The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-18 00:00:00

A 8 ITS.

f. 495.112,467 44
... 90,805 328 0
... 163,322 2

Cash in hand
Cash in the branch banks
Bills past due ~
Bills discounted, but not yet due, of
which 34,080,578f.0c. were received
from the Branch Banks ... 99,676,261 86
Bills in the branch banks 114,445,936 0
Advances on coins and ingots... ... 1,999,400 0
Ditto by the branch banks ... ... 1.187,529 0
Ditto on French public securities ... 29,361,336 0

Ditto by laranch Lanka— 8,174,944 0
Ditto on railway shares and bonds ... 28,218,800 0
Ditto by branch banks 8,655,194
Ditto to the State on the Treaty of 30th

... 75,000,000 0
~. 10,000,000 0
... 55,642,241 77
4,000,000 0
3,722,394 0
99,000 0

June, 1848 ...
Reutee of the reserve fund
Reutes, disposable funds ...
Hotel and furniture of the Bank
Real property of the branch banks ...
Ihts.orest in National Discount Bank ...
Expenses of administration of the Bank
and Branches ••• ••• •••
111iscollaneous

712,076 64
303,301 8

L 1,027,279,531 91
Certified by the Governor of the Bank,
D'ARCOUT.

The preceding account shows that the cash in hand
has decreased by 20,200,000 francs. The commercial
tills discounted live increased by 25,353,000 francs.
Tbe advances on French Government securities have
decreased by 827,000 francs, and on railway stock
have increased by 7,354,000 francs. The balance to
the credit of therreasury has decreased by 22,625,000
fines. The sundry credits have increased by 7,081,000
Lancs.

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

(Erna) the Mining Journal of Saturday 7).

A na;derate business been transacted tt,is week,
chiefly, however, confined w the best dividend paying
mines, and thos• of prom: to he so at an early period.
Devon Great Consols are from 395/ to 4001; Wheal
Baaset 515/ and 5251; Alfred Consols 131 to 13/ 103;
B3dford, 81 to Si ss; Doicoath has, advanced to 551 154;
Eao,paren, SOS; Treinlyne, 291 103 and 301. Condur-
tow, garlic Polgooth, Merr4u, Par Consols, South
Tamer, dit'd Wheal Golden, maintain their price. Rix
aill.paid it first dividend this week of 4s per share, and
Is likely to continue making them, from present pros-
peots. Cain Bruno has risen from 831 to 1001; flala-
meaning, 122/ to 1251; West Alfred, 38/; East Buller.
6/; West Phceeix, 171 103 to 201; West Sharp Tor, 1001.
In Cornwall, North Pool shares halve risen from 220/ to
2401; West Wheal Darlington, 921 to 1151; Wheal Bul-
ler, 8001 to 8101;1West Damsel, 301 to 100/; Creeg Braws,
ISt to 204

On Wheal Seton meeting, on Monday, the accounts
for Jely and P3.%ust showed—Balance from lust ac-
cortist, 3731 5s 3d ; ores sold (less dues), 4,311/ 123 4d
4,684117 s 7d.—Mine costs and merchants' bills, 3 2161
8a lid; dividend of 51 per share, 9001, leaves balance in
flaYour of adveat.urers, 478/ Bs. Bd.
At Grea,t POlgooth Mine meeting, on Tuesday, a di-
vidend of 4s. per share was made.

At Rix Hifi Mine meetitTg,-On Wednesday, the ac •
counts showed—Balance last account, 56193 10d ; ex-
penditure, four months. 9401 43 3de=9961 143 Id—By
wales of tin, 1,6061 193 3d, leaving a balance in favour
of adventurers, 6101 59 21. A dividend of 4s per share
(:3891 12 wen declared, leaving a belanco now in hand
of 2201 13%2J.
At Wheel Jane meeting, the accounts for four months
ending August showed—Balance from last account, 100/
161 id; ores sold (less dues), 1,13112. 9d; carriage and
quay dues, 100113. 4d; sundries, 4/ Os lchesl,4osl 12s
ad,—Mine costs and merchants' bills, 1,04115 s Id; di-
vidend of I/ per share, 2561: leaves a balance in favour
of adViinturers, 1081 7s 2d.
At Treleigh Consols annual meeting, on Wednesday
(G- B. Carr, Esq , in the chair), the accounts showed-
-Balance last account, 7391 10e sd; copper ore sold, 6,0711
17a; rennet°, 1213 s 4d; old materials, 30124 9d; North
Downs engine charge, 146/ 6. 34..6,969/ 179.—Costs and
charges for one year, 4,0481 153; merchants' bills, 1,1291
195 ad; lords' dues paid, 36114 s 2:1: leaves balance in
hand, 1,4301 5* 53. Ores sold Sept. 30, 5781 16. 6d;
due•frorn North Downs Company, 291/ es •
*consols and
interest, 681 2s 9d; makes 2,363/ 63 8d mune against
liabilities of 1,266/ 1319 d: leaving available balance of
1,1011 12. lld.
At North Downs Mine meeting, on Wednesday (G.
B. Carr, .Esq., in the chair), the accounts showed De
-
posit on 1,940 shares. at los per share, 9701.; received
for copper ore, 7891 72 3d; sale of unappropriated
%bares, 1801...1 f 939/ 73 3d—less labour cost, from Sep
tember, 185 1,926/ 123 4d: leaves balance to next an--
count, 1141 14a lid, the liabilities being 431/ 93 9J. A
eta of dOs per share was made.
At Bast Wheal George meeting, on Wednesday, the
acoouuts showed—Balance last account, 3251 ls 6d; call
of be per share, 512/e=9371 Is 6d.—By three months'
"Penditure, 8151 33 id: leaving balance in favour of
mine, 2U 18s 53.
At Dolooath Mine meeting, on Monday, the accounts
showedai a profit of 346/ 12. 63, leaving a balance against
ia°
of 1,508/, which amount was divided amongst
the Z
venturers—viz 51 IJ3 r per share. The next two
months' account will have a profit of from 3001 to 400/,
squat t° a 21 dividend, beside having put on extra tut-
work for arrihvainvg
reale The more speedily at objects of great inte-
At the bloriheTabout 20,0001 worth of ore discovered.
tuaday (J. H. Tamar Consols meeting, held on Sa-
meat of account. int, no, ,
.1 in the chair), the state-
DeposAtf 5a per share, ,001.
from Feb., 1851:
from mei to Octomie;err.s,° Payments—Cost-streets
inclusive, 209/ 16s lid: ba-
lance trineferred to ttchins, 2901 33 Id. Mr.
ingehins's am the
account with shareholders: Balance of
east received from adventurers,
, 29013 s Id; proceeds of
sale of ore sold to the Tamar Company,s6 211 15. 6d:
leavine; a balance duo to fund of 311
11s 3d--the the liabili-
ties tend payments amounting to 6671 1914 10d. A Com-
mittee of management was appoiated, and a call of 53
per share made.
At Wheal Arthur meeting, held on Thursday (James
Bvan Eyle in the chair), the account, showed
in hand, 8171 18s; calls since received, eau; safe:las:re
4891 19. 7d=1,9871 17s 7d.—
and mundie,August cost,
45617. 7d; ditto Sept., 7591 lOs 4d: leaving a balance of
7711 19. BJ. Arrear of calla, 6161; bills of ere sold,
Sept. 16th, 1,1711 49 4d; 129 tons of ore reedy for sale,
estimated at a,o'oo/, el:ea 3,759/ 43—the total balance in
favour of wine being 3,753/ 11s.
At :ewer poet mine coArterly meeting, on the 2d Oct.,
the accounts showed—lleceivt d on calls, 3721 103; less
balance; last account.. 7/ 13s 6d; lateen. cost for Jute,
.I_,l 514 Id; July, 158/ 15 u; August, 191/ 15'; merchants'
°li 1271 Lee led; ene yoar's rent. 251; committee and
Seel etary'e salary, 151 15s; sundries, 61 193 Gd: loaves
be.ienee to next account, 981113 ; arrears due oc 40
f,b,ared, 201=-481 11i 1;1 as.,el3. TilL, liabilitie rdue to
merchants being 5961 5s 93, a call of 103 per share was
made.
At Trebeli Consols meeting, on the 7,h October, the
*comma slaowei—Costs from June 1 1851, to end of
November, 2,4521 Its 51; to end of January, 3701
3s ild; end of March, 2031 4m 6tl: end of July, 4281.
7s 7d; end of September, 2tBl 14z Id == 3,731 is 3d
le)eposit on 2,948 shares, at 25,, 2,5601; tin so!d, 1491
113 a ad—leaving balance to next Recount, 1,033135; due
to merchants, 34816 s I Id; September cost, 1001; pumps
ikad pitwork, 2004 interest, 551 19s 1,7371 89 lid

liabilities against 831 2s 10d assets, showing a deficiency
of 1.654/ 63 id, to discharge which, and carry on fur-
ther operations, a call of 11 share was made.
At the North Buller Mi-..e quarterly general meeting
of adventurers (T. limg, Dq., in the chair), the secre-
tary read the financial stra:ment, showing—Belaace in
band, 168/ 153 91; calls received, 3841= 5521 153 9d— 1
June c ,st and merchants' bills, 1421 1.3 s 7d; July ditto,
1571 19s 10d; August, 101/ 153 sd; secretary's salary,
12/ 103; stamps, stationery, printing, &c., 2l 10s; leav-
ing balance at bankers, 1351 6s 11d. A call of 5s par
share was made.
At Penllyne Court Lead Mine general quarterly
meeting, on Monday (Charles Low, Esq., in the chair),
the accounts showed—Capital account, 8351. By lease,
2501; legal expenses, 1001; printing, advertisements,
and other expenses, incidental to the formation of the
company, 751 7a 3d; working cost for May, 19133 8d;
June, 281 14s; July, 641 183 9d; August, 441 6s 7d;
merchants' bills, 571 ss; twu horse whims, 341; resident
agent, four months, 181 . 7s; secretary, four months,
161 163; sundry office exprises, 51 ss: leaving balance
in band, 1201 16s 9d. The assets are—Balance of
cash, 1201 16s 9d; capital payable, 1,7404 materials,
say 501 = 1,9101 163 9d. The liabilities are: estimated
cost for next three months, 200/; resident agent and
salaries, 401; leaving a balance in favour of the mine of
1,5901 163 9d.

At Wheal Uny quarterly general meeting (T. King,
Esq., in the chair), the financial atatercent showed
July : balance in hand, 321 lis Id; call received 768/;
tinstutf sold, 109/ 73 4d; copper ores, 521 63 2d=9621
4: 7d.—Mine cost and merchants' bills for June, 3031
63 3d; July, 2601 17s; August, 2241 18s 2d; secretary's
salary, 121 103; stamps, stationery, printing. &e., 2/ 12s:
leaving balance in favour of mine, 1581 Is 2d.
At the Bishopstone Mine meeting, on Tuesday, a call
of I/ per share was made; and " to liquidate advances
which have heal made by c,rtain shareholders., the com-
mittee he empowered to allow one-half of the call to be
deducted therefrcm by every such shareholder as may
be in advance, and that the like course be adopted with
any future call, until such advances are repaid."
At Kilbricken Mine Quarterly meeting, on Thursday,
the accounts showed—Balance from last account, 220/
7s 6d =1,8191 12s ld.—Cost from June to end of Au-
gust, 1,0211 14s 6d, coals, 621 2s; freight 301; Harvey
and Co., on account; leaving balance to next account,
3051 15a 7d; engine and spare materials sold, 3551; ar-
rears of call in July to receive, 250/ 155=1,0061 10s 7d
assets; against liabilities to merchants, 3611 18s 9d ;
for coals, 151/ 183; castings, 116/ 8s 4d; cost for Sep-
tember, 3001133 2d ; Harvey and Co., for boilers, 3021
12s 10 =1,233/ lls Id—showing a deficiency. of 2271
Os 6d.—A call of 5s per share was made.
At the Wheal May meeting, on Wednesday last
(Frederick Tribe, Ebq , in the chair), the accounts
showed—Cash in hand, last account, 16/ lls 10d; calls,
1971 10s---214/ Is 10d.—July labour cost, 611 13 9d; P.
Salt's bill, 241 6s 6d; August cost and sundry mer-
chants, 681 3s 6d; Nicholls and Co.'s bill, 411 18s 2d;
London expense, 5155; leaving balance in hand, 161 6s
I Id; which, with arrears of calls, 781 15s, unregistered
shares, 63155, makes 1581 6s 11d. The liabilities were
—Salt's bill, 21114 s; September cost, 641 9s 2d; leaving
balance in favour of mine 721. 3a 9d. It was resolved
that a call of 5s per share should be made.

THE PILOTAGE OF THE BRITISH
CHANNEL.

Gloucester, in common with some of the other
ports of the Bristol Channel, has had a meeting in
reference to the monopoly held by the Bristol
pilots, a communication having been received
from the Trinity Board by the Sub-Commis-
sioners of Pilotage in Gloucester on the subject of
a revision of the pilotage rates. The Gloucester
Chamber of Commerce having been requested to favour
the Sub-Commissioners with their views on the sub-
ject, a meeting of the committee of that body was
held at the Commercial Rooms, Gloucester, on Thurs-
day ; W. P. Price, one of the Members for the city,
presiding.
After the subject of the local pilotage had under-
gone considerable discussion, in which the question of
the Channel pilotage was occasionally introduced,
the following resolution was unanimously adopted
That it is the opinion of the Chamber that the rates
at present authorised between Sharpness Point and
King-road are not excessive, and ought not in fair-
ne,s to the pilots to be materially reduced, so long as
the jurisdiction of the Gloucester pilots is limited to
the eastward of King-road."
With respect to the monopoly of the pilotage of
the channel by the Society of Merchant Venturers of
Bristol, many condemnatory remarks were elicited;
at the same time it was considered by, some gentle-
men that as the Society of Merchant Venturers de-
rived no immediate profit by the appointment of the
pilots, on a proper representation of the case, and the
bringing forward by the ports in:erested a well• con-
sidered plan, capable of meeting the requirements of
the case, the Society of Merchant Venturers would be
willing to give up this monopoly.
Mr. T. M. STUEGE explained that when the Act
conferring the monopoly upon the Society of Mer-
chant Venturers was obtained, Bristol might be said
to be the only port in the channel that carried on a
foreign trade. Circumstances being now altered, a
change was required. Mr. Hellicar, who had served
every office in the Society of Merchant Venturers, he
was happy to say, at the Newport meeting, had ex-
pressed a eimiler opinion to Mr. Kimberly, namely,
that a society had no pecuniary interest in retaining
the monopoly; in fact, it imposed a considerable
amount of trouble upon them, in having to assess
with the magistrates the amount of remunera-
tion claimed by pilots when they had rescued ves-
sels from danger; while the society had frequently
calls made upon it by distressed pilots for pecu-
niary assistance. Mr. Hellicar had expressed his
conviction that, if the merchants of Bristol and other
parties interested were met in a fair and hand-
some manner they would be quite inclined to
unite with the other ports in remodelling the pilot-
age system. There were forty-six pilots appointed
by the Society of Merchant Venturers, and in addi-
tion there were 25 local pilots appointed for Cardiff,.
20 for Newport, and 16 for Gloucester, who, after the
vessel had been brought from Lundy Island by the
Bristol pilot, conducted it into the port to which they
were respectively attached. The expense of this
system was enormous, the different ports paying,
he believed, between 20,000/. and 80,000/. a year
for this service, for each pilot had a boat which was
manned by a man and a boy in addition to the
pilot. None of the men, be believed, were over-
paid for their services, for many of the local pilots,
when trade was dull, male a very poor living indeed.
It was the system which made the expense come so
heavy. He recommended, instead of the present sys-
tem, that a similar one to that pursued at Liverpool
and New York should be adopted. At these ports
' there were a few " schooner smacks" kept for the
purpose. They each took out ten or twenty pilots,
and then cruised about the channel for vessels
approaching the port, each pilot taking his turn to
take charge of a vessel. The sailing yacht America
had been built for this service at New York. The
system worked admirably, and at a third or fourth of
the expense of the system pursued here. Perhaps it
would be a still greater improvement to employ
steam-tugs instead of schooner smacks for the service.
After some discussion the following resolution was
adopted unanimously :—" That it is exceedingly im-
percent to the interests of this port that this Cham-
ber should co-operate with the other ports in the
British Channel interested in the question of, chan-
nel pilotage, with a view to get released from
I the present system of channel pilotage, and to en-
I deavour to get the Gloucester pilots licensed to bring
ships all the way from Lundy; and that Mr. Price,
M.P., Mr. Bird, and Mr. Kimberly be appointed a
committee for such purpose, and that they be re-
quested to report from time to time to this chamber."

MR. ROSKING'S PLAN of a CENTRAL AD.
DITION to the BRITISH MUSEUM.

We think it but justice to Mr. Hoskitig, as we originally
published his design both by text and by illustration, not
only to refer our readers to page 296 of our volume for
1850, where both plan and details appear, but to reprint
the main features of the proposal in Mr. Hosking's own
words, as presented to the trustees of the Museum
in 1849:—" My project is, then, to build in the middle
of the quadrangular court, inclosed by the present main
buildings of the Museum, in the manner shown in the
accompanying plan, a modified copy of the Pantheon at
kitnoumwen,
yt htahta
ti sn a ttao e y,
as onfeathr
ley ctuhepoflua-llcsoivzeeraesd
preostsuinhdlea,
consistently with the size of the area, and with the
height of the present buildings, and so to form a grand
central hall for the exhibition of the finer and more im-
portant works of sculpture, and of such other objects
proper to the purposes of the Museum as moat require
that steady and equable light which is so well obtained
from the eye of a cupola. A quadrilateral ball, to con-
tain ample staircases, would lead from the present
entrance vestibule of the Museum into the grand cen-
tral hall or rotunda, and by the floor of the rotunda
itself, or by a corridor about it to the east, west, and
north galleries respectively, through new compartments
added to them on the level of the floor of the lower or
principal story of the Museum; and the staircases would
lead up to a bridgeway or continued landing on the
flour of the upper awry, where another similar corridor
about the rotunda would afford similar facilities of
access to the upper, east, west, and north galleries,
whilst the bridgeway would also make the communica-
tion complete to the south gallery. . . . This additional
roora may, the author helloes, be obtained at a cost not
exceeding that of any one of the existing bides of the
Uusoum."—Bui der.

NORTH AND B(;l7Tri-WE6TEEN JUNCTION RAIL-
WAY.—.This line, which runs from Willesden to Kew, and
thus adonis a communication between Manchester and the
Southampton lines, without passing through London, way
virtually opened yesterday by the Government inspector,
Captain Dalton, passing over the line, and after carefulsurvey
reporting it ready for traffic.—Railway Record,
LARGE ROBBERY.--A. large robbery was commit-
ted in the United States Hotel on Thursday afternoon, under
the following circumstances: -An Englishman, who arrived
in the English steamer Canada on Wednesday night, had in
his trunk 2,000 dots. in gold. On Thursday afternoon while
the gentleman and his companion were at dinner, their room
was entered and the gold stolen therefrom. The room was
adjoining the parlour and was reached from the balcony over
the front entrance to the hotel.—Boston Herold.