The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-12 00:00:00

Six ran.

RACING FIXT

.
York Spring
St. Columb. l6
Salisbury lB
Noi th Herts Yeomanry 19

Redditch
Chelmsford 7
Manchester Summer 7
Maid tone
Ascot l3
Beverley - 14
Liverpool

JU
Newmarket July ......... 4
Carlisle ..................... 4
Jersey 5
Worcester
Pontefract
Abingdon
Hungerford l3
13 Stamford

AUG
Brighton 1
Brighton Club
Knutsford 3
Lewes 4
Huntingdon
Wolverhampton
Reading
Radcliffe l4
Egham l5
Stockton l5

SEPTE:
Warwick
Curragh 5
Dover 7
Hereford
Leicester 7
Doncaster

Brecon .. 18
Richmond
Monmouth 2l
Manchester Autumn
Newmarket Ist Oct 2G
Walsall

Bedford
Royal Caledonian Runt 4
Northallerton 5
Newmarket 2d Oct 9

Curragh l7
Newmarket Ho. M 23
Worcester

Lincoln Autumn
Liverpool Autumn
Shrewsbury

;lIER.
Warwickshire and
Leamington Hunt 2l

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

LONDON, May 12.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.

FALMOUTH, May 11.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Bunsen,
from Rangoon.

SWANSEA, May 11.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Riverhead,
from Caldera. Sailed—Countess of Bectivo, for Cuba;
Jura, for Coquimbo.
LIMERICK, May 10.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Cecile,
from Bilboa.

PORTSMOUTH, May 11.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Graf
von Bubon, from Sulina.
CLYDE, May 10.—Wind S.W.—Arrived.—Runnymede,
from Pernambuco. Sailed—Michael Georplo, for Bom-
bay.

CARDIFF, May 11.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Anna Magda-
lena, for St. Thomas.
Rola-HEAD, May 11.—Wind B:E.—Arrived—Palestine,
screw steamer, from New York.

BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.
GRAVESEND, Friday Morning.
Arrived, May 11—Zephyr, from Gothenburg ; Apollo
from Skeen.

DEAL, Friday Morning.

Passed—Agnes, from Jamaica; Balcombe, from Gre-
nada ; James Russell, from China—all for London ; Colum-
bine, from Londori, for Naples.

Bank of England Return.•—Last Evening.

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
cap. 32, for the week ending Wednesday, May 10, 1865.

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

Notes issued 1.......428,608,825 Government Debt £11,015,1(0
Other Securities 3.6.31,9 W
Gold Coin & Bullion 13,95
Silver Bullion

X 28,608,8251

£28,008,8'25

BANKING D
roprietors' Capi-
tal £14.553.000
&cat
Valle Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis-
missioners of Na-

EPARTMENT.
Government Secu-
rities (including
Dead Weight A-
nnuity) 510,081,441
Other Securities 09,5f. 7
Notes
Gold and Silver 803,2;7
Coin

tioual Debt, and

Dividend

counts) 7.349.11i
tither Deposits 13.760,0.52
Seven Day and
other Bills 407,5C5

£39,331,205

£39.331,2C5
'. MILLER, Chief Cashier.

May 11, 180.

THE TRIAL OF DR. PRITCHARD.—This trial will,
we believe, take place at Edinburgh in the end of Tune.—
Scotsman.

THE DISTRESS IN LYONS.—The Emperor, who,
on learning from the Prefect of the Rhone of the distress
among the silk weavers, had forwarded a sum of money
for their relief, has now announced a further donation of
20,000 f. The Empress has also sent 10,000 f. for the same
object.
CRYSTAL PALACE, ONE SHILLING DAY, Thurs-
day, May 11.—Admissions on payment, 1,381; ditto by
season ticket, 719 ; total visitors, 2,100.
FRANCE AND PRUSSIA.—The Moniteur of Wed-
nesday publishes the following note :—" A telegram just
received informs us that M. Benedetti, his Majesty's Am-
bassador at Berlin, and the President of the Council, Minis-
ter for Foreign Affairs of Prussia., have exchanged ratifi-
cations of the treaties of commerce and navigation, of the
arrangement for the international railway traffic, and of
the literary convention concluded on the 2d August, 1862.
These acts, which will very shortly be officially published
both in France and Prussia, will take effect from the Ist
July next."

NARROW ESCAPE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.—
A paragraph which appeared yesterday under this heading
in a morning paper states that the Prince of Wales had a
narrow escape while travelling on the Chester and Holy-
head line on Monday last. We are informed that there is
no justification for this startling announcement. Tho train
was delayed six minutes in consequence of a hot axle, but
reached Holyhead in perfect safety, and only four minutes
late.

TIIE BLACKBURN RELIEF COMMITTEE.—Atter an
existence of upwards of three years and a quarter,
the Blackburn Relief Committee finally closed their chari-
table labours this week. The distress was first felt in the
cotton districts by the operatives of Blackburn at the close
of 1861. Early in 1862 a large number of the operative
classes of Blackburn and other towns in the cotton districts
were plunged into the deepest distress by the stopping of
the mills and manufactures in which they had been employed.
" To such an extent was the distress experienced in the
town of Blackburn that at one timer3o,ooo out of its 63,000
inhabitants had to be supplied by and were dependent on
public charity for their subsistence," quoting the words of
the Relief Committee, which may be accepted as most re-
liable testimony. The development of labour schemes and
of the sectarian industrial classes contributed to the main-
the distress has gone into the
tenance of public order during the most critical period, and
is concerned, without any dis-
turbance timely and liberal aid granted by the charitable of this
and other nations alleviated their suffem ings and soothes'
sternertps ta nscoof efealri
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been without its mitigating circumstances
-upon the people.
Hundreds of working
men, and women too, have been
taught to read, write, and cast, and from 700 to 800 have
been also taught to sew, knit, and plait. One grand effect
of the panic now rapidly going into the past is, that the
people of every grade are more sympathetic with each other
than it found them, and that out of 30,000 former recipients
of the charity of the Relief Committee there were last
month only 156 receiving their bounty, though there were
then 4,500
persons usually employed in mills and cotton
sheds out of work, while nearly 19,000 were working full
time. At a meeting of the Relief Committee last Monday
night, Alderman Sturdy presiding, a statement was read
which showed that last week 119 personshadbeen relieved
by the committee at a cost of £9 95., and that their total
expenditure for the month just ended was £304 11s. 6d.,
including£l23 16s. general relief, £169 12s. 6d. in clothing,
£35 Bs. 6d forthe school fees of 1,080 children, and £lll4s.
6d. expenses of management. The amount of funds received
from strictly local sources during the whole period of dis-
tress has been £18,565 12s. The balance in the hands of
the committee is £382155.3d. The committee unanhnously
resolved, owing to the decrease of distress, to finally close
their relief operations at the end of the present week.
REVIVAL OF TRADE AT MONTE VIDEO.—The
letter of our Monte Video correspondent will be perused
with satisfaction by our mercantile readers. News by the
present mail is, as he observes, "calculated to raise the
goods to the River Plate."
dThe
o pi ng
political spirits
and o f
ssohcifalpecrosndoiftion of the Banda Oriental
was rapidly improving, under the firm but temperate ad-
ministration of General Flores, and it is to be hoped that,
peace hai now been established in the country on a secure
and lasting basis.—Brazil and River Plate Mail.