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

IJANIi. OF FitANCE:

PA ms, Oct. 10.
The return of the Bank of France for tip, veck
ending to-thy shows the following, eliands
pared with that of last week :

INCREASE.
Bills discounted ...... 0,800,000 fr.
DECREASE.
_ -

Cash in hand ----
95,600,000 fr.
Private accounts 15,000,000h.
Notes . .
Treasury Balance
Advances 200,0001r.

Bank of England Returns,—This Evening.

An Account, pursuant to t]
cap. 32, for the week ending

,he Act 7th and Eth Victoria,
Wednesday, Oct. 9, 1E67.
P ARTMENT.

ISSUE DE]
Notes issued ....X38,989,010

Governmt. Debt.Zll,ols,loo
Other Securities 3,984,900
Gold Coin and
Bullion
Silver Bullion

£37,989,010

£37,989,010

BANKING ll]

Proprietors' Capi-
ta! £14,553,000
Rost
Public Deposits
(including E-
xchequer, Sav-
ings' Bank;
Commissioners
of National
Debt, and Div.
Accounts 7,557,442
Other Deposits.. 18,304,800
Seven Days and
other Bills 552,826

,EPARTMENT.
Governmt. Secu-
rities(including
Dead Weight
Annuity) £12,894,872
Other Securities 17,164,197
Notes 13,461,975
Gold and Silver

Coin ... 1,120,024

£44,641,068

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£44,641,068

THE COLOUR OF GRAPES.

In respect to the relation subsisting between
colour and flavour, this point must always be borne
in mind—that black grapes in perfect condition, as
to colour and bloom, but deficient of flavour, will,
if allowed to hang on the vines, continue for a long
time to improve. In these cases colour and bloom
are attained before the flesh is fully ripe, and when
the eye has pronounced them perfect the palate
presently declares them imperfect, and therefore
flavour as well as appearance should be included in
the category of qualities to which we apply the
term " finish." On the other hand, black grapes
that are not black, that perhaps are red, but posses-
sing a good flavour, will, if allowed to hang on the
vines, continually deteriorate. In other words,
they will not hang ; they contain more water
than black samples, and have already stored up as
much sugar in their cells as they are capable of
secreting, and the next, and a not far off, stage of
their career is decomposition. The same red grapes
are deficient of bloom, which is a natural accom-
paniment of a healthy skin and a firm pedicel, and
therefore while their interior pulp is in a condition
to undergo speedily a destructive change, so the
skin of the berries, having none of the protection
which a bloom affords—for that is the use of the
bloom—is in a condition to become speedily mil-
dewed, and the pedicels being loosely attached soon
allow the berries to fall. As a matter of fact, red
grapes soon become watery if kept on the vines,
and on the slightest touch the berries fall to the
ground in showers. As a matter of fact, black
grapes —grapes of goo size, deep colour, and
with . a plentiful blown—will hang on the
vines for a considerable time without becom-
ing mildewed, without becoming loosened from
their pedicels, without changing their contents from
sweet mucilage to water, but in Iced with a change
always augmenting up to a catain point of their
keeping, from a less rich to a more rich condition,
and to a condition at last far surpassing the condi-
tion of highest perfection ever attained by the red
grapes. As a rule, grapes that are p_irfeet in co:our,
but imperfect in flavour, are simple not yet ripe ;
but grapes from very young vines, produced by
rapid systems of cultivation, never have so good a
flavour as grai,es from old vines, that are neither
highly fed nor forced in haste. There is but one
way to sum up these considerations with a view to
judging, and it is this: that although colour may
not indicate what a grape is, it is usually indicative
of what it will be, and in the end we shall find,
malgre'occasional exceptions, that colour is of much
mere importance than it has been commonly re-
garded in the judging of grapes.—From If ibberd's
Gardener's Magazine.

GREAT FIRE.---A fire resulting in very consider-
able damage occurred at Dundee on Tuesday night. The
fire started in the shipbuilding yard of Messrs. Stephens
and Sons. Two ship; one almost ready for launching, also
caught fire, and both they and other combustible materials
in the yard were destroyed. The flames likewise spread
eastward to the yard of Brown and Simpson, the sheds of
which were burned to the ground, and a large iron ship on
the stocks had the dock and all the woodwork burned.
The damage is estimated at about £60,000. Nearly 200
operatiYes will be thrown idle, besides having their tools
destroyed.

THE FATAL ILLNESS OF M. FOULD.—The DObats
publishes some details of the attack which proved fatal to
M. Fould. It appeals that in the course of Saturday he
wrote to several people inviting them to his estate, and
giving some account of his late hunting experiences. The
table was set at 6 o'clock, but the dinner had scarcely be_
gun when M. Fould was seized with a fit of shivering, and
complained of sudden pains in the arms and hands. At
the entreaty of Madame Fould he left the room and went
to bed, asking to be left alone, saying that it was but a slight
indisposition, and he wanted to sleep. At half-past 7
Madame Fould went up to the room to see how he was,
and receiving no reply to her question, thought he was in
a deep sleep and withdrew. At 9 o'clock she went again,
and receiving no answer from him, hastened to his bed,
took his hand and found he was dead. It is believed that
he died immediately after he got into bed.
FLOGGING GAHOTTERS.—Yesterday the pu❑ish-
ment of the lash was inflicted at Armley Gaol, near
Leeds, on those garotters who had been sentenced at the
West Riding Assizes, held in August last. The criminals
were William Casey, a stimy-built and determined-looking
young fellow ; Henry Campbell, a hawker, 31 years of age ;
and Samuel Hirst, 26 years old, and a mechanic. All the
offences had been committed within the borough of Leeds.
Casey's case was a very bad one. Along with a companion
(not iu custody) he assaulted and robbed Wm. Pearson
Kirby, kicked hint on the mouth aid on the left side, and
in thus kicking over the chin had cut off a portion of pro-
secutor's tongue. When taken into custody Casey re-
marked, "I do not care for the affair if they don't warm my
back for it;" and the judge, after observing that this was
one of the worst cases of garotting that had come before
him, sentenced the prisoner to five years' penal servitude,
and ordered him to receive two dozen lashes with the cat-
o'-nine-tails. Campbell, the second convict, in the course
of a street robbery, struck his victim over the eye with a
half brick, and nearly blinded that organ for life ; and he
was also ordered to undergo a similar punishment. The
third prisoner, Hirst, was concerned with a woman in an-
other street robbery, in which the prosecutor was garotted
with great violence, his mouth torn severely, and a severe
kick ou the side administered, which left him insensible,
and his lordship passed sentence exactly to the same effect
as he had done in the two previous cases. The punish-
ment inflicted yesterday seemed to be fully appreciated by
each of the prisoners.
MR. BRIGHT.—The Lord Provost of Edinburgh,
at a meeting of the Town Council on Tuesday, read the
following letter received from Mr. Bright in ackuowledg-
ment of the proposal to confer upon him the freedom of
that city :" My dear Lord Provost,—l have to thank you
for the kind letter in which you inform me of the wish of
your magistrates and council to confer upon me the free-
dem of your city. lam not insensible to the value of the
honour which is thus offered to me, and if I were in
Edinburgh, or wore likely soon to be there, it would be
impossible for me to refuse their kind proposal. Ido not
expect to be in Edinburgh at an early period, and, unfor-
tunately, I cannot now easily arrange to be there; and I
am compelled, therefore, to ask that the honour intended
for me may be deferred for the present. You will oblige )
me by conveying my warm thanks to the magistrates and
council of Edinburgh for their most kind disposition
towards me, and the assurance that it is from no want of
courtesy on my part that I am unable now to come to
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your city to receive the distinction which they have pro-
posed trough you to confer upon me."