The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-23 00:00:00

LIABILITIES.

'iapital ... ... 77.7 ... f. 67,900,000 00
Ditto of the Branch Banks ... ... 23,350,000 00
Reserve fund ... ... ... ... 10,000,000 00
Ditto of the branch banks ... ... 2,930,750 00
Reserve-immobiliere ... ... ... 4,000,000 00
Notes to bearer, in circulation ... ... 390,992,900 00
Ditto of the branch banks ... .., 22,297,150 00
Ditto to order (post-bills) ... ... 1,115,070 05
Account-current with Treasury creditor 32,309,571 34
Various accounts current ... ... 92,014,151 90
Ditto in branches 29,063,094 00
Bills payable at sight ... ... ... 4,787,300 00
Ditto at branches 1,012,567 00
Bills of the branch banks payable by
the Bank ... ... ... ... 6,762,347 23

Ditto of the Bank payable by branches.. 4,061,998 00
Dividends payable ... . . ... 256.210 25
Liquidation of the Algiers Bank ... 206,489 04
Discounts, interest, and expenses ... 3,084,402 28
Ditto branch banks ... ... ... 1,465,356 00
Re-discounts of the last six months ... 246,109 80
Ditto in branch banks .. ... ... 460,661 00
Miscellaneous ... ... ... ... 375,632 04

f. 698,741,830 03

The metallic reserve has again declined, being about
300,000 f less in Paris, and nearly 2i millions less in the
branch banks. The discount accommodation is upwards
of 1,000,000 f. less in Paris, and about 150,000 F. more in
the departments. The protested bills are 200,000 f. less
in Paris, and about the same as the preceding week in
the branch banks. The overdue bills show little change.
On the side of the liabilities, the notes in circulation
have declined about 8} railli,m3 in Paris, and about 1
million in the departments. The account current of the
Treasury has increased about 800,0001., being now
32,309,571 f. The whole amount of the metallic reserve
is at present 3221 millions to 414 millions of notes in
circulation.

THE ARMY AND NAVY.
(From the United Service Gazette.)

DESERTION OF BRITISH SEAMEN.—Wo have it from
very good authority that no less than 14,000 British
seamen have desert, d the merchant service during the
past year, 8,000 of whom have left their vessels on the
American coasts.

It is reported that Rear-Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis,
Bart , C. 8., at present residing at Malta, has become a
Roman Catholic.

It is reported that Captain Codrington, C. 8., of
H.M.S. Thetis, at Leghorn, is shortly to be united to a
very wealthy young lady, of the family name of Smith,
residing at Florence.
THE POST-OFFICE PACKET SERVICE.—NOW that the
Admiralty have established their four steam-packets,
Llewellyn, Banshee, Caradoc, and St. Colomba, in regu-
lar working order, and the mails are conveyed to and
from London and Dublin, via Holyhead, with much
greater celerity than by way of Liverpool, their Lord-
ships have determined to do away with the Liverpool
establishment, and thereby save the amount now paid to
the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, and on and
after the 20th of June, to have all the mails conveyed to
and fro between Holyhead and Kingstown, by her Ma-
' jesty's steam-boats above named. It is quite time that
the Holyhead boats should do more work for their ex-
penses.
General Lord Seaton, the High Commissioner of the
lonian Islands (by 'private letters from Corfu), was,
with his family, about to embark in her Majesty's ship
Sharpshooter, for a psaaage to Trieste, en route
to England.
THE SUPERINTENDENT OF CHATHAM DOCKYARD.—
We regret to state that Captain Superintendent Sir
Thomas Bouchier, K.C.8., is again very ill at her Ma-
jesty's Dockyard, Chatham.
A fancy ball upon an extensive and magnificent scale
will take place in the course of the summer in the
grounds of her Majesty's Royal Military Hospital, Chel-
sea, in aid of the funds of the Society for the Relief of
Distressed Needlewomen.

THE AMERICANS AT ALEXANDRIA.—MARCH 27.
Sailed, the United State 3 frigate Constitution, having
been detained some days to gain redress for an insult
ffered to one of her officers, viz.:—A boat from Consti-
tution, when at watering place, a scuffle ensued between
one of the crew and an Arab water carrier, from
the latter having refused to give him any to drink, upon
which the officer ordered the men into the boat. A party
of Egyptian soldiers came down and demanded the man
to be given up to them who had been sculling, pointing
out the man at the same time, which, upon his refusing
to do, they walked him off before their officer, striking
him twice with muskets. The soldiers have been basti-
nadoed, and it is supposed that the Egyptian officer will
be degraded to the ranks, as the American Consul de-
mands the same.

CHARGE OF EMBEZZLING
NEARLY 5,0001.
At the Leeds court-house, on Thursday, Mr. Peter
Mann, who has been chief clerk of the Leeds Water-
works Company since its incorporation, upwards of
seven years ago, was brought up in custody, having
been apprehended on the previous day by a warrant,
which charged him with having received various
sums of money, the property of his employers, and
embezzled the same. Mr. J. W. Daffier, one of the
engineers of the company, said that in consequence
of what he had observed regarding the management
of the company's depot, he was induced at the last
monthly meeting of the directors of the company,
held on the first Monday in April, to ask for the
appointment of a sub-committee to inquire into
the manner in which the business was transacted
there. A sub-committee was appointed, and the
result of its investigations showed that the prisoner,
whose duty it was to receive the water rents
from the collectors and to pay them to the treasurer
the next day, had some years ago begun to retain the
sums so received in his own hands for a few days,
afterwards for longer periods, say a month, and
sometimes he had not paid them over at all. The
consequence was that out of the sums received by
Mr. Mann from the collectors of the water rents
from time to time, he had withheld moneys to
the extent of nearly 5,000/. The directors had met on
Wednesday, and had come to the painful conclusion
that they must bring the present charge against the
prisoner. They ha appointed Mr. Bywater, the
accountant, to examine the books, and as that investi-
gation was not yet concluded, the case was not ripe
for ir.quiry by the bench, and therefore the prosecu-
tors had to ask that the accused might be remanded
to a future day. Mr. J. M. Barrett, solicitor, who
appeared for the prisoner, said that he did not object
to a remand, but he wished the magistrates to fix the
amount of the bail they would require for his client's
appearance on the day to be named. He said that
I this matter had keen before the directors for the last
ten days, and that since they had ascertained the
extent of his deficiencies they had taken an assign-
ment of all his goods and effects, and he
khatdo notthe
justices, who i
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sought to absentalshoimcsleerlfk.
prisoner had volunteered a state-
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onnectedi with the company,
state-
ment to a gentleman c
said that the
he hadinvested the money
was a
considerable
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in purchases of grain, peas,'beans,
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and he had
&c., and he appeared
than he had withheld from the comp y,
offered to give up everything that he possessed. He
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had since executed a deed, by whic.h he had assigned
to the company all the property he possessed, whether
solely his own, or in which he had only a partnership
interest; and he was now pennilef4=, though the pro-
perty given up was not equal to hylas deficiencies. The
magistrates, after retiring to consiAer the point, re-
fused to take bail, and remande•a" the prisoner for
further examination on Monday (t 'b is day).

ROYAL ARTILLERY.--WOOLWI,7 g, APRIL 20.
A general court-martial assembled. at Woolwich, of
which Colonel Campbell, Royal Artillery, was president,
for the trial of Gunner and Driver 17.00rapion, 6111 bat-
talion, on the following ch. t
arges:—F,st, for striking a
non-commissioned officer in the exec don of his duty;
secondly, for breaking away from c onfinement when
under the sentence of a garrison col trt- martial, and for
absenting himself from head-quarters,. and not returning
until brought back by an escort. Th e Court found him
guilty, and having taken into conside. ration former con-
victions and general very bad charm: ter, do now sen-
tence the prisoner, Gunner and Driver Thompson, to be
transported as a felon for ten years, a tai. to be marked
with the letter "D." The sentence has seen confirmed,
and was carried into effect this morning.