The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-10 00:00:00

Name of Company.

Axintun.

last London..• • • • •• • •
Grand Junction .• .. • .
Vauxhall .• • . • • • • • • ••
Wellt Middlesex . • • 51.15a.prent.

81.
31. 109.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From this night's Gazette.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and sth of Victoria, cap. 32, for
the Week ending on Saturday, the 4th day of September, 1847.
135C11 PIPARTUEN T.
£.
Notes issued . • ...... 22,39i,645

£22,394,845

Government debt 11,01i,100
Other securities •• • • 2,984.900
Gold coin and bullion 7,373,815
Silver bullion ••• • • • 1,024,030

Dated the 9th day of September,

BANKiNG D

1 £ 22,396,845
M. MARSUALL, Chief Cashier.
, 1647.

Proprietors' capital.• 14,553,000
Kest •••.••• • • • • • • • 3,986,593
Mlle deposits (in-
eluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Say-
ings-banks, and Dl-
vidend accounts) • • 7,722,764
Other deposits ••• • .. 6,791,373
Seven day and other
bills ••••• • • • • .... 842,711

EPARIIdEN T.

£33,896.381

Government securl-
- ties (including Dead
Weight Annuity) . • 11,636,340
Other securities •• •• 17,5. 8,119
Notes ••••••• • • • • • • • 4,189,630
Gold and silver coin • . 562,092

Dated the 9th day of September,

COURSE OF EXCH
Xmaterdam ......C.F. 12 7

£33,1196,311
M. MAr.SFIALL, Chief CasNiiz.
1847.

Ditto, at sight
Zotterdarn • • 2U. 12 7;.r.
liarnburgh ......M.B. 13 15
Alton a •
rarli, 3 days' sight ..•• 25 55
Ditto, • • • • .• ..
Marseilles •••• • • • • • • 25
95
IN tird eaux...• • • •
Fraralort on Maine ... . 122
fetersbilrdh. 3Us•• • • • •
Vienna, elec. lio ••• • .. 10 9
Trieste, ditto... 10
Madrid •• • •• .. 47
Cadiz • • • • 48

NGE.-(THIS DAY

1111,ralt.tx.. ..... • • • • • • •
Leghorn . • 30 91
utitioa .. • • • • . • • 25 96
Naplea .......... .. 40 S
1...a.1erm0, per 0a........ 121.

Lisbon . . 52
0p0rt0....
Itio Janeiro • • ...... • . 20:
Ituenos Ayres
New York, 21 days' sight

Barcelona • • • • • • • • • ..•

ievlDe ......... ......

PIIICL3 OF BULLION, PLI OE.
Foreign ilold iu bars.. £3 17 9
New Dollars •• .. • • • 4 1154
l'ortugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
Silver iu bars ...• •• • • 0 4 113(

EXPERIMENTS WITH LIFE PRE-
SERVERS.—(TIIIS DAY.)
A series of highly interesting experiments were
this day made upon the Serpentine in Hyde Park,
in the presence of several of the Commissioners
of Woods and Forests, and an immense assemblage
of persons, some of whomwere. well known as taking
a deep interest in nautical matters. The experiments
were made for the purpose of testing the efficiency of
a recent invention, which has received the name of
the " Nautilus Life Preserver." The first test ap-
plied was that of attaching " the tubes" to a common-
wised boat, and withdrawing a number of plugs from
the bottom and sides, leaving the boat to fill with
water. Isioth,Aititstanding this great weight and
that of six persons who were on board at the
same time, the boat still preserved its buoyancy,
and was rowed for a considerable period round the
water, all efforts to attempt to capsize or sink the
boat appearing perfectly futile. A number of the
air tubes were then linked together in an incredibly
short space of time, for the purpose of forming a raft,
which sustained the weight of as many persons as
could possibly crowd themselves upon it, and at the
same time was easily managed. The " Nautilus
Life Preserver" was tken applied to several persons,
armed with which they
leaped into the water, and
were, without the slightest exertion on their parts,
sustained breast high in the water one of these belts
was of sufficient power to bear the weight of three persons
hi the water. The extreme portability of the article
in question must he a great desideratum, it being
capable of being compressed into a space not larger
than an ordinary-sized circular snuff-box, and could be
cried with perfect ease in the pocket. The celerity,
also, with which it can be made ready for use must
tend to enhance considerably the merits of the in-
ventior!; for while other inventions tending to pre-
serve life from drowning necessarily require a consi-
derable time for the purpose of their being properly
adjusted to the person, by means of numerous
straps
and buckles, and some indeed requiring to be
inflated
previous to use by considerable exerticn of the
lungs, the whole period required for
pre-
paring and adapting this for use does not
exceed four seconds. By means of a spring the belt
civasd t 3 el,;Egate iaelf to the repirtddiil anguaas,