The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-10 00:00:00

BANK OF FRANCE.

The following is the account for month ending
Thursday, Tan. 8 :

ASSETS.

F.' C.
Cash and ingots .. 79,185,505 01
Cash at the branch-banks 188,964,715
Bills due to be paid to-day.. .. 780,189 76
Bills becoming due in Paris, of which
89,167,44uf. 82c. are from the branch-
banks .. • 357,718,223 3G
Bills in the branch-banks 296,752,568
Advances on coin and ingots .. .. 2,880,500 --
Do in the-branch- Ice 1,862,100 --
Do on French securities • • .. 59,592,800
Do in the branch-banks .. 17,627,450
Do on railway shares and bonds .. 58,201,200
Do in the branch-banks .. 35,660,950
Do on Credit Foncier Bonds 519,100
Do in the branch-banks 507,600
Do to State by treaty, 1848 .. .. 60,000,000
Rentes of the reserve-fund 12,980,750 14
Rentes, disposable funds .. 29,571,390 26
Rentes immobilised (law of June, 1857) .. 100,000,000
Hotel and furniture of the Bank 4,000,000
Real property of branch-banks .. 5,817,427
Expenses of administration • • •• 12,017 85
Sundries 11,517,652 51

LIABILITIES.

Capital .
Reserve-fund
New Reserve
• •
Reserve-immobiliero
Profits to be added to Capital (Art. 8 of
law June 9 1857)
. 2,316,503 57
Notes to bearer in circulation in Faris anti
the branch-banks • • • • .. 825,412,925
Do. to order (Post-bills) .. • . 4,568,101 51
Bills payable at sight .. . • 5,777,150
Acc. cur. of Treasury Creditor .. .. 92,263,622 94
Various accounts current .. .. 156,419,585 76
Do. branch-banks 30,709,299
Dividends to be paid .. 8,727,494 75
Arrears of values deposited 13,060,982 28
Discount, interest, and expenses .• .. 1,777,912 91
Re-discounts of the last half-year .. 1,850,877 89
Sundries •• • • • • • • • • 21651)903 14

.. 182,500,000 -
.. 12,980,750 11
.. 9,125,000 --
4,000,000 -

1,354,142,138 89

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Jan. 9.—There has not been very
much business to-day in the yarn market, but prices
have been very firm. Sellers report that there has
not been the slightest giving way. There are plenty
of orders in the market, but merchants are pausing,
in consequence of the slowness of the cotton market
at Liverpool. Stocks are now getting very much
cloths and
w e
have
enaelrsso reduced in all descriptionsFoofr
Yarn
seem very confident that they will yet be able to
obtain much better prices.
had a very quiet market. Almost the only business
reported in the shipping market is in long cloths
for Alexandria, and this meets with some discou-
ragement owing to the high prices required. Manu-
facturers are rather more inclined to make some con-
cession than they were on Tuesday, with a view to
obtain orders, but not to a point which meets the
wishes of shippers. The quietness of the Liverpool
market has rather weakened the hands of sellers
to-day, while it encourages buyers to withhold
orders. For shirtings, suitable to India, there was
a marked absence of business. Manufacturers of
these goods would probably be rather easier to deal
with, but buyers seem resolutely disposed to abstain
from business. In printing cloths, T cloths, and
domestics, but little has been done, but home trade
houses report a steady and slightly improving
vilegond-
se
de-
mand from drapers, and more business
quently expected in the home trade before l
long.
CARDIFF, Bth.—The shipments of coal from this
port for the month of December amounted to 109,793
tons, against 96,015 tons in the corresponding
month of last year. The total exports of iron for
2 amounted to 172,352
the year 188 tons, against
132,493 tone in the year 1861. The iron trade con-
tinues moderately active, and the men employed at
nearly all the works are on full time. Quotations
remain without alteration. The coal trade is mode-
rately brisk as regards
the demand for home and
gas coals, but no
advance has taken place in the
low prices obtained.
There is but an indifferent
inquiry for steam coals.

SHIPBUILDING IN LIVERPOOL.—Owing to the
unprecedented demand for iron ships, and the high repu-
tation Liverpool has attained for building iron sailin
vessels, the yards during the past year have been in
greater activity than was ever known before. This de-
mand is attributable to the fact that iron ships can now be
built at considerably less cost than wooden ones, and are in
point of durability much superior. The formation of an
underwriters' associa ion at Liverpool to class iron vessels
on their merits for periods varying up to 22 years has
hal the effect of causing Lloyds to alter their rules
.
which had hitherto militated against progress iron ship-
building. At a rough estimate the tonnage of iron vessels
built in Liverpool during 1862 may be set down at 20,000
tons, and the tonnage of wooden ones at 6,000 tons. This ,
onhm the fact that these gentlemen haved to the extent of between 18,000
however, is exclusive of the vessels built by Messrs. Laird
at Birkenhead, whose operations have been very extensive,
atas
present
may b e judgedorders
an
from
and 19,000 tons.

REFREsENTATION OF MANCHESTER.--There is a
rumour in circulation that Mr. J. A. Tut ner, one of
the representatives of this city, will retire at the next elec-
tion, and that it is in contemplation to invite Mr. S. Laing,
late Finance Minister to India, to offer himself as a candi-
date. It is also intended to make a similar invitation to Mr.
J.-B. Potter, brother of the late Sir John Potter, M.P., for
the city.