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.

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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 anddebenture 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 £31,218. 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
7i per cent.

The CHAIRMAN moved that a dividend at the rate
of lOper 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 Intellizence.

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 Hon. 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 Baleariclslauds having
placed a quarantine of ten days on arrivals from all
ports out of Spain. The squadron had 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 cruising off the coast of Sicily,
and in pursuance 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 trie.l 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 gunboatiVizard,
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
had
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. Commander the Hon. V. Montague, was on
the 114 inst. at Missolonghi, rendering assistance to
the English
Steamer Cairo, which had got ashore.
and
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two-thirds of which were
already shipped.
The
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sylvania, hired troopsh
arrived at 3 15
on
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G. A. Lewis, master,
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12th
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battalion 24th Regt.
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for this garrison. Although y
preparation had
been made by the naval authoritriers for their
of the the disem-
barkation the troops were not lande4
until
fol-
lowing afternoon. The scene was one
utmost
confusion, owing, apparently, to there b •
emg no one
to superintend the arrangements. On Sunday she
was coaled and completed with water. On Monday,
15th, she took on board at the Ifaywharf the 100th
and sailed at 5 o'clock
Regt. (Royal Canadians),
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 quarantine on the island of Fort
Manoel, where a portion of them have been en-
amped, the others finding quarters in the barracks.

The whole island of Fort Manoel has in consequence
been put in quarantine for 15 days, at the termina-
tion of which period the 24th will be removed to
Verdela Barracks, vacated by the 100th, and the 2d
battalion (Bth), which has been tem' orarily quar-
tered at Pembroke barracks, will return to Fort
Manoel. The following is an amended list of the
ports arrivals from which are put in quarantine at
Malta, and the terms of quarantine enforced : Con-
stantinople, 5 days ; ports in the Black Sea, Austrian
ports in the Adriatic, ports of France, ports of Eng-
land, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, ports of Cron-
stadt, Netherlands, Stockholm, and Stettin, Algiers,
Brindisi, Taranto, Genoa, and Naples, Norway,
and Alexandria, 15 days ; Leghorn and ports in
Italy not included in the above (except Sicily and
the island of Sardinia), 7 days; Tunis, 10 days; and
Sicily, 21 days.
Admiral Sir Wm. Martin will succeed Admiral Sir
C. Fremantle as Commander-iu-Chief at Devon-
port at the end of this month.
Her Majesty's hydraulic iron cased gun vessel
Waterwitch, 778 tons and 160 horse power, built at
the Thames Iron Works at Blackwell, was yesterday
taken into the fitting basin at Woolwich after trial
to be surveyed and to be received over from the con-
tractors by the Government authorities. The Water-
witch, from her novel system of propulsion, is natu-
rally an object of much interest. She was yesterday
inspected by Commodore Edmonstone, C. 8., Supe-
rintendent, and the survey throughout in hull and
machinery was commenced by Mr. Ladd, master ship-
wright, and Mr. Trickett, chief engineer and inspec-
tor of machinery, and assistants. The ship will be
docked in a few days, when the survey will be com-
pleted.
Her Majesty's steam storeship Fox, Commander
Moriarty, in basin at Woolwich for the purpose of
being overhauled and thoroughly repaired, hos had
her figurehead and knee removed, the stem timbers
and other parts having been found to be decayed.
Notwithstanding this the repairs are ordered to be
proceeded with.

The steamship St. Lawrence, Capt. James, went
down the river and sailed from Gravesend on Satur-
day morning, bound for Quebec, after shipping 3,887
boxes of ammunition and other military stores from
Woolwich. The St. Lawrence is sister vessel to the
Thames, which took out a full cargo of stores last
month, and is the last vessel which will attempt the
North American voyage this season.
The Megwra, screw storeship, Capt. M. Dunn,
having embarked some naval supernumeraries, sailed
from Spithead yesterday afternoon from Plymouth,
en route to the Mediterranean.

The Imperial Russian steam corvette Griden, Capt.
S. Konarzewski, having undergone some necessary
repairs, was removed from the Camber dock to along-
side the jetty at the dockyard yesterday morning,
to reship her guns. She is also coaling, and will

leave in a few days on her return to Cronstadt, in-
stead of proceeding to Amoor as originally in-
tended.

A pondrous and powerful armament is now in
readiness for shipment at Woolwich Arsenal for the
new Packpool battery at Portsmouth, consisting of
50 13-inch mortars. The mortars were cast and
prepared for service in the Baltic during the Russian
war, and have been lying in store at Woolwich since
that period. The beds have been re-adjusted and
painted anew. They will be despatched by early
conveyance to their destination.

Nos. 2 and 3 batteries Ist Brigade, Royal Artil-
lery, in command of Capt. F. R. Glanville and
Brevet Lieut.-Col. G. C. Henry, headquarters Gib-
raltar, are under orders to proceed to Bermuda, and
Nos. 4,5, and 6 of that Brigade, in respective com-
mand of Capt. J. A. Price and Brevet-Majors H.
L. F. Greville and C. F. Young, are ordered to
Halifax.