The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-09 00:00:00

and debentures
1). branch banks 18,924,000
Do. on Credit Foncier

Bonds
Do. branches
Do. to the State (Con-
vontion, June 10,
1857) 60,000,000
Government Stock re-

608,900 - 613,500 -
360,700 - 382,200 -

60,000;000 -

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

serve
Do. disposable
Rentes Inunobalisees
(Law, June 9, 1857) 100,000,000 100,000,000
Hotel and furniture of
the Bank and landed
property branches
Expenses of manage-
ment
Sundries

8,447,549 - 8,444,235 -

644,601 - 600,837 -
11,188,893 82 13,302,054 67

Total 1,362,000,752 2 1,38G,330,420 97
Certified by the Senator-Governor of the Batik of France.
(Signed) ROULAND.

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We are heartily glad to see that Colonel Torrens,
M.P., has given notice that he will, in the House of
Commons to-night, "ask the Finance Secretary to the Trea-
sury whether it is the fact that the clerks of the Inspector-
General of Imports and Exports have applied to the Board
of Customs for liberty to forward a petition to the Lords
Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, praying for a
reconsideration of a petition, presented in May last, with
a view to giving them a more substantial benefit than is
afforded by the recent Treasury minute upon Customs,
Salaries, and whether such permission has been refused."
We understand that the prospects of the Grand
International Horticultural Exhibition and Botanical
Congress, to be hold at South Kensington, in May next,
are most encouraging. The ground to be occupied by the
show, which is a portion of the site of the 1862 Exhibition,
is already under
preparation for the erection of tho mon-
ster tont ; and, according to the plans which have been
adopted, the interior arrangements will be made most
effective. The
complimentary banquet to the learned
foreigners who are invited to take part in the
proceedings, or to attend as delegates from foreign
Governments, and which, thanks to the City Corporation,
is to be held in the Guildhall, is drawing in as subscribers
to the fund many who aro anxious to do homage to the
distinguished foreign visitors who will honour the occa-
sion with their presence. While the Botanical Congress,
which is to be under the presidency of M. do Caudelle, is
assuming from day to day a more practical shape, several
eminent botanists both at home and abroad have already
joined in working it out to a successful issue. The meet-
ings of the Congress aro to be held in the Raphael Cartoon
room, at South Kensington, by permission of the Com-
mittee of Council of Education. This •great horticultural
movement, it should be remembered, is wholly of an inde-
pendent character, and it must be a source of great gratifi-
cation to the friends of scientific horticulture in this
country that it has attracted so large an amount
of voluntary pecuniary support, without which indeed
it would not hate been attempted. The expenses,
however, will be heavy in proportion to the magni-
tude of the undertaking, and we learn officially that
further aid is necessary to secure that the combined exhi-
bition and congress be carried out in a spirited manner,
which is highly desirable, having reference to their inter-
national character.