The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-10 00:00:00

TILE BANK OF FRANCE.

The following is the monthly debtor and creditor
account of the Bank of France, made up to yester-
day (Thursday) :

Ca. Fr. c.
Cash and ingots
Cash at the branch banks
Bills due yesterday to be paid to-day 790,900 27
Bills becoming due in Paris
Bills in the branch banks
A.dvances on coin and ingots
Do. in the branch banks
Do. on public securities of France 23,305,836 10
Do. in the branch banks
Do. on railway shares and bonds 19,130,800
Do. in the branch banks
Do. on Credit Foncier Scrip 139,300
Do. to the State by treaty of
June 30, 1848
Rentes of the reserve fund
Renter of disposable funds 52,189,482.
Yew Shares, not settled 70,293,300
Elotel and furniture of the Bank. 4,000,000
Real property of branch banks
Expenses of administration 1,141,510 4
Premiums on the purchase of matieres 949,656 8
Sundries 451,124 45

Capital
Ditto, New
fteeerve fund

Ditto, New
Reserve immobiliere

DR.

1,094,126,238 96

91,250,000 --
91,250,000 -
12,980,750 14

9,125,000 -
4,000,000 -

Notes to bearer, in circulation
Do. of branch banks 50,391,300

Do. to order (Post bills)
Bills payable at sight
account-current of Treasury Creditor 87,444,110 80
Various accounts-current
Do, branch banks
_ 24,321,877 7--2

, .
Dividends to be paid
Discount, interest, and expenses
Charge for safe keeping of securities 12,041,551 51
Re-discounts of the last half-year
Overdue bills
Sundries

1,094,126,238 96

PREVIOUS MONTH'S RETURN.

Cash and ingots
Cash at the branch banks ......
Bills due yesterday to be paid to4lay 355,937 62
Bills becoming due in Paris
Bills in the branch banks
Advances on coin and ingots
Do. in the branch banks
Do. on public securities of France 22,560,136 10
Do. in the branch banks
Do. on railway shares and bonds 17,558,500
Do. in the branch banks
Do. on Credit Foncier Scrip 103,300
Do. to the State by treaty of
June 30, 1848
Relates of the reserve fund 12,980,750 14
Rentes of disposable funds
New Shares, not .settled 77,613 300
Rotel and furniture of the Bank
Expenses of administration 766,348 40
Premiums on the purchase of matibres 696,120 20
Sundr'es

1,092,409,318 50

DR.

Capital.

91,250,000

Ditto, New
ReFerve fund
Ditto, New

91,256,000 -
12,980,750 14
9,125,000 -

Reserve immobilire
Notes to bearer, in circulation
Do. of branch banks '51,279,800 --

. .
Do. to order (Post bills)
Bills payable at sight
Account-current of Treasury Creditor 121,577,183 97
Various accounts-current
Do. branch banks. 25,248,595

Dividends to be paid'
Discount, interest, said expenses
Charge for safe keeping of securities 8,826.157 22
Re-discounts of the last half-year
Overdue bills 3,663 77
Sundries 1,703,828 87

1,092,409,318 50

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST THE MEDI-
CAL ST_4IIF OF ST. THOMAS'S HOS-
PITAL.

An inquiry; which lasted nearly four hours, took
place last night at the Duke of Clarence, Horse-'
ferry-road, Westminster, before Mr. Bedford, the
coroner, tond,eing the death of James Benton, aged
43, a draymai,i, in the employ of Messrs. Thorne,
and Co., of she Horseferry-road, which occurred
under cireunistances of a vary shocking and my -
lancboly nat,ure. The deceased, who had been 20
years in the employ of Messrs. Thorne and Co.,
and was a :steady respectable man, has left a widow
(in the last state of pregnancy) and six orphans.
The case excited the utmost interest, owing to his
having bean turned away from St. Thomas's Hos-
pital, after the wheel 'of a loaded brewer's dray
going over his body, dislocating 17 of his ribs, his
cullar-bone, and his shoulder joints.
Mr. W7n.ittield, the resident medical attendant of
St. Thomas's Hospital, was present to watch the
proceedin."gs on the part of the above institution,
and the superintendent of the M division of the
Metropobltan Police was also in attendance, owin,
t.) a char,,,e being made against the driver of a
Greenwick omnibus for causing the death of the
deceased.
An imm.imse mass of evidence was brought fo.
ward ; but the whole of the facts and the attendiog
circumstan.ces may be givei.); in the following con-
denied detail : _

On ay evening last, between seven and eight
o'clock, the - deceased was proceeding up the Lon-
don-road, Southwark, with' his team, when the
driver of the Queen Greenwich Omnibus whipped
his lead ng horse, which caused them to ge oft at a
hard trot ; this occasioned the deceased to be jolts d
off his seat on the near side of the dray, the
wheel going 'over his body. The unfortunate man
was taken up; in a shocking condition, and conveyed
on a police s.t.t.etcher to St. Thomas's HoSpital ; he
was there Stripped and examined by a dozen or
more young inedical students, who declared, after
the examination, that there was " little or nothing
the matter with him, and that he could not be ad-
mitted as a p atient." In consequence of this the
unfortunate suiThrer was placed in a cab and con-
veyed home to' his lodgings, in the Horseferty-
road, Westminster. (The jury, at this stage
of the procee'dings, expressed their astonish-
ment and in dignation at the authorities ( f
St. Thomas's Hospital. On the following
day (Saturday) the deceased, when in a state of
great exhaustion, was attended by Mr. Knaggs, a
surgeon, who disoovered that neatly all his ribs, 9
on one side and S on the other were broken, his
collar bone dislocated, and also his shoulder joints.
The case was hopeless (although the surgeons of St.
Thomas's Hospital 'said there was nothing the mat-
ter with him) ; Mr. Knaggs continued to att-.,nd
upon him until his dcath, which took place on Tues-
day, from the injuries above.described.
The Coroner said it was a serious charge ag tinst
so useful and paoula ran institution as St. Thomas's
Hospital, and inquiratd of Mr. Whitfield. for expla-
nation of such an exti•aordinary fact.
Mr. Whitfield said the chest of the deceased was
not examined, which accounted for the fractures
not being detected.
The Jury one and all said, indignantly, that it
was an imputation anti disgrage upon the institu-
tion.

The Coroner observ-ied that, he differed from
them. He said the proceedings were not in that
tangible shape as to wari6,nt a censure upon the in-
stitution.

A long discussion took place, when only 12 out
of 17 of the jury signed for a verdict of accident.d
death, without a censure ,upon the hospital.

• THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS.-'—We learn from our Malta
correspondent that up to the 29th of September nu
telegraphic communication had reached Alexandria of
the arrival at Suez of tho r, ustralian mail, which was
to have left Sydney on the -i:lst of August, at,d was
waited for by the Tamar :IbG Alexandria. The Van-
guard was at Malta to convtizi the overland portion to
Marseilles.
THE CONTINENTAL MAIL H AND THE LATE GALE.
Notwithstanding the non-arrival of the French and other
foreign mails on Friday, try. Harwich Steam Packet
Company's steamor London, Captain Moore, made the
passage from Rotterdam to Harwich as usual on Thur -
day night, and sailed again 'for Rotterdam at her ap-
pointed hour on Friday, Nwith a large number of pas-
sengers.
THE NEW LIFE-BOAT AT APPLEDOI:E.—BIDEFORD
Oct. 8.---Some time since ads Royal National Lifeboat
Institution Feat a new lifeboat to this station. 'rim beat
was recently tried, during O heavy ground sea, on Licit,
ford Bar. Every expedient, was resorted to to test her
qualities, but it was fouraid impossible to upset kat.
After pulling her about in., the broken sea, she prayed
berselt to be an excellent 'oast, and to be fact in rowing
She was afterwards taken alongside a vessel, and le!,
means of runners aud teck le she was capsized twice,
when she in ,tantly righted herself, and self-ejected the
water she thus shipped ire a
_few seconds. Such is the
class of lifeboats the above. institution now stations o
dangerous points of the c;ca st, and the testimony in their
favour is almost univere al. It has three lifeboats of this
description in this local ,t!, and we trust that the public
will soon enable the F Aveiety to supply other dangerous
points of the coast r it similar excellent lifeboats. Ir,
consequence of the r iuperior character of the boats, and
the care which the i esC,tation has taken to supply their
crews with every revai table security for their persons,
together with the high( :r scale of payments and reward,
it gives the men, it 'us 3 secured the willing and efficient
services of our boalLar n.