The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-23 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY DI, 1857.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
RETURN TICKETS to all Stations taken on SATIIRD.A.Y
May 30th, and intermediate days, will be available up to and in.
eluding Tuesday, June 2d.

COMMERCIAL RAILWAY OF RUSSIA
RIGA TO DUNABURG.

NOTICE OF CALL OF LI PER SHARE.

The Directors beg to announce that a call of 4/. per share on the
present shares issued by the company, is hereby made ; and will be
payable on or before Saturday, the 6th June, at the Banking Houses
of Sir S. Scott, Bart. & Co., No. 1, Cavendish-square, and the Lon•
don asd County Jcint Stock Bank, Lom`mrd-street.

It will be necessary to present tlie‘Scripat the time of payment of
the Call; and subsequently to present it (together with the Bankers'
Receipt) for indorsement at the offices of the Company. . . .

This Call, toge.her with the 11. already paid, will carry interest
from the date ot payment, at the rattfot 5 per cent. payable half-
yearly in London, Riga, and St. Petersburg.
The present Call has been already paid on the shares taken in
Russia.

The subsequent Calls will be extended over three years, thelargest
portion being required in the 2d and 3d years.
By the Statutes of the Company the Directors are empowered to
accept payments from the Shareholders in anticipation of Calls ; but
it is necessary that those Shareholders who are desirous of availing
themselves of this privilege, should signify their intention of so doing,
and to what extent, by letter addressed to the Secretary. Interest
at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum will be paid half-yearly on all
such payments. • -
_ _

The present Scrip Certificate of 1001. will be exchanged for the
four Scrip Certificates of 201. each, as soon as possible after the pay-
ment of tho Call.

As the Directors have no means of ascertaining who are the pre-
sent holders of the Scrip, no further notices will be sent tothe original
allottees, exeept at their personal request. Every publicity, how-
ever, will be given of alt notices, by
_the usual mode of advertise-
ments.

By order of the Beard,
J. W. WA RRE. TYNDALE, Secretary,
17, Oracechurch-street, ➢fonday, May 18th, 1857. . .

rpHE OTTOMAN RAILWAY from SMYRNA
1. to AIDIN.

Capital 1,200,000/.

Divided into 60,000 Shares of 201., or 2,500 piastres each.
A minimum dividend of 6/. per cent, per annum guaranteed
by the Sublime Porte.
Deposit 1/. per share. Calls of not more than 2F. each,• at,
intervals of not less than three months. No liability what:
ever incurred beyond the amount actually paid on deposit
and on calls as made.
Shares to bearer.

DIRECTORS.

CHAIRMAN. —Sir MACDONALD STEPHENSON, 115, Glom

cester-terrace, Hyde-park,
DEPUTY-CllAlßMAN.—Captain DANIEL WARREN, 17, Por-
chester-terrace North, Hyde-park.
Philip B. Blyth, Esq , 53. Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square.
William Gordon Thompson, Esq., 83, Gloucester-terrace,
Hyde-park.
Eric Carrington Smith, Esq., 1, Lombard-street.
Major-General Tremenhere, 33, Somerset-street, Portman-
square.
SOLICITORS.—Messrs. Rlion, Son, and Anton.
ENGINEER..—George Meredith, Esq., M.I. C. E.
_ _

BANKERS IN LONDON.—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths,
Lombard-street.

BANKERS IN TUREET.—Messrs. Hanson and Co., Smyrna

and Constantinople.
SECRETARY. —J. L. Elkin, Esq,

SIIIREBROKERS.—Messrs. Mt:diens, Marshall, and Daniell,
3, Lombard-street.
OFFICIAL AUDITOIt--Henry Lloyd Morgan, Esq.
Offices-3S, Cannon-street, E.C.

PROSPECTUS.
This Railway, about 70 miles in length, will connect
Smyrna, the most important seaport in the Levant, with
Guzel Hissar or Aidin, the great entrepot of the internal trade
of Asia Minor. It will bring tho two places within three
hours of each other, instead of four days as at present.
Smyrna contains a population of 100,000, possesses one of
the finest harbours in the world, and takes the highest rank
among the trading ports of the Mediterranean.

The aggregate value of her imports and exports in 1856,
taken from the most reliable sources of information, amounted
to 5,000,0001. sterling, and the tonnage inwards and out-
wards to 869,380 tons;
The extraordinary fertility and resources of Asia Minor
maintain Smyrna in her position as a trading emporium, not-
withstanding all the disadvantages she has had to contend
with from the total absence of even the most ordinary roads,
and which has from time immemorial rendered imperative
the exclusive use of camels and mules. When the goods are
packed at Aidin, the deterioration now caused, particularly
in delicate products, by the frequent lading and unlading
consequent upon the nightly rest of the camels, will be
avoided. The loss of damage arising from the death of
animals and from numerous other casualties, which frequently.
occur during the conveyance from Aidin to the port of ship-
ment, Smyrna, will all+be obviated by the proposed Railway:
The physical features of the neighbourhood of Smyrna,
which is surrounded by mountains, force the traffic along two
principal routes—one to the north, skirting the sea coast,
and leading, by a circuitous path, to Magnesia and Cassaba,
and from nee to the northern and north eastern parts of
Asia Minor—the second to the south-east, opening upon the
celebrated province of Aidin. The varied elevations of this
part of the country, the genial temperature of the climate,
and the alluvial nature of the soil, enable it to grow produce
of all kinds from the rarest to the coarsest qualities. Tobacco,
the fig, the vine, the olive, the poppy, the cotton plant and
mulbery tree are indigenous products, whilst wheat, maize,
barley, beans, flax, hemp, and a variety of pulse and oleagin-
ous "seeds are raised in large quantities, lfalonia,
berries, wool, goat's hair, dyestuffs, drugs, skins, honey,
wax, &c., likewise abound.

Guzel Hissor, more commonly called Aidin, is a thriving
city, having about 60,000 inhabitants, and is the point of
concourse for persons from all parts of the interior, who re-
sort to that market for the disposal of produce in small par-
cels to the resident dealers trading with Smyrna, and for the
purchase of foreign goods.
According to a low average of the various estimates made
by a Special Commissioner sent out for the purpose, whose
report has been confirmed by all the principal resident mer-
chants of Smyrna, the goods traffic from Aidin to Smyrna
employs 10,000 camels and 500 mules, at the cost of over
400,0001. per annum. Independent of the 10,000 camels
which are constautly employed to carry the traffic between
Smyrna and Aidin, there are at least 20,000 employed on va-
rious routes in conveying produce from the interior to the sea.
When thisßailway is completed to Aidin the traffic convoyed
by at least 10,000 of these 20,000 camels will cern* to the line,
thus at once considerably increasing the existing amount of
traffic between the two places.

It is evident, from the above data, that the present goods
traffic will give a di 4iciend of 12 per cent. per annum, after
deducting one-half of the receipts for working expenses, and
the division of profits with Government over 7 per cent.
With regard to passenger traffic, no accurate estimate can
be at present formed. Looking, however, to the result if the
opening of the Railways in Egypt and India, and to the ab-
sence of any passport system, a large revenue is certain to
be derived from this source.

The Turkish Government guarantees a minimum dividend
of 6 per cent, per annum on the expenditure not exceeding
1,200,0001., and contractors of eminence and responsibility
have offered to undertake the construction et the Railway
with ample rolling stock within this amount ; but the pre-
sent extraordinary traffic along the route it will traverse, un-
equalled by that of any railway ever offered to the public, is
the best guarantee of its success.

The Turkish Government, by the terms of the concession,
reserve 15,000 shares, or 300,0101., for local subscription.
The applications for these shares, headed by his Imperial Ma-
jesty the Sultan, the Grand Vizier, and several influential
capitalists of Constantinople, have considerably exceeded this
amount.

The concession, which has been granted and confirmed by
an Imperial firman, accords the most valuable privileges.
The following is an outline of the principal clauses ;-
1. It is perpetual, subject to the right of purchase by the
Ottoman Government upon agreed and equitable terms at the
end of 50, 75, 95, and every subsequent 20 years.
2. A guarantee of dividend of% per cent. per annum as
above mentioned for 50 years. The line to be opened in sec-
tions, and the guarantee to come into operation as each sec-
tion is opened. The profits ever 7 per cent, to be divided
with Government.

2. All Government land and materials to be taken and
made use of by the Company gratuitously.
4. All the materials for constructing, working, and renew-
ing the Railway to be imported duty free.
5. The power of working all coal mines within 30 miles of
any part of the line, on payment of a fixed royalty.
6. The privilege of erecting warehouses with a Custom-
house attached on the Company's premiseS at Smyrna.
7. The engagement of Government not to grant a conces-
sion to any competing line.
8. The unrestricted power of management.
The Directors having a due regard the present unfavour-
able time for launching a new undertaking, have deferred,
and would still defer, bringing forward the enterprise were it
not that the conditions of the Imperial firman limit the date
at which operations must be commenced. They have, how-
ever, determined that the first section of the line only shall
receive their immediate attention,'so as to obviate the neces-
sity of making heavy calls during the existing stringency of
the money mark,et.
The Concessionaries who have deposited at their own risk
the caution money, amounting to 24,0001., and who have also
defrayed all the expenses since the first negotiations were
opened with the Porte, including the cost of detailed plans,
sections, and surveys, engineering, travelling, and other ex-
penses, have agree to accept for their interest in the conces-
sion, and for all preliminary expenses, 3i per cent, upon the
capital, which they will take in shares or otherwise as may be
deemed most advisable for the interests of the Company; and
they have also, to show their confidence in the undertaking,
subscribed to the eapital of the Company to the extent of
90,0001. in addition.
The first and moss important section of 46 miles from
Smyrna, which it is calculated will yield a most satisfactory
return upon the outlay, may be opened in time to bring down
the produce of the harvest of 1858.
Carefully prepared plans, sections, and estimates of the cost
of the line, show that the capital on which the guarantee is
given is sufficient for its entire construction, the supply of
rolling stock, and the erection of stations, warehouses, and
water-side premises.

Interest at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum will be allowed
on payments either for, or in anticipation of, calls during the
construction of the line. Provision for this item of expenditure
has been made in estimating the required capital at 1,200,0001.
upon which the guarantee of the Turkish Government has
been secured.

Applications for shares, with the bankers' receipt for the
deposit, to be addressed to Messrs. Mullen and Co., 3,
Lombard-street; or to the Secretary of the Company, 38,
Cannon-street, City, where forms can be obtained.

CURIOUS TENANT OF AN AUSTRALIAN BALE OF WOOL.
—A singular discovery, exhibiting the usefulness of the
Customs' examination of imported goods, took place the
other day. In a bale of wool from Australia a large
block of stone, weighing about 641 b., was found in its
centre. The grower bad perhaps thus cheated the buyer
in Australia, who had unconsciously cheated the buyer
in England of_the. like weight of wool, and the ship-
owner had unconsciously overrated the freight by a
similar amount of weight. The question arises,
would it not be a safeguard to the British
merchant were colonial wool examined under Customs'
regulation previous to the pressure and shipment
of the wool ? By the discovery of the Customs' officials
the merchant in England will save the duty on the
weight of the stone, and be enabled to recover the price
of the wool from his Australian agent. Civil &Tice
Ocafttc, _

Naval and Military intelligence.

The depot of the 82d (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) Regi-
ment, consisting of 1 captain, 2 lieutenants, and 105 non-
conimissioned• officers and men, will proCeed this day from
Portsmouth to. Chatham,' for the purpose of being attached to
the Provisional Battalion on the embarcation of their head-
quarters for China.
An order has been received at Chatham for the following
officers to hold themselves iu readiness to embark :with the
detachments proceeding to India, for the purpose of joining
their head-quarters :—Captain Winniett, 24th Regiment ;
Capt. Pattison and Ensign Dillon, 35th Regiment.
A circular order has been issued to the home ports by the
Lords of the Admiralty, to the effect that all petty, officers,
seamen, and boys now serving in ships at the home ports, or
in ships arriving in England, are to be allowed to be dis-
charged if they wish it, and no payment is to be required
from the continuous service men and boys so discharged.
When ships are paid off petty officers and A.B.'s only are to
be permitted to put their names down to return to a flagship
for re-entry; and all non-continuous service ordinaryseamen and
boys are to be discharged from the service. No more ordinary
seamen are to be permitted to volunteerfor continuous service.
All continuous service men of bad character, or who are
weak and undersized, and all boys not likely to make good

seamen, are to be discharged. These regulations are to be
carried into immediate effect, and it is to be made generally
knoWn that such discharges are permitted in the case of con-
tinuous service men and boys of good character, and enforced
in the other eases alluded to, in consequence of there being a
very large excess of men and boys above the number (48,000)
voted by Parliament for, the year 1857-8.
The sentence of the court-martial on Captain U. Eyres,
C. 8., and Mr. Cavell, master, of the Exmouth, 91, screw,
getting that ship on shore off the Lizard on the 12th inst. is,
that the captain placed too much confidence in the pilotage
of the master, and did not use the deep sea lead, and sen-
tencedehim to be admonished. The mastd.: they found had
trusted too much to his judgment of the landin hazy weather
and had shaped his 'course too confidently, without making
use of the deep sealead ; but in consideration of his long
services and previous high character, they only sentenced
him to be reprimanded, and admonished to bo more careful
for the future.

The Emerald, 51 guns, new screw steam-frigate, has been
put out of the fitting basin at Sheerness, and is placed in the
steam squadron of reserve, under Capt. Edward P. Halstead,
in command of the Ediuburgh.
The Brune paddle-wheel, Lieut.-Commander Swinburne,
has been put out of the basin at Sheerness. It has been as.
certained on trial that steam cannot be generated in her
boilers to dpressure beyond 141 b. to the square inch, instead
of 201 b., as calculated. The result is a considerable reduc-
tion in her speed.
The 3-gun paddlewheel steamvessel, Lieutenant-Commander
John B. Field, has returned from Plymouth. Some experi-
ments were made by Commander Field and witnessed by
Commander Veitch, R,N., with Clifford's plan for lowering
boats when under full steam power. When the Locust was
of the Bill of Portland, during a fine breeze from the north-
west, from the time of the commander calling out, " A man
overboard ; let go the life-buoy ; man the boat," till the boat
was lowered, full manned and oars out, and clear of the ship,
—only 25 seconds elapsed. The experiment was repeated
with a like result on entering Hameaze, when the Locust was
at full speed, for the purpose of the boat making a line fast
to the buoy. In both cases the time was noted and tested by
Commander Veitch, with Commander Field, of the Locust.
The United States' frigate Niagara is to leave Gravesend
this morning for Liverpool to ship her portion of the Trans-
atlantic electric cable, consisting of 1,500 tons, and will sail
from Liverpool about the time the Agamemnon leaves the
river, having shipped an equal amount off East Greenwich.
They will then proceed to mid ocean, when they will com-
mence paying out the electric cable, the Niagara steaming
towards the coast of America. and the Agamemnon towards
England, The Agamemnon is to be accompanied by the
paddlewheel steam-frigate Cyclops, for the purpose of taking
soundings.

The committee of .the Boatd. of Trade have requested the
assistance of an engineer and shipwright officer of Woolwich
dockyard to inspect the first of a number of 40 iron barges
which have been ordered for construction at Blackwell for the
purpose of dredging the Nile.
The steam-transport Buffalo entered Woolwich basin yes-
terday morning partly laden with casting sand, and is filling
up with steam machinery for the Western yards.

The paddle-wheel steam-sloop Spiteful, Commander Francis
H. Shortt, in Woolwich basin, is to be paid off this morning.
The life-boat built by Messrs. Forrestt, after the design of
Mr. Peako, assistant-master shipwright, of Woolwich dock-
yard, and about to be presented to the Chilian Government,
was yesterday morning shipped on board a merchant vessel
for its destination.

GIGANTIC FLOATING LANDING-STAGE.

LIVBRPOOL, MAY 22.—The large new floating landing-stage
which is being constructed at the cost of the Liverpool Cor-
poration for the accommodation of sea-going steamers is all
but completed. When finished it will be 1,002 feet long, or
nearly three times lenger than the United States' frigate
Niagara, and 82 feet wide; and communication will be ob-
tained with the shore by Means of four cast-iron bridges,
each of which is 113 feet long, and 13 feet 6 inches wide from
side to side. The bridges are constructed with ordinary
tubular girders, on the principle of those forming part of the
Britannia-bridge.. The Mode of construction is precisely the
same as that which has proved so successful in the landing-
stage for the accommodation of passengers by the ferry
steamers at the George's Pier. Upon a range of 63 rectangu-
lar pontoons, of immense size and str.ngth, are placed five
rows of quadrangular hollow-iron girders or kelsons, each
1,000 feet long, which act as supporting ridges and fixing
points for the main timbers cf the floor or deck, which latter
has been constructed by Messrs. Thomas Vernon and Son,
iron shipbuilders, on the beach at Tranmere. Three of these
sections have been launched, floated down the river at high
tides, moored in their positions, and connected ; the third
and last section has been launched, and will be floated to its
place to-morrow (Saturday) ; and this morning one of the
bridges forming the means of communication with the pier
was floated on a stage prepared for the purpose from the
great float at Birkenhead to the new landing-stage, and suc-
cessfully connected with the stage and the pier. The opera-
tion was cleverly performed. Three pontoons had in the first
instance been taken into the great float, upon which a high
staging was erected. The bridge, which had been brought
in pieces from Manchester, where it had been manufactured
by Messrs. Fairbairn, was put together on the staging, and
was this morning, by the aid of steamtugs, floated to its
place between the new landing-stage and the pier, the stag-
ing upon which it was resting being sufficiently high to allow
one end of the bridge to be shipped on the crosshead on the
pier, the pontoons supporting the staging sinking with the
tide until the other end of the bridge was shipped on the
crosshead on tho, landing-stage. The entire operation was
performed with the greatest ease and success. Another
bridge is completed, and will be brought over with the
high tide on Monday. The engineer is Sir William Cubitt,
the contractors for the entire work are Messrs, Cochran,
of Dudley, the estimated cost being 140,0001., and the sub-
contractors aro Messrs. T. Vernon and Son, Liverpool, and
Messrs. Fairbairn, of Manchester. Messrs. Vernon and Son
have completed about 2.3ds of the entire work, their contract
including the making of the pontoons, placing them, fasten-
ing the kelsons, and the furnishing of the woodwork and
the join cry. Messrs. Fairbairn are making the four bridges,
and Messrs. Cochran have themselves manufactured the kel-
sous, in the construction of which 1,000 tons of iron have
been required, the pontoons having also taken 1,000 tons of
the same material. The deck is laid down with timber 41
inches in thickness, over which is a layer of 19-inch timber
to give strength and durability to the work.

EXPERDITENTS O.V NEW DECKED COP-
PER PONTOONS AT CITATHAtiI.

On visiting Chatham on Friday morning, to mica, t further
operations with Major Hassan", Sir Charles Pasley found
that, owing to two days' inspections of the Royal Engineers
under arms, first by the commandant of the garrison, and
afterwards by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
it would be impossible for the pontoons to be put in, a state
of perfect repair before the afternoon of Tuesday next, as the
injuries done to them were much more serious than at first
supposed. The final experiment of testing their efficiency
for transporting heavy artillery is therefore postponed till
Wednesday next, the 27th inst. A young and active corporal,
who was employed for two years as a diver in a wet dock
before he enlisted, had made several attempts to get up the
gun, but had not yet succeeded. In so doing he worked
from a raft of four piers of casks, capable of supporting
twice that weight, upon which the gun will be deposited,
and where it will remain until it is taken back to the gun-
wharf. _

This raft also will be moored, on the lower side of Old
Rochester-bridge, opposite to one of the arches, next to that
chosen for the raft of copper canoes, about 20 feet from the
end. of the starlings, where both will be exposed at the same
'time to the fury of the ebb of the same strong spring tide.
This will add to the interest of the experiment first proposed
with the decked copper pontoons alone.
Leaving every necessary arrangement to Major Hassard,
Lieut. Philips, and the non-commissioned officers and men
under their command, in whom he has perfect confidence, Sir
Charles will join them at the Gun-wharf, Chatham, where
the gun and carriage from Upnor will be taken on board,
there being no time to save one day's previous practice, as
was at first proposed. Officers or other gentlemen who take
an interest iu such experiments, are recommended to be at
Rochester-bridge at or before 3 p.m, on the day appei ate d—
at which time it will be high water, after which the turn of
tide, upon which the result of the experiment depends, will
take place.

THE ARMY ESTIMATES FOR 1857-S.—Yesterday were
issued the estimates of the army services for 1857-8. For
the effective services the sum required is 9,025,3601.,
being a decrease on the revised estimates of 1856-7 of
8,983,5001. The amount already voted on account for
these services is 3,010,000/. ; the amount required to be
voted is 6,015,360/. For non-effective services the esti-
mates amount to 2,221,8751., which is a decrease on the
revised estimates of 1856.7 of 18,3491. The amount
already voted on account is 744,0001. The total esti-
mates for effective and non effective services for 1857-8,
amount to 11,247,2351., being a decrease on the revised
estimates of 1856.7 of 9,001,8491., and on the original
estimates of 1856-7, a decrease of no less than
25,751,2691. The amount already voted on account for
this year's service—effective and non-effective—is
3,754,0001., leaving the sum of 7,493,2351. still to be
voted.

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From the London Gazette of Last Night

WAR-OFFICE,' PALL-MALL, MAY 22.
Royal Beginient of Horse Guards—Richard George
Beresford Bolton, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice
the Hon. G. R. C. Hill, promoted.
4th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Henry Harold do
Bourbel has been permitted to retire from the Service by
the sale of his Commission.
10th. Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Dundas 'Reinhardt
Gillfto`.be Captain, by purchase, vice the Hon. F. C. G.
Fitz Clarence, who retires; Cornet and Adjutant John
Fife to have the rank ,of Lientenant ; Cornet Harry Pan-
mure Gordon to bts Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gill ;
James John London lil`Adam, Gent., to be Cornet, by
purchase, vice Gordon.
Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—To be Instructors
of Musketry—Lieut. and Captain Hon. John 11. J. Dor-
mer ; Lieut. and Captain Fitzßoy Augustus Talbot Clay-
ton ; Ensign and Lieutenant Edward Henry Clive. •
Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards—To be Instrue- '
tors of Musketry—Lieut. and Captain Christopher E.
Blacket • Lieut. and Captain and Brevet-Major John Au-
gustus Conolly.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Fergus Farrell, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, in succession to Lieut. R. L. Wil-
liams, promoted.
3d Foot--Brevet-Colonel George Walter Prosser, from
half-pay Unattached, to be Major, vice Grden, who ex-
changes ' • Brevet-Major George James Ambrose to be
Major, by purchase, vice Prosser, who retires; Lieutenant
William Ross Turner to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Ambrose.

4th Foot—Ensign R. Davies to be Lieutenant, by pur•
chase, Tice St. Clair, who retires.

7th Foot--Lieut. 'A. Bennett to be Instructor of Mns-
ketvy; Ensign G. J. Franklin has been permitted to resign
his Commission..

Bth Foot—W. Edgeworth, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Corfield, promoted.
16th Foot—Lieutenant Francis Reba Hack to be Captain,
by purchase, vice William Armstrong, who retirei ; En-
sign Arthur Platt to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Rotallack ; James Dunlop Knox, to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Platt.
22d Foot—Lieutenant Edward Napoleon L'Estrange to
be Captain, by purchase, vice William Thomas Smith,
who retires; Ensign Graham Palliser to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice L'Estrange ; Henry Leigh, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Palliser.
23d Foot—Lieut. G. Phipps Provost to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Crofts, who retires ; Ensign Wm. Romilly
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Prevost ; Thos. Hyde
Crawley Boevey, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Romilly; Lieut. Charles Frederick Gregorie to be Adju-
tant, vise Provost, promoted.
30th Foot—Ensign Horace Sibbald Harrison, to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice S. S. Bristow°, who retires.
42d Foot—Lieutenant William Baird to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Montgomery, who tiietires; Edmund White-
head, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, in succession to
Lieutenant Baird.

54th Foot—Lieutenant Francis George S. Parker to be
Instructor of Musketry.
60th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Peter Joseph Hoey, from
the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon.
75th Foot—Montagu Cholmeley Morris, Gent., to be
Ensign, by pa/chase, vice Faithful!, promoted.
99th Foot—Lieutenant George Hayter Macaulay, from
the 2d West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Bay-
lis, who exchanges.
Rifle Brigade—Ensign Honourable Alan Joseph Pen-
nington to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice C. A. Talbot,
who retires; Lieutenant William Palliser to be Instructor
of Musketry. _

2d West India Regiment—Lieutenant Robert Baylis,
from the 99th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Macaulay, viho
exchanges ; Edgar Wainwright Bishop, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Macnamara, promoted; Lieute-
nant Henry Carvell has been permitted to retire from the
service, by the sale of his commission.
Cape Mounted Riflemen—Thomas Herrick, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Fowler, promoted.
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment--Sergeant-Major Abra-
ham Cook to be Quartermaster, vice Harkness, deceased.
Gold Coast Artillery Corps--To bo Ensigns, without
purchase—John Halpen Thompson, late Captain in Os-
manli Irregular Cavalry, vice Hewett, promoted; Quarter-
master Thomai Bradley Thornett, from the Engineers of
the late Turkish Contingent, vice Cumming, promoted.
UNATTACHED.—Lieutenant Arthur r Robert Fowler,
from the 17th Foot, to be Captain, by purchase.

BREVET. •
Major and Brevet-Lieut.-Colonel George Jackson Carey,
of the Cape Mounted Riflemen, having completed three
years' service as Military Sec.tetary to Lieut.-General Sir
James Jackson, K.C.8., exercising the Chief Command at
the Cape of Good Hope, to be Colonel in the Army.
The undermentioned promotions to take place consequent
upon the decease of the following officers :

Lieutenant-General Sir R., G. Hare Clatgos,
died April 1.3.
Major-General M. Everard, C. 8., died April 20.
General Sir J. Maedonell, G.C.8., died May 15.
• HAVE THE RANK OE MAJOR-GENERAL.

Brevet-Colonel W- Cartwright, Major, upon half-pay,
Unattached.

Brevet-Colonel A. Gore, Major upon half-pay, Unat-
tached,
Brevet-Colonel D. Goodsman, Majorupon half-pay, Un-
attached.

Brevet-Colonel L. Owen, Major npnn half-pay, Unat-
tached.

Brevet-Colonel Pringle Taylor, from Major upon half-
pay unattached, to be Major-General.
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel William Chambre, half-pay
unattached, to be Colonel.
Major the Hon. W. H. Stapleton Cotton, half-pay un-
attached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel.
Captain William Lacy, half-pay unattached, Staff Officer
of Pensioners, to be Major.
The promotion of Captain Henry Joseph Coate, half-pay
18th Foot, Brigade-Major at Wellington, to bear date the
16th May, 1857, instead of 14th April, 1857, as stated in
the Gazette of the Ist instant. _ _ _

MEMORANDIIIC—Captain Matthew White, upon half-
pay Unattiched, has been permitted to retire from the
Service by the sale of his Commission, he being about to
become a settler in Canada.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MAT 22.
BREVET.
MEMORANDA.—In pursuance of a memorandum, dated
in October, 1854, the Queen has boon pleased to confer
upon Lieutenant John Archibald Ballard, C. 8., of the
Bombay Engineers, and Lieutenant-Colonel in the service
of his Majesty the Sultan, the equivalent honorary rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel, such honorary rank, however, to con-
fer no privilege as a British Lieutenant-Colonel on that
officer.

In pursuance of a memorandum, dated in October, 1354,
the Queen has been pleased to confer upon Lieut. Robert
Cadell, of the Madras Artillery, aed Lieut.-Cul, in the Ser-
vice of his Majesty the Sultan, the equivalent honorary
rank of Lieut.-Col., such honorary rank, however, to confer
no privilege as a British Lieut.-Col. on that officer.
ADMIRALTY, MAY 19.

The following promotions, dated the 14th instant, conse-
quent on the death, on the 13th inst., of Admiral of the
White the Fight Hon. Lord Win. Fitzßoy, K.C.8., have
this day taken place :

AdMiral of the Blue R. Thomas to be Admiral of the
White.

Vice-Admiral of the Red Sir G. F. Seymour, K.C.8.,
G.C.H., to ba Admiral of the Blue.

Vice-Admiral of the White H. Hope, K.C.8., to be
Vice-Admiral of the Red.

Vice-Admiral of the Blue Sir Augustus W. J. Clifford,
Dart., C. 8., to be Vice-Admiral of the White

Rear-Admiral of the Red F. E. Loch to bo Vice-Ad-
miral of the Blue.

Roar-Admiral of the White the Hon. Sir M. Stopford,
K.C.8., to be Rear-Admiral of the Red.
Rear-Admiral of the Blue F. T. Michell, C. 8., to lie
Rear-Admiral of the White.

Captain William Frederick Lapidge,
Captain James Brasier,
Captain Robert Contart McCrea,
to be Rear-Admirals on the Reserved Half-pay List.
Captain Michael Quin to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue.
The following Captains on the Retired List have also
been promoted to be Retired Rear-Admirals on the terms
proposed in the London Gazette of the Ist September,
1846, without increase of pay :
Captain William Slaughter, K.H.
Captain Thomas Gill.
Captain William Allan Herringham,
Captain Robert Gordon.
COMMISSION SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANT.
Worcestershire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry. —John
Swinton Isaac, Gent., to be Cornet.

BANK OF
An Account purmant to the Act
the Week ending on Saturda

ISSUE DEP,
Notes issued • ..... •• 23,594,790

ENGLAND.
7th and Bth Victoria, cap, 32, for
y, the IGth day of May, 1857.
'ARTNENT.

423,594,797

Government debt.... 11,015,100
Other securities 3,459,900
Gold coin and bullion 9,119,79
Silver bu11i0n........ -

£23,594,790
%.f. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier,
:PARTMENT.

Dated the 21st day of May, 18i

BAIVEI NG DE
Proprlotors' capital .. 14,553,000
Rest ........ 3,340,201
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ing's Banks, and

Dividend Aceonnte) 5,631,924
Other deposits ...... 9,589,236
Seven Day and. other
Bills•• •• .• •• "•• Se 724,030

Government securities

Oncludg.flead Weight
Annuity) .... ...... 10 329,041
Other securities ..... 18 445,666
Notes • • ............ 4,349,865
Gold and silver coin .. 733,819

£33,858,391 ) £33,858,391
M. MARSHALL, Chief Outlier.
Dated the 21st day of May, 1857.

AVER AGE PRICE .OF SD GAR.

The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from the returns made in the week ending May
19, 1857, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or

payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great
Britain : s. d.
From the British Possessions in America 44 10,i
Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius
Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies 47
Average of the above descriptions.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.

James Bookless, grocer, Maryport, Cumberland.
BANKRUPTS.

Joel Parry and Joseph Parry, builders, Houghton-street,
Clare-market, to surrender, May 29, at eleven, and June
3, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore,
official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Dfurrougb, New-inn.

James Savage, sen., Charles Jan Savage, and James
Savage, jun., shirt-manufacturers, Noble-street, June 2, at
half-past twelve, and 30, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. StansZeld, official assignee ; Turner and Turner,
Alderman bury.
William Henry Richards and Sigismund Louis Bork-
heim, Gracechurch-streets merchants, June 2, at two, and
30, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official
assignee; Dimmock and Burbey, Suffolk-lane.
Benjamin Baker, apothecary, Cardiff, June 3 and July

[PRIDE 4D. STAMPED 5 )•_]

6, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official
assignee, Bristol ; Cruttwell and Co., Bath ; Bevan and
Girling, Bath.
Thomas Jones, grocer, Merthyr Tydfil, Jane 3 and July
7, at'eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Amman, offi-
cial assignee, Bristol ; Bevan and Girling, Bristol.
George R. Booth, engineer, Wandsworth-road, June 2,
at half-past twelve, and june 30, at eleven, at the Courtof
Binkruptcy. Bell. official assignee, Coleman-street-build-
ings ; Greatorex, Chancery-lane. -
Francis Manser, baker, Brownlow-place, Haggerstooe,
June 2, at twelve, and July 3, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Lee, &Boil]. assignee, Aldermanbury ;
Small, Lawrence-lane.
John Barber, miller, Derby, June 9, and 23, at half-
past ten, at the Shirehall, Nottingham. Harris, official
assignee, Nottingham ; Baker, Derby ; Reece, Bir-
mingham.
John Dance and Henry Wane, grocers, Fairford, Glou-
cestershire, June 3, and July 7, at eleven, at the Bristol
District Court.' Miller, official assignee, Bristol; Trenerry,
Bristol.

Robert Keetley, ship-builder, Great Grimsby, June 3
and July 8, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court, King-
ston-upon-Hull. Carrick, official assignee, Hull; Richard-
son and Sadler, Old Jewry•chambera ; Bond and Barwick,
Leeds.

Edward Elsam, merchant, Liverpool, May 29 and June
25, at eleven, at the Liverpool District. Court. Bird, offi-
cial assignee, Liverpool ; Fletcher and Hull; Liverpool.
Edward Teall and Reuben Teall, boat builders, Leeds,
June 4 and July 3, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.
Young, official assignee, Leeds - Weddall and Parker,
2 Selby • Bond and Barwick, Leeds.

Lillie Priestley, worsted 'manufacturer Dudley-hill,
Yorkshire, June 4 and Jul" t, at eleven, at Leeds Dia-
, ict Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds; Caries and
CCudworth, Leeds. ;
.John Hair, insurance broker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
June 11, at eleven, and July 10, at twelve, at the
District Court. Baker, official assignee,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Choler, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
James Bentley, ironmonger, Warrington, Lancashire,
June 10, and July 1, at twelve, at the Manchester Dis-
trict Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester ; Sale,
Worthington, and Shipman, Manchester; Baker, • Bir-
mingham.

James Iliffe, commission agent, Birmingham, June 3
and 24, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District
Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Reece,
Birmingham. _

Thomas Carrier, general dealer, Wolverhampton, Juno
5 and 2g, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham
District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ;
Bartleet, Wolverhampton ; Knight, Birmingham.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
Whyte, Brothers, and Co., wool merchants, Glasgow.
Robert Stuart, commission merchant, Glasgow.
James Williamson, North Richmond-street, Edinburgh.
James Mills, dyei. Glasgow.
Watson andßeid, painters, Glasgow.
Virtue and MgNair, fruit merchants, Glasgow.

COTJRS.E_OF EXCEL
kmstordam........ .. 11 1854
Ditto, three months .. 12 jq
Rotterdam ............ 12 ih
Antwerp .............. 25 85
Brussels 25 61
Elamhurgh ............ 13 9
Paris....

.NGE. -YESTERDAY.

Gibraltar .. •• • • ••
Leg
•• •• • • •
Genoa
ara . 6O
85
Milan •• .• ••
Venice.. •••• ••

Naples 42%
Palermo •••• •••••• •• •• 130 4
Messina ~ ... 130 W,
Lisbon .. 52%
Oporto .............. • • 52%
Rio Janeiro ..... . • • ....
Buenos Ayre5..........
New York,6o days' sight
Philadelphia
PRICES OF BULLION, FEB OZ. '
'Foreign Gold in Bars .£0 0 0
Portugal Gold Coin 0 0 0
,Mexican Dollars 0 5 0%
I New Dollars 0 0 0
Silver in bars ...... u 5 I%

Ditto, three months 25 75
Marseilles ••• •• •• •• •• •• 25 75
Bourdeaux
Frankfort-on-Maine • • ... 120
Vienna• ••• 111. • • •• • • •• ••• 10 ,5
Trieste........ •• •• .. 10 35
Petersburg 3G%
.•• •• • • • • 48%
Culic • •••• •••• 49%
B,tr,elona .
Seville....

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERS AL L'S --FRIDAY.
Despite the inclement weather, many of the principal
bookmakers quitted London in the morning, to assist at
the meeting at Harpenden. The room was, therefore,
not numerously attended, and the betting was, with few
exceptions, unimportant. Saunterer was again in great
force, and his owner would have supported him for
money at 11 to 1-10 to 1 was, however, the highest
offer against him. He was backed for 1001. each for the
best of places-1, 2, 3—against Anton, Tournament, and
Skirmisher, and an offer was made to lay 2,000/. even
that Saunterer and Sprig of Shillelagh beat each of any
three. 900 to 100 was booked about Tournament ; and
10 to 1, to a " pony," and 11 to 1, to 751., were laid
agst Anton. Arsenal receded to 11 to 1 offered. 20 to
1 was wanted about Strathnazer, and 1,000 to 45 about
Adamas. We heard no price offered agst either M.D.
or Sprig of Shillelagh.
For the Oaks, Mcetissima, who bad been driven to 50
-to 1. early in the week, returned to 11 to 1 taken. The
prices at the close were as under :

DERBY.
6 to 1 aget Lord Zetland's Skirmisher (t and off)

9to 1 agst Mr. J. S. Douglas's Tourtament (taken)
10 to 1 agst Mr. Jackson's Saunterer (take 11 to 1)
11 to 1 agst Mr. F. Robinson's Anton (taken)
11 to 1 agst Mr. Howard's Arsenal (ff)
15 to 1 agst Baron Rotbschild's Sydney
100 to 6 agst Lord John Scott's Lady Hawthorn (t)
20 to 1 agst Mr. Harrison's Strathnaver (wanted)
1000 to 45 agst Mr. Mellish's Adamas (wanted)
25 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Bird-in-the-Hand (off)
25 to 1 agst Admiral Harcourt's Wardermarske (off)
1000 to 25 agst Lord Clifden's Beeswax colt (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Mr. Barber's Commotion (t. three times)