The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-16 00:00:00

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning.
Wind W.; showery; storm of thunder, lightning, and
heavy rains about midnight.
Arrived— Ondino, steamer, from London; Mary Lloyde,
Cardiff.
Sailed--Ondino, steamer, for Dublin ; South Western,
steamer, for Jersey.

LIVERPOOL, Friday Morning.
Wind N.
Arrived, July 15—William Lord, from New Orleans;
Frederick Gustave, from Nantes.
Arrived, July 16—Nova Scotia, screw steamer, from
Quebec.

(Br SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Friday Morning.
Wind W.N.W.; tide three hours' ebb; cloudy, wit
thunder.
Arrive3—Princes3 Victoria, from Cronstadt; Basrtal•
dere, from Smyrna. _ _

DEAL, Friday Morning
Wind S., light.
Passed—Hotspur, from London for Calcutta. .
Sailed—Alberto, for Porto Rico.

When the whole of the reinforcements now on their
passage from this country have reached India, the nnm-
ber of British cavalry and infantry serving in India will
be augmented to 100,000 inen.

THE LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY DIVIDENDS,
—SECRETARY 'S OFFICE, LONDON, July 15.—Sir, I am
ilstrueted by the board of directors to inform you that
the accounts for the past ha!f-year having been this day
submitted to them, they have decided upon recommend-
ing the payment of a dividend for the half-year of 2i
per cent. on the consolidated str'ck of the company.—l
am, sir, your obedieotservant, FRED. SLIGHT, Secretary.
ROYAL Hum &NE SOCIETY.—The half-yearly general
meeting of this society was held on Thursday, Mr. B. B.
Cabbell in the chair. The report stated that since Jan.
last no less than 135,000 persons had bathed in the Ser-
pentine river, and that the society's boatmen had rescued
13 individuals who had been seized with cramp or be,
come exhausted from swimming, besides saving nine
other persons who had attempted suicide. The hono-
rary silver medal of the society was awarded to the 'fol-
lowing- persons for their extraordinary courage and risk
of lite in rescuing persons from being drowned ;--Lieut.
E. F. Pollard, R.N , commanding her Majesty's gun-
boat Woodcock, Who saved Joseph White, A. 8., of the
,nle vessel, off Tiger Island, Canton River, on the 254 s
ef Nov., 1867 ; John Berger, A. 8., of the troopship
Castle Eden, who saved Dennis Driscoll, a boy of the
same vessel, at sea, off Cape Comorin, 29th Nov., 1357;
Lieut. G.T. Drake, R.N., of her Majesty's ship Calypso
who saved Miss Howard, off Sheerness, on the let of
February, 1858 ; George Green, seaman, who saved a
youth named Boothhy iu the river Humber, on the 3d
August, 1857 ; Mr. Henry Meyers, an insurance broker,
who saved R.Upton in the Old Croydon Canal, Forest-
hill, on the 23d of March, 1858 ; Joseph Hawkins,
boatswain of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steamship Pera, who saved Thomas Stone., a boy of the
same vessel, at sea, off Malta, on the 7th of April, 1853 ;
Joseph Campbell, clerk, who saved Thomas Batey in
the River Irtbing, near Brampton, on the 18 h of April,
1858. Alexander M'Kirgan, pilot of Portrush, who
saved Francis Dimond, labourer, in the harbour at
Portrush, Ireland, on the 21st of January, 1858 ; and
Mr. Anthony Stainers, J.P., who saved Miss Johnson,
Miss Croly, and Mr. E. Lloyd at sea, off Cork, on the
24th of April, 1858.