The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-18 00:00:00

BANKING DPARTMENT.

Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000
Reit .3,166,072

Government securities

pocludg.Dead Weight

Pubic deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Connuissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ing's Banks, and
Dividend Accounts) 3,525,577
Other deposits 10,243,333
Seven Day and other
Bills ........ . 1,114,875

Annuity) .... 11,413,016
Oilier securittes ..
Ntes
Gold and silver coin , 580,415

£32,602,857

£32,602,857
➢l. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated the 16th day of Nov., 1

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar com-
puted from the returns made in the week ending the 14th
Nov., 1854, is 20s. 7d. per hundredweight, exclusive of
the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im•
portation thereof into Great Britain.

MOVEMENTS AND CHANGES IN THE
BLACK SEA.

We extract the following from a Malta letter received
yesterday :
The latest movements and changes in the Black Sea
Fleet are the following :—" Katcha, Nov. 3. —The
greater part of our steam squadron are lying at Bala-
klava to protect the transports. The following vessels
are in the harbour at Balaklava :—Sanspareil, Diamond,
Wasp, Caradoc, and two gunboats. The Agamemnon,
Gladiator, Sphynx, Valorous, Niger, Simoom, Vulcan,
and Apollo
are outside the harbour. There are a few
cases of smallpox on board the last vessel, and the
assistant-surgeon of the Simoom is sent to do duty
there during the illness of her own medical
officer. Dr. Ross, late assistant-surgeon of the
Caradoo, is appointed to the Banshee, vice Chapman, to
the Britannia. The Diamond is employed as a receiving
ship for sick and wounded seamen and marines, who
are forwarded to their respective ships as they become
strong enough for removal. The inner harbour of
Balaklava contains at present only those transports the
cargoes of which are in daily requisition, and a ship for
the reception of sick and wounded soldiers. Large
quantities of sheep and cattle are arriving daily from
Eupatoria, where the supply appears to more than equal
our demand. A rumour reached us a few days ago
that the Cossacks had succeeded in intercepting any
furthur supply, but English gold is irresistible here
as elsewhere, and our wants are well provided for by
the Tartars. The beef and mutton are as good as could
be procured in England. Immense quantities of onions
are also to be had at Eupatoria. The Leander is the
only English man-of-war lying there. French soldiers
are arriving daily, and a large Turkish reinforcement has
also arrived from Batoum. A cargo of charcoal is being
disembarked for the use of the army. The weather has
been very cold in the camp for the last four days, espe-
cially at night and in the morning, but amid their dis-
comfort our brave troops appear happy, and the univer-
sal wish is to storm the enemy's stronghold. The
violence of the gale has now abated, and consequently
the cold is not so great."

THE NORTH COUNTRY SHIPWRIGHTS' STRIKE.—SUN-
DERLAND, Nov. 16.—The shipwrights employed in the
building-yards on this river and on the Tyne still remain
on strike, and there seems a very remote prospect of a
settlement of the dispute in question. The Wear men
have offered to submit it to the arbitration of two gen-
tlemen—Mr. Alderman Mordey and Mr. Knott, black-
smith, who were appointed chairmen of an arbitration
court some time ago for the adjustment of disputes in
the trades ; but as the subject is one of wages, the
masters have declinei their good offices. The men have,
therefore, determined to withdraw a resolution come to
last week, to knock off all the yards in the river, even if
the employers were paying 6s. a day, and all the men
who can find employment at that wage have liberty to
take it. They have also issued a notice that they will
work days' work for any shipowner that may have had
his vessel damaged by the late gale, so that a good num-
ber of the men are finding at least temporary employ-
ment. In the meantime ship-building is at a stand-
still. There is a report that Government will very wil-
lingly give employment to many of the men in the
Royal Dockyards to assist in getting vessels ready for
next spring.
A GLEN TILT CASE.—We have heard that there is a
likelihood of aome business falling into the hands of the
lawyers, by the attempted shutting up of an old road in
the neighbourhood of Perth. This read has been open
to the public as far back as the oldest inhabitant can re-
'collect, and we wonder, after the Glen Tilt case, and
the many cases of a similar nature that have recently
been decided by the Court of Session in favour of the
public, that any person would entertain the idea of being
able to shut up an old highway.— Caledonian Mercury.
THE ZOUAVES.—Who and what are the Zona.ves ?
Are they Africans or Frenchmen, and when were their
corps first organised ?—IONORADIUS. [The Zouaves are
natives of the French provinces of Algiers, disciplined
and exercised by French officers, and now forming a
part of the French contingent employed in the Crimea
and the siege of Sebastopol. They hold exactly the
same relation to the French army that the Sepoys iv
India have to the regular British troops.] —lllrOtea Pia
Quotfo.