The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-02-23 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

Banns EANCB.—In the whole of the United King-
dom, in the year 1856, the total number of °Blooms of all
savings banks was 618 unpaid and 1,261 paid, the
amount of security given £373,370 by the unpaid offi-
cers, and £354,060 by the paid • the salaries, &c., of the
paid officers £86,451, the annual expenses of manage-
ment beyond salaries and payments £117,956; the
number of acoount4 open on the 20th of November,
1856, 1,331,369 the total amount owing to depositors
on that day £34,760,933 (of which nearly all was in-
vested with the Public Debt Commissioners) ; the
balances remaining in the hands of treasurers amounting
only to £282,010. The average rate of interest paid on
the deposits was £2 18s. Bd. per cent. The amount of
the separate surplus fund in the hands of the Commis-
sioiners on the 20th of November, 1856, was £342,716;
the total number of annuities granted from the com-
mencement 10,843, and the amount thereof £185,515;
the rate per cent. on the capitals of the banks for ex-
penses of management at the 20th of November, 1856,
6s. 86. average; the number of payments to depositors
in the year ended 20th of November, 1856, 791,762, and
the number of receipts from depositors 1,543,762. The
average amount of receipts from depositors was
£5 Os. Id., and the average amount of payments
thereto £lO ls. Bd. These particulars are culled from
a massive blue book, containing a list of the names and
salaries of all employla in savings banks, and the number
of days on which the various trustees or managers at-
tesded. The book was ordered to be printed by the
House of Commons on the 9th inst., and it appeared on
Saturday.
FACTORY CHILDREN.—The number of factory
children in Yorkshire attending school on the 31st day
of October last, between the ages of eight and nine, was
1,897; between 9 and 10, 3.011; between 10 and 11,
4,047 ; between 11 and 12, 4,664; and between 12 and
and 13, 4,579. 16,143 children were passed as "half-
timers" by the factory surgeons in the year ended the
31st of October, 1857, and 29,564 as "full-timers."
EAST INDIA POLICR.—COpieS of certain official des-
patches and documents relative to the police of India
have just been published, on the motion of Colonel
Sykes, M.P. The Judicial Department of the India
Company, in a letter of the 4th of Nov., 1857, reviewed
the recommendations of the Governor-General on
the reform of the police in the Lower Bengal provinces.
The reorganization of the police in the Madras Presiden-
cy was also considered in a despatch of the Judicial De-
partment, dated the 30th of September.
THB ADMINISTRATION OP INDIA.—A copy of a
memorandum (prepared at the India-house) of the im-
provements in the administration of India during the
last 30 years, was published on Monday. The state-
ment is ushered in by a prefatory notice, to the effect
that at this time, when a calamity unexampled in the
history of India haisexcited an unusual amount of interest
in Indian affairs, while the statements publicly made
and the opinions expressed concerning the Government
of India strikingly manifest the deficiency of correct in-
formation on the subject, a brief survey of the principal
measures which have of late been adopted for improving
the internal government of the country and the physical
and mental condition of its inhabitants, may be service-
able in removing false impressions and in supplying
materials for a deliberate judgment. It is thought
proper, considering the very recent period at which the
charter was renewed (1853), to "trace the stream of
Indian improvement from a point much higher up in its
coarse." The memorandum refers to the connexion of
the revenue system with the rights, fcc. of the people,
to the permanent settlement of Lower Bengal, the pre-
sent improvements in that Presidency, the ryotwar
system in Madras, the ryotwar reform in Bombay, the
settlement of the North-West Provinces, the fiscal sys-
tem of India, the land revenue, the opium and salt
monopolies, Customs, the post-office, judicature and
legislation, police and prisons, Thuggee and Deceit sup-
pression, piracy, Suttee, witchcraft, Tragga, Meriah
sacrifices, slavery, the remarriage of widows, public
works and railroads, education, the cultivation of tea,
and the improvement of Native States. The whole
forms a Parliamentary pamphlet of nearly 40 pages.

BANKRUPTS.
(From the London Gazette of Tuesday.)
William Edward Painter, Strand, printer.
James Haddon, Fling, Hampshire, miller.
James Robson, Peckham, ship broker,
Marie Lawrence, Lambert-walk, tailor.
Edward Smith, Russell-street, Bermondsey, woolstapler.
Thomas William Sheerman, Brighton, upholsterer.
James Coats, Sheerness, hardwareman.
Henry Herridice, jun., and James Butler, Ideldon,
Essex, corn merchants.
James Barber, Chichester, upholsterer.
Thomas Edwards, Birmingham, ironfounder.
Thomas Revers, Worcester, grocer. •
James Peal, Wadebndge, Cornwall, innkeeper.
John Peard, Bridestowe, Devonshire, draper.
Joseph and Edward Sykes, Huddersfield, silk dresser'.
James Nelson, Oldham, cottonspinner.
(From the London Gazette of Friday.)
John Smith, Bow churchyard, warehouseman.
William Field, Bexley-heath. grocer.
Reuben Brooks, Titchborne-street, Haymarket, auc-
tioneer.
Joseph Moses, Newnham-street, Goodmen's-fields,
clothier.
Adolphus Ackerman, Beaufort-buildings, Strand, print-
seller.
Edwin Gearing, Portland-place, St. John's-wood, jewel-
ler.
William Daniton, Upper-street, Islington, pianoforte
manufacturer.
John Edwin Griffin, Colchester, auctioneer.
George William Bennett, Eastbourne, draper.
William Gardner, Birmiegham, miller.
William Henry Brooks, Wolverhampton, mineral mer-
chant.
Isaac Riley, Bargain, joiner.
Thomas Mclntyre Leeds, tailor.
John Smith, Bliey, cloth merchant.
Edward Davies, Liverpool, boot maker.
William Humphreys, Liverpool, corn broker.
Charles Bacon, Manchester, bone grinder.
James Heron Clarke, Manchester, grocer.
Samuel Bennett, Manchester, commission agent.
John Stroneith'arm, Stanley, Ashton-under-Lyne, cot-
ton spinner.
Joseph and James Waterson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
smiths.
HetaZotnlinson, Neweastle-upon-Tyne, lieensed
AM:ander George Grey, Gattelmat, alkali manatee.
Muer,