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

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WATERLOO-BRIDGE COMPANY.

MEETING THIS DAY.

The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in this
undertaking was held this afternoon at the Freemasons'
Tavern, Great Queen-street, W. Anderson, 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 23,1
of August last amounted to 10,5731. ss. id., and those
for the corresponding period to 10,1301. 15e. 7d. ; show-
ing an increase of 4421. 9s. 6d. At the last meeting it
was reported that, after paying tho current charges and
expenses, and making a dividend of 45.• in the pound,
there remained a balance of 1,0941. 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 1,4921. 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 en,uing 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.

The ba!ance-sheet, which Was- read to the mee'ing,
contained the following statements :

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
382 7 6
75 0 0
12 10 0

„ Rents of arched vaults for half a year
„ Ditto of London Gas Company
„ Ditto of Electric Telegraph Company
„ Interest on Reduced 3 per Cents
2,388/. ls. 2d. Stock, the consideration
for a lease of ten arched vaults 35 16 5
„ Interest on Exchequer Bills

£11,285 2 10

CONTRA.
By sundry expenses £1,574 18 4
„ Income duty

Total disbursements £2,140 18 7
By interest on bonds at 5,4, and 31 per cent
(less income duty)
„ Dividend of 4s. in the pound on 37,5002
annuities, due this half-year 7,500 0 0

810,886 14 10
398 8 0

By stock, surplus of this half-year ..,

£11,285 2 10
There is cash in the treasurer's hands of 6,2701. 19g,
5d., and Exchequer Bills 5,0001., which, after paying
arrears of dividends, interest, &c., leaves a balance in
reserve of 1,4921. 18s. 6d.
A SHAREHOLDER called attention to
atphperofaacethetshtaot
notices had been served for making a carriage-way over
Hungerford-bridge, and for improvingthe
the bridge, and asked if the directors had any information
to give on the subject
The CHAIRMAN said he had no other information
respecting it than that of the honourable proprietor's
Such notices had 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 South-Western Railway, a statement was
there put forth, as if by authority, respecting it.
The CHAIRMAN said he had no information to commu-
nicate on it, and he doubted if the Government would
entertain the question.
Messrs. Anderson, F. Jenkins, Wm. Ruff, and J. J,
Mills, the retiring directors, were unanimously re
elected.
The meeting then adjourned.

Naval and Military triteiligenue.

The annexed circular memoranda has just been issued
from the Horse Guards :

"Horse Guards, Nov. 25.

"Commanding officers are hereby enjoined to pay par-
ticular attention to the instructions contained in the
circular memorandum of the 19th of September, 1855,
amd 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.
"By command.
" G. A. WETHERALL, Adjutant-General.

"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. WETHERALL, 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 imen 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. WETHERALL, Adjutant-General."
The following general order, effecting important
changes in tree composition and equipment of the Pio-
neer Corps of the British Army, has just been addressed
to officers commanding stations and regitnents:—
..

" Horse Guards, Nov. 29.
"His Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-
Chief baving.approved of a set of pioneers' tools as a❑
experiment, regiments of infantry will be supplied with
implements of the new pattern on making application to
the Director-General of Army SI
" The number of pioneers in
increased to 13—that is, one pio
pioneer per company ; and the di
ments between them is shown in

;ores.

each regiment has been
•neer corporal and one
iAribution of the imple-
the foil

,wing table

sistant Paymaster in charge, to the Edinburgh ; J. J.
Hayward, Assistant-Paymaster in charge, to the Atholl;
R. Taylor, Assistant-Paymaster, 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. Mathilane, Acting Mate, to the Indus ; E. D. Ack-
lom, Midshipman, to the James Watt ; G. H. J. Elli-
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. St.rr, R. J. Ward, and L. A. Bills,
Naval Cadets, to the Indus.

FLAG- PROMOTIONS.
By the death of Rear-Admiral Beechey, which we
recorded in our paper of yesterday, the following promo
tions take place ;—Rear-Admirai Peter Richards, one of
the Lords of the Admiralty, becomes Rear-Admiral of
the White. Captain the Most Hon. Marquis Towns-
hend, and (we believe) Captain the Hon. A rthur Dun-
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, sre 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
taken six runs at the measured mile yesterday and again
to-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,
doubtless, she will pay off.
Agamemnon, 91, screw, in the steam-basin 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 Henry Fisher, a:rived
to-day, at Soithead, from Malta, which she lett Oct. 23,
laden with 550 tons of clothing and provisions. She is
ordered to proceed to Deptford.
A nother 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.

DEVONPORT, WEDNESDAY.

James Watt, 91, screw, Captain '2. V. Anson, at this
port, has her machinery complete, and will be taken out
this day for the trial of her engines. If the trial should
peeve s itisfactoryshe will ra lin a few days for Lisbon.
Lucifer, steam 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, ladus, Radamanthus, Sylyb,
Avon, Nautilus, Confiance and Zepher tugs, and the
Devon and Camel lighters.
Our gallant Cammander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir Wm.
Parker, Bart., K.C.8., completed his 75th year on Mon-
day last, and we are happy to say, notwithstanding 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. Notwithstand-
ing this labour his duties as a commander-in-chief were
never suffered to relax.