The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-22 00:00:00

BANK OF FRANCE.

PARIS, Aug. 20.
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.
Aug. 13.-
tr. c.
182,500,000

Aug. 20.

Capital of tho Bank....
Profits in addition to
capital (Art. 8, Law,
June 9, 1857)
Reserve of the Bank
and its branches
Reservo of landed pro_
Pert, 4,000,000 4,000,000
Notes in circulation
Banknotes to orderand
receipts payable at
sight
Treasury account cur-

182,500,000 -

7,011,776 02

7,0-14,776 02

22,105,750 li 22,105,750 11

39,338,939 78

38,364,082 43

rent creditor
Current accounts, Paris
Do. branch banks
Dividends payable
Discounts and sundry

97,283,262 27
475,293,417 39
49,023,261 -
1,813,017 -

176,618,090 73
493,10,076 40
48,286,662 -
1,726,663 -

interests
Rediscounted the last
six months
Surplus of receipts not
distributed
Sundries

2,205,221 97

2,684,212 65

703,152 42

703,152 42

8,973,927 55 13,695,8J0 06

Total
CREDITOR.
Aug. 13. Aug. 20.
Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. a.
Branch banks
Cornmerciar bills over-
due
Commercial bills dis-

318,980 46

176,359 22

counted, not yet due 289,30.1,892 18
Do. branch banks 208,890,500
Advances on deposit of
bullion
Do. branch banks
Do. on Preach Public

814,405,229 51
239,583,875 -

31,719,600 -
7,404,100 -

35,922,800 -.
7,938,900 -

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)
Government Stock re-

13,046,000 -

6,303,600 -

12,987,700 -
8,511,900 -

89,686,800 -
25,959,400 -

42,372,800
27,166,700 -

1,118,700 -
838,000 -

1,056,1(10 -

861,900 -

60,000,000 -

60,000,000 -

serve
Do. disposable
Rentes Immobalisees

12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14
40,636,419 66 40,636,419 66

(Law, June '2, 1857) ICO 000,000 .....
Hotel and furniture-of
the Bank and landed
propel ty branches ...
Expenses of manage-

100,000,000 -

8,411,314 -

8,419,768 -

went...
Sundries

714,396 57 931,550 28
23,994,964 18 14,097,719 07

Total
C..:rtifiel by the Senator-Governor or the Bank

of France.

(Signed ROULAND.

:L')NDON GAZETTE-LAST EVENING.

FOREIGN OFFICE, AUG. 13.
The Queen has been Weasel to approve of Don Fermin
Ortega y Molina as oousul at Gibraltar for her Muj•-st.y
the Queen of Spain.
'rho Queen has also been pleasel to approve of Mr.
Michele Suarez GuAnos as Consul at Sierra Leone, with
jurisdiction over Senegambia, fur his Majesty the King of
Italy.

DOWNING-STREET, AUG. 19.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Samuel alit
chell and Daniel Webster Esqrs., to be Members of the
Council of the Island of Grenada.
WAR. OFFICE, PALL-MALL, AUG. 21.
Rifle Brigade - General his Royal Highness Albert E l ward,
Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall, K.G., K.T.,
G. 0.8., K.?., to be Colonel in-Chief, vice
ield-Marshal the Right Honourable Sir Edward
Blakeney, (1 C. 8., G. 0.11., deceased.
2d Dragoons-Colin John Campbell to be Cornet.
3d Hussars-Cornet Walter John Turner to be Lieuten-
ant; Cornet Jacob P. D. Vanrenan to be Cornet.
14th Hussars-Ensign Henry L'Estrange Malone to be
Cornet.
Scots Fusilier Guards-Lieutenant and Captain Chris-
topher Pemberton to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel;
Ensign and Lieutenant Henry John Elwes to be Lieu-
tenant and Captain ; Frederick Lorn Campbell, Gent.,
to be Ensign and Lieutenant.
Iloyal Artillery-Major-General Robert Burn to be Col,
`Commandant. To be Colonels-Lieut.-Col. and Brevet
-
Colonels Arnold Thompson, Henry Clerk, Matthew C.
Dixon, John Juraer, 0.13, and Edward Henry Fisher.
To be Lienteretut-Colonels---(Japtain and Brevet Lieu-
tenant Colonels John Singleton, and Wiliam Edmund
Moyses Reilly, C.B. ; Captain and Brevet-Majer
Boyd Saunders ; Captain and Brevet-Colouer Charles
Hodgkinsou Smith. To be Captains -Captain Thomas
Picton Turbervill; Second Captain and Brevet-Mater
Hoary Clement S winnerton Dyer ; Second Captain. and
Adjutant Thomas Lloyd Still ; Second Captain Joseph
Hanwell ; Second Captain Joshua Frederick Betty.
To be Second Captains .-Lieutenants John Henry Black-
ley, Robert Carstairs Drysdale, and Henry John Pal-
liser. To be Adjutant -Second Captain George Budd.
Royal Engineers-Captain Southey (late Bombay), to be
Lieutenant-Colonel ; Second Captain John le Mesurier
(late Bombay), to be Captain; Lieut. Merewether (late
Bombay) to be Second Captain.
let Foot-Ensign Howlett, 56th Foot, to bo Ensign
sth Foot-Ensign Wilfred Fitz Allan Way to be Lieu-
tenant; Gentleman Cadet Samuel Boxwell, to be
Ensign.
11th Foot-Ensign James Herbert Yule to be Lieute-
nant; Hamilton William Wetherell Spooner, Gent., to
be Ensign.
18th Foot-Gentleman Cadet Samuel Phillips to be En-
sign.
23d Foot-Major Andrew Cathcart Bogle, from half-pay,
to be Major; Captain George Phipps Prevost to be
Major; Lieut. H;ury Francis Hutton to be Captain;
Ensign W. Phibbs to be Lieutenant; Henry L'Estrange
Malone, Gent., to be Ensign.
31st Foot -Lieutenant R. R. C. Hill to be Adjutant.
41st Foot-Ensign H. E. James to be Lieutenant; Ensign
C. S. C. Crespigny to be Lieutenant; Ensign C. J.
Jamieson to be Ensign.
43d Foot--Ensign Robert Colvill Jones Lyons to be
Lieutenant; Ensign Francis Hole Bourne to be Ensign.
53d Foot-Ensign Benjamin M'Clintock to be Lieutenant ;
Gentleman Cadet Frederick Coare Mein to bo Ensign.
56th Foot-Ensign William R. Knox to be Lieutenant;
Gentleman Cadet Arthur Howlett, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign.
75th Foot-Staff Assistant Surgeon Robert Lindsay, M. 8.,
to be Assistant Surgeon.
98th Foot-Quartermaster A. Macqueen should have been
described as Quartermaster-Sergeant, 61st Foot, in
"Gazette," 31st July, 1868.
103 d Foot-The promotion of the undermentioned officers
to be antedated to the 25th March, 1868 :-Lieut. 11. F.
Heathcote and Lieut. W. C. Rtddoll. Lieut. Francis M.
Leslie to be Lieutenant; Ensign Donald A. Campbell
to be Ensign.
105th Foot -Ensign Loraine Geddes Hay to be Lieu-
tenant ; Ensign Henry Opie Woodhouse to be Lieu-
tenant.
107th Foot-Lieutenant George William Beresford to be
Lieutenant; Lieutenant George Hay Dale, from the
105th Foot, to be Lieutenant.
44ti West India Regiment-Lieutenant Ponsonby Shep-
pard to be Captain; Ensign George Frown to be Lieu-
tenant; John Lennox Power, Gent., to be Ensign
Medical Department-Assistant-Surgeon Joseph William
Carter Neynoe Murphy, from 75th Foot, to be Staff
Assistant-Surgeon, vice Hubert Lindsay, M. 8., ap-
pointed to 75th Foot.
Half-pay-Major and Brevet Colonel William Humphreys
- Kirby, from half-pay, late 94th Foot, to be Lieutenant-
Colonel.

Royal Hospital, Chelsea—Field-Marshal Sir Alexander
Wo dford, Field-Marshal Sir Hew Dalrymple Ross.
BREVET.
The following promotions to take place, consequently
on the death, on the Ist inst., of General Henry Alexander
Scott, Colonel-Commandant of the Royal Artillery :
Lieutenant-General Sir William Fenwick Williams to be
'General; Major-General Robert Burn to be Lieutenant-
General; Colonel Frederick Marow Eardley-Wilmot to
be Major-General; Brevet-Major William Lacy to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel ; Captain Thomas Picton Turbervill to be
Major.

The undermentioned ()facers having completed tho
qualifying service in the rank of Lieuteuant-Colonel to
be Colonels, under the Royal Warrant of 3d February,
1866 :—Lieutenant-Colonel William D. Gossett, Royal
Engineers; and Lieutenant-Colonel Fairfax C. Ilassard,
Royal Engineers.

ADMIRALTY, AUG. 18.
Mr. John Kelly has this day boon promoted to tho rank
of Engineer in her Majesty's Fleet, with seniority of 11th
August, 1868.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Eveinal.

Amsterdam Short ... 11 19 11 19}
Do
Rotterdam — ... 12 f ... 12 1
Autwerp — .... 25 35 ... 25 42}
Brussels — ... 23 35 ... 25 421
.Elainburgn _
... 13 101 ... 13 11
Paris
Ditto ...
..... 3 mg. ... 2 ) 321 ... 23 374
Mra,seilles
Prankfort-ou-tlie-Main ... 1201 ... 1291
Vienna — ... 11 7?1 ... 11 821
Trieste — „. 11 771 ... H. 83
Petersburg
Copenhagen — ... 9 19 ... 9 21
Berlin
Madrid..
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan — ... 27 90 ... 28 0
Genoa — ... 27 90 ... 28 0
Palermo — ... 27 90 .. 28 0
Messina
Lisbon
... 51,1 ... 611
Oporto
... 511 ... 611

The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Cornmander John Burgess,
to the Pandora, vice Spratt ; and Li, lt. Caesar IL
Hawkins, to the liudymion.