The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-27 00:00:00

BANK OF FRANCE.

_
PARIS, July 26.
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.

July 26.

July 19.
fr. 1
182,500,000 -

Capital of the Bank 182,500,000
Profits in addition to
capital (Art. 8, Law,
June 9, 1857) 7,044,776 02 7,044,776 0'
Reserve of the Bank
and its branches
Reserve in landed pro-
perty 4,000,000
Notes in circulation ... 974,592,075
Banknotes to order and
receipts payable at
sight
Treasury account cur-
rent creditor
Current accounts, Paris 311,866,158 99 310,013,776 79
Do. branch banks 38,588,954 41,505,069
Dividends payable 3,461,624 75 4,664,693 n
Discounts and sundry
interests
Rediscounted the last

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

4,000,000 -
981,973,725 -

31,710,775 55 30,131,376 31

3,186,787 43 2,778,138 48

six months
Surplus of receipts not
distributed
Sundries

2,372,304 91 2,372,304 9:

11,672,265 88 13,863,723 33

Tottil
CREDITOR.

July 26. July 19.
Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. c.
Branch banks
Commercial bills over-

due
Commercial bills dis-

678,133 67

226,613 33

—connted, not yet due 332,224,302 94 349,887,832 63
Do. branch banks 360,990,623 365,871,628
Advances on deposit of

bullion
Do. branch banks
Do. on French Public

12,089,000 -
11,882,100 -

10,615,800 -

11;956,000 -

Securities
Do. by branch banks
Do. on railway shares

14,713,200 -
8,392,200 -

15,032,300 -

8;672;900 -

--
and debentures
1). branch banks 23,160,700
Do. on Credit Foncier

35,461,700 -
23,537,900 -

Bonds
Do. branches
Do. to the State (Con-
vention, June 10,
1857) 60000,000
Government Stock re-

673,700 --
557,700 -

689,100 -
639,800

60,000,000 -

serve
Do. disposable
Rentes Immobalisees

12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14
36,171,987 91 36,171,987 91

(Law, June 9, 1857) 100,000,000 100,000,000
Hotel and furniture of
the Bank and landed
property branches ...
Expenses of manage-
ment ............ 494,300 60 477,606 78
Sundries

8,289,480 -

8,288,605 -

T0ta1..........,. 1,724,656,252 93 1,729,539,681 35
Certified by the Senator-Governor of the Bank of France.

(Signed)

BOULAND.

The Bank of France has reduced its rate of dis-
count from 4 to 3i per cent.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day,

The Market opens quiet at a farthing decline.
Sales probably 8,000 bales.

THE NEW HOTEL AT GALLE.—The building
erected by the Oriental Hotel Company at Galle is
quite palatial in its dimensions and accommodatim. It is
a fine three-storeyed edifice erected on an elevated site,
and the upper rooms command the most beautiful views of
the harbour, the sea, the undulating hills around, and the
mountains beyond Galle. When we visited the place the
appliances from England were being unpacked, and we
almost envied those who were to use the nice marble-
topped tables and washhandstands, the neat iron bedsteads,
the bath; and other comforts and conveniences. —Colombo
Observer.

A GALLANT SENTINEL.---A story is told of a
Prussian sentinel stationed on the steeple at Trop-
pau, and left behind there when his company retreated.
The citizens attempted to take him prisoner, but the Prus-
sian easily defended with his bayonet the narrow u inding
stair by which alone access could be gained to the steeple.
They then decided on reducing him by famine, but the

Prussian, having with him a good supply of cartridges,
announced that unless he was regularly and well fed, he
would shoot every one who passed in the streets around
the church. The good soldier thus contrived to maintain
his position for two days, when Troppau was re-occu-
pied by the Prussians, and be IVBII relieved, and, we
trust, retwarde;l.