The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-22 00:00:00

11,266,000 - 13,684,300 -
9,506,800 - 8,494,700 -

bullion
1)o. branch banks
Do. on French Public
Securities
Do. by branch banks
Do. ou railway shares
and debentures
1). branch banks
Do. on Credit Foncier
Bonds
Do. branches
Do. to the State (Con-
vention, June 10,
1857) 60,000,000
Government Stock re-

13,259,300 -

13,143,400 -
7,505,300 -

7;289;000 -

30,276,900 -
19,886,580 -

30,002,200
10,526,780

653,200 -
450,450 -

. 621,500 -
439,050 -

60,000,000

serve
Do. disposable
Rentes Immobalisdes

12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14
36,449,737 91 36,449,737 91

(Law, June 9, 1857) 100,000,000
Hotel and furniture of
the Bank and landed
property branches ...
Expenses of manage-

100,000,000 -

8,361,267 -

8,371,389 -

nient
Sundries

2,759,650 78 2,410,262 86
9,869,578 - 11,601,741 40

Total 1,397,388,796 17 1;410,426,870 80
Certified by the Senator-Governor of the Bank of France.
(Signed) ROULAND.

Metropolitan Railway Extension

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Within four hundred yards of the Bank of Eng-
and a new railway station is on the point of open-

ing which will accommodate the daily locomotive
requirements of thousands of Londoners, and ulti-
mately bring within a narrow circle a ready access
to the whole railway system of the country. Thus,
deferring for a time the important consideration of

ends which the Metropolitan Railway Company
have in view, a reasonable mind might be contented
to dwell on the immediate advantage of an addition,

merely, of three quarters of a mile to the conve-
vient length of underground rail which has hitherto
worked so satisfactorily between Paddington and
Clerkenwell. But we may, nevertheless, glance at

the entire scheme which is in progress, and which
has for its object the intercepting of railway traffic
at different points round London. The line, then,
which i 3 complete from the Great Western terminus
at Paddington to Finsbury Pavement, is a section
of a circle, the remainder of which will enclose
nearly the whole of the metropolis on this side of

the river. Having got to Little Moorfields, the
iron ring will continue east to Alclgate, then south-
west to Blackfriars, then west to Brompton, and then
by a north and north-easterly sweep to Paddington,

where the circle will be completed. On that portion
of the line which has yet to be made the stations
will be neither few nor far between. On the con-

trary, indeed, they may be as inany and as close toge•
ther as the exigencies of a crowded city demand.
Their number will not be fewer than eighteen, which

added to the nine on that part of the line already
open, will give a total of twenty-seven stations on
the entire circle. The projected stations, after
Finsbury, will be Liverpool-street, Aldgate, Fen-
church-street, Mark-lane, King William-street,
Blackfriars—where a point of communication with
the London, Chatham, and Dover will be estab-
lished—Norfolk-street, Charing Cross, the Houses
of Parliament—a private entrance being made here
—Victoria Station, Sloane-square, Brompton Mu-
seum, Gloucester-road, Kensington, Notting-hill,
Bayswater, and Paddington, where a second sta-
tion is to be built opposite the hotel. The posi-
tion of the Notting-hill one will be near the old
toll-gate; and that at the Bayswater will
be situated at the Queen's Road. It is unne-
cessary to demonstrate how the enterprise, which
we have thus briefly sketched in outline, must re-
lieve the pressure on our crowded thoroughfares.
A partial railway service in and under London only
yields advantage to certain districts, while it may
even in some degree tend to increase the traffic at
points in its own vicinity. But so soon as the
benefit becomes general, so soon as it is evenly
spread over the whole circuit of the overgrown
town, there can be no other result than a consi-
derable abatement of the difficulty one has now
to encounter in traversing the heart of the City at
busy hours of the day. It should be mentioned
that the circular railway will consist far more of
cuttings than of tunnels, and that the eighteen
stations yet unbuilt are designed to be all in the
open, instead of being covered in, as at Gower-
street and Portland-road.

The survey and trial, on Wednesday, of the new
length of rails, between Farringdon-street and
Finsbury, by Capt. Tyler, the Government In-
spector, and by a company of gentlemen practically
concerned in the construction and working of the
line, resulted in the highly satisfactory announce-
ment that all is ready for the public opening, which
is accordingly fixed for to-morrow. The official
inspection began at about eleven o'clock, there
being present Mr. J. Fowler, the engineer by
whom these bold and complex works have been
so far planned and carried out; Mr. T. Marr
Johnson, the resident engineer, who will be as-
sociated with Mr. Fowler in the completion of
the scheme ; Mr. J. Kelk, M.P., the contractor
for the new piece just finished ; Mr. Myles Fen-
ton, the general manager of the Metropolitan Rail-
way Company ; Mr. Burnett, the locomotive su-
perintendent ; Mr. Armstrong, manager for Mr.
lielk ; Mr. Spagnaletti, and other gentlemen. This
little band accompanied Captain Tyler on foot,
backwards and forwards between Finsbury and
Farringdon-street, examining the rails, testing the
efficiency of Saxby's locking signals and points, and
putting also to repeated trials the ingenious tele-
graphy of Mr. Spagnaletti. The new Aldersgate-
street station, an intermediate work of some note,
half-way on the recently-finished length of rail, like-
wise received a full share of close and minute atten-
tion. It is a fine structure, nearly 300 feet long,
and opposing a lofty elevation to the main thorough-
Ifare from which it is named. More important by
many degrees, however, is the second and permanent
station at Farringdon-street, which is close to
the temporary one that has heretofore been
the terminus of the line, and faces with it the
cross-way known as Charles-street. Here it is
that auxiliary lines are in progress of formation, to
communicate by a plan of mixed gauges with the
Great Westeiin, the Great Northern, the Midland,
and the London, Chatham, and Dover Railways.

PUBLIC FLOGGING.—On the morning of the 26th
of October the Caffres sentenced at the Combined Court
received their respective castigations in the Market-square
of Durban. A large number of persons were present, in-
cluding many natives. The number of lashes apportioned
to each of the three culprits was 25, but it was remarked
by all present that the punishment was a mere mockery,
and was evidently regarded with utter indifference by the
recipients. If we are to have corporal punishment inflicted
on the native at all, let it be worth the name, and, if publi-
city is to be given to these degrading exhibitions, let the
flagellation be exemplary. In this case the floggees seemed
rather to enjoy their titillation as a good joke, while on the
Caffres around the spectacle produced the effect of a bur-
lesque—a parody of justice.—Natal Mercury.