The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-10 00:00:00

THE SECOND PUBLIC EXAMINATION.

The Senior Proctor (Rev. Henry Furneaux) has
given notice that he will receive the names of can-
didates for the second public examination, from
themselves or through their tutors, at Corpus
Christi College, on Monday and Tuesday, the 13th
and 14th of November.

The names of candidates for the School of Literati
Humanioribus will be received on Monday from 11
o'clock till half-past 12, on Tuesday from 11 o'clock
till one.

The names of candidates for the Schools of Mathe-
matics, Natural Science, and Law and Modern
History, on Monday, from half-past three o'clock
till half-past four; on Tuesday from two o'clock
till four.

Each candidate must exhibit to the Proctor-1.
His matriculation paper. 2. The testamur of the
moderators. 3. A list signed with his name upon
the printed form issued for that purpose of the sub-
jects and books in which he offers himself to be
examined.

Candidates are requested to apply to the senior
tutor of their college or hall for printed forms for
their list of subjects.

Abstraction of £2,430 from a Glasgow

Bank.

'or the past two or three days rumours have been
wh.:iired about in commercial circles regarding the
mysterioua' abstraction of a considerable sum of
money ,from the Moor-place Branch of the Clydes-
dale Bank. Like all unauthenticated reports these
rumours have not been suffered to lose anything in
their circulation ; and as the truth is likely to give
place to fiction in an increasing degree, unless the
facts of the case are made known, we deem it right
to state the circumstances as obtained from a
perfectly reliable source. The facts of the case,
then, are briefly these :—On Wednesday last the two
tellers of the branch bank in question were engaged
at the close of the day making up their cash for
the exchange in a back room, where they were in
the daily habit of doing so ; and in summing up the
result of the sorting it was found that the sum of
£2,430 was missing. They were un able at the time
to account for this unsatisfactory result ; but in the
hope that it was merely an error of calculation
which would be put right on the following morning
at the clearing-house they sent away the money,
which was locked up for fir.; night at the head office.
This hope, however, was, unfortunately, not realised,
and up to the present time all inquiry has failed to
throw any light upon the mysterious disappearance
of the money, which is believed to consist of a parcel
of mixed notes—the sum of £2,000 being made up
of 20 notes for £lOO each, and the remaining sum
being in smaller notes. Information of the affair
was communicated to the police ; and as the tellers
were not for a. moment suspected of dishonesty, the
criminal officers endeavoured to ascertain whether
the back room had been entered by any one from
without. The apartment is lighted by two windows
which overlook a back court in which a ladder was
kept ; but ingress could scarcely have been ob-
tained in this way, because the thick-lying dust on
the window-sill outside was undisturbed. Failing
to trace a thief in this way, the officers next directed
heir attention to the possibility of any one having
entered by a door which opens into the back room
from the lobby, in addition to one that affords en-
trance from the tellers' room. It appeared, how-
ever, that this lobby door was locked by the bank
officer in the morning and was again opened by him
in the evening, the lock in the meantime not having
been in any way tampered with. It was, besides,
hardly reasonable to suppose that any thief who was
daring enough to enter a bank in daylight would
modestly content himself with one little haul from
the table en which there was perhaps as much as
£30,000 within his grasp ; and so this, the only re-
maining conjecture, was dispelled. Thus the mat-
ter meanwhile rests, the disappearance of the money
being still as much a mystery as when the discovery
of its abstraction was first made.

It might be of material aid towards the recovery
of the money if bankers and others would, for a time
at least, exercise extreme caution in their transac-
tions with strangers, and if shopkeepers, warehouse-
men, &c., in the city would be careful in changing
large notes.—Glasgow

RINDERPEST AMONG CATS.—A disease has been
pre-Valent in Forres for several weeks among the feline
species which has cut them off in every direction. The
animals appear to be disinclined for food for a day or two,
then they have running of water at the month and nose,
dull, bleared eyes, and great prostration of strength. They
lounge about the hearth or in by-corners, and do not touch
food of any kind for days. They generally die on the eighth
or ninth day.—Forres Gazette.
TASTE IN TIIE WEST.—It is said that on the
occasion of Queen Emma visiting Wells, the band of the
local volunteers turned out to do her fitting "honours.'
Oddly, however, one of the first tunes which they played
was the well-known air called " The King of the Cannibal
Islands."