The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-04 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Sept. B.—Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows :-
4j per Cent.
End of month... Ital;an Loan
3 per Cent
End of month 7O 85 Mexican Loan ... 23 50
Credit Mobilier
End of month... 285 Spanish Threes
Credit Foncier ...1455 Rome Debt —
End of month... Deferred —
Cash
Orleans
N orthern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Bouthern.....
Western
Eastern
Sardinian .................................... 42
Austrian ....................................... L 45
Lombard ....................................... 417
North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman

RAILWAYS.

BANK OF FRANCE.

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PARIS, Sept. 3.

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. 27.
fr. ,
Capital of the Bank.... 182,500,000 L
Prolits in addition to

Sept. 3.

182,500,000 -

capital (Art. 8, Law,
Juno 9, 1857) 7,044,776 02 7,044,776 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
Nte
Banknotes to orderand. 1,220,136,800 1,238,949,450
orecseiipucirtscuio
payablelt n
at
.
sight 35,871,967 62 35,860,933 89
Treasury account cur-
rent creditor 191,601,715 51 159,166,836 09
Current accounts, Paris 472,3.40,213 43 445,061,702 52
Do. branch banks 56,912,310 55,343556
Dividends payable 1,603,708 1,503,264
Discounts and sundry
interests
Rediscounted the last
six months 703,132 42 703,152 42
Surplus of receipts not
distributed -
Sundries

Total
CREDITOR.
Aug. 27. Sept. 3.
Cash in hand and in fr.
c. fr. c
Branch banks
Commercial bills over-
due
Commercial bills dis- •
counted, not yet due 293,241,620 87 263,540,682 92
Do. branch banks 226,584,842 223,706,767
Advances on deposit of
bullion 34,892,000 32,316,500
Do. branch banks 8,423,200 8,754,400
Do. on French Public
Securities 11,930,900 11,785,200
Do. by branch banks 8,535,500 7,399,110
Do. on railway shares
and debentures
Do. branch banks
Do. on Credit Fender
Bonds
Do. branches
Do. to the State (Con-
vention, June 10,
1857) 60,000,000 --- 60,000,000
Government Stock re-
serve 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14
Do. disposable
Rentes Immobalisees
(Law, June 2, 1857) 1C0,000,000 —. 100,000,000
Hotel and furniture of
the Bunk and landed
proper i,y branches
Expenses of manage-
ment 941,916 61 1,122,503 63
Sundries

Total
Certified by the Senator-Governor of the Bank
of France.
(Signed) ROULAND.

TilE STortm IN THE NORTH SEA.—The weather,
which had been extremely stormy and boisterous for a
week, arid which drove most of the screw steamers bound
from Hamburg to the Tyne back to Cuxhaven, was on
Wednesday moderato and fine, and these vessels have all
arrived in safety in the north-east ports. The weather
was fearfully stormy at the mouth of the Elbe in the later
part of last week, and the steamers which reached the
Tyne on Wednesday report that two sailing vessels were
lost, with all hands, at tha mouth of the Elbe, during the
recent bad weather.

PROPOSED VISIT OF LORD NAPIER TO EDINBURGH.
—At the ordinary meeting of the Edinburgh Town Coun-
cil, held on Tuesday, the Lord Provost read a letter from
Lord Napier of Magdala, returning thanks for the resolu-
tion of the Council to confer upon him the freedom of the
city, and stating that, as he proposed to visit the neigh-
bourhood of Edinburgh at the end of nowt month, he
hoped then to arrange a time which would bo convenient
for the Council to present him with the freedom of the
city.