The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-28 00:00:00

£24,065,160 I Total L 24,065,160

BANKING DEPARTMENT.

Debit.
Proprietors' ca-
pital
Rest
Public deposits 8,906,791
Other „ 9,902,845
Seven days, and
other bills 680,966

Credit.
Government se-

curities 411,646.018
Other securities 19,998,712
Notes Z,480,720
Gold and silver
coin

Total £37,857,587
'n of the previous week, we

Total .... £37,857,587
Compared with the rail
have the following results :
Active circulation
InCrease

£18;576,440
... 59.076
13,322,297

Bullion

.......
' Increase
Rest ....
Increase . .13,521
Seven day and other bills .
Decrease
Public deposits .. 8,906,791
Increase
Other deposits ... 9,902,845
Increase
Government securities 11,646 018
Decrease 50,715
Other securities
Increase
Notes unemployed 5,480,720
Decrease 51,L40

A GOOD Siam.—The Bristol Gazette says : " At this
moment the Bristol gaol is without a single sheriff's debtor
within its walls—a circumstance which the governor thinks
has not happened since the present gaol has bean built."
SUPPER AND PRESENTATION.—The lithographers and
engravers in the employment of Messrs. George Philip &
Son, S:uth Castle street, met in the house of Mr. Ward,
Caladonian Hotel, Duke street, on the evening of Thursday,
the 26th instant, for the purpose of presenting Mr. Wm.
Crawford, their foreman, with a handsome dressing me,
bearing a suitable inscription, as a mark of their esteem and
respect, previous to his leaving this for London, to enter
into. another situation.. The
.Lilarity of the evening was
enliiened by the racy singing of Messrs. Page, Gallagher,
M‘Leem; Anderson, &c., the chair bainz ably filled.by Mr.
H. M•Court, and supported by Mr. D. Wilson. After eking
ample justice to the viands, &c., which did great credit to
the worhy hest, the company separated at a seasonable
hour.— Commun;cated.

FRIGHTFUL DCATH OF A GENTLEMAN AT CHARING
CRo3S.—lnformation has been forwarded to the °wows for
Westminster of a most frightful occurrence at Charing
Cass. It seems that an elderly genlem an was waiting
near the Duke of Northumberland's for a Clapham omnibus,
when a Westminster omnibus, that had been taking up
and setting down passengers, suddenly started to proceed
down Parliament street, jest at the same moment as, the
unfortunate deceased stepped eff the footpath to cross the
road immediately in front of the horses. The result was
that, being down an incline, the driver was unable to pull
up, the unfortunate man was immediately knocked down,
both wheels passing over the abdomen; sqtreezing'ont the
bowels, and presenting a most sbecking spectacle. The
body was carried to Charing Cross Hospital. but life was
extiue% The deceased is about fifty years of age, with
grey hair and small whiskers, and was dressed is a black
coat and waistcoat and grey trowsers. A sum of money
was found ou his person. The body now lies at the
Charing Cross Hqspital for an ironest and to be owned. '
On Monday last there was an exposure of the Australian
Agricultural Society, which, with a paid up capital of
£380,000, and a free grant of nearly 700.000 acres of
valuable land, has squandered all its immediate resources,
the shareholders, meanwhile, being kept in profound
ignorance. A few days previously, in connection with the
abandonment of the project of the London and Paris bank,
a balance sheet was presented to the subscribers, showing
£14,422 to have been expended by the directors in the
mere introduction of that enterprise to the public—not a
single step having been taken in the shape of an absolute
commencement of business. On Thursday, the theme was
the London and Eastern Bank, having been established
three years back, has contrived, in that period, to assist
its own directors and manager with sums amounting, in
the aggregate, to nearly £290,000, which is now obliged to
announce to its shareholders the probable loss of their
whole investment with the possibility of their being called
upon even for a further considerable contribution. The
addition to the list is furnished by the North of
Europe Steam Company. It appears from the meeting
which took place yesterday, that the directors have
perilled the entire property of their constituents by
leaving it in the control of a single individual, that
£50,000, or upwards, out of a capital of d'500,000, has
been lost in the course of a few months without the board
having the slightest suspicion of the circumstance, and
that the last half-yearly dividend, at the rate of 8 per
cent per annum was paid while these ruinous proceedings
were:going on. The distribution, which involves £13,000,
was made on the .faith of a statement prepared by the
managing direct6r, Capt. Andrews, showing for the hal
year ending midsummer, a profit of upwards of £20.000.