The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-19 00:00:00

BANKING DEPAITIKEN T.

Proprietors' capital • . 14,553,000
Rest
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ings-banks, and Di-
vidend accounts) .. 5,298,594
Other deposits
Seven day and other

Government securi-
ties (including Dead

Weight Annuity) .. 12,101,987
Other securities •. • • 15,071,256
Notes 5,747,330
Gold and silver coin.. 827,844

bi 115...-....... ..

895,562

Z 33,748,417

£33,748,417
W. 3LAESIIALL, Chief Cashier.
1847.

Dated the 18th clay of February,

COURSE OF EXCHA
Amsterdam .• C.F. 19 3%,
Ditto, at sight ...... 12 1
Rotterdam .... •• 2U. 12 4
Antwerp . 25 80
flamburgh ......M.B. 13 10%
Paris, 3 days' sight ...• 25 45
Ditto, 3 months...... 25 75
Marseilles • ..... •..... 25 E 5
80urdeaux......... .. 25 8.5
Frankfort on Maine.... 121

.NGE.-(THIS DAY.
Gibraltar... . ......
Leghorn ..
. 30 20
Genoa ..... 25 tis

Milan .. ..............

Naples
Palermo, per oz .... .. 121

Lisbon....-. • ......... 53
Oporto• .... 54%
Rio Janeiro • • .......• 27

Bahia ................

Petersbargh, 3 L's—
Berlin . • • • .. • ,
Vienna, effee. 110 .. • . 10 3
Trieste, ditto 10 3
Madrid •... • .. 36

Buenos Ayres

New York, 21 days' sight

Philadelphia .. :.......

(PRICES OF BULLION, PER oZ.
Foreign Gold In bars...£3 17 9
Now Dollars .... • . 0 4 103,
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
Silver in bars ...... • . 0 0 0

Cadiz • • • .. : 36j
Bilbao . ..... ........
Barcelona •.
lelillc ............

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in London before the LORD CHIEF BARON and
Common Juries.)
LEITH r. FALLING.

In this case, which occupied the attention of the Court
nearly the whole of the day, the plaintiff sought to recover
compensation for damages sustained by him in consequence
of having bean thrown off a stage coach, the property of the
defendant, in consequence of the alleged carelessness and ne-
gligence on the part of the driver, the servant of the de-
fendant.

The details of the case did not present any features of in-
terest to the public.
Mr. Crowder and Mr. Bovill appeared for the plaintiff; Sir
P. Thesiger and Mr. D. Keane for the defendant.

STANDING ORDERS-(THIS DAY.)
The Committee met at the usual hour for the dispatch of
public business. The decisions on the different schemes sub-
mitted to the consideration of the Committee were the fol-
lowing:—
EDINBURGH, LEITH, AND GRANTON RAILWAY.
Allowed to prcceed.
SOWERBY BRIDGE IMPROVEMENT BILL.
Standing orders not complied with.
GREAT NORTHEZN (DEVIATIONS BETWEEN
GRANTON AND YORK).
Allowed to proceed.
LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN (BIRMINGHAM
AND LICHFIELD BRANCHES).
Allowed to proceed.:

PETITIONS ON PRIVATE BILLS.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(THIS DAY.)
(Room 22, before Mr. Examiner SMITH.)
UNOPPOSED LIST.
In the following unopposed cases, the Standing Orders
were completed :
Groat Western Railway (Amendment and Extension).
Eastern Counties Railway (Sumersham to Ramsay).
Lagan Navigation (Powers to make new Towing-paths
and other Works, to borrow Money, to alter Tolls, and to ex-
tend Time for purchasing Lands, and to amend Acts).
Lancashire, Cheshire, and North Wales Drainage and In-
closure Company's Incorporation.
Taw Vale Railway and Dock.
Commercial Gas Light and Coke Company (Tower Hamlets
and London).
Guildford Extension, and Portsmouth and Fareham, and
London and South-Western Railways Acts Amendment, and
New Lines, Branches, Deviations, an dExtensions (Lines from
(_.;odalming to Chichester, and to Cosham, near Portsmouth,with
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Railway).
Royston and Hitchin Railway Act Amendment (Exten-
sion from Royston to Cambridge, and power to sell or lease
the same to the Great Northern Railway Companv).l
Royston and Hitchin Railway Act Amendment (Sale or
Lease of Line).
Duffryn, Lynvi, and Porth Cawl Railway Company; and
Lynvi 'Valley Railway Company Amalgamation.
OPPOSED LIST.
GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY (BRANCII TO HORN-
CASTLE AND TO BRAYFORD MERE, LINCOLN).
In the above opposed case the standing orders were found
not to be complied with.
This closed the list for to-day.
(Room 23, before Mr. Examiner MAY).
UNOPPOSED LIST.
In the following unopposed cases the customary formal
proofs were put in, and the standing orders oomplied with :
Ewell Rates.
Saffron Walden Rates.
Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury, and Halstead. Railway
(Extension Railway to Melford, Lavenhain, and Clare).
Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury, and Halstead Railway
(Extension Railway from Lavenham to Bury St. Edmund's).
Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury, and Halstead Railway
(Lease to the Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Railway
Company).
Eastern Union and Hadleigh Junction (Sale to the
Eastern Union Railway Company).
Claridge's Patent Asphalte Company.
Legal Quay's (London).
Work worth Harbour.
Payne's Patents Assignment.
Hyde Esplanade and Pier, Street Improvement.
King's Norton, Northfield, Beoley, Edgbaston, and liar-
borne Rates 8i11...