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

ISSUE DEPA.RTMENT.
Notes issued ..«...X28.419,410

Government Debt £11,015,1C0
Other Securities .. 1631,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 13,769,11 C
Silver Bullion ....

X. 28,419,4-10

£28,119,410

BANKING D

oprletors' Capi-
tal X 14.553.000
Kest
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, COMIIIIB-
- of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ao-

,EPARTUNT.
Government Seen-

titles (including
Dead Weight A-
nnuity) £10,995,363
Other Securities 19.693,489
Notes
Gold and Silver 6.8,164
Coin

counts) 4,462,163
Other Deposits 15,01a,128
Seven Day and
other Bills

728,358

£37,901.376
M. 3

£37,904,376
RSHALL, Chief Cashier.

Oct. 29, 1883.

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MR. LAYARD's DISENTOMBMENT OF NINEVEH.
—Can it be denied that Mr. Layard has m.ede us
better acquainted with the public and private life of the
Assyrians, than all the hisloians who have written about
them ? How many eyes have gazed upon the sand
mounds that covered ancient Nineveh, in ignorance that
bent 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 us her tale, graven on
enduring marble, and would stow us through her royal
hails, and take us to the steps of the throne of Sennacherib
himself—would they not have 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 fire his
flagging spirits. These sculptured at. be 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 (elder 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 curious 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 and slaves have passed,
whose deeds and sufferings the sacred. historian has chro-
nicled in the Great Book.—Once a Week.
BURIED IN A WELL.—On kVeduesday afternoou
last a fatal accident occurred at the village of Old
Basfotd, 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 griming 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,