The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-01 00:00:00

£27,132,G35 1 £27,132,05
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
Dated the 29th day of June, 1854.

BANKING DEPARTMENT.

Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000
Rest ............ .... 3,202,523
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners ot'
National Debt, Sav-
ing's Banks, and
Dividend Accounts) 4,852,805
Other deposits ...... 10,114,333
Seven Day and other
8i115........ . 968,286

Government securities
(includg.Dead Weight

Annuity) 9,851,250
Other securities.- 15,544,007
Notes 7,518,400
Gold and silver coin .. 737,340

£33,690,997

£33,690,997
M. SLARSUALL, Chief Cashier.
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Dated the 29th day of June, 1854.

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar com-
puted from the returns made in the week ending the 27th
June, 1854, is 21s. Bid. per hundredweight, exclusive of
the duties of Customs' ps.id or payable thereon on the im-
portation thereof into Great Britain.

CONVEYANCE OF MAILS BY RAILROADS.—The select
committee appointed to inquire into the subject of the
conveyance of mails by rai4.ways met again on Thursday and
resumed the investigation. The members present were
Mr. Wilson Patten (chairman), Mr. Wilson, Mr. Eger-
ton, Mr. Liddell, Mr. James Macgregor, Mr. Blackett,
Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Thompson, and Mr. Chichester
Fortescue. Mr. Rowland Hill, the secretary to the
Post- office, was recalled, and stated that the average
lateness of the down night mail from London to the
north in October last was, on the Great Northern
route, 35 minutes ; on the Midland route, 27 minutes ;
and on the North-Western, 35 minutes; in Novem-
ber, the average lateness on the Great Northern
route was 48 minutes ; on the Midland route, 39
minutes ; and on the North-Western route, 33
minutes ; in December, it was on the Great Northern
48 minutes ; on the Midland 63 minutes ; and on the
North-Western 63 minutes. So that in two of those
months the average lateness of the down mail to Edin-
burgh was greater on the Great Northern than on the
other two lines. He had considered the question as to
what would be the saving of carrying the northern mails
by the Great Northern, and he was of opinion that it
might amount to 5001. a year, but the probability was,
that it would not be more than half that sum. With
respect to the remuneration to be paid to the railway
companies by the Post-office for the conveyance of mails,
he contended, in opposition to Captain Huish, that the
sums received by the companies, in respect of the mail
passenger traffic, ought to be taken into account in esti-
mating the remuneration to be paid by the Post-office.
The witness was interrogated at considerable length as
to numerous matters of detail connected with the Post-
office, and the conveyance of the mails, but his answers
were not of a nature likely to be interesting to the
public. •

- SUSPECTED MURDER. —TYNEMOUTH, Wednesdaynight.
—A very considerable amount of excitement has been
caused in this seaport by a report that an Irishman
named Joyce and his wife had murdered their infant
child by drowning it in the Tyne. They are in custody,
and the facts are as follow :—A fortnight ago the female
prisoner was delivered of a, child in a miserable hovel
near the Steam Mill bank, a tramping female receiving
is. for acting as midwife. After her delivery the neigh-
bours suspected the mother of ill-using the infant, and
on Tuesday morning a young woman was sent to the
police-station with the information that they suspected
that the prisoners had murdered it, as it had disappeared.
An officer immediately proceeded to the dwelling of the
prisoners, and apprehended them. When they reached
the police-station the male prisoner volunteered a state-
ment in explanation of the child'isudden disappearance.
He said it died on Monday night, and on Tuesday morning
about 4 o'clock, he was taking the body across the water,
in the direct steam ferry to South Shields, when it fell out
and he lost it in the water. He was informed he must,
be mistaken in this statement, as theferry ,was not run-
ning at that time of the morning. He then altered his
account, and said that he was stepping into a sculler
boat at the New Quay-stairs, with a basket of earthen-
ware on his arm, and the body of the child on the other,
when the body slipped from his arms and he lost it in the .
dream. He said he did not speak to the scullerman,
neither did the scullermau speak to him, and he never
informed the neighbours of what had happened. The
police to-day have carefully examined all the old smiler-
men plying in the neighbourhood of the New Quay, and
all those who were on turn on Tuesday morning, and
they all declare that no such person as the prisoner ever
applied to them to be ferryed across the water on Tues-
day morning. He has since told other contradictory
stories, and the neighbours positively assert they heard
the child crying on Tuesday morning. The prisoners
have been remanded, and the shores of the river are
being dragged to try to recover the body, as it is stron3ly
suspected to have been drowned in the Tyne.
THE SCREW STEAMER SINILA.—SOUTHAMPTON, Jim)
29.---The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation,
screw steamer Simla' Captain George Brooks, went out
on a trial trip yesterday, to test the powers of the nevi
screw propeller, which has been fitted since the recent!
accident to this noble vessel. An average speed of 13.350
knots an hour, equal to nearly 15 miles, was attained at
the measured mile. A greater speed would doubtless
have been produced, but, the vessel being trimmed 12
inches by the head instead of by the stern, which is the
ordinary trim with cargo, stores, &c., on board, a loss f
nearly one knot an hour was the consequence. There
is no doubt this splendid ship is capable, in smooth
water, of steaming 141 knots, or say 17 miles. The
trial was attended by Captain Austin, R.N., Superin-
tendent of Packets, Mr. Hughes, the Government Sur- .
veyor, Captain Nairne, Captain Edgledue, Mr. A.
Lamb, and other gentlemen. It was intended to de-
spatch the Simla for Malta and Alexandria on the 14th
proximo, with the India, China, and Australian mails,
but orders have been received to-day to overrule this ar-
'rangement, and to turn round the Candia on her arrival
(which is daily expected from Alexandria), so as to
despatch that ship in place of the Simla. This altera-
tion, it is supposed, is rendered necessary by orders
from the Government, who have taken up the Simla
and Himalaya for the transport of cayalry to the east.