The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-19 00:00:00

BANK OF FRANCE.

PARIS, Oct. 18.
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.
Oct. 18.
fr. 0.
Capital of tho 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 ... 974,952,725
Banknotes to order and
receipts payable at
sight
Treasury account cur-
rent creditor; 165,961,091 35 165,224,821 66
Current accounts, Paris 221,194,526 73 227,159,483 82
Do. branch banks 33,330,265 28,167,802
Dividends payable 1,175,096 75 1,245,066 75
Discounts and sundry
interests
Rediscounted the last

Oct. 11.
fr. c.
182,500,000

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

4,000,000 -
971,392,725 -

19,422,221 95 _25,108,795143

six months
Surplus of receipts not
distributed
Sundries

2,372,304 91 2,372,304 91

11,735,384 1G 12,834,096 07

Total
CREDITOR.

Oct. 18. Oct. 11.
Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. c.
Branch banks ......... E 65,459,801 42 681,217,861 72
Commercial bills over-

due
Commercial bills dis-
counted, not yet due 286,084,279 95 277,089,818 74
Do. branch banks 317,2500,322 346,032,092
Advances on deposit of
bullion
Do. branch banks
Do. on French Public
Securities
Do. by branch banks

101,554 11 658,496 39

20,557,700 - 19,008,600 -
5,575,400 - 10,043,500 -

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HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, Wednesday.
The Queen opened the Aberdeen Waterworks,
yesterday, rt Invercannie.

Her Majesty was accompanied by Prince and
Princess Christian, Princess Louise, and Princo
Arthur.

Tho suite consisted of the Duchess of Roxburghe,
the lion. Emily Cathcart, Sir Stafford Northcote,
Lieutenant-General the Hon. Charles Grey, Colonel
Ponsonby, Major Elphinstone, Mr. Sahl, and Dr.
Robertson.

The royal party drove to Sallater, where a special
train was in readiness, which conveyed them to a

temporary station at Inchmarlo, where her Ma-
jesty was received by Sir James Burnett, Lord
Lieutenant of Kincardineshire, and Mr. Davidson,
of Inchmarlo, through whose ground the royal party
proceeded to Invercaunie.

On arriving at the reservoir the Queen was re-
ceived by Sir Alexander Anderson, Lord Provost of
Aberdeen, and the Police Commissioners (by whom
the works were undertaken), the Earl of Kintore,
Lord Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire, the members for
Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire, and many of
the gentry of the neighbourhood.

A detachment of the volunteers of the district
mounted as a guard of honour.

After the delivery of a prayer by the Rev. Mr.
Hutchinson, minister of the parish, the Lord Pro-
vost of Aberdeen presented an address to the Queen,
who was graciously pleased to read an answer.
Her Majesty then turned a watercock (which ad-
mitted the water into the reservoir), and declared
the works to be open.

At the conclusion of the ceremony the royal party
returned by the same route to Balmoral.

On passing Inchinarlo-house her Majesty was
graciously pleased to accept a bouquet, presented to
her by Miss Davidson.
The Queen drove in the afternoon with Prince
and Princess Christift.n.

Princess Louise and Prince Arthur, attended b 7
the Hon. Emily Cathcart and Major Elphinstone,
rode to Ballater, and paid a visit to Dr. and Mrs.
Jenner.

Sir Stafford Northcote had the honour of dining
with the Queen and the royal family.

The 'Sheriffs' Inaugural Banquet.

Last evening, Mr. Alderman Waterlow and Mr.
Francis Lycett, Sheriffs of London and Middlesex,
entertained a large party of gentlemen at a banquet
at the Stationers' Hall, on the occasion of their ap-
pointment to the offices they respectively hold.
Among the company present were— Mr. Alderman
Copeland, Alderman Sir John Musgrove, Bart., Mr.
Alderman Sidney, Alderman Sir F. G. Moon, Bart.,
Mr. Alderman Finnie, Alderman Sir R. W. Carden/
Mr. Alderman Rose, Mr. Alderman William Law-
rence, M.P., Mr. Alderman Abbiss, Mr. Alderman
J. C. Lawrence, Mr. Alderman Dakin, Mr. Alder-
man Besley, Mr. Alderman Gibbons, Mr. Alder-
man Stone, Mr. Alderman Cotton, Mr. A. S.
Ayrton, M.P., Mr. Charles Capper, M.P., Mr'
I'. Cave, M.P., Mr. James Goodson, M.P., Mr.
Kinnaird, M.P., Mr. Harvey Lewis, M.P., Mr.
George Moffat, M.P., Mr. Alderman Sheriff,
M.P., Mr. William Tite, ALP., Mr. M'Cullagh
Torrens, M.P., Mr. Holland (Governor of the
Bank of England), Mr. Huut (Deputy-Governor
of the Bank of England), Sir John Thwaites
(chairman of the Metropolitan Board of
Works), Mr. Henry Pownall (chairman of

the Middlesex [magistrates), Mr. Horace Joncs
(City architect), Mr. Under-Sheriff Crossley, Mr.
Under-Sheriff de Jersey, Mr. Edmund Hodgson,
master of the Stationers' Company, and the war-
dens, treasurer, and court of assistants of the Sta-
tioners' Company, the mayor, aldermen, and me►n'
bers of the corporation of the city of Worcester,
the mayor of Nottingham, Sir Charles Crosley, sir
George Hodgkinson, Mr. Thomas Cotterell, Mr.

Twentyman, Mr. 11. J. Nissen, Mr. J. E. Saun-
ders (chairman of the City Lands Committee), Mr'
James Waterlow, Mr. A. J. Waterlow, Mr. Coun-
cillor and Sheriff Stollard, the master wardens and
court of assistants of the Spectacle Makers' Corn-
pany, Mr. H. Giffard, Q.C., Mr. D. Evans, Mr.
W. B. Waterlow, Mr. H. Sykes Thornton, Mr. Or'
Campbell Sleigh, Mr. W. Metcalfe, Mr. John
Lycett, Mr. Peter Graham, the high bailiff of South-
wark, Mr. Thomas Rudkin (chairman of the Mar'
kets Committee), Mr. Lawley (chairman of Local
Government and Taxation Committee), Mr. George
Ledger, the Rev. Allen T. Edwards, M.A., and the
Rev: G. T. Perke, M.A.

The loyal toasts having been duly honoured, gr•
Sheriff LYCETT proposed " The Health of the Lord
Mayor," which was responded to by Mr. Alderman
FINNISS, in the unavoidable absence of his lordshiP•
Mr. AldermaLWATEnLow then gave " The House
of Commons," coupled with the name of Mr. Al-
derman Lawrence, M.P., who, in returning thanks,
said that that assembly was hilly prepared to take
into its consideration the necessity for extending
the basis on which it existed. It would not become
him to express an opinion upon the subject at such.,
a momont as the present, but he might be permitted
to observe that there could be no doubt that the
house would meet the wishes of the people in a fair
and prosperous manner. There were other questions
however, which would be pressed forward in the
House of Commons, and brought to a satisfactory
conclusion ; as, for instance, the education of the
people, the homes of the people, &c. —questiono
which he was quite sure would be discussed in such
a manner as to cause the benefits arising from them
to be fairly distributed amongst all classes of the

community.
Mr. Sheriff LYCETT proposed " The Mayor, Al;
dermen, and Corporation of the City of Worcester,
of which city the hon. gentleman expressed himself
proud to be a native, and intimately connected with
its manufacturing interests.

The MAYOR of Worcester, in returning thanks,
alluded to the exertions which had been made by
Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Waterlow to improve the
dwellings of the poor, and stated that be most cor-
dially coincided with him in those praiseworthy
efforts.

Mr. TITE, M.P., proposed " The Health of the
Sheriffs of London and Middlesex," observing that, as
far as Mr. Alderman Waterlow was concerned, he
was quite sure that there was no one in this room,
no one in the City of London, who did not highly
approve the exertions he had made, and was still
making to improve the homes of the poor. He (gr'
Tito was at the same time happy to testify to the
merits of Mr. Alderman Waterlow's father, vale
was present on the occasion, and who had always
identified himself with movements for the benefit 01',
the poor. The office of sheriff was an ancient office'
It existed before that of the mayor, through the
worst time and under the worst form of goverir
ment, and it had always maintained the rights an
privileges of the City of London. In reference tie
Mr. Sheriff Lycett, the hon. gentleman said that by
the aid of his own exertions, he had become one e
the merchant princes of the City of London, and
was fully entitled to the honour which his feller"
citizens had recently conferred upon him. (Cheer°
The Sheriffs respectively acknowledged the ewe-
pliment, Mr. Alderman Waterlow expressing the
great pleasure he felt at the fact that his father, t.o
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whose good example he was greatly indebted for 1317
success in life, had been spared to sit beside hiin 01'
this (to him) most interesting occasion.
" The Magistrates of the City of London" was
the next toast given, and Mr. Alderman Copeland
returned thanks. _ _

Other toasts followed in succession, and the ell-
tertainment was brought to a close shortly before
11 o'clock.

WHETHER BEES WORK AT NIGHT, I have beellt

often asked. They certainly do, as in looking
them in a glass hive by means of a lighted candle, I bay:
always found them to be apparently busy in various vggl.".
A swarm put into an empty straw hive, quite new, late
the evening, will have a considerable quantity of c°111,4
completed by the next morning.—EnwAnn JEssEI 4911

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