The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-26 00:00:00

1 having cut and wounded her under the following dt
I cumstances:—
The prosecutrix, whose fingers on the right hec
were nearly cut off, deposed that yesterday morel
about half-past ten o'clock, the prisoner was calling _%f
" knives and scissors to grind." She took out a Paige
scissors and handed them to the prisoner to grind,
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ground them and brought them back to witness, i'!„,h
she paid him a penny, but he demanded twopence, n',2
she at first refused to pay and requested him tOll7O
when her husband was at home,
IP
and he should bate ~,e""
other penny. He abused her, and while she held
scissors in her right hand, standing with her back tee
wards the prisoner, he seized the handles of the scisesta..
and drew them
,from her hand, and her fingers wg"
nearly cut through by the back part of the seissl
which were very sharp, and she went to a surgeon, /1,4
dressed the wounds, and she fainted away through
loss of blood,
Mrs. Bell, a neighbour, confirmed the evidence. 10
answer to Mr. Combo, both witnesses concurred ths'd
penny was the usual charge for grinding scissoretan
the prisoner's conduct was wilful and malicious. d
The prisoner did not deny the charge,
was the usual charge for grinding scissors.
h
Mr. COMBE suggested that he (the prisoner) 0-sold
make some compensation to complainant, which. a
however, declined doing, and he fined him 31.,
commensurate term of imprisonment in default of Psi'
ment. saying that 3,

BANK OF FRANCE.
The following is a return of the situation of the Bak
of France on Thursday, Sept. 21, 1848:

230,000 0°
. 10
••• 16,543,461 00
253,751
209020 r 0
c;
860'"9 ()0
6,997,270
f 645,961,691
9,198,643.
07
17

LIABILITIES.

00
Capital „, f 167,000,000
Ditto of the new Branch Banks • ••
00 23,350,000 00
Reserve fund ... 10,000,000 00
Ditto of the branch bank; ***
*d,* 2,960,750 0
Reserve-immobiliere •-•
4,000,000 ill
Notes to bearer, in circulation ::: 319,271,6uu 00-
Ditto of the branch banks • , 60,636,30°. s 5
Ditto to order (post-bills) 1,178,07°
Account.current with Treasury ***.
56,125,301 °„'
Various accounts current " 67 596,247
Ditto in branches
Receipts payable at sight 223:8166,830072 o°oo
Ditto at branches
Bills of the branch banks payable::: b:: y:
the Bank 4,822,950 22
Ditto of the Bank payable by branches.. 2,194,244
835,737 25
Dividends payable ... . . --
Liquidation of the Algiers Bank ••• 808'389 04
1,219,735 27
Discounts, interest, and expenses •••
Ditto branch bank 1,536,218 00
Re discounts of the last six months ... 422,932 27
Ditto in branch banks .. .... 641,216 00
2,366,019 00
Miscellaneous ... ... 162,730 00

f. 643,961,621 17

Certificate confirmed,
The Governor of the Bank,

D'ARGOOI.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS•

BRISTOL, SEPT. 25.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was improved to da,y;
and there were several transactions. Great Western, Clu,lrll,e
Shares, were done at -OA die.—Ditte, 171. Shares, S al5.-
Taff Vale, 124%.

LIVERPOOL, Sam 25.
STOCK EXCILINGE.—The demand for shares at this day':
market has been dull, and the business transacted W Abeß
a lower figure general:3, than quoted on Saturday
sales are—Great Northern, 11A dis.—Lancashire ,„
•
shire (late Manchester and Birmingham), Fifths, 314„,e4
ex div.— London aid North Western, MIA—Ditto,
Quarters, I 6s. 3d.— Midland Stock, 83
Halves, 101. Is. 3d. dis.— South-Eastern and Dover, 23/4
Belfast and Ballymena, 29% dis.

MANki'HkSTEIt, SEPT. 25.
STOCK Excuebroz.—The sales are—London and Is° d
'
Western, 109—Ditto, New Quarters, % dis.—Haddersfield
Thirds, 3 dis.—Lincoln Union, 625. dis.—South-Easterll
Dover, No. 4,6% dis.—North Staffordshire, i 7-16 dis.
BIRMINGHAM, SaFT. 25.
STOCK EXCHANGE.— The sales are—North Staffordshill '
51. Bs. 9d. dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (B), 4,4 di.
Great Northerns, 11%.
YORK, SErr. 23.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business transacted to-day we
as follows : Great Northern, 51. 17s.—North Britiot
Thirds, 51. 10s. Bd.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, ExtBo"
sion, N 0.2 (late New Berwicks), 14—York and North aid•
land, Preference, 91. 185. 9d.

[ADTETisEmENT]—An Affection of the
R. . Lifer
and Kidneys cured by Holloway's Pills, at Sydney, New
South Wales.—Extract of a letter from Mr. J. IL Iler
den, of Sydney, dated Sept. 30, 1847:—" To Professor
Holloway.—Sir, I have the pleasure to inform you that
Stuart A. Donaldson, Esq., an eminent merchant al
agriculturist, also a magistrate of this town, purcharse
of me fourteen pounds' worth of your medicines to or"
ward to his sheep stations in New England, in conse-
quence of the extraordinary cure performed in ten day,
on one of his overseers of an affection of the liver and
kidneys, after the best medical advice:tried for month!:
had failed. (Signed) J. K. HEynix."—Sold by el.l
Druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment,
244, Strand, London.
ADTENTISEENT.J—Another List has just been_
published, M
lished, containing Three Hundred Cases of cures
effected by Worsdell's Vegetable Restorative Pills, Int
pared by John Kaye, Esq., of Dalton-hall, near litlujo
dersfield. The office of this remarkable medicine is !A
purify the blood, to clear away all obstructions, to 10'
digestion, to remove acrimonious bile, to restore beslibl
action to the liver, and to invigorate the whole system.
No family ought to be without this medicine; whereveer
it has been introduced it is pronounced invaluable. Ob-
serve that the arms of John Kaye, together with a file"
simile of his signature, are on the directions for use,
wrapped round each box.—Price Is. lid., 2s. 9d., and
4s. 6d. per box; to be had of all Chemists and respeo-
table Medicine Venders.

aatsown;
rrtanu-hall, BIRTHS.
On the 14th inst., at Greenmeadow, Glamorganshire, the
lady of 11. Lewis, Esq., of a son.
On the 16th inst., in the Close, Lichfield, the wife of A.
Griffith, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 21st inst., at Brighton, Mrs. J. Drake, of a son.
On the 22d inst., at Marlborough-place, St. John's wood,
the wife of S. Thompson► Esq., of a son.
On the 22d inst., at Collins, near Princes Risborough,
Bucks, the lady of the Rev. W. J. Burgess_, of a eon.
r
.tneeraraasclsea:sb
clOrin
the
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22d
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ininsst.t.,,atatsLuso:s:aglea-rdsqeunsa,ren,
Hyde-park, the Mthrse
Margetts, of a daughter.
of Major Inigo Jones, Prince Albert's sleworth, the
of
ODnr.t hGe°2°3lddellinsotf,
On the 25th inst., at B •
Neil, of a son. roifghatosonn;Du"...--lacil

MARRIED.
On the 19th inst., at Ilfracombe, Captain Francis Gresle?
H. E. I. C. S., to Mary, widow of the late Russell Ken"
Esq., and daughter of the late Rev. T. Thorp, rector of Bar'
ton Overy, Leicestershire.
On the 19th inst., at Walcot Church, George R. Maitland,
Esq., brother or Sir Alexander G. Maitland, Bart., of Clifton
ball, Edinburgh, to Alice Anne, eldest daughter of the
'a Josiah Nisbet, Esq., Madras Civil Service.
On the 21st inst., at Westerham Church, Thomas
-Lei":
Esq., of Oxford-ledge, Croydon, to Ellen, only child of
late Joseph Vere Esq. of Norwood, Surrey.

lED.
On the 17th inst., at Cheltenham, aged 61, Lieutenant-
Colonel H. B. Everest, late of the 6th Royals.
On the 18th inst., at Eastertyre, in Perthshire, aged
Margaret Eliza, eldest daughter of A. Walker, Esq., late of
the Ceylon Civil Service.
On the 21st inst., at Anglesey, near Gosport, M. Hale?
Esq., of Ely-place and Connaught-terrace, aged 68.
On the 22d inst., at Layer Breton-lodge, Essex, Marianne,
wife of G. Birkett, Esq., aged 52.
On the 22d inst., at Staines, John Winstone, M.D.,
141.R.C.5.L., late cf Charter-house-square, aged 70.
On the 23c1 inst., at Gloucester-square, Hyde-park, Mrs.
Adlington, widow of the late T. Adlington, Esq., of Clap-
ham-common, Surrey.
On the 23d inst., at Notting-hill, Mr. Joseph Boardman,
sen., late of the Bank of England, aged 75.
On the 24th inst., at lfoxton-square, Elizabeth Wood-
house, the wife of the Rev. W. H. Jones,lincumbant of St.
James, Curtain-road.

London: Printed and Published by 1111JRDO TOTING, et
No. 112, Strand, Primer, at Vie Sun Office, No, 11?,
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county 0f
illiddleges, Twos;lay, September 26, 1848.

RECREATIONS IN NATURAL
HISTORY.
(From Punch.)
lot his
Really Lord John has had a narrow escape-" .-emea
been to the Zoological Gardens, Dublin, and a'"dv
the trap that was laid for him. A cage was sireauf,
prepared. The Premier was to be caught, and ea'),
bited behind some iron bars. However, the consPien
was betrayed, as Irish conspiracies invariably are, an
his Lordship escaped being shown at sixpence a-beilw
The partridges are said, this year, to be very slit
Now, really, sportsmen should recollect that what
game to us is death to them. We can hardly el:.
the partridges to come and be shot, as if it was a P
sure for which they were dying. If this were the califi
they would not fail, as well-bred birds, to bring then
own bread-sauce with them. that
Talking of birds, we know of one at Boulogne
is so extremely shy, that nothing will induce bia2,
come across the water, unless he sees that the CO
perfectly clear. The shyness of this bird is attribar.:
to a deal of shot which,
it is said he has left behind bas
in the hands of several persons, who would be too haPPA
to get a discharge, if they could catch an opportuna
firing into him.

ASSETS. 76
Cash in coin and ingots . . f. 130,017,678
Ditto in branch banks . . 98,362,879 t(T6
Bills over due 1,908,20 85
Bills becoming due in Paris ... 72,794,830 Bills in the branch banks
... 118,220,695 4 '
60,
,
Advances on coins and ingots... 14,314,390
Ditto on French public securities
... 34,007,796 0
Ditto by branch banks... 1,309,404
Ditto to the State on Bons du Tresor... 50,000,000 00
Advance to the State on the lean of
50,000,000 f. 25,000,000
Stock forming reserve
•.• •.• °°o 00
Rentes, disposable funds
... 3 , 4 6A
"'
1
Investments of the new branch banks in 39
the public funds ... „, 12,806,741 00
Hotel and furniture of the Bank 4,000,000
Real property and branch banks 2,524,085 00
00
Loan of 10,000,000 F. to the city of Paris 1,0000 00
Interest in National Discount Bank ,„ 200,00°
Interest in old Departmental Banks in
National Banks of Towns
Bills protested in the Bank
Ditto in the branches ...
Expenses of administration of the Bank
Ditto of the branches ...
Miscellaneous 17.
Consolidation of Treasury Bonds