The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-30 00:00:00

188 EYE DEP akRTMENT.
Notes issued ......X25.419,410

Government Debt £11,015,10
Other Securities .. 3.631,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 13,709,410
Silver Bullion .....

X28,419,C10

£28,419,410

BANKING D
oprletors' Capi-
tal 414.553,000
Rest
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis-

'EPARTBIENT.
Government Seen-

titles (including
Dead WeightAn-

nuity) £10,995,363
Other Securities 19.693,189
Notes
Gold and Silver 6,8,164
Coin

missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and

Dividend

counts) 1,462,163
Other Deposits— 15,01a,128
Seven Day and
other Bills 728,358

X 37,901,376
bl. 7

£37,901,376
.RSTIALL, Chief Cashier.

Oct. 29, 1863.

MR. LAYARD's DISENTOMBMENT OF NINEVEH.
—Can it be denied that Mr. Layard has m‘de us
better acquainted with the public and private life of the
Assyrians, Than all the historians who have written about
them ? How many eyes have gazed upon the sand
mounds that covered ancient Nineveh, in ignorance that
ben• ath them history itself lay buried I If the historians
who wrote in their hazy way about the nations of anti-
quity, in the last century, had been told that Assyria lived
beneath these misshapen mounds, or rather slept like the
enchanted princess in the fairy tale, and that one day she
would come forth and speak—tell to her tale, graven on
enduring marble, and would show us through her royal
hails, and take us to the steps of the throne of Sennacherib
himself—would they not hare smiled incredulously ? What
Rollin of the pen could tell us a hundredth part of what
Layard has writ ten for us with the spade ? The stranger
tired with his desultory wanderings in the British Museum
at, last loiters into the long low gallery in which the spoils
of Assyria are ranged. If he happen to be of an imagina-
tive turn, he finds fools enough around him to lire his
fLigging spirits. These sculptured slabs discover to him a
picture history of one of the great eastern empires. He.
may see the very throne upon which Sardanapalus sat, and
the sceptre he used, and—we say it in eider to show that
we need not despair of having presented to us even the
minutest details of the past—we find the very studs, and
buttons, and pins, that that mighty monarch probably
wore; for they were discovered in these royal halls. Need
we despair that the earth will yield up thousands of secrets
equally curLais with those she has so long kept silently in
the sand beside the swiftly flowing Tigris ? Let us salute
those human•headed winged Bulls, for they guarded the
portals through which monarchs aril. Slaves have passed,
whose deeds and sufferings the sacred h:,'Lorian has chro-
nicled in the Great Book.—Once a Week,.
BURIED IN A WELL.—On Wednesday afternooa
last a fatal accident occurred at the village o; Old
Basfoid, near Nottingham. About half-past 2 o'clock a
man named William Marriott, 61 years of age, was engaged
in removing bricks from an old well. He had got nearly
to the bottom, and was standing upon a ladder, when he
was warned by the man who was drawing the bricks out
that the sides of the well were not safe, and he had much
better ascend. Marriott, however, refused to come out.
In a few minutes the sides gave way, fell in upon him, and
he was completely buried. An alarm was raised, and seve-
ral men were speedily engaged in endeavouring to rescue
him, but upwards of an hour elapsed before his body could
be found. He was then standing erect upon the ladder,
and quite dead.