The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-30 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 30, 1857.

LONDON JOINT STOCK BANK.
26rn NOVEMBER, 1857.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the next GENERAL.
MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of this COMPANY will
be held in the Board Room of the Bank, in Princes-street, Mansion
House, on THURSDAY, the 21st day of January next, at Twelve
o'clock precisely, to receive the Report of the Directors ; and to
elect four Directors in the place of Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P. ;
Ambrose Moore, Esq. ; Willi im Bird, Esq.; and John Timothy
Oxley, Esq., who will on that day go out of office, in conformity
with the provisions of the Deed of Settlement: all of whom offer
themselves for re-election :—also to elect a Director in the place of
Archibald Hastie, Esq., deceased.

And Notice is further Given, that any qualified Shareholder, in-
tending to become a Candidate for the office of Director must give
notice in writing of such intention, at this office, at least thirty clear
days previous to the said day of election.

By order of the Board.

JNO. WARDROPE, Secretary.

generally have a downwird t
sale at further rethiced rates.
rurnip,White,per bash. rss to 16s
swede .. • • ..... 20s 23s
iflutiard•Arown....... lls 18s
White, new ...... 16a 20s
rares,Winter, new.... 51 Od 5s 6d
Canary,per quarter .. 80a 904
&ye grass (new) .. 22s 28s
Cloter,RedEng.(ewt.) 64s 744
White ...• ...... 62s 78s

,endency. Cakes are at slow

Foreign Red...... 60s 74s
White.... 62s 803
Frefoll, 231 25s

Carraway •• .. 48s 503
Coriander •• • • • • 30s 32s
liempseed,per quarter 463 48e
Linseed, Eng.:Sowing.. 70s 72s
Crushing ••• • •• 621 691
Baltic •. •• .. 54s b6s
Odessa ••••• • •• •. 53s 55s
Linseed Cake, pr. ton—
English .. 9' 108 10' 51

The amount of blisinea
moderato ; yet the fluctual
extensive. To-day, P.Y.(
per cwt. Rough fat, 2s 8t

Foreign, per ton 101 Or 10 15s
Rape Cakes, per ton 61 Os 6' 5s
Rapeseed, new, pr qr. 72$ 76i

,LLOW.

s doing in our market is very
ions in prices ara by no means
on the spot, is selling at Ns
1 per Blbs.

1853.

1854.

1855.

1856.

1857.

Stock this day 32.330
Price of Y. C 57530,0,r
Delivery last week ..! 2,992
Ditto from June 1 56,772
trrivals last week.. 494
Ditto from Junel 65,735
Price 01 68 01

31,192
65s 6d ,
te 65s 9d
1,797
41,607
2,628
39,799
67. Od

21.023 15,932 38.582
69s 3,1 u, 52s 2d to sOs Od to
—s Od —s Od —s Od
2,153 2,063 2,909
69,757 66,910 54,912:
3,322 2,669 2,869
43,065 65,861 80,369 j
70s 9d 60s 3d 51s 3d

STATEMENT OF TALLOW SHIPPING AT ST. PETEISBUZG.

1857. 1856. 1853.
Ca.Sks. Casks. Casks.

Tallow despatched from Cronstadt lo
the 4th Nov., o.s. (estimated at 25
poods to the cask) 103,560 109,643
In ships loading and lighters , 2,455

rota] loaded off St. Petersburg 2d
Nov., o s ...... ••• . . ...... •• • ..103,952 112,095 106,123
Loaded off from. St. Petersburg after this
date

Total at the close of the navigation....

3,700

112,095 106,123

.
London ........ .:..... 60,838 54,037 71,100
Liverpool ... . . ......; •••
Bristol .. ...... .... • • ..
Other English ports 11,517 9,751 8,050
Ireland .. .. ...
Scotland .... .. .. .... ..
Germany ...... .. • • ........
France.... .... ......... .... ,
America • • • . .. . • . • • ... .... • • • •

Total.

BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS.

106,123

Very moderate supplies of home-grown potatoes con-
tinue to reach us, coastwise and by land carriage. From
abroad, the following quantities have come to hand since
Monday last :-72 tons from Hambro', 89 tons from Rot-
terdam, 400 tons from Antwerp. 3 tons from Rotterdam,
10 bags from Schiedam, 30 tons from Bilboa, 7 barrels
from Denis, 140 tone from Dunkirk, 41 tons from Rouen,
20 bags from Calais, 2l baskets from Nazaire, and 21. tons
from Boulogne. The trade continues in a sluggish state.
York regents, 140 s to 160 s per ton ; Essex and Kent,
1203 to 1409; middlings, 60s to 708 ; Lincoln's, 1108 to
120 e; Scotch, 80s to 120 s; foreign, 55s to 655.

THE WEATHER IN THE CHANNEL AND

THE CHANNEL MAILS.

The rough weather of last week has occasioned some
fatal losses of men and ships in the Channel, and delays
in the regular departure and arrival of the mail packets.
The wind has not blown furiou.ly, but strong, and when
on Thursday it veered to east-north-east, the heavy seas
in the Channel and swell on the bars produced the mis-
chief and delays. Thursday night was the outward
India mail night at Dover, and most anxious were the
General Pest-office authorities to get the 143 boxes
across to Calais in good time. The South-Eastern
Railway train arrived at Dover 2 min. before 11 o'clock ;
the mail was put on board the Prince Frederick William
(the contractor having specially placed her on this ser
vice) by the Post-office porters in 40 min., at the west
side of the Admiralty-pier ; but by the time the good
ship got in Calais-roads the wind had shifted adversely,
and there was too little water to enter the har-
bour, and too much swell for the boats to come
out, consequently the Prince could not get in
before half-past four, and the mails did not get away
until nearly 6 o'clock on Friday morning. The Admiralty
engineer, Mr. Walker, was present to witness the embar-
kation of the mails at the Admiralty.. pier, Dover, at
midnight, and on the very next day, by -his orders, such
improvements were commenced as will insure greater
facility and safety in future to passengers and the public
service. When it is considered that the delay of a quarter
of an hour very frequently deranges the mail packet
services to the extent of shutting the packet out of
Calais harbour for many hours and of risking the landing
of the mails in small boats from the Roads, the absolute
necessity of running from London to Dover by rail in
as short a space of time as the express passenger
trains occupy, and of giving every pier- and quay
facility at Dover for shipping the mails, uoust_be appa
rent to everybody. The service is a diEcult one, and
requires a great deal of management ; but it would
be very much simplified if arrangements were made
to arrive at Calais as nearly at one o'clock as possi-
ble, for the tides always suit at time in ordinary weather
for the vessels to enter and to leave the harbour. This
is, however, impracticable with strong E.N.E. winds
and low water. The same causes that prevented the
Indian nails from arriving at Calais at the usual time
prevented the regular English mail packet from leaving
Calais. The vessel had to remain with the English
mails until ,there was sufficient water for her to come
out. On Friday night, the wind blowing very strong
from the same quarter, the mail for Paris that left Lon-
don at 8.30 p.m. did not leave Dover until 3 o'clock on
Saturday morning, and Calais at 6 a.m. ; and so with
respect to the mail from Paris, it did not reach London
before noon on Saturday. The English mail packet to
Ostend not only got away on Thursday night from
Dover, but arrived at Ostend in time to save the mail
train thence to Germany ; but the Belgian Government
mail packet did not budge from Dover harbour
with Friday night's mails from London until past 6 on
Saturday morning, and none of the South-Eastern
packets crossed the Channel between Dover and Calais
on Friday and Saturday. The packets, however, with
the day French mails, have run across at the regular
times. On Saturday night the English mail packet
started at her usual time for Ostend, but the English
-mail packet could not enter Calais before 6 o'clock yes-
terday (Sunday) morning, consequently she did not
leave Dover before 4 o'clock ; and the packet with the
mail from Paris could not leave Calais before 7 o'clock ;
but on arriving at Dover, with 46 passengers, the South
Eastern Railway Company pent them to London by
special train. The above statement of facts will explain
the causes that have produced the irregularity in receipt
of correspondence during the last few days.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

An Admiralty order svav received at Chatham on
Saturday by Colonel E. A. Parker, Commandant of the
Royal Marine Light Infantry, directing large detach-
ments of officers and men to be held in,;readiness.for em•
barkation.

The Goliath, 80, which has been some months in dock,
at Chatham, for the purpose of being converted into a
screw steamer, having completed her repairs, is ordered
to be taken out of deck at spring tide this day, when
she will be towed to Sheerness for the purpose of being
fitted with her machinery of 400 horse-power, after
which she will return to Chatham to be made ready for
sea.

The Renown, 91, screw, Captain Arthur Forbes, is
fitting for sea in Sheerness basin with all despatch.
Many of the officers and seamen have already- joined
this splendid ship, and her masts were towid down
from Chatham on Saturday by the Cuckoo.
The Racoon, 21, Captain J. A. Paynter, is ordered to
be docked at Chatham to bs fitted for sea.

A military institute is about being founded at Wool-
wich, which will provide the private soldier with the
many advantages of a club-house on a most moderate
scale of admission—nameiy, a single penny per week
from each member. The reading-room will be supplied
with the daily and weekly journals and magaz.nes,
together with a library of interesting and amu,ing
books.

A detachment of Royal Marines was on Saturday told
off for embarkation on board her Majesty's screw steam-
sloop Lyra, one of the squadron ordered to the West
Coast of Africa for the suppression of the blave trade.
To insure every available means of efficiency for each
ship of the squadron, the Lords of the Admiralty have
had their boats fitted with Clifford's gear for instantly
lowering without the necessity of checking in any
degree the speed of the vessel.
Commander Frederick Augustus Masse (1855), now
commanding the Ai iel, 9, screw sloop, at Gibraltar, who
was promoted in the Crimea for his service in con-
veying to Admiral Lyons the intelligence of the march
of Lord Ragi n after the battle of the Alma, bas been
promoted to the rank of captain, on the nomination
of Vice-Admiral the Right Hon. Sir Maurice Berkeley,
K.C.8., on his resigning hi 4 seat at the Board of
Admiralty. Commander Charles Bromley (1856) has
been appointed to the command of the Ariel, vacant by
the promotion of Commander Mime.
Artillery—Lieut. Wm. Booth, to be Captain, vice
Captain and Adjutant Boultbee, resigned ; Second
Captain Blackburn, appointed ajutant of the 4th bat-
talion, In the room of Boultbee, resigned ; and Lieut.
Lyle, to the Royal Horse Artillery, vice Booth, pro-
moted.

The Australian Steam Company have received infor-
mation of the arrival in Hobson's Bay on the 20th of
August of the Undaunted, after a good run of 75 days
from Plymouth.