The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-13 00:00:00

THE PAPER CURRENCY IN AMERICA

The New fork World gives the following sum-1
mary of the extent of the paper currency already
authorised in the United States. Its amount in
sterling, inciuding the £30,000,000 in circulation
by the banks in the various States before the
cc mmencement of the Government issues, is
£112,000,000; and the writer asks, as the total
of the legal tender notes yet put forth is only
£14,000,000, and the result has been a premium
on gold which has touched 20 per cent., what is
likely to be the relative value of paper and specie
when the whole of the remaining £68,000,000
shall have been poured out?
When Mr. Chase's paper schemes are carried out ac-
cording to the acts of Congress, now become laws, our paper
currency will be as follows :
Mr. Chase's legal tender notes, by Act of Dols.
February, 1862 150,000,000
Mr Chase's legal tender notes, by Act of June,
1862 ..
Legal tender postage stamp bill, by Act of July
17, 1862
Bank note circulation before the passage of the
Act in February, 1862
Probable increase since then, upon the deposit
of legal tender notes

Total

COURT CIRCULAR.

BALMORAL, AUGUST 10.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Hohenlohe, Prin-
cess Helena, and Princess Beatrice drove out yesterday.
Princess Louise, attended by the Marchioness of Ely.
went out riding.

Mr. Helps left the Castle yesterday.
AUGUST 11.

The Queen, Princess Hohenlohe, Princess Helena, Prin-
cess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold attended
Divine service at Balmoral yesterday.
The Rev, Mr. Tulloch, Principal of St. Andrew's,
officiated.

The Prince of Wales, attended by Lieutenant-General
Knollys and Captain Grey, arrived at the Castle.

Her Highness the Princess de Ligne and Princes
Charles and Edward de Ligne have left the Clarendon Hotel
for the Continent. _ _

The Earl of Westmoreland has left Apthorpe
Park for the Earl of Stamford and Warrington's seat,
Enville Hall, Staffordshire.

The Earl and Countess Russell have left Rich•
mond Park for Ireland.

Viscount and Viscountess Barrington have
arrived in town from a tour of visits. The noble lord and
her ladyship leave town on Friday for Beckett House,
B erks.

The Count and Countess de Pourtales and family
have arrived at Brown's Hotel.

The marriage of Viscount Holmesdale with Lady
Julia Cornwallis is fixed to take place on the 23d of next
month.

'The Hon. John H. Anderson, Mrs. Anderson,
and family have left Brawn's Hotel for Scotland.
The Chevalier d'Oliveira has just arrived from
Lisbon at the Portuguese Legation.

Major General Cameron has arrived at the
Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood.
We are informed that Sir John D. Harding,
D.C.L., has resigned the highly responsible and confidential
office of Queen's Advocate, which he has held ten years,
having been selected in 1852, by Lord Derby, as successor
to Sir John Dodson, who was made judge of the Arches
Court on the occasion of the death of Sir Herbert Jenner
Fust. Failing health is, we regret to hear, the cause of Sir
John Harding's retirement, which places a valuable piece of
patronage at the disposal of the present Government. It
has been Sir John Harding's fate to advise the Government
(whether Whig or Tory) on the international questions that
arose during the Russian and Italian wars, on the affair of
the Charles et Georges, and on the recent more momentous
incident of the Trent.

THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOClETY.—Not-
withstanding the departure from town of a large number
of the aristocracy, the garden of this society continues to
be numerously and fashionably attended, Among the dis-
tinguished personages who have honoured the garden with
a visit during the past week were the following, viz.:--
Prince Lucien Napoleon, the Duchess of Somerset, the
Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster, the Marquis and
Marchioness of Waterford, Lord Craven, Lord Cosmo
Russell, Lady William Paulett, Lady Louisa Thynne, Lady
Ebury, the Right Hon. B. and Mrs. Disraeli, Sir John and
Lady Burgoyne, Sir R. Howard, &c.
DEATH OF VISCOUNT DUNGANNON.—We have
to announce the death of Viscount Dungannon, which took
place on Monday last at his re -idence in Grafton—treet,
Bond-street. Arthur Hill Trevor, Viscount Dungannon
and Baron Hill, in the peerage of Ireland, was the son of
the second Viscount by the eldest daughter of the first Lord
Southampton, and was born in Berkeley- square on Nov. 9,
1798, and educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he
graduated B.A. in 1820, and M.A. in 1825. He married,
in 1825, the daughter of Mr. George d'Arcy Irvine, of
Castle Irvine, Fermanagh, and succeeded his father in 1837.
He was appointed a major of the North Salop Yeomanry
Cavalry in 1850, a deputy 'lieutenant of Salop in 1852, and
high sheriff of Flintshire in 1855, He represented New
Romney in the House of Commons in 1830, and Durham
in the parliament of 1831, as well as from 1835 to 1841, and
was patron of one living. As an author he was known as
having written the " Life and Times of William Prince of
Orange."

FRENCH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.—At the last
sitting a communication was received from Dr. Boudin' in
reply to the objections made by M. Isidor to some of his
remarks on the dangers of marriages between relations. M.
Isidor denied that the frequency of such marriages among
the Jews favoured the birth of deaf-and-dumb children,
and he also called in question the exactness of various
numerical data used by Dr. Boudin. The latter in
his last paper, re-assserts their exactness ; and, on
the other hand, refuses to admit certain allegations
of M. Isidor's. Thus, the latter affirms that in Paris
there are not more than three or four deaf and -dumb in a
population of 25,000 Israelites, while Dr. Boudin shows
from statistical documents that the number of Jews in the
whole department of the Seine does not amount to more
effects of consanguinity among cattle, stating that for the
last 221 11 Beaudouin wrote on the subject of the
22years he has been experimenting on a flock of 300
merino sheep, which, during that lapse of time, has been
carefully preserved from all mixture with other sheep ; so
that, if consanguinity could be injurious, its 'evil effects
must be perceptible in this case. The author then affirms
that his flock has never presented symptoms of degeneracy
of any kind, but is, on the contrary, extremely vigorous and
healthy ; but, on the other hand, he frankly admits that he
has constantly selected the best and strongest subjects for
the purpose of propagation. M. Dareste sent in a descrip-
tion of a monstrous birth, being that of two chickens joined
together by their pelvian extremities, one of the chickens
being acephalous. The two vertebral columns, situated at
right angles to each other, merge into one at their point of
junction.

The Constitution of Auxerre (Yonne) relates a
horrible event which took place two days
ago in that town.
A mason named Desveaux, who has been for some years
labouring under a serious malady which prevented him
from working, took advantage of the absence of his wife
and his eldest child to hang his two younger ones and him-
self. When his wife returned home she found the door of
the room fastened. A feeling of alarm came over her, as
she had several times heard her husband talk of committing
suicide, and a locksmith was sent for. On the door being
opened: a dreadful sight presented itself, that of the hus-
band and the two children hanging from a beam across the
room, and all dead. A chair was found lying in the room
on which he must have stood and then kicked away from
under him. The melancholy scene had such an effect on
the poor woman that her mind became affected, and fears
are entertained that she will never recover her reason. _

" MUGGY WEATHER."—To most persons this
particular kind of weather is most oppressive, not fit to do
anything upon, but a photographer takes a very different
view of it. He calls that weather " muggy" which is the
best adapted for taking a person's " mug."—Puncli.
A EUROPEAN r)
wPERATION.—A distinguished
surgeon has urgently advised Louis Napoleon immediately
to withdraw the French army from Rome, on the ground
that It excites that inflammation in Italy which is neces-
sarily produced by the presence, in any important part, of
A foreign body—toil,