The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-28 00:00:00

X. 29,134,010
BANKING DEPARTMENT.

el oprietors' Capi-
tal £14.553,000

Government Secu-
rities (including
Dead Weight A-
nnuity) £11,091,2R4
Other Securities 18,134,473
Notes
Gold and Silver 825,374
Coin

Rest
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer,ans, iSavings'

missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-
counts) 6.713.8(11
Other Deposits 12,806,568
Seven Day and
other Bills 707,036

438,192,481
M.]

£38,192.481
RSIIALL, Chief Cashier.

August 27,1863.

7OBBER DAY.—One day about four years since, as
Lord P was going over a crossing in Regent-
street, the sweeper, whom he had at first disregarded, ap-
peared strangely familiar as well as importunate, and said,
" Como, my lord, you'll give me a trifle for old acquaintance'
sake." " You, indeed I Why, where can I ever have seen
you before ?" " What I don't you remember Jobber Day,
at Eton ?" Lord ll gave his old school-fellow a sove-
reign, and passed on. This Etonian came down to sweep a
crossing before he was thirty years of ago. Diiy had been
a very popular fellow at Eton, and very rich in "leave
books" when he left; though his ideas were very
similar to those of an old fellow-collegian of ours, who said,
the last morning he spent in Oxford, " Any gentleman may
have a pick at my books, for now I have finished my edu-
cation I never can want to set eyes on books again."
The reason we called him " Jobber" was, that some ono
heard Day's father was a large cattle-breeder—so the
fellows, never very complimentary, said he was a Fig-
jobber ; and Jobber Day was his sobriquet ever after. Poor
Day, I pity him, and with him many thousands like him
who "go to the dogs" from the same cause. Day was like
a man born (we used to say) with halt a bottle of champs gne
in him, and who never got over the effervescence to the
hour of death.—" Cornhill Magazine" for September, Ins.:
published.

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SUPERNATURAL CAN DLE.—Dr. Olinthns Greg ory
used to tell a curious story about a candle. Having,
late at night, to ride across some moorland, he was reluc-
tantly persuaded to take a lantern with him. After a
while, he blew out the candle ; but, to his amazement, it
righted itself. This occurred several times ; until the :pious
mathematician, indignant that a candle should disobtay the
laws of nature, inverted it in the socket. It continmed to
beret, and burnt more brightly than ever 1 And a few-paces
further on, his horse pulled up on the verge of a chasm,
formed by the falling in of a disused mine.—Dublin Unt.
fersity Magazine for September, just published.
MEXICO.—A letter from Pachuca, dated Jane 20,
tells of a successful expedition sent from Mexico by
Marshal Forey, under the command of Col. Aymard, of
the 62d Regiment. The force consisted of 2,000 info.] ttry,
400 horses, and a section of mountain artillery. ThJe ob-
ject of the expedition was to obtain possession of Pashuca
and the silver mines of Real del Monte. Pachuca, ss hich
is GO miles from Mexico, is reached by a well-paved. road
through a highly cultivated country. It was known at
Mexico that Pachuca had been fortified, and that Et was
defended by 4,000 Mexicans, under the command of Gen.
Orellano. A stout resistance was consequently expected.
It was known further that the population were ill disposed
towards the French, and that they had given a most a Atter-
ing reception to the fugitive Gen. Ortega. "When. the
French troops arrived before the gates of Pachuca, they
were agreeably surprised to find that Gen. Orellano had
decamped with his small army, and that the authorities
of the town were waiting to give up possession to Colonel
Ayraard. An hour later the French officers ate the break-
fast which had been intended for Gpn. Orelleno and his
staff. The population of Pachuca, which is estimated at
9,000, is described as being composed of adventurers from
England, France, Germany, and America. The same class
is to be found at Real del Monte and the other mining
districts. The Juarists left behind them at Pachuca a
sum of 200,0001., which they had not time to carry off.
The French will probably remain at Pachuca to protect
the mining at Real del Monte, from which they expect to
derive large sums.
How YARMOUTH ROSE OUT OF THE WATERS.—
There could have been no Roman station at Yar-
mouth, for the very good reason that while the Roman
eagles waved over Britain, the spot on which Yarmouth
stands was not land, but sea. Like many other places
situated at the mouth of rivers, Yarmouth has sprung up
on soil partly alluvial and partly deposited by the tides and
currents of the German Ocean. It is not a little singular
that while at Aldberough and Dulwich to the south, and
at Cromer to the north, we have been losing acres of terra
firma, year by year for centuries, and while old Neptune,
by eating away the cliffs, has contrived to swallow whole a
bishop's see and the metropolis of the Bast Angles, here,
on the contrary, he has rejoiced to give beck his stolen
property, and yearly to deposit some yards of the cleanest
and firmest sand which he had been holding in solution.
This process has been going on gradually but surely for
nearly two thousand years, if not from a date anterior to
Christianity itself.—Once a Week.
The Municipal Council of Toulon has just voted
a sum of 60,000 f. for an Agricultural Exhibition in 1861.
The Bath Chronicle gives currency to a rumour
which is freely circulated thtateMwr.ee.e
Sergeant
rclii.nglake in.
ttnds shortly retiring fromh