The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-19 00:00:00

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

- - -
James Hamilton, dentist, Afunro's-buildings, Edin•
burgh.
Alerander Kirkwood, plamber, Charing-cross, Glasgow.
James Martin and Co., wholesale grocers, Glasgow.
John Term, draper, Partick.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
An Account pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap, 32, for
the Week ending on Saturday the 13th day of Dec., 1856.
18813 E DE.PASTNINT.

Natea issued .. 24,525,995

Government debt.... 11,015,100
Other securities ...... 3,09,900
Gold coin and bullion 10,050,995
Silver bullion ........ -

£24,525,995

£24,525,995
MARSFIILL, Chief Cashier.
•.1856.

Dated the ldth day of December

BANKING DE
Proprietort' capital .. 14,553,000
Rest ................ 3,226,673
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ing's Banks, and
Dividend Accounts) 6,300,625
Other deposits ...... 9,042,822
Seven Day and other
8i115........ .. 811,191

Governmentsecarities

(includg.DeadWeight
Annuity) .. .. .. .. .. 10,640,867
Other securities .. .. .. 16 ,A 28,728
Notes ••........ .. .. 5,823,185
Gold and silver coin .. 641,531

£33,934,311

133,934,311
f. MARSHALL, Chief CaE&ler.
1856.

Dated the 18th day of Decemb,

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.

Ile Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
pnted from the returns made in the week ending Dec.
16, 1856, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great
Britain : s. d.
From the British Possessions in America 37 3i
Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius 36 4
Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies.... 4O 11
Average of the above three de\scriptious.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.- THIS DAY,

tmsterdarn 11
Ditto, three months .. 11
Rotterdam ............ 11

Gibraltar •••• •••••••••• -.
Leghorn ..........•••• 29 70
Genca ........••...... 25 77

Antwerp .............. 25 37t..j Milan ...... .......•
Brussels .... • • 25 37;(, Venice.. --
flamburgh .• •• •• •• •• 13 74 Naples •• •• •• •6 ...... 426
Alcona Palermo ...... 129}4
Pari5........ .. • • .... 25 25 Messina ... ... 130
Ditto, three months .. 25 67% Lisbon ......... •.. • . 51%
Marseilles .•• •• •• •• .• •• 25 67,k, Oporto •• •••• •• •• 51%
Bourdeaux ........ Rio Janeiro ..... .••
Frankfort-on-Maine .... 119% Buenos Ayres... .....
New York,6o days' sight
.... 10 41 Philadelphia • ......
Trieste........ •• •• .... 10 42 I'ILICEs OF SCILICN, P2l oz.
Petersburg ............ 37% Foreign Gold In Bars £3 17 9
Sladrid . 491,4 Portugal Gold Coin 0 0 0
Cadiz :49,4 Mexican Dollars 0 0 0
Barcelona ............ - New Dollars ....•• 0 0 0
..__ Silver in bars 0 0 0

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AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS OF SCOT
LAND, 1856.

The official returns of the estimated produce of the crops
in Scotland for this year, of which we formerly published
the acreage, have been transmitted to the Board of Trade.
and show the following comparative results with those of
the two precedine years :

Barley Beans Pota-
i-i: Wheat. I and Oats. and Turnips. toes.
')
Bere. Peas.
- -- -- - ---
Bushels. Bushels. Bushels. Bushels. Tons. Tons.
1856 7,270,952 6,083,076 31.966,381 1,279,440 6,510,267 413,890
1855 5,063,074 6,649,927 30,081,351 1,183,647 6,461,988 732,170
18%4 4,848,679 8,290,746 134,093,04011,081,263 6,411,419 529,915

The most remarkable feature in the returns is the extra-
ordinary increase in the acreage and produce of wheat,
which within two years have advanced 564 per cent. The
Irish statistics for the present year show a result in the
same direction, though not to an equal extent. But, if
the returns of the two countries are put together, they will
prove how rapidly the farmers adapt their cultivation to
the demands of the market, and how certainly an increase
of price is followed by an increased supply. Thus, the re,
spective acreage under wheat was in—

1854.
Ireland 411,281
Scotland

V 56.
52/,363
263,323

579,500 792,691
Showing within two years an increase of 36 per cent. In
other words, the breadth of wheat sown by the farmers in
Ireland and Scotland has increased more than a third since
1854. _ .... _ . _ . ..

Bat, in so far as regards Scotland, a large deduction
must be made from the gross result this year, owipg to the
very serious damage caused by a wet harvest. The corn
districts on the east coast suffered most severely, and the
loss from this cause is estimated by the enumerators
variously between 20 and 40 per cent. Weather so disas-
trous to the condition and quality of a crop, which was
otherwise most promising, has not been experienced since
1816.
The potato crop, which last. year was so abundant both
in England and Scotland, is this year much less productive
in the latter country. With a slightly increased acreage
the estimated produce has suddenly dropped by 43 per
cent., and as additional proof, if any were wanting after
the Irish famine, of the utter unfitness of this crop to be
relied on as the main article of a nation's food.
The gross results of this year's crop, as compared with
that of last year in :Scotland, show an increase of about
one-twelfth in the yield of corn, but that will be more than
balanced by the deterioration of quality and by the defici-
ency in potatoes. On the whole, wo gather from these
returns that the Scotch harvest of 1856 will yield hardly
' so much food as that of 1855, and about 5 per cent. less
than that of 1854.
This is now tho third year in which these statistics have
been voluntarily returned by the farmers of Scotland, and
each year's experiense has added to their correctness and
value. No testimony could be more trustworthy than
that of the farmers themselves, as given in these returns,
tow their unobjectionable character • and we cordially join
a gn.- returns
itb, Mr. Hall Maxwell in the conclusion of his report,
Which is as follows :
r,:t'ltsis my pleasing duty to inform my Lords that the
freelytictioninenitoutibiety.
Ins
taanncdesvotlhuenretaarirley,
Polaents who no maded
o übbyt , theof
; nglan. but s
plead the objections so frequently heard in
land have
tt,ich cases are singular. The farmers of Scot-
is in no respecactiically satisfied themselves that the inquiry
divulge or compruquisitorial, and that it cannot possibly
with intelliicenceoFelse individual interests. They appreciate
and they would rel.P! importance of statistical information,
extended over theitTrce could the inquiry be systematically
are comparatively valetiee!.onntries, believing that its results
par-
tial." teas as long as its operation is par-

fulAfiiriclbieshop of Tours, arrived at
, the
Cardinal Marlot
Rome on the fltb, to
sion"--whatever that may bnet: highly important mis-
Napoleon firs coronatian, or .wohether in reference t
CRYSTAL PALACE.—oxt
snitttsiomething else.
Dec. IS,—Admissions on payment, DAY.—Thursday,
tickets, 145 ; Total visitors, 587. , 442 ; do. by season
Silt CoLIX CAMPBELL.---At Pembroke
fol-
lowing amusing incident occurred a
few
day
ago '—
through his business, naturally began the clay
of
getting
and with this intention, on Saturday, proceeded
to the
Defensible Barracks a little before nine o'clock,
and to
his great surprise, found the officer of the daY ' calmly
ensconced in the arms of Morpheus. His arrival putt'
all oa the qui vive, every possible exertion Was made to
to
find some officers to receive him, but, owing to the
greater part of them being absent at the hunt ball at
Haverfordvvest, the general was obliged to wait patiently ;
but suddenly perceiving a lieutenant in Bight completing
his toilet, he immediately signalled him, and gave him a
sharp lesson, particularly calling his attention to the be-
i Befits of early rising.—Glasgow Daily Mail.