The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-11 00:00:00

BANK OF FRANCE.

The following is the account for month ending
Thursday, Oct. 9 :

Cash and ingots ..
Cask at the branch-bar:lra
Bills due to be paid to,-day.. .
Bills becoming due in Paris, of which
72,712,748 f. 650. are from the branch-
banks
Bills in. the branch-banks
Advances on coin and ingots
Do. in the branch. banks
Do on French securities
Do in the branch-banks
• •
Do on railway shares and bonds
Do in the branch-banks
Do on Credit Foncier B.

ASSETS.

F. C.
.. 86,821,767 62
• . 255,047,549 -
812,965 85

.. 285,439,346 5
.. 240,590,750 -
•. 9,351,774 27
• . 2,464,000
84,286,600
• 14,509,200
• 54,675,300 -
.. 31,993,450 -

. . 478,400
D nu Do in the branch-banks
416,000
•• • •
Do to State by treaty, 1848
.. .. 60,000,000
Rentes of the reserve-fund 12 980 750 14
Routes, disposable funds .. .. .. 29,571,39 26
Rentes immobilised (law of June, 1857) 100,000,0000 Hotel and furniture of the Bank .. .. 4,000,000
Real property of branch-banks ..
.. 5,818,725
Expenses of administration .. .. 1,434,786 76
Sundries .. .. .. .. .. 16,301,102 84

Is ..

1,298,898,857 79

LIABILITIES.

Capital ..
Reserve-fund
New Reserve
• Reserve-immobihere•
Profits to be added to Capital (Art. 8 of
law June 9 1857) .• •• ••
Notes to bearer in circulation in Paris and
the branch-banks • .
• •
Do. to order (Post-bills)
Bills payable at sight . • ..
Acc. cur, of Treasury Creditor ..
Various accounts current ..
Do. branch-banks
•• • •
Dividends to be paid
Arrears of values deposited ..
Discount, interest, and expenses ..
Re-discounts of the last half-year
Sundries .. - -

.. 182,500,000 -
.. 12,980,750 14
9,125,000 -
4,000,000 -

2,316,503 57

.. 792,221,775 -
.. 5,671,729 82
.. 6,485,172 -
.. 86,959,201 97
.. 142,840,357 53
• • 32,927,103 -
.. 1,444,895 75
.. 4,279,184 86
.. 7,487,667 48
.. 1,405,519
.. 4,248,997 14

1,296,893,857 79

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Oct. 10.—We have again to report a
very quiet market for yarns, but spinners and speculators
(who are the principal holders) continue very firm and con-
fident of a favourable reaction. In some quarters there are
reports of prices being weaker, but a yarn house, that pro-
bably holds more stock for speculators than all the others
put together, state that they find no giving way whatever.
But there is no business. Buyers for all markets hold aloof
from business. Some of the largest houses in the trade
report that the day has passed over without a single offer.
In cloth, as in yarn, there is no business. The market is
very depressed, and a good deal of that depression is attri-
buted to the tone of Mr. Gladstone's speech at Newcastle.
The absence of demand has told rather more upon the cloth
market than for same time past, and where sellers are press-
ing they have to take lower prices, The general opinion
from the tenor of the American news, including the adhe-
sion of the 16 Governors of State to the policy of the Pre-
sident, is that the war is likely to be a prolonged one, and
this has a depressing effect on the market.
CARDIFF, 10th.—A decided improvement has taken
place in both the coal and iron trades during the past month.
The coal and iron exported amounted to 136,260 tone of the
former, and 17,099 tons of the latter, being a large increase
on the corresponding month of last year. For the nine
months of this year the shipments, foreign, were 1,007,793
tons of coal, and 146,187 tons of iron, against 830,905 tons
of coal and 108,686 tons of iron in the corresponding period
of last year. The works of the district are fairly employed,
and the advance in iron has had the effect of infusing new
spirit into that long depressed trade. There is a good de-
mand for house and steam coal, and more especially for the
former. The Ely Merthyr Colliery Company have com-
menced operations at Liantrissant, and several others are
exploring in the Ely valley.

THE STRAND MUSIC HALL.--An application
yesterday to the Middlesex Magistrates for the Strand Music
Hall Company (Limited), Nos. 345 and 345 A, and Nos. 4
5, and 6, Catherine-street, and also the Exeter-Change
Arcade in the rear of the before-mentioned premises, or
within a building to be erected on the site thereof, was re-
fused after some discussion, on the ground that the preject
and premises were not in a sufficiently advanced stage to
warrant the bench in acceding to the application. The
Chairman intimated that any future application would be
considered favourably.
CONFEDERATE TAXES.—The first and most im-
portant section of the new tax bill before the Confederate
Congress is as follows :—" That on the first day of January,
1863 there t hall be levied and assessed on each pet son re-
sident in the Confederate States, for the support of the
Government and the defence of the country the following
li
tax, to wit : One-fifth the value of all the wheat, corn,
rice, rye, oats, potatoes, hemp, flax, peas, beans, barley, hay!
wool, resin, tar, pitch, turpentine, cotton, sugar, molasses
.
and tobacco produced by him in those States during the
previous calendar year ; also one-fifth of the value of the
increase for the preceding calendar year of the horses, asses,
cattle, sheep and swine ; and, also, one-fifth of the profits
made in the preceding calendar year by the feeding o
swine, sheep, cattle, or males ; also one-fifth of each n'sper-
yearly income for the preceding calendar year, from
all sources whatsoever, except from the sources herein
before described, and except from the interest on Confed-
erate bonds, cer tificates,l or treasury
notes ; provided that
said tax so levied and assessed shall be due and payable on
the Ist day of April, 1863; provided, farther, the foreigners
resident within the Confederate states shall not be repaired
for them, or from incomes or profits derived from business
to pay, except from the aforesaid articles produced b?, or
conducted by them within those States; nor shall any tax
be levied upon the products of residents where the total
value of such products, during the said year, is less than
500 dols.; nor shall any tax be levied upon
income
the in-
come of residents where the total value of such is
loss than 600 dols."

FORGERIES ON TIIE RUSSIAN BANK OF POLAND
—Yesterday morning a Government messenger, accompa-
nied by an agent of police, arrived in London from St.
Petersburg, in pursuit of two persons of the Hebrew per-
suasion, named Marcus and Hyams, charged with exten-
sive forgeries en the Russian Bank of Poland at Warsaw.
The fugitives are supposed to have in their possession a
large quantity of the simulated notes, doubtless with the
view of disposing of them to the money changers of 14°
don, Liverpool, &c.
ogEt3o-'"W°
THE CONFEDERATES AT 11113 AZour,d by Air.
kindly far
ligence,
(Manchester Examiner) have been just
received by him from the Azere
..utnclifis about the middle of Sep.
Azulay, of this city, with the follanlowinds
steamer oame to the ~tore it.AConfederat
and burnt 14 Federal
tember, and at Flores eaP _ .
schooners, brigs, sn-
wimp, and put on shore it Flores
about 200 of their cr.'''.