The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-21 00:00:00

LIABILITIES.

.Japital . . 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 ... ... 2,960,750 00
Reserve- im m o bil ere ... 4,000,000 00
Notes to bearer, in circulation ... ... 390,992,900 00
Ditto of the branch banks ... 22,297,150 00

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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 26
Ditto of the Bank payable by branches.. 4,061,998 00
Dividends payable ... . . ... 256,280 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 2f millions less in the
branch banks. The discount accommodation is upwards
of 1,000,000 f. less in Paris, and about 150,000 E 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} ,millions 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 metallie reserve
is at present 3221 millions to 414 millions of notes in
circulation.

THE ARMY AND NAVY.
(Frew the United Service Gazette of this day.) -
DESERTION OF BRITISH• SEAMEN.—We have it from
very good authority that no less than 14,000 British
seamen have deserts 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. 13., 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.
THZ 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
lithian Islands (by private letters from Corfu), was,
with his family, about to embark in her Majesty's ship
Sharpshooter, for a passage to Trieste, en route
to England.
THE SUPERINTENDENT OF CHATHAM DCCKYARD.—
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 talie place in the course or 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 States frigate Constitution, having
been detained some days to gain redress for an insult
offered 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 scuffling, 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 baste
nadoed, and it is supposed that the Egyptian officer will
be degraded to the ranks, as the American Consul de-
mands the same.