The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-23 00:00:00

BANK OF FRANCE.

PARIS, May 21.
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.
May 22.
fr.

May 14.
fr. c.
182,500,000

Capital of the Bank 182,566,000 :-
Priptits in, addition to
capital (Art. 8, Law,
Juno 9, 1857) 7,014,776 02 7,014,776 02
Reserve of the Bank

and its branches 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 14
Reserve of landed pro-
perty 4,000,000 4,000,000
Notes in circulation
Banknotes to order and
receipts payable at
sight 34,397,451 78 36,384,487 16
Treasury account cur-
rent creditor 67,589,150 64 67,799,357 89
Current accounts, Paris 396,338'324 63 378,747,048 50
Do. branch banks 49,165,711 52,307,560
Dividends payable 686,541 75 723,983 75
Discounts and sundry
interests
Rediscounted the last

six months
Surplus of receipts not
distributed
Sundries

930,376 76 930,376 76

8,932,889 2G 9,030,916 75

Total
CREDITOR.
May 22.
fr.

May 14
fr.

Clash in hand and in

Branch banks
Commercial bills over-

due
Commercial bills dis-
counted, not yet due 234,670,110 64 253,971,954 30
Do. branch banks 186,108,606 190,842,078
Advances on deposit of
bullion
Do. branch banks 10141,277
Do. on French Public
Securities
Do. by branch banks
Do. on railway shares
and debentures
Do. branch banks
Do. on Credit Foncier

585,972 54

99,742 06

40,105,500 -
10,087,977 -

11,842,400 -

11,888,500 -
6,967,300 -

6;747;100 -

35,054,100 -
24,867,500 -

34,937,800 --

25;007;000

Bonds
Do. branches . -
Do. to the State (Con-
vention, June 10,
1630 60,000,000
Government Stock re-

942,500 -
'195,600 -

917,600 -
791,400 -

60,000,000 -

serve
Do. disposable
[;enter Immobalisees

12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14
40,651,419 66 40,651,419 66

(Law, June- 2, 1857) 100,000,000
Hotel and furniture of
the Bunk and landed
prope:ty branches
Expenses of manage-

100,000,000 -

8,370,776 -

8,370,297 -

tuent
Sundries

1,130,617 38 1,616,465 88
21,230,740 29 17,446,372 64

Total
Certified by the Senator-Governor of the Bank
of France. _

(Signed '

ROULAND.

NATIONAL CHORAL
LLSOCIE7Y, EXE7ER
HA.

The last concert held under Mr. Alartin's direc-
tion was devoted to a special performance of Han-
del's martial oratorio " Judas Maceabseus," which
has seldom been given with better spirit or more
generally admirable effect than by the bright-voiced
choirs which the founder of the above-mentioned
society has succeeded in raising to a position
only second to that of the oldest choral society in
London. Extraordinary pains were bestowed upon
the grand choruses, " Hear us, 0 Lord," and the
yet finer °`We never, never will bow down," with
which the second and third parts respectively
concluded, and the universal favourite, " See
hero comes," was of course
the conquering
the bonne bouche of the night, so far as the
majority of the auditors were concerned. " Fallen
is the foe," and the spirited response to " Sound an
Alarm"—" We hear, hear !"—were also excellent
examples of improved discipline on the part of the
choir. The soloists were Madame Florence Lancia,
a competent and sweet-voiced exponent of the
well-known treble songs; Miss Lucy Franklin,
whose single air, "Father of Heaven," was sung
with excellent feeling; Mr. George Perren, who
gave " Sound an Alarm" so effectively as to secure
an encore for that always admired piece, and to
win what is, perhaps, more rarely obtained, the
unqualified respect of critical hearers ; and Herr
Wallenreicher, the recently-arrived German singer,
who is a decided acquisition to our list of artists
gifted with bass or baritone voices. The audience
was a very large one, and its all but unbroken inte-
rest in the performance was sustained up to the last
number of the long oratorio.