The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-04 00:00:00

Bank of England Iteturn,--Yesterday.

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 2d day
of Sept., 1863:

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

is °tea Issued ........X29.383,880 Government Debt £11,015,1C0
Other Securities .. 3.034,900
Gold Coin Az Bullion 14,733,380
Silver Bullion .... --

X29,383,830i

£20,333,% 8)

BANKING I):

Pz oprietors' Capi-
tal 41053,000
Rest
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis-
missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-

,EPARTMZNT.
Government Secu-
rities _ (including
Dead Weight A-
nnuity) £11,001,284
Other Securities 18,992,100
Notes
Gold n and Silver 760,339
coi

counts) 6,818.182
Other Deposits 13,261,M2
Seven Day and
other Bills 730,107

£39,C36,988
M. 7

A 39,036,985
,RSHALL, Chief Cashier.

Sept. 3,1863.

AN ADVENTURE WITH A STAG IN THE MOUN-
TAINS OF KILLARNEY.—A young gentleman, named
Mr. A. Geran, accompanied by his man, on the 23d inst.,
went to spend a night on the mountains deer-stalking. I-le
lay down near a rock where he expected the deer to pass,
and had remained there till about eleven o'clock, when a
fine antler red deer passed by at an easy pace. He raised
his rifle and took steady aim at him ; ho fired, but instead
of hitting him in the heart hit him somewhere about the
flank. The stag went off bleeding, and he followed at a
rapid pace, when suddenly the stag, coming near the rock,
wheeled at him. Mr. Geran fortunately turned round and
went behind a tree. The stag went at him again, and he
got across the river. His man came to the rescue and shot
the stag through the heart. He is a beautiful red deer, a
fine specimen of his species. Great credit is due to the man
for his steady aim ; were it not for him the consequences
might have proved fatal.—Correspondent of the Cork
Examiner.

THE SAILOR finds his thoughts set ready for him
in verse, and, generally speaking, one tune fits all
his songs. On a Saturday night he will go through a dozen.
with no greater variation in the melody than a shake more
or less at the end of a vers9. Good rollicking tunes are far
more scarce than songs. The air cannot be too simple to
please a sailor. It should have a sort of see-saw or lurch in.
it, so that it can be sung at the capstan in time with the
motion of the men. Sailors in the docks often invent their
own tunes for this particular operation, and very plaintive
and wild some of them aro. No one who has heard them
will forget the really beautiful melodies which the sailors
sing in the ports about the Bristol Channel. There is one
which even a landsman cannot hear without feeling an in-
clination to hitch up his trousers. We are not aware that
it has ever been set to music; but it is so good that a sailor
never comes within sound of it without carefully shifting
his quid to his hat or jacket pocket, and joining in the
chorus.—Spectator.

The Nantes journals mention the death of Mme.
Grenet, of that place, a, the age of 104.
FATAL ACCIDENT AND GALLANT ATTEMPT AT
RESCUE FROM DROWNING.—At an early hour on
Monday morning; while a number of ladies were bathing
at Spanish Point, Miltown Malbay, a young woman of the
neighbourhood, named M'Grane, who had also been
bathing, having swum out a considerable distance, was
evidently being carried oat to sea by the ebb-tide, and
her perilous position being observed by the Misses Crowe,
of Bindon-street, Ennis, and Miss Barclay, they shouted
for assistance. Two of the police were promptly on the
strand, but could render no assistance, as thky were not
able to swim. In this state of affairs, the Misses Crowe
ran in all haste to the lodge, and apprised their brother,
Captain Robert Crowe, of the girl's danger. This gentle-
man at once jumped from his bed, and, accompanied by
his younger brother, Mr. James Crowe, ran to the strand
and at once rushed into the sea. At this time the girl was
a considerable distance out, but these two young gentle-
men, having swam with amazing rapidity, reached her
while she was still afloat, but just as they did so she
turned on her face, and they soon perceived that she was
quite unconscious. Having placed her between them
they each caught hold of her, and then made the beat of
their way back, and succeded in bringing her in to the
shore. The girl was at once conveyed in an unconscious
state to the lodge, and every effort made to revive her, not-
withstanding which she gradually sank, and, we regret to
say, in about two hours afterwards expired, The brave
and generous manner in which Captain Crowe and his
brother risked their lives on the occasion excited the admi-
ration of all who witnessed the occurrence.—Clare Jour? al5

The Austrian journals state that the authorit• ea
of the town of Ostrow, in Moravia, recently seized 19 SR( ka
of flour, in each of which they found concealed:a bag c( n-
taining about 40Ib. of gunpowder. The sacks had c( roe
from Prussia, and were on their way into Russia,
Gallicia.

An agriculturist in the Duchy of Holstein is
stated to have discovered a remedy for the potato blight
Before planting the tubercle, he washes it in chlorine water,
and then lets it dry in the sun. He has, it is said, tried
this method for three years, and always obtained sound
potatoes,