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

spa mouths, 2,588,735 17 2,588,735 17
Sundries

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

Cu.
Cash in hand and branch-
banks 276,200,182 91 272,433,487 38
Commercial bills ov,rdue 1,075,097 95 3,216,848 11
Com in ercidl bills discounted
not yet due 321,793,934 02 330,403,019 35
Do. branch-bank5....305,316,363 303,092,556
Advances on deposits of
bullion
Do. branch banks... • 3,831,700 3,957,700
Advances on French public
securities ..
Do. branch-banks... • 9,151,156
Ad vancee on rail way shares
and debentures .. 27,692,600
Do branch-banks.... 18,669,6;0
Advances on Credit Fon-
cier Bonds 4OOOOO
Do. branch-banks .... 360,800
Advances to the State
(ConvEn. June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 60.000,000
Govt. Stock Reserve .... 12,580,750 14 12,980,750 14
Do. disposable
Rentes immobilisees (Law
June 9, 1857) '00,000,000
Hotel and furniture of the
Bank
Lauded property, branches
Expenses of management 713,400 44 712,921 54
Sundries,,,

100,000,000 -

8,353,452 -

1,216,891,401 77 1,231,833,445 85
Certified by the Honorary Viee•Prekident of the Council
of State, Governor of the Bank,

AD. VrlTltt.

I THE BUTT OF PUNCH AND FUN ?—The reader
will not have forgotten the curious ceincidenc:-:
which we pointed out some weeks ago, of each of the two
leading comic
publications (lunch and Tun) 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-
' jog (or rather demanding) of him to purchase a work of
his in consideration of prospective puffs in the newspapers.
Some people may 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 comic 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 .Ifarylebone Mercury of last week.
The plaintiff in this case was a certain Mr Ben Charles
Jones, who described himself as an author, living at No.
9, Arundel-gardens, Kensington-park, and the defendant
was Mr C. Silvy, the well-known photographer, residing at
38, Prechtstemerrace. 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 Mr Jones had been intro-
duced to him in February last, and had proposed to him to
subscribe for "a hundred lectures." The defendant re-
fused to sign any contract, but said he would pay for the
volumes us he had them. Three volumes had been sent,
and the author had called to state that he was "an author
of
whichg r e a
latter
att reputeer capacity ad an
he
influential
could
d o member
for the
defendant
e thenda
npress, isne
amount of good by mentioning his name favourably in the
different London newspapers." Toe defendant further-
more stated, that on being called upon to pay the money
"he 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 lets
with the books, and eventually the plaintiff called for pay
went, but he soon ordered him off and his books too. Nu
evidence was given as to "the vast amount of good" which
the plaintiff was capable of doing, and after going into the
case with some minuteness, the judge announced his inten-
tion of postponing it for fresh evidence, when the plaintff
elected to be non-suited. A case like this, unless properly
explained, is not likely to raise the reputation of the press
in the estimation of the world at large,— Thehady's .N*B-
-