The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-08 00:00:00

ENGLISH AND IRISH BANK.

MEETING THIS DAY.

The first ordinary general meeting of share-
holders of the English and Irish Bank was held
to-day—Sir Robert Carden in the chair.
The report stated that the profit and loss account
showed that the gross profits of the bank had been
£9,298 13s. 2d. Out of this sum all current ex-
penses had been defrayed, and bad and doubtful
debts fully allowed for; leaving a profit of £1,997
6s. 11d., which it was proposed to carry to profit
and loss new account, as the directors considered it
undesirable to divide it at this early period.
In estimating the result it should be borne
in mind that the capital called up to Jane was
too small to allow of any profit to that date, and
that the expenses of a new undertaking were
always disproportionately heavy.
The CHAIRMAN, in submitting a motion for the
adoption of the report, congratulated the share-
holders upon the success the bank had attaieed since
its establishment. The capital was small, but the
directors had nevertheless earned a gross profit of
12i per cent., and a net profit of 5 per cent. The
shares issued numbered 7,282.

The report was unanimously adopted, and a vote
of thanks pissed in favour of the directors.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Market quiet. Sales about 1,500 bales,
WEEKLY REPORT.
Sales of the week, 43,180—spec, 10,919—export,
6,ooo—actual sales, 2,924.
Quotations—Middling Orleans, 28—Mobile, 27:1
—Upland, 271—fair Egyptian, 281.
Week's imports, 10,752—estimated stock, 262,900
—Surats, 1,526,

DEATH OF THE DEAN OF CORK.—The Cork Ex-
aminer announces the death of Dean Newman, of Cork,
which took place at the Deanery-house, St. Pinbar'e, on
Tuesday afternoon.

THE CITY POLlCE.—Yesterday this body of men
appeared in their new winter clothing. A comfortable and
becoming feature in the uniform this cold and inclement
weather is the addition of antigropelos or leather leggings.
sismilar to those worn by some of the volunteers.
THE GREAT DOOR OF THE CAPITOL, WASH-
INGTON, which has been in hand for several years, has been
delivered, and is expected soon to fill its place in the palace
of the Federal Legislature. It was designed by Mr. R.
Rogers, an American artist of Rome, is of bronze, and its
decoration illustrates the history of Columbus.

CERVANTES.—A literary relic of Cervantes, which
if genuine is of the highest value and interest, has been
discovered at Madrid. It is a poetical epistle, hitherto en-
tirely unknown, from Cervantes, when a captive at Algiers,
to Matteo Vasquez, Secretary of State to King Philip the
Second.

ANGLO. LATIN WoßDS.—About one-third of the
words to be found in English dictionaries are de-
rived from Latin and Greek primitives. They are nearly
13,000 in number, and spring from 154 ancient roots. Thus
from capio and captunt, we have 197 words; from duco and
ductum, 156 ; from faro and latum, 193 ; from tnitto and
missunt, 174; from plico, 200 ; from pono and positum, 250 ;
from specio, 177 ; from teneo and tentuni, 168 ; and from
tento and tensum, 162,

A NEW ART-JOURNAL is announced to appear in
morthly parts, under the title of The Art Student, the first
part of which will be published on the Ist of next month by
Messrs. Hall, Smart, and Allen of Paternoster-row.

AT HOME AT THE ANTIPODES.

Somes of our shops would do credit to the best trade
thoroughfares of London, and in them is to be found every
novelty, within two months of its appearance in England
Between 4,000 and 5,030 of us are volunteers—artillery,
cavalry, engineers, rifles, and naval brigade—and we aro
about as efficient, and have about as great an idea of our
military appearance and talent as you fellows who volunteer
in England. We have our reviews and our annual encamp-
ments on the Werribee plains, near Geelong ; and we are
told by our inspecting officers that " they never saw regular
troops execute," &c, So that, altogether, we glorify our-
selves as you do. Besides volunteering our youth are wont
to invigorate themselves with cricket, football, and all the
other games in which young England delights. Cricket is
exceedingly popular among us ; witness cur match with the
All England Eleven, and their second visit to us, shortly
to be made. We are a charity people too. The chief public
establishments in this way are the Benevolent Asylum, the
Hospital, and the Yarra Bend (so called from being prettily
situated at a bend of the river Yarra) Lunatic Asylum.
There are plenty of other hospitals and the like in different
parts of the colony. Having a proper regard to appear-
ances, we have decorated our city with some very fine pub-
lic buildings. Our treasury, club-house, and scme of our
banks, are very handsome, as are also many of our mer-
chants' stores or warehouses. The Houses of Parliament,
the new Post-office, the University, and the Public Library,
will be, when completed, creditable to our architects.
People who come out to this other England with rather
green ideas about " life in the bush," and so on, are amazed
when they find what manner of place Melbourne is. As to
our means of communication, we really do not paddle from
harbour to harbour, and up and down rivers in canoes, or
make overland journeys entirely on foot or on horseback ;
but we have plenty of good steamers, coaches, and railways,
and some fine engineering works connected with the last.
There is a complete system of telegraphic communication
within and between the different colonies. Melbourne
streets are noisy with Hansoms and omnibuses, but the
principal vehicle for passenger traffic is what is known as
the low-backed car. This vehicle contains two seats, run-
ning, not fore and aft, but athwartships, accommodates five
besides the driver, has a light roof with curtains in case of
need, and is drawn by a single horse. There was a very
good specimen of one of these cars in the last Exhibition.
Most people who come out appear at first to look upon
themselves as a superior race of beings, and qualified to in-
struct us on many points. A " new chum," as recent
arrivals are called, is known at once lay the "old hands."
His elegant saunter, his very new clothes, and his air of
affability and patronage, mark him out unmistakably. But
the new chum, like the Indian gruff, is soon brought to his
level, and soon becomes qualified to instruct his friends, on
his return home, as to the real state of things in the England
far away over the waters,—Diek ens' s"..111 the Year Round."

SHIPPING—This Day.

LONDON, Jan. B.—Wind this day at noon—North.
West; moderate breeze, and thick, foggy weather, with
frost.