The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-21 00:00:00

BANK OF FRANCE.

The following is the return of the Bank of France
for the week ending to-day, together with the cor-
responding figures of the previous account :

DEBTOR.
Sept. 20.
fr. O.
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
and its branches
Reserve in landed pro-
Perty 4,000,000
Notes in circulation ... 9432,7,4825
Banknotes to orderand
receipts payable at
sight 28,386,731 04 26,523,272 59
Treasury account cur-

Sept. 13,
fr.
182,500,000

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

4,000,000
951,370,075

rent creditor .. .. :
Current accounts, Paris 259,166,756 76 274,425 577 96
Do. branch banks 35,975,502 34,923,807
Dividends payable 1,447,816 75 1,537,821 75
Discounts and sundry
interests
.Rodiscounted the last

six months
Surplus of receipts not
distributed ............
Sundries

2,372,304 91 2,372,301 9.

8,528,781,03 8,729,629 85

Total ............... 1,671,330,131 53 1,678,133,704
CREDITOR.

Sept.t.
Cash in hand and in fr. 20.
c. Sr.Sr
f 13.
c
Branch banks
Commercial bills over-
due ..... . . .. . . .. .
Commercial bills dis-
counted, not yet due 266,747,687 78 266,171,012 4C
Do. branch banks .. .. 333,254,156 336,529,002
Advances on deposit of
bullion . .' . .. ..
_.
Do. branch ban:lis .. ... . 11,261,900 11,586,300
Do. on French Public
Securities .. .. .. ... ..
Do. by branch banks... 7,636,200 7,869,800
Do. on railway shares •
and debentures
1). branch banks 23,673,500 23,727,000
Do. on Credit Foncier
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 12,980,760 14
Do. disposable
Rentes Immobalisdes

(Law, June 2, 1857) 100,000,000 100,000,000 -
Hotel and furniture of
the Bank and landed
property branches ... 8,327,017 8,292,917 -
Expenses of manage-

went V 1,351,072 27 1,123,955 78
Sundries

Total 1,671,330,434 53 1,678,133,704 04
Certified by the Deputy-Governor of the Bank of France.
(Signed) ANDOIRILLE.

J. STUART MILL, M.P., ON THE REMOVAL
OF MR. BEALES.—The committee of the Beales Testimonial
Fund have received the following letter from Mr. J. Stuart
Mill, M.P. :—" Avignon, Sept. 10, 1866. Dear sir,—Your
letter of August 30 did not reach me until too late to send

a leiter which could be read at the meeting in favour of a
testimonial to Mr. Beales. I think it quite right that Re-
formers should make compensation to Mr. Beales for the
pecuniary loss to which he has been subjected in conse-
quence of the prominent part he has taken in urging the
claims of the working classes to representation in Parlia-
ment. I see no force in the reasons assigned as a justifica-
tion of this treatment of Mr. Beales, Strong political con-
victions are not considered a disqualification for much
higher judicial offices than that of revising barrister, nor
are ever likely to be considered except when the opinions
are on the side opposed to the ruling powers. To exclude
from the seat of justice all who are decided politicians
would be to keep out all the fittest men, for wilo, in the
present state of the world, is without strong political opi-
nions of some sort except because he is wanting either in
mental cultivation or in the public spirit requisite for taking
due interest in the subject ? And to say that the opinions
shall be an exclusion because they are known and avowed
would be still more absurd, since it is precisely when they
aro known to the world that there is least danger of their
exercising an improper bias on the judgment. Besides,
even if the reason were good against appointing an active
politician for the first time, it cannot hold against retain-
ing him, who, having been appointed, has, by the acknow-
ledgment of even adversaries, proved his impartiality by
his conduct.—l am, &e., J. S. Mux."

EMIGRATION FROM IRELAND.—The Registrar-
General's report for the quarter ending June 30, 1866
proves that the population of Ireland is still steadily de-
creasing at the rate of 100,000 a year. The births for the
quarter ending in June numbered 38,816, representing au
annual proportion of one in every 35.9 of the estimated
population. But the deaths numbered 24,763, and the num-
ber of emigrants in the quarter was 41,124, so that the de-
crease in the population in a single quarter was 27,071.
The number-of emigrants in the same period of 1865 was
37,588, and there is an increase of 3,536 in the June quar-
ter of the present year. This increase is the more remark-
able because no exceptional causes are at work in the coun-
try. On the contrary, there was employment to be had at
moderate, but increased wages, the condition of the pea-
santry is generally improved, and the harvest promised to
be most abundant. We fear that the drain will still go on
unless labour more remunerative than that provided by
agriculture shall induce them to remain at home. The emi-
grants who have departed were able-bodied men and
women in the prime of life ar.d health, the very persons
whom it would be most desirable to retain. We may, and
probably will, need all these yet, and, perhaps, too late.
Statesmen may regret that they have not broken the iron
rules of a cold-hearted philosophy to encourage the manu-
factures and industry of Ireland.—lrish Times.
THE APPROACHES TO THE NEW PALACE AT
WESTMINSTER.—These approaches and alterations are
rapidly progressing, and are expected to be completed by
the meeting of Parliament. Palace-yard is to be encircled
by an ornamental railing seven feet high. Ample means
of ingress and egress will be afforded for the public and
vehicles. A colonnade is now in course of construction,
in unison with the architecture of the building, by the
side of the Speaker's house, fronting Palace-yard, which
will lead by a subway on to the Thames Embankment
at the end of the now existing Manchester-buildings. It
is intended to erect there an hotel by a company, on
the plan of the hotel in Langham-place. Approach-
ing the Houses of Parliament there will be three gate-
ways, where statues will be placed Two of these en-
trances will lead to the Speaker's Court, and one to the
Clock Tower. Behind the facade now in course of erection
some steps are being placed in order to allow a free passage
from the Speaker's Court into what is called the " Speaker's
Garden," and thence to the "River-stairs." The whole of
Palace-yard is to be levelled ; and in consequence of the
Metropolitan Railway coming close to Canning's statue,
the statue is to be removed to a vacant piece of ground by
the side of the Westminster Sessions-house. The statue
is considered by many
to be one of Westmacott's best.
These works are being carried out, so far as the New
Palace at Westminster is concerned, by Mr. Field, the con
tractor, from the designs of Mr. Edward Barry.
VISIT OF HER MAJESTY TO THE LINN OF QUOICR.
—The Queen visited the Falls of Quoich last Thursday,
driving from Balmoral via Invercauld House and Allan-
more House. Luncheon was provided at the elegant
summer house erected by the Earl of Fife ; and tea was
also served there in the afternoon. The Royal party, after
spending some time in the grounds and at the fall, had a
ride of some miles up the Vale of the Quoich, ghillies and
ponies being in attendance from Balmoral. The return to
the Palace in the evening was made via Braemar.—Dundee
Advertiser.

RAILWAY TRAVELLING ON SUNDAY IN SCOTLAND.
—On Wednesday the half-yearly meeting of share-
holders in the Glasgow and South-Western Railway took
place, and in reference to the matter the Scotsman says:—
" There was a curious little display at the meeting of the
Glasgow and South-Western Railway Company, which, it
is to be hoped, will escape the attention of the foe and
the stranger.' The directors consent, on the requisition
of the Post-office, to run a train carrying the mail-bags on
Sunday morning, but refuse, on the requisition of the
public, to carry passengers. Actually, the directors were
assailed by a Dr. Cowan—who, it is terrible to think, was
long a teacher of youth—not for refusing the pas-
sengers, but for not also refusing the mails. The chair-
man, Sir Andrew Orr, very easily showed that the running
of the train, instead of coaches and gigs, had caused an im-
mense saving of Sunday labour, and that the attendance
on Sunday by the railway servants is quite infinitesimal.
But he did not show, and was not called on to show, why
that amount of labour, small as it is, should be in great
part thrown away, and why the railway should not effect a
saving of Sunday labour much greater than it has happily
effected already. Men and women, as well as letters and news-
papers, have sometimes occasion to travel on Sunday, and
when they are not carried on railways, they get themselves
carried by cattle and mon-servants. All that might be
any more work being done
on the railway than is done already. The carriages run
many people are accommodated, many are exempted from
empty boyn tShuenrdaailyw; a lye't passengerswithout
Sunday work, nobody is injured or inconvenienced, and
the railway company is made to look rational instead of
ridiculous. The chairman, however, having the fear of the
Cowan kind of people before his oyes, stated that he and
passengers unless compelled,
legal process which has been
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At the annual general meeting of the United
Service Company (Limited), held on the 13th inst.,
a dividend of 5 per cent. was declared for the past
year. _ .

The City of Moscow Gas Company have notified
that the books will be closed from the Ist to the
15th October next, preparatory to issuing warrants
for the payment of interest on the shares for the
half-year ending the 15th October next.