The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-04 00:00:00

BANK OF FRANCE.

The Moniteur publishes the following statement of the
situation of the Bank of France up to the evening of
the 30th of March :--

ASSETS.
.„ Cash and ingots ... 55,070,565 24...
Cash at the branch banks :.:
•,„ 46,998,605 00
Bills due this day 12,926 212 71
Bills becoming due in Paris, of which
theßi3ll6s'3inBst,h6o73braarneofhrobmanks.. 51,619,382 36
brat!!!2,693,200 00
banks 245,766,092 60
Advances in coin and ingots
... •••
Advances on public securities of France 12,443,482 90
Due from the branch banks on their
notes in circulation . ... „. 14,699,750 00
Rentes of the reserve fund ••• 10,000,000 00
Rentes of disposable funds :•• ••• 11,660,197 89
Hotel and furniture of the bank.. -• 4,000,000 00
Interest in the branch bank at Algiers 1,000,000 00
Interest in the National Discount Bank 200,200 00
Bills protested ... ...
... .. 2,963,821 79
Russia yetof administration
ireceived n
.... .. :: :
Bills arising from the sale of Rentes to
Expenses 994,436 04
341,962 21
Sundries ... 26,583 95
••• ••• ••• •••
Advances to the State on Bons du Tresor
of the Republic
..• .•. • 50,000,000 00

526,404,292 69
DEBTS AND OBLIGATIONS.
Capital ... ... 67,900,000 00
... ...
Reserve fund ...
... ... 10,000,000 00
Reserve immobiliire ... .., 4,000,000 00
Notes to bearer, in circulation ::: ... 285,780,100 00
...
Ditto of the branch bank ... ... 14,699,750 00
Ditto to order (post bills) ..„ .., 2,222,515 60
Account current with Treasury ... 58,336,375 64
Various accounts current ... ... 75,791,318 35
Bills payable at sight ~ 1,756,000 00
Re discounts of the last. half-year ... 728,692 37
Dividends unpaid ... ... ... 320,669 25
Discounts, interest, and expenses •••
2,848,442 87
Branch Bank of Algiers, sum not yet
employed in the Treasury bonds ... 1,086,203 62
Branch Bank drafts to be paid . 797,782 15
Sundries ... . . ... ... ... 138,412 27

526,404,292 69

OUTRAGE on a BRITISH SUBJECT

IN TRIPOLI.

A letter from Malta gives the following particulars of
a daring outrage committed by the Bey of Tripoli on a
British subject:—
Mr. Moses Benjamin, a Gibraltar Jew, holding the
office of American Chancellor at Tripoli, has occupied
for many years past a garden in the outskirts of the
town. On the night of the 7th March, the chief
of the Menchiyi p( lice (under pretence that there
were Turkish women concealed in it) broke into
Mr. Benjamin's house, and seized upon the in-
mates and carried them to prison. The prisoners
consisted of Mr. Balensi, a British subject, a native
of Gibraltar, and of two Arabs in the service of
Mr. Benjamin. Next day they were arraigned before the
Pacha in full divan, and were sentenced by him to receive
the bastinado, which they accordingly got in spite of
their protestations that they were under the British flag;
for every appeal made by the prisoners to be delivered
over to their consul they received a double stroke of the
stick.

We are ignorant what steps Mr. Crowe, the British
Consul, has taken in this affair; but one thing is very
certain that:unless the Pacha be severely punished for
his audacity and outrageous conduct, Europeans will not
be able to live any longer in Barbary.
We hear that his Excellency pretends he was not
aware of these people being British subjects at the time
of their receiving the bastinado; a pretty excuse
indeed to make, when the chief of the police, who
seized and conducted the prisoners before him, had long
been personally acquainted with them, and had
often visited at Mr. Benjamin's garden—when, in-
stead of administering summary punishment, as he
usually, does in cases of natives, he brought the
case before the Pacha; evidently proving by so doing
that he himself was not competent to judge the case;
when the Pacha's interpreter, who was the medium of
communication between the prisoners and the Pacha,
knew them to be under foreign protection, and no doubt
informed his Excellency of the fact; when the Pacha
himself, previous to bastinadoing them, had made in-
quiries of the head of the Jews as to the nationality of
Mr. Balensi; and when, not a month ago, an Austrian
subject having been illegally bastinadoed by the cheik
of Imsellata, and the Austrian Consul having demanded
redress for this gross violatio❑ of existing treaties. His
Excellency could not plead ignorance, in the present
instance, of the nature and existence of such treaties;
and knowing them, he ought not to have inflicted pu-
nishment even upon a Turk, without first ascertaining
whether he were really an Ottoman subject or not, much
more so when one of the prisoners (Mr. Balensi) stood
before him dressed in the European costume.
As matters now stand, the Pacha may with impunity
send his emissaries to seize even upon a eonsul; have
him well bastinadoed, then make a thousand apologies,
and swear it was all a mistake.

What makes the foregoing caso still stronger, is, that
no woman whatever was found in Mr. Benjamin's
house, nor have any been punished for having been
there. The case, therefore, appears to be one of spite
against Mr. Crowe, the British Consul, and was no doubt
purposely contrived so as to lower the character of Euro-
peans in the eyes of the natives. The British and Ame-
rican Ambassadors at Constantinople must take speedy
and energetic measures for redeeming the honour of their
flags and the faith of treaties in the Barbary States.

FORGING A CHEQUE.
A painful sensation has been created in this city
during the past week by the discovery of a forgery to a
large amount, committed by a clerk in the employ of
Messrs. A. and S. Henry and Co., the eminent mer-
chants of Tork-street. The circumstances appear to be
these:—

On Wednesday evening, Francis Naughten, the clerk
alluded to, went to the Manchester Branch Bank of
England, and tendered a cheque on that bank for
3,4501. 17s. Mr. Balfour the cashier, knowing
Naugh ten, did not hesitate to cash the cheque, which
was dated the 29th of March, and signed, "A. and
S. Henry and C 0.," and banded him the amount
accordingly. It appears that a very short time
after this, on the same morning, the same indi-
individual wen to Sir Benjamin Heywood and Co.s
bank, and tendering three 500/. notes, wished to have
an order upon a firm in Liverpool for the amount.
E lis was refused.
Naughten, it is stated, then went to
Messrs. Cunliffe and Co.'s bank, and made a similar
request. His youth (Naughten being only twenty
years of age) and
the amount exciting suspicion,
he was asked where he obtained the notes. He
answered coolly that they formed part of a cheque
he bad just got cashed at the Branch Bank of England.
A messenger, however, was sent to the Branch Bank of
England, to whom Mr. Balfour said he had just
cashed the cheque, as stated, and that it was
all right. Suspicion being still entertained, a
message was sent to Messrs. Henry's warehouse, and
the individual wanting the order was told to call again.
He did not return,
and as was surmised, the cheque
being proved to be a forgery, information was sent to
the police-station at the Town-hall. An officer im-
mediately went to the Victoria station, and ascer-
tained that a person answering the description of
Naughten had left Manchester but a short time before by
train for Liverpool, accompanied by two young men
whom he had been in the habit of associating with.
Captain Willis, the chief constable, then dispatched
officers to communicate with Mr. Beswick, chief
superintendent, who was then at Liverpool, attending
the assizes, and a vigorous search was made there by
Mr. Beswick, Inspectors McMullen, Maybury, and
Buckley, and other officers, who succeeded in obtaining
information which, it is confidently expected, will lead
to the apprehension of the guilty parties. One of the
young men has, indeed; been apprehended already on
suspicion or being an accessory after the fact. His
name is John Parnell. He is rather a respectable
young man, and was one of the candidates fur the
office of inspectors of weights and measures, vacated by
been together on
Mr. Fell. It appears that they took a sum of 1,9001. with
yh,aliveaughten,
Liverpool. Wednesday
them in notes, which are known to have been changed in
probably
more so than his two companions, for in the course of the
di-covert' that they had given him
the he made the •
.. .
he knew not %hither.
the slip, and gone Upon this he
returned to Manchester by the last train, and was at once
taken into custody by the detective officers.
The
night,t h ree
drinkingare sa
ifdr freely,
Oa Friday morning, he was brought up at the Bor-
ough Court, before Mr. Jackson and Mr. Watkin, when
Mr. Beswick having briefly stated the Circumstances of
the case, called Mr. Balfour, who proved the payment of
the cheque. .
Mr. WM. Robinson Johnson, one of the partners in
the firm of Messrs. Henry and Co., stated that his firm
kept an account at the Branch Bank of England, and
that he himself wrote many of the cheques out; that the
writing in the cheque in question was very like his, but
that it was forged; and that the cheque had never been
paid from their house.
Mr. Beswicle said he had further
evidence against the
prisoner, but at present he did not think •
it prudent to go
further into the case; he therefore applied for a remand
till Monday, when be expected to have the other parties
also in custody.
The prisoner was accordingly remanded till Monday.
—Manchester Examiner.

I
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.—C IkTU AM,APRIL 3.
On Saturday, the Ist instant, the depot of the 21st
Royal North British Fusiliers was detached from the
'Wales; the strength of
provisional battalion. It was then formed into a four-
company depot, it having been attached to the battalion
for fifteen years; the regiment having left this garrison
it Ili thee
d e) yearot
consistslB3
sioned officers. Yesterday their arms and accoutrements
were served out to them, and this morning their route
3 for
ofN 347 Southne
unexpectedly came for their immediate march to Canter-
bury, and they left in two divisions, under command of
11lajor the Hon. C. It. Saville West, with Captain F. G.
Ainslie, Captain Alfred Andrews, Captain Duncan
n;
n ,
including non-commis-
.
Fraser, Lieutenant F. Rine., Second Lieutenant Thomas
F. Hobbs, for Olt city. The two following officers are
on lc eve:--Lieutenant A. G. Shaw and Lieutenant Wil-
liam Savage. The regiment is expected, in May next,
from India.'