The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-17 00:00:00

LIABILITIES.

Circulation £660,673 0 0
Deposits 4,039,060 12 11
Bills payable, and other liabilities 776,460 12 1
Balance of undivided profit
Reserve fund ,.£2(.0,000 0 0
Paid-up capital

1,020,000 0 0

£6,693,23016 3
ASSETS.

Specie on hand, and
cash balances £1,905,039 3 3
Bullion
--------£2,216,622 8 4
Bank premises and other property 32,500 0 0
Bills receivable, Government Stock, and
other securities
Investment of reserve fund (34 per cents ) 200,000 0 0

£6,693,23016 3
STATEMENT OF PROFITS.

Balance of undivided profit at June, 1853 £179,073 6 5
To which are now to be added the profits
of the past year, ending at the branches
31st December:lBs3, and at the London
office, 30th June, 1854 295,963 4 10

£475,036 11 3
Deduct amount of interest paid
at Midsummer, 1853 £164,000
Ditto at Christmas, 1853 164,000

328,000 0 0

Balance of undivided profit at this date... £147,036 11 3

RESERVE FUND.

As reported at Juno, 1853.

£200,000 0 0

There has been great buoyancy this morning in
the English Stocks, arising principally from the
fineness of the weather, and the proximate settle-
ment of the account, the speculators who had sold,
being evidently anxious to buy back in time, less
they may experience a difficulty in getting stock
again loaned to them. The news of the further
successes of the Turks likewise strengthens the
quotations. Consols have been 931 4, and
since 92,1 to 93 for Transfer. The account
prices have been 93k, then 93k, and are now
92i to 93. The New 31 per Cents. have
realised 93i to 94, and the 3 per Cents. 931 to 93i.
East India Stock is at 2261. Exchequer Bills have
been at par to 35., and East India Bonds at 2s.
prem. Exchequer Bonds have been to prem.
In the Foreign Market there has been but two
bargains officially recorded, viz., in Mexican at
241 to 25, an advance of 1 per cent., owing to the
payment of the Gadsden indemnity.
The following are the nominal price of foreign
stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6 to 61 ; Mexi-
can, 241 to 25 • Peruvian, 66 to 68 ; ditto Three
per Cents. 50 to 52 ; Portuguese Four per Cents.
39 to 41 ; Russian Five per Cents. 97 to 99 ;
ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents. 81 to 83 ; Spanish
1 ±
New Deferred, 18i to 19 ; ditto Three per Cents.
371 to 381- ; ditto Certificates, 3to 4 ;ditto
Passive, to 41.
The railway meetings announced are the fol-
lowing :
Company. Date. Place.
Central Peninsula of Portugal Aug. 1, Lisbon.
East Kent ........................ Aug. 8, London Tavern.
Llanelly ........................ July 31, London Tavern.
London and South-Western... July 22, York-road.
London, Brighton, and South

July 27, Bridge house hotel.
Madras .............................. July 18, 33, New Broad-st.
Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire .................. Aug. 2, Manchester.
North Staffordshire ....... ...•• July 27, Euston-square.
Paris and Rouen ............ July 31, Paris. '
Stamford and Essendiue . .
... Aug. 5, Stamford.
The English railway market has been much
livelier and at a further improvement in the prices
of all the favorite lines. The North-Western,
Midland, York and Berwick, and Great Northern
have been most dealt in, and are 11. higher mostly.
French Shares are rather more freely offered at a
slight decline.
In the foreign mines there have been a few
transactions, the Joint Stock Banks are dealt in at
about former rates, and Crystal Palace have been
at a slight discount to a small premium. Land
Shares are quiet.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES,
(Protn the (Vida/ List.)
Bugineag rinne
per Cont. Reduced Annuities . 931 I A 3
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 93 i A B 21 i
31 per Cent. Annuities . 93i 4 31 i
India. Stock .. .. . 226 j
India Bonds, £looo_
Ditto, under £lOOO
Consols for Opening 19th July
Exchequer Bills, 2)d.
£lOOO ...... 4 , par 3 p
2'500 .. . ...................... Par 3 P
5ma11............................. i A ,
A,
. Ditto itive.A.i.s.e.c.i .......................... xi 1 0 1-;
Exchequer Eonds Scrip .
4 P
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Slexican 3 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange;
2} per Cent. 12 Gull 6oi a a.
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for Opening 19th July

THE PUBLIC HEALTH ACT ADIENDMENT.—Lord Pal-
merston's bill to amend the Public Health Act of 1848
has been printed. It contains only seven clauses, the
principal provisions of which enact that the present act
is to come in force at the end of the present session of
Parliament. The following is to be the future constitu-
tion of the General Board of Health. Three persons
will be appointed by the Crown warrant under Royal
sign manual to constitute the board, and one of these
three persons the Home Secretary is to appoint as chair-
man. The powers of the board are to continue until the
31st of August, 1856. The members of the board are
subject to removal by the Crown, and during a vacancy
two members may act, with a salary not exceeding
1,5001. The officers of the board are to be a secretary
and assistant secretary, a superintending medical officer,
and a number of superintending inspectors, clerks, &c,,
to be determined by the Lords of the Treasury. All the
powers, rights, duties, and liabilities of the former board
are to be transferred to the new board, and the salaries
and expenses will be defrayed out of the sums which
Parliament may grant for the purpose. It is incumbent
on the. board to conform, in zdl iespects, to the instruc-
t'ons of the Home Secretary in the execution of their
duties.

CHOLERA.—LIVERPOOL.—Two deaths have occurred
among the patients sent to the workhouse hospital from
the Dirego since the 13th.
CHOLERA.— Several eases of cholera have occurred
within the last few days at Durham, some of which have
proved fatal.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL (THIS .DAY.)

NINTH DAY'S INQUIRY.

This investigation was again resumed, for the ninth
time, at the Sheriff's Court, at eleven o'clock this morn-
ing, before Mr. Baker, the coroner.
After some discussion, during which the jury com-
plained of the extreme length to which the proceedings
were carried, and of the unnecessary waste of their time,
Mr. Bodkin having intimated that as all other witnesses
having any bearing upon the case had been examined,
Mr. Thomas Weedon Cooke, surgeon, of 76, Upper
Berkeley-street, Grosvenor-square, was called, and
stated that for 10 or 11 years he had been connected
with the Royal Free Hospital, and had been full surgeon
about three or four months. He first saw the child
about six days before the operation, and be and Mr.
Scobbell, the house surgeon, examined the child, and
with a metallic sound, and discovered the presence of a
stone in the bladder. They both felt it, as did also Mr.
Morgan, of King's College Hospital, who is a pupil
of his (Mr. Cooke's). I told the mother of the
child that the child could only be relieved by an
operation, and said she had better consult her hus-
band. I saw the child again upon the Wednesday fol-
lowing. Mr. Wakley came in and said that the case
was his, explaining that as it had come in on Friday,
that being his day for receiving patients, and being an
out patient of his, the house surgeon had placed the case
under his care. I then said let it be so; but he said "No,
as it is under your care let it be so." As the child was
in great suffering we agreed that it should be operated
upon without delay. The child was in very good
1 condition for the operation previously to settling to per-
form the operation: The next day we had discussed the
matter with Mr. Scobell and Mr. Grant, and after that
discussion went into the ward to see the child, and made
inquiries about the state of its inside and ordered castor
oil. The next day I took a friend of mine, Dr. Greener,
with me to see the operation performed. When I ar-
rived at the theatre of the Hospital I found that the
instruments for performing the operation had not
arrived. They had to come from Mr. Weiss,
the instrument-maker, of the Strand, who is appointed
to attend operations, and bring all the proper instru-
ments with him. It is the practice of our hospital.
Mr. Baker—Mr. Weiss is, I believe, a first-rate
maker ?
Witness—He is.
Mr. Ballantine—There is no doubt of it.

Examination continued—Mr. Wakley was with me in

the theatre, to assist me in performing the operation.
Finding that the instruments were not ready, I directed
the child to be taken back into the ward, and in the
meantime the operation of removing a tumour from the
arm of a female patient was performed, which took
rather more time than usual in consequence of excessive
bleeding. She having been removed, I ordered the
child to be again brought in, the instruments and every-
thing being in perfect readiness.
The witness then went on to detail the care he had
taken of the child, and was under examination when we
went to press,