The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-04 00:00:00

B.ANIC RETURNS.

An Account, 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 19th day of
February, 1859.

PRIVATE BANKS.
Andover Bank, Andover-Heath and Co 19,320
Ashford Bank, Ashford-Jemmett, Pomfret, & Co. 10,898
Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury-Cobb and Co 22,842
Baldock Bank and Baldock and Bi,ggleswade Bank,
Biggleswade--Wells, Hogge, and Co.
Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple-Marshall and Co 6,012
Basingstoke and Oldham Bank, Basingstoke-
Seymour, Lamb, and Co.
Bedford Bank, Bedford-Barnard and Co. 30,110
Bewdley Bank, Bawdley-Nichols, Baker, and Co. 10,.576
Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank,
Bicester-Tubb and Co. • ..
Birmingham Bank, Birmingham - Attwoods,
Spooner, and Co.
Boston Bank, Boston-Claypons and C 0... 62,728
Boston Bank, Boston-Gee and Co.
Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater-J. &J. L. Sealey 2,213
Bristol Bank, Bristol-Miles, Miles, and Co. .. • • 28,528
Broseley and Br idgnOrth and Bridgnorth and
Broseley Bank, Broseley-Pritchards, Boycott,
and Co.
Buckingham Bank, Buckingflant-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 24,640
Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton
Buzzard-Bassett, Son, and Co.
Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Lloyds and Co 25,637
Bradford Old Bank, Bradferd, Yorkshire-Harris
and Co.
Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and Co , 44,206
Brighton Union Bank, Brighton-Hall, West,
and Co. ................................. .
Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington-Hard-
lag, Smith, and Co 10,502
Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds-
Worlledge and Co. • 2,486
Cambridge Bank, Cambzidp;e-Mortlock and' Co. 14,085
Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cambridge
-Messrs..loosters .... 40,083
Canterbury Bank, Canterbury-Hammond and Co 28,758
Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen-David Morris and
Sons
Chertsey Bank, Chertsey-La Costo and Son 3,050
Colchester Bank, Colchester-Round, Green, &Co 14,163
Colchester and Essex Bank, and Witham and Essex
Bank, and Hadleigh, Suffolk, Bank, Colchester--
Mills, Bawtree, and Co.
Cornish Bank, Truro-Tweedy and Co • 37,533 '
Coventry Bank, Coventry-Little and Woodcock 5,955
City Bank, Exeter-Milford and Co.
Craven Bank, Settle--Alcocks, Birkb k, and Co 67,028
Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Monmouth
Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and
Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow-
Bromage, Snead, and Co • 7,099
Derby Bank, Derby-W. and S. Evans and Co.
Derby Bank, Derby-Samuel Smith and Co 34,813
Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak
Bank, Derby-Crompton Newton, and Co 26,456
Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes-Locke and
Co.
Diss Bank, Diss-Fiucham and Co 13,200
Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster-
Cooke and Co
Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton-on-
Tees Bank, Darlington-Backhouse and Co 79,900
Devonport Bank, Devonport-Hodge and Co 7,777
Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dor-
chester-- -R. and H. Williams 49,968
East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard-Robins, Foster,
and Co
East Riding Bank, Beverley-Bower and Co '48,9(
Essex Bank and Bishop's Stortford Bank, Chelms-
ford-Sparrow, Round, and Co . 41,485
Exeter Bank, Exeter-Sanders and Co 25,760
Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Farring-
don-Barnes, Medley, and Co 6,631
Farnham Bank, Farnham-John and Jas. Knight 8,271
Faversham Bank, Faversham-Hilton and Co 5,573
Godalming Bank, Godalming,-Mellersh and Keen 6,724
Guildford Bank, Guildford-Messrs. Haydon 13,436
Grantham Bank, Grantham-Hardy and Co 24,015
Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford-Mat-
thews and Co 14,110
Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull-
Smith, Brothers, and Co
Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting-
don-Veaaey and Co .. . ..... 41,921
Harwich Bank, Harwich-Cox, Cobbold, and Co. 4,019
Hertfordshire, Hitchin. Bank, Hitchin-Sharples
and Co.
Hereford, Ross, and Archen6eld Bunk, and Ross
and Arehenfield Bank, Ross-Morgan and. Co 19,052
Ipswich Bank, Ipswich-Bacon and Co. 20,65,5
Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Had-
leigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and
Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich-Alexanders &Co 57,9.59
Kentish Bank, Maidstone-Randall, Mercer, and
Co.
Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington-Davies
and Co.
Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank,
Knaresborough-Harrison and Co
Kendal Bank, Kendal-Wakefield, Crewdson, &Co 47,421
Longton Staffordshire Bauk, LOngton-C. Harvey
and Son
Leeds Bank, Leeds-Beckett and Co
Leeds Union Bank, Leeds-W. Williams, Brown,
and Co.
Leicester Bank, Leicester-T. and T. T. Paget 31,140
Lewis Old Bank,Lewis-Whitefeld and Co 23 484
Lincoln Bank, Lincoln-Smith, Ellison and Co 70,263
Llandovery Bank, Lainpeter Bank, and Llandilo
Bank, Llandovery-D. Jones and Co
Loughborough Bank, Loughborough-Middleton
and Cradock
Lymington Bank, Lynthagton-S. and G. F. St
Barbe 4,222
Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Legis-
Gurneys and Co.
Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis-
Jarvis and Co 10,867
Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield-Brocklehurst and
Co. 14,431
Manningtree Bank, M N Ad Cr 1,397

tgtree Bank, Manningtree--Nunn au._ so
Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Williams and Son 4,287
Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyams and Co.
Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank,
Abergavenny—Bailey and Co. 26,298
Monmouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon
Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, anil.
Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth—
Bromage, Snead, and Co. 7,305
Newark Bank, Newark—Godfrey and Riddell
Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and
Newark Bank, Sleaford—Handley, Peacock, and
Co

Newbury Bank, Newbury-Bunny, Slocock, and Co. 16,929
Newmarket Bank, Newmarket-Eaton, Hammond,
and Co 17,273
Norwich Crown Bank and Norfolk and Suffolk Bank,
Norwich-Harveys and Hudson .. 48,477
Norwich and Norfolk and Fakenham Banks, Nor.
with-Gurneys and Birkbecks 92,651
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Notting-
ham-Hart, Fellows, and Co.
Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton-Craddock and Co. 3,111
Naval Bank, Plymouth-Harris & Co. 22,331
New Sarum Bank, Sarum-Everott and Co.
Nottingham Bank, Nottingham-Samuel Smith
and Co ' 28,606
Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Oswestry
-Croxon and Co 10,498
Oxford Old Bank, Oxford-Parsons and Co .. $4,204
Old Bank, Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Tonbridge
Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Tonbridge-
Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Tonbridge-T. H.
and S. Beaching
Oxfordshire Witney Bank, Witney-J. W. Clinch
• and Sons ll, 606
Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank ar
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.
"Walters
Reading Bank, Reading-Simonds and Co.
Reading Bank, Reading-Stephens, Blandy, & Co. 29,329
Richmond Bank, Richmond-Roper and Co.
Rochdale Bank, Rochdale-Clement, Royds & Co. 3,131
Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Rochester-
Day and Nicholson
Royston Bank, Royston-Fordhani and Sons
Rugby Bank, Rugby-A. Butlin and Son
Rye Bank, Rye-R. C. Pomfret and Co
Ross Old Bank, Herefordshire, Ross-Allaway fiat! 9,431
4 176
MacDougal
Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron
28,557
Walden-Gibsons and Co. ............... ...
12,329
Salop Bank, Shrewsbury-Burton, Lloyd, & C 0...
Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough--Woodall
21,672
and Co.
Shrewsbury Old Bank and Shrewsbury and Ludlow
Bank, Shrewsbury-Rocke, Eyton? and Co 32,.549
Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingnourn
2,250
Valiance and Co.
Southampton Town and County Bank, Southamp-
-12,346
ton-Maddison and Pearce
Southwell Dank, Southwell-Wylds and Co .. 9,£81
Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southampton..
-Atherley, Fall, and Co
Stafford Old Bank, StatiOrd-Stevenson and Co. 12,717
Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford-Eaton,
Cayloy, and Co
Shrewsbury full Welsh Pool Bank, Shrewsbury-
Beck, Downward, and Co. . 20,554
Taunton Bank, launton-11. and R. Badcock 25,346
Tavistock Bank, Tavistock-Gill, Sons, and Co. 7,281
Thornburg Bank, Thornburg-Harwood and Co 9,639
Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton-Duns-
ford and Co
Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northamptonshire,
Thrapston-York and Elandll,47l
Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring-Butcher
and Son
Towchester Old Bank, Towchester-percival and Co. 7,544
Town and County of Poole Bank and Ringwood
and Poole Bank, Poole-G. W. Ledgard and Sons 9,348
Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston-Vivian and Co 12,065
Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge-Hull, Smith, &Co. 12,560
Wallingford Bank, Wallingford-Hedges, Walls,
and Co.
Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick-
Greaves and Co.
Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington-Fox,
3,094
Brothers, and Co
West Riding Bank, Wakefield and Pontefract
43,199
Bank-Leatham, Tew, and Co
Whitby Old Bank, Whitby-Simpson, Chapman,
1,096
and Co.
Winchester, ALresford, and Alton Bank, Winches-
-17,291
ter-Bulpett and Co.
Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Wey-
-16,558
mouth-Elliot, Pearce, and Co.
Wirksworth and Ashbourno Derbyshire Bank-
36,947
Arkwright and Co.
Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech-Gur-
-41,431
neys and e Co
Wiveliscomb Bank, Wiveliscombe-P. and W.
.. 5,742
Hancock
Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton-G oodri eka
and Holyoake
Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank,
Worcester-Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 59,698
Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton-R. and
W. F. Fryer.
Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and
Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth-Gurneys, Birkbeck,
and Co.

Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank Grea.: -Yar-
mouth—Sir E. H. E. Lacon, Bart, and. C 0..... 11,593
York Bank, York—Swann, Clough, and C 0....... /0,121

JOINT STOCK BANKS

• •
Bank of Westmorland, Kendal -----
£12,685
8
Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley. 155
Bradford Banking Company, Bradford
Bilston District Banking Company, \' aver-
hampton 8,643
Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven. 30,471
Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Bradford 19,513
Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffonlshire Union Bank- .
...

ing Company, Burton-upon-Trent 46,070
Chesterfield and North Derbyshire. Banking Com-
pany, Chesterfield:
Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work-
ington 32,610
Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company,
Coventry '
Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry
County of Gloucester Banking Co.,- Cheltenham 10Z,168
Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Co., Carlisle
Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle
Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Co., Dudley 31,378
Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 19,824
Darlington District Joint Stock Banking Company, •
Darlington 26,292
East of England Bank, Norwich 23,961
Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 137,06
Halifax Joint Stock Bank, Halifax 18,605
Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 33,520
Hull Banking Company, Hull
Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 18,211
Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Co. Halifax 42,110
Holston Banking Company, Holston
Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford
Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company,
Knaresborough 27,686
Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge
Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster
Leeds Banking, Company, Leeds 23,153
Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester 63,420
Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 46,992
Leamington Priors and -Warwigkshire Banking
Company, Leamington Priors
Ludlow and Tenbury Bank; Ludlow.
Moire and Robinson's Nottingham Shire Banking
Company, .Nettinx,hara '.. . • 2BP4
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Cora
pany, Nottingham '' ' - • - - .271521
National PrOVincial Rank of England, Birmingham ..
. - '(Head Office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London) 408,261
North Wilt's Banking Coinpany, Melkaham ' 43,641
NorthamptOnshire 'Union Bank, Northampton 69,314
NorthamptonshiroßankingConipany,Northampton 18,719
North and 'South Wales Bank, Liverpool 49,500
Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester 49,963
Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth
Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield
Stamford, Spalding and Boston Banking Company,
Stamford -. 28,230
Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset-
shire Bank, and Somersetslure Bank, Langport . 347,120
Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall. 34,638
Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com-
__ _-. ...

53,989
pany, Siourbiidge
Sheffield and Hallatushiro Banking Co., Sheffield 22,801
Sheffield and Rotherham Joint Stock Banking
Company, Sheffield 53,528
Swaledale and Wensleydale Bankiitg Company,
Richmond 47,148
Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking Com-
pany, Wolverhampton 27,908
Wakefield and Barnsley Union 13ank, "Wakefield 14,480
Whitehaven Joint Stock Banking Whitehaven 27,135
Warwick and Leamington Banking C0.d0., Warwick. 25,571
West of England and South Wales District Bank,
Bristol
58,788
Wilts and Dorset Bankinr, Company, Salisbury 73,7.51
West Riding Union Banking Co., Huddersfield 32,409
Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company,
Whitchurch
Worcester City and County Banking Company, ,
-Worcester - 0,270
York Union. Banking Company, York
York City and County Banking Company, York 86,326
Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds 117,497
W. W. DALBIAC, Acting Registrar of Bank Returns,
Inland Revenue Office, Feb. 26, 1859

At the Bristol Council-house, on Tuesday," a
middle-aged woman, named Mary Ann Villiers,
who is known by the sobriquet of Lady 'Villiers,"
was charged with having fraudulently obtained the
sum of £3 10s. from the Governesses' Benevolent
Institution. The institution in question is a charit-
able society in London, enjoying the patronage of
her Majesty, the Prince Consort, the Duchesses of
Kent and Cambridge, and of many other members
of the aristocracy. Mr. Ambrose E. Nigh, who con-
ducted the prosecution, statedihdt titithtious times
the prisoner had obtained sums ofn4ipt;‘, oviiting
altogether to £l7 from the soCi,elf T: W.
Klugh, secretary of the institutionvadwastl that
the first application for assistance wastruocited from
the prisoner in Feb., 1856. She theirereliresented
that she was the daughter of ' a medical
man at Bath, and that,, her Dither having
deserted his family, she had been left with her
mothei and two sisters dependent on her exertions
for support; that for a time they had obtained the
means of existence by the sale of their jewellery,
plate, and books, since which she had had to toil
for them; that her younger sister, after suffering
for some time from heart disease, had died, and
that her mother had also died of consumption, her
last words being, " I commend my children to the
care of Ilim who is the orphan's friend." Miss
Villiers went on to state that when her mother died
she was left with only fourpence in the world ; that
having been taught by her mother never to doubt
the mercy of her Heavenly Father, she had toiled
on in dependence on Him, but that privation and
sickness had broken her down, and she was com-
pelled to solicit assistance. That letter was laid
before the ladies' committee of the institution, of
which Lady Ashley, Lady P. Burroughes, the
Countess of Shaftesbury, and other ladies of dis-
tinction were members, and relief was ordered to
be forwarded by Post-office order to the address
given, 7, St. Aligustine's-place, Bristol. The first
application in respect of which the present pro-
ceedings were taken was dated the 28th of April,
1858. It expressed the writer's great reluctance
again to obtrude upon a society which had so be-
friended her, but stated that a lady, Mrs. Hartley,
of Bath-buildings, Montpellier, with whom she
had formerly lived, but whose family she had
left from ill-health, was willing to take her to
the south of France to educate her two chil-
dren ; that she would engage her for five years,
at a salary commencing at £l5, and increasing
to £25 per annum. The latter gave an affecting
narrative of circumstances which had rendered the
applicant destitute of clothing, and stated that the
lady herself being in straitened circumstances,
would only be able to pay her travelling expenses.
The committee in reply to this appeal forwarded
Miss Villiers a Post-office order for £2. On the
18th of May last another letter was received, stat-
ing Miss Villiers had passed two sleepness nights
before she could determine to write it; that her
wretched state of health had necessitated her buying
flannel clothing, which being dear had absorbed
her funds, and unless something could be done she
must give up her situation, which she was to join
on the Ist of June. She enclosed a list of the
articles on which she had expended the society's
previous bounty, and said she calculated that
£1 10s. would supply all her further requirements.
This letter was also considered by the committee,
and a Post-office order was sent for the amount
solicited. On the 30th of November another letter
came to hand from the prisoner, which, like those
which had preceded it, was written in a religious
vein, and gave a touching narrative of further suf-
ferings which Miss Villiers had undergone. She
had been to France, was happy in her situation, and
had begun to hope that brighter days had dawned
upon her, when her beloved mistress was struck
down by sickness, and in a fortnight died. The
ta ob r u
pt putabruptly
y thedi s
cchhai
rl dg re ean ts os
relatives who came at her death had resolved
school,a
Mi
and had
Villiers, allowing loNyingli er
barely enough to bring her back England.
She returned, resolved to
the mercy of Him who could smooth the thorny
path, and she succeeded in getting two pupils. In
crossing the downs, however, she was caught in a
storm, got wet through, and caught inflammation
of the chest, which had completely prostrated, leer.
She hoped to have resignation enough to say,
will be done; He knoweth best ; but really felt as
if to die would be gain." This letter caused suspi-
cion,.
from the
resulted in information being obtained
and inquiries were at last instituted, which
. Evidence
o 18-0
had
Bristol Mendicify Society that Miss Villiers had
been a begging letter writer since
been in any situation in or out of Bristol at all ;
was given showing that the prisoner never
that the Mrs. Hartley referred to washer
sister, and lived with her, and that she had never
own
resided
at which a relative
in Bath-buildings, though she had had
letters addressed to that place,
lived. The prisoner, who offered no defence, was
fully committed for trial.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.—A special court
was
to held ythesotesradleayof.
graAindinscouswsbioonforetoopkartamceeont and a
thebill
relating
petition against the measure adopted on the recommenda-
tion of a committee to whom the subject Ras referred.
Several petitions were presented in favour of providing the
cost of the proposed lunatic asylum from the City's funds,
and a resolution was, after some discussion, adopted to the
effect that a previous resolution of the court in favour of
the asylum being provided by means of a county rate be re-
scinded. A letter was read from Mr. D. W. Harvey on
the subject of the vacant office of the High Bailiff of South-
wark, and some discussion ensued as to the eligibility of
that gentleman for the office. Eventually the letter was
referred to a committee for consideration. The Lord Mayor
said that the Emperor of the French, in consideration of
the reception he had met with by the corporation on his
visit to the City, bad been pileased to confer upon Sir F. G.
Moon, Bart., the then Lord Mayor, the Order of Knight
of the Legion of Honour. After the transaction of some
other business the court adjourned.
RECREATION GROUNDS FOR THE PEOPLE.—A bill
of Mr. Slaney, M.P., Mr. Thornely, M.P., and Mr. M:)inc;
kinnon, M.P., provides that six acres of land in any
held by
parish may be legally conveyed to trustees, to
ofthem
uestsed for
adultsa s
,openon d posu bpl
ygroundsro umounds
forfor
childrent h e resort
eand a nd
youth.bie e
_r e apt ioorn
.
property'net exceedingtl,ooo May 'b beg
the purpose. The act only benefits England and

A PLJUSIBLE SWINDLER. "rte

Mr. RICARDO asked the Under Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs at what date the notice for the termination
of the treaty of the 22d July, 1844, in reference to the
Stade Dues between the United Kingdom and
Hanover, according to the eighth artice of that
treaty, was given toj the Hanoverian Government :
Whether that notice was withdrawn or suspended ; if so,
whether it had been renewed, and at what date the said
treaty will actually terminate under the notice announced
to the house as having been given by the Under Secretary
of State ?
Mr. S. FITZGERALD said that the treaty had not been
renewed, because it was considered that it had not yet
expi red.