The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 8 1856
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MEETING THIS DAY.

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The adjourned meeting of the shareholders in this
company was held thiS afternoon at the London Tavern,
Bishopsgate-qreet, to receive the result of the poll rela-
tive to the election of directors. Less interest appeared
to be manifested in the day's proceedings than might
have been expected from the stormy character cf the
previous meetings of this company. The room was not
more than a quarter full at the c3mmencement of the
buQiness.

94 - 96
94 - :8

SUN OFFICE, Six o'clock.

Sud. and 11;1.
100 E. Lin. fr. 6pc
all E. Un. 11. SIL.
109 Glas. Barr. &
Neil 5. Direct
1.00 Do. N0w......
r,ll Glstr.dt Dn. Fr
111 Hrtlpi. Sz
Railway.....
all Hull & Selby
all Do. Sharee.
all Do. f Shares.
all Lon.& Greene;
all Do.Preforen.T
10.) Lon., Til., &S.
100 Lowestoft gr.
4 per cont.
100 Do. 6 per ct.
all Manch. Bxtn
and Matlock
all Middlesbro'

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AUSTRIA.

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VIEXNA, March 4.—News there is none, whether
political or local.

Mr. Waddington, on taking the chair, was warmly
applauded.

The passage in the speech of the Emperor Na-
poleon which relates to the Eastern question has
not produced a favourable impreFsion here.

15 : Irs

Tke CHAIRMAN commenced the business of the meet-
ing by reading the scrutineers' report, which is as
follows :

RUSSIA►.

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London, March 8, 1858.
To the Chairman of the Eastern Counties Railway

The Northern Bee, that so lately seemed to con-
sider it had received a special mission to flourish
its sting threateningly in the face of the foe, has
now decidedly received orders to turn its attention
to the exhibition of honey.
In the mean time, in spite of all the "hum-
ming" of the Northern Bee, the preparations for
war and for defence are not relaxed ; the buoys
and sea marks are being taken up all along the
' coast ; the light houses and beacons are no longer
to be lit ; the vessels in Cronsta,dt are being re-
leased from the heavy covering of ice and snow in
which they have been enveloped during the winter,
and the crews are fully occupied for the present in
scraping and scrubbing, in painting and holy-
stoning ; this activity is also kept up to the neces-
sary degree of unremission by the frequent visits
of inspection which the Grand Duke Constantine
pays them. All the high officers in command
in the north are as busily engaged in their prepa-
rations for defence as though the Allied fleets were
already through the Belt.

Company.
Sir,—ln the discharge of the anxious and importan_
task of scrutineers, which we have been called upon to
perform, we have thought it to be our duty to inquire
into and make a careful comparison of every vote given
at this election, and int') the amount of stock registered
i❑ the company's books. The unusually large number of
proxies and personal votes polled at this election would
have made our duties more than ordinarily laborious had
we not had the able aesi tance of your secretary and
clerks of the company, whose zealous and continuous
aid, cheerfully rendered, facilitated our inquiries and
shortened the time, which otherwise would have been'
lengthened. Without wishing to travel beyond the
scope of our duty, we would recommend that the poll
be printed, and sent by the company to each. share-
holder. We beg to append the result of the poll, as
follows :

2i - 2i

Relear
0 Midld.Bra•ifi
54 Newmarket
Bury E. o.spe
all N.& Est.s p.c.
all Do. 6 nor et.
all Do. Fixe(ls c
all Prest. &Lr yr.
all Do. 6hr,,,. A
Roystn.& Hit.
' Shot Roth ranC
Gooleg.s p.e.
all Shrows.&lier
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83 - 85

For Mr. Goodson, 168 personal voters, representing
346,000/. stock, and 4,753 votes-proxies ; 1,270 voter:,
representing 1,824,9001., and 31,303 votes ; total, 1,43 E
voters, representing 2,170 9001. stock, and 36,061 votes,

FOR MR. WADDINGTON.
Stock.

Votes.

• ____.
Personal Voters . 152 317,520 4,424
Proxies

--
T0ta1......
FOR ➢IR. PACKR.
Personal Voters
Proxies

Total L425 . 2,157,810 35,847
FOR MR. HELPS.
Personal Voters
Proxies 1,438 1,194.260 24,163

Total 1,833 1,737,400 33,966
FOR, ➢IR. ORR.
Personal Voters
Proxies 1,486 1,191,660 24,113

Total 1,832 1,729,700
FOR MR. WALTERS.
Personal Voters
Proxies .. 1,487 1,193,860
-- --
*Total 1,823 1,724,100
FOR MR. MORRISON.
Personal Voters
Proxies ... .........

33,812
9,5"6
24,147

33,723
1,173
537

Total 72 93,403 1,710
The CHAIRMAN then declared Messrs. Goodson,
Packe, and Waddington to
.bc duly elected. (Loud
cheers.)

Mr. Box asked if any of the unregistered shareholders
had voted 1 •
Mr. T. ATKINSON, one of the scrutineers, said that not
one of the unregistered shareholders bad voted, nor any
person not entitled under the terms of the special act.
A resolution was then submitted to the meeting, that
the list of shareholders should be annually printed and
sold to tho proprietors fir Is., on which a discussion en-
sued, and the resolution was ultimately negatived.
The CHaresessr, in answer to a question from Mr.
Love, said that the payment of the dividtnde, in conse-
quence of the agitation that had occurred, could not take
place lsefore the 31st of March.
Mr. LOVE expressed his dissent to suckan answer, and
said be was convinced there were other circumstances
which prevented it than that stated by the Chairman.
The CHAIRMAN said that he considered he ought not
to be pressed to state the reason why the payment of
the t teidend had been delayed. (Dissent.)
Mr. LOVE said he considered it advisable to put the
question, believing a dividend had been declared which
had not been earned and which they had not the money
to pay. (Hear.) He was ready to prove the truth of
his statement.
The CHAIRMAN said he had no desire to withhold in-
formation Irvin the meeting. From what Mr. Love bad
said it was necessary for the credit of the company that
he (chairman) should give him an answer to his question,
but which he thonght would have been better for all if it
had not been put to hiin. The election of directors had
an effect on the money market, and be had been refused
money by a firm in the City until the result of this meet-
ing was known. This company had a surplus revenue
and could meet their engagements, and when tkat was
known, and that the engineer had reported the perma-
nent way was safe, notwithstanding what bad been stated
to the contrary, he thought the company's affairs would
assume a different complexion. Although statements
had been made of the bad state of the permanent way,
the traffic for the first nine weeks of this year bad been
1,0001. a week more than that of the corresponding
I.eliod of last year. (Cheers.) He complained of Mr.
Love's conduct in impugning the correctness of the
statements in the reprt, especially as it had been re-
ferred back for the auditors to again go over the
accounts. Taey hal done so, and confirmed their pre-
Vieth.; audit.

Mr. NORP.IS thought it would be better for the credit
of the company if the real facts of their position wero
put forward. Such reservation as the chairman practised
was bizhly ol j,ctiouable. lie contended the accour t
did not show they were in a position to legitimately pay
the di% ifleml recommended.

Mr. BRUCE said that at the meeting in August last he
opposed the then dividend, because he saw there were
works and claims to be met which he knew could not
be done if they paid the dividend, and in order to pay
that dividend claims were put over for liquidation till
the past half-year. He referred to the engineer's report
that 150,000/. was required to put the permanent way
in an efficient stat, and he (Mr. Bruce) had always
contended that the permanent way should be properly
kept in order, for on that greatly depended their work-
ing expenses, and the •atnounts they had to pay for
compensation in cases of accidents. They bad not the
means of payin; this dividend, and he asked the meet-
ing net to sanction the payment of this dividend until
the auditors had presented their revised statement of
the accounts.

Mr. LOVE then proceeded to show that his state-
ment with regard to the state of the company was
c srrect, and entered into details to prove it, and said
that he conNidered their dividend a fiction. Tie asked
the chairman the amount of ;lioney required to meet
the liabilities of the company unprovided for.
The CHAIRMAN said that he was not bound to an-
swer the question, the discussion being irregular ; but V
it was the wish of tho meeting he would answer the
question.

Mr. LOVE repeated his question.

The CHAIRMAN said there were no loans to be pro-
vided for except what were stated in the accounts.
(Cheers.) .11e had been asked how they were to pay a
dividend with so small an amount at their bankers ; and
he answered that question Ly reading the large stuns due
to the company from the Post-office and others, amount-
ing to upwards of 165,000/. It bad been said the divi-
dend could not be paid ; but be stated the diviJend
would be paid. (Loud cheer=.) Up to December they
bad 54,000/. at their banker., and they had 80,000/.
there now.

Sir S. Malcom), M.P., thought no good could come
of this discussion. The meeting was an adjourned meet,.
ing, to receive the declaration of the poll, and htit to
open up the question of the report. Ha moved that the
meeting do now dissolre,
The CHAIRMAN said there were many difficulties for
them to overcome, and he thought by tieing it little dis•
cuewion at these meetings; they might easily be over-
COM%

The meeting now became very noisy, and it was with
difficulty many or the speakers could be beard.
Mr• NORRIS moved, as an amcndmett, that the audi-
tors be 'called upon to examine the anoounts of the half-
year for August, 1855, and rcbruary, 1856, and that
they have access to tine books of the company to pro-
duce a detailed accotint of the company's stock and
stores.

Mr. Love secozjed the amendment.
The
carriedorigintl motion for dissolving the meeting Was
T.llB meeting then septrr.tt&

IMr. Ballnders, of the 'Western Circuit, and Recorder
,0f Davonport, has been appointed to the recordership of
Plymouth, in the place of Sir William Carpenter Rowe,
now Chief Justice of Ceylon.
INCENDIARY FIRE.—On Wednesday morning a fire
broke out at the Canklow flour mills, near Rotherham,
belonging to Mears. Moorhouse and Hague. The whole
of the large roof fell in with a tremendous crash, and the
fire raged with uncontrollable fury until the whole place,
with the exception of the walls, was consumed. A very
large quantity of grain in sacks and a good deal of flour
were destroyed. Four pair of stones are comparatively
uninjured. There is reason to fear that the fire wasr.the_
work of an incendiaru

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THE FALL OF RIES.

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differs from a Commander-in-Chief. " The Porte,
most certainly does not put this construction on
the authority with which be is invested, nor have
Iso read my' instructions." " I venture to ask
whether the tone which he has assumed, the ab-
ruptness of his charges, the violence of his threats,
the dictatorial spirit which, according to his own
account, has generally characterised his proceed-
ings," aro authorised by the spirit of his in-
structions from home. Ho cannot, he says,
" conceal from the Turks" that General Williams
is ignorant of the native languages and of the
manner of conducting operations in the field. In
fact, the Ambassador proclaims the Queen's Com-
missioner to be incapable, vain, quarrelsome, and
tyrannical. What., then, becomes of the one or
two favourable epithets he had previously applied
to him ? When the General was Ile wto his post,
when he was being insulted with impunity by the
" traitors and robbers" whom Lord Clarendon
speaks of, when ho seemed likely to submit meekly
to the contempt of so great a personage as an Am-
bassador, and to sink without a struggle into ob-
scurity, Lord Stratford could cheaply say a word
or two that might remain on record about the Com-
missioner's "Excellent intentions ;" but when, after
nearly six months' toil, he was winning the position
which afterwards gave him the power of accom-
plishing a noble feat of arms, then the Ambassador
feels it necessary to appear in his true colours, and
to endeavour to obtain by open accusation what he
had failed to accomplish by more secret means.
In fact, by the despatch of February his whole pre-
vious conduct is explained. General Williams was
the same man who was appointed six months ear-
lier ; and all his lordship's objections, if well-
founded, should have been stated half a year be-
fore. The indictment now sent home proves but
one thing—that all the Ambassador's former de-
clarations as to the good faith of the assistanee he
rendered, all his excuses for his neglect of the Com-
missioner, are equally baseless. From the whole
course of his conduct we easily learn that he was
as hostile in September as he was in February.

(From the Times of this day.)
Among the men of self reliance who have strug-
gled alone amid adverse circumstances General
Williams must bold a high place. His aggressive
warfare against Turkish corruption is as brilliant
as his subsequent defence of Kars against forces
three times as numerous as his own. As the
reality of his position during the last three months
of 1855 is disclosed, we wonder that any man
should have so persevered in befriending an un-
grateful ally and upholding a hopeless cause. We
feel how natural it was to suppose that, if left un-
aided and unanswered, he would, in a lit of anger
or despair, desert the charge which he had received
from the Government of his country. We can
appreciate the probability that if he remained he
would only mix up his name with incapable gene-
rals and a broken army, and if he returned at all,
only return to obscurity or to censure. When Col.
Williams received the rank of Brigadier, and was
deputed to advise the Turkish Commander-in-Chief
in Asia, it was thought proper that he should re-
ceive Turkish military rank. Hewes to be appointed
a Pasha, and to have the position of a general in
the Ottoman army. Now, let it not be sup-
posed that such a distinction was totally new,
that it shocked any prejudice, or that any long
time or any great exercise of power was necessary
to obtain it. For years Turkey has had Pashas
and Beys from every quarter of Europe. For
years Stamboul has swarmed with refugees and
renegades with high rank iu the Sultan's army.
At the commencement of this war there was a
crowd of British aspirants for such honours. A
gentleman with a week's moustache, and looking
about the last man in the world to regenerate the
Messulnian, would suddenly appear in the streets
of Pera. He would wear the brilliant uniform of
the Peckham Fencibles, or some such semi-warlike
corps. His cap would be that which adorns the
body-guard of his Highness the Nawaub of Thug-
gapore, his rank of Colonel he would have earned
in the service of one of the late Governments of
Nicaragua. Such a hero found no difficulty in
approaching the Seraskier, armed with the strongest
diplomatic recommendations, and a few hours were
sufficient to convert him into an Ottoman General
with a highly Oriental name. But no such speed
was thought necessary in the case of the Queen's
Commissioner, labouring in an endangered province
for the good of a wasted army, and daily insulted
by the vilest of mankind. On the 15th of Novem-
ber, after General Williams had been two months
in Asia, Lord Stratford writes that he has applied
to Reschid Pasha that the rank of "Ferik" should
be conferred on the Commissioner ; but there the
matter rested. For two months longer, although
General Williams was writing almost daily to com-
plain of the treatment he received, and his want of
authority, no notice was taken at the British Em-
bassy. The Firnian, which could have been obtained
in half an hour by the English dragoman, was never
asked for. It was not until General Williams,
driven to desperation, had laid the Ambassador's
neglect before the Foreign office, that Lord Strat-
ford condescended to write to him, and in a com-
munication not a little insolent and bitter to in-
form him that his appointment as " Ferik" Lad
been made. This despatch,—the first addressed by
the Ambassador to the Commissioner—bears date
December 30. Well might Lord Clarendon point
out in indignant language to the Ambassador that,
though a despatch from the Embassy of November
15 announced that the appointment had been asked
for, yet no steps had been taken to obtain it, and
that, " knowing the necessity that General Wil-
liams should have rank in the Turkish army, in
order to secure to him the respect and obedience
required, his diploma of Ferik has not yet been
sent to him, nor does he appear to have been in-
formed that the rank • was conferred upon him."
" General Williams," says the Foreign Secretary,
" was surrounded by traitors and robbers, and
stood in need of all the encouragement that her
Majesty's could afford him."
Lord Stratford's main defence is that he had,
while declining to notice th© Commissioner, done
all that was necessary with the Turkish Govern-
ment. In justice to the Ambassador's diplomatic
talent, we must say that he does not fail to keep
up appearances ; but we think there will be few
deceived by such obvious precautions. That in
despatches to the Foreign-office General Williams
should be spoken of once or twice as a " zealous "
and " meritorious" person is no more than might
be expected. Lord Stratford was not very likely
to make himself appear beforehand the opponent
of the man whose failure might be more effectually
compassed by quiet neglect. So also the Ambas-
sador now calls in his dragoman to prove that cer-
tain propositions have been submitted to the Porte.
He puts 13 questions, which M. Pisani duly answers
in a satisfactory manner, and questions and answers
are then transmitted to London. What Lord
Clarendon thinks of this notable defence may be
learnt from the despatch we have already quoted.
He says, " Your Excellency's despatch has re-
ceived the careful consideration of her Majesty's
Government, and I have to inform you that it ap-
peals by M. Pisatii's replies to your Excellency's
queries that, with the exception of some hall car-
tridges, little or nothing seems to hare been sent
to the relief of the army at Kars." The supplies
which the Ambaesador had declared he had asked
for it was acknowledged were never sent, and tire
medical stores were proved to have been worthless.
Lord Clarendon then, having glanced over the
other assertions of the Ambassador about letters of
reprimand and approval having been addressed to
various Turks, says with vehemence,—" But this
is all that has been done for the relief of the army,
notwithstanding the repeated and urgent remon-
strances of her Majesty's Government." He then
concludes with a sentence in which these words
occur :—" Her Majesty's Government cannot but
regret the silence observed by your Excellency to-
wards Gen. Williams, and they can well understand
the discouragement and mortification he must have
felt at receiving no acknowledgmest of Iris 54 de-
spatches, accompanied by private letters, for he
looked to your Excellency as his natural protector."
Such is Lord Clarendon's judgment on all the de- ,
fence which Lord Stratford had to offer then—on
all he has to offer now. The reprobation of the
Foreign-office will, we think, be acquiesced in by
every man who reads the documents now published,
and, when we consider that Lord Clarendon wrote
long before Kars was invested or General Williams
a man of note, it will be plain bow deeply blame-
able the offence must have appeared. Tire mise-
rable pleas of the A inbaseador about his intention
to answer all General Williams's despatches at
once, and about the unpunctuality of the Trebi-
zonde steamer, Lord Clarendon does not condescend
to notice.
General Williams having dared to appeal to the
Home Government, Lord Stratford could no longer
conceal his resentment. Even the common-place
epithets of approbation usual in official documents
wholly cease. The Ambassador, after a silence of
months, addresses the Commissioner. He sends
the firman which appoints him Ferik. This letter
is in the driest official tone, without ono word of
apology or regret,--without any mention of the
reasons for delaying to reply which he had urged to
Lord Clarendon. It ends with a sneer. General
Williams bad been ill-received by the Turks and
grossly insulted by a certain Shukri Pacha. He had
also complained of another, Kerim Pacha, but the
latter had subsequently become more civil, and
given assistance to the Commissioner, who had
written to indicate the change. Lord Clarendon
had instructed the Ambassador to demand the re-
call of Shukri Pasha. The Ambassador obeyed,
and thus announces the fact to General Williams
—" 1 have demanded the recall of Shukri Pasha,
at the risk s,f your seeing reason to change your
mind concerning him, as in the instance of Kerim
Pasha." One or twSt Meagre messages .are de-
spatched from the Embassy to the Commissioner
within the nehft two months, and then follows in
order of time a most remarkahle document. It will
be remembered that Lord Stratton' had denied
any coolness in his support of the Commissioner.
It was, he asserted, quite by accident that he had
not written to him, it was au accident that he had
not accredited him, it was an accident that he had
not obtained his appointment of " Ferik." But
now, two months later, we see fully the animus of
his lordship displayed. On the 19th of February
Lord Stratford writes to the Foreign-office. Under
the form of asking for information, he brings the
gravest charges against General Williams. Be it
observed that the General had been more than
five months with the army, and had, as far as we
can learn, only received three communications
from Lord Stratford during the whole time ; they
are all short, contain not a word of advice, not a
word of warning, not a word to indicate approval
or the contrary. Yet the Ambassador, without the
slightest intimation to a man who, to use General
Williams's own words, had " served him for so
many years," thinks fit to send to the Foreign-
office the heaviest, and we believe the most un-
founded, charges against him. He wishes to be
informed, he says, what General Williams's powers
are. "It is not enough for me to know in general
terms that Brigadier-General Williams is a military
officer instructed to act as her Majesty's
Williams Commi-
ssioner with the army at Kars." General
had endeavoured to make reforms, and Lord Strat-
ford would like to know by what authority ho does
those things.
Then follows a roll of accusations. The Com-
missioner asserts a right of being obeyed, of sug-
gesting the punishment or removal of officers, the
se.: se

Naval and Military Intelligence.

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A court-martial is ordered to assemble on Monday at
Portsmouth, to try Commander F. Warren and Mr.
Herbert, the master of her Majesty's late steam-sloop
Polyphemue, for the loss of that vessel in the Baltic Last
month. Mr. J. Hoskins, solicitor, of Gosport, is en-
gaged to assist Commander Warren,
The Dee steam-vessel, Master Commander Pullen, ark
rived at Portsmouth yesterday morning from the east-
ward with boilers and machinery for the ships fitting
out. The Resistance troop-ship, Master Commander
Hall, was taken into the fitting-basin at Portsmouth
yesterday for repairs and to be docked. The Comet
steam-tug left port yesterday, to convey two gun-boats
from Pembroke.
There were no movements in the fleet yesterdnay.
The steam-transport Simla, one of the Peninstear and
Oriental Company's fleet, Captain T. H. Russell,
arrived at Spithead yesterday afternoon, at 4 o'clook
from the East. She left Malta on the 29th ult., and
has brought Lieut. J. F. Wilkinson, of the Turkish
Contingent ' • Lieut. Heydock, of the 90th Regiment;
Mr. Castle, from Scutari ; Lieut. Maude, of the 15th
Hussars ; Major Stoddart, of the Turkish Contingent I
Captain Barrow, of the 31 Dragoon Gcatda ; Lieut.
Hartopp, of the Royal Horse Guards Rue ; Major Bar-
nard, of the Turkish Contingent; Surgeon Crowley, of
the Osmanli Cavalry ; 111 military invalids (81 from
Scutari, and 30 from Renkioi) ; 10 Government carpen-
tsre, Messrs. Bayle, Blosam, Elodd, midshipmen R.N. ;
Mrs. Werry and daughter ; 5 second class passengers,
7 deck passengers, 29 naval invalids, and 10 convale-
scents—total raniengers, 190.
Captain the lion. J. R. Drummond, C.D., joined her
Majesty's ship Victory yesterday, and succeeded Captain
G. T. Gordon as flag captain to Vic-Admiral Sir G. F.
Seymour, K.C.8., G.C.H., &e.
The hired steauetransport Earl of Durham, No. 230,
Captain Reed, with huts for the army and with stores
from the Royal William Victualling-yard, left Plymouth
on Thursday for Constantinople and Rtlaklava.
The barque Shanghai, Captain P. Logan, 61 days
from the Cape of Gaud Hope, laden with wool, landed a
small mail at Plymouth on Thursday.
The General Screw Company's steam-ship Hydaspea,
Captain Hyde, traspert No. 87, will sail from South-
ampton this day, with four offictrs, 120 men, and 200
horses of the D troop of the Royal Horse Artillery.
This vessel conveys five serjeants of the 88th Reginient
Mr. Legard, of the Land Transport Corps ; Captain
Parrington, 19th Regiment; and Majer Helebut, 19th
Regiment ; besides others, including tour clerks of the
Commissariat Department. The Argo sailed yesterday
morning with troops and horses fur the Crimea. The
Royal Mail Company's strain-ship Great Western, tran-
sport No. 6, is under orders to receive horses and troops
for conveyance to the Baltic on the 12th lust.
Her Majesty's steamer Hecla sailed tram Liverpool
for Portsmouth yesterday, accompanied by the Brave
and Beacon, two of the new iron gun-boats, recently
built by Mr. LairJ. The gun-boats had steam up, and
sailed with the Hecla. Her Majesty's steamer Geyser
still remains at anchor in the Mersey, but she will escort
several other bca!s to Portsmouth in a few days.
The Farah Santa screw-steamer sailed on Thursday
from Liverpool direct for the Crimea with detachments
of troops and officers, including Captain 11. Mercer,
Captain Grylles, Lieuteneet Still, Lieutenant De Vis-
nes. Assistant-Surgeon Bradeliass, and a veterinary.
surgeon, all of the Royal Artillery.
The brig Sappho, 12, from Chatham, arrived at Ply-
mouth on Wednesday, bound to the West Coast of
Africa.

Her Majesty's steamer Firefly, Captain Otter, sailed
from Woolwich on Thursday morning for the taltie.
'Die Marley Hill, hired transport, has left ‘Voolwich
with a large cargo of general victualling stores far Malta
sad Constantinople.
Second Lieutenant Pascoe, Woolwich division of Royal
Marines, has been prom.,ted as First Lieutenant, rice
Nasin, appointed to the Land Transport Corps.
The launch of the despatch min-boat Surprise took
pla,e on Thersday morning at Messrs. Wigrain's build-
ing-yard, Rockwall, whence she will be conveyed to the
Etst India Dcck to be rigged and fitted for service. The
Surrrise will carry r-even guns of the following descrip-
tion :—Two 68.poundars, four 32's, and ono 32 pivot-
gun. Her registered tonuage is 850 tons.
The Royal Artillery at Ipswich, under the command
of Captain W. A. Middlet-n, consisting of one captain,
one second captain, three lieutenants, one assistant.sur-
gear, eight serjeant,, five corporals, seven bombardiers,
one farrier, seven shoeing-smiths; three collar-makers,
four wheelers, HO gunners and drivers, two trumpeters,
and. 239 horses, have been put under orders for active
service as a gun ammunition reserve.

The Corm7;lant gun v:sPel Jim been commissioned by
Commander Buwden, and is ordered to be fitted for sea
at Chatlmin.

The Wanderer, screw despatch vessel, Commander .T.
P. Luce, now fitting at Chatham, is ordered to pro-
ceed to Sheerness, wher:c,‘ she will sail utxt week.
The Mars, SO, screw steamer, is ordered to be fitted
for EPa with all posta)le despAch, and the will be zeady
to sail in the course of a few weeks.

Iu cew,equence of a representation made to her Ma-
jesty and hi= Royal Highness Prince Albert by Cid. the
Hon. C B. Phipps that the contemplated addition of a
ow limning bath to the other advantages of the Royal
Navel School at New•eross, in which so large a num-
ber of the eons of naval officers and others are edu-
cated for the united services, could be productive of
great benefit to the pupils, several of whom have
fallen in the service of their country during- the pre-
sent war, Col. Phipps has former fed to Mr. Eames,
the sen•Aary, a donation of 200. from the Queen, and
201. from the Prince Cneisort. t`xs a proof of the in-
terest felt by the Queen in all that concerns the wel-
fare of the aavy and army, we way add that her
Majesty and the Prince of Wales have, in virtue of
former munificent contr,bitions, each a gratuitous
nominee in this school. the foundation stone of which
was laid by Prince Albert in 1843.
Some
of h
spacioute sbufidings are being added to the war
department Arsenal, Woolwich, the walls of
which are being ratted with alacrity. An establish•
meat for filling and making composition for cartridges
is in course of erection, under a contract with Messrs.
Cubitt and Co. Four hundred labourers and mechanics
have been incessantly employed since the building was
commenced three weeks ago, and have pushed the
works forward with the utmost activity to complete
the undertaking in five weeks. A contract has just
been signed by Mr. Geo.Te Smith, of Pimlico, with
her Majesty's Government' for erecting an extensive
rocket factory, with engine• and boiler houses, etc., in
the marshes adjacent to Ow Arsenal, after a joint
design drawn by Mr. David' Murray, the newly-ap-
pointed Government builder, and Lieutenant-Colonel
Benison, R.E.
The following appointments' were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :
Captain the Hon. J. W. S. Spencer, to the Firebrand,
vice Captain Inglefield, apposn cid to the Sidon; Lieu-
tenant B. P. Gresham (additional), to the Waterloo ;
H. P. Campbell, Midshipman to the Bulldog; James
Peaks, Master's Assistant to the Coquette ; Edward H.
Cotterill, Acting Clerk to the Coloss us; J. C. Higginson,
Aseistaet Clerk to the Caesar. The following officers
hays been Appointed to the command of gun-boats :
Lieutenant C. J. Rowley, to the Magnet; Lieutenant
W. Arthur, to the Manly; Lieutenant W, F. Johnson,
to the Mastiff; Lieutenant F. Harvey, to the Mistletoe;
Lieutenant W. F. Bridges, to the Brazen ; Lieutenant
E. Hardiuge, to the Brave Lieutenant W. E. Wilson,
to the Hardy ; Lieutenant N. Salmon, to the Ant ; and
Lieutenant .W. Howortb, to the Angler.

THE COMMON SERGIEANT:-,--Sir Walter Riddle, of Lin-
coln's inn, recorder of Maidstone and Tanterden, is also
a candidate for the vacant appointment of Common
Sergeant, in addition to Mr. Prendergast.
SOLID SWISS PARQUETICEir47—The solid Swiss par-
becoming known in Eng-
ici;iunedt,eriper,ownib,siecsh isto gradually
supplya want. It is made solid
throufzbout, and every portion of the ornamental woods
forming tlie patterns is grooved and tongued together
and jointed with marine glue. It can thus be fixed im-
mediately upon the joists when applied for flooring, ten-
derin,4 uuderflaoring unnecessary. This parqueterie has
also the advantage of being much lowa- in price than
the ordinary veneered work which has hitherto been in
use. Being manufactured by machinery and in large
quantities, a great reduction in its cost has been ob-
tained, and it can be supplied in London at prices com-
mencing from la. per foot super. It is now being laid