The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-12 00:00:00

LIABILITIES.

Capital
91,250,000
Reserve fund
Rdserve immobiliere 4,000,000
Notes to bearer, in circulation
Do. of branch banks 161,014,575
. Do. to order (Post bills)
12,317,214 --
33111 a paya at siht
Account-cble ent of Treasury Creditor ll6, 695,162 38
Various accounts-current 109,809,404 9
1)o branch banks 28,194,290
D' • -

-lvidends to be paid
Discount, interest, and expenses
Re-discounts of the last half-year
Sum received over and above the
value of the protested bills
Sundries

844,269 25
1,740,524 2
723,623 2
251,866 37
2,017,232 95

1,057,338,783 57
It appears from these returns that the metallic
eserve has fallen off 4 millions in Paris, and
increased nearly 1 million in the branch banks.
The discount accommodation has fallen off 4k
11111-lions in Paris, and 5 millions in the provinces.
Advances on French rente have declined 211
Millions in Paris, and 1 millions in the branch
banks. Advances on railway securities have fallen
Off 3 millions in Paris, and increased somewhat
more than 1 million in the departments. On the
side of the liabilities, the notes in circulation have
declined 11 millions in Paris, and 4i millions in
the branch banks. The account-current of the
treasury has fallen 22 millions. Those of private
Individuals have also declined6millions in Paris,
but increased about of a million in the depart-
ments. Th 3 whole amount of tie metallic reserve
is at present 4781 millions to 6701 millions of notes
in circulation.
The contemplated railroad between Paris and
Cherbourg is to be commenced immediately. The
purchases of land are proceeding, and the tele-
graphic line is rapidly approaching completion.
The wires are already laid between Crieux and
Bonnieres.

The village of Gruissans (Carcassone) has been
completely inundated by the sea, which has swept
away the road through the lake, and has thrown
the whole locality into a state of the most afflicting
desolation.

The Presse states that M. de Chantelauze, at
whose residence the police paid a visit to examine
his papers, as already stated, is not the son but the
nephew of M. de Chantelauze, who was one of the
Ministers of Charles X. The Gazette de France
Dorms us that on, Sunday last the police visited
the residence of the Baron do Planhol, ore of the
contributors to that journal, and examined his
Papers, but finding nothing objectionable,
i the dis-
cretionary warrant of arrest was not put n force.
Some of the persons connected with literary cor-
respondence, who were arrested on Monday, were
to-day interrogated by the Judge d'lnstruction.
The principal charges were that they had propa-
gated false news. They will all be tried by the
Police Correctionnelle.
We read in the Union :—" Alarming rumours
have, been of late in circulation respecting the
health of the Countess de Chambord. We have
not been able to discover the source of these
amours, but we are happy to be able to contra-
ct them completely. Letters from Venice of the
just., which arrived yesterday in Paris, speak of
'lie` Perfect health of the august Princess, as well
a'S that of the Count de Chambord."
A telegraphic dispatch from Marseilles an-
Llounces the arrival in that port yesterday of the
tgYptus from Alexandria. Two vessels, one from
Bombay, and the other from Calcutta. arrived at
Suez on the 30th ult. The English packet was
behind her time.
There is not much variety in the leading columns
of the Paris journals of yesterday, but there is one
article which will be read with interest. It is in
1416 Constitutionnel on the pamphlet entitled
.L.“ Lettres Franques," which this journal attributes
„‘e the Legitimist party. It is an excitement to
i;a.i.r , and an appeal to the passions of the people of
shows
against England. The Constitutionnel
athe inconsistency of this declamation against
11g1"--..nd on the subject of the treaties of 1815 by
Party which owed to them its restoration to
the Wer, and which had recognised and acknowledged
andand oceeds to assign a motive for the
rtiPt to rouser the national feeling in France,
tt bring about war in Europe. Whilst some of
.. th© foreign journals impute to the French Govern-
,4Lent -warlike intentions ,one of the organs of that
,3r0e....__
its .iiment declares that' the war cry is the cry of
th,.. enemies, and that an attempt is made to excite
treaties ple of France aeuinst the authors of the
Iv.ll. of 1815 in the ape of bringing on a war
of leb they imagine would give them a chance
fel. ,destroying the Empire. In some of the
re,,eign journals the Emperor of the French is
heed'ion as desirous of war for the consolida-
%hell of per in France, but the Constitutionnel
anaws that his policy is to consolidate it by peace,
tie,
take from his adversaries the only chance
tie, they have of undermining it. The Constitu-
Ivijite6 says :—,, A publication has just appeared
eiajea has Produced a sort of emotion in the finan-
a pawrld. It is called Lettres Franques, and is
teiPhlet without style and without ideas ; writ-
kabll.nd conceived like a big melodrama of the
link lgu or the Gaite, and signed with a name so
ai, aelvn that it may be considered as published
ii(.l., ...., ly.
-any,- °us
People are astonished, almost ter-
°r God forgive us !—at the publication of this
wit, IR which they think they see, we know not
tee" a distant presage of war. It is really doing
easecitleh honour to this lucubration of a °
dis-
tance 'lnagination to ascribe to it so much import-
elle • What 1 because a crack-brained man
P sto accumulate against England, in some
iiik
all he
-coloured paper stained with printer's
xeo4,. "II the insults and declamations which the
dis- .4 savage hatred can inspire, people are to be
G,-11111eted, and are to o so far as to render the
1.,1.0, vernment respeTsitblegas to make it ran om-
tCoeec, of this ins ace
language ! As wellf might
eizira'veagveanrnmeesenvrt behierheenthdeeretde relonsifbltei for all the
Lunatic
4taw jtialin at Charenton may choosenans outter.le
The
to
_ties elr then goes on to observe, that the trea-
bons el 1815 and the restoration of the B9ur-
are two sm.
kore se ultaneous facts, which can be no
eau b parated one from the other than the effect
then does
searated from the cause. By what right
11 the author of the Lettres franques laterepu-
,in the name of the Legitimist art the re_
onsibil't
watt, 1Y of those treaties ? What I theyy were
al °us, iniquitous, spoliat' .g
and Louis XVIII.
iPled them t "What ! ti
g'
are documents of
ofrated and the chief of thehouse of Bourbon con-
e_e. ated them;
tell the Lettres ralnf he judged them as the author
ques does,
theme ainS of exile why did he not prefer
to the dishonour of acceptingdoes
? The author''' of the Lettres Franques
11°t the
which lib understand that all the epithets with
indu brand,
calllnduce the the treaties of 1815, in order t
ett
to . mperor to destroy the by violence,
uls XVIII., who signed ta treaties, and
. eharl
'With h• es X. who did not cut them to pieces
her la sword, even when France had
a strength
4" fecund Dace prosperity in the leisure recoveredof_along
(sn years • what I the Restoration had fif-
,,,u4
yet . - ,testroy them in, but did not do so ;
that th it is •
in the na
to • e Present ,-. me of the Lecritimist party
uovernment is told that its duty is
vtolate thein
)at the • k
ns of 1
Pinnging Europe into

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fire and blood. Does the author of the Lettres
Franques believe that he can efface facts with
words ? Does he believe that in now declaiming
against the treaties of 1815, he can cause the peo-
ple and France to forget, by his tardly indignation,
that the march of the Bourbons on Paris was con-
ducted by the Cossacks ? Does he believe that in
reading his cold-blooded imprecations against Eng-
land, which he devotes to the infernal gods, it will
not be remembered that Louis XVIII. was thepro-
tege of the Duke of Wellington, and that even
amidst the sorrow of the country, stained by an in-
vasion, all the partisans of the Restoration feted the
foreigners, whom they treated as allies, not as ene-
mies? Does he believe in short that by his excitations
to war, he will succeed in wiping out the misfor-
tune which Louis XVIII. had of only seeing France
again under the protection of the armies of the coa-
lition ; which, after having conquered, despoiled
and dismembered her ? Is it not a strange and cha-
racteristic thing at this moment that all these exci-
tations came from the camp of those who blessed
Waterloo, and the invasion as a deliverance ? How
is it that it is the Legitimists who now vociferate
against the same England in which they saw in 1815
a liberatrix ? How is it that it is in that party
that the most extraordinary violences of language,
the expressions of the most extravagant hatred are
heard ? and how is it that in its name the author of
the Lettres Franques makes it a crime in the Em-
peror not to disturb the peace of Europe by effecting
a descent on the coasts of Great Britain ? What
does he mean, then, ;with the crusade of extermi-
nation which he preaches against the English, by
employing the, language of the hero of a melodrama
who declaims against the traitor of the piece ? The
secret object of all these excitations is not difficult
to penetrate. All the false ardour, all the affected
passion which are vented in bitter words against
the treaties of 1815, are only the mask of a narrow
and odious party calculation. The party has seen
all the chances of a revolution die away in the in-
terior ; all the hopes of a coalition fade away
abroad ; it has in vain counted on the demagogues
at home, on the foreigners abroad ; and in despair
it takes up the idea of a European war, as the last
branch to cling to. It remembers 1815—it flatters
itself that the same conflicts would be crowned
with the same results ; and it now excites to war
as two years ago it excited to anarchy, in the hope
of picking up a crown in the shame of an invasion,
as it no longer counts on getting it in the blood of
a revolution. These tactics are perhaps as able as
they are perfidious ; but it will at all events be
admitted that they are neither loyal nor patriotic.
Assuredly it is not worth while to declaim against
the treaties of 1815, and against the treasons of
England, when the declaimers traitorously excite
their country.to throw itself into the hazards and
adventures of a war without a cause and without
an object, but with the hope of exciting a third in-
vasion, which, it is expected, would lead to a third
restoration. _ _ _

The Moniteur announces that M. de Royer is
appointed Procureur-General of the Court of Cas-
eation of Paris, in place of M. Troplona, appointed
First President ; and that M. Roulaudis appointed
Procureur-General of the Imperial Court, in place
of M. de Royer.
It appears that the Marquis de la Rochejacqu-
lein has commenced legal proceedings against the
Nation, a Republican paper puplished. at Brussels,
for libel. The damages are laid at 50,000 f., and
the Marquis, moreover, requires that the sentence,
should the verdict be for the plaintiff, shall be in-
serted in 10 Paris papers, and in three of Brussels,
to be selected by him.
The Emancipation Beige states that of 700
French refugees in Belgium, only 10 are amongst
the amnestied.

The improvement in the price of public securities
remarked at the Bourse on Thursday, made further
progress yesterday. The rise may be attributed,
in great measure, to the favourable report of Count
d'Argout, the Governor of the Bank of France,
published yesterday. The Three per Cents. opened
at 79f. 40c., and closed at 79f. 70c. for the end of
the month. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents.
closed at 105 f. 45c. ; Orleans Railway shares 995 f. ;
Rouen, 950 f. ; Havre, 465 f. ; Great Northern,
840 f. ; Bale, 342 f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg,
760 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 860 f. ; Lyons to the
Mediterranean, 720 f. ; Western of France, 685 f. ;
Bordeaux and Cette, 555 f. ; Caen to Cherbourg,
595 f. ; Dijon to Besancon, 512 f. 50c. Shares of
the Bank of Mobilier, 715 f.

SPAIN.
The Madrid journals of the 6th give the final
result of the elections for Madrid. All the Minis-
terial candidates were returned by large majorities.
In the provinces also, the Ministerial candidates,
at the date of the latest accounts, were in most
places much higher on the poll than those of the
Opposition. It was supposed in Madrid that the
Ministry will have a majority of at least two-thirds
in the new Chamber. The Nacion and the Diario
Espanol were seized again on the sth.