The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-19 00:00:00

DEBTOR.

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ay 17. May 10.
fr. c. fr. c.
Capital of the Bank.... 182,500,000 182,500,000
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 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 14
Reserve in landed pro-
perty 4,000,000 4,000,000
Notes in circulation .. 884,371,925 8,812,834 75
Banknotes to order and
receipts payable at
sight 12,346,715 22 108,416,732 27
Treasury account cur-
rent creditor
Current accounts, Paris 261,667,226 50 240,768,829 49
Do. branch banks
Dividends payable 666,258 75 796,428 75
Discounts and sundry
interests
Rediscounted the last
six months 2,074,992 92 2,074,992 92
Surplus of receipts not

_
distributed - -
Sundries

Total
CREDITOR.
May 17. May 10.
Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. c.

Branch banks
Commercial bills over-
due

Commercial bills dis-

counted, not yet due 366,460,158 44 347,670,984 07
Do. branch banks 333,629,640 316,713,905
Advances on deposit of
bullion 4,456,000 5,071,700
Do. branch banks 12,370,500 12,864,100
Do. on French Public
Securities 13,583,300 13,094,300
Do. by branch banks 6,991,900 6,442,400
Do. on railway shares
and debentures
IJ. branch banks 21,351,100 20,902,500
Do. on Credit Fancier
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
Rentes Immobalisees _ _

(Law, June 9, 1857) 100,000,000 100,000,000 --
Hotel and furniture of
the Bank and landed
property branches 8,434,226 8,434,226
Expenses of manage-
ment 1,526,287 79 1,504,375 40
Sundries

Total 1,541,110,965 70 1,506,897,511 62
Certified by the Senator-Governor of the Bank of France.
(Signed) ROULAND.

The students of Vienna have resolved to send to
the Emperor Francis Joseph an address expressing
their loyal attachment.

The Memorial de la Loire states that the foun-
dries of St. Etienne are now casting, for the Italian
navy, conical steel balls on a new system.

The Gazette de Lucerne states that horses are
being bought up in that canton for Italy. One firm is re-
ported to have entered into a contract to deliver 3,000.
The Unita Italiana publishes the following as an
authentic letter from Garibaldi addressed by him to a
friend in Parma :—" Caprera, May B.—l have given no
orders to any persons in Parma to make enrolments of
volunteers. The youth of Italy know their duty and will
not be deluded. When Italy wants me, be assured I shall
not faiI.—GARIBALDI."

THE SUNDAY BANDS IN THE PARKS.—The
eleventh season of these bands will commence next Sun-
day in Victoria Park, and the following Sunday (May 27)
in Regent's Park.

CHINESE PIRATES.—A newly issued Parliamentary
return shows that during the command of Vice-Admiral
King in the Chinese seas—between the 24th of June, 1865,
and 18th February, 1866—.71 piratical vessels were cap-
tured. 30 of those vessels were burnt, and 24 given up to
mandarins. No award of prize money has yet been made
for any of these captures.
MRS. YELVERTON AND THE "SATURDAY REVIEW."
—EDINBURGH, Friday.—ln the first division of the Court
of Session, to-day, an application was made for a new trial,
in the case of "Longworth or Yelverton v. the Proprietors
of the Saturday Review." The application was grounded
on the alleged fact that the verdict in the previous action
was against both law and evidence, and had been given
through a misapprehension on the part of some of the jury
as to the directions given to them by the judge in his sum-
ming up.
SILK CULTURE IN CALIFORNIA.—The culture of
silk is attracting attention in California. At the
Industrial Exhibition in 1865 of the Mechanics'
Institute, a Committee on Silk Worms and the
Culture of Silk, after a thorough examination of
the subject reported that, " California is one of the
best, if not the very best, silk-producing countries
in the world." It appears that Mr. Louis Prevost,
of San Jose; has met with such success in the busi-
ness as to warrant, fully, the declaration made by
the committee. His success, however, was not
attained without loss and perseverance. After
raising the necessary mulberry trees from seed, -he
attempted to import -silk worm eggs from China.
He made three efforts, but failed three times, as the
eggs were found _worthless on arrival there. A
quantity ordered.from France, however, turned out
well, and the worms hatched from them produced silk
pronounced to be of the first quality by European
experts. Since then Mr. Prevost has extended his
experiments, and during the past year he has raised
over 100,000 cocoons. The mulberry grows here
luxuriantly, and the warmth and dryness of the
climate are especially favourable to the hatching of
the eggs, to which cold and rainy weather is fatal.
EXPORTS AND IMPORTS.—FromIBSS to 1864, in-
elusive, American exports, specie value, were largely
in in excess of imports. We give the figT*ses,3r3
mil-
senting, in round figures, this excess—Po
lions ; 1856, 12 millions ; 1857, 21R260
42 millions ; 1859, 18 millions ;
ns ;
1861, 58 millions ; 1862, millions
3 7m millions
millions ; 1864, 12 millions.
the imports
general in
years in which American
ex-
ports, were 1845, 24S
e 1844 ,ItBh6e3 only 9
1741,
rtslBe4x9c,eoldBesdo, our
iss2,
1853, and 1854.
TlhBe4.
highest
I Itexcess been of
this
FAILURESt ew a s
ItNheA33
that there were very few failures in
impression I7E
Rmi s o has
In 1863 and
1865. An examination of some recent statistics
atallo46n2tslotoo. about one-half
shows that there were in that year 530 failures,
IwBi6t h 4 totalthe liabilities
bankruptcieso f
this sum for each year. The year 1857 reported
14,257 failures, with liabilities of $265,818,000 ' • and
the year 1861, 5,935 failures, with $178,632,170 of
liabilities. Average of failed liabilities from 1857
to 1865, $76,473,000.

Wells, Fargo, and Co., have sued the shippers of
the nitro-glycerine, the explosion of which caused
such destruction of life and property at San Fran-
cisco a fortnight since. They lay their damages at
$lOO,OOO. The parties sued have been examined
and held to bail on a sum equal to the damages
'darned.