The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-04 00:00:00

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to Yeovil, thin coropany's rebate of 25 per cent, on the
Salisbury and Yeovil London traffic to cease.

" 3. The Salisbury and Yeovil line to be maintained
and worked exclusively in perpetuity by this company,
with such trains, at such speeds, and such charges, as they
think fit, the proceeds to he accounted for to the Salisbury
and Yeovil Company.
4. The South-Western Company to be pr.id for main-
tenance and working cost prices (including interest on ca-
pital inve,ted on rolling stock), such cost prices to be set-
Ved by arbitration.
" 5. The South-Western Company to subscribe 100,0001.
towards the Salisbury and Yeovil Company's share capital,
with the yearly option of having a 4 par cent. preference
dividend, or the same dividend rateably with the other
proprietors in the Salisbury and Yeovil Company. The
South-Western Company to pay nothing on these shares
until 150,0001. has been paid up to the other Salisbury
and Yeovil shares, and spent on that lino ; and the Salis-
bury and Yeovil Company having the option for twely
months of finding this share capital elsewhere.
"G. The South-Western Company to nominate two di-
rectors to sit at the Salisbury and Yeovil board.
"7. The South-Western Company to have the option of
claiming a lease of the Salisbury and Yeovil lino for 1,000
years, on terms analogous to the above working, arrange-
ment.

" S. The South-Western Company to have the option,
for three years after the opening of the Salisbury and
Yeovil Railway, of claiming an absolute transfer of it to
them, on paying off that company's share capital with 4
per cent. interest and 10 per cent. bonus, and adopting or
paying off that company's debenture debt.
"9. The Salisbury and Yeovil Company being, under
their act of incorporation, bound to double their entire
line, on the traffic reaching 40,0001. for three consecutive
years, are, at their own expense, to double uny part which
the South-Western Company may desire, not exceeding the
proportion of four miles for every five miles which the
South-Western Company may think fit to make double on
their Exeter extension line.
" 10. The South-Western Company to make their Exe-
ter extension line by way of Yeovil.
11. The whole arrangement conditional on the accept-
ance of the shareholders in each company, and if accepted
by both sets of shareholders to be submitted forthwith for
the sanction of Parliament.

" The directors believe that these terms will give this
company every control over the Salisbury and Yeovil line
necessary for working the traffic of their own lines, and
will, to every needful and proper extent, enable them to
use it as if it were their own, without the risk of embark-
ing a largo capital in it, and that the amount to be
subscribed may be so advanced with every security from
loss or farther involvment.
" If, therefore, the extension from Yeovil be considered
intrinsically the better, the board apprehend that the
terms capable of being made as to the line east of Yeovil
aro sufficiently advantageous to remove any objection
arising from the company not being the actual owners of
that lino.
" There are other points for consideration, but the di-
rectors think they have sufficiently explained those of the
first importance. They have taken a comprehensive view,
having regard to the permanent interests of the company
rather than any mere expedient for the moment ; and they
trust that the proprietors will accord with them in opinion
that the sound policy of the company is to adopt the
Yeovil route, and to avail themselves of the arrangement
with the Salisbury and Yeovil Company now offered and
recommended to their approval.
The directors have not lost sight of the difficulties that
may aria) in working so great a length of single line, nor
that, if the traffic should hereaftPr require it, some portions
of the Basingstoke and Salisbury, and. Yeovil and Exeter
lines will require to be doubled.
" A carefully•prepared plan is appended, showing the
whole of the present South-Western system, and the ad-
jecont districts referred to in this report, with the distances
in irked upon it, which the proprietors will find useful in
censidering the subject.
"The directors think it right to add that a memorial.
most reQpectably signed, accompanied by a plan, was laid
before them, advocating a line between Exeter and Axmin-
ster considerably to the south of that which they now
recommend ; but the nature of the country involved—as
was, indeed, shown by the plan of the parties proposing it
—a much mere expensive lino, and one involving far more
severe gradients and works, without any corresponding
advantages to make its adoption desirable.
" By order. L. CROJIBIE, Secretary.
" Waterloo-bridge Station, Dec. 27, 1855."

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Tho Austrian steamer Asia, which wal said to have
taken fire between Beyrout and Alexandria, reached
Alexandria on the 23d of December.

The steam-transport Indian, No. 197, Capt. M` Master,
arrived at Portsmouth yesterday from the East, bring-
ing Lieut.-Col. Wm. Yorke Moore, ofthe 54th Regiment,
2 invalids, I servant, and 2 horses, and a few stores. She
landed a quantity of shot and shell at Gibraltar, on her
way home, and left the Golden Fleece there preparing to
take in mules for the Crimea. On the 29th ult. the In-
dian exchanged signals, at 4 p.m., with the steam-ship
New York, abreast of Burling flocks, steering south ;
on the 30th, 30 miles to the southward of Cape Finis-
terra, passed the sailing transport Bombay; on the Ist
inst., at noon, passed the ship Britain's Queen, to the
southward of Ushant Rock, bound up Channel.
The Indiana screw-transport left Portsmouth yester-
day for the Crimea, with draughts of troops and a body
of the Laud Transport Corps.
The Calcutta steam-transport left Portsmouth yester-
day for Southampton.
The paddle-wheel steam sloop Polyphemus, 3, Com-
mander F. P. Warren, from Portsmouth, with 151 super-
numeraries for ships at Plymouth, arrived there on Wed-
nesday, arid returned on the same day with supernume-
raries for Portsmouth.

The paddle-wheel steam-frigate Valorous, 10, Captain
Claude 11. M. Buckle, is ordered from the Biack Sea to
Plymouth, to he fitted with all speed with new boilers,
which are in readiness for her at that port.
The crew of the screw steam-ship Conqueror, 100,
Captain T. C. Symonds, got up main and foreyards at
Plymouth on Wednesday.
The crews of the screw steam-ship Archer, 14, Capt.
E. Hrathcote, and of the paddle-wheel steam-sloop Bull-
dog, 6, Commander Gordon, have been paid wages at
Plymouth, and a month's leave of absence has been
granted them.

- The crew of the paddle-whe9l steam-sloop Inflexible
were paid off at Plymouth on 'Wednesday.
Letters received at Plymouth, dated Dec. 11, 1855,
on board her Majesty's screw steam-ship St Jean
d'Acre, 101, Captain King, state that she would go to
Malta to wait orders, and probably reach England in
February, to refit for duty in the Baltic.
The London, 90, Captain Augustus L. Kuper, on ar-
rival at Plymouth from Malta, is ordered to, be fitted
with jury gear with all despatch, preparatory to her
embarking provisions and stores for the Baltic, where
she will do duty next season as receiving ship.
The grin-boat Plover, Lieut. Stewart commanding, has
left Woolwich for Greenhithe with her full complement
of stores, ammunition, le.
The iron mortar-float No. 2 has returned to Wool-
wich from Shoeburyness ; 250 rounds were fired from
the mortar successfully. The boat, ur like No. 1, has
sustained no damage, with the exception of some very
slight injury to the light ornamental woodwork.
A detachment of Royal Sappers and Miners have
reached head•guarters, Woolwich, from Heligoland,
where they have been stationed for some time past, uud
occupied in erecting huts for the Foreign Legion there.
Tne Lords of the Admiralty have sanctioned an ex-
change of divisions between First-Lieutenant Henry,
Woolwich Division, and First-Lieutenant Blake, Ports-
mouth Division of Royal Marines.
Twenty privates of the Royal Marine corps are to
leave Woolwich to-day for service in the gun-boats at
Portsmouth.

The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty :—Richard Drury, assistant-clerk, to the
Fisgard ; W. 0. Albin, assistant-clerk, to the Victory ;
W. H. J. Aitken, assistant-clerk, to the Impregnable.
Daring the interval of the late catastrophe, which re•
suited in the destruction of the cartridge sheds in the
arsenal at Woolwich, and the substitution of other build-
ings for carrying on the work, the youths employed in
that and the fuse and cartridge factories have received
their working pay ; in addition to which, during the
ordinary hours of labour, they have received scholastic)
education under about 30 competent maetere, until ar-
rangements for some time past in contemplation could
be completed, so as to admit of the work which shall
have passed through their hands being immediately re-
moved out of the reach of any probable danger from the
arsenal fires. All prepared combustible materials aro in
future to be stored on board the several floating hulks
moored in the river with that intention, one of which
is to be entirely appropriated for prepared fuses, a
second for loose powder, a third for small-arms' cart-
ridges, and a fourth for common cartridges. Two
long-roomed magazines facing the river, having been
selected for the cartridge and fuse factories, have been
cleared of their stores, and sheds are in the course
of erection in the adjoining marshes for the mealing
and other processes which are attended with more
danger. The use of the steel gimlet, formerly em-
ployed for opening the vents, has been abolished for
that of a copper borer. The duties of these departments
will re-commence on Monday next. Capt. Orr has taken
great interest in the arrangements of the boys' instruc-
tion. They number between 600 and 700, to the best
conducted of whom he distributed rewards on Christmas-
daTat his own cost. The usual generosity displayed by
Government in such cases has been manifested towards
the widows of the three men who died from the effects of
the explosion, by ordering the pay of their deceased hus-
bands to be continued to them, as well as in allowing the
customary wages to those who are under medical treat-
ment. The magnificent store-house contracted to be built
by M esra. Foy and Henderson two months back is now
finished, and ready for the reception of general stores,
for which space has been so long needed in the arsenal
at Woolwich. It is constructed of corrugated iron sheet-
ing, ventilated with blades of iron, and lighted with
raised skylights or roof lanterns. The building is sup-
ported by skeleton iron columns, to which the iron sheet-
ing walls are attached. The interior is approached by
six pairs of sliding doors, sufficiently wide to admit
the entrance of store-carts and goods-waggons. The
building is about 200 feet square. There are likewise
numerous other buildings springing up, as it were, in
various parts of the Royal Arsenal grounds. The proof
department has added to that establishment a longrange
of new workshops and smithies, which are supplied with
a shaft of the ordinary height, 130 feet. The building
of a standard foundry in the arsenal yard is likewise in
contemplation, the plane for which have been submitted
for the approval of Government. Several branches of
the carriage department have been detached therefrom,
and now form separate establishments, such as the har-
ness and collar makers, &c,, for which new and elegant-
looking buildings have been erected. An appropriate
surgery is also in the course of construction. This build-
ing will be sufficiently spacious to accommodate a sur-
geon and his assistant, so that in the case of any night
accident medical assietanoe Inv be at hand. The esta-
blishment will be provided with the neoessary surgical,
visiting, and operating rooms, as well as a waiting lobby,
all connected and easily accessible. The whole of these
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Engineers, assembled the whole of the Poyal and East
India Company's Sappers and Miners (800) in the Bar-
rack-square, Brompten, in close column, and, calling
Colour-Serjeant Henry M`Donald to the front, addressed
him as follows :—" Serjeant M`Donald,—You have not
yet received your Crimean medal, but I hold in my hand
one of still greater importance--no less than that for dis-
tinguished conduct in the field. I have much pleasure
in presenting it to you, and I have the additional grati-
fication of informing you that you are recommended by
your bravery and soldierlike deportment for a commis-
sion, which I hope you may obtain, and live many years
to enjoy."

Yesterday the invalids at St. Mary's Barracks, Chat-
ham, were paraded, for the purpose of hearing the letter
from the Horse Guards relative to the subscription for
the Nightingale fund read to them. To-day the names
of such as intend to contribute will be enrolled.

THE MILITIA,
The North York Regiment of Rifles left Richmond,
Yorkshire, for Bradford, on Tuesday.