The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-20 00:00:00

£28,041,815 I
BANKING DEPARTMENT.

Governmt. Seen-
rities(including
Dead Weight
Annuity) .... £10,644,251
Other Securities 18,976,716
Notes 5,74020
Gold. and Silver
Coin ~.. 817,297

Proprietors' Capi-
tal £11,553,000
Rest
Public Deposits
(includingE(-
chequer, Sav-
ings' Banks,
Commissioners
of National
Debt, and Div
Accounts) 4,045,459
Other Deposits—, 13,971,790
Seven Day and
other bills

£36,206,287

£36,206,237'
W. MILLER, Chief Cashier,

April 19, 1866.

It is stated that Beverly Tucker has gone to
Mexico as the correspondent of the London Herald
and Standard.
General Hooker has so far recovered as to be
able to walk to his head-quarters every day.
NATIONAL BANKS IN AMERICA.— The national
banking system has grown to its present enormous
dimensions in about two and one half years. in
October, 1863, there were only 94 in the United
States. By April, 1865, they had increased in num-
ber to 973 ; between April,
1865, and December of
the same year, they increased to 1,623.
General Prim has taken his departure from
Paris for Italy, leaving his wife, the Marquise de casta--
lejos, with his mother. lie is said to have gone to be pre•
sent at military manoeuvres about to take place in Italy.
Some of the admirers and personal friends of Gen.
Sherman, in St. Louis, have recently purchased and
furnished a house for him in that city, at a cost of
$37,000.
WHAT THE ENGLISH M.P. IS SPARED.—The
oidthfdeod theirigy Pleiis secretary deputy.—" The public sees only the brilliantesdimde.
To biolarat
France gives us an insight into thelabours of a Frenchft
agitated existence ; but those who have appyL d
or M. de Forcade la Roquette ought to
i wki the massof I"
tnu ens
h osb,
had
which follows a great debate. By 7 v:c:cw, .
a_ I bti
members have left, only those rem:in:lee:lo n
Thvate spoken
ht. After the sittingta6li is
often and w
prolongedho correct
far
re
into:at,
Saturday last,
morning v to
.had near him a roll of bread and a
put on '
and at ^g 13
the" vaII2I
linen
brought
still at work correcting the proofs brought him from joined him,
to him
tie
valet,hsimetMh.toyThhwijoesafter havin.
in
of which he took
bowl of soup, a spoonful now and than.
But, in fact, that little man seems made of iron ; and no
one can say which is most to be admired, the vivacity of
his mind or the stout constitution of his body."
printing-office. Ile
SHIPBUILDING AT .ABERDEEN.—During the same
hour on Tuesday as the Northumberland was tak-
ing the water, the Messrs. Hall, Aberdeen, launched from
their yard the longest, and probably the very finest vessel
this fatuous firm of clipper-build celebrity have yet put out
of their hands. The new ship is built on the composite
Principle, partly wood, partly iron, and the following are
her dimensions:—Length, 300 ft.; breadth of beam, 40ft.
Gin. ; depth, 23ft. ; with a registered tonnage of 2,300, end
burden 3,500. The bowsprit and lower masts of the vasel
are iron ; the topmasts, bower, and double topsail yards
steel ; While her standing rigging is formed of galvanised
wire. The Sobraon, for so this magnificent new ship wit*
named as she glided into the water, by Miss Hall, daugh-
ter of one of the builders, has three complete decks. The
cabins are on the middle deck, in place of iu the pool..
the berths, Sce., of the crew occupying the maindeck. The
Sobraon is classed 13 years, A 1, on Lloyd's register;
is to form one of the Australian fleet of liners owned by
Messrs. Gellatly, Hankey, and Sewell, London, and it wilt
be commanded by Capt. Swanson, formerly of the Duncan
Dunbar. Outwardly the Sobraon is for beauty of outline
one of the most handsome yessels ever seen in the Aber-
deen docks, while inwardly she is being fitted up under the
immediate superintendence of her comniander .in.a style
rgqi.T.04441104,,...Nctt ttyhitch.occurred Ainring the launch,
whichovmAaggs6l.4,l4tevaulsrfdisoiltuenay a r hag
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