The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-04 00:00:00

tn. SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4 1856

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Naval and Wipitary Intelligence.

The annexed• circular memoranda lute ju4 been issued
from the Horse 'Guards :

SUN OF I' ic; Six n' 'lO rk

"TEnrse TT,-;?. 25.

"Commanding offilerg are hereby enjoined to pay par-
ticular attention to the instructions contained in the
circular memorandum of the 19th of September, 1855,
aid 14th of December, 1856, requiring returns of offi-
cers' services, and to transmit these statements with re-
gularity and despatch to the Military Secretary, Horse
Guards. His Royal Highness the General Commanding.
in-Chief holds commanding officers responsible that these
instructions are in future strictly complied with.

THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY
FRAUDS.

CLERKENWELL POLICE COURT.

This afternoon William Snell, late a clerk in the em-
ploy of the Great Northern Railway Company, was
again placed at the bar on remand, charged with appro
priating a sum of money, amounting to about 1,0001.
the property of the company, to his own use.

_
"By command.
" G. A. WETHERALL, Adjutant-General.

Mr. Huddlestone appeared for the prosecution, and
the prisoner was defended by Mr. Hopwood.

"Horse Guards, Nov. 26.
"To the army at home and abroad,—
"The following decision of the Secretary of State for
War is, by order of his Royal Highness the General
Commanding-in-Chief, promulgated for the information
of the officers-of the army :
" 'All officers having once paid their yearly subscrip•
tions to a garrison library will be free of any library at
the stations to which they may afterwards be removed,
during that year, upon the production of the receipt of
the paymaster receiving the money.
"'By command,
" G. A. WIMEERALL, Adjutant-General.'"
"Horse Guards, Nov. 25.
"Haversacks will henceforth be supplied to the army
generally upon requisition to the Director-General of
Army Stores from each regiment and depot, showing
the numbers in possession, and also what are required
to complete the establishment. Officers commanding
regiments and depots will take steps for the completion
of their men with haversacks accordingly. Corps in
Ireland being already in possession of haversacks will
retain them upon their removal from that country, in-
stead of returning them into stores as heretofore.
" By command,
"G. A. WETREBALL, Adjutant-General."
The following general order, effecting important
changes in the composition and equipment of the Pio-
neer Corps of the British Army, has just been addressed
to officers commanding stations and regiments :
" Horse Guards, Nov. 29.
"His Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-
Chief having approved of a set of pioneers' tools as an
experiment, regiments of infantry will be supplied with
implements of the new pattarn on making a/ipiication to
the Director-General of Army Si
" The number of pioneers in
increased to I3—thAt is, one pio:
pioneer per csropany ; and the di
rnents bstween ttism is shown in

Mr. Huddlestone said at the last examination a com-
plete charge was made against the prisoner for appro-
priating a sum of 5001. ; but it will be recollected that,
in the second case, it was thought desirable to
prove that nothing equivalent to the two cheques
which the prisoner was charged with stealing had been
paid into the accountant's drawing account. He should
call Mr. Reynolds, the accountant of the company, who
had gone through the accounts, and he would state that
after a ♦ery careful examination he could find nothing at
all like it,

Mr. Reynolds was then called, and stated that be
could not find any entry of the kind.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—Nothing like the two cheques for
281. 18i. and 231. 12s.

Mr. Reynolds—No ; I am enabled to say that no such
sums bare been paid into the accountant's drawing ac•

count.

After the evidence bad been read over, the whole of
the witnesses were bound over to appear and give evi-
dence against the prisoner, at the next session of the
Central Criminal Court, on two charges of felony.

WATERLOO-BRIDGE COMPANY.

MEETING THIS DAY.

The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in this
undertaking was held this aft,irucen et the Freemasons'
Tavern, Great Qieen-street, W. Andereon, Esq., in the
chair, when the report of the directors, of which the fol-
lowing is an abstract, was read to the meeting :
"The tolls received for the half-year ended on the 234
cf August last amounted to 10.573/. ss. 14., and those
for the correspondieg ncriod to 10,1301. 15e. 7d. ; show-
ing an increase of 442/. 9,t. 64. At. the last meeting it
was reported that, atter paying the current charges and
expenses, and making a dividend of 4s. in the pound,
there remained a balance of 1,094/. 10s. 6d. ; and at the
present time, after paying the current disbursements,
providing for the interest on the company's bonds, and
making a dividend of 4s. in the pound in August last,
there remained a balance of 1,492/. 18s. 6d." The re-
port further stated, that "the committee had much
satisfaction in stating that notice had been given by the
Metropolitan Board of Works that application was in-
tended to be made to Parliament in the ere ring session
for leave to bring in a bill to obtain an Act of Parlia-
ment to authorise and empower the said Board to form
and make a street from York-street in the borough of
Southwark to Stamford-street, Blackfriars-road. The
prospect of such a desirable improvement being carried
out, would prove most beneficial to the interests of the
proprietors."
The report was unanimously agreed to.

tl,B.

each regiment bas been
pneer corporal and one
istributiou of the imple-
the following table :

The balance-sheet, which was— read to the meeting,
contained the following statemcnts

INCOME.
To foot toll received from 23d
Feb., 1856, to this date 25,287 12 3
„ Horse toll, ditto 5,285 12 10

----- £10,573 5 1
~ Rents of arched vaults for half a year... 382 7 6
„ Ditto of London Gas Company 75 0 0
„ Ditto of Electric Telegraph Company
„ Interest on Reduced 3 per Cents
2,3881. ls. 2d. Stock, the consideration
for a lease of ten arched vaults..
„ Interest on Exchequer Bills

..... 35 16 5
206 3 10

£11,285 2 10

C•NTRA.

By sundry expenses
„ Income duty

£1,57418 4
566 0 3

Total disbursements . ....... £2,140 18 7
By interest on bonds at 5,4, and 3i per cent
(less income duty)
„ Dividend of 4s. in the pound on 37,500 i
annuities, due this half-year .... 7,500 0 0

By stook, surplus of this half-year

£10,886 14 10
398 8 0

X 11,285 2 10

There is cash in the treasurer's hands of 6,2701. 19s.
5d., and Exchequer Bills 5,0001., which, after paying
arrears of dividends, interest, &c., leaves a balance in
reserve of 1,492/. 18s, 8.3,

A SHAREHOLDER called attention to the fact that
notices had been served for making a carriage-way over
Hungerford•bridge, and for improving the approaches to
the bridge, and asked if the directors had any information
to give on the subject I
The CHAIRMAN said he had no other information
respecting it than that of the honourable proprietor's
Such notices brad frequently been given, but
not acted on, and he doubted if it would be so now.

The SHAREHOLDER said that at the late meeting of the
London and Sol:An-Western Railway, a statement was
there put forth, :ts if by authority, respecting it.
The CHAIRMAN said he had no information to commu-
nieve on it, and be doubted if tha Government would
ente,rtaia the question.

Messrs. Anderson, P. Jeakil s, Wm. Ruff, and J. J.
Mills, the retiring directors, were unanimously re.
elected.
The meeting then adjourned.

sistant Paymaster in charge, to the Edinburgh ; J. J.
Hayward, Assistant-Paymaster in charge, to the Athoil;
R. Taylor, Assistant-Payrnas.ter, to the Royal William ;
Grantham Y. R. Rattray, Mate, to the Indus (for dis-
posal) ; D'A. A. Denny, Mate, to the Salamander ; A.
0. Macfarlane, Acting Mato, to 07 fridim ; E. D. Ael:,
lom, Midshipman, to the James Watt ; G. H. J,
Elii-
ott, W. H. C. St. Clair, A. Williams, H. D. Darns, F.
W. B. H. Maxwell, W. L. Martin, A. H. Turner,
G. F. Purdon, and H. T. F. Campbell, Midshipmen,
to the Indus ; W. G. Scott and J. M. D. Elphinstone,
Midshipmen, to the Indus (for disposal) ; C. M. Turner,
H. S. Sandys. P. Starr, R. J. Ward, and L. A. Bills,
Naval Cadets, to the Indus.

FLAG PROMOTIOS.
By the death of Rear-Admiral BeNechey, which we
recorded in our paper of yesterday, the following promo
tions take place :—Rear-Admiral Peter Richards, one of
the Lords of the Admiralty, becomes Rear-Admiral of
the White. Captain the Most Hon. Marquis Towns-
heed, and (we believe) Captain the Hon. Arthur bun-
combe, not having served the time necessary to qualify
them for the active list, will receive their promotions to
the rank of rear-admiral on the reserved list ; and in this
case Captain Sir James Clark Ross becomes rear-admiral
of the Blue on the active list. By this promotion an
appointment as aide-de-camp to her Majesty, and a good-
service pension, are placed at the disposal of the First
Lord of the Admiralty. The next three officers in suc-
cession to Captain Ross have neither of them served the
time necessary to qualify them for the active list. Capt.
J. Nias, recently dismissed from the Victualling-yard at
Plymouth, consequently stands next for promotion to
flag rank-

PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.
Shannon, 51, screw, Capt. William Peel, C,8., having
;aken six runs at the measured mile yesterday and again
;o-day (altering her trim occasionally) averaged a speed
of 111 knots an hour, with and against the tide. She
came into harbour this afternoon to receive her second
screw. It will be placed this evening, and she will con-
tinue her experiments to-morrow.
Plumper, 12, screw, Commander Wm. H. Haswell,
has been stripped to the stumps, and awaits her pay.
books. The is alongside the dockyard jetty, where,
doulyless, she will pay off.
Agamemnon, 91, screw, in the ktearn-hasin dock, now
that she is stripping off her old patched planks, shows
the hard raps she got from the batteries at Sebastopol.
Two or three 'very ugly ones are between wind and
water, and her strong oak timbers are much splintered.
She will be some time under the shipwrights' hands.
Abyssinia, transport, Captain ifoull, Fisher, arrived
to-day, at Soithead, from Malta, which she lelt.dct. 23,
laden with 550 tons of clothing and provisions. She is
ordered to proceed to Deptford.
A nothcr change has taken place in this ever-varying
clime. Up to 10 o'clock last evening the cold was very
intense. Soon after the wind backed to SW, and a
drizzling rain set in. This afternoon the wind got up to
NE, with every prospect of another frost.

I
DEVONPORT, WEDNIEIDAT.
James Watt, 91, screw, Captain T. V. Anson, at this
his her machinery complete, and will be taken out
this day ler the trial of her engines, the trial should
proves ttistactory she will s.a 1 in a few (la's for Lisbon.
Lucifer, seam tender, which arrived here on Sunday,
with stores and supernumeraries from Sheerness, sailed
yesterday for Pembroke.
In the Sound—lmplacable and Satellitte.
In Harbour—lmpregnable, Royal William, James
Watt, Ajax, Cambridge, Imdus, Radamanthus, Sylyh,
Avon, Nautilus, Confiancei and Zepher tugs, and the ,
Devon and Camel lighters.
Our gallant Cammander-in-Cbief, Admiral Sir Wm.
Parker, Bart.., K.C.8., completed his 75th year on NI t,!,
day last, and we are happy to say, no:Nvitlislanditl he
continues to evince an attention and mental activity in
business that proves him truly a "heart of oak." In a
recent inquiry the gallant veteran presided daily for five
successive weeks, in which, during the most tedious and
unpleasant, because personal, examinations, he displayed
also the acuteness of a practised lawyer. Not withstand.
iug this labour his duties as a commander-in-chief were
never suffered to relax.