The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-09 00:00:00

£27,775,260 1
BANKING DEPARTMENT.

Proprietors' Capi-
tal £14,553,000
Rest
Public Deposits
(including Ex-
chequer, Sav-
ings' Banks,
Commissioners
of National
Debt, and Div
Accounts) 3,160,456
Other Deposits 17,660,244
Seven Day and
other bills

Governmt. Seed-
iities(ineluding
Dead Weight
Annuity) .... X 10,078,123
Other Securities 26,156,555
Notes 2,733,060
Gold and Silver
Coin .4.. 847,169

£39,814,907

£39,814,907

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day,

The market opens dull, with a moderate demand.
Sales probably 8,000 bales.

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAT.—The directors of
this company have determined to recommend to the pro-
prietors at the general meeting on the 25th inst. to declare
a dividend for the half year to the 30th of June last at the
rate of £5 per cent. per annum on the original stock of the
company, giving for the half year £2 10s. per cent. to the
original stock, £3 per cent. to the B stock, and £2 per cent.
to the A stock.

....
BISMARCK.—The title of this successful states
man in his new rank is to be Prince de Bismarck, and not
Duce de Lauenburg, as has been asserted in some quarters.

The speech of the King of Prussia on Lopening
his Chambers was telegraphed in extenso to New York by
the London Correspondent of the .New York Herald, at the
cost of about £l,OOO.
REPRESENTATION OF PERTIISHIRE.—The Edin-
burgh Courant is authorised to state that there is no truth
in the rumour that the member for Perthshire (Sir W. S.
Maxwell, Bart.) is about to be made a peer, or, for any
other reason, to retire from the representation of the
coun tACLERICAL OrENING. —The Sunday evening
lecturership of St. James's, Aldgate in the diocese of
London, has become vacant. The following are the con-
ditions :—" Income, from voluntary contributions, depends
entirely upon the popularity of the lecturer. Evangelical
sentiments, and an earnest, rousing style of preaching in-
dispensable."
BITING OFF A NOSE.—Yesterday, at the Borough
Court, Bradford, a young Irishman named William Hagan
was charged with biting off the nose of another young
man named Timothy Haggart. On Sunday, the 22dJuly,
the prosecutor and the prisoner met together in Spink-
street, White Abbey. The prisoner made some observa-
tion about prosecutor and his companion. The prosecutor
replied, "Now, I am talking to other persons, and I don'
want your interference." He had no soonez spoken than
the prisoner went up to the prosecutor, seized him by the
head, and bit off the end of his nose. The prosecutor had
since been under medical treatment. Several witnesses
were called to prove these facts. The prisoner was com-
mitted for trial at the assizes. Mr. Hutchinson syn.
, ,
appeared for the prosecution.
DR. GUTHRIE ON THE DUCAL HOUSE OF ARGYLL
—At the
rejoicings on the occasion of the Mar-
quis of to his majority, the Rev. Dr.
eLlonrvheeraaryttaining
Guthrie proposed the health of the Duchess of Argyll. In
the course of a very interesting speech he said—" I have
all the more freedom to stand here this day, and to plead,
if it were necessary, for all reverence and affection for that
house (of Argyll) and the order to which they belong,
for. crushed
that I have not spent my life booing, booing, as the Scotch
people say—booing, booing to those at the top. I have
at the bottom
tit better. I have spent it pleading
spent
lying
oinbgorrow figurefrom the
an
sociald brokenscale.
fellow-creaturese t
mesaythis,of the
obsolete art of falconry, which has survived, and which,
I think, is very telling. Lord Lorne is a hawk out of a
good neat—Argyllpu tmy
oot on onthhisis hand, and
Sutherland
on that.
I will toain•yd.,
I will stand on ground
where uo man can challenge me, and I will assert before
this company and before the world, that to no house,
from the
border to Dunnet head, does Scotland owe so much as to the
houses of Argyll and Sutherland. Twi
ce the sun saw the
head of an Argyll roll on the bloody scaffold for Scotland's
rights and liberties ; and to the good Earls of Sutherland
that district of country owes the honour that she wears un-
rivalled this day. There were good Earls of Sutherland
in the olden times, whose qualities are written in imperish-
able memory ; men who made it a matter of conscience to
fill the pulpits and parishes of that district country with
ministers pre-eminent for power and piety. Though
dead, the good Lords of Sutherland yet speak, sneak in the
statistical tables loud and clear. Sutherland—and Ibe
lieve it maybe tracedback to the good works of these good
old Earls—Sutherland in point of morality this day stands
without a rival in Scotland, in England, in his
day
believe, in the civilised world. I therefore repeat my say-
ing, that Lord Lorno is a hawk out of a good
Gone t;
and I
have no doubt whatever that he will, by God's blessing,
his baying he would add to—the honours of
his house. Evena regard to the present Duke, his
science, his literature, his statesiranship, his support of
every good and great moral cause in the country, if the
Duke and Lord Lorne were hnre, I would say in the pre-
sence of the father to his son; "May ye rive your father's
bonnet.' "