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London, England, 1866-10-30 00:00:00

provement which had taken place in the receipts of
the company during the year. The profits had been
20 'per cent., and he had no doubt they would fur-
ther improve. It was two years since a call had
been made on the original shares, but they would
shortly have to make one. The preference shares
not having been taken up satisfactorily the board
had bum compelled to borrow money. The debt
was now falling due, and the directors had decided
upon calling £5 on the original shares.
The report was unanimously adopted, and divi-
dends recommended were declared.

MISCELLANEOUS AMERICAN NEWS.

Late news from Connecticut informs us that the

new reservoir at West Hartford is nearly completed,
and the water will be let into the city immediately.
It holds 212,000,000 gallons, and is 250 feet above
the level of the Connecticut river. General James
N. Palmer of New Haven, died at Hartford on

Saturday, Sept. 29. He was a highly respectable

citizen, and for many years surveyor general of the
state. Edward Malley has purchased for $60,000
the property on the corner of Temple and Chapel-

streets, at New Haven, for many years the resi-

dence of Augustus R. Street and Admiral Foote,
and will erect a fine block on the lot, which will

be the largest and most elegant building in the
city. Dr. A. Hill, of Norwalk, has recently patented
a process by which ineffaceable painting carr be

done on marble. The colours are fixed as perma-

nently as they are in stained glass, and the pro:

.. ...
cess of applying them is said to be simple and rapid

of execution.

A plan is in process to darn the

Housatonic river at Birmingham, and secure one

of the finest water powers in New England. The
company chartered for the purpose in 1864, are
now trying to commence operations on $400,000
capital, of which Birmingham will raise one-half.
It is estimated that the annual rental of water will
amount to $BO,OOO, or 20 per cent. on the cost of
the works. The gross receipts from premiums of
the Hartford insurance companies for August

amount to $564,892. The 'Etna returns $251,910;
Hartford, $99,906; Phoenix, $82,960 ; Putman,
$36,609 ; City, $23,080 ; North American, $20,869 ;
Merchants, $19,394 ; New England, $11,972 ;
Charter Oak, $5,942 ; and Railway Passenger,
$12,349. Yale College has in all its departments
686 students, of whom 492 are in the academical
course, and 113 in the Sheffield scientific school.
There are 100 seniors, 117 juniors, and 126 sopho-
mores, and 149 freshmen, and the Linonian society
has 249 members, or six more than its rival, Brothers
in Unity. Senator O. S. Ferry has accepted the
appointment as orator of the Phi Beta Kappa
society of Yale College at the next commencement.

Rev. Dr. E. D. -Morris, of Ohio, will deliver the
poem. The American Social Science Association,
organised at Boston about a year since, will hold
its second annual meeting at New Haven, com-
mencing on Tuesday, October 9, and continuing
two or three days. Among its members, of whom

there will be three or four hundred present, are
Presidents Woolsey of Yale, and Hill of Harvard
College, and John Stuart Mill, Sir John Bowring,
and Thomas Hughes of England.
The Treasury Department has just completed the
settlement of the prize money made at the capture
of Mobile. Admiral Farragut's share of this is

$19,000. During the war eleven hundred and
forty-nine captures were made, and the amount of
prize money, after deducting the expenses of con-
demnation, is $20,501,927.69, of which one half
goes to the captors. Fifteen millions of this amount
has been already divided. The largest amount to
any individual, from one capture, is $28,000 to
Captain Baine. The largest amount to one indi-
vidual, from all captures, is $120,000 to Captain
S. F. Lee.

We hear from Berlin, Oct. 20, that the Israelites
inhabiting the States belonging to the Northern
Confederation, are signing a monster petition, pray-
ing that they should be placed on a footing of per-
fect civil equality with the other citizens. Count
Bismarck is expected to resume his functions in
a fortnight.
An exchange says :—Fred. Douglass, in his lath