The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-02 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY.

BAL3IORAL CASTLE, Sept. 30.
The Queen went out yesterday morning, at-
tended by Lady Churchill ; and in the afternoon
drove out with Prince Leopold, attended by the
lion. Mary Lascelles.

General Sir William, Lady, and Miss Knnllys
had the honour of dining with her Majesty and
the Royal Family.

BRITISH COURAGE.

The following impressive stanzas from the pen of
Mr. Gerald Massey appear in the October number
of " Good Words." Although the Victoria Cross
has not been conferred on Lieutenant Prideaus,
that distinction being reserved, we believe, for
special acts of bravery under fire, yet his merit—se
these verses prove—is not unrecognised. It will
be remembered that, aft;:r he was set at liberty,
Lieutenant Prideaux went back to King Theolore
with Sir Robert Napier's message, that he would
accept only the unconditional freedom of all the
prisoners.

LIEUTENANT PRIDEAUX.

"He received his sentence without a word of demur..---

LORD NAPIER OF MAGDALA.
No Cross of Valour hath the Muse to give
His faithful breast, but she may bid him live
In hearts of grateful glow,
Who went to bear his message with last breath,
Nor changed countenance at sight of death,
When Napier bade him go.
England, our Helen, watching from the wall
To cheer us fighting, mourn us when we fall,
O'erlooks her gallant son!
She bath so many lofty memories
To keep her lifted gaze : a deed like this
So many would do—have done.
lie did it! that poor Private in the "Buffs,"*
Though only ono of her neglected "roughs"—

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English through every limb :
He would not bow his head except to die,
He would not let our England's image lie
Dishonoured, shamed in him !

Duty, with glory, is our proud pass-word
Who ask that we may prove fur England's savor

True steel at need—no more.
Yet worthy of his crown is young Prideaux,
As if on board they had borne him lying low

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For us who were safe on shore.
That large content, with death for England's sake,
In narrower hearts a nobler life shall wake,
To breathe with ampler breath,
And some poor soul caught in as bitter strait,
Shall think of him and sternly face its fate
Go on, and outface death !
Blow, winds of Ged! and stir us to the root,
Shake down all wormy and unworthy fruit
There's new life in your breeze !
Traitors may talk of England going down
(In quicksands that their coward selves have sow*"
She swims in hearts like these!

* Some Sikhs and a private of the Buffs, having re'
mained behind with the grog-carts, fell into the hands of
the Chinese. On the next morning they were brought
before the authorities, and commanded to perform the
kotou. The Sikhs obeyed, but Moyse, the English soldier,
declared that he would not prostrate himself before aril
Chinaman alive, and was immediately knocked on the
head and his body thrown upon a dunghill."—Times
Correspondent.

BANK OF FRANCE.

PARIS, Oct. 1.

The following is the return of the Bank of France
for the week ending to-day, together with the cor-
responding figures of the previous account :

DEBTOR.

Oct. 1.

Sept. 24.

fr. c. 1t.% es
Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 182,500,000 -"
Profits in addition to
capital (Art. 8, Law,
June 9, 1857) 7,044,776 02 7,044,776 02
Reserve of the Bank

and its branches 22,105,750 11 22,105,750 14
Reserve of landed pro-
perty 4,000,000 4,000,000. --"
Notes in circulation -
Banknotes to order and
receipts payable at
sight 36,136,826 83 31,663,120 77
Treasury account cur-
rent creditor 198,523,891 13 203,504,765 09
Current accounts, Paris 327,230,331 61 368,147,961. 61
Do. branch banks 51,542,581 51,024,396 ---'
Dividends payable 1,240,819 1,301,938 --
Discounts and sundry
interests
Rediscounted the last
six months 703,152 42 703,152 43
Surplus of receipts not
distributed —
Sundries

Total
CREDITOR.
Oct 1. Sept. 21.
Cash in hand and in fr. ' c. fr. 0'
Branch banks
Commercial bills over-
due
Commercial bills dis-

counted, not yet CI; 228,313,031 89 244,914,766 85
Do. branch banks 213,127,707 199,506,600 "
Advances on deposit of
bullion 31,755,609 31,356,100 "
Do. branch banks 9,171,300 8,812,600
Do. on French Public
Securities 11,748,000 11,581,600 "
Do. by branch banks 7,114,000 6,940,900 "
Do. on railway shares
and debenture, 36,120,100 --35,952,200
Do. branch ban 27,732,200 27,665,700 "
Do. on Credit Fencier
Bonds
Do. branches 893,600 -- 881,300 "
Do. to the State:(Con-
vention, June 10,
1857) 60,000,000 60,000,000 "
Government Stock re-

serve 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14
Do. disposable
Rentes Immobalis6es

(Law, Juno 22 1857) 100,000,000 100,000,000
hotel and furniture of
the Bank and landed
property branches 8,996,123 8,971,123
Expenses of manage-
ment 1,612,829 36 1,433,848 19
Sundries

Total
Certified by the Senator-Governor of the Bank
of France.

(Signed) Ro ULAND.

FATHER IGNATIUS AT LOMBARD-
STREET THIS MORNING.

This morning an immense crowd assembled in
Lombard-street in front of St. Nicholas, in the an'
ticipation of witnessing disturbance on the part of
those who are opposed to the preaching of the Rev.
Mr. Lyne. This anticipation was, however, unrea-
lised, as the rector of the church, at the hour ap-
pointed for the service, announced to them that the
rev. gentleman was unable to preach, and had
been so seriously upset by the opposition he had
encountered, that his health had given way, and he
was obliged to seek recreation and renewed strength
by going to the Continent. The crowd, many of
whom were evidently gratified at the reverend
gentleman's incapacity to preach, after hearing the
Litany dispersed. A strong force of police wag
outside and in.

The statue of James Watt was 'placed on the
pedestal, near the Town Hall, Birmingham, on Wednesdai
morning. Those who were favoured with a glimpse of
the statue speak in the highest terms of itg excellence a 0
a likeness and a work of art —noble in its simplioity of
unstudied action, and grand in the expression of conscious
power.

SPORT IN NOTTS.—The Earl of Chesterfield, Duke
of Cambridge, and other noblemen and gentlemen,
have been shooting for eight days over his lordship's God'
Hug estate, near Nottingham. The result is as follows
—First day, 309 hares, 205 partridges, 1 rabbit ; second
day, 154 hares, 95 partridges, 2 rabbits ; third day, 167
hares, 160 partridges, 30 rabbits ; fourth day, 134 hare,
212 partridges, 5 rabbits; fifth day, 270 bares, 221 par-
tridges, 1 rabbit; sixth day, 130 hares, 148 partridges;
seventh day, 225 hares, 80 partridges, 79 rabbits ; eighth
day, 65 bares, 50 partridges—making a total of 1,454
hares, 1,174 partridges, and 118 rabbits, or 2,746 head of
game.

THE MURDER NEAR CHESTERFIELD. The ad-
journed inquest on the body of the murdered man
George Kell; Dr. Bright's coachman, who was stabbed by
a man named George Hughes, alias Gorley, on Saturd"Y
night lasi-, was held yesterday before the Coroner, Dir•
Busby, at the Municipal Hall. Nuttall and his wife gave
corroborative evidence. The Coroner said if all the five
people who were on the road at the time had laid their
heads together to allow the man to escape they could not
have done so more effectually. The jury retired for forty
minutes, and brought in a verdict of wilful murder against
George Hughes, alias Gorley. The murderer is still at
large.