The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-19 00:00:00

LIABILITIES.

Capital ... . . f. 67,900,000 0
Ditto of the Branch Banks ... ... 23,350,000 0
Reserve fund ... 10,000,000 0
Ditto of the branch banks 2,980,750 0
Reserve-immobiliere ... 4,000,000 0
Notes to bearer, in circulation ... ... 394,554,700 5
Ditto of the branch banks ... 71,580,300 0
Ditto to order (post-bills) ... 1,890,717 0
Account-current with Treasury creditor 89,591,790 74
Various accounts current 76,337,373 26
Ditto in branches 24,162,908 0
Bills payable at sight ... 5.542,500 0
Ditto at branches 1,255,738 0
Bills of the branch banks payable by
the Bank ... 6,062,573 0
Ditto of the Bank payable by branches.. 2,883,135 0
Dividends payable ... . • ... 463,993 25
Liquidation of the Algiers Bank ... 18,915 0
Discounts, interest, and expenses ... 452,515 4
Ditto branch banks ... 802,438 0
Expenses anticipated ... ••• ... 260,820 30
Re-discounts of the last six months ... 263,317 26
Ditto in branch banks ... 285,183 0
Miscellaneous ... 476 079 39

f. 785,115,746 43
Certified by the Governor of the Bank of France,
D'ARGOUT.
We find by the foregoing account that the cash in
hand has increased within the week by I ,000,000 f. The
amount of commercial bills discounted have increased
by 200,000 f. The protested bills have diminished by
io,ooof. The bank-notes in circulation have inert ased
by 3,000,000 f. The balance t) the credit of the Treasury
remains nearly as last week. The sundry credits Lave
decreased by 1,000,000 f.

ARMENIAN WILEAT.—At a weekly council of the
Royal Agricultural Society on Wednesday, Professor
Lindley presented a specimen of wheat grown at Erzc-
roum, on Mount Ararat, and with a communication from
James Brant, Esq., her Majesty's Consul at that place,
relating to its cultivation. The seed has been obtained
from Trebizond, and the variety was supposed to be that
of the Triticum compositum. ' The council ordered their
thanks to be sent to Dr. Lindley for the favour of this
compo,itior.

DISCOVERY OF ANOTHER OYSTER BED.—For the
last week some importations ( f oysters have been made
into Hastings, from a newly discovered bee, of some
magnitude, lying about mid channel off Dungeness
Point, and S.E of thistinv.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, March 18.

APPELLATE JURISDICrioN OF THE HOUSE
OF LORDS, AND OF THE JUDICIAL COAI-

DII"I'TEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL.

Lord BROUGHAM said he had now to' call their
Lordships' attention to a subject of the greatest impor-
tance, indeed of the very highest importance when
vie►sed in connexion wink the administration of juttice
in our ♦ast colonial empire. It this country chose to
possess a boundless empir it was our duty to judge the
folks righteously, for unless we bestowed upon them the
inestimable blessings of a good administration of justice
we could not exi eJt them to rejoice and be glad in our
dominion. That we did administer justice, generally
speaking, in a superior manner—that our rule over
these countries had been attended with infinite advantage
compared with any detriment that we had caused, all
history bore testimony. Nevertheless, it could not be
denied that our judicial system was capable of great im-
provement, and we ought never to allow ourselves to
stop by reflecting on the good that had been donr, so
long as it could be shown that any defect was discover-
able or any improvement could be made. That was the
only position he wished to take on the present occasion.
Our present system had many advantages. He belies ed it
to approach in some respects towards perfection, al-
though he feared in other respects it was wide of
that mark.—(Hear, hear.) But having compared
it with other systems he could! hardly find fault
with it, so grievous were the faults of others.
The papers for which he moved the other day
gave a comparative view, not only of the state of judi-
cial business in our various possessions, distinguishing
between the Channel Islands and the empire of the East
India Company, but for the purpose of making the com-
parison more effectual he had also moved for a return
casting light on our judicial system nearer home. These
returns all related to the appellate jurisdiction, and
more or less they were calculated to furnish a test of
the excellency of the administration of justice in those
courts from which the app• ils proceeded. The returns
embraced the apr Gals during the last 20 years from the
three great branches of our judicial system in England,
Ireland, and Scotland, and the appeals from ti• court
of equity. The same returns had been made for the
colonies, the Channel Islands, and our colonial posses-
sions in the East. At first sight it might appear extra-
ordinary that there should be so great a disproportion
between the amount cf appeals before their Lordships
and that before the Privy Council, and that from the
courts administering justice to upwards of 100,000,000
the number should be so very inferior. There was also
a great disproportion between the api ells from England
and Ireland and from Scotland. The appeals from Eng-
land heard and delivered during the last 20 years
amounted to 140. from all the courts of equity, being 7
per year; from Scotland 534, being 26 or 27 per year,
from Ireland 75, being about 3f per year. But from ell
India, with an it finite number of local courte, and three
supreme courts, the number of appeals to the Privy
Council in 10 years was only 66, or little more than six
per year. This was not because the Hindoo was Letter
pleased with a decision against him than the Scotchman
or the Celt, but in consequence of the expense of pro-
secuting an appeal on the other side of the globe being
so much greater than an appeal from Edinburgh or
Dublin. Now as to the result of these proceedings. Of
the 140 English appeals, in 38 the decree or order was
reversed or varied, being at the rate of about 27i per
cent. In the Scotch appeals there were 153 reversals out
of 534 cases, being about 28 per cent. In the Irish ap-
peals the proportion was much higher, the reversals, out