The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-26 00:00:00

BANKRILE 'TS.

The following are the only ban LI rupts of commercial kn.
portance in the Gazette :
Thomas Huggan engineer, Dr4blin
Fred h. Taylor, bill broker, Grc :nwich
Abraham t)eal, baker, Deptfor
James P. Martin, clerk, Peekld aria
Hants
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James Naylor, shoemaker, Callis its
NehemiahGcorgeiC-e rSrli:a°rup',
John Pepper, provision dealer, Wakefield
Charles Bailey, fruiterer, Leicester
Wm. Wilkinscn, printer, Salford
Abraham Gledhill, cutler, Sheffield
Wm, Hunter, draper, Preston
John Orton, butcher, Chelmsford
Hen, y Clark, doctor of medicine, Strand
Wakefield, grocer, Gloucester
Edward Falvey, coal merchant., Paddington
Elijah Maidment, baker, Camberwell
Joseph C. Rossiter, dealer and chapmen, Moorgate-street
James Hill Cheatle, brushmakee. Birmingham
James Woodgates, coffeemill maker, Birmingham
Thomas Blackmore, shoemaker, Aller, Suznersetshire
,CrolipeßraNnitaßeljtuPreT:Glasgow
James M‘Gibbon, grocer, Glasgow
James m,La3,B,
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Win. M`Leari, auctioneer, Dundee

of the Exchang,e.—Yesterday.

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Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 191
Antwerp .. _ ii ifi
95 52i 25 60'
Brussels — 25 52i 25 60
Hamburgh — 13 Si 13 SI
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
1 14.
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Frankfort on Maine —
..119i._

Vienna
Trieste
l'etersburgh ..

11 4o ii as
11 40 11 4S
35i Z'Mk

Lerlin
Madrid
Cadiz
'-25 65 49k
70
25
Leghorn
Milan — 25 65 23 70
Genoa .— 25 65 25 7o
Naples
..-- 25 65 '25 70
Palermo
.. 25 63 25 70
Messina
Lisbon — 521 524
Oporto — `.2./ 52k
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard)
South American Doublons

A Russian journal, the Djen, has the can-
dour to avow that the feeling in favour of
Poland is stronger in the Western provinces
than the united efforts of the Russian Admi-
nistration and army. In order to put an end
to this invincible resistance, the same journal
proposes a radical measure—which is happily
no longer among the 'usages of our times—
to expel from that part of the country indiscrimi-
nately everything that is Polish.
DYING STRAINS.—Chopin, feeling the approach
of death, wished to bid a last farewell to the instru-
ment which had given utterance to his poetic inspirations,
and had been the means of his great success. A piano Was
brought to his bedside. With icy hands and clouded vision,
he attempted to draw a few sounds from the instrument. A
sweet and touching melody, deeply expressive of regret, was
whispered forth; but the musician was unable to complete
his pathetic improvisation. He fell back on his bed of suffering
and expired a few hours afterwards. Lablache, the incompar-
able artist, the worthy man parexcellencewhois still regretted
by the musical world, attempted to sing upon his deathbed :
in order, as he said, to die as he had always lived, devoted
to his art. " Go," he said to one of his children, "go to
the piano and accompany me." The son, struggling to
conceal his emotion, obeyed his father's last request.
Lablache than sang the first verse of the English romance
--" Home, Sweet Home." At the second verse, the singer's
throat contracted, and not a note could issue from it.
"Ah 1" said Lablache, "I can sing no longer. lam a
lost man I° Ho died that very night.—Dickens's "
the Year Round."

YANKEE POLITENESS.—As the Revenue cutter
Victoria, Commander Smith, was taking a cruise
round the Shetland Islands last week, a vessel was observed
about two miles ()tithe land, barque rigged. The Victoria
stood for the vessel and hailed her, but got no response.
As it was very evident that those in charge had very little
respect for her Majesty's "bunting," Commander Smith
ordered out a boat, and at once pulkd alongside, when the
following colloquy took place :—Commander Smith : " Why
don't you show your fig?" Stranger: " I guess I ain't
got any." Commander Smith : " Where have you come
from ?" Stranger : " What's that to you ?" Commander
Smith : " Will you give us a rope and put your ladder
down ?" Stranger : I shant; you may get up if you can.
I don't want any d-d Britishers in my ship. Ha, ha,
ha I" Looking over the quarter at Commander Smith
(who weighs at least 16 stone), the captain of the strange
vessel sung out, "I guess that'll fix your flint." Brother
Jonathan was mistaken, however, in the muscular powers of
"Old Cock Saith," as Prince Alfred styled him ; for before
the Yankee could say Jack Robinson, Commander Smith
stood alongside of him, and though he fumbled about the
butt-end of his six-Ehooter," he felt it was no go ; the
cool bearing of the "Britisher" soon silenced the bluster
of the Yankee, who had to produce his papers for inspec-
tion, together with his victualling note, after which the
, Victoria left the barque to pursue her course.—John
o'Groat Jour,iil.

HORRIBLE DISCOVERY AT VICKSBURG. A
'Vicksburg correspondent writes :—" A horrible
discovery has just been made on the rebel line of foram.
thins. Quite a number of men have been engaged in re-
pairing
-the rebel fort that was blown up on the night of the
3d iLst, In the course of their operations they have exhumed.
60 or 80 dead bodies found buried in the ruins of the fort. It
seems that while our miners were at work making an entry'
into the side of the hill that was crowned by the rebel fort, a
strong working party of rebels were set to work sinking a
counter-mine in the fort. This party, consisting, it is said,
of more than a hundred men, were in the mine when ours
exploded, and those of them who were not killed out-
right were buried alive. Some of the exhumed bodies
are terribly lacerated and mangled, while others have not a
mark or bruise upom them. Two heads, one that of a negro,
have been dug up. They were completely severed from the
bodies, the latter not having yet been found. The
. bodies
are found in almost every conceivable position—some
standingbody erect,weeh eoetdhedroswseitwtianrgd,oarsly:fn
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A MELANCHOLY DETAIL OF THE AMERICAN-
WAR.—The following advertisement, dated from
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18, 1863, at 12 o'clock M., for furnishing to the United
States 2,500 head-boards or tablets for graves of the follow-
ing description, viz —All to be of good black walnut, clear
of knots and splits, four (4) feet in length, ten (10) inches
wide, and one and three-eighths (11) of an inch tbick, with
five-eighths (3) of an inch thick, at least twenty (20) inches
in length, each of said head-boards or tablets to be well
oiled and lettered with the name, rank, regiment,
and company, with the time of decease of such com-
missioned officers or soldier as the Assistant-Quartermaster
of his agent may direct, and in all respects to correspond
with a sample to be seen at this office." Among the condi-
tions specified is the following :—" Proposal from disloyal
parties will not be considered, and an oath of allegiance to
the United States Government must accompany, each pro-.
posit ion."
CREW PICKED UP AT SEA.—The ship Lotus, now
at Greenock, fell in with the waterlogged barque Cambria,
of Bremen, bound from Quebec to Greenock, on the 12th
of August, in lat. 45, long. 41. Three days previously
she had struck an iceberg and got her bows completely
smashed in, but her cargo of deals kept her afloat. The
crew, 12 in number, were taken on board the Lotus by
Captain Fry, who treated them with the greatest kind-
ness until they were landed here. The wreck was set on
fire, as it was lying in the track of vessels crossing the
Atlantic.

REMARKABLE PRint.—On Friday morning the
fishermen of Cadgwith, near the Lizard, secured
and brought to Falmouth a large whale, commonly known
as a 6‘ filmier," which they captured near the first-mentioned
place, floating dead. It measured 74 feet in length and 36
feet in girth, and was landed on the gridiron of the Fal-
mouth Docks on. the day of the opening of the Cornwall
Railway, to the great amusement of the folks from the in-
terior of the country.
WHALE HUNT IN ORKNEY.—GREAT CAPTURE.
—At Holm, on Monday evening, all the boats had
a grand whale hunt, when they drove ashore the whole
flock of 79 or SO, and killed them in a bay at the east end
of Holm. They were sold by roup on Wednesday, and
fetched fair prices, bringing upwards of £2OO to the cap-
turere. Some 20 boats, with 80 men, were engaged in the
capture, and all made a good night's work of it. The chase
lasted five hours before they got the whales stranded.
EFFECT OF THE LIGHTN GAT DEPTFORD.—Last
evening, about half-past 6, the Catholic Church in High-
street, Deptford, was struck by lightning and the ernes
carried away, much brickwork in the interior damaged, and
several windows broken. The electric fluid spread to the
adjoining houses; and Mr. J. • Lenten Pulling, solicitor,
who happened to have a dinner-knife at the time in his
hand, received a slight shod. Fortunately, however, xro
further damage was dome, though much alarm was caused
in the neighbourhood.