The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-12 00:00:00

ASSETS.

Cash in band ... f. 465,823,455 9
Ditto in branch banks 132,520,563 0
Bills past due ••• •• ••• 255,084 8
Bills discounted, but not yet• due, of
which 12,563,651 f. were received
from the Branch Banks ... 38,063,662 40
Bills in the branch banks ... 66,003,437 0
Advances on coins and ingots... ... 1,139,600 0
Ditto by the branch banks ... 1,767,950 0
Ditto on French public securities ... 8,309,746 10
Ditto by branch banks... ... 2,394,806 0
Ditto to the State on Bons du Tresor... 50,000,000 0
Oitto on the loan of 75 millions ... 50,000,000 0
Rentes of the reserve fund ... 10,000,000 0
Rentes, disposable funds 42,678,118 53
Investments of the new branch banks in
the public funds 12,952,725 74
Hotel and furniture of the Bank ... 4,000,000 0
Real property of the branch banks ... 3,532,791 0
Interest in National Discount Bank ... 200,000 0
Ditto branch banks ... 168,000 0
expenses of administration of the Bank 77,867 56
Ditto at the branches ... 121,877 0
Aliscellaneous ... 2,260,687 70

f. 892,270,371 20

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
Reserve-immobiliere ... 4,000,000 0
Notes to bearer, in circulation ... ... 422,211,800 0
Ditto of the branch banks ... 114,823,175 0
Ditto to order (post-bills) ... 7,068,691 48
Account-current with Treasury creditor 114,576,511 49
Various accounts current 83,123,615 56
Ditto in branches ... 28,381,399 0
Bills payable at sight ... 7,502,500 0
Ditto at branches ••• ... 3,290,020 0
Dividends payabl® ... . • ... 920,617 25
Liquidation of the Algiers Bank 7,760 0
Expenses anticipated ... ... 261,722 98
Discounts, interest, and expenses 266,584 80
Ditto of branch banks ... ... 479,099 0
Re-discounts of the last six months ... 96,733 70
Ditto in branch banks 227,245 0
Interest on protested bills ... ... 419,275 25
Miscellaneous ... 382,870 55

f. 892,270,371 20
Certified by the Governor of the Bank,
D'AROOUT.

It appears from the preceding account that the cash in
hand has increased by 5,750,000 f. The commercial bills
discounted have decreased by 14,850,000 f. The Bank
notes in circulation have decreased by 3,500,000 f.
The balance to the credit of the Treasury has in-
creased by 2,200,000 f. Sundry credits have increased by
1,500,000 f.

LONDON AND PARIS.
(From the Journal des Debats.)
Magnificent weather enlightens and renders gay the
fetes offered to the delegates of England, and we
congratulate ourselves on it, because it flatters our
vanity as Parisians. Paris more than London has
need of fine weather, because the way of living is
more out of doors. Paris is all to all ; it is cosmopolite
par excellence—from the first moment of arrival one
is at home. At London one must be English, or
half so; at Paris one is all that one wishes to be.
Everybody is Parisian, but everybody is not a Lon-
doner. No passports are required to enter England,
but they are necessary to enter English society; whilst,
when you are once in Paris, whoever you may be,
everything belongs to you—the museums, libraries,
churches, restaurants, and caf6s. Not only the neces-
sides, but the superfluities of material, intellectual,
and moral life are within the reach of every one. Paris
when the sun shines is twice as beautiful as in
bad weather, for it is the city of monuments—it is
especially, compared to London, an architectural city.
The Arc de Triomphe, the Madeleine, the Quays, and
the Louvre become embellished by light; but the most
brilliant sun in the world could no make a monu-
ment of Buckingham Palace, or give architecture to
the dovecots which decorate the academy in Trafalgar-
square. London, it is true, has width and grandeur
in its streets—it has extent and space. When, after
an excursion on the other side of the water, we
return to Paris, we find horizons drawn closer, and
points of view diminished by half, All appears lei-
sened, as when we see, after several years, the
houses, gardens, or chambers, in which we lived
in infancy. One would say that Paris has been sub-
ject to the Collas process—there are the same
squares, the same streets, the same edifices, the same
houses ; but all on a reduced scale. 'There is a phy-
sical impression common to all those who have passed
some time at London. But if London is larger, Paris
is more elegant—it has more harmony in its propor-
tions. We take it in a glance, either from the
boulevards or the bridges. Oar quays and boule-
vards are probably two things unique in the world.
London has no quays or boulevardes, and London does
not wish to have any. The great storehouses which
I;ne the banks of the Thames are an undisputed
ugliness ; but they are the sources of enormous
profits. The Londoners greatly prefer for quays
entrepots, which receive directly the merchan-
dise of all the ships of the world, to pro-
menades planted with trees and ornamented with
seats for idlers ; and we understand their preference.
London, it is true, has something which we have not
—the parks. We may, if we will, prefer to them the
garden of the Tuilleries, or the Luxembourg, or the
Jardin des Plantes; but the parks of London are not
the less something quite different, something
apart, something original. The Londoners are
justly proud of them; they love them; they
are considered privileged ground, as might be
seen when part of Hyde-park was taken for
the Crystal Palace. One of the last Kings of
England asked what it would cost to close the parks
against the public. " Three Crowns," replied the
Minister. But no town in the world has the boule-
vards of Paris. They are what are veritably, essen-
tially, uniquely Parisian ; what are to be found
neither in Hyde-park of London, nor in the Toledo
of Naples, nor the Corso of Rome, nor in the Cas-
cines of Florence. If London wished to seek a point
of comparison, it could only find the Thames.
The 'Thames is the true boulevard of
London. The descent of the river from Hungerford-
bridge to Blackwell is for London, in the English
style what the line from the Arc de Triomphe to the
Bastille is for Paris. Naturally, we are not inclined
to undertake a controversy on the comparative ad-
vantages of the two towns ; in this respect there is
nothing absolute, and we must no more dispute
national preferences than tastes or colours. But
we only wish, on behalf of Paris, for the judgment
of the English themselves, and we dread nothing,
since they return to it always. The two nations,
however, have serious instruction to derive from the
exchange of visits which are taking place so rapidly
and so happily. Thus we can show with pride to the
English the Museum of the Louvre, the Museum of
Versailles, the Jardin des Plantes, and our admirable
libraries, all our national edifices, opened gratuitously
to all, whilst in England you cannot look at a pic-
ture, nor read a book, nor even offer up a prayer,
without a tariff being presented to you. But, on their
part, the English may reply to us :—" We have not
such fine things, it is true, but the things we have
we made ourselves. If we have no monuments in
our streets we have none in our budget. We have
not such fine stations as that of the Strasbourg Rail-
way ; but when we want a railway we do not request
the assistance of the State. The state for us is not a
servant of all work—we do not ask the State to think,
to work for us—we do not ask it to keep up our
roads, to water our streets, to clothe us and shave us;
and when we build a Crystal Palace to give hospi-
tality to the universe we do it at our own risk and peril,
with the aid of private fortunes, not with the budget.
It is we who make the State live, but it is the State
which makes you live. When you pass along the
streets of London, or visit the faubourgs and villages,
you may read on certain] edifices, Supported by
voluntary contributions,' and that is worth your
three words, Liberte, VratPrnitr,.'" That
is what the English might say to us, and we do not
see what we could reply to it. They might also say
to us that we possess works of art which they do
not envy us, like the fortifications and the detached
forts, and edifices of which they make little use,
such as barracks. They might also ask us what
pleasure we find in exchanging our peaceable
black coats for a National Guard uniform, and
with a musket and sword standing two hours
as sentinels in the rain or the sun to prevent
little dogs and parcels from entering the Tuileries.
They might also put to us many other questions.
But who knows whether our pacific visitors will not
be corrupted by the air of Janis, AO will take back