The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-23 00:00:00

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.
May 22.
fr. c.
Capital of the Bank.... 182,500,000
Profits in addition to

May 14.

182,500,000 -

capital (Art. 8, Law,
June 9, 1857) 7,044,776 02 7,044,776 02
Resorve 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 34,397,451 78 36,384,487 16
Treasury account cur-
rent creditJr 67,589,150 64 67,799,357 89
Current accounts, Paris 396,338'324 63 878,747,048 50
Do. branch banks 49,165,711 52,307,560
Dividonds payable 686,541 75 723,983 75
Discounts and sundry
interests
Rediscounted the last
six months
Surplus of receipts not

distributed -
Sundries

8,932,889 26 9,030,916 75

Total
CREDITOR.
May 22. May 14.
Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. c,
Branch banks
Commercial bills over-
due
Commercial bills dis-
counted, not yet duo 234,670,110 64 253,971,951 30
Do. branch banks 186,108,606 190,842,078
Advances on deposit of
bullion
Do. branch banks
Do. on French Public

585,972 54

99,742 06

40,628,900 -
10,141,277 -

40,105,500 -
10,087,977 -

Securities — ---
Do. by branch banks
Do. on railway shares
and debentures
Do. branch banks
Do. on Credit Fancier

11,842,400 -
6,747,100 -

35,054,100 -
24,867,500 -

Bonds _
Do. branches
Do. to the State (Con-
vention, June IA
1857)
Government Stock re-

942,500 -
795,600 -

60,000,000 -

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN connEsromm)

PARIS, FRIDAY, 1Y137 ia

Actual news is scarce to-day, but there is a revival of
unpleasant rumours. Attention has again been called to
the Prussian armaments, and that in a journal whose
position gives weight to its representations the
Moniteur de rArinee. That journal emphatically
declares that the concentration of three Prussian
corps &armee on the north-eastern frontier of France
is a menace to the French nation. Perhaps this article
was written in order to aid the Cabinet in overcoming the
resistance of the Budget Commission. This body is still
holding out for reductions which the Council of State will
not grant. Even the small concession which was announced
a few days back is now denied. Simultaneously with this
article of the Illonitenr de l'Armic, we have accounts pub-
lished in a Russian journal of the great military prepara-
tions which are being made in Austria. Altogether the
sky is consi,lerahly overcast to day.

It is DOW statNl that Trince Napileon's visit to Vienna
and Constantinople has been deferred. There is reason to
believe that the projected journey caused great dissatis•
faction at St. Petersburg, if not at Berlin. It may be
prudent, therefore, to postpone it. It would have been
more wise and more dignified to have said nothing
about it.

His Tm. er'al Highness is not very suce:ss:ful in
his amateur diplomacy. How signally he failed at
Berlin all th • w,.1‘1 known. I now learn that he
has not done ai y better at Florence. During his stay
in Italy he had several private and non-official inter•
views with General Menabrea, in order to discuss a new
September Convention. The General was very cautious
and reserved, and said that he did not see any reason for
departing from the stipulations of the Convention of 1864.
'The Italian Minister added that this Convention having
been neither denounced nor suspended, and consequently
still existing legally, there was nothing to justify the OcCU•
Nation of Pontifical territory by the ITrench expeditionary
force. He reminded the Prince that at the end of last
October the French Government promised to withdraw its
troops as soon as tranquillity was restored. It had been
restored for several months, yet the French troops were
still on Italian soil. The truth is, Napoleon means to
maintain his force there by way of counteracting th.
Prusso-Italian alliance which everyone believes to be in
existence. At the same time, the very presence of that
force only renders the alliance stronger. Both parties, I
believe, France and Italy, contemplate a European war as
a by no means improbable contingency, and each is doing
its best to check the other.

Your Ministerial crisis continuesto excite the greatest in•
terest here, as well it may. The Paris journals cannit under.
stand how it is that your House of Commons consents to
let a Minister who is beaten every right remain in power.
They supposed that:with you parl'am ntary, not personal,
government was.the ride. Nor is it only the Liberal and
democratic journals which thus express astonishment.
Send-official organs like the Constitutionnel come down
upon Mr. Disraeli and say, " One thing appears clear to
us for the moment : it is, that if Mr. Disraeli sticks to
office it is certainly not because it offers him a sweet or
A.greeal)le path."