The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-15 00:00:00

NANKING DEPARTMEN T.

Proprietors' capital • • 14,553,000
Uest •••.• • • • • •• • • 3,449,164
Public deposits (In-
eluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ings-banks, and Di-
vidend accounts) ..
()Cher deposits
Seven day and other
bills.

Government

ties (including Dead

Weight AnnUity).. 10,308,1 41
Other securities •• • • 16,311,781
Notes • ••••• • • • • 3,196,53 S
Gold and silver coin.. 799,904

2,870,109
8,930,328

• •• • ••.. 813,760

X 30.616,361

$30,616,361
MARSILILL, Chief Cashier.

Dated the 13th day of May, 1847

A HINT TO PAPER MANUFACTURERS.—,We copy
the following from a recent number of the New Zealand
Spectator and Cook's Strait Ciiatclian, (Dec. 9,) published at
Wellington :—" We must apologise to our readers for being
obliged, from the unusual scarcity of printing paper in the
colony, to publish the Spectator on blotting paper. We are
in daily expectation of receiving a fresh supply of paper by
the next arrivals, when we hope to be relieved from the in-
convenience of our present dilemma."
A NEW NovEr,, entitled " EVELYN HAucoußT,'
infgrornfietthioens,pen,,olfemthpetaatcicoonm;ploisr,lteda
i ,
coigne). It combines two very attractive features—a pic-
ture Wife's Perils," and " The School for Wives" (Mrs. Gas-
ahuatshjoures tssbeoefn tphuobsel isshterciii
of existing society in the upper circles, and a story of
deep domestic interest. It has been. rumoured that some of
the characters which are remarkable for spirited portraiture
Hgheeastilland and PosyLadys
r .Th aravuyre
Truro;
their
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as
it
naratel sga
lalir
dnu
ns elixtkhieseit:Dntgi
tpe ear
ofis orsn,sa
lady who has remained so long abroad as to yhaE ser rfiiodbrglgeo, tttht the,
how to speak her own language, has- also been drawn from the
lite.

CALEDONIAN ASYLUM.—We are glad to understand
that the Anniversary Ball will be celebrated with more than
usual splendour; for though there have been so many urgent
calls, owing to the dearth prevailing in some parts of Scot-
hind, upon the patronesses in extending the charities of pri-
vate life, they are determined by aw. 11 sustained benevo-
knee to aid the directors in maintaining this admirable in-
stitution in the fullest efficiency. It possesses peculiar claims
on the consideration of patriotic Scotchmen, and we trust
they will come forward with hereditary zeal, and contribute
to the furtherance of a beneficent and national object.
The Bosjesmans, or Bush People, on whom a
Lecture is to be delivered by Dr. Knox, at Exeter Hall, on
efmthfirsoml
haagvreeawtitnessed
Monday next, are said to have such extraordinary acuteness
of sight that they have been used by the British Army, when
alit:air sight is rendered so acute by spying
ewoournktroyn, as
Southern human telescopes.Africa,
pblisPhreod-
fceaspatourrLichtenstein,
KTi
height after their preys
that they perceive objects clearly at a distance which no
European, with the best eye, could see without the assist-
frequent proofs,
as I have seen them
telescope.abconyneC:tinolfubaaurily sa ar yo t says—" Their
: d t
Of
discover flocks of antelopes at a distance
of a mile-and-a-halt"

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The " Handelian Operatic Concerts," announced.
by Mr. Rophino Lacy for next week are already making:
some stir among the numerous Handelian devotees in, andl
out of, the musical world. They certainly hold forth them
attraction of novelty ; for half the world are ignorant of:'
Handel having written Italian operas at all. We, how-.
ever, remember two beautiful specimens which were adaptect
to sacred words, though originally love songs, viz. Lori,
remember David," and " Holy, holy."