The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-22 00:00:00

£ 27,910,900 I X 27,910,900
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
Dated the 20th day of Sept.. 1849.

BANKING DEPARTMEN T.

Proprictorecapital .• 14,553,000
Rest - • - 3,578,609
Public deposits (in-
eluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Say-
ings-banks, and Di-

1 Government securl-

ties (including Dead
Weight Annuity).. 14,334,265
Other securities .. • • 10,403,105
INotes ........ • • • • • • 10,246,150
Gold and silver coin" 949,573

vidend accounts) 7,729,860
Other deposits ••• • • . 9,U35,206
Seven day and other
bills •••• • • • • •• .. 1,036.408

£35,933,C83

£35,933,083
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated the 20th day of Sept., IR

NORTH-WEST SUB-UNION LITE-

RAINY FESTIVAL.

Thursday, the 27th inst., i 3 drawing near, when the
anticipated opening of the North-West Sub Union of
Mechanics and Literary Institutes will be celebrated
with all the eclat that should characterise such an
event. The number of distinguished guests—the
presence of the band, in full uniform, belonging to
the Royal Yorkshire Hussars—the eminent gentleman
who is to preside over the proceedings, and the cha-
racter of the arrangements, all tend to raise public
estimation very high, and there is no doubt but it will
be as fully and substantially gratified.
The names of those gentlemen who have promised,
and it is believed will take part in the festival, are
as follow :—The celebrated George Cruikshank,
Esq.; Lord Viscount Goderich; the Hon. and Very
Rev. the Dean of Ripon ; C. Mackay, Esq., LL.D.,
author of " Town Lyrics," " There's a Good Time
Coming," &c.; Edward Baines, Esq., President of
the Yorkshire Union of Institutes; George Dawson,
Esq., M.A., of Birmingham ; Charles Swain, Esq.,
of Manchester, author of " The Mind," " Dramatic
Chapters," &c. William Scholefield, Esq, 31. P.
for Birmingham; the Worshipful the Mayor of
Ripen, &c. &c. In addition to these, the under-
mentioned have also signified their intention of
being present :—J. E. Carpenter, E.q., of Leaming-
ton, the popular ballad writer; the Rev. Edward
Duncilmbe, of Newton Lyme; the Rev. H. liyland,
of Bradford ; Joseph Ryder, Esq., Think ; John
Dunning, Esq., Secretary and Lecturer to the East
Riding Sub-Union ; James Kitson, Esq., of Leeds.
The Stewards, as before announced, are John James
Harrison, Esq., Doctors Bennett and Kennion, and
J. Richardson, Esq., of Harrogate; W. M. Lomas,
Esq., Wetherby ; M. Beaumont, Esq, Knares-
borough ; H. Myers, Esq., Goldsborough ; William
Williamson, Esq., and Mr. James Norman, Ripon;
Robert Pollock, Esq., Leeds.
The dejeuner will take place at two o'clock, pre-
cisely, at Mr. Henry Milner's, the Queen Hotel,
High Harrogate; and the soiree, at seven o'clock in
the evening, at the same place. The morning enter-
tainment, there can be little doubt, will be of the
most sumptuous and elegant description, while the
more refined pleasures inseparable from the intellec-
tual portion of both dejeuner and soirée, there is
little fear, will be of the highest possible order.
Delegates from all the institutions in the Sub-
Union will attend, as well as from many others not
specified in the district which it includes. We are
glad to know that the East and West Yorkshire
Railway Company have expressed their intention of
issuing day tickets, at a very low fare, and which
will be available the following morning. The Leeds
and Thirsk line, we are induced to think, may, like-
wise, he led to do so. We wish the North-West
Sub-Union every success, and trust the friends of
education and progress will mot fail to rally round its
standard on this most inviting and auspicious occa-
sion.

We are glad to find that, through the politeness
and consideration of Mr. E. Baines, the President of
the Yorkshire Union, the central and special committees,
which it was intended should meet in Leeds this day,
will assemble at Harrogate, at twelve o'clock, on the
morning of the above day. The North-West Union
committee will meet an hour earlier on the same
day.—Harrogate Advertiser.

CROSSING THE ALPS IN A
BALLOON.

MARSEILLES, SEPT. 11.—M. Arban the aeronaut,
ascended in his balloon from the Chateau de Flours
(the Vauxhall of this place) at half-past six in the
evening of the 2d instant, and alighted at the village
of Pion-Forte, near Turin, the following morning, at
half-past two, having accomplished the distance, about
400 miles, in eight hours. The particulars of this
voyage are related by M. Arban himself, in one of
our morning papers, as follows :
"I ascended from the Chateau de Pleura on Sunday
evening, the 2d instant, at half-past six. At eight .1
was over the Wood of Esteret, where I ascertained I
was at a height of 4,600 metres. The temperature
of the air was cold, but dry; my centigrade thermo-
meter
marked four degrees below zaro. The wind
was south• west, and sent me over Nice. For nearly
two hours, surrounded by very dense clouds, my cloak
no longer sufficed to keep me warm ; I suffered
much from cold feet. I, nevertheless, determined to
proceed, and to traverse the Alps, from which I knew
I was not far distant.
"My provision of ballast was enough to raise me
above the highest peaks. The cold gradually in-
creased, the wind became steady, and the moon
lighted me like the sun (comme le soleil en plein jour).
I was at the foot of the Alps; the snows, cascades,
rivers, all were sparkling : the ravines and rocks pro-
duced masses of darkness, which served as shadows
Ito the gigantic picture.
" The wind now interrupted the regularity of my
cow % I was ONithiongly obliged to wend in order