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

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Capital _
91,250,000
Ditto, New
R-tEerve fund
Ditto, New
Reserve immobiliere
Notes to bearer, in circulation
Do. of branch banks -
Do. to order (Post bills)
Bills payable at sight 5,115,809

Accoimi-current of Treasury Creditor 121,577,183 97
Various accounts-current.
Do. branch banks....., 25,248,595
Dividends to be paid 710,710 25
Discount, interest, and 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 STAFF OF ST. THOMAS'S HOS-
PITAL.

An inquiry, which 1a.:44d nearly four hours, took
place last Di,ht at the Duke of Clareuce, Horse-
ferry-road, Westminster, before Mr, Bedford, the
coroner, touching the death of James Benton, aged
43, a drayman, in the employ of Messrs. Thorne,
and Co., of the Horseferry-road, which occurred
under circumstances of a very shocking and me-
lancholy nature. The deceased, who had been 20
years in the o-mploy 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 been turned away from St. Thomas's Hos-
pital, after the wheel of a loaded brewer's dray
going over hs body, dislocating 17 of his ribs, his
culler-bone, and his shoulder joints.
Mr. Whitfield, the resident medical attendant of
St. Thomas's Hospital, was present to watch the
proceedings on the part of the above institution,
and the superintendent of the M division of the
Metropolitan Police was also in attendance, owing
tl a charge being made against the driver of. a
Greenwich omnibus for causing the death of the
decess"d.

An immense mass of evidence was brought fo'-
ward ; but the whole of the facts and the attending
circumstances may be given in: the following con-
densed detail :

On Friday, 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 whippqd
his lead ng horse, which caused them to go oft at a
hard trot ; ttiig occasioned the deceased to be jolt( 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 Aretcher to St. Thomas's Hospital ; he
was there stripped and examined by a dozen or
more young medical 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 patient." In consequence of this the
unfortunate sufferer was placed in a cab and con-
veyed home to his lodgings, in the Horseferry-
road, Westminster. (The jury, at this- stage
of the proceedings, expressed their astonish-
ment and indignation at the authorities cf
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 discovered that nearly all his ribs, 9
on one side an& 8 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. Kuagge continued to attend
upon him until 11.,'s death, which took place on Tues-
day, from the injuries above described. •
-The Coroner said it was a serious charge a,gain-st
so useful and pmularan institution as St. Thomas's
Hospital, and inquired of Mr. Whitfield for expla-
nation of such can extraordinary fact.
Mr. W hitfield:- said the ehest 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 imputa4;ion and disgrage upon the institu-
tion.

The Coroner observed that he differed from
them. He said the proceedings were not in that
tangible shape fig to warrant h 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.►!
death, without a censure upon the hospital.

THE AIISTRAZIAN MAILS.—We learn from our Malta
correspondent that up to the 29th of September no
telegraphic conitannication had reached Alexandria of
the arrival at fiuez of the Australian mail, which was
to have, left Sydney on the 21st of August, and war
waited for by the Tamar at Alexandria. The Van.
guard was at Al-Alta to convey the -overland portion to
Marseilles.

L„,
HE CONTINENTAL MAILS AND TSB LATE GALE.—
Notwithetandin g the non-a-rival of the Frbnch and other
foreign mails o,a Friday, the Harwich Steam Packet
Company's ate:valor London, Captain Moore, made the
passage from R, itterdam to liar wich as usual on Thurt-
day night, and
sailed azaiu for Rotterdam at her ap-
pointed hour oi2 Friday, with a large number of pas-
sengers.

THE NEW T
44IFE-BOAT AT ATPLEDOEM—BIDEFORD
Oct. 8 —some tiwe since the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution i.ent a new lifeboat to this station. Tte boat
was recently trii id, during a heavy ground sea, on Bide
Cord Bar. Every expedient was resorted to to test her
qualities, but it was found impossible to upset her.
After pulling her ab cut in the broken sea, she proved
herself to be an excellent boat, and to be fast in rowing.
She was afterwards taken alongside a vessel, and by-
means of runnerr,.. and tackle she was capsized twice,
when she in•itantly righted herself, and self-ejected the
water she thus abinped in a few seconds. Such is the
Class of lifeboats the above institution now stations o
dangerous t
ro-n-s of the coast, and the testimony in their
favour is almost ti niversal. It has three lifehoats,of this
description in this locality, and we trust that the public
will soon enable Cie society to supply other dangerous
points of the coast. city similar excellent lifeboats. In
consequence of the superior character of the boats, and
the care which the, institution has taken to supply their
crews with every atrailiAble security fur their persons,
together with the higher sodle of payments and rewards
'it gives the men, it 3:16 secured the willing and efficient
cervices of our boatmen: •