The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-18 00:00:00

THE WESTERN BAN% OP SCOTLAND.

GLAsaow, Ter MOAT.

At the adjourned meeting of the shareholders this
afternoon the report of the committee of invedigation was
given in. It stated that the liabilities of the bank went
8,911,9321.; the meets for payment of the liabilities were
8,607,2401., showing a deficiency of meets of 304,6821.,
and thus making, Mending the capital end rest, reported
in last statement at 1,715,8921., an estimated loss on the
whole transactions of the company of 2,020,6841. The heeds
under which the deficiency arms were minutely stated. On
bills held by the teak the loss was 437,0004 ; on advancer
end balances on current accotmts, 88.5,0001. ;on securities
held in New York, 60,0001. ; on debts in suspense acoonnt,
686,0001., and other items. The meets were valued as for
winding-up, not as • solvent end going concern ; but, with
pendent management and better times, there might yet be a
great saving on the estimated loss.
The bank's misfortunes ere attributed to gross negligence
ou the pert of the directors, and wild recklessness in Taylor,
the late manager.
After a stormy discussion the committee was reappointed.
The shareholders again meet on the 30th current to take
steps for winding up.

TILE MANCHESTER ExuintvloS.—The members
of the executive committee of the late exhibition, consisting
of Mr. Thomas Fairbairn (chairman), Sir James Watts, and
Messrs. T. Ashton, J. Heron, E. Potter, and S. J.
Stern, had the honour of en interview with his Royal Bigh-
eads the Prince Consort, at Osborne, on Wednesday, to or•
vey the expression of their thank" for the munificent
patronage which had been extended to the curlerteking by
her Majesty the Queen and his royal highness. We be.
helm it is the Intention of the committee to forward to the
contributors to tho late exhibition s formal acknowledgment
of their liberality which shall specify each work of an, and
thus prove of greet vette, in future times, se en authentic•
tion of their property having pared through the ordeal ci
the criticism of the connoisseurs of Ear:To—Thom
TREATMENT OF GOVERNESSES.—', An English
" Poblio

Chaplain" write. to the Anne from Boulogne •--
attention having been called to the recent lamentable death
of a young French lady in this town,_ I think it desirable be
OW that a very similar °see occurred here about four months
slacikbat In that owe the sufferer wee ayonng Englishwomen.
aged twenty-two, who had been in the service of a French
lady of rank, residing In the Faubourg St. Germain, at
Paris. On the annual of the evening train from Patio, tbe
was found in one of the carriages in a state of doling:t
which, on beat being removed to an hotel end medical aid
ogled In, warn found to stint from malignant typhus.
It wee only by means of her passport and a few moo-
bnent words that her name end that of her native plate
were elicited. I attended her until her death, but never
could obtain from her a single intelligible reply. She
proved to be of very respectable family, sad bad with !we
a considerable aura of money for a person in her coedits*
of life, for the security of which no precaution, had bees
taken. Her brother, a respectable tradesman at H—,
tat
Suffolk, was able to arrive only in time to follow her to the
rave. There can be no doubt whatever that she mart he,*
ben in a terrible condition of fever when she was put late
the railway carriage. I have communicated thee' facts Dr
cause there seems, I think, to be a disposition in eons
quarters to put an unjust construction on the late moat dr
plorable °convene.. Inhumanity is, unhappily, pecan to
no one Country or nation."