The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-30 00:00:00

BANK _RETU_RES,

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria
cap. $2, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes, of the
several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in circu-
lation during the week ending Saturday, the 17th day of
March, 1860.

PRIVATE BANKS.
Andover Bank, Andover-Heath and Co
Ashford Bank, Ashford-Jemrnett, Pomfret, & Co
Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury-Cobb and C 0..,
Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade Bank
Biggleswade--"Wells, Hogge, and Co.
Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple--Marshall and C 0...
Basingstoke and Oldham Bank, Basingstoke--
Seymour, Lamb, and Co.
20,236
.......
Bedford Bank, Bedford-13arnard and Co
Bewdley Bank, Bewdley-Nichols, Baker, and Co 10,186
Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank
Bicest,r-Tubb and Co ..... .........At......
Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-t..woods,
Spooner, and Co. ............................ 22,193
Boston Bank, Boston-Cla3-pons and Co. ... . . 60,241
Boston Bank, Boston-Gee and Co. ............ 14,59!
Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater-J. &J. L. Sea ley 10,90 i
Broseley ad Bridgnorth and 13ridgnorth and
nd Co. oseley Bank, Broseley-Pritcharde, Boycott,
..................................
Buckinghan.: . Bank, Bucking-ham-Bartlett, Paz-.. rott, and C 0................................
Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, and Stow-
marl-et Bank, Bury St. Edmunds-Oakes, Bevan,
and Co.
,91
57 Banbury Bank, Banbury-J. C. and A. Gillett ..
322.
Banbury Old Bank, Banbury-Cobb and Son._ 99'733 7
Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton
Buzzard-Bassett, Son, and Co.
,86 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham- -27,520
Bradford and Co 27,520
Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire-Harris
and Co.
Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and Co
Brighton Union Bank, Brighton-Hall, West,
and Ca.................................... 19,730
Burlington and Driflield Bank, Burlington-Hard-
ing, Smith, and Co ...................... 11,353
Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds--
Worlledge and Co. .......................... 2,745
Cambridge Bank, Cambridge--Mertlock and Co. 13,422
Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cambridge
-Messrs. Fosters ........... ... ... .. . 39,039
Canterbury Bank, Canterbury-Hammond an Co. Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen-David Morrids and 29,728
Sons ....................
.. 12,717
Colchester Bank, Chertsey-La Coots •and 50n..., 2,717
Colchester Bank, Colchester-Round, Green, &Co. 15,325
Colchester and Essex Bank, and 'Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh, Suffolk, Bank, Colchester-
Mills, Bawtree, and Co. ......... Cornish Bank, Truro-Tweedy. . and C0..0 ...... 4 312,860,647
Coventry Bank, Coventry-Little and Woodcock
4,824
City Bank, Exeter-Milford and Co.
Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Monmouth
Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and
Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow-
Bromage, Snead, and Co.
Derby Bank, Derby-W. and S. Evans and C 0..,
Derby Bank, Derby-Samuel Smith and Co
Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak
Bank, Derby-Crompton, Newton, and Co. .... 27,704
Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes-Locke and
Co. C 0.................
Diss Bank, Diss-Fincham and Co ..............
Doncastor Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster-
Cooke and C 0.....
Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton-on
lie Tees Bank, Darlington-Backhouse and C 0...
vonport Bank, Devonport--Hodge and C 0...,
Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetahiro Bank, Dor
chaster- R. and H. Williams ..............
East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard-Robins, •Foster,
and Co. ............. ................. 91,00
East Riding Bank, Beverley' Bow and •C 0.... 50,037
Essex Bank and Bishop's Stortford Bank, Chelms-
ford-Sparrow, Round, and Co 40,354
Exeter Bank, Exeter-Sanders and Co
28,285
Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Farring-
don-Barnes, Medley, and Co
Farnham Bank, Farnham-John and Jas. Knight 8,,420
Faversham Bank, Faversham-Hilton and C 0.... 5,185
Godalming Bank, Godalming-Mellersh and Keen 4,068
Guildford Bank, Guildford-Messrs. Haydon.... 14,086
Grantham Bank, Grantham-Hardy and Co 23,385
Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford-Mat-
thews and Co
Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull--
Smith, Brothers, and Co
Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting-
don-Veasey and Co. ........... • ............. ,225
Harwich Bank, Harwich-Cox, Cobbold, and Co. 38
5,222
Hertfordshire, Hitchin Bank, Hitchin-Sharples
and Co. .................................
Hereford, Ross, and Archenfeld Bank, and Ross
and Archenfield Bank, Ross-Morgan and C 0... 19,330
Ipswich Bank, Ipswich-Bacon and Co
Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Had-
17,925
leigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and
Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich-Alemanders & Co 59,392
Kentish Bank, Maidstone--Randall, Mercer, and Po
Co.
Kington and Radnorshire Bank 13,690
, Kington-Davies
and Co.
Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, 25,716
Knaresborough-Harrison and Co
Longton Staffordshire Bank, Longton-C. Harvey
and Son
Leeds Bank, Leeds-Beckett and Co
446,5 Leeds Union Bank, Leeds-W. Williams,
Brown,
and Co.
Leicester Bank, Leicester-T. and T. T. Paget 29,219
Lewis Old Bank, Lewis--Whitefeld and Co 26
Lincoln Bank, Lincoln-Smith, Ellison and Co
,989
Llandovery Bank, Lampeter Bank, and Llandilo
Bank, Llandovery-D. Jones and Co
Loughborough Bank, Loughborough-Middleton
and Cradock
Lymington Bank, Lymington-S. and G. F. St.
Barbe
Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Legis-
Gurneys and C 0.....
Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis-
Jarvis and Co
Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield-Brocklehurst and
Co.
Manningtree Bank, Manningtree--Nunn and C 0...
Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly-Williams and Son
Miners Bank, Truro-Willyams and Co.
Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank,
Abergavenny-Bailey and Co.
Monmouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon
Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and
Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth-
Bromage, Snead, and Co.
Newark Bank, Newark-Godfrey and Ridden
Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and
Newark Bank, Sleaford-Handley, Peacock, and
Co.
Newbury Bank, Newbury-Bunny, Slocock, and Co.
Newmarket Bank, Newmarket--Eaton, Hammond,
and Co..
Norwich Crown Bank and Norfolk and Suffolk Bank,
Norwich-Harveys and Hudsons
Norwich and Norfolk and Fakenham Banks, Nor
wich-Gurneys and Birkbecks
86,96
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Notting-
ham-Hart, Fellows, and Co.
Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton-Craddock and Co. ... 2,015
Naval Bank, Plymouth-Harris & Co..
New Sarum Bank, Sarum-Everett and Co
Nottingham Bank, Nottingham-Samuel Sznita
and Co
Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Oswestry 26,120
-Croxon and Co'
:12,238
Oxford Old Bank, Oxford-Parsons and Co 32,464
Old Bank, Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Tonbridge
Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Tonbridge-
Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Tonbridge-T. H. and S. Beaching
Old Bank al d ,
11600
and Sons
Oxfordshire Witney Bank, `Pitney-J. W. Clinch
L'ease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull
45,408
Beverley Bank, Hull-Pease and Co.
Penzance Bank, Penzance-Batten and Co
•
Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter
borough-D. Yorke and Co.
Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest-J. and W
ire
9,894
Walters
mg- p
Ste hen, Blandy, & Co. 28,780
Reading Bank, Reading-Simondsd and Co.
Reading Bank, Rea
Richmond Bank, Richmond-Roper and Co.
Rochdale Bank, Rochdale--Clement, Royds, &Co 2,926
Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Rochster-
Day and Nicholson
Royston Bank, Royston-Fordham and Sons
Rugby Bank, Rugby-A- Butlin and Son
Rye Bank, Rye-R. C. Pomfret and Co ....... 9,363
Ross Old Bank, Herefordshire, Ross-Allawayand
MacDougal
Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden-Gibsons and Co
Salop Bank, Shrewsbury-Burton, Lloyd, & C 0.,, 12,716
Scarborough ()Id Bank, Scarborough-Wood.tll
and Co.
Shrewsbury Old Bank and Shrewsbury and •Ludlow
Bank, Shrewsbury-Rocks Eyton, and Co.
Sittingbourne and Milton iank, Sittingbourne-
Valiance and Co. ........... . ..... .
Southampton Town and County Bank, Southamp-
-2,504
ton-Maddison and Pearce 10,996
Southwell Bank, Southwell-Wyldo and Cs 10,327
Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southampton
3,226
-Atherley, Fall, and Co.
Stafford Old Bank, Stafford-Stevonoon and Co. Co
Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford-Eaton,
25
493
Cayley, and Co 25,493
Shrewsbury =I Welsh Pool Bank, Shrewsbury-
-25,144
Beck, Downward, and Co.
25,341
Taunton Bank, Taunton-H. and R. Badcock
Co.
Tayistock Bank, Tavistock-Gill, Sons, and
C 0.,. 10,015
Thornbury Bank, Thornbury-Harwood and_uns.
Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton-Duns-
ford 12,026
11,148
ford and Co.
10,810
Tring Bank and Chesham Ban
'Thrapston-York
and Eland Northamptonshire,,
Thrapston and Kettering Bank,
Bank, Tring-Butcher

X 8,015

1473
24, 172

22,145
6,686

.4,100

20,03

12,066
50,070

7,390
12,119
40,948

8,095
10,512

59,299

79,613
8,556

45,844

[3,73

.9,182

32,636

15,970

.6,975

4,145

31,327

[0,520

15,563
4,672
[5,202
16,437

28,36

7,540
24,302

.5,49

47,546

and Son
Towchester Old Bank, Towchester—Percival and Co 7,477
Town and County of Poole Bank and Ringwood
and Poole Bank, Poole—G. W. Ledgard and Sous 10,346
Union Bank, Cornwall, llelston—Vivian and Co 13,911
Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—llull, Smith, &Co 13,440
Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Hedges, Wells,
and Co. r6.781
Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick—
Greaves and Co
Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox,
Brothers, and Co 2,268
West Riding Bank, Wakefield and Pontefract
Bank—Leatham, Tew, and Co 45,542
Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chapman,
and Co.
Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Winches-
ter—Bulpett and Co.
Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Wey-
mouth—Elliot, Pearce, and Co.
Wirksworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank—
Arkwright and Co. . 36,688
Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech—Gur-
neys and Co
Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W

Hancock ..... . .. f:6,967
Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Goodricke
and Holyoake
Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank ,
,
Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co.
Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—R. and
W. F. Fryer
10,000
Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and
Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth— Gurneys, Birkback,
and Coo sellossumesiefigitili•glemmt. 38)8741

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PRIVATE BUSINESS. • Ott the motion of the Marquis of BATH, the Wem an
Bronygarth Road Bill was read a second time, and the.,
Torquay Gas Bill was read a third time and passed.
DWELLINGS FOR THE WORKING CLASSES
(IRELAND) BILL.
On the motion for going into committee on the bill,
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE complained of the
rarrow spirit in which this measure had been regarded by
some parties. He thought the best way of improving the
condition of the labouring. classes of Ireland was to improver
.
their dwellin The Farmers' Club of WestmeathP had
petitioned in favour of this bill, which enabled proprietors':
to borrow loans to improve the dwellings of their tenants.
The Marquis of WESTMEATH said the petition that
had bean referred to as coining from the Farmers' Club of
Westmeath was merely the opinion of a single individual.
He did not oppose the bill going into committee but he
had very great doubt whether the bill would carry
out the
idea of its promoters.
The Duke of NEWCASTLE said he had been
nally in favour of the object of this measure,
but after
having had an interview with Sir R. Griffith,, and making
an examination of certain documents in the possession of
the Goverment, he thought the subject could best be dealt
with by the Treasury.
Lord REDESDALE said the object of the bill was to
grant permission to landlords to raise money for a new
class of improvements on their estates. He thought Par-
liament was just as able to deal with the question as the
Treasury.
After a few words from the Earl of WroxLow and Vis-
count DUNGANNON,
The house went into committee. The whole of the
clauses were agreed to, and the bill was reported without
amendments.
On the motion that the report be received,
Lord REDESDALE moved the insertion of a clause for
the purpose of providing a means of controlling the
expenditure of the loans obtained under the bill.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE objected to the addi-
tional clause.
After a short conversation the house divided, when the
numbers were—
Content
24
Not content
26
Majority
—2
The clauses were then agreed to, and the bill as amended
passed through committee.
MARRIAGES (EXTRA-PAROCHIAL PLACES)
BILL.
On the motion of Lord WENSLEYDALE, this bill was
read a second time.
EXEMPTION OF YEOMANRY CAVALRY FROM
HORSE DUTY.
The Earl of CARNARVON asked whether it was the
intention of the Government to exemptthe yeomanry cavalry
from the payment of this duty during the present year
Earl DE GREY and RIPON said he was happy to tell
his noble friend that the Government had decided upon ex-
empting the yeomanry cavalry from the payment of horse
duty. (Hear.) He might also tell his noble friend that the
act of Parliament which exempted them applied also to
those of that force who had joined the volunteer corps. It
only remained for him to add that the duty so taken off
would apply also to the mounted volunteer rifle corps.
INDIAN FINANCE.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH wished to ask the
noble duke opposite whether he was officially in possession
of a speech of Mr. Wilson, in which he gave an exposition
of the financial position of India, and if the Government
were in possession of that document it was desirable it should
be laid on the table. That speech was no doubt one of sin-
gular ability, and undoubtedly explained in a true manner
the former and the present state of the finances of India.
'The appendices, however, attached to it were not so coin-
plete as they could wish, inasmuch as while giving the ex-
penditure of the country they totally omitted the receipts.
They gave an account of the deficit and surplus, but not the
revenue, and that in his opinion should be supplied. There
ought also to be given an acce,nnt of the balances in the hands
of the Government in the various treasuries of India. He
was inclined to think that over a considerable number of
balances the Government had no control whatever ; indeed
he knew one, amounting to half a million, paid in under the
head of prize-money. He proposed to move for a return
showing the manner in which this money had been appro-
priated. The amount of revenue and expenditure, as given
by Mr. Wilson—and after deduCting all charges—was
£30,000,000. Knowing that was the case, and comparing
that with the condition in which the revenue stood in 1857,
s'hen the receipts and expenditure were equal, there was
ground for sanguine hopes—especially when the interest of
the public debt at home amounted to one-third of the whole,
while in India it was one-sixth. Therefore it would seem
' that India was one of the lightest taxed countries in the
world, and the least indebted. ?Zr. Wilson proposed to
equalise the income and expenditure, and his (Lord Ellen.
borough's) impression had always been that the only true
foundation for the administration of the finances of India
was to be found in the thorough reconciliation between the
Government and the people. He did not, however, think
that any progress had been made towards that result; for,
instead of adopting any novelties of finance, Mr. Wilson
proposed the most antiquated notions on the subject. He
proposed a gradual taxation in the shape of income tax, to
which every artisan in the country was to be subject, and
that was a measure which woulernot be satisfactory. Then,
again, to render their unpopularity still greater, they put a
duty on tobacco. It was stated that he intended to levy the
income tax on all classes in India. But he felt confident
that was an oversight, and that he had no intention of ap-
plying that tax to the non-commissioned officers and pri-
vates of the army. He admitted that a tax of this kind
would be extremely advantageous, provided there was any
hope of making the people believe that it was thorcughly
honest—and if there existed in that country the means of
making the assessment of the tax and the collection of it
really just. The zemindars in the settled provinces
would believe that they ought not to be subject to it, and
however much equity and common sense might be on our
side, they would not think that we were acting
justly towards them, and would endeavour to
throw the tax on the under tenants in order to save them-
selves. He was afraid the tax would fail, from the impos-
sibility of finding the requisite machinery in India to carry
it out, and that the result would be a constant conflict be-
tween extortion on the one side and fraud on the other,
whilst there was no trustworthy tribunal to decide between
them. But he considered the expressions used by Mr.
Wilson with regard to the army were still more dangerous
than the taxes he imposed. The noble lord here read an
extract from Mr. Wilson's speech, in which he spoke of the
native army of India as being, if not a standing menace, at
least a standing source of apprehension to all their states-
men—a kind of Frankenstein, of which they spoke with
bated breath, but which had now committed suicide. The
local and the European army, he added, were also gone.
Now, at the very time Mr. Wilson used this language, the
real state of the Indian army was this. It was true that
10,000 had taken their discharge, without, he believed, much
previous reflection or consideration. An incautious expres-
sion which fell from the noble lord at the head of the Go-
vernment, to get rid, he believed, of an inconvenient sug-
gestion, was taken advantage of by those soldiers to demand
their discharge ; and unfortunately the Government did
not take any reasonable steps till it was too late to remove
the delusion under which they laboured. They were told
at first that their claims were inadmissible, till at last,
alarmed, he supposed, by the position in which they found
the army, they yielded those claims. But at the time when
Mr. Wilson said that the army was gone there were 12,000
European troops in India, 6,000 of whom were artillery;
and every person who was acquainted with India knew that
no artillery in the world was superior to the artillery of
the Indian army. (Hear, hear.) In addition to these
12,000 men, 3,500 others were about to arrive, or had as-
tually arrived in India; so that of this army, which was de-
scribed as non-existent, there were over 15,000 in India,
one-half of whom were artillery. Now, as it was upon the
loyalty and bravery of these mon that their rule in India
depended, the high authorities in India ought to
be a little better instructed with regard to them. The re-
remarks of Mr. Wilson applied to the whole army. There
was no exception made. The armies of the Madras and
Bombay presidencies, which were "faithful amongst the
faithless found," and who fought by their side in all the
great battles of India, were included in the general censure.
The sepoy army of which Mr. Wilson spoke in such dispa-
ragement were little short of 200,000 men at the very time
he said they were gone. His sweeping censure reflected upon
those 200,000 men who fought by their side, and contri-
buted to that very tranquillity which, as Mr. Wilson ad.
mitted, afforded the Government the means of imposing
fresh burdens on the people. The distribution of the officers
of the disbanded regiments showed The real utility of the
native local army which Mr. Wilson seemed altogether to
despise. Of these officers, 276 were employed in situations
which had regard to the civil government of the country;
115 in political and civil situations; 64 in the police force,
58 in the commissariat and staff, and 38 in public works.
There were altogether 372 of these officers employed in offi-
ces of a civil character in Bengal, and in Madras and Bom-
bay the number so employed was probably of an equal
amount ; so that there were about 800 of these officers em-
ployed in the performance of civil duties. Ho believed that
no persons could be found to whom civil duties in India
could be so advantageously entrusted as the officers of the
native army. They felt that their lot was cast with the
people, and that it was only by good conduct and good ma-
nagement that they could hope to recommend themselves to
the favour of the Government, whereas the officers of her
Majesty considered themselves as strangers in the land, and •
always looked back to this country. If they dispensed
with the local army he believed it would be difficult to
find officers to supply the places of these men. There was
another consideration which weighed very much on his
mind in reflecting upon this subject. In India there
were no persons who looked with jealousy on the army.
There was no resource for the Indian army except in the
army itself ; and on its organisation, and discipline, and
obedience, they must depend. Between the Queen's army