The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-11 00:00:00

- "swviewm.rwerwri,
Minister desired to wed his son, and thus secur
for his family the principality ; but astrology bad
foretold that a handsome young man named Chan-
dra-Hasa would become the ruler. The Minister
not feeling inclined to accept the decre3 of the stars
took active measures to defeat it, plotting in vain
against Chandra-Hasa's life, but on finding that
he could not accomplish his destruction, he sent bhp
with a letter to his son, wherein was written,
" Chandra-Hasa is my enemy ; give him poison."
Making a long journey, the weary bearer of his
own death-warrant lay down by a tank and fell
asleep, where Bikya, straying alone in the direction,
found him, with the letter falling from his breast.
Attracted by the handsome young man, and curious
to know what the letter contained, she took it up,
and was surprised -to see that the address was tn
her brother, in the handwriting of her fat her.
Opening it she read the contents, and determined
to defeat the design. By taking away a single
letter she turned " enemy" into " friend ;" the word
signifying poison is biku, aed by inserting " y " It
became Bikya, and the sentence then ran--" Chan-
dra-Hasa is my friend ; give him Bikya.” She
then sealed it with her father's seal, replaced
it in the youth's bosom, and left him to awake and
deliver the missive, which he did, and the order
being imperative, the astonished son had the nuptials
performed that night. Such stories serve to esta-
blish the facts that Hindoo ladies were allowed A
greater latitude than now, that they were able to
read and write, and it appears certain that they
were also instructed in music and dancing, acconl-
plishments now confined to nautch girls. The
brother of one of these heroines, Uttara, is described
as being welcomed back from a warlike tour by 3
procession of beautiful damsels, and the Rani had her
cup of wine, for which, as a matter of course, she seat
to the house of her brother. We hope the reviewer
will deal when treating of celebrated llindoo
women of later times with the Rani of Jhansi, the
bravest, and most inspired of the Hindoos, with dis-
like to the British raj. It is reported of her that
during the mutiny, when her ammunition failed,
she fired bags of pice (copper coin) at the enemy,
and she is said to have been killed by a charge of
British dragoons, whom she courageously enconw
tered at the head of her horsemen in the open field.
In three different epcchs have three women of three
different nations ruled over the destinies of India:
The first was Prem-Divi (IIindoo) ; the second
Sultana Rizia (Mahommedan) ; and the third Vie"
toria (Christian) ; and the fact that a Hind°
woman did sit on the throne of Delhi speaks volunieg
for the position of the sex in Hindoostan in ancient
days; showing that the Ilindw women of the present
have been robbed of the rights they once possessed.

BANK OF FRANCE.

PARIS, June 10•

The following is the return of the Bank of France
for the week ending to-day, together with the or"
responding figures of the previous account :

DEBTOR.
Juno 3.
fr. c.
Capital of the Bank.... 182,500,000
Profits in addition to

June 10.
c,
fr.
182,50,000

capital (Art. 8, Law,
June 9, 1857)
Reserve of the Bank 7,044,776 02 7,044,776 (VI
and its branches
Reserve of landed pro-
perty 4,000,000 4,000,000
Notes in circulation
-, ,
Banknotes to orderand
receipts payable at ~ 10
sight 38,160,027 56 38,055,340
Treasury account cur- 1 29
rent creditor.. 176,441,536 99 172,084,73 56
Current accounts, Paris 375,134,374 15 355,612496'1 '
...-
Do. branch banks 51,053,676 49,593,612
Dividends payable 677,219 E 40,319 --
Discounts and sundry 66 it
interests
Rediscounted the last
six months
Surplus of receipts not
distributed
63
Sundries

22,10.5,750 11 22,105,750 0

9 933,790 85 33,790 86

Total

CREDITOR.
Juno 3.
Cash in hand and in fr. 88 39 Branch banks
Commercial bills over-
duo
Commercial bills dis-
counted, 65
not yet due 335,228,959 50 321,051,8-."
Do: branch banks 260)591,003 —242,469,39 i
Advances on deposit of

bullion
Do. branch banks
Do. on F►•ench Public

278,699 68

10,130,900 -
5,12,660 -

126,111 49

10 008,600
6:083,00

Securities
Do. by branch banks...
Do. on railway shares
and debentures
....•
Do. branch banks
.
Do. on Credit Fancier
Bonds
1,064,900 1,0 04,01,)51,
Do. branches
Do. to the State (Con-
vention, June 10,
1857) 60,000,000
Government Stock re-

15,227,300 -
6,701,380 -

13 659 On
6, 10,1

1,035,10 U -

60,000,000 -*"

12,980,750 14 12 980,750 ,11
80,627,187 21 80,6271187 2

serve
Do. disposable
Relates Immobalisdes
(Law, June 2, 1857) 1(0 (100 000 100,000,000
Hotel and furniture of
the Bbnk and landed
()roper ty branches
E4enses of manage-
-64
ment
2,048,742 85 2,105,115
Qll
Sundries
Total
Certified by the Senator-Governor of the 133°;
of France.
(Signed) Rot:LOP.

9,000,198 8,963,356 '°

roreign £Laii racket List.

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Cape of Good Hupe. Amoension. and St. Helena... •., u-- lb
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HILL —Errs
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—On the Bth inst. at St. Maryleboneu" uge
and 19, Tavistock-square, to Louisa, third clauglitod..
Dr. George N. Epps, of 2U, Devonshire-street, Port'
Place, W.

DEATIIS. of
CORY - On the 9th inst., at Lugano, Charles Coq/
Hopton Hall, Suffolk, aged 56. f 031'
PACE - On the 9th inst., Mr. Samuel Thos. Page, °-
rison's-wharf, St. Katherine's, uged3o, 78. rod/
SHORLAND —en the Bth inst at Lansdowne"
Notting-hill, Miss Shorland,, aged 89.

Lcrdou : Printed and Published by WILLI.A.3I AND°rsua
of No. 112, btrand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, N 0.112,
in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of MiddlB'.
Friday, June 11, 18C9.