The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-17 00:00:00

Jones, Loyd, and Co.'s Bank,

There is much of the romance of history in the origin of
some of the great private banking houses still existing in
our days—though all more or less threatened with destruc-
tion by the giant of joint-stock enterprise. The origin,
among others, of the house of Jones, Loyd, and Co. was
very curious, Mr. Lewis Loyd, the founder of the house,
father of the present Lord Overstone, began his career as a
Welsh dissenting minister in a small chapel at Manchester,
the congregation of which included a Mr. Jones, a sort of
half -banker half-manufacturer. In addition to Mr. Jones
there was a Miss Jones who attended the sermons of the Rev.
Mr. Loyd, and, as often happens, the maiden found
the orations so eloquent that she fell in love with the
preacher. The affection was responded to by the mini.
ster, and the two, fearing' the purse-proud mer-
chant would never consent to the messaliance, wore pri-
vately married. Of course, when the affair became known
to Mr. Jones, sen., as it could not fail to do, he was exceed-
ingly angry, but, seeing that things went on pretty com-
fortably with his daughter, he became reconciled in the
end to his reverend son-in-law : but, though fond of
attending sermons, he did not think preaching a good busi-
ness, and after a while proposed that Mr. Loyd should
give up the Welsh Dissenting chapel and enter his count-
ing-house as a partner, under the firm of Jones, Loyd, and
Co. Mr. Loyd consented; and, to extend the business, it
was subsequently agreed that he should go to London, and
establish a bank under the name of the Manchester firm ;
so that Jones, Loyd, and Co., of Manchester, might draw
bills upon Jones, Loyd, and Co., of London, or, as it was
facetiously called at the time, " pig upon bacon." It soon
turned out that Mr. Lewes Loyd was eminently fitted to
be a banker, for his clearness of head, untiring industry,
and perfect honesty proved the foundation of success for
the new establishment. After a very long and
hoLiourable career Mr. Loyd retired from business,
being succeeded as head of the London firm by his
son, Mr. Sat;Nel Jones Loyd, who was subsequently created
Lord Overstone. Thus, the falling in love of a young
Manchester girl with u Welsh dissenting minister was the
cause of the establishmeN; of an important bank, besides
leading to the creation of a INT of the realm.—Railway
News,

Foreign Mail Packet LiA

MAILS DUE.

Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton .. May 19.

via Marseille; May 13.
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via Marseilles May 27.

Falkland Islands
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via Marseilles May 27.
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via Marseilles May 21,
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via Marseilles May 21.
Newfoundland
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by U.S. packet....
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California. and British Columbia..

EARTHQUAKE AMONG THE GOLDFIELDS.—The
British Columbian says :—" We have received the
following from a rural correspondent :—' The shock of an
earthquake was felt on Thorne's Creek, three miles east of
Fort Langley, Fraser River, on Sunday, Fobruary 28, at
half-past 7 in the evening, It was accompanied by a hoarse,
thundering rumble, and lasted for about 30 seconds. The
sky was at the time clear and brilliant, and the atmosphere
calm and mild. So frightful was the commotion of the
quick and awful rockings as to make it a moment of great
suspense as to whether the beholder would be buried with
the log shanty, which cracked, rolled, and tottered around
him, in a conglomerated mass of hetreogeneous ruins. Its
course was across the Creek from nor th to south.

FRENCH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.—At the last
sitting a paper was received from M. Valz, the
astronomer of Marseilles, on the deviation of the tails of the
4th and sth comets of 1863, from the planes of their orbits.
From calculations founded upon the results of observation,
he shows that the tail of the 4th deviated from the plane of
its orbit by an angle of 1 deg 29 min ; while that of the
sth presented a deviation of 33 min. Hence the only four
comets for which data exist sufficient to determine this
circumstance, have their tails outside the planes of their
orbits; from which it may be presumed, until observa-
tion shall have proved the contrary, that this is the case
with all comets.—M. Guerin Meneville produced some liv-
ing specimens of two different species of Chinese silkworms
feeding on the leaves of the oak tree. One of these species,
the Bombyx Pcrnii, is reared in various cold and moun-
tainous provinces in China, that of Kooy-Cheoo espe-
cially, which exports upwards of 40,000 bales of silk
from this insect per annum. The other species, the Born-
byx Yama-mai, is reared in Japan, where the exporta-
tion of its eggs is prohibited on pain of death, because
the silk derived from it is a Government monopoly.
These specimens were peculiarly interesting, from the cir-
cumstances that they had been hatched long before the oak
had put forth its leaves, so that M. Meneville had been
obliged to feed them with the leaves of the Photinia-
alabra, a Chinese shrub, which puts forth leaves from
the beginning of March. This experiment had succeeded
perfectly.—MM. Bouche de Vitray and Desmartis sent
in a paper on the possibility of transmitting the odium
Tuckeri from plants to man. They have observed
that, since 1852, the first year in which that parasite
appeared, the number ofsases of croup and diphtheria of
every kind, which they considered to ho produced by a
variety of the oidium albicans, a parasite ackaowledged to
cause the thrush, has increased considerably. This singular
coincidence is, in their opinion, owing to a sort of relation-
ship existing between the two parasites. They foresee the
objection that might ba made, viz,, that the two eryptoga-
mous plants are not of the same species ; to which they
reply that they are of the same genus, and that the oidium
Tuckeri may be susceptible of proteism.