The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-29 00:00:00

A 30,284,630 ► £ 30,284,630
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
Dated the 27th day of December, 1649.

BANKING DEPAZTIONT.

Z.
Proprietors' capital 14,553,000
Rest • •••• • • • . 3,114,159
Public deposit. (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ings-banks, and Di-

Government securt.
ties (including Dead
Weight Annuity) .. 14,350,880
Other securities .. .. 10,860,265
Notes ........ • • • • • • 12,421,220
Gold and silver coin.. 796,012

viaend acemints)... 10,263,704
()pier deposits ••• • • • 9,463,380
Seven day and other
bills •••••••• •• • • • • 1,069,234

£33,488,677

I A 38,488,677
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
ir, 1849.

Dated the 27th day of Deeembe]

GRANTON PIER.—To protect this pier from the
mud and sand which wero gradually accumulating
around it, the Duke of Buccleugh has found it neces-
sary to construct a breakwater on the western side at
a cost of about 70,000/. We understand that a similar
breakwater will have to be erected on the eastern side,
involving a similar outlay of 70,000/. These outlays
were, of course, never contemplated, and the necessity
for them is a cause of considerable regret.—North British

A GANG or BURGLARS.--Soon after twelve o'cock
on Friday night, four men went to the farm-house of
Mr. Taverner, who resides between Moreton and Fyfield,
and having awoke the occupants of the house,-requested
an audience with Mr. Taverner, stating that they were
members of the constabulary, and wanted to speak to
him. Mr. Taverner, however, suspecting them to be in
pursuit of a very different object to that represented,
fetched his gun and advised them to retire peaceably, or
threatened to fire upon them. At first they only ridi-
culed him, and seemed beat upon effecting an entrance;
but at the first discharge the miscreants thought it beat
to decamp. The same party then proceeded to the
house of Mr. Smith, of Moreton, and three of them
having laid in ambush, one of them aroused the inmates,
imploring their assistance, and stating that his horse had
fallen down in the road ; the son of Mr. Smith having
opened the door, four men with their faces covered with
black crape rushed in, demanding money. Seeing that
he must be overpowered by numbers, Mr. Smith, who
is an aged man, offered no resistance, and the burglars
ransacked the room, taking from the hutch a 5/. note of
the Essex Bank, with about 31. in gold and silver; they
also took away a silver watch, a hat, some bread and
meat, and effected their escape. There is no doubt that
these men form members of a gang of desperadoes who
have been the terror of the neighbourhood for a long.
time.—Esses Standard.

THE MANCHESTER COMMURCIAL ABSOCIATION.---
A meeting of the directors- of the above association was
held on Thursday, at the offices, York Hotel-building,
when Mr. James Aspinall Turner, Preiident of the
Association, occupied the chair. Mr. Leone Levi, Hono-
rary Secretary of the LiterPoel Chamber of Commerce,
attended to explain his views on the expediency of
amalgamating this association with the Chamber of
Commerce, and co-operating with the Liverpool Chamber
of Commerce to obtain from Parliament an Act to establish
in all commercial towns tribunals of commerce, to be
composed of commercial men, with a legal judge as pre-
sident, permanently sittingto decide all cases of com-
mercial disputes. Mr. Levi also suggested the propriety
of adopting some mode whereby the President of the
Board of Trade would be enabled to obtain the constant
assistance of mercantile mei in the formation of all
enactments affecting our trade and commerce. A long
discussion ensued, and the subject was ultimately ad-
journed for future consideration.

On Saturday last a four-oared punt left the shore
for the purpose of putting a man on board a vessel
bound up, having accomplished which they were return-
ing by the west side of the jetty, when a heavy sea struck
the boat, and upset it. With difficulty the men gained
a footing on the rock, and were immediately assisted in
without further damage than a soaking.—Kentish
Observer.

Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from
the Colonial-office, for the Governor* of the North
American Colonies.