The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-26 00:00:00

BANK OF ENGLAND.

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 24th day
of August, 1859:

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

Notes issued 1.30,689,8001

Government Debt £11,015,100
Other Securities .. 3,459,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 16,214,1100
Silver Bullion .... -

£30,689,800:

f 30,689,800

BANKING D
Proprietors' Capi-
tal X 14,553,000
Rest
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commls-
missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-
counts) 8,152,539
Other Deposits 14,183,853
Seven Day and
other Bills 864,222

EPARTIONT.
Government Sam-
rities (including
Dead Weight A-
nnuity) £11,214,668
Other Securities 18,304,411
Notes
Gold and Silver
Coin 662,455

Z 39,197,406
L 1

£39,197,408
.SHALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated August 25,1859.

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.

The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from Returns made in the week ending the 23d day
of August, 1859, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great
Britain

Per owl.

From the British possessions in America .. 26s 6d
. Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius .. —8 —lll
Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies.. —5 —a
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Titis DAY.
Amsterdam
Ditto Months.
16 11 1 11 16
11 161
Rotterdam — 11
25 21 25 271
Brussels --Antwe 25 22 25 27:
Hamburgh -13 5 13 6
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles — 25 35 25 40
Frankfort on Maine — 1171 1171
Vienna
Trieste • 11 95 12 5
Petersburgh — 34
Madrid
491
Cadiz — 49 50
Leghorn — 30 5 30 10
Nap
Geno
les _ a 25 60 25 65
Palermo —
40 401
Messina 1221 1221
1221 123
Lisbon
O 51 511
Oporto
511 52
Rio Janeiro 2
• •
. .
New York —
• •
Foreignsilverin Bars
Gold in(sßutuarsdard(S).tau.
I____._...dard)....per oz. A ii 9
ft 0 0
Mexican Dollars
0 0

FOREIGN-OFFICE MESSENGERS.—The following
is a list of all the Queen's foreign service messengers, ex-
tra foreign, and home messengers, appointed since the let
of January, 1856, as well as of those now attacillhediam St.
to the
establishment of the Foreign-office--viz., W
James Ball, Queen's foreign-service messenger, salary
£525 ; Charles Purdie, ditto, £525 ; Herbert Byng Hall,
ditto L 025 • Martin Ed-
ditto, £525 ;
ward Haworth (service terminated the 30th of September„
1858), extra foreign-service messenger, on the Constanti-
nople station, £250 ; Herbert Byng Hall (service termi-
Conway Seymour, ,
nated the 30th September, 1858), extra foreign-service MOS-
senger, £250 ; James St. John Munro (appointed Vice-
, consul at Monte Video in January, 1857), ditto, £250;,
Henry Hart Davis (service terminated the 30th of April
185e88s)e,ndgietrt,ox, £250250; ;anWd iGllieaomrge Christopher, ditto, £250. Bailey, Queen's home- service,
pa
foodr
va n e ol
liuswm.hhisicHh
hewa
niwl callldil,l
be
ss "Jerry"
doetts
A TALKING SPARROW.—Mr. Sendell, of Strat-
ford, o
jasreht,
eari,sds
distinctness
cutlnrs, owner
tnroulifizalems Fns
per-
forming a variety of other evolutions scarcely to be credited.
Mr. Sendell some time since made a miniature ladder and
placed it in his cage, which the bird will ascend or carry
about on his back with the ease and agility of a modem
lamplighter. The owner has had the bird in his posseseira
about two years, and it is, as may be surmised,
prized by him.—Essex Herald.