The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-08 00:00:00

LONDONDERRY AND ENNISKILLEN.

The half-yearly meeting of this company was held
yesterday at the offices, Coleman-street-buildings,
Moorgate-street, Mr. J. Clay, M.P., in the chair.
The report was unanimously adopted.

On the motion of the Chairman, seconded by
Mr. Laver, formal resolutions were passed declaring
dividends at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on
£3,062 B stock ; at the rate of 6 per cent. per an-
num on the £31,850 stock A ; and at the rate of 5
per cent., together with 1 per cent. on account of
arrears, making 6i per cent. per annum, on £247,737
stock B for the past half-year, subject to the usual
indemnity to the directors with regard to the pay-
ment of the arrears.

On the motion of Mr. Hemming, a vote of thanks
to the chairman and directors concluded the pro-

ceedings

Naval and Military Intelligence.
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Lieut.-Col. J. R. Gibbon, C. 8., has been ap-
pointed to the command of the Ist division of the
Depot Brigade, Royal Artillery, in the Chatham
district, in succession to Lieut.-Col. G. H. Vesey,
who has been transferred to the 9th Brigade. The
strength of the Depot Brigade has been augmented
by the arrival at headquarters of No. 18 battery
from Woolwich.

Detachments of non-commissioned officers and
men of the Royal Engineers have proceeded from
the headquarters of the Royal Engineer establish-
ment, Chatham, to Portsmouth, for the purpose of
augmenting the 3d company of Royal Engineers to
its proper strength. The Bth company of Royal
Engineers, which has recently arrived at headquarters,
Chatham, from China, has been raised to its proper
strength from the depot companies at Brompton
barracks, preparatory to its departure for Woolwich,
where it will relieve the 9th company. Capt. M. J.
Wheatley, from the London district, has been ap-
pointed to take the command of the Bth company,
prior to its leaving Chatham for Woolwich.

Yesterday, in accordance with divisional orders,
the whole of the officers and men of the Royal En-
gineers at headquarters, Chatham, were assembled
on the parade ground at Brompton barracks for the
purpose of hearing promulgated the finding and
sentence of a court-martial which assembled a few
days previously for the trial of Colour-Sergeant A.
Phillips, one of the Staff instructors employed on
the field works, on a charge of unlawfully absenting
himself from his duty when employed on the field
works and remaining absent for seven hours. The
Court sentenced him to be reduced to the rank and
pay of a sapper, and his chevrons were at once
removed.

An Admiralty order was yesterday received at
Chatham, raising to the rank of commissioned
officers the three senior warrant officers at that
dockyard—namely, the boatswain of the yard, the
master-rigger, and the boatswain of the floating
sheer-hulk, under the terms of the warrant recently
issued by the Admiralty.

A court martial assembled in Hamoaze on Friday
last on board the Royal Adelaide, for the trial of C.
F. F. Palmer, commander, and C. M. Hammond,
master, of the paddlewheel steam-sloop Virago, for
negligently navigating the said sloop on her voyage
from Bermuda to England, between the 13th and
16th of January, 1865. The court was composed of
Capt. Ewart, of the Cambridge ; Capt. Lambert,
Lip erpool ; Capt. Willis, Prince Consort ; Capt.
May, Canopus; Capt. Phillimore, Defence ; Capt.illos;
Tremlett, Impregnable; Capt. Vansittart, Areha
Palmer
and Capt. Gordon, Cadmus. Commandder
ir.
was defended by Mr. Beer, solicitor,
Ham-
mond by Mr. Hewitt. The proceedings a
to a close yesterday. Commander Hammond was
dis-
missed from the service, and 311'•_
as master and
sentenced to lose two years' seniority ne
Palmerr e
was brought
to be severely reprimandedpEtas.wje.rec in. ade on Mon-
daye.uts
Byng, to the
Niger ; Commander
East, to be Inspecting
at the Admiraltyj: c
Coastguard;
W. E. Chown,
paymaster for service o
The following appointwm_a.
of the
Acorn, n
vvthe
erto
paymasz.„„. j. mayne, assist.-paymaster, additional,
shore ; W. Commander
to the Acorn ,
. C. W. King, assist.-paymaster in
charge, to the Acorn ; C. Gribble, assist.-paymaster,
to the Dauntless ; W. Durtin, chief engineer, to
the Niger ; W. 11. Edwards, engineer, to the Niger ;
E. Wimshurst, first-class assist.-engineer to the
Niger ; and C. Lawrence of the Defence, promoted
to first-class assist.-engineer. The following ap-
pointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :
—Lieut R. Woodward and Lieut. J. A. Boxer, to
the Niger ; Lieut. Hugh S. Baillie to the Liverpool ;
Sub-Lieut. F. Gaskell to the Niger ; C. H. Herring
midshipman to the Sutlej ; Francis C. Brown and
E. P. Statham, midshipmen, to the Niger; W.
Tooker, master's-assist., to the Niger ; and G. S.
Keigwin, master's-assist., to the Lizard.

REPRESENTATION OF LAMBETH.—In anticipation
of a vacancy in the representation of the borough
of Lambeth being caused by the retirement of Mr. W.
Williams from Parliamentary life, Mr. Cave, who was
sheriff of London and Middlesex the year before last, has
announced his intention to become a candidate in conjunc-
tion with Mr. H. Doulton, one of the sitting members.
Mr. Hinde Palmer, Q.C., son-in-law of the Right Hon. C.
Tennyson D'Eyncourt, who for so many years represented
the borough, is also mentioned as a candidate•