The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-26 00:00:00

BANKING D:

eroprietors' Capi-
tal £14,553,000
Rest
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis-
missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-

counts) 9,629.594
Other Deposits 13,399,245
Seven Day and
other Bills

588,652

£11,302,991 1

June 26, 1862.

PORTSMOUTH HARBOUR.

Mr. John Rennie, in a letter to a contemporary,
says :—" I have seen with much pleasure, in the
"Naval and Military" article of your journal of this
day, that, in their report on Portsmouth harbour of
last month, Messrs. Taylor and Davis, masters of
Royal Navy, say— In the fair-way channel there
is a depth of 17 ft. at low water of spring tides, of
27 ft. at high water of neap tides, and of 30 ft. at
high water of spring tides ;' and that the report also
states that 'there are no indications of travelling
shingle, that the sides of the cut have not caved in,
and there are no symptoms to render it prudent to
desist from dredging a still deeper channel. On the
contrary, there is every encouragement to dredge
at once for a depth of 20 ft. at lower water of spring
tides, or 30 ft. at high water of neaps. To effect
this the shingle forming the bar will have to be
removed at an average depth of 2 ft. 4 in., 'which
gives about 41,000 cubic yards for dredging, the esti-
mated cost of which would be about £3,500.' The
above successful result completely establishes the
correctness of the opinion contained in the report
of the late Joseph Whielbey, Captain Foulerton, of
the Trinity-housF, Mr. Ralph Walker, and myself,
to the Admiralty, dated the 16th of January, 1823,
wherein we recommended that the above shoal, at
the entrance of Portsmouth harbour, should be re-
moved by dredging, which, unfortunately, was not
adopted for many years afterwards. Portsmouth
harbour may be still further greatly improved by
adopting the plan sec forth in the report of Mr.
John Murray and myself to the Admiralty, dated
the 27th of,January lest—namely, by constructing
a properly-designed sluice with locks across the
entrance of Langston harbour, so that the vast addi-
tional quantity of tidal water contained in Langston
harbour may be diverted at pleasure to any extent
required through Portsmouth harbour, and thus,
combined with the operation of dredging, not only
the bar but the whole of the harbour in front of the
dockyard may be scoured out 'and deepened to a
much greater extent—which is required for the
general purposes of the navy at Portsmouth."

The Algerian journals state that last week a
violent shock of earthquake, which lasted about three

seconds, took place at Relizane, in the province of Oran,
the noise made resembling that of a train entering a tun-
nel. Bottles and other utensils were thrown down from
the shelves in the hoaxes, the wainscots disjointed, and the
plaister of the walls detached. A number of houses were
cracked, and among them the barracks of the Gendarmes.
The direction of the movement appeared to be from the
south-west to the south-east, that is, coming from Mascara.
Since the morning, the sky had been cloudy and the wea-
ther close.

A Breslau letter states that lately, at the theatre
of that place, when Schiller's " Maid of Orleans" was being
performed, the words of Dunois, "The nation is base that
does not sacrifice all to honour," were hailed with enthu-
siastic acclamations ; and on the declaration of Charles
VII., that " Kings hold their crowns only by the grace of
God," being uttered, 50 or 60 students burst out into a loud
fit of laughter.
How foolish for a man to sell his brains for the
sake of pleasing a little place in the bottom of his mouth,
not two inches square
Advices from Warsaw state that the whole of
the railway is now open from that city to St Petersburg, and
trains run regularly between those two places.
THE SUEFFIELD CEMETERY DISCLOSURES.—
Isaac Howard, the sexton at Wardsend Cemetery, was
carge again brought before the Sheffield bench, yesterday, on the
of disinterring bodies. Fresh evidence having
been adduced, Howard said—l acted entirely under Mr.
Inc
bodies oft
Livese '
Y 8 directions—(sensation)—and never otherwise.
In the latter partt of 1861, Mr. Livesey told me to disinter
register, and the
the catacomb.
interred in 1857 and 1858, and remove
them into
I believe Mr. Livesey all the bodies that were disinterred in the
Livesey
entehredcatacomb. These were all children, Mr.
children had books will explain where they came from.
gone
eestey did this under the belief that all the
all the care 1 could he dTuhset; books will show how many were ,
I disinterred these bodies with
for trial. Bail was allow'',
removed and who they
d The prisoner was committed
the prisoner's own recog-
nisances in £2OO, and two sureties £lOO each.
The Bohemia of Pragutises
tohcflefthee application made by
the 20th says :
" Having been the first to speteak
Cardin Primate, we
aßinelsmof;tllle old King
the Prince of Croy-Chanel
uiperor Francis
have just been officially informed that t
tm.ede in the
Joseph has ordered that the mortal rem,
, and his
of Hungary, of the race of the Arpad
wife, Anna Commene, shall be suitablyghi dyeepeontsi
cathedral of Buda. We cannot too hi
religious determination of the head of the house ofnldi tits
burg, who thus gives satisfaction to a national feelinva.`
" I have turned many a woman's head," boasted
a young nobleman of France. "Yes," replied Talleyrand,
" away from you."
PROGRESS OF TELEGRAPHY.—A plan for the
better detection and prevention of crime in Ireland has
been laid, within the last few days, before the Irish exe-
cutive. It is prorosed to connect the police barracks of
Ireland by telegraphic wires, thereby enabling the consta-
bulary to encircle any district where a crime is committed
the moment information reaches them. Agratian and other
offences are generally perpetrated by strangers hired from
a distance, who at present have time to escape back to their
own districts before they can be intercepted by the police,
hence the necessity of a rapid communication between the
police barracks. For this purpose mounted constabulary
are kept at present at a cost of about £lO,OOO per annum
whose services, it is assumed, might be dispensed with by
the substitution of telegraphic wile, which can be laid at a
very small expense compared with that incurred for the
horse police.