The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-19 00:00:00

LIABILITIES.

Capital . f.67,900,000 00
Ditto of the new Branch Banks ••• 23,3.50,000 00
Reserve fund
...
••• ••• 10,000,000 00
Ditto of the branch banks •
2,980,750
„„l4
R.serve-imtnobiliere
..• ••• 4,00 °
,000 IP
Notes to bearer, in circulation 319,675,500 00
Ditto of the branch banks •
51,927,500 00
Ditto to order (post-bills) •
981,828 10
Account-current with Treasury... ......
7491:518258:373241 42
Various accounts current 30
Ditto in branches
••• ••• ••• 23,724,384 00
Receipts payable at sight ... ... 2,896,800 00
Ditto at branches
••• '•• ••• 2,318,318 00
Bills of the branch banks payable by
the Bank ... 5,213,463 46
Ditto of the Bank payable by branches.. 2,390,770 00
Dividends payable
••• • • ••• 847,455 25
Liquidation of the Algiers Bank ... 962,134 04
Discounts, interest, and expenses ... 1,165,692 42
Ditto branch bank ... ••• ••• 1,441,102 00
Re discounts of the last six months ... 422,932 27
Ditto in branch banks .. 641,218 00
Miscellaneous
••• ... 189,153 11

Certificate confirmed,
The Governor of the Bank,

f. 643,743,061 51

D'ARGOUT.

NEW ZEALAND.
The New Zealand journals give the following amen
of the progress of a road, formed under Captain Ilamilto
Russell, of the 58th Regiment, from a report require'
by the Government. which speaks most favourably with
regard to the New Zealand labour employed upon it:--
" They rapidly improve as workmen, and it is extol:
ordinary that men whose previous lives have been passed
in uncontrolled idleness, should now work for months
together so incessantly as to rest but one hour out of ten,
and under such restriction as not to be allowed to smoke
or even to talk, to the interruption of their work ; yet
this result has been obtained by means so slight as to
appear quite insufficient. An idle workman is occa-
sionally tined sixpence, or if so talkative as to interrupt
work, he is placed alone without listeners ; if he has
given satisfaction, he perhaps receives his week's wages
in crowns, or it otherwise, in sixpences. If a trouble-
some character, he is discharged; and though the super-
intendents of parties have been detached many miles
from any Europeans besides their overseers, in the
wildest and most inaccessible places, there has never
been an instance of violence towards them or the over-
seers. The greatest crime has been that of stealing an
axe by a discharged native, when another of the tribe,
after working all day, travelled all night to recover it,
and returned with it in time for work the next morning-
The means by which this control is maintained are, the
exercise of strict justice in keeping our engagements
with them, and firmness in insisting on their doing the
same by us. I have been fortunate in having the as-
sistance of gentlemen as superintendents of parties, who
have carried out my views most fully, and withor.t whom
the effect which has been produced upon the character
of the labourers could not have been obtained. They
assure me that the bearing of those natives where they
have known them up the coast, was so different to that
which they now exhibit with the parties, as to make
them appear a different race. In disposition they appear
cheerful not quarrelsome amongst themselves, nor vin-
dictive. So singularly free from the vice of drunken-
ness as to enable me to repeat the assurance that I gave,
your Excellency some months, since, that not a case has
ever yet come under the observation of myself or the,
superintendents of parties. Those who profess Christi-
anity, as is the case with the majority, are strict in their
religious observances, nothing being allowed to inter-
fere with the morning and evening worship; those who
do not, however, are not unfavourably distinguished
from those who do. They do not now object to the
mixture of the tribes in working parties, though at first
they were much opposed to it.'

The Earl and Countess of Arundel and Surrey,
with their daughter and suite, left Blackwell on Satur-
day morning by the General Steam Navigation Com-
pany's mail steam-ship Ocean for Rotterdam, en route to
Manheim, on the Rhine.

BIRTHS.
On the 13th inst., at Esher, Mrs. H. Neville, of a son.
On the 14th inst., at the Vicarage, Crowle, Lincolnshire,
the lady of the Rev. W. Duncombe, of a daughter.
On the 14th inst., at Glocester-square, Hyde-park, the lady
of J. Fraser, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 15th inst., at Drayton-terrace, Old Brompton, the
wife of T. C. Bates, Esq., of a son.
On the 15th
the wife of he Rev. inst.,
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,GRaye,ectoof ry, a Stson.. Matthew's, Ipswich,
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On the 15th inst., at Andover, Hants, the wife of A.
s inst.,on" at Porchester-terrace, Bayswater, Mrs.
16th inst., at Great George-street
Westminster,
ofo a.son.
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nvt ,at 50q111.,,
the !wife of Mr. W. Pole, of a daughter.

MARRIED.
On the 28th of June last, at Moose Factory, Hudson's Bay,
Mr. J. S. Clouston, to Margaret, eldest daughter of R. Miles,
Esq , Chief Factor of the Hon. Hudson's Bay Company.
On the 12th inst., act St. James's, Paddington, J. R. Ro-
binson, Esq., of rwk-villas, to Edith, widow of the late
T. [Mann, Esq., of Warwick-villas, and Hertford.
On the 14th inst., at Scarborough, Mr. H. Morgan, of
Birmingham, to Hannah, only daughter of T. M. Livett, Esq.
HOn the lath inst., at the parish church of Sc. John's,
ackney, Edward Hamilton, eldest son of Captain Thomas
Hoskins, R.N., to Susannah', elder daughter of the late J.
Nalder, Esq. of Grove-place, hackney.

DIED.
On the 2d inst., at Pierre Les Calais; France, Robert P.
Waters, Esq., aged 53.
On the 9th inst., W. IL Prescod, Esq., of the island of
Barbadoes, and of Alstone Lawn, near Cheltenham.
On the 11th inst., at the Red-ledge, Bristol, aged 35, the
Rev. J. C. Prichard, late vicar of Mitcham, Surrey.
On the 13th inst.. at Hutton Locras, near Gisborough,
Yorkshire, aged 26, Melville Barbara, the wife of G.-Reade,
Esq., of that place.
On the 13th inst., at Greenwich, Kent, Isabella, relict of
the late Captain G. Mackenzie, aged 86.
On the 13th inst., at St. Alban's. aged 57, Miss Elizabeth
Falkland.
On the 14th inst., Henry Cobb, Esq., formerly commander
of the Hon. East India Company's ship Kent, aged 60.
On the 15th inst., at Newingtor-place, Mrs. Clutton, the
widow of Owen Clutton, Esq., aged 64.
On the 15th inst., at Twickenham, Ann, the wife of Mr
W. Chillingworth.
On the 16th inst., Mrs. Elizabeth [Blundell, relict of the
late T. I. Blundell, of St. John-street, Clerkenwell, aged 87.
Lond-

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Middlesex, Tuesday, September 19, 1848.