The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-15 00:00:00

LIABILITIES.

... • • ••• 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 ..• 2,980,650 14
Reserve- immobiliZYre ... • . ... 4,000,000 00
Notes to bearer, in circulation ... 302,781,100 00
Ditto of the branch banks ••• ... 64,119,175 00
Ditto to order (post-bills) ..• ••• 689,512 55
Account-current with Treasury 18,725,583 21
Various accounts current ... 82,594,076 64
Ditto in branches „. ... 23,104,479 05
Bills payable at sight ... ••• ... 2,252,000 00
Ditto at branches 1,586,211 00
Bills -of the branch banks payable by
the-Bank - ..• 4,795,187 05
Ditto of the- Bank-payable by branches . 1,763,068 00
Dividends payable . . 1,024,363 78
Branch Bank of Algiers, sum not yet
employed in Trea.sury Bonds
Discounts, diverse interests, &c.
Ditto branch bank ...
Re discounts of the last six months ...
Ditto in branch banks. ..
Miscellaneous ..•

... 1,105,988 19
821,369 34
991,558 00
422,932 27
642,105 00
324,452 99

615,973,812 18

Certificate confirmed,
The Governor of the Bank,

D'ARGOUT.

SAGACITY OF THE BUFFALO.—The following in-
stance of courage, sagacity, and attachment in the buf-
falo rivals what we read in the pages which Mr.
Jesse,- Captain Brown, and other enthusiastic natu-
ralists, devote to holding up the canine species to
our admiration : —ln the month of March an
occurrence took place in the division Mocijokerto
-(residence of Sourabaya) which deserves to be brought to
general notice,. as a new and striking proof of the at-
tachment of animals towards their purveyors. The
local authorities of the division have inquired into the
.truth of the facts mentioned below; there cannot,
therefore, be the least doubt about the matter. On
the 14th of March a boy eight years of age, in the
Dosses Gilang, was herding some buffaloes in a wood
not very distant from the village, when he was unex-
pectedly seized and dragged away by a tiger. At the cries
of
anguish
e uttered by the boy two buffaloes immediately
oam
with running
up, one of which attacked the tiger
suchsuccess that he released the boy and seized
the buffalo above the knee joint ; on which a short
fight ensued between the buffalo and the tiger, which
ended in the flight of tlheedlattr. In the meantime
the other buffalo had
of the boy, which wasp placed himself above the body
ond the ground, in such
a way as to cover it entirely and to protect it against n
second attack of the tiger. The people of the neigh-
-bouring . Dossa had in meantimethe armed them-
selves and pursued and killed tiger. r .
wounded,
The
by
. the boy, although he was severtebt
is not yet
the tiger on the right thigh
despaired of. Thu peculiar attachmenotne'hichh the two
buffaloes in this case showed towards theirw
mosterd is ex-
plained by the circumstance that for thepart the
younw natives, who take care of the pasturage of
these
animals, bestow extraordinary attention on one or
m
of their flock, that they generally remain in theirovrie
cinity, and sometimes pass a large portion of the day on
their backs.—Singapore Free Press, April 13.
The last accounts fvom the island of St. Thomas
mention, that the newly emancipated negro population
have continued to behave in the most peaceable man.
nor. During the outbreak at the sister island of
St. Croix serious apprehensions of some violent ebuli-
tion were entertained in St. Thomas, but all danger was
now considered at an end. Great satisfaction was felt
by the British residents at the conduct of Captain
Edward Barnett, of, her Majesty's ship Thunder, who
delayed his departure from the island fee the purpose of
affording them protection so long as thero existed the
slighte3 Catl6o of apprehension.