The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FiIIDAY .EVENING, JUNE 11, 1858.

all possible expedition, the Niagara for the Ame-
rican continent, the Agamemnon for Telegraph
House, Valentia Harbour, Ireland, the chosen
spot of her destination. This rendezvous in mid-
ocean then, towards which the wire squadron is
now bent on steering direct is, as nearly as possi-
ble, 52 deg. 2 min. north latitude, 33 deg.
18 min. west longitude. Whence the cable is to
be trailed on the American side to 47 deg.
49 min. north latitude, and 54 deg. 0 min. west
longitude. While the before-mentioned Telegraph-
house at Valentia is situated, on the other hand,
in 51 deg. 56 min. north latitude, and 10 deg.
25 min. west longitude. A glance at MERCATOR'S
chart, or, better still, at a terrestrial globe, will
explain the submarine route instantaneously.
Fortunately, before the last great move is
made, when the Niagara and Agamemnon are
running out of sight of each other—every con-
ceivable precaution has been provided against—
the results, these precautionary measures, of many
tedious, most anxious, and many of them most
ingenious experiments. Engineering skill has, for
the present at least, exhausted its suggestions
upon the enterprise. With fair weather and au
ordinary amount of that good fortune vulgarly
called luck—when everything goes together har-
moniously—there appears at
.this moment to be
something like a reasonable certainty of a success-
ful issue this time to the undertaking. It
is not unreasonable, we think, to hope
that this expectation may be fulfilled, and
that our long-cherished day-dream may at
length, indeed, be happily realised. It is
not by any means, of course, the first submarine
telegraphic cable that will have been deposited
safely on the bed of the ocean. There is the cable
between France and England. There is the cable
between England and Ireland. There is the cable
to Holland. There are the cables threading here
and there the submarine intricacies of the Medi-
terranean. One after another—after repeated
failures these deep-sea lines were ulti-
mately and happily payed-out and deposited. It
is only continuing the previous system upon a
larger scale—the application of this grand pro-
ject to the bed of the Atlantic—a, project that
elsewhere has again and again been carried out
with such conjunction of propitious circum-
stance. Still, at the same time, hopeful though
wo are, though we reasonably may be, we cannot
in reason be more than sanguine. The enterprise
is of a most beneficent and humanizing purpoac—
it is calculated, when completed (for it is only, of
course, a question of time), to knit together the
whole human race with the bonds of peace and
universal brotherhood—and therefore we may
hope and pray to the last that it may have the
blessing of Divine Providence.

BANK OF FRANCE.

The following is the monthly debtor and creditor
account of the Bank of France, made up to yester-
day (Thursday) :
Fr.
Capital
Ditto, New
Profits in addition to Capital 1,436,610 35
Reserve fund
Ditto, New
Reserve immobiliere 4 000„ 000

DR.

Notes to bearer, in circulation
Do. of branch banks
Do. to order (Post bills)
Bills payable at sight
Account-current of Treasury Creditor 112,639,627 5
Various accounts-current
Do. branch banks 39,454,252
Dividends to be paid
Discount, interest, and expenses
Charge for safe keeping of securities, 11,145,926 74
Re-discounts of the last half-year
Overdue bills
Sundries

3,179,549 33

1,106,100,403 99

Cash and ingots
Cash at the branch banks 281,330,232
Bills due yesterday to be paid to-day 203,407 22
Bills becoming due in Paris
Bills in the branch banks
Advances on coin and ingots
Do. in the branch banks 1,754,100
Do. on public securities of France 24,480,000
Do. in the branch banks
Do. on railway shares and bonds 49,746,342 06
Do. in the branch banks
Do. on Credit Foncier Scrip 271,500
Do. on Branch Banks Scrip
Do. to the State by treaty of
June 30, 1848
Rentes of the reserve fund 12,980,750 14

Rentes of disposable funds ,. . 52,188,103 58
New Shares, not settled 8,253,675
Hotel and furniture of the Bank
Real property of branch banks 6,027,364
Expenses of administration 1,733,849 86
Premiums on the purchase of matieres
Sundries

1,106,100,043 99
PREVIOUS MONTH'S RETURN.

Dn. Fr. c
91,250,000

Capital

Ditto, New
Profits in addition to Capital 1,435 505 74
Reserve fund

. .
Ditto, New
Reserve immobiliere
Notes to bearer, in circulation 554,122,300
Do. of branch banks 38,351,225

Do. to order (Post bills)
Bills payable at sight 3,924,641
Account-current of Treasury Creditor 96,203,835 39
Various accounts-current 136,034,425 --
Do. branch banks 3O, 302,102

,
Dividends to be paid 451,818 25
Discount, interest, and expenses ..... 2,620,276 59
Charge for safe keeping of securities 9,674,187 26
Re-discounts of the last half-year
Overdue bills
Sundries 3,238,478 40

1,091,664,223 29

Cash and ingots
Cash at the branch banks

Bills due yesterday to be paid to-day 573,317 7
Bills becoming due in Paris
Bills in the branch banks

. .
Advances on coin and ingots
Do. in the branch banks
Do. on public securities of France 26,210,900
Do. in the branch banks
Do. on railway shares and bonds 61,056,792 21
Do. in the branch banks
Do. on Credit Foncier Scrip 354,600
Do. on Branch Banks Scrip 123,400 --
Do. to the State by treaty of
June 30, 1848
Rentes of the reserve fund
Rentes of disposable funds 52,188,103 58
New Shares, not settled 18,572,200
Hotel and furniture of the Bank
Real property of branch banks
Expenses of administration 1,463,685 21
Premiums on the purchase of mat ores
Sundries 5,721,673 80

1,091,664,223 29

.RACLIEL AND DER RELATIVES.

Mlle. Sarah Felix, the sister of the late Mlle.
Rachel, yesterday brought an action before the
Civil Tribunal, Paris, against Mme. O'Connell, the
well-known artist, to obtain damages for having
pirated a design belonging to her. Mlle. S trap,
it appeared, on the deata of hor sister at Cannes,
on the 3d January last, caused a photographer
to take a likeness of her on her deatbbei. He
obtained one remarkable for its exactitude, but it
was, as was said, " horrible to witness," inas-
much as it represented her features as they were
contracted in the agony of death. As Mlle. Sarah's
object in having the photograph taken was to pre-
serve a memorial of the deceased for her family
and a feW friends, she saw that it would not be
possible to offer them anything so disagreeable to
look at, and she accordingly employed a photo-
grapher of Paris, named Ghemar, to soften it down.
She made both the photographers sign agreements
by which they bound themselves to take all possible
precautions to prevent either the original photo-
graph or the modification of it from getting into the
hands of the public. But Ghemar impruiently
allowed Mrne. O'Connell to take a copy of it, and
she having made some alterations in it, caused
MM. Goupil, the well-known printeellers, t
off: r copies of it for sale. Mlle. Sarah protested
against this proceeding, and she caused a seizure
to be made of the copies unsold. In support of
her action, certificates were produced from
Count de Nieuwerkerke, director-general of the
Imperial museums, and from other artistic autho-
rities, to the effect that Mate. O'Connell's photo
graph was undoubtedly a piracy, and it was con-
tended that the original photograph was not only
the exclusive property of Mlle. Sarah, but that in
law no persons except the members of Rachel's own
family had the right to represent her on her deathbed,
inasmuch as, though she had been a public pnlormer,
all that regarded hes private life was as sacred as that
of any cy her person. It was added that Mlle. Sarah's
intention was to give to the poor any damages the
tribunal might award h-r, her object in bringing the
action being to prevent pictures of Rachel on her
deat from being sold to the public. On the pat t
of Mme. O'Conn ell it was admitted that she had see n
the photograph in the hands of Ghemar, and had
to a certain extent been inspired by it ; but it was
contended that her work was so different from that
in many respects tha, it must be considered origi-
nal. It was also insisted that Mule. O'Connell had
the right to produce portraits of Rachel, living or
dead, as from Rachel's artistic eminence she was
public property. It was accordingly .demanded,
not only that the action should be dismissed, but
that 5,000 fr. damages should be awarded to her
for the wrong done her in bringing it, and by the
seizure. After hearing the public prosecutor, who
declared himself in favour of Mlle. Sarah's action,
the tribunal postponed judgment for a week.