The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-08 00:00:00

No. 16,994. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING

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BELFAST and COUNTY DOWN RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that the Board of Directors have
this day passed a resolution, calling upon the PROPRIETORS of
SHARES in this Company to PAY 51. PER SHARE, on or before
the Bth day of Aran. next ; and such Proprietors are hereby required
to pay the said Call accordingly to the Northern Bank, Belfast, or
any of its branches ; or to the Bank of Ireland, Dublin ; Messrs.
Glynn and Co., London ; the Borough Bank, Liverpool ; or the Com-
mercial Beak of Scotland, Glasgow.
Interest at four per cent. will be allowed on all Calls from the day
of payment thereof ; and will be chargeable at the rate of six per
cent. on all Calls remaining unpaid.
Proprietors paying this Call previous to the Bth of April, will be
allowed interest at the rate of four per cent.
Belfast, March 4, 1847. THOMAS WARD, Secretary.

IMPERIAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,
CORNHILL, LONDON.

DIRECTOZO.
HENRY JAMES PRESCOTT, Esq., Chairman.
GEORGE FIELD, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
James C. C. Bell, Esq. Daniel Mildred, Esq.
Michael Bland, Esq. James G. Murdoch, Esq.
Charles Francis Cobb, Esq. John Horsley Palmer, Esq.
Andrew Colvile, Esq. Henry Pearce, Esq.
George Henry Cutler, Esq. George Reid, Esq.
George Hibbert, Esq. William R. Robinson, Esq.
Thos. Newman Hunt, Esq. Newman Smith, Esq.
FOUR-FIFTHS, or 80 per Cent., of the PROFITS will be as-
signed to policies every fifth year, and may be applied to increase the
sum insured, Le an immediate payment in cash, or to the reduction
and ultimate extinction of future premiurns, as shown in the follow-
ing example :
PROFITS to POLICIES of 25 TEARS STANDING, entitled to
participate in the Bonus declared in 1846.

Age iCash paid on Or Prem. rAnd an
at Sum Annual Bonus surrender reduced nual re-
Entry. Insured. Premium. added. of Bonus. to. turn of.
£ s. d. rs. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. t s. d.
15 1000 19 510 451 b 0 174 12 3 a 6 91
20 1000 21 15 10 451 I, 0 193 12 2 815 1
30 1000 26 14 2 451 6 0 236 18 7 7io 5
40 1000 33 19 2 4.51 5 0 '284 0 6 4 9
•.8
50 1000 45 6 8 451 5 0 335 911 419 4
GO 1000 63 13 4 451 501 384 11 5
36 10 6
in profits effected at reduced

Shout participation in profits Cl

Insurance. w
rates.
Prospectuses,
now given by
above; at the E

and an explanatory, statement of other advantages
this Company, may be had at the Chief Offices as
ranch Office, 16, Pall-mall; or of the AgeActtits.
SAMIJEL INGALL, uary.

Schools.—The improvement of the dockyard schools
has been long under the consideration of the Admiralty.
The most Intelligent officers from the yards admit the
good effects which they are already producing, but it is
evident that more might bo done by adigittional encou-
ragement and better organisation. The circular issued
by the late board on the 27th of June, 1846, has given a
stimulus to exertion, by insuring to the best scholars in
each school the means of completing their education free
of expense, and of thus qualifying themselves for the
higher branches of the public service. Eight boys will
be selected annually for this purpose, when the schools
have come into full operation, and those hose conduct
at Portsmouth has been satisfactory will the expira-
tion of their time, be re-admitted as leading men into
the yards, and favourably noted for promotion.
But these are the exceptions. For the great majority
of the boys who continue in the schools, the proper
career is the mould loft, in which the master shipwright
will take care that the most promising ys are tried
successively, and in which those wha sho most talent
for drawing, and most assiduity in cul vating it at
home, should be fixed ultimately as draughtsmen, with
the condition, that out of each three vacant inspector-
ships one shall be given in future to the head draughts-
man, provided his testimonials be satisfactory, and that
he has worked at least one year at his tools at the ship's
side. This will ensure in the mould loft a regular
course of promotion, and give to the yard a succession
of inspectors well instructed both in the scientific and
practical part of their duty.
Apprentices' Out of their Time.—No apprentice who
has served his time is to be entered upon the establish-
ment without a written report from the master ship-
wright, transmitted through the superintendent, as to
his conduct and qualifications; and this report is to re-
fer specially to the character given of the apprentice in
the weekly returns by his leading man and itspector, to
which the school report will hereafter be sOended. His
entry upon the yard books, when out of his time, cannot
be claimed as a matter of right, but will not be with-
held without just cause and proper investigation.

GOOD SERVICE GRANT.
Complaints of Foremen—Slowness of Promotion.—
My Lords are aware that from the slowness of promo-
tion amongst the foremen, owing to the very limited
number of master-shipwrights' assistants, there is no
class of officers amongst whom there are to be found
harder cases of long services and unrequited merit.
They cannot remove this disadvantage as regards pro.
motion, for that necessarily depends upon vacancies in
the grades immediately above them ; but they will re-
commend to Parliament that, in consideration of the im-
portant duties performed by the foremen, a gratuity of
501. shall be given annually to one foreman in each of
the yards, who will be selected by their Lordships them
selves in April of each year, commencing in 1848, with
due reference t.) length of service and general character
as well as to the intelligence and integrity with which,
upon examination of the quarterly reports, he may ap-
pear to have discharged the new duties with which the
foremen are about to be entrusted. They regard this
grant in the light of a good service reward, to be given
up upon promotion. Its renewal to the same individual
will depend up'm his continued vigilance and exertion.
MA STEIL- SIIIPWRIGHT.S ASSISTANT.
Examination at Naval College and Yard.—When a
vacancy for master•shipwright's assistant occurs, the
master shipwright will select the three most competent
men amongst the foremen as candidates ; but no candi-
date will be considered qualified who is not prepared to
pass an examination at the Naval College in quadratic
equations, the first six books of Euclid, and the general
principles of mechanics and hydrostatics. He will also
be subjected to an examination in the yard, which is to
be conducted in the presence of the superintendent, by
the master shipwright personally, as to all other matters
required of his subordinate officers ; and ho will be ex-
pected to be able to give designs for the construction of
ships, and to explain the principles by which it is
regulated.
The superintendent will then investigate carefully the
manner in which such candidate has performed his duty
as an officer of the yard, and he will transmit to the Ad-
miralty the original reports sent in by him to the master
shipwright, in order that their Lordships may judge of
his fitness for higher duties. The decision of the board
will rest upon a full consideration of all these various
circumstances ; but one of the three names sent up will
be selected to fill the vacancy unless an officer of still
higher qualification shall be recommended from some
other yard, who will, however, have to pass an equally
stringent examination.

OTHER PROMOTIONS.
Caulkers, Joiners—Qualifications as Inspector and
Leading Man, &c.—The forms to be observed in recom-
mending for promotion as inspectors and leading men of
caulkers and joiners are to be precisely similar, every
recommendation being founded upon weekly and monthly
reports, which are to be transmitted to the master ship-
wrig.ht. But as there is not the same scope or necessity
for instruction amongst these classes of artificers, the
examination required for a leading man of shipwrights
will be sufficient for an inspector of caulkers or joiners,
and a man will be qualified to become a leading man
who can read and write well, and keep accounts cor-
rectly, provided the weekly reports bear testimony to
his industry, sobriety, and good conduct in other respects.
The same will be required of the foremen and leading
men of painters, and of the master smith, who, with a
salary of 2501. a year, ought to be a man of some educa-
tion. His foreman should also be able to read and write,
and to keep accounts correctly, and my Lords intend to
require this in all future appointments, both in the
smithies and as leading men of labourers.

TIDIBER CONVERTERS.
There is one other officer in the dockyard with whose
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the superintendent, to the board direct, upon the qua-
upon the stacking and other arrangements for preserv-
ing it, as well as upon any cases of improper conversion
that he may discover.
therefore,two Assistant-Converterstodirect
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head
1501.. and 1251,, two Attendants at ss. per day.—My
timber converter in each yard, if properly qualified,
shall exercise henceforward this general superinten-
dence with the rank of " timber inspector," and with
a salary of 4001. in lieu of 350/. He is to have
(as at present) two sub-converters under him, to be
called " assistant-converters," who, with their two as-
sistants, will be employed exclusively in conversions
at the saw pits and have the salary of first and second
class inspector. But the general superintendence and
conversion of the timber are to rest with the timber in
spector, and no timber is to be received by the store
1 receiver without his certificate. In case of any failure
in the contracts, or attempt to introduce into the yard
timber of an inferior quality, or not due, or not in ac-
cordance with the contract, the inspector is to report
the same to the superintendent, and copies of the repre-
sentations so made are to be sent to the Admiralty direct
in order that my Lords may have the means of judging
of the causes and character of his objections. When
vacancies occur, the timber inspector will be selected
from the foremen of the yard, and will be allowed one
clerk to keep the timber accounts, being a charge and
duty transferred from the storekeeper.
REMOVALS UPON PROMOTION.
" Quarterly" Promotions of Foremen and In-
spectors.—Having made provision for the more liberal
remuneration of the foremen and inspectors, and having
opened to them a field of honourable exert ion in
which m
any written
conceive themselves entitled to hold the services
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of these officers as absolutely at the disposal of the
Crown whenever and wherever they may be required.
often but it is their inten-
removals at the time of prom ,
erit
i sr
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tion early to fill up the vacancies upon the list of fore-
men and inspectors once in every quarter, when the
They will lay down no general rule r.espectiag age or ,
rig • ht of transferring all officers
upon promotion to any yard where it is thought that
quarterly returns from all the yards will be before them,
and they reserve the
they may prove most useful, My Lords except from