The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-12 00:00:00

An Account, pursuant to the Act ith and Bth Victoria,
cap. :32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 10th day
of Aug. 1564:

IBSITE DEPLRTMENT.

Notes issued ......./26:574,355 Government Debt £11,015,1C0
Other Securities .. 3,634,v0d
Gold Coin & Bullion 11,924,365
Silver Bullion ....

£26,574,385
BANKING DEPARTMENT..

£26,571,306

Proprietors' Capi-
tal £14,55.3.000
Rest
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis-
missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-
counts) 4.963.222
Other Deposits 14,419,766
Seven Day and
other Bills 630,674

Government Secu-
rities (including
Dead Weight A-
nnuity) £11,027,095
Other Securities 21,106,551
Notes
Gold and Silver 68J,550
Coin

£38,114,31

£38,114.931
MILLER, Chief Cashier.

Aug. 11, 186!.

THE LORD LIEUTENANT.—The Lord Lieutenant,
accompanied by the members of his household, proceeded
to Kingstown on Wednesday merning, with the intention
of embarking in the R .yal Mail steamer Leinster for Holy-
head. Owing to some accidental delay the Leinster had
started some ten minutes before his excellency's arrival at
the pier.
RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE NATIONAL POR,
TRAIT GALLERY.—A picture of no ordinary
interest has just been secured by the directors of the
National Portrait Gallery. It is the portrait of S. T.
Coleridge, painted by the American artist, Washington
Allston, considered by Wandsworth and other friends of
the poet the most satisfacrory likeness that ever was painted
of him. An engraving Was executed from this picture by
Mr Samuel Cousins a few years ago. The portrait was
painted at Bristol in 1811, for Mr Joshua Wade, when
Coleridge was in the 42d year of his age. The artist's own
testimony, given in a letter to Prof. Henry Reed, of Phila-
delphia, is deserving of consideration. He says, "So far
as I can judge of my own production, the likeness is a true
one, but it is Coleridge in repose, and, ehough not unstirred
by the perpetual ground-swell of his ever-working intel-
lect, and shadowing forth something of the deep philoso-
phet, it is not the Coleridge in his highest mood, the poetic
state. When in that state, no face I ever saw was like to
his ; it seemed almost spirit made visible, without a shadow
of the visible upon it. Could I have then fixed it on canvas I
But it was beyond the reach of my art." WashingtonAllston
died June 9, 1813, and was buried by torchlight in the
cemetery of Mount Auburn, Boston. A good impression
of the portrait of Shakspere, by Martin Droeshout., from
the title-page of the 'Folio Edition of 1623, has also been
added to the national collection. It undoubtedly stands
foremost among the known portraits of the bard; and th©
copy thus recently secured possesses some additional interest
in being the prototype from which several effective photo-
graphic copies were taken, both on the scale of the original,
and in the reduced form as seen in Mr Lionel Booth's re-
print of the first folio edition. The sum of twenty guineas
was paid for it.-4thenceum.
THE LANGUAGE OF COLOURS.—Tilephalansterian
school, Fourier's disciples, are the most precise and
positive in their opinions. They hold that violet is analoe
gous to friendship, blue to love, as suggested by blue eyes
and the azure sky. A bunch of violets would, therefore,
tell a lady's suitor that friendship is all he has a right to
expect. Yellow is paternity or maternity ; it is the
yellow ray of the spectrum which causes the germ to shoot.
Red figures ambition (vide the planet Mars) ; the spirit
of rivalry ; green, the love of change, fickleness,
but also work ; orange, enthusiasm ; white, unity, uni-
versality ; black, favouritism, the influence exerted by an
individual. Certain persons have the gift of fascinating
all who approach them ; and black, which absorbs all the
rays of the spectrum, is the reverse of white, which com-
bines them in one. Besides the seven primitive colours,
grey indicates poverty ; brown, prudery ; pink, modesty ;
silver-grey (semi-white), feeble love; lilac tsemi-violet),
feeble friendship ; palse pink, false shame, ifec•—Dzekens's
"All the Year _Round."
LISBON, Aug. 10.—A rumour prevails that the
Portuguese Government has decided on allowing
the re-establishment of convents, but only to a
limited extent, and has notified that intention to
the Pope's Nuncio.
The ports on the west and north coasts of France
will witness, on the 18th inst., one of the highest
tides of the year, especially if the wind should blow
from the sea.