The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-28 00:00:00

CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE.

Yesterday the ordinary meeting of this company
was held at the offices, Bristol—Mr. A. J. Knapp in
the chair. The report, an abstract of which appeared
in The Sun, was taken as read.

Mr. T. Y. WATKINS complained that the expenses
of collecting the toll were too great considering the
amount received. The total receipts from the
bridge appear to be £1,877, and £338 was paid for
collection and secretaries' fees, as they had three
men by day and one by night. They had two
secretaries, oue of whom received £lOO a year.
Really all that was returned to the shareholders in
the way of dividend was £569, which was a miser-
able return. He suggested that some arrangement
might be made so that the corporation of Bristol
could take the bridge and throw it open to the
public.
The CHAIRMAN said the arrangements were left
to the directors, and if the shareholders did not ap-
prove them they had better get mid of the directors.
There had been a decrease in the expense of £46,
and only a trifling addition in doubling the fire in-
surance.

The report was adopted, and a dividend of
15s. per cent., free of income-tax, was declared.
Mr. J. W. Miles and Mr. J. Ford were re-elected
directors, and Mr. Pike auditor.
The proceedings terminated with a vote of
thanks to the chairman.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.-(THIS DA F,

Sales probably 12,000 bales. Tho market was
firm.

SOMETHING WORTH KNOWING.—The public ought
to be nigh bewildered with the various descriptions of
breakfast beverages that have of late sprung into existence,
every one of them claiming to be of superior excellence.
No commodity has been more turned to account in this
particular than cocoa, because, no doubt, of its original
invaluable properties. But the number of cocoas in exist-
ence are so great—some of them we know to be highly re-
commendable —that the general run of persons must feel
puzzled 'which to patronise and which to avoid. What
Messrs. Mercer, Unsworth, and Bevan, of Bermondsey,
have just succeeded in doing will relieve the public of this
perplexing difficulty. We understand that this firm have
devoted much time to the study of the peculiar properties
of cocoa in its original state, that they have submitted to
a careful analysis all the best cocoas in use, and that,
guided by the information they thus acquired, they have
hit upon a mixture combining all the most valuable,
nourishing, and invigorating properties claimed for the
best cocoas in use, and simplifying to a great extent what
was before so perplexing. Seinoline and Manzanillo are the
names which Messrs. Mercer and Co. have given to the
new cocoas they have brought into existence. They have
secured to themselves the exclusive sale of the new cocoas,
and are, we understand, making extensive arrangements
for its consumption throughout the whole United King-
dom. From our own knowledge of drinks —and we have
been obliged, in our journalistic capacity, to put to the test
a good many from time to time—Messrs. Mercer and Co.'s
discovery cannot fail to secure much popular favour. In-
deed we should not be surprised to find Semolina and Man-
zanillo, terms now so novel, becoming before very long, to
use a hackneyed expression, as familiar to the public as
household words. The good qualities of all cocoas seem
to be combined in Sernoline and Manzanillo.
The Globe states that the indisposition' of her
Majesty has been more of a painful than a serious nature.

Mr. W. H. Gladstone's election expenses at Whitby
amointed to £530.

Mr. Vicat Cole has, ~beei elected—an-Associate of
the Royal Academy of Ante:'(

The late reports from ThOrnoliffe state that a very
large number of the non-unionists have gone; to work,
and they hayQ igiovtakisihttlr vitt
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