The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-08 00:00:00

TEE WAR LOANS.

A payment of 5 per cent. on the French Loan became
due yesterday. Annexed is a table showing the instal.
ments on the three loans, Turkish, English, and French,
remaining to be met :
TURKISH LOAN,
£5,000,000,
contracted on the
21st of August,
161;5, by Messrs.
Rothschild, at 1021.

ENGLISH Lose,
£16,000,000,
contracted son the
16th of April, .155,
by Messrs. Roths-
child, at par, for
1001. Consols and
1 is. lid. annuity for
30 years.

FRENCH LOAN,
£30,000,001,
contracted in Paris
by public subscrip,
tion' July, 1855,
at 63f, 27c. for
3 per Cents., and
89f. 46c. for 4.
per Cents.

Amount already
paid, 10 per cent.
Sept. 12, 20 per ct.
Oct. 20, 20 „
Nov. 23, 15 „
Dec. 14, 15 „
Jan. 1, 10 „
Jan. 25,12 x. 123,6 d.
per cent.

Amount already
paid, 60 per cent.
Sept. 18, 10 per et.
Oct. 16, 10 „
Nov. 20, 10 „
Dec. 18, 10 „

Amount already
paid, 15 per cent.

Oct. 7, 5 per et.,
and 16 subsequent
instalments of 5
per cent., falling
due on the 7th of
each month, and
terminating on Feb.
7, 1857.

The Queen, in her visit to France, did not escape the
petitioning fraternity, for it is asserted that no fewer than
100,000 petitions, or begging letters, were forwarded
to leer !

The Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh have arrived in
London from Scotland.

The Marquis of Salisbury, in congeotence of taking
the command of the South Herts Militia, will be pre-
vented from visiting his estates in Scotland this autumn.
The Dowager Lady Paninure, the Right Hon. W.
Hayter, and Mrs. and Miss Hayter, are among the
arrivals at Brighton.
The Duchess of Cleveland and Lady Augusta Paulett,
after a stay of nearly a month at Pegg's Royal York
Hotel, Brighton, have returned to town.
The Marquis of Bristol and Lord and Lady Alfred
Hervey have left Kemp Town for their country seat.
Sir Erskine Perry, the Liberal member for Devonport,
and Lady Perry, have gone on a continental tour, and
will remain in Italy until the opening of the session of
Parliament.

The Princess Royal of Sweden (says a letter from
Helsingborg of the 29th ult., in the Emancipation of
Brussels) has bad the misfortune to break her arm at the
baths of Sandefjord. No particular. are given.
General Lockyer, K. 11., has arrived in London from
the Crimea, and will shortly proceed to his new appoint-
ment as Commander•in-ChLef of the forces at Ceylon.
The Earl of Yarborough, who for a short tine has
been sojourning at Tunbridge Wells, is rapidly approach-
ing convalescence.

Colonel Sibthorp, M.P., has been at Brighton forashort
period, and his health has been considerably recruited.
Mr. Charles Dickens intends visiting Sheffield, early
in December, in order to give a reading fur the benefit
of the Mechanics' Institution of that town.
THE GOVERNORSHIP OF BARBADOES.—The Queen,
upon the recommendation of Sir William Molesworth,
has appointed Mr. Hinckes, a distinguished member of
the Canadian Legislature, to the governorship of
Bawbadoes.

DUBLIN, Friday.—The friends and political admirers
of Mr. Charles Gavin Duffy are to entertain him at a
public banquet previous to his departure for Australia,
which we understand is fixed for the latter end of this
month.

MR. OLIVER'S BANKRUPTCY.—At the Liverpool Bank-
ruptcy Court, on Thursday, the petition of Mr. Evans
(a creditor), filed for the purpose of declatibg- Mr. Ed-
ward Oliver a bankrupt, was dismissed. The estate,
therefore, remains in the hands of the trustees, who have
in hand about 100,0001. for distribution amongst the
creditors.

THE AFFAIR AT CANTERBURY BARRACKS.—Yesterday
the adjourned inquest on the young man who died from
injuries received in a fall caused by a push given him by
Sergeant Reeves, terminated in a verdict of " Acciden-
tal death."

ANSTRIITHER HERRING FISHING, SEPT. 4.—During
the past eight days our fishing has been very prosperous,
and the quality excellent.

We understand that Major Claremont, lately attached
to the staff of the French army in the Crimea, has been
appointed Military Commissioner in Paris, in the plwe
of Major-General Sir Arthur Wellesley Torrens, de-
ceased.

returnt i s wolduld i i
8 leave 3 '
The rest in March last, after the payment of a divi-
dend of 4 p,,r cent., was 3,018,1341. In the present
THE
cAsE
06r28,T7231. ,
3,046,6031. and 4 p.fetrneme cent, deducted
hdeerdeufecrtee db
efroe
ex-
pected, P ected as the limit. agreed upon for the rest is
—Yesterday morning 3'°","o/ .sthat a dividend at that rate will now be de-
clared. Court that the
against Liddell
oxv.rieommber.
11E HON. AND REV. Mn. LIDDELL.
it was stated at the Consistory
..luatigdm,ent in the cases of " Westerton
on the one side term,
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the court last t dalehyagpairn.sßt
oLbiedrdtepll,h'i'llbimefsorree
Bayford on the other, would
not be delivered untiltlsTo
°aFt Erafratmh;hzart Dusseldorf. He has
EonßsisuNnodray
His lordship preached
agaTian.
derived so much benefit from
in his sight arid his general health,e
stay at Dusseldorf both
to proceed up the Rhine in the course t 111
will be able
making a tour into Switzerland before his a few days,
SUICIDE.—Mr. Thomas Pask, of Newmarket, has
committed self-destruction by hanging himself
deceased carried on an extensive, and, to all a e The
appear-
ance, a flourishing business, as a draper and silk mercer.ppar"
A FlRE.—Shortly after 6 o'clock on Wednesday night
afire was discovered in a large back brick building, situated
on the east side of Sydney-street, which runs from Gal-
loWgate to Duke-street, Glasgow, consisting of three flats
and attics, and occupied principally by the Sydney-street
Wool-spinning Company. The destruction of property
was on the whole very great, and may be roughly
computed at from 5,0001. to 6,0Q0/. Tte proprittora
we lanai to & cedilla "stmt.