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—Tms DAY.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH
FORBURY STAKES.

Voluptas
Arcadian 2

. Four ran.
THAMES HANDICAP.

Clementi
Manchester
Fisherman's Daughter..

Eight ran.

SELLING STARES.

Rest 1
Wicket .. 2
Constancy

Nine ran.
CAVERSHAM HANDICAP.

Nebuchadnazzar
Batsman
Jane Shore

Elevan ran.

LATEST BETTING.
EBOR HANDIDAP.
7to 1 abet 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. for the week ending on Wednesday, the 10th day
of Aug. 1564:

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

:Notes issued ...•..26.574,355

Government Debt £11.015,100
Other Securities .. 3.634.900
Gold Coin & Bullion 11,024,365
Silver Bullion .... •

.626,574,305

£26,571,365

,iP.ARTMICNT.
i Government Seen-

I't oprietors' Capi-
tal £14.553,000
lest
l'ublic Depcsits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis-
missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-

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

counts) 4.061.222
Other Deposits 14,110,766
Seven Day and
other Bills 530,674

08,114,93!

1 £38,114,931
r. MILLER, Chief Cashier,

Aug. 11, 1861.

RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE NATIONAL POR.
TRAIT GALLERY.—A picture of DO ordinary
interest has just been secured by the directors of the
National Portrait Gallery. It is the portrait of S. T.
Coleridge,o g
paintedby by
the American artist, Washington
AWandsworth and other friends of
the
wort satisfacrory likeness that ever was painted
of
engraving was executed from this picture by
hisitm. poet,
A consideredthl:
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 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!
Bat it was beyond the reach of my art." WashingtonAllstma
died June 9, 1843, and was buried by
A good impression
cemetery of Mount Auburn, Boston. torchlight in ihe
of the portrait of Shakap,re, 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 eficctive 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.—.4thettgvia.