The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-20 00:00:00

Average Amount. SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.
Pease is Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and
The ordinary half-yearly meeting of this company,
Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co
and also a special meeting, was held yesterday at
Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and Co 10,007
Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank. Peter- ' the London-bridge Tavern ; Mr. James M'Gregor
borough—Messrs. Yorke
Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson On the directors entering the room they were re-
and White 125 ceived with mingled cheers and hissing, the cheers
Penaorokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J and predominating.
W. Walters
Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and shareholders :
Truro Bank, Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven " The directors have to report, that the receipts of the
and Co
Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and Co 26,609 ending on the 31st July, 1850, have bEe3 291,2461. 103.
Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and 3i.; and the working expenses, 103,9731. I6s. ld. The
Co 24,717 revenue account is charged in the present half year with
Richmond Bank, Richmond—Maxwell and Co 5,370 the sum of 19,2941. 4s. 10d., to be added to the fund
Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and already laid aside for the renewal of engines, tenders,
County of Poole Bank, Ringwood, Ledgard carriages, and other stock of the company. The rates
and Sons
Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds rent of the Greenwich, Canterbury, end Whitstable, and
and Co 5,493 Reading, Guildford, and Ra..igate Railways, to 37,9161.
Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank Roches- 43.—which sums, in addition to the interest on the mort-
ter—Day and Nicholson 8,127 gage debt and guaranteed stock of the company and a
Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons 9,771 provision of 8641. Is. 7d. for bad debts, make a total
Rugby Bank, nugby—Butlin and Son 9,451 deduction from the gross earnings of 218,5751. 2s. 91.
Rye Bank, Rye—Pomfret and Co.
Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy- and loss, after providing for last half-year's dividend, a
don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and balance availible for dividend of 113,4781. 14. 7d.
Co

The business of the ordinary half-yearly meeting
was then proceeded with.
The CHAIRMAN briefly referred to the details con-
tained in the reprt, alluding more particularly to the
gratifying announcement that the total increase on
the main line for the last half-year, as compared with
the corresponding half of 1849, was 15,657/. ss. 11d.,
of which 12,6341. 105. sd. was from passengers, and
3,0221. 15s. 61. from goods, &c. Toe directors also
anticipated a still further increase in the re-
venue both as regarded passenger and goods traffic.
The amount of balance at the disposal of the direc-
tors was 113,478/. 14s. 7d., which would allow a
dividend for the half-year at the rate of 3 per cent.
per annum on the consolidated stock of the company,
after providieg the guaranteed dividend at the rate
of 41 per cent. per annum on the preferential stock
issued.—(Cheers.) The Hon. Gentleman concluded
by moving the adoption of the report.
A somewhat prolonged and irregular discussion
ensued, which ended in the report being received.
A dividend for the half-year at the rate of 3
Per cent. on the consolidated stock, to be payable
after the Ashford and Hastings line was opened, or
at such other time as the directors might appoint, was
then agreed to.
The resolution which was passed at the last meet-
ing, that a register of the shareholders, with the
amount of their stock, should be published annually
and sold to the shareholders for a shilling, was then
brought before the meeting.
The CHAIRMAN said the directors objected to such
a return on the ground that it would depreciate the
value of the company's stock. He moved that the
above resolution should be rescinded, and that a return
should be published giving simply the names and ad-
dresses of shareholders, distinguishing such as were
competent to hold the office of director or auditor.
An amendment was proposed to this, but the reso-
lution of the Chairman was ultimately carried by a
large majority.
A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman,
and the meeting separated.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.

Ross Old Bank, Herefordshiro, Ross—Pritchard
and AllaTc.y
Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron
Walden—Messrs. Gibson
Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and
C 0.... . . .
Scarborough Old Bank, f3carborough—Woodall
and Co

3,963

last half-year, as compared with the corresponding half
of 1819, is 15,657/. 51. l ld.; of this sum 12,634/. 103. 53.
is from passengers, and 3,622/. 15s. 6J. from goods, &c.
The returns on the North Kent lino from passengers for
last half year, compared with the preceding one, show a
decrease of 4,3211. 9s. 91.; but this is accounted for by
the half-year including the month of January getting
credit for the large amount received in that month for

22,345

11,608

Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and
Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eytons,
and Co
Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourno
—Valiance and Son
Southampton Town and County Bank, South-
ampton—Maddison and Pearce
Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co
Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie
Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and
King
Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp-
ton—Atherly and Fall •
Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore
Stourbridge Bank, Stourbridge —Rufford,
Wragg, and Co
Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co
Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton,
Cayley, and Co.
Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge—Bate and
Robins
Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury
—Beck, Downward, and Co.
St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib-
son and Stuart
Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock 21,372
Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and
Co
Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph, Yates, and
Parslow
Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns-
ford and Barne
Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton-
shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland 10,411
Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But-
cher and Son
To wcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S
Percival
Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and
Co.

annual tickets. The decrease of 4,4861. 6s. 6d. in the
receipts from passengers on the Greenwich branch has
evidently been occasioned by the abstraction of traffic
from that line to the North Kent. The
,through-traffic
to and from London and Folkestone, Dover, Ramsgate,
and Margate, for the half-year ending on the 31st July,
1849, was 53,0891. 15s. 4d.; 31st July, 1850, 62,8921. 1 ls.
4d.; increase, 9.8021. 163.
" The communication between Folkestone and Bou-
logne by a tidal service, leaving one harbour and ar-
riving at the other, now takes place twice each way
in the twenty-four hours; the Boulogne and Amiens
Company contributing an allowanceri towards the ex-
pense of the nightly service. •Between Dover and
Calais the communication takes place three times
each way in the twenty-four hours; namely, twice
at a fixed hour by the steam-packets of her Majesty's
Government and that of France, and once by the steam-
ships in connexion with this company, at tide time, al-
ways leaving one harbour and arriving in the other
without the use of boats; to this service the Northern of
France Railway Company contributes jointly with this
company. This latter service accommodated 6 777 pas-
sengers last half year, in comparison with 4,403 in the
corresponding half of 1849, showing an increase of
2,374 passengers. Between Dover and Ostend her Ma-
jesty's packets and those of the Belgian Government
perform a service from Dover to Ostend every evening
(excepting Sunday), and from Ostend to Dover every even-
ing (excepting Saturday), and a service is also performed by
the Belgian Government:B steamers, in conjunction with
those of the South-Ea,tern and Continental Steam-
packet Company, from Ramsgate to Ostend, every Mon-
day, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday morning,
and from Ostend to Ramsgate every Sunday, Wednes•
day, Thursday, and Saturday morning, from harbour to
harbour.
" The 61i hours now occupied in the journey to Ma--
seilles will be materially reduced as soon as railway
communication between Paris and Marseilles is com-

NEW COURT.
(Before the COMMON-SERGEANT.)
James Cole, 24, polisher, was indicted for ;stealing
two bank notes of the value of 201., a bank note for
51, two cheques of the value of 61/. ss. Bd., and 20
sovereigns and some silver, the moneys of Peter
Thwaites, from his person.
Mr. Robinson prosecuted, and Mr. Parry defended.
Mr. ROBINSON, having stated the case, called
Mr. Peter Thwaites, a fruiterer in Covent-garden
market, living in Broad-court, Covent-garden, who
stated that on the 9th of August, between five and six
o'clock in the evening, he went into the Mercers'
Arms, Covent-garden, having the money named in
the indictment in his pocket in a bag. He called for
a glass of bitter ale, and whilst drinking it saw the
prisoner and some other men there, and also a woman.
One of the men got into conversation with him, and
he finally paid for some gin for the party. One of
them said he had lost a bottle of wine, upon which he
paid for one, but had no sooner partaken of some
of it than his senses left him, and he knew nothing
until he found himself at home and his money gone.
The witness, on cross-examination, said that he had
been walking about during the day, but had not taken
enough to make him at all drunk.

28,024

12,023
13,299

WEST INDIA MAIL.
SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNIsG.—The Royal
mail steamer Tay, Captain Chapman, has just arrived
here, bringing mails from Jamaica, Demerara, Bar-
badoes, Trinidad, and the Windward and Leeward
Islands, but none from the Spanish Main or Pacific.
The Tay has experienced head winds on the
voyage home. She brings 16 passengers; and on
freight 226 bags of pimento and sundry cargo. Specie,
value 1,916 dollars; 191. gold dust; British, corn,
6551.; silver, 618/. ; and 1,114 francs.
We have advices from Jamaica to the 27th ult.

11,023
10,577

21,927

The , first packet with the mails, under the new
arrangement, reached Kingston on the 24th, in 22
days, from Southampton.
The weather in the islands had entirely changed to
abundant rains.

8,461

6,760

Cotton cultivation was taken up vigorously.
The island was healthy and quiet, with no political
news.

John Harlow, a lad belonging to the market, said
that, seeing the prosecutor, the prisoner, and other
men with him, and thinking he was in danger of being
robbed, he went round and informed Mr. Isaacs, the
younger, the prosecutor's partner. When he came
back he met the prisoner running down Long-acre
with two other men. When they got to the corner of
James-street they jumped into a cab, and upon young
➢lr. Isaacs seizing it, prisoner and the men jumped
out at different sides and ran away.
Mr. Henry Isaacs deposed to being fetched by the
last witness, and said that as he passed along he saw
the prisoner and two other men running along; one
of the party said, " Is the money all right F' and the
answer was, "Yes." They then got into a cab,
which witness stopped, and the men then got out and
ran away. Witness followed the prisoner, and,
seeing a policeman, he beckoned him, and they both
followed and finally caught the prisoner, who had
run into a water-closet of a house close in the neigh-
bourhood.

7,915

Sugar was in fair inquiry, at better prices. Pimento
fetched 4d. per lb. Logwood, 403. per ton for St.
Domingo, and 303. to 344. fur Jamaica. Freights
unchanged. Exchange on London—Jamaica Bank.
60 days, par ; Colonial Bank, 90 days, par ; 60 days,
premium ; 30 days, 1 premium.
In imports a fair amount of business bad been done
since the departure of the Crescent City on the 15th,
at prices somewhat lower than those current at that
date.

We have Dmerara papers to the 27th ult. The
colony was quiet, with showery weather, favourable
for sugar making. The Court of Policy, after pass.
ing the Emigration Bills, bad adjourned till the 13th
September.

The Trinidad journals contain no news.
Some arrivals of African emigrants had taken
place.

- Sugar was quoted 3 dollars per 1001 b. ; cocoa, 6
dollars per 1001 b. ; coffee very scarce.
Exchange on London—Colonial Bank, 30 days,
488 dolls.; 80 days, 484 dolls. ; private bills, 90 days,
480 dolls.

The police•constable said that when he found the
prisoner he was very much out of breath, as if
with running. He denied that he was the man they
wanted.

A lad named Gilbert proved that on the same
evening as the robbery was committed he picked up
the two cheques in the street near where the prisoner
had passed along in his flight.
Mr. PARRY contended that the case was merely
one of identity, and not sufficiently clear against the
prisoner. _

In Antigua the Legislature has voted 3,0001. to
encourage the introduction of Portuguese emigrants.
In Montserrat several estates had been sold at ruinous
prices.

A severe gale visited Barbadoes on the 16th cf
August, and did some damage to property in the in-
terior of the island.

The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he was
sentenced to seven years' transportation.
The prisoner, who is a well-known character, was
tried at these sessions in July, and acquitted on a
charge of stealing a gold watch from the person of the
well-known pugilist, the Tipton Slasher.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
The following is the official report presented
to the Holstein Chamber of General %Villisen'a re-
cent unsuccessful attempts to force the Danish litres
on the Schlei :
" The day before yesterday (the 12th) a division of
our army undertook a reconnoisance against the left
wing of the enemy, by which the object proposed in
the movement was fully attained.
" The left of the enemy's position, who held Ko-
chend9rff and Osterbye and the vicinity, as well as
Eckernforde and Fieckerbye, with a force of about
6,000 men, was attacked by our avant garde and our
first brigade-' and driven across the Schlei at
Missunde. The enemy, by this movement,
abandoned all their field works in front
of Eckernforde and near Holm and Missunde,
and retired across the bridge at the latter point
with precipitation, and not without consider-
able loss. Here a conflict began in the afternoon by
a heavy fire of artillery from both banks of the Schlei,
which continued till six o'clock. The enemy, late in
the afternoon, brought out a strong force of artillery
on the north bank opposite Missunde, from whence
they could command the whole of the ground on the
south of the passage (the Holstein position). As it
was not the intention of the General to force the pas-
sage of the Schlei at this point, towards evening he
ordered the firing to cease, and withdrew the troops
to Osterbye • and Hurnmelfeldt. The Danish
garrison of Eckernforde had retired to the north
without making any resistance. Our troops, who
had advanced to the Borbyer Mill, were not allowed
the water. Only a few
it
to
totakea
possession
bombardment of the r place,om
patrols were sent through the town, by whom many
of our soldiers who had been lying in hospital there
were liberated. Yet, notwithstanding the town was
not taken, the enemy with useless cruelty fired on
many of the houses. The Gebion frigate, held by
Prussian troops, was also fired on, and a timber-yard
in its immediate vieinity was set on fire.
" All the troops that were engaged in the operations
have won the approval of the General. All the huts,
field-works, and block-houses of the Danes south tf
Missunde are destroyed ; about 50 prisoners have
fallen into our hands.
"
was yesterday again
in the possession of the enemy.
Danish The town
shipsof in tbe Eckernforde, which is commanded by
theharbour,
" Of our loss in killed and wounded, which appears
to have bees' not insignificant, no official list has yet
been published. We have lost no prisoners. The loss
of the enemy is, according to the estimate of the
General, much greater than our own.
" The army has gained fresh confidence in its
strength, and eagerly anticipates a renewal of the
conflict."

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING-, SEPTEMBER 20, 1850.

Michael M‘Donald, John St. Leger, and Martin St.
Leger, who were convicted before Mr. Justice Tal-
fourd, on Wednesday, upon two indictments for as-
milts upon police-constables, were brought up for
judgment, and the first-named prisoner was sentenced
to be kept to bard labour fur ten months, and the
others for one year.
Robert Archer, 21, and Francis Davis, 20, were
indicted for stealing 357/. 145., the property of Alfred
Greenland.
Mr. Parry prosecuted, Mr. Robinson and Mr. M.
Prendergast defended the prisoners.
The circumstances of this case have been given
very recently in the police reports. The prosecutor
was in the service of Messrs Sanders and Co., cheese-
mongers, Collingwood-street, Southwark, and on the
15th of August he was sent to the Southwark branch
of the London and Westminster Bank with a large
sum of money, consisting of notes, gold, and silver,
which he was to pay in on their account. As he was
going through a passage near St. Saviour's Dock he
was assailed by the prisoners and another man, and,
after using a good deal of violence towards him
they succeeded in getting the bag from him and
then ran off, Archer carrying the bag. An alarm was
raised, and the prisoners were taken into custody
after a chase for some distance, and the bag and its
contents were fortunately recovered. The third man
succeed in making his escape.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty against both
prisoners, and they were sentenced to be transported
for fifteen years.

EXPERIMENTS at PORTSMOUTH.
Captain Clads, C B , of her Majesty's ship Excel-
lent, at Portsmouth, recently made a series of experi-
ments which proved satisfactorily that shot could be
made to take a considerable diverging course than
going in a direct line to the object they were directed
against, and that the result could be depended upon
with great certainty, by adopting certain simple
means to effect the intended divergence. The expe-
riments were made with 32-pounder and 68-pounder
solid shot, the shot being prepared for the purpose by
having a hole bored on one side of about an inch and
a half in diameter, which is afterwards filled with a
plug made of wood. The extraction of the metal
from one side of the shot alters the centre of gravity,
and the direction of the shot, when fired according as
the wooden pluggc d side is placed upwards or down-
wards, or to the right or left when loading the gun.
The result of the experiments with 32-pounder shot,
plugged as described, showed that when fired with the
usual service charge of gunpowder, 10Ib., with the
plug placed to the right of the gun, and the piece of
ordnance directed against a target in the usual way, the
shot when fired diverged to the extent of 50 yards to
the right of the target ; and when the plug IN as placed
to the left side of the gun, the divergence when fired
was 50 yards to the left of the target. On placing
the plugging side of the shot downwards in the gun,
the shot when fired fell 400 yards short of the target,
and when the plugged side of the shot was placed up-
wards in the gun, the shot when fired ranged 400
yards beyond the target. Nearly the same result
was obtained in a number of experiments. The ex-
periments with the 68 pounder shot, bored and
plugged in a similar manner, gave more extraordinary
results, as the plug when placed downward in the
gun tell 600 yards short of the object aimed ; and
when the plug was placed upwards in the gun it went
600 yards beyond it. When the plug was placed to
the right it diverged betwixt 60 and 70 yards before
it reached the distance of the target, and the same
distance to the left when the plug was placed to the
left. Several members of the select committee left
Woolwich yesterday morning for Shoeburyness, to
carry on experiments at that range with the shot
prepared in the same manner as the experiments were
made with at Portsmouth. Thirty-six of the 32-
pounder shot to be fired at Shoeburyness have holes
made on one side 1 I inch in diameter, and to such
depth as would withdraw one pound weight of the
metal of . the shot. Thirty-six shot have been pre-
pared by boring holes two inches in diameter, and
extracting two pounds of metal from each, and a num-
ber of 68-pounders have been prepared by boring
holes 2i inches in diameter, and extracting four
pounds of metal.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
We have stated that orders have been issued for
the re-commissioning of the Bellerophon, 7s, Captain
Baynes, C. 8., on paying her off, on arrival at Devon-
port from the Mediterranean. She bill be re-com-
missioned by Captain the Right lion. Lord George
Paulet (1833), and manned with an advanced com-
plement of 300 officers and men.

Rear-Admiral Superintendent Prescott proceeded
to Spithead yesterday morning in the Portsmouth
yacht, with the gentlemen of the pay office, and paid
advance to the Fox, 42, frigate, Commodore Lambert,
and Dragon, steam-frigate, Captain Giffard. Tne
Apollo was paid " down." No orders are yet down
for the sailing of these vessels, but it is supposed that
the Thetis for Lisbon, the Fox for the East Indies,
and the Dragon for the Mediterranean, will sail either
on Saturday or Sunday, as we have already stated.
Apollo, troop-ship, Commander Rswstorne, was
towed out of harbour to Spithead, and afterwards was
paid six months' wages. As she cast off her moor-
ings a man fell overboard, but fortunately caught
hold of a rope thrown to him and was hauled on
board.

Adventure, transport, Master-Commander Wil.
lington, baying embarked stores for Plymouth yard,
was towed out by the Echo steamer, and proceeded;
it is said she will be paid off at that port after dis-
charging her stores. _ _

Black'Eagle, Admiralty yacht, Master-Commander
Cook, arrived at Portsmouth, from Queenstown yes-
terday morning (the Admiralty having proceeded
from Holyhead to London by rail) ; she coaled and
proceeded on to Woolwich.

Caradoc, Holy head steam-packet, is lying in Ports-
mouth Harbour, waiting Admiralty orders to be
paid off.

Itinribution, 22, steam-frigate, Captain Warden, is
at the buoy off the King's stairs, Portsmouth. The
day for her going to Spithead is not yet fixed ; she
is having Captain Crispin's engine-room telegraph
fixed ; which we hear is also to be placed on board
every war steamer, and is a most useful, simple, and
necessary appendage, especially where the noise of
the engine working, the steam blowing off, &c., en-
tirely prevents the human voice from being heard.
We hope to see, also, before long, the method of
blowing off the sham through the bottom of the
vessel, as adopted in the Victoria and Albert, and
Fairy, carried out on board all Government steamers.

APPOINTMENTS.
WOOLWICIJ, SEPT. 19.—Chief Engineer—John
Vickers, to the lt:tribution steam frigate, at Ports-
mouth.

Mate—George W. P. Edwards (1850), to the Re-
ribution.

Second Engineer—John Cowley, to the Dragon
steam-frigate at Portsmouth.
Midshipman—George flughe,, to the Albion, 90.
Tne Apollo troop-ship, Commander Rawstorne,
after embarking the two companies of Royal Artillery
at Portsmouth to-morrow, will proceed to Cork and
embark detachments of the line at that port to fill up
the vacancies in the head-quarters of the regiments at
Jamaica and Barbadoes and other stations in the West
Indies.