The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-29 00:00:00

BANE OF ENGLAND.

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria.
cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 27th day
of Aug., 1862

ISSU DEPARTENT.
Notes issued .......X31,51E 7,885 GoveM
rnment Debt £11,015,1C0
Other Securities .. 3,634,90
Gold Coin & Bullion 16,867,861
Silver Bullion

X 31,517,8851
DAV' SA, 1.3 imr-Ati IMEN T.
ci oprtetOrs' Capi- Government Secu-
tal £14.553,000 rities (including
Rest
Public Deposits (in- nuity) X11,036,097
Chiding Exche- Other Securities 18,973,193
quer, Savings' Notes
Banks, Commis- I Gold and Silver 810,813
missioners of Na- Coin
tional Debt, and

£31,M7,88&

• Dividend-
counts) .......... 7,508.8,92
Other Deposits.... 14,665,006
Seven Day and
other Bills ...... F24,r65

Z11,082,1E5
W.

£11,082,168
MILLER, Deputy Cashier.

Aug. 28, 1862.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.--The last performance
of Verdi's brilliant and telling " Great International Ex-
hibition Cantata," with the magnificent solo by Madlle.
Titiens, and the powerful aid derived from 500 trained
voices, took place last evening at her Majesty's Theatre.
The house was crowded in every part. Signor Arditi's in-
comparable orchestra distinguished itself in a splendid per-
formance, between the acts of the opera, and as a sort of
preface to the Cantata, of the overture to Rossini's cele-
brated " Guglielmo Tell." This the band played literally
to perfection, and it drew down an instant and unanimous
encore.

The Dake de Blacas has left Brown's Hotel for
Paris.

A HEAVY LOAD.—On Tuesday last a large block
of granite, no less than 30 feet in length, and weighing
about 35 tons, was conveyed by 40 horses, assisted by about
200 men, to the polishing works of Messrs. W. and J. Free-
man, of Penryn, from one of their quarries. Careful ar-
rangements were made on Monday week to bring this great
weight over the rough moors on to the hard road. This
was partially effected on that day, and last Monday the
stone was brought to the bottom of the first hill ready for
ulterior operations. Everything in the arrangements
seemed to be most successful, the progress over difficult
hills both in ascent and descent was uninterrupted, and on
the arrival of the block at its destination in the town, all
the workmen of the firm and the inhabitants, of whom seve-
ral hundreds had assembled, joined in three hearty cheers.
This block is intended to form the shaft of a memorial
column to be erected at Strathfieldsaye in honour of the late
Duke of Wellington, Messrs. Freeman having been in-
trusted by the present Duke with the execution of this
work, so far as the granite is concerned. The column will
be raised on a pedestal of still larger dimensions, supported
by three tiers of steps, each stone of which will be of great
size. The other parts of the design comprise mouldings in
polished granite, involving stones of nearly 100 superficial
feet. The whole will be surmounted by a bronze statue of
the late Duke by Baron Marochetti.

LORD COCKBURN AND THE SHEPHERD.—Lord
Cockburn was once sitting on a hillside with a shepherd,
and observing the sheep reposing in the coldest situation,
he observed to him, " John, if I were a sheep, I would lie
on the other side of the hill." The shepherd answered,
" Ay, ray lord, but if ye had been a sheep ye would have
had mair sense."

A TRAIN OFF THE LlNE.—Yesterday an acci-
dent, which almost miraculously terminated without any
fatality, occurred on the Midland Railway, between
Nottingham and Derby. The 11 30 a.m. train for Scar-
borough left Nottingham at the usual time, and had
arrived within a mile of the new station at Trent, when,
owing to some mistake on the part of the pointsman, and
probably also to the excessive speed at which the train
was proceeding, the engine ran off the line. Fortunately
there were very few passengers in the train: and in the first
two or three carriages none at all. The engine.driver of
once shut off the steam when he perceived the accident, And I
the train was stopped before any important damago was
done cr any injuries received, with the exception d a con-
tused wound of no consequence inflicted on the stoker.
The Journal de Toulouse mentions the arrest of
an individual accused of crimes which bear a strong
analogy to those perpetrated by the noprious Dumollard :
For some time past complaints had been made of a man
who occupied himself with eugagiogyoung females as ser-
in to neighbourhood of Tou-
vants for persons residing
louse, under promise of getting them higher
wages than what tboY were before receiving.
Two females who coosented to follow him to the
places he indicated were subjected to the grossest
indignities, and 9iterwards robbed of all the money
they possessed. A third, after proceeding with him
for some distoce, turned back, refusing to follow him any
further. OA° of his victims recognised him two days ago
in the street'
and he was arrested and taken before the Com-
missar," of Police' where he avowed his guilt. The man's
flaw is Riounie, a liberated convict, and under surveil-
/awe, While being taken to prison be attempted to °scalye
from the police agents by leaping over the bridge into th,!
river, but he was secured before he could get over th
parapet.

During a thunderstorm which burst over Nantc e
the day before yesterday, the lightning struck the new tr
bacco manufactory now in course of erection. A mason. 13
foreman named Perrandeau Was killed on the spot, but tl
workman to whom by was talking escaped with very plig' at
iDjury.