The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-01 00:00:00

Charge of the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended Dee. 31, 1858, viz, :
Interest of the Permanent Debt
Terminable Debt

• Interest of ExcheCitier Billo (Deficiency).
The Civil List
Myer. Charges onConsOlidated,Fund

Nil.
100,771
388,520

Advances Kir rublic Works, 47c.
Surplus Balance beyond the charge, of the Consolidated Fund, for the Quarter
ended Dec. 31, 18.58,

302,618

Gieat Britain
Ireland 4799,302

SEPTEMBER.

29. Peiho Forts, capture of, official account of.
OCTOBER.

7,681,480

709,302

£17,529,127

AUGUST" .
2, The Session, epitome of the PrOieeciings-of.
Victoria cross, presentation of the, py her Majesty at
PortsMenth.
Prorogation of Parliament.

The Sun Newspaper ()Tee, destruction of, by fire.
5. Cherbourg Fetes : Departure of her Majesty and the
Prince Consort from Osborne for Cherbourg. *
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Antwerp, destruetion of the magnificent Bourse at, by
fire.

6. Atlantic Telegraph Cable, succ.esaful- laying of the ;
Agamemnon arrived at Valentia ; ihe Niagara in Trinity
Bay, Newfounlland.

Cherbourg : Arrival of her Majeity, &c.
7. Cherbourg Fetes : Grand .dinner of their Imperial and
Royal Majesties on board the Bretagne off Pherbouxg ; re-
turn of her Majesty, &c. •
_ _

9. Cherbourg Fetes : Departure of the Emmet': of the
tieneh for Brest.
Chelsea New Bridge thrown open to• the public.
10. COnnte;is of Carlisle, death of the.
Railway Accident : SoUth Restern ; accident at Rams--
gate Station; upwards of 20 persons injured. •
Her Majesty's visit to Prussia : Departure of her
Majesty and'the Prince Consort from Gravesend.
12. Ireland : Serious riots in Kilkenny.
14, Her Majesty's visit to Prussia : Arrival of her Ma-
jesty and the Prince Consort at Potsdam.
_Mersey, H.M.S., successfully launched at Chatham
after the application of hydraulic.rams, ,
18: Atlantic Telegraph : Messages from the directors in
Englind to the directors in America; message received
from Mr. Cyrus `V•. Field at Newfeundland.

20: Jeddah, .bombardment of; by her Majesty's ship
Cyclops.
21. Atlantic Telegraph, message by, communicating the
intelligence of a collision in the Atlantic Ocean between the
Cunarklateamors,Europa and Arabia—no lives lost.
23. Atlantic Telegraph : The Queen's message to the
President of the United States, and the President's reply.
China, first intimation of a treaty of peace having been
concluded with.

24. Atlantic Telegraph : Message by, to the Lord Mayor
from the Mayor of New York, and his lordship's reply
thereto addressed to New York.

25. Railway Accident•: Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver-
hampton ; 12 persons killed, 60 injured, severely or danger-
ously.

27. Anglo-French Alliance : Celebrated speech of Count
Do Persigny.

1. H'er Majesty and the Prince Consort arrived at Os-
borne from the Continent.

The colliers' strike in South Staffordshire; great
meeting on Horsley Heath
2. East India Company : The list Court of Directors
was held.

3. Atlantic Cable : Dinner to Mr. Bright, C. 8., by the
Lord Mayor of Dublin.
Newcastle, inauguration of the new town hall at
4. India, the CouuCil of, met for the first time.
Greenwich, Mr. Townsend, M.P., formally resigned
his seat in an address to the electors of.

6. Atlantic Telegraph : First intimation of the failure of
the cable, &c.

Atlantic Telegraph : Banquet to Mr. Bright, C. 8., at
Killarney.

8. Leeds, grand reception of her Majesty at.
9. Leeds: Grand banquet given to. her Majesty 14,y the
Mayor.
13. Bologna, abduction and baptism of a Jewish child at.

Greenwich, fatal fire at; two children burnt to death ;
mysterious case.
H. Sheffield : Fearful catastrophe at the Surrey Hall ;
Six persons killed ; many more dreadfully injured.
The Mayor of Melbourne in London ; proposed fetes
to him, &C.
18. British Association for the Advancement of-Science
commenced their annual tour at Sheffield; great meeting.

22. Floods and, loss of life in the south-western districts
of Ireland.

Weedon, defalcations at, &c. ; the Royal commis-
missioners met in committee-room, No. 11, at the House
of Commons, to pursue their inquiry.

2. Colliery explosion at Page Bank Pit ; frightful death
of 10 persons.
Greenwich, late fire at : Roper taken into custody on
a charge of attempted fraud on the Kent Firo Assurance
Office. .

4. Dean of Carlisle and Precentor Livingston : Itestora-
tion of Mr. Livingston to his offico by the Bishop of Car-
lisle.

6. Prince Adalbertof Prussia, visit of, to Portsmouth.
8. Austria, steam ship, loss of, by fire, reported.
Comets : Two visible at Tunis with the naked eye.
9. The comet (of Donati) seen with splendid brilliancy.
11. Lord Charles Wellesley died.
12. Prussian Regency, officially published.

14. New Palace of Westminster, raising the Royal Vic-
toria boll (late " Big. Ben") at the.
Duke of Malakoff, marriage of, at Paris, in the pre-
sence of their Imperial Majesties, &c.
19. The :Confessional, demonstration against, in St.
James's-hall, Piccadilly.
20. Parliament prorogued to the 19th November.
21. Heavy gale on the north-east coast.
29. Eastern City steamers lost by fire ; miraculous pre-
servation and rescue of the crew and passengers.

NOVEMBER.
1. Ribbonism : Attempted assassination of the Bev. A.
Nixon; apologetic article in the Nation newspaper.
2. raper duty, great meeting at Edinburgh in favour of
repeal of.
Frightful case of poisoning from adulterated lozenges
at Bradford ; 13 deaths known, many cases supposed would
terminate fatally. . _

3. Pirates in the Chinese seas, official account of pro-
ceedings against by the British squadron.

6. Si..lancras, desecration of the dead in, further pro-
ceedings and inquiry respecting.
8. Napoleon I. funeral car of, arrival off at Havre in her
Majesty's ship Virago.
10. Montenegro conference, termination of the

13. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales gazetted
as a Knight of the Garter.
Japan : Treaty between her Majesty and the Emperor
of Japan signed at Jedda, August 26, 1858.
15. lonian Islands : Remarkable publicity of despatches,
subsequently declared to have been surreptitiously ob-
tained.

-- Cochin China, official account of proceedings of the
Franco-Spanish expedition to.
16. Storm in the metropolis and suburbs, attended with
great loss of property.
20. Railway Accident : Lancashire and Yorkshire ; mail