The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-10 00:00:00

CHATHAM RACES.—(This Day.)

(By ETIEOTRIC TELEGRAM.)
VISITORS PLATE.

Amelia

Worcester .
Adamant

Seven ran.
MEDWAY STAKES. I

Pauli Monti
Naughty Boy
Lucy Lockit

Three ran.

SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH COMPANY•

MEETING THIS DAY.

TI adjourned half yearly meeting of the shareholders
in this company was held this afternoon at the London
Tavern, Bishopsgate-street--Sir James Carmichael,
chairman of the board of directors, in the chair.
At the former meeting the report and statement of
accounts were read, but there were not sufficient share-
holders present to constitute a meeting for its adoption
and the declaration of the dividend, and consequently it
was adjourned till tc-day.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the reception and adop-
tion of the report, adverted to the agreement between
this company and the North of Europe Telegraph
Company for the purchase of the Hanoverian and
lla,nish concessions, which would placa the company's
wires in direct communication with Hamburg and the
Baltic ports.

The motion having been seconded,
The report was received and adopted.
A dividend at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum wail

declared.

The retiring directors and auditors-were re-elected.
The meeting was then made special for the purpose of
considering the agreement for purchasing the Hanoverian
and Danish concessions.

The preliminary agreement was read by the secretary.
It states that the Hanoverian concession is for twenty
years, and the Denmark concession for twenty-five years,
and provides fur the virtual amalgamation of the Sub-
marine, the North of Europa, and the Danish Corn-
pauiee. The other two companies will have to provide
the necessary capital and lay, down the new cables. The
agreement will not come into operation until the cable's
are laid down and in working order.
' '

Ultimately the heads of the agreement were agreed to,
and a special meeting will be called for ratifying the

The meeting thou separated.

THE HIMALAYA.

The subjoined extract is from one of the officers
of the 90th Regiment on board the Himalaya :-
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Himalaya, Singapore, July 10.
" My dear G--, —I am going to spin you a bhort
yarn of our progress so far. In the first place, I must
tell you that we have been a lamentable instance of the
truth of the saying that the third time is fatal ; for,
after nearly running ashore at St. Vincent's (Cape
Verde) and the Cape, last Monday, July 6th, we ran
ashore, going 13 knots in the straits of Banca. Not a
soul ou board ever expected to get off again, at all
events without steamers from Singapore ; but, luckily,
it was full moon, and consequently a higher tide than
usual ; so with the assistance of another ship and three
anchors out astern we managed to get off about nine
o'clock last night, after having been about 30 hours on
the sandbank, to the evident delight of a quantity of
cranes and pelicans, and a stray crocodile. or two, which
came out from the island of Sumatra to have a look
-at us.

"It was anything but pleasant sticking there in the
broiling heat, for the line' is not far off. We babe made
a very long passage of it, considering the splendid vessel
we have. On entering the Straits of Sunda, or rather on
coming to the place we were going to anchor in for the
night, we were surprised by a frigate firing half a-dozen
guns in succession, and then putting off a boat. We
thought we were about to run ashore, but it turned out
to be despatched for us to get up to Singapore as fast as
possible, and go on to Calcutta, as there was an instil.e
rection of the Sepoys." [The Himalaya reached Calcutta
oa the 20th July.]