The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-18 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, 6 o'CLocK,

CITY BETTING— Tins DAY.

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.
7to 1 agst Skeffington (offered)
10 to 1 agst John Davis (taken)
20 to 1 agst Vest colt (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agst gartley (offered)

CIEESTER CUP.
9to 1 agst Lord Zetland (offered)

CITY AND SUBURBAN.
10 to 1 agst Mcestissima filly (offered)
15 to 1 agst Peon (offered)
20 to 1 agst Agatha (taken)
33 to 1 agst Sumnaerside (taken)
40 to 1 agst Lemonade (taken)
+.TWO THOUSAND.
_

11 to 4 agst Liddington (taken and offered)
100 to 15 agst BreaAlalbane (taken and offered)
10 to 1 agst Chattanooga (offered) •
100 to 6 agst Ariel (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agst Rifle (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agst Broomielaw (offered)
25 to 1 agst Joker (taken)

DERBY.
11 to 2 agst Liddington (offered)
6to 1 agst Breadalbane (take 4 and offered)
1G to 1 agst Bedminsler (tal,fen)
18 to I agst Archimedes(taken)
40 to 1 agst Rifle (taken)

:ailway Traffic Eeturns for the Week,

Mlles Opened. Receipts.
....._......______,„........._
1865. 1864. 1865. 1854.
.£ L
Belfast and N. Counties ..... l6 136 1,964 1.764
Belfast and Comity Down 49 49 805 709
Blyth and Tyne 2B 28 2,195 1,572
Bristol and Exeter l2ll 1211 5,582 5,301
Caledonian
2814 t. 62} 17,7;0 16,673
Cambrian 9t 8.1 1,817 1,278
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 328 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 64 64 328 15 Cork and Youghal , 324 324 407 404
Cornwall 651 654 1,199 1.1:2
Deeside „17 17 293 242
Dublin & Dellast Junction.... 63 63 1,250 1. 31
Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 1478 1.317
, Dublin and Meath
208
Dub. & Wicklow and Wexld 9l} 911 1,979 1,794
Furness, &c 5O 54 2.9 J t 2,9.2
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union
Great Northern 3,,,,.7 353 33,610 30,413
Great North of Scotland 9) 99 2,746 2.594
lit. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 711 445 490
gt.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 3B7} 3731 6,193 6,8.7
Great Western 122.3 118 , 58,864 56,618
Inverness & Aberdeen June- 1174 1171 1,e63 905
Inverness & Perth Junction 119,1 1191 1,259 948
Irish North-Western 145 145 1,632 1,6 i 7
Kent Coast 27 27 520 500
Lancashire & Yorkshire 403 402 37,260 36,398
Limerick and Ennis.. 241 241 165 144
Limerick and Foynes 26s 20f 144 133
Llanelly 46f 461 591 581
Llynvi Valley
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall sf 51 1,746 1,666
London & South-Western
Loud. Brighton, &S. Coast 2674 2611 15,168 • 14,035
London, Chatham, & Dover 72} 721 4,621 3,918
Do. Metropolitan Extension 114 101 1,675 930
alan.,Sheflield, & Lincolnsh
blanch. S.Jun.& Altrincham 9} 91 1,277 1,104 Maryport and Carlisle 2B 28 1,351 1.338
Metropolitan
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6631 611 44,7i9 42.632
Midland Gt.Westn. of hind 262 2591 4.6 6 4,690
Monkland 7ll 714 1,576 1,535
Monmoutlish. Rail. & Canal 4l 11 2,, 07 2,505
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & Darl lOl9 1095 51,329 61,069
North London 9 9 3,277 2,987
North Staffordshire 254 251 8, 8.213
084
Rhymney 194 191 1,075
Scottish Central
81
Scottish North-Eastern l3B 138 5,050 s„ ;3279
Somerset and Dorset 66 66 ,46 5
South Devon
South-Eastern 3OB 306 12,552 15,371
Tail Vale 57 57 6,191 5,721
Ulster lO5l 1054 2,519 2.347
Vale of Clwyd
Vale of Neath 431 431 2,784 2,194
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 358 332
Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,254 1,269
West Cornwall 271 271 746 759
W.Haztlepool Harbr.&RaiL s2} 52} 4,383 3.976
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO 10 6 0 742
Whitehaven Junction l3 13 888 924
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 7.8 130
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Austrian B2B 828 31,374 30,277
Bahia and San Francisco -
Belgian Eastern J unction 264 264/ - -
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 185} 185} 4,462 3,091
Central Italy lB3 187 - -
Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 185 4,838 4,506
Dutch Rhenish lOBl 1( 81 6,057 3,992
Eastern of France 1176 1428 60,128 5 :,928
Eastern Bengal • • llO 110 22 .6 1,6 9
, East Indian - -
Grand Trunk of Canada 1377 1335 18581 16,483
Great Central of Belgium 295 272 5,952 4.886
Great Indian Peninsula 5:3 533 20,5:6 10,469
Great Luxembourg 134 134 4,533 4.263
Great Southern of India
Li reat Western of Canada 345 315 6,353 14,835
Madras
Madrid, Saragossa &Alleant 683 650 19,516 18.95
Northern of Canada . . 91 91 1,314 1,651
Northern of France 607 697 52,868 49.815
Norwegian Trunk
0 ttomea
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1967 1781 124,138 1(6,180
Paris and Orleans 1616 1611 68,303 59.9, 7
Pernambuco 774 , 774 1,256 1,134
Sclnde.... lO5 105 2,:45 2.146
Do. Punjab, &.. 32 32 7 3 3 South Austrian, dEc. .....
ViSouthern of Prance 623 770 26,750 19,901
otoria - -
W. &N- Westn of France.... 1011 931 39,734 36,904
......--......--____

Railways.

STOPPAGE OF THE BIRMINGHAM PENNY BANE.
We have to make an announcement this morning
which will be read with sorrow by every inhabitant of Bir-
mingham, and which will undoubtedly bring grief and dis-
appointment into the homes of some of the most deserving,
honest, frugal, provident, and industrious of the poorer
portion of the population of this great town. We refer to
the failure of the Birmingham Penny Bank, an institution
to which the poor have been in the habit of resorting with
their small savings for the last 15 years. In the outset,
however, it is right to say, in order to prevent needless
alarm, that the depositors will probably not suffer severely,
if at all, in the end, as we believe the trustees of the bank
are responsible to the full extent of their property for the
amount deposited with them. The Birmingham Penny
Bank was established in 1851, and its business has been
carried on in Union-passage, near Bull-street. Deposits
were made in very small sums, varying in amount from
upwards. There are now 14,000 or 15,000 depositors, and
the amount due to them is between £5,000 and £6,000. A.
panic was caused this week by the failure of Messrs. Att-
woods, Spooner, and Marshall's, and there has been a run
upon the bank since Monday last. We are informed that
this is the cause of the suspension of payment. The money
is "locked up," being invested in landed and other pro-
perty, and there were not available funds to meet the sud-
den demands of the depositors. Notice has been given for
the withdrawal of £1,200 this day (Thursday), whereas the
sum ordinarily withdrawn in a day does not exceed £5O.
If the money of the depositors has been properly dealt with
—and we have no information to the contrary—and if the
property can now be advantageously disposed of, a divi-
dend of 20s. in the pound ought to be realised. Then, as
has been previously intimated, we understand, as we are at
present informed, the trustees are responsible to the full
extent of their private property for the deficiency.—Bir-
minghant Gazette.

THE EDMUNDS COMMITTEE.—This committee met
yesterday at twelve o'clock. Their lordships were all pre-
sent. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was among
the peers, not members of the committee, who wore pre-
sent.

William Hamilton was yesterday sentenced to
death, at the Manchester assizes, for the murder of Taylor
Tilley, the landlord of the Globe Inn, Birchin-lane, in that
city.

MUNIFICENT BEQUESTS. Miss Julia Olivia
Brodie, of No. 7, York-place, Portman-square, lately de-
ceased, has left the following legacies :—Royal National
Lifeboat Institution, £400: the Cripples' Home, Refuge,
Infant Nursery, and Laundry, Marylebone-road, £3OO ;
British Orphan Assylum, Slobgh, £300; Idiots'Home, Red-
hill, £2OO ; Royal Westminster Opthalmic Hospital, £2OO ;
Infirmary for Consumption, 26, Margaret-street, Cavendish-
square, £2OO ; Samaritan Hospital for women and Children,
Edward-street, Portman-square, £200; Cancer Hospital,
Fulham-road, £lOO ; Establishment for Invalid Gentle-.
women, 1, Upper Harley-street, £2OO ; Sailors' Orphan
Girls' School, Hampstead, £100; Soldiers' Daughters
Home, Hampstead, 100 ; Orthopoedic Hospital, Oxford-
street, £5O ; Governesses' Benevolentlnstitution, £5O
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, £5O ;
St. George's Hospital, £lOO ; Middlesex Hospital, £lOO ;
University College Hospital, £lOO ; Guy's Hospital, £lOO ;
Hospital for Consumption, Brompton, £lOO ; Church Peni-
tentiary Association, Lincoln's-inn-fields, £200; St. Mary-.
-lebone Charity School for Girls, £2OO-

THE THAMES EMBANKMENT.--The Metropolitan
Board of Works having made application to the
directors of the Metropolitan District Railway Company
to ascertain when they would be in a position to commence
the works for their railway along the Thames Embank-
ment from Blackfriars-bridge to Westminster-bridge, Mr.
Fowler, the engineer to the railway company, has ad-
dressed a letter to the Board, in which he states, " Your
Thames Embankment works appear to require to be much
more advanced before we can commence our operations. I
do not propose to commence our works upon the embank-
ment until you have excluded the water, built your wall,
and nearly completed your filling." ,
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rolled from the Wiggis, in the neighbourhood journa:resatdath,te
lage was untouched, but three
.a—boTuthehaSlfwiass
arms were literally swept
away, nothing but the stumps of broken trees showing
few days back into the valley 2,000 be:veeturrebi leolO w .
away, nothing but the stumps
made.
where they had existed. No mention of loss of life is

THE LORD CHANCELLOR'S BILL TO ABOLISH IM,
PRISONMENT FOR DEBT.—The bill has been withdraw;
and the Lord Chancellor will bring forward another on an

extended scale. In London there are upwards of 100
debtors in prison, and in the course of the year many
hundreds are incarcerated.