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TO the SHAREHOLDERS of the GENERAL
SCREW STEAM SHIPPING COMPANY.—A sufficient
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RICAN ST KAM SHIP COMPANY (Limited), to enable that Com-
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which day the books will be closed.
By order.

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Temporary Offices, 11, King William-street, Mansion House,
January 26, 1857.

THE BOARD OP INLAND REVENUE AND
THE SHIPOWNERS.

Some time ago we mentioned that the Income•tax
Commissioners at Shields bad refused to allow insur-
ance upon shipping on the mutual principle as de-
duction from income, while they permitted insurance
by policy to be taken from the ship's earnings untaxed.
A lengthened correspondence has taken place between
the North Shields Shipowners' Society and the Board
of Inland Revenue on the subject, and on Saturday
Messrs. Lietch and Itewney, the solicitors to the
society, received the following letter, which settled the
point :

" Inland Revenue, Somerset-house, Jan. 22.
" Gentlemen—l have laid before the Board of Inland
Revenue your letter of the 27th ult., referring to the
correQpondence which has passed between this office
and Mr. Pow, chairman of the Shipowners' Society,
at North Shields, in regard to the deduction claimed
lsy the shipowners in estimating their profit for assess-
ment to the income tax of the sums paid by them
under the circumstances explained in your letter as
against the perils of the sea. In reply I have to state
that, upon a reconßideration of the subject, the Board
are of opinion that, although the insurance in question
and the pafinents consequent were not male in the
ordinary way, yet inasmuch as such payments were
in discharge of a legal obligation, whereby the parties
are protected from loss of their own ships, a deduction
should be allowed of the average amount paid in the
three years over which the profits are averaged. The
Board have accordingly made a communication to this
effect to the commissioners of the district, and also to
the surveyor.—Lane, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
THOMAS KEOGH."

DUTY ON CURRANTS. —ft will surprise many to learn
that in the year ended March, 353,0661. was realised by
duty on currants and raißins.
The specie by the Niagara from New York is 51,0001.,
probably all on French account.
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OMNIBUSES V. RAILWAYS.—The Manchester City
Omnibus Company started a line of eight omnibuses be-
tween that city and Stockport yesterday, to run daily,
in competition with the London and North-Western
Railway. The speculation has been under consideration
before, but the immediate cause of the present under
taking is an attempt made this year by the railway com-
pany to compel the holders of contract tickets to get
into and leave the carriages only at the termini specified
in the contracts. Hitherto a contractor paying the
whole distance between the two towns held hiinself at
liberty to get up or down at any intermediate stopping
station. The omnibuses are handsome, spacious, and
comfortable, the inside being equal to most first-class
railway accommodation, while the fare is only two-thirds,
outside
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rapid, hut as the stations in both towns are some dis-
tance from the centres of business, the ornnibuoes have
an advantage by running to those points, which gives
them nearly au eqtality in point of time.
The omni.
buses are drawn by three horses abreast, but it is probable
that if the loads are heavy four horses will be used, as in
the old coaches.

VISIT TO THE TYN4:

(From a Correspondent of the Dai dy `News.)

On Sunday• last, being at`Wareham, in ',Dorsetshire, I
drove through the island of Purbeck, to see the stranded
Tyne. After passing several miles along the Swanage road
I turned off towards Encombe, the seat of Lord Eldon.
The hills are of great height here, and grimed curiously
together. Two of the ravines formed between them are of
right angles to each other. The road to Encombe is
through these ravines, and runs in a zigzag direction. As
we approach the mansion towards the sea the ravine widens
and forms a narrow vale, which is about 100 feet above the
sea. The road terminates at an abrupt precipice of the
height just mentioned, and iron rails are placed to prevent
persons from falling over the precipice. At the distance
of half a mile from the termination of the road, in the
centre of Kimmeridge Bay, lies the finest steamer of the
West Indian Company, aground and waterlogged.

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I arrived about one o'clock in the afternoon. The wind
was blowing strong off the land, and it was low water. It
almost appeared as if she had been only brought into the
bay at high water, and as if the tide had left her 'there,
and she would float again as soon as the tide rose, and be
ready to proceed to sea. Thdre was no rock'close to her,•
and the ledge on which she struck was, invisible. Her
head was pointed out to sea, her stern was rather low in
the water compared with her bow, and she'rather lurched
en one side. Just as 'I arrived atlKinimeridge Bay a small
tug steamer was seen leaving the Tyne to proceed to South-
ampton; several beats also left the Tyne for the shore
filled with people, and the gigantic steamer was abandoned.
The Tyne struck on a jagged ledge, which tore a hole in
her stern big enough for •fouviusat‘to.v,rawl•in..... There is
about 3 feet of water under her starboard paddle-wheel,
and 5 feet under her bow. About 100 feet of her keel for-
ward does not touch the ground. She evidently struck in
the centre, for she was going in direct towards the cliffs
when she struck, and after all attempts to wear her round
had failed got into the position she is in now in an extra-
ordinary manner; for without any apparent cause she
turned round rapidly, as if she had been on a pivot. If
she is ever floated again, she will have to be dragged astern
towards the land, to get her off the ledge on which she
rests, and then she must be piloted through an intricate
• channel.

some scores of men commenced working a large numberof
pumps on board of her at 2 o'clock on Sunday morning; and
when it was found that'at ebb tide the water flowed into her
as fast as it was pumped out, her being got off wen despaired
of. Early in the morning the pumping ceased, and it was
resolved to abandon her for the present. A couple of young
officers, with one or two men, were left on board, and they
together with some fishermen have the sole charge of her.
If she is ever got off it will be probably by lifting her
bodily, waterlogged as she is, by means of balks of timber
or some other buoyant material fastened by a chain round
her keel, and in that state the ship and the materials that
float her must be towed up to Southampton. It is not
likely, however, that any plan will be attempted until the
summer. The Tyne being of iron, very strongly built,
waterlogged and fastened down by immense anchors and
chains, would hang together for years where she is now.
The coast where the mail steamer lies is all along formed
of cliffs from 500 to 700 feet high. Sometimes the faces of
these cliffs are perpendicular, and of a black colour, which
lis the case with those near the Tyne. Sometimes they
slope away, and they are green with verdure. The cliffs
are constantly crumbling away, and small particles or
gigantic'. boulders aro continually rolling down on the
beach. Springs of water at short intervals also run down
the faces of the cliffs, and mixing with the softer and
smaller particles form bogs of black mud close under the
cliffs. The beach generally is formed of gravel, gigantic
pebbles, or small rocks. Chapman's Cove, not far from
where the steamer is aground, is strewed with these rocks,
and it is fortunate that the Tyne did not come in there, or
the ship would have probably been knocked to pieces, and
every soul on board of her lost.
Between St. Aldan's Head and Weymouth the distance
is about 14 miles. The cliffs between these two places pro-
ject out at intervals and form bays. St. aLldan's Head and
the first projection to the west of it towards Weymouth
from Kimmeridge Bay ; and in the centre of this bay, as I
have already observed, the Tyno is lying. The Isle of
Portland, which lies directly off Weymouth, is distinctly
visible from thebay, and appears to be a very short distance
from it. The' Isle of Portland stretches a good distance into
the Channel, while Kimmeridge lies in shore, to the north-
east of it. The Tyne was about eight miles outside Port-
land when the Portland lights were made out at 1 a.m. on
the 12th inst. ; and at 3.30 aim. the steamer was entering
Kimmeridge Bay with her bow pointing for the cliffs. Now
the most mysterious thing is how she could get there, unless
she was steered direct for the land after the Portland lights
were seen. Just before the ship struck the officer at the
wheel, to his horror, faintly made out thefearful black cliffs
overhanging the bay ; and his cry of " hard a port" as-
tonished the captain, who thought at first that a vessel was
crossing before the ship's coarse.

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noise on board her that might have been heard on shore in
still weather. The first intimation the coast guardsmen had
of the Tyne being in the bay was given by the rocket sig-
nals of distress that wore fired from her. The light of these
fearful messengers at the moment of their discharge showed
the coast-guardsmen that a large ship was close at hand,
and in dangerous quarters. They immediately fired off
pistols, threw up rockets, and ran to the houses of their
messmates who were off duty, and at 7 a.m. the seamen
had pulled through the raging surf, boarded the steamer,
and satisfied all on board that with patience and care their
Ives would all be saved. For twelve hours these men
were hard at work saving the lives and property on board
the ship, and never left off until all the passengers and
crew had been landed. The boats were often swamped ;
one of their number lost his life, and they repeatedly had
to assist the ship's boats to prevent their destruction.
The lot of these poor men is a peculiarly hard one. Many
of them live on the top of St. Aldan's Head, in a remote and
almost inaccessible place. They have 507. a year to live
upon. Most of them have night duties, during which they
are out from sunset to sunrise, climbing up and down the
most dangerous cliffs in the dark, and often having dread-
ful weather. A clergyman occasionally visits them from
Worth, a small isolated village two miles off. These men
have to pay 40s. a ton for coals, in one of the bleakest
places in England ; and they actually have to send, at
their own expense, for their monthly pay to Poole, which
is 14 miles off. Their dwellings aro almost at the edge of
the perpendicular cliff called St. Aldan's Head, which is
640 feet above the sea. There is no fence around the cliff,
and once, about 16 years ago, a little child fell over, and
was dashed to pieces.

There are no pumps provided for the use of these poor
men and their families, and they are obliged to drink rain
water. They cannot afford the slightest comfort or stimu-
lant to support them in their trying and laborious duties.
They have to send a distance of seven miles for a doctor in
case of sickness.

The most valuable portion of the mails, and the boxes of
diamonds and gold, were landed in the greatest confusion
at Chapman's Cove, and had to be carried over steep cliffs
a distance of two miles, to Encombe, by the coast-guards-
men, but not a single box or bag was lost.
About 180 tons of machinery has been got out of the
Tyne, but there are a hundred tone of coals on board of
her, which cannot be got at. Prom St. Aldan's Head the
ship appears as though she were at anchor in the bay, and
could proceed to sea if the steam were up. Her keel, it
has been discovered, is twisted ; and some are of opinion
that, although only the large hole in the stern has been
discovered by the divers, yet the jagged teeth of the rocks
have ented her bottom, and that, if she were dragged
away from the rocks, she would sink directly. Officers
and on board her
ever men
ehasvhee bseternaclkiv,inagudandduslreineiginsgome days and
nights they could have no communication with
the shore, in consequence of bad weather. It is the
opinion of the coast.guardsmen that no one ought to re-
main on board of her at night.
It was precisely 3.40 a.m. when the ship struck. Num-
bers of persons on board were thrown out of their bed. The
passengers, ladies and gentlemen, ran on deck in their
night clothes, and for the moment there was great con-
fusion, but the captain commanded order, and every officer
and man was at the duty assigned him in such an emer-
gency. Directly she struck her boilers were lifted, water
rushed into the ship, and the engines were useless.
The Tyne was such a splendid sea-boat that she scarcely
ever shipped a sea, and she was able to carry the largest
cargo of any of the Royal Mail Packet Company's steamers.
It is expected that the Board of Trade inquiry into her loss
will commence immediately at Southampton. This inquiry
is looked forward to with the greatest interest.

THE LATE RUSSIAN PRISONERS,-Mr. H. Rautenfield,
late secretary to her Majesty's war prison, writes to the
Sussex Express :—" Sir,--A. few days ago I had the plea-
sure of receiving a letter from Mr. Okerman, dated Abo,
Finland, in which he wishes me to make known his best
thanks and greetings added to those of his comrades
in captivity, to all their friends in Lewes and its vicinity,
in whose families they so continually met with the kind-
liest hospitality. Mr. Okerman tells me that he bas seen
nearly all his compatriots who had been with him in
Lewes, and that each one speaks with the most grateful
recollection of their sojourn in England. As for himself,
I may quote the following passage from his letter :
When in the dusk of the evening I am sitting near the
fireside, surrounded by my family, to whom, thanks to
Providence, I au) restored, I often relate to them my
life among my English friends, and the exertions they
made to alleviate the irksomeness of my captivity and
separation from them. I trust they will remember me
as an honest man ; on my part, I feel happy in speaking
of them."!

RAILWAY IIVTFLLIGEIVCE.

RAILWAY AND OTHER BILLS IN
PARLIAMENT.

Yesterday, the Session for inquiring into the numerous
public and private bills in Parliament commenced in the
committee roams of the House of Commons, hefore Mr.
Smith, the senior examining barrister, -and Mr. Frere,
who has been appointed to fill the place recently vacated
by Mr. May. There was the usual atcendance of parlia•
mentary agents, solicitors, and the general public inte-
rested in the progress of the various measures, the re-
sults of which were as follow
EAST KENT RAILWAY. —To exten'd the line from Stroud
to St.' Mary's Cray, 'with branch to Chatham Dockyard,
for running powers and facilities over certain railways in
Kent and Surrey, for working and other arrangements
with, and powers of subscription by other companies and
aiditional capital. Mr. J. Cubitt etairnatesthe expense
of the extension line from Strood, to join the Mid Kent
Railway, with all necessary works, land,.and contingen-
cies, at 270,0001., 'and the exiiense of the branch to
,Chatham Dockyard, at 14,0001. The standing orders
were declared not complied with, on the ground of her-
` tain formalities.
IIORTMARTINE AND
.BUCHIAN RAILWAY..—TO make a
railway from the Great Noith of SOotland'to Peterhead
and Frazerburgb, at a cost of 370,0001. Standing
orders not complied with. .
INVERNESS AND NAIRN RAILWAY. —For power to
create a preference stock and raise 25,000/, Standing
orders complied with.
EXETER AND EXMOUTH RAILWAY.—To extend the
time for the purchase of laird and completion of works.
Standing orders complied with.
CORNWALL RAILWAY.—To secure the completion of
the line between Plymouth and Truro, and to enable
Grea,t-Westerrh-Bristal ituri.Exeter, and. SoUth Devon
Railways, to aid in doing so. Standing orders complied
with.
ELY TIDAL HARBOUR AND RAILWAY.—For a rail-
way from the Eiy Railway to the western side of the
river Ely, improve'neut of the river, construction of
docks, at a cost of 192,0001. Standing orders complied
with.

READING RAILWAYS .TurrorroN. —For power to Staines,
Wokingham and .Woking Railway Company, to make a
railway to:unite the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate
Railway, with' the Great Western Railway, and for faci
Mating transmission of traffic over Great Western Rail-
way. Standing orders complied with.
VICTORIA LONDON DOOKS.—For extension of time for
completion of eastern cut and works, powers to make a
new cut eastward of the present docks, further leases of
.new works and present undertaking ; powers to sell the
Steelyard Estate, and make warehouses elsewhere ; and
power to raise additional capital of 300,000/.,,the new
works being estimated at 200,0001. Standing orders
complied with.
NEW RIVER COMPANY. —To borrow a further sum of
300,0001., , and con-truct other sewers at Hertford.
Standing orders complied with . .

NEWST AND ENNIMILLEN RAILWAY.—To construct
the line as far as Armagh. Adjourned.
The following bills for miscellaneous public matters
were also disposed of :—lslington Parish Bill—F,tandins.):
orders not complied with.- In the case of the Stratford-
on.A.von Gas Company, Stockton New Ga 4, and Stock-
ton Gas Consumers' Company, the standing orders were
complied with. Chester Waterworks adjourned. •