The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-24 00:00:00

INCREASE.

Cash
19,400,000 f.
Notes .
300,000 f.
Curreut accounts
DECRASE.

Bills discounted
Advances
Treasury balance

Bank of England Returns.—This Evening,

5
5

An Account, pursuant to 1
cap. 32, for the week ending

ISSUE DE:
Notes issued ..—£32,881,875

.£32,881,875
BANKING I):

the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
Wednesday, Jan. 23, 1867.
'ARTMENT.
Governint. Debt £11,015,100
Other Securities 3,984,900
Gold Coin and
Bullion
Silver Bullion

Proprietors' Capi-
tal £14,553,000
Rest
Public Deposits
(including Ex-
chequer, Sav-
ings' Banks,
Commissioners
of National
Debt, and Div
Accounts) 5,298,679
Other Deposits 19,637,816
Seven Day and
other bills 490,768

£32,884875

£43,495,424

• -
PARTMENT.
Governmt. Seen-
rities(includinb
Dead Weight
Annuity) .... £13,111,068
Other Securities 19,411,773
Notes 9,962,910
Gold and Silver
Coin

£43;495,424

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

VICTORIA CLUB BEITING—Tms DAY.

CHESTER CCP.
20 to lon the field (offered)
100 to 3 agst Moulsey (taken and offered)
100 to 3 agst Bracken (offered)
1000 to 20 agst Proserpine (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Life Guardsman (taken)

TWO THOUSAND.
4 to 1 agst Plaudit (taken and offered)

Cart. 44

HER MAJESTY, &c.

OSBORNE, Jan. 23.
The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, at-
tended by the Dowager Duchess of Athole and
Lady Waterpark, and her Majesty, accompanied by
Princess Louise and Prince Arthur, walked in tho
grounds this morning.
Prince and Princess Christian and Princess
Beatrice went out also.

Foreign. Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

Australia and New Zealand, via Southamptoa.....Jan. 19.
Ditto, via Marseilles
Brazil and Capa Pardo, by British packet. ..... Feb. 4.
Ditto, by French packet . Jan. 22.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.... Feb. —.
China, Penang. and Singapore, via Southampton.. Feb. 2.
Ditto, via Marseilles ... • Jan. 27
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton Jan. 28.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Jan. 28.
Ditto, via Marseilles
India (Bombay), via Southampton. Jan. 28.
Ditto, via Marseilles Jan 27
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Jan. 23.

Ditto, via Marseilles
Ilauritius, via Southampton Feb. 19.

Ditto, via Blarseille3 Feb. i 3.
Newfoundland . , Feb. 13.
Portugal
Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon...
United btates and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet. s • Jan, 21.
Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-
ton

, Ditto via Cork
. ..

Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry ..Jan. —.
West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerife ....Feb. 3.
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and
Honduras)
8aham1...4, via New York. Feb 7.
Cuba aid Mexico ..... . Jan. 28
Bermuda, via Halifax ~..... Feb. 13.

REFORM DEMONSTRATION AT SHEFFIELD.—Ort
ae
auspiceslform odfemthoenssthreaffitioenldtßoorkanpelhacoef
underMond Monday
yt
hathteSNheaffitioenld,al
Reform League. In the morning a procession marched
through the principal streets, but the whole number of
those who took part in it was less than 1,000. At the open-
air meeting, however, which took place in the after-
noon in the Haymarket,' there) was a very large
assembly, numbering, probably, between 5,000 and 6,000.
There were three platforms, the principal speakers being
Mr. Ernost Jones, Mr. S. Plimsoll (President of the
Sheffield Branch of the League), and Mr. Mantel, of
London, agent of the League. Resolutions were simul-
taneously passed in favour of residential and registered
manhood suffrage, and thanks were tendered to
"Earl Russell, William Ewart Gladstone, John Bright
John Stuart Mill, Thos. Hughes, Professor Fawcett, Ed-
mond Reales, and others, for their able and manly defence
of constitutional government." 'lwo meetings wore an-
nounced for the evening--one at the Mechanics'-hall, and
the other at the Temperance-hall. The attendance at the
former place was so small, in consequence of is. being
charged for admission, that an adjournment to the Tempe-
-1 rance-hall was decided upon. The attendance at the latter
place was not at the outset very largo, as none but ticket-
holders, who had to pay for their tickets, wore at first ad-
mitted. The building, however, was soon filled when the
doors were opened to the public. The chair was occupied
by Mr. S. Plimsoll, and among the speakers were Mr. N.
Jones, Mr. Mantel, and Mr. W. E. Leathern, the late mem-
ber for Wakefield, who made a long speech. The O'Do-
noghue, Lord Milton, Mr. Reales, and others, who were ex-
pected to address one or other of the meetings, were not

prosant •
How not TO Do IT.—The officers of Royal
Engineers and Royal Artillery are commonly con-
sidered to belong to scientific branches of the service.
Therefore they are not to study strategy. At Chatham
there used to be a course of lectures on strategical subjects,
but some one at the War-office has found the flagrant at-
tempt at improvement, and has docked the grant off the
estimates, in order that the Engineers and Artillery may
have increased facility to study—architecture ! Perhaps
there is something to be said in defence of the proceeding.
But it surely has not received the sanction, or rather it has
not been by the desire or with the approval, of Colonel
Simmons. If the officers of the establishment were con-
sulted, we think they would not approve the change. It
would bo interesting to ascertain the motives for making
it, and, in the hope that some one may be able to elucidate
them, we draw attention to the subject in these few lines.
—Army and Navy Gazette.

LONGEVITY.—A peasant, named Percy, born ill a
village between Worcester and Malvern, and believed to
be still living at Leckhampton, near Cheltenham, is sup-
posed to be the oldest man in England, being about 110
years old. In 1860 proofs of his birth and age were for-
warded to the Queen, who sent him a gratuity of £5, and
last November he was seen walking with crutches in Chel-
tonham.—Birminghara Daily Gazette.
SLIPPERY WEATHER.—The slippery pavements
were very trying to all classes. Acrobats tumbled for
nothing, bankers lost their balance, farmers grazed their
shins, soldiers embraced the flags, tailors measured their
length, travellers tripped in all directions, and young men
found their whiskers turn white in a single night.—Punch.
FATAL ACCIDENT TO A CURLER.—MT. Collin
Croall, superintendent of the Scottish Central Railway
Station, Perth, died on Monday evening from the effects of
an accident received at the Grand National Curling Match
at Carsebreck, last week.—Scotsman.

LEPROSY IN HOLLAND.—Leprosy is said to have
broken out at the Government Hospital at Bronbeck, in
Holland. It was brought from the West Indies by an old
soldier, and then became communicated to several others
of the inmates.

THE JAMAICA COMMITTEE.--(ADVERTISEMENT.)
—The Jamaica Committee respectfully announce that in
order to carry out, if possible, the views of its members,
and to divest Great Britain of the incutnbrances called
colonies, no better plan can be suggested than the prosecu-
tion of such of her Majes'y's officers as may be selected for
colonial governments, and who may have occasion to save
the colonies in their charge. When such treatment shall
have rendered it impossible to obtain high-class officials
for the dependencies, the latter w:11 be disgusted into
severing a tie which, for patriotic reasons only, the com-
mittee desires should bo broken. As such prosecutions are
expensive, subscriptions are solicited.—Punch.
A School of Art has just been established in
Maidstone.