The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-06 00:00:00

BANKING n:

Debit.
Proprietors' ca-
pital
Rest
Public deposits 6,264,419
Other ~ 9,225,549
Seven days, and
other bills 713,308

Total .... £34,058,633

Compared with the 'retur
have the following results :
Active circulation
Increase

£19,077,475
45,995
10,032,402
227,575
3,302,357
Decrease 49,450
Seven day and other bills
Increase
Public deposits
Increase
Other deposits
Increase
Government securities 10,326,131
No change
Other securities
Increase
Notes unemployed 4,723,920
Increase

Bullion
Increase

Rest

At a meeting of the Australian Freehold Gold
Mining Company, held yesterday, it was announced
that the Chancery suit has been arranged, and that
it is now intended to pay 6s per share on the out-
standing 10,465 shares. Should anything further
remain from the property, after the liquidation of
costs and other liabilities, it will be divided pro rata
among the whole of the shareholders.

The American Pacific Mail Steam Company,
acting in concert with the Royal West India Mail
Company, have made arrangements for their ves-
sels henceforth to touch at Mszanilla, on the west
coast of Mexico, on their route from California to
Panama. They will thus be likely to expedite the
transmission of silver from that port, whence the
means of communication hitherto have usuaally
been by her Majesty's ships of war.
Private advices from Paris assert that the
monthly return of the Bank of France, to be pub-
lished next week, is expected to show an increase
equal to a million or a million-and-a-quarter ster-
ling in the stock of bullion.
A return has been issued by the. Board of Trade
of the declared values of British and Irish produce
and manufactures exported from the United King-
dom during the first quarter of the present year.
Hitherto, these returns have been made only
annually, but they will henceforth be published
every three months. From the present document the
following list has been compiled, showing the order
which the principal communities of the world rank
as our customers. The total for the quartet is
28,827,4931., or at the rate of 116,309,972/. per
annum Exports.---Three months ended March
31, 1857.-1. British possessions : East Indies,
3,022,361/ ; Australia, 2,493,6661. ; British America,
818,500/ Oar other possessions make the total
8,191 0201 2. United States, 6,281,7201. 3. Ger-
many, 2,692,930/. 4. France, 1,631,6721. 5 Hol-
land, 1,305,606/. 6. Brazil, 1,292,3251. 7. Turkey►
969,2881: 18. Austria, 253,0421. 31. Russia, 75,7921
The total amount of exports was 28,827,4931.
The Severn has arrived from Portland Bay, but
the amount of gold she brings, if any, has not yet
been ascertained.

The Walmer Castle, from Melbourne, in the
Thames, has brought 40,000 ottncs of gold. The
arrival of the Coleroon from Sydney, the Black
Swan from Hobart Town, the Severn from Port-
land Bay, and the Roger Stewart from Swan
River, is also reported, but these vessels are - not
known to have any gold on freight.
The accounts of the silk crop continuo un•
favourable. In Italy and France half an average
crop is expected, or about the same aggregate
produce as last year. The quality is stated to be
inferior.

THE NEGLECT OF ENGLISH IN OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS...-.
The following is from the critic of Tnne lst:—" The
annual opposition at St. Paul's School took olace,-aceord-
ing to ancient custom, on Wednesday the 27th ult.
Exercises in 'Latin, Greek, French, and English, were
duly -deliVered, and the reputation of Dein Colet's noble
institution Ras fully sustained. The head master, Dr.
Kynaston, has been greatly praised for the enlightened
liberality' With which he 'has laboured to graft. modern
improvements upon the old system of education; and
certainly this praise seems to a very great extent to be
merited. We could wish, however, to see the noble
donation of the late Lord 'Truro, for founding an. English
essay prize, applied in a manner more likely.to.subserve
the purpose of its donor than at present. No one can
doubt that when that leaned lawyer, who was hiniself so
thoroughly versed in the uae of language, founded a priza
fur English composition, he hoped that the authorities of
the school would take she hint, by introducing into their
educational system a course of training in that branch of
knowledge. A school prize is, or should be, the award of
excellence attained in consequence of some branch of the
school system. Nothing can be more inconsistent than
for a school to bestow a prize for that which it does not
teach, But St. Paul'sdonnot teach English composition ;
it teaches Latin and Greek, and French, and mathe-
matics, but the mother tongue not at all. Why is this ?
Do the authorities suppose that English boys are so well
acquainted with their language as to render-instruction it
that matter quite unnecessary ? If - so, we must take the
libcrty of informing them that thq labour under a grievous
mistake. Leaving boys out of the question, not one
educated Englishman in ten can either spe :it or write his
language with even decent accuracy ; and the reason of
. .

this is the neglect of that branch of education in almost
puhlic scho,,l. Mighty pains are taken to perfect
the youthful seholar iri the langtiage of Cicero 'and
nemosthenes, and a false quantity. or ao inaccurate accent
is visited with severity by the very master whJ misuses the
Queen's English twenty ti=nes an honr. The maters, said
we? Ay, the masters ! Here, at the head of these. very
apposition exercises, -are four lines of English prose prc-
ceeding from the pen of the •held-master of St. Paul's,
whose perfect LAinity is too well known to need a corn-
plitn,ent here. Let the reader judge whether, these four.
lines do not sufficiently prove that the English school-
mas-er is wanted among other persons than the boys at St.
Paul's The high master wishes it to be distinetly
understoed, that theme exercises are printed. without cor-
rection or addition of his, or the other masters, or even'
the authors themselves, with the slightest possible excep-
tibns, since the award of the priies.'
Buos.---Pug "
of the. greatest domestic nuisances, especially in the
spring and summir Of the year, is, the preValence of bugs. Many
means have been tried to, prevent or caterm.nate them, but ail
bi,herto ineffectually. Cleanlineas may check, but cannot eradicate
them. Mr. R. Greer, late one of the Liverpool sanitary officials,
after intense study and deep re3earch with many practical experi-
ments, in the usual purafilt of his official avocation, has at leugtial
discovered the great desie.e fat= , " Greer!ta Vate Aati-Bug Lotion,"'
is an unfailing :aterminator of bugs, fies, &c. It is clean, simple
In application, agreeable in smell, and perfectly Innoxious save to
insects. To be 'had at the anti-Vermin Office,',49, Premtlow-hill
Liverpool,
14 POPO at Is, 28, and 4s (.490,-44.0,