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

LONDON, SAT U RDA Y EVENING, MAY 23, 1857.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY,
RETURN TICKETS to all Stations taken on SATURDAY
May 30th, and intermediate days, will be avaable up to and in•
eluding Tuesday, June 2d.

COMMERCIAL RAILWAY OF RUSSIA
RIGA TO DCNABIJRG.

NOTICE OF CALL OF 44 PER SHARE.

The Directors beg to announce that a call of 41. per share on the
present shares issued by the company, Is hereby made ; and will be
payable on or before Saturday, the Gth June, at the Banking Houses
of Sir S. Scott, Bart. & Co., No. 1, Cavendish-square, and the Lon-
don a d County Jcint Stock Bank, Lotward-street.
It will be necessary to present 'the Scrip at the time of payment of
the Call; and subsequently to pre.,ent it (together with the Bankers'
Receipt) for indorsement at the offices of the Company.
This Call, together with the already paid, will carry interest
front the date of payment, at the rate of 5 per cent. payable half-
yearly in London. Riga, and St. Petersburg.
_ _

The present Call has been already paid on the shared taken in
Russia.

The subsequent Calls wit be extended ever three years, thelargest
portion being required in the 2d and 3d years.
By the•Statut6s 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 the Call.

As the Directors have no means of asceitaining who are the pre-
sent holders of the Scrip, no turthernotices will he sent to the original
allottees, except at their personal request. Every publicity, how-
ever, will be given of all notices, by the usual mode of advertise-
ments.

By order of the Board.
J. W. NV AERE TYNDALE, Secretary.
17, Gracechurch-street, Monday, May 18th, 1857.

THE OTTOMAN RAILWAY from SMYRNA
to AIDIN.

Capital 1,200,000/,

Divided into 50,000 Shares of 20/., or 2,500 piastres each.
A minimum dividend of 61. per cent. per annum guaranteed
by the Sublime Porte.
_ _

Deposit it per share. Calls of not more than each, al
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.

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 841 b., was found in its
centre. The grower had 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 Service
Oazette.

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-
commissioned 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.
Au 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 volunteer for 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.
Tho sentence of the court-martial on Captain
_H. 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-
tenced him to be admonished. The master they found had
trusted too much to his judgment of the land in hazy weather
and had shaped his course too confidently, without makipg
use of thi3 deep sea lead ; , but in•.consideration of his long
services and previous high character, they only sentenced
him to be reprimanded, and admonished to be 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 Edinburgh.
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 a pressure beyond 141 b. to the square inch, instead
of 201 b., a 3 calculated, The result is a considerable reduc-
tion in her speed.
The 3-gun paddlewheel steamvessol, 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
off the Bill of Portland, during a fine breeze from the north-
west, front 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 coin-
menet, 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 Board 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. Peake, assistant-master shipwright, of Woolwich dock-
yard, and about to be presented to the Milian Government,
was yesterday morning shipped on board a merchant vessel
for its destination.

GIGANTIC FLOATING LANDING-STAG..,

LIVERPOOL, 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 iu 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 strength, 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 of 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. Fairbairu, was put together on the staging, and
was this morning, by the aid of steamtugs, floated to its
place between the new lauding-stage and the pier, the stag-
ing upon which it was resting being sufficiently high to allow
one cud 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 the 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 are 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 joie cry. Messrs. Fairbairn are making the four bridges,
and Messrs. Cochran have themselves manufactured the kel-
sons, 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 Il+-inch timber
to give strength and durability to the work.

E.TPERIIIENTS OV NEW DECKED COP-
PER PONTOONS AT 011ATHAlf.

On visiting Chatham on Friday morning, to conceit further
operations with Major Hassard, 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 Highnes3 the to ake 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
ends 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 propood
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 ho 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, aro recommended to be at
Rochester-bridge at or before 3 p.m. on the day appointed—
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 Any ESTIMATES Eon 1857-B.—Yesterday were
issued the estimates of the army services for 1857-8. For
the effective services the sum requited is 9,025,3601.,
being a decrease on the revised estimates Of 7.856-7 of
8,983,5001. The amount already voted on account for
these services is 3,010,000/. ; the amount required to 49
voted is 6,015,3601. For non-effective services the esti-
mates amount to 2,221,8751., which is a decrease on the
revised estimates of 1856-7 of 18,349/. The amount
already voted on account is 744,000/, 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 9,001,849/, 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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