Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-01-03 00:00:00

SAVINGS' BANKS.

On Saturday, the last day of the old year, was pub-
lished a return. from each Savings' Bank in England and
Wales, Scotland and Ireland, containing, the names of
the dicers, their respective salaries, and other allow-
ances, if any; the amount of security each gives; the
number of accounts remaining open ; the total amount
owing to depositors ; the total amount invested with the
Commissioners for the Redaction of the National Debt ;
the rate of interest paid to depositors on the various
amounts of deposit, and the average rate of interest on
all accounts ; and the total amount of the separate Sur-
plus Fund,. on the 20th November, 1858, &c., on the
motion of Sir Stafford Northcote, M.P. From a reca-
pitulation of the_ details, prepared by the compilers of
` the return, it appears that in the whole of the
United Kingdom (including the isles in British seas)
the number of banks was 606 ; the number of unpaid
officers, 621; and of paid officers, 1,256 ; the amount of
security given by the unpaid officers, £383,820, and by
the paid, £356,530 ; the salaries and allowances of the
officers, £88,184; the annual expenses of the manage-
ment for the year ended 20th November, 1858, £121,125;
the number of accounts remaining open on the 20th of,
NoVember, 18.58, 1,398,886 ; the total amount owed
to depositors on that day, £35,947,340 ; the total amount
invested with the Commissioners of the National Debt
(including surplus fund), £35,757,455 ; the balance in
the hands of the treasurers on the 20th of November,
1858, £302,901 • the average rate of interest paid to
depositors only i 2 18s. 10d. per cent. The total num-
ber of annuities granted from the " commencement,"
11,244, and the amount thereof, £188,918; the rate
per cent. per annum on the capital of banks for
expenses of management, 6s. 9d. (average) ; the
annual number of receipts from depositors for the
year 1858 (up •to Nov. 20), 1,598,250 ; annual
number of payments to depositors, 825,129; the aver,
age amount of receipts from depositors for the year
already so often mentioned, £4 18s. Od.-; and the aver-
age amount of payments to such depositors during the
same period; £9 10s. A list of officers and their sala-
ries is appended. Taking some of
,the metropolitan
districts, we find that in Stepney, one of the lowest
and most pauper-stricken, the secretary, Mr. F. Cook,
receives £lOO as salary, with a house ; the actuary also
receives £lOO, and the acconntant, £6O. In St. James's,
Piccadilly, Mr. W. It. B. Lee, who does double duty as
secretary and actuary, receives a salary of £lOO (nomin-
ally), and the porter (the only other paid " offiCer"),
£5 a-year. In " St. Martin's-place, Middlesex," where
Drummond and Co. are treasurers, Mr. E. Boodle,
controller and secretary, has nearly 400 a-year, and his
brother, A. W. Boodle,'as cashier, £232. Two auditors
receive £357 each; the chief cashier, Mr. T. N. Scallon,
has £312 ; two sub-cashiers, £192 and £lB2 ; and
several clerks from £lO2 to £162. The whole of the
salaries figure for £3,618, exclusive of superannuation
allowances. In St. Marylebone, where Sir Claude
Scott,.Bart., is treasurer, and is obliged to give security
for £5,000, the secretary and actuary, Mr. D. Finney,
receives £O4O a-year, with the privilege of residence
in- the -batik ; the 'chief clerk; -±2Oll-; the second
and third, £l7O and £ll5 ; and several other salaries
ranging' from the ridiculously low sum of £3 (paid
to -a Mr. G.'lloyd) to £26 n-year. In St. Clement
Dane,'s, where Mr. Twining is treasurer, the actuary
Mr. T. P. 'Scrivener, receives £l5O. The clerk, Mr. F.,
Cocker; has only '.£loo, while the messenger receives
£6O. In Islington, Mr. A. P. OldershaW, described as
secretary and agent," receives £l5O a-year. In the
Hackney (north-east) district the secretary, Mr. W.
Heathcote, receives £7O a-year ; the actuary, M. J. E.
Clennell, £5O; and one clerk, Mr. J. Lloyd, £2O. At
Haggerstone the work is done by a secretary alone, with
the low salary of £2O. At Greenwich the actuary, Mr.
Langley, receives £2OO and £lO for coals. At Ken-
sington_ the secretary, Mr. Reuben Green,
.has £l2O
a-year, and at Hammersmith the secretary has £7O.
In Lambeth the actuary has £l5O. and the secretary
£lOO ; and in the same locality (St. John's district) the
secretary receives £llO a-year, there being no actuary.

ONFORD AND CAMBRIDGE MISSION TO CENTRAL
AFRICA.—A preliminary meeting, was held at Edinburgh
on Friday, Lord Benholme in the chair, with the view
of organising a committee to aid this mission. There
was a numerous and influential attendance. Archdeacon
Mackenzie gave au interesting account of Livingstone's
recent discoveries, and read various extracts from letters
relative to the country, its inhabitants, and its resources.
On the motion of the Rev. Mr. Orde, seconded by Dean
Ramsey, the meeting resolved into a general committee,
and appointed an acting committee to obtain all infor-
mation from the Archdeacon and the English secretaries.
It was also arranged that a public meeting should be
held in the spring, with a view of bringing the whole
proceedings more prominently before the public.
TERRIFIC HURRICANE.—The neighbourhood. of Caine
was .on Friday visited by one of the most destructive
storms ever witnessed. It appears to have been a
regular tornado, having a curvilinear motion, and pro-
gressing at a rapid rate. Symptoms of an approaching
storm were visible at 1 o'cleck p.m. The whole atmos-
phere became thick and heavy. It was so dark that it
was scarcely possible to read without artificial light.
Presently the vault of heaven was lit up by vivid flashes
of lightning, accompanied by loud and sudden claps of
thunder, which together with the big hail stones falling
thick and fast, and the roaring of the mighty wind,
produced, a scene at once awful and sublime. The
whirlwind appeared to commence on the outskirts of
Bowood-park, near Quobb's farm, passing on to the
Rookery Faim, marking its path by trees blown down
and others snapped off in the middle, thence to.Quemer-
ford-villa, carrying away the roof of the stable; but
when it reached Mr. Slade's mill at Quemerford it
carried away the chimneys, -stripped off the spouting and
lead work, and blew some of the slate tiling. at least 400
yards from the spot. The adjoining skilhng, in which
cattle were feeding, was literally deprived of its roof,
and the stone tiles of which it was composed strewn
about the road in pieces as fine as could be produced
by a stonebreaker's hammer. Pieces of freestone coping,
a yard in length, were blown away, and a large tree
near the millstream is torn completely out of the earth,
having at least thirty square feet attached to its roots.
At Blackland-park, belonging to Mr. Marshall Hall,
the destruction of property was immense. Part of
the roof of the lodge was blown away. Hundreds
of trees are lying on the ground, and it is a remarkable
fact that trees Bft. and laft. in circumference were
snapped asunder like matchwood ; while others, especially
the heavy-topped firs, 30ft. in length, were blown out of
a plantation across the turnpike-road, and into an ad-
joining field. The park and plantations form a complete
scene of desolation. Twenty or thirty men were engaged
all the afternoon clearing the road, which was quite
blocked up. The windows of Compton-hall, the resi-
dence of Mr. G. W. Heneage, sustained much damage
from the hailstones. At. Cherhill, about three miles
from Caine, and situated in the vale of the.
White Horse, the storm was terrific. Whole ricks
of wheat were carried away, and some of the
sheaves to such .a distance as to render it ex-
tremely doubtful whether the proper owner will ever
see them again. A large tree fell across a shed, and the
waggon it contained:ivas cut in two. Several cottages
were more or less blown down. We are happy to state
that amid all this destruction not a single life, either of
man or' beast, has been lost. One old man had a nar-
row escape. He had gone under a small shed for *el-
ter, when a large tree came down with .a crash across
the roof; .but, strange to say, the poor fellow crept out
of the debris safe and sound. One little outhouse at
Yatesbury was borne quite away, not a vestige of it to
be. seen. The amount of damage done to barns and
ricks belonging to Mr. John Tanner cannot be less than
£l,OOO. Such, a storm was never before known. It is
quite imposiible at present to state aec.uratety,thefull
amount of damages sustained.