary ; Reginald F. Yonge,
master's 'assistant, to the Terrible ; Francis Pow-
lett, master's assistant, to the Helicon ; John H.
Brimacombe, clerk, as supernumerary, to the Royal
Adelaide ; John S. Ramsey and Reginald C. Hod-
der,rown, chief
Boothe, chief engint
B assist.-clerks, additional, to the Octavia ; W.
engineer,engineer,
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William
Gibson,
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engineer, to the
Gibson, engineer ;
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first-
class assist.-engineer, toth Princessl
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engineers, to the Basilisk ; lieorryst-?as
Johnston,assist.-
acting second-class assist-engineer, to. the Grey-
hound.
The following appointments have been made in
the Royal Naval Reserve :—To be Sub-Lieut. Alex-
ander M'Petrie ; to be Hon. Lieut., Richard
Frankland.

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