The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-16 00:00:00

Landseer's Lions.

A writer in the Times says :—The following
details may possibly interest the British publi c
Baron Marochetti, it is well known, has supplied
the metal and made the castings, for which he is
to receive £ll,OOO. The weight of each lion is 7
tons. Sir Edwin Landseer is to receive £6,000. It
is stated that a firm offered to perform Baron
Marochetti's part of the work for £6,000. Whether
this be so or not, I can assure you that a partner o
one of the most extensive and most important engi-r
neering establishments in this country, where com-
plicated castings of very large dimensions are con-
stantly made, not only of cast iron, but of the alloy
of which the lions are composed, informed me that
payment at the rate of Is. 2d. per lb. would be re-
munerative, and that he would undertake to pro-
duce such castings at that rate. Thus you will
perceive, that £3,650 (in round numbers) would
have sufficed to procure for the nation what has cost
£ll,OOO.

Railway and other Companies.

MIDLAND.

The half-yearly general meeting of this com-
pany was held yesterday at Derby ; Mr. W. E.
Hutchinson in the chair.

The report (an abstract of which has appeared in
The Sun) was taken as read.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the
report, said that the increase in the traffic amounted
to the large sum of £72,000 in the half-year (this
had shown itself in all the items of traffic carried on
the railway). The increase would have been greater
but for the disasters which occurred in the autumn
of last year, these arising in consequence of the
floods and the bad weather wkich prevailed for an
unusually lengthened period. A viaduct on the
Leeds and Bradford line had been destroyed, that
caused an interruption of the traffic ; they had also
had to deal with the embankment on the Rowsley
and Buxton extension line. Their traffic had also
suffered from the strikes which had taken place at
the ironworks and collieries in their districts, the
results of these had been that instead of their ac-
counts showing a steady increase of £3,000 a week,
there had been a diminution amounting in the
aggregate to £lO,OOO in the lalt six weeks of the
half-year. Their expenses had been very heavy, the
proportion to the receipts being greater than usual.
The cost of some of the renewals had been borne by
revenue. Among the items under that head was one
in way and works department amounting to £7,000
during the half-year. The locomotive expenses had
been increased by running additional trains over the
lines of neighbouring companies, they had had to use
the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and others,
and would of course have to pay for that accommo-
dation. The increase of train mileage run last half-
year was £500,000 miles. In reference to the loans
recently raised or renewed they had not been able
to borrow on such favourable terms as heretofore,
but he believed that in this particular they had done
as well as their neighbours ; and but for the dis-
asters to which he bad referred he had no doubt that
they would have earned 61 per cent. The expendi-
ture in the half-year on capital account amounted
to little short of £1,750,000 on works at present un-
productive; and taking into account the amount
thus expended, as reported up to the end of June,
1866, the aggregate was moth than £3,500,000 ;
that sum had been raised by way of debentures,
open stocks, and in other ways. In the half-year the
interest on that amounted to £89,000 unproduc-
tive, which amounted to 11 per cent. on their capi-
tal, or 15s. per share on the half-year. lle believed
that when the new lines were opened for traffic that
there would be a considerable rebound in dividend,
especially as soon as the London and Manchester
lines were open. Of this he took a most hopeful
view. 11e commended to the especial favour of the
shareholders the proposed amalgamation with the
Glasgow and South-Western line, which project
would be attended with the greatest advantage to
this company.

Mr. PRICE, the deputy-chairman, seconded the
motion for the adoption of the report.
After a long discussion, in the course of which
amendments were proposed, the report was adopted
on a show of hands bya large majority. Dr. O'Brien
demanded a poll, but it was believed that the result
of the vote on the show of hands will be unchanged.

The Queen is understood to bo preparing a work
for the press, illustrated by plates of her own execution.
MR. DICKENS was a spectator of Monday's Re-
form demonstration from the balcony of the Atheneum
Ulub, in company with the Archbishop of York, who
about a year and a half ago, denounced the reading of
novels as pernicious.

A marriage is arranged to take place between
Lady Marion Loftus, daughter of the Marchioness of Ely,
and Mr. Springfield, of the sth Dragoon Guards.

Sir Robert and Lady Vivian have left Edwards's
Royal Cambridge Hotel for Brighton.

Sir John and Lady Sebright have taken a house
in Grafton-street, where they have arrived from Beech-
wood, Herts, for the season.

PURE DENTISTRY, AND WHAT IT DOES FOR US
—is the title of a very interesting little book,
which has just been published by Mr. A. Eskell, of
Grosvenor-street, the well-known consulting practi-
tioner in dentistry, and author of several important
works on dental surgery. It is not a collection
of fulsome puffs, tacked together and pub-
lished as a professional advertisement, but a useful
volume, overflowing with valuable advice as to the
preservation of the teeth. The great object of the
work is to show how much the state of the mouth
and teeth affects the general health, and as the lan-
guage used is devoid of technicalities every person
once taking up the book cannot replace it on the
table without obtaining much useful information.
There are chapters on the month and teeth, pre-
servation, and extraction, imperfect remedies,
tartar and its extirpation, the scaling operation, the
conditions requisite to the safe and effectual per-
formance of the operation, and various other mat-
ters all tending to the preservation of the teeth.
The best test of the utility of the book is the fact
that the first edition was exhausted before any-
thing like the demand could be met. The author
in the new edition has made certain additions to
that originally published, and those who desire in-
formation on the subject of teeth cannot fail to
find it in Ur. Eskell's little book.

rEEFEREIVIE 511AltES.
Great 'Western, 4 per cent irred. 70

LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS.
London and Blackwall, 8Z
FOREIGN MINER.
Don Pedro, Nor.h Del hey, pm
BAN

Australasia, 671
-Consolidated Bank, lim.,
Ditto, new, 31
imperial Ottoman, lirn., 91 0
Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 3
London Bank of Mexico and S. America. Urn., 11
London Chartered Dana of Australia, 221
London and Ccfaiii y. e 5 4t
London and South African, 131
London and South-Western, Bin., 11
London and %I estminster, 9i. 4
Midland Bank, lien.. 18 $
Provincial Banking Corporation, Rm., 31
South Australia, 2 1
Standard of British South Africa, lim., 14/
Union of London, 451

MISCELLADLIGOW3.
Anglo-American Telegraph, 1.1
Atlantic Telei.}rapn, 20
nit o, 8 per cent
Bombay Gas, lim,, 4i
Ceylon Company, 10
Commercial Union, liisuranae, 44
Credit Fonder of England, Lim,. 31
Crystal Palace,

Ditto, Preference, 102 3
East Indian Laud Credit uud Finance, lint.,
Ebbw Vale, lu
Ezyptian Cont. and Trading, lirn., 3
Gen. Credit and Discount, Inn-.
Hudson's Bay, 16
Imperial Land Company of Marseilles, Ilm., 1
London General omnibus Company, lint, 3
Mauritius Land, Credit, and Agency, lint., 14
Nsalonal Discount I .ompany, Isg
Ditto, new, issued at 5 prem., of which 2f is to pay, 11
Peniusula and Oriental k4eatn,.66}
Ditto, new, (6

A meeting of the Water Supply Commissioners
was held on Thursday, at 6, Adelphi-terrace,Uharing-eross.
Present—Duke of Richmond, K.G., sir John Thwaites
Sir Belijamin Phillips, Colonel Harness, R.E., Mr. Joseph
Prestwich, F.R.S., Mr. Thomas Harrison, C.E., and Mr.
Arthur Lennox, secretary to the Commission.

FALSE WEIGHTS, &C.—Sixty-one tradespeople in
the South of London were on Wednesday fined at the
Newington petty session for the possession and use of Lis*
weights and measures. The fines varied in amount from
ss. to £5, some of the heavier penalties being inflicted for
second and third offences,instances of this kind numbering 12
in all. One case respecting which there was some doubt was
adjourned. In one case, the defence was set up that short
weights were used for pressing skins and leverage, but
neither to buy in nor to sell, and the exemption of French
weights was sought. Among other extreme cases may be
mentioned, ono in which a nail was attached to a coal
scale-plato, on which was hung a 141 b. weight ; and the
scales wore lib. against the oustomer.—k7outh London
Chronicle,