The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-25 00:00:00

BANK OF FRANCE.

The foilowing is a return of the situation of the Bank
of France on Nov. 20:—

ASSETS.

f,487,248.768 15
.. 109,867,134 0
156,204 54

Cash in hand ...
Ditto in branch banks
Bills past due •••
Bills discounted, but not yet due, of
which 13,410,8021. Oc. were received
from the Branch Banks ... 33.010,318 16
Bills in the branch banks „. 64,561,840 0
Advancas on coins and ingots... 371,800 0
Ditto by the branch banks '2004,200 0
Ditto on French public securities ... 7,822726 10
Ditto by branch banks... ••• ... 2,793,796 0
Ditto to the State on Bons du Trcsor... 50,000,000 0
Ditto on the loan of 75 millions ... 50,000,000 0
Rentes of the reserve fund 10,000,000 0
Rentes, disposable funds ... 42,677,621 28
Investments of the new branch banks in
the public funds
Hotel and furniture of the Bank
Real property of the branch banks ...
Interest in National Discount Bank ...
Ditto branch banks ...

12,952,725 74
4,000,000 0
3,560,746 0
200,000 0
108.000 0

Expenses of administration of the Bank 413,793 79
Ditto at the branches ... 452,094 0
Miscellaneous ... 1,055,882 36

E 888,537,650 12

LIABILITIES.

Capital ... ••• • . f. 67,900,000 0
Ditto of the Branch Banks ... 23,350,000 0
Reserve fund ... 10,000,000 0
Ditto of the branch banks ... 2,980,750 14
Resorve-irounobiiiere ... ... 4,000,000 0
Notes to bearer, in circulation ... 425,422,400 0
Ditto of the branch banks ... 124,249.925 0
Ditto to order (post-bills) ... 8,143.782 95
account-current with Treasury creditor 51,975.666 65
Various accour...!:s current 115,667,350 96
Ditto in branches 32,641,821 0
Bills payable at sight ... 11,726,500 0
Ditto at branches ... ... 4,467,207 0

Dividends payable . .
Liquidation of the Algiers Bank
Expenses anticipated
Discounts, interest, and expenses
Ditto of branch banks
Re-r.lscouuts of the last six months
Ditz,o in branch banks ..
Interes% on protested bills ...
Miscellaneous ...

381,598 25
". 6.790 0
~. 261,535 18
... 2,626,657 12
1,33,092 0
▪ 96,7:33 70
• 227,245 0
... 701,198 13
... 372,197 4

£.E55,537,650 12
Certified by the Governor of the Bank,
D'AncorT.

It appears from the preceding account the, the cish
in hand hts decreased by 4 600,000% The, commercial
bills discoanted increasi-d by 3,700,000 F. The Bank
notes in c!reulation hav,! increased by 4,500,0001: The
balino,.., to the credit of 111,3 Treasury has decreased by
2 800 000 i; The titiudry credits have decreased by
2,100 000 F.

FAILURE OF THE SUNDERLAND
JOINT-STOCK BANK.

SUNDERLAND, SATURDAY.—Yesterday morning the
Sunderland Joint-Srocit Banking Company stopped pay-
ment. This company was established in 1836, with a
capital of 100,0001. in 101. shares, 71. 10s., or 75.0001., of
this capital being paid up. The immediate cause of the
stoppage, it is stated. was, that the London and West•
minster Bank refused to discount its paper; the remote
cause, losses by failures in the town,-1 large manufac-
turing firm some years ago, and a shipowner this year,
having failed, with a balance considerably on the wrong
side of the bank book. The operations of the bank were
limited to the town, and, as the tradespeople did not
generally keep their accounts will it, the stoppage
will not be extensively felt. The bank was known
in the town as the " Methodist Bank," the
directors of it principally belonging to that
body, and from this circumstance its business was
sot:hewn-It of a class character. Its stoppage will be felt
most severely by small shiphualers, whose work is sub-
let to them by large capitalists. Its deficiencies are
stated to amount to 20,000:., but probably they will be
no more. The proprietary is limited, and some of the
shareholders are substantial men. The only fear is that
the pressure will come too heavily upon them at first.
The deposits amount to about 24 0001., and there seems
to be little fear but that the depositors will be paid in
fall. The corporation banked wi'h the company, and
has 1,700/. deposited the Sunderland Joint Stock Pr -
mium As,,acia;,ion, 5 COOL, and a 'shipowner, also, has a
considerable sum locked up. There are about 4,500
shares in the hands of persons able to pay all demands,
and, as the deficiency only amounts to about, the sum
stared, it will appear that the further loss to the share-
holders will not tar exceed 51. a share. A meeting of the
shareholders riga, held yesterday, when a call of 21. 10s.
per share was made.

DESTRUCTION OF A WHALE
SHIP BY A SPERM WITALE.
(From the Panama Herald, Oct. 16.)
We have just received the following thrilling ac-
count of the destruction of the whale-ship Ann Alex-
ander, Captain John S. Deblois, of New Bedford, by
a large sperm whale, from the lips of the captain him-
self, who arrived in this city from Paita on Sunday
last in the schooner Providence. A similar circum-
stance has never been known to occur but once in the
whole history of whale fis'-ing, and that was the de-
struction of the s'io Es-LK, some twenty or twenty-
five years ag,), tine( „,,.i.--, . . •••-• , t our readers fully re-
member. We prec-A - -• • n ivative as furnished
us by Captain D.htois,.e.,(l -. -ion is fully authenticated
by nine of the cre-,T in a protest under the seal of the
United States Consul, Alex. Ruden, at Paita.
The ship -ar 1 Alexander, Captain S. Deblois, sailed
from New Bea.'w.d, Mass., June Ist, 1850, for a cruise
in the South Pacific for sperm whale. Having taken
aboUt 500 barrels of oil in the Atlantic, the ship pro-
ceeded on her voyage to the Pacific. Nothing of un-
usual. interest occurred until, when passing Cape
Horn, one of the men, named Jackson Walker, of
Newport, N. H., was lost overboard in a storm.
Reaching the Pacific, she came up the coast and
stopped at Valdivia, coast of Chili, for fresh provi-
sions, and on the 31st of May last she called at Paita
for the purpose of shipping a man. The vessel pro-
ceeded on her voyage to the South Pacific. .
On the 20th of August last she reached what is
i
well known to all whalers as the " Off-shore ground,"
in latitude 5 deg. 50 min. S., long. 102 deg. W. In
the morning of that day, at about nine o'clock, whales
were discovered in the neighbourhood, and about noon
the same day they succeeded in making fast to one.
Two boats had gone after the whales—the larboard
and starboard, the former commanded by the first
mate,• and the latter by Captain Deblois. The whale
which they had struck was harpooned by the larboard
boat. After running some time the whale turned
upon the boat, and rushing at it with tremendous vio-
lence,, lifted open its enormous jIW3, and taking the
boat in, actually cru,,,ht,d it into fragments as small as
a coturnon-sizfrd chair. Captain Deblois immediately
struck for the scene- of the disaster with the starboard
bof-, • and succeeded against all expectation in res-
cuing the whole of the crew of the boat, nine in
number.
There were now eighteen men in the starboad boat,
consisting of the captain, the first mate, and the crews
of both boats. The frighttul disaster had been wit-
nessed from the ship, and the waste boat was called
' ‘ ! ivactiF4olll4 Wu tto their relief. The distance
'di the : .ip....
~ gout six miles.. As soon as the
/ El. -aegt- ... ; - ,klia ere ws were divided, and it was
kjilit-i43ti,1113
.., , , he same whale, and make an-
t.lollht_ k- •• ne.. • ,-,,, Accordingly they separated,
:-:4--,..11r ' s istance from each other, as is
4. 400"1.,..ai5h ' --ild "- after the whale. In a short
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