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

1,237,994,159 61 1,250,055,304 22

banks
Commercial bills overdue 708,763 66
Commercial bills discounted
not yet due . 274,518,191 83
Do. branch-banks ....287,085,185
Advances on deposits of
bullion
Do. branch-banks 4,869,181
Advances on Frenchpublio

351,562,024 1:
558,808 36

301,207,229 87
285,314,504 -

14,076,585 14
4,9j0,210

securities ..
Do. branch-banks 7,595,550
Advances on railway shares
and .debentures 26,543,800
Do. branch-banks 16,787,150
Advances on Credit Fon-

14,724,400 -
7,928,050 -

26,020,900 -
17,072,450 -

cier Bonds 548,500
Do. branch-banks .... 414,750 -
Advances to the State

543,300 --
339,650 -

(Conven. June 10, 1857) 60,000,000
Govt. Stock Reserve 12,980,750 14
Do. disposable
Rentes immobilisees (Law
June 9, 1857) 100,000,000
Hotel and furniture of the i
Bank
Landed property, branches
Expenses of management 2,849,239 24
Sundries

60,000,000 -
12,980,750 14
36,696,737 91

100,000,000 -

8,330,078 -

2,488,973 49
5,250,6.53 12

1,237,984,151 61 1,250,055,304 22
Certified, the Senator-Governor of the Bank of France.
(Signed) ROULAND.

A woman named Wittes, residing at Hazebrouck
: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 India
cated by closed shutters, to which were affixed the notifica-
tion of " Will not open on Monday." The early omnibusses
from the outskirts were shorn of city clerks proceeding to
business, and who make up the allotted 12 on the " knife-
board," and the more select " 13 inside ;" but where amuse-
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 Progeas
with Prudence at the helm. The figures, nearly five fee
high, were executed from the modes 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 Seine and Marne
surrounded by children holding fruit, fish, objects of art,
Sco. Two children are backed against the candelabra, which
are lofty, and each holds 20 tapers. This eurtout was exe-
cuted by Messrs Christofle and Co. from the deigns of M
Ballard, 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
91 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 Aug.
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. 1 here is to be an
immense park, chalets, gardens, workshops, &c,
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 10f.
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
storm, the centre of which appears to be on the N. W . of St,
Petersburg."

The Imperial Court bas just heard an appeal
from a judgment of the Civil Tribunal in an action brought
by Viscount Lemercier, as president of the oouncil admi-
niatering 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 the abbe, for
which he was to pay 5 per cent. intereet. The abbe's heirs
el‘litntd 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 now 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.
M, Gaillard, printer at Asnieres, has just met
with his death by suffocation from an open charcoal stove

which he had imprudently lighted in hie bedroom.