The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-12 00:00:00

BILL.

Lord CRANWORTH moved the second reading of this
bill.

The LORD CHANCELLOR objected to the second
reading of the bill, as it would virtually abolish the office
of Master of the Rolls, which office was one of great im-
portance and antiquity. It was proposed that the Master
of the Rolls should be made one of the Lords Justices
in the event of a vacancy, and the effect of that
would bo to destroy all original jurisdiction on the part of
the Master of the Rolls, and the whole saving proposed to
be effected would be £l,OOO a year in the salaries of the
Lords Justices, because the bill contemplated the appoint-
ment of an additional Vice-Chancellor, in consequence of
transferring the duties of one of the Lords Justices to the
Master of the Rolls.

[LEFT SITTING.]

Bank of England Returns,•—This Evening.

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

the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
Wednesday, July 11, 1866.

ISSUE DE
Notes issued ....£28,287,515

'ARTMENT.

Governmt. Debt.£ll,ols,loo
Other Securities.. 3,984,900
Gold Coin and
__ _

__ ___
Bullion
Silver Bullion .., —

£28,287,515
BANKING 11

£28,287,51b

Proprietors' Capi-
tal £14,553,000
Rest
Public Deposits
(includiaig Ex-
chequer, Sav-
ings' Banks,
Commissioners
of National
Debt, and Div
Accounts) 2,726, /39
Other Deposits 21,472,485
Seven Day and
_06,881
other bills ...
£43,118,29i

lEPARTMENT.
Go vernmt. S ecu-
rities(including
Dead Weight
Annuity) :.•• £10,278,123
Other Securities.• 29,039,534
Notes ............... 3,091,685
Gold and Silver
Coin ......... 705,955

L 43,118,29-7,

half-yearly meeting to-day of the Metro-
politan provincial Bank, the report submitted
t the
and
for adoption
making stated that after writing off bad and
ample
provision
interest o payable,
fpaeivderyankdind,there re
form
doubtfulreb debts, for
rebate, and for ex-
pensesains at credit of pro-
fit and loss a sum of £10,202 Bs. 4d., showing a net
profit of 6 per cent. per annum. am
The directors of the Alliance Bank have issued
their report, which states that the available total of
profits for the past hall-year amounts to £27,256,
and a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum
is recommended.

TIIE.LATE PRINCE DE CONDE.—The Worcester-
shire tenantry of the estate of his Royal Highness the
Duke d'Aumale have just adopted an address of condo-
lence to him on the death of the Prince de Conde. A public
meeting of the inhabitants of Evesham has also been held,
at which a similar address was voted.

FRANCE AND THE NEEDLE-GUN.—The Evenement
has received the following "communicated" note :—" In
your number of the 6th you assert that the Prussian needle-
gun was presented to the Emperor Napoleon two years
back, and that his Majesty merely thought fit to place it
among his curious arms. The gun in question was pre-
sented to the Emperor six years ago, and immediately the
committee of artillery, by his Majesty's orders, engaged in
the task of comparing together all the guns which load at
the breech. Upwards of 100 models were trie nd
d, a it was
only last year that an arm Was adopted far superior to the
Prussian one. The troops at the Camp of Chalons will in a
short time receive a great number."
Dr. Denvir, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Down
and Connor, died yesterday morning, at Belfast. Dr. Den-
vir was a man of advanced age, and about five or six years
ago his coadjutor, Dr. Dorrian, took the entire cbarire of
th 3 diocese.