The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 15, 1860.

LONDON and PROVINCIAL MARINE
INSURANCE COMPANY.
Provisionally Incorporated pursuant to the Joint-Stock Com-
panies Act, 7th and Bth Vic., cap. liO.
Capital Stock, ONE MILLION in 50,000 Shares of £2O each
(with power to increase to Two Million).
Deposit 2s. per Share, Lt 18s. on allotment, and £2 in Three
Months.
A clause in the deed of settlement especially provides that
every policy issued shall distinctly bear on the face of it that
the capital and property of the Company shall alone be an-
swerable for the settlement of its claims and engagements,
and that no shareholder shall be liable beyond the amount of
his or her share or shares in the capital stock of the Company.

DIRECTORS.
Admiral Sir HENRY LEEKE, K.C.8.,
23, Ovington-square, Chairman.
Georg• Braginton, Egg, Banker and Shipowner, Torrington.
James Laming, Esq, Director of the London and County

Bank.
James Nugent Daniell, Esq, Chairman of the Blackwall Rail-
way Company.
Mark Whitwill,Eaq (Firm of Mark Whitwill and Son, Mer-
.

—chants and Shipowners), Bristol.
John Averay Jones, Esq (Firm of Jones and Nash, Timber
Merchants and Shipowners), Bristol.
Charles Wells, Eeq (Firm of Bremer, Wells, and Sloman,
Merchants and Shipowners), Hull.
H. T. Watson, Esq (Firm of H. T. Watson and Co., Ship-
owners), Hull, Grimsby, and Goole.
Henry Fox, Esq (Firm of Fox, Bromham, and Lewis, Mer-
chants and Shipowners), London and Liverpool.
Ingram Chapman, Esq, Director of Unites General Gas Com-

pany,
Frederick Jolan Price Esq (Firm of Price and Co., Merchants),
Tower-street.
Thomas Cotterell, Esq ,e Eaton-square, late Sheriff of London
and Middlesex.
With power to add to their number.
UNDERWRITER.
Negotiations are pending to secure the services of one of the
most experienced Underwriters in London.
BANKERS—The London and County Bank, Lombard-street.

STOCKBROKERS.
George E. Seymour, Esq, Throgmorton-street.
Messrs. Crosley Brothers, 30, Cornhill.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Crosley and Burn, 31, Lombard-street ;
Messrs. Flux and Argles, 68, Cheapside.
SECRETARY PRO TEM—Henry E. Warren, Esq.
TEMPORARY OFFICES.
Ye, LOMBARD-STREET, London, E.C.
Applications for shares, in the usual form, will receive im-
mediate attention, but no application will be taken into con-
sideration unless a deposit of 2s per share be paid into the
Company's bankers, to be allowed in payment of the first
call, or returned in the event of shares not being allotted.

LONDON AND PROVINCIAL MARINE
INSURANCE COMPANY.
Notice is Hereby Given, That the Share List of this Com-
pany will be closed for London THIS DAY, the 15th inst.,
and for the Provinces on SATURDAY, the 17th instant,
slier which the allotment will take place.
The Directors consider that the £2 per share paid on de-
posit and allotment will be sufficient for the present pur-
poses of the Company.
Notice is therefore Given, That the second Call of £2 per
share named in the prospectus will not be required. No fur-
ther Call will be made without three months' notice.
By order of the Board,
HENRY E. WARREN, Secretary, pro tem.
70, Lombard-street, London, Thursday,
Bth March, 1860.

ROYAL LITERARY FUND.

contained good harbours and were very fertile, they
proceeded up Edgecumbe Bay, and at the bottom ofit
discovered a fine capacious harbour which has been
named Port Denison,and which would contain nearly
all the ships in the world, sheltered from all winds,
vith a depth of from three to four fathoms of
water within a cable's length of the shore, and
about seven to ten in the middle.

The CHAIRMAN, after some observations on the
subject of the papers, called upon Mr. Jukes to offer
some remarks.

Mr. JUKES then briefly describei the character of
the coast of Australia, particularly that of the north-
east, and the coral reefs that extend along it, and
said that those coral reefs, which rise only as high
as low water, extend for 1,200 miles, with an
average width of thirty miles, and the sea close to
the coral rocks has been sounded to a depth of 1,800
feet without reaching the bottom. The coral
polypes which have produced that range of lime-
stone rocks under the sea cannot live at a greater
depth than fifteen fathoms ; therefore it is assumed
that in the course of the countless ages durin g which
the rocks have been forming the land must have
been gradually depressed. Mr. Jukes said that the
country along that coast is more fertile than on any
other part of the shores of Australia. The moun•
tams are about 30 miles distant, and tie interven-
ing seaboard is capable of producing cotton, sugar,
or any other produce of tropical climates.
Sir EDWARD BELCHER dissented from Mr, Jukes's
theory of the formation of the coral reefs, and said
he had dredged up the living polypes from depths
of 1,000 feet. He mentioned variations in the level
of the rocks at different times of observation, which
showed that they were subjected to local depres-
sions not dependent on any assumed depression of
the land.

Mr. CRAUFURD said he was glad to congratulate
the meeting that there had at last been discovered
a tract of land in British possessions within the
tropics where cotton might be produced in abun-
dance, with the assistance of Chinese labour.
After some observations from Mr. Wilson and
Mr. Saunders, the meeting adjourned to the 26th
instant.

MN TR A L ITALY.

Her Majesty's screw steam sloop Osprey, 4, Com.
H. J. Blomfield, commissioned in March, 1856, for
the Mediterranean,yesterday arrived at Woolwich,
and, having been tried at the measured mile, she
was hauled into basin to be stripped, and to return
stores. Commander Blomfield is ordered to be in
readiness to pay off on Thursday, the 22d inst.
The Firefly, 4, paddle, Master-Commander Skead,
sailed from Spithead for the westward yesterday,
after coaling and taking on board supernumeraries.
The screw steam frigate Mersey, 40, Capt. Cald-
well, C. 8., has shipped some supernumeraries, and
will shortly leave Plymouth Sound and join the
Channel Squadron.
The screw steam frigate Diadem, 32, Capt. J. H.
Cockburn, will be ready to leave the Devonport
dockyard for Plymouth Sound about the 18th inst.
The repairs of the paddlewheel surveying vessel
Porcupine, 3, Capt. Otter, at Plymouth, will be
completed early in April.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. the Hon. Fred. O'B.
Fitsmaurice, to the Victory ; Jesse Bridgeman,
chief engineer, to the Cumberland, for service in the
Charybdis ; Robt. J. Ray, promoted to acting chief
engineer, to the Slaney ; Wm. F. Innes, promoted
to acting first-class assist.-engineer, to the Princess
Charlotte ; Wm. Horniman, paymaster, to the Me-
glare ; R. Bona, paymaster, additional, to the Cam-
bridge; H. Beaxton, additional, to the Asia ; Percy
H. French, assist.-clerk, to the Ganges.