The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-03 00:00:00

BANK OF FRANCE.

PARIS, May 2.
The following is the return of the Bank of Franco
for the week ending to-day, together with the cor-
responding figures of the previous account :

DEBTOR.
May 2.
fr. c.
Capital of the Bank , 182,500,000
Profits in addition to
capital (Art. 8, Law,
June 9, 1857) 7,044,776 02 7,044,776 02
Reserve of the Bank

April 25.
fr.

182,500,000

and its branches
Reserve in landed pro-

22,105,750 14 22,105,750 11

perry 4,000,000 4,000,000
Notes in circulation
Banknotes to order and
receipts payable at
sight 25,826,425 53 19,910,933 63
Treasury account cur-
rent creditor
Current accounts, Paris 262,906,473 97 269,392,653 37
Do. branch banks
Dividends payable 857,294 75 929,596 75
Discounts and sundry

interests
Rediscounted the last
six months
Surplus of receipts not
distributed
Sundries

7,842,568 46 7,311,611 17

Total
.1,679,769,969 53

CILIWITOR.
Cash in hand and in May 2. April 25.
fr. C. fr. c.
Branch banks 780,848,328 68 780,565,059 07
Commercial bills over-
due
Commercial bills dis-
counted, not yet due 255,110,880 16 263,296,689 47
Do. branch banks..... 277,6M,863 26'3,395,951
Advances on deposit of
bullion .............. 36 292 300 34,499,700
Do. branch bunks.,,,, 7,435,800'' 7,378,500
Do. on French Public
Securities...... 13 640 400 12,846,500
Do. by branch banks 7,824,200'' 7,690,900
Do. on railway 'harts
and debentures
1). branch banks..,,,:„ 26'596'950 26,907,450
Do. on Credit Fancier
Bonds .................. 819 700
811,200
Do. branches .... 704,760 981,450
... ..•
Do. to the State (Con-
vention, June 10,
1857)......•••••• 60,000,000 60,000,000
Government Stock re-
serve
Do. disposable
Renter Immobalisees
(Law, June 2, 1857) 100,000,000 100,000,000
Hotel and furniture of
the Bank and landed
property branches
Expenses of manage-
ment
Sundries

8,355,608 -

8,355,607 -

Total 1,695,853,113 44 1,679,769,969 53
Oertifled by the Senator Governor of the Bank of France.

(Signed)

ROLTLiXD.

GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—Her Majesty's Emi-
gration Commissioners chartered yesterday the John Tem-
perky, 975 tons, Mr. J. W. Tacker, master, belonging to
Messrs. Temperleys, Carter, and Parke of London, fcr the
conveyance of Government emigrants to Melbourne, Vic-
toria, at £l3 7s. sd. per statute adult. The ship is to be
ready for the reception of her passengers on Monday, the
2 WI of June next, at Plymouth Sound.
NEW PARK AT LIVERPOOL.--The Liverpool Cor-
poration have purchased from the Earl of Sefton 360 acres
of land to form a new park. They invited landscape gar-
deners and others to send in designs, and on Wednesday
the first premium of 300 guineas, for the designs for the
park, was awarded to Messrs. E. Andre and L. Hornblower,
of Paris and Liverpool; and the second, of 150 guineas, to
Mr. Edward Milner, of Sydeuham.
THE RECRUITING COMMISSION.—A return from
the War-office, moved for in the Hells, of Lords, and dated
the Bth of April, gives an abstract of the recommendations
of the Royal Commission of 1866 on recruiting, and adds :
—" No final steps have as yet been taken for carrying out
the recommendations of the Commission, the whole sub-
ject being still under consideration at the date of this re-
turn."