The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-10 00:00:00

DEBTOR.

May 9. May 2.
fr. c. fr. c.
Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 182,500,000
Profits in addition to
espital (Art. 8, Law,
June 9, 1857) 7,044,776 02 7,014,776 02
Reserve of the Bank

and its branches 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 14
Reserve in lantled pro-
perty 4,000,000 4,000,000
Notes in circulation
Banknotes to order and
receipts payable at
sight. 24,033,311 49 25,826,125 53
Treasury account cur-

rent creditor
Current accounts, Paris 290,650,550 25 262,906,473 97
Do. branch banks
Dividends pn,ya.ble 811,229 75 837,294 75
Discounts and sundry
interests
Rediscounted the last
six months
Surplus of receipts not
distributed —
Sundries

Total
CREDITOR.
May 9. May 2.
Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr.

Branch banks
790,984,467 04 780,848,328 68
Commercial bills OTer-
due
Commercial bills die-

counted, not yet due 267,656,243 60 265,110,880 16
Do. branch banks 257,541,307 277,624,863
Advances on deposit of
bullion
Do. branch banks , 7,652,400 7,455,800
Do. on French Public

Securities 13,210,600 13,040,400
Do. by branch banks 8,014,900 7,824,200
Do. on railway shares

and debentures
I). branch banks 26,814,450 26,596,950
Do. on Credit Fencier
Bonds
Do. branches
Do. to the State (Con-
vention, June 10,
1857) 60,000,000 60,000,000
Government Stock re-
serve 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14
Do. disposable
lientes Inunobalisees
(Law, June 2, 1857) 100,000,000 100,000,000
Hotel and furniture of
the Bank and landed
property branches
Expenses of manage-
ment 1,527,466 60 1,505,771 57
Sundries

Total 1,691,407,546 80 1,695,853,113 44
Certified by the Senator Governor of the Bank of Franco.
(Signed) 'RoI:LIND.

RAIL WAY INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST

RAILWAY.

Yesterday a special general meeting of share-
holders was held in the International Hotel, Lon-
don-bridge, Colonel Barttelot, M.P., in the chair.
Long before the hour of meeting the room in
which it was held was filled by shareholders, who
occupied the time in private discussions as to the
position and prospects of the company.
The CHAIRMAN, referring to the reports which had
been issued, said he had no doubt these reports had
been read by the proprietors, and the bearing of the
one upon.the other anxiously considered by them.
As far as he was concerned he would endeavour to
abstain from saying anything calculated to create
dissension., He should not enter into minute detail,
or refer to the figures at the end of the report. He
believed theirs was an improving property. (Oh,
oh, and laughter.) He did not think the line had
ever been properly developed. With regard to
Sir C. Jackson, all he had to say was that he
had no objection to investigation, if such investi-
gation was conducted by persons who had a
permanent interest in the company. He had the
greatest respect for Messrs. Baxter, Rose, and Nor-
ton, one of whom was his personal friend, but he
was not prepared to place in the hands of that firm
certain papers and documents, seeing that they were
the solicitors of the London, Chatham, and Dover,
which was the main cause of the Brighton being
placed in its present position. (Hear.) But they
had no objection to au investigation by gentlemen
having a permanent interest in the company. They
had stopped all the works which were not absolutely
necessary, and contracted the expenditure in other
respects. They had signed an agreement with the
South-Eastern, which would lead to peace and
harmony and mutual advantage. He hoped the
South-Western might also come into it, and he had
no objection even to the London, Chatham, and
Dover. (No, no.) Unfortunate as was their pre-
sent position, he believed this was the turning point
in their fortunes, and that the time would come,
and was not far distant, when the Brighton Com-
pany would occupy the place it once did as the first
railway in England. (Cheers.)
Sir C. JACKSON rose to move the following reso-
lution :---,"fhat this meeting is of opinion that no
vacancy should be filled up in the present board of
directors until a report by a committee of investiga-
tion, to be appointed at this meeting, shall have been
presented to the shareholders, and that this meeting
be adjourned to the 16th inst. to receive such re-
port. The committee to consist of the Right Hon.
Lord Westbury, Sir Charles Jackson, Ralph L.
.
Esq., Colonel Meller, ALP
Lopes,, Jonas Levi, Esq.,
and Henry John Anthony Goez, Esq. That such
committee shall have full power to inspect and take
copies of or extracts from the company's books,
papers, and documents, and to obtain such legal
and other assistance as they may
require, and that
the directors and oilicers of the company are re-
quested to render to such committee every assist-
ance and information in their power. That the
directors be, and they arc hereby restricted from
entering into any agreement or other important
arrangement with any other company without the
full sanction and co-operation of the committee.
That the present directors be requested to place
their seats at the disposal of the shareholders, with
a view to a reconstitution of the board at the ad-
journed meeting. That this meeting is of opinion
that the Wharncliffe meeting, which now stands
adjourned to the 16th instant, should not take
place, but that if it should ultimately
thought
necessary to submit the bill now before Parliament
in its present or in any amended form to a meeting
of the proprietors, a new Wharncliffe meeting should
be called for that purpose."
The speaker was proceeding to address the meet-
ing, when several proprietors who orowded the door
complained that the room was insufficient, and asked
for an adjournment to a larger room.
The CIIAIRMAN said they tried to secure a larger
room, but failed to get one.

Sir C. JACKSON said he would now proceed to
address the meeting with regard to the three lines.
The CHAIRMAN said it might prevent discussion
on that point if he were to say that those lines would
be withdrawn from the bill this year, but without
prejudice. (Cheers.)

Sir C. JACKSON said that the action of the com-
mittee of shareholders had not been without result,
and he congratulated the meeting upon it. (Hear.)
On the conclusion of the meeting the poll com-
menced, and was continued until 5 o'clock under
the superintendence of the scrutineers, when theie
appeared to have voted in favour of Sir Charles
Jackson's motion 168, and 34 against it.
The poll is to be continued daily until 10 o'clock
a.m. on Thursday, the 16th inst. On the inter-
mediate days it will continue open from 10 to 4
o'clock, at the International Hotel, Loudon-bridge.
The scrutineers demanded the production of the
proxies and register of shareholders ; but the secre-
tary, under the advice of the solicitor of the com-
pany, declined to comply with their request.

PRESENTATION TO MRS. EYRE.—Mrs. Eyre, wife
of the late Governor of Jamaica, was presented, on the 6th
inst., with a magnificent bracelet in gold and brilliants, by
the ladies of the neighbourhood of Market Drayion, ac-
companied by an illuminated roll of the names of those
joining in the testimonial, and comprehending nearly every
one of the families within visiting distance of A.dderley
Hall. There are 43 ladies' names attached to the roll, in-
cluding Viscountess Hill, wife of the Lord Lieutenant of
the county. The- inscription in the locket attached to the
bracelet is as follows :—" To Ada Eyre, a mar.k of affec-
tionate sympathy from the ladies of Market Drayton,
March 29th, 1867." It is a singular fact that both Mr. and
Mrs. Eyre were total strangers to Shropshire when they
took up their residence there last year.