The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-27 00:00:00

SHIPPING-THIS DAY,

LONDON, Aug. 27.—Wind at noon, N. 117., light breeze;
and fine.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH 4)
Saturday Morning.
Arrived, Aug. 26.—Jan Andraes,GRAVESEND,
from Emden—Skeen,
from Quebec—Eagle, from Algoa Bay—Kron Princess
Louisa and the Maria, from Archangel—Fides from Hal-
back—Sturkodder and Garibaldi, from Gefle—Albertrus,
from Libau—Queen, tram St Petersburg—Delegate, from
Charlotte Town—Hared Hiddetend, from Hernosand—
Carl Force—from Stelleften. •

DEAL, Satrday Morni.
Passed—Naparima, from Trinidad—W.o A. Roberts, n
fr gom
Porto Rico—Merle, from Barhadoes—all for London—Ada
Latitia, from London, for Cape of Good Hope—Don, of
Shields, from Shields, for St. John's—Seaton (es.), from
Bordeaux, fur Sunderland.

From the report of the directors of the European
Bank, to be presented to the meeting on Wednes.
day next, it appears that the gross profits for the
nine months of its existence have reached the sum
of £32,411 23 7d, and that after deducting the
expenses of management, providing for bad and
doubtful debts, and rebating undue bills, the nett
profits are £19,035 7s 4d. The directors have
already paid an interim dividend of 15s per share,
and they now propose an addition of 2s 6d
per share, free of income-tax, thus making together
rather more than 16 per cent. per annum on the
mean capital worked during the nine months. By
the terms of the amalgamation with the English
and Irish Bank (Limited) the directors received a
premium of £32,000. Out of this sum they pur.
pose placing £21,393 10s. 10d. to a reserve fund,
with a view to the total extinction of the
preliminary expenses of both banks, the
remaining snm of £10,606 9s. 2d. added
to the balance of profits brought down, amounting
together to £10,751 10s, they propose to divide
amongst the holders of shares in the European Bank
prior to the amalganiatioa with the English and
Irish Bank, by the addition of ten shillings to each
share of £lO paid, thus giving a bonus of 6 per
cent. on the capital stock of the shareholders. The
amount paid on every such share will then be £lO
10s, and, by the completion of the amalgamation,
the paid up capital of the Bank is raised to
£400,000.

NEW RAILWAYII.—Mr E. Stanford, of Charing•
cross, has just published a map of London, which
shows at a glance the new railway projects that have re-
ceived the sanction of Parliament during the session of 1864.
The lines in operation, as well as those previously sanc-
tioned, are also clearly defined, together with a great many
other new schemes, such as the Albert Bridge and Ap-
proaches, Holborn Valley Improvement, Southwark Park,
Commercial: Docks, Thames Embankment, South London
Markets, &c., &c. The principal object of the map is to
familiarise the public with the places in and around the
metropolis affected by the new railways ; and most certainly
the idea of Mr Stanford has been clearly and distinctly car-
ried out. By the aid of the map before us every person can,
without the slightest trouble, trace the course of the new
railways, as they are all indicated by a bright red line, which
shows in a remarkably clear manner the direction taken.
The map, like all those published by Mr Stanford, is exe-
cuted in the highest style of art, while it is at the same
time remarkable for its accuracy.

ANTIQUITY OF MAN.—We some time ago gave
an account of certain observations made by MM.
Garrigon and Filhol on the characteristics which distin-
guish bones broken longitudinally in a fresh state from
those broken when already deprived of a part of their ani-
mal matter—the object of the observers being to prove
that the broken bones found together with the remains of
the great pachydermata of the drift period, had been split
in a fresh state by the hand of man. In a recent paper
addressed to ithe Academy of Sciences, M. Husson, one
the most determined adversaries of the opinion
which supposes man to have existed during the
drift, describes one of his latest visits to the
grottoes of Sainte-Refine, near Toul, for the purpose of
examining certain ancient inscriptions said to exist in one
of them, which has three issues communicating with the
Grotte du Labyrinthe, and the Trou de la Fontaine. This
cavern is not in its natural state, having been the quarry
from which the materials for building the fortifications and
two churches of the town were drawn, and it, had not been
revisited for centuries past. M. Husson found various ob-
jects of comparatively modern date in it, such as, for in-
stance, an iron wedge nearly eaten through by rust, tho
bones of various domestic animals, ashes and cinders,
&c. Further on, where the pickaxe bad not penetrated,
he found the remains of bears, and several bones split in
two, which in his ()Onion had not been so by the hand
of man, but by the action of dampness and the con-
fined atmosphere. It would therefore remain to bo
seen whether tho bones supposed by the former ob-
servers to have been broken by human beings present
the same characteristics as those seen by M. Husson.
As for the inscriptions, some of them turned out to be
merely the marks of animals claws ; others were longitu-
dinal and transversal strokes 'seemingly without any mean-
ing at all; and lastly, M. Husson found the name
" Chrh,tophe" cut in. 6.0 much for the antiquity of these
inscriptions.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT NORTHERN
RAILWAY.—EarIy on Thursday morning a shock-
ing and fatal accident happened to a man named John
Waite, a driver on the Great Northern Railway, residing
in Doncaster. It appears that the man set off from Don-
caster with the 6 20 coal train for Peterborough, and having
disposed of his load, was about returning, when he got off
his engine to attend to a point. While at the point, from
some cause or other he fell,was run over by the engine, and
killed upon the spot. His injuries were of a most frightful
nature. He has left a wife and six children to lament their
loss.