The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-29 00:00:00

THE CITY OF LONDON ACCOUNTS.

The following is an abstract of the accounts of receipt
and expenditure of the Corporation of the City of Low
don laid before the auditors :

" We find that the balance of cash upon the preceding
account was 25,3941. 45. 2d.

" That the rec,:ipts of the year 1852, including the sum
of 55,0001. raised for the purchase of the site of the metro-
politan cattle-market, and 19,6251. the produce of the sale
of stuck for providing lodging-houses for the labouring
poor, were 28 8,197/. lie. 64d.
" That the expenditure in the said year, as appeared by
the several vouchers laid before us by the Chamberlain, in-
cluding the sum of 11,2331. 3s. 4d., applied in the purchase
of securities, and 5,4001. in discharge of debt, and 20,0001.
advanced to Billingsgate market tolls account, was
281,7301. 18s. 04d., leaving a balance of cash upon the ac-
count on the 31st of December, 1852, of 32,3601. 17s. Bd.
" In the further prosecution of the examination referred
to us we find that certain debts, arrears of rents, dues, and
interest on Government securities were due and belonging
to the mayor and commonalty and citizens on the 31st of
December, 1852, and that they were at the same period an-
swerable for debts, claims for interest, charges in respect
of public improvements, pensions, police, Ito. We have
therefore directed a balance statement of such assets and
liabilities to be prepared, by which it will be seen that there
was at that period a cash balance in favour of the corpo-
, ration of 14,072/. 4s. 5d., after providing for all claims and
demands, without including the value of the freehold and
leasehold estate of the corporation.
"In the Gresham account laid before us to audit, we
find

" That the balance of cash due by the Chamberlain al
the commencement of the account was 529'. 7s. sd.

"'That the receipts for the same period were 5,691/. IBA&
" That the expenditure for the same period NV3.i
5,5721. -I.oa. 6d.

" Leaving a balance of cash in the hands of the Chamber-
lain on the account ending the 10th of October, 1853, of
6471. 18s. Bd.

" We further find that the City's moiety of the Gresham
estate is in debt various sums advanced by the corporation
and others, and that there are owing to the said estate,
besides the balance in the hands of the Chamberlain above-
mentioned, certain arrears of rent, leaving a cash balance
against the estate on the 10th of October, 1853, of
110,4321. Ils. 4d., without taking into account the value of
the Gresham estate and public buildings.
" In the account of the Bridge-house Estates laid before
us to audit, we find—
" That the balance of cash in hand on the 31st of De-
cember, 1851, was 3771. Os. lid.
" That the rents of the said estate and other receipts of
the year 1852 were 46,6441. 17s. sd.
" That the disbursements during the said year were (in-
cluding the sum of 27.3481. 7s. paid under the acts 7th
George IV., c. 40, and 4th William IV., e. 118, in respect
of rebuilding London-bridge, and repairing Blackfriars-
bridge) 46,3051. ss. 7d., leaving a balance in hand on the
31st December, 1852, f 7161..125. 9d. In addition to the
said balance of cash in hand we found that there were rents
due to the account on the 31st December, 1852, amounting
to 12,8661. Is. 2d., also cash, stock, and securities standing
to the credit of the Bridge-house Estates as undermentioned
—6,1001. 3s. 7d. Consols, and 11,1261. 10s. 2d. Reduced
Three per Cent. Annuities, standing in the name of the
Accountant-General of the Court of_. Chancery, 9001. Ex-
chequer-bills in the hands of the said Accountant-General,
upon which he had received interest remaining unappro-
prilted amounting to 771. is. 10d., also 3101. 9s. 7,1. Ito-
drped Three per Cents., standing in the names of the
Bridgemasters, and 1,5001. cash in the Bank of England in
the name of the Accountant-General of the Court of
Chancery.
" The charges upon the Bridge-house Estates at the same
period consisted of certain terminable annuities payable to
the Government, amounting to 21,5 01. per annum, in re•
spect of rebuilding London-bridge; also a debt of 77,400/.
remaining of loan raised fur the repairs of Blackfriars-
bridge.
" We have great pleasure in-stating, -in concluding tbi,
our report, that the gentlemen officially connected with
the various accounts afforded us all the inforniation and
assistance we required, and that we consider the accounts
to be kept in a simple form, and in a clear and accurate
manner.

" JAMES JARDINE,
"T. W. Boom, .1 Auditors.
"Guildhall, June 23, 1854."

POST-OFFICE RETURNS.

The Post•office returns for 1853 have just been issued,
and embrace-Ist, the number of letters delivered i❑
the United Kingdom ; 2d, the revenue ; 3d, the cost of
management ; 4th, the payments to railways ; and sth,
the number and amount of money-orders. The follow-
ing table of these particulars in a condensed form will
show the annual progress that has been made from 1839
(the last year of the old system) to the present time :

THE WAR.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

The latest movements in the Black Sea fleet are con_
tained in a letter of the 15th inst., which states that the
Fury, 6, paddle-sloop, Commander Tatham, returned to
Constantinople on the afternoon of the 14th from Balt-
schik, where the combined fleets were then lying. Mrs-
Gifford, widow of Captain Giffa.rd, of the Tiger, arrived
by her, after visiting the grave of her husband at Odessa.
The First-Lieutenant of the Tiger had been sent to St.
Petersburg, four of the midshipmen to Moscow, and the
rest of the officers and crew had been forwarded to other
destinations. The sick, and some consumptive patients,
had been detained at Odessa on account of the salubrity
of the climate. _ _ _

The Vesuvius, 6, Commander Powell, got on shore off
the Sulina mouth of the Danube, while chasing a coaster
th tt she mistook for a gunboat. She was on shore 26
hours, but, as tlAe bottom was muddy, she received no
damage.
The Furious, Firebrand, awl Inflexible were blockad-
ing the Dinube. The Fury had towed into Constanti-
nople two prize; which she took off the mouth of the
Danube. The Bellerophon, London, Sidon, and another
steamer were at Varna assisting in the di-,embarkation
of the troops. The Canshee sailed on the 14th with the
mail for the sqnadron.
The Fury, Caradoc, Cyclops, Simoom, and hlera
were lying at Constantinople on the 15th.
The Sanspareil, 70, screw, Captain Dacres, had
broken down again in her machinery.
The new postal convention entered into with France
was hailed by all the fleet as a great boon. " Our great
want at present (says our correspondent) is the esta-
blishment of an English Post-cffice for the reception and
distribution of our letters." _ _ _

Lord Raglan and staff embarked in the Caradoc on
the 15th for Varna, and the remaining troops were to
leave Constantinople for the same place in a day or two
after.
The Spitfire steam-sloop was at Bourgas, which
anchorage is reported by Commander Spratt as a good
one, and will be frequented,often by the squadron during
the ensuing winter.
The steam-vessels Fire Queen, Sprightly, and Lucifer,
and the cutter Portsmouth have been despatched from
Portsmouth to look after a silk and tea-laden Russian
merchantman reported to be in the Channel.
Advices were received yesterday, under date Smyrna,
June the 17th, that her Majesty's steamer Wasp had
surprised and destroyed two .piratical Greek vessels at
Samos.
Yesterday the twenty days' notice required to be given
by the Court of Admiralty previous to condemnation
expired with reference to the following Russian ships :
—The Corolina, Louis Ehlers, late master, and the
Drie Gebroeders, Lindholm late master, prizes to her
Majesty's steamer Cruiser, and the Najaden, Nils Gus-
taf, late master, prize to her Majesty's steamer Odin ;
those vessels will, therefore, together with their cargoes
and tackle, be forthwith condemned and sold for the
benefit of their captors.

Yesterday another Russian prize, called the Otsee,
Huxham master, arrived off Gravesend from the Baltic
she is to be taken into the West India Docks for con.
demnation.

A contract has been concluded by the Government
with Mr. Pitcher, of Northtleet, for the construction of
four steam gun-boats, for service in the Baltic. They
will be 460 tons burden, and 150. feet long, and draw
only 11 feet water. They will be fitted with engines of
100 horse-power.
The Board of Ordnance yesterday gave notice to the
shipbuilders that they required a coasting vessel to be
built for their service.

Yesterday the Lords of the Admiralty gave notice al
Lloyd's that a ship was required to carry 500 tons o:
provisions and stores to be delivered on board Sir Chas,
Napier's fleet in the Gulf of Finland.
_

The Vulcan screw troop-transport, Commander Von
Dunlop, left Portsmouth yesterday morning for Varna.
Her Majesty's steam-yacht Victoria and Albert, Capt.
the Hon. Joseph Denman, went out for a cruise yester-
day to try her engines, &c., after a thorough refit.
During the whole voyage from Queenstown to Varna,
only two of the horses on board the Himalaya were lost.
One was shot, -owing to its having a very suspicious-
looking discharge from the nose, and one with diseased
lungs died. It appears that Mrs. Giffard, whom the
Himalaya brought back, went to Varna, not aware of
her husband's death, intending to give herself up as a
prisoner, that she might nurse him. she- was alloWed
to visit hiS grave, with Captain Powell, of the Vesu-
viuq, who went ahore with her. He saw the men who
are prisoners, and who are all well treated.
Mr. J.'. Dineen, the Superintendent of Steam Machi-
nery- Afloat, returned to Sheerness on the 27th Inst., at
4.30 p.m., and after a short interview with the profes-
sional officers it was decided that the Dauntless could
have her defectsin machinery, &c., made good there in
a few days. Orders have been given for her to return
old stores, and she is to have all assistance from the port
to store and victual again with all possible despatch, and
then proceed to the Baltic. It is the same time currently
reported that Capt. the Hon. Frederick W. Grey, in
command of the Hannibal, 90 guns, has made an official
application for a heavy draught of the Dauntless's crew,
in order to complete his complement of seamen, by which
he will be able to proceed to sea immediately, instead of
going to Scotland to complete. The newly-raiAd men,
though good seamen, will have to be taught their gunnery
exercise on their passage out, and the most particular
reason in favour of this being done is that the Dauntless
is at present 80 men short, including officers, most of
whom are away in charge of prizes taken by other ships.
It is anticipated that the Dauntless will undergo some
alterations in the construction of her engines and boilers,
and that by the time these are completed her commander
and officers will find no difficulty in raising 200 or 300
men to complete her complement.
The Wolverine, 12, gun sloop, Commander John C.
Corbett, had her compasses adjusted yesterday by Mr.
John C. Barlow, master of the Formidable, 84.
The crew of the Star desire it to be generally known
that they are now perfectly satisfied ; they have a com-
mander who, when leaving the Boscawen, took with him
the hearty good wishes of every blue-jacket on board,
and they are ready to go forth to fight the battles of their
country heart and hand with him.

The 'Royal Portuguese paddlewheel steam-yacht made
her number on demand yesterday, passing up Sea Reach
for Woolwich. ,

The Russian prize to the Arrogant and Hecla, the
Augusta, was taken from Sheerness last evening by a
steam-tug for the West India Docks.

Order 4 were received yesterday at the infantry bar-
racks, Windsor, for the 46th Regiment, now quartered
there, under the command of Colonel Garrett, to be pre-
pared for embarcation to the seat of war in the East
early in next month. The regiment, including the guard
supplied to Kensington Palace, is now more than 1,000
strong, and, should the recruits continue to arrive in the
:a.me numbers as has been the case for the last fortnight
it will soon attain the full complement of 1,200.
100 rank and file of the 33d Regiment (the Duke of
Wellington's Owi) arrived in Cork on Monday from
Fennoy, to await a transport for conveyance to join the
service companies in the East.
The Soubandar transport, with the Ist division of the
27th Regiment )Enniskillens) sailed from Queenstown
ou Sunday for her destination—Calcutta. On Friday
the Charlotte transport, Captain Affleck, arrived for the
conveyance of the •2d division, which were put on board
on Monday, and sailed on Tuesday morning fur India.
A considerable body of troops from the depot batta-
lions in Ireland will arrive in Cork in the course of the
week, to await transports for conveyance to join their
respective service companies in the East.
One sergeant and 50 privates of the 41st Regiment
and 1 sergeant and 50 privates of the 47th Regiment left
Templemore on Monday, and have arrived at Cork t
await the Kangaroo transport for conveyance to join
the service companies in the East.
The depot of the 68th Light Infantry, stationed in
Belfast, has been called on to complete the service com-
panies at Malta forthwith, "or sooner, if possible," to
800 rank and file, which will take every man fit to
carry a musket from the depot. The service companies
are only 600 strong at present. They embarked for
Malta on the 28th of February, 1851.

ROYAL ARTILLERY.
In consequence of the brevet promotions, and subse-
quent promotions already made public, the following
changes have taken place in the Royal Regiment of
Artillery_:— _

Colonel William Brereton, C. 13,, K.H., to the Royal
Horse Artillery, vice Whinyates, promoted to be Major.
General.

Colonel Thomas Fox Strangways,to the Royal Horse
Artillery, vice Dyneley, promoted to be Major-General.
Lieutenant-Colonel Noel Thomas Lake, to the Royal
Horse Artillery, vice Fox Strangways, promoted to be
Colonel.

Captain Edward Price, to the Royal Horse Artillery,
viee Brevet-Major Wood, promoted to be Lieutenant-
Colonel.

Second Captain Hon. David M'Dowall Fraser, to the
Royal Horse Artillery, vice Willett, promoted to be
Captain. _ _ .

Second Captain Horace Parker Newton, to the Royal
Horse Artillery, vice Duplat, promoted to be Captain.
First Lieutenant Albert Henry Wilmot Williams, to
the Royal Horse Artillery, vice Boultbee, promoted to be
Second Captain.
First Lieutenant Walter Ashton Strangways, to the
Royal Horse Artillery, vice Michell, promoted to be
Second Captain.
Captain Richard Blackwood Price, to be Captain of the
Riding-house Establishment, vice Sandham, promoted to
be Lieutenant-Colonel.

Colonel William Bolden Dundag, C. 8., to command the
Royal Artillery in Ireland, vice Dyneley, promoted to be
Ma j or-General.
Captain George Bucknal Shakespear, to be Captain of
the Cadets Company, vice Eardley Wilmot promoted to be
Lieutenant-Colonel.

Brevet-Major St. John Thomas Browne to be Assistant
Fire Master at Portsmouth, vice Cockburn, promoted to
be Lieutenant-Colonel.

In consequence of the foregoing promotions and appoint-
ments the uttiertaintioned officers are posted to battalions
as follows :

Colonel Richard Hardinge, K.H., to the sth battalion,
vice Brereton, to the Royal gorse Artillery.
Colonel William Cochrane Anderson to the4th battalion
vice Fox Strangways promoted, vice Bastard, and posted
to the Horse Artillery.
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry George Teesdale, ItoyalHorso
Artillery, is raised to Lieutenant-Colonel's pay therein,
vice Strangways, promoted. Lieutenant-Colonel Lake, ap-
pointed to the Royal Horse Artillery, will receive Major's
pay, vice Teesdale.
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Joseph Morris to the 7th
battalion, on Lieutenant-ColoneVe pay, vice Rawnsley,
promoted.
Lieutenant-Colonel John M'Coy to the 2nd battalion,
on Lieutenant-Colonel's pay, vice Hardinge, promoted.
_ Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Fitzherbert Grant to the
Bth battalio4, on Lieutenant-Colonel's pay, vice Andrews,
promoted.
LioikWilat•oolo4ol A4lll Wray Mitchell, to the 6th

battalion, on Lieutenant-Colonel's pay, vice Willes, pro-
moted.
Lieutenant-Colonel George John Beresford, to th 4th
battalion, on Lieutenant-Colonel's pay, vice Higgins, pro
motet'.
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Fitzgerald Crawfo'rd, to the
10th b'tttalion, on Lieutenant-Colonel's pay, vice Lake,
appointed to the Rord Horse Artillery.
Lieutenant-Colonel 4ohn St. George, to the Bth batta-
lion, on Lieutenant-Col.mci's pay, vice Eyre, promoted.
Lieutenant-Colonel William Robert Nedham, to the 2d
battalion, on Lieutenant-Colonel's pay, vice Otway, pro-
moted.
Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Charles Ward, to the 9th
battalion, on Lieutenant-Colonel's pay, vice Anderion,
promoted.
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Coope Stace, to the 3d bat-
talion, on Lieutenant-Colonel's pay, vice Armstrong pro-
moted.
Lieutenant-Colonel John William Ormsby, to the 11th
battalion, on Lieutenant-Colonel's pay, vice Clarke, pro-
moted.

Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Joseph Taylor, to the 11th
battalion, on Lieutenant-Colonel's pay, vice Furneaux,
promoted.
Lieutenant-Colonel William Harrison Askwith, to the
10th battalion on Major's pay, vice Morris, removed.
Lieutenant-Colonel Franklin Dunlop, to the 2d battalion
on Major's pay, vice McCoy, removed,
Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Dick, to the 9th battalion,
on Major's pay, vice Grant, removed.
Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Tylee, to the 12th battalion,
on Major's pay, vice Mitchell, removed.
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles James Dalton, to the Ist bat-
tallion, on M'ajor's pay, vice Beresford, removed.
Lieutenant-Colonel David Edward Wood, to the 6th bat-
talion, on Major's pay, vice Crawfoid, removed.
Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Manly Tuite, to the 11th bat-
talion, on Major's pay, vice St. George, removed.
Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Maron Eardley Wilmot,
to the 3d battalion, on Major's pay, vice Nedham, removed.
Lieutenant-Colonel James William Fitzmayer, to the
4th battalion, on Major's pay, vice Ward, removed.
Lieutenant-Colonel George Robert Harry, . Kennedy, to
the 13th battalion, on Major's pay, vice Stace, removed.
Lieutenant-Colonel George Sandham, to the sth bat-
talion, on Major's pay, vice Ormsby, removed.
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Vansittart Cockburn, to the
7th battalion, on Major's pay, vice Taylor, removed.
Captain Brettinghain, to the 7th battalion, vice Edward
Price, appointed to the Royal Horse Artillery.
Captain M. Adye, to 3d battalion, vice Shakespear, ap-
pointed to the Cadets' Company.
Captain Lawson, to the Ist battalion, vice Blackwood
Price, appointed to the Riding-house Establishment.
Second Captain H. J. Boultbee, to Captain John M.
Adye's Company, 9th battalion, vice D. M`D. Fraser, ap-
pointed to the Royal Horse Artillery.
second Captain Mytton, to Captain Cox's Company,
10th battalion, vice Newton, appointed to the Royal Horse
Artillery.
First Lieutenant Arthur Walsham, to Capt. Marriott's
Company, 3d battalion, vice Williams, appointed to the
Royal Horse Artillery.
First Lieutenant Maxwell, to Capt. Wodehouse's Com-
pany, 11th battalion, vice Fox Strangways, appointed to
the Royal Horse Artillery.
The following appointments have been made :
Commander Vincent A. Massingberd (1842), from the
Coast-Guard to the Neptune, 120.
Lieutenant W. H. Liddell' (1854), promoted from mate
of the Excellent gunnery-ship, at Portsmouth, is appointed
Lieutenant of that ship.
Paymaster James Lyall (1833), to the Waterloo flag-
ship, at Sheerness.

Clerk George Lapidge (1851), recently serving in the
Agamemnon, 91, screw steam-ship, to the Royal Albert,
121, screw steam-ship, at Sheerness.
Mates—Hon. Walter C. Talbot, to the Victoria and
Albert, Royal steam-yacht, at Portsmouth 2 • J. R. Palmer
(1853), to the Malacca, at Chatham ; Louis Geneste, to the
Dauntless, screw steam-frigate, at Sheerness.
Midshipmen—Lord Ashley, to the James Watt, 91,
screw- steam-ship; J. Stanley Graham, to the St. Jean
D'Acre, 101, screw steam-ship ; J. L. Gilby, to the Ma-
riner, 12, sloop, at Devonport.