The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-01 00:00:00

Or statesent showing the receipt and application of the
Vuds of the company
:--
Da.

To capital :
For amount received for calls £ d.
on shares 247,602 0 0
For amount received for ob-
ligations
—253,859 5 0

fr..; P.

To sundry creditors :
On acceptances of the corn-
any 48,237 7 9
For loans and undrawn ba-
lances
------ 54,688 7 0
To Mr. Sadleir :
For balance standing at his credit 17,821 3 0
To profit account :--
For balance on the purcLase and sale of shares 2,227 11 6

• • 358,599 7 3
In addition to the above liabilities there are others incurred
by Mr. Eadleir not shown in the books of the company,
amounting to 35,241/. ls. lad.
It is not yet ascertained how fsr the persons to whom these
liabilities are due are secured •
Thisviill make the total liabilitins.of the company 89,9291.

9g. ?at'''.
CR.
Bp amount expended—
Contractor for the following—viz.:-
2 s.
Works and land
Preliminary and other expenses 2,800 19 5
Administration
Engineering and other expenses 16,668 0 0
Rolling stock
_-----250,47616 3

By caution money. to be returned by the Swe-
dish Government as the orkS proceed
By bonds and shares of the Netherlands Land
12,738 1 7
Company
By carriage insurance and ship-
p 15,211 19 10
ping charges
By interest on general account 866 810
'By commission to brokers, &c. 1.165 15 6
By interest on share capital lb,llo 7 6
- n,354 11 8

By wages paid to English work-
men's wives in this country
By James Walker, traffic ma-
nager, in Sweden

[ PRIOR 4.p. STAMPED SD•

liric of the Public

Immals,

MR. ROEBUCK'S MOTION.

(Front t, rmes of this
To those who rather require the healthy excitement of war
nothing can be more consolatory than thp present tone of the
Commons. We may depend "on it, that though the fighting
may cease on the banks of the Tchernaya, .it will continue to
rage on those of the Tha.mes; and, though the Conferences
at Paris may come to .an early and iSaelfic conclusion, not
so the debatel in the British lioinio of Commons. Ever
thing is done here to expand—tlie difficulty into an
infinite _series.. At the first terrible burst of the Cri-
mean tragedy public indignation became absolutely in-
surgent, broke through the guard of office, and overthrew,
split asunder, and cowed -successive a.lniiiiistrations, till a
solemn inquisition was held on the causes of our disasters.
.Mr. Roebuck very correctly deseiibes, himself as the promi-
neat figure in the insurroctionary rush. which extorted this
act of justice. f• roar that clay to this he his been, es we soy,
at the head of_the rnOveniont, the foaming crest of the ever-
advancing surge ; sometimes noisy, sometimes menacing ra-
ther than powerful, but alivays strong in his cause. Uncontrol-
lable and ill•advised as he may occasionally have been, we
cannot but regard him as the impersonation of a sound in-
stinet and a righteous quarrel. Against this sudden inunda-
tion of wrath the present Government has been continually
played in erecting successive barriers and breakwaters. At
one time it was content te'break.the forierof the current,
then to turn it aside, and now it even aspires to hurl it back
altogether. Compelled to grant a Cortufttee- of Inquiry, it
reluctantly allowed it to bc open. It then sent out its own
Commissioners to the Crinra, with what p ecise of it
never explained ; for, judging by the result; it did.iit expect
them to make any considerable discoveries. The- Select Cora
mittee being in independent hands, the Columisei.ni was at
least a weapon which soap; be need or uot,^ as the case_
might require. as it happened, the C ,nunis,
duty, and their report waS kfit for 7 inetith - •
the \Var Minister. Had they fulfilled the just foarsanu ria,u•
rid suspicion,, which Mr. F: Peel tidults so great a blot& gr.
_ A . AA. k. ► LAW ak

what they saw, and their ears to what they were told on
every side,—h -d they then and there Whitewashed the whole
administration of the army in the East, we are of opinion
that not a day, not a minute, would have been lostin bringing
the docuMent to the light. In theemystety which so long-
enveloped it, and in that long delay ofeseven months, we
now possess a measure of the importance which the Ministers
attached to it. A eomneis,ion whose report could thus he
used or not, and which could be kent,in store for any period
whatever, was a very con euient instrument. We now see
that nothing was intended but a "buffer," to use a term of
the rail, against popular sollision.-
The men chosen, however, were too boneet, and the deVice
failed. Had the British public been content to ask no.qees-
Um's the report would pever have been heard of, or exhumed
only for the beutfit of some unborn Macaulay. But same
rumours of its contents, and the outrage done to public feel-
int by selecting the werst offenders for honour and responsi-
bility, revived the feelings that Government had so much -
reason to fear. What was then to be done ? With a singular
want of invention, with a persistence in the old course that
argued rather weakness than audacity, Government could
think of nothing to cover the 'old. Commission bat a
new one. Like the ships we were lately sending one
after another to the Arctic Seas, a Commission was to
be despatched after a Commission, and a report laid on
a report, how far and to how many successive layers
of inquiry time alone could show. This was what
Mr. Roebuck had to expose last night, and what Government
had to defend as well as it could. Tee choice of the new com-
mission was too mach in accordance with its evident object
to be passed over, and Mr. Roebuck defied the charge of per-
sonality. No doubt if, es is believed, everbody concerned in
the Crimean mismanagement is to be let off easy, and the ap-
proaching peace is to be celebrated with a gaol delivery
of Generals and Steil officers, excepting perhaps same poor
scapegoat of a Commissary, never was a Board so adroitly
composed. We don't insist much on its veteran character nor
the leaning already shown ; but we should be surprised to
find any other result than nobody in the wrong, no-
thing proved against anybody, misfortunes beyond
human foresight or estimate, fie remedy possible, arid
nobody to be censured, excepting, may be, the unfortunate
Commissary-General, paid to be
,beaten: in the Place of his
betters. .
But there is no longer any disguise over the puepoee of the
Commission. It is nothing more, than a Peace Conference in
London to settle the differences of General -officers and enable
them to offer mutual explanations. A body of gentlemen
eminently qualified to officiate in such affairs will receive con-
flicting statements, and find out how they may be reconciled
without much loss of meaning or of honour. If one man de-
clared he receivedletters,anil other s declared they never wrOte
them, as Mr. F. Peel very pleasantly confessed to.be the case,
then the Board will discover that everybody did his duty,
though in effect nothing was done. It was, of course, an ana-
chrouietu to promote the subjects of inquiry before their final
expurgation, but that was unavoidable. In a certain place,
the poet tells us, the judge scourged first and heard afterwards;
bat iu that more genial court over which Lund I aumure *-
sides they reward first and try afterwards. The accused come
into court with their blushing honours thick upon them.
Under these circumstances the Bench must be well selectsid,
and the trial conducted with nneommon discretion. The pu-
rifying process is singularly delicate, and the Board must be
left alone or the work will be all spoilt. Mr. Roebuck heed-
lessly rushes in to see the interesting experiment which is to
deltelieleVel-tieInIAIPPO4-14.04Prta.HIA even yureter ill, .their
"errors. When Ceres, as sehoelbeyarnad, Voila holding her
adopted sok eve:- the live coals., to purify him into godhead,
the boy's mother peeped in and spoilt the process by her nu
patient curiosity. That is precisely Mr. Roebuck's offence •in
the eyes of Lord Pahnerston and the Under Secretary for
War. If he will only let the Board alone, it wilt soon pre-
sent us with half-a-dozeu groat soldiers instead of that num-
ber of very ordinary bunglers. In that ease England will in-
deed have reason to remember with thankfulness that, if the
army perished, the generals survive, and iu the event of ano-
ther war, we know, where to go for generals.
" 'Tis not in mortals to command success,"
and they did not succeed in preserving their army, but they
did more they'deserved to do so.

(Front the Daily News of this day.)

Mr. Roebuck his again failed to precipitate a general en-
gagement between-the two great parties iu Parliament. The
debate last night was in every sense of the term inconclusive.
Nobody seems to have been for a moment under the delusion
that anything decisive could come of it, there or then ; so
each of the wordy warriors pursued his own line, and aimed
for the most part at the objects of his own particular aver-
sion. The learned member for Sheffield hardly took the
trouble to make out a case for the course he pronounced to
be the only right one. He stated no new facts, adduced no
novel arguments, and in short went through a part which,
having hastily undertaken, ho would not formally renounce,
with the air of a man who feels that he has mistaken his
time, and that all effo.ts to bring about any serious collision
must be wholly vain. Sir J. Pakington was still more apolo-
getic for having been so ill-advised as to give notice of a rival
proposition of censure on Ministers for appointing a military
board of inquiry.
We have neither time nor temper to review the desultory
inanities and dull personalitiei of the subordinate speakers in
the debate that followed. One sad and tedious exception
demands a passing notice : we allude to the long and ill-
judged oration of the Under-Secretary for War. We warned
Lord Palmerston at the time against the folly of putting this
un-promising young man into so difficult and important a
post. There may be situations where he could do no harm,
and possibly do some good. But in days of war without and
war within, to set the least dexthrous, least eloquent, and
least discerning of speakers in the front of the battle, is in-
human. Really Lord Pahnerston ought to think of it.
We deeply regret that so experienced a soldier and senator
as Sir De Lacy should have set an example so pernicious, if
not perilous, to all order, justice, and authority, as the said-
' den and capricious disclosure of matters only known to him
in his confi iential character as the commander of a division
in the field. The scene between himself and Col. Gorden,
when tha latter brought him, as he states, au incoherent, and
it might have proved fatal, order to advance into the valley
of the Tchernaya, was most vividly dese.ibe,d, and produced,
as it, was intended, a strong impression ou the house.

(From the Morning Post of this day.)
With regard to Mr. Roebuck's discomfited attempt, now
numbered among the things of the past we have not much
to say that we have not said already. The alteration which
Mr. Roebuck made at the eleventh hour—by subaituting
for an assertion that it will be believed that the object of the
appointment of the supplementary commission is to shelter
incompetence and excuse misconduct—a prophetic announce-
meut—that the result of the labours of the board will be,
the finding of a hiding-place for the sins of the War Depart-
ments of in Whitehall and at the Horse Guards —does not in
any degree mend his case or give him a better fouudation to
stand upon. If anything, indeed, it puts Mr. Roebuck in
rather a worse position. The prophecy of the amende.l
motion is more dogmatic and absolute than the anticipation
of the first; and by just as much as it is more positive, by
so much is it more patently erroneous. Was there ever such
nonsense ? How can this additional inluiry, conduced in .an
open court, by general officers of distinction, entirely indepen-
dent of the Horse Guards, and. having nothing to hope or to
fear from any Government. department, hide, or assist in
i hiding, any misconduct, or stifle--any allegation of miscon-
duct, upon the part of the Minister or the Commander-in-
Chief upon whose. roe ~inmendation the Crown' appointed to
commands the officers inculpated or reflected upon by the
report of Sir John M'Neill or Colonel Tulloch. There can be
no such result, nor any each effect. It is superfluous to talk
to a man like Mr. Roebuck, who sees but one Fide of human
nature, and believes every man to be made out of
the.a rib taken
from that one side—that Lord Palmerston, and Govern-
ment over which he presides, are above creating such a dis-
honourable shelter as Mr. Roebuck persists this commission
is intended to be. Mr. Roebuck would not comprehend such '
language ; but he said understand what we mean when we
say that it Cannot, by any ingenuity or audacity or device, be
made to do duty SS shelter. It can no more be used to cover-
the nakedness of the offencei of the War Departments, if of-
; fences there be, then the magic, cloak could be induced to
, veil the frailties of the fair ladies of King Ardour's Round
; • Table.
dep.

SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, 29.3

STOOK EXCHANGE.--The tone of the market has beer,
steady to-day, and the prices at alight decline on yester-
day's rates. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 82's ci—Datch
Rhenish, p. a—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 244—
Ditto, 6 per cent. Pref., 11k—North Eastern, kerwick,
19t—Ditto, Leels capital stock, 151—Midlands, 69g
—South Eastern, 20k I--(treat Western of Canada,
25I—Ditto, new, 31 p.

•,
MANCHESTER, FEU. 29.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—Unfavottrable rtIINOLITS from the
Conference at Paris depressed the market to-day for 801100
• ime, but prices closed aomewhnt firrer after a moderate
risiness. Dovers, 20 3.16 4 A 2-16 f---Leeds, 52i
‘lidlands, 70 691 .1 —ShefEelde, 211—Blackburns,
—Great Western of Canada, 25 13-16.

CTRIAT INDIAN PENINSULA BAILWAT.—TiII sharer
holders of this company have accepted,the whole of tht
new capital (1,500,0001.) offered to them, and have pad
besides the deposit.n
anpion .the ihares held ip En,
ium of 120,0001, inanticipation of future calls ; laudmaking,
witb dePolit,
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