The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-06 00:00:00

risen and John Pemperton, of St. Helen's, Lancashire,
timber merchants—Clifford Pease and George Sykes, of
Kingston-upon-Hull, commission agents—Robert Henry
Ellis and William Ellis, •of York, lice manufacturers—
Evershed Chapman and Henry Page, of 118, Bishopsgate-
street, leather factors—Sabrina Richards and S. Richards,
of Winterborne Abbas, Dorsetshire, drapers—Ernst Geo.
Wolff, and William Hen. Trumpler, of Kingston-upon-
Hull, merchants—Christopher Rawdon and Jas. Rawdon,
of Liverpool, merchants —John Jackson, Thos.Clough, and
Thomas Lambert, of Pudsey, Yorkshire William
Wigginton, Thomas Wigginton, and Robert Wiggin-
ton, of Woolourn, Buckinghamshire, coal merchants—H.
M. Solomons, G. di Moro, and J. I. Leon, of Manchester,
commission agents—Edward Webster 'Whister, Samuel
Scrivens, mad George Lashmer Whister, of enchurch-
street, commission agents—Joseph Lee, Joseph Shaw, and
John Garlick, of Huddersfield, ' cloth finishers--Ebenezer
Foster and Edmond Foster, of Cambridge, attorneys—
John George Taylor and Charles Frederic Taylor, of Ship-
ley and Bradford, stuff manufacturers—George Anderson,
Walker Smith Anderson, and Joseph Aykroyd, of Brad-
ford, Yorkshire, agents—William Hart and George Kirk-
ham Paion, of Dorking, Surrey, surgeons—HeneageLowth
and Henrietta Priscella Burgess, of Leamington Priors,
Warwickshire, schoolmistresses—Williath Reynolds and
Robert Reynolds, of Gloucester, ironmongers—Edward
Leigh Pemberton and George A. Crawley, 20, Whitehall-
place, solicitors—Thomas Duckworth Headlam and Chas.
Langton, of Liverpool, insurance brokers—Edward Ducker
and Edward Minshull, of Chester, booksellers—Richard
Styring, John Rodgers, and Joseph Rodgers, of Sheffield,
painters.

EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE AT

DEVIZES.

Considerable excitement has been produced at Devizes
in consequence of the discovery of the body if a young
man, apparently from seventeen to nineteen years of age,
in a well in the stable-yard of the Crown• Inn, in that
town. It appears that, about 15 0r.16 days ago, a young
man, who had been engaged in working a boat upon
the canal, suddenly disappeared. Inquiries were made
for him in every direction, and descriptions of his per.
son and apparel circulated throughout the neighbouring
towns and villages ; but all without producing any effect,
as not the slightest tidings of his whereabouts could be
discovered. It is believed, however, that the body now
discovered in the well is that of the young man in ques-
tion, as his smockfrock, shirt, corduroy trousers, &c.,
correspond precisely with the description given. The
circumstances under which the unhappy young fellow got
into the well remain involved in mystery. There are
discolorations on one side of his head, but whether pro-
duced by blows or by the fall down the well cannot of
course be determined. The well is used solely for the
purposes of the stable, and the discovery of the body was
occasioned by the state of the water, which, becoming
offensive, the horses refused to drink. An examination
of the well then took place, and the corpse was grappled
out of it. In the pockets of the deceased were a few
loose beans ; and it is now remembered that, about a
fortnight ago, a man's cap, in which were some beans of
a similar description; was picked up close to the well.

CURIOSITIES OP MONEY MAKLNO.

(From the Journal of the Society of Arts.)

One bank entirely disregards the advantage of uncut
or natural edges, and has its paper prepared in large
sheets, with many notes on a sheet, neither have the
notes any counterpart. Another bank pays excessive
regard to counterparts, every note being a separate
sheet, with counterfoils at each end. The documents
issued by another large foreign establishment have three
counterparts, but as to save trouble to the officials the
documents are severed from all the counterparts before
they leave the printer, the security from this source is
rather questionable. In some of the South American
States so great is the issue of paper money, that the
Government note is worth less than one-tenth of its
theoretical value. It would appear that as the cash
value of these paper moneys decreases the issue is ex-
tended, and so, I presume, it will go on until the cost
of paper and printing will equal the sum which can be
obtained for the finished document, and then a general
repudiation of all old notes, and a re-issue will be the
only course left. Instances could be given of an im-
proved style of document tending to raise the shares of
the company adapting the improvement.

words
A few in an Act of Parliament sometimes
causes great changes. After expending a large sum in
erecting the beautiful and ingenious machinery devised
by the late Mr. Cewper for printing onepound notes,
and working off some millions, the whole was rendered
nugatory by the Legislature decreeing the non-issue of
the notes.

Not very long since a shopkeeper advertised a 51. note
and a dress for a few shillings. The bankers issuing the
note had failed, and there being no assets, their paper
suddenly decreased in value front pounds to pence.
A correspondent of one of the daily papers informed
us two or three years ago that the revolutionary party
in Italy issued paper money redeemable in happier times,
and that the paper so issued was more readily accepted
by the peasantry than the paper of the Italian Govern-
ments.

Pitt found that money is one of the most important
sinews of war; Kossuth the same—and we are informed
that he carried with him his bank-note apparatus until
the last moment.

While on this subject I may mention a practice which
now strikes one as very curious, but which old colonists
of New South Wales will recollect was adopted by the
Government to retain dollars in the colony, viz., to stamp
a piece out of the centre, thus rendering the coin useless
in any other country. The central portion was tender
for a quarter dollar, or is. ld.;_and the ring pieces, called
ring•dolfars, were valued at 3s. 3d., the whole dollar be-
ing worth 4s. 4d. What a change a few years have
brought about in this respect !

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, JAN. 5.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market this morning opened
as follows :—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 73; London and
North-Western, 4- shares, 15.16 dis.; Man., Shef., and Lin-
coln, 24k. Sales in the afternoon :—Caledonian, 30A ; East
Lancashire, 174; G. Northern, A, 9i; Lancash. and York-
shire, 73:1; Man., Shef., and Lincoln, 2.1 i; Midland, 68.1;
South-Eastern,l7i.