The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-25 00:00:00

BANIKING DEPAUTMEN T.
X. i

Proprietors'capital • • 14,53,000
Rest • • • • • • • • • • • 3,075,554
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ings-banks, and Di-
vidend accounts) • • 6,856 819
Other deposits • • • • • • 13,030,979
Seven day and other
Bills• • 1,224.806

Government securi-
ties (including Dead
Weight Annuity) .. 13 874,526
Other securities .... 10.868,650
Notes .............. 13,515,930
Gold and silver coin.. 482,052

£38,741,158

438,741 158
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
52.

Dated the 24th day of June, 185:

COURSE OF EXCH,
ATILSW/ dtl.ll •• •• 12 0!
Ditto, three months.. 12 il4
R Aterdani .. •• •• •• 12 11A
Antwerp•• •• •• •• •• •• • • 25 55
Brussels • • • • 25 55
II Arnburgh .• .. • 13 IOU
Paris, 3 days'aight •• 25 35

kNGE.—(THIS DAY.)
rJegborn•••••••••••••• 30 70
ielaoa •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 25 65%
Allan .. •• •• •• ••
Nrmice• • .• • • • • • • • • •• ••

Naples .. .... • • 40X
?alarm°, peroz 122%
Messina •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 123
Lisbon .• • • • • •• • • •• • • •• 53
Oporto •• •• •• •• •• •• ...• 53
filo Janeiro • • • • • • • • • •
r.nenos Ayres .. • • ••

()itta.3 ra onth2 2.5 52%
Marseilles ............ 25 55

rankforton Maine.... 121%
Vienna, eine. 110 •••• •• 11 58
Teioste, ditto •• 12 0
rotersbargh •....• 37;6
Midrid ....
Cadiz ....... ........ 49%

New York, 60 days'sigl t

Vhiladelphla

PIttOES OH BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Geld in b ars ...£3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Apanizh Doubloons .. 0 0 0
Now Dollars ...... 0 4 10%
Silvor In bars ........ 0 5 OIA

Bircelona •• ••
Sevllle ,••• •••• •• •....

We are requested by Mr. Donald Nicoll, of the
Albany, to state that his name has been placarded
as a candidate for the City without his sanction.
NATIONAL PATENT STEAM FUEL COMPANY.—
Contracts for the supply of this company's fuel have been
tendered to the directors this week to a very large extent.
One foreign steam-packet company is desirous of being sup-
plied with 150,000 tons during the next three years. It has
been proved on board some of our largest steamers that this

fuel succeeds in getting up steam —quicker than the best
South Wales coal, and that it will neither clinker nor make
cluck, qualities which are duly appreciated on board ship.

FETE AT CHARLTON HOUSE.—The annual file
held for the benefit of the Royal Kent Dispensary took place on
Wednesday, with more than usual éclat, in the finely-wooded
grounds of Sir Thomas Wilson's residence, Charlton-house,
near Woolwich. The amusements comprehended an eques-
trian pageant, performed by a selection from the troupe,
biped and quadruped, of Astley's, with a variety of gymnas.
tics and tight-rope feats, and closed with a monkey race, the
animals acting as jockeys. There was some good music
the bands of the Royal Artillery, of the Royal Marines, and
the brass band of the Sappers and Miners being present—
while, as the number of the company was unprecedentedly
great, it is to be hoped that the hinds of the institution will
benefit accordingly.

DESTRUCTION BY FIRE OF THE SCREW STEAM-
SHIP PEARL.— YARMOUTH, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.—
A most alarming and serious disaster was made known here
yesterday by the arrival of the Southwold pilot boat, called
the Providence, with intelligence of the total burning
of a large steamer, called the Pearl, belonging to Dublin,
while on a passage to Rotterdam from Hartlepool. The un-
fortunate vessel was a screw steam-ship, between 400 and
500 tons burthen. The crew made strenuous but unavailing
efforts to subdue the fire, and were forced to abandon the
ship when about 45 miles from Yarmouth. In a few hours
after they were picked up by the pilot boat Providence, and
brought into this port.
The Liverpool Standard says that a lady resident
in that town was on Wednesday delivered of two sons and
a daughter, who, with their mother, are as well as can be
expected.

ORIGIN OF CORONERS' INQUESTS.—The Coroner's
inquest is said to have originated in the following manner:
—A gentlewoman in London having buried six husband,
found a suitor hardy enough to make her a wife once more-
For
several months their happiness was mutual, a to her
circum-
stance which seemed to pay no great compliment
w,th their
former husbands, who bad disgusted her,
she
said,
of ascertaining
the drunkenness and infidelity.
the real character of his mate,Wthiethg
of apparent
sent himself, and return at late hour s in
eenaces in socces.
intoxication. Reproaches at first, and 111
one evening, when
eantvlei
sion, were the effects of this conduct.
she unsewed a leaden
she thought him senseless or aataenerchaying melted it, sp.
weight from a fold in her gowr,
into his
ear.
mew:it:l:ran to ab-
Convinced of
proached her husband to p0ur„46,,2,i started up. seized her, and
her wickedness, the ge— -c, confined her till morning, when
having procured assistance, $, and committed to •
she was carried before
raeix
husbands were dug pri-
son. The bodies of her
discernible u up, and as
marks of violence
to trial and
upon the whole of
brought convicted of murder.
them, she was
To these circ
tunstames we are indebted for a most useful
institution.

BLINDNEss In PERSlA.—Blindness is very Corn-
in Persia. Six or eight bliad men are often seen walk-
ingin a string, each with his right arm on the shoulder of
i ;percursor ; partly caused by ophthalmia produced by the
dust, and partly because the Scher has it in his power to in-
flict the punishment of pulling both or one of the eyes out.
It is stated in the Household Words, that " the great-grand-
father of the present Schar, Aga Mohammed, the founder of
the Kujur dynasty, had large basketfuls of the eyes of his
enemies presented to him after his accession to the throne l"