The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-08 00:00:00

CORK AND BANDON.

The directors of this company, in their half-
yearly report announce a steady and continuous
increase in the traffic rece'p's of tin railway. The
increase amounted to 1,072/. during the past tad!
year. The working expenses include an extra out-
lay of 5231. on the working stork. The revenue
account t) the 31st Dec. shows a surplus of 1,7641.,
out of which the directors recomm n : a (H.. ilund on
the 'Cc. 1 p..eLrcine# :II Lie i at the rAte of 4 per cent.
pei..annum, and on the No. 2 preference shares at
the rate of 6 per cent p€r annum, for the half-year,
leavings. sm ill balance. A ereott which has hitherto
appe.ired in the books of the company is now for
tire first time discontinued—viz., the intureqt on
11,6401. expended on the several Extension Bills;
this item always appeared among the assets of the
lillf-ycar, but the bills having expired, it could no
longer be continued. Mr. W. R. Le Fanu, the
engineer, reports that the permanent way and
working stock are in good order and repair. The
c tpital account to the 31st of December last shows
that 360,256/. had been received and 258,951/. ex-
pended, leaving a balance of 1,3051. The revenue
account showed that 7,8151. had been received and
4,3141. expended, including 4091. arrears of former
accounts now paid, leaving a balance of 3,5011., to
which was added 3,6491. from the preceding ac-
count, making 7,1501. Out of this was deducted
909/. interest on No. 1 preference shares, 6581. on
N.I. 2 preference shares, 6571. debenture interest,
and 1,8781. arrears of interest, leaving a balance of
3,0471.

NOTICES OF MOTION AND QUESTIONS

TO MINISTERS.

(From the Examiner.)
The fillowiLg are, we understand, a few of the
notices of mlti,m ansi questions to be proposed, in
the c,urse of the present, ses4ion on matters of
considerabie interest to the 13citish public :
Mr. Pry, member for Whyborough, to move for
a tetum of the civil or other services of the Hon.
C. B. Phipps, constituting the claims of that gen-
tleman to the honours and dignities conferred upon
him, in common with Col. Inglis and other persons
who have served their country with distinguished
merit and gallantry in India or elsewhere.
Mr. Frank, M.P. for North Bluutshire, to re-
quest the Secretary of State for the Colonies to in-
.rm the house what there is particularly trivial and
insignificant in the colony of Nova Scotia to justify
the recent appointment of the treasurer of the royal
household to the office of its Lieutenant-Governer;
and whether the administration of Sark, or Ire-
land's-eye, would not have been more suitable to
the abilities and political experience of that noble-
man, as far as the public has any knowledge of
them.

Sir Major Cato, member for Common Dec'mum,
to move an address to the Crown for the institution
of an office iu England corroponding with that of
Censor inanc:ent Rome, with a view to protect the
public from the appointment to great offices ofState
of persons objectionable on moral cmsiderations,
or provide for the expeditious expulsion of such
persons from their employments.
Mr. Crotchet, member for Whimsey, to move
the following resolution :—That, as there appears
to this house to be a description of merit systema-
tically recognised and honoured by her Majesty's
Ministers, of which the community at large is
necessarily ignorant, owing to the secret, mys-
tcriow, recondite, and unknown nature. of the
services constituting it, it is expedient that in all
future distributions of honours and rewards
deserts of this class should be distinguished
from those of the ordinary, plebeian, and inferior
stamp, such as commonplace achievements in the
field of battle, with other vulgar displays of ability
in arduous situations, whether in peace or war; that,
with this view, it is the opinion of the house that a
new species of knighthood ought to be established,
to be called either the Secret Service Branch of the
Order of the Bath, or the Order of Occult Merit,
its members to be decorated with a black riband,
symbolical of the modest obscurity of their exploits,
which might be further indicated by the motto,
"Nox console Sola," and that after the institution
of this new crder an humble address be presented
t 3 her Majesty, further to promote thereto and de-
corate with its insignia these noblemen and gen-
tlemen whose merits under the existing protnis-
cuous system are confounded. with those of the vul-
gar and notorious species, and their patrician names
tArnished by juxtaposition with plebeian ones.
SirJusticeFairplayto move the following address
to the Crown :—" That, inasmuch as it is now the
practice of her Majesty's Government to confer
upon the brothers, sons, and nephews,
or
lmhouses,
ivcs and connexions of noble
as e -
ttor
n hitherto
e ys, and
other Howard s, Tollemaches, Ste., those little subordinates
commonly
bestowed
professionaln
n
upon
sol ic
i
t situations
re
belong-
ing to the middle class, her Majesty be graciously
pleased to direct thht as a just compensation to that
class, some few of the higher distinguished
and more
offices should be occasionally bestowed upon its
members, as otherwise the aristocratic families
would soon possess as complete a monopoly of the
small places in the public service as they now do of
all the great and valuable ones."
Mr. Critical to move for a return of any pensions
granted by Lord Palmerston during the last year
to epic, lyric, dramatic, or other poets, the return
to be accompanied with an appendix ccuttaining spe-
cimens of the immortal verses entitling the grantees
to such rewards and distinctions. Or, in the event
of such return being refused, to request the Prime
Minister to repeat to the house a few stanzas or pas-
sages from the worl.s of the pensioned bards, to
satisfy the country that only literary merit of the
highest order Las been encouraged at the public
expense.

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