The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-16 00:00:00

LLLIILLITIES.

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 ... ... 2,980,750 14
Reserve-immobiliere ... ... ... 4,000,000 00
Notes to bearer, in circulation ... ... 343,295,500 Of
Ditto of the branch banks ... ... 46,393,875 00
Ditto to order (post-bills) ... ... 644,207 00
Account-current with Treasury ... 16,920,247 04
Various accounts current ... ... 76,063,494 67
Ditto in branches ... ... ... 23,879,866 81
Receipts payable at sight ... ... 1,985,300 00
Ditto at branches ... ... ... 1,553,344 00
Bills of the branch banks payable by
the Bank ... ... ... ... 5,601,485 26
Ditto of the Bank payable by branches.. 2,103,388 00
Dividends payable ...
Liquidation of the Algiers Bank ... 621,664 04
Discounts, interest, and expenses ... 1,847,199 25
Ditto branch banks ... ... ... 1,879,669 00
Re-discounts of the last six months ... 422,932 27
Ditto in branch banks ... ... ... 641,216 00
Miscellaneous '... - ... ~. ... 235,084 70

f. 632,578,358 43

Certificate confirmed,
The Governor of the Bank, D'ARGOUT.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, Ocr. 14.
Namur and Liege, 414—Paris and Lyons, 4,4—Paris aad
Strasbourg, Vh—Sambre and Meuse, 2%.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, SUNDAY.
Yesterday afternoon their Royal Highnesses the
Hereditary Prince and Princess of Parma, attended
by the Countess Lopez, arrived at the Castle on a
visit to the Queen, at twenty minutes before six
o'clock, and were received by the Marchioness of
Douro, the lion. Misses Murray and Macdonald,
Colonel the Hon. Alexander Hood, Colonel the lion.
Charles Grey, and Colonel F. H. Seymour.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday,
both morning and afternoon, in the royal pleasure
grounds.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert, Ettended by
Colonel the Hon. A. Hood, Colonel the Hon. C.
Grey, and Colonel F. H. Seymour, enjoyed the sport
of shooting yesterday morning.
The royal children took their usual airings yes•
terday.

The Duke of Wellington and the Dake of Norfolk
arrived yesterday on a visit to her Majesty.
The royal dinner party yesterday at the Castle in-
cluded her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Prince and
Princess of Parma, her Serene Highness the Princess
of Hohenlohe Langenburg, her Serene Highness the
Princess Eliza of Hohenlohe Langenburg, the Duke
of Wellington, the Duke of Norfolk, Lady Anna
Maria Dawson, Countess Lopez, Baroness de Speth,
and Sir George Couper.
The band of the Coldstream Guards were in at-
tendance during dinner.
Mr. Aaron Penley had the honour of submitting
to the Queen and Prince Albert, on Friday, his two
water-colour paintings of Lochnagar, and the Dhu
Loch.

This morning the Royal Family took walking and
pony exercise.
The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
her Majesty's visitors, the Ladies and Gentlemen of
the Court, and the domestic household, attended Di-
vine service this morning in the private chapel. The
Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, accom-
panied by their Serene Highnesses the Princesses of
Hohenlohe Langenburg and the Princess Eliza, left
her residence, Frogmore House, Windsor, on Satur-
day morning, for the Priory, Stanmore, and paid a
visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager. The Royal
Duchess and the Princesses returned to Frozmore
House in the afternoon.

Viscount Hardinge is to review the 50th Regiment,
stationed at Dover, on Wednesday next, whets it is un-
derstood the Noble and Gallant Viscount will present
the officers of that distinguished regiment with the gold
vase, the gift of his Royal Highness Prince Waldemar of
Prussia, who was a witness of the bravery of that regi-
ment in the military operations on the banks of the
Sutlej. The Noble Viscount and Viscountess, and the
Hon. Miss Hardinge, have returned to South Park,
Penshurst, from making a series of visits in the north.
Mr. Alfred Novello, of Dean-street, Soho, revives
a suggestion for altering the present inconvenient for-
mulas for registering time:—" It has long appeared to
me, that it would be very convenient to number the
hours of the day from 1 to 24, beginning at midnight, as
the additional words 'morning,' afternoon," evening,'
a.m.,' and p.m.,' at present essential to specify the
time, might bo dispensed with, and we should then have
is
a distinct name for each hour in a day. Thisbe-
coming more necessary to the proper understanding of
railway time bills, especially for the long lines. The
proposed numbering would take no extra room in any
tables, as four figures are already required for the hours
and their fractions. No difficulty would occur even with
the clocks, which could easily have the additional figures
placed in an outer or inner circle on the face. In Eng-
land, I think, this change would find universal adoption,
if two establishments would agree to adopt it—l mean
the Post-office and the railways. The announcement
The packet sails Sept. 16, at fourteen o'clock,' would
completely explain the,time, instead of saying two o'clock
in the afternoon."

DARING ROBBERY AT ALFORD.-011 Thursday
evening, the sth inst., between seven and eight o'clock,
some person entered the bedroom of Mr. J. C. Kirman,
agent for Messrs. Peto and Betts, railway contractors,
and broke open a chest of drawers in which he kept his
cash box. Nearly 3001. in 51. !notes, sovereigns, half.
sovereigns, and silver was taken away. Information was
immediately given to Superintendent Casey, who after a
long search found the cash box :under some shrubs in
front of the premises occupied by Mr. M'Keone, agent
in chief' to Messrs. Peto and Betts (with whom Mr. Kir-
man resides) . it had been broken open, and the whole
of the contents, as above stated, stolen. On the follow-
ing day a warrant was issued for the apprehension of
William Poole (groom to Mr. M'Keone) and Mary his
wife ; and they were examined before the county magis-
trates, and remanded for a week. On Saturday a bag
containing the whole of the money wrs found secreted
in Mr. M'Keone's gig house, ;and was restored to the
owner. As the two persons are in custody on suspicion
of having committed the offence, any remarks on the
circumstances attending the case would be premature.—
Lincoln Mercury,