The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-21 00:00:00

TILE JOCKEY CLUB.

A meeting of this club was held in Old Burlington-
street this afternoon—Pressent : Mr. W. G. Craven; Hon.
Admiral Runs and the Duke of Beautfort, stewards;
Mr. G. Payne, General Peel, Colonel Towneley, Lord
Henry Lennox, Mr. Sutton, and Capt. Seymour; when it
was decided to continue the Ascc,t Spring Meeting, the
programme of which will appear in to-morrow's
" Calendar."

THE CLYSTAL PALACE COMPANY.

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ANNUAL MEETING-THIS DAY.

The annual meeting of the directors and shareholders of
the Crystal Palace Company was held to-day at the Lon-
don Tavern—Mr. A. C. louides, in the absence of the
chairman (Mr. Anderson), presided.

The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report,
took the opportunity of referring to the various matters
mentioned in the document, which has already appeared
in The Sun. He said it was a great pleasure to
find that their prospects were so cheering. Their income
had increased so that after the payment of the dividend at
the rate of 2i per cent., they were able to carry over to the
next year the sum of £3,272. (Hear.) The visitors had
reached the enormous number of over 2,000,000, a larger
number than had over been received in any previous year
The refreshment department had been very remunerative,
havingyielded the shareholders no less than.£19,613 168.7 d.,
added to which the directors were well satisfied with the
manner in which it was conducted by the contractors.
With respect to the vacancy in the direction caused by the
death of Mr. Farquharson the directors did not recommend
the filling up of the vacancy. With respect to Rockhills
the directors had various ideas with respect to the uses it
might be turned, one of which was to convert: it into ;an
hotel, or something of that sort, at which wedding parties,
pleasure parties, and resident visitors might be received.
It appeared that great advantages would accrue front
such an arrangement as the climate of the tropical depart-
ment was everything that could be desired for an invalid.
Nothing, however, mas yet decided. He felt that the at-
tractions they intended offering for the coming new year
would be such as to largely increase the number of visitors,
which would, of course, benefit the shareholders. The
formal motion for the adoption of the report having been
put, . _ _

Mr. PUNSHER complained that although the income
of the directors had increased they had not determined to
give the shareholders an increase in the dividend, which
he thought ought now to be 3 per cent. He thought there
we re extravagant outlays which ought to be cut down,
because, if they were not, no matter how their property
was improved, they would never be enabled to increase the
dividend.

A SHAREHOLDER complained of the expense that was
incurred in taking down and refining the screen which
separated the tropical department from the other portion
of the palace. He thought if the directors went to the
expense of constructing it on improved principles, which
would do away with the expense he complained of, they
would, although the outlay might in the first instance be
somewhat large, save a great deal of money in the end.
(llear,lhear.)

Mr. GEORGE hoped that the next year the directors
would abstain from having any description of racing in the
grounds of the palace. He considered such a mode of
swelling their income was highly prejudicial, because horse
racing brought down a certain class of visitors, and kept
away those whose presence was far more beneficial. He
did not think it would ever be possible to give the original
shareholders more than they at present received, and
therefore he thought it would be far preferable that
the shareholders should surrender one half of their
skares. (No, no.) They would lose nothing by it,
because they would then receive just double the amount
they received at present, and such an arrangement would
give them a much more respectable look as far as dividend
was concerned. (No, no.)
After some further discussion the report of the directors
was adopted, and the remainder of the proceedings was
confined to a very limited discussion of the advisability►of
opening the palace on Sundays.

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LONDON GAZEY. TE —Last Evening.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 18.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. W. J.
Whalley as Consul at Grimsby for the Republic of Hayti.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Senor
F. T. Barry as Consul in London for the Republic of the
Equad or.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Don
Ernesto Basili as Vice-Consul at Glasgow for her Majesty
the Queen of Spain.

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GROWN-OFFICE, DEC. 20.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.
Borough of Guildford—Richard Garth, of Wimbledon,
in the county of Surrey, Esq., in the room of Sir William
Bovill, lint., who has accepted the office of Chief Justice
of the Common Pleas.
ADMIRALTY, DEc. 20.
Royal Marine Light Infantry— The following named
gentlemen have been appointed Second Lieutenants:—
Evelyn James -Wheelock Noble, Edward Rea Milner
Crooke, O'Hara John Tobin, Arthur Clement Smyth,
John Ernest Bulger Ward, Charles B:iker Goodrich Dick,
Loureneu Edve,y Algernon St. Leger Burrowes, John Rich-
mond Jekyll, and Frederick John Short.

DEC. 18.
Commander Edmund Anthony Glynn has ben this day
promoted to be a Retired Captain, under the provisions of
her Majesty's Orders iu Council of Aug. 1, 1860, July 9,
1864, and March 24, 1666.
DEC. 19.
The following promotions have this day been made
Mr. John Watson (A) to be Engineer in her Majes_ty's
Fleet; Mr. William Landoll to be Engineer in her Ma-
jesty's Fleet; Mr. Alfred Lawton to be Engineer in her
Majesty's Fleet; Mr. John Watson (B) to be Engineer la
her Majesty's Fleet.

MARKE TS. T his day.