The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-06 00:00:00

Bank of England Return,•—This Evening.

An Account, pursuant to the Act ith and Bth Victorib,
cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the sth day
of Oct. 1864:

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

Notes Issued )......X26,927,490 Government Debt £11,015,1C0
Other Securities .. 3.034,90 u
Gold Coin & Bullion 12,277,490
Silver Bullion

£6,927,490i

426,927,490

BANKING D
eroprietors' Capi-
tal £14.553.000
Rest
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis-
missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ao-

PARTMENT.
Government Secu-
rities Sincluding
Dead NV eight A-
nnuity) £10,797,095
Other Securities 20,836,860
Notes
Gold and Silver 7e2,720
Coln

counts) 6.877.591
Other Deposits 11,731,746
Seven Day and
other Bills 562,202

£37,728,400

£37,728,490
r. MILLER, Chief Cashier.

Oct. 6, 1864.

CAPTAIN SPEKE'S LAST LETTER.—The following
is a
copy of an unfinished letter which was found among
the gallant and lamented gentleman's papers, and which,
it is believed, contains the last words he ever wrote:—
" Neaten Park, Coreham, Sept. 14.—Dear Mr Tinne,—l
have been delighted by seeing the way in which you have been
handling the Nile question in the Times of the 12th. The
ladies' accounts of the way they were treated by those
ruffians up there is a perfect picture, as far as it goes, of
the true state of the system practised in those lands. There
Is one other reason not alluded to which must have ope-
rated to thwart the ladies' designs—viz., the jealousy the
traders are so susceptible to of any one prying into the
nature of the country they have appropriated to them-
selves, Pray do keep working this subject, for no one can
do it better than yourself. No doubt, indeed, a consul is
much wanted in the Soudan; but then he should not bo a
trader, for no one can trade honestly in those regions. I
have great fears about the fate of Baker. lie ordered
Petherick to place a boat for him at Gondokoro this and
last year, The boat was there, and the men with whom
' Baker went into the interior must have returned to that
poet, else we could not have heard of Baker's having gone
to *Unyoro. This being necessarily the case, how is it that
Baker did not send a line by them to Petherick, unless
some foul play can answer the question ? For the love of
those you have lost, do bring retribution on the miscreants
who occasioned it. There is no richer land in the world than
the equatorial regions, and nothing more of importance to
the interesis of Egypt, as well as our own merchants, than
that of openinu up those lands to legitimate commerce."
At the Clerken well police-court yesterday a gen-
tleman named Lloyd was charged with having got
out of a train in motion on the Metropolitan Railway. The
affair took place on the 10th of September. Mr Lloyd
wanted to get out at King's Cross, but failed to do so before
the door of the carriage in which he was riding was shut
and the train in motion. He then opened the door and in-
sisted on getting out. The result was that he fell on to the
line a little within the tunnel and was taken up for dead.
Fortunately, however, he was only insensible, but was very
seriously hurt. Th® magistra fi
te yesterday ne him Is. and
costs, but the railway company declined to receive the costs.
At the Middlesex Sessions yesterday a police
constable named Gully was charged with assaulting
a married woman named Gomperta. According to the
statement for the prosecution Gully had behaved in a very
coarse and brutal manner to Mrs Gompert z. It was alleged
for the prisoner, on the other hand, that he had found her
making a great row, and had taken her into custody, and
that the charge against him was an afterthought. The jury
ceuld not agree upon a verdict, and were discharged.
DEATH OF TILE FIRST NUTMEG PLANTER IN
GRENADA.—Mr. Robert Kennedy, a native of
Perthshire, Scotland, who emigrated to Grenada in 1804,
and subsequently introduced the nutmeg into that colony,
expired in August last at the ripe age of 83. The nutmegs
sent from the deceased gentleman's gardens at Bellevue
carried the prize at the Great Exhibition of 185 L His
grays lies between those of his wife and daughter,
shadowed by the wide-spreading branches of his first-
planted nutmeg tree, in the midst of his plantations, where
he had himself directed it should be.-1 he &roar.
NEWPORT, 0ct.4.--Wind S.E.—Arrived--Fide, from
Belfast, for St. Thomas. Sailed—Albion, for St. Thomas
Premier, for Zimaga.