The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-30 00:00:00

NARCII.

Derby Spring 2
Liverpool Sprint-
Shrewsbury Spring 9

Doncaster S pr it g
Warwick Spring ..
Chclinsford Spring
IL.
C4ttcrick Bridge
Thirsk
Epsom Spring

A r
Nordnmpton 4
Crorton Palk 7
Durham
Newmarket Crt.ven
AI A
Newmarket Ist Spring 1
Chester
York Spring

-
3u
Epsom Summer (con.) 1
Manchester 7
Ascot
Alexandra Park 2O

Newmarket July
Carlisle
Pontefract

AUG

Huntingdon
Reading
Egham
Oxford
York August

Salisbury
Bath
Epsom Summer 3O
NE.
Hampton
Newton
Newcastle
Worcester Summer ~.. 29
LY.
Nottingham Summer
Chesterfield .... 21
Goodwood

SEPTE:

Weymouth (continued) 1
Leicester
_7

Doncaster
Brecon

OCT,

Northallarton
Newmarket Second Oct 9

Plymouth .• 24
Lichfield . 2B,
Devon and Exeter 1,9
Derby Summer ..
Weymouth

Rich mond
Monmouth

Manchester Autumn .. 22
Newmarket Ist October.. 26

IBER

Newmarket Houghton.. 23
Worcester Autumn .... 31

NOVEMBER.
Worcester Autumn (continued) 1

Now ready, G. SHELTON'S Derby Guide, is. G. R.
Glenie, Sporting Library, Connaught-terrace, Hyda-park ;
Sunday Times Office,
_Fleet-street; and all agents.
LOCKET'S Derby Analysis at a glance shows what the
field for the Blue Riband will be selected from ; and con-
tains also selections for all the great three-year-old contests,
selections fcr Manchester meeting, Waterloo Cup, &c,
Price one shilling; had from Sunday Times office, and all
the usual agents, or from E. Locket, Box L 2, Manchester,
and G. R. Glenie, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park.
PRICE ONE SHlLLlNG,—Nimrod's (Editor of the
" Turf") " Analysis of the Dezby, Two Thousand, and
Oaks ;" together with a copious index of dates of the most
remarkable racing occurrences.—" Tu-f " Office, 3, Shoe.
lane, Fleet-street ; and Glenie's Sporting Library, Con-
naught terrace, Hyde-park, W.

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 28th cito-,,
of Dec. 1864:

NMI DEPAMTMENT.

otes Issued ......a28,036,475 Government Debt £ll,Ol 6,lCc
Other Securities .. 3.c/34900
Gold Coin & Bullion 13,,386,475
Silver Bullion ....

£28,036,475

LY8,030,474

BANKING D
l'ioprietors' Capi-
tal £14.553.000
Rest
Vublic DepoPits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis-
missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac- _

,EPARTMENT.
Goyernmnt_Seen-

rities (including
Dead Weight A-
nnuity) C10,821,512
Other Securities 19,786,541
Notes ....... 8,663,490
Gold and Silver 714,498
Coin

counts) 6,601.125
Other Deposits 13,010,143
Seven Day and
other Bills 437,450

£39,959,072

£39,969,672
MILLER, Chief Cashier.

Dec. 29, 186!.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day,

LONDON, Dec. 30.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly ; moderate breeze, axed fine weather, but rather
cloudy.
FALMOUTH, Dec. 29.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Laura,
from Bjorneborg for Cette.
GRIMSBY, Dec. 29.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Lord Car-
digan, screw steamer, from Hamburg—Francis Arcot, from
San Sebastian.

PLYMOUTH, Dec. 29.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Fran-
else°, from liin;que Genius. from Zante for Hamburg--
Medea, from Valparaiso.
CLYDE, Dee. 29.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrive4—Elizabeth
Kanse, from Surinsn—Freza,from Sulina—Dragon.steamer,
from Charente.

DUNDEE, Dec. 28.—Wind S.E,—Sailed—Brilliant, for
Quebec.

QUEENSTOWN, Dec. 29.—Wind W.—Arrived—Agelia
Arzanne, from Sagua la Grand.
SWANSEA, Dec. 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Vulcan,
from Bordeaux.

HARWICH, Dec. 29.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Zealous,
from Antwerp--Superb, from Shields for Alexandria, towed
in. leaky.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Friday Morning.
Arrived, Deo. 29.—Taurora, from Malmo.
Arrived, Dec. 30—Governor, from Terceira; Resters,
Stockholm.

DEAL, Friday Morning.
Passed, in tow, Dec. 39—Spirit of the North, from Lon 4
don, for Sydney.
Passed—Hope, of Scarborough, from Sunderland, for
Martinique.

REOPENING OF THE LAW OFFlCES.—Yesterday
the common law offices were reopened after the Christmas
recess. The courts will not resume business until the 11th
January, the first day of Hilary Term.
About 60 tons of copper ore are now brought
monthly to Southampton from the Cape of Good Hope by
the Cape mail packet. This ore a few years ago was worth
nearly £2O a ton. It is now doubled in value.
A map has just been published at Berlin, with
the title: "Map of the Hereditary Prussian Domains iu
Schleswig and Holstein." The districts represented as be-
longing to Prussia by right are those of Rendsburg, Rein-
feld, and Ahrenskack, in Holstein ; the Isles of Alsen and.
Arrack, the Sundewitt, with the billiwicks of Apenrade and
Flensburg, in Schleswig. The rest of the Duchies falls to
either the Prince of Augustenburg or the Grand Duke of
Oldenburg, as may be decided.
AN ARTIST WITHOUT ARMS.—There dwells in
Antwerp an artist named Fillu, who, born with-
out arms, educated his feet effectively to do their work.
His taste directed his choice of life. He became a painter,
and has succeeded in being a very accomplished one. He
may be seen. in the museum, copying with great fidelity
some great work or other. He balances himself with ease
and firmness on a stool, grasps his maulatick and palette
with the left great toe, and with the right uses the brush
with perfect facility. The toes of his feet are alone ex-
posed. 111. Fillu has a most agreeable and intelligent
physiognomy.—Art Journal.

A melancholy case of suicide took place three
days ago at Verberie (Oise). A man named Vignon,
52 years of age, who had been employed as letter-carrier
for the rural district for many years, and had acquired
general confidence from the manner in which he dis•
charged his duties, had a sum of 2,000 francs in
bank notes confided to him by the cashier of a manu-
factory, and for which he was to bring back gold and
silver. When Vignon arrived at Verherie he was horrified
at finding that he had lost the notes, and in a moment of
despair, at the idea of his honesty being suspected, he
hanged himself, Scarcely an hour after the notes were
returned to the person to whom they belonged, the packet
having been picked up by a man who was passing along the
road, and who found the address of the owner on the paper
in which they were wrapped up.
THE SIGNAL CORI'S IN THE AMERICAN ARMIES.
—This signal corps is an institution peculiar to the
American armies. On marches and during battles, high
and commanling positions aro occupied by squadrons of
this corps, who communicate with each other by flip, on
the old semaphore system, and report all important com-
munications to their generals. The corps was found very
useful last year, and has been much increased since, When
Jackson wds forcing tke surrender of Harper's Ferry he
was able to communicate from the Virginia Heights with
fiPLaws, who was on the Maryland Heights, by means of
two posts of the sigaal corps , whilst, it ho had been obliged
to send couriers, they would have to make a detour of 25
miles.—Blackwoocl's Magazine for January.
SHIPBUILDING ON
FOREIGN ACCOUNT.—In the
course of 18t33 three sailing vessels of the aggregate bur..
den of 1,081
- tone, and 30 steam vessels of the aggregate
burden of 16,236 tons, were built in the United King-
dom for foreigners. Of the sailing vessels one was built
at Glocester and two at Hull. Of the steam-vessels two
were built at Cowos, seven at Hull, two at L,iverpool,
seven at Loudon, five at Newcastle, four at Glasgow, two
at Greenock, and one at Port Glasgow.
MURDER IN IRELAND.—LONGFORD, DEC. 28.
Thomas Reynolds, petty sessions clerk, was fired at at
Rathcone, about 9 o'clock last night, and wounded, from
the effects of which he died this morning about 8 o'clock.
The constabulary have made some arrests, and I have
heard that the outrage is of an agrarian character....
Freeman's Journal.