The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-03 00:00:00

ARY.

Windsor Grand Military
and Open .
Derby Spring
Baschurch 2B

ICH.
Margate 23
West Somerset 2l
Cheltenham
Southdown Hunt
Cambridge

Grant National Hunt I Knighton
(Bedford) 2 Abergavenny
Rly.Artillery (Woolwich) 3 Hambledou
Bromley
Aldershot • 8 Croydon Spring
Il(indon
OCTOBER.
Bromley 1 I Ealing l5
DECEMBER.

St. Albans 1 j Ealing 26
Kingsbury

Bank of England Returns.—Last Evening,

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria
cap. 32, for the week ending Wednesday, Ja:a. 1, 1868.

ISSUE DEPAMTMENT.

Notes issued ....X35,971,810

Governmt. Debt.Xll,ols,loo
Other Securities 3,984,900
Gold Coin and
Bullion
Silver Bullion

£35,971,840
BANKING I):

X 35,971,810

Proprietors' api-
tal £14,553,000
Rest
Public Deposits
(includiugEx-
chequer, Sav-
ings' Bank;
Commissioners
of National
Debt, and Div.
Accounts ..... 6,314,203
Other Deposits:. 21,654,971
Seven Days and
other 8i115..... 590,067

i:PARTMENT.
Governmt. Seen-
rities(including
Dcad Weight
Annuity) .... £13,296,046
Other. Securities 20,125,012
Notes 11,729,785
Gold and Silver
Coin

£46,213,731

£46,213,731

THE SUB-EDITOR IN HIS DEN.—There is the
greasy date-box on the chimney-piece, the dingy old
hungraps
against the wall, the clumsy volumes of the "file'
piled in hopeless confusion in the rack, little bookcase'
stuffed with works of reference—Dictionaries, Peerages,
Encyclopaedias —the labyrinth of speaking-tubes gathered
on all sides of the sub-editor's seat, and the huge heaps of
old newspapers, over which the unwary visitor stumbles.
This, far more than the room of the chief leader-writer
or of any other member of the staff, is the real heart and
centre of the great machine whose influence is felt all over
England, and the man who labours here is he who ap-
proaches most nearly to the popular ideal of a newspaper
editor. It is into his hands that the epistles of "Pater-
familias," "An Indignant Traveller," "A Volunteer," "A
Constant Subscriber to your valuable Journal," and the
other variously named writers who look to the Press for the
redress of their grievances, fall ; he it is who knows the night
before what the paper of the next morning is going to con-
tain; who decided whether the "copy" which poor Flimsy
the penny a-liner has dropped into the box with fear and
trembling an hour before, shall be accepted and paid for,
or flung carelessly into the waste-basket ; who writes the
short stinging notes at the end of letters of disagreeable
or wearisome correspondents, which are invariably signed
" Ed. " as though they alone, of all the original matter
whereby in
the ,paper, had come from the hands of the editor; who
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aysummarymake
eyoofutrisieelf
acquainted day'snew
s,
with all
the more important contents of the paper ; and under
whose direction the whole of that vast array of close read-
ing, the law reports, accounts of meetings, accidents, cere-
monies, and races, letters from foreign correspondents
and miscellaneous items of information which make u
the bulk of every modern newspaper, are gathered togeth
condensed, digested, and arranged in the convenient fo
in which they are subsequently presented to *the public
Chambers'i Journal.