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London, England, 1859-02-05 00:00:00

pany's general undertaking. Acting on the reso-
lution passed at the special general meeting on 27th
Oct. last, the directors had concluded an arrange-
ment with the Portsmouth Company for a lease of
their undertaking for 999 years, at a rental of
£lB,OOO a-year, subject to such other incidental
conditions as the directors had considered just and
proper. The Portsmouth line was opened for
traffic on the Ist of January, and trains were run-
ning over it, pending the application to Parliament
for the lease. An arrangement had been concluded
with the. Stokes Bay Railway and Pier Company,
by which the company was to lease and work that
undertaking in perpetuity, at an yearly rent of
£l,BOO, but the arrangement was to Cease if the
sea service between Stokes Bay and the Isle of
Wight should at any time not be sufficiently worked
or provided for by the Stokes Bay or Ferry Com-
pany. The directors regret that the proposed lease
by this company of the Portsmouth Railway had
led to differences with the Brighton Company.
With regard to the charge of breach of faith made
by the Brighton Company against the board, the
directors feel that they have a full and satisfactory
reply. The board thought the time had arrived
for calling the attention of the proprietors to
the subject of the remuneration of the direc-
tors. In August, 1846, the:salary of the board was
increased from £l,OOO to £2,000 per annum; the
capital account of the company was then £2,636,585;
it was now £7,197,533. The gross receipts of the
year were £365,355 ; they now amounted to
£862,516. The miles of railway open were 105; and
there were now 287, with 120 more miles in pro-
spect. The qualification of directors had been since
1846 raised from a holding of £l,OOO, not paid up,
to a holding of £3,000, paid up and held for twelve i
month.
The report of Mr. Beattie states that the cost per
mile for the locomotive department had been at the
rate of B.old. per mile, showing a decrease of ex-
pense of £1,488, of 0.60 d. per mile, as compared
with the corresponding half of 1857. The saving
had in part been made by improvements in the
engines to economise fuel, whereby nearly three
tons of coals had been used to one ton of coke, and
the same results had been obtained by one ton of
the former as by a similar quantity of the latter.
The comparison stood thus during the six months
ending Dec., 1857; the cost per train mile for fuel
was 2.68 d. ; last half-year it was 2.43 d. ; the de-
crease therefore had been id. per mile, notwith-
standing the proportion of goods train mileage had
been greater. The amount expended in the car-
riage department had been £12,959, or at the rate
of 1•92 d. per train mile, giving a total expenditure
of £67,039 for both departments, or 9.93 d. per train
mile, as compared with. 10.25 d. for a similar period
in 1857.

The capital account showed that £10,074,776 had
been received, and £10,125,561 expended, leaving
a balance of £50,785 against the company.

STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON.
The directors of this company state in their report
that the receipts for the six months just ended, in-
cluding the balance of £1,653 brought from the pre-
ceding half-year, amounted to £193,697, and the
expenditure to £111,487. The half-year's accounts
contain a debit of £5,545 in part payment of the
Parliamentary expenses of last session. The dis-
posable balance, after payment of all interest, pre-
ference dividends, and other outgoings, amounted
to £37,000. This sum was fully equal to the pay-
ment of a dividend at the rate of 94- per cent. per
annum on the ordinary stock, and, if sanctioned by
the proprietors, would make the dividend for the
year 1858 9 per cent., leaving a balance of £3,000
for the next account.

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK.

MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PREBBNT
Borough of Boston.— P
WiIIiamARLIAMENT Henry Adams of the said
borough, Esq., Recorder of the borough. of Derby.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, FEB. 4.
2d Regiment of Life Guards—Captain John Massy, from
- half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, paying the difference
between infantry and cavalry, vice Brevet-Major the
Hon. Fenton John Evans Freke, who exchange* re-
ceiving the same ; Lieutenant Frederick Marshall to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Massy, who retires.
sth Dragoon Guards—William Leyland Feilden, Gent., to
be Cornet, by purchase, vice Duffield, promoted.
6th Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant William Oliver Bird to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Pinckney, who retires.
6th Dragoons—Lieutenant the Honourable E. R. Bourke
to be Instructor of Musketry.
15th Light Dragoons--The third Christian name of Cornet
Pearson, appointed on 31st December, 1858, is Hooke.
sth Regiment of Foot—Brevet-Major John Manley Wood,
from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, repaying the
difference, vice Green, appointed to the 77th p oot ; Lieu-
tenant Edwin John Oldfield to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Wood, who retires ; Ensign William Charles Shool-
bred to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Oldfield.
Bth Foot—Lieutenant Robert L. Grant McGrigor to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Dimond, who retires ; Ensign
George N. James Bradford to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice McGrigor.
9th Foot—The restoration to full-pay of Captain A. 0.
Richards, from half-pay, 9th Foot, to be antedated to
9th April, 1857.
17th Foot—Ensign Henry Scrymgeour Wedderburn to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Holworthy, who retires.
18th Foot—John 'Boddington Jackson, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Eden, appointed to the 30th Foot.
20th Foot—Lieut. Owen Tudor Burne to be Adjutant,
vice Gerahty, promoted. The promotion of Lieut. John
Aldridge to be antedated to 29th June, 1858,
21st Foot—Lieut. William Cairnes to be Captain, without
purchase, vice Palmer, deceased ; Ensign Clement J.
Sneyd;from Ist Foot, to be Ensign; Ensign James Fer-
guson to be Adjutant.
27th Foot—Lieut. W. S. C. Pinwill to be Instructor of
Musketry.
38th Foot—Brevet-Colonel William O'Grady Haly, C. 8.,
from the 47th Foot, to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice Kelly, who
exchanges.
39th Foot—Capt. Francis Charles Turner from the 79th
exchanges.
47th to be Captain, vice Newport, who
47th Foot—Lieut.-Colonel Thomas .C. Kelly, C. 8., from
the 38th Foot, to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice Brevet-Colonel
Haly, who exchanges.
57th Foot—Arthur Cecil Manners, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Mathews, who retires.
79th Foot—Captain Simon George Newport, from the 39th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Turner, who exchanges.
99th Foot—Lieutenant Edward G. lteppel Ravenhill to be
Captain, by puichase, vice Molson, whose pronption, by
- purchase, on the 'lsth Oct., 'lB5B, has been cancelled;
Lieutenant Joseph Dinham Molson to be Captain, with •
out purchase, vice Ravenhill, whose proraotion, without
purchase, on 2Gth Oct., 1858, has been cancelled.
Ist "Nest India Reo°iment—Ensign Arthur Jamds Plunkett
to b6' Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fitzmaurice, who has
. retired.- - •
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Ensign Fenton Josiah Hort to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Read, who retires.
St. Helefia Regirnent--Lieut. J. B. H. Rainier to be In-
structor of Musketry.
Royal• Malta Fencibles—John Rutter, Gent., to be Ensign,
with local and temporary rank, vice Dessin, promoted.
Commissariat-Department—Deputy-Assistant Commissary
General,Arthur William Downes, appointed an Acting-
Assistant Commissary-General; for meritorious services
- during the recent operations in China, to be confirmed in
that rank from 27th October, 1858 ; Commissariat Clerk
George Hutchinson Phillips, having completed the re-
quired_service as an Acting Deputy-Assistant-Commis-
sary-General, on the Western Coast of Africa, to be con-
firmed in that rank from 16th October, 1857.

' - HOSPITAL STAFF.
TO DE ASSISTANT-SURGEONS TO THE FORCES.
Acting Assistant-Surgeon Frederick 0' Comm, vice Jack-
son, appointed to the 80th Foot.
Aeries William Griffith, Gent., vice Robinson, ap-
pointed to the Royal Artillery.
Alexander Allan, M.D., vice McDowell, appointed to
the 44th Foot.
David Ritchie Pearson, M.D., vice Warren, appointed
to the 71st Foot.
Hunt John Son Bailey, Gent., vice Mathew, appointed to
the 54th Foot.
Henry Walker, Gent., vice Lamb,.appointed to the 60th
Foot.

30th FWilliamoot. Henaman, Gent., vice Lindsay, appointed to the
Charles Edward Wikeley, Gent., vice Carbery, appointed
to the 14th Foot.
Arthur Sanderson, Gent., vice Symons, appointed to the
Royal Artillery.
William Armstrong, Gent., vice Fiddes, appointed to the
Royal Artillery.
Alexander Campbell McTavish, Gent., vice Leslie, ap-
pointed to the 48th Foot.
George Arthur Grant, Gent., vice Le Febure, appointed
to the 64th Foot.
John James Colin Rogers, Gent., vice McCreevy, ap-
pointed to the 66th Foot.

BREVET.
Breiet-Major John Manley Wood, sth Foot, to be
Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army.
Captain John Massy, 2d Life Guards, to be Major in the
Army.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, FEB. 4.
MEMORANDUM.
The undermentioned Officers havin,, obtained First
Class Certificates at the School of Musketry, at Hythe,
have been appointed by the General Commanding in
Chief, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State for
War, to act as Instructors of Musketry to the following
regiments of militia :

Ensign William James B. Junor, Stirling Militia.
Lieut. Edward George M'D. Ick, 2d Cheshire Militia.
Lieut. Manly M. Palmer, Limerick County Militia.
COMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
76th Highlanders Light Infantry Militia, Inverness,
Banff, Elgin, Nairn—Lieut. Waller James McGregor to be
Captain, vice Wm. James Grant, resigned.
Gentßedto for dshi
Ensig re Regiment of Militia —Frederick tuck,
~ be n. .
Royal Sherwood Militia—Henry Charles Ross Johnson
Gent., to be Ensign, vice Sloper,resigned. Arthur Hales,P Gent., to beo wEnnsLignig,hTicienfßanerutryard,Rie_esgonig. resigned.
of
Militia.--
promoted.
Lieutenant George Leslie to be Captain vice Clioteipea
promoted. -
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Regiment rit Regiment
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fl3oi ai 1 ews , King'sGO e n tO. ,Ow
Ito b Staffordshiree Ensign. M ta
Berkeley Michell, Gent s
to NIT
ESotasffigmordshire Militia—John
Royal Ayrshire Rifles—David Wield, Gent., to be Aa-
sistant-Surgeon, vice Finlayson, resigned.

BANKRUPTS.
S. Russell, engraver, Gravesend, to surrender Feb. 18
and March 18, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
G. Collen plumber, Stowmarket, Suffolk,, Feb. 22, at
three, and March 22, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
H. Ford, draper, Beaumont-square, Mile-end, Feb. 11,
atitwelve, and March 17, at one, at the Court of Bank.
ruptcy.
H. Barfield and J. W. Martin, gr ocers, Woolwi, eb.
15, at half-past twelve, and March 18, at twelve ch,
atF the
J. MontgomerY
Court of Bankruptcy.
eleven, and March 9, at two, at the Liverpool District
, furniture broker, Liverpool, Feb. 15, 11.
Court.

J. Rand ll b •
o , udder, Devizes, Feb. 15 and March 15, at
eleven at the Bristol District Court.
R. L. Marshall, coachinaker, Lanivet, Cornwall, Feb. 16
and March 14, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court.

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
D. Mathicson v..nd H. Mathieson, bootniakers, Glasgow.
W. Murray, hotelkeeper, Edinburgh.
IV. Gregor, cabinetmaker, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire.
J. S. Matheson, jeweller, Elgin.
3. Hackett, commission agent, Edinburgh.
W. Snodgrass, sheriff's officer, Stewarton.

BANK OF

ENGLAND.

An Account, pursuant to 1
cap. 32, for the week ending
of February, 1859:—
ISSUE DEI
Notes issued £33,099,725

he &et 7th and Bth Victoria,
on Wednesday, the 2d day

£33,099,725:

RTMENT.
IGovernment Debt X 11,015,100
Other Securities .. 3,459,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 18,624,725
Silver Bullion

X 33,099,7-25

EPARTMINT.
Government Secu-
rities_ (including
Dead WeightAn-
nutty)
........ t 10.690,147
Other Securities .. 16,785,544
Notes
...... ... 12,100,035
Gold and Silver
Coin .

669,297

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGH T

WAR OFFICE, FEB. 2.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders
for the appointment of the Right Hon. Sir John Young,
Bart., K.G.C., M.G., some time her Majesty's Lord High
Commissioner in and for the United States of the lonian
Islands, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of
the Second Class, or Knights Commanders, of the Most
Honourable Order of the Bath.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, FEB. 1.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Hon» Spencer
Cecil Brabazon Ponsonby, now Extra Gentleman Usher to
Her Majesty, to be Gentleman "Usher Daily Waiter to Her
Majesty, in the room of Sir Henry Witham des Tom;
Baronet, resigned.

DOWNING-STREET, FEB. 2.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Colonel Sir
Henry Knight Storks, K.C.8., to be her Majesty's Lord
High Commissioner, in and for the United States'of the
lonian Islands.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, FEB. 1.
D e Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Robert
. The
Merrill as Consul at Sydney for the United States of
America.
Zammit y Ro.atero,
• The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Don Jorge
as Vice Consul at Malta; of Don
Enrique de Azurrnundi, as Vice Consul at Newcastle.i.upon-
Tyne ; and of Don Candid() de Pedrorena, as Vice Consul
at Southampton, for Her Majesty the Queen of Spain.
DUCHY OF LANCASTER, FEB. 2.
The Queen has been this day pleased to appoint Sir
Robert Tolver Gerard, of Garsvvood, Bart., to be Sheriff of
the County Palatine of Lancaster, for the year ensuing.
THE PRINCE OF WALES'S COUNCIL CHAMBER,
FEB. 3.
John Tremayne, of Heligan, in the county of Cornwall,
Esq., has been appointed Sheriff of the county of Cornwall.
CROWN-OFFICE. FEB. 4.