The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-25 00:00:00

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived, Sept. 24.—Fyenoord, steamer, from Rotterdam ;
Thos. Snowden, steamer, from Cronstadt ; Dolphin, steamer,
from Antwerp ; Seine, steamer, from Boulogne ; Sydney,
from Rangoon; Isabella Heron, and Argus, from Riga;
Edel, from Petersburg.
Arrived, Sept. 25.—North Star, steamer, from Chris-
tiania ; Camilla, steamer, from Patras ; Panther, steamer,
from Boulogne.

DEAL, Monday Morning.

Anchored.—Kelpie, for Bathurst; Fanny Fern, for
Swansea; Enmore, for Barbadoes —all from London;
Fanny Scott, from Shields, for Rio Janeiro, has been
supplied with an anchor and 15 fathoms of chain, in lieu
of others lost.

A report has been issued by the committee of in-
vestigation appointed at the general meeting of
shareholders of the Buenos Ayres Great Southern
Railway Company (Limited.) They conclude with
the following :
" Your committee have carefully inquired into the pro-
bable results of the future working of the line, as, however
satisfactory it may be to have the Government guarantee of
7 per cent., that is not a return with which the shareholders
should rest content. The returns, up to the present time,
are of too experimental a nature to afford any sufficient basis
for calculation on this subject ; but the opinion of Mr.
Parish and the engineers is in favour of a large increase in.
traffic. Already villages are beginning to spring up at
various points in its course where there were previously
mere wastes. At Chascomus, the southern tertainueof the
line, 72 miles from Buenos Ayres, building has been stimu-
lated, and the population along the lino are beginning to
understand the facilities which the railway presents to
them. Your committee refer orgnoettr
in
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sve
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striving
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from the
of the general manager, already submitted by the directors
to the shareholders. T
dividend
the to
Governmentthe shareholders
guaranteehedutyla
con-
cerned the obligation of the greatest economy consistent
with efficient administration—an obligation which your
committee trust will be most rigidly observed both here
and at Buenos Ayres.
Aaw, =s
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ABEL " HENRY
B o cx. L WHEELER,EI-
Moxos, Members of the Committee of In-
vestigation." ,SFCENhcaEhR•mannE;RAIlr. PT.H 8,0
So tiTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM.—Visitors during
the week ending Sept. 22:—On Monday, Tuesday, and
Saturday, free, from 10 a.in. to 10 p.m., 11,353; on Wed-
nesday, Thursday, and Friday (admission 6d.), from 10
a.m. till 6 p.m, I,26l—total, 12,614. Average of corre-
sponding week in former years, 11,606. Total from the
opening of the Museum, 6,316,612. _

. •
A letter from Miramar, in the New Free Press of
Vienna, states that the anniversary of the independence o
Mexico was celebrated there on the 15th by the execution
of a Te Dawn, at which the Empress Charlotte was pre-
sent, followed by a State dinner and tho firing of salvoes
l
of artillery. Don Castillo, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Don
l3s
aa
theran dpiearrsaonn,
persons
tsrslilaoiresatty the Majesty's
s uiCourtte,
were
oe fr
e invited as
t o the
Vienna,
banquet.
A dvices from Stockholm state that the new poli-
tical organisation in Sweden will soon commence working.
The Four Orders of the States-General are, it may be re-
membered, now entirely abolished, and the Parliament
will henceforth consist only of an Upper and a Lower
Chamber.

THE WEATHER IN SCOTLAND.--A change highly
favourable for the progress of harvest operations has
occurred in the weather of the past two days. Both Satur-
day and Monday were fine autumn days ; with a gentle
breeze blowing from the south-east ; whilst at night the
moon shone with full " harvest" brilliance. The weather
has some appearance of being settled. —Scotsman.
HISTORY OF A PICTURE.—Sir Edwin Landseer's
picture of "A Distinguished Member of the Humane
So-
ciety," so well-known by multitudinous engravings, has
been left to the nation by the late Mr. Newman Smith, and,
on the decease of his widow, will be added to thetb collection
in the National Gallery. Its history is wortli
The artist, when dining with Mr. Newman
ii,-sewfoundland
greatly struck with the appearance
• °likeness. The dog
dog, and expressed a wish to paint idt:
lying upon a table in
was therefore sent up to London,o9l:he _rnitthe:lwinag;
requisite number of
Landseer's studio, patiently
y Mr. Newman Smith gave
sittings. The figure
artist's firmest and
b°st:Lci; would not now be knocked
him £BO for the
picture, which
a less sum than an extra cypher
down by Mr. Christie
life size, the painting is in tilo
hi fetch the covetable price of " four
one_ of
figures." It 18which any national collection may
well be Proudr •
and would p_obLoan_y do