The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-05 00:00:00

BANK OF FRANCE.

The following was the situation of the Bank on Thurs-
day evening, Aug. 31, 1848:

ASSETS.
Cash in coin and ingots . . f. 116,379,730 50
Ditto in branch banks ••• . 88,116,595 00
Bills over due 275,650 89
• •• ••• •••
Bills becoming duo in Paris ... 88,219,606 06
Bills in the branch banks ~„ ... 132,325,141 21
Advances on coins and ingots... ... 15,179,048 96
Ditto ou French public securities ... 34,195,796 65
Ditto by branch banks...
•., 1,359,036 04
Ditto to the State on Bons du Tr6sor... 50,000,000 00
Advance to the State on the lean of
150,000,000 f. •••
Stock forming reserve
Rentes, disposable funds
Investments of the new branch banks in

••• ... 25,000,000 00
•.• ... 10,000,000 00
13,203,003 11

the public funds• Hotel and furniture of the bank
Real property and branch banks
Interest in National Discount Bank
Interest in old Departmental Banks in
National Banks of Towns ...
Bills Protested in the Bank
Ditto in the branches ...
Expenses of administration of the bank
Ditto of the branches ...
Miscellaneous ... ..• ..•
Consolidation of Treasury Bonds ...

... 12,806,741 39
... 4,000,000 00
... 2,521,757 00
200,000 00

••• 230,000 00
... 18,605,255 58
9,782,944 00
194,535 39
••• 134,419 00
,„ 1,299,511 94
6,997,270 00

f. 631,025,502 72

LIABILITIES.

Capital ... ... . . ...
Ditto of the new Branch Banks
Reserve fund ... ... ...
Ditto of the branch banks ...

... f. 67,900,000 00
... 23,350,000 00
... 10,000,000 00
... 2,980,750 14

Reserve. irnmobiliere ... ...
Notes to bearer, in circulation ...
Ditto of the branch banks ...

... 4,000,000 00
317,900,300 00
.„, 61,236,925 00

Ditto to order (post-bills) 666,767 20
Account-current with Treasury 12,423,961 30
Various accounts current ... 88,039,788 32
Ditto in branches „, 25,014,176 83
Receipts payable at sight ... 2,586,800 00
Ditto at branches 1,936,642 00
Bills of the branch banks payable by
the Bank ... 4,686,975 72
Ditto of the Bank payable by branches.. 2,467,003 00
Dividends payable . ... 900,679 75
Liquidation of the Algiers Bank ... 1,283,204 04
Discounts, interests, and expense ... 1,084,332 63
Ditto branch bank ... ... 1,256,155 00
Re discounts of the last six months ... 422,932 27
Ditto in branch bunks .. ... 641,216 00
Miscellaneous ... ••• ... 246,893 52

f. 631,025,502 72
Certificate confirmed,
The Governor of the Bank, D'ARGOUT.

PRICE or GAS.—Our attention has been recently
called to the case of Mr. Charles Hunt, the original
founder of the Commercial Gas-light and Coke Company,
in the year 1836, also to a letter from T. 11. Pollock,
Esq., solicitor to the company when it was first formed.
And we beg to refer our readers to his advertisement in
our colums of to-day, whereby he appears to merit the
consideration of the benevolent, he having been the
means of reducing the price of gas to the consumers
throughout the metropolis, and extinguishing a long
existing monopoly. We are glad to see a public sub-
scription open to the gas consumers for the benefit of
Mr. Hunt and his family, who are reduced to a state of
groat poverty.
STOPPAGE OF POST-OFFICE COMMUNICATION IN
THE HEBRIDES.—The embargo on the postal communi-
cation between Dunvegan, in Skye, and Lochmaddy, in
North Uist, still continues. There is some prospect, we
hear,of an early arrangement; but in the meantime the
inhabitants in the western islands and their friands on
the are subjected to the greatest inconTe-
nie mainland,nceand
loss.— wit

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