The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-05 00:00:00

DIRECTORS.

H. Wollaston Blake, Esq., F.R.S. (Director of the Con-
tinental Union Gas Company). -
James Frederick Gregory, Esq. (President of the Council
of Control of the Hague Gas Company).
Neville D. Goldsmid, Esq. (Managing Director of the
Hague Gas Works).
Edward Hawkins, jun., Esq. (Chairman of the London
Gas Company).
-Frederic Mildred, Esq. (Deputy-Governor Agra and
Masterman's Bank (Limited).
James Oughterson, Esq., '2l, Bentinck-street, W.
Mons. P. S. Schilofski, Moscow.
Sir J. Emerson Tennent, F.R.S., 66, Warwick-square.
BANKERS.
The Agra and Masterman's Bank (Limited), 85, Nicholas-
lane, Lombard-street.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Young, Maples, Teesdale, and Young, 6, Frederick's-
place, Old Jewry.
BROKERS.
Messrs. Trill, Fawcett, and Hill, 29, Threadneedle-
street, E.C.

This Company has been formed for Lighting the City of
Moscow with Gas, under the powers of a Concession,
granted, with exclusive privileges by the Muncipality, on
26th October 1864, and ratified in the month of December
last, by the Imperial Government.
Moscow contains a population of about 500,000 persons.
It is situated at the centre of the commerce of the country,
with six railways converging within its walls. It is the
winter residence of a large portion of the Russian aristo-
cracy, and the nature of its climate is such as to render the
Introduction of gas, both for lighting and warming pur-
poses, an object of primary importance to the inhabitants.
The Kremlin (which covers 250 acres, and includes the
Emperor's Palace, the Senate, the Arsenal, and Government
Offices), the great Universities, and the Public Schools,will
all have to be lighted by gas.
From official statistics it appears that there are at present
in Moscow about 200 hotels—mostof them very spacious-
-4,841 inns, restaurants, cafes, cabarets, and wine-houses,
where people pass the greater part of the night in winter ;
upwards of 100 police posts and stations ; 102 printing-
offices, exclusive of those belonging to the Government and
the Municipality, 27 public baths, 15 civil and military hos-
pitals, and 27 Government asylums. The German, Eng-
lish, and Merchants' Clubs, and the Club de la Noblesse,
each spend about £250 per month for lighting, and the
Government pays annually£l3,6oo for the lighting of the
Opera House and the Russian Theatre, and £12,000 for the
barracks.
In addition to the above-mentioned buildings, and" alto-
gather irrespective of private houses, there are 17,032 shops,
700 factories and workshops of various descriptions, many
of them of great magnitude, and one alone requiring 800
lights.
Moscow has hitherto been dependent for artificial light
upon portable gas, stearine candles, and petroleum oil. The
costliness of these articles and other disadvantages con-
nected with the imperfect lighting thus obtained are such
as to render any competition with ordinary gas impossible.
The Concession which has been secured to this Company
confers an exclusive privilege for 30 years ; at the end of
that period the works will either remain the property of the
Company in perpetuity without special monopoly, or the
Municipality may elect to purchase them at a sum equiva-
lent to the entire net profits of the previous ten years ; or
to extend the Concession, with exclusive privileges for a
further period of ten years. In this latter case, the works
would revert to the City at the end of 40 years, unless
fresh arrangements shall have been made for continuing
the business in the hands of the Company. A sinking
fund will be provided to meet these-contingencies.
The Cahier des Charges allows the Company to charge five
silver roubles (equivalent at the present exceptionally low
rate of exchange to thirteen shillings, and to fifteen shil-
lings and tenpence at the par of exchange) per 1,000 cubic
feet of gas for all private lights. The street lights will be
paid for at the price of 14.50 silver roubles per light, burn-
ing 10,000 cubic feet during the year, and at the same rate
for any further quantity which may be required, with an.
illuminating power which need not exceed 12 candles. All
the lamps of the Government and Municipal buildings are
to pay the same price as the private lights, viz., five silver
roubles per 1,000 cubic feet of gas.
A provisional contract has been entered into with Smith,
Knight and Co. (Limited), for works capable of supplying
120,000 lights, together with the whole of the mains of the
City (upwards of 140 miles in length) adapted to the entire
prospective consumption. The net profits upon the capi-
tal required for this purpose are calculated to exceed 20 per
cent. per annum, and in this estimate no profit whatever is
assumed on the public lights.
The works will be laid out with a view to the supply of
10,000 street lights and upwards of 200,000 private lights ;
and as soon as the Company can meet the demand to this
extent the net profits are calculated to exceed the above
rate. To show that this estimate is by no means exagge-
rated, reference may be made to the profits of other Gas
Companies possessing exclusive privileges on the Conti-
nent ; amongst others the gas works at the Hague have
paid for many years 25 per cent. per annum, and the Paris
Gas Company is at the present time paying dividends above
20 per cent. per annum.
Sufficient plant will be erected for the supply of 50,000
lights by the end of August in next year, from which date
a large net revenue will be received.
Power will be taken to borrow aportion of the capital on
debentures, by which means the profits divisible amongst
the Shareholders may probably rise to a higher figure than
that already indicated.
Offers have been received for the purchase of all the
coke and tar produced, at prices which will bring down the
net cost of coal carbonised to a point which contrasts
favourably with the Gas Works of most of the large cities
on the Continent.
Interest at the rate of 7 per cent per annum will be paid
half-yearly on the capital during construction.
The outlay for plans, estimates, engineering, travelling
expenses, and other preliminary charges will be borne by
this Company. The Proprietors of the Concession have
such confidence in the complete success of the undertaking
that they have agreed to transfer all their rights and ad-
vantages to this Company in consideration of receiving, in
lieu of any present payment, one-half of the net profits of
each year after 10 per cent. shall have been earned on the
total paid-up capital of the Company.
A largo proportion of the capital is already subscribed.
Applications for the remaining shares will be received by
the Agra and Masterman's Bank; by the Solicitors ; and
by Messrs. Hill, Fawcett, and Hill, the Brokers of the
Company, from whom prospectuses and forms of applica-
tion may be obtained.
The amount of £1 upon each share applied for must bo
paid to the Company's Bankers previously to the application
being sent in; this sum will be returned if no allotment is
made to the applicant.
An option will, be given to each subscriber of taking
one-fifth part of the shares allotted to him in fully paid-up
shares.

Temporary Offices, 29, Threedneedle-street, E.C.
April 1865.
No.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Directors of the City of Moscow Gas Company
(Limited).
Gentlemen,—Having paid to your credit, with the Agra
and Masttrman's Bank (Limited), the sum of £ being
a deposit of £t per Share on Shares in the above
,Company, I request you to allot me shares of £25
et" n the City of Moscow Gas Company (Limited), and
ere' the
to accept the same or any smaller num-
"el' you may allot to me, and toe pay the further deposit of
£4 per share on allotment; and I agree to enter my name
on the Register of Shareholders in respect of the shares
allotted to me. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
Name in full
Address in full
Date 1...,....

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THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another
home to tho 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer
than 455 poor, frieudless, young females were rejected from
want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have
been sent away in five years. Here are brief details of a few
of the most recent cases:
F. v., aged ls, fallen, mother dead, deserted by her father.
M. A. F., aged 13, homeless, both pargnts dead.
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have been led astray-from the path of virtue.
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STANFORD SMITH seoretary.

No new military movements are announced by
the latest advices from City Point. .A heavy storm
had again rendered the roads impassable, probably
for several days to come. A heavy rumbling noise,
as of trains crossing pontoons, has recently been
heard in the direction of Petersburg, and deserters
continue to report great activity within Lee's lines.
The Confederates have recently erected a new
battery to fire on the trains between City Point and
Hatcher's Run. Deserters also report that Heth's
division left Richmond on the 17th to reinforce
Johnston in North Carolina, and that in the western
portions of that State there is a large force of deser-
ters under the leadership of a man by the name of
Kirk, that this force is regularly organised, and is
aiding the people to resist the conscription. Kirk
had threatened to destroy the railroad from Dan-
ville to Salisbury.
It is still rumoured that Lee is about to abandon
Richmond.

A newspaper correspondent estimates the damage
done in Virginia by General Sheridan at fifty
millions of dollars. Nothing further has been heard
from Sheridan's command since the report of its
being at White Home, on the Pamunkey River,
endeavouring to join Grant's right.
Richmond papers deny that Commodore HoDins
was recently killed.
No later Federal accounts concerning the move-
ments of Sherman's army have been published.
Confederate accounts claim a victory near Golds-
borough.
(From the Richmond Examiner, March 21.)

Yesterday was received the following despatch
announcing a brilliant victory in the vicinity of
Raleigh :
" Head-quarters Armies Confederate States,
March 20, 1865.
" To Hon. J. C. Breckenridge, Secretary of War.
" General J. E. Johnston reports that about five
o'clock p.m., on the 19th inst., he attacked the
enemy near Bentonville, routed him, and captured
three guns.
" A mile in the rear he rallied on fresh troops,
but was forced back slowly until six p.m., when,
receiving more troops, he apparently assumed the
offensive, which was resisted without difficulty until
dark. This morning he is inlxenched. Our loss is
small. The troops behaved admirably well. Dense
thickets prevented active operations.
" R. E. LEE, General."

On the 11th Stanton had announced that Sherman
was doing finely. His army was at Fayetteville,
quietly resting, preparatory to another advance
northward. It seems he did advance, but not far.
This [successful attack by General Johnston gives
earnest hope that the redoubtable Sherman has at
length met his match.
A Washington despatch, referring to the above,
says that the affair is not regarded as important in
Washington, but only as an attack upon a small
force sent by Sherman to cut the railroad between
Raleigh and Goldsboro', while the later place was
being occupied by Sherman's main army. It is
believed that Sherman will vigorously continue the
offensive.

It has been rumoured in Washington that Sher-
man's army entered Goldsboro' unopposed.
The Republican claims that Sherman's present
command is amply able to confront Lee's entire
army in open field, without any assistance from
General Grant.

. It was also rumoured in Washington that Sher-
man had appeared before Raleigh, and demanded
the surrender of that city.
The Raleigh Progress, of March 16, states that it
violates no secresy in assuring its readers that Sher-
man would soon be confronted by a formidable
force.

The Progress states that a little brush took place
between a detachment of Hampton's body guard
and some 200 of Kilpatrick's men, in which the
Federals were driven off, Hampton slaying two
with his own hand.

Newbern advices state that the evacuation of
Kinston by Bragg was quite precipitate, and that
the Confederates failed in an attempt to blow up
the magazine. Citizens of Kinston report that
Bragg had 40,000 men when he attacked Schofield,
that he lost very heavily in the eight charges made
upon the Federal ivatrenchments, but that the eva-
cuation of Kinston by Bragg was in obedience to
superior orders.
It is reported, and denied, that in the battle of
the Bth of March the Confederate General Hoke
was killed. Richmond papers make no mention of
his death, and the loss of so prominent an officer
could hardly fail to be known throughout the
country if he were killed.
It is supposed that Bragg effected a junctionwith
Johnston at or near Goldsboro'. _ _

New Orleans dates to the,l7th have been received.
General Canby was then ,' with his troops near Mo-
bile, and a grand attack upon that city by the com-
bined Federal land and naval forces was expected
to be made on the 22d of March. Generals Canby,
Granger, and Smith, and Admiral Thatchers went
within four miles of Mobile on a trip of inspection
in the steamer Laura, which vessel drew a heavy fire
from the Confederate batteries that line the harbour.
The forces under Generals Canby, Granger, and
Smith comprise two corps of veteran troops, the 13th
and 16th, besides a coloured division and a division
of cavalry. The Confederates at Mobile are said
to be in strong force, and desperate fighting is ex-
pected, as the Federal forces will probably attempt
to carry the city-by assault, in which case they must
encounter strong fortifications. The Confederates
have above the city two or three ironela,ds,
but they are not supposed to be very formidable
vessels.
A force of 8,000 poorly mounted but well supplied
cavalry, under Forrest and Chalmers, is said to be
operating in the northern portions of Mississippi
and Southern Tennessee. Forrest himself was at
West Point.
There is no military news of importance from the
trans-Al ississippi department. General Kirby Smith,
at last accounts, was at Shreveport, on Red River,
and General Buckner at Natchitoches, Louisiana
Judge Gray, a Texas lawyer, had reached Shreve-
, port from Eichmond, having been sent by President

The reports in Richmond of the fighting in North
Carolina as given by the Despatch of that city, in
General Grant's official despatch, confirm with these
in Raleigh published in the papers of that place.
The Raleigh Confederate of the 21st says it hopes
within a few days to give cheering intelligence. So
far everything is encouraging.
In the affair which occurred a few days since be-
tween Hardee and Sherman's forces, we repulsed,
successfully, five assaults upon our lines, and held
our position until the object was effected.
In drawing off we lost two guns because the
horses had been killed.
Our loss in the affair was about 400 killed and
wounded ; the enemy about 4,000.
Of the battle of Sunday correspondents state
that a very decided advantage was gained by our
troops. The enemy was driven several miles, with
heavy loss. We captured some artillery.

The first battle occurred on the 16th, near the
junction of the Black and South River on the
Fayetteville and Goldsboro' railway, some 15 miles
below Bentonville, in the vicinity of which plee
the battle of Sunday occurred. -
It would appear from the foregoing that the rebels
fell back 15 miles, after gaining a victory on the
19th, on which the Union loss was a bloody one.
It is evident that no decisive battle has been fought.
The Richmond Sentinel of the 23d says Goldsboro'
has been evacuated. At last accounts the enemy
had not entered.

The organisation of negro troops in Richmond is
going on as fast as possible.
Postmaster-General Dennison has invited pro-
posals for conveying the mails by means of a
monthly line of first-class American seagoing steam-
ships between San Francisco and ports in the
Chinese empire, touching at the Sandwich Islands
and Japan.

The Richmond Examiner says the conscription of
negroes goes on with difficulty. Guards are sta-
tioned at every camp, yet the negroes escape. There
is a great panic among the blacks, and much reluc-
tance among the whites, upon the question of arm-
ing the slaves.
The Examiner of the 21st says there are in that
city between 5,000 and 6,000 women and children
belonging to men who fled from the rebel conscrip-
tion and escaped to the North. As provisions are
scarce, it is proposed to send these people North at
once.

MONTREAL, March 25.—The arguments in the
St. Alban's raiders' case closed last night, and a
decision is promised on Wednesday next.

The French Tress upon Mr, Cobden's Death.

(From the Moniteur)

"The 19th century has just lost one of those men
who will do it the most honour, and will best cha-
racterise the part our time will play in the history
of humanity. Richard Cobden is dead. He was
brought up in poverty ; in his youth he herded
sheep. His early education was that of a child of
the people ; he learnt to read, to write, and to cast
accounts. Trade presented to him irresistible
attraction, and an opportunity soon offered
itself. He became a traveller on commis-
sion. Step by step he encountered the strug-
gles, the difficulties, the vicissitudes of fortune,
and raised himself to the, position of a great
manufacturer, to wealth, and personal independence.
Chance had led him to Manchester, and had made
him a cotton manufacturer ; it had plunged him
into that essentially international trade which re-
quires a primary material at the extremity of the
earth, and which lives principally by export and ex-
change. Who can tell whether the long practical
reflections of the young manufacturer upon his own
product did not light up in his mind the first rays of
that theory of free trade which was to illuminate
the commercial world ? Cobden has not related in
his writings how he became an economist, how he
became a freetrader ; but we may be allowed, in
presence of his open tomb, to go back to those years
of his youth when he asked of America that precious
vegetable production which fed his labours. He was
able at the same time to study the movement
products.
He European markets to which he sent his
He was able, while looking at his factories
with
workmen, to reflect that the tconditionfislledof that
prosperity and welfare were liberty of commerce and
e that he presented himself
peace. It was after such teachings, as we may now
suppose, be permitted to
to the Manchester Chamber of Commerce
to
one day
explain
xpl
ain the first rudiments of a new policy. This
group of manufacturers appeared formed to under-
derstand the substitution of the utilitarian idea for
the feudal and chivalrous idea. This centre of ma-
terial production was well calculated to become the
Athens of free exelmnge. The new prophet suc-
ceeded. From that time forth Cobden commenced
his work. He had a centre, followers, and disciples.
England was covered with branches. The Free Trade
League was created. The struggle went on for eight
pars, Richard Cobden at its head, opposed to Sir
Robert Peel—Sir Robert Peel who, himself one
day convinced by his own genius, was to open
the gates of the fortress to the assailants. The
struggle went on, and the soldiers never wanted for
chiefs. Subscriptions flowed into the treasury; spon-
taneous orators, unknown adepts, aided with all
their powers in every part of Great Britain the man

(From the Paris Temps.)
A despatch from London transmits the unex-
pected news of Mr. Cobden's death. It is not merely
an English sorrow. In every history, in every nation,
there are two kinds of great men—those whose
glory and whose services exclusively national in in-
tention or result, meet beyond the frontiers only
with indifference or hostile protests—such is gene-
rally the glory of conquerors and military men ; and
those who, in serving their country, have had the
desire and the happiness of serving at the same time
the general cause of civilisation and progress. Mr.
Cobden was of the latter class. The sorrow at his
death is a universal sorrow, because the principles
he has established, and the changes his initiative
has caused in England, have a general value, and
interest all humanity. But, next to England, it is
in France where his death will be most acutely re-
gretted, not only because he was one of the nego-
tiators of the treaty of commerce—that title would
not yet be counted by everybody—but because he
loved our country, and was the persevering defen-
der of the French alliance. There is not a man of
whom England has reason to be prouder, and yet
there is not one who was more elevated above all
national narrowmindedness, or who more resolutely
assailed the prejudices of his countrymen, when he
considered himself compelled to do so by his con-
science. Mr. Cobden frequently resided among us ;
he liked to come and claim from France or Algeria
relief for delicate health prematurely impaired.
There are few persons in Paris in the world of
politics or letters who have not had an oppor-
tunity of knowing and appreciating him. His con-
versation was full of charm, and displayed side by
side with much acuteness the candour of the
thoroughly honest man. Paris even saw him as an
orator in the Peace Congress of 1849, and here we
touch thepoint upon which Mr. Cobden was utopian.
He believed in the possibility of definitive peace
among men even at present, and assuredly he was
deceived, or at all events much in ath ante of his
age. A generous error, however, and even benefi-
cent ; for no matter how distant may be the ideal,
it is good that men sbould be met with sufficiently
convinced to Ehow it to humanity that it may be
looked at and unceasingly approached ; and it would
not even be just to say that the pacific mission of
Mr. Cobden has been without result. It has power-
fully, too powerfully perhaps, acted upon the public
mind in England, and the ultra-pacific attitude of
the English Government in the recent complications
which threatened European peace must certainly be
in part attributed to it.
(From the Wats.)

The telegraph brought us yesterday the sad news
of the death of Mr. Richard Cobden, one of tho
men who has exercised the most influence over eco-
nomical ideas, both in England and in the rest of
Europe. Mr. Cobden died young ; he was only
about 60 years of age. We shall shortly devote a
special article to the examination of his labours and
his political career.

(From the Sikle.)

Cobden is dead ! It is a great loss for England,
where he might soon have been called upon to play
an important political part, and for every country
in which liberal ideas have supporters, and in which
the services Cobden rendered them in his too
hastily interrupted career are not forgotten.
(From the Presse.)

Death is blind ! Instead of taking Lord Pal-
merston, who was born in 1784, who consequently
is 81 years of age, and who personifies a policy still
older, Death has carried off Richard Cobden, who
was born in 1804, and who was only 61 years of
age. The least that all Europe owes to his memory
is a day of mourning. Should Europe not go into
mourning, there is at all events one newspaper that
will have done so.

[The whole of the front page of the Presse is sur•
rounded with a black border.]
(From the Constitutionnel.)
In the death of Mr. Cobden England loses one
of her most illustrious citizens, and economic science
one of its loftiest and purest lights. The last time
we had the honour of seeing Mr. Cobden he spoke
about France and her sovereign in terms which areall
engraved on our memory, and still more .
deeply on
our heart. The future will not perhaps adopt
the views of the founder of the Anti-Corn-Law
gnLeiasguhode,
pobsuittioint wt t
hu re). d undoubtedly
abalsesiinigntiaatodistr ofin
prolific idea.

Tilt ITALIAN CRICHTON.—Pic de Mirandola
(making allowance for exaggeration) was a remark-
able man in his day. He was born in 1463, and died at tho
early age of 31. He was the third son of John Francis,
Prince of Mirandola and Concordia, and when only 10
years old acquired great reputation for his gifts as a poet
and orator. Ho abandoned his estates to his brother and
devoted himself to study in the Universities of Italy and
France. He appeared at Rome when only 23, and offered
to support his thesis "De omni re scibilt"' against all comers,
and published his list of 900 propositions. Many of these
propositions were pronounced by the theologians of the
day to be heretical, and were condemned by Pope Innocent
VIII. He soon after retired to Florence, where ho gave
himself up to religion and the study of the Platonic philo-
sophy, and died in 1494. His collected works were pub-,
lished in Belgium ill 1496, and at Venice in 1498.
A ROYAL STAG I.lUNT.—Yesterday, by way of
affording a finish to the hunting season, his Royal
Highness the Due d'Aumale invited the members of the
Worcestershire Hunt and other sporting gentlemen of the
county to a stag hunt with his royal highness's famous
pack of harriers. The meet was fixed for the Northwich
Arms, in the suburbs of tho town of Evesham, and prior
thereto his royal highness entertained a large party 'at
breakfast at Woodnorton. Sportsmen flocked from all parts
of the county to the rendezvous. Among those at the meet
were his Royal Highness the Due d'Aumale, Prince Join-
vine, and several ladies and other members of the ox-royal
family of France. The day was warm and sunny, and
when the stag was uncarted at half-past 11 there could not
have been less than 500 horsemen present. The stag at
once made away for Childswickham, on the borders of
Gloucestershire, through a beautiful level country with
plenty of fence 6 of all kilids.