The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-22 00:00:00

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Bank of Westmorland, Kendal 8,290
Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley 8,903
Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 48,022
Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver-
hampton
Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven 29,774
Bradford Commercial Banking Company,
Bradford 19,534
Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union

Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent 41,717
Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking
Company, Chesterfield 10,933
Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work-
ington 32,333
Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Cora-
pony, Cheltenham
Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company,
Coventry
Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 13,008
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 37,918
Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company,
Derby
Darlington District Joint Stock Banking Com-
pany, Darlington
East of England Bank, Norwich 23,240
Glouccstershire Banking Company, Gloucester 137,930
Halifax Joint Stock Bank, Halifax 17,292
Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 32,030
Hull Banking Company, Hull 21,823
Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 12,929
Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com-
pany, Halifax
Helston Banking Company, Helston
Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford
Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company,
Knaresborough 25,044
Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 2,889
Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 53,944
Leeds Banking Company, Leeds 22,502
Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester 61,713
Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company 45,580
Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking
Company, Leamington Priors 10,258
Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 10,179
Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank-
ing Company, Nottingham 30,190
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking
Company, Nottingham 25,341
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 394,200
North Wilts Banking Company, Me :sham 35,951
Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 68,067
Northamptonshire Banking Company, North-
ampton
North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 37,670
Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company,
Leicester 38,852
Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth. 2,464
Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 36,874
Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com-
pany, Stamford 44,533
Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset-
shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang-
port 327,147
Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall 47,530
Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com-
pany, Stourbridge 56,390
Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking Company,
Sheffield 24,811
Sheffield and Rotherham Joint Stock Banking
Company, Sheffield 50,960
Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company,
Richmond
Storey and Thomas' Banking Company, Shaftes-
bury 9, 664
Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking
Company, Wolverhampton 32,635
Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wake-
.._ _

field . 11,677
Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company,
Whitehaven 27,910
Warwick and Leamington Banking Company,
Warwick _ 25,073
West of England and South Wales District
Bank, Bristol 79,467
Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 72,295
West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud-
dersfield 31,133
Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company,
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Whitchurch ........................................ . 3,631
Worcester City and County Banking Corn-
pany, Worcester ............... ..................... 5,075
P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns.
Inland Revenue, Somerset House,
Sept, , 1854.

EXTRAORDINARY SUPERSTITION IN DEVONSHIRE.--
An instance of the intense feelings of superstition which
pervades the ignorant among our rural population in the
west of England occurred at Northlew last week. Soule
gipsies having encamped in the neighbourhood, one of
the female members of the tribe ascertained from the
wife of a farm labourer that she had a daughter in the
last stage of consumption. The gipsy represented that
the child bad been " bewitched," and that she could rule
the spell, which would effect a cure, for two sovereigns.
The mother of the child cheerfully paid the money, but
next day the wily gipsy returned it, and said it was not
sna.:ient, but 201. more in gold would do it. The cot-
t iger's wife, in her native simplicity, went and berrowed
10/. from a neighbour, and, with another 10 sovereigns
she had in the house saved from her husband's earnings,
added the 201. to the 21. already in the gipsy's hands.
Soon as the money was paid the affrighted woman w: a
bound over to stcresy by the' gipsy, who mumb'ed out
a few disjointed texts of Scripture, and left with the
Promis3 that the child would be cured on the following
Friday, when au angel would appear and return the
money. Since that time, however, it is needless to add,
neither gip-,y nor money have turned up, although the
impoverished husband and the police have been daily on
the look-out for the gipsy impostor. On Sunday iast
another specimen of deep-rooted superstition was pre-
sented within the porch of the western door at Exettr
Cathedral. As the congregation were leaving the church
a decrepid old woman took up a position within t:e
porch, bearing a bk,rging petition, setting forth that she
had been attacked by a pnralytic seizure, and bad been
recommended by "the wise woman" to get a penny '
each from 40 single men on leaving the church, and her
infirmity would by this charm be baniebed for syn.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

DERBY SMITHFIELD.-SEPT. 19.

The supply of fat beasts to-day was about the average;
and the demand similar to that of last week, with a slight
alteration of price. The number of sheep and lambs was
large, and heavy sale. Fat pigs about the average. But
few calves on sale.

The following were the quotations :—Beef, Gd to 60 ;
mutton, 60. to 7d ; lamb, 7d to Od ; real, 6.1 d to 7d per
lb. ; pigs, 9s 3d to 93 6d per score ; rough fat, 6s 6d to Os
per 141 b.; hides, 30 to 40 per lb ; calfeskins, 4d to 01
per lb.