The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-31 00:00:00

BANK OF ENGLAND BEITURN3.

The weekly returns of the Bank of England w:11 hence-
forth be published promptly. The Treasury yesterday
made arrangements to that effect with the Bank and the
Commissioners of S!-amps and Taxes. The day of their
appearance in the Gazette, will be Friday as usual, but
they will he made up to the preceding Wednesday night,
so that the interval tvfore their appearance will be only
two days instead. of a week. The first publication under
the new method will be in the Gazette of Friday next,
the 6%h Nor., nbicla will contain the accounts up to the
4th, and also on that occasion the ordinary return up to
the pr. ceding Sai.'urday, the 31st of October.

There was a tsroendoas hurricane in the Black Sea
on October 10. Eight merchantmen were lost off the
Suites. mouths. _ _ _

" It appears certain," says the Patric, "that the
sentence of death pronounced against Captain Doineau is
to be commuted iikto perpetual imprisonment."
Toe steamer La Plata is expacted to arrive at Smth-
aropton about Sunday next, from the West Indies and
Mexico, with a co.aniderable amount of specie, chiefly

silver.
DEATH OF THE Hay. R. A. VAUGHAN, B.A.—This
dietinguiehed iyounee minister died on Monday, at Lis
house, Alexander-street, Weetbourne-park. Ho was
son of the Rev. Dr. Vaughan, principal of the Lanca-
shire Independent College.
A telegram tran emitted to Lloyd's, from Revel,
mentions that the steamer Napoleon, Capt. Amery, from
Bull to Cronstadt, is around on Degoe, with 11 feet of
water in her hold. 4. portion of the cargo, eoneistiog
of 100 bales of cotton and five casks of wine had been
saved.
The direction of the Dutch Rhenish Railway Com-
pany announce a twelfth call of 243. per share, payable
or. the 15th of January. This call being made for the
'purpose of redeeming the loan of 2,400,00011. due on
the let of March neee'e, the certificates of that loan will
be received at par in payment of the call.
Three suspensione were announced from Liverpool
yesterday—Messrs. :I. S. de Wolf and Co., shipowners;
Gould and Davies, wine merchants and ship chendlers ;
and Robert Morrow, Son, and Garbutt, timber mer-
chants. The liabilities of Messrs. de Wolf and Co. are,
it is feared, consici.exable.
' In Landon the suspension has occurred of Messrs. J.
Ha'y and Co., merchants in the Now York and Canada
trade, and Messrs, J. Jaffrey and Co., of Great St.
Helen's, ship and is suranca brokers. The nor.-receipt
of remittances from America has in each case been the
Cause of difficulty. The liabilities of Messrs. Haly are
stated at 60,0001 , arid a favourable liquidation is anti-
cipate.).
Lettere from Liverpool explain that the failure of the
neeetiatioes for Cie relief of the Borough Bank was
caused, not by any withdrawal of the Liverpool banks
from their cifee t.> give guarantees, but from a difference
of view between fieemselvet and the Bank of England
when thcprecis3 t errns of those guarantees came to be
discussd.
SUICIDE, OF A FRENCH RAILWAY OFFICIAL.—The
chief of the railway station of Montigny blew out his
;:rains a fee, days ago, in consequence, it is said, of his
hevieg appropriated to his own use some of the money
of the company, the discovery of which he feared. He
has left'a wife and. several children.
less Burdett Ceutts has taken a residence in the
. vicinity of Torquay, for the ensuing winter.