The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 14, 1868.

SHARE LIST.

ORDINARY SllAttlib AND STOCKS.

!i Fedi Closing Business
share, Railways.
Price. f done.
at 3risfol and Exeter .... 100 82 14
at Jaledonian . Ico 76 76 71
at iambrian
20 .;0rnw..4.11
at Dublin A Belfast Junc lOO 75 73
st Don„Perth,&Ab.Junc 3.00 70 72
2) East London all -
20 Do 10 - -
at Glasgow AS. Western 100 95 97
st ..great Eastern ..
st Do. E. Angl. No. 2 too 9 9
at Jircat North 01 Scotlane 100 is 6
at. .Treat Northern lOO 106 107 1063
st DJ. A stock . IGO 1032 101, 13 2i
et D 3. B stock lOO - -
at IltS, and W. of Ircianc 10,i 97 95,
at it. Western -4)rigina• ICI 42 40. 181
at Do. South Wales
at Do. W. Illid.-0.210ru 100 28 33
at Do. Newport too 28 3:
51 ..ancash6ce. YorLsbir, 100 129) 00 141
at .:m.. Brit h., AS. Conti 110 52) 63 521 g
10) Do eTcriD - -
at •on., Chat., aud Dovt• 141.; 2) 2'4 193
at Do. Aletrop. Ex. A. IJO -
a: A North Wester, 100 116 ;17 1161
at .;:n. w South Wester; 100 91 03 904
at lan., Slid., & Lincol• 100 13 i 4
st •letropolitan ......... l 0 115 11 d 11.3
st 1)o. ExteE6ion lO3 114 113 153
10 Dc. New - -
a; letropoli tan Distr'ei. all 77 83 74
1j /o. and St. John'sll ' 6 -
.litlland
A Do, Birnain.. A Durk :00 71 76
at forth British
t Do. Ed., Ptli., & Dart 109 - -
;ch. Eastern- Berwic 100 101 10
25 Do. (1.1.1•1-] porch:is: 6.13. - -
at Do. Lted-s ..... 109 56 5s
Do. York /00 92 94
at Do. Carlisle
at Do. Stock. & Darling P.O 131 133
st north London
10 Do. Jo. 18E6
at iorth Staffordshire
st 4. &S. W. Junction
10 Do new £lO shares 6 -
st ihropshire Union
.1 tooth Devon lOO 45 47
it ;with Eastern
20 itaines, Wok., A Wok all 11 12
at Pall' Vale
10 Do. C
st ?Vaterford A Kilkenny 100 - -
10 •Vaterloo 1a Whitelia 6 -
r USSESSION S.
100 Atlantio& St.Lawroncel all 56 5S
1
Bom.,Baruda, az Cen.ln.! 100 103 104
▪ / go. 6 per cent...:
10 Do. F shares lB 3 a n
20i Buffalo .9 Lake Huron all 3 4'
10 Do. Preference
1 Baltrant, Gocieriehl
/ 6 p.c. 1872-3- IVO 68 71
at Calcutta AS. E., Jim 1 1.00 - -
et ..;tqe gua 6 per cent ! 100 62 67
CO Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p all 101 103
It East Bengal, go., sdo 100 106 It:7
-t East lotliau, go. 5 p.c. 100 107 1 8 1073
20 Do. Lsh res.... 10 - -
,1 Jrand Truukot Canada 100 .61 173 16
1 Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds
I charge 6 3.0 all 78 82
100 Do. Ist eref. Bonds all 50 52 47
too Do. do deferred - -
(00 Do. 2/1 Pref. Bonds all 38 40
140 1./o. do. deferred all - -
100 Do. 3d Pref.stock I all 26 28
100 Do. do. deferred - --
100 oth Pref. clock., all 19 20
tOO Do. do. deterred - -
st :t. India Yen. gua. sp.c (CO 1073 1083 1(73 8
o. New 5 per oitat lB 14 2 p
:0 Do. New gua. sp. c 6 16 2 e
1. )iou:11 of ludia
gua. 5 Der cent
at D, 44 per cent t• 0 li9 101
Po -
203 treat W. 14. of Cana;la all 144 144! 124
Do. Now ...... all - -
100 Do. 6p. u Bess. pay. 18711 all 99 101
100 Do. 54 do. pay. 1877-8 all 9i 91
at 11adras, gua. 5 p.o 1064 1173
at Do. 41 do j :00 100 103
st Do. 43 do I 100 95 97
2U Do. Filth Extension; ail
Cor 6p. c. Bnds.! 100 - -
5 ) lief. C Hobson's Bay all -
N.1.21.C'd5..6pc Ist pf. ha 100 83 65
st Dude & Ithiik'nd, b. 5 p.O 100 1c53 10,14
st scinde ..... 2 100 112) 1433
8) 1)0. Delhi
20 Do. do K ,;,_„! 2
at Do. Poniaub y.o 100 1013 1023
st Do.lroins St.Flot I 100 - -

BRITISH ARCILEOLOGICAL ASSOCIA-
IOiV.

Yesterday the British Archaeological Association
made an excursion to Thames Head from Cirences-
ter, when Mr. G. R. Wright read a paper on this
subject. Mr. Wright commenced by remarking
that, like the source of the Nile and other great
rivers, the source of the Thames had given rise to
much ink shedding, and after referring to the Nile
controversy, he said there could be little doubt
that the Thames found its source in a large marshy
district in water, though dry enough now, almost
north of the well-known Fossway, in the parish of
Kemble, in that county (Gloucestershire), filled
with a number of springs, and from a combina-
tion of which a rivulet first, then a stream, and
afterwards a river was male. He eudorsed the
opinion of Rudder, expressed in his ‘, His-
tory of Gloucestershire," as to the origin of
the Thames. The name of the river had caused
much trouble to antiquaries, who had called it the
Theme or Tame, the Isis, and the Ouse. After
quoting Rudder at some length Mr. Wright quoted
the opinion of Mr. Llwyd (of course a Weshinau),
to the effect that where the Latins used the M the
13,itons used the V. Firmu3, Firy. Fertninus,
Fervin, &a., and he thinks that Tav, or Taff, was
originally the same word with Tame, or Thames,
and " Tamos " in Potamos was probably no
other. Although this conclusion of the worthy
topographer would by many of his (Mr. Wright's)
hearers he considered a fanciful one he was inclined
to give great belief to it, not only from the fact
that a Greek word like Potamos, which they all
knew meant a river, might easily have been intro-
duced, like many other Greek words, into the
country long before the conquest of it by Caesar,
by reason of the great traffic which had for centu-
ries gone on with the Phoenicians and the other
navigating tribes of the east of Europa with Britain
for tin and other mineral products of our country,
but also from the further knowledge we possessed
that throughout the languages of the world we had
many kindred forms of words which, however diffi-
cult now to trace the origin of, had, no doubt, ori-
ginally had one common one, and that one, in all
probability, a Phoenician or a Grecian one. He
need only cite as an illustration out of many hun-
dreds that might be given, if time permitted, the
word " Father," which in most European languages
from very early times had a similar spelling and
sound as Pater (Latin), from the Greek Ilanip ;
Rre (French), Vater (German), &c. Thus in seek-
ing to prove that our river Thames was originally
derived from the Greek word " Potamos," a river,
and shortened to Tamos—as the " Po" in Greek
was an old prepodtion he hoped he should
not offend any Ancient Briton's feelings;
because if his view was correct—and Rud-
der and others suggested it—there was no rea-
son to doubt that the British themselves adopted
it, and at last made it their own ; so much so as to
incorporate it in their language as the best way of
signifying a river or stream, and there it remained
apparently a pure British word when the Romans
came, and ultimately, in their famous and fanciful
manner, married, so to speak, the Tame, or Tatno,
to the god Isis, and produced, let us hope for all
time, now our present wide-world-known and re-
spected " Old Father Thames." Mr. Wright added
that. by the kindness of their worthy treasurer, Mr.
Gordon Hills, he was enabled to give them an evi-
dence of the early use of the word " Tamyse " for
the name of our river, in an extract from a charter
to Malmesbury Abbey in the year 931 by Athel-
stan. The deed says Et sic per fossatutn
directe usque in rivulo de Tatnyse," &c. Still
there were other antiquaries who completely dif-
fered with him, and the late secretary of the pa-
rent body of all archaeological associations, Mr. J.
Yonge Akerman, was one of these. The earliest
mention of the parish of Kemble as the place where
the river rises was in a cartulary contained in the
Lansdowne MS., No. 417, Jo. 2, B. The Thames
and Severn Canal, formed nearly 100 years ago, had
materially affected this and other springs of the
neighbourhood as the pumping went on day and
night in the engine-house close by the Fossway for
the supply of water to the canal. Yet the true
soringhead of the river Thames is to be found in
what was called Trewsbury Mead, on the other side
of the great Roman road, and near the celebrated
high ground on which Trewsbury Camp was
situated, where it burst forth in wet and winter
seasons in a large volume of water, similar to and
as large as one of the London fire-plugs when first
opened, and this supplying source would, no doubt,
have been kept up in all seasons had it not been for
the works in question.

BANK OF FRANCE.

PARIS, Avg. 13.

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..

Aug. 13.

Aug. 6.

c. fr. c.
Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 182,500,000
Profits in addition to
capital (Art. 8, Law,
June 9, 1857) 7,014,776 02 7,044,776 02
Reserve of the Bank

and its branches 22,105,750 II 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 39,333,935 78 39,017,410 53
Treasury account cur- .
rent creditDr 97,283,262 27 73,833,116 59
Current accounts, Paris 475,253,417 39 3.54,64!1,157
Do. branch banks 49,023,251 49,002,882
Dividends payable 1,843,0i7 - 2,070,179
Discounts and sundry
interests
Rediscounted the last
six mouths
Surplus of receipts not
distributed —
Sunchles . 8,973,927 55 8,681,757 33

Total
CREDITOR.
Aug. 13. Aug. 6.
Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr.

Branch banks
Commercial bills over-
due
Commercial bills dis-

counted, not yet due 289,306,892 18 196,112,067 79
Do. branch banks 206,890,590 191,855,661
Advances on deposit of
bullion 31,719,600 32,189,780.
Do. branch banks 7,404,100 7,375,900
Do. on French Public
Securities 13,046,000 11,948,800
Do. by branch banks 6,303,600 6,179,500
Do. on railway shares
and debentures
Do. branch banks -
Do. on Credit Fonder
Bonds
... .

Do. branches 838,000 826,900
Do. to the State (Con-
vention, June 10,
1357) 60,000,000 60,000,000
Government Stock re-

serve 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14
Do. disposable
[lentos Immobaliscies

(Law, June 2, 1857) ICO 000,000 100,000,000
aotel and furniture of
the Mink and landed
propel ty branches 8,411,314 8,403,974
Expenses of manage-
ment 714,396 37 685,761 62
Sundries

Total
C4rtifiel by the Senator-Governor of the Bank
of France.

(Signed ROULAND.

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