The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-19 00:00:00

six months 2,588,735 17 2,588,735 17
Sundries

1,216,891,401 77 1,231,833,445 85

Cn.
Cash in hand and branch-
banks
Coinuiereial bills overdue 1,075,097 95 3,246,848 11
Conlin erci4 bills discounted
not yet due ....3'11.73,934 02 330,403,019 35
Do. branch-banks .... 315,316,363 303,092,556
Advances on deposits of
bullion
Do. branch banks 3,83i,700 3,957,700
Advances on French public
securities
Do. branch-banks 9,151,150
Ad vance, on rail way shares
and debentures .. 27,632,600
Do branch-banks.... 18,669,6)0
Advances on Credit Fon-
cier Bonds 4OOOOO
Do. branch-banks.... 360,800
Advances to the State
(Convk n. June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 60,000,000
Govt. Stock Reserve .... 12,180,750 14 12,980,7,50 14
Do. disposable
Rentes inamobilisees (Law
June 9, 1857) 100,000,000 100,000,000
Hotel and furniture of the
Bank
Landed property, branches
Expenses of management 713,400 44 712,921 54
Sundries 2,296,903 55 5,186,074 37

16,106,400 -
9,412,5•,0 -

27,792,900 -
18,701,050 -

395,000 -
356,900 -

8,353,452 -

1,216,691,401 77 1,231,833,445 85
Certified by the Honorary Vice-President of the Council
of State, Governor of the Bank,

AD. VVITRY.

THE burr OF PUNCH AND FUN ?—Tae reader
will not have torgotten the curious coincidence,
which we poiuted out some weeks ago, of each of the two
leading comic publications (Punch. and Fun) having an
illustration of the same kind, not connected with any
matter of public importance, but with something of an en-
tirely private character. A person of decidedly Hebraic
origin, adorned with whiskers of gigantic proportions, was
represented entering the studio of an artist, and request-
ing
in(or rather demanding) of him to purchase a work of
his consideration of prospective puffs in the newspapers.
Some people .nay think that such a notion was utterly
chimerical and too far removed from the region of the
possible to be seriously considered, but to all such
and also to those who are sceptical as to the fidelity
with which the comio caricaturists adhere to the
truth of nature, we commend the report of a case
which was tried in the Marylebone County Court a few days
ago, before Sir J. E. Wilmot, the judge ; which case is re-
ported in The Borough of If arylebone Mercury of last week
The plaintiff in this case was a certain Mr Ben Charles
Jones, who described himself as an author, living at Nu.
9, Arundel-gardens, Kensington-park, and the defendant
was Mr C Silvy, the well-known photographer, residing at
38, Prochester-terrace. Mr Jones was endeavouring to re-
cover the sum of £1 14s for books stated to have been
ordered by and delivered to the plaintiff. The statement on
behalf of the defendant was, that ...qr Jones had been intro-
duced to him in February last, and had proposed to him to
subscribe for "a hundred lectures." The defendant re-
tused to sign any contract, but said he would pay for the
volumes as he had them. Three volumes had been sent,
and the author had called to state that he was "an author
of great repute and an influential member of the press, in
which latter capacity he could du for the defendant a vast
amount of good by mentioning his name favourably in the
different Loudon newspapers." Toe defendant further-
more stated, that on being called upon to pay the money
"re declined to have anything whatever to do with him;
and on plaintiff pressing him, he peremptorily told him
that he would have nothing to do with either him or his
books." Some days afterwards, however, a parcel was let,
with the books, and eventually the plaintiff called for pay
inent, but he soon ordered him off and his books too. /it,
,vidence was given as to "the vast amount of good" which
:he plaintiff was capable of doing, and after going into the
case with some minuteness, the judge announced his ineen-
tion of postponing it for fresh evidence, when the plaintfl
elected to be non-suited. A case like this, unless property
explained, is not likely to raise the reputation of the press
in the estimation of the world at large.—TheLady's Aews.
paper,