The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-30 00:00:00

NORTH BRITISH.

It was rumoured on Tuesday on the Stock Ex-
clifinge that the North-Eastern Railway Company
are about to lease the North British Railway on
terms equal to a dividend of 32 per cent. per
annum on the ordinary stock of the company.

OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVER-

HAMPTON.
The receipts of this company, including the
Stourbridge Extension and Stratford•upon-Avon
Canals, for the fortnight ending the 19th of
December have been £8,979, while those for
the corresponding fortnight of 1857 amounted
to £8,314, and the expenditure to £3,927, being
at the rate of 43.73 per cent., while that for the
corresponding fortnight of 1857 amounted to
£3,974, or at the rate of 47.79 per cent. The
aggreoate r6eipts for the first 12 fortnights and
four daysb of the half-year amounted to £413,387,
as against £115,118 for the corresponding 12 fort-
nights and five days of the previous year, and the
aggregate expenses amounted to £44,632, or 39.36
per cent., as against £50,422' or 43.80 per cent. of
the receipts for the corresponding period of 1857.

Vice-Admiral Sir Andrew P. Green, K.C.H., died
on Sunday last in his 82d yeai. He entered the
navy more than 65 years ago, being a midshipman
on board the Illustrious, 74, at the investment of
Toulon in 1790 ; also at the reduction of- Bastia,
and in Hothani's first action. When in the Cen-
seur, 74, Capt. 3. Gore, he was taken prisoner, after
a brave defence, by a French squadron. After a
short detention by the enemy he waS released, and
in March, 1796; joined the Thunderer, 74, bearing
the flag of Sir Hugh C. Christian. Commander-in-
Chief of the West Indies, in which he witnessed
the reduction of. St. Lucia, the deetraction of the
French frigate Harmonic, and the evacuation of
St. Domingo. After serving in several other ships
(fully detailed- in "•O'Byrnes'S Naval Biography")
he joined the Ganges, 74, Capt. T. lc. F. Baker, in
which he served at the Battle .of Copenhagen, in
April, 1801; In September, 1803, he was appointed
to the Eurydice, 24, Capt. Nicholas, in the corn,
m,and of boats of which vessel he acquired great
.rnitelltiglEnaltani3in an attack made in Octo-
ber, 1806, on the Mestito la Solidad, Spanish pri-
vateer of six guns, and a convoy of which the
privateer -had charge.
.Immediately after that
event he joined the Neptune, 98, Capt. T. F. Free•
mantle, one of the victorious fleet under Nelson at
the battle of Trafalgar, and part of the naval fore*
next employed at the siege of Dantsic. After
holding different commands he joined the Sham-
rock sloop, in which he distinguished himself at
the battle of Cuxhaven, and served subsequently
as a volunteer at the reduction of Gluckstadt. He
obtained post rank in 1814, and he held several
eoinmands, when at length, in 1820kon the paying
off of fihe Rochfort, 'he -went on te'ialf-pay. The
gallant and venerable- admiral was in 1832 nomi•
nated a Knight-Commander of the Royal Hano-
verian Order and had been previously, by the
permission of his Sovereign, allowed to be made
Knight of the Sword of Sweden for his services at

the siege of Cuxhaven and at Gluckstadt, and was
a Knight of the Iron Crown of Austria. His
commissions were dated as follows :—Lieutenant,
August 8, 1800 ; Commander, February 1, 1812 ;
Captain, April 12, 1814 ; Rear-Admiral, March 3,
1849 ; and Vice,-Admiral, January 31, 1856.
General Williams, commandant of Woolwich
garrison, yesterday went through the half-yearly
examination of the - two battalions of the Royal
Military Train, in command of Colonel Erskine.
Having first inspected the troops off duty at the
encampment on Woolwich-common, as well as the
books and offices of the establishment, the General,
attended by his aide-de-camp, Major Teesdale, C.B.
Equerry to his Royal Highness the Pr:nee of
Wales ; Captain Freeth, Deputy Asssistant Quar-
termaster General ; and a staff of officers of the
Royal Artillery, proceeded to the arsenal and passed
in review the remainder of the corps who are
employed in considerable numbers in- the removal
of stores, &c., formerly carried out by contractors.
The whole of the men in command of Colunel
Erskine, Major McCourt, and the various officers
belonging to the division, were drawn up, dis-
mounted, in double column, and having been
thoroughly inspected they remounted and marched
past. Before retiring from the arsenal the general
announced to Colonel Erskine his satisfaction at the
result of his inspection. No complaints or symp-
toms of dissatisfaction emanated from- the men,
the whole of whom have additional remuneration
when employed in the arsenal, at what is
-termed extra duty, and receive beyond their
ordinary pay at the rate of .ls. per day
each non-commissioned officer and 6d. the private
soldier. The advantage, however, is not extended
to the commissioned officer, who, lthough perform-
ing equal duty beyondthe ordinary routine of tke
_service, is in no way recompensed for extra duty.
Lieutenant Bishop, R.A., attached to the riding
house establishment of Woolwich, was a few days
engaged) -in company with one of the veterinary
snr,veoris of Hilsea, inspecting the horses at that
establishment, when one of the animals bit off the
forefinger of his right hand, slightly above the first
joint. Amputation of the joint was subsequently
performed, and the lieutenant was shortly after
enabled to' return to Woolwich.

The paddlewheel steam-sloop Alecto, Commander
James Hunt, from Sierra Leone and the West Coast
Of Africa, last' from Portsmouth, steamed into har-
bour at Sheerness on TueSday. The Alecto has,
during her commission, taken the following prizes,
all of which have been condemned :—On the 27th
of August 1857, the Eliza Jane ; on the 6th of Sep-
tember, a. Spanish bark, supposed to be the Resto-
ration on the 13th of September, the brigantine
Onward, •under American colours ; on the 15th of
October. the.fore-and-uft schooner Lewis M'Lean,
also under American
.colours ; on the 26th of Oc-
tober, the. American bark Clara B. Williams ; on
the 4th of November; the American brigantine
Windward, having 605 slaves on board. Only 416
were alive' at the time of her condemnation ; 454
were landed .at St. Helena, the others having died
on the passage. The Windward was registered
267 tons... On the 15th of April 1858, she took the
Swedish-built schooner St. Olaf; she was taken on
the north coast off Cape Verga. The Alecto was
inspected by the Commander-in-Chief Vice-Admiral
of the Red, Edward Harvey, who expressed him-
self highly satisfied at the efficient and high state
of discipline of the ship's company.
A court martial is ordered to take place on
Saturday next on board the flagship Waterloo, to
try Mr. Coglan, gunner, on a charge of drunken-
ness ; he has been placed under open arrest for
upwards of five months.

Her Majesty's ship Shannon, screw, 50, Captain
Marten (acting), arrived at Spithead yesterday
afternoon, having left Calcutta Sept. 23 ; arrived
at Trincomalee October 3, left on the 9th ; arrived
at the Cape November 23, Ascension on the 28th ;
sailed for England on the 29th. She has met gene-
rally on her voyage home with very bad weather,
working under canvass until she made the Needles,
Isle of Wight, when she got up steam, and came
through that passage to Spithead. She brings home
on promotion Commander Elliot, late of the Bos-
cawen ; Lieut. Thompson, of the Alecto; Lieute-
nants Croke, Reid, and Mandeville, from the Cape
of Good Hope , Mr. Hearndon and three engineers,
and the crew of the Myrmidon, from Ascension
125 invalids from Calcutta, Trincomalee, the Cape,
and Ascension, and five distressed British subjects.
As the Shannon took so conspicuous a part in
India, the Naval Brigade of which so signalised
themselves under the ever to be lamented Captain
Wm. Peel, we give a list of the officeis belonging
to the ship at the present time :—Commander
Vaughan, Commander Young,. Commander Wilson,
Commander Hay, Lieut. (Acting) Verney, Chaphin
the Rev. J. Bowman, Master G. A. Waters, Surgeon
M'Lening, Paymaster W. J. Lapidge, Chief Engi-
neer C. A. 0. Dwyer, Assistant.surgeon Mr. Fla-
nagan; Lieut. Stirling, Royal Marines; Lord Kerr;
mates St. J. Daniels, Way, Church, Johnson, Far-
quhar, Richards, Laseelles, Watson, Briggs, 'Milan,
Digby ; Master's Assistant, Mr. Love ; Clerks,
Messrs. Theakston and Stanton ; Engineers, Messrs.
Bone, Hennie, Mills, Slatey, and Boxall ; Mr.
Thompson, gunner ; Mr. Lawrence, boatswain;
Mr. Brice, carpenter. Dr. M‘Lening served in the
Furious at China on the Staff of Lord Elgin.
Her Majesty's storeship Dee, Mr. Pullen in com-
mand, left Portsmouth harbour esterday morning,
but was signalled from the flagship Victory to
return into harbour.

Lieutenant John Liddell was yesterday appointed
her Majesty's ship Nile.