The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-17 00:00:00

DEBTOR.

Jan. 16. Jan. 9.
fr. c. fr. c.
Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 182,500,000
Profits in addition to
capital (Art. 8, Law,
June 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
Notes in circulation
Banknotes to order and
receipts payable at
sight 31,807,320 38 34,114,275 78
Treasury account cur-

rent ci-oditor 72,124,544 04 76,399,407 07
Current accounts, Paris 335,531,687 25 49,596,003 11
Do. branch banks 37,299,909 38,580,709
Dividends payable 3,894,885 75 5,827,313 75
Discounts and sundry

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

Total
CREDITOR.
Jan. 16. Jan. 9.
Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. c.

Branch banks
Commercial bills over-
t- duo
Commercial bills dis-
counted, not yet due 267,580,064 79 287,322,807 36
Do. branch banks 257,760,669 263,638,138
Advances on deposit of
bullion 57,43-6,200 58,507,400
Do. branch banks 14105,677 10,988,677
Do. on French Public

Securities 12,259,100 12,257,900
Do. by branch banks 7,570,100 7,806,800
Do. on railway shares
and debentures
Do. branch banks
Do. on Credit Fencier
Bonds
Do. branches
Do. to the State (Con-
vention, Juno 10,
1857) 60,000,000 60,000,000 --
Government Stock re-
serve 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14
Do. disposable
Uentes Immobalisdes

(Law, Juno 2, 1857) 100,000,000 100,000,000 --
Hotel and furniture of
the Bank and landed
propel ty branches 8,287,894 8,268,702 --
Expenses of manage-
ment 72,030 98 53,283 10
Sundries

Total 1,931,881,999 86 1,924,839,384 23
Certified by the Senator Governor of the Bank of Franco
(Signed) ROULAND.

HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF SCOT-
LAND.—The half-yearly meeting was held at Edinburgh
on Wednesday—the Marquis of Tweeddalo in the chair.
The Duke of Buccleuch was elected president of the so-
ciety, and the Earls of Dalhousie, Fife, Southesk, and
Kintore were chosen vice-presidents. About 50 new
members were admitted by ballot. It was resolved to
record an expression of regret for the death of Sir Geo.
Clerk, honorary secretary. Mr. Kinloch reported that
the Glasgow Show of 1867 had boon attended with a
degree of success beyond anticipation, and that a ba-
lance of £1,307 remained at the credit of the society
upon the year's accounts. It was proposed to hold the
present year's show at Aberdeen on the 28th, 29th, and
30th of July, and the sum of £1,500 had been voted for
premiums. A requisition having been received, influen-
tially signed, by the proprietors and occupiers of the three
Lothians to the effect that the show of 1869 should be held
at Edinburgh, it was resolved to accede to the request, and
to appoint next year's show accordingly. Mr. Campbell
Swinton reported from the directors a proposal to offer an
endowment of £l5O a year to the Chair of Agriculture in
Edinburgh University, on condition of the Treasury mak-
ing an equivalent grant. The circumstances of this Chair
and its meagre endowment bad been brought before the
University Commissioners in 1862, but from the paucity of
the funds at their disposal they were unable to do anything
for it. It was now thought a favourable opportunity to
bring the matter under the notice of Government. The
proposal was unanimously agreed to. Mr. Gillen reported
proceedings since last week in regard to the effort to obtain
a veterinary charter for Scotland, and Dr. Dalziel men-
tioned that a memorial praying for a Scottish charter bad
been signed by the great bulk of the profession in Scot-
land. Mr. Waldegrave-Leslie, M.P., moved " That inas-
much as the system of supervision of drainage and land
improvements by local inspectors in Scotland under the
authority of the Government Enclosure Commissioners has
been found to work in a satisfactory manner, it is the
opinion of this society that a like system of supervision as
regards the plans and erection of farm buildings and cot-
tages, under Improvement Acts, be entrusted to the super-
vision of an architectin Scotland, to act under the authority
of the Commissioners." Ho stated that the claims for loans
coming from Scotland had almost entirely ceased, owingto
conditions being insisted on which were quite inapplicable
to Scotland. Mr. M'Lagan, m.r., seconded the motion,
which was unanimously agreed to.

- -
ooray
OF REMEMBRANCE.—An opinion Pre-
vaiDlsEVErtVl
very generally amongst the inhabitants of Shef-
field that great praise is due to Mr. W. C. Long, the
editor of the Sheffield Daily Telegraph, for his
spirited advocacy of the appointment of a Royal
Commission to inquire into the origin and
causes of the outrages which for many years
past have cast discredit not only upon the
manufacturing interests of Sheffield, but upon
the inhabitants at large, and for having, in de-
fiance of numerous threatening letters, personally
sought out and found for his own information one of
the principal perpetrators of the outrages which had
so long disgraced the town—a perpetrator whose
evidence subsequently formed the key of the
inquiry. A number of gentlemen have resolved to
raise a testimonial fund, with a view to manifest-
ing in some appropriate manner their approbation
of Mr. Leng's conduct, and among the names on the
subscription list we already find those of the
Archbishop of York ; the Dukes of Devonshire,
Argyll, Beaufort, Rutland, Manchester ; Lords
Dalhousie, Grey, Shaftesbury, Stanley, Zetland,
Wharncliffe, Fortescue ; Sir F. Crossley, Sir John
Brown, Sir R. Murchison, Sir William Armstrong,
the Speaker of the House of Commons, Mr. Goschen,
M.P.; Mr. W. E. Forster, M.P.; Mr. T. M. Dos,
M.P., &e.
COLONEL WILSON-PATTEN ON ART EDUCATION.'"
Colonel Wilson-Patten, M.P., Chancellor of the Duchy
of Lancaster, presided at the annual meeting of the
Warrington School of Art on Wednesday evening.
In presenting the prizes to the students, the Chairman
said that in looking over the proceedings of the
School of Art he found that it had occupied a
favourable position among similar institutions
in the country, as compared with other towns;
that, taking all circumstances into consideration, it
stood perfectly unrivalled in the country. 11°
found that in one year the school had obtained the
whole of the thirty medals offered for competition,
and he did not know of any other school which Isa
done so. Between 1853 and 1866, the students ob-
tained 266 medals, or an average of nineteen PI
year. An opinion was fast gaining ground that
a better system of national education must b,..°
adopted. Ho ilad been very much strucw.
with the remarks of sonic friends of it
with reference to it. If they did not exact'?
disparage education in art, they did interic
he regretted, to make it part of the general educa-
tion of the country. Nothing struck the foreign
g
commissioners to the Exhibition of 1851 so much 4
the deficiency of this country in art as apP
lie
to manufactures ; and in 1862 one of the (°13,1
tnissioners told him that since then we La
made a progress which was quite surprising.
still be believed, from what took place in Paris 1"70
year, that not only had the country not made tih'a
advance in art which was to be desired, but she n
actually gone back. Any influence he had 5h0u1d,..1%
brought to bear in support of institutions of t"ce
kind, as he believed that schools of art and scieu
were, optribating to the welfare of the country.