The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-01-21 00:00:00

THE WHITEHAVEN BANK. -

The following gratifying statement of the affairs of
Mews. Johnston, Adamson, and hope, bankers of this
town, was published last week :
Dr.—To cash owing on notes,deposin,and cash accounts 193,000

Cr.—fly cash due from agents
By ditto, en accounts and securities

93 No
Dr.—To lom and bad debt, per John Raney .
To supposed diminution in %%due Of ',tate at Clifton IMOD
To had debts, one known at present. but take the
same, including expenses

Deficiency in bark finds
Surplus

Cr.—By Mr. Johoston's separate estate
By Mr. Adamson's separate estate -
By Mr. Hope's separate estate, of which 8701. is in
the Bank -

10,ono
14.800

29.800

22.000
6,600

1,200

29,U00

Messrs. (;eo. Harrison of this town, banker, Tho Mas
Milward, of Parton, and Thomas Braithwaite, of Mary-
port, were, on Friday last, chosen assignees of the estate of
Mews. Johnston, Adamson and Hope, bankers.—Cum-
Lerland Packet.

• ‘Ve have received American Papers to the 21st ult. The
proceedings in Congress show that the late el:ction of the
President has created the must violent animosities between
the friends of the successful candidate and the partisans of
the rejected. No less than four motions were made in one
day to amend the constitution relative to erections, and one
of them " to amend the Constiation, that the election of
President and Vice-Pmident may be carried into effect
without the intervention of the Senate and House of Re-
presentatives." The various topics of the President's
Speech are, with the papers relating to them, referred to
Committees. A complete revolution had taken place
among the officers of the Congress, all those who were of
the party of the new President being dismissed.
We have received a file of the Cape of Good Hope pa-
vrs to the 3oth of November inclusive. They do not
contain any articles of political interest. 'The South iyri-
ear: Commercial Adverti3rr contains an Recount of an ad-
journed meeting, held at St. Helena on the 13th October,
at which an address to the Government lras voted, the pur-
port of which was " That the Proprietors of Slaves on the
Island were willing to emancipate their slaves, provided an
equivalent, to he named by the Proprietors themselves,
were given by the Honourable East lot.lia Company."—
The same paper mentions the arrival of Mr. Perceval, the
new Clerk to the Governor in Council. _

By the Algonquin, Dixey, which sailed from Phila-
delphia on the Moth ult. and from the Cape on the (2c2tl, we
learn that another very destructive fire bad taken place at
Brunswick. It broke out about nine in the morning on
the 911, of December, and raged v.ith such violence, that in
a short space of time it completely destroyed two cotton
mills, a fulling-mill, a double-saw-mill, a factory, and se-
veral other bowies. The loss of property is estimated at
190,00 u dollars, and the sufferings of the unhappy indi-
viduals must be greatly aggravated by the inclement season
ma, cull a climate.
The streets, since the commencement of the thaw, have
been almost impassable, especially in the city. The neglect
shown by the proper authorities with regard to the public
convenience and safety in this respect strongly merits cen-
' sore. We trust, if the evil be not immediately abated,
that the inhabitants. of each ward and district will take
innsorea for putting an end to A, now and on all future
occuions.