The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-03 00:00:00

CESAREWITCII.

1000 to GO agst Eastley (offered-20 to 1 taken)
25 to 1 agst Friponner (taken)
1000 to 33 agst Suffolk (taken and offered)
1000 to 30 agst Sing Victor (offered)
30 to 1 agst Beeswing (taken)
40 to 1 agst Stradbroko (taken)
40 to 1 agst Paul Jones (offered)'
40 to 1 agst Romping Girl (offered)
50 to 1 agst Our Mary Aun (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Achievement (offered)
1000 to 8 agst Equerry (offered)
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
1000 to 30 agst Eastley (taken)

Bank of England Returns.

An Account, pursuant to tl
cap. 32, for the week ending
ISSUE DEP

,he Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
Wednesday, Sept. 2, 1868.
ART EN T.

Notes issued .....C34,729,553

Governint. Debt £11,015,100
Other Securities 3,981,900
Gold Coin and
Bullion
Silver Bullion

X 34,729,555
BANKING D,

X 31,729,555

!ropriotore Capi-,

F.PARTKEXT.
Govornmt. Sem-
. ritios(including
Dead Weight
Aunuity) 413,790,131
Other Securities 16.23i,93(1
Notes 10,422,450
Gold and Silver
Coin

tit£14,553,000
Rest
Public Deposits
(including Ex-
chequer, Say-
ings' Banks,
Commissioners
of National

Debt, and Div.

Accounts 3,274,415
Other Deposits 19,577,730
Seven Days and
othor Bills 553,027

£41,569,609
GE,

441,569,609
:o. FORBES, Chief Cashier.

Tobacco is unusually promising, and if early
frosts do not prevent, the crop will be one of the largest
and best ever gathered in America.
According to the Telegraph there appears to have
been a squabble last week at Homburg-on-the-Heights,
between a captain of her Majesty's 92d Regiment and a
Mr. H., an American. The Telegraph is fond of sensa-
tional pictures, and its staff are noted for drawing on their

imagination, so we accept with a large margin of allowance
its statements ot the occurrence. The captain, who sat in
the restaurant at dinner, with the American between him and
the window, directed the waiter to open it, to which the
American who was close to it objected, but the Irish officer
insisting, the master of the restaurant was sent for, who
endeavoured to satisfy both by keeping the window par-
tially open. The American, rising from his place, told the
Irishman that ho was "a sneak," which Paddy resented by
au unexpected blow,which floored the person who thus off-
hand delivered the oracular opinion on his character.
The Telegraph finds fault with the American because ho
handed the affair over to the police. Had he taken a carv-
ing knife and cut the Irishman's throat, he would have
acted more in accordance with the traditions of his own
country, and answered the expectations of the Telegraph.
But the American appears to have been more sensible
after, than before he" collided" with the Irishman. Neither
appears to have shown " striking" good manners, and we
certainly think that the consent of the person sitting next

the window should be obtained before that of another in
the middle of the room insisted on its being opened or
places changed.
Argentine Confederation.
TIIE NEW LAW ON TELEGRAPIIY IN GI:EAT BRI•
TAIN.—The important statute passed at the close of the
recent session will, when carried out, create a new system
of telegraphy, and establish a uniform charge of " ono
shilling" for twenty words to any part of the United
Kingdom, and eventually at a more moderate sum. The
object of the act is to enable the Postmaster-General to
acquire, work, and maintain the electric telegraphs, and
the preamble recites the great benefit that v► ill accrue to
the public by a cheaper, more widely extended, and more
expeditious system than the present insufficient means
of communication. The Postmaster-General has entered
into various agreements with telegraph and railway com-
panies for the purchase of their undertakings, and unless
Parliament in the next session appropriates means to be
at his disposal for the purchase of the same, the agree-
ments are to be void, and he is to pay the expenses in-
curred. The Postmaster-General, with the consent of the
Treasury, is empowered to purchase. Special arrange-
ments are to be made with newspaper proprietors and
others for the transmission of words at the rate of one
shilling per a hundred words, with other conditions.
The present servants of telegraph companies will be em-
ployed by Government or compensated after a length of
service. There are various general provisions in the
measure which, when adopted, will be of general public
benefit.

THE NATIONAL PEABODY TESTIMONIAL—The
medal ordered by Congress as an acknowledgment of the
national appreciation of Mr. George Peabody's liberality
in giving a fund to aid the cause of education in the
South has been completed. This testimonial cost £5,000
in gold. In design and workmanship it has not boon
equalled in America, and connoisseurs assert that it has
not been surpassed by the best work of European goldsmiths.
It consists of a massive gold plinth, resting on the centre of
which is an upright medal, thefront disc of which presents
' an admira,)le profile in bas-relief of tho eminent philan-
thropist. Leaning over the meth], on the right is a statuette
representing Benevolence, who is apparently about to
crown Mr. Peabody with a laurel wreath. On the left
a clump of palmetto trees rises, their smooth boles
twined with parasitic plants, and their flexible branches
appearing to wave. At the foot of this clump of trees
are two children, representing the white and black
races, whose attitudes are graceful, their presence con-
veying the idea of the catholic character of Mr. Peabody's
munificent gift. On the front of the plinth, immediately
tad.,r the medal, is the shield of the Union, the azure field
and the red and white bars being in enamel. On either
side of the shield, and directly under the figures we have
described as standing on the plinth, are the words " Edu-
cation," " Benevolence." On the reverse of the medal is
a suitable inscription, while scattered about the plinth or
resting against it are the Bible, moveable globe, wheel,
rule, compass, and other objects typical of science and
education. The testimonial is enclosed in a beautiful
casket of obeny and bird's-eye maple, which is lined with
purple velvet.—Net; York Times.