The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-17 00:00:00

BANK OF FRANCE

PARIS, Jan. 16.

The following is the return of the Bank of Franc
for the week ending to-day, together with the cor-
responding figures of the previous account :

DEBTOR.

Jan. 16.
fr. c.
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 02
Reserve of the Bank
and its branches
Reserve of landed pro-
perty 4,000,000 4,000,000
Notes in circulation 1,220,137,275 1,197,007,875
Bank notes to orderand
receipts payabl,% at
sight
Treasury account cur-

Jan. 9.

182,500,000 -

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

31,807,320 33 84,114,275 78

rent creditor
Current accounts, Paris 335,531,687 25 49,596,003 11
Do. branch banks 37,299,909 38,580,709
Dividends payable 3,894,885 75 5,827,313 75
Discounts and sundry
interests
Rediscounted the last
six months
Surplus of receipts not
distributed
Sundries

930,376 76 930,376 76

Total
CREDITOR.
Jan. 16. Jan. 9.
Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. C.
Branch banks
Commercial bills over-
t.' due ,
Conunercial bills dis-

2,936,345 76 464,572 57

counted, not yet due 267,580,064 79 287,322,807 36
Do. branch banks 257,760,669 263,638,138
Advances on deposit of
bullion 57,436,200
Do. branch banks 11,1.05,677
Do. on French Public

58,507,400 -

10',988,677 -

Securities
Do. by branch banks
Do. on railway shares
and debentures
Do. branch banks
Do. on Credit Foncier
Bonds
Do. branches
Do. to the State (Con-
vention, June 10,
1857) 60,000,000
Government Stock re-

12,259,100 -
7,570,100 -

12,257,900 -

7;80000 -

37,004,100 --•

2019;450 -

1,022,300 -
1,022,300 -

1,019,500 -
955,550 -

60,000,000 -

serve 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14
Do. disposable
Rentes Immobalisees

(Law, Juno 2, 1857) 100,000,000 100,000,000 --
Hotel and furniture of
the Bank and landed
propei ty branches
Expenses of manage-
ment 72,030 98 53,283 10
Sundries

8,287,894 -

8,268,702 -

Total 1,94881,999 86 1,924,839,384 23
Certified by the Senator Governor of the Bank of France
(Signed) ROULAND.

HIGULAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF SCOT-
LAND.—The half-yearly meeting was hold at Edinburgh
on Wednesday—the Marquis of T weeddale in the chair.
The Duke of Buccleuch was elected president of the so-
ciety, and the Earls of Dalhousie, Fife, Southesk, and
Kintore were chosen vice-presidents. About 50 noW
members were admitted by ballot. It was resolved to
record an expression of regret for the death of Sir Geo.
Clerk, honorary secretary. Mr. Kinloch reported that
the Glasgow Show of 1867 had been attended with a
degree of success beyond anticipation, and that a ba-
lance of £1,307 remained at the credit of the society
upon the year's accounts. it was proposed to hold the
present year's show at Aberdeen on the 28th, 29th, and
30th of July, and the sum of £1,500 had been voted for
premiums. A requisition having been received, influen-
tially signed, by the proprietors and occupiers of the three
Lothians to the effect th .t the show of 1869 should be held
at Edinburgh, it was resolved to accede to the request, and
to appoint next year's show accordingly. Mr. Campbell
Swinton reported from the directors a proposal to offer an
endowment of £l5O a year to the Chair of Agriculture in
Edinburgh University, on condition of the Treasury mak-
ing an equivalent grant. The circumstances of this Chair
and its meagre endowment had been brought before the
University Commissioners in 1862, but from the paucity of
the funds at their disposal they were unable to do anything
for it. It was now thought a favourable opportunity to
bring the matter under the notice of Government. The
proposal was unanimously agreed to. Mr. Gillon reported
proceedings since last week in regard to the effort to obtain
a veterinary charter for Scotland, and Dr. Dalziel men-
tioned that a memorial praying for a Scottish charter had
been signed by the great bulk of the profession in Scot-
land. Mr. Waldegrave-Leslie, M.P., moved " That inas-
much as the system of supervision of drainage and land
improvements by local inspectors in Scotland under the
authority of the Government Enclosure Commissioners has
been found to work in a satisfactory manner, it is the
opinion of this society that a like system of supervision as
regards the plans and erection of farm buildings and cot-
tages, under Improvement Acts, be entrusted to the super-
vision of an architectin Scotland, to act under the authority
of the Commissioners." 11e stated that the claims for loans
coming from Scotland had almost entirely ceased, owing to
conditions being insisted on which were quite inapplicable
to Scotland. Mr. M'Lagan, M.P., seconded the motion,
which was unanimously agreed to.
DESERVING OF REMEMBRANCE. —An opinion pre-
vails very generally amongst the inhabitants of Shef-
field that great praise is due to Mr. W. C. Leng, the
editor of the Sheffield Daily Telegraph, for his,
spirited advocacy of the appointment of a Royal
Commission to inquire into the origin and
causes of the outrages which for many years
past have cast discredit not only upon the
manufacturing interests of Sheffield, but upon
the inhabitants at large, and for having, in de-
fiance of numerous threatening letters, personally
sought out and found for his own information one of
the principal perpetrators of the outrages which had
so long disgraced the town—a perpetrator whose
evidence subsequently formed the key of the
inquiry. A number of gentlemen have resolved to
raise a testimonial fund, with a view to manifest-
ing in some appropriate manner their approbation
of Mr. Leng's conduct, and among the names on the
subscription list we already find those of the
Archbishop of York ; the Dukes of Devonshire,
Argyll, Beaufort, Rutland, Manchester ; Lords
Dalhousie, Grey, Shaftesbury, Stanley, Zetland,
Wharncliffe, Fortescue ; Sir F. Crossley, Sir John
Brown, Sir H. Murchison, Sir William Armstrong,
the Speaker of the House of Commons, Mr. Goschen,
M.P.; Mr. W. E. Forster, M.P.; Mr. T. M. BaSep
M.P., &c.
COLONEL WILSON-PATTEN ON ART EDUCATION.'"
Colonel Wilson-Patten, M. P., Chancellor of the Duch9
of Lancaster, presided at the annual meeting of the
Warrington School of Art on Wednesday evening.
In presenting the prizes to the students, the Chairman
said that in looking over the proceedings of the
School of Art he found that it had occupied n
favourable position among • similar institutions
in the country, as compared with other towns,
that, taking all circumstances into consideration, it
stood perfectly unrivalled in the country. He
found that in one year the school had obtained the
whole of the thirty medals offered for competition,
and he did not know of any other school which bad
done so. Between 1853 and 1866, the students ob-
tained 266 medals, or an average of nineteen Pef
year. An opinion was fast gaining ground that
a better system of national education must be
adopted. He had been very much struck
with the remarks of some friends of We
with reference to it. If -they did not exact',
disparage education in art, they did intend!.
he regretted, to make it part of the general edne3
tion of the country. Nothing struck the foreign
commissioners to the Exhibition of 1851 so much as
the deficiency of this country in art as applied
:
to manufactures ; and in 1862 one of the Could
missioners told him that since then we t
made a progress which was quite surprising. Pit
still be believed, from what took place in Paris lax
year, that not only had the country not made that
advance in art which was to be desired, but she 113":
actually gone back. Any influence he had should ~.,
brought to bear in support of institutions of that
kind, as he believed that schools of art and seieutiv
wore ontributine to the welfare of the country-