The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MUNDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 5, 1859.

EAST AND WEST INDIA DOCK COM-
PANY.—The Court of Directors of the East and West
India Dock Company hereby give Notice that the Transfer
Books of the said Company will be shut on Wednesday, the
14th December, 1859, and open again on Wednesday, the 4th
January, 1860.---By Order of the Court.
GEORGE-COLLIN, Secretary.
East and West India Dock House,
1111 liter-square, 2d Dec., 1859.

THE ECONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY. _ _

6, New Bridge-street, Blackfrlars, London.
!Established 1823.
The lowest rates of Premium on the Mutual System.
The whole of the Profits divided every Fifth Year.
Assets amounting to :£1,840,000.
The Bonus 'additions in 1856 (which averaged £65 per Ceirt
on the Premiums paid) amounted to £175,000, the sum of
-c.860,000 having been added as Bonus at previous Divisions.
The Annual Income exceeds £260,000.
ALJXANDER MACDONALD, Secretary.

ECONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
SPECIAL NOTICE.-BONUS OF 1861.

Proposals for Assurance Should be made before the Ist
Tanuary, 1860, to entitle the Assured to Participation in the
Division of Profits in 1561.

METROPOLITAN, COUNTIES, AND
GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
27, Regentstreet, Waterloo-place, London, S.W.
Life Assurance, Annuities, and Endowments.
Loans on real and personal security.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Manager.

LIFE ASSURANCE.-LAPSED POLICIES.
A-4 The holders of Lapsed Policies upon which five or more
premiums had been paid before forfeiture, are requested to
make known their respective oases to Messrs:DAVIES and
Co., Advice Office for Life Assurers, 1, Finch-lane, Cornhill.

VINEGAR: Patronised by her Majesty's
Government.—CONDY'S PATENT PURE CONCEN,
TRATED MALT VlNEGAR.—Fainilies, by using this de-
licious Vinegar, insure purity, and effect a saving of 50 per
cent. See Report of Dr. Letheby, City Officer of Health ; Dr.
Flassall, of the " Lancet!' Commission, and others. Sold by
the Trade, in battles labelled and capsnled. Wholesale, 63,
Kinn William-Street, London-bridge, E.C.—Six Quart Sample
sent free to any Railway for 35..0d.

111 E NAVY.

The Rodney, 91, and the Severn, 51, which have
been converted from sailing ships to screw steamers
at Chatham dockyard, are both approaching com-
pletion, and will shortly be ready to be undocked
and made ready for sea. Each vessel is to be sup-
plied with machinery of 400 horse-power.
The screw corvette Charybdis, 21, in harbour-at
Chatham, is ordered to be docked on Thursday next,
and brought forward for the steam reserve.
The screw steam troop ship Vulcan, Commander
A. Strode, with a detachment of the first batta-
lion of the 2d Foot, which sailed from Ports-
mouth on Friday for Dublin, the Cape of Good
Hope, and China, came in contact, at three
o'clock on Saturday morning, between Portland
and Start Point, with the coal-laden brig Coquette,
bound from Cardiff for London. The wind was
easterly. The Vulcan carried away the bowsprit
of the brig, which in consequence lost her fore=
mast, maintopmast,, bulwarks, &c. An officer and
several men were sent immediately on board the
Coquette to keep the pumps going, and she was
towed by the Vulcan into Plymouth Sound, where
they arrived at three o'clock on Saturday afternoon.
The Vulcan is not much injured; she will embark
at Dublin a detachment of the 10th Foot for the
Cape of Good Hope.
The paddle-wheel steam vessel Avon, G. Day,
second master commanding, from Falmouth, arrived
on Saturday at Plymouth, with 100 men for ser-
vice in the steam reserve, despatched by the screw
steam guardahip of Coastguard, Russell, 60, Cap
George Wodehouse.

Ca-pt. Ellis, Royal Marine Light Infantry, in
command of a detachment of 60 non-commissioned
officers and privates, is ordered AO, leave Wool-
wich for Devonport onbark on board her Mk-
jesty's screw steamship Centurion, 80, for service.
The steam transport Dee has embarked a cargo
of steam gear at Woolwich for the screw steam cor-
vettes Jason and Narcissus, building at Devonport.
The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—Ralph L. Turton, mate, to
the Ariadne; S. Plummer, mate, to the Matine ;
W. M. Lowiek, second master, to the Ariadne; IL
R. J. Pearch, acting second master, to the Royal
Albert ; J. Hook and J. P. Williams, acting as-
sistant-engineers, to the Asia, as supernumeraries.

will be at once:enrolled. At a meeting of the provi-
sional committee held on Friday evening, the high
constable in the chair, it was announced that the
names of a sufficient number of volunteers had been
received to form one company. It was also decided
to invite Major G. M. Best, the Lord of the Manor
of Chatham, to take the command of the corps. A
number of volunteers attended for the first time on
Friday evening, and commenced their drill at the
York Tavern, the large room of which has been
placed at the disposal of the corps by Mr. Breeze,
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the proprietor.

CUCKFIELD.
A volunteer rifle corps has been formed here,
and, although only a few weeks have elapsed since
the question was first mooted in this part of Sussex,
the corps already numbers 80 members, and new
names are being daily added to the roll. Meetings
in favour of the movement are taking place through-
out the whole district, and a second company will
doubtless be speedily xaised. Captain Meek, late
Royal Sussex. Light Infantry, has been appointed
to command the corps, and the remaining officers
will shortly be nominated. The funds of the corps
are in a satisfactory state, between £3OO and £4OO
having been already subscribed.

DEVONSHIRE.
Earl Fortescue, the Lord-Lieutenant of the county,
has written to Mr. Thos. Dyke Acland, expressing
general approbation of his plan for the formation
of yeomanry rifle corps, and his belief that it will
form a valuable adjunct to the various measures now
happily in operation throughout the kingdom for
the consolidation of our voluntary national defence.
The noble Earl trusts that those measures will not
be relaxed in consequence of assurances which might
be - received froin gassy-foreign quarter, 'however
friendly, until the spirit of the people at home,
calmly and judiciously directed, should have made
the security of our country independent of any feel-
ing that might be entertained towards us abroad.