The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-16 00:00:00

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)
PARIS, September 15.

The following is the return of the Bank of France
for the week, together with the corresponding
figures of the previous account :
SEPT. 15.

SEPT. 8.

DR.
Capital of the Bank 182,500,000
Profits in addition toCapital
(Art. 8 law June 9,1857) 5,204,535 44 5,161,780 88
Reserve in the Bank and
its branches
Reserve in landed property 4,000,000 4,000,000
Notes in circulation 761,633,225 752,214,625
Bank notes to order and re-
ceipts payable at sight 5,733,812 70 6,272,919 63
Treasury aco. cur, creditor 76,833,698 12 72,300,227 24
Current accounts—Paris
Do. branch-banks
Dividends payable
Discounts and Euudry
interests 10,687,455 49 9,915,269 55
Re-discounts of the last
six mouths 2,588,735 17 2,588,735 17
Sundries

182,500,000 -

1,217,705,816 87 1,210,438,779 55

Cu.
Cash in hand and branch-
banks
Commercial; bills overdue 409,910 91 561,306 90
Commercial bills discounted
not yet due ..
Do. branch-banks 299,921,777 294,863,543
Advances on deposits of
bullion
Do. branch-banks 3,405,500 2,963,800
Advances on Frenchpublie
securities ..
Do. branch-banks 8,187,950
Advances on railway shares
and debentures 27,251,200
Do. branch-banks 17,95E,950
Advances on Credit Fon-
cier Bonds 416,700
Do. branch-banks.... 396,900
Advances to the State
(Cony En. June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 60,000,000
Govt. Stock Reserve 12,980,760 14 12,980,750 14
Do. disposable
Rentes immobilisees (Law
June 9, 1857) 100,000,000 100,000,000
Hotel and furniture of the
Bank
Landed property, branches
Expenses of management 1,191,702 32 1,147,234 55
Sundries

14,709,900 -
8,323,5:0

27,233,100 -
17,974,050 -

411,800 -
346,700 -

8,384,352 -

1,217,705,816 87 1,210,438,779 65
Certified by the honorary Vice-President of the Council
of State, Governor of the Bank of France.
(Signed) AD. V DITRY.

Transportation to Western Australia.

The excitement on this subject in the colony u

Victoria would appear to be increasing rather than
diminishing, if we may judge by a letter which
appeared in the Melbourne Argus a few days prior
to the departure of the last mail. The letter to
which we refer is from the pen of the proprie-

tor of the Argus, Mr Edward Wilson, an old and
well known colonist, and it had created a great
sensation in the colony. Many hundreds of pounds
had been subscribed to assist in the project, and
it seems we may expect the arrival ere long of a
choice selection of ruffiins. We subjoin the letter :

TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.
Sir,—l, for one, have had enough of it. There is a point
in a contest at which furthur discussion degenerates into
ehildishness. There is a limit at which petition, address,
and remonstrance dwindle into slavishness, For more than
twenty years I have watched and shared in this anti-trans-
portation struggle, aad 1 think it quite time that it should
be brought to a conclusion. I can form no conjecture as to
what the Government, the Legislature, or the league con-
siders it desirable to do. But, as a private colonist, I con-
ceive that the time is come for action. I find the feeling
participated in by others ; to what extent I do not know.
But with many associates, with a few, or alone I shall begin
to take decided steps to show that what we have been talk-
ing about so long I have been quite in earnest about all the
time, Ido not pretend to know much of the ordinary run
of political affairs in the colony. I do not take any very
great interest in your ministerial or parliamentary complica-
tions. The entanglements of your innumerable lands bills
have long since quite bewildered me. I scarcely know one
of your more recent politicians even by sight. But with
this transportation question I am pretty well acquainted,
and I wish that it should be followed out in a reasonably
manly and consistent style.
It seems to me that we are not only being disgraced in
the eyes of the world by a pusillanimous tone upon a most
vital subject, but that between two fires we are in circum-
stances of extreme danger. Upon one side we have Western
Australia ; a mere cesspool for the reception of the most
desperate felons of the mother cJuntry. On the other we
have New South Wales and Riverina, over which men like
Morgan and Ben Hall rule with a rod of iron—in which
police protection is becoming a mere joke, and sympathy
with the outlaw is showing itself so widely diffused that
even Italian brigandage seems likely to be improved upon.

Separated by an arbitrary boundary, we cannot hold our
own:against such influences. If we succeed in doing so now,
we shall fail in the next generation. Outrage of the Round-
hill stamp will come down to meet those of the Collingwood
bank complexion, and our rising youth will more and
more desire to emulate the chivalrous deeds of the bank
robber, station burner, and bushranger. A country sinking
into this condition is either a country to leave or a country
to be fought for. And as I, for one, have no intention of
leaving Australia, I look round and deliberately select some
other alternative.

The new imperial bill, passed upon the report of the com-
missioners, though not adopting all their suggestions, is
steadily passing through its stages. The Secretary of State,
with a flourish of trumpets, summons us to be thankful that
he sends us only 600 convicts a year instead of all. Your
special correspondent at Western Australia has proved in-
contestably that three-fifths of this number make their way
to the other side, meaning South Australia and Victoria;
an t 1 .s o~ota ymuc about 360 of the.e ruffians are being
poured upon us. Considering the superior attractions of
this colony, probably 300 of them may eventually make
their way here, any one ct whom may be as bad as Gardi-
ner, Morgan, Hall, Woods, or Barrett.
With such reinforcements it is almost hopeless to struggle
effectually with the criminal class. Indeed, the day may
easily oomo in which that class will get the upper hand.
And the system of terrorism which now paralyses the law
across the Murray may place us at the mercy of such men,
and sympathy with them may lead to our cheering the so-
(Natal of notorious murderers in our metropolitan courts.
If wo are to do any good, we must first stop the desolating
stream of felonry. It will then be comparatively easy work
to cow the existing herd of desperadoes.
Whatever course others may decide upon, then I shall
begin to act. No form of language of which our language
is capable will convince the English people that our oppo-
sition is anything more than an affected one, or based
upon imaginary evils. Prejudice runs too strongly against
us, and words are thrown away. But our countrymen
at home are a practical-minded people, with a great love of
facts, and I shall take steps to present them with a few. I

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shall set to work to carry out as far as I can the scheme
that has been talked of since 1848, and which should have
been adopted then. I shall begin to send home some of the
worst specimens of the expiree class that I can induce to go,
and I shall continue to do so as long as I have the means to
do it with, and the convict stream lbws hitherward from
Great Britain. I‘ly modus operandi will be a very simple
one. I shall advertise for offers to emigrate to England,
select the worst men I can get, leaving the whole arrange-
ments in the hands of a respectable solicitor. The ship-
ping agents or owners will be, as a matter of course,
warned of the one or two such men that may go by any
ship; the captain will be placed upon his guard; and each
man shall sign an agreement to submit to irons for the
rest of the voyage for any offence he may commit on board.
Such a man is free. He has as much right to go to Eng-
land as any of us. Nothing but an Act of Parliament can
stop him. If he should risk a little in the too liberal con-
struction of a conditional pardon, the penalty, if discovered,
is his.

I get out an honest agricultural labourer for about £l4.
Perhaps it will require twice that 611111 to send an expiree
home. We ought to send at least the number wo are now
receiving, but I see no reason to limit ourselves to that.
The numbers are not material, however, for if half a dozen
are known to go, all the crimes committed in England will
in six months be attributed to them.

If anyone still seeks a justification of such a course, I
point to Round Hill—to a drunken ruffian firing promis-
cuously amongst unarmed man—to the pursuit and
slaughter of poor IMi'Lean—to the police•ofiicer shot like a
dog while attempting to do his duty—to the undoubted fact
that half Itiverina is at this moment cowed and dominated
by this man ; and pointing to all this in ono direction, I
point in another to England cruelly supplementing these
hosts of scoundrels by a regular supply.
I have said that lam not alone in this matter. I believe
them are thousands who think as I do, and are prepared
to take as energetic measures. I believe in my heart
that it is the only mode of bringing this affair to a con-
clusion. I believe we are justified in the eyes of God and
man in resorting to any steps to bring this great wrong to
an end. Great Britain has long enough harried us with
the murderer, the burglar, and the bushranger. We are not
only justified, but bound to try the effect of giving reality
to for impressions on the colonial aspect of the question.

" curaidter" is sometimes a sound doctrine,
even in national affairs. The word " Garotter " drove her
mad, and made her tyrannically unjust. Probably the words
" Returned Convict" will restore ber reason.
Let those joie me, then, who think and feel as I do. And
let those stand aside and look on who prefer to argue the
matter for another twenty years, or are satisfied to continue
their allegiance to what we may call the Morgan-and-Gar-
diner dynasty.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
July 18. EDWARD WILSON'.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—One Shilling MT.—Thurs-
day, Sept, 15.—Adulissiens on payment, 3,666; do, by
beam tickets, 6,29—t0ta1, 4,495,