The Sun. — London, England, 1869-07-02 00:00:00

Oarnis F OR TOURISTS AND EXCURSIONISTS. E. MOSES and SON have made preparations, on an unusnally large scale, in every depart ment-of their business.' For trades and ad dresses, see following advertisement. A RABE COMBINATION. The RARE COM BIN ATTON of EXCEL LENCE with CHEAPNESS will be fount in every e.rticle sold by E. MOSES and SON. - - - - Every description of Clothing ready made, or made to measure, for all ages, and all classes. Commodious apartments for measuring and fitting in the spacious and elegant Show Rooms, which contain a very large and diver sified stock of materials. For the convenience of Ladies accompany ing their Sons t_Vre is a distinct department for Young Cklntlemen's Clothing. Orders by Post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accnrate system of self-measure introduced by E. MOSES and SON enables them to guarantee a faultless fit. Orders from persons who are not known to the firm should I.e accompanied by a remit tance, or a London reference. A ny article not approved of will be cheer fully exchanged, or, if desired, the money will be returned. All Goods are marked in Plain Figures, from which no abatement can be made. The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps, and Boots and Shoes, is un equalled for magnitude, variety, and cheap ness. Complete Outfits for all Climates, with every requisite for the voyage. Lists of Prices, with Rules for Self-mea sure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S Establishmonts are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when business is resumed until eleven o'clock. E. MOSES and SON, heady-made and Be spoke Tailors, Habitmakers, Woollendrapers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoo 31ant7fac ture,rs, and General Outfitters for all Classes. • The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES find SON:— LONDON. CITY ESTABLISHMENT. 155, MINORIES 156, MINORIES 157, MINORIES 83, ALDGATE 84, ALDG AT E 85, ALDGATE 86, ALDGATk 87. ALDGAT E 88. ALDGATF. SD, ALDGATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCH'. .506 NEW OXFORD-STREET %07, NEW OXFORD-STREET 108, NEW OXFORD-STREET 1, HART-STREET 2, HART-STREET 3, HART-STREET TOTTENHAM-COURT- ROAD BRANCH . . 137, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 138, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD ?Ss, EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch: 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. CRYSTAL PALACE.-VICEROY'S FETE. Visitors to the Palace To-morrow (SAturday), w:11 be permitted the orportunity of inspecting the Gallerie,. Corridors, Pavilion, and- Royal Boxes, as rrcpared for the Fete of Tues day last. _ _ _ _ The Water Colour Sketches of Cairo, and other places of in terest iu the East, by the late David Roberts, R.A., kindly lent by 11. S. Lieknell. Esq., will remain on view. Open from one till six o'clock. Crystal Palace, Jul; 2, 18. 9. By Order. TOHN DIXON hereby gives notice that he will tl not be answerable for his wife's transactions. July 2, 1869. CALLAGHAN'S OPERA, RACE, and FIELD G LASSES, of Matchless quality. 23A, NEW BOND-STREET (corner of Conduit-street). N.B.—Sole Agent to Voigtlander, Vienna. LIFEBOAT SERVICES. —During the Storms of the past eighteen months the National Lifeboat Institution contributed to the saving of 1,270 lives from various shipwrecks and 32 vessels from destruction. The Institution also expended £27,641 in the same period on its Lifeboat Establishments, in addition to granting /3,793 for rewards. The Institution has now 207 Lifeboat Stations under its management. Contributions will be thankfully received by the London and country bankers, and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the . Institution, 14, John-street Adelphi, London. CITY OF LONDON BONDS. METROPOLITAN MEAT AND POULTRY MARKET (SITE AND APPROACHES). £231,000. The undersigned is directed by the Finance Committee of the Corporation of Lon lon, acting under an order of the Court of Common Council of the 17th of June, 1869, to DISPOSE OF CITY BONDS to the above amount, for the purpose of completing the purchase of lands and the execution of works connected with the Site and Approaches (other than the Western Approach, called Charter-house street), of the Metropolitan Meat and Poultry Market at Smithfield. The Bonds will be issued, at par, under the common seal of the Corporation, for sums of £l,OOO, £5OO, or £lOO respectively, for a period of nine years, and bearing in terest, payable half-yearly by means of coupons, at the BAIA of England, at the rate of £1 ss. per cent. per annum. _ Security. —The Bonds, principal and interest, will be paid out of the moneys to be received by the Corporation from the rents and other payments of the tenants of the said Market (subject to existing charges); and in the event of those funds proving insufficient, then out of the general revenues of the Corporation. Parties desiring to tender for any of the said Bonds must make application at the Bank of England (Private Drawing Office), in the form annexed; such applications to be accompanied by a payment or remittance to the said Bank of le per cent. upon the amount applied for. Appli cations will not be received later than three o'clock on WEDNESDAY, the 7th of July instant. Allotments will take place at this Office by J. T. Bed ford, Esq., the Chairman of the above Committee, with the undersigned, on Friday, the 9th of July; and in the event of an amount greater than the sum of £234,000 being offered, a rateable allotment (not less than £lOO in any case) will be made to each applicant. No application for a greater sum than £50,000 will be received from any individual or firm. The balance of the amount allotted must be paid at this Office not later than Friday, the 23d July instant ; upon payment of the balance Scrip Receipts will be i.sued to parties producing their Letters of Allotment and Bank of England Deposit Receipts; such Scrip Receipts will be exchanged for Bonds, so soon as they shall have been pre pared and sealed by the Court of Common Council. Interest will commence from the dates of payment in full respectively. Printed Forms of Application will be furnished at this Office and at the Bank of England, BENJAMIN SCOTT , Chamberlain. Chamber of London, Guildhall, July 2, 1869. FORM OF APPLICATION. LOAN £234,000. METROPOLITAN MEAT AND POULTRY MAP= r (SITE AND APPROACHES). To the Chamberlain of the City of London. Sir,—l hereby tender the sum of Pounds by way of Depxit of 10 per cent, upon the sum of Pounds, on account of the Loan of £234,000 to be raised by the Corporati .n of London for completing the purchase ~f Lands and the execution of Works connected with the Site and Approaches (other than the Western Approach, called Charterhouse-stret t) of the Metropolitan Meat and Poultry Market at Smithfield ; and I request that City Bonds may be delivered to me, or to my order, in respect thereof, in accordance with the announcement in respect of the said Loan, which has been made public, viz. :-- [lf Bonds of par- -- Bonds for £l.OOO each ticular amounts ara Bonds for £5OO each -- required, here are - Boucle for £lOO each -- details.] Total Namo in full Address in full Quality or description Dated this day of , 1869. 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Apply with two stamps to H. MARRISON, Great Orford -street, Norwich. JJOHN GOSNELT., and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a p ear l w hi teness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a plearant fragrance to the breath. Price is. 6d.—Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames- street, London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. AMARELLA. restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid 401:10 of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect ing this wonderful liquid. It is now offered to the public In a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each, mclondin g brush. Red Rnll Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Tipper Thames street London. B.C. THEATRE ROYAL, IT A YMARKET. Sole Lessee, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, FAMILY JABS : ➢lr. Ccmpton and Mrs After which, MAItY WARNER: Messrs. ITowe, Compton, Kendal, Rogers, and Clark; Mesdames Bateman, C. llill,White, Lq,as, &e And HIGH LIFE BELOW STAIRS: Mcsars. Buckstonc, Howe, Kendal; Mesdames F. Wright, and F. l;Nrynn. Box-office open daily. Commence at Seven. rHEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIIT. 1 Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress. Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENTNG. at 7. DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr G. Bel more and MIT. Leigh Murray. At S o'clock. EVE. .Mr. Benjamin Webster: Messrs. Henry Neville. J. G. Taylor; Miss Furtado, Miss Lillie Lee, and Mrs Alfred Mellon. And DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBER WELL: Mr. G. Belmore, Mrs. L. Murray THEATRE -ROYAL. HOLBORN. Sole Lessee and Manager, BARRY SULLIVAN EVERY EVENING, at 7.30, the very laughable fare THE SMOKED MISER. At 8 o'clock, Sheridan's inimitable Comedy of THE SCHOOL FOR: SCANDAL. Supported by the following celebrated artistes :—Batty Sullivan, J. C. Cowper. Ceorge II onev, W. H. Stephens, Charles Coglan, D. Evans, Lin Rayne. A. Bernard, E. Dys.s and W. 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Four minutes' walk to 'Bus and RBA to City and West-end.-44, St. Paul's-raod, Camden-square, N.W. CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. ANNUAL INCOME, steadily inereasing, .£220,000 ASSURANCE FUND, safely invested, .C 1,598,000 SPECIAL NOTICE. All Persons who effect Polic•ies on the Particicatirez Seale before June 30th, 1869, will be entitled nt the NEXT Boxvs to one rear's additional Share of Profits over later Entrantp. Tables of Rates and Forms of Proposal can be obtained of GEORGE CUTOLIFFE, Actuary and Secretary. 13, St. James's-square, London. S.IV. rrIIE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY, Enrolls 1 under r and 7 Will. IV., cap. 32, as the Conserve , tire Benefitßuilding Society, co-operating with the United Land Company (limited), incorporated under the Companies' Acts 1862 and 1867. Notice is Hereby (liven, that the :•IXTY-SEVE NTH QUARTERLY GENERAL MEETING of the Members of the Conservative Land Society will be held at the Offices, No. 3:!, Norfolk-street, Strand, London. W.C., on TUE •DAY, the Cth day of July, at Two of the Clock yreelsely, Viscount RAN , L..A . GH in the Cha'r, to receive the Report of the i xceutive Conim — ittee, and for general purposes By order of the Board. CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEESEN, Secretary. London, June 22, 186'. Prospectuses of the Share and Deposit Investing Depart ments and of the Building and other A dvance Departments sent free of charge. Present rate of interest, five per cent. per an num on Shares and four per cent. per annum on Deposit Ac counts, payable half-yearly. town. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Tuts EVENING, BLUE DEVILS: Mr Compton and Mrs Fitzwilliam. After which. MARY WARNER: Miss Hill. Miss 13 .A.man, Messrs. Howe. Compton, &c. Concluding with HIGH LIFE BELOW STAIRS: Messrs. Buckstone, Howe, Kendal; Miss F. Wright, Miss F. Gwynn. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, at M urray DOMESTIC ECONOMY: Mr Geo Bel more and Mrs Leigh . At 8, EVE: Mr Benjamin Web ster, Mr 11. Nev lle, Miss Furtado, Mrs Alfred Mellon. fir. And DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL? Mr. G. Belmore. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS Evimiso, at 7.30, FOX Y. GOOSE. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke ; Miss Button. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James, Fenton; Mesdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Button. To conclude with HUE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Tins F.vinctim at 7, BLOW FOR BLOW: Messrs. W. Farren, Vernon. David Fisher, J. Clarke: Miss Lydia Foote. At 9. 5, the new burlesque TII K CORSICAN IiOT HMIS: Messrs. J Clarke, Marshall. Andrews, and Hurlstone : Mesdames Julia St. George, Bereud, Breman, and C. Thorne. ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M Oliver. THIS EVENING. at 7.:10, IN FOR A HOLIDAY. Followed by A ROVING COMMISSION. And THE MILITARY BILLY TAYLOR. To conclude with CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Day, Mr. Dewar, Mr. Danvers, Miss M. Oliver, Miss K. Bishop. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. . TETE EVENING, at - .3G, THE SMOKED MISER. After which, THE SCHOOL FOB SCANDAL: Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mr. J. C. Colt per, Mr. G. Honey, Mr. C. Coghlan, Mrs. HermanyVezin, Mrs. C. Horsman, PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton Tuts EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montague, Addison, Glover, and Bancroft; Mrs. Buckingham White. Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And A LAME EXCUSE. CFIRISTY MINSTRELS, Si James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and tl , aturclays, at I rind 8 all the year round. ROYAL AL FIAMBI{A PALACE. THREE BALLET 3 Promenade Concert. Band of CO. Begin at 8. ls. Box-offlet open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regert's-vok, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, la.; ou liendays, ed. Children under twelve, f:4l_ thjtSUIT 4 LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1869. ~- The fearful explosion of nitro-glycerine which has just occurred near Caruarvon directs public attention to a question which is of some importance to the com munity. Five carts left the pier at Carnarvon laden with the glycerine. Three of these were sent to the Bethesda quarries, and two were started for the quarries at Llanberris. When these latter had pro- THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 2, 1869 som ceeded some distance a dreadful explosion took place i CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. and the consequences were most serious._ The horses and three of the men accompanying the carts were blown to atoms, and so great was the force of the concussion that fragments of the (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, THURSDAY, July 1. cart wheels were picked up a mile from the spot. In a village, a quarter of a mile off, serious in juries were sustained, the roofs of houses were blown off, and household furniture destroyed to a great extent. Property was damaged for miles round, and the effect of the shock was felt at Carnarvon and Bangor, some miles distant from the scene of the occurrence. The valley to the foot of Snowdon felt the shock. Seven deaths are said to have occurred in consequence of this calamity, and many persons have been seriously injured. Sad as these details are it is evident that the explosion might have been produc tive of far more serious consequences under other cir cumstances. The contents of the five carts might have exploded in Carnarvon itself, causing a scene of destruction fearful to contemplate. If all the five carts had been dispatched to one quarry in all pro bability the accident would have been more serious than it was. The cause of the explosion is not known, but a jolt over a cart rut or stone is sufficient to produce an accident with this most powerful and dangerous agent. The Abergele disaster furnished a striking instance of the dangers attending the transmission of explosive oils, and though in that case the substance was not nitro-glycerine, it was similarly dangerous. Nitro. glycerine has been discovered four years, and its history contains many chronicles. Three years ago a number of cases exploded at Aspinwall, on the Isthmus of Panama, and the vessel of 1,900 tons, which contained them, was entirely de stroyed, and another large ship was demo lished, as well as the quay for a dis tance of 4,00 feet. Several persons were killed on this occasion and fifty others seriously injured. At Newcastle, a short time ago, a sad accident occurred through the explosion of nitro-glycerine, when the sheriff and six other persons were killed. The re cent calamity at Carnarvon was not needed to show that fearful risk attends the employment of nitro glycerine. The question which concerns the public is how far it is justifiable to permit the transit of these dangerous substances. It seems idle to depend on the use of precautions, for accidents occur after every device has been resorted to that skill can suggest or science devise. Curiously enough, when the accident occurred at Newcastle a part of one of canisters was found marked " safety solution of nitro-glycerine in wood—naphtha." It appears that nitro-glycerine possesses a remarkable tendency to undergo decomposition, and NV ben in this state it will explode upon the least shock being given to it. It is high time that a strict inquiry should be instituted into all the d,:tails of this subject, and that these best qualified to give an opinion should decide on the propriety of sending these explosive materials about the country. It is too much the habit with us all to Cunt aside from sub jects that do not immediately come under notice, but really this question of accidental explosion is becom ing a serious one, and cannot much longer be trifled with. It is always unwise to exagge rate dangers, but, on the other band, it is culpable to neglect the startling warnings that have been given, and the most sceptical must admit that there is cause for apprehension. It is impossible to say when or where a sew accident may take place through the incautious transmission of these combus tible substances. When it is known that seventy cases of nitro-glycerine were shipped at London on one occasion it is evident that great risks were run, and that the public safety was put in jeopardy to an alarming extent. It is, perhaps, going too far to say that the transit of nitro-glycerine is not to tolerated at all ; but this is what it will come to V more care cannot be taken by those con cerned in the matter. At any rate, it is certain that something should be done to avoid the too pro bable recurrence of these clangers, and the sooner the better in the interests of the community. It is enough to alarm the most courageous to find that the force of this exploding oil is ten times that of gunpowder, and that, in the course of a single year, several tons of it are used in the largest quarries. It follows then, as a matter of course, that its transit must be of frequent occurrence, and hence the wonder is that disasters and accidents are not of far more frequent occurrence. Most probably some mention of this calamity at Carnarvon will be made in the House of Commons, and it is to be hoped that the Government and the Legislature will devise some means of pro tecting the community from the constant recurrence of these disasters. OF all strange inconsistencies surely one of the strangest is the course taken by Mr. CHARLES REED and some of his fellow Nonconformists respecting the exemption of Sunday and ragged-schools from parochial rates. At the very time that they are dealing a triumphant blow against the principle of . State endowment of religion, they are forcing the 1 Government to adopt that principle in a new form. 1 To exempt owners of certain property from the rates tmeans to compel other owners to. pay more rates ; means that these are forced to pay whether they will or not for the benefit of the first ; means the very opposite to the voluntary system which the member for Hackney so strenuously upholds on other occasions. So clearly is this the i case that Mr. PEASE, himself a Nonconformist, de clared that Mr. REED'S proposal amounted to an endowment. Nevertheless, strong as the Dissenting element is supposed to be in the present Parliament, jealously as it is suppoied to watch against any approach towards the endowment of Romanism, this measure has been carried through a second reading by a large majority, and against . the wishes of the Government. In fact, the Government has had to give way, and to acknowledge itself beaten, but not convinced, by some of its (generally) strongest sup porters. We acknowledge that there is one argument in favour of Mr. REED'S proposal. Everybody knows that at present nearly all charitable institutions are supported by the same persons. The few give to all, the many give to none. The exemption of Sunday and ragged-schools from parochial rates is one means of making the niggard contribute. Ire will thus subscribe, possibly, as much as a penny a year against his will. This is what Mr. REED gains. It Is no very great gain so far as the money is con cerned. But Mr. REED ought to think that the loss, so far as principle is concerned, is very great. If this mode of enforced contribution be legitimate, so were church rates. The two 'stand pre cisely on the same footing, except that the second was a direct tax while the first is indirect. Of the two the second is the better. It is better that when we give we should know to what and for what we are giving, and also what we give. If we are to pay in order that chil dren shall be taught the tenets of the Swedenbor gians and the Mormons, at least let us know that we are doing this, and what amount we pay, in order that if our conscience is susceptible we may counter act this forced loan for the propagation of heresy by a free gift for the propagation of orthodoxy. Of course there is much to be said for an education rate, both because it would be direct and because we could not entertain any conscientious • objection against the teaching of the three lt.'s. But Mr. 111:En's Exemption Bill involves an indirect tax and a forced contribution towards the promulgation of opinions whereof the contributor may disapprove. The amendment which he has agreed to accept is an improvement, but it does not remove the fundamen tal objection to the bill. It is better that the paro chial rates should be levied, and that a special exemption should be made, than that there should be no rates at all. Best of all would be the levying without exemption. The Corps L4gislatif holds its second meeting—the first for business—to-day. Very lively scenes were hardly to be looked for on the first day or two, as the elections which are not contested will be first disposed of, and then the tug of war will take place over, those returns which are disputed. But it appears that the Opposition has opened fire at once. To-day the sitting was inaugurated by M. Pelletan demanding that all the lists on which the votes of the electors were counted as they were taken from the ballot-box should be laid before the bureaux, to assist them in the work of ratification. M. do Forcade la Roquette did not absolutely refuse this request, but he declined to commit himself to any engagement on the subject. M. Pelletanurged that he was demanding a right and not a favour. But he got no more definite reply. Then M. Ernest Picard got up, and claimed that a list be made out of all the promises, gifts, and favours of every kind accorded in the name of the official candidates in order to influence the elections. To this question the Minister of the Interior made no response whatever. What happened after this lively beginning I must leave the telegraph to tell you, for the session is now going on. The increase of the Liberal party has already bad one good effect. The general interest felt in politics has enormously extended. Never before have I noticed so much popular enthusiasm in the business of the National Assembly, never have political gossip and canvassing been so rife. This is merely the natural result of the changed relations of parties. When one side held such an enor mous preponderance, nobody cared what was done ; but now that the Opposition is nearly quadrupled, it begins to look like a fight. The rumours of Ministerial changes are as numerous as ever. Most people begin to think that M. Rouher has lost the game, and that his downfall is now only a question of time, and a very short time, too. There is no lack of successors for the post. M. de Persigny, in particular, appears to be very active. He not only writes' to the Coneitutionnel, but likewise to the Emperor, for I know that he has just sent a long memorial to the weary sovereign, and that it was seen in his Majesty's hands only yesterday morning. Rouher, however, will give much trouble to his enemies. He will be quite prepared to throw over his ultra-Imperialist doctrines _ And come ,out as a Radical reformer whenever calleihupon. The Tiers-Parti held a meeting yesterday at the house cf M. Jules Brame, in the Rue Tronchet, and a very stormy meeting, I understand, it was. M. Emile 011ivier and a great many of the " Liberty under the Empire" men were there. An interpellation on the internal situation of the country was the subject of consideration. One deputy proposed that the interpella tion should demand " that the country be granted a more efficacious influence in the government of its own affairs." The adverb "more" caused a regular row. M.._ de Choiseul.Praslin argued that the country could not have " more" influence, because it had not any at present. The word " more" was objectionable because it implied the existence of some influence when really there was none. Most of the Liberty under the Empire men agreed with this view, and the word " more " was struck out. But two deputies of much influence refused to sign the interpellation in this form. So the word " more " was put in again ; but then two others refused to sign. However, the adverb remains. TILE MASSACRE OF ENGLISH - TRAVELLERS IN ABYSSINIA. Your readers will much regret to hear that M. de Montalernbert has had a relapse, and the state of his health is again very gritve. The bishops are coming up to the Council from the utter most parts of the earth. The Bishop of Siam is now in Paris, and the spiritual chief of Ilayti is at Rome. If the representatives of these remote dioceses can get here thus early, surely there will be no need for postponing the Council, as at first propot e 1. We are yet in the dark as to the diplomatist wbo is likely to succeed poor Count von Goltz as Prussian Ambassador here. 'lt is said that the Prince von lleussis likely to take this highly important office. One journal was so positive on this subject as to assert that the Prin cess was "packing up," ready to come to Paris. But two formidable objections to this statement present them selves. The Princess would not pack up untilher husband was appointed ; and, in the next place, there is no such lady, for the Prince von Reuss is a bachelor. The state of the great industrial region round Lyons is far from reassuring. The members of almost every trade in that city are now out on strike ; and Lyons, as you know, is, of all places in France, the most dangerous locality for a great " turn out." The prospect that the great majority of the workmen in that city will soon be wanting bread is not at all satisfactory. The strike at St. Etienne, too, continues, and in sonic places the colliers have again shewn a disposition to interfere with those workmen who do not choose to join them. At Nimes there has been an explosion N fire-damp, and nine men have lost their lives. I just learn that in one of the bureaux the election of an officer of the Crown has been-declared valid by a majority of thirteen against nine. This is a very significant pro ceeding. The return in question was not contested on account of unfair practices or anything .of the kind, but simply because the deputy was a servant of the Crown. That nine deputies out of twenty-two should be found to vote against a return on this ground is a fact of Lo small importance. • The number of contested elections will be zbout seventy. The pleas on which it is sought to set tlrem aside are various—distributions of money, breaking open ballot boxes, tampering .with ballot-boxes by reeans of false keys, and promises and bribes of all kinds. • Every one of these elections will give rise to a debate of more or less importance, so that the "verification of powers" is no small undertaking. AN INFANT LATEX BEFORE 170 MOTHER'S EYES, A letter from Mr. - - Powell's gamekeeper, Ronaia McDonald, supplies some accurate details' of the re ported massacre of the family of travellers in Abyssinia and their party. It says :—" On the morning of the 17th of April, at a quarter to six o'clock (Saturday), Mr. and Mrs. Powell, one mis sionary, two Arab servants, and one guide, a native of Tika, left M`Kerrer, a German (Dragoman), one mis sionary, and six Arab servants, with the camels and lug gage. We started at a quarter past six o'clock, and at twelve o'clock we were attacked by a band of natives, about twenty-five or thirty in number. They attacked us from behind, and killed the two Europeans'at once. I was a little behind them, and saw the spears sticking in their bodies. I turned round to shoot, but I was so near to the robbers that I had no time to take aim. It was very small shot I had, and the Wilkinson gun. I fired, and then had to run for my life. The servants were routed and pursued in advance of me by some of the robberS. They were here and there by the side of the camels. One of the servants was killed, and one severely wounded. I got to the other four servants, and we went on in search of Mr. Powell till we were done for want of water, and the Arabs went under a tree, and they would not go one way or another till the sun would set. When the sun had gone down we again started we knew not whither. We went on for five hours, and in an hour and a half vk e came on the place where we took water from, and then we knew where we were, and we went on to a missionary house, and we arrived there a little before five o'clockin the morning, very much exhausted, so we could donothing. The missionary, sent off a party of the natives in search of Mr. Powell, and they returned two days after with the fearful news that all had been killed, and that they had seen the bodies and spoken with the people. The natives would not allow me to go with them ; they said that if I went the Tika men would kill both me and them." About eight days ago, says the Evening illoniteur, a menagerie vatich had been stationed for some time in the fair at Orleans suddenly disappeared. The story attend ing its removal was as follows :--The wife of the pro prietor of the menagerie was nursing a fine healthy girl of about five months old. About four o'clock in the after noon, the mother, with the child in her arms, was walking in front of the cages of the animals, and was just opposite the one containing the lion, when one of the attendants of the menagerie spoke to her in reference to some details of service. It happened that, through negligence, a sufficient purchase of meat had not been made for the carnivorous inmates of the establishment that day, and after the rest of the animals had been fed there was nothing to give the lion. This animal, excited by sight of his cage companions feeding while he bad nothing to eat, was leaping wildly about his cage, roaring fiercely. In order to attend to the query of the employ 4, the mother turned round, and in doing so approached the skirt of her dress so near to the cage of the lion that he, putting out his paw, caught hold of it and dragged her towards him. Making a sharp movement to free her skirt the unfortu nate woman approached the child too close to the bars of the cage, when the lion, quick as lightning, dashed out its other paw, and snatched the little infant into its confine, before the terrified mother could dis pute with it the prey. The poor woman filled the place with piteous cries, and, inspired by maternal cour age, endeavoured to drag the infant from the ferocious beast, which had already devoured half its head. There was nothing to be seen but bloody scraps of human flesh mingled with pieces of dress, while the animal, threaten ing with terrible eyes, was crunching the bones of the child, which could be heard crackling beneath his power ful jaw. There was nothing to be done, and the mother was removed from the horrible spectacle. Her husband, in his sorrow and rage, took up a gun, and pointing it to the lion, the tomb of his infant, laid the animal dead in the cage. As to the mother, when her first paroxysm of grief was calmed, it was found that she had become mad. THE NITRO-GLYCERINE EXPLOSION. Some details are published of the singular but terrible nitro-glycerine explosion which we announced yesterday. It seems that four tons of nitro-glycerine formed part of a cargo from Hamburg (Messrs. Noble and Co.) to Carnarvon, consigned to Messrs. D. E. Winton and Co., for Messrs. Webb and Cragg, Glynmonwy Slate Quarry, Llanberis, sole agents in Carnarvonshire for nitro-glycerine, used instead of ordinary pow der for blasting rocks. The ship was moored in the river Menai ; and a portion of the explosive oil having been placed in the I.landdwyn magazine, the rest was brought in lighters and placed on the quay in Carnarvon. About one o'clock noon, the hour appointed to cart that portion of the quarries, some of the vehicles did not arrive ; and after some hours delay the two carters wLo have been killed undertook to remove a portion of the nitro-glycerine. These carts left about four p.m. Wednesday for Glynmonwy Quarry, one of the numerous quarries lately opened on the south aspect of the Vale of Llanberis, and at the foot of Snow don. A portion of the nitro-glycerine was to be removed on Thursday to the Donovure quarry. As for the other three carts, these were left for the night in a closed coach-house, near Bodrual Gate, within a mile of Carnarvon, it being too late to remove it to the Penrhyn slate quarries. These are now in the custody of the police. Returning to the two carts which caused the accident, it appears that both were in company, and were noticed within a few yards of each other a few seconds before the explosion. The exact spot where the accident took place is where the diversion of a new road, lately made by the Llanberis and Carnarvon Railway, joins the old road, about 400 yards beyond the centre of Cwm-y-glo village, five miles and a half from Carnarvon, and :300 yards from Pont Rhyddallt, the bridge that spans the narrow water uniting the upper and lower lakes of Llanberis. At the time the accident took place, the quarrymen were returning along the road from their occupations to Cwm-y-glo village, and on a sudden, with no kind of warning, those quarrymen in front of the carts and those behind heard one long continuous explosion of terrific noise. This spot being surrounded by huge mountains on three sides, the echo of the first explosion reverbe rated several times, as some of those who witnessed the accident informed us, and one mountain seemed to throw the noise with quick successive strokes from one side of the valley to the other over the lakes. The two lakes, especially the lower, were all at once greatly agi tated, and rolled in mighty waves from north to south. Clouds of dust, stones, portions of the carts, and the walls around for two roods were either thrown to a great height or cast longitudinally into the morassor on the rocks adja cent. A third of the circumference of a street was thrown fifty yards high, and fell near a cottager's garden on the sides of a rocky hill three hundred yards off. Portions of flesh, bones (either human or those of the horses) were collected indiscriminately from a radius of fifty yards and placed in cloths. A foot, a chin covered with beard, and a man's heart were found together about eight yards from the spot. The Cwm-y-glo Railway Station— the nearest building to the scene of the accident—an inn lately finished close by, and several unfinished houses a little further, as well as a chapel, present a desolate sight. Roofs nearest the acci dent are pierced through by falling stones into network. Window frames are blown in and destroyed. The massive doors of the goods depot of the railway station are shat tered. Windows all round within a radius of two miles present marks of the explosion. Scores of men were thrown down. Seven men, as we have already stated, are known to have been killed. A leg and, in two other instances, arms have already been amputated ; and two boys, Owen John Roberts and Griffith Pritchard (the latter the son of a blind man), have suffered internal injuries by being thrown clown. The greatest distress exists ; and even on Thursday morning the police were engaged in walking the neighbourhood of the accident, picking up very small portions of flesh and bone. Such was the terrible power of the oil, that the spot where the cart was supposed to have been at the time of the accident is marked by two deep, perfectly circular holes, of the same size, each measuring 7ft. Gin. in dia meter, 7ft. deep, and a horse length apart. The stones appear to have been subjected to a terrible rotatory motion, and the holes are in the shape of an inverted cone. Our correspondent, who was at the time of the accident sitting at a friend's table at Bangor, ten miles off, expe rienced a slight shock and rustling of windows at five minutes before six, about the minute fixed by those that witnessed the accident. The shock was experienced more or less for many miles around. Au inquest on the bodies was held yesterday, and a verdict of accidental death returned. A telegram is published to the effect that the Carnarvon and Llanberis Railway was opened on Thursday. NEW HOSPITAL AT HANWELL.—A now hospital at Ilanwell, founded by the Baroness Weld, was solemnly opened and blessed by Archbishop Manning on Thursday afternoon. The ceremony commenced with a procession, which marched through the grounds to the hospital, when the building was blessed and formally opened. The pro• cession then entered the adjoining church, where the Archbishop made an appeal in behalf of the new institu tion. The hospital is 49ft. long by 27ft. wide, Mr. Welby I'ugiu being the architect. There were present on the occasion a large number of priests and of the Roman Catholic Aristocracy, THE NEW COLONIAL HONOURS. A supplement to the London Gazette published on Thurs day afternoon makes the following appointments to the most distinguished Order of St: 'Michael and St. George :—To be an Ordinaiy Member of the First Class or Knights Grand Cross of the Order, Viscount Mcnck. To be Ordinary Members of the Seconi Class or Knights Commanders of the said Order :—Francis Ilineks, Esq., C. 8., late Governor and Commander-in-Chief of . the colony of British Guiana ; James Walker, Esq., C. 8., Governor and C o mmander-in-Chief of the Bahama Islands ; Major-General Charles Hastings Doyle, Lieute nant-Governor- of the province of Nova Scotia, in the dominion of Canada. To be Ordinary Members of the Third Class or Com panions of the Order:—Charles Cowper, Esq., late. Chief Minister of the Government of New South Wales; William Charles Gibson, Esq., late Colonial Secretary of the Island of Ceylon ;Felix Bedingfeld, Esq., late Colonial Secretary for the Island of . Mauritius ; John Bayley Darvall, Esq., late Attorney-General of the Colony of New South Wales ; John Sealgy, 'Esq., Attorney-General of the Island of Barbadoes ; Jan' Lucie Smith, Esq., Attorney-General of the Colony of British Guiana. Thomas Skinner, Esq., late Civil Engineer and Commissioner of Roads for the Island of Ceylon ; Theophilus Shepstone, Esq., Secretary for Native Affairs in the Colony of Natal. To be an Ordinary Member of the Third Class, or Companions of the said Order :—Ferdinand Mueller, Esq., M.D., Government Botanist for the Colony of Victoria. To be Ordinary Members of the First Class, or Knights Grand Cross of the Order :—The Earl of Derby, K.G., Earl Grey, K.G., Earl Russell, K.G. To be Ordinary Members of the Second Class of Knights Commanders :—Paul Edmund do Strzelecki, Esq., C. 8., Baron Lyttelton, the Right Hon. F. Peel, the Right Hon. C. B. Adderley, Sir Frederick Rogers, Bart., Sir H. G. R. Robinson, Kt., A. T. Galt, Esq., 11. Taylor, Esq., and T. F. Elliot, Esq. To be an Ordinary Member of the Third Class, or Companions of the Order:—George Macleay, of New South Wales, Eq. The case of the Duke of Newcastle was again before the Court of Bankruptcy yesterday. Some further wit nesses were examined in private, but nothing transpired as to their evidence.' There seems to be some difficulty as to the act of bankruptcy. Mr. J. Ifeywood Whitehead, of Southside, ne:r Manchester, whose ankle was broken accidentally while be was riding urdn a velocipede at Armathwaite, Cumberland, lust Saturday week, died on Wednesday from the effects of the accident. His Irglitiets the Viceroy of Egypt left London yesterday iO; the Continent. The Viceroy and his suite drove from Blicltiogham Palace to Charing-cross station, arriving there at a quarter to twelve. A special train was in readiness at the station, I y u I,:ch his highness trawls to Dover. One of the Royal saloon carriages of the South Eastern Railway Company was provided for Lis Highness's accommoiation. The Prince of Wales drove from Marl borough House, and met the Viceroy to take have at the station. An adjourned meeting of the Paiuters' Eoarcl of Arbitration for the West Biding, composed of an equal number e f masters cud workmen, was held on Wednesday at the Commercial Hotel, Bradford (under the presidency of Mr. Frederick Jackson, master painter, of IA cds), to agree uron a code of rules and settle the wages question. A fter some discussion it was re solved tLat, after the Ist of January next, the wages of the operatives should be advanced to sixpence per hour, and the hours of work agreed upon were from 6 or 6.30 in the morn ing to 5.80 or G in the evening, as the different shops should determine. SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTF, ON THE HABITUAL CRIMINALS BILL. Sir Stafford Northcote, M.P., as chairman of the Devon quarter sessions, at Exeter Castle on Wednesday called the attention of the grand jury to the Habitual Criminals Bill. He said that out of twenty-eight cases on the calendar before him, twelve of the prisoners had been previously convicted, and some of them several times. It was a very serious consideration that so many persons as this state of the calendar betokened should be given up to repeated acts of crime, and the grand jury would agree with him that the Habitual Criminals Bill, which bad received so much attention in the House of Lords, deserved the most serious attention of the House of Commons. It was absolutely necessary that stringent measures should be taken for repressing the offences of habitual criminals. THE FAILURE OF THE BOMBAY BASK. -4). The long inquiry into the causes of the failure of the Bank of Bombay has at length terminated, and the com• missioners have issued their report. It is the old story. The old Bank of Bombay, established under the Act of 1846, was a very safe and prosperous under taking, its business being conducted on the most cautious principles. But certain changes have taken place. A new Act was drawn up and passed in 1863, and after this date the old system of safe dealing was abandoned, and the bank rapidly went to ruin. The Act of 1848 prohibited the discount of negociable securities unless two persons with firms unconnected were bound by them. The new Act allowed discount on any negotiable securities. The old Act prohibited, with certain exceptions such as loans to Government, any advances of greater amount than three lacs. (about £30,000), and for a longer period than three months. The new Act omitted these and many other restrictions. Alto gether, the old Act preserved the bank within the safest possible limits, whilst the new one left it open to the most reckless trading. These facilities were taken advantage of by Premchund Rozchund, a broker, who had amassed a large fortune in cotton during the Ameri. can war, and who obtained such a position in Bombay that his name and influence were deemed requisite to the success of every undertaking. He was called the keystone of the commercial prosperity of Bombay ; he was trusted, knew everybody, was wealthy, his charities were munificent, and his position in short was, in the opinionof Sir Bartle Frere,like nothing that he had heard of in any other community. This man, thror.gli the facilities afforded by the new Act, ruined the bank. His influence soon gained the ascendancy over the direc• tors and officials of the bank, and the result was that the bank became Premchund's. If Premchund had a friend to oblige who wanted money, he recommended him for a loan. If Premchund had shares to sell he would suggest to an acquaintance that he should buy, offering at the same time to " finance " the purchase money, by procuring him a loan from the Bank of Bombay. If Premchund wanted money for a speculation, he would suggest to some friend to join him in it, and then procure a loan in his friend's name for the money required. To the influence of this man, added to the facilities for swindling afforded by the new Act, the commissioners attribute the ruin of the bank. They likewise blame the secretaries, who were weak and unprincipled, and the directors and president, who, with certain exceptions, were either negli gent or incompetent. No sound legal advice or assistance was applied for, and, moreover, the bank was most inefficiently managed just at the time when good management was most requisite. THE FRENCII ATLANTIC CABLE. No further news is expected from the Great Eastern for a few days. It has been remarked that since the discovery of the fault on the 25th June, the telegrams have never resumed a perfectly confident tone. For the first three days "Electric condition perfect," was the regular formula ; then came the " fault ;" then, on the 20th, a stoppage of three hours while another fault was cut out close to the ship ; and "satisfactory " and "good" have been respectively given as the cable's condi tion for the last two days. Another slight defect was reported at the commencement of the laying, and thus, singular to say, a cable which throughout the entire pro. cess of manufacture, and during its transfer from the works at Greenwich to the Medway, and its shipment on board the Great Eastern, was electrically faultless, has bad three faults discovered in it in four times as many days. Yet the tests of the electricians have been con stant ever since the maaing of the cable commenced ; and as Lord William Hay, when speaking as a director of the Anglo. French Company, publicly de clared, the cable was perfect in every way when received on board the Great Eastern. The cause of the present delay is therefore one of two things. Either the fault which developed itself on the 25th has seemed of sufficient importance for the Great Eastern to put back for the purposes of picking up, cutting out, and re splicing ; or some further hitch has occurred on board. An accident to the machinery, or a foul flake in the cable, which may have come to light during paying out, would either of them be sufficient to account for the buoying ; and those to whom the last telegram has appeared vague may be reminded that this is an old characteristic of the messages received from the people engaged in cable-laying. The work in band is too absorbing for there to be mitch thought as to what may be understood from the telegrams sent ; and the resemblance between the conditions of the cable expedition of 1865 and that of 1869 is strengthened by the uncertainty as to the precise causes preceding the interruption of communication. It is clear, if the Great Eastern determined on the 30th of June to return to the fault in a part of the cable which was laid on the 25th, and to pick up and repair, that several days must elapse before she can again communicate with England ; while if she has simply buoyed over the 1,600 fathom shoal while she repairs something wrong on board, that news may be received in the course of forty-eight hours. Meanwhile so little anxiety is felt, that a well-known underwriter, who was largely interested in insuring the cables of 1865 and 1866, as well as this of 1869, has offered to increase his interest in the enterprise, and to guarantee on the same terms as when the ship started that the French Atlantic Cable will be successfully laid. THE ABERDEEN VOLUNTEER WAPINSCHAW.— The chief and coveted prize of the Aberdeen Wapinschaw, a valuable cup presented by her Majesty the Queen, has gone up Deeside. It was on Thursday won by Ensign Niven, of Torphin's Rifle Company. The cup remains the absolute property of the winner, who is the miller of his parish. A member of the same company, Private Morrice, in the contest for the Counties Brooch, the con ditions being seven shots at 500 yards, Hythe position, with the Enfield rifle, carried the prize with the extra ordinary score of 28 points, every shot being a bull's-eye. EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE.—A day or two since Jane Warburton, a servant at Mill•hill, received per mission to go to town for a holyday. She went, travelling by the Midland Railway, and was expected to return in the evening. She did not do so, but was found lying in an in sensible condition on the rails near Cricklewood. A letter in her possession enabled the company's officers to learn who she was. She was taken to St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington, but has not recovered sufficiently to give any account of herself. The notion entertained is that she had been annoyed in the train, and had either been pushed out or jumped out. The door of a second-class carriage in a train was found open when the train arrived at Hendon. MARRIAGE OF COMMODORE NUTT AND MINNIE WARREN.—The New Haven Palladium publishes some particulars of the marriage of these dwarfs :—" On Wed• nesday Mr. Lewis Dinger (Commodore Nutt) and Miss Ella F. Anthony (Minnie Warren) were united as man and wife in the Episcopal Church in Birmingham, the Rev. Dr. Fuller officiating. The fair bride was attired in a tasty grey-coloured dress, with hat, gloves, and bootees to match. Among those present at the church, in full dress, were General Thomas Thumb and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Royal N. Bassett, Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Gray, of New York, and Misses Bassett and Smith, of this city. After the impressive services at the church, the party returned to the residence of Mr. R. N. Bassett, where a very elegant spread of refreshments was served by Mrs. Bassett." SINGULAR PURCHASE OF A HORSE.—A curious case has just been tried at St. Petersburg, which prove• that it is sometimes well to look the purchased, if not the gift, horse in the mouth. A Russian colonel recently sold one of his horses to a merchant at a very high price, inti mating at the same time that he was very loathe to past with it, the animal being so capable and intelligent as " only to want a tongue in order to be perfect." The merchant's delight at his bargain, however, was somewhat dashed by the news brought him next day by his groom that the horse was incapable of drinking properly, having only half a tongue. At this fatal revelation of the colonel's real meaning, his victim at once laid the case before a magistrate ; but the defendant maintained, amid the uproarious laughter of the entire court (including even the presiding judge himself) that he had given his eudomer fair warning of the defect, his words being that the horse "only wanted a tongue to make him perfect," and he appealed to the plaintiff himself for a confirmation of this statement, which the latter, with extreme reluc• tanee and numerous unprintable comments, eventually gave, The magistrate pronounced that nothing could be done, and recommended that the affair should be corn. rivosnised. t i r,ffp II -,?, ~,- -_ ,E';---- Sirtnitat HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, July 1. The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High. nesses Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, ani Prince Leopold, left the Castle this morning at ten minutes past ten o'clock for Aldershot Camp. LATEST INTELL MENGE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. NEIV YORK, July 1. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 136 i ; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 1374 ; the lowest, 136 i. Sterling Exchange on London lo9i. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 188 9 gi " 1885 ll7l. gt cc 1867 lls}. 10-40 Illinois Erie 3Ol. Cotton—Mid. upland 34lc. Petroleum—Standard White 3llc. Flour, extra state, $5.95c. to $6.55c. Corn, old mixed, 100 c. WASHINGTON, July 1. The Secretary of the Treasury has made his usual monthly statement of the public debt of the United States, which shows its total on the Ist inst. to have been $2,615,250,000, being a decrease during the past month of $16,500,000. The cash in the Treasury is $117,000,000, viz., $80,000,000 in coin and $37,000,000 iu currency, against $124,000,000 last month, being a decrease of $7,000,000. SOUTHAMPTON, July 2. The Royal Mail Company's steamer Oneida, with the Brazil and River, Plate mails, has arrived here. In Monte Video the Government measure intro ducing specie payments was causing great distress. General Carabello had demanded the dismissal of the Ministry. On the President's refusal General Carabello had taken up arms, and the President was marching against him. Terror and confusion existed in the city. At Rio de Janeiro the Government Budget was being discussed in the Chamber of Deputies, and progressing without any effective opposition. TIIE FRENCH ATLANTIC CABLE. Captain Sherard Osborn, telegraphs as follows : BREST, Friday Morning. Greenwich time, 10 35 a.m. Signals from ship. ITALY. FLORENCE, July 1 (Evening). The Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into the affairs of the Tobacco Convention commenced their public sittings in the Chamber of Deputies to-day. Deputies Crispi,ELobbia, Fambir, and Brenna were examined. SPAIN. MADRID, July 1 (Evening). The Official Gazette will publish to-morrow the Budget of Receipts, together with the law autho rising the provisional exercise of the budget of ex penditure. A band of 40 Carlists has made its appearance at Almuina. HOMEWARD INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. SUEZ, July 2. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Surat, from Calcutta 6th June, and the Salsette, from Bombay, 15th idem, reached Suez, at one and six yesterday afternoon respectively. GIBRALTAR, July 1. The Ripon, from Southampton 2Gth June, ar rived at seven, and leaves for Alexandria, at ten this morning. All well. MARSEILLES, July 2. The Syria arrived at 4.30, and the mails leave for London at 10.45 a.m. this morning. FRANCE. BOURSE, July I.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows : 4.1. per Cent. End of month... -- Italian Fives 56 10 3 per Cent End of month,, 7O 42f Ottoman Loan ... 334 Credit Mobilier End of month... Spanish Threes Credit Foncier —l6OO Home Debt 27 End of month... Deferred — - RAILWAY S. C ash. Orleans Northern ... 1097f Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 623k Western Eastern • • — Sardinian Austrian 77li Lombard sl2} North of Spain 53 Saragossa Roman 52 BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, July 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. July 1. fr. c. Capital of the Bank., 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 June 24. 182,500,000 - and its branches 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 14 Reserve of landed pro perty 4,000,000 4,000,000 Notes in circulation Banknotes to orderand receipts payable at sight 36,388,643 51 38,521,097 64 Treasury account cur rent creditor 174,353,862 15 174,485,345 40 Current accounts, Paris 344,889,004 50 353,372,673 99 Do. branch banks 46,063,514 44,885,389 Dividends payable 685,524 59 605,527 Discounts and sundry interests Rediscounted the last six months Surplus of receipts not distributed Sundries 9,186,346 38 991,660 38 933,790 85 7,228,106 30 7,698,039 39 Total CREDITOR. July 1. June 24. Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. C. Branch banks Commercial bills over- duo Commercial bills dis- 5,480,698 88 150,432 59 counted, not yet due 316,300,910 86 317,840,242 87 Do. branch banks 268,016,532 241,304,624 -- Advances on deposit of bullion Do. branch banks Do. on French Public Securities Do. by branch banks Do. on railway shares and debentures Do. branch banks Do. on Credit F onc i er , , Bonds Do. branches Do. to the State (Con vention, Juno 10, 1857) 60,000,000 G overnment Stock re- 9,230,000 - 6,70,000 - 9,740,100 -- 6,624,500 -- 13,980,100 - 6,649,200 - 13,826,800 -- 6,579,900 -- 39,897,600 29,686,000 993,?00 - 1,021,400 - 1,011,400 -- 1,039,400 --. 60,000,000 -- serve Do. disposable Itentes Immobalisees (Law, Juno 2, 1857) 100,000,000 100,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the Bank and landed propezty branches Expenses of manage ment Sundries 28,9 1 19 , 5 5 2 5 0 3 8 3 4 0 1 2 0 ,5 10 3 4 2,- 0 ' 2 9 0 5 7290 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 1 4 80,627,187 21 80,627,187 21 8,974,942 - 8,984,042 --' Total 2,194,878322 99 2,185,419,235 8 1 Certified by the se,nator-Governor of the Bank of France. (Signed) ROULAND•