The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-10 00:00:00

BANK OF FRANCE.

PARIS, Feb. 9.
The Bank of France has reduced its rate of dia
count from 4} to 4 per cent.

Bank of England Return,•—Last Evening.

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

the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
,Wednesday, Fob. 8, 1865.

ISSUE DEP
otes issued :......./.28,421,230,

ARTMENT.

Government Debt £11,015,100
Other Securities .. 3.634,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 13,771,'40
Silver Bullion

Z28,421,23)1

£28,42 1,230

BANKING D

Proprietors' Capi-
tal £14.553.000
Rest
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exohe-

EPARTIIICNT.
1 Government Seen•

rities (including
Dead Weight A-
nnuity) £11,023,211
Other Securities 18,787,591
Notes
Gold and Silver 740,381
Coin

pier, - siiifiazit
138. COMMIO.

missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend A.o-
counts) .......... 6.252.892
Other Deposits.... 13,814,063
Seven Day and
other Bills .... 403,950

3E38,692,858

.£33,632,88
*. FORBES, Dep. Cashier.

Feb. 9, 18135.

AMERICAN INCOME-TAX RETURNS.—We believe
Mr. A. T. Stewart, the great dry goodsman, returns
the largest income for 1863 of any man in America. It is
not $5,000,000, as has been reported, but $1,8431637
'whereon his extra income-tax is $92,181. We consider it
hard fortune for any man to have to take care of so much
property for nothing but his victuals and clothes. Messrs
Cornelius Vanderbilt and William B. Astor are doubtless
our two next heaviest taxpayers,both together paying about
as much as A. T. Stewart. Their names do not appear in

the partial list published. Moses Tayloris probably fourth,
his income being $573,494; tax, $28,674. We wish the
gentlemen named 'in these lists, who live in four-story
brown stone houses or board at the Fifth-avenue or Claren-
don Hotels on incomes of $5OO to $l,OOO each, would tell
us how they contrive to do it. There are evidently secrets
in their style of housekeeping which we have never mas-
tered.—New York Tribune.

ALLEGED MURDER IN PADDINGTON.—Last night
Dr. Lankester held an inquiry at the Hall Arms,
Paddington-green, respecting the death of a woman aged
about 35 years. Sergeant Smith, 19 la, said that he was
called to see the body of the deceased on Thursday morn-
ing. He found it covered with wounds, and with the ex-
ception of a pair of stockings and a boot on the right foot
it was quite naked. It lay on the banks of the Grand Junc-
tion Canal, near Woodroffe's Nursery, Kensal-green. He
caused the canal to be dragged and the black border of a
shawl and a piece of calico were discovered. Fredk. Haws,
a detective, said he received information that Mr. Slight,
who lived at Boundary-house, Kensal-green, heard on
the night of Saturday, Jan. 21, an altercation between two
boatmen on the canal, near the " reach." One said to the
other, "She is foul of the line." There was a dead pause
and then one of the men said, "You have made a fine
mess of it." Mr. Slight at the time did not know what the
men alluded to by the word "she." Dr. J. S. Beale said he
found the deceased covered with wounds. There was a se-
vere laceration of the scalp, and the skull was fractured.
There was a large and deep incision in the breast, through
which the liver protruded. In his opinion, death had how
ever arisen from suffocation by drowning, and the injuries
to the body were post mortem. The deceased had been the
mother of several children. John Ward, a lighterman,
provedthat he saw the body floating on the canal on Thurs-
day morning. The screw of a steamtug could have inflicted
wounds such as those found on deceased. The coroner said
the case was fraught with suspicion. A murder might have
been committed even though the wounds had been inflicted
after death. The publication of the facts in the newspapers
might, as in the recent case of the child found murdered at
the railway station, lead to the discovery of the person who
had committed the crime. The court was accordingly
adjourned.