The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-08 00:00:00

ACCEPTANCES FOR T]

Age st lb
Twilight
Eltham 4 8 7
Fantail 6 7 9
Bradamante 5 7 9
Joker 4 7 7
Pro visor 4 7 7
Brahma 4 7 7
Filbert
Wandering Minstrel 5 7 7
Wel beck 5 7 7
Lima filly
Convent 4 7 5
Grapeshot 4 7 5
Pirate 4 7 3
Cutaway 5 6 131

HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENGAGE-
MENTS.

Jan. 29, at 9 a.m., 011erton and Tambourine, out of all
handicaps to date.

Feb. 1, at 0.48 p.m., Sinking Fund, out of all handicaps
published to date.
_ _

- Feb. 2, at 9 a.m., Ithcebus, out of all engagements.
Feb. 5, after 6 p.m., Dunsany out of Sefton handicap,
Liverpool.
Feb. 6, at 11.29 a.m., Lady Abbess, out of all engagements.
Feb. 6, at 5 p.m., Shrapnell, out of the City handicap at
Lincoln.
Feb. 8, at 9 a.m., Turcos, out of the handicap hurdle
race at Derby.

Bank of England Returns.•--This Evening.

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

,he Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
Wednesday, Feb. 7, 1866.
E'ARTMENT.

Notes issued .....£26,922,520

Governint. Debt..£11,015,100
Other Securities.. 3,634,900
Gold Coin and

Bullion
Silver Bullion

£26,922,520,
BANKING I):

.£26,922,526-

Proprietors' Capi-
tal £14,553,000
Rest
Public Deposits
(including Ex-
chequer, Sav-
ings' Banks,
Commissioners
of National
Debt, and Div
Accounts) 4,549,904
Other Deposits 12,344,200
Seven Day and
other bills

PARTIrEENT.
Gorernmt. Secu-
rities(including
Dead Weight
Annuity) £9,865,483
Other Securities 18,857,681
Notes .............. 5,906,320
Gold and Silver
Coin ~,.

784,473

£35,413,957
Feb. 8, 1866. GE(

1 £35,413,957
. FORBES, Deputy Cashier.

PIRACY ON THE HIGH SEAS.—The six sailors
charged with piratically taking possession of the ship Scot-
land, on her voyage from Bombay to London, were this
day again brought up at Bow-street, and formally exa-
mined and fully committed for trial. The facts of the case
have already appeared at great length in The Sun.

THE ABYSSINIAN CAPTIVES.—The following in-

there,d to
dated ste
formation has been received from Dr. Beke, dated
Massowah, Jan. 16.—" We reached here in safety yester-
tdha
ayt, andleletters
et
rhse
fromßritish Consular
ghe,ndt ca ar came
av down
Amba Magdala, Sept. 28, 1865, saying they were then all
alive and well, which letters would be forwarded imme-
diately to their destination. The agent said also that the
the eaptive s a
Emperor had since taken the captives with him into God--
jam, whero he had gone to attack Tadola Gwaler, and that
his future movements would depend upon circumstances.
There was also a report that he would come into Tigre
shortly. The last news from Mr. Rassam is that he was
at Sassela, the capital of Taka, on Nov. 6, and was going
forward to Matumma. Since then no intelligence had been
received of him, although the agent had sent two or three
messengers after him."
SUICIDES IN FRANCE.—The following, according
to Dr. de Boismont, who has made the subject his special
study, is a summary of the various modes of suicide cam-
mitted in France from 1827 to 1860 :

Number. Males. Females.
By hanging 14,242 ... 12,152 ._ 2,000
By drowning
11,845 ... 6,688 ... 5,157
By firearms
,390 ... 4,337 ... 33
By charcoal 4,224 ... 2,917 ... 1,307
By cutting instruments 1,552 ... 1,272 ... 280
By voluntary fall
By poison
By other means 282 .. 228 ... 54

---
38,671 ... 28,930 ... 9,741
THE CATTLE PLAGUE.—At the meeting of Con-
vocation to-day, the Archbishop of Canterbury stated that
he had received a letter from the Home Secretary, declin-
ing to fix a day of national humiliation for the cattle plague.
THEFT BY A MAIL GUARD.—At the High Court
of Justiciary on Monday, Henry Orphoot Swanston, the
mail guard who was apprehended in October last for the
theft of letters containing money and stamps, while in the
execution of his duty on the Caledonian Railway, was, on
pleading guilty to several of the charges against him, sen-
tenced 6 oid,hayesc:a tosu
eight
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New
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York
is no profit on the importation of go'd tr.,
M the United
Sates.