The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-01 00:00:00

" RULES.

"I. The Bank shall be under the management of the
Committee of the Huddersfield Mechanics' Institution;
and the Treasurer of the Institution for the time being,
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shall be the Treasurer of the Preliminary Savings' Bank
"11. The Treasurer shall, on the day after each de.
posit night, pay the balance in his hands into the Hud
dersfield Banking Company, to the credit of the Preli
minary Savings' Bank.
" 111. No moneys to be received or paid unless two
Officers of the Institution, or persons appointed by them,
be present; one to enter the sum in the Pass-book and
the Committee's Cash-book, the other to copy the said
entry from the Pass-book into the Committee's Ledger,
and then affix his initials in the Pass-book.
"IV. The accounts shall be made up half-yearly, on
the 30th of June and the 31st of December, and a list of
the balances (signed by the Treasurer), giving the
NUMBER of each Pass-book, BUT NOT TILE NAME, shall
be: laid upon the table for one month, thus enabling
each Depositor to see that his balance is correct.
"V. That Deposits will be received from the Mem-
bers of the Mechanics Institution, their Friends, and
Working People generally.
" VI. That any sums from one Penny upwards shall
be received, and when they amount to Seventeen Shil-
lings (unless requested otherwise by the Depositor), shall
be paid into the Huddersfield (GOVERNMENT) Savings'
Bank ; a Pass- book obtained in the Depositor's name,
and given to the party who may again pay into the
preliminary Bank, until it reaches the Seventeen Shil-
lings, to be again transferred to his or her own credit in
the Huddersfield Savings' Bank, and so soon as such
sums are accumulated. All sums paid over to the Go-
vernment Savirgs' Bank will no longer be under the
control of the Committee of the Preliminary Bank.
"VII. Any Depositor may draw out his money
on presenting his book, and no sum will bear interest
until paid over to the Huddersfield Savings' Bank."
This seems to us to be but the beginning of a movement
by which Mechanics' Institutions may usefully connect
themselves with the people, by meeting their social
wants, and helping them on the road to improve-
ment. It is a grand opportunity fur replacing the habits
and associations of the pot-house, by those of places
devoted to the spread of knowledge, and we earnestly
trust that such a simple and easy means of raising the in-
telligenee,and bpi, filing the moral and physical c ,nditi( n
of the people, will not be neglected. Each institution way
seem to do but little, but it is of littles that all great
things are made up, and the multitude of institution?,
each adding its small quota to the general good, would
in time build up a mass of power, resting upon prudence,
regularity, and forethought, sufficient to effect great and
conclude
the following sensible and necessary warning.---=..lt
beneficial
better the
cannot be too strongly impressed v.rn the respectaie
committees to enforce the moat rigid
.exactness and
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punctuality in the discharge of any pecuniary trust they
loss; as a single failure in this respect might bring may undertake, with every pFacaution against possible
dis-
credit upon the whole system, and even on Mechanics'
Institutions themselves."--Eliza Cook's Journal.

Lord John Russell will give his first Parliamen
tart' cilium ea the 15th Wet.