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 erosang of
the 30th of March:—

ASSETS.

Cash and ingots ... --
... 55,070,565 94
Cash at the branch banks •.. .
... 46,998,605 00
Bills due this day • 12,926 212 71
Bills becoming due in Paris, of which
36.385,673 are from the branch banks 245,766,0,2 60
..
Bills in the branch banks
... • • 51,619,382 36
Advances in coin and ingots
... 2,693, 200 00
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 •••
Rentes of disposable funds ..•
10,000,000 00
••• 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
Bills arising from the sale of Rentes to
994,436 04
Russia yet to be received •••
Expenses of administration
Sundries ... 26,583 95
Advances to the State on Bons du Tresor
of the Republic 341,962 21

50,000,000 00

526,404,292 69

Capital ...
Reserve fund

DEBTS AND OBLIGATIONS.
••• •• 67,900,000 00
••• • • •
10 000 000 00

_ ... •••
Reserve immobil;ire ---
4,000,000 00
Notes to bearer, in circulation ...
... 285,e30,100 00
14,699,710 00
2,222,513 60
Ditto of the branch bank
... •••
Ditto to order (post bills) ... •••
Account current with Treasury —•
Various accounts current . . ... 75,791,318 35
58,336,375 64
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 ...
Branch Bank drafts to be paid
Sundries ... . _

1,086,203 62
797,782 15
138,412 27

526,404,292 69

OUTRAGE on ft 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 police (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
Pasha 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 summeary 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 violation 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 consul; have
him well bastinadoed, then make a thousand apologies,
and swear it was all a mistake.

What makes the foregoing case 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 ➢ir. 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.

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FORGING A CHEQUE.
A painful sensation has been created in this city
during the past week by the discovery of a forgery to a
!arge amount, committed by a clerk in the employ of
Messrs. A. and S. Henry and Co., the eminent mer-
chants of York-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
3,450/. 17s. Mr. Balfour, the cashier, knowing
Naughten, did not:hesitate to cash the cheque, which
was dated the 29th of March, and signed, "A. and
S. Henry and C 0.," and handed him the amount
accordingly. It
appears that a very short time
after this, on the same morning, the same indi-
individual went 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.
This 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 had 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-ball. An officer im-
mediately went to the Victoria station, and ascer-
-1 tained that a person answering the description of
Naughten bad left Manchester bat 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. Berwick, chief
superintendent, who was then at Liverpool, attending
guilty parties. One of the
the assizes, and a vigorous search was made there by
Mr. Berwick, Inspectors McMullen, Maybury, and
Buckley, and other officers, who succeeded in obtaining
rhaatyhee rb e se n respectable
changed
i n
information which, it is confidently expected, will lead
ittahoe candidates for the
to the apprehension of the
young men has, indeed, been apprehended already on
suspicion of being anweaicgchetsssoarnyci
mafetaersurtehse,
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name
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ismajne,hnandrawrnaeslLo:3lo:nenf
Naughten, probably
or in the course of the
office of inspectors of
Mr. Fell. It appears that they took a sum of 1,900/. with
them in notes, which are
Liverpool. The three are said to have been together on
o freely,
the discovery that
evening he made. . they had given him
the slip, and gone he knew not whither. Upon this he
by the last and
returned to Manchestertrain, WAS at once
moreso Wednesdaytha
than
his night,
tw do rci no kmipn
companions,
i
taken into custody by the detective officers.
On Friday morning, he was brought up at the Bor-
ough Court, before Mr. Jackson• and Mr. Watkin, when
Mr. Berwick 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 iu the cheque in question was very like his, but
and that the
that it was forged; cheque had never been
paid from their house.
Mr. Berwick said he had further evidence against the
prisoner, but at present he did not think it prudent to go
further into the case; ho therefore applied for a remand
till Monday, when he expected to have the other parties
also in custody.
The prisoner was accordingly remanded till Monday.
—Manchester Examiner.

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.--CHATHAM, APRIL 3,
On Saturday, the Ist instant, the depot of the 21st
Royal North British Fusiliers was detached from the
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
in the year 1833 for New South Wales; the strength of
men, including non-commis-
sislt'sesotfer3d4a; their arms and accoutrements
served out to them, and this morning their route
non-commis-
sioned oeerneed depotoffi c
ecrosn.
unexpectedly came for their immediate march to Canter-
bury, and they left in two divisions, under command of
Major the Hon. C. R. Saville West, with Captain F. G.
Ainslie, Captain Alfred Andrews, Captain Duncan
Fraser, Lieutenant F. Ring, Second Lieutenant Thomas
F. Hobbs, for that city. The two following officers are
on leave:—Lieutenant A. G. Shaw and Lieutenant Wil-
liam Savage. The regiment is expected, in May next,
from India.