The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDOIS, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1866.

Feb. 8. Feb. 1.
Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr.
Branch banks
Commercial bills over-

due
Commercial bills dis-
counted, not yet due 377,360,451 67 371,202,682 82
Do. branch banks 326,966,219 348,944,363 83
Advances on deposit of
bullion
Do. branch banks
Do. on French Public
Securities
Do. by branch banks
Do. on railway shares
and debentures
1). branch banks
Do. on Credit Foncier
Bonds
Do. branches
Do. to the State (Con-
vention, June 10,
1857) 60,000,000
Government Stock re-

475,942 23 5,549,98 G 02

6,290,000 -
5,105,000 -

5,591,300

6;732;100

11,866,700 -
6,467,500 -

11,931,700
6,817,100

29,166,400 -
19,870,200 -

29,374,900
19,870,z80

626,300 -
412,800 -

633,900
428,400

60,000,000

serve
Do. disposable
Reutes Immobalisees

12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14
36,416,737 91 36,449,737 91

(Law, June 9, 1857) 100,000,000 100,000,000
Hotel and furniture of
the Bank and landed
property branches ...
Expenses of manage-

8,415,223 -

8,414,061

ment
Sundries

223,087 98 206,439 73
9,498,625 52 16,296,571 96

Total 1,471,802,775 54 1,429,301,267 57
Certified by the Senator-Governor of the Bank of France.
(Signed) ROULAND.

AMERICA.

In the Federal Senate, on the 24th inst., Mr. Wilson (of
Massachusetts) proposed an amendment to the constitution
providing that no payment shall ever be made by the United
States, or any Sate, for or on account of the emancipation
of any slave or slaves, or for or on account of any debt in-
curred to aid rebellion against the United States Govern-
ment. Referred to the Judiciary Committee.
On the 25th inst. the bill to enlarge the powers of the
Freedmen's Bureau was passed by a vote of 37 to 10, after
several ineffectual attempts to amend it on the part of va-
rious members. The bill is, in substance, as follows :
Section 1 continues the original act in force, and autho-
rises the President to establish 12 or less districts, each
under charge of an assistant commissioner.
Section 2 specifies the clerks to be employed, all to be
under military jurisdiction.

Section 3 authorises the Secretary of War to order issue
&c., to refugees and freedmen,
aosf phis-odveissimonss,necelodtfhailn, fuel,
.g

Section 4 authorises the President to reserve for refugees
and freedmen three million acres of land in Florida, Missis-
sippi, and Arkansas, to be albted in 40 acre parcels, and at
a rental in accordance with the value of the land.
Section 5 confirms for three years the titles of lands given
by order of Gen. Sherman to freedmen in South Carolina,
with the proviso that owners and occupants of said land
ents, with the sanction of the
ma 3' effFreedmen'seffect
special
Commissioners.rrangem

Section 6 authorises the commissioners to purchase lands
for the support of dependent freedmen and refugees, and to
build asylums and schools, the necessary funds to be pro-
vided by Congressional appropriation.
Section 7 authorises the President to extend military

jurisdiction and jurisprudence, when necessary, for the
enforcement of the laws and powers accorded to the bureau
to secure the rights of person and property to the freedmen
and refugees.

Section 8 provides that whoever subjects any freedman to
slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment
for crime, or discriminates between black and white per-
sons in imposing legal penalties, shall be punished by a
fine of $l,OOO and imprisonment for one year. Officers of
the bureau to have jurisdiction overall complaints wherever
such discrimination of colour is made, or whenever Statb
or Federal Courts are not in full and peaceful operation.

A motion by neverdy Johnson, of Maryland, to reconsi-
der the vote on the Freedmen's Bureau Bill, was lost in
the Senate yesterday ; ayes 18, nays 22.
Resolutions endorsing the President's course in regard
to reconstruction have been passed by the Legislatures of
Kentucky and New Jersey.
The editor of the Charlotte (N .C.)
Times has been ordered
to pay a fine of $3OO for circulating disloyal writings
within a district under martial law. He was arraigned
before court-martial.

General De'afield, in charge of the National Military
Academy at West Point, has suggested that it would be im-
proper to decorate the grounds of that institution with
cannon captured from rebels, with the inscriptions, as has
been proposed,
showing the manner of their capture. The
General thinks that the trophies of a civil war are better to
be kept out of sight, as their presence can only revive un-
pleasant memories.

The Fenians in this city seem to be undergoing a reaction
from their late condition of excitement, and quietness reigns
at the " Capitol." The triumph of the O'Mahony faction
seems to be g3nerally conceded, although a strong oppo-
sition still remains.

There are rumours afloat that the Brotherhood hare re-
cently secured a large supply of arms, ammunition, and
military stores ; and darks hints are thrown out by Ameri-
can Fenian journals that important and startling develop-
ments are near at hand. L 4 Special meetings with closed
doors," and " Cabinet deliberations on proposals calculated
to shake thrones to their centres," are announced to have
transpired in the Union-square head-quarters. The ope-
rations of the Brotherhood, however, so far as is known
outside, appear to be confined now to procuring the circu-
lation of rumours calculated to keep up the flow of money
into the treasury of the order, and to guarding the moneys
so procured from peculation. Their seccess in the former
effort iN laid t 9 b@ much greater than ill the latter.

LA TEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

SPAIN.

MADRID, FEB. 8 (Evening).
The Minister of State has announced in the
Cortes that Peru is probably at the present time in
open hostility with Spain.