The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-19 00:00:00

DEBTOR.

Jan. 13.

Jan. 6.

fr. c. fr. c.
Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 182,500,000
Profits in addition to
Capital (Art. 8, Law, . .
June 9, 1857) 7,0.14,776 02 7,044,776 02
Reserve of the Bank

and its branches 22,105,750 22,105,750 14
Reserve of landed pro-
perty 4,000,000 4,000,000
Notes in circulation
Banknotes to order and ' '
receipts payable at
sight 43 816 569 43 44,121,933 21
Treasury account cur- ' '
rent creditor 171,66b,586 96 179 205,673 66
Current accounts, Paris 300,8.)3200 11 315,435,569 43
Do. branch banks 40416,966 51,740,912
Dividends payable 5,388,796
._ 8,736,807
Discounts and sundry
interests
1,301,838 73 1,024,936 57
Rediscounted the last
'
six months 1 305,522 15 1,305,522 15
Surplus of receipts not
distributed - -
Sundries

Commercial bills over-
Total
CREDITOR.
Jan. 6. Jan. 13.
Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. C.
Branch banks
due 9 2,097,667 11

342,747 49

Commercial bills dis-
counted, not yet due 335,889,819 03 332,488,029 02
Do. branch banks 339,445,177 ---, 323,415,901
Advances on deposit of
bullion 16,198,700 1h,971,300
Do. branch banks 2,121,600 2,440,200
Do. on French Public
Securities 23,296,400 20,729,200
Do. by branch banks 9,286,750 9,232,050
Do. on railway shares
and debentures - 40,210,40
Do. branch banks - 33,702,800
Do. on Credit Foncier
Bonds - 1,163,500
Do. branches
Do. to the State (Con-
vention, June 10,
000 -- 60,000,000
1857) 60,000,
Government Stock re-
serve 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14
Do. disposable
Rentes Immobalis6es 7
(Law, June 2, 1857) 1C0,000,000 -- 100,000,000
Hotel and furniture of
.
the Bank and landed
property branches
E-- 9,069,184
xpenses of manage-ment 6,294
Sundries 14,373 60
................. 9,118,552 68 5,975,048 32

Total
Certified by the Senator-Governor of the Bank
of FraL ce.
• (Signed) R OULAND.

The BLnlc Returns.

Tho Bankers' Magazine furnishes the returns of the cir
culation of the public and joint-stock banks in England
and Wales for the four weeks ending the 4th of Dec.
These returns, combined with the circulation of the Scotch
and Irish banks for the same period, and the average cir-
culation of the Bank of England for the four weeks ended
the Ist of Dec. (the nearest date furnisllal by their
returns), will give the following results of the circulation
of notes in the United Singdom when compared with the
previous month :
- -

-________-------
Dec,
Nov. 6, D 4,
1869. 1869. Increase.iDocrease.
---
Bank of England...
2 80,44, 2,751,711 13' 721.
Private Banks . ..,
Joint-stock ----"---;22'73,,,,439L485:::094:8270 1.2325936: 1= -1
72557,073153737
29;251,459; ..e8,301,61R _ 918.411
Scotland 4,871,3 8' 5,287,15 i 416,1i0
Ireland

United Kingdom.

-41,503,957' 40,913,2691 416,140

27,017
976,823

ending the sth of
Dec.,A hd
as compared
£363,505 in the circulation of notes in England, and an
mtphaer o
above with
returns the
show a decrease of
i
increase of £105,916 in the circulation of the United

Kingdom.
On comparing the above with the fixed issues of the
several banks the following is the state of the circulation:—
The English private banks are below their
fixed issue •• ••• ... £1,290,007
The English joint-stock banks are below their
fixed issue

369,901

• Total Mow fixed issue in England ... .£1:660,808
The Scotch banks are above their fixed issue... 2 538,187
The Irish banks aro above their fixed issue ... 992,669
• The average stock of bullion hold by the Bank of Eng-
land in both departments during the month ending Ist
of Nov was .£18,443,206, being a decrease of £388,284,
as compared with the previous month, and a decrease of
£71,692 when compared with the same period last year.
The following are the amounts of specie held by the
Scotch and Irish banks during the month ending the 6th
of Nov.:—

Gold and silver held by the Scotch banks ... £3,776179
Gold and silver held by the Irish banks 2,741,881

£5,924,651
being an increase of £518,118 as compared with the pre-
vious return, and an increase of £321,393 when compared
with the corresponding period last year

PARIS COIMESPONDENCE

TUESDAY.

The decision of the Chamber to prosecute Rochefort
will be no news to you. All the parties except the Left
united in supporting the Ministry on this occasion, and
there is not the slightest reason to think that the result
would have been otherwise if M. 011ivier had not made
the prosecution a Cabinet question. The necessity was an
unfortunate one, but it wal a necessity. If the Govern-
ment is to be upheld at all, such excesses as those com-
mitted by Rochefort could not be overlooked.
To- day some very interesting matters are under discussion
iu the Legislatif Body, more especially the commercial
treaty with England.:M M. Jules Simon, Haentjens,and other
s2eakers support the doctrines of Free Trade, while, I am
sorry to say, MM. Pinard, Estaucelin, and other Liberal
politicians, are strongly opposed to it. M. Rochefort was
present at the sitting, but no manifestation of feeling took
place on his account. During the debate M. Gambetta pro-
tested against thewords used yesterday by M. Oilivier, when
he said that M. Gambetta needed a flash of patriotism and con-
vience. While M. Gambetta was speaking there .were
plaudits from one of the galleries, upon which the presi-
dent (M. Schneider) announced that ho should order the
evacuation of any gallery in which marks of approval or
disapproval were heard. There was a rather angry
altercation between MM. 011ivier and Gambetta, and the
latter was called to order.

The Government were naturally anxious yesterday
evening, on account of information they had received with
respect to a threatened agitation. Thb most precautionary
measures were adopted. The troops were collected in the
barracks, the guards at the Tuileries augmented, and the
garrisons at the forts kept in constant readiness. Fortu-
nately these arrangements were not put into requisition, as
the police, which assembled in all the dangerous places,
proved quite equal to the requirements of the occasion.
At the time when the Corps Legislatif broke up, an
assembly of five or six thousand persons, who had collected
by the Place de la Concorde, were dispersed by the police.
About fifteen hundred persons afterwards met together, and
wandered about the Rue Rivoli and other streets, singing
the " blarseillaise," and crying " Vivo Rochefort !" This
group was soon joined by another, which had been
stationed before the office of the Marseillaise. For half an
hour cries of " Vive la Republique!" were heard, and
the crowd increased every minute. The sergents-de-
vine were obliged to interfere at last; but according
to some statements, they did not meddle with the ring-
leaders of the affair so much as they attacked compara-
tively harmless individuals. Crowds assembled in the
Rue d'Aboukir, and afterwards watched for the departure
of M. Rochefort from the office of the Marseillaise, where
he was engaged in his literary occupations. A squa-
dron of the Paris Guard rode through the boulevards
at one in the morning, and orders were given that car-
riages should not block up the road. It may be affirmed
that Paris was kept in a state of disquietude by the move-
ments of from seven to eight thousand persons, who wan-
dered restlessly from point to point. At the close of the
sitting of the Chamber a crowd of persons waited to see M.
Rochefort, but being informed of the circumstance he did not
deem it prudent to appear. He walked about the lobbies,
and then took his:seat in the Salle des Conferences to
correct the proofs of the short speech he made in reply
to the Minister of Justice. He did not leave the building
until after seven, when scarcely any persons were
outside.

It seems now pretty certain that M. Rochefort will not
appear before a jury. Whatever despatch may be used,
the law which refers the prosecution of the press to this
jurisdiction cannot be passed before fifteen days or so, and
the Government will not put off till then the trial of the
Irreconcilable deputy.

M. Raspail, who has been dangerously ill with pneu-
monia, is reported to be dead.

M. D'Oms, the President of the Chamber of Indict-
ments, visited orr Saturday the hotel of Prince Bonaparte
at Auteuil. He spent a considerable time in examining
the room in which the fatal disturbance took place.
Yesterday the President continued his examination of the
witnesses in the affair of Prince Bonaparte. M. Paschal
Grousset was interrogated during the sitting. It is
believed that the heal ing of witnesses may last till Thurs-
day or Friday. A plan of the house at Auteuil has been
taken, by order of the President, and it will, it is expected,
prove of great service to the witnesses when they are
giving their explanations.
The Ind,!pendance Beige says that Prince Pierre Bona-
parte has many enemies in Corsica, and that he has greatly
contributed to the revengeful spirit that prevails against
the Imperial family by the violence of his speech and
writings.

DEATH OF TTIE REV. ROWLAND
WILLIAMS.

A telegram from Salisbury, in the Pall Mall Gazette of
last night, announced that Dr. Rowland Williams, one of
the authors of " Essays and Reviews," died at Broadchalke,
yesterday morning, of bronchitis. He had been ill only a
few days,

The Pri. of Wales was expected to visit Lord
Fitzhardinge at Berkeley Castle on Tuesday. The in-
habitants of Stroud and Berkeley crowded to give the
Prince pc welcome, but he did not arrive, and great dis
appointment, our correspondent says, was felt.
HEAVY FINE FOR SMUGGLING TOBACCO.--A
seaman, named Edward Whitehead, has been fined £lOO
and costs by the Newcastle magistrates, under the " Sup-
plementary Customs Consolidation Act," for smuggling
211bs. of tobacco, in the steamship Sentinel, on the 10th
instant.

THE DOCKYARD POLICE SUPERINTENDENT.—
Mr. Mallalieu, late Inspector and Police Superintendent
of the Dockyard Divisions, has been awarded a pensioit of
£-100 a year, and received a communication from the Com-
missioners of Police expressing their regret that failing
health has deprived the force of his valuable services.
The post vacated by Mr. Mallalieu will not be filled up.
A SCOTCH MINISTER UPON " POETRY."—The
Glasgow Citizen says that Byron, Moore, and Burns were
placed on the Index Expurgatorius of Fort William by the
Rev. Robert M`Dougall, Kilmonivaig, in the course of a
lecture on "Poetry," which the rev, gentleman delivered
last week to the inhabitants of that particularly dull little
quondam garrison village. Mr. M`Dougall is said by his
reporter to have condemned the verses of the poets referred
to in strong language, and " cautioned all well-disposed
persons against reading works that breathe so much of im-
morality and venom."

THE "PUFF PRELIMINARY."—The following re-
markable example of the puff preliminary is taken from a
recent number of the San Francisco News Letter :—" To-
morrow evening Camilla Urso, artist, harmonic angel,
musical goddess, will lift souls to heaven (and a little be-
yond it) by a sacred concert at the California Theatre.
We speak elsewhere of her previous performances. Her
sacred concert, as far as promoting a holy adoration of
God and His works is concerned, will discount all the ser-
mons preached by all the parsons to-morrow. Go; and if
thou hast a soul worthy of heaven, learn to realise that
its beatific estate may be consistent with that strain
of music said to be there raised perpetually towards
the Throne. 0 Camilla! 0 Urso! 0 Lord!
TUE COUNTESS OF DERWENTWATER AND HER
CLAIMS.—The Northern Daily Express states that the farm
stock seized by Mr. Henry Brown as bailiff to the Coun-
tess of Derwentwater was publicly sold by auction on
Monday, at Consett. Mr. John Murray, who was the
auctioneer, addressed the large crowd assembled in glow-
ing terms on the Countess's prospects of success
in her claim to the Derwentwater Estates. He then read a
letter he had received from her ladyship, in which she
anticipated the day when they could all visit her at Dil-
ston, in defiance of the representatives of Greenwich Hos-
pital. Mr. Murray's address was received with great cheers.
Before the sale of the first lot a protest, signed by Mr. C. G.
Grey, was placed in tho hands of the auctioneer.
It gave him notice that the sale of cattle and other goods
11 which belonged to commissioners for executing the office
of Lord High Admiral, was illegal. The sale, however,
was proceeded with, and all the lots, 18 in number, were
disposed of. At the conclusion of the business three
cheers were given for the " Countess," and a barrel of ale
was distributed among the bystanders. In the evening, a
dinner was provided at the Railway Hotel, Consett, and
was partaken of by Mr. Brown, Mr. Murray, and a number
of their " chief supporters.'

The whole of the stores' in Woolwich Dockyar I
are about to be disposed of, to effect a clearance
previous to offering the fr:ehold for competition.
The labourers who have been engaged for some
time past in getting together the stores have turned
out an immense quantity of every description, some
of whioh ig supposed to be several centuries old.
The workmen are now actively engaged in prepar-
n g the various lots for sale.
The school for instructing the army in military
telegraphy and signalling at the School of Military
Engineering at Chatham was re-opened yesterday,
and a number of officers and non-commissioned
officers of various corps joined to go through a
course. The officers are—Capts. Thomas and Hill,
Royal Marines ; Capt. Licaslop, Royal Marine
Artillery ; Lieut. Saudwith, Royal Marines ; and
Lieutenant Stainforth, 27th (luniskilling) Regi-
ment ; with a number of non-commissioned officers

from the Marines and the 27th. Capt. Webb, 13th
Hussars, and Capt. Bishop, Madras Staff Corps,
are expected to arrive to-day, when operations
will be commenced forthwith.

MANSION-HOUSE.

-.4.--

Last evening the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor
and the Lady Mayoress enter!aiued the members
of the Court of Aldermen, the Rec,)rder, the Co-
mmon Sergeant, aud the rest of the high officers of
the Corporation at dinner at the Mansion-house,
served in the Long Parlour, the guests Leiug about
50 in number. Except the customary entertain-
ment to the household, about a week ago, it was
the first occasion in the new mayoralty, and had
an interest on that account of its own. On the re-
moval of the cloth the Lord, Mayor and the Lady
Mayoress drank to the company in a loving cup,
according to custom, and the chief magistrate then
proposed " The health of her Majesty the Queen,"
remarking that her rule was so gentle that it was
only felt when the laws were violated, and that to
him was the true test of healthy political action.
This sentiment was much cheered, as was also the
toast itself. Referring afterwards to the younger
members of the Royal family, the Lord Mayor ex-
pressed a Lope that they would be the missionaries
of free institutions when they came to be scattered
all over the world. In alluding to the Volunteers
he said he had always been a friend to the move-
ment, believing it from the first to be a very im-
portant thing for the country. He had been one
of the people who cheered them on. They had,
he said, Made soldiers of themselves under very
gratifying circumstances, and the more perfect
they became in that respect the less chance was
there of their being called into action. Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Sir William Rose replied to the
compliment. The Lord Mayor next proposed
" The Court of Aldermen," observing that its his-
tory was au example of successful self-government,
and furnished a triumphant answer to all the ques-
tions occasionally raised as to the value of muni-
cipal institutions. There were exceptions, he
jocosely said, causing some laughter. Some of his
brethren among the aldermen, he said, shirked their
work, and others did not like it, but upon the
whole it was well and effectually done. Alderman
Sir David Salmons, M.P., in proposing " The
Health of the Lord Mayor," complimented him
upon his genial and kindly manners, his originality
of thought and expression, and his great good
sense. He trusted he would have health to dis-
charge the duties of his high office to the satisfac-
tion of himself and the public. His brethren in the
Corporation all respected him, and should have
great pleasure in supporting him in the Court of
Aldermen. The toast was drunk with much cordiality.
The Lord Mayor, in responding to it, said he felt, as
they all felt, that they wanted a new formula for
meetings of that kind. He was prepared to dis-
charge all the duties of the office in a manner that
would satisfy himself, and, ho had no doubt, them
also. He wanted what the world called dignity ;he
did not assume it, and did not feel the want of it.
He had been talking to a learned pundit at Chelsea
on the subject, who had told him that he had made
au analysis of the component parts of dignity, and
had found that it contained a great deal of ill-
nature, but the main ingredient of it was tacitur-
nity ; in other words, that a mad should keep his
mouth shut if he had nothing to say. He had no
doubt he should in dignity ; and he was pre-
pared to fail ; and he asked his brethren of the
Court of Aldermen, if they happened to have got
any spare half-worn garments of that sort, to be
kind enough to leave them at the Mansion House,
and he should use them now and then if he saw fit.
(Much laughter.) Ile hoped, nevertheless, though
he might be wanting iu dignity, that at the close of
his year of office he should preserve the esteem of
his brethren the aldermen and of the great body of
the Livery by whom he had been elected. He con-
cluded by proposing " The Health of the Recorder
and the Common Sergeant," remarking that if there
was one thing more than another which reflected
credit on the Corporation it was the wisdom with
which it had selected its judges from time to time,
and he paid a high compliment to Mr. Gurney and
Mr. Chambers on the able and impartial manner in
which they discharged their judicial functions.
That., he said, was not only the administration of the
law, but, what was more, the administration of jus-
tice. Long might they live, he said, as examples of
what self-government might do in the selection of
the right man for the right place.
Some more toasts appropriate to the occasion
were proposed, last: of all "The Health of the Lady
Mayoress," which was received with acclamation,
and the company separated.

NAVAL AND 3111,17 ARY IN7ELLIGENCF,.

The term of five years for which Lieut.-Colonel
A. A'Court Fisher, C. 8., R.E., was appointed a
instructor in surveying at the School of Military
Engineering at Chatham, having expired, Capt. F.
E. Pratt, R.E., has arrived at Bromptou to suc-
ceed him in the office.

A board of officers, consisting of Col. Fitzßoy
Somerset, Royal Engineers (President) ; Captain
HaHowes, 15th Regiment ; Capt. Farrington, 73d;
Capt. Herring, 27th ; and Lieut. 3d, assembled at
Chatham Garrison yesterday morning for the pur-
pose of inquiring into and reporting upon the
system on which the regimental canteens are now
carried on.

Quartermaster-Sergeant John Middleton, Royal
Engineers, committed for trial at Chatham on a
charge of stealing a gold watch and other property
of the value of £l5, the property of Stephen Faw-
cett, landlord of the Saracen's Head, Chatham, has
been tried at the West Kent Quarter Sessions at
Maidstone, and acquitted. Quartermaster-Ser-
geant Middleton has served 22 years in the army,
nine of which he has been in the Royal Engineers.

A telegram has been received from Alexandria
reporting the arrival of her Majesty's Indian troop-
ship Serapis at that port, at 8 a.m. on the 14th
inst. ; all well.

An Admiralty order has been received at Ports-
mouth dockyard to reduce the number of men em-
ployed, exclusive of the intended reduction in offi-
cers and clerks, by the discharge *of upwards of
1,000 by gradual instalments between the present
time and the end of March. A return has also been
made, and will be laid before the Admiralty to-
morrow morning, of the names of all officers of the
yard willing to -accept their retirement upon the
conditions offered by existing Admiralty regula-
tions. A dense fog prevailed along the coast yes-
terday ; only very slight airs of wind on the land
from N.E.

The dockyards aro full of announcements of
changes, or of rumours that they are to be made.
At Chatham it is reported that if the Naval
Superintendents of dockyards are to be abolished,
and the Master Shipwrights to become tha
heads of the establishment, the present Cap-
tain-Superintendent at Catham, Captain W.
C. Chamberlain, and the officer holding a simi-
lar position at Pembroke, Captain R. Hall,
C. 8., who are officers of large experience, would
continue to hold their posts as Superintendents
while they remain ou the captains' list. On their
promotion the change would be made. It is under-
stood that several professional officers in Chatham
yard will accept the terms just offered by the Ad-
miralty as an inducement to retire-,-,au addition of
ten years to their period of service in calculating
the superannuation which they shall receive. Mr.
R. Dawson, assistant-master shipwright ; Mr.
Streeter, inspector of caulkers ; and Mr. Coles,
inspector of joiners, it is understood, intend to re-
tire on these terms. Should the report of the in-
tended entire abolition of the metal mil!s at this
dockyard prove to be exaggerated, there is a full
belief that at least a large reduction will be made
in the establishment.
The Lords of the Admiralty have awarded a
pension of £l6 10s. per annum to Mr. E. Elgar,
late clerk of the Dockyard Church at Woolwich,
on the abolition of his office. Mr. Elgar has held
the above appointment for the past 27 years.
The Greenwich Hospital pension of £5O a year,
vacant by the death of Mr. Robert Thomas Crispin,
Paymaster-in-Chief, ou December 31, 1669, has
been granted from that date to Mr. George Thorn,
cured paymaster.

qi:014110, 01 ;.;01,1 41 Pi:rib is ::i.41, at pat, anp
Lic L.l;nrl eseillinge Luudou is
OnComparing these rates with the English Mint price of
io d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that
gold at the abeve price is slightly dearer in Varna than in
London