The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-10 00:00:00

LOiNTDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 10, 1858.

EAST INDIA HOUSE, 7TH APRIL, 1858.
THE COURT OF DIRECTORS of the EAST
INDIA COMPANY do HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that a
SPECIAL GENE AL COURT of the said Company will be held at
their house in Leadenhall-street, on TUESDAY, the 13th instant,
at Eleven o clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of submitting
for confirmation the resolution cf the General Court of this day, ap-
proving of the resolution of the Court of Directors of the 24th
u timo, granting an annuity of One Thousand Pounds (1,00/.) t•
the eldest son of the late Major-General Sir Henry Lawrence,
K.C.8., with reversion to his younger brother in the event of the
death of the elder brother without heirs male.
The Court of Directors do likewise Give Notice that the said
General Court is made further Special, for the purpose of continuing
the consideration of the two Bills now before Parliament, relating to
the Government of India, and of the Report thereon from the Court
of Directors, which were laid before the General Court this day.
J. D. DICKINSON, Secretary.

OF DEP 0 SIT-,
Established A.D. 1844.
3, PALL-MALL EAST, LONDON.
Parties desirous of INVESTING MONET are requested to examine
the Plan of the BANK OF DErostr, by which a high rate of interest
may be otlained with ample secw ity.
The Interest is payable in January and July.
PETER MORRISON, Managing Director.
Forms for opening accounts sent free, on application.

BANK

NETTING, BIINTIN, and TIFFANY, for the
PROTECTION of FRUIT TREE; and TENDER PLANTS.
—These articles are found to be the best protection against frost,
hail, and wind ; also from wasps and insects, and good for outside
shades of greenhouses, &c.
Patterns forwarded free on application to BENJAMIN EDGING-
TON, Marquoo, Tent, and Rick Cloth Manufacturer, No. 2, Duke-
street, Southwark, S.E. ; West-end Establishment, 32, Charing-
cross.

SPORTING liVTE i.LIGENOE.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER.-FRIDAY.

For the Great Northern Handicap the Dupe was in
demand at 10 1, and in most instances Bt, 1 was the
highest price offered against him. Bashi-Baz +tik ap-
pears rather unst,ady in the betting, and we.do not
think he would have been supported at less odds than
16 to 1. 20 to 1 would have been taken about Prince
of Denmark. 7to 1 was currently offered on the field
for the Metropolitan StakeY, and 100 to 7 was taken a
time or two about Wouvermans. For the Two Thousand
Guineas Stake., Cly 'esdale was in force at 4to 1. FJr
the Caesar Cu.) 500 to 25 wa. taken about Blink
Bonny, 450 to 10 about Saunterer, and 450 to 10 about
POIISSIE T.

NAVAL AND '2:IILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

The examination of candidates for commis-
sions in the army by the Council of Military Edu-
cation, consisting of Major-Gen. Cameron (Vice-
President), Major-Gen. Poraock, and Lieut.-Col.
Addison, will take place at Burlington house on
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday in the
ensuing week.

Yesterday a district court-martial, presided over
byLieut.-Col. J. H. Gascoigne, RoyalMarineLight
Infantry, was engaged at Chatham Barracks in the
trial of a private of the 84th Regt., named John
Dodd, on the serious charge of having struck Ser-
geant James Burton, of the same regiment, his
superior officer, while in the execution of his duty.
The prisoner, who has borne a very iudiflerent char-
acter since he has been in the corps, was complained
against by the prosecutor, when he struck him a
violent blow in the face with his fist, fur which of-
fence he is liable to transportation. On the conclu-
sion of the trial the Court next proceeded to try
Private George Birch, of the 29th Regiment, on a
charge of desertion. The prisoner deserted' from
the head-quarters of his Corp, while at Rangoon,
Barra:4h, Aug. 29, 1857, and did not return until
the 16th ult., when he was brought back to his
depot at Chatham by military escort. The Court
found both prisoners_ gulty, the sentences being
forwarded to the Commander-in-Chief forappro val.
The preparations for the launch of the large
screw steamer Hero, 91, which will take place at
Chatham Dockyard t n Thursday afternoon next,
are bring carried forward on au extensive scale.
In order to accommodate a greater number, the
public will be freely admittet to any part of the
dockyard where a view of the launch can be ob-
tained.

The new Lords of the Admiralty pursued their
inquiries at Portsmouth yesterday, but the visit
was not the official one annually paid by the board,
but was of a cursory chai-acter. Having finished
their inspection on Thursday by their visits to the
Marlborough, 131, Captain Lord F. H. Kerr, fit-
ting for the flag of Vice-Admiral Fatishawe, C. 8.,
as Commander-in-Chief of tLe Mediterranean firer;
the Illustrious training-ship, Capt. Robert Harris,
yesterday morning, at half-past 9 o'clock, the offi-
cial party re-entered the dockyard and resumed
their labours under the escort of Rear Admiral the
Ron. George Grey, the superintendent of the esta-
blishment; Flag-Caplan G. H. Seymour, C. 8.,
A.D.C. to the Queen ; Mr. Murray, Superinten-
dent Engineer ; Mr. Woods, C.E., Clerk of Works,
&c. Coming to the docks, their attention was
called, through the Right Hon. Mr. Corry, the
principal secretary, to the unfinished state of the
tee% )Ets iocncik
Norfortthhelenxl ,
fone
es necessary
dock
aeee
modyard. It has proceeded to the extent only of the
attoioncolinpltehties
expenditure of about 14,0001., whereas 50,000/.
would complete it; as it is, it is an apparent ruin and
hindrance to other work. This structure was one of
those left unfinished by Mr. Rolt. Toe great dock
at the other end of rho dockyard, asout 650 feet long,
is progressing rapidly in its construction and will
speedily be completed. Mr. Sa.ith, civil'eneineer,
is constmily on the spot super;n.tendieg the'works,
having tak,in those contrac s for the Government
which
.were entered upon by the hte Mr. Edmund
Smith, of Woolwich. The only ships their lord-
ships went on board of were the three-decker Royal
Sovereign, 131 ; and the Algiers, 91. This con-
cluded, their lord.thips partook of luncheon at the
Admiralty-house, and afterwards embarked in the
gunboat Stork for a trip to Spithead, with the in-
tention of visiting the Renown, Diadem, Curagoa,
and Racoon, or some of them ; but on account of
the "heavy swell," they did not accomplish their
objecs, and returned to harbour content with a
look at the
ships and a salute for their flag, which
the Stork carried. Vice-Admiral Martin was 11.ot
on board, but remained in the dockyard transacting
business. A little before 4 o'clock the prin-
cipal officials landed at the dockyard, and pro-
ceeded thence to London by the 4.25 express train,
South-We: tern.

The second battalion of the 4th (King's Own)
Foot, from Newport, Monmouthshire, will proceed
to Portsmouth Garrison in the early part of next
week.

The IT field-battery of Artillery at Christchurch,
Hants, will remove next week to Wises, Ports-
mouth,' exchanging quarters with Captain Elgee's
battery.
Commander William Edward Henn Gennys, in-
specting commander of the Liverpool distract of the
coast-guard service, arli third son of Edmund Henn
Gennys, Esq., of Whitleigh, Devon' died on the
31 inst., at Whitehaven. This gallant officer en-
tered the navy July 2, 1826. •
Commander Charles Leach, who died recently at
Jersey, was a son of Abraham Leach, Esq., of
Cotston Hou,e, Pembrokeshire. He was born
Sept. 12, 1800, and entered the navy June 23,
1814.

The Louisa, steam gun boat, tender to the Pem-
broke, 60, screw guard ship, prodeeded from Sheer-
ness on Wednesday, on a trial trip of her machinery,
after undergoing repairs. Her average spe:dex-
ceeded eight knots per hour, her average revolutions
were 150 per minute, and her average steam pres-
sure was 551 b. on the Square inch. The trial was
in every r( spect satisfactory.
Lieut. Chas. Pringle was yesterday appointed
additional lieutenant to the Cambridge fur tempo-
rary service.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

Miles
o?ened.
1857.

26%
118
198%
91
6}6
20

IB3U
283
2031
465
25
90
286 V

514
183%
289 N

,3,)

12%
632

ROYAL SWEDISH.
The directors of this_ company state in their re-
port that they have been occupied in the final set-
tlement of the various claims of the creditors of the
which company, some of wh
were under discussion at
the time of the last annuall meeting. These claims
have been disposed of! and the company is in no
seay involved in anylitigation. The line was opined
on the 29th of Augustil last from Orebro to Arboga,
m
a distance of 341 miles
l ; but the amount of prefer-
ence capital paid up las not sufficed to finish the
remaining nine miles, }art!) made, from Arboga to
'Coping, so as to perfect the whole section of 45
T
miles east of Orebro. his result has arisen from
the expenditure havinsomewhat exceeded the esti-
mate, and from a considerable portion of the sub-
scribed capital not having beeti paid up. It is esti-
mated that the additional portion from Arboga to
scooping could be
opened_for a further sum of
15,0001, or, including the s 4 ations and sidings, for
not exceeding 20,000/. The
the amount of receipts from directors regret that
traffic (althong h . tra
in-
creased in proportion to the number of miles
opened) is as yet unsatisfactory This is no doubt
e period attributable partly to the lat • • d of the year
when the additional mileage wasopened,partly toar
the fact that at the same time the plant
for the ser-
vice of the goods traffie was
necessarily incomplete,
incomplete,
and. partly to the recent commercial crisis which has
been very seriously felt in Sweden. M rover, suffi-
cient time has not elapsed for the development of
traffic in a new country ; so that the present re-
ceipts firms no criterion as to the future working.
Every exertion is being made Is
..,y Mr. Jacob for
developing the traffic. Trains will be run in con-
nection with the. daily t steamboa
• s on the Lake
Malarn as soon as the navigation reopens, and ar-
rangements are in progress to bring the mineral
and other goods traffic) of the district on to the line.
The directors confidently hope, iiithe course of the
ensuing spring and summer, to see a large increase
in the revenue. The gross receipts by y the present
Board from the Ist of May, 1856, to the 31st of
December last, amounted to 152,674 j. ; and the
payments to 148,6541. Of this latter amount
64,699/. has been paid for materials, &c., to the
creditors of the company, in discharge of debts
existing at the time the present board commenced
their functions ; 47,6751. has been sent to Sweden
for the construction of the line and works, while
22,2591. has been spent in the purchase of rolling
stock and materials. The directors recommend
the forfeiture of 1,000 of the preference shares on
which only 11. has been paid, and of 895 shares on
which Dilly 21. have been paid, no notice having
been taken of the repeated applications for the
payment of the reiriainreg calls, now long over due.
The directors submitted a propo,4al to sell the line
and works, either at the fixed sum of 5,000,000
rix dollars banco (being 416,666/. sterling) or else
at a va'uation, with 25 per cent. added, as
contemplated by the company's charter. In the
event of the Government not purchasing the
line the directors asked (in order to enable them
to complete, the remaining distance west of
Orebro) for a guarantee of 6 per cent, on the sum
of 611,0001., to cover the old capital, as well as
that required to complete, the railway as far as
Swarta, and they also asked for an immediate and
unconditional return of the 11,8331. caution money.
The Diet has ultimately resolved not to purchase
the line at present, but simply to repay to the
company 7,888/., or two-thirds of the 11,833/.
caution money, without attaching any condition
as to its application, leaving the remaining 3,944/.
in their hands until the nine miles to Koping are
completed. The assets of the c mpany are esti-

mated at 28,642/., and the liabilities at 4,8031. to
the 31st Dec. last.

ANTWERP AND ROTTERDAM.

The report of the directors of this company for
the year 1857 states that the amount of capital
raised is 580,0001. The receipts on revenue account
during the year 1857 amounted to 46,751/., includ-
ing 33,2551. from the railway, and 13,4971. from
the boats, and the expenses to 28,6431., being
17,9621. for the railway, and 10,6811. for the boats,
leaving a net profit of 18,1081. The increaso in the
receipts, as compared with 1. 856, amounted to
6,0831., or 15 per cent., and in the expanses to
4431., or 11 par cent., leaving the increase in the
profits 5,6401., or 45 per cent. The balance-sheet
shows a profit of 14,1081. for 1857, out of which
the directors recommend a dividend at the rate of
7 francs per share, leaving a balance to the credit of
the reserve fund.

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK.

NAME OF RAILWAY.

Receipts.

1807.

1,336

'292
2,689

5.769
12,112
5,124

278
1,900
1,328
1,627

536
1,007

896
8,885
24,393
5,362
2,897

1,252
6,68;
21,754
9,537
27,323

462
5,954
22,063

54.440
1,303
14,709
14,531
712

b 56.

9,525

79
30,315
3276
1,444
3,105
4,574
6,158

2,7:1

1,439
2,289

1,142

242
2,587

5,967
12,460
5,103

285
1,049
1,4.18
1,576
489
947

983
5,993

795
2,228
17,7.9
6,383
2,'53
3,56)
1,443
9 t 3
572
455

23,197
5,299
3,251

1,446
6,118
21 924
5,949
23 993

336
5,512
21,856

59,019
1,272
12 030
13,790
729

9 214

878
30,190
3,620
1,508
3,261
4,590
6,970

3,715

2,G91

2,445

38,152

34,035