The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-11 00:00:00

LIABILITIES.

Capital . f. 67,900,000 00
Ditto of the new. Branch Banks 23,350,000 00
Reserve fund ... 10,000,000 00
Ditto of the branch banks ... 2,980,730 00
Reserve- immobiliere ... 4,000,000 00
Notes to bearer, in circulation ... 383,765,500 00
Ditto of the branch banks ... .., 19,724,725 00
Ditto to order (post-bills) ... 448,789 00
Account-current with Treasury creditor 26,545,733 38
Various accounts current ... 77,020,500 66
Ditto in branches 26,097,688 00
Bills payable at sight ... 2,367,300 00
Ditto at branches 1,251,548 00
Bills of the branch banks payable by
the Bank ...
Ditto of the Bank payable by branches..
Dividends payable ... . .
Liquidation of the Algiers Bank
Discounts, interest, and expenses
Ditto branch banks ...
Re discounts of the last six months
Ditto in branch banks
Miscellaneous

5,341,235 64
2,065,505 00
184,904 25

383,264 04
3,362,552 18
2,667,725 00
422,932 27
633,773 00
166,018 11

E 660,680,448 53

We remark with pleasure that it is the intention of
he members of the London Mechanics' Institution, near
Chancery-lane, to celebrate their twenty-fifty anniver-
sary by a grand concert in their theatre to-morrow even-
ing, devoting the profits to the increase of their library.
Such entertainments deserve support, affording as they
do, both intellectual amusements, and the means of ad-
vancing the efficiency of such institutions. The names
of Misses Birch, Dolby, Miran, R. Isaacs; Messrs.
Lockey, Leffler, F. Bodda, John Parry, Her Koenig,
Viotti Collins, and Charles Severn, are in the pro-
gramme, and with such talent scarcely a doubt can be
entertained of the success of the concert.
VEGETABLE Sour.—lnto two quarts of cold water
put three pounds of pumpkin or gourd, cut into thin
slices, peeled, and with all the seeds removed; two large
onions, also peeled and sliced, with a small stick of celery,
cut into very small pieces. Boil these together slowly
for two hours and a-balf, and then, after adding an ounce
of dripping, two large table spoonsful of flour, and of
pepper and salt as much as pleases the taste, boil for
half an hour longer; stir frequently during the whole of
the boiling. We have the testimony of our palate that
it is one of the most agreeable, and it is certainly the
cheapest of soups. The pumpkins saved for seed are
better for this purpose than those which are less ripe
and more watery. We may as well remove from such
of our readers' minds as happen to entertain it, the
false prejudice that no vegetable food is so nourishing
as the flesh of animals. This is a very great error.—
Cottage Gardener.
IVIruroRD HAVEN.—The mail-packet station be-
tween this place and Waterford is fairly abolished. The
last of the steamers, the Jasper, left during the past
week for Woolwich to be paid off. The services of
Com. Dunn, R.N., borne on the books of the Royal So-
vereign yacht to superintend the establishment, have
also been dispensed with, all the engineers sent to
Woolwich, and each of the packets paid off at that port.
The two light vessels placed on the Weir tongue and
the Carr rocks for their convenience, have been also re-
moved, and are now offered for sale by the Admiralty.
Buoys, however, for the navigation have been placed at
their moorings. By these arrangements a saving of
nearly 30,0001. a year has been effected.
EARLY CLOSING IN ALL TRADES.—A very nume-
rously attended meeting for the furtherance of the above
object was held on Thursday evening last, in the Na-
tional School-rooms, Hoxton-square. The Rev. T. S.
Evans, vicar of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, was in the
chair, and expressed his entire concurrence in the object
of the meeting. The late-hoar system was one of those
many abuses existing in society, which it was one of
the characteristics of the present age manfully to meet.
Resolutions condemnatory of the late-hour system, and
calling upon the public to purchase early, and to deal
with those employers who close at a reasonable hour,
were proposed and seconded by several leading employers
of the neighbourhood, and unanimously assented to.
The Rev. Mr. Junes, perpetual curate of St. James
Curtain-road, delivered an argumentative and eloquent'
address on behalf of the early closing movement. He
once looked upon it with suspicion, but now viewed it as
one of the first steps towards the intellectual and mora
regeneration of society. A vote of thanks was passed
to the chairman, which was appropriately ackncwledged
when the meeting separated.
CALEDONIAN CANAL.--.TIIO traffic on the Cale-
donian Canal is daily increasing. On Wednesday last,
there were no less than thirteen schooners, one brig, and
five sloops, in the basin and Muirton Locks, besides the
fine barque Mersey, of Liverpool, which arrived the pre-
ceding evening. This large vessel measures 364 tons
register, but carries upwards of 600. She is from
Dental°, bound for Belfast, with a cargo of wheat and
linseed. She has been a month on the passage, and met
with severe weather. Shortly after,leaving Dantzic, she
encountered a terrific gale, and, with about fifty other
vessels, was driven ashore in the Baltic. The master,
Captain Cabbie, supposes that several of the vessels
would become, total wrecks. In the North Sea, the
Mersey was, in consequence of the very tempestuous
weather thrown upon her beam ends, with her yards in
the water, and the master was compelled to throw over-
board 440 bags of linseed, in all amounting to forty tons.
This tine ship is to remain for a few days to refit. We
believe she is the largest that ever entered the canal.—
North British Mail
THE ABDICATION AND THE FLIGHT.—Never had
journalists to announce, as happening in one week, such
intelligence as that which we communicate to our readers
—the abdication of the Emperor of Austria and the
flight of the Pope—the one representing the holy Ro-
man Empire, the other the holy Roman :Church: Em-
peror and Pope friendless—and Empire and Church
beset with difficulties threatening destruction! These
are eventful times indeed!—Church and State Gazette.
RUNNING MATCH.—Yesterday afternoon, notwith-
standing the unfavourable state of the weather, a large
number of persons assembled on Lansdown to witness a
running match between " The Welsh Champion " Davis,
who was a winner on a former occasion, and a runner
called "Birmingham Matthews," for 1001. aside. The
report of such a match " coming off" having got abroad
far and wide among the speculators in sporting bets, it
brought to our city a large influx of strangers, among
whom were many of Davis's countrymen, ardent in
backing him against his antagonist; and, as is usual in
such contests, much money was lost and won in the re-
sult besides the principal stakes. The distance marked
out for the race was three-quarters of a mile on the
turnpike road, and the time in which it was run was
about three minutes. At starting both competitors
evinced an equal prowess, and kept abreast till they got
about half way over the ground, when Matthews
slipped past his opponent, and gradually gained upon
him throughout the remainder of the race, winning by
five yards, amid the uproarious applause of his friends
and backers. As the occurrence did not fail to attract
the attentioa of a certain class of persons whose pursuits
are of more than dubious character, we shall not be
surprised to hear of unguarded pockets having been dis-
possessed of loose cash on the occasion.—Bath Chronicle.
DUTY err WiNrs.—The Medical Times, apap7
published in this city, of high medical authority, in
writing on cholera, after alluding to the diet recom-
mended, thus says of drinks, the safest and best by far is
a little old port wine, but Lisbon and Spanish wines are
also excellent. It were a humane and even prudent
measure for the public, to demand the removal of all
duties, even nominal, on Spanish and Portuguese wines.
There are wines sold as the growth of Teneriffe and
Oratavia, of the value of %silica against the diarrhom of
infants we have had some experience.