The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-18 00:00:00

• LIABILITIES.

Capital ... ... .. ... ... f. 67,900,000 00
Ditto of the Branch Banks ... ... 23,350,000 00
Reserve fund ... ... ... ... 10,000,000 .00
Ditto of the branch banks ... ... 2,980,750 00
.Reserve-immobiliere ... ... ... 4,000,000 00
Notes to bearer, in circulation ... ... 337,079,000 00
Ditto of the branch banks ... .., 50,257,350 00
Ditto to order (post-bilis) ... ... 939,016 60
Account-current with Treasury creditor 79,314,842 11
Various accounts current ... ... 82,437,597 79
Ditto in branches ... ... ... 28,258,482 00
Bills payable at Eight ... ... ... 9.118,500 00
Ditto at branches ... ... ... 1,698,445 00
Bills of tho branch banks payable by
the Bank ... ... ... ... 7,237,749 94
Ditto of the Bank payable by branches.. 3,876,224 00
Dividends payablo ••• • • ••• 497,720 25
Liquidation of the Algiers Bank ... 161,552 44
Discounts, interest, and expenses ... 1,346,380 14
Ditto branch banks ... ... ... 944,534 00
143.,6.93 49
Be discounts of the last six months ...

Ditto in. branch banks
Miscellaneous ...

321,562 00
744,233 98

f. 732,607,629 74
Certified by the Governor of the Bank of France.
D'ARGOUT

ITALY.

A letter from Turin of the 1I th inst. contradicts a
report that the Ministers had resigned in consequence
of the vote of the Chamber of Deputies disapproving
of the imprisonment of Garibaldi.
A letter from Genoa of the 11th inst. states that
Garibaldi had been placed on board the frigate Saint
Michael, to be conveyed to Nice, his native place.
The Nazionale of Florence of the Bth instant,
publishes the following letter from Rome
"I have politico-theatrical news to give you. The
'singer, Madame Rebussini, had been loudly applauded
for some time by the French who crowd the Argentina
Theatre. The rondeau of Marino Faliero one evening
excited the most enthusiastic applause, in the midst of
which a French captain threw a bouquet on the stage
.from Lis box. The singer did rot pick it up,
but as soon as she had retired behind the scenes
she sent a servant to pick it up; she re-appeared
afterwards, but without the bouquet. The French
officers were offended at this, and resolved upon
revenge for the affront. The next evening the theatre
was nearly full of French; there were only about 100
Romans in the pit, and very few in the boxes, which had
almost all been taken by the French. After the ron-
deau the bouquet as before fell before the feet of the
singer, who made her exit without picking it up. Im-
mediately the French drew whistles from their pockets,
and commenced a most terrific concert, mingled with
,cries of Take the bouquet!' All the Romans who
were in the theatre, on the contrary, applauded and
cried, Bravo! brave! no! no! Show them our sym-
p tthy!' At last the Romans, seeing that the
French officers persisted, left the theatre; the
French desisted, and the act of Coluu,ella began. About
50 Romans then re-entered, when the French recom-
mrnced their clamours; a Roman then exclaimed, Let
all Italians leave the place!' But instructions had been
given to the gendarmes who were at the door, and who
prevented the Romans from leaving. Meanwhile some
'French officers having taken the stage by assault, forced
the singer to appear with the bouquet, the cause of so
much tumult. Madame Rebussini appeared pale and
dishevelled, with tears in her eyes; she held the bouquet
in her left hand. The French then loudly applauded,
in the midst of the whistles of the Romans, and of the
violent apostrophes they had addressed to the singer,
who had been weak enough to give way. This little
history, for the present, has had no further conse-
quences."

• BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE AD.
VANCEMENT OF SCIENCE.
BIRMINGHAM, SATURDAY.—After the dispatch of
,nur parcel last evening, the annual dinner of the
members of the association took place in the Town-
hall, Thera were between four and five hundred
present. The side and great galleries were filled with
ladies. Mr. Simpson presided at the organ, and Mr.
Stevens conducted the choir, which throughout: the
evening delighted the company with a variety of
classical and popular music.
At half-past five o'clock Professor Robinson took
his place at the head of the cross-table. He was sup-
ported on his right and left by the Marquis of
Northampton' Lord Lyttelton, Lord Stafford, Vis-
count Adare, Lord Wrottesley, the Bishop of Wor-
' tester, the Bishop of Oxford, the Bishop of Manches-
. ter, the Dean of Westminster, the Dean of' Ely, the
Prince of Canino, M. Drouyn de l'lluys, the French
Ambassador ; Chevalier Bunsen, rrussian Ambassa-
dor; Sir R. Inglis, Sir Charles Lyell, Sir R. Mur-
chison, C. B. Adderley, Esq., M.P., James hey worth,
Esq., M.P., C. N. Newdegate, Esq., M.l'., R. Ste-
- phenson, Esq., M.P. Professor B. Rogers, Professor
Willis, Professor Phillips, Professor Power, General
• Pasley, Colonel Sabine, Professor Faraday, &c.
SAMUEL THORNTON, Esq., Mayor, officiated as Vice-
Chairman.
After the cloth had been removed, and the Non
Nobis Domini sung—
The CHAIRMAN proposed, in an appropriate address,
the health of the Queen. He alluded in graceful
terms to the late visit of her Majesty to Ireland—a
visit which had revived hope, rekindled the elements
of prosperity, and had given the hope and promise of
returning life to that poor land. He should give,
-with all his heart, the toast " The Queen, may God
bless and preserve her."—(Cheers.)
After the lapse of a short time—
The CHAIRMAN gave, " Prince Albert, Albert,
Prince of Wales, the Queen Dowager, and all the
Royal Family." The toast was received with ap-
plause, and duly honoured.
The CRAIRMAN next proposed " The healths of the
French Ambassador, the Prussian Minister, and the
other distinguished foreigners who had honoured
them with their presence. —(Cheers.) Welcome they
had always been, and welcome they always would be
but far more welcome were they when, as in this in-
stance, they brought with them such intellectual
power, and such rich stores of valuable information.
M. DROUYN DE L'Hurs rose to respond to the
toast, and said if gratitude could express itself by
proxy, he would entrust to his Hon. Colleague the
pleasure and the honour of addressing them. He felt
personally obliged to show his hearty gratitude for the
high honour which they had conferred upon him. If it
had been his fortune as a Frenchman to visit the great
town of Birmingham 40 years ago, he would have
fout.d it teeming with instruments of warfare, all busily
and eagerly employed in preparing the weapons ofdeadly
combat against a neighbouring nation. Now,happily, the
scene was changed. As a private individual he was
conscious of his inability and unworthiness to speak
before the illustrious representatives of the different
branches of learning in the world ; but in his public
character he personified a nation that had always
been, and was now, a worshipper of science He
was, as it were, the living proof of the recognition of
France in England—of the g
engaged inreattruth that having
been long, too long, the struggles of
battle, they now agreei on the ad vantages of the
peaceful intercourse of trade and science. In con-
clusion he begged leave to propose, "The *promotionof friendly relations between France and En la d." THE SWORD CONQUERED BY SLEEP.—On Friday
night a person named Hunter, residing in Castle Gate,
Chevalier BUNSEN rose to address the Zmpnan 7.derit to bed, having seen all the doors secured. By the
well expressed all lutehlsf
and was well received. He said his worthy colleague,
this bed he kept a sword, and under his illow he
the Ambassador of France, had so
him but to cFontaininrocruGsters,Oin the pocket of which wars hs purse,
be could say that nothing remained for
into his trousers lying oanwatheint inefthheismornir2g, he found
concur in all that he had said. He could enter
and all the doors of thephouse opsewnn.rd
11,
e hish amove
heard
11.
during the night.—Nottingham Journal.
the hope that the emblem of science. of which that so- gone,
CAUTION.—We learn that several notes, of a long
ciety as the representative, might also be the elm4o-
- bank—thetpwu t
into Falkirk U
circulation io ni Bank—are
Aberdeen
abned-
blem of universal peace. It was now about
n
gi
log attempted defunct
years since one of the greatest men, Leibnitz, the
by on neighbourhood.unsespeetie
Ig
pnaertieos.c"Oesn'
e 5/. notes have been passed
of thet titterers, who im-
contemporary of the illustrious Newton, conceived
been de-
the idea of forwarding the interests of science
posed upon a merchant in Broad-street,
at zyoopdaqies
association. Amidst the light that was shin-
-dsaresettbthitast
thirty
yassedy off
Be-
ing around them there was that of Berlin, tected, and senttttiongjaailnfeotrhtehr
which the illustrious Sayan he (the Chevalier) succeeded in getting
( and no trace of them has been found. o side,
had named, had himself founded. He hailed

RAISING OF THE BRITANNIA
TUBES.
TO THE EDITOI? OF THE SUN.

have perused, with no little interest, the
several communications made by your correspondents
relative to the operations at the Menai Straits. for the
purpose of raising the monster tube, and much regret
the position of affairs there at the present moment,
which, however, I beg to remark, would have as-
sumed a very different aspect had the eminent
engineers employed by Mr. Stephenson to raise these
monsters condescended to consult those parties, whose
every-day experience in the working of hydraulic
presses has taught them the proper use of these ma-
chines, when required to exert such an enormous
force as 2,000 tons. Had they done this, I do not
hesitate to say, the difficulties encountered in raising
the tubes, both at Conway and the Menai Straits
would be trifling as compared with what they have
already been, and yet will be ; and, further, that the
cost would bear a somewhat similar proportion. The
mistake that engineers in general commit in reference
to the hydraulic press is this, that they trust too
much to theory and calculation, and too little to
practical experience—hence the reason of so many
breakages and vexatious disappointments in the use
of them. It has been found in practice that parti-
cular attention to the formation and construction of
the different parts of the press is not only desirable,
but actually necessary, when it is required to exert
an excessive power; and I have no hesitation in con-
demning the presses in use for raising the tubes as
being badly contrived, ill proportioned, and egre-
giously
misapplied ; and have little doubt, before the
four tubes at the Menai reach their permanent resting-
place, I shall be fully borne out in what I have said.
In conclusion, allow me to subscribe myself
A PRACTICAL MECHANIC,
and One who has worked at a Press exerting
a power of 2,000 tons and upwards.
Sept. 14, 1849.