of oxygen and hydrogen deposited and retained on the surfaces of the platina plates is a measure of the statical charge and energy accumulated.

In an electroplating bath there is theoretically neither a storage of energy, nor an accumulation of statical charge; what takes place is simply a transference of the copper on the one side of the bath to that of the other. Carrying the copper across involves an expenditure of energy which becomes dissipated and lost in the form of heat, but that is theoretically all the work done in a plating bath. A storage battery or accumulator differs from a plating bath in the fact that energy is stored up.

When an accumulator is being charged, existing structures are broken and altogether new ones raised; the new structures built up of the broken down matter are very loosely put together, and they are therefore in a condition of unstable equilibrium, and ready to fall to pieces and to give back the energy absorbed in their construction.

It is an axiom with electricians that whenever a difference of potential exists in a conductor an electric current is produced. The same thing may be expressed by saying electrical motion in a conductor involves a difference of potential, and this difference of potential is necessarily greatest at the two extremities.

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The Gas Supply at Brighton.-Widespread dissatisfaction prevails at Brighton owing to the inferior illuminating power of the gas supplied by the local company. An intimation from the gas company of their intention to further decrease the price of gas by 2d. per 1,000 cubic feet afforded the Corporation gas committee an opportunity of drawing attention to the fact that, with one exception-namely, Plymouth-the gas supplied in Brighton is of a lower illuminating power than that of any other leading provincial town. They recommended that the company should be asked to increase the illuminating power of their gas from 14 to 16 C.P. without increasing the price. It was estimated that this change would cost the company £3,864. In the course of a discussion which followed the opinion was expressed that the time was rapidly approaching when the Corporation would have to light their streets with the electric light. The committee's recommendation was adopted.

The Lighting of Dover.-The Corporation will apply for provisional orders.

In practise polarisation, which is a storage of energy, does occur more or less in plating baths, and, as is well known, with inconvenient consequences at times.

Electric Lighting at Hove.-The Hove Commissioners have authorised the electric light sub-committee to advise and instruct the town clerk and solicitor in carrying through the provisional order and to approve and settle with him the necessary documents. It is understood that the proceedings for the provisional order are advancing favourably, and the committee hope soon to submit a scheme for the carrying out of the project for the board's approval.

Proposed Electric Lighting at Cowes.-The West Cowes Local Board has declined to support the application of an electric lighting company for a provisional order enabling them to light the town by electricity.

Electric Lighting Students.-If we may judge from a provincial report, professors in technical institutes will have a busy time this winter with pupils who enter electrical engineering classes. Principal Jamieson, of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College, has started with 85 students in his lecture class upon electric lighting, and this number will probably be soon increased to 100. The success of Mr. Alex. W. Stewart, whose career we notice in another column, has, no doubt, acted as an incentive to many others.

Alnwick Castle and the Electric Light.-This famous building is now supplied with electric light from the Alnwick Abbey Mills.

The Lighting of the Albert Institute, Dundee.-The preliminary trials of the electric lighting in the Albert Institute were very successfully tested last week in the presence of Mr. Bryson, consulting engineer, and Mr. W. C. Martin, of Paterson & Cooper, the contracting engineers, &c. After darkness set in the lighting. proved a magnificient success both in the Art Galleries and the Libraries, every part of the machinery working with perfect regularity and smoothness. The arc lamps, which are of the Phoenix type of 2,000 candlepower each, gave a brilliant light without the slightest hissing or jumping. The installation includes 1 25H.P. Robey compound engine, 1 25-H.P. locomotive boiler, 2 Phoenix dynamos, 36 arc lamps (Phoenix), and about 200 incandescent lamps of from 16 C.P. to 50 C.P. The consulting engineer expressed his satisfaction with everything, and complimented the contractors on their superior workmanship, which was also confirmed by the other gentlemen present. The engine and dynamos were under the charge of Mr. Richardson, junr., representative of Messrs. Robey and Co., and Mr. John Hunter for the electrical department, who have discharged their duties throughout in a most efficient manner.

Paddington Electric Lighting Committee-Resignation of Mr. Judge.-At the ordinary meeting of the Paddington Vestry, held on Tuesday last in the Vestry Hall, Harrow Road, the Rev. Walter Abbott in the chair, the resignation of Mr. Mark H. Judge as a member of the electric lighting committee came up for consideration. The Vestry Clerk (Mr. Frank Dethridge), stated that he had received a letter from Mr. Judge as follows:-" After the time and attention which I have devoted to the question, I should have thought that the electric lighting committee appointed by the vestry on my motion would have elected me as their chairman. They have, however, elected Colonel Barchard to that position. I therefore beg to tender my resignation as a member of that committee." Col. Barchard said the committee was not likely to sit much longer, and therefore if the vestry intended to appoint a gentleman in the place of Mr. Judge, it was very desirable that they should do so at once. If they deferred the matter for a fortnight, the chances were that the committee would have completed their labours. Mr. Rayner observed that that being the case, he should propose Mr. Whur as a member of the committee, and this gentleman was accordingly declared elected in the place of Mr. Judge.

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Electric Lighting at Pontardawe. Gilbertson, of Pontarda we, who has just had an electric light installation fitted up, for the lighting of his tinplate works, his residence, All Saints' Church, and the reading-room for his employés, hopes to save £150 a year by the substitution of electric lighting for gas, which he has obtained, hitherto, from his own gas works. The installation at Pontardawe has been carried out by Messrs. Paterson and Cooper, through their local agent, Mr. John Legg, of Nelson Street, Swansea. Five or six years ago they fixed an installation for Madame Patti, at Craig-y-nos, and there has not, since then, been a single break-down or hitch of any kind. The plant at Pontardawe consists of a 16 horse-power nominal high pressure steam engine, which is worked at a pressure of 90 lbs. per square inch. The engine and boiler, when worked to their full power, are capable of giving 50 indicated horsepower. The dynamos of Messrs. Paterson and Cooper's well-known Phoenix type are two in number, and are belted direct to the engine. The pressure for the house, which is nearly a mile distant, is 125 volts, while for the works the pressure is only 65 volts. There are 116 incandescent lamps, and 14 arc lamps in the works, with the result that there is now an excellent light in every corner of the building. The mills are lit by 1,000 candle-power arc lamps, one lamp between each two mills. Each mill has, in addition, two incandescent lamps for the shears at the back of the rolls. The cold rolls are lit by incandescent lamps, one to each pair of rolls. The tin house is remarkably well illumined by two 1,000 candle-power arc lamps, and in addition to these each stack has two 16 candle incandescents. The sorting houses generally have arc lamps with incandescent lamps over the benches. The annealing and pickling houses are lit by 600 candle-power arc lamps. The stores, offices, smitby, and fitting shops, are all fitted with incandescent lights, and the sidings at night are illuminated by 1,000 candle arc lamps. All Saints, Pontardawe, is, we believe, the only church in Wales lit by electricity. The present mode of lighting inaugurates a very great improvement, and the effect is admirable. The arrangements here, like those at the works, are perfect. Thirty 32-candle-power lamps, and 11 16-candle-power lamps, have been fixed to the old gas fittings, but the wires are throughout carefully concealed. At Mr. Gilbertson's private residence, Glanrhyd, there are about 90 lamps fitted in the house, stables, and laundry, and he is well pleased with his experiment.

Lighting of the Washington Navy Yard.-An electric plant is to be installed by the Cleveland Brush Company.

The American Navy and the Electric Light.-The new steel cruiser Philadelphia, recently launched, will have two electric light plants of the most approved pattern, and the most compact system adapted to marine work.

The Electric Light at a Mayor's Ball.-A brilliant scene was presented in the spacious assembly room of the Esplanade Hotel, Southsea, on Tuesday night, when the Mayor and Mayoress of Portsmouth (Mr. and Mrs. G. Ellis) entertained a company numbering upwards of 600 at a grand ball. The ball-room, supper room, and contiguous apartments were illuminated by the electric light. It was a common remark among the guests that the spectacle would give an impetus to the electric lighting company which has been established in Portsmouth, and whose promoters have taken shares to the value of close upon £20,000.

Electric Lighting at Stonehouse.-The consideration of a draft provisional order received from the Devon and Cornwall Electric Supply Company, came before the Stonehouse Local Board at their last meeting. After some discussion, it was ultimately decided to adjourn the matter in order to obtain the surveyor's opinion on it.

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Electric Lighting at Exeter.-The movement in favour of the electric light is making satisfactory progress in the city of Exeter. It has now been decided to light the Albert Memorial Museum by means of the new illuminant. It is hoped that other public buildings will soon follow suit.

The Bradford Installation.-The electric lighting station has not yet been handed over to the Corporation but it is said that orders have been received for four times the lighting capacity of the present plant.

Electric Lighting in Kensington. After certain alterations in the notice of the Kensington and Knightsbridge Electric Lighting Company for the lighting of Kensington, the committee of the County Council recommend its approval.

The Lighting of Southtown and Gorleston.-A correspondent in the Eastern Daily Press complains of the high price of gas in that district, which is 5s. per 1,000 cubic feet, and concludes by expressing the hope that the price may be reduced, or the electric light adopted.

Harrogate.-The Council have refused consent to private electric lighting companies. There were the usual remarks about the infancy of electric light.

Electrical Trades Union.-The following has bee sent to us with a request for its insertion in the REVIEW. We have not the slightest objection to this course, and we hope that the men's social position may be advanced thereby ; but to gain the support they are desirous of securing they must endeavour to bebave like reasonable beings, and not exercise an attitude towards those whose opinions may differ from their own, amounting to intimidation. While fully recog nising the rights and just demands of workmen, we would call their serious attention to our leading article of last week in the hope that a better feeling towards their employers may be engendered :-"To all employe of electric light, telegraph and telephone.-A monster meeting will be held at the Albion Hall, London Wall, Moorgate Street, on Saturday, 26th October, 1889, at 7.30 p.m., to enroll all members wishing to join our union, also to transact any business which may be brought forward. All concerned are earnestly requeste! to attend."

Late Communications.-We have received, but to late for insertion this week, an important letter basel upon our article on "The efficiency of transformers" and Mr. Hammond's communication on the high consumption of fuel at Brighton.

High Tension Current Transmission.-Major Waller should fight shy of trying to be scientific. In a letter to a contemporary he says, in speaking of some electric lighting experiments between Deptford and London :"It is also now demonstrated that current can be transmitted without loss of E.M.F., for, notwithstanding five transformations, the E.M.F. of the working tension at Deptford was the same as at these premises." Major Waller has demonstrated nothing but what was we! known years ago, and, as our contemporary puts it, h proof would equally well show that current can be transmitted with an actual gain which may amourt to thousands of volts. We would like to know whether the cable used between London and Deptford is similar to that illustrated in the Pall Mall Gazette of Wednesday?

Birmingham Exhibition.-It is announced that this exhibition will close on the 31st of the present month.

New Catalogue.-Messrs. Winfields, Limited, wish us to inform our readers that they have just brought out a most comprehensive catalogue of new and original designs in electric light fittings. It would have been more satisfactory to us if the firm had sent a specimen copy for our own edification.

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The Greatest Electric Railway in the World.According to the Vienna Zeitschrift für Elektrotechnik, the City of Budapest boasts of possessing the greatest electric tramway. It was recently built by Messrs. Siemens and Halske, and is worked by their system of underground conductors. Three steam engines and three dynamos, each of 100 horse-power capacity, supply the current to this extensive network of rails.

Wood Mouldings for Electric Light Leads.-The patent mouldings of Mr. Samuel Elliott, of Newbury, were awarded a silver medal at the Paris Exhibition. Electrical engineers, generally, have no conception of che magnitude of Mr. Elliott's works or of the elaborate machinery he employs, and we would recommend that when any of our readers are in the neighbourhood, they should pay a visit to his establishment.

Edinburgh Electrical Exhibition, 1890.-The Lord Provost, magistrates and Town Council of Glasgow were waited on, on October 10th, by a deputation from the executive council of the exhibition, consisting of Bailie Walcot, Councillor Robertson, Councillor Pollard, Mr. A. R. Bennett, Mr. C. H. Barclay, Mr. George E. Watson (secretary). and Mr. Lee-Bapty (general manager). Bailie Dunlop, Glasgow, introduced the deputation. Mr. Watson read a letter from Sir William Thomson expressing regret that a previous engagement prevented him from joining the deputation. Bailie Walcot and Mr. A. R. Bennett addressed the Town Council, explaining the objects and scope of the exhibition, and requesting the assistance of the Glasgow people in bringing it to a successful issue, urging that although held in Edinburgh it was in reality an exhibition for the whole of Scotland. The Lord Provost said that he might state that the magistrates had carefully considered the question of the Electrical Exhibition in Edinburgh, and regarded it as one that cught to be encouraged, and as one which was calculated to be practically useful to the whole of Scotland: and remembering the liberality with which the Town Council of Edinburgh gave subscriptions to their guarantee fund at the time when their exhibition was in progess, the magistrates were unanimous in recommending that the Town Council of Glasgow should subscribe to their guarantee fund of the exhibition for the sum of £500, the Town Council of Edinburgh having already subscribed for the sum of £1,000. He moved accordingly, and the Council agreed to the proposed guarantee unanimously.

A Mare's Nest.-In the issue of the Echo for the 11th inst., the following inspired note occurs :-" It is not generally known that several years ago the Engineer Department of the Postal Telegraphs was abolished, and that its highly scientific duties are now performed, to the advantage of the taxpayers, by the not very highly remunerated operatives. It is much to the credit of the Departinent that, although the wreckages of telegraph poles and wires caused by Monday's storm might be counted by thousands, the work of restoring communication was completed by Tuesday evening. A few years ago it would have taken a week." It is, perhaps, needless to say that so far from the Engineering Department having been abolished, it continues to flourish with increased efficiency, as the last paragraph of the note indicates.

Electricity Supply Company for Spain, Limited Letters of allotment have been posted.

The Exeter Electric Light Company.-A statement appeared in our issue of the 4th inst. to the effect that Mr. Herbert E. Starr had been appointed to the Exeter Electric Light Company's central station. This has given rise to the impression that Mr. Starr has been appointed chief electrician to the Exeter central station, but as a matter of fact, he has joined the company as an articled pupil. Mr. Albert W. Jones is the electrician in charge.

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New York in Darkness.-The New York correspondent of the Globe, telegraphing on the 15th inst., says: "Last night the principal streets of New York were in darkness, in consequence of the electric light companies having closed the currents. The action of the companies is due to a dispute existing between them and the authorities on account of the dangerous condition of the overhead wires."

Prince Bismarck and the Phonograph.-The phonograph was shown and explained to Prince Bismarck on Monday. After experiments, the Prince expressed his admiration of the wonderful instrument. Copies are to be reproduced of the Bismarck phonogram.

Death of Sir Daniel Gooch.-We announce with deep regret the decease of this gentleman. As mentioned by us previously, he has been seriously ill for some time past, which terminated in death on Tuesday last at his mansion, Clewer Park, near Windsor. He will probably be more widely known as the chairman. of the Great Western Railway. Recalled to this position at a time when the finances of that company were bordering on bankruptcy, ruin was staved off, and the present most flourishing position attained. He was born at Bedlington, 1816, and studied engineering in the works of the late Robert Stevenson. At the age of 21, the position of chief locomotive engineer on the Great Western Railway was offered him and accepted. In 1858, Mr. Daniel Gooch (as he was then) entered into the scheme of joining England to America by means of cable telegraphy, and he it was who despatched the first telegraphic message across the Atlantic, after almost insurmountable difficulties had been overcome. During his absence on this expedition he was returned member of Parliament, and shortly afterwards made a baronet by Her Majesty. Sir Daniel was also chairman of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company.

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The Japanese Electrical Society. This Society, which was started about two years ago, has over 1,000 members.

An Electric Coal-digger.-There is at the Paris Exhibition a coal-digger which is worked by an electromotor. By its aid a man and helper can undercut 110 tons of coal in ten hours, in a seam 6 feet thick, and the power required for this at the pit-head is a little. over 2 horse-power.

Electrical Engineering Cards.--The General Electric Company is issuing a series of cards to the trade, which it is proposed to continue weekly. Three samples which have reached us relate first to the prices of carbons, secondly, of casings for electric light wires, and the third is Mr. W. H. Preece's "Fuze Table," giving the size of various wires which will be ruptured by a given current. They seem to be very useful, and the company will send them as they appear to anyone in the trade upon receipt of an application.

Electro-Physiology and Therapeutics.-On Tuesday last the first lecture on these topics, inaugurated by the Institute of Medical Electricity, was delivered with marked success to a full class, and several of the medical men present expressed the opinion that the course promised to be of great use, and was just the thing wanted by those members of the profession who had not made the subject of electro-therapeutics their special study.

Personal.-Mr Walter T. Glover, of the well-known London and Manchester wire-covering firm, left for New York on Saturday last in the steamship Umbria.

Mr. W. P. James Faucus, of Chester, electrical engineer, has been appointed manager of the Manchester Edison-Swan Company, Limited.

We hear that Mr. J. E. H. Gordon is no longer engineer to the Metropolitan Electric Supply Company.

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Electric Launches in Spain.-Industries considers there is an opening in Spain for electric launches, not only on the large rivers, but also in the bays of Cadiz, Corunna, &c. A large company taking the whole matter in hand would be likely to succeed in Spain, if they made their own accumulators.

Ancient Ideas of the Telegraph.-The Rev. Canon Jackson, of Leigh Delamere, Chippenham, in a letter to the Bath Chronicle, says that Joseph Glanvill, rector of Bath from 1666 to 1672, in one of his treatises called "The Vanity of Dogmatising." seems to have anticipated the electric telegraph. He speaks of a couple of needles equally touched by the same magnet being set in two dials exactly proportioned to each other and circumscribed by letters of the alphabet may be made the means of communication. It is, perhaps, unnecessary to state that this information is not new. as it is given in more than one text-book of electricity.

Incandescent Lamp Patents in America.-A New York cablegram says:-Mr. Edison won a great victory when Justice Bradley, of the United States Supreme Court, handed down the opinion dismissing the famous electrician's suit, which was practically Westinghouse against Edison-a suit running two years-to restrain Edison using fibrous carbon in his incandescent lamp. Justice Bradley says the vital question is whether the Sawyer-Mann patent is a valid claim to the exclusive use of the fibrous or textile substance for incandescent arc lights, and he decides against their claim in every particular.

Tenders Wanted. The South Hornsey Local Board invite tenders for the construction and maintenance for seven years of street fire alarms posts, and connecting the same electrically with fire stations.

The Municipal Commissioner for the City of Bombay will, on November 9th, receive tenders for the experimental lighting of certain streets. Particulars of both tenders will be found in our advertisement columns.

Another Death.-A lineman was killed in New York last Friday while attending to an overhead electric light wire. No one could reach the man for an hour, during which time the body was slowly burnt.

New Books. Some important new works have just been issued, prominent among them an exceedingly good "Dictionary of Electrical Words, Terms, and Phrases," by Prof. E. J. Houston, A.M.; a new and greatly enlarged edition of the "Law of Electric Lighting," by Messrs. Bower and Webb; and an interesting and well illustrated little book on magnetism (Part I.), by Prof. Andrew Jamieson, C.E. A list of the new works may be found on page 6 of our supplement.

A Strange Dispute.-The opening of the new telephone line between Budapest and Prague led to so much disputing as to the language which should be used by the employées, that it has been decided to use French. By this means alone could the rival claims of Czechs and Magyars, Germans and Poles, be satisfied.

Extension of the Pioneer Electric Railway.-The Lichterfelde Electric Railway, which was built by Messrs. Siemens and Halske, of Berlin, and opened on the 12th of May, 1881, has proved an entire success, and it will shortly be extended to the Potsdam Railway Station, the concession therefor having been granted at a recent meeting of the town council. The most complete description that was ever published on this railway, as regards technical details and working costs, was undoubtedly that of Mr. A. Reckenzaun, in his paper on "Electric Locomotion," before the Society of Arts, in April, 1887.

The Electrical Omnibus.-Further experiments were with this new coach on Saturday.

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The Silvertown Strike.-A letter from the Secretary of the India-Rubber, Gutta-Percha, and Telegraph Works Company, Limited, has reached us just as we go to press "As reports are still being circulated the we underpay our workpeople, we should be glad, with your permission, to re-state their average weekly wage and hours, viz. [Here follow the figures given in cur last issue.] We also employed about 350 women and girls, who, on an average, earned 13s. 5d. for a week of 54 hours. These wages are higher than those paid by any other firm in our trade, and the directors hav decided not to pay more. Hitherto the company hav not engaged, or tried to engage, new hands, though a considerable number have applied for employment The pickets who surround the factory are therefore employed in keeping out, not new men, but our former workpeople, who, so far as we are concerned, are free to return so soon as we can arrange work for them. To describe the stoppage of our works as a lock-or is therefore untruthful. It is the strike leaders who are responsible for the increasing distress in Silvertown and its neighbourhood. The directors have been asked for an interview by a few of our workpeople. and by agitators who have never been in our employ ment, and have made themselves conspicuous for mis-statements and abusive language. Of course the directors cannot consent to such an interview."

The Lighting of Public Vehicles.-The fact that long and dark nights are now setting in, indicating that winter is fast approaching, brings to our minds again an old grievance which periodically crops up, namely, how long must the long suffering public travel in vehicles which everybody must admit are exceedingly badly lighted. We refer particularly to the omnibuses and tramcars running in London and our provincial towns; but, of course, hansom cabs and cabs proper, or "growlers," as the latter are familiarly termed, may be placed in the same category. Already the Midland Railway Company have adopted the electric light on a few of their trains. the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Com pany preceded them in the matter, and the Victoris Steamboat Association have lighted some of their steamers by electricity. Here we have the electric light by rail and by water-why should we not have it by road? that is to say, by the electric illumination of public vehicles. A year or two ago, if we remember rightly, one of the London omnibus companies did experimentally light a few of their 'buses by electricity. but nothing beyond that stage has, as far as we are aware, been done in the matter since then, and we believe that at the present moment there is not a single 'bus or tramcar electrically lighted. The adoption of the electric light in omnibuses and tramcars woull confer a great boon on the travelling public, and would, if introduced gradually, not entail a very considerabl initial outlay, although, of course, the larger the number of vehicles illuminated, the cheaper would be the cost in proportion. A small battery, preferably a secondary, capable of supplying sufficient current for two 12-C.P. lamps for eight hours (the maximum time of illumination during one evening), could easily be placed under an omnibus or tramcar seat. Several of the companies are sufficiently powerful, financially, to introduce electric lighting; we hope, therefore, that the initial stage inaugurated by one company in experi menting a year or two ago, will, before long, result in the development of electric lighting in the conveyances owned by that company, and that the others will go and do likewise.

Electric Lighting at Govan.-The Burgh Commis sioners having had under consideration the lighting of the town by electric light have unanimously decided not to adopt it.

Fowler-Waring Cables Company.-We hear that this company has leased a portion of the old works of the late W. T. Henley at North Woolwich.

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Perseverance Rewarded.-Says a writer in the Glasow Evening News of the 4th inst. :-"I have to add a upplementary note to the one which I gave last week egarding electrical engineers who had studied in the lasgow Technical College. The case that I have now › mention is one of the most interesting and successful xamples of rapid progress and promotion that I know f. Mr. Alexander W. Stewart, son of the stationmaster t Dalmuir, served his apprenticeship in the naval rchitecture department at Clydebank Shipyard, under Ir. J. H. Biles, and gained first-class honours and the nedal in the subject, as also the £5 prize given by the ate Dr. J. H. Stoddart, of the Glasgow Herald. He hen took up the study of electricity, and passed successully through the elementary, advanced, and honours lasses, taught by Prof. Jamieson, coming out first, with ilver medal, at the City and Guilds of London examiation in electric lighting. With such a record in his avour he was at once appointed second electrician on he Inman Liner City of New York, and when her ister-ship, the City of Paris, was floated he was made irst electrician of that now famous vessel. I am told hat this same gentleman has lately been offered an mportant position in the new shipbuilding yard of Messrs. Palmer & Co. (of Jarrow) at Bilbao-namely, hat of naval architect and electrician for the works."

Underground Electric Railways.-The scheme for in underground electric railway, running north and south between Enston and the Strand, which was hrown out by a committee last year, is likely to be reintroduced in the coming session, and an effort will probably be made to combine it with the new thoroughfare decided on by the County Council.

NEW COMPANIES REGISTERED.

Electric Arms and Ammunition Company, Limited. -Capital £40,000 in £100 shares. Objects: To enter into an unregistered agreement with the American Electric Arms and Ammunition Company for acquiring certain inventions, particulars of which are not given in the registered documents. Signatories (with 1 share each) Major C. B. Waller, Clarence Lodge, Clapham Park; C. A. Pierce, 27, Throgmorton Street; Col. E. Villiers, 5, Brechin Place, Gloucester Road; James Pender, Thornley Hall, Northampton; Capt. J. Balfour, Burcot House, Oxon; Major J. J. Wright, 16, Carlisle Mansions: Thos. Gommell, 45, Gloucester Street, Warwick Square. The signatories are to appoint the first directors, remuneration £100 per annum each. Registered 9th inst. by Ashurst Morris, Crisp & Co., 6, Old Jewry.

J. G. Fay and Company, Limited.-Capital £20,000 in £5 shares. Objects: To carry on business as ship, yacht, and boat, owners and builders, and as electricians, bell hangers, electro and nickel platers, &c. Signatories (with 1 share each): J. R. Reardmore, Wm. Payne, Hy. Turpin, W. H. Rowland, J. Thomas, all of Southampton; J. Gale, National Liberal Club; Wm. Sharland, Winchester. The signatories are to appoint the first directors, qualification £250 in shares; the company in general meeting will appoint remuneration. Registered 10th inst. by Robert Warner, 300, Winchester House, E.C.

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Lancashire and Yorkshire Electric Lighting Company, Limited.—The annual returns for 1886, 1887, and 1888, were filed on the 5th inst., in response to a communication received by the company from the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies. The last of these is made

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Electrical Accumulator Association, Limited.-A meeting of this company was held on the 30th ult., when an account was laid before the shareholders as to the manner in which the winding up of the company had been conducted, and its property disposed. The notice of the meeting was duly filed on the 11th inst. The voluntary winding up of the company was agreed upon at meetings held at 17, Gracechurch Street, on the 30th of April and 15th May last.

Electricity Supply Company for Spain, Limited.-At an extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders. in this company, held at 15, St. Helen's Place, on the 19th ult., it was resolved :-" That the articles of association be altered in the manner following: In article 64 the word '£1,000' shall be substituted for £500' in line 2 thereof, and the word '£1,500' shall be substituted for the word '£1,000' in the last line thereof." The resolution was confirmed on the 4th inst., and filed on the 8th inst. The alteration increases the remuneration of the directors to £1,000 per annum, together with one-tenth of the net profit remaining after payment of per cent. dividend on the ordinary shares, and provides that the whole remuneration shall not exceed £1,500 per annum.

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Northampton Electric Light and Power Company, Limited. The statutory return of this company, made up to the 27th May, was filed on the 8th inst. The nominal capital is £20,000, divided into 10 "A" and 19,990 "B" shares of £1 each. The shares taken up are 10 "A" and 1,000 "B." Upon the former the full amount has been called, and 103. per share upon the latter. The calls paid amount to £255, and unpaid to £255. The nominal capital of the company has been increased since the return was made up to £50,000, by the addition of 30,000 "B" shares. The registered office of the company is at 2, St. Giles's Square, Northampton.

Electric Construction and Maintenance Company, Limited. The registered office of this company, formerly at 24, Crutched Friars, is now situate at Worcester House, Walbrook.

Humboldt Electric Power and Mining Company, Limited. The statutory return of this company is made up to the 14th March. The nominal capital is £82,500 in £1 shares. 52,500 shares are taken up and of these 27,500 are considered fully paid, and upon the remaining 25,000 shares, 7s. 6d. per share has been called. The calls paid at the date of the return amounted to £3,631 14. and unpaid to £5,743 68. Registered office, 63 and 64, New Broad Street.

Caddy & Co., Limited (Mechanical, Electrical and Sanitary Engineers).-The statutory return of this company is made up to the 15th March. The nominal capital is £10,000 in £1 shares, 4,000 of which are taken up, of which 3,000 are considered as fully paid, and the full amount has been paid upon the remaining 1,000 shares. Registered office, 1, Mansfield Road, Nottingham.

British Electric Tramways and General Syndicate, Limited. The statutory return of this company is made up to the 25th April. The nominal capital is £10,000, divided into 1,850 A and 150 B shares of £5 each. At the date of the return 4 A and 85 B shares were taken up; no call had been made upon the A shares, but the full amount had been paid upon the B shares. Registered office, 81, Gracechurch Street.

E. Page & Co., Limited (Agricultural, Electrical and Marine Engineers). The statutory return of this company is made up to the 2nd May. The nominal capital is £30,000 in £1 shares, the whole of which has been taken up, 29,450 shares being issued as fully paid. Upon 550 shares the sum of 53. per share has been