The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-04 00:00:00

BANK OF ENGLAND.

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria
cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 2d day
of July, 1862:

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ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
Notes issued .......,£.30,080,010 Government Debt £11,015,000
Other Securities .. 3.634,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 15,430,010
Silver Bullion ....

£30,080,010

£30,080,010
BAN KING DEPARTMENT,
, oprietors' C'api- ' Government Secu-
tal £14,553,000 rities (including
Rest
Public Deposits (in- nuity) £11,083,25
eluding Emile- Other Securities 21,528,788
quer, Savings' Notes
Banks, Commis- Gold and Silver 790,761
missioners of Na- Coin
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-

counts) 9,672.315
Other Deposits 13,851,869
Seven Day and
other Bills

635,506

£41,876.955
W.

£41,87,,955
MILLER, Deputy Cashier.

3, 1862.

SHIPPING--

THIS DAY.

SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning.
Arrived—Parana, steamer, from Rio Janeiro; Orlando,
from Portsmouth ; Brothers, from Swanage.
Sailed—Argyll, steamer, for Carenton; Uezine, for Jan-
tina.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH).
GRAVESEND, riday Morning.
Arrived, July 4—Elbe, steamer, from Stettin; Berlin,
steamer, from Hamburg ; Come On, from Porto Rico ;
Hawthorne, from Minitlan ; Alcyone, from Prince Ed-
ward's Island ; Empress, from Pondicherry ; City of
Shanghai, from Calcutta; Palmyra, from Brazils; Arpa,
from Bjorneborg.
Sailed, July 4—Frances Relay, for Portland Bay ;
Euxine, for Archangel ; Chamois, fur Bahie.
DEAL, Friday Morning.
Passed—Gloucester, for the Cape of Good Hope ; York-
town, for New York—both from London: H.M.S. Fox, for
Woolwich; Nathaniel, of Newcastle, both from the west.
Sailed—Vimeira, Hotspur, Swanley, Bucephalus, Em-
press of India, George Duncan, General Havelock, with
most of the outward bound.

DUNDEE -- SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO A GOODS
STEAMER.—The large goods steamer Napier, Methven
master, on the ferry passage betwixt Tayport and Broughty
Ferry, left Tayport at six o'clock yesterday morning, having
on board eighteen loaded waggons. The tide was ebbing
rapidly at the time, and the wind rather boisterous ; and on
the steamer reaching Broughty she struck heavily against
the pier. The rebound shook the waggons, and loosened
the chucks used to keep the wheels from moving, and the
restraining power being thus removed, the whole eighteen
waggons rushed one after the other into the river, the water
at the place being from eighteen to twenty feet deep. Ten
of the waggons were loaded with coal, and the other eight
with general goods, including a quantity of wheat and flour
and 118 bundles of flax yarns. Men were as soon as
possible set to work to get the goods taken out of the
waggons; but the work was found to be very difficult, and
portions of the goods were washed away and set afloat in
the Tay. A despatch was sent to Burntisland for a diver
and a squad of men, so that, with their assistance, and the
use of a crane barge, they might get the waggons lifted up,
and the damaged goods secured. The accident will not
cause any interruption to the ordinary traffic of tie railway.
—Scotsman.

A WORD UPON THE ROYAL MARRIAGE ACT.—
The protests of the peers against this measure should be
studied from generation to generation till the Royal
Marriage Act is repealed. The two chief grounds of
protest are that the Act violates the great laws of
Nature, in the first place, and constitutional principle in
the next. It was called from the beginning an " Act
for the Encouragement of Royal Vice and Immorality ;"
and there was no less objection to the unconstitutional
powers which it gave to the Sovereign first, and to
Parliament afterwards, by which the succession was en-
dangered, and every preparation was made for future dis-
cord and disorder. The act comprehended all the descen-
dants of George 11., except the offspring of princesses_ra_tf
ried to foreign potentates ; and as there were then 3°•u_ro
persona in England, from the peer to the chimneyeviovere7u_
had royal blood in their veins, this law gave the
power igpower over the domestic destiny of an incalculabled
eclared to be a
ever-
increasing number of his subjects. It vt,
"restraint on the
radical vice In the law that it imposed
marriage of the reigning Sovereign,
declared
should have reached to age of 21. t
ibe of age, in regard to
mon-
strous that Royal princes should noth orwnottafeany Regent who
e toet
s obstructw erer
a then
.
mustiut waitdep e nad
full on
year
marriage, till 25 ; and that then tanedy
Par-
liament for permission to marry,fo
r the chance of a prohibition
from the time of petitioning,
passage of the law ; the .
by the legislature. Everyro)ff:dtts woafs
~voked ; all the forms of both
the Peers
sacked - the Judges were 1-
• d-1 • but
also; and by moral and political houses 'were made use of to obtain d, lay ,the King put
forth his resources .
vio-
lence, the bill was carried in six weeks. At the conclusion
of the protest of the ninelords,they
be for ever
d as free from responsibility for the disorders and
claim to
regard°
sorrows which could not but arise from the operation of
such a law. Some of them lived to witness what they had
foretold ; but the King and Queen themselves had to en-
dure the worst of the retribution, in the spectacle of the
corruption and blight which they had inflicted on their own
children,—Once ec Week,