The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-21 00:00:00

SOUTH-EASTERN AND CONTI-

NENTAL STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.
The tenth half-yearly general meeting of the
shanholders in this company was held at the Bridge-
! house hotel yesterday ; J. Macgregor, Rl, in the

The CltarumAN opened the proceedings by reading
the report, which stated that the gross receipts du-
ring the half-year ending on the 31st of July
amounted to 16,1131. 153. 2d., and that the working
expenses and cost of repairs (wtthout insurance)
amounted to 9,5181. 123. 3d., leaving a balance in
hand of 6,9251. 123. Id. at the disposal of the share•
holders. The receipts, compared with the corres-
ponding period of list year, showed an increase of
2,44/. 43. 21., and there was an increase of passen-
gers on the Bculogne route of 2,562, and on the
Calais route of 2 374 The service between Dover
and Calais had been maintained throughout the half•
year under the arrangement with the North of
France Railway Company, and the South-
Eastern Railway Company, the former con-
tributing Si. per diem, and the latter 101.
per diem; and on this footing the directors
had agreed to continue the service for another year.
An arrangement had alio been made with the
Boulogne arid Amiens Railway for a double service
between Folkestone and Boulogne, that company con
tributing 2501. per month during the continuance of
the service ; and the directors looked to the South-
Eastern Railway to contribute to this service also,
without which it cannot be maintained. The mer-
chandize traffic between Folkestone and Boulogne con-
tinued steadily to increase, the freight received for the
carriage of merchandise between Folkstone and Bou-
logne during the last half-year having been 809/. 12s.
3d. The amount received during the previous half-year
was 5401. 14s. 6J. The directors recommended the
proprietors to declare a dividend for the half•year at
the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, free of income• tax,
and to carry the balance which will remain, 4,506/.
7s. 7d., to the credit of the reserve fund. The chair-
man went on to say that, after deducting the sum
proposed to be added to the reserve fund, they would
bring down the cost of the vessels to 748/. less than
they cost when first finished. That was not a very
pleasing picture to look upon after seven or eight
years' work ; but they must consider the company
as formed merely to further the interests of
the South-Eastern Railway Company. They had con-
veyed since they were first established 247,564 pas-
sengers with greater celerity and safety than under
the old system. The average time of the
voyage to Boulogne had been two hours
and five minutes, and between Dover and
Calais one hour and fifty-five minutes. They
had been carrying passengers at a very low rate, and
they must look to be maintained by the South-Eastern
Railway Company. There was an article in the last
number of the Economist on the postal communica-
tion between London and Paris, showing the great
increase of traffic which steam communication had
caused. He believed that this increased traffic would
ultimately maintain the vessels of this company. The
article went on to speak of the great advantages which
would be derived by the completion of the railway to
Marseilles, and the additional facilities which would
be thereby afforded for communication with the east.
He trusted that as this company, by its vessels, raised
a bridge between this country and France, that it
would be indemnified for the outlay it had made. He
moved that the report be adopted.
Mr. WEIGHT said he should never be satisfied t

this company paid five per cent.; and he should like
to know from the chairman when that was likely to
be brought about. The railway company, at their
meeting yesterday, did nut say a word about this
company. The directors were of opinion that the
packet service should be performed more with a view
to advantage the railway company than to pay the
owners of the packets. The prospectus of the com-
pany stated that the railway company would guarantee
five per cent. The fact was, this company was doing
everything for the railway company, but the railway
company were doing nothing for them.
The CHAIRMAN said he had felt the obligation of
duty to this company as strongly as any one could.
When the company was first formed it was with a
pledge that the railway company would maintain it
with a five per cent. dividend : there was a moral
guarantee to that effect. But it must be borne in
wind that though this company was now paying only
four per cent., when it was first formed it paid a
higher dividend, and he did not think that the
railway company ought to be called upon until
the average of the dividends paid by this company
was less than five per cent. At the same time, any
man of common understanding would eee that, not
insuring their boats, they ran a great risk though they
were FO well commanded. He quite agreed, however,
with the HonourablePropriete:that.this company had
a moral title to 5 per cent. ; and that had not been
neglected by the railway company, for in the Bill of
1848 a clause was introduced to purchase the boats,
but in the then internal state of the railway company
it would have been totally impossible fur them to have
carried it through Parliament. Even now, if they
were to introduce such a Bill, they would be opposed
py all the steam-packet companies in the kingdom, and
particularly by the general Steam Navigation Com-
pany. The Hon. Proprietor said the rail way com-
pany passed no vote of thanks to:this company. Tbat
was true, but they did something more substantial—
.hey voted 3,6001. per annum towards maintaining
the packet service; 1,810/. was voted for running a
tidal boat to the port of Calais. It came to thi., that if
these boats had not been used, a smaller number would
have come over, and been passengers by the rail. Ile
would observe that the steam-packet company consisted
of 600 and odd proprietors of the railway, and when
the proper time came it would be for them to attend
•he meetings of the railway company, and advocate
their own interests. The capital of the railway com-
pany was nine millions and a half, the capital of this
company was 120,0001, and as the railway company
depended so much on the packet service, he was sure
they would eventually place this company on a proper
footing.
The motion fur the adoption of the report was then
put and carried.
The CHAIRMAN then moved that a dividend, after
the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, free of income-tax,
be declared.

Mr. YOUNG said be thought they ought not to carry
over so large a surplus to the reserved fund, and he
moved, as an amendment, that the dividend be 5
per cent.
The amendment was seconded, and, after some
discuFsion, was put and negatived. The original
motion was then put and carried, as was also a motion
for carrying over the surplus to the reserved fund.
The meeting then separated.

RAILWAY RETURNS

TRAFFIC RETU NS FOR THE PAST WEEK.

3111 es
opened,
1850.

NAME OF RAILWAY.

Reed

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
DONCASTER RACES.—TLIUBSDAY.
DuNCASTER CUP.
4 to 1 ou Flyirg Dutchman 14 to 1 asrst Voltigeur
PARK BILL STAKES.
Ever: on B:ightonia 13 to 1 agst Marchiones
2to 1 agst Tiff I d'Eu
EGLINTON STAKES.
Even on Payment.
CESAREWITCH STAKES.
11 to 1 agst Mulgrave 20 to 1 agst Clarissa
16 to 1 agst Catiboo 20 to 1 agst Musician
20 to 1 agst Laudgrave
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
10 to 1 egst The Italian 16 to 1 agst Loadstone
10 to 1 agst Mulgrave 20 to 1 agst Brightonia
1: to 1 egst Turnus 25 to 1 agst Rhesus
DERBY.
12 to 1 agst Primo Minister 125 to 1 agst Storm.
20 to 1 apt Lernartine
The following are the names r f some of the principal
visitors on the cones° this afternoon:—Tho Marquis of
Granby, Earls of Z.:tlund, Glasgow, Strathmore, Eglin-
ton, Airlie, Durham, Strain): el, Scarborough, Darnley;
Countesses of Zetland, Strathmore, Lovelace; Ladies
Louisa Cator Harriet Ram den, 14411 C, Enfield, Cooke,
Charles ltlenck, Duncombe, Miss Duncombe, Miss
Beale, Miss Middleton ; Le Comto Neidhardt de
Gneisenau; Baron Decages; Viscounts Maidstone, Ex-
mouth, Clifden; Lords Stanley, Enfield, Adolphus Vane,
ilea ke, F. Kennedy, 11. Loftus, J. Loftus, Adolphus
Fitz darence, Brownlow, Clinton, Robert Clinton, John
Fitzroy, G. Manners, Newport, Powlett; Sirs Tatton
Sykes, W. B. Cooke, C. Monck, G. Armytage, Joseph
Copley, S. Graham, David Blair, Hugh Campbell, J.
Whichcote, W. Codrington; Honourables J. Lowther,
G. Forrester, 11. Curzon, Colonel Stanley, Captain Rona,
J. Stanley, F. Lawley, Colonel Anson, Major Pitt, G.
Fitzroy, H. Fitzroy, Mr. Cape', G. Byng, Stanhope
Hawke, Martin Hawke, Francis Villiers; Colonels
Buckley, Taylor, llornby, Elmsall, Lewis, Wilson, New-
ton, Campbell; Captains Archdall, Croker, Warrener,
Thorston, Bastard, Bretton, Forster, Boucherette, Dey,
Harrison, Little, Gores Guacher, Littlejohn, Brown,
Hey worth, Hamilton, Maynard, Rowley, George,
March, Blathwaite, Calvert,
Miles, Pettit, Pollard, Seobell, H. Schobell, Taylor,
Cunningham, Gambier, Cook, Ramsdell, F. Ramaden,
Elmsall, Lane, &c. Duberley, Wilson, Lyens,

FRIDAY.
We cannot call to mind any meeting at Doncaster, the
last day of which presented so many attractions. The
prominent features were the new stake for two and
three years old, for which the public are indebted to the
Earl of Eglinton, and the Cup; the entries for the for-
mer including several of the St. Leger favourites and
Mr. Ford's flying mare Payment,sind the Cup elciting
an unprecedented interest from the competition of two
animals, both unconquered, and both winners of the
Derby and St. Leger. Two well filled handicap plates,
the Park Hill and the Don Stakes, served to make up a
total which could not fail to draw an immense company.
Time is not afforded us to do more than touch upon
the events of the day ; we must, however, point to the
defeat of the favourites for the Park Hill and Eglinton
Stakes, and to the still more unlocked for result of the
Cup. The race for the latter was run at an uneven
pace—sometimes fast and at times slow—but the
Dutchman had so great a lead till near the distance
that to catch him seemed impossible. Volti-
geur, however, got to his head a few strides from
the chair, and the colours of the hitherto invincible
Dutchman were lowered It is quite out of our power
to describe the excitement w hich ensued—we
must leave it to the imagination of our readers. It was
reported after the race that a ; arty of gentlemen had
purchased the Flying Dutchman in the morning; we
have reason to believe, however, that Lord Eglinton still
retains an interest in bier. The meeting, incomparably
the best in regard of sport and the most successful in all
respects we ever attended, terminated with a capital
race for the Nursery Plate, a very judicious substitute for
the 1001, formerly run for in heats.
Handicap Plate of 701, for three years old and upwards,

One mile and a quarter.

Captain Hervey's Strongbow, 4 yrs, Bst 31b (Flatman) 1
Mr. Parr's Clothworker, 4 yrs, Bst 21b (Marlon) 2
Mr. Wilkins's Langton, 4 yrs, Bst 41b...(Cartwright) 3
Sir C. Monck's Vanguard, 4 yrs, Bst 71b...(Simpson) 0
Lord Zstland's Radulphus, aged, 7st 131 b (Hawk well) 0
Mr. Dawson na Joe Sutherland, 4 yre, 7st 10lb (Lye) 0
Mr. A. Johnstone's Jenny Lind, 7st 81b ...(G. Oates) 0
Mr. S. Davidson's Fleur de Seine, 5 yrs, 7st 21b 0
Mr. Rickaby'a Ada Mary, 4 yrs, let (Osborne) 0
Mr. Hewlett's Snowdrift, 3 yrs, Est 121b...(Charlton) 0
Betting-10 to 6 agst Strongbow, 3to 1 ag.t Cloth-
worker, 4 to 1 agst Ada Mary, 5 to 1 eget Vanguard,
and 6 to 1 agat any other.
Ada Mary made play to the Red House, with Fleur
de Seine and Radulphus in waiting; Fleur de Seine then
went in front and carried on the running to the distance,
when it was taken up by Strongbow, who won very
cleverly by a length; the same between second and third.
Run in 2 min. 15 secs.
The Eglinton Stakes of 15 soya. each, 5 ft; with 200
added; frr two yrs old, Est 101 b; three, Bst 12Ib;
fillies and geldings allowed 31b; winners', extra.
T.Y.C. (63 Subs.)
Mr. Osborne's Black Doctor, 2 yrs, Est 31b (Osborne) 1
Lord Enfield's Beehunter, 3 yrs, Bst 121 b (Flatman) 2
Mr. Baxter's Nancy, 2 yrs, Est 71b (Wells) 3
Mr. Wilkins's Neasham, 2 yrs, 6st 101b...—(Arnold) 0
Mr. Ford's Payment, 2 yrs, 6st 71b (Charlton) 0
Mr. Jaques's Mildew, 3 yrs, Bst 121 b (F. Butler) 0
Mr. H. Pitsford, 3 yrs, 9st 51b ..... ....('A. Day) 0
Mr. Stebbings's The Cutler, 2 yrs, Est 161 h (Basham) 0
Mr. Dawson 's Mark Tapley, Bst 121b...(Cartrvright)
Betting-6 to son Payment, 6to 1 each agst Bee-
hunter and The Black Doctor, 10 to 1 each agat Mark
Tapley and Nancy, and 100 to 12 agst The Cutler.
The Black Doctor and the -Cutler jointly made the
running to the Red House, where Payment headed them,.
and carried it on at a capital pace to the distance. The
Black Doctor, Payment, and Nancy. here singled them.
selves c,ut, and ran home together, the Doctor winning
by are ck, and Beehunter beating Nancy by a head.
Pitsford, Mildew, and Payment were next. Run in 1 in.
40 sees.
Tho Parkhill Stakes cf 50 soya. each, h ft; for three-
yrs old fillies, Bst 71b each. The second to receive
100 sovs. out of the stskes, and the winner to pay 20
3()V8. tee ards expenses. St. Leger Course. (21 Subs.)
Sir J. Ilawley's Tiff (Templeman) 1
Mr. Mangan 's Marchioness d'Eu (A. I)ay) 2
Mr. Shelley's Brightonia (F. Butler) 3
Betting-6 to 4on Marchioness d'Eu, and 2to 1 agst
Brightonia. The Marchioness made all the running to
the stand, where she was headed by Tiff, who ran home
a clever winner by
a length. Run in 3 min. 27 seta.
The Doncaster Cup, value 300 sovs.; three yrs old 7st,
four Sgt 51b, five Bst 121 b, six and aged 9st 21b; mares
and geldings allowed 31b; winners extra; the second
to receive 50 sovs. from the fund. Cup Course, about
twD miles and a half.
Lord Zetland's Voltigcur, 3 yrs, 7s 7ib (Flatman) 1
Lord Eglinton's The Flying Dutchman,4 yrs, Bst 121 b
(Marlow) 2
The betting opened at 11 to 2 on the Flying Dutch-
man, and closed at 4 to 1, taken freely. The favourite
took the lead at starting, and was so fir in advance for
more than two miles that 10 to 1 was offered on him.
Voltigeur, however, began to draw up from the bend,
caught him at the stand, headed him three or four
strides from home, and won by ha:f a length. Runs in
4 min. 54 sees.
The Don Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h ft; for three yrs old,
colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b. Last mile. (7 Subs.)
Mr. W. Edwards na Bolingbroke
Mr. Halford's Harriott (G. Whitehouse) 2
Mr. Jaques's Mildew (Flatman) 3
Betting-6 to 4on Bolingbroke.. The mare made play
at her best pace to the stand,
secswhe.re Bolingbroke went
up, defeated her without an effort, and won by a couple
of lengths. Run in 1 min. 42
The Nursery Stakes of 100 sovs.; for two yrs old.
Last Mile.
Mr. Jaques's Entre.nous, Sst ....... --(Cartwright) 1
Mr. G. Scott's Louie, 7st 4ib
Mr. Baxter's Nancy, Bst 3lb (F. Masson) 3
Mr. Oliver's Sir RowlandTrenchard, Bst 21b(Flatman) 4
Mr. Phillip's Truth, Bst 21b
Capt. Harcourt's Brother to Ellerdale, 7st 91b (Lye) 0
Mr. Armstrong's f by Venison, out of Tarn Wadlin's
dam, 7st 21b.-. (Osborne) 0
Mr. Osbaldes ton's f by Pantaloon, out of Fugleman's
dam, 7st (Barker) 0
Betting-5 to 4 agst Lowe, 4to 1 agst Nancy, 4to
1 egst Sir Rowland Trenchard, and 9 to 2 agst Brother
to Ellerdale.
Won by a neck—Nancy a good third. Run in 1 min.
42 sees.
Sweepstakes of 200 sovs. each, h ft; for three yrs old
colts, Bst 71b. St. Leger Course, (5 Subs.)
Mr. Ford's Garforth
Ma'oh 500, 100 ft. Last mile and a half of St. Leger
Course. Mr. Gannon's Deicoon, 3 yrs, Bst 71b, egst Mr.
Syer's Aegean, 3 yrs, 7st.—Off by consent.
Match, 3C03 100 ft. Red House in. Capt. Alleyne'a
The Tout, Bst 71b. agst Cept. Hervey's Hengist.—Off by
consent.
LATEST BETTING.

CESAREWITCH.
15 to 1 agst Bolinibroke Il7to 1 agst Russborough
DXIILBY.
10 to 1 agst Prime Minister I 33 to 1 agst Black Doctor.
BRECONSHIRE RACES.—WEDNESDAY.
The Breconshire Stakes of 7 sovs. each, 3 ft, and 25
added. Two miles. (9 Subs., 3of whom declared.)
Mr. Oseland's Half•atid-flalf, aged, 9st 71b 1
Mr. Hamp's Truandaiso, 4 yrs, Bat 21b 2
Mr. Smith's Master
WonDownbey a s,aged, Bst 121 b... 3
head.
The Borough Stakes of 3 Bova. each, and 25 added, the
second to save his stake. Heats. Once round and a
dis. (4 Subs.)
Mr. Jones na Pilot, 3 yrs, 7sl lib
••.
Mr. Humphrey's Plaintiff, 5 yrs, 9st 31b...
Mr. Coomhe's Gwenny, 5 yrs, Bst 12'b
Mr. Daves's Nancy Dawson, 3 yrs, 7st 71b
Won by a neck.

... 1 1
... 4 2
... 2 3
... 3 dr

The County Stakes of 3 sots. each, with a cup given by
the Stewards, and a purse added. Heats. One mile.
(3 Subs.)
Mr. Coombe's Gwenny, 5 Yrs, 9st 31b 1 1
Mr. Wi'liams's Breach of Promise, 5 yis, Bst3lb 2dr
Mr. Morgan's The Lady Pendarran, 4 yrs, Bst 71b dis

THURSDAY.
The I,ldies' Plate. Heats. One mile and a half.
Mr. Humphrey's Plaintiff, 5 rs, Bst 71b ... 3 3 1 1
Mr. Smith's Nancy Dim son, 3 yrs, 6st 111 b 4 1 2 2
Mr. Jones na Pilot, 3 yrs, Cat I lib 1 2 3 dr
Mr. liamp's Truandaise, 4 yrs, 7st B.b 2 dr
Won by half a neck.

The Usk Stakes of 3 sm. each, and 20 added. Heats.
One mile and a quarter. (3 Subs.)
Mr. Hamp's Truandaise, 4 yrs, Bst 41b ... 1 0 1
Mr. Coombe's Gwenny, 5 yrs, Bst 71b 3 0 2
Mr. Smith's blaster Downes, aged, 10st 61b... 2 3 dr
The second was a ch ad heat, and the third won by a
head.

The Draconshire It ptaes of 6 son. each, ono

mile and a half, over four hurdles (4 Subs.)—The first
heat was won by Mr. 'Williams's Chance, aged, list,
beating Mr. Powell's Su'dices Daughter and two others;
the cecotd heat was not run when our report left the
COUNe.

RACES T
SEPTE
Richmond ....... 23
Basing,toke 23
Uttoxeter 23
Kelso
Sandbach , 24
Leintwaredico 24
Bedford

Newmkt. First October 1
Chesterfield 2

Monmouth

Upton-ou-Severn

Chester Autumn.

Royal Caledouian, &c. 9

Epsom ..... ...

0 COME.

HOVE.

;MBER.

Whitby
Manchester Autumn 26
Cirencester
Scarborough
Felton 3O
Pain's-lane

,BER.

I Chalk Farm .
I Newmkt. Second Oct.— 14
...
Wrexham ..., 15
Worcester Autumn
Hurefi•rd ........
Newmarket Houghton 2B
.31BER.

Liverpool

IRISH RAC]
Mallow
John3town
Cashel 25
Curragh Oct. 15

S TO COME.
Lucan Autumn
Down Royal Corp 23
Tramore Nut fixtd.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Captain the Right Hon. Lord George Paulet, who
Ls to recommission the Bellerophon, 78, Captain
Baynes, on the paying off that ship at Devonport, is
son of the Marquis of Winchester, has a brother
Lieutenant-Colonel of the 68th Regiment, and the
Coldstream Guards, and is brother-in-law to Captain
Ramaden, R.N., and Lieutenant Charles Des Vosux,
Bart. He has served 18 years afloat since his entry
into the navy, through the college, in 1817. He
served his time in the Liffey, 50; Cambrian, 48
Racehorse, 18 ; and Active, 46, chiefly in the Chan-
nel ; passed his examination ; and February, 1825.
whilst on the South American station, was promoted
from Blanche, 46, into the Jasseur, 18. O'Byrne does
not record in what vessel his Lordship served his time
as a Lieutenant, but we find he was promoted to a
commander Feb. 28, 1828. In that rank from March,
1830, to June, 1834, he commanded the Nautilus in
the Channel on the coast of Ireland ; in the Douro
and Tagus during the whole of the civil war in Por-
tugal, and subsequently off the north coast of Spain
at the commencement of the civil hostilities. He was
promoted to his present rank on paying off the Nau-
tilus. His Lordship's last employment was in com-
mand of the Carysfort, 26, from December, 1841, to
June, 1845, on the Pacific station. Whilst on this
service he took the King of the Sandwich Islands to
task for certain indignities, the result of which was
the cession provisionally of the whole group, but the
islands were restored by order of Rear-Admiral
Thomas. The Carysfort conveyed the unfortunate
Queen Pomare and 50 of her relations and suite,
from Tahiti to Raiatea, one of the lee wardmost of the
Society Islands. Lord George Paulet is in the 48th
year of his age, and married July, 1835, the daughter
of Major-General Sir George Wood, K.C.B.
Spithead' yesterday presented a numerous show of
pendants—there were at anchor the Blenheim, 60
screw-ship, Captain Henderson, C.B. ; the Thetis, 38,
Captain Kuper, C.B. ; the Fox, 42, Commodore Lam-
bert; the Dragon, 6, steam• frigate, Captain Giffard;
the Albatross, 12, Commander Elliot; and the Her-
cules, store-ship, Master-Commander Fulton. The
wind veered from S.S.E. to S.S.W. yesterday, with
some light rain, and at five P.M. was likely to settle in
the S.W. For the last three weeks N.E. and E.
winds, with dry weather, lave prevailed.
Two companies of the Royal Artillery arrived
at Gosport yesterday, via South-Western Railway
from Woolwich, and embarked on board the Echo,
tug-steamer, which conveyed them to the Apollo,
troop-ship, Commander Rawstorne, for passage to
Jamaica. The Apollo proceeds to Cork for other de
tachments.

Bellerophon, 78, Captain Baynes, C. 8., arrived at
Malta on the Bth instant, and on the 13th, in conse-
quence of cholera on board, was ordered to sail
immediately for England, when she was towed out
by the Oberon and proceeded. Whilst at Malta
three men were sent to the hospital on the 12th, and
nineteen more, of whom six have died, were subse-
quently sent on shore. A serious accident happened
on the Pieta at Malta on Tuesday evening, the 10th
instant, owing partly to very hard riding, and partly
to the incomplete state of the road turning towards
Sa Maison, it being covered with large loose stones.
There 'Charles B. Parke, Esq., First Lieutenant
Royal Marines, of the Bellerophon, was thrown from
his horse and received a very severe contusion in
the head, and became so frightfully convulsed
that his life was considered to have been in
great danger. The sufferer was conveyed on
a sofa to the civil hospital, where we are
glad to hear he is doing favourably, no bones being
broken. Lieut. Parke is the nephew of Colonel Com-
mandant Parke, C.B, of Woolwich. At the time of
the accident he was riding with Mr. William Culhane,
an assistant-surgeon of the Bellerophon, who imme-
diately bled him, or it is believed he must have ex-
pired on the ground. Mr. Culhane sat up with the
sufferer on the night of the accident, and in the morn-
ing had the inexpressible satisfaction of seeing him
gradually become conscious, after a night spent in a
state of total in'ensibility.
Dauntless, 24, screw-frigate, Captain Halsted, is
painting and beau: f
~ ing alongside Portsmouth yard.
Her new fittings will detain her in port another fort-
night.

Fearless, steam-tender, second Master Commander
Veitch, has left Devonport to relieve the wind-bound
lin the Clic ps of the Channel. Since she sailed, how-
ever, the wind has shifted.
Portland, 50, Captain Chad:, fitting at Devonport,
for the Pacific, will be undocked on the 24th.
RAributicn, 22, steam-frigate, Captain "Warden, is
still at the moorings off the King's-stairs, Portsmouth.
She is now universally admired. :She has all her
weights on board except her powder and shells, and
swims just two feet more buoyantly than she did
when loaded with her former heavy engines, when
she drew upwards of nineteen feet water. She now
draws a little more than sixteen feet.
Vengeance, 84, Captain Sir Henry Blackwood, has
been painted, and, now she is rigged and all ataunt,
looks what she actually is—a splendid ship. She has
received on board six months' provisions, and in about
ten days her ship's company will be moved on board
her from the hulk, where she will probably haul over
to the mooring on the Gosport shore—to the mooring
formerly occupied by the St. Vincent, where it is said
she will remain for the winter months unless her ser-
vices should lyo required before that time.
Commodore Lambert embarked on board the Fox,
at Spithead, yesterday, and it is expected the ship
will start after the arrival of the post this morning.
Prince Ernest of Leiningen is also on board. Mr.
Galt, of Portsmouth, has had the honour of fitting
out his Serene Highness.
PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY.—The Albatross, 12, Com-
mander Elliott (acting), anchored at Spithead at eight
A.m. this day. She left Penang on the 18th of May,
arrived at St. Helena on the 30th of July, and sailed
on the sth ult. Lieutenant Griffiths, R.N., recently
appointed superintendent of the station or depot at St.
Helena for captured Africans, embarked 31,5 of these
captives on the 3d of August for Trinidad, there re-
maining when the Albatross sailed only 11 in hospital.
Lieut. Griffiths was remodelling and improving the
encampment by
.draining, whitewashing, &c. The
St. Helena Gazette of the 3d ult. contains a long list
of shipping disasters reported by the master of the
schooner Bailey, which arrived at the island on the
29th of July.
The Albatross arrived at Ascension on the 9th of
August, and sailed on the following day. The Tor-
toise store and guard-ship, Captain Hutton, remained
there. The Heroine, 8, Commander Marsh, sailed
for the south coast the day before the Albatross arrived.
The Prometheus steam-sloop, Commander H. A.
Foote, had sailed to join the Commodore on the
south coast. The station is reported generally healthy,
and the slave-trade brisk. The Albatross has brought
home Lieutenant Luckraft, first of the Ranger, and
Dr. Tait, surgeon of the same vessel, invalided, and
five seamen invalids, who were all landed at the
Royal Naval Hospital, Hasler, this morning. Lieu-
tenant Brickwell, first of the Albatross, entered the
service in 1828, and has been in constant employ-
ment, having 21 years' full-pay service. This officer
has been for the last four years First Lieutenant of
the Albatross, and was second in command of the ex-
pedition against the Bornean pirates, on which occa-
sion Commander Farquhar, who commissioned the
Albatross, was promoted.
The Hercules store-ship, Master Commander Ful-
ton, arrived this morning at Spithead from the Medi-
terranean. She has made a sorry passage. The mail
from Malta is dated the middle of July.
FALMOUTH, SEPT. 19.—Information has just
reached this port of the Peterel packet, with the Bra-
zilian mails, having put into Castletown, in Ireland,
on the 16th inst., being forced thither by the long
continued easterly winds. Her dates of sailing are
from Rio de Janeiro the 28th of July, Bahia the 7(h
of August, and Pernambuco the 13th following. At
her sailing from Rio the exchange was 27d., Bahia
27d., and Pernambuco 270. ; Stock, 86 87. The
following are passengers by the Peterel :—Mr. and
Mrs. Guera, Mr. and Mrs. Sewer and family, Mrs.
Napier and family, Miss Saunders, Miss Bancroft, Mr.
W. Shepherd, Mr. G. Shepherd, Mr. Crawstern, Mr. J.
J. P. de Olivern, and Captain Crofter, R.N. The Seagull
packet, front Portsmouth, had arrived at Rio on the
15th of July, and the Spider schooner, with mails
from the River Plate, on the 21st of July. This
vessel sailed again with mails for the River Plate on
the 26th following. The Peterel left at Rio, refit-
ting, her Majesty's frigate Southampton, with the
flag of Admiral Reynolds, C. 8., and the Rifleman
steamer was going into Rio from the southward. No
further news known at present.

APPOINTMENT.
WOOLWICII, SEPT. 20.—Commander GeDrge S.
Hand (1841), to command the Hecate steam-sloop,
commissioned this day at Portsmouth. The Hecate
carries C guns, is 817 tons burden, and was built
at Chatham in 1839 from a design by Captain Sir
William Symonds, and is fitted with engines of
240-horse power.
The Black Eggle steam-vessel, Master Commander
S. B. Cook, returned to Woolwich to-day from her
attendance on the Lords of the Admiralty during the it
recent visit to the eastern ports, the Channel Islands,
and Quecnstown, in Ireland.

THE ROYAL PANOPTICON OF
SCIENCE AND ART.
A vestry meeting of the inhabitants of St. Paul's,
Covent garden, was held last evening, at the vestry-
room, to consider the propriety cf promoting the
erection of an institution to be called " The Royal
Panopticon of Science and Art," on the vacant ground
in Exeter-street and Burleigh-street.
Mr. GEORGE WILKINSON, one of the churchwar-
dens, presided, and expressed his belief that the pro-
posed institution, which had already obtained a
charter of incorcoration, would be a great benefit to
the parish.
Mr. E. M. CLARET, the resident director and cu-
rator of the institution, explained its formation and
objects. The charter secured the limited liability of
the shareholders, while the profits were left unre-
stricted. The probabilities of its paying were very
great. It had been calculated that upwards of four
millions were annually spent in London for sight-
seeing—a proof of the readiness of the inhabitants of
the metropolis to support literary and scientific
institutions. There was no doubt the shareholders
would realize ten per cent., calculating the admissions
at only 800 per day. It was proposed to give in-
structions in practical engineering, from which a fur-
ther income would be derived, as well as from the
rent of stalls for exhibiting products of art and ma-
nufacture. The institution would possess a great ad•
vantage in its central position. At the Polytechnic,
Colosseum, and other similar institutions, more than
double the money taken at the doors was paid for
conveyance to the place.
Mr. BROAD said that anything which improved the
moral character of the parish must tend to decrease
the parochial burdens, and he believed that such would
be the effect of the proposed institution. He moved a
resolution declaring that the institution ought to be
encouraged by the parishioners; on the ground that it
would bring an immense number of persons into the
parish, and would increase the trade thereof.
Mr. VERITY seconded the motion.
Mr. IVALIEEtt opposed it, on the ground that so
much property was required for the institution that
it could not possibly be remunerative; and, should it
turn out unproductive, where was their security for
their rates ? Let them look at Covent-garden
Theatre, where the parish had actually been obliged
to put in executions for their rates.
Mr. JENKINS also opposed the resolution, and re-
ferred to the failure of the Adelaide. Gallery.
The resolution was carried by a majority of 12
to 9.

A further resolution for the appointment of a com-
mittee to carry out the views of the meeting, was
atrongly opposed on the ground that it pledged the
parishioners to take shares in the institution, and was
negatived by 13 to 10.
A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the pro-
ceedings.