The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-20 00:00:00

"So far as the influence of the colonists has extended,
it has been exerted to suppress the slave trade. Their
endeavours have been eminently successful, end it is by
planting these settlements (whether American or Euro-
pean) along the whole extent of coast from Cape Verd
to Benguela, that the exportation of slaves will be most
effectually prevented."

BANK OF FRANCE.
The following was the situation of the Bank of
France on Thursday morning, Nov. 16, 1848:
LIABILITIES.

Capital ... . • ... E 67,900,000 00
Ditto of the new Branch Banks ... 23,350,000 00
Reserve fund .. 10,000,000 eo
Ditto of the branch banks . ... 2,980,750 00
Reserve-immobiliere
•.. 4,000,000 00
Notes to bearer, in circulation ... 35509,600 00
Ditto of the branch banks
... .., 2,6,856,225 00
Ditto to order (post-bills) ... 413,171 00
Account-current with Treasury creditor 19,305,538 12
Various accounts current ... 76,446,015 46
Ditto in branches „,
„,, 25,971,175 00
Bills payable at sight
... 2,267,800 00
Ditto at branches
..• 1,822,881 00
Bills of the branch banks payable by
the Bank
Ditto of the Bank payable by branches..
Dividends payable
Liquidation of the Algiers Bank
Discounts, interest, and expenses
Ditto branch banks
Re discounts of the last six months
Ditto in branch banks
Miscellaneous

5,515,878 25
2,138,957 00
204,510 50

449,679 04
3,212,494 75
2,392,940 00
422,932 27
641,233 00
161,218 01

E 651,962,998 76

A SSETS.

Cash and ingots
Ditto in branch banks
Bills over due ••• ••• •••
Bills falling due in Paris, of which
15,539,250 f. 15c. are from the branch
banks ••• •• •••
Bills in the branch banks ~.
Advances on coins and ingots...
Ditto on French public securities ...
Ditto by branch banks... ... „,
Ditto to the State on Bons du Tr6sor...
Rentes of the reserve fund ... ...
Rentes, disposable funds ... „,
Investments of the new branch banks in
the public funds ... ... „,
Hotel and furniture of the Bank ..
Real property of the branch banks ...
Loan of 10,000,000 f. to the city of Paris
Interest in National Discount Bank ...
Ditto branch banks ...
...
...
Bills protested at Paris
••• Ditto at the branches ... "'
Expenses of administration of the BanI; Ditto of the branches ...
Miscellaneous ... ***
***
Consolidation of Treasury Bonds
...

f. 131,542,059 54
. . 103,735,164 00
1,554,005 87

„. 58,994,789 10
... 109,158,156 42
14,123,916 00
32,894,646 , 65
1,539,404 00
50,000,000 00
10,000,000 00
34,786,288 62

12,806,741 39
4,000,000 00
2,524,717 00
4,500,000 00
200,000 00
230,000 00
13,235,360 29
7,858,265 00
480,517 71
383,865 00
543,092 31
6,872,009 86

Certifed b the f. 651,962,998 76
Y Governor of the Bank of France,
'ARGOUT.

The steam-ship Britannia, Captain Laing, sailed
for Halifax and Boston, from Liverpool, on Saturday
afternoon, carrying out the mails for Canada and the
United States, and a number of passengers. The Eu-
ropa, Boston packet, of the Bth, is expected every tide.
We are able to anaounce—which we do with more
than usual satisfaction—that her Majesty has graciously
intimated her intention to bestow the vacant Garter up-
on the Earl of Clarendon. This significant act of the
Sovereign is peculiarly gratifying at this moment, and
will be universally hailed by men of all parties, who join
in their tribute of unanimous admiration of the prudence,
as well as firmness, with which his Excellency has
guided the government of Ireland through the perils and
difficulties of no ordinary description.—Observer.
BouLoorul, Nov. 18.—The General Steam Navi-
gation Company's new steam ship Albion arrived here
yesterday from London, after a good passage of eight
hours. She brought a fine cargo, principally wool (a
novel importation), and a goodly number of passengers.
Mr. Arthur Ellis has been appointed to the vacant
clerkship in the Registrar's office of the Court of Chan-
cery. The Hon. Lionel West, attaché at Lisbon, pro-
ceeds in the sarae2rank to the British embassy at Naples.
F. H. A. Forth, Esq., is appointed superintendent at
Turk's Island.— Observer.
DEATH OF LADY ELEANORA GRAHAM.--We an-
nounce with regret the premature death of Lady
Eleanore Graham, eldest daughter of the Earl of Ux-
bridge, and granddaughter of the Marquis of Anglesey.
The lamented deceased was taked ill while staying on a
visit to the Viscount and Viscountess Maidstone, at
Eastwell-park, the Earl of Winchelsea's seat, in Kent,
and after a few day's indisposition her Ladyship expired
at eleven o'clock on Friday forenoon. She married, in
the summer of 1847, Mr. Sandford Graham, eldest son of
Sir Sandford Graham, Bart.

BELFAST, Nov. 16.—We have had a week of splen-
did weather for the season, and everywhere the farmers
are busily engaged in planting wheat, and finishing the
raising of the potato crop.
THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.--The bridge
over the line at the Caledonian-road is so far finished as
to allow of traffic passing over it. The larger portion of
the masons' work is up and finished. The temporary
, and the old road again re-
bridge is now pulled down
nuns it wonted sppeoraco,

THE COLONY OF LIBERIA.
IThe eireurnstence of the col, ny of Liberia having just
been recognised as an independent republic by Great
Britain and France, and of a treaty of trade and e m-
mere° having upon our part been concluded with that
state, so little is known of its situation, prospects,
and resources, that it will be desirable to furnish
some general information on these points: The colony
of Liberia lies midway between Sierra Leone and Cape
Palmas, and was established by the American Coloniza-
tion Societyin 1820 by an immigration of free or liberated
people of colour from the United States. Since that
periodits population, including the aborigines who have
incorporated themselves with the immigrants, has in-
creased to upwards of 80,f 00, while the land they oc-
cupy extends along 320 miles of coast, and reaches on an
average about 80 miles into the interior. The proportion
of the population born in America, or of American
descent, is estimated at about 10,000, and such has been
the effect of their example and influence, that out of
the remaining 70,000, consisting of aborigines, or of
captives released from slavers, at least 50,000 can speak
the English largusge, so that any one would perfectly
understand thew, while their habits are rapidly be-
coming those of civilized and steady agriculturists. The
de,ire for education is also manifested by the surround-
ing tribes, and instances are not uncommon of natives
sending their children four or five hundred miles from
the interior to be instructed in the primary schools
established in the Republic. Of these there are 36 in
operation, with an average attendance in each of about
40 aboriginal pupils. The whole of the territory of
Liberia has been purchased from time to time from the
aboriginal owners, and in this way at least 20 petty
sovereignties have been extinguished. In its former
condition the coast was the constant resort of slavers,
but the traffic is now effectually suppressed as far as the
jurisdiction of the Republic extends, and its entire aban-
donment is an invariable stipulation in every treaty of
trade and protection into which the Republic may con-
sent to enter with neighbouring States. This disposi-
tion to avail themselves of treaties of this description is
plainly on the increase on the part of the surrounding
natives, and it is estimated that not less than 2,000,000
of persons in the interior now obtain their supply of
European goods from the Republic and from the kindred
colony of Cape Palmas. Last year 82 foreign vessels
visited Liberia, and exchanged merchandise for articles
of African production to the amount of 600,000 dolls.
The natural resources of Liberia are immense, and are
steadily in process of development. The principal arti-
cles of export are ivory, palm oil (of which 150,000 dolls.
worth was shipped in 1847), camwood, gold dust, &e.
Coffee is indigenous, and of excellent quality, and is now
being cultivated extensively. It yields more than in the
West Indies, and the belief is entertained that it may
be produced so as to compete with slave-labour. Sugar
also thrives well, but enough only is grown for home
consumption, and there is no present hope of competing
with Cuba or Brazil. Cocoa has just been introduced,
and promises well. Cotton, it is expected, will soon be-
come an articc!e of export. Indigo, ginger, arrowroot,
/
and various other articles of commerce, likewise grow
luxuriantly. Rich metallic mines exist in the country, and
only require capital to open them U. The population
is upon the whole well-disposed to work, and the rate of
wages per day is about Is. sterling. It is an extraordi-
nary feature of this part of the coast that horses and
other draught animals will not live, and hence every kind
of transport, except that upon the rivers, is performed by
manual labour. Mach of the camwood which is exported
from Liberia is brought a distance of 200 miles on men's
backs. It is seen, however, that this difficulty, which
appears a great one at first, may have the effect not only
of inuring the people to labour, but of stimulating them
to every kind of mechanical contrivance by which it may
be overcome. The climate of Liberia, although more
healthy than Sierra Leone, is still deadly to the European;
but the improvement it has undergone during the last
ten years from the effect of clearing, drainage, &c., is
stated to have been most remarkable. The coloured im-
migrants from America, who used invariably to suffer
from fever on their arrival, are now able to go to work
at once. The duration of life amongst the colonists is
considered to be about the same as in England. At
Monrovia, the port and capital, the population amounts
to about 9,000. A large portion of the territory has
been accurately surveyed, and is sold in sections by the
Government, at from 50c. to 1 doll. per acre. The go-
vernment of the country is precisely on the American
model, consisting of a president, a vice-president, a se-
nate, and house of representatives, the number of mem-
bers in the former being six, and in the latter 28. The
possession of real estate to the value of 30 dolls, is the
electoral qualification. The revenue which was last
year about 20,000 dolls. is derived entirely from an ad
valorem duty of 6 per cent, on imports, and the produce
of land sales. Ardent spirits, the use of which it is
sought to discourage, form an exception, and are taxed
25 cents. per gallon. The principal trade is carried on
by barter, but there is a small paper circulation of about
6,000 dolls., redeemable on demand. The organization
of the Republic as an independent state took place in
July last year, when Mr. Roberts, who had formerly
acted as governor under the Colonization Society, was
elected president. Speaking of his qualifications, Com-
modore Perry, of the United States navy, says in a report
to the American Government, dated in 184.1
" Governer Roberts, of Liberia, and Russworna, of
Cape Palmas are intelligent and estimable mon, execut-
ing their responsible functions with wisdom and dignity;
and we have in the example of these two gentlemen irre-
fragable proof of the capability of coloured people to go-
vern themselves."
While with regard to the advantages of the colony he
adds—