The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-20 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.
April 12.
fr. c.
Capital of the Bank 182,500,000
Profits in addition to
capital (Art. 8, Law,
Juno 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
RcgiTve in }angled pro-
perty 4,000,000
Notes in circulation ... 894,902,125
Banknotes to order and
receipts payable at
sight
Treasury account cur-
rent creditor
Current accounts, Paris 150,810,998 60 154,863,611 65
Do. branch banks
Dividends payable 1,038,811 75 972,746 75
Discounts and sundry
interests
Rediscounted the last
six months
Surplus of receipts not

April 19.
fr. c
182,500,000

4,000,000 -
8:9,888,975 -

6,674,573 48 7,083,917 25

2,074,992 92 2,074,992 92

distributed
Sundries

Total
CREDITOR.

April 12. April 19.
Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. c.
Branch banks
Commercial bills over-

109,798 24

192,700 72

due
Commercial bills dis-
counted, not yet due 292,352,516 67 303,883,470 90
Do. branch banks 285,267,689 287,214,023 -
Advances on deposit of

9,042,700 -
11,395,300 -

3,430,000 -
11,780,700 -

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 60,000,000 -
Government Stock re-
serve 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14
Do. disposable
Rentes Inunobalisdes
(Law, June 9, 1857) 100,
000,000
and furniture of
the Bank and landed 000,000 100,000,000 •
property branches
Expenses of manage-
ment 1,089,220 06 1,094,915 70
Sundries

11,197,800 -
5,597,900 -

12,004,500 -
5,989,200 -

30,747,500 -

31,386,200 -
19,908,400 -

19,989;700 -

596,000 -
406,600 -

606,800 -
445,800 -

8,432,174 --

8,434,681

Total
1,407,722,914 73 1,419,313,876 16
Certified by the Senator-Governor of the Bank of France.

(Signed)

RouLAND•

- - -
TIIE MASTER BUILDERS AND THE IN AGES MOVE-
MENT.—A numerously attended meeting of the
members of the Master Builders Association was held at the
Freemasons' Tavern yesterday afternoon, to take into con-
sideration the resolution of the delegates of the men,
passed on the previous evening, respecting the advance of
wages to Bd. per hour. After an hour and a half's discus-
sion the following resolution was adopted :—" That an ad-
vance of one halfpenny per hour be given to the most
skilled mechanics, the less skilled to be at liberty to accept
a less rate. The hours of labour to he nine per day, from
the 9th November to the 24th February, and ten lot the
remainder of the year. The labourers to be advanced one
farthing per hour on the same conditions. The advance to
commence on the sth May next." This resolution is almost
in the same terms as that adopted by the delegates, with
the exception of the distinction drawn between the " most
skilled" and "less skilled" mechanics; and it is possible
that some hitch may arise upon this point to prevent so
speedy a settlement of the question as is desirable. This
point arranged satisfactorily, the question will be settled.
The delegates meet again next week, to decide as to the
acceptance of the above resolution, and the only difficu:ty
likely to arise is the vagueness of the second sentence in
the resolution.
Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial
Office to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, the Mauritius,
ealantl, and Canada.
Ceylon, Hong Kong, Labuan, the Australian Colonies,
AuVir

[The following graphic description of the brilliant
success achieved by Mr. Charles Dickens in Glasgow
--where on Wednesday night he read to a densely-
crowded and enthusiastic audience his Monologue of
" Doctor Marigold," and his " Nicholas Nickleby
at Do-the-Boy's Hall"—we take from the columns
of our contemporary the Scotsman of yesterday :

" A man can't write his eye (at least I don't know how
to), nor yet can a man write his voice, nor the quickness
of his action, nor his general spicy way." So says Doctor
Marigold ; and in the saying lies all the difference between
reading Dickens and hearing Dickens himself read his
own works. Whence the enthusiastic desire manifested
here the other day to be present when Thomas Carlyle,
" writer of books," woke in this same Music Hall, but that
every one learns, or thinks he learns, something of and
from an author by seeing him face to face, and listening
to his living voice, more than can be gathered even from
the most gifted and speaking of his printed pages ? And
if the eye, and action, and voice of the abstruse thinker,
untrained as these are to express his thought, serve to
illustrate and expound it to the student of his works, how
much more expressive must such living illustration be in
the case of a delineator of character like Dickens, ac-
complished in all the arts of such exposition, and using
all those arts in his own " general spicy way ? The
popularity of Charles Dickens's readings is thus due
both to an obvious and a more occult cause. As a dis-
play of a modified and most pleasing form of histrionic
talent, they can be enjoyed by the least literate ; while
those who are familiar with his books find their pages
illuminated by his own rendering of them, with a vivid-
ness like that implied in the hyperbolical compliment, that
to see Kean's acting was like reading Shakspere by flashes
of lightning. But, in the present case, the light is not
fitful: it is a clear and full, but well-ordered game—a
Lamp of Power, as Mr. Ruskin might call it, in the hand
of the maker and master. Thackeray said that Fielding's
wit flashed upon a rogue like a bull's-eye ; and the homely
simile exactly suited the sort of every-day flavour of
Fielding's genius. The light, again, which Dickens throws
on his characters—rogues and their opposites alike—is
always tinged by the hues of his own varied and power-
ful imagination. If to read a story of Dickens' may be
said to remind one of looking on a painted window,
crowded with characters and full of cunning devices, to
hear the story read by Dickens himself is to look on the same
window with the sun shining behind it; when the figures glow
afresh, and the quaint devices come forth with a grace
and force before unappreciated, if not even altogether
unnoted.

Something like this must have been the feeling of most,
of the large audience in the Music Hall last night who
listened to "Doctor Marigold." This little sketch is one
of the latest, and it is one of the best, of Mr. Dickens's now
numerous Christmas stories. It appeared originally in the
extra Christmas number of All the Year Round for 1865.
It is full of all the best qualities of " The Cricket on the
Hearth" and "The Carol," published some quarter of a
century before it. It is a monologue : the story of a tra-
velling Cheap Jack told by himself—how he conducted his
business ; how he married ; how his wife had a temper
and cruelly beat their only little girl, when, but for the
temper (and " thirteen year of it in a cart would try the
best of you") " we might have had such a pleasant life !"
—how his little darling died in his arms even when he was
plying his ear-tickling trade ; and, latterly, how for her
sake he adopted an ill-used deaf and dumb orphan, who
became to him oven like his ovn lost daughter. From the
moment he took his place on the platform, and began "I
am a Cheap Jack, and my own father's name was Willum
Marigold," Mr. Dickens became the very Marigold he had
drawn from the depths of his own consciousness, and
fashioned into a living shape by his own wonderful
power of realisation. It was only by a touch of by play
now and then that we were reminded, so to speak, that we
had Frankenstein himself before us, and not the mere
image he had created, so thorough was the identification of
the reciter with the imagined hero and teller of the tale.
A marvellous memory, aided no doubt by considerable
practice, enabled Mr. Dickens to speak the whole story,
which took a full hour to tell, with only a single reference
to the book that lay beside him—a command of his subject
which, of course, greatly enhanced its effect, as he was left
the free exercise of that surprising power of facial expres-
sion which ho uses as only the most finished actors can
use such a gift and accomplishment. For his most comical
looks never degenerate into grimace ; and ho can in a
minute command the wrapt attention of an audience that
he has just been provoking to uncontrollable laughter, by
an earnest sternness, or a quiet lapsing into gentleness or
pathos. It was rather, however, where his humour was
pathetic, where the repressed tear trembled in the twink-
ling eye, that last night's audience was most obviously
affected. The other figures are comparatively shadowy—
they aro mere heads, as it were, beside the full-length
figure of the Doctor ; but they were heads that lived and
spoke when they were put in by Mr. Dickens. They were
all made to play their little parts in a delightfully quiet and
illustrative fashion, which never obscured but rather lighted
up the central actor in this perfect little Dickens-drama—
doubly perfect „as presented last night—exquisite in its
original conception and execution ; equally so in its vocal
presentation and illustration. The second part of the read-
ing was "Nicolas Nickleby at Do-the-Boy's Hall." It was
thoroughly enjoyed by the audience. To-morrow night
Mr. Dickens reads three favourite selections in the Queen-
street Hall ; and on Saturday forenoon, in the same place,
gives his wonderfully fine and amusing condensation of
" The Story of David Copperfield."

BARNED'S BANKING COMPANY.—The announce.
ment in The Sun of yesterday that the bills of this bank
had been returned by their London agents caused the
greatest excitement in Liverpool, and from an early hour the
bank in Lord-street was thronged by an anxious crowd. As
announced by telegram from Liverpool yesterday the bank
suspended payment, and shortly after the time for
opening a notice was posted on the door of the bank
to the effect that owing to the withdrawal of facilities by
their London agents the directors regretted to be com-
pelled temporarily to suspend payment. A number of state-
ments aro current as to the assets and liabilities of the con-
cern, but there is nothing authentic. The directors are
hopeful of either carrying on the bank or of transferring it.
They announce that a meeting will be held at the earliest
opportunity. Many of the depositors are tradesmen. Great
sympathy is expressed.
THE Loss OF THE GRANADIAN.—The Court
which has conducted the Board of Trade inquiry
into the circumstances attending the abandonment and loss
of the West Indian steamer Granadian have delivered the
following judgment :—" The Court has carefully con-
sidered the evidence which has been given in the course
of this protracted inquiry. Cases of abandonment are
always difficult to deal with: While, on the one hand, it
it is impossible for those who have to judge the conduct
of the master of a vessel after the event, however closely
they may sift the evidence which is brought before them,
to look into his mind at the time so as to ascertain all the
reasons which influenced him, on the other hand it is
essential that the Court should be perfectly satisfied that
nothing was omitted to be done to avoid the necessity
for the act of abandonment—a course, it seems scarcely
necessary to say, which, should never be taken by the
master except in the last extremity, when he has tried
every other means without success, and is driven to leave
his ship in order to save life. There can be no doubt that
for 12 days Mr. Swainson navigated the Granadian under
very difficult and trying circumstances, with his disabled
engines and a leaky vessel. His efforts to reach a port
of safety seem to have been thwarted by contrary winds
and stormy weather, rendering the ship unmanageable and
preventing the carrying out of his intentions. But the
Court, while giving the master full credit for his exertions
up to the morning of the 18th of February, regrets that it is
compelled to pronounce an adverse opinion upon his conduct
at this juncture. Within three or four miles of land, and
in smooth water, he left his ship without having made any
signals for assistance, it being admitted on all hands that at
the time of abandonment there was no immediate danger,
and, in fact, some of the officers and crew were willing to
remain some time longer by the ship, provided a boat was
left with them. That such assistance was obtainable was
probably then unknown to the master, but he did not make
any attempt to ascertain if it could be had, nor did he return
to his ship when he met boats full of men coming out from
shore as he was making his way to land. The fact is undis-
puted that the Granadian remained in sight till late in the
afternoon of the day following the abandonment. Had the
master and his officers been present to direct the efforts of
the islanders much might have been done. At any rate,
had the master made the attempt ho could not have been
blamed by a Court of Inquiry had he failed to succeed ;
and even had his vessel drifted to sea some five or six
miles, as he suggests in his own statement would have been
the case, he would have had the boats from the shore, in
in addition to those belonging to his ship, wherein to reach
the island when he found all efforts to save her useless. It
is much to be regretted that the attempt was not made,
as
there is evidence before us to show that if the water could
have been reduced so that the fires could have been re
lighted, the engines were in sufficient working order to
have enabled the ship to reach Fayal, about 20 miles dis-
tant. The court sincerely regrets that it is obligedbatvoing,
pro-
nounce a censure on the master of this vessel, buatn
of
the
due regard to the interests alike of shipowTs d
orts of the
public in this and other large cornm
that Mr. Swainson
United Kingdom, it is compelled to say
' on the morning of
committed a default in leaving
satisfaction
ab ility i
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Feb. 18. The court has read hwithoisrszhegairpleattnt
high testimonials to characltedr
discharge of his professiona utyalwNhiacyh
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allow-
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po makeiti h every,it
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tance for the difficildtiesf o
avoid the conclusion,from the facts of this case, that the
master in this instance
.did
done, ono
the attempt which
he might and should have one, on the morning of the
18th of February, to save the valuable ship and cargo
which were committed to his charge, and for this the
Court
holds him in default. Taking all the circumstances
into:
consideration, the judgment of the Court is that the
certificate of Mr. Henry Gabriel Swainson be suspended
for the space of 12 calendar months from this date (April
17th, 180)."

SCOTLAND. 1 The Civil Rights Bill and the American
Senate.

It is already known that the American Senate on
the 6th passed the Civil Rights Bill over the Presi-
dent's Veto by a vote of 33 to 15. The bill origi-
nally passed the Senate on Feb. 2 by a vote of 33 to
12, five members being absent. It passed the
House of Representatives on March 13, the vote
being 111 in favour to 38 against (not quite two-
thirds) with 34 members not voting.
Before the vote was taken, Mr. Saulsbury, a
Democratic Senator from Delaware, took the floor
and said, " I rise to say, sir, that in my judgment
the passage of this bill is an inauguration of revolu-
tion. It is well, sir, that the American people
should take warning and set their house in order,
for it is impossible that the people will patiently
submit to it. Heaven knows that we have had
enough of bloodshed, enough of mourning in every
household. There are too many new-made graves
for any one to wish to see more. Attempt to exe-
cute this law within any State of this Union and
in my judgment this country will again be plunged
into all the horrors of civil war. In my own
State, an humble State in point of numbers, but
a State of gallant sons, your law will never
be observed by the judiciary of that State,
most of them of the Republican party. There
is not, I say, a Republican judge, we never had a
judge so dead to the teachings of the great lumi-
naries of the law, as to attempt to enforce such a
flagrantly unconstitutional law or act as this. I
shall not again enter upon the constitutionality or
unconstitutionality of the act. But, sir, if it be not
grossly, palpably, flagrantly, unconstitutional, then
five-and-twenty years of some diligent study of the
law have availed me nothing." In conclusion, Mr.
Saulsbury predicted that the passage of this bill
would lead to bloodshed, war, and disunion.
" Now came the thrilling moments," says one ac-
count, " which were to witness the decision of the
Senate upon the question before them. Every one,
as if impressed with the solemnity and gravity of
the occasion, was hushed into a portentous silence
while the President made the announcement,
' Shall the bill be passed, the objections of the
President of the United States to the contrary, not-
withstanding ?' The roll was called, and each
Senator boldly answered in accordance with his con-
victions. When the name of Senator Morgan was
given, and he replied in the affirmative, there was
great sensation and clapping of hands both on the
floor and in the galleries. When the result of the
vote and the passage of the bill was stated by the
President there was an outburst of applause, espe-
cially in the galleries, only surpressed by a volun-
tary dispersion of the crowd. In this portion of
the chamber the negroes were particularly moved,
and gave vent to their feeling by cheers. This com-
pleted the excited deliberations upon one of the
most important actions which has yet emanated
from the Congress of the United States since the
close of the rebellion."

On the motion of Mr. Trumbull, the Secretary
of the Senate was ordered to communicate to the
House a copy of the Veto Message, together with the
result of the Veto, above given.
The Boston Advertiser of the 7th, commenting
upon the veto, says :—" The occasional glimpses
which are obtained as time goes on of the history of
what Mr. Johnson has termed the warfare' between
himself and Congress do not exhibit the President
as the party attacked. Mr. Trumbull, for instance,
in his speech on the Civil Rights Bill the other day,
gave a scrap of its history which shows that the
friends of the measure were desirous of anything
rather than an issue with the President. The bill
was prepared in conformity with what were supposed
to be his views, it was privately shown to him before
action was taken upon it, and he was invited by
those with whom he had long been acting in political
harmony to state any objections which he might
have to it. It is well known also that the
Freedmen's Bureau Bill was shown to him before
action was taken upon it, and that in that case too
his conduct was such as to imply assent. In both
cases the gentlemen who dealt with the President
might perhaps be accused of subservience to the
executive will, for which the condition of the
country could be the only justification ; it might
be said that they lowered the dignity of their own
branch of the government by this anxious consul-
tation with another ; but they are at all events
entirely cleared from the charge of courting an issue
with the President. A few words said in private
by him would probably in both instances have pre-
vented the final collision ; and the responsibility for
what happened, the suspicion of desiring that it
should happen, must rest upon him who omitted to
say those few words, and not upon those who gave
him the opportunity. Whatever may finally prove
to be the motives which led the President to enter
upon this warfare, a grievous miscalculation of his
strength will unquestionably be found to have been
one of his principal mistakes. Nothing can be more
significant than the dead failure of the movement
which began on the 22d of February. That amaz-
ing despatch which said among other things
that
the President's speech was triumphant,' and ' the
country was happy,' would not have seemed
quite so flat had a little real success justified its
complacency. But for the hundredth time it has
proved that it is one thing to get
up
a meeting at
ld for officers,
Cooper Institute with all the New World
and quite another to exercise the
popular influence
to imply. All
which such an array of names seems
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could not even keep those whoCo were then his sup-
porters firm against
could not prevent the
upon that bill against his Veto.
the
country Civil
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pathy unmistakably to the majority of the Senate
who took their stand
So far then the warfare which started on a mistaken
trust in the sanguine assurances of New York poli-
ticians, and the movement which has never assumed
anything more than the dimensions of a New York
diversion, have been dead failures, so far as con-
cerns any positive effect in the restoration of the
Southern States. Negative influence for evil they
have had, no doubt, in abundance. They have re-
tarded the work of reorganisation which might
otherwise have been set upon a secure basis before
this, and have postponed the day when all the States
shall be represented in Congress ; but achievements
of this sort need not be felt as any great encourage-
ment to Mr. Johnson to persevere in the ill-advised
enterprise which he has undertaken."