The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-05 00:00:00

NORTH OF EUROPE STEAM NAVIGA.

TION COMPANY.

A meeting of this company took place yesterday—Mr.
S. M. Peto presiding—when the report of the directors
was unanimously agreed to. Although under the head
of settlement the accounts are made up yearly, it is in-
tended in future to devise means for declaring a dividend
every six months. The developement of the traffic has
realised the highest expectations, and the receipts for
the half-year have amounted to 47,9551., against 19,7871.
in the same period of 1853. The average increase each
voyage has been 1471. 6s. 6d., while for July the ratio
is even greater. Two of the company's fleet having
been chartered by the Government, the general capabi-
lities of the routes have not been shown to their full ex-
tent, but when the whole of the vessels, including those
in course of construction, are in service, the success of
the undertaking will, it is expected, be still further esta-
blished. No fresh call is at present to be made. The
following is extracted from the report :

" The whole of the lines of communication referred to in
the last report are in continued operation, and the receipts
are increa?ing in a most satisfactory ratio, while 9r some
of thailhe directors have been obliged to place ad tonal
ships r they propose to place shortly a second weekly boat
on th&Grimsby and Hamburg route. The Tonning is still
in the service of the Government between Portsmouth and
the Black Sea, the City of Norwich between Portsmouth
and the Baltic fleet. The Harwich Railway will be com-
pleted anSi open for traffic during the ensuing month, when
11t is intended at once to carry out the routes originally
propose d between that port and the Low Countries. The
directolt have 'the satisfaction of stating that they have
received' from the board of the Eastern Counties Railway
Company the assurance of its co-operation in the prosecu-
tion of the trade from this point. The Cattle trade between
Denmark and this country is proceeding satisfactorily,
and the opening of the cross. line .of railway from the
North Sea to the Baltic during the next month by the
Royal Danish Railway Company must add largely to the
importance of the Danish trade, which will be still further
augmented by the line from Tonning to Rendsburg, join-
ing the line to Hamburg, also to be opened this year.
The wholq of the coaling stations of the company being in
England, from the shortness of the voyages made, the
difficulty and cost incident on the increased freight and
cost of coals which has pressed on other companies has not
been felt by them. Although, as was stated at the last
half-yearly general meeting, the accounts, according to the
deed of the comqany, are only made up once a year, the
directors, considering that most of the proprietors would
prefer a half-yearly dividend, beg to state that at the next
annual general meeting they recommend that they may be
authorized to declare an interim dividend of such amount
as they may think fit. The last call was promptly met.
The sixth'call, which at the time of the last general meet-
ing was anticipated might be required, has not been made,
and will not be made at present."

THE CIVIL SERVICE.—Audit-office,' Someriet-House
—Mr Peter. Cunningham, F.S.A., Senior Examiner of
,the Second Class, has been appointed Chief Clerk and
First Class Senior Examiner, vice Bathurst, promoted;
Mr. Walter Carew Cocks, Junior Examiner, has been
appointed Senior Examiner of the Second Class, vice
Cunningham, promoted ; Mr. Thomas Henry Phillips,
Assistant Examiner, has been appointed Junior Exami-
ner, vice Cocks, promoted. Temporary Department for.
Examination of War Accounts, Audit-office. Mr. R.
Whitestone, Senior. Examiner of the First Class, has been
appointed Acting Inspector ; Messrs. C. Creed and John
Llewellyn, Senior Examiners of the Second Class, have
been appointed Acting Senior Examiners of the First
Class ; the Hon. H. R. Curzon and Messrs. Charles
Osborne and Hay Cooper, Junior Examiners, have been
appointed Acting Senior Examiners of the Second Class;
Messrs. Alfred Davis, Francis Pothonier, J. J. Bum.
ford, E. 0. Jones, and George Baker, Assistant Exa-
miners, have been appointed Acting Junior Examiners ;
there are several vacancies in the Class of Assistant Exa-
miners. General Register-office, Somerset-house.—Mr.
G. Wyatt, Junior Clerk, has been promoted to the Assis-
tant Class, vice Martindale, superanuated ; Mr. James
Lewis, Extra Clerk, is appointed Junior Clerk, vice G.
Wyatt, promoted. Customs. -- Mr. G. Beak has been
appointed Searcher at Cardiff ; Mr. W. R. B. Whitmore
has been appointed Clerk in the office of the Controller
of. Tea Accounts in London ; Mr. James W. Coles has
been promoted from the Fourth to the Third Class Clerk-
ship at Portsmouth ; Mr. W. C. Cudderford, Queen's
Wareshousekeeper, has been promoted to the Sixth Class
on the increased establishment at Plymouth.--Civil
Service ago"

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