The Sun. — 1864-06-10 (London, England)

THL SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENI.  BANK OF FRANCE.  (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)  MAY,  182,500,000  1,205,541,762 05 1,261,316,288-70  CR. Cash in hand....,,,...„ 93,303,108 40 87,134,695 34 Do. branch-banks ..... 201,589,187 1.15,689,913 Commerc,ial bills owrdue 547,957 63 E 05,732 64 Commercial bills discounted not yet due ....305.907,852 60 372,102,289 27 Do. branch-bank5....271,39d,672 311,223,228 Advances on deposits of bullion Do. branch- banks 2,929,500 Advances on French public securities .. Do, branch-banks 10,178,510 Advances on rail• shares and debentures Do. branch-banks 20,125,341 21,309,900 Advances on Credit Foncier Bonds 354,400 Do. branch-banks.... 417,000 Advances to the State (Convtn. June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 60,000,000 Govt. Stock Reserve 12,18(1,7.50 14 12,980,750 14 Do. disposable ..... 36,866,987 91 36,866,937 9 Rentes immobilisees (Law June 9, 1857) ....... 100,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the Bank Landed property, branches 5,177,688 5,499,828 Expenses of management 1,857,268 1,464,082 Si Sundries  18,1.93,800 2,186,300  17,441,100 14939,9:0  331,100 353,100  100,000,000  1,205,541,762 05 1,261,316,288 70 Certified by the Honorary Vice-President of the Council of State, Governor of the Bank,  AD. V L'ITRY  YEAR'S WORK OF A CORONER,—The Social Science Review publishes a sketch by Dr. Lan kester of his work as coroner for the central district of Middlesex in the year ending July 31, 1563, The population of the district is stated at 805,970 (meaning probably at the census of April, 1861), and he held 1,080 inquests (203 or them at hospitals, prison:4, or asylums), one for every 746 persons. The proportion is very much higher in St. Giles's ; yet the medical officer of that parish has to state that is 1862 40 bodies were interred without an inquiry when there ought to have been one. "It is intolerable in a civilized country," he says, "that persons dying in this way should be interred without inquiry ; in at least two cases there was prima facie ground for suspecting poison." Dr. Lankester states that "the registration of death and the burial of the body without any medical certificate is of very common occurrence in London." Very unsatisfactory medical certificates are also accepted by some registrars ; sometimes the medi. cal man never saw the deceased either alive or dead, Irregular certificates ought always to be referred to the coroner. In the course of the year there were 53 deaths of new-horn children with verdicts of wilt ul murder or neglect, very often on the part of some person unknown ; there were besides 8 deaths of new- born children from "unknown causes, and 8 "accidental deaths," making 69 inquests on new-born children. It is, says the coroner, a fearful picture of the moral condition of the district. The crime of infanticide is very much more frequent in some parts of central Middlesex than in others, and the subject seems one that demands investigation. The crime appears to be most frequent among women in domestic service. Sixteen children were picked up in the streets that had never breathed. The absence of any registration of stillborn children is undoubtedly a source of crime. Children are often brought to the undertaker for burial as stillborn without any guarantee fur that fact, and where women can find accomplices this pre • sents a very ready method of getting quit of children without any inquiry as to the cause of their death. As many as 90 children were suffocated in bed, some of them first-born children of young mothers ignorant of the necessity of fresh air for the life of the offspring, others dal children of parents who had gone to bed not sober and caused their child's death by culpable neglect. With regard to inquests on adults, the coroner reports that 70 of the 1,080 deaths were suicides. The largest number of the suicides was by poison, and this is effected of;en by articles extensively used in various branches of industry, and therefore easily procured fur an improper purpose. The year's inquests imply the tendency to commit suicide is more than twice as great among men as among women, and that men prefer hanging or the knife, women poisoning or drowning.In a large proportion of these cases habits of intoxication had preceded the act of suicide.