The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-20 00:00:00

DEBTOR.

Feb 11. Feb 18.
fr. c. fr. c.
Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 182,500,000
Profits in addition to
capital (Art. 8, Law,
June 9, 1857) 7,014,776 02 7,011,776 02
Reserve of the Bank
and its branches 22,105,750 11 22,105,750 14
Reserve of lauded pro-
perty 4,000,000 4,000,000
Notes in circulation
Banknotes to orderand
receipts payable at
,
sight 35,395,122 43 34 079,872 50
Treasury account cur-

rent ci•edit. 3•
Current accounts, Paris 245,142,962 17 253, 41,891 38
Do. branch banks 46,960,195 41,>,95,663
Dividends payable 1,825,089 1,620,906
Discounts and sundry
interests
Rediscounted the last
six months
Surplus of receipts not
distributed
Sundries

933,790 85 933,790 85

Total

CREDITOR.
Feb. 11.
fr.

Feb. 18,
f r.

Cash in hand and in

Branch banks
Commercial bills over-

due
Commercial bills dis-

802,079 87

263,003 8

counted, not yet due 287,568,296 65 280,663,121 84
Do. branch banks 272,841,510 263,076,311 -
Advances on deposit of
bullion
Do. branch banks 6,937,180
Do. on French Public

28,698,600 -

4,210,000 -

Securities..
Do. by branch banks..
Do. on railway shares
and debentures
Do. branch banks
Do. on Credit Foncier
Bonds
Do. branches
Do. to the State (Con-
vention, Juno 10,

13,603,700 - 13,615,500 -
6,937,180 - 6,857,880 -

37,588,800 --

`27,860,000 --

954,800 - 949,700 -
823,500 - 880,200 -

1857)
Government Stock re-
serve 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14
Do. disposable
Routes Immobalisees
(Law, June 2, 1857) 104,000,000 100,000,000
Hotel and furniture of
the Bbnk and landed
property branches
Expenses of manage-
ment 263,207 54 273,842 14
Sundries

60,000,000 --

60,000,000 -

8,970,665 - 8,975,735 -

Total
Certified by the Senator-Governor of the Bank
of France.

(Signed) Ro WAND.

THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL ME IS.

Mr. George Perren is about to attempt a revival of Eng-
lish Opera at one of the West-end theatres.
On Monday evening Miss Eveline and Mr. George
Jordan will appear at the Lyceum in the " Wife's Secret."
Dr. Westland Marston's new play " Lifo for Life," for
Miss Neilson will be produced on the 16th of March.
Mr. Boucicault has another new piece ready for the
Princess's, in which Madame Celeste will sustain the lead-
ing part.
The anniversary festival of the Royal Society of Musi-
cians will take place on the 31st of March at the Free-
masons' Tavern.
A morning performance is being arranged to take place
at Drury-lane Theatre for the benefit of the sufferers by
the destruction of the Hull theatre.
Mario is laid up with illness in St. Petersburg.
I Mr. Costa has refused his usual engagement at the
Italian Opera, because it was not accompanied with the
usual independent control of the orchestra and chorus.

MR. SIMS REEVES AND HIS PUBLIC ENGAGE-
MENTS.—At the Cheltenham County-court yesterday an
action was tried in which the plaintiff was Mr. George
Hodson, lessee of the Gloucester and Cheltonhani Theatres,
and the defendant Mr. Harrison, agent of Mr. Sims
Reeves, the claims being for damages for the non-appear-
ance of Mr. Reeves at a concert given at Cheltenham, at
which he had been engaged to sing. The jury found for
the plaintiff for the full amount, £23. The verdict was
applauded by the audience.
The greatest number of successful candidates
from any one school at the late Cambridge local examina-
tion was 34, from the Devon County School, West Buck-
hind ; and the greatest number of boys in honours was 15,
from the same school.

THE MANUFACTURE OF WATCHES AND CLOCKS.—
A most interesting and instructive little work, describing briefly
but with great clearness, the ,rise and progress of watch and
clock makin has just been published by Mr J. W. Benson, of
25, Old Bond-street, 99, Westbourne-grove, and the City Steam
Factory, 58 and 60, Ludgate-hill. The book, which is profusely
illustrated, gives a full description of the various kinds of watches
and clocks, with their prices, and no one should make a purchase
without visiting the above establishments or consulting this truly
valuable work. By its aid persons residing in any part of the
United Kingdom, India, or the Colonies, are enabled to select for
themselves the watch best adapted for their use, and have it sent
to them with perfect safety. Mr. Benson, who holds the
adappoint-
ment to the Prince of Wales, sends this pamphlet to any dress
of t receipt of two postage stamps, and we cannot too strongly
Cool4liltit4 tt t 9 gri WWI -91 th. iitt4Sact Far*W.