The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-12 00:00:00

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Cash in hand
Ditto in branch banks
Bills past due ••• •••
Bills discounted, but not yet du!, of
which 17,737,139 E. Oc. were received
from the Branch Banks ..• ... 45,128,472 30
Bills in the branch banks 74,384,454 0
Advances on coins and ingots... 490,300 0
Ditto by the branch banks 2,879,666 0
Ditto on French public securities ... 89,983,536 10
Ditto by branch banks._ ... 4,038,267 0
Ditto on railway shares and bonds ... 4,215,500 0
Ditto by branch banks 327,200 0
Ditto to the State on Bons du Tresor... 50,000,000 0
Ditto to the State on the Treaty of 30th
June, 1848 ... ... 75,000,000 0
Advanced to the City of Paris on the
Previsional Loan of 50,000,000 f. ••• 20,000,000 0
Rentes of the reserve fund ... 10,000,000 0
Rentes, disposable funds ... ... 55,591,766 37
Hotel and furniture of the Bank ... 4,000,000 0
Real property of the branch banks ... 3,416,771 0
Interest in National Discount Bank ... 299,000 0
Expenses of administration of the Bank
and Branches
Miscellaneous •••

717,184 95
215,034 76

f. 1,042,253,696 11

Certified by the Governor of the Bank,
D'ARGOUT.
It appears from the preceding account that the cash
in hand has increased since the last account, published
March 5, by 10,500,000 f. The commercial bills dis-
counted have increased by 12,500,000 f. The cash ad-
♦anced on deposit of French securities has increased from
17,000,000 f. to 94,000,000 f. The Bank notes in circula-
tion have increased by 76,000,000 f. The balance to the
credit of the Treasury has decreased by 27,000,000 f.
The sundry credits have increased by 74,500,000 f.

THE ARMY AND NAVY.
(From the United Service Gazette.) _

The commander of the Janus, Commander Powell,
has been permitted to accept the Spanish order of
K.C. of Charles the Third, and the officer second in
command an inferior grade of the same order, for
their conduct against the pirates on the Riff coast.
By the decease of Lieutenant-General Sir James
Harvey, K.C.8., the Colonelcy of the 59th Regiment
has become vacant, as also the appointment of Lieu-
tenant-Governor of Nova Scotia. _ _

STAFF APPOINTMENTS.—Lieut.-Colonel Clarke,
late 23 Dragoons, is to be Assistant Quartermaster-
General of the Dublin district. Lieutenant-Colonel
French to be Assistant-Adjutant-General, and Major
Paget Assistant-Quartermaster-General, of the Cork
district. Lieutenant. Colonel Forster is to be Assistant-
Adjutant-General at Edinburgh. Lieutenant-Colonel
Brooke Taylor, Assistant-Adjutant-General, and
Lieutenant-Colonel Scott, to be Assistant-Quarter-
master-General, at Manchester.
STAFF IN 111E1.x:cp.—Lieutenant-Colonel R. W.
Brough, Assistant Adjutant-General at Belfast, has
assumed the command of the district during the ab-
sence of Major-General Thomas, C. 8., on leave.
Colonel J. L. Pennefather, C. 8., Deputy Quarter-
master-General to the forces, serving in Ireland, has
taken the command of the Cork district during the
absence of Major-General Mansel, K.H., on leave.
Major-General Cochrane assumed the command of
the garrison of Dublin, and Dublin district, on the
Ist of the present month. Major-General M'Donald
baying received leave of absence, the command of the
Kilkenny district has devolved upon Colonel Johnson,
Acting Assistant Quartermaster-General, the next
senior officer.
RECRUITING DISTRICTS.—The following is the per-
manent
arrangement for the Inspecting Field Officer
of Recruiting Districts :—London—Colonel Bush,
K.H. Liverpool—Lieutenant-Colonel Davis. York
—Lieutenant-Colonel Magenis. Bristol—Lieute-
nant Colonel Patton. Glasgow Colonel Slade.
Newry—Lieutenant-Colonel Adair.
SOUTH WALES DISTRICT.—CoIoneI Barnard, As-
sistant-Adjutant-General of the Northern District, is
to succeed Major-General Love in the command of
the South Wales District. Lieutenant Barnard,
Grenadier Guards, has been appointed Aide-de-Camp
to his father.

ROYAL ARTILLERY RETIREMENT.—The following
officers have been permitted to retire upon half-pay :
—Lieutenant Colonels M. Louis, J. H. Wood, F. A.
Lethbridge, and H. Stow.
LIMERICK DISTRICT.—Major-General Fleming,
C. 8., has been appointed to the command of the
Limerick district, in succession to Major-General
Napier, C.B , removed to Eriinburgh, on the resigna-
tion of Major-General Shaw Kennedy. Captain
Fleming, 63i Regiment, is to be Aide-de-Camp to
his father. Lieutenant• Colonel Douglas, unattached,
son of Sir Howard Douglas, is to succeed Lieutenant-
Colonel Doyle as Assistant Adjutant-General to the
Limerick district.

THE PRESEUVATION OF THE EXHI.
BITION BUILDING.
The following is a copy of a letter addressed by Mr
Oliveira to Sir Joseph Paxton, on the subject of the
revenue which could be derived from the building if
appropriated to the plan proposed :-
8, Upper Hyde Park-street, London, April 5.
My dear Sir,—As one of the objections to the perma-
nent establishment of the Crystal Palace, as a place of
reined amusement, recreation, and intellectual culture
to all classes, is the great cost of maintaining it, I beg
to give you somewhat more in detail, and with slight
additions, the items of an estimated annual revenue,
which I addressed to you as lone ago as last July, when
I .etormed those opinions which I have since had the
pleasuretilarture of
participating with you of the great public
ui
y to which this splendid creation of yours might
be devoted.
Assuming that toe
tenor would be general arrangements
of the in-
tains, plantsarge conservatory, with walks, foun-
, and
shrubs, that would live
tem-
perature; collection in a low
architectural models, designs mineralogy, botany, geology,
and instruct all classes of
various kinds to interest
added schools of dei,,! of visitors; to which might be
inventions and mechanical improvements ,rooms, collections of
artizans, •Loprovernents by ingenious
I am of opinion that the f,ll wing
schedule represents
by no means an exaggerated
might be derived from the Crystal of the sum which
ESTIMATE OF REV &l ace annually
If the outer division of the parallelogramtl
was devoted to equestrians, having;
light railing dividing it from the rest -
the building, I propose that all parties
having having the privilege of riding ther
should pay one guinea annually, there
that there may be 800 subscribers '. aa
All persons desirous of having the entree °
to the rest of the building every day in
the year (Sunday included) should have
tickets of admission at 1/. ls. A re-
gister to be kept of their names and re-
sidences; and the general board of
management to determine as to their
eligibility. I expect from this source
10,000 subscribers, representing
Note—Viewing the success of the Hor-
ticultural, Botanical, and Zoological So-
cieties, where, to become a member, it is
necessary to be proposed, seconded, bal-
loted for, and pay a large entrance fee, I
think the foregoing item (divested of
those formalities) is not over-estimated.
I propose that Monday and Tuesday in
each week be devoted to the working
classes, who shall visit the whole of the
building on payment of 3d. e ich. I
estimate 5,000 daily 6,500 0 0
Wednesday and Thursday should Sc de-
voted to visitors at 6d. each. I esti-
mate on each of these days 5,000
Friday, le., say 5,000 13,000 0 0
b'aturday 6d. each, on which day there
might bo musical entertainments, or
other attractions calculated for the
upper classes, 5,000 each day 32,500 0 0

£76,340 0 0
Other sources of profit might be available
stints, say annually
For placing statuary or works of art,
1,000 objects, at 1,,. each per week._ 2,600 0 0

£79,940 0 0
The foregoing estimate may be considered rough and
inaccarate, but it may lead to the question being mi-
inelY investigated, and brought to practical working, if
wh". are
_ fortunate enough to preacrve the building from
wiruetion that awaits it.
jor,"l'%ie, my dear Sir, yours very truly,
eph„ton. BEN/fAMIN OLIYEIRA.

MYSTEMOUSt)
ICEMAN.—On Frida
ferent metropolitan IS!k.PPEARANCE OF A YOUNG GEN -
L'aiortuation was forwarded to the dif-
Allied to a noble family, stations, that a young gentleman,
hall, had disappearedanrrirdent in the vicinity of White
strong suipicion that he hase circumstanced that lead to a
went. He, was last seen ehotltr with some unfair treat-
of Thursqay, the Ist in t. utrk o'clock in the afternoon
Newington, when he said he was v",,,,, Pdephant and Castle,
one every exertion, 87raintipeme to dinner, and
one hundred pounds, no clue can be oht:inir of a reward of
hospital or other place where, from the es.' of him. Every
dent or sudden illness, he might have heeP:Mility of acci-
He is described as about ic,:T, has been
Searched in vain-
plaid black Oxo3ian coat, and grey rlrs wearing
A ahepherd's
OM bcina tl2~►rl' l:• 41. . - torwtre i his