The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-12 00:00:00

Ett trb XVition

NEWMARKET RACES
(THIS DAY.)
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

Match—Remembrancer beat Vexation.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each. T.Y.C.

Cashier ... ...
Beiram colt ...

Post Sweepstakes of 200 sovs. each.

Legerdemain ... ...
Beiram filly ... ... ... ...
Handicap Plate. A.F.

Geraldine ... ...
New Forest Deer ...
ilagley ... ...

Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each.

Clarissa ... 1
Clique ... 2
Sweepstakes for two yrs old; winner to be sold for 40.
Piccola a
...
1
Routh ... 2
Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each. Winner to be sold for

400 sous.
Filly by Jereed, out of Rhodanthe ...
Colt by Voltaire, out of Mecca ... ...

EAST SURREY REGISTRATION.

(THIS DAY.)
Mr. Fyshe, the barrister appointed to revise the list of
voters for the eastern division of the county of Surrey,
held his Court to-day in the workhouse committee-room,
Russell-street, Bermondsey, for the purpose of revising
the list of voters for the parishes of Bermondsey, St.
John, Southwark, St. Saviour, Southwark, St. Olave,
Southwark, St. Thomas, Southwark, St. Mary, Rother-
hithe, and St. George-the-Martyr, Southwark. In these
parishes there are 49 objections, but none of them pos-
sessed any points of the least interest.

THE CAE OF DR. BYBER.—The Learned Revising
Barrister gave judgment this morning in the case
of Dr. Byber, who claimed the right of voting
in respect of the freehold pew rents of Roe-
hampton District Chapel. On the case coming
on before the Learned Gentleman at Wandsworth it
was urged, on behalf of the Liberals, that the pew rents
were not freehold, but voluntary payments. Mr. Fyshe
was clearly of opinion that there was no pretence what-
ever for saying that the pew rents were voluntary pay-
ments, and the claim of Dr. Byber to vote must there-
fore be allowed.

The revision of the lists of the parishes appointed for
to-day concludes the revision for the: eastern division of
the County of Surrey.
Mr. Fyshe will sit on Tuesday next at the Town-hall,
Southwark, to revise the list of voters for the borough of
Southwark.

ROYAL MAIL STEAM-PACKET
COMPANY.—(THIS DAY.)
A general meeting of the proprietors of the Royal
Mail Steam-packet Company took place to-day at the
London Tavern, for the purpose of receiving the report
of the directors, and on the general business of the
company.
Andrew Colvile, Esq., took the chair at one o'clock.
The usual routine business having been disposed of,
The CHAIRMAN congratulated the proprietors on the
flourishing state of their affairs, ,and called
,upon the
secretary to read the report.
Mr. CHAPPEL, the secretary ,then read the following
report :
" The proprietors have already been furnished with a
statement of the company's working account for the six
months ending 30th June last, to which is appended an
explanation of the mode in which that account is now
made up.
" Although the receipts for the last six months of this
year are less than for the corresponding period of last
year, yet as the working expenses have been reduced to
a still farther extent, the surplus, as already stated,
shows an excess amounting to 2,3761. 13s. 7d.
" The loss of the schooner Lee, off Honduras, on the
10th of June last, is the only casualty affecting insur-
ance that has occurred to the company's vessels during
the six months in question. The directors hope shortly
to supply her place by the purchase of a suitable vessel,
and the schooner Malibran has been chartered, upon
reasonable terms, to carry on the contract mail service
in the meanwhile.
" It may be important to state that great efforts have
been used, and heavy expenses incurred, to so repair
and strengthen the company's Transatlantic steamers,
that they are at this moment fully as efficient as when
they first commenced the packet service nearly seven
veers ago. Within the last twenty-eight months, three
ships have been thoroughly repaired, six others received
new boilers, and thirteen been newly coppered ; the
directors considering that by thus strongly upholding
the ships, the property afloat is maintained in a condi-
tion to ensure durability, and to enhance the value of
the company's assets.
" It is satisfactory to the directors to be able to re-
port, that, up to this period, the traffic, via Panama,
has fully equalled the expectations held out when, the
company undertook the transit ; and that while the de-
pressed state of the West Indies has been attended with
a corresponding diminution in the company's receipts
as relates to those colonies, compensation has been de-
rived from the connexion with the Pacific, and the in-
tercourse lately established with New Orleans.
"Adequate time has not yet been afforded to prove
what is likely to be the result, in a pecuniary point of
view, of steam communication between the West Indies
and New York, via Bermuda; but the receipts have been
sufficient to warrant confidence that this portion of the
service may prove ultimately profitable to the company.
"That the proprietors ate not aware how injuriously
the hostilities between the United States and Mexico
have operated upon the company's transactions with the
latter country; but now that peace is again established,
and that measures appear to be in progress for ensuring
internal tranquillity, it can scarcely be deemed unreason-
able to infer that this company may derive a correspond-
ing advantage.
" Looking at all the matters herein set forth, and after
due consideration of the whole affairs of the company,
the directors feel happy in being able to recommend
that a dividend be declared of 21. per share, exclusive of
income-tax, payable en and from the 16th inst."
After a short discussion a resolution was proposed by
the Chairman, seconded by Mr. Baring, and carried
unanimously, adopting the report, and ordering it to be
printed and circulated among the proprietors.
The CHAIRMAN, in answer to some observations from
Mr. Ridgway, stated that in future more time would
be allowed between the arrival of one mail and the de-
parture of another from British Guiana for the purpose
of enabling parties to answer lettters.
The following is a statement of the working account
of the company from the Ist of January to the 30th of
June of the present year :
DISBURSEMENTS.
Coals: Freight and all charges .
Wages
Provisions

... £36,777 0 6
••• ... 20,490 8 8
..• ... 33,610 17 11
••• ... 8,151 5 8
... 2,652 2 2
... 7,220 9 0
... 348 15 4
••• 905 1 4
... 5;513 12 4
... 12,500 0 0
... 20,588 10 9

Stores ... ...
Port charges and pilotage
General service and stations
Coal sacks, &c. ... ...
Office and law expenses . .
Salaries ... ... ...
Insurance ... ... ...
Repairs of ships and machinery—.

148,758 3 8
Surplus ... ... ... 67,452 17 2

£216,211 0 10

RECEIPTS.

Government Contract

... ...£120,000 0 0

Freight:—
Outward

Intercolonial...
Homeward ...
Passage Money:—
Outward ...
Intercolonial...
Homeward ...

... 6,983 2 7
... 2,224 16 0
... 14,839 17 1

35,153 4 3
••• ••• ... 14,230 17 1
••• ... ... 22,772 3 10

4216,211 0 10
The CHAIRMAN intimated that the dividend of 21. per
share would be paid on and after the 16th of the present
month.
Thanks were then voted to the chairman and direc-
tors, and the meeting separated.

N AVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—The Ajax, 56, screw
guard-ship, went out of harbour this morning at half-
past nine o'clock to try her engine and speed. Rear-
Admiral Prescott, C. 8., Captain Austen, C. 8., with a
number of other officers, Mr. Smith, Mr. Brown, and
many other scientific gentlemen, were also on board her.
The day was remarkably fine, a light wind blew from
the N.W., with the water as smooth as at a millpond,
On her proceeding out of harbour round the Spit Buoy
the screw appeared to be working most admirable, the
large hulk gliding through the water without the least
noise, her screw occasioning but the least possible ebul•
lition of the water under her stern, and the ship the least
possible undulation. We should say that in passing
along Southsea beach she was going ahead at least four
knots, with a flood tide of one knot against her. This
would give her five knots speed. The Ajax proceeded.
through Spithead to Stokes Bay, where she unfortu-
nately broke down by breaking one of her pistons before
any account was taken of her speet'. Should she, how -
ever, be found to have a speed of five or six knots, it
would decide the authorities on not going to the very
costly expenses now effecting in altering the Blenheim.
(if course the admiral and officers returned to Ports•
mouth, and the Echo tug was dispatched to tow her up,
but she will not come into harbour before six or seven
o'clock. On her trial to-day the Ajax had only her bare
lower masts and bowsprit in.

The Grampus, 50, Captain 11. Martin, was towed into
harbour, and brought alongside the dockyard jetty. She
looked well, her rigging and ropes were as taut as bars,
and her tops and mast heads remarkably clear of all top
hamper. She was down very much by the stern, occa-
sioned by her enormous freight, about 80 tuns. Her lower
mast did not seem to stand well, her foremast standing
too far forward. They were painted black, with white
mast heads. This evening her people commenced de-
livering her freight, but it will not be all got out to-
bight. Messrs. Culler have charge of it, and will convey

it to-morrow, by the South-Western Railway, from
Portsmouth to London. We cannot exactly tell the
value of it, as there is a box of diamonds and some gold;
but the greatest proportion is in silver bars and dollars;
it is said to be worth 3,700,000 dollars. The money is
on merchants' account, and by the present most unjust
and iniquitous mode of appropriating the per centage for,
the payment of the freight, Captain Martin will pocket
6,000/. or 7,000/., while the officers and crew of the ship,
who have all the trouble, get nil. The Grampus is dry-
ing sails, and will immediately prepare for paying off.
The Comet (steam-vessel), Lieutenant Commander
Rigge, arrived to-day from Oporto, to pay off.
Wind northerly, light breeze, with fine weather.

AHPI'aOrIvNeTy7
Commander Henry to the Kingfisher; Lieu-
tenant J. W. Pike, to the Kingfisher; Master Henry T.
Ellis, to the Kingfisher; Midshipman George B. Cooper,
Henry J. Urquhart, S. Babington, and Henry Capron
Bridtzer, to the Kingfisher; Acting Gunner Henry Bluff,
to the Excellent; Boatswain George Faulkner, to the
Illustrious; Master's Assistant Thomas A. Bower, to
the Penelope; Master's Assistant James Boulton, to
the Stromboli; Master's Assistant Frederick Howard,
to the Driver; Clerk's Assistant F. R Miller, to the
Kingfisher.
THE NEW RIGGING WARRANT.—The Lords of the
Admiralty have appointed Captain Horatio, C. 8., of the
Blenheim steam guard-ship; Charles Brown, Esq.,
master-attendant of Portsmouth Dockyard; W. H.
Thompson, Esq., master of the flag ship Victory; and
R. C. All,n, Esq., master of the Blenheim, to be the com-
mittee for revising the rigging warrants of the steam
squadron at Portsmouth.
The Kingfisher, 12 gun sloop, was hauled from her
moorings in ordinary at Portsmouth, down to the wast-
ing jetty, on Tuesday night, and yesterday her masts
were put in, and a number of men put upon her, to
rig her. She will be commissioned in a day or two to
carry the November mail to the western coast of Africa.
The Stromboli steam-sloop, 6 guns, in Portsmouth
harbour, will return to the Tagus shortly.
The Driver steam-sloop, 6 guns, sailed from Ports-
mouth on Tuesday night for Jersey, to land a company
of Royal Artillery, and relieve the company serving
there.
THE AVENGER SIIIISCRIPTION.—The committee for
the distribution of this bounty to the relatives and
nearest of kin of those drowned in the Avenger steam-
frigate have announced the distribution of further re-
lief to the recognised recipients of the monies of the
fund at the Royal Naval College, on Saturday next, the
14th inst.