The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-14 00:00:00

B.ANII .RETURNS.

An Accoti t, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria
cap. 32, 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 20th day of
November, 1858.

PRIVATE BANKS.
Andover Bank, Andover—Heath and Co. £10,562
Ashford Bank, Ashford—Jemmett, Pomfret, & Co. 12,057
Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury—Cobb and C 0... 24,629
Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade Bank,
Biggleswade—Wells, Rogge, and Co. . 26,459
Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple—Marshall and C 0... 8,360
Basingstoke and OldhAm Bank, Basingstoke—
' Seymour, Lamb, and Co.
Bedford Bank, Bedford—Barnard and Co. 29,953
Bewdley Bank, Bewdley—Nichols Baker, and Co. 11,635
Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank,
Bicester—Tubb and Co.
Birmingham Bank, Birmingham Attwood s,
Spooner, and Co.
Boston Bank, Boston—Claypons and Co.
Boston Bank, Boston—Gee and Co.
Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater—J. &J. L. Sealey. 7,805
Bristol Bank, Bristol—Miles, Miles, and Co.
Broseley and Bridgnorth and Bridgnorth and
Broseley Bank, Broseley—Pritchards, Boycott,
and Co.
,Buckingham Bank, Buckingham—Bartlett
Par-
rott, and Co.
Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, and Stow-
market Bank, Bury St. Edmunds—Oakes, Bevan,
and Co.
Banbury Bank, Banbury—J. C. and A. Gilbert
Banbury Old Bank, Banbury—Cobb and Son 26,371
Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton
Buzzard—Bassett, Son, and Co.
Birmingham Bank, Birmingham—Lloyds and Co 24,413
Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire—Harris
and Co.
Brecon Old Bank, Brecon—Wilkins and Co 50,974
Brighton Union Bank, Brighton—Hall, West,
and Co.
Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington—Hard-
ing, Smith, and Co
Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds--
Worlledr and Co.

1,535

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Cambridge Bank, Cambridge--Mertlock and Co. 15,137
Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cambridge
-Messrs. Fosters
Canterbury Bank, Canterbury-Hammond and Co 32,469
Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen-David Morris and
Sons
Chertsoy Bank, Chertsey-La Coste and 50n.... 2,954
Colchester Bank, Colchester-Round, Green, & Co. 13,964
Colchester and Essex Bank, and Witham and Essex
Bank, and Hfulleiii, Suffolk, Bank, Colchester-
Mills, Bawtree, and Co.
Cornish Bank, Truro-Tweedy and Co 38,180
Coventry Bank, Coventry-Little and Woodcock 5,515
City Bank, Exeter-Milford and Co.
Craven Bank, Settle-Alcocks, Birkbeck, and Co 72,925
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 Co.
Derby Bank, Derby-Samuel Smith and Co 40,050
Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak
Bank, Derby-Crompton, Newton, and Co.
Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes-Locke and
Co.
Diss Bank, Diss-Fincham and Co 10,412
Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster-
Cooke and Co. 58,704
Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton-on-
Tees Bank, Darlington-Backhouse and Co 84,551
Devonport Bank, Devonport-Hodge and Co 8,722
Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dor-
chester-R. and H. Williams
East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard-Robins, Foster,
and Co.
East Riding Bank, Beverley-Bower and C 0.... 53,208
Essex Bank and Bishop's Stortford Bank, Chelms-
ford-Sparrow, Round, and Co 36,800
Exeter Bank, Exeter-Sanders and Co 25,812
Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wastage, Farling-
don-Barnes, Medley, and Co 7,32-
Farnham Bank, Farnham-John and Jas. Knight 10,762
Faversham Bank, Faversham-Hilton and Co 5,352
Godalming Bank, Godalming-Mellersh and Keen 5,322
Guildford Bank, Guildford-Messrs. Haydon 13,101
Grantham Bank, Grantham-Hardy and Co 27,391
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.
Harwich Bank, Harwich-Cox, Cobbold, and Co. 4,624
Hertfordshire, Hitchin Bank, Hitchin-Sharples
and Co.
Hereford, Ross, and Archenfield Bank, and Ross
and Archenfield Bank, Ross-Morgan and Co 20,586
Ipswich Bank, Ipswich-Bacon and Co 18,710
Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Had-
leigh Bank, Manningirce and Mistley Bank, and
Wocdbiidge Bank, Ipswich-Alexanders & Co 59,929
Kentish Bank, Maidstone-Randall, Mercer, and
Co .

14,514

Kino•ton and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—Davies
and Co.
Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank,
Knaresborough—Harrison and Co
Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson, &Co 44,991
Long ton Staffordshire Bank, Longton—C. Harvey
and Son
Leeds Bank, Leeds—Beckett and Co. 55,586
Leeds Union Bank, Leeds—W. Williams, Brown,
and Co.
Leicester Bank, Leicester—T. and T. T. Paget 28,044
Lewis Old Blyak, Lewis--Whitefeld and Co 25,547
Lincoln Dank, Lincoln—Smith, Ellison and Co 84,671
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
Larbe 3,218
Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Ly.an Legis—
Gurneys and Co.
Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis—
Jarvis and Co 11,223
Macclesfield Sauk, Macclesfield—Brocklehurst and
Co. . 14,997
Manningtree Bank, Mannin;tree—Nunn and C 0... 529
Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Williams and Son 8,452
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 Riddell .... 24,850
Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and
Newark Bank, Sleaford—Handley, Peacock, and
Co.
Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny, Slocock, and Co. 17,298
Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Hammond,
and Co.
Norwich Crown Bank and Norfolk and Suffolk Bank,
Norwich—Harveys and Iludsons 47,235
Norwich and Norfolk and Fakenhani Banks, Nor
wish—Gurneys and Birkbecks 83,941
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Notting-
ham—Hart, Fellows, and Co.
Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddock and Co.
Naval Bank, Plymouth—Harris LC: C 0.... 21,345
New Sarum Bank, Saio,n—Everett and Co
Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Samuel Smith
and Co.
Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Oswestry
—Croxon and Co
Oxford Old Bank, Oxford—Parsons and Co
Old Bank, Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Tonbridge
Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Tonbridge-
Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Tonbridge—T. H.
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and S. Benching
Oxfordshire Witney Bank, Witney-J. W. Clinch
and Sons 11,090
Pease's 01(1 Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank at d
Beverley Bank, Hull-Pease and Co. 42,936
Penzance Bank, Penzance -BaVen and Co.
Peterborough Bank and Omadle Bank, Peter•
borough-D. Yorke and Co.
Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest-3. and W.
Walters
Reading Bank, Reading-Simonds and Co.
Reading Bank, Reading-Stephens, Blandy, & Co. 27,241
Richmond Bank, Richmond-Roper and Co. 6,484
Rochdale Bank, Rochdale-Clement, Royds, & Co. 3,175
Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Rochester-
Day and Nicholson
Royston Bank, Royston-Fordham and Sons
Rugby Bank, Rugby-A. Butlin and Son 8,963
Rye Bank, Rye-R. C. Pomfret and Co 11,537
Ross Old Bank, Herefordshire, Ross-Allaway and
MacDougal
Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron
Walden-Gibsons and Co.
Salop Bank, Shrewsbury-Burton, Lloyd, &Co 12,515
Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough-Woodall
and Co.
Shrewsbury Old Bank and Shrewsbury and Ludlow ,
Bank, Shrewsbury-Rocke, Eyton: and Co 38,663
Sittin,gbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne-
Valiance and Co.
Southampton Town and County Bank, Southamp-
ton-Maddison and Pearce
Southwell Bank, Southwell-Wylde and Co .. 11,266
Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southampton..
-Atherley, Fall, and Co.
Stafford Old Bank, Stafford-Stevenson and Co.
Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford-Eaton,
Cayley, and Co
Shrewsbury ant Welsh Pool Bank, Shrewsbury-
Beck, Downward, and Co. . 19,710
Taunton Bank, Taunton-11. and R. Badeock 28,160
Tavistock Bank, Tavistock-Gill, Sons, and Co. 9,914
Thornbury Bank, Thornbury-Harwood and Co 8,745
Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton-Duns-
ford and Co.
Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northamptonshire,
Thrapston-York and Eland
Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring-Butcher
and Son
Towchester Old Bank, Towelkester-Pereival and Co 6,396
Town and County of Poole Bank and Ringwood
and Poole Bank, Poole-Q. W. Ledgard and Sons 7,850
Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston-Vivian and Co 13,968
Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge-Hull, Smith, &Co. 9,230
Wallingford Bank, Wallingford-Hedges, Wells,
and Co.
Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick-
Greavcs and Co.
Wellington Somerset Bank, "Wellington-Fox, .
Brothers, and Co . 4,889
West Riding Bank, Wakefield and Pontefract
Bank-Leathata, Tow, and Co 42,456
Whitby Old Bank, Whitby-Simpson, Chapman, 2
1 ,020
and Co.
Winchester, Alresfprd, 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-
-33,969
Wisbeeh-Gur-
wAisrbkArigalnldt aundn
50,040
nays and Co Ccoolnshire Bank,
Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe-P. and W.
Hancock 7,727
Wolverhampton bank, Wolverhampton-Goodricke
and Holyoake
Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank,
Worcester-Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 64,706
Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton-R. and
W. F. Fryer 9,415
Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and
Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth-Gurneys; Birkbeck,
and gQ• 'tilt, istlintittl st „ 3877

21,502

DREADFUL

EXPLOSION.

(FrOtn trze Man Chester Guardian)

A coalpit explc .sion, producing terrible conse-
quences in the lost; of at least 24 lives, occurred
about noon on Saturday last at Tyldesley Colliery,
two miles from LE igh, the proprietors of which
are Messrs. Green, Holland, and Co. The fire-
damp exploded in a down-brow running south,
and then took a rectangular direction, extend-
ing to beneath St. George's Church, Tyldes-
ley. In fact, it is supposed to be right under
that sacred edifice that the gas ignited, and
the greatest destruction of human life has taken
place. The colliery is not of very long stand-
ing, but its workings have generally been con-
sidered more or less dangerous to those em-
ployed therein. The point where the calamity
is said to have its origin in some 1,000 or 1,100
yards from the pit's eye, and therefore no loud re-
port was heard above ground, but those who were
below at the time of the explosion say that the
noise resembled the discharge of a park of artillery,
and might have been heard some miles if it had not
been stifled in some of the deep caves of the earth.
A few, though but very few, of the miners and
drawers escaped before the crash came, having
taken alarm at the unusually dense accumulation of
foul gas which was perceptible. One sturdy col-
lier took away himself and two boys to the pit's
eye, through a considerable distance filled with the
noxious atmosphere, but not before the two youths
bad become completely insensible and the man
himself was thoroughly exhausted. The remainder
of the colliers and drawers who were at work in
the different bays and in the levels have been killed.
All persons practically acquainted with coal getting
operations were confident such would be the case
from the features noticeable immediately after the
explosion. It was quite evident to them that if
some had not been burnt to death it was quite im-
possible they could escape the scarcely less horrible
fate of being suffocated by the after or choke damp.
No one connected with the colliery seemed to be
able to speak with certainty as to the exact num-
ber whose lives had either been sacrificed or ex-
tremely jeopardized. It was imagined by some
that not more than 16 mon and boys had been at
work, but men who had been working down the pit
maintained that there more than a score. This
latter estimate, we much regretsto say, more closely
approximates the stern reality than the other, for
it is now beyond doubt that not less than 24 human
creatures have fallen victims in this lamentable
catastrophe. The larger proportion of the dead
were married men, most of them having young
families. The managers and persons employed in
the colliery, having recovered from the first shock
to their feelings caused by this melancholy occur-
rence, proceeded with all despatch to adopt the.best
available means for clearing the mine of the deadly
vapour with which it was surcharged. An effective
body of stalwart and anxious men were told off to
exph ire the mine as soon as they possibly could, for
the purpose of ascertaining beyond all doubt
the fate of those poor fellows who had been in such
fearfill danger. The state of the atmosphere, how-
ever, was such as to baffle all their attempts to
make any incursion up the workings for two or
three hours. By laudable perseverance in a judi-
cious use of the ventilating apparatus, in another
hour or so they were enabled to traverse a consider-
able diatance of the " jig-brow ;" but for some time
they only succeeded in finding one dead body.
Between 5 and 6 in the evening it was reported that
seven lifeless bodies were met with, A numerous
concourse of persons assembled in the neighbour-
hood of the pit bank, some anxious to learn the sad
reality as to the fate of those relatives who were
near and dear to them. About half-past five it was
communicated around that in the opinion of the ex-
plorers below it was impossible that any of those
who had not yet been reached could be alive. Then
it might be said that the struggle between hope and
despair terminated on the part of the survivors.
Orders were issued that none of the remaining
bodies should be brought to the surface until a
somewhat late hour in the evening, in the hopes
that the assembled multitude would by that time
have considerably diminished and an unnecessary
scene of woe be avoided. At 10.17 p.m. the first
dead body was drawn up, and the conveyance to
the pit-brow of the bodies of 15 sufferers was ac-
complished in an hour and a quarter—a work of
some dispatch, considering that most of them had
to be carried a considerable distance along the brow
to the pit-eye, preparatory to their being placed
in the tubs by which they were to be raised above.
With one exception, all the 15 seem to have lost
their lives by the after or choke-damp which would
encompass them immediately after the explosion.
Aspinall's body is, however, blown to pieces. As
to the immediate cause of explosion, nothing fur-
ther is known. It has been conjectured that the
gauze-work of a safety lamp must have burst, and
thereby a naked light have become exposed ; bu
no one is left to tell the tale.

MONDAY AFTEROON.
The task of exploring the workings of the pit
has now been completed, and the number of lives
lost is ascertained to be 24. Nothing more is known
of the origin of the explosion. It is said that no
foul air ha ever been discovered in this part of
the mine before, and all the lamps that have been
found to this time appear to have had their tops
on ; but it is supposed that the gauze of some of
them may have been imperfect. About 21 of the
bodies have been taken home, or to the houses of
relatives, but the remainder were too much dis-
membered and disfigured to be recognisable.
THE CASE OF FRANCES JOHNSTON.

On Saturday afternoon, in consequence of an ad-
vertisement which had been issued, stating that
Robert Johnston would answer the charge of un-
natural conduct to his children, a meeting was held
at the Auction-rooms, 28, Gracechurch-street. It
will be remembered that, some time since, Johnston
was taken before the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-
house police-court, charged with refusing to main-
tain Frances Johnston, whereby she became charge-
able to the parish. At that examination, Frances
Johnston, who was 17 years of age, gave evidence
as to her father's conduct to her and her sisters
and brothers, telling them to go on the streets, and
to become thieves to support themselves. She also
said, in answer to the Lord Mayor, that she at-
tempted to destroy herself by throwing herself off
London-bridge, on account of the conduct of her
father.
Mr. DU BAR was called to the chair, and said
that thc gentlemen who had interested themselves
in calling the meeting were anxious that Mr. John-
ston shonld be heard, as they believed that he was
not guilty of the charges which had been brought
against him, and for which he had been sent to
prison.
Mr. CLEGITORN then addressed the meeting at
some length, and said that he had looked at all the
Points in the case, and he believed that Johnston
had not beeti fairly treated. Johnston married,
and, from motives of humanity, allowed his wife's
sister to live in the house. He wished to bring
up his children, seven in number, in habits
of industry and economy. They were, however,
indulged, and encouraged by their aunt to disobey
him, and rebel against him. He was entirely ex-
cluded from their society. Then it was said that
the children had not been educated, but the fact
was, that Johnson supplied the money for the pur-
pose. What lie was stated to have said about his
daughter going on the streets was not the fact, as
they would hear from Johnston himself. Mr. Cleg-
horn concluded by saying that, in his opinion,
Johnston had been hardly dealt with, and that
he should, at all evnts, have been allowed an oppor-
tunity of proving his innocence of the charges
brought against him.

JthixsToN, in answer to the questions put
to him by several gentlemen present, said that he
and his wife could not agree, and that he had ad-
mitted his wife's sister to the house, because she
was without any protection whatever. After he put
her into the house, however, there was no peace,
and he had no control over his wife or children.
His children had left him, and had stolen goods
from his..hoUse to a large amount. The expenditure
upon the family and himself, from 1849 to 1855,
anionted to £1,424 in household expenses alone,
and there was no truth in the statement that he
treated them unnaturally.
Mr. BUCKINGHAM said that Frances Johnston
had stated that at the time she attempted suicide
she was in a situation, from which, however, she
had no wages, and that her father would not
allow. her any money or clothes. Ho would ask
whether Mr. Johnston had received any such appli-
cation or not?
Mr. JOHNSTON said he never had ; nor had he
given her any reason to believe that he would not
supply them.
Mr. BUCKINGHAM—Did you ever say to Frances
"If you don't mend your ways .you will co ,
me to
the streets?" _ _ _

Mr. JOHNSTON—Yes ; but he had said that to
her merely as a warning. He never advised her to
go on the streets. When he heard that she had
thrown herself off the bridge, 18 months had elapsed.
Other questions having been put to Johnston, it
wcs unanimously resolved—" That this meeting is
of opinion that Robert Johnston never said any-
thing to his sons or daughters which justifies the
construction of advice to get their living by a
course of infamy-"

After whieb,.a vote of thanks was passed to. the
chairman, and the meeting separated.

VISIT OF MR. • BRIGHT TO GLaSGOW.—The
Glagyou; Morning Journal of yesterday authoratively an-
nounces that Mr. Bright, M.P., will address a public moot-
ing in that city on the 21st inst.