The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-21 00:00:00

pony, Cheltenham
Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company,
Coventry
Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry
County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel-
tenham
Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company,
Carlisle
Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle
Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company,
Dudley 38,110
Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company,
Derby
Darlington District Joint Stock Banking Com-
pany, Darlington

111,393

24,504

East of England Bank, Norwich 25,068
Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 152,879
Halifax Joint Stock Bank, Halifax 18,265
Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 33,959
Hull Banking Company, Hull 26,984
Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 13,253
Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com-
pany, Halifax
Helston Banking Company, Helston
Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford ...
Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company,
Knaresborough 26,676
Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 3,270
Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 59,397
Leeds Banking Company, Leeds 23,005
Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester 73,111
Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company 52,705
Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking
Company, Leamington Priors..
Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow
Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank-
ing Company, Nottingham
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking
Company, Nottingham
Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union
Joint-Stock Banking Company, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne --
National Provincial Bank of England, Birming-
ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street,
London 419,735
North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 44,883
Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 80,425
Northamptonshire Banking Company, North-
ampton
North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool
Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company,
Leicester
Saddlcworth Banking Company, Saddleworth.
Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield
Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com-
pany, Stamford 54,770
Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset-
shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang-
port 350,939
Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall 43,804
Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com-
pany, Stourbridge
Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking Company,
Sheffield
Sheffield and Rotherham Joint Stock Banking
Company, Sheffield 51,798
Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company,
Richmond
Storey and Thomas' Banking Company, Shaftes-
bury
Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking
Company, Wolverhampton 33,459
Wakefield and Barnsley Uniou Bank, Wake-
field
Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company,
Whitehaven 28,375
Warwick and Leamington Banking Company,
Warwick
West of England and South Wales District
Bank, Bristol 77,240
Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 71,778
West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud-
_ . _

41,74
1,47

20,755

11,530
9,900

34,936

22,360
50,053

55,209
2,343
33,326

+55,900

50,173

13,13

dersfield -
Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company,

30,993

6,010

Whitchurch
Worcester City and County Banking Com-
pany, Worcester 5,810
York Union Banking Company, York 67,985
York City and County Banking Company, 90,075
Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds 113,731
J. MICHAEL, Acting Registrar of Bank Returns.
Inland Revenue, Somerset House,
Dec. 15, 1855.

THE MAGISTRACY OF IRELAND.—The Lord Chancellor
has appointed Wm. Wilson Campbell, Esq., of the
Castle, Portstewart, to the commission of the peace
for the county of Antrim, on the recommendation of
the Marquis of Donegal, the lieutenant of the county.
FACTS FOR CARDINAL WISEMAN.—The Piemonte gives
the following account of the state of the prisons in the
Papal dominions. It says :
In 1850 there were imprisoned ... ... 10,436
In 1.51 11,279
PP
In 1852 11,767
PP
In 1853 12,035
f t
In 18M
~ 13,006
Showing an augmentation of 2,570, nearly one fourth,
in five years. On the 31st of last August the same au-
thority states that there were 683 persons imprisoned in
Fort Urbano, whom it divides under the following
heads :

Condemned by the Sacra Consultata ••• 21
Condemned by the ordinary tribunals ••• 337
Condemned by the military tribunals ••• 191
Condemned by the diocesan tribunals ••• 7
Awaiting judgment ••• ••• .•• ••• 2
In transit ••• ••• •" 1
Detained as a measure of precaution ••• 124
If these figures are only tolerably correct (and the diffi-
culty of ascertaining with strict precision such statistics
must be well understood), what a sad picture do they
present of the demoralisation of a country containing
less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, and governed by the
united wisdom of the Catholic Church I