The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUL Y 4, 1859.

or OFFICES to be LET, at 4,
ADELPHI-TERRACE, STRAND, in excellent con-
dition, and beautifully situated. The ground floor and draw-
ing-rooms may be adapted for a public company, or other
purposes. They may be viewed on application to the house-
keeper, resident. For further particulars apply to Mr. Thos.
Jennings Ford, Esq., 8, Dinner's-hall, Old Broad-street,
City.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—On Sunday,
July 10th, a CHEAP EXCURSION TRAIN will
leave Paddington, at 7.45 a.m., for READING, Theale, Alder-
maston, Wooiharnpton, Thatcham, Newbury, Kintbury, and
Hungerford (fares, ss. Cd., 45., and 35.); Pangbourne, Goring,
Wallingford Roa Didcot, Culham, Abingdon, and Oxford
(fares, Os. 6J., 55., and 45.); returning the same evening from
Oxford at 7 o'clock, and intermediate stations as per hand-
bills.

NOTICE OF DIVIDEND.

DEPOSIT,
BA N Established A.D.2844,

No. 3, PALL MALL EAST, LONDON, S.W,

The WARRANTS for the HALF-YEARLY INTEREST,
at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, on Deposit Accounts, to
the 30th instant, will be ready. for delivery .Qn and after the
11th July, and payable daily between the hours, of 10 and 4.
PETER MORRISON, Managing Director.
June, 1859.
Prospectuses and forms sent free on application.

GALWAY LINE.—The ATLANTIC ROYAL
MAIL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.

(Limited.)

Incorporated under the Limited Liability Acts of 1856 and
1857, whereby the liability of each Shareholder is limited
to the amount of his subscription.
Capital, £500,000, in 50,000 shares of £lO each, with power to
increase.

Deposit £2 per share ; £1 further payable upon allotment.
By the terms of the Articles of As-,,ociation, no call can ex-
cc•(,d £3 per share, and au interval of three„.no th least
anust,elaptEbetween-each_oll:- " ,

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TRUSTEES.-
The Right Hon. the Earl of Shre;l•sbury and Talbot, Rear-
Admiral, 1n,,0-estre Hall, Stafford.
Coleridge John Kennard, Esq., banker, London.
Edward Masterman, Esq., banker, London.

DIRECTORS.
Right Hon. Lord Viscount Bury, M.P., Rutland-gate, and
Quidenham-hall, Norfolk.
Sir Peter Ilesketh Fleetwood, Bart., Richmond, Surrey.
Sir Allan Napier Macnab, Batt., Dundurn, Canada,
John Arthur Roebuck, Esq., M.P., 19, Ashley-place, West-
minster.
Thomas Howard, Esq., Hyde, Manchester.
George Peter Lascaridi, Esq„ Craven-hill, Hyde-park.
John Orrell Lever, Egg., M.P., 60, Eccles ton-square, London.
Thomas Osborne Stock, Esq., Lloyd's, and 21, Torrington-
square, London.
Harvey Lewis, •Esq.,'Director of the National Bank (Ireland),
13, Old Broad-street, 24, Grosvenor-street, London.
GENERAL MANAGER. SECRETARY.
A. M. Wier, Esq. A. Boate, Esq.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Masterman, Peters, and Co., London.
Messrs. Hepwood, Kennard, and Co., London.
The Provincial Bank, Old Broad-street, London ; and its
Branches in Ireland.
The National Bank, and its Branches in Ireland.
The National Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh, and its Branches.

SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Hughes, Kearsey, and Co., 17, Bucklersbury, London.
Messrs. Valiance and Valiance, 20, Essex-st., Strand, London.
J. Macnamara Cantwell, Esq., 24, Lower Dominick-street,
Dublin.

STOCK BROKERS.
Messrs. Philip Cazenove and Co., Threadneedle-street, Lon-
don.
Messrs. Boyle, Low, Pim and Co., Dublin.
Edward Fox, Esq., Government Stock Broker, 51, Dame-
street, Dublin. .•
Thomas Millar. Esq., 6, St. Ar drew-square, Edinburgh.
The Directors have the satisfaction to announce that they
have completed a contract with her Majesty's Government
for a fortnightly Mail Service between Galway and North
America, securing to this company a subgdy of £78,000 per
annum, or £3,000 per. voyage. This is in addition to the New-
foundland contract of £13,000 Tor 13 voyages per annum, pre-
viously obtained, The steam vessels destined for the perform-
ance of the service are in course of construction under Cjll-
- which provide for their completion within the time
stipulated by the Government contract.
The Directors are now prepared to receive applications for
the remaining capital.
The Company being registered under the Joint-Stock Acts
of 1856-1857, with limited liability, no Shareholder can be
liable for more than the amount of Shares held by him.
Forms of Application for the remaining Shares may be had
at the offices of the Company, or of any of the stock-brokers.
Offices, 40, Cannon-street, E.C., July 1, 1859.

THE NA VI.

The Mars, 'BO guns, 400-horse power ; the- Tra-
falgar, 91 guns, •500-horse power; the Edgar," 91
guns, 600-horse power ;- the --Scout, 21 guns, 400-
horse power ; the Scylla, 21 guns, 400-horse power;
the Clio, 21 guns, 400-horse power; and the Cos-
sack, 2&-guns, 250-horse powerHcommissioned and
fitting.

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The Majestic, 80 guns, *horse power—com-
plete.
The Queen, 86 guns, 500-horse power ; and the
Malacca, 17 guns, 200-horse power—fitting for the
pendant.
The Renard, 4 guns, 200-horsA power ; and the
Snake, 4 guns, 160-horse power=complete.
The following ships and vessels are in the Sheer-
ness division of the steam reserve, exclusive of the
ships, floating batteries, and vessels at moorings in
the upper division of the River Medway, and fit-
ting :—The Meeanee, 80 guns, 400-horse power ;
the Forte, 51 guns, 400-horse power; the 'Fawn, 17
guns, 100-horse power ; the Horatio, 12 guns
(morttn), 250-horse power ; the Alacrity, 4 guns,
200-horse power ; the Icarus, 11 guns, 150-horse
power; the Dragon, 6 guns, 560 horse power; the
Baraeoutta, 6 guns, 300 horse power; the Fox-
hound, 4, 200 horse power ; the Eurotas, 12 guns
(mortar), 200 horse power ; the Challenger, 21 guns,
400 horse power ; the Hood, 90 guns, 600 horse
poiver (receivin&her machinery) ; the Wrangler, 4
guns, 160 horse Hower ; the Phceni4, 6 guns, 260
horse __power ; the 0 tter,--- 1
power. 20,- Mdse.

The following is a list of steamships and vessels
commissioned, fitted ready for the pendant, and
being fitted at Sheerness yard and in the River Med-
way, showing their number of guns and steam power
(nominal) :
Gunboats.—The Dwarf, 2 guns, 20 horse power ;
the Fly, 3 guns, 60 horse power ; the Fidget, 2 guns;
20 horse power; the. Carnation, 3 guns, GO horse
power ; the Mayflower, 3 guns, 60 horse power ;
the Cochin, 3 guns, GO horse power; the Bullfrog,
3 guns, 60 horse power; the Hasty, 3 guns, 60
horse power; the Pelter, 3 guns, 60 horse power;
the Lively, 3 guns, 60 horse power ; the Mistletoe,
3 guns, 60 horse power ; the Julia, 3 guns, 60 horse
power; the Tickler, 3 guns, 60 horse power ; the
Griper, 3 guns, 60 horse power ; the Herring, 31
guns, 60 horse power ; the Spey, 3 guns, 60 horse„
power; the Thistle, 3 guns, 60 horse power; they
Sepoy, 3 guns, 60 horse power ; the Manly, 3 guns,
60 hosse power ; the Mastiff, 3 guns, 60 horse
power.

Steamvessels undergoing repairs and making
good defects—The Salamander, 6 guns, 220 horse-
power ; the Miranda, 15 guns, 250 horse power ; the
Swallow, 9 guns, 60-horse power; the Thrasher,
3 cmns, 60-horse power. Flagships and Guardships
of Ordinary.--The Queen Charlotte, 104 guns ; the
Formidable, 84 guns, both sailing ships. For Har-
bour Duty and Tenders.—The African, the Myrtle,
the Wildfire, the Lizard, and the Fearless.
The total number of guns to be mounted on
board the foregoing ships and vessels is 1,115. The
total amount of nominal horse power is 10,520.
The Amphion, 36 guns, commissioned by Capt.
Miller, at Chatham, has arrived at Sheerness, and
on Saturday last proceeded out on trial of•her
machinery ; her greatest rate of speed was seven
knots and a half per hour, tested by the measured '
mile. In consequence of hot bearings the engines
had to be stopped for a considerable time. She
returned to moorings late in the evening.
Lieuts. Francis Hewson and John Wallace New-
port have taken up their commissions and joined the
Queen Charlotte flagship at Sheerness vice Lieut.
Angus P. Arkwright, promoted, at Lieut. Horatio
L. A. L. Maitland, appointed to the Scout.
The Trafalgar has been put out of the fitting
basin at Sheerness ; she will be ready for sea in
about 10 days.
The new screw steam-vessel Greyhound left Mil-
ford on Thursday morning for Plymouth, in charge
of Mr. Paul, Master-Attendant of Deronport dock-
yard. She was accompanied by the bteainveseel.
Lightning.
The crew of the screw steam-frigate Diadem, 31,
Captain Moorsom, at Plymouth, were paid wages
on Friday.
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for Liverpool.
The screw-steam-frigate Topaze, 51, Captain the
Hon. C. Spencer, is receiving her guns at Devon-

port.
The screw steamship Cmsar, 90, was placed in
Keyham basin on Friday, and docked on Saturday
in order to have her valves overhauled. Her crew

were paid wages on Saturday.
The paddlewheel steamvessel Locust, 3, Lieut.-
Commander J. B. Field, was appointed to sail from
Plymouth on Saturday with supernumeraries for
Portsmouth and Sheerness, and probably for Port-

land.
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The screw steam frigate Liffey, 50, Capt. G. W.
Preedy,.C.B., at Plymouth, is ordered to prepare
for foreign service.
The Simoom screw troopship, Commander J. M.
Cooke, in the steam basin at Portsmouth, is in the
hands of the factory department to have the neces-
sary repairs carried out for her refitment for further
service. Her engines are in good condition, and
she will merely require placing in dock for the pur-
pose of being cleaned, and have some slight defects
made good in her Kingston valves. Her boilers
will also require a slight overhaul. This vessel was
commissioned in January, 1857, by her present
commander, and sailed in the latter part of the
same month for the Cape and India, being the first
vessel to arrive out with assistance to our country-
men at the outbreak of the sepoy mutiny. She has
run over a total distance of 69,532 miles, of which
39,632 were under steam, with a consumption of
6,423 tons of coal, having carried during that time
4,912 troops, and 102 women and children. The
Simoom was originally designed with the Vulcan
and Mcgmra as armed frigates, but the experiments
at that time carried out from, her Majesty's ship
Excellent led to an inference being drawn un-
favourable to the employment of iron ships of this
description in warlike operations, and caused their
conversion into troopships, as which they have ren-
dered good service, the Simoom, more especially,
since 1855 having proved herself a most efficient
vessel for the purpose. The first five, years of
the Simoom's career were most unfortu-

nate, as from the slight construction of her
engines she was constantly • breaking down,
'and hardly ever out of the hands of
the engineers. In 1855, on her return from
the Black Sea, it was determined by the Admiralty
to take out the engines which had been such a
constant source of trouble and expense, and have
them replaced by a pair of engines of the combined
power of 200 horse (nominal), designed and manu-
factured at the steam factory in Portsmouth dock-
yard, since which time the ship has been enabled
to perform her work in a most satisfactory manner.
During the 24 years she has been employed on the
Indian station she has never been detained a single
hour from the inefficiency of
any part of her ma-
chinery, or cost the country a single shilling for
repairs. The Simoom's crew will be "paid down"
and granted leave of absence.
The Vulcan screw troopship was commissioned at
Portsmouth on Saturday by Commander C. Strode.
The Victoria and Albert Royal yacht, Captain
Hon. J. Denman, was brought alongside the Sheer
jetty at Portsmouth yard on Friday to receive a
portion of her machinery, which had been under
repair at the factory, and afterwards returned to
her harbour moorings.
150 seamen volunteers for the navy have arrived
in Tortsmouth during the last 10 days from various
ports.
The Hornet, 17, screw, Commander Viscount Gil-
ford, arrived at Spithead yesterday, at 1.30 p.m.
from China and the Cape of Good Hope. Her
news from the latter place has been anticipated by
the arrival of the last mail steamer. She has on
board a few naval invalids from the station, and
one man from her Majesty's ship Retribution, who
lost his leg from a round shot during the opera-
tions -up the Yang-tse-Kiang, river. Three
deaths have occurred on the passage home, which
has been rather a long one. The Hornet has lost
her bowsprit, and had her cutwater carried away
in a collision with the clipper ship-Exodus, of Liver-
pool, a Portland, .at midnight on Friday last,
when the latter ran into the Hornet with studding-
sails the Hornet being under canvas at the
and close hauled. The Exodus, which ap-
peared to have sustyined little or no damage from
the collision, kept on her course down Channel. On
Saturday evening, off Portland, a heavy thunder-
storm was met with, raining heavily, and the light-
stairailse
nine- exceedingly vivid. The Hornet was commis-
sioned on the 17th of May, 1854, and sailed from
Plyinonth Sound for China -on the Ist of October
following. Three commanders, Campbell, Forsyth,
and Dawell, have successively received their pro-
present commander,
motion from this ship, Her

Viscount Gilford, has lost the use of his left arm
from a wound received at the taking of Canton.
During the operations in China one of her crew has
been killed,',and three officers and two men wounded
in action with the enemy. Prior to leaving the
station for England the foremast mainyard and
topsailyards were taken out of the ship and replaced
with new ones, owing to their defective state. The
remainder of her spars are some of them fished and
patched • up,' and perfectly rotten, as is some
portion of her gut: carriages, from long exposure
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of sertice„ in a very: defective condition. The
following vessels have been spoken with and
signalled, during the latter part of the voyage
Koine:---On the Ist of June, in lat. 5.30 N.,
long. 22.18 W., the English bark Ellen Baird.
June 9th, in lat. 20.7 N.,long. 34.12 W., exchanged
long. with the English ship Belle, of Liver-
pool. June 13, in lat.- 30.30 N., long. 39.1 W., ex-
changed long, with the English ship Gosforth, of
Liverpool. July 22, in lat. 40.46 N., long. 27.16
W., exchanged signals with the outward bound
West India mail steamer; and the same day sig-
nalled the French ship Reine du Monde. June 29,
in lat. 48.42 N., long. 8.26 W., exchanged signals
with the English brig Souchay.
The Ordnance steam transport Lord Pantnure,
from Marchwood, bound to Purfleet, put into Spit-
head on Saturday, with a portion of her machinery
out of order.

- The (":ourrier.de Marseilles publishes on Tl.nrs-
day night an animated description of a ball given
by the officers of her Majesty's steamship Coquette
on the anniversary of her Majesty's coronation ; to
which were invited about 150 guests, including the
officers of the gunboat Chocal, the lite of the in-
habitants of Marseilles, the foreign Consuls, and
several English residents in the town. The journal
in question speaks in the highest terms of the cour-
teous and cordial hospitality displayed by the Bri-
tish officers, and of the admirable taste with which
the ship was decorated. The dancing commenced
at 7 o'clock and terminated at 3 in the morning,
and nowhere was her Majesty's health more enthu-
siastically drunk than on board her gun sloop in
Marseilles. The health of Napoleon 111. was also
drunk immediately afterwards, and the Courrier
assures its readers that " the guests will preserve
for a long time a pleasing remembrance of a fete
perfectly well ordered."
The Staff Surgeon of- Sheerness yard, Mr. Alex-
ander Cross, took up his appointment, and com-
menced his duties on Friday last, vice Staff-Sur-
geon William Gunn, M.D., removed to Chatham
yard ; Staff-Surgeon William Bruce, M.D., late of
Chatham-yard, having been permitted to retire from
active service.

The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—Captain T. H. Mason, to
the Caesar, vice Captain Charles Frederick, ap-
pointed a Junior Lord of the Admiralty ; Captain
A. Phillimore, to the Curacoa, vice Mason ; Chas.
C. Ick, Paymaster (additional) to the Edgar ; and
Francis M. Wright, Assistant Paymaster, to the
Wellesley.