The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-18 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

His Royal Highness the General Commanding-
in-Chief will hold a levee at the Horse Guards at
one o'clock on Thursday next, the 21st inst.
The ',iron screw steam troopship Megwra, 6,
Commander H. Henderson, which left Woolwich
in January with the Ist Brigade of Royal Artil-
lery, and touched at Plymouth on the 28th, ar-
rived at Gibraltar on the sth inst., and having
disembarked her troops, embarked the Fifth Bri-
gade and sailed therefrom on the 12th. She made
the passage home in 4 days 16 hours, having
arrived at Plymouth yesterday (Sunday) morning,
and has brought 342 non-commissioned officers and
men, 26 women, and 55 children, 11 officers, and
eight families. The officers are Lieut.-Col. Evan
Maberly, Capt. Charles R. Hill, Second Capt. F.
B. Maude, Second Capt. Pilkington Jackson,
Limits. C. G.-Luard, N. A. Douglas de Vismes, G.
E. Callender, C. Crossthwaite, C. H. S. Paisley,
and W. H. Wright, and Surgeon F. H. Fassont. who
are under orders to land for service in Plymouth
Citadel. The Megmra has experienced very heavy
weather from west and south-west, and on the
14th, in lat. 40.23 N., long. 10.33, passed a Prus-
sian barque showing the first distinguishing
pendant 284, bound for Liverpool. The Megmra
will embark from Plymouth garrison, for convey-
ance to Woolwich, about 350 non-commissioned
officers and men, including 15 drivers, belonging to
the Royal Artillery, for some time stationed there.
They compose the batteries Nos. 3,4, and 5, and
are commanded by the following officers :—Major
Adige, Major Williams, Capt. Purcell, Lieuts.
Cameron, Cooke, Stewart, Lewis, and Thompson,
S urg. O'Leary is the medical officer in charge.
The Himalaya screw troopship, Captain John
Seccombe, embarked the batteries of the 15th bri_
gade Royal Artillery, under command of Colonel
Francklyn, C. 8., at Portsmouth on Friday, sailing
for Pembroke at 10.35 a.m. on Saturday. Captain
Bolton, embarked, vice Johnston, ordered to join
the 10th brigade.

The Bulldog, 6, paddle, Commander Henry
111.Killop, embarks a portion of the 15th brigade
Royal Artillery at Portsmouth to-day, for convey-
ance to Queenstown.

In compliance with an application forwarded to
;the Chelsea Board by Hugh Davis, late a gunner
Li the Royal Artillery, and who, in addition to his
p,quiion for wounds, is honoured with an annual
bounty of £2O from her Majesty's privy purse, a
c;xeular to the following effect was on Saturday re-
ceived at Woolwich by Major-Gen. Sir R. Dacres,
Commandant, from the Adjutant-Ganeral's
dace at the Horse Guards, by special recommenda-
tio n of 11.R.H. the General Commanding-in-Chief:
—" Hugh Davis has been granted an additional 6d.
per day pension on account of his wounds. This
man performed very gallant services with the two
18-pounder batteries at the battle of Inkerman, on
whit h occasion, although severely wounded, he re-
rnairred at his duty with his gun until a round shot
from the enemy deprived him of both his arms as
he was in the act of sponging the gun. He is now
employed as a foreman of labourers in the Royal
Arsenal, Woolwich, at a guinea per week."
An equipment of Armstrong guns, &c., for No. 3
field battery, Bth brigade, having been completed,
will he drawn from the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich,
on the 22d inst., and conducted to Croydon by the
4th, where it will be received by the officers. non-
commissioned officers, and men of the battery for
which it is intended. The Armstrong equipment
prepared for No. 7 battery of the same brigade will
also leave Woolwich on the 22d, instead of the 20th
inst., as formerly directed.
Deputy Assist.-Commissary•General E. L. Ward
is about to be relieved at the camp at Colchester by
Deputy Assist.-Commissary-General J. H. Tubby,
formerly of Newfoundland. Mr. Ward has received
a similar appointment at Guernsey. On Saturday
a small draught of troops from the 10th battalion
left the camp for Landguard Fort, Harwich, to re-
place a party who returned to Colchester.

Many bf the men belonging to the Durham
Militia Artillery, at Devonport, which will shortly
be disbanded, have volunteered iito the Royal Ar-
tillery in Plymouth.

The works for the extension of the Cambridge
barracks at Portsmouth have been commenced, and
according to the terms of the contract are to be
completed within 12 months, the cost not exceeding
26,000. By the alteration a superficial area of
18,000 feet will be added to the barracks.
The name of Mr. H. F. Geimes, who has just
joined the head-quarters of the Royal Artillery at
Woolwich, from Addiscombe, was accidentally
printed in our impression of the 15th Mr. H. T.
Graimes.

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RAILWAY IYTELLIGENCE.

LONDON AND BLACKWALL.

The report of the directors to be presented at the
half-yearly general meeting of proprietors on Tues-
day next states :—" That the total revenue amounts
to £54,030 ls. Bd., and the total expenditure to
£18,731 11s. 6d. ; leaving a net profit of £35,298
10s. 2d. Out of this sum £7,589 13s. Bd.is required
for interest, and the balance, £27,708 16s. 6d., is
available for dividend, which enables the directors
to recommend the payment of a dividend for the
half-year, at the rate of £4 per cent. per annum
upon the consolidated stock of the company. The
prevalence of wet weather has been prejudicial to
the growth of the passenger traffic, and a longer
time than was anticipated having been required
to complete the works in progress for extended
accommodation for goods traffic referred to in the
last report, no additional revenue has been derived
from that source during the half-year. The Great
Northern Railway Company are in possession of
their new stations at Blackwell, adjoining the
East and West India Docks, and the station at
the Minories, hitherto used by the Great Northern
Railway Company and the lessees of the Victoria
Docks jointly, has been surrendered to the former
company, the business of the lessees having been
transferred to their new station, on the north side
of the line, adjoining the bonded warehouses. The
premises at Blackwell, formerly used as workshops,
have been given over to the Midland Railway
Company, and the Clay Cross Company are in the
occupation of their enlarged coal depot at Shad-
well. Additional rents and interest will from this
time be derived from these arrangements ; and the
directors have every confidence that their expecta-
tions of increased traffic in goods will be realised
to a considerable extent in the course of the pre-
sent year. Two new locomotive engines, of a more
powerful description than those required for the
company's passenger trains, have been provided for
the goods' traffic of the Great Northern and Midland
Railways, and the cost has been charged to capi-
tal. In pursuance of the resolutions passed at last
meeting the shares in the new capital of £300,000
were offered to the proprietors, and 24,154 shares,
representing £157,001 of the capital, have been up.
In consequence of the depression in the value
of the capital stock below the relative price at which
the new shares were issued, the directors have not
attempted to dispose of the remainder, of those
shares, and inasmuch as the capital subscribed is
sufficient to execute the greater part of the works
proposed, according to the estimates given in the
last report, the directors are of opinion that it will
be desirable to wait for a more favourable oppor-
tunity to place the unissued shares, and in the
meantime to arrange with the bankers to defer the
repayment of their loan. If, however, it should be
found necessary to issue the other shares at a less
price than £6 10s. each, the directors consider that
the proprietors who have taken shares at £6 10s.
should be placed in the same position as those who
may take the shares at a reduced price. Interest
at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum has accrued
upon the deposit of £1 10s. per share, paid on the
new shares in Sept. last, and it will be divided
amongst the holders of those shares.