The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-01 00:00:00

:PARTMENT.

Governrnt. Secu-
rities(includin,g
Dead Weight
Annuity) .... £10,864,638
Other Securities 33,447,463
Notes
Gold and Silver 415,410
Coin ....

441,57-0

£45,172,08

The Temperance Permanent Land and Building
Society have transferred their account to the Union
Bank of London, where all their drafts drawn upon
the Bank of London will be paid.
M. Oubry, banker, of Auxerre (Yonne), was
struak with apoplexy two days since, while overlooking
some workmen employed on his garden. Medical aid was
immediately procured, but without success, as he expired
two hours after.
The 1% ew Free Press of Vienna states that Mar-
shal Benedek, on his departure from Vienna to
assume his command, was received at the station
with enthusiastic cheers ; amongst the persons pre-
sent to witness his departure were many ladies, to
one of whom, who presented a wreath of laurels
ornamented with the Hungarian colours : "I shall
keep this wreath with especial care," he replied,
" and I shall make every effort in order to be able
one day to wear it worthily ; provisionally I con-
sider it not as merited, but merely as an offering."
These words were received with loud cheers.
The voting for two medals of honour for the
French Exhibition of the Fine Arts in the present
year took place the day before yesterday at the
Palace of Industry, but no artist obtained an
absolute majority. A second vote will take place
on Monday next.
The receipts for admission to the race-course and
stands on the day of the Grand Prix amounted to
nearly 124,000 fr.
The Brothers Davenport are on the point of leav-
ing Berlin, after a short but not very profitable
sojourn.

Count de Chambord has sent a thousand francs
to the French committee for succouring the wounded
on the field of battle.
THE IRON TRADE.—BIRMINGHAM, May 31.
Thsre was a large attendance cf the ironniasters of South
Staffordshire and East Worcestershire in the Exchange
here to-day, but the business transacted was nominal;
that branch of the trade of this district is in a very bad
state, and no prospect of improvement is visible. At many
of the works they are not more than half employed, and
producers of all but the very best makes of marked iron
would gladly accept orders at prices much below those of
quarter-day.

PROCLAMATIONS OF OUTLAWRY.—At the Sheriffs'
Court, Red Lion-square, yesterday, the following defend-
ants in action were proclaimed, some of them for the first
time : —Kedgwin Hoskins Gough, R. Crowe, J. P. Greatrix,
Thomas A. Saunders, S. Kingchurch, Richard Pattison,
Claude Lucas, Samuel J. Pittar, P. Angestin, Cosmo
Nevill, Cecil J. Johnson, Henry Onsloxv Curling, Fred.
John Manning, Henry Wilson, H. Wm. Langley, Septimus
Berdmore, and Captain Henry Harding Dennel Stracy.
The next court was appointed for the 28th June inst.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—Mr. Kenyon Parker, Q. C.,
Examiner of the Court of Chancery, was run over by a

Hansom cab yesterday afternoon in Chancery-lane, and

seriously injured. The unfortunate gentleman, who is in
his 78th year, and who has been for some time in a bad
state of health, was taken at once to King's College Hospi-
tal. It was hero discovered that his arm was broken in
two places, and that there ware injuries to the thigh and
head, the latter being of a most dangerous character. Mr.
Parker is not expected to recover from the effects of the
accident.

THE METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS AND THE
BANK OF LONDON.—The Bank of London, at the
time of its suspension, had for the Metropolitan Board of
Works the general account of the Board, the Covent-garden
approach, the Southwark and Westminster communication,
the Victoria-park approach, the Finsbury-park, main
drainage rate collection, Southwark-park, metropolis sow-
age and Essex reclamation, fire brigade, Whitechapel im-
provement, and Holborn (Middle-row) imprhoivthetiinsoonft
taboo-
counts, amounting to £164,510 19s. Gd.
bank belonging to the board, and
165,470 12s. the
issued, but not paid, making
altogether
the deeds of the
board holds as security for these funds
A meeting of the
bank premises, valued at itXr92.zin9 the hands
Gd. cheques
position in which the board
London and of the Consolidated
of the Bank ofplaced held
sus-
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return was published, gives
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Yesterday
the •
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Companionja c 1;1'
prisoners who have bien
County Gaol, A
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sionsccinfi of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act. Up to the
18th of April of this year 39 prisoners had been so con-
fined, and all of them had been kept in separate confine-
mentvaaious particular! respecting
and treated under the silent system since their com-
mittal. .With the exception of two hours of exercise, they
had been kept in their cells the entire day, and during
the time allowed for exercise the silent system was en-
forced. As a general rule they were not allowed to com-
municate with their professional advisers, or friends, or
relatives, but au exception was made in cases where the
resident magistrate recommended it ; even then such com-
munications were made in the presence of the governor of
the gaol. One of the prisoners was visited ty his prof,s
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sional adviser under an order from the Lord-Lieutenant.

TERMINABLE ANNUITIES.- Yesterday a return
was issued from the National Debt Office respect—
ing terminable annuities. Under the head of "Annuities
for Lives," the return shows that from the Ist September,
1808, to the 31st March, 1866, the capital stock transferred
and cancelled, including stock purchased with money,
amounted to £36,981,157 4s. 7d. ; and that long annuities
and annuities for terms of years, amounting to £25,120
Os. 6d., were transferred and cancelled. The annuities
granted amounted to £3,356,548 is. 2d., and others "ceased"
to the amount of £2,365,821 9s. The return relating to
annuities for terms of years shows that the capital stock
transferred and cancelled amounted to £20,281,431 10s. ;
and long annuities cancelled, to £141,269 14s. The an-
nuities granted amounted to 41.74836 14 on and twilit
" emir to £1,697,78¢ 2s, §d,'