The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-20 00:00:00

LIABILITIES.

capital
Ditto of the Branch Banks

... f. 67,900,000 00
... 23,350,000 00

Reserve fund —. 10,000,000 00
Ditto of the branch banks 2,90,750 00
Reserve. immailiere ... 4,000,000 00
Notes to bearer, in circulation ... ... 399,590,600 00
Ditto of the branch banks ... 23,167,775 00
Ditto to order (post-bills) 1,003,894 85
Account•current with Treasury creditor 31,497,129 44
Various accounts current 89,971,541 45
Ditto in branches ... 27,455,430 00
Bills payable at sight ..: ... 4,821,300 00
Ditto at branches ••• .. ••• 952,795 00
Bills of the branch banks payable by
the Bank ... 6,742,874 55
Ditto of the Bank payable by branches.. 2,953,054 00
Dividends payable ... 266,690 25
Liquidation of the Algiers Bank ... 206,489 04
Discounts, interest, and expenses ... 3,045,104 33
Ditto branch banks ... 1,885,730 00
Re-discounts of the last six months ... 246,109 80
Ditto in branch banks .. ... 460,661 00
Miscellaneous ... ... 201,189 04

f. 702,202,118 00

The metallic reserve has declined 64 millions, of which
4 millions are in Paris, and 24 in the country. The dis-
count accommodation is not so great by 800,000 f. The
protested bills have declined about 250,000 f., and the
overdue bills 62,000 f. On the side of the liabilities, the
amount of notes in circulation has fallen off about 134
millions. The account current of the Treasury has in-
creased somewhat more than 3 millions, the amount
being 31,497,127 f. .The whole amount of the metallic
reserve is now about 325 millions to 4234 millions of
notes in circulation.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE TTNE.—A serious
accident occurred on Saturday last on the river Tyne,
near Wallsend, by which two men named Wear and
Moor, and a boy named Robert Watson, were drowned.
It appears that the unfortunate sufferers were em-
ployed at Mr. Potter's coke and brick works at
Willington Quay, and bad proceeded in a boat to
Walker, where they took in a quantity of iron. On their
return they got into
.the wake of a steamer, the swell
from which was so great that in tacking about the sail
jibed,' and in their efforts to right the boat it swamped
and went down. Wear soon disappeared ; the boy
Watson swam vigorously towards Mordness Quay,
where a rope was thrown to him, but whether Iron
exhaustion or cold, he did not grasp it, and sank.
Moor, in the meantime, swam towards the buoy,
but he too, perished within a few yards of it. On
Monday, the body of Watson was recovered, and on
the following day an inquest was held before Stephen
Reed, Esq., coroner, when a verdict of " Accidental
Death" was returned. The deceased was only fourteen
years of age, and the son of a widow whose husblnd
was killed in llovrdon Dock a few months ago. Wcbr
was a joiner and unmarried ; and Moor, who 1. as a
keelman, bus left a wife and two children.—Newcastle

Paper.
MAJOR-GENERAL DAVID FoREEL—This gallant
officer, who died at Aberdeen on the 29:h of March, en-
tered the snarly in 1793, and soon after joined the 78th
Highlanders Regiment, to which he had been appointed.
He accompanied the Ross-shire Highlanders to the
Continent, and served in the campaigns of 1794 and
1795, was present at the sortie from Nimeguen, in
the action when the French were drive n across the Waal
at Bommel, and in the affair of Geldermalsen, in Ja-
nuary, 1795. In August of the same year he accompa-
nied his regiment to Quiberon Bay, and assisted at the
capture of l'lsle Dieu. In 1796 the 78th were ordered to
the Cape of Good Hope, and he witnessed the surrender
of the Dutch fleet in Saldanha Bay. In November fol-
lowing he proceeded with his regiment to India, and
served in the campaign in Oude in 1798 and 1799; also in
the Mabratta war of 1803, assisting at the storm of the
Pettah, and siege of the Fort of Ahmednuggar. It was
on this occasion that the late Sir Colin Campbell, then a
subaltern of the 78th, by his gallantry and intelligence,
attracted the attention of his illustrious patron the Duke
cf Wellington. Major-General Forbes was present in
every action in which the 78th was engaged in Java during
the years 1811, 1812, and 1813, including the forcing of the
enemy's position at Wellerreden, the assault of the lines
of Cornelis, the heights of Serandolo and Djocjocarta.
In May, 1813, by his firmness and judgment he quelled a
formidable insurrection which broke out in the eastern
parts of the island. On this occasion Major-General
Forbes with his • men made a forced march of sixty
miles in eighteen hours, during which Lieutenant-Co-
lonel Fraser and Captain Macpherson, of the
78th, were murdered by the insurgents. During
the service in Java he commanded the Light Company of
the 78th with the greatest gallantry, and nobly seconded
the brave Rollo Gillespie. Under his orders the High-
landers sustained their national character, and added to
the reputation which the " Tartans" have ever. estsib-
fished on the battle-field. He had the rare qualification
of never having apparently made an enemy or provoked
a reflection.
Itemu or Ratewers.—A numerous meeting
took place at the Clarendon Rooms at Liverpool, on
Monday, to take into consideration the propriety of
petitioning Parliament for an adjustment of the are
tem of rating railways. Mr. J. B. Moore, Mayor
of the borough, presided, and opened the busi-
ness of the day by observing the object they all had in
view was to obtain a more equitable arrangement of the
rating of railway property throughout the kingdom.
Mr. Moore then instanced various places rated to show
the necessity of an equitable adjustment. He then called
the attention of his auditors to the manner in which the
present system of rating worked per head. The annual
value of property rated in Liverpool to March, 1847, was
1,021,8981., and there had been expended in relief to the
poor 64,700 L, the adult male population relieved being
$3,075; the rate of expenses being 11. Is. 2d. per head. It
showed the inequality of the present system. Accord-
Ing to the number of persona employed by the London
and North-Western Company it was more than 81. per
head. Mr. D. Neilson proposed the first resolution—
" That railways, under the existing system of ascertain-
ing the value of that description of property, are com-
pelled to bear an inequitable and undue proportion of
the local rates of the several parishes through which
they pass." The shareholders had Leen great
sufferers by unjust taxation, until at length their
property seemed to have become an object of public
plunder. Mr. D. Neilson concluded by a statistical
statement of the sums sunk in railways. The resolution
was seconded by Mr. J. Stewart, and carried unanimously.
Mr. E. Moyley proposed the next resolution:—" That it
is inexpedient and against public policy to tax un-
duly the enterprise by which such great and general
advantages have been obtained by the introduction
and extension of railways," which was seconded
by Mr. W: Stuart, and carried in a similar manner.
The third resolution—" That the petition to Parliament
then produced, in which the views of the meeting were
embodied, be adopted and forwarded to Lord Stanley-
and to Lord Sefton, for presentation to the House of
Lords, and to one of the borough Members for presen-
tation to the House of Commons, was then moved an&
seconded, and carried unanimously, and after a few
words from the Earl of Sefton, who condemned the pre-
sent system of rating, the meeting broke up.
THE NEW MARRIAGE BILL.—The second reading
of the Bill to amend and alter the Act of the sth and 6th
Wiliiam IV., c. 54, so far as relates to marriages within
certain of the prohibited degrees of affinity, is al poin.ed
for the 3d of May, when Mr. Goulburn will, according
to rotice, move that it be read that day six months. The
Bill is a very abort one. It contains five clauses. After
reciting the purport of the Act mentioned, it is proposed
that the relief afforded should extend to marriages be-
tween a man and the sis'or, or the daughter of the brother
or sister of his deceased wife, and therefore that the pro
hibitory clause should be repealed. By tho secoofndcl aurae
msrrisges within the dt gem of affinity
hibited are not to be voidable, except unh re
drerrecterotainrci°r•
curnstancea ; and by the next provision clergymen are no
longer to be liable to penalties for solemnizing marriages
between parties within the degrees of affiuity heretofore
prohibited. Further it is proposed that the Act shall not
disturb persons possessed of property or honours in con-
sequence of the invalidity of marriages heretofore con-
tracted, nor is the Act to affect settlements of personal
property under wills and testaments administered to be-
fore the passing of the same. Such is an outline of the
measure which has caused so much discussion with re-
spect to marriages with a "deceased wife's sister."
ONLY A SYLLABLE.—There is a strong impression
in Ireland, at this moment, that more is to be hoped from
reel thsu from Repeal.—Pvich,