The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-07 00:00:00

THE CREW OF THE POLYPHEMUS.

ADMIRALTY, MARCH 7, 18'56.

The following is the list of officers and men
who were lost when her„ Majesty's ship Polyphe-
mus was wrecked on the 29th January, 1856 :
Mr. Herbert, master.
Duncan M‘Stockline, captain maintop.
Henry Forbes, captain forecastle.
John Reynolds, captain afterguard.
Giles Wilkes, boatswain's mate.
Thomas Maunder, boatswain's mate.
James Hardy; ordinary seaman.
Stephen L-Mghurst; Ist class boy.
Samuel Pearce, Ist class boy.

A Cabinet C imecil was he'd yesterday:afternoon at
the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The Ministers pre-.
sent were—Vieeount Palmerstonethe Marquis of
.Lans-
downs, Sir George Grey, Mr. Secretary Leboechere,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer; Sir Charles Wood,
the Right Ildn. R. Vernon Smith; the Duke of Argyll,
and the Right Boa. M. T. Beinee. The'Couocil eat
two bonus.
esereerniaenT Dosraneoer.--e'ire Goldsmiths' Company
yesterday, presented to the Royal Free Hospital one
hundred pounds, in addition to former donations amount-
ing to 2501.
Sir Thomas Redington has resigned his office of one
of the Secretaries to the Beard' of Control.
The St. Pancras vestry are commencing a movement
to obtain for the public the es jayerient of Hampstead-
heath and certain adjoining lands as a place of public
recreation.
ROYAL SOCIETY OP MUSICIANS.—The lath anniver-
sary festival of this society was held yesterday evening
at the Freemasons' Hall. • At the meeting about 200
gentlemen sat down to dinner, the chair being occupied
by the Earl of Westmoreland. Music, as usual, formed
a large portion of the entertainments of the evening, and
there were several pleasing and interesting performances.
CONCERT AT HARROW.—Efandel's " Messiah" was
performed on Thursday, in the speech room of the Public
School, 'Under the patronage of the Rev. Dr. Vaughan,
the principal, for the benefit of the organist, Mr. Fill-
yard. The ail/secs who appeared were Miss Stabbed',
Miss Dolby, Mr. Montein Smith, and Mr. Fillyard ;
trumpet, Mr. Harper n conductor, Mr. nnurman. The.
Harrow boys enjoyed the performances greatly.
STATE OF TRADE.—MA.NCLIEETER, March 6.—The
demand for goeds suited to the India and Chir,a may.
kets continues, and the m7rket is quite as animated
as
on Tuesday. Shirtings, printing cloths, rend domestics
are also in fbir request, and prices generally are quite
firm. The Levant trade is dull, the ndvices received by
the Greek houses here from Conel,antinople and Alex,
andria being to the effect that seeks are accumulating
under a much modified demo ail, and that prices are
giving way, while the exchnnze is also against shippers
from this market.
The. Royal Serelisheiteilway Company have given
notice, under the advice of the Committee cf Investige
tine, that
all sliarea- and obligations of the company are
require I to be '.eft on or before Wednesday next for ex-
amination amen reference to the genuineness of the Anie.
tures. Tae Committee of the Stock-Exchange ljd a
sitting yest A-day I.e.p.,:cting the securities in question; but
undenstanding that this notice was about to appear, and
that another meeting of the shareholders will probably
/de called before the end of the month, they deferred for
the present the aloption of any remolutioLs.
Out of the 362,0094- of gold brought ,by the James
Baines, 120,0001. has already been taken to the Rude
of England, and it is possible a further slim may yet find
its way there. The French rate-of exchange continues
favourable for this country, and hence the purchase of
the amounts of gold taken within the last few days for
the Bank of France must have involved a heavy lose.
The pressure for money,
h°7ev.nr, in Paris, consequent
upon the speculative mania; is such that any eacritieee
are borne for the moment to prevent a check being
given to public confielneee.
THE ROYAL C'AI3IISSION Or GENERAL OFFICERS.—
It is at last de:eel-mined that the board of general officers
formed to inquire into the Crimean report of Sir John
M'Neil and Col. Tulloch, shall bold its meetings in the
Great Hall of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea.
THE CRYSTAL PALACE GREAT CLOCK.---tal arrange-
ment has just been effected with Mr. Bennett, of Ch-ap
side, by which the clock exhibited, by him at the Great
Jcured or a central posi-
Exhibition at Paris has been sr
tion in the Great Traneept...The hour f
will he struck on
a large bell, producing a Bound which will be heard
throughout the building. The mode of decorating the
clock is an entire novelty, the case being formed of a
magnificent velvet drapery, curtained round it, in a de-
sign supplied by the first waits of Paris.—Crystal Palace
Herald.
On Saturday evening a grand cavalcade by torchlight
took place at Troyes, with a view of collecting money
for the poor. The Car of Beeches and the Temple of
Momee formed very striking objects in the procession.
The Sire de Franc-Boisy and his chaste spouse also
figured in the Cortege, A considerable sum of motley
was raised amongst the spectators and in the town.
LIMITED LIABILITY.—The following petition is in
course of signature in Liverpool, and has already been
signed by n. number of influent:al firms :—" To the Hon.
the Contmons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and. Ireland in Parliament assembled. The humble pe. tliion of the undersigned merchants bankers, solicitors,
and traders in Liverpool, showeth,---That it is of the
first importance to the general interests- of commerce,
and also a matter of bare justice to private traders, so
as to enable them to stand on a fair and equal basis
with the numerous joint-stock companies now rising
and likely to rise into existence, that the advance of
capital should be permitted to such traders on terms
which would pledge the amount advanced only, and
not the persons and whole fortunes of the advancers; to
the payment of the debts of the concern. That an
alteration of the law to this effect would, in the opinion'
of your 'petitioners, :induce owners of capital content
with a moderate return to place the same in the busi-
ness of a private trader as readily as they would in ,ehe
shares of a joint-stock company, and they and the public
would alike be benefited thereby. At the same tone,
your petitioners are of opinion that no owner of capital
advancing money based on a participation in the profits
of a business should be entitled to come into competition
with other creditors of the trader to whore such advance
is made, nor be entitled to receive repayment of the
advance until ail other debts contracted during the time
of such advance are discharged. Your petitioners,
therefore, humbly pray that the Partnership Amend-
ment Bill may pass into a law, having first received such
amendments as will effect the above objects ; and that
such bill may rn ju tice to private traders pass concur.
rently with, or previously to, any bill for better organs.
icing and freallitating the establishment of joint-stock.
Companies, Anil your petitioners will ever pay, ..ta."