The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-24 00:00:00

SYDNEY BRANCH MlNT.—Yesterday was issued

a Parliamentary return of the amount of gold coined at the
Sydney branch of the Royal Mint each year from its estab-
lishment to the end of 1861. The total value coined in
1855—that is: from the 14th of May in that year, when the
institution was founded—was £514,840 ; in 1856, £1,219,807;
in 1857, £767,970; in 1858, £1,344,067 ; in 1859, £1,221,032
in 'lB6O, £1,651,510 ; and in 1861, £1,719,255 ; making the
total gross amount coinetll£B,VB,l62.
A HERO.—An old pilot, named Trementin,
and the senior on the list of Enseignes de Vaissseau, has
just died at the Isle de Bas (Finisterre) at the age of
eighty-five. A singular and heroic act is connected with
the career of this veteran. In 1827, Lieutenant Bisson,
who commanded a small brig, the Panayotis,
while cruising close to the Island of Stampalia,
in the Grecian Archipelago, was attacked by a number of
pirates. Bisson defended himself to the utmost extremity,
and when no longer able to resist against superior force,
almost all his men being killed and himself being mortally
wounded, he beckoned to Trementin, and, pressing his
hand, ordered him to set fire to the powder magazine.
The other, -without a moment's hesitation, descended
with a match, and the instant after a terrible explosion took
place, and the shore was covered with human bodies. The
life of Trementin was saved by a sort of miracle, and when
the act was made known to the Government, the rank of
Enseigne de Vaisseau and the Cross of the Legion of
1-I,flour was conferred on him. A pension was also granted
to the sister of Lieut. Bisson, and a statue erected to him at
Lorient,
FATAL AFFRAY AT BIRKENHEAD.—On Sunday
evening, while a number of men were drinking at the Grapes
Inn, kept by Mrs. Jones, in Bridge-street, Birkenhead, a
quarrel took place between a stranger and a stonemason named
Caine, and both men went out into the street, in order, as it
is supposed, to settle their dispute by a fight. When out-
side, Caine was knocked down by the strange man, and was
SO severely kicked about the head, and otherwise injured,
that when he was picked up life was found to be extinct.
The murderer effected his escape before the fatal result of
the injuries -which he had caused could be ascertained. The
Birkenhead police yesterday apprehended a man at the
docks on suspicion,
panredtise of he will be brought before the magis_
trates to-day.
of theEA EAST
T4th oINDIAfIIIy woCOTT COTTON.--The letters from Bombay
t pa cr
et
vti he ex
s deliv creel this morning, from which
mail, cotton to Liverpool since depar-
turean increase over last which, it will be seen with surprise,
wsheoe of r
previous
show
Bombay to Liverpool for tae Yenr.Exports of cotton from
;fortnight ending the 24th of
111ay :—.1862, 61,230 bales
Albion. 1801, 57,597 bales.—,(Liverpool

prepared
results
with respect to
and this year it is esti-
mated at 110,800, while in 1836 it was only
crease in 26 years Icing thus 45,800. The property
the in-
able last year was £238,504, aad in 1836 Ll76,ssp9ertiyi ra!e-
an increase of £61,915 In 1860 the tonnage of the showing
entering the port was 833,633 tons, as compared"'. g
V, lth
490,044 toes in 1836; and the clearances outwards were
798,217 tons in 1860, against 421,938 tens in 1836, Showing
an increase of 376,279 tons. In 1860 the tonnage of thevessels
subjected to dock dues was 1,215,203 tons, and in 1837 it
was only 535,022 tons, showing an increase of 680,181 tons,
or 133 per cent. In 1836 the area of the docks gas
23a. Or. 33p., while now the area of dock accomodation is
40a. sr. 28p. ; and the area of the proposed new West
Dock is 17a., and the increase to the Victoria Dock Ga..
na
In 1860 the number of stea•vessels entering inwards was
1,182, with a total tonnage of 350,932 tons, as compared
with a total of 716 steamers of an aggregate burden of
225,110 tons in 1855 ; and the number of steamers clearing
outwards in IS6O was 1,191, of a total burden of 364,290
tons, as compared with 772 of an aggregate burden of
i 212,936 tons in 1855. The sanitary condition of the popu-
-Intion has materially improved of late.