The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-01 00:00:00

BANK OF FRANCE.

PARTS, Nov. 30.

The following is the return of the Bank of France
for the week ending to-day, together with the cor-
responding figures of the previous account :

DEBTOR.
Nov. 30. Nov. 23.
fr. c. fr. c.
182,500,000 182,500,000

Capital of the Bank._
Profits in addition to
capital (Art. 8, Law,
June 9, 1857)
Reserve of the Bank
and its branches
Reserve in landed pro-
perty 4,000,000 4,000,000
Notes in circulation ... 907,616,775 875,607,325
Banknotes to order and
receipts payable at
sight 3 6,900,
Treasury account cur-
rent creditor
Current accounts, Paris 146 123,628
Do. branch banks
Dividends payable B, 952
Discounts and sundry
interests
Rediscounted the last
six months
Surplus of receipts not

7,044,776 02 7,044,776 02

22,105,750 14 22,105,750 14

7,350,523 63 6,900,683 85

1,261,237 29 110,202,809 66
3,973,004 24 123,628,214 70
7,929,Z06 - 23,917,472 -
888,530 75 952,166 75

1,427,623 17

1,427,623 17

distributed
Sundries

752,993 36 752,993 36
11,947,169 48 12,803,486 33

Total

through the President of the Court, and was per-
mitted to enter into a lengthy defence. The trial
lasted till past candle light, when the court was
ordered to be cleared. The Court sat in delibera-
tion for nearly half an hour, during which time
there was a profound silence, and eachonedrew in
his in fearful suspense in anticipation of the
future. At the order, " Open the court," given to
the Provost-Marshal, every eye was bent forward ;
every one eagerly listening, and could almost fancy
that the beating of every heart was heard in the
room. But this fearful suspense was heightened still
more by the voice of the President of the Court pro-
nouncing the words, " This Court is dissolved."
The prisoner was then taken charge of by the Pro-
vost-Marshal, and led back separate from the other
rebels under the Provost-Marshal's charge at the
station. I have full notes taken of the trial, but I
am not permitted to forward them for publication
until leave is given me to do so by the Brigadier-
General. The charges against George William
Gordon were :-Ist, high treason and sedition
against her Majesty the Queen ; 2d, inciting to
murder and rebellion.

After sentence had been passed on him, Gordon
wrote the following letter :

"My beloved •Wife,--General Nelson has just
been kind enough to inform me that the court-mar-
tial on Saturday last has ordered me to be hung, and
that the sentence is to be executed in an hour hence ;
so that I shall be gone from this world of sin and
sorrow. I regret that my worldly affairs are so de-
ranged ; but now it cannot be helped. Ido not de-
serve this sentence; for I never advised or took part
in any insurrection. All I ever did was to recom-
mend the people who complained to seek redress, in
a legitimate way ; and if in this I erred or have been
misrepresented I do not think I deserve the extreme
sentence. It is, however, the will of my Heavenly
Father that I should thus suffer in obeying His com-
mand, to relieve the poor and needy, and to protect,
as far as I was able, the oppressed. And glory be
to His name ; and I thank Him that I suffer in such
a cause. Glory be to God, the Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ; and I can say it is a great honour thus
to suffer, for the servant cannot be greater than his
Lord. I can now say with Paul, the aged, The
hour of my departure is at hand, and I am ready to
be offered up. I have fought a good fight, I have
kept the faith, and henceforth there is laid up for
me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the
righteous Judge, shall give me.' Say to all friends
an affectionate farewell, and that they must not
grieve for me, for I die innocently. Assure Mr.
Airy and all others of the truth of this. Comfort
your heart. I certainly little expected this. You
must do the best you can, and the Lord will help
you, and do not be ashamed of the death your poor
husband will have suffered. The judges seemed
against me ; and from the rigid manner of the court,
I could not get in all the explanation I intended.
The man Anderson made an unfounded statement,
and so did Gordon ; but his testimony was different
from the deposition. The judges took the former
andsrased the latter. It seemed that I was to be
sacrificed. I know nothing of the man Bogle. I
never advised him to the -act or acts which have
brought me to this end. Please write to Mr.
Chamerovzow, Lord Brougham, and Messrs.
Hencknell and Du Buisson. I do not expect
that, not being a rebel, I should have been tried and
disposed of in this way. I thought his Excellency
the Governor would have allowed me a fair trial, if
any charge of sedition or inflammatory language
were partly [? fairly] attributable tome ; butl have
no power of control : may the Lord be merciful to
him. General Nelson, who has just come for me,
has faithfully promised to let you have this. May
the Lord bless him, and all the soldiers and sailors,
and all men. Say farewell to Mr. Phillipps, also Mr.
Licard, Mr. Bell, Mr. Vinon, and Mr. Henry Dulasse,
and many others whom I do not now remember, but
who have been true and faithful to me. As the
General has come I must close. Remember me to
Aunt Eliza in England, and tell her not to be
ashamed of my death. Now, my dearest one, the
most beloved and faithful, the Lord bless, help, pre-
serve, and keep you. A kiss for dear mamma, who
will be kind to you and Janet. Kiss also Annie and
Jane. Say good bye to dear Mr. Davison, and all
others. I have only been allowed one hour. I wish
more time had been allowed. Farewell also to Mr.
Espent, who sent up my private letter to him. And
now may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with
us all.—Your truly devoted and now nearly dying
husband, " G. W. GORDON.

" I asked leave to see Mr. Panther, but the Gene -
ral said I could not. I wish him farewell in Christ:
Remember me to auntie and father. Mr. Bamsey has
for the last two days been kind to me. I thank him."

Ma. Sims REEVES.—The following communica-
tion has been addressed to the secretary of the Glas-
gow Choral Union, in reference to a concert at which Mr.
Reeves was to have sung yesterday at Glasgow :—" 99,
Inverness-terrace, Kensington-garden. Dear Sir, —I very
much regret to inform you that Mr. Sims Reeves will bo
unable to appear on Wednesday next. He has not been
well, and caught a severe cold travelling from London to
Manchester, to sing in Mr. Costa's oratorio of ' Naaman.'
He was not able to finish the oratorio, and the next day
(Friday) he had to travel to Bradford, but when he
arrived he was so hoarse he could not sing a note, and is
obliged to give up to-day's concert at Newcastle-on-Tyne.
I enclose you copy of medioal certificate. Mr. Sims
Reeves most deeply regrets this misfortune, and only
hopes that he can give you some other date to satisfy
your subscribers. Mr. Reeves has written to Mr. Wilbye
Cooper to hold himself in readiness to supply his place,
which he did on Friday at Bradford, so that, if you tele-
graph to him immediately you receive this, he could leave
London by the twenty minutes past eleven train to-morrow
morning. Mr. Reeves would have written earlier, but
trusted to be sufficiently recovered to appear, but, as you
will perceive by the certificate, 'tis impossible.--I remain,
sir, yours truly, in haste.— (Signed)—EmatA REEVES.—
Nov. 27." The medical certificate is as follows :—" Mr.
Sims Reeves is at present under medical supervision. His
state of health renders comparative rest of the utmost im-
portance to him ; and, unless he relinquish for the present
all professional engagements, I have reason to apprehend
results of a very serious character.—(Signed) W. PRICE,
M.D.—Nov. 24, 1865."
ANIMAL GRAFTS.—We gave some time ago an
account of some exceedingly curious experiments by
means of which Dr. Bert showed that certain portions of a
living body introduced into the same or another wouid be-
come part of the latter, just as is the case
vegetable world. The same author has now addressed a
second paper to the Academy of Sciences, in which ho
examines by what signs it may be ascertained that a piece
transplanted as above has continued to live. The most
manifest proof, he remarks, is undoubtedly that which is
afforded by the growth of the extraneous piece ; but as this
only occurs when the latter is not full-grown, a more fre-
quent proof is that of its undergoing certain pathological
modifications. Thus, for instance, Dr. Bert in one of his ex-
periments separated the tail of a full-grown rat from its
body, introduced it into a glass tube, which he afterwards
corked very carefully, and then kept for 72 hours at a tem-
perature of from 7 to 8 degrees. It was then stripped of its
skin, and four centimetres of its extremity were introduced
into the sub-cutaneous cellular tissue of another full-grown
rat. Three months later Dr. Bert killed the animal and in-
fused a coloured injection into the aorta; the liquid was seen
to penetrate into the marrow of the grafted vertebrae ; this
marrow was quite as adipose as in its normal state, but the
tail was reduced to the length of 31 centimetres,
owing to the absorption of a few of the terminal vertebra),
Here then we have evident proofs of vitality in the graft;
first, the passage of the coloured injection into it ; secondly,
the state of the marrow ; and, thirdly, the absorption of a
part. This experiment Dr. Bert has repeated with certain
variations and always with equal success. In one of them
he left the tails of several rats, 20 days old, to dry under
an air-pump ; one half of them were then exposed to a
heat of 100 deg. centigrade, and afterwards transplanted.
No inflammation ensued in any case, but in all vascular
communication was obtained, as well as a slow process of
reabsorption, as in the first case described,— Galignan

A large number of workmen have been discharged from
Brooklyn navy yard.
Some prominent citizens of New York gave General
Grant a grand reception at the Fifth Avenne Hotel last
evening. Two thousand persons were present, including
the naval and military official notabilities.
The Florida Convention has adjourned, after abolishing
slavery, annulling the secession ordinance, repudiating the
rebel debt, and providing for receiving the testimony of
coloured persons.

The Mississippi Assembly has passed a bill permitting
negro testimony in certain cases.

General Howard reports that the negrocs and loyal
whites throughout the South distrust their ability to main-
tain their rights without the presence of the Federal
troops.

A national republican bill will be presented to Congress,
providing for the organization and government of the re-
bellious States, by appointing Governors, with power to
call conventions to frame oonstitutions which, being ap-
proved by Congress, the reconstructed States will be ad-
mitted by special act.
Mr. Schuyler CoVax, the prominent candidate for the
Speakership of the House of Representatives, made a
speech opposing the immediate admission of the Southern
representatives to Congress.
General Logan has not yet announced the acceptance of
the mission to the Mexican Republic.
Mr. Browning has accepted the Secretaryship of the
L agation.

NEW YORK, Nov. 23 (Evening).

The liberation of the crew of the Shenandoah is stated
to have caused a hostile feeling towards England in Wash-
ington.

All the Federal cavalry regiments except one have been
ordered to San Antonio, Texas.
The New York press assert that the Emperor Maximi-
lian has ordered all troops to concentrate at Vera Cruz, the
city of Mexico, and San Luis Potosi, and await reinforce-
ments.

'he China andiNorth American have arrived out.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Money easy. Gold, 147 Exchange on London, 160 ;:do
on Paris, 3.53/. Stocks advancing. New York Centrals,
97/. Illinois, 134. 5.20 Bonds, 1031. Cotton good in-
quiry. Middling Upland, 33. Flour steady. Wheat dull.
Corn good inquiry. Provisions declinS. Coffee steady.
Sugar quiet. Molasses dull. Petroleum good inquiry—
crude, 41; refined, 65.

Sale of Tom Sayers' Trophies.