The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-15 00:00:00

Li lerpool Cotton Market. Day.

Market opens with a fair demand at yesterday's
rates. Sales probably 8,000 bales.

The eighth annual report, presented at a meeting
held to-day of shareholders of the Chartered Mer-
cantile Bank of India, London, and China, stated
that for the year ending 31st December last, after
providing for bad and doubtful debts, the net profit
amounts to £38,203 6s. 11d., to which has to be
added a sum of £65,760 7s. 3d. undivided profit
brought forward from the preceding year, making a
total of £103,963 14s. 2d. Out of this sum
£101,250 has been paid in two half-yearly divi-
dends, namely, £63,750, or si per cent., on July 1,
and £32,500, or 5 per cent., on Jan.'llast, making
together 13i per cent. for the year. The unap-
propriated balance of £2,713 14s. 2d. is carried
forward to the profit and loss account of the current
year. The shareholders will be prepared to learn
that the bank suffered much during last year, owing
to the commercial crisis which occurred in the East,
as well as from exceptional losses at Bombay. For
a time also trade was so paralysed as to render bank-
ing and exchange operations impracticable with
safety or profit. From this combination of adverse
circumstances the result contrasts unfavourably
with that of previous years, but the directors are
glad to state that the operations of the current year
are thus far very satisfactory and encouraging.
The report of the directors of the London and
Venezuela Bank, presented at the general meeting
held to-day, stated that the gross profits, including
the balance and rebate brought forward from last
account, amount to £7,532 18s. 2d., and after pay-
ing all current expenses, allowing rebate at the rate
of 12 per cent. per annum on bills in Venezuela,
and 6 per cent. per annum on bills in London, and
writing off the usual proportions of preliminary and
furniture accounts, the directors are enabled to re-
commend a dividend of Bs. 9d. per share, being at
the increased rate of 7 per cent. per annum on the
capital, carrying forward a balance of £219 12s. 9d.
to profit and loss new account.

The following has been received with respect to
the Venezuela Six per Cent Loan, 1864 :
The General Credit and Finance Company of
London (Limited) are •in receipt of advices from
their agents, Messrs. H. L. Boulton and Co., dated
La Guaira, April 25th, 1866, of duties collected
(and remitted) on account of the above loan, as
follows :

Per statement, No. 50 from Cuidad Bolivar $548 74
77 )7 No. 51 „ 71 14,406 05
77 77 No. 52 ~ 77 447 80
77 ~ No. 86 ~ Puerto Cabello 24,982 33
27 1, No. 87 „ 77 12,721 88
77 ), No. 88 „ li 18,178 28
~ ~ No. 89 „ ~ 17,980 24
77 ,7 No. 75 , „ La Guaira 33,630 03
7/ ~ No. 76 ~ 77 6,916 05

Total .• . 51.29,811 40

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FIER MAJESTY.

INDSOIt CASTLE, Monday.
The Queen went to London this morning, accom-
panied by her Royal Highness Princess Helena.
Her Majesty travelled by special train to Pad"
dingto; and was escorted by a detachment of the
14th Hussars to Buckingham Palace.
In. attendence were Lady Churchill, the Hon.
Flora Macdonald, the Hon. Mary Lascelles, Lord
Alfred Paget, and Col. the Hon. A. Hardinge.
Lady Augustus had the honour of dining with
the Queen and the royal family yesterday.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke de Nemours
and Princess Margaret visited the Queen at Buck-
ingham Palace.

Viscount Bury had an audience of the Queen, and
resigned his office as Treasurer of her Majesty's
Household.

Lord Otho Fitzgerald had an audience of the
Queen, and kissed hands on receiving the office of
Treasurer of her Majesty's Household.

The Queen presented to Mr. Samuel Popplestone
the Albert Medal for his meritorious services in
saving life from a wreck off the Start Point on
March 23. This is the first occasion on which her
Majesty has conferred this honourable distinction.
Mr. Popplestone was introduced to her Majesty by
the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson. The Lord and
Groom in Waiting to her Majesty were in attend-
ance.

Her Majesty left Buckingham Palace at half-Past
five o'clock for Windsor Castle.
Messrs. Dickinson and Tilt were honoured with a
sitting from the Queen on Saturday, for a drawing
(from a photograph).

The Prince of Wales presided yesterday at a
meeting of the Council of his Royal Highness, held
at the office of the Duchy of Cornwall, Buckingham-
gate, St. James's-park.
There were present Lord Portman, Lord Warden
of the Stannaries ; Sir William John Alexander,
Attorney-General; Major-General Sir Thomas
Myddelton Biddulph, Receiver-General; Lieut.-
General Knollys, Controller of the Household of
his Royal Highness ; Herbert William Fisher,
Esq., Keeper of the Privy Seal ; and the Earl of
Leicester.

Sir Thomas Myddelton Biddulph took the oath
on his appointment as a member of the Council of
his Royal Highness.
Mr. Bateman, the Secretary, attended as Clerk
of the Council.

The Prince of Wales went to the House of Lords
in the afternoon.

His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, by her Ma-
jesty's desire, honoured Mr. S. F. Ansell by a visit
to Bernard-street to inspect his plans for indicating
the presence of fire-damp and choke-damp in CO''
and iron mines.

THE COURT.—Her Majesty has, it is understood,
relinquished the proposed royal trip to Balmoral,
which was to have taken pace on Friday next, in cone?:
quence of the warlike attitude of Austria and Prussia. -1-"
is rumoured that on Sunday night a telegram was received
at Windsor Castle containing news of momentous italoeill
which has no doubt influenced the Queen in her decision
to remain for the present in the vicinity of the metropolis'
Under these circumstances it is understood that her Ma-
jesty will keep the anniversary of her birth at Cliefden
House, the picturesque residence of the Duchess of Suther-
land, near Maidenhead, and distant only a few miles from
Windsor. Thus the Queen, in the event of any crisis,
will be near London.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales yester-
day honoured Lord Harris by his presence at dinner at the
noble lord's residence in South-street. A select party had
the honour to meet the prince.
ADELPHI THEATRE.—Their Royal Highnesses
the Duchess of Cambridge, Princess Mary, and suite,
honoured the performances at this theatre yesterday eVOII-
- with their presence.
Viscountess Cranbourne has been requested to
postpone her next party from the 16th to the 30th instant,
in consequence of the serious illness of the Marchioness °f
Sligo, in her neighbourhood.

Lord and Lady Bateman havq arrived in town
from Shobden Court, Herefordsbire, for the season.
Lord Monson has left London for Lincolnshire/
to take command of his Militia regiment, the North Liu"
coin, during its month's training.
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HEALTH OF THE BISHOP OF LIONDON.--.."-
Bishop of London, who is still at Hastings, has so far pro-
gressed towards recovery that he hopes to be able to re-
turn to Fulham Palace on Saturday next, with a view to
holding a general ordination on Trinity Sunday.
Mrs. Keble, widow of the late Rev. John Keble,
died at Brookside, Bournemouth, the same house in which
her late husband died, on Friday afternoon.
DEATH OF SIR JAMES WILLIAMS DIWM3100;
BART.—We have to announce the death of Sir J. /‘
Drummond, of Hawthornden, Bart., who died on Thurs-
day last, in his 53d year. The deceased baronet was the
eldest son of Sir Francis W. Drummond, second baronet,
who succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father-
in-law, Sir John Forbes Drummond, in 1829, haying war
rigid Margaret Ann, only surviving child of Sir John, wh.°
was created a baronet in 1828, with remainder to his
daughter's husband. The deceased baronet succeeded 110
father on Feb. 29, 1844, and married, 14th July, 1853, Marl
Eleanor, second daughter of Sir James and Lady gar'
llainlyn Williams, by whom he leaves a youthful family'His eldest son, James Hanalyn Williams, born Jan. 37 18°11
succeeds to the baronetcy. The late baronet was formerly
in the Grenadier Guards, but retired in 1844. Ile Was
deputy-lieutenant of Midlothian, and lieutenant-colonel
commandant of the Carmarthen and Pembroke Artillery
Militia.

TIIE INTERNATIONAL HORTICULTURAL Exigni-
TION opens next week, at the gardens at South Kensington,
and will continue so from the 22d to the 25th inst. The
entries are wonderfully numerous, and afford every pro-
spect of an extraordinary display.

ERRATIIM.—Our correspondent, Mr. Christopher
Cooke, whose letter in regard to Reform appeared
,in our columns as far back as the 2d ult., writes to us
within the last few days :—ln my letter to you, which was
published in The Sun on the 2d ult., there was an error la
my christian name which I desire to be permitted to correct.
I have only seen the letter recently, in consequence of rc9
absence from London. The name of " Charles " in inY
signature was a misprint for that of, Sir, yours Obedießtln
CHRISTOPHER COOKE.

QUEEN'S THEATRE, HULL.--Mr. and Mrs. Cl -
renee Holt appeared. on Monday in a new four-act
drama, written expressly for them by Males llorsmany
Esq., of the Royal Lyceum Theatre; London. t, The Free
Lance; or, the Outcast's Bride"—such is the title of the
new play—was a complete success. The character of the
Free Lance, in the hands of Mr. bolt, leaves nothing to
be desired- He is the frank, free, and chivalrous knight/
and gains, without any exaggeration, an impersonatioa
which will long bo remembered as an artistic dramatic
triumph never surpassed on any stage in this town. Dirs•
Holt, as the Marchesa, was tho high-minded, trusting
woman, and accomplished artiste of the author. —Hull Ad-
vertiser, May 12, 1866.

SLAUGHTER OF FOXES.—Mr. Allan Collie, ganie-
keeper, Tullochgribban, killed no less than eight foxes on
the morning of the 28th ult., at the west end of Lochin-
dorb. The keeper brought down old Reyuard while boldly'
advancing with a lamb in his mouth. He then proceeded
to the den with his terrier dog. The dog, after many jour-
neys and hard labour, brought out of the hole to his nl°-
ter seven cubs and six dead lambs.—Elgin Courier. ,
A YANKEE'S SNEER AT CARLYLE.—Mr. Carlyle
recent address does not find much favour in the
eyes of American critics. A leading New York literati
journal says of it :—" We regard the address as a huge
t
sham. It could not have been the impromptu thing that
he would have his hearers believe it to be, for, with all 11
idiosyncracies, he is not the man to trust himself entirely
!,
to the inspiration of the moment in addressing the studette
of one of the greatest universities in Great Britain.
subject-matter is exceedingly commonplace, and only rue,
deemed from stupidity by tricks in the use of langlrg,t.
which have originated and, it is to be hoped, will end wa;
this side of the water, we can recall no name
himself. And had the address appeared anonymously theo
public would be so apt to connect it with as that of George
Francis Train."
SPIRITS.—A return just published shows that in
• le dis" last year there were 26,750,684 gallons of proof spits r
tilled in the United Kingdom, 6,427,335 gallons dello o
duty paid from distillers' stocks, and 20,035,357 gallons pail
into bond. Duty, at the rate of 10s. per gallon, 7.8,5, Pog
upon 21,819,559 gallons, and amounted to .£10,90917:1 the
kid. The consumption was 20,811,155 gallons, "
;77 10$.
amount of duty returned thereon was .£10,405,
amount of
There were 2,681,025 gallons exported, and the
which
drawback paid thereon was £20,558 ss. 5i-d.
THE BOMBARDMENT OF VLPARAISO. is
sub_
ject excites the keenest interest in Liverpool, y 3
W
'Pest Coast trade is very largely represented, and
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public meeting of merchants and shipowners is to be held
in the Law Associe,tien Rooms i.:here the