The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-09 00:00:00

THE RILSTON SAVINGS BANE FAILURE.

On Tuesday forenoon an interview took place
heaven Mr. Tidd Pratt lad the trustees, it the office of
Mr. John Hawkedord, the actuary to the beak. Mr. Foxdale
presided; and the committee of management were also
preseat. A deputation of the depositors' committee,
appointed at the public meeting on the previous eight,
were also there. The deputation consisted of Mr. (lettings,
Mr. Baker, and Mr. Gosling. Mr. Pratt remarked
that he mould offer ao advice nor express any
*aka that would be of service until after he had ex-
amined the books. Acting upon a polite intimation from
the chairman, the deputation from the depositors' com-
mittee then withdrew, and they were soon afterwards
followed by the committee of management. The subse-
quent interview between the trustees and Mr. Tidd
Pratt was of brief duration, and the ooeveredion
of a general character. Mr. Tidd Pratt then
commenced his examination of the accouota, with a view
fully to inform hinted( of all the circumstances under
which the defalcations have arisen, the date at which they
commenced, and the like. And be was occupied in Lie
investigation the whole of the day. After having ac-
quired a knowledge of all the facts that am ascertain-
able, Mr. Pratt will be prepared to call a meeting of the
depositors, and advise them as to the best course to adopt,
sad to instruct the trustees upon the course for them to
parses. Mr. Pratt has unlimited power in such matters,
and .there is no appeal from his decision. It must be a
source of considerable satisfaction to the depositors to
know that a man of Mr. Pratt's standing and expel-Uses is
investigating the affairs of the bank, inasmuch as his in-
qy'ries relate not only to the amount of deficits, but
deo- to the question of who are the men responsible for
those deficits. We do not expect that it will be found
that mare than one man is responsible ; still, if to any
extent other preen are liable, the depositors may be
sure that Mr. Pratt will me that they (the depositors) ob-
tain all the benefit from such liability that is possible.
Fears are very generally entertained throughout the
district that the wreep they have sustained will
Mace • recklessness ou the part of a large number of
the depositors which will result in more serious COMO-
°to those and their families than could follow upon
the Ices of • far larger portion of their savings than will
sow occur. But we illlve too much confidence in the good
muse of the working classes who have invested their money
in this bank, In believe that any such consequences need be
eltertained. By far the greater number of the depositors
will, upon obtaining the proportion of the assets to which
they are entitled, redovest them in the Poet-office Savings
Beak, where, although the interest may in some cases be
one-half per coot. leas, yet the depositors have the security
of government fur all the money they Invest.—Biriningliam
Daily Post,

Nsw GOVERNMENT EDIJOATION SCHEME FOR
Eloonrim.—We ( Baur Journal kern on authority likely
to be well informed, that n are pending which
may not improbably eventuate in the withdrawal of Scot-
laid from the action of the revised mile. It is stated that
the Lord Advocate contemplates offering to relieve the
Privy. Council of Scotland altogether, on condition of
nearing front the Exchequer some 80,0001. or 90,0001.
• year, which sum will be placed at the disposal of •
board, or department of a board, acquainted with our
special educational requirements. Its further stated that
this scheme (for it is as yet no more) contemplates •
great extension of the parochial school system, and
the establishment of female schools. It ts obvious,
' however, that the adoption of the scheme must depend very
much on the reception it meets with from the Free Church,
and other denominations snpporting schools. While we
state the above, it is proper to add that the new scheme,
there ose belittle doubt, will embrace such portions of the
cakes are considered suitable to Scotland ; and more par-
ticularly, we believe, it will be found that the amount of aid
granted to • school will be very much modified by the re-
sults exhibited. One object aimed at by the new scheme
will be to put • check upon the undue multiplication of
schools surwitheed from the public funds, while the real
waste of the country_ will be amply provided for.
INCREJUiE or FAUPERDIM.—The returns recently
made to the Poor Law Board show • large increase in
November over the number of paupers to October, and
beyond what the mere advance of season would amount for.
At the end of October the number in receipt of relief was
6113 per omit, greater than at the corresponding period of
1990, bet at the end of November it was 819 per cent.
greater than in November, 1860. The Menses is poeml
over the whole kingdom, but especially remarkable in the
north•westera division (lAticeslitre and Cheshire). where
She isomer over the same period in 1860 was 1018 per
cent at the close of Ootober, but had risen to no lean than
Siff per east at the end of November. But still that
hire of industry is totter off than the red of the country,
though its superiority is not so greet as it was : at the end
of November there was 1 pauper to every 23 persons in all
Zeeland and Wales takes together; is Lancashire and
Cheshire, taken together, only I in every 32.
A WINDFALL.—A shoemaker at Brentwood has
received an intimation that his wife, as the lineal descendant
of a gentlemen who died recently, is entitled to in inheri•
tame of a cool million.

HARMONIIIIIB.—NIW MODICL.
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