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

FOURTH EDITION

SUN OFFICE, HALF PAST SEVEN O'CLOCK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day,

READING RACES—Tats DAY.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
FORBURY STAKES.

Voluptas
Arcadian

Four ran.
THAMES HANDICAP.

Clementi
Manchester
Fisherman's Daughter

Eight ran.

SELLING STAKES.

•
Rest 1
Wicket .. 2
Constancy

Nine ran.
CAVERSHAM HANDICAP.

Nebuchadnezzar
Batsman
Jane Shore 3

Elevan ran.

LATEST BETTING.
EBOIL lIANDIZAP.
7to 1 agst Lancashire (taken)
10 to 1 bar one (offered)

Bank of England Return,•--Last Evening.

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
cap.:32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 10th day
a Aug. 1564:

TEBI:7E DEPARTMENT.
Notes issued ........5.26.574,365 Government Debt £11,015,1C0
Other Securities .. 3.634,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 11,924 365
Silver Bullion

£26.574.385

2260574,365

ISPARTMENT.
i Government Sean-

eroprietors' Capi-
tal £14.553.000
Rest
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis-
missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend AO-
counts) 061,222
Other Deposits 14,419,766
Seven Day and
ether Bills 530,674

rities (including
Dead Weight A-
nnuity) £11,017,095
Other Securities 21,108,551
Notes
Gold and Silver 685,560
Coin

£33,114,01

I --
£38,114,931
r. MILLER, Chief eahhier.

Aug. 11, 1864.

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
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considered by Wandsworth and other friends of
the
the meet sat isfacrory likeness that ever was painted
of m. poet,
An engraving was executed from this picture by
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Mr Samuel Cousins a few years ago. The portrait was
painted at Bristol in 1814, 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. lie 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-
pher, it is not the Coleridge in his highest mood, the poetic
state. When in that state, no lace 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."
Washingt3nAlleton
died Jane 9, 1843, and was buried by torchlight in the
cometery 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 the
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,--ileitenceunt,