The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-03 00:00:00

CREDITOR.

Jan. 2. Dec. 26.
Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr.
z,Branch banks -
Commercial bills over-
due
Commercial bills dis-
counted, not yet due 22,324,908 03 249,548,098 71
Do. branch banks 272,209,465 246,629,596 -
Advances on deposit of
bullion
Do. branch banks
Do. on French Public
Securities
Do. by branch banks
Do. on railway shares
and debentures
Do. branch banks
Do. on Credit Fencier
Bonds
Do. branches
Do. to the State (Con-
vention, June 10,

4,685,373 64

416,212 45

57,034,000 -
11,511,577 -

54,424,600 -
11,26&,977 -

12,477,600 -
7,722,800 -

12,855,400 -

7;75000 -

37,224,800 -

37,162,000 -

28;084,230 -

27;89050 -

990,300 -
:312,450 -

988,700 -
923,750 -

1857)
Government Stock re-

60,000,000 -

60,000,000 -

serve
Do. disposable
Rentes Immobalisees

12,980,750 15 12,980,750 14
35,983,737 90 35,988,737 91

(Law, June 2, 1857) 100,000,000 100,000,000
Hotel and furniture of
the Bank and landed

proper ty branches ...
Expenses of manage-

8,274,805 --

8,276,20

nient __
Sundries

2,465,821 87 -
42,856,624 51 26,838,451 52

Total 1,955,435,621 99 1,909,190,499 75
Certified by the Senator Governor of the Bank of Franco
(Signed) Ron LAND.

CATHOLIC ST ATISTICS IN ENGLAND FOR

1868.

The official 64 Catholic Directory" for the year
868, published permissa superiorum, has made its

appearance. It gives, as usual, a statistical sum-
mary of the Church in England, Wales, and Scot-
land, and there is, considering the numbers in Great

Britain, a considerable increase in the clergy,
churches, chapels, convents, and monasteries since
last year. The total number of bishops is of course
the same—namely, one archbishop and twelve
bishops (besides three retired bishops) in Eng-
land, and four bishops in Scotland. The number

of priests in Great Britain amounts to 1,639,
against 1,608 last year ; the number of churches
and chapels are 1,283, against 1,207 when the last
Directory was published ; the convents of women
are now 227 in number, whereas last year they
were 220 ; and, lastly, the monasteries number 67,
against 63 last year. Total increase :-31 priests,
76 churches and chapels, 7 convents of women,
and four monasteries of men. It ought, how-
ever, to be borne in mind that of the 76 churches
or chapals which are more this year than last,
about a dozen are private chapels of convents or
of various individuals ; also, of the four increase
in the number of monasteries, three are merely
houses in which two or three of the regular clergy
dwell together for missionary work ; the fourth is
the new Dominican Priory at Haverstock-hill. In
the convents, or religious houses of women, the

increase has been very great during the last few
years, but it has been altogether, or with very few
exceptions, amongst the non-cloistered, or active
Orders, such as Sisters of Charity, Sisters of
Mercy, and the like. The cloistered, or contem-
plative orders, hardly seem to increas3 at all, or
very slightly, in this country ; but for nuns to
conduct schools for the upper and middle classes,
as well as to superintend poor schools, houses of
refuge, and the like, the demand is far greater than
the supply. The following is a summary of Catholic
statistics for England, Scotland, and Wales during
the last three years :
Yr. Priests.

Churches Religious Com- Con-
and Chapels. reunifies of men. vents.
866 1569 1171 58 211
1867 1608 1207 63 220
1868 1631 1283. 63 227
The number of colleges and large preparatory
schools are twenty-one. Of these, three—Ushaw,
near Durham ; Oscott, near Birmingham, and Old
Hall, near Ware—are specially under the Bishops ;
Stonyhurst, in Lancashire, Mount St. Mary's,
near Chesterfield, and Beaumont-lodge, near
Windsor, are the property of the Jesuits. Ample-
forth in Yorkshire, and Downside, near Bath, are
under the Benedictines. The Oratory, at Edg-
baston (Dr. Newman's school), belongs to the
Oratorians. Ratcliffe College, ncar Leicester, be-
longs to the Fathers of Charity. St. Charles,
Bayswater, is directed by the Oblates of St.
Charles, 'and Sicklinghall, near Wetherby, is under
the Oblates of Mary. Of the two hundred and

tweuty-seven convents, upwards of two hundred
are for the education of girls, either rich, poor, or
middle class.— Weekly Register.

ECLIPSES IN 1868.—1 n the course of the pre-
sent year there will be two eclipses of the sun, and a transit
of Mercury over the sun's disc. Sunday, Feb. 23, an an-
nular eclipse of the sun, invisible at Greenwich ; Monday,
Aug. 17 ; a total eclipse of the sun, invisible at Greenwich;
Thursday, Nuv. 5, a trAnsit of Mercury over the sun's disc
partially visible at Greenwich ; begins twenty-five minutes
past Ave a.m., and ends three minutes past nine a.m.