The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-23 00:00:00

GLOCESTER AND BERKLEY CANAL.

The half-yearly meeting of this company was
held at Glocester on Wednesday ; Mr. C. Sturge in
the chair.

The report stated that the Commissioners for the
Improvement of the Severn had appointed a com-
mittee to inquire into the best means of remedying
the existing defects in the navigation. The accounts
showed a balance of £3,690, and a dividend at the
rate of 12s. 3d. per share on the original and con-
solidated shares were recommended.

The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the re-
port, which was carried, and the dividend declared
as recommended.

Mr. T. STURGE cautioned the proprietors against
involving themselves in any new scheme for the im-
provement of the navigation of the Severn ; and
A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the pro-
ceedings.

LONDON, GREENWICH, AND WINDSOR HOTELS
(LIMITED).

The first annual general meeting of this company
was held yesterday, at the London Tavern ; Mr. H.
Labouchere in the chair.

The report stated that, notwithstanding the em-
barrassments that had overwhelmed the commercial
world during the last six months, their undertaking
was in a most healthy and satisfactory condition.
They had confined their operation to the Ship, Tra-
falgar, and Yacht Hotels at Greenwich. The re-
venue account showed that the gross receipts had
amounted to £30,578, fairly and honestly earned,
and the expenditure to £24,502, leaving a dispos-
able balance of £6,076. This sum, after paying the
interest on the mortgage and debenture debt, enabled
the directors to recommend a dividend of 10 per
cent. per annum, and to carry over £2,000. The
present season had been very inauspicious, and the
commercial convulsions unfavourable ; but it was
anticipated that in future years the net profits would
be considerably increased.

The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the
report, stated that the capital intrusted to them had
been properly applied, and they were able to declare
a dividend of 10 per cent.—a thing almost un-
paralleled at the present time—and to carry over a
sum equivalent to 7 per cent. (Hear, hear.) When
their company was first started it was their desire to
take hotels at London, Greenwich, and Windsor,
but it was ultimately decided only to take hotels at
Greenwich. There was at present £31,432 in share
capital paid up. They owed £13,715 on debentures
and mortgages on the Trafalgar, Ship, and Yacht to
the amount of £31,248. The whole capital was
£80,035. There was a sum of £4,509 available for
dividend.
The report was carried unanimously.

Mr. ROBERTS remarked that if the whole of the
capital had been paid up they would only have had
7f per cent.

The CHAIRMAN moved that a dividend at the rate
of 10 per cent. per annum, free of income-tax, be de-
clared, which was carried unanimously.
:Mr. J. Waddell was appointed auditor for the
ensuing year, and a vote of thanks to the chairman
terminated the proceedings.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

VALETTA, Oct. 17.—Her Majesty's despatch
vessel Assurance, Commander Pym, arrived on the
morning of the 12th inst. from Port Mahon, where
she left on the 9th the Victoria (bearing the flag
of the Right lion. Lord C. E. Paget, C. 8.), the
Prince Consort, the Gibraltar, the Royal Oak, the
Enterprise, and the Psyche, in quarantine, which
would expire on the 12th, the Balearic Islands having
placed a quarantine of ten days on arrivals from all
ports out of Spain. The squadron bad called at
Cagliari, making but a short stay, and left in a gale
of wind for Port Mahon. The Resistance, which
had left Malta to run out her quarantine at sea, fell
in with the squadron cruisingoff the coast of Sicily,
and in pursdance of orders received by signal to ren-
dezvous at Cagliari, joined Lord C. Paget there,
nd proceeded with the rest of the ships to the Ba-
learic Islands. Finding that she would be included
in the quarantine, and requiring docking, she was
ordered back to Malta, and arrived here on the
morning of the 12th. She was taken into dock on
the 15th. It is believed she will soon go home to
be paid off, having been upwards of four years in
commission, and will be relieved in the Mediterra-
nean by the Ocean. The squadron was to leave on
return to Malta on the 22d of October, and is ex- ,
pected here about the end of the month. The
Cruiser, 5, screw sloop, Commander M. Singer
sailed on the night of the 14th inst., with despatches
for the Admiral and a mail for the ships under his
orders. The Psyche was to proceed from Port
Mahon to Rosas Bay on the 13th inst., to take on
board Lady Clarence Paget and family, who will
spend the winter at Malta. • An engineer of this
vessel was to be trici by court-martial on a charge
of insubordination. The Assurance is ordered to
Candia for the protection of British interests, and
will leave Malta about the 20th inst. By the last
mail via Messina, official news has been received
here, announcing that her Majesty's gunboat Wizard,
Lieut. Commander Murray, left Canea on the 12th
ult. for Retino and the town of Candia, considerable
alarm having been evinced in these localities
in consequence of numerous outrages committed
in their neighbourhood. The Cockatrice gunboat
was at Galatz on the 3d inst.—all well. The cholera
bad entirely disappeared from the Danube, and cold
weather had set in. The Cockatrice is expected to
return to Malta next month. The Tyrian gunboat,
Lieut. Coutrita,nde.r the Hon. V. Montague, was on
at i
the Ist inst.ssolonghi, rendering assistance to
the Englishsteamer. Cairo, which had got ashore.
The current crop this year at Patras is excellent,
and very plentiful, no less than 50,000 tons
two-thirds
having been produced, of which were
already shipped. The English screw steamer Penn-
sylvania, hired troopship,
Lewis,
master,
arrived at 3 15 p.m. on the 12th inst. with the Ist
battalion 24th Regt. (2d Warwickshire) on board
preparation had
for this garrison. Although every
been made by the naval authorities for their
disem-
barkation the troops were not landed unti
l the fol-
lowing afternoon. The scene was one of the utmost
confusion, owing, apparently, to there being no one
to superintend the arrangements. On Sunday she
was coaled and completed with water. On Monday,
15th, she took on board at the Hay wharf the 100th
Regt. (Royal Canadians), and sailed at 5 o'clock
the same evening for Quebec. But she had scarcely
cleared the harbour when she had to put back again
for the potatoes and fresh provisions which had been
left behind. After taking these on board she made
a fresh departure at 9 o'clock for Quebec. The 24th
disembarked in quarantines on the island of Fort
Manoel, where a portion of them have been en-
amped, the others finding quarters in the barracks.