The Sun. — 1866-03-15 (London, England)

MAILS DUE. foistralia and New Zealand, via Southampton.. ...Mar. 2.1.  Ditto, via Marseilles Mar. 16 Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet April 6 Ditto, by French packet Mar. 22. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. llelena Mar. 24 China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton—Mar. 22. Ditto, via Marseilles Mar. 16 Faikland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Mar. 21  Ditto, via 3lar6eilles • Mar. 16 India (Bombay), via Southampton. Mar. 16.  Ditto, via Marseilles . Mar. 25 Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Mar. 16. Ditto, via Marseilles ~Mar. 16. . gatu-itius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles April 7. Newfoundland ..• ‘ April 11 Portugal . • •• .....April 6. Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon United States and British North America, by British packet Mar. 22  Ditto, by United States ton Ditto, via Curk •.• • PaCket, via SouthampDitto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry„ Mar. Mar. 10 West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico Mar. 16  Cuba and Mode° Feb. 31, Bahamas, via New York. April 4. Bermuda. ditto April 1 West Coabt of Africa. lladeira, and Teneriffe .... April 12  At the third ordinary general meeting to-day of the shareholders of the Surrey Commercial Dock Company, a dividend of £3 per cent., free of income tax, was declared on the ordinary stock and on preference stock A for the six mouths ending the 30th The third ordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the Merchant Banking Company of London was held to-day, when a dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum was declared. The Allemania, from New York, has arrived with £12,400 for France and £2,400 for Hamburg. The Graphotyping Company is a new association established for the purpose of purchasing a patent for illustrating books, &c., the cost of which will be only a few shillings instead of pounds by the present system.  The average rate of interest actually allowed by trustees of Savings Banks in England to depositors, for the year ending 20th of November, 1865, has been £2 16s. 6d.  apraellsy announce the issue . The undertaking, rinessa,naagnidngthe completion of the i director, has made of tRh eeui rt err o' sm Ta en ienggr aro 000 o smh conducted under the limited liability principle, with capital will enable the board Averyir. js autliisufsa cRt eouryteprroags to develop the vast resources at .their command.  Agra and Masterman's Bank have issued a report for presentation at the forthcoming meeting. It states that the available balance for the year ending Dec. 31, is £250,254. The direloctnosrsofhlaovepepraciednta. equal to 16 per cent. and 15s. panerdsbhoanreu,s wonhitcwhoaroeccas free of income-tax. A balance remaining of £10,254 is carried forward to the next year's account.  We have much pleasure in announcing that the , Cambridge, has been Acol Hepworth Thomson, M.A., formerly Fellow and Tutor of the nasfteenrsehdiponof tThreiniilteyv.Clovilieigliewn College, and now Regius Professor of Greek in the The appointment v will satisfacion both in beresiwtyelacnomd eCdanwointhogf rEcalty, the University and the College, A large number of mechanics and labourers in each of the departments of Woolwich arsenal have received notice of dismissal, in order to meet the scanty expenditure allotted for the remainder of the present financial year now about to close. They will be restored to their former strength on the Ist of April—the commencement of the financial year 1865-6.  Two SHOCKING SUlClDES.—Yesterday a Pole, named Franz Browzow, aged 37, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor, at his lodging in Claremont-place, Judd-street. A man named Fenning, aged 46, the son of a late tradesman in the Poultry, was discovered hanging and dead in his bed-room on Saturday morning. Deceased had led a very dissipated life, and his friends had raised some money to send him to Australia, vvli4er ho was to have proceeded on Monday next.  Fire in Wilderness-Row--This Day.  O----- Between the hours of three and four o'clock in the morning the inhabitants of Wilderness-row, Clerkenwell, were thrown into a painful state of excitement in consequence of a fire, which was nearly attended with fatal results to nearly a dozen persons, happened in the premises belonging to Mr. Tarner, a watchmaker and jeweller, situate No. 12 in the before-named thoroughfare. The discovery was made by Police-constable 87, of the G who at once raised an alarm, and after considerable trouble he succeeded in arousing the inmates, but the fire was by that time so great, and the heated smoke so dense, that the inmates of the third floor, consisting of Mrs. Ferguson, aged 59, a daughter, a widow, named Louisa Reynolds, aged 21, Thomas Ferguson, aged 7, and Mr. Gibson aged 21, were unable to descend the stairs, and were nearly stiffied with heat. These parties made their rppearauce at the third floor, crying piteously for help. At this critical moment Conductor J. Shaw arrived with the Royal Society's escape, from the Aldersgate-street station, and having placed his machine in front of the building, he ascended the same, and brought down the whole of the above persons in safety. One of the young women fainted in Shaw's arms as he was carrying her down the fly-ladder. The inmates of the first and second floors had also a vory narrow escape, and were compelled to rush out into the street in their clothes. The sufferer was insured in the Phcenix Fire-office.