The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-18 00:00:00

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
cap. 32, for the week ending on;Wednesday, the IGth day
of March, 1864:
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ISSUE DEP ADTMENT.
Notes issued .......C27,883,740

Government Debt X11,015,1C
Other Securities .. 3.631,:+00
G old Coin & Bullion 13,213,7.1 u
Silver Bullion ....

£27,863,710

£2703,740

BANKING D,

Proprietors' Capi-
tal £14.553.000
Reat
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis-
missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ao-

;PARTIKENT.
Government Seca-

Mies (including
Dead WeightAn-

nuity) - £11,174,684
Other Securities 20.657,550
Notes- 8,013,960
Gold and Silver 733,203
Coin

counts) 8,570,7!1
Other Deposits l3, 05,800
Seven Day and
other Bills 453,332

£40,579,327
AI. 1

X 40,579,::
RSHALL, Chief Outlier.

March 17, 1864.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

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MAILS DUE.
Amatralia and Mauritius, via Southampton . . Mar. 20.
via Marseilles . Mar. 14.
Srazil and Cape Verds, by British packet April 5.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Mar. 30.
China, Penang., and Singapore, via Southarupton Mar. 20.
via Marseilles Mar. 14.

Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton Mar. 13.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Mar. 20.
via Marseilles Mar. 14.
India (Bombay), via Southampton Mar. 13.
via Marseilles Mar. 22.
Portugal.... April 5.
Malta, Egypt, and Men, via Southampton Mar. 13
.

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via Marseilles Mar. 14.
Newfoundland ..Mar. 16.
Oporto and Vigo
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet .... Mar. 10,
by U.S. packet....
by Canadian packet. Mar. 11.
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe .......... Mar. 10.
Bahamas, via New York ............ Mar. 11.
Mexico..
All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, 1
California. and British Columbia..... Mar.. 30.!
....... ill

M.it. LAYARD'S EXPLANATION (by means of a
letter from Colonel St. John Neale, containing the
f'jllowing passage) as to the Burning, of Kagosima :—" I
deem it desirable to add that the population of Kagosima
at no period exceeded 40,000 inh6birants, far from 180,000,
as has been strangely imagined,
to serve as a more striking:
text for comments ; and further, that those 40,000 souls—
men, women, and children—withdrew, while their huts and
paper houses increased the risks attendant upon stray shot
and shell froth a British squadron, audaciously fired, upon
by numerous batteries because it had signalled its inten--....„,,.."*"
tioa to obtain redress for a barbarous murder and outrage
committed upon British subjects for which all redress hed
been evaded. Subsequent events, the voluntary payment of
the indemnity demanded, the formal obligation entered into
to execute the murderers of Mr. Richardson when arrested,
the professions of friendship cheerfully expressed by Sat-
suma's envoys on behalf of their chief, their desire to culti-
vate friendly and social intercourse with the British nation,
aud their good humour and graceful offerings (of fruit) to
the crew of the flagship of the British admiral after the facts
of Kagosima, would all imply that the agents of her Ma-
jesty displayed a degree of caution and moderation duly
appreciated by those most deeply interested." And for the .
English, according to the Queen :—" From this," says our
contemporary, "it is clear : First, that although it might
be wrong to knock a city with 180,000 inhabitants to pieces,
no one ought to object to a city possassing
only 40,000 being
treated so. Secondly, that as the houses in Japan are all
made of paper, it serves them right if they are burnt.
Thirdly, that the polite conduct of. the Japanese subse-
quently to the bombardment of Kagosima should be taken
as proof that they were rather pleased at having been born.
Warded than otherwise."

SUSPEIISION•
OF CONTRACT PACKET SERVICE
BETWEEN GALWAY Alip AMERICA —The mail service
between Galway and America has, until further notice,
been suspended.—By command of the Postmaster•Generai,
J. TILLEY, secretarY.