The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-29 00:00:00

BANK OF ENGLAND.

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 27th day
of October, 1858:

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
Notes issued £32,985,760 Government Debt £11,015,100
Other Securities .. 3,459,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 18,510,7C0
Silver Bullion ....

£32,985,7601

X 32,985,760

Proprietors' Capi-
tal
£14,553,000
Rest
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis-
missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-

,EPARTUNT.
Government Secu-
rities (including
Dead 1 eight A-
nnuity) £10,809,467
Other Securities 14,783,137
Notes
Gold and Silver
Coin

621,716

counts) 6,130,265
Other Deposits 13,331,992
Seven Day and
other Bills 858,964

£37,975,220
M. ]

f.. 37,975,220
RSHALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated Oct. 28,1858.

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.

The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from Returns made in the week ending the 26th day
of Oct., 1858, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great
Britain :

Per cwt.
From the British possessions in America 27s 7f4
Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius 27s 2tel
Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies 23s 10d
Average price of the foregoing 27s 6d

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—THIS DAY.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 161 11 17
Antwerp
Brussels — 2.5 25 25 30
Hamburgh
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles — 25 30 25 3.5
Frankfort on Maine —118 k
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh — 34 3
10
Madrid
Cadiz — 49 49
Leghorn — 29 29
Genoa — 25 47k 25. 2k

Naples _
Palermo _
Messina —
Lisbon . —
Oporto
Rio Janeiro
New York

41
1221
123
52'
52

41
123
123
521
52k

••
G•
E.I. Co's bls. House bls. 60d
Calcutta, Co.'s rupee 26 2
Bombay ditto
Madras ditto — 26 23
East India Company's, Bills drawn from the 24th ult. to
the Bth inst.
Bengal £1,201 5 0
Madras 0 0 0
Bombay

£1,201 5 0

Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard) per oz. £3 17
Mexican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard) ,, 0 0 0

LIVERPOOL, ThursdaNight.—The screw steam-
ship Kangaroo, for New York, with the United States
mails, was off Queenstown this afternoon. Wind, E.N.E.,
moderate, and fine. s

ARREARS IN THE EQUITY AND COMMON LAW
COURTS.—To-day (Friday) the Chancery offices will be
reopened after the long vacation, preparatory
com-
mencement of Michaelmas term on Tuesday. There is a
• urts and very little
good deal of business before the equity Courts and to the
an.
dThnbeumforbeerthoef ceoumusmosoninlatbwoccourontrsrsinoftchehashnazyJofsawor
be-
fore the common law courts therßearoreontle6sLT:Ss
includ-
ing Justices
demurrers, in the paper.
there are 33 causes; before Vice-Chancellor Wood, 115;1
before Vice-Chancellor Stuart, 83 ; before Vice-Chancellor
Kindersley, 36 ; and before the Master of the Rolls, 72.
In the common law courts there are 16 rules in the Queen's
Bench, 32 in the Common Pleas, and 17 in the Exchequer.
Being Michaelmas term the appeals from the Revising Bar-
risters' Courts will be held in the Court of Common Pleas.
In the Birmingham Bankruptcy Court the case
of Mr. Samuel Griffiths, the bill discounter, who failed
during the crisis in connection with the Wolver-
hampton and Staffordshire Bank, which at the time
attracted much attention, has just been decided.
The Commissioner awarded Mr. Griffiths a first-elme
certificate, and the general feeling seemed to be that the
Wolverhampton Bank had shabbily attempted to make him
a scapegoat.
AN OWL'S LARDER.—A few days since an owl's
nest was taken upon the farm of Mr. Parker, Burnett's
Farm, near this city, with three young ones in it. The
luxurious and voracious habits of the owl may be imagined
from the contents of this nest, which consists of two leve-
rets, one rabbit, three blackbirds, one thrush, and two large
trout. They were all fresh, and had been apparently caught
during the night.—Bath Journal.
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FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL, HOLT.—We have
stated already that the ancient Free Grammar School,
founded by Sir John Gresham, at Holt, is about to be re-
opened, and that a deputation of the Governors of the Wor-
shipful Company of Fishmongers of the city of London is
coming down on Wednesday, the 3d November, to open the
new school-room, which has recently been rebuilt, as well
as to introduce the newly appointed master. The gentleman
selected is the Rev. Charles Allen Elton, late Lecturer and
Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he ob-
tained a high position in the mathematical tripos ; is wel
known as a distinguished scholar, and was chosen by the
Master and Fellows of his College to examine on more than
one occasion the Cathedral School at Gloucester. The Rev.
Mr, Elton has recently been residing at Willingham, where
he officiated for upwards of six years as curate, with full
charge of that important parish, and where, from his ability
and cleverness in school management, and his devotion to
his duties, he gained the respect and affection of his
parishioners. Such a choice augurs well for the success
of Holt School under its present new master, who is
well known to have given so much of his attention to the
theory and practice of education, and there is every reason
to believe that the interests of the school have been essen-
tially consulted-by the governors in their appointment of
the Itev. Mr. Elton. It is a fair inference that the re-esta-
blishment of this ancient school under such anspices will
be beneficial not only to the town of Holt and its neigh-
bourhood, but to the county, and we eve our cordial sup-
port to the event, as calculated to give general satisfaction.
acroir,y, Oct, 27.