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

TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 12, 1851.

portion the parties best adapted for bush-fighting and
Kafir warfare, must be a serious loss to the Gover-
nor. Added to this, it is impossible to foretel what
effect it will have in re-assuring the enemy.
When Sir R. Peel left a rumour was prevalent that
Earl Grey had consented to grant a constitution to
the colony, and that a dispatch had been received
from the Noble Earl, in which he expressed his
approval of the "16 articles." The Cape Town
Mail says on this subject :
"We believe that we may congratulate our fellow-
colonists on the approaching triumph of the cause which
they have at heart. It seems probable that the privilege
of self-government is at last about to be conceded to this
colony. The rumours which are afloat, and confident
tone of Mr. Fairbairn's letter, the encouraging
,tenor of
the remarks which we copy from the Times, with various
other indications, leave little room for doubting that a
constitution will shortly be granted to the Cape, based
in its main provisions on the 16 articlet,' of the popular
plan of government."
The mails, in charge of Commander Mellor, were
landed immediately, and a special engine has been
put on by the South Devon Railway to expedite their
delivery in London.

BANK OF FRANCE.
The following is a return of the situation of the Bank
of France on Aug. 7:—

ASSETS.

Cash in band ... ..,.
... f.4&5,823,455 9
Ditto in branch banks ... 132,520,563 0

Bills past due .. .. ••• 255,084
Bills discounted, but not yet due, of
which 12,563,6511. were received
from the Branch Banks ... 38,663,662 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 Tri.lsor... 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 ... ... 42,678,118 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
heal property of the branch banks ... 3,532,791 0
Interest in National Discount Bank ... 200,000 0

Ditto branch banks

168,004: 0

Expenses of administration of the Bank 77,867 56
Ditto at the branches ... ... ... 121,877 O

Iliscellaneous

2,260,687 70
••• ••• ••••

f. 892,270,371 20

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

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 payable ••• • • ••• 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

L 892,270,371 20
Certified by the Governor of the Bank,
D'Ano OUT.

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
❑otes 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 Debuts.)
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 cafes. Not only the neces-
sities, 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 not 'lake a monu-
ment of Buckingham Palace, or give architecture to
the dovecots which decorate the academy in Trafaig ar-
square. London, it is true, has width and grandeur
in its streets—it has extent and space. When, arter
an excursion on the other side of :he water, we
return to Paris, we find horizons drawn closer, and
points of view diminished by half. All appears les-
sened, as when we see, after seseral years, . the
houses, gardens, or chambers, in which we lrved
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 pre sed
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: Our quays and b oule-
yards 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
line 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 thorn the
garden of the Tuilleries, or the Luxembourg, OT the
Jardin des Plantes; but the parks of London tar e 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-
eines 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 Paria. 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 retura 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 :—" W e 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, Egalite, Fraternite: " 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 Paris, and will take back

with them military tastes ? Were not two hundred
municipal guards on horseback sent to receive the
Lord Mayor at the Northern Railway station, and
did not the sentinels the other day present arms to
him ? We should like to have seen the worthy and
grave magistrate of the City make the military salute
—he who does not permit a soldier to pass Temple-
bar and enter his domain with arms. And what will
he think after having seen the sham•fight in the
Champ-de-Mars ? By the way, how is it that the
Peace Congress has not risen in insurrection against
this corrupting spectacle? How can it allow the di-
vision of General Guillabert to make an offensive re-
connaissance on the division of General Carrelet, and
throw a bridge over the Seine to attack Trocadero ;
then, on being repulsed by considerable forces, repass
the bridge and confine themselves in the Champs-de-
Mars under the protection of their cavalry and artil-
lery ? Such is the abridged and softened programme
of this barbarous fate. Fortunately all terminates by
, the filing off of all the troops united.

MAGAZINES, &c.--(CONTINUED;.

BENTLEY.

The series of papers now publishing in Bentley,
under the title of the " Picture Galleries of England,"
promises to be both valuable and interesting ; the
notices of " Northumberland House and Sion House,"
which appear in the present number, are models in
their way. " A Visit to a County Gaol at the Public
Expense," is the narrative of the gaol experiences of
an unfortunate individual, who, unable to pay a fine
inflicted on him by a police magistrate, for some
petty misdemeanour, was committed to the 'county
gaol. This narrative fully confirms the statements of
Mr. Ernest Jones, as to the atrocious tyranny
habitually practised by the governors and
authorities of the gaols on those unhappy
persons who are committed to their tender mercies, and
who are subjected in many instances to severe flog-
gings at the mere will of the governor, and whose
scanty allowance of provisions stopped for the most
trivial offences, and frequently for no offence at all.
These matters all require reform, there must be a clean
sweep out made of the greater number of the gover-
nors and officials of all our Houses of Correction ;
and above all, they must be deprived of the power of
inflicting any disciplinary punishment save by the
written authority of two of the Visiting magistrates,
who would, in such case, be held responsible. Alfred
Crowquill gives us a delighful paper on Vauxhall in
the 18th century, and the admirable Zoological Notes
and anecdotes are continued, the manners and habits
of eagles being the subject of the present notice.

DUBLIN UNIVERSITY.
" Chatterton" and " Maurice Tiernay" are conti-
nued. In the former, we find the bov-poet, after an
unsuccessful attempt to impose on Horace Walpole,
bent on abandoning his native town, and following
the professional walk of literature in London. The
capture of the ill starred Due d'Enghein, whose hur-
ried execution in the midnight fosse of Vincennes,
brought such odium on Napoleon (Talleyrand and
Savary being in our mind the real culprits), is nar-
rated in the latter. " A Visit to Warmbrunn and
Grcefenberg in Silesia" is told in a fluent conversa-
tional style, the very thing for the pages of a maga-
zine. The lovers of Spenser will enjoy the paper on
" Irish Rivers," devoted to the Mulla and Allo,
streams which the glorious poet loved and
sung. An article, entitled " The British Of-
ficer," is exceedingly worthy of perusal, replete
with excellent observations, and written by
one of evident experience in matters relating to the
military profession ; we are inclined to attribute it to
the same agreeable and accomplished writer to whom
the magazine has been indebted for several months
past for that admirable series of dramatic feuilletons,
" Leaves from the Portfolio of a Manager." A
criticism on " Pendennis" treats that work of Mr.
Thackeray fairly and impartially, not forgetting to
giie him a rub for his cockneyish Hiberno-phobia,
the worst fault of a shrewd and humorous author,
who, if " Pendennis" be not a first-rate production,
has, at least, in " Vanity Fair" given to English
literature the best every-day-life novel since
the immortal " Tom Jones." In the opening paper,
" Fruits and Flowers," we find a garland of poetic
beauties skilfully selected, but J. F. Slingsby might,
we think, just as well, and somewhat better, figure as
a contributor of original matter than as a lazy collector
of the effusions of others. The best among them are the
knightly tale, " Sir Rainulf's Henchman," " The
Roses," " A Storm at Sea," a sonnet commencing—
" Down springs the hawk-winged tempest from his lair
Upon the slumbering sea,"
and " July," a set of delectably melodious stanzas,
of which we give one as a specimen—a perfect pic •
ture

" Not a single cloud is drifting
O'er the far blue sky,
As throughout the twilight starless,
In a light skiff, not cigarless,
Quiet gaze to Heaven uplifting,
Languidly I lie,
And behold thy glories shifting,
Beautiful July!"
Of the deeply interesting paper, " The Line of the
Lakes," we shall only say at present that it merits
the attention of every one desirous of entertaining a
just conception of the vast. natural advantages pre-
sented by the peculiar features of British North
America. We may take a future opportunity of ad-
verting to its valuable contents.