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

LIABILITIES.

Capital ...
Ditto of the new Branch Banks
Reserve fund ... .
Ditto of the branch banks .
Reserve- immobiliere .
Notes to bearer, in circulation .
Ditto of the branch banks
Ditto to order (post-bills)
Account-current with Treasury
Various accounts current .
Ditto in branches ••• •I
Receipts payable at sight
Ditto at branches ••• „
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 ... 241,135 25
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

£67,900,000 00
... 23,350,000 00
... 10,000,000 00
... 2,980,750 14
... 4,000,000 00
... 343,295,500 00
.., 46,393,875 00
... 644,207 00
... 16.920,247 04
... 76,063,494 67
... 23,879,866 81
... 1,985,300 00
... 1,553,344 00

E 632,578,358 43

Certificate confirmed,
The Governor of the Bank, D'ARGOUT.
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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
D9uro the Hon. Misses Murray and Macdonald,
Colonel the Hon. Alexander Hood, Colonel the Hon.
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, attended 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 Duke 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 Princesi
of Hohenlohe Langenburg, her Serene Highness the
Princess Eliza of Huhenlohe 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 Fridtty, hTs 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 priyate 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 Frogmore
House in the afternoon.

Viscount Hardinge is to review the 50th Regiment,
stationed at Dover, on Wednesday next, when 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
lion. 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,'
and p.m.,' at present essential to specify the
time, might be dispensed with, and we should then have
a distinct name for each hour in a day. This is be-
coming more necessary to the proper understanding of
railway time bills, especially-fir 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
tic The packet sails Sept. 16, at fourteen o'clock,' would
completely explain the.timo, instead of saying two o'clock
in the afternoon."

DARING ROBBERY AT ALFORD —On ThßYSilly
evening, the sth inst., between seven and eight o'clock,
some person entered the be:iroom of Mr. J. C. Kirman,
agent for Messrs. Peto and Bats, railway contractors„
and broke open a chest of drawers in ha kept his
cash box. Nearly 3001. in 5Z Litotes, sovereigns, half-
sovereigns, and silver was taken away. Information w.is
immediately given to Superintendent Casey, who after a
long search, found the cosh box :under some shrubs in
front of the premises occupird• by Mr. M'Keone, agent
in chief' to Messrs., Peto and iktts (with whom Mr. Kir-
-man resides) . it had been broken open, and the wholp
of the contents, as above stet, d, stolen. On the follow-
ing day a warrant was issued for the apprehension of
Wildam 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'Kcone'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.

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