The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-07 00:00:00

BANK OF FRANCE.

PARIS, October 6.
The following is the return of the Bank of France
for the week, together with the corresponding
figures of the previous account :
OCT. 6.
Du. f. c.
Capital of the Bank 182,500,000
Profits in addition toCapital
(Art. 8 law June 9, 1857) 5,599,779 38 5,382,801 78
Reserve in the Bank and

SEPT. 29.

182,500,000

its branches
Reserve in landed property 4,000,000 4,000,003
Notes in circulation 751,377,975 739,183,625
Bank notes to order and re-

ceipta payable at sight 5,9.50,092 35 6,291,500 14
Treasury ac.i. cur, creditor 62,437,649 46 94,162,968 73
Current accounts—Paris 106,393,396 29 99,888,679 52
Do. branch-banks 22,371,179 22,484,848
Dividends payable
Discounts and sundry
interests 13,091,565 38 11,767,149 01
Re-discounts of the last
six months..
Sundries

1,199,324,165 76 1,205,983,979 46

CR.
Cash in hand and branch-
banks
Commercial bills overdue 3,091,019 90 365,985 02
Commercial bills discounted
not yet due ..
Advances on deposits of
bullion .
Do. branch- banks
Advances on French public
securities
Do, branch-banks 8,723,4:0
Advances onrailway shares
and debentures 27,400,200
Do. branch-banks 19,306,300
Advances on Credit Fon-
cier Bonds
Do. branch-banka 385,100
Advances to the State
(Conven. June,lo, 1857) 60,000,000 60,000,000
Govt. Stock Reserve 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 1
Do. disposable ... .
Rentes immobilisees (Law
June 9, 1857) 100,000,000
Hotel and furniture of the
Bank
Landed property, branches
Expenses of management 1,593,556 94 1,527,698 79
Sundries .. 4,960,799 20 6,250,026 60

15,841,900
8,875,150

27,373,800
18,289,300

412,800
383,500

100,000,000 -

8,389,800 -

1,199,324,165 76 1,205,983,979 46
Certified by the honorary Vice-President of the Council
of State, Governor of tha Bank of France.
(Signed) AD, V viTRy.

FEDERAL REPUDIATION,—Subjoined is a coma
munication from one of the many sufferers by the
recent return of Pennsylvania to the path of repudiation.
The debt of that State was contracted on the stipulation
that the dividend should be paid in gold, and on the 31 of
May last the Legislature decreed that greenbacks should
be substituted, thus, at a single blow, wiping off mere
than one halt of their current liabilities. Considering
that next to New York Pennsylvania is the most influen-
tial State in the Union, and that she represents one-fifth
part of the whole population that now acknowledge
the Federal Government, her example might be ex-
pected to operate as a warning to the investors of
Federal bonds, since it can hardly be supposed that
as a member of the Federal body she will not exert all
her weight to induce the Central Government to take the
same course that she has individually chosen. Moreover,
Indiana and Michigan have already expressed concurrence
in her views, so that altogether nearly one third of the
Northern people have ranged themselves on the side of
default. A large proportion of the New York merchants
will, doubtless, endeavour to stem the evil, but, looking at
what has already taken place even in that State, and the
daily accumulating mass of the general debt, it would seem
impossible for the moat sanguine dreamer in any country,
except Germany, to entertain a hope that such endeavour
can be successful. A correspondent writes :—I am an execu-
tor under the will of my late father, who died upwards of a
year since, leaving the bulk of a small property in Pennsyl-
vanian bonds. Having full confidence in the stability and in-
tegrity of the State, he left also heavy responsibilities, amply
provided for, however, had the dividends been paid in specie,
The last payment in greenbacks, realising about one-third
of the value, has, consequently, been productive of results
most serious ; and, if similar payments be continued, or it
the principal be not eventually paid in full, most deplorable
and ruinous consequences must necessarily ensue. I write
this, feeling it to be a duty incumbent on every bondholder
to give individually as much publicity as possible to losses
sustained, in the hope that the American Government will
do ell in its power (whether the last payment in currency
be a question of absolute necessity or one merely of conve-
nience.) to prevent such calamitous occurrences in future,
f by fulfilling their just and lawful obligations."—Timm
EXTRAORDINARY IMPERIAL CORRESPONDENCE.—•
The fifth edition of" Corpulency, or Fat and Embonpoint
in Excess," having been forwarded by some wag to Napo-
leon the Third, a reply, in which the following sentence
occurs, is said to have been received by the author, Mr A.
W. Moore, M.D., of Pimlico :—" We live in the hearts of
our people, whose lightness feels not our weight. We are
satisfied with our constitution. We seek rather increase
than reduction ; and at the present moment it would be a
financial blunder to meddib with the specific gravity of the
Napoleon, with which the nation is well content, and re-
quires no change.'!