The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-01 00:00:00

DRURY-L.4iVE 7IIEATRE.

A novelty and a revival last night marked the
now fast-waning dramatic season at this theatre.
The original farce, "Phobus' Fix," is a medley of
admirable comic dancing and semi-serious singing
by the Yokes family, strung on a slender dramatic
thread. We need hardly say that such graceful
grotesquerie, such agile absurdity as the comic
dancing of Mr. F. Vokes in Jeremiah Phobus, and
of Miss Jessie Yokes in Maud Somers, is not
to be witnesse i elsewhere. The revival was
the well-known Irish romantic play, by Edmund
Falconer, entitled " Peep o' Day," the scenery
being entirely new, and from the pencil of William
Beverley, while the drama itself was produced
under the personal superintendence of Mr. Chatter-
ton. The leading characters were thus distributed:
—Harry Kavanagh, Mr. J. B. Howard ; Stephen
Purcell, Mr. L. Nanton ; the Rev. W. O'Cleary,
Mr. Barrett ; Mr. Grace, Mr. J. Neville ; Barney
O'Toole (formerly played by the author), Mr. J.
Reynolds ; Andy the Post, Mr. J. B. Johnstone;
Black Mullins, Mr. W. M'lntyre. Miss E. Stuart
played Kathleen Kavanagh, Miss Amy Roselle
Mary Grace, Mrs. Barratt the Widow Kavanagh,
and Miss Michell Molsbee. The other characters,
" too numerous t) mention," as the catalogues say,
were creditably filled. " The Pattern Fair at
the Holy Well," the wild scene at the " Old
Quarry," and the admirable Owing scene " Peep
u' Day," produced all their old effects. The
several actors were applau led at the leading
points, and a call followed the fall of the curtain.
The house was well attended, and had a gay and
animated appearance, unusual at the immediate
close of the long run of a most successful pan-
tomime.

Baum of France.

PARIS, Feb. 24.

The following is the return of the Bank of France
for the week ending to-day, together with the cor-
responding figures of the previous account:—

DEBTOR.

Fob. 21. Feb. 17.
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) 7,044,776 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 42,659,297 62 41,921,322 24
Treasury account cur-
rent creditor 166,4 i 7,086 15 153,480,915 16
Current accounts, Paris 303,951,102 71 30:4,425,453 66
Do. branch banks 47,145,791 -- 43,256,499
Dividends payable 1,1191,5_1 2,129,145
Discounts and sundry
interests
Rediscounted the last
six months
Surplus of receipts not
distributed
Sundries

Total
CREDITOR.
Feb. 17. Feb. 24.
()ash in hand and in fr. c. fr. c.

Branch banks
Commercial bills over-

due
Commercial bills dis-

255,483 15

123,719 19

counted, not yet due 291,855,193 07 292,759,689 61
Do. branch banks 290,866,997 282,802,571
Advances on deposit of

bullion
Do. branch banks 1,562,500 1,682,400
Do. on French Public

Securities 19,219,300 38,944,600
Do. by branch banks 7,919,750 7,775,930
Do. on railway shares _
_ _

and debentures
Do. branch banks
Do. on Credit Foncier
Bonds
Do. branches -
Do. to the State (Con-
vention, Juno 10,
1857) 60,000,000 60,000,000
Government Stock re-

serve 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14
Do. disposable , 80,595,187 21 80,595,187 21
[lentos Immobalisees

(Law, Juno 2, 1857) 100,000,000 100,000,000
ilotel and furniture of
the Bunk and landed
property branches ~.
Expenses of manage-

9,082,030 -

9,082,890 -

merit
Sundries

275,678 40 474,888 58
6,293,471 35 8,297,816 04

Total
Certified by the Senator-Governor of the Bank
of France.

(Signed) ROULAND.

An inquest has been held at Aldershot on the
body of Private Patrick Lynch, of 2d Battalion,
3d Buffs. The evidence went to prove that the
deceased, in company with a comrade named John
Hall, had been drinking at a beerhouso near the
North Camp on the previous Sunday. They left
together to proceed to quarters about 9 p.m. The
deceased, who was intoxicated, went a little in
advance in the darkness. Hall shouted to him when
he was about 40 or 50 yards off, and the deceased
answered, " Here !" from which answer the witness
judged that he was going a nearer way, and would
rejoin him at a stream, which was crossed by a
plank. On shouting a second time he received no
reply. On the following morning the body of the
deceased was found lying on its back in a ditch,
into which he must have fallen after parting com-
pany with Hall. A post mortem examination was
made by Mr. R. Jackson, Assistant-Surgeon to the
2,1 Battalion 3d Buffs, who was of opinion that the
cause of death was congestion of the organs from
exposure to cold. The jury returned a verdict in
accordance with that evidence.

The 2d Battalion 7th Royal Fusiliers will leave
Aldershot Camp to-day. Four officers and 100
men will proceed by the 9 18 a.m. train from Farn-
borough to Weymouth en route for Portland ; the
head-quarters and the remainder of the Battalion
by special train on Wednesday for Portland and
Weymouth.

A captain's good service pension has been placed
at the dispOsal of the First Lord of the Admiralty
by the promotion to flag rank of Captain A. Cum-
ming, C.B.
The Secretary of State for W. ,r has consented
to preside at the anniversary meeting of the Royal
United Service Institution, which will be held on
Saturday next.
Opt LOCAL TAXATION. —The London Local
Taxation Committee (of which Sir Mas3ey :Lopes, M.P.,
is chairman) offered in July last, on the motion of Mr. C.
S. Read, MP., a premium of £5O for the best essay on the
injustice and inequalities of the incidence of the poor-
rates, and other local burdens in England and Wales.
From the sixteen essays sent in from various parts of this
country, the judges selected the three best for final judg-
ment, and two of them were written by Mr. C. F. Gardner,
8.A., Stolie numeral, Devonport ; and by Mr. Frederick
G. Luke, L.C.8., Barrister-at-Law. The prize was finally
awarded to Mr. Gardner, and the essays of both these
gentlemen will be published without delay.