The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-27 00:00:00

BANK OF FRANCE.

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

Dec. 22. Dec. 15.
Dn. f, c. f. C.
Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 182,500,000
Profits in addition toCapital
(Art. 8 law June 9,1857) 6,912,460 91 6,893,059 36
Reserve in the Bank and
its branches
Reserve in landed property 4,000,000 4,000,003
Notes in circulation 721,457,475 739,383,125
Bank notes to order and re-
ceipts payable at sight 5,774,783 36 5,432,012 87
Treasury sec. cur. credit0r103,359,256 06 93,094,132 63
Current accounts—Paris —136,089,007 48 140,571,991 44
Do. branch-banks
Dividends payable
Discounts and sundry
interests..
Re-discoun:.3 of the last
six months 2,588,735 17 2,588,735 17
Sundries

1,237,991,159 61 1,250,055,301 22

CR.
Cash in hand and branch-
banks
Commercial bills overdue 708,763 66 558,808 39
Commercial bills discounted

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not yet due . .
Do. branch-banks.... 287,085,185 285,314,504
Advances on deposits of
bullion ... .
Do. branch•banks.... 4,869,184 4,91;0,210
Advances on Frenchpublic
securities . .
Do, branch-banks 7,595,550 7,928,050
Ad vancesonrailway shares
and • debentureq
Do. branch-banks 16,787,150 17,1,72,450
Advances on Credit Fon-
cier Bonds 548,500 543.300
Do. branch-banks
Advances to the State
(Conven. June 10,.1857) 60,000,000 60,000,000
Govt. Stock Reserve
Do. disposable
Rentes immobilisees (Law
June 9, 1857) 100,0.,00,000 - 100,000,000
Hotel and furniture of the i •
Bank
Landed property, branches
Expenses of management 2,849,239 24 2,488,973 49
Sundries

1,237,984,151 61 1,250,055,301 22
Certified, the Senator-Governor of the Bank of France.
(Signed) ROULAND.

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week
Miles Opened. Receipts.

Railways. ..-_____Thi,_-_./....7.-.,
1864. 1863. 1864. 1863.
£ Z
Belfast and N. Counties 136 136 LOCI 2.140
Belfast and County Down 49 49 670 642
Blyth and Tyne 2O 13 1,951 1,255
Bristol and Exeter l2l} 121} 6,387 6,324
Caledonian 284 262 i 19,0.9 17,768
Cambrian

Cockermouth& Workington 8 si 311 257
Cork and Bandon 2O 20
326 352

Cork, Blackrock, & Passage... 324 27 110 129
Cork and Youghal 6} 6} 374 879
Cornwall ... 6s} 654 1,431 1.350
Deeside l7 17 298 218
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 1,329 1,441
Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 1,570 1.691
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd 9l} 91 i 2,155 2,07 s
l urness, &c 5O 5) 2,983 2,826
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union
Great Northern 387 353 33,362 33,262
Great North of Scotland 5B 58 1,625 1.336
(it. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 711 446 550
'lt.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 387 373} 7,530 7,774
Great Western 1224 1169 64,975 61,039
Hull and Hornsea l3 - 96 -
Inverness & Aberdeen June 1174 1063 1,248 1,036
Inverness & Perth Junction 119} 119} 3,431 1,093
Irish North-Western 145 145 1,601 1,692
Kent Coast 27 27 790 233
Lancashire & Yorkshire 403 103 34,240 35,624
Limerick and Ennis... 244 244 155 154
Limerick and Foynes 261 264 163 134
Llanelly 461 461 502 495
Llynvi Valley
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 5 61 1,709 1,632
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2674 2611 16,530 15,854
London, Chatham, & Dover 724 72} 4,718 4,713
Do. Metropolitan Extension 114 104 1,200 875
Lon., Tilbury, & Southend
Man.,Sheffield,& Lincolnsh
Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 9} 9} 1,297 1,231
Nlaryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6514 641 46,420 42,428
Midland Gt.Westn. of hind- 262 2594 4,562 4,652
Ilonkland 714 715 1,641 1,687
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,966 2,675
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & Darl 1095 1095 59,355 54,938
North London 9 9 3, /46 3,060
North Staffordshire 254 256 8,513 8,833
Rhymney 194 95 966 950

A woman named Wittes, residing at Hazebronek
(Nord), was some weeks since bitten by a dog, but as the
wound was three times deeply cauterized and every other
attention paid no fatal effects were anticipated. Those
hopes have, however, been disappointed, for last week the
poison which had remained dormant in her blood suddenly
showed itself, and in three days after she expired after
dreadful suffering.

BOXING-DAY.—The appearance yesterday of the
London streets and those in the suburbs afforded
evidence that Boxing-day was honoured with its wanted
festivities. At every turn a stoppage of business was indi.
cated by closed shutters, to which were affixed the notifica-
tion of " Will not open on Monday." The early onsnibusses
from the outskirts were shorn of city clerks proceeding to
business, and who make up the ellotted 12 on the "knife-
board," and the morn soloot " 13 inaide 7," but vzhana atnttaa.
ment was to be found the holiday makers appeared to wend
their way—one and all betraying a resolution thoroughly
to enjoy themselves.
At the grand dinner given at the Hotel de Ville
last week to the Municipal Council by the Prefect
of the Seine, the table was decorated with the splendid
surtout, the principal portion of which, the epergne, figured
at the London Exhibition in 1862. The city of Paris is
represented as a female seated on a shield sapported by art,
commeace, science, and industry. This group occupies
the centre of a barque commanded by the Genius of Progess
with Prudence at the helm. The figures, nearly five feet
high, were executed from the models of M. Diebollet. The
sea-horses which precede and follow are by M. Rouil
lard ; the Tritons by MM. Mathurin Moreau and
Crepy. On each side of this aro groups representing
Summer and Winter, Autumn and Spring. At the end
of the table are figures representing the Sein e and Marne
surrounded by children holding fruit, fish, objects of art,
80. Two children are backed against the candelabra, which
are lofty, and each holds 20 tapers. This surtout was exe-
cuted by Messrs Christofie and Co. from the dens of M
Baltard, of the Institute, and, though not quite completed,
has already cost 365,000 fr.

The Debats publishes a letter from M. Feuillet
de Conches, editor of the Correspondence of Queen
Marie Antoinette, in which the writer states that a disco-
very has recently been made in the private library of the
Emperor of Austria of a series et letters between Marie
Theresa and her daughter Marie Antoinette, from the mar-
riage of the latter to the death of the Empress. There are
94 letters, of which 30 of the originals have been found, but
the copies of the others are being fully authenticated. The
letter adds that M. Arnetb, member of the States of Aus-
tria and Deputy Conservator of the Imperial Archives, is
about to publish those letters.
The lunatic asylums of Charenton and Bicetre
being found insufficient both in size and arrange.
ments for the wants of the present day, the City of Paris is
about to have a very large establishment built on a pro-
perty they have bought about 15 miles from Paris, on the
Orleans Railway, According to the plans and estimates,
the expense will amount to 15 millions. There is to be an
immense park, chalets, gardens, workshops, &o,
The barges and small craft lying in the S3ine
have been removed to the basin at the Place de la
Bastille, the Canal St. Martin, the gare of Grenelle, and to
to the arm of the river to the north of the Isle St. Louis, in
order that they should not receive injury from the masses
of ice which are expected to come floating down. The Seine
freezes at 16 degrees Fahrenheit, and becomes fixed at 10i.
The bulletin of the Paris Observatory gives the
following as the atmospheric state of Europe yes-
terday :—" On the north of France the sky, which for seve-
ral days past remained cloudy, at length became clearer,
and this morning the temperature is very low. At Paris
on Saturday night the thermometer fell to seven degrees
below zero Centigrade (20 Fahrenheit). The baro-
meter continues very high on England, and is
again rising on Spain and the Mediterranean.
In Russia the pressure is slowly diminishing, and
the winds remain from the W. under the influence of a
storm, the centre of which appears to be on the N.W. of St.
Petersburg."
M. Mathieu (de la Drome) has addressed to all the
journals a long letter in which he quotes various accounts
of tempests and disasters at sea between the 26th Novem-
ber and the 3d inst., in conformity with his predictions.
M. Gaillard, printer at Asnieres, has just met
with his death by suffocation from an open charcoal stove
which he had imprudently lighted in his bedroom.
The Imperial Court has just heard an appeal
from a judgment of the Civil Tribunal in an action brought
by Viscount Lemercier, as president of the council admi-
nistering the temporalities of the church of St. Thomas
d'Aquin, against the heirs of the late Abbe
Lauriohesse, first vicar of the parish, to recover
the sum of 24,000 francs, the proceeds of donations
from the parishioners intended for the rebuilding or en-
larging the parsonage house. At the abbe's decease a paper
was found in a cupboard of the vestry appropriated to his
use,.signed by a person named Morel, acknowledging that
the latter held 24,000 fr, confided to him by tho abbe, for
which he was to pay 5 per cent. intereet. The abbe's heirs
claimed this money, and alleged that the church had no
right to it, as it had not been legally authorised tr receive
donations. Viscount Lemercier then instituted an action
to recover the money, and a judgment was given in his
favour. The abbe nuw appealed, but the Imperial Court
decided that no authorisation was necessary to receive such
donations, that the abbe and his heirs were responsible for
the amount, and it consequently confirmed the judgment
purely and simply.