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

THL SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENI.

BANK OF FRANCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)

MAY,

182,500,000

1,205,541,762 05 1,261,316,288-70

CR.
Cash in hand....,,,...„ 93,303,108 40 87,134,695 34
Do. branch-banks ..... 201,589,187 1.15,689,913
Commerc,ial bills owrdue 547,957 63 E 05,732 64
Commercial bills discounted
not yet due
....305.907,852 60 372,102,289 27
Do. branch-bank5....271,39d,672 311,223,228
Advances on deposits of
bullion
Do. branch- banks 2,929,500
Advances on French public
securities ..
Do, branch-banks 10,178,510
Advances on rail• shares
and debentures
Do. branch-banks 20,125,341 21,309,900
Advances on Credit Fon-
cier Bonds 354,400
Do. branch-banks.... 417,000
Advances to the State
(Convtn. June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 60,000,000
Govt. Stock Reserve 12,18(1,7.50 14 12,980,750 14
Do. disposable ..... 36,866,987 91 36,866,937 9
Rentes immobilisees (Law
June 9, 1857) ....... 100,000,000
Hotel and furniture of the
Bank
Landed property, branches 5,177,688 5,499,828
Expenses of management 1,857,268 1,464,082 Si
Sundries

18,1.93,800
2,186,300

17,441,100
14939,9:0

331,100
353,100

100,000,000

1,205,541,762 05 1,261,316,288 70
Certified by the Honorary Vice-President of the Council
of State, Governor of the Bank,

AD. V L'ITRY

YEAR'S WORK OF A CORONER,—The Social
Science Review publishes a sketch by Dr. Lan kester
of his work as coroner for the central district of Middlesex
in the year ending July 31, 1563, The population of the
district is stated at 805,970 (meaning probably at the census
of April, 1861), and he held 1,080 inquests (203 or them at
hospitals, prison:4, or asylums), one for every 746 persons.
The proportion is very much higher in St. Giles's ; yet the
medical officer of that parish has to state that is 1862 40
bodies were interred without an inquiry when there ought
to have been one. "It is intolerable in a civilized country,"
he says, "that persons dying in this way should be interred
without inquiry ; in at least two cases there was prima
facie ground for suspecting poison." Dr. Lankester states
that "the registration of death and the burial of the body
without any medical certificate is of very common occur-
rence in London." Very unsatisfactory medical certificates
are also accepted by some registrars ; sometimes the medi.
cal man never saw the deceased either alive or dead, Irre-
gular certificates ought always to be referred to the coroner.
In the course of the year there were 53 deaths of new-horn
children with verdicts of wilt ul murder or neglect, very often
on the part of some person unknown ; there were besides 8
deaths of new- born children from "unknown causes, and 8
"accidental deaths," making 69 inquests on new-born
children. It is, says the coroner, a fearful picture of
the moral condition of the district. The crime of infan-
ticide is very much more frequent in some parts of central
Middlesex than in others, and the subject seems one that
demands investigation. The crime appears to be most fre-
quent among women in domestic service. Sixteen children
were picked up in the streets that had never breathed. The
absence of any registration of stillborn children is undoubt-
edly a source of crime. Children are often brought to the
undertaker for burial as stillborn without any guarantee fur
that fact, and where women can find accomplices this pre •
sents a very ready method of getting quit of children without
any inquiry as to the cause of their death. As many as 90
children were suffocated in bed, some of them first-born
children of young mothers ignorant of the necessity of
fresh air for the life of the offspring, others dal children of
parents who had gone to bed not sober and caused their
child's death by culpable neglect. With regard to inquests
on adults, the coroner reports that 70 of the 1,080 deaths
were suicides. The largest number of the suicides was by
poison, and this is effected of;en by articles extensively used
in various branches of industry, and therefore easily pro-
cured fur an improper purpose. The year's inquests imply
the tendency to commit suicide is more than twice as
great among men as among women, and that men prefer
hanging or the knife, women poisoning or drowning.-
In a
large proportion of these cases habits of intoxication had
preceded the act of suicide.

ALLEGED LUNACY OF A LANDED OPRIETOR.—
Oa Monday and Tuesday a Court was held by the
Sheriff of Midlothian
with a jury, to inquire into the state
of mind of Mr Alexander Christie, of Baberton, a landed
proprietor, residing in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh.
The proceeding was at the instance of Mr Braithwaite
Christie, his brother, for whom Mr Gordon and Mr Fraser
appeared, the S.licitor-General and 11r. Macdonald ap-
pearing for the defence, Mr Fraser stated that Mr A.
Christie was a man of about 40 years of age, and in 1861
succeeded to the estate of Baberton, worth about £l,OOO a-
year. He was originally a man of defective intellect, bat
during the last twelve years his mind had been further
impaired by a course of gross intemperance, and he had
taken .up with associates of the lowest class. He had
lived at Juniper-green for above twenty years with John
Barr, a man with whom his father had boarded him as a
measure of restraint, but his intemperate habits had gained
upon him, and scarcely a day passed without his going into
Edinburgh and getting drunk. The circumstance which
had led his friends to interfere was that in April last a
butcher named M‘Donald and a mason named Law bad in-

pretended form of
duced him io sign a promise of marriage to Agnes Mossman,
hanaboiltdowf
voinosiatinna.ndTahpeayuwpeern,t rrooumghhoa had been in the
marriage, and presented a petitiou to the Sheriff-Substitute
for having it recorded, but the Sheriff war, so much struck
by Christie's appearance that he declined to grant the
petition, thinking him not in a fit state of mind to give a

valid consent. The woman's friends then gave in the names

for proclamation in order to marriage by the parish clergy

man, but a representation being made to the Kirk session
by Mr. Christie's relatives as to his con ;ition proclamation
was refused. Since that time Mr. Christie had been kept
concealed, and his relatives were unable to get access to

him. The relatives now asked to have Mr. Christie cog-
nosced, and declared to be in a fatuous state, Mr. W.Donald
asked the jury to observe that they were coked to find, not
simply that Mr, Christie WaS unfit to manage his affairs,
for since his father's time these had been in charge of a
curator, but that he was fatuous, or, in other words, had
no mind at all, It was quite true that Mr. Christie had
impaired his constitution by drinking, but he had been
quite neglected by his family until this marriage wee pro-
posed, when the brother, who otherwise would be heir to
. .

the estate, stepped forward in his own interest to prevent it.
Mr Christie had lived with the woman Mossinan for 16

yea's, but his friends never thought of interfering until h;
proposed to marry her. Akhough unable to manage his
affairs, and although 12 years agu he had volui.tarily 'inter-
dicted himself from alienation of his property, he was not
insane or bereft of mind ; and he had not been a spend-
thrift, for since his accession to the estate he had not spent
above a fourth part of the income. A great deal et evidence
was adduced, showing the eccentricities and tie low and
depraved habits of Mr Christie, but it failed to come up to
a case of insanity, and on Wednesday morning the " brieve"
was withdrawn, and the Puy were dis:-.,-har
yeraict, ged without a

that time of most critical importance. After the
delay occasioned by the Indian mutiny, be pro-
ceeded to his destination, and negotiated the Treaty
of Tien-tsin. Coming to his own country he was
occupying a public office of great utility,
though not of great distinction, when the
refusal of the Chinese EMPEROR to ratify the treaty
recalled him to that country. Many and serious
obstacles were in his way, great and perplexing
were the difficulties with which ho had to contend,
but befora he returned to England the treaty was
ratified and our Minister established at Pekin,
Subsequently his dealings with the Japanese opened
that valuable commercial channel to our commerce,
and it is remarkable that the fearless and straight-
forward Stotchman should be the one to succeed in
negotiations with these treacherous and untruthful
nations. The last link in the long chain was his
appointment as Governor-General of India, an office
for which, in the °prawn of most public men, he
was peculiarly fitted. A 3 might have been antici-
pated,o all
sides
pA joined
giving their cordial sup-
port ERs in
TON'S proposal, Lord STAN-
LEYtLord,
giving graceful expression to the unanimity of
feeling on his side of the House with regard to the
recognition due to services rendered not to a party
but to the State. No narrow system of policy, no
petty motives of self-interest, fettered Lord ELGIN'S
actions, and it is fitting that his countrymen should
render their unanimous testimony to the merits of
a statesman whose public spirit was no less conspi-
cuous than his ability.

PARIS, June 10.
The Moniteur of this morning publishes the usual
montniy debtor ana Cry:4h ,r account of xho Bank or
France. The corrresponding figures of last month
are added :

JUNE.
DR. f. C.
Capital of the 8ank....., 182,500,000
Profits in addition toCapital
(Art. 8 law June 9 1857) 4,938,380 42 4,709,955 53
Reserve in tho Bank and
ins branches .......... 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14
New Re5erve............ 9,125,000 9,125,000
Reserve in landed property 4,800,000 4.000,003
Notes in circulation ...... 725,381,925 767,443475
Bank notes to order ...... 5,10 609 53 4,428, L3l 83
Receipts payable at sight 1,519,761 1,415.591
Treasury two. cur, creditor 62.844,441 72 66,641,313 58
Current accounts—Paris 130,565,550 13 143,,74,283 79
Do. branch-banks 26,119.655 34,860,021
Dividends payable ... 556,723 75 637,948 75
Commission on deposits 3,200,998 96 5,038,022 45
Discounts and sundry.
interests... ........... 21,708,976 84 19,052,775 98
Re-discounts of the last
six m0nth5............ 3,078,997 61 3,078,997 61
Sundries ................ 11,880,987 95 11,700,022 04