The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-22 00:00:00

1121. 2s. 11d. ; printing, 111.155. ; stationery, 61. 10s. ; office
expenses, three months, 121. 103. ; leaving balance in hand,
1971. 13s. 7d. A call of 10s. per share was made.
At the adjourned meeting of Wheel Harriet, at the George
and Vulture Tavern on Tuesday, the accounts were examined
and passed, showing a balance at the bankers of I,' 531. 10s. 2d. ;
due on calls, 5201. ; and for ore sold, 301., making a total asset
of 1,6031. 10s.
At the St. Aubyn and Grylls meeting, on the 12th inst.,
the accounts were examined and passed, showing-Balance
in purser's hands last. account, 225/, Bs. Bd. ; copper ores
sold, 3581. 13s. 9d. ; tin ditto, 1737. 58.-----787/. is 5d.-By
labour cost, October, November, and December, 6091.
18s. 7d. ; lords' dues, 291. lls. ' • paid for deeds, L9/.13.5. Bd. ;
merchants' bills, 811. 12s. Id.: leaving balance in favour of
adventurers of 61. 12s. Id. _

At Trannack and Bosence meeting, on Friday. the accounts
showed a balance in hand of 91/. 4s. ; in addition to which
ores were sold on the 13th for 2801.
At Wheal Vincent two-monthly meeting, on the 17th
instant, Mr. Adam Murray (the superintendent) read a
very satisfactory report from Captain Reynolds. The Ja-
nuary cost, 69/. 18s. Ild., and miscellaneous charges, made
the total payments 120/. 18s. 11d. A call of ss. per share
was made.
At Warleggan Consols hi-monthly meeting, on the 11th
instant, the accounts showed balance in favour of mine, 1111.
A call of ls. 6d. per share was made for further working.
At Peter Tavy and Mary Tavy meeting, on Monday, to
confirm the call of 1/. per share declared on the Bth instant,
7821. out of the 1,0001. was paid by the adventurers present.
Tkis looks wholesome, and augurs well to the adventure they
are embarked in.
At Tolcarne meeting, on Monday, the accounts showed-
Balance end of Oct., 9651. 3s. 9d. ; mine cost for four months
ending Feb., 387/. 9s. 11d. ; merchants' bills, 2481. ls. ld.
=1,6001. 14s. 9d. By call, 1,2651. ; leaving balance against
mine, 3351. 14s. 9d. A. call of 10s. per share was made.
At West Alfred meeting, on the 14th inst., the accounts
showed a balance against the company of 915/. ss. 10d., and
a call of 11. per share was made.
At the East Balleawidden meet' , on Thursday, the ac-
counts were oTAminPl ma-passed, showing-Calls, 5481. 58. ;
tin sold, 201.35. = 568/.Bs. By mine costs to 9th Jan., 891.
14s. 6d. ; ditto. 12th March, VOL Os. 9d.: leaving balance
in hand, 108/. 12s. 91 The assets were, above balance,
108/. 12s. 9d:; arrear of calls, 511. 158.; call made this day,
3001.-The liabilities were, balance mine cost to 31st of
Jan., 341, 4s. 4d.; costa, Feb. and March, estimated 400/. :
leaving a balance in favour of adventurers, 261. 3s. sd. A
call of 10s. per share was made.
At the Wheal Augusta two-monthly meeting on Thurs-
day, the accounts were examined and passed, showing-
Calls, 3791. 17s. ; tin sold, 53!. 75.=433/. 4a. By mine cost
to January 9, 89/. 10s. ; ditto March 12, 316/. 18s. 3d. :
leaving balance in hand, 26/. 15s. 9d. The assets were,
above balance, 26/. 158.9 d. ; arrears of calls, 130/. 3s. ; ore in
stock, 15/. ; call made this day, 450/.211. 18s. 9d. The
liabilities were, mine cost balance to 31st January 2411.
Its. 3d. ; ditto February and March, estimated 812/. ' • leav-
ing balance in favour of adventurers, M. Os. 6d. A call of
ss. per share was made.
At the West Wheal Virgin two-monthly meeting, on
Thursday, the accounts were examined and passed, showing
Amount of calls re?.eived, 503!.125. 6d. ; tin sold to January
9, 711. 10s. 6d. ; ditto March 12, 40/. Bs. Ils. 6 s.
By mine cost to Jan. 9, 254/. 16s. 2d. • ditto to March 12,
266/. 13s. ; leaving balance in hand, 94/.ls. 1 td.-The
assets were the above balance, 941. ls. 11d. ; arrears of calls,
81/. 7s. 6d. ; ore in stock, 15/. ; call made this day, 60/.=
250/. 9s. 5d.-The liabilities were, balance of mine costa to
end of January, 112/. 16s. 7d. ; February, March, and April,
estimated 1301.: leaving balance in favour of adventurers,
71.125. 10d. A call of 2s. per share was made.
At the Tregardock meeting, on Thursday, the accounts
showed a balance in hand of 23!.125. 9d. A call of 10s. per
share was made.
At Wheal Lemon meeting, on the 10th inst., the accounts
were examined and passed, showing-Balance last account,
48'. 3s. 7d. ; mine costs and merchants' bills, 193!. 13s. 9d. =
241/. 17s. 4d -By calls, 1501.; tin sold, 121.45. 5d.: leaving
balance against the adventurers of 791. 12s. 11d. A call of
10s. per share was made.
In Foreign Shares, transactions have taken place in United
Mexican, Copiapo, St. John del Rey, Cobre, Santiago, im-
perial Brazilian, and Worthing.

THE ARMY AND NAVY.

From the United Service Gazette of this day.)

TILE BREYKT.—We regret to hear that the Brevet; which
was to have taken place on the 9th of November next, the
anniversary of the birth of his Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales, is postponed, in consequence of the war at the
Cape, and the present political state of the affairs of the
country:
VACANT REGIMENT.—The decease of General Sir Alexan-
der Duff, G C. 8., has placed at the disposal of the Com-
mander-in-Chief the Colonelcy of the 37th Regiment.
We regret to hear that Rear-Admiral Sotheby is seriously
indisposed.
Diter-Ts FOR FOREIGN SERVICE.—The following detach-
ments are under order to jon the service companies of their
regiments :—The sth Fusiliers and 12th Regimeni for the
Mauritius; 3 officers and 21 men of the 15th Regiment, and
2 officers and 60 men of the 37th Regiment, for Ceylon.
BAunADoEs CommAren.—His Grace the Commander-in-
Chief has declined to allow Captain Watson, of tr e 16th Re-
giment, to accept an appointment cn the staff of Major-Gen •ral
Wood, at Barbadoes, two captains of the same corps being al-
ready employed on staff duties.
STAFF.—Captain Mein, Major of Brigade in the Midland
Counties' district, has been ordered to rejoin his regiment, the
13th Light Infantry, it being about to embark for foreign ser-
vice; and Captain Wood, of the same corps, Major of Brigade
at Chatham, has been allowed to retain that appointment on
the understanding that he retires on half-pay.
By the death of Captain John Meade there is a vacancy
for the promotion of an old Commander to the rank of
captain on the Retired List of 1840, with an addition of
6d. a day to his income.
We regret to hear that Lieut.-Colonel Lock, Royal Artil-
lery, who has recently been suffering from severe illness, at
Chatham, is now confined in an insane establishment.
It is reported that Major-General Brough, Colonel Com-
mandant of the 9th Battalion of the Royal Artillery, is suf.-
hiring from severe indisposition.
THE CENSUS OF THE NANY.—Books and forms for taking
the census have been sent to the royal naval ports to be
filled up by all parsons on board the ships in ordinary, and
in the dockyard, on the night of the 30th inst.
Captain William Moorsom, whose advancement we an-
nounced exclusively in last week's Gazette, was promoted by
the Board of Amiralty, and not by the patronage of the First
Lord, or the complimentary report of Colonel Dundas and
the committee appointed to witness the experiments recently
made in the Excellent of the concussion shells invented by
the gallant officer. The gallant officer has since been ap•
pointed to the Fisgard, flag-ship, at Woolwich, for the pur-
pose of carrying on the shell experiments.
SPECIAL TRAINS IN THE WEST OF ENGLAND. —At the
dinner to the Directors of the General Screw Steam Shipping
Company at Plymouth on the departure of the first mail
screw steamer for the Cape, it was boastingly promised by
the Chairman of the South Devon railway that on the signal
of the ship's arrival from the Cape, a special train would be
in waiting to convey the mails to London without a moment's
delay. The value of this promise sill be easily estimated
when it is known that the ship arrived at 9.30, but the spe-
cial train did not start until 1.55 A.m. This may do for De-
vonshire, but Mr. Woollcombe may depend upon it it will
not do for the Cape mail dispatch. Why, in the interval
that elapsed from the arrival of the ship and the departure
of the train, the mails would have been at the General Post-
office from Southampton. The average rate of speed of the
Bosphorus, taking the whole of her voyage to the Cape and
back, was 7 knots and 8-tenths.
TUX GREAT BRITAIN SCREW STEAM•SIIIP.—It is well
known that this leviathan screw ship, of Dundrum Bay no-
toriety, was purchased by a Liverpool firm for 18,0001.
about two months ago. Vs e understand that it is now deter-
mined to make her not only a seaworthy, but an efficient
screw steamer for Atlantic navigation ; and with this view
she has been placed in the hands of Penn and Co., engineers,
of. Greenwich. The old and inefficient machinery,
boilers and all, which are nominally of 1,000-horse power,
but could never work up to that amount, are to come out,
and Messrs. Penn are to construct and fit new screw
machinery of 500-horse power ; and it is understood that she
is to be ready for sea by the Ist Sept., in order that she may
take over to New York some of the longest visitors to the
Great Exhibition. It is estimated that, including her pur-
chase money, she will be completed for about t. 0,0001.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
DEATH OF ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SIR
EDWARD HAMILTON, BART., K.C.B.
We regret to announce the death of that most distinguished
officer the hero of that celebrated cutting-out expedition of
the Hermione, Admiral of the White, Sir Edward Hamilton,
K.C.8., better known as "Captain of the Surprise." We
believe there are now only three survivors of that desperate
affair which has rendered the name of Hamilton immortal in
naval annals.
By the death of Sir Edward Hamilton, Tice-Admiral the
Earl Dundonald, G.C.8., commander-in-chief in the West
Indies, becomes admiral of the blue, and comes home in the
Wellesley, 72, with his flag at the main.
Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker, G.C.8., Bart., is now
the senior vice-admiral. W. H. B. Tremlatt becomes vice-
admiral of the red, and John Impey becomes vice-admiral of
the white.
Rear-Admiral Charles P. B. Bateman becomes vice-ad-
miral of the blue, leaving Arthur Lysaght senior of the rear-
admirals' list. Sir Charles Napier, K.C.8., becomes rear-
admiral of the red, and A. R4Sharpe, C. 8., rear-admiral of
the white.
Captain William Willmot Henderson, C. 8., K.H. (Oct.
9, 1815), becomes the junior rear-admiral on the active list,
leaving Sir John Hill (Oct. 28, 1815) as senior captain.
Captain G. B. Martin, C.B. (1828), succeeds to the senior
half-pay list; Captain W. Sidney Smith (1837), succeeds to
the second senior list.
A good-service pension and a commander's promotion to
the rank of captain are now in the gift of the First Lord of
the Admiralty.
Commander Arthur Morrell (1823), a distinguished officer,
who was governor of Ascension for four years, has been ap-
pointed to the Boscawen, depot-ship at Chatham, as com-
mander of the ordinary, to succeed Commander Cammilleri,
whose term of service has expired. There is little doubt now
that the duties of Chatham ordinary will be conducted in a
comfortable as well as an efficient manner.
The Pyrenees. convict-ship, for Swan River, got away
from Spithead on Thursday, but she cannot have made much
progress down Channel.
The foul weather has prevented the departure from De-
onport of the Alecto, steam-sloop, for the coast of Africa,
and the Bonetta, 3, for Ri
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 20.--Vice-Admiral Fir George Say-
'flour, K.C.8., in the Cumberland, 70, remains at St. He-
len's, win bound.
The Penelope steam-frigate, 22, Captain Lyster, was un-
docked this morning, and came out of the steam basin. _
_ The Pyrenees convict-ship sailed from St. Helen's roads

this morning.
The Portuguese steam-sloop weighed from Cowes roads
this morning at daylight., and sailed eastward.
The Prince Regent. 90, Captain Harris, has received a
new mast and bowsprit, and will now be docked again to
complete her outfit.
The American line of packet ship Independence arrived
th's morning frem New York, 20 days out.
APPOINTMENTS.
WOOLWICH, MARCH 20.—Paymaster and Purser William
T. Grieve (1850), to be secretary to Commodore Peter
M'Quhae, of the Imaum, 72, receiving-ship at Jamaica.
Seoeild-Diuter Daniel Lie 08481 from the impres.