The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-10 00:00:00

ROYAL MAIL STEAM-PACKET

COMPANY.
The annual meeting of this Company was held yester-
day, at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate- street. Andrew
Colville, Esq., was called to the chair, the President of
the Company having died recently. There was a more
than usually large attendance of proprietors upon the
occasion.

The SECRETARY then read the report of the directors
for the past year, which congratulated the proprietors
that for the past year their expectations, notwithstand-
ing it was a year of great depression, had not only been
realised, but considerably surpassed. That the accounts
of the Company for the past year, as compared with the
year 1844, exhibited the gratifying fact of considerable
augmentation ; for instance, each item under the head
for freight and passage money, outward, homeward, and
international, showed an increase, which, in the aggre-
gate, amounted, upon freight, to cover 5,3581., and upon
passage money to over 16,4491.—making a total upon
these two items of over 21,8001. The report concluded
by an expression of satisfaction of the good conduct of
the officers of the Company, and by declaring a divi-
dead of 3 per cent. per share, or at the rate of 5 per
cent. per annum on the paid.up capital for the half-year
up to last December.
The statement of the account of the Company's re.
ceipts and disbursements for the past year was then
handed about, by which it appeared that the total dis-
bursements amounted to 274,5881. ss. 5d., which left a
surplus of 111,880/. 15s. 11d.
Mr. STEWART congratulated the meeting upon the
prosperous state of their affairs, and said he considered
that the thanks of the Company were due to the directors
for the admirable manner in which they had conducted
their affairs, particularly when he reminded the meeting
that now they had a very large sum to their credit,
while, in the year 1842, they were considerably in debt
to the shipping account. He hoped they would ere long
have the gratification to have a dividend of 7 per cent.
declared, instead of s.—(Hear.) He thought that he,
in common with all the other shareholders, was called
upon to express his warmest approval of the manner
in which their affairs had been administered by the di-
rectors.—(Hear, hear.)
The report was then unanimously adopted, the vote
of thanks to the Chairman and directors passed by accla-
mation, Captain Sheppard elected as chairman, in the
room of Mr. Irving, deceased ; the auditors re-elected,
and the meeting separated.

STATIONS of the
ON THE FIR:
(From the Unita

BRITISH ARMY
ST OF APRIL.
1 Service Journal.)

Where two places are mentiol
which the depot of th,

aed, the last-named is that at
regiment is stationed.
41st, Mullingar
42d, Malta, Isle of Wight-
Reserve batt., Malta
43d, Halifax, Dover
44th, Dublin
45th, Cape of Good Hope,
Isle of Wight
46th, Canad 2, Newry
47th. Dublin
486, Jamaica, Kilkenny
49th, Athlone
50th, Bengal, Chatham
51st, Van Dietnan's Land,
Chatham
52d, Quebec, Brecon
53t1, Bengal, Chatham
546, gibraltar, Fennoy
55th, Devon port
56th, Bury, Lancashire
57th, Madras, Chatham
58th, N. S. \Yalu, Chatham
59th, Dublin
60th (Ist batt.), Bombay,
Chatham
Ditto (2d !Att.), Canada,
Paisley
61st, Bengal, Chatham
62d, Bengal, Chatham •
63d, Madras, Chatham
64th, Dublin
65th, Chatham
66th, Gibraltar, Clare Castle
67th, Limerick
68th, Chester
69th, Leeds
70th, Dublin
71st, Antigua, Isle of Wight
• -Reserve batt., Canada
72d, Gibraltar, Nenagh
73d, M. Video, Spike Island
74th, Portsmouth
75th, Birr
76th, Manchester
77th, Jamaica, Templemore
78th, Bombay, Chatham
79th, Gibraltar, Belturbet
80th, Bengal, Chatham
81st, Canada, Jersey
82d, Canada, Kinsale
83d, Limerick
84th, Madras, Chatham
85th, St. Vincent, Cork
86th, Bombay, Chatham
87th, Aberdeen
88th, Malta, Boyle
89th, Canada, Hull
90th, Ceylon, Weedon
91st, Cape of Good Hope,
Isle of Wight-Reserve
batt., Cape of Good Hope
92d, Edinburgh •
93d, Canada, Newbridge
94th, Aden, Chatham
95th, Ceylon, Tralee
96th, N. S. Wales, Chatham
97th, Corfu, Isle of Wight-
Reserve batt., Corfu
98th, Bengal, Chatham
99th, N. S. Wales, Chatham
Rifle Brigade (Ist batt.),
Corfu, Dover
Do. (2d batt.), lialifax, N.S.,
Isle of Wight-Reserve
batt., Halifax, N.S.
COLONIAL CORPS.
Ist West India Regiment,
Jamaica
2d Do., Nassau
3d Do., Demerara, Sierra
Leone, &c.
Ceylon Rifle Reg., Ceylon
Royal Canadian Rifle Regi-
ment, Canada
Cape Mounted Riflemen,Cape
of Good Hope
Royal Newfoundland Vet.
Comps., Newfoundland
Royal Malta Fencibles, Malta
St. Helena Regiment, St.
Helena.

CAVALRY.
Ist Life Guards, Hyde-park
2d, Windsor
Royal Horse Guards, Re-
' getit's-park
Ist Dragoon Guards, Exeter
2d, Dublin
3d, Ballincollig
4th, Edinburgh •
sth, Nottingham,
6th, Manchester
7th, Cape of Good Rope,
Maidstone
Ist. Dragoons, Dundalk
2d,.Dublin
3d Light Dragoons, Bengal,
Maidstone
4th, Hounslow
6th, Birmingham
7th Hussars, Ipswich
Bth Hussars,'Longf'ard
9th Lancers, Bengal, Maid-
stone
10th Ilussars, York
11th Hussars, Newbridge.
12th Lancers, Coventry
13th Light Dragoons, Cahir
14th do. Bombay, Maidstone
15th Hussars, Madras, Maid-
stone
16th Lancers, Bengal, Maid-
stone
17th Lancers, Nottingham
INFANTRY.
Grenadier Guards (Ist batt.),
St. George's Barracks
Do. (2d batt.) Wellington
Barracks
Do. (3d batt.), Windsor
Coldstream G uards (Ist batt.),
St. John's-wood
Do. (2d batt.), Winchester
Scotch Fusilier Guards (Ist
batt.), Portman-street Bar.
Do. (2d batt.), the Tower
Ist Foot (Ist batt.), Barba-
: does, Dublin .
Do. (2d batt.), Glasgow
2d, Chichester
3d, Gosport
4th, Madras, Chatham
sth, Enniskillen
6th, Athlone
7th, St. Vincent, Naas
Bth, Portsmouth
9th, Bengal, Chatham
10th, Bengal, Chatham
llth, N. S. Wales, Chatham
12th, Mauritius, Isle of Wight
13th, Walmer
14th, Canada, Plymouth
15th, Ceylon, Waterford
16th, Gibraltar, Buttevant
17th, Bombay, Chatham
18th, Bengal, Chatham
19th, West Indies, Carlow
20th, Bermuda, Isle of Wight
-Reserve batt., Bermuda
21st, Madras, Chatham
22d, Bombay, Chatham
23d, Canada, Isle of Wight-
Reserve batt., Canada
24th, Cork
25th, Madras, Chatham
26th, Belfast
27th, Cape of Good Hope,
Guernsey
28th, Bombay, Chatham
29tb,-Bengal, Chatham
30th, Castlebar
31st, Bengal,:Chatham
32d, Fermoy •
33d, N. Brunswick, Clonmel
34th, lonian Islands, Cashel
36th, Mauritius, Charles Fort
36th, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
37th, Newport, South Wales
38th, JaMaica, Londonderry
39th, Bengal, Chatham
40th, Canterbury

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—Allow me, through the medium of your exten-
sively circulated paper, to protest against the imposition
—for I can call it nothing else—of demanding money
from parties wishing to see over St. Paul's Cathedral,
and which ought to be open free to the public. Only
let the party once enter within the door of that sacred
temple, when he is at once addressed by a gentianndr.
no doubt brought op in .Brasenose C
il°ljegL 6d. or
minds 2d. ; well, that is paid ;
`hen there is
for some
to see the chapel : after looking aboutesiieasnto soar a little
surrounding
time, the party naturally enough ‘t‘i,_
who demands
higher ; he meets with another gen 1
Is. 6d. more : he walks up to the gallery
'the dome, and wishes to enter within the ball beneath
dheoi
fvflaegsahi
,nantldiesies. m6do.diesrangSaihnydloecmltasnndieudst;
the cross ; but
have their poun
after this he must pay 2d. to ace the clock.
Now, Mr. Editor, ought such things so to be ? I
huTmhbelynissuebrmtioitnt
ohfeythe shouldaboyne
would oblige, o
Sir, yours
obediently, A STRANGER.