The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-24 00:00:00

Bank of England Returne—Last Evening.

An Account, pursuant to t
cap. 32, for the week ending

the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
,Wednesday, Nov. 22, 1865.

ISSUE DEf
Notes Issued ........X2f3,323,9)0,

A. RTMENT.

Government Debt .£11,015,1C0
Other Securities .. 3.634,900
Gold Coin ,Sz. Bullion 13,673,900
silver Bullion

£2B 323,930

.128,323,900

BAN tiLliG D
r. oprietors' Capi-
tal £14.553.0001
it( st
Vublle Depots (in-

,EPARTMENT.
Government Secu-
rities (including
Dead WeightAn-
nutty)
Other Severities 19,0(4,563
Notes
Gold and Silver 79,032
Coln

eluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis-

.
missionera of Na-
tional Debt, and

Dividend

counts) 6,144,0r 3
Other Deposits 12,878,9.:3
Seven Day ad
other Bills 49),143

£37.'!70,737

£37,276,737
MILLER, Chief Cashier.

Nov. 23, 1885.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

LONDON, Nov. 24.—Wind this day at noon—south-
Westerly ; strong breeze, and fine weather, but rather

cloudy.

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 23.—Wind S.W.--Arrived—Angus,
from Sulina. Sailed—Her Majesty's ship Bristol, for the
West Coast of Africa.

SWANSEA, Noy. 22.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Red Roso,
from London.

SHEELDS, Nov. 23.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Haverham,
from Quebec.

BRISTOL, Nov. 22.—Wind S.—Arrived—Nyanza, from
Mauritius; President Filmore, from New York.

MILEORD, Nov.
from Quebec.
GRIMSBY, Nov. 22.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Edward
Ranken, screw steamer, for New Orleans.

23.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Hope,

LBY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
GRAVESEND, Friday Morning.
Arrived, Nov. 23.—Jane Pardew, from London.

Arrived, Nov. 24.—Melons, and William and Mary, from
Guernsey ; Ann Elizabeth. from Brussels ; Virginia, from
Quebec.

DEAL, Friday Morning.
Pawed, Nov. 23.—Wentworth, from London for New
York.

Arrivod, Nov. 23 —Frederick, from London for Rio
Janeiro.

Last evening a crowded and enthusiastic meeting
was held in the Birmingham Town-hall. Resolutions of
confidence in the Russell-Gladstone Ministry, and in favour
of residential manhood suffrage, were passed unanimously.
CHOLERA IN THE ATLANTA.—The Atlanta steam-
ship, which took cholera across the Atlantic, sailed from
London with about 150 passengers, and on arriving at
Havre received about 400 more, most of whom were Ger-
mans. On the second day out a child of ono of the passen-
gers shipped at Havre died from exhaustion produced by
diarrhoea., as was supposed, and shortly afterwards several
other persons wore attacked, 15 of whom died. The disease,
the nature of which was then unknown to the passengers,
was confined entirely to the steerage, none of those in tho
cabin suffering in the least. The physician on board of
course knew that the cases were cholera, but, fearing that a
statement of the fact would create great excitement among
his patient., he prudently withheld the knowledge from
them. The cabin passengers, who became aware very early
in the voyage that cholera was on the vessel, adopted the
plan not only of making themselves as comfortable as pos-
sible, but of diverting their minds from the subject by
amusements of various kinds. They were careful concern-
ing their diet, but in other respects they lived without any
apparent regard to consequences. The dead, about one-
fourth of those attacked, were buried as speedily as pos-
sible, none of the bodies being kept on board more than an
hour. On the arrival of the vessel at New York on the 2d
inst. she anchored in the upper bay, and, it being night and
a rocket signal not observed, a messenger was sent on shore
to say that cholera was amongst the passengers, and the
physician had exhausted his strength and required immediate
help. There were then ten cases of cholera on board, two
in a state of collapse, the others in the first stages of the
disease. The Florence Nightingale floating hospital was
towed down to receive the patients, and a rigid quarantine
is enforced.—New York Times.
A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION IN NEW YORK.—On the
morning of the sth inst. the residents of the lower part of
New York were startled by what seemed to be the report of
a cannon. Some vague rumours went flying from mouth
to mouth that an infernal machine had blown up the Wyom-
ing Hotel, No. 325, Greenwich-street, and it was soon ap-
parent that something of the sect had taken place. It was
found that not a pane of glass was left in the windows,
every door was burst open, some taken off their hinges, and
others split from top to bottom. The mirrors in the par-
lours, two very fine and costly ones, were shivered to atoms.
The furniture in the parlours and other apartments was
broken and displaced. Bads were thrown across rooms ;
chairs, stands, and tables were not only thrown down, but
in many instances hurled against the walls with force enough
to break them. The buildings on the block between Duane
and Jay-streets, on which the hotel is situated, were also
much injured. The hotel is near the corner of Duane-street,
but every house on the block was more or less injured.
Every window was shattered, and the doors of the stores
and dwellings broken open, and the chimneys thrown down.
Eighteen persons have been more or less injured by this
explosion, some of them very severely. The cause of the
accident is mysterious ; for the explosion is attributed to
the presence of a square box, containing some chemical
fluid, which a man named Leers, a boarder at the hotel, had
left there. The following is the statement of this man,
who was at once apprehended :—I am a German, born in
Hanover, but residing until a few months ago in Hamburg,
when I resolved to come to America. Mentioning my in-
tention to Wilhelm Rea, a large commission merchant of
that city and a brother Mason, he said he would help me.
He gave me a small demijohn
of chemical il
said I could sell in America to advantage.
lie
but sent did no which he
it to
I o, wh
ex-
plain to me any of the properties of theoil,
taken
me on board the ship Donau, in which had
to New York. When I received iteetllwita. I slept with its boxed up,P andga
I never opened the box or tried to
o the Wyoming Hotel
on the 31st. I left there on the 11th of October. I forgot
under my bunk on board the Donau. I arrived in this city
on the 28th of August, and went to
Yolk's clerk, to get it for me, which Ire
e view
is to be tried on the 4th of December, before Lord Jervis-
sl ktre wtheroee
SaturdayTeibu nev.
the box, but afterwards told Schnooengruleeatkeear,tede. Messrs.
am innocent of any crime. I did not know what was in
thembrosx..l",. e
vceerrtso‘nv
casedet a i na egda.
woods and a jury. The issue smart° the jury is whether
the article complained of represents the pursuer to be an
immodest and disreputable person, to her loss, injury, and
damage. The defence is, not that the article is true, but
that it was within the limits of fair criticism.
The voters of Kansas City have voted unanimously
in favour of subscribing $200,000 to the Kansas and Neosho
Valley Railroad. Nut a vote was cast against the subscrip-
tion. This road is contemplated to unite Kansas City
with Galveston, eight hundred mires distant.
EXTRAORDINARY TROTTING MATCH.—At River-
side Park, New York, on Friday, Nov. 11, one of
the most extraordinary matches on record took place, in
which the celebrated trotter, Capt. M‘Gowan, was matched
to trot 20 miles in the hour for $5,500, the backer of time
staking £BOO to £3OO. The feat has been twice beforebut
accomplished by American trotters over a mile course,
athe present match was arranged to take
half-
mile track. The watches having been
given for the start soon after three o'clock,
handling the reins. Tae first mile was accomplished in
2 min. 571 secs., the whole distance
being accomplished
in 58 min. 25 secs., which is the fastest time on record.
NEW YORK city has a populationset, Mr. Bowen
of 722,560. In the
signal was
place
on
1860, before the war, the population was 813,669. Thel
•
population has therefore diminished near y 100,000. In
1860 the female exceeded the male population 10,741. The
excess is now 44,587.