The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-04 00:00:00

PRIVAM AND JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

The Bankers' Magazine furnishes the returns of 61.0:
lation of the private and joint-stock banks in England
and Wales for the four weeks ending the Ist of August'
1857, and gives the following as the average weekly cir-
culation of those banks during the past month, viz.
Private banks
Joint-stock banks 2,989,03

Average weekly circulation £6,501,949
On comparing the above with the returns for the pry
ceding month, ending the 4th of July last, it shows--
A. decrease in the circulation of the private
banks of
A decrease in the circulation of the joint-stock
banks of

£44,326
19,5°0
Decrease on the month 263,52,6
And, as compared with the return for the correspond"
ing period of the preceding year—viz., Aug. 2, 1856, 11'
shows—

decrease in the circulation of the private
banks of
A. decrease in the circulation of the joint-stock
banks of

1,60

Decrease on the year
On comparing the above with the amounts of the fixed
issues the following appears to be the comparative state
of the circulation :
The private banks are below their fixed issues 2E84,592
The joint-stock banks are below their fixed
issues

Total below the fixed issue.. X1,17,916

FATAL AGRARIAN OUTRAGE IN LONGFORD.—The
en' Joined statement appears in a letter from Longford'
dated Monday night :—" The peace of this usuall9
tranquil cour.ty was last night broken by a fearful
outraga of an agrarian character, whereby the hots
two men are placed in extreme jeopardy. Thl
facts of the case are these :—On Sunday night a party°
armed men, nurAberiog, it is said, 40 iudividualer
knocked at the house of a man named Mattbegi
Farrell, who resides in Moydon, about three mile°
from this town, and on being refused admittance hum°.
diately commenced smashing the door. Farrell, with
his son, who happened to be in the place at the tiMer
got out of bed and armed themselves with pitch;
forks, determined to keep the villains out at all
hazards. However, after a considerable resistance the
door gave way, and the party rushed into the house,.
vowing ver geauce against their devoted victims, who's
they at once surrounded, and deliberately di,charged
fearful volley of shot and slugs into their bodies,
Alter repeated id-usage the cowardly villains
retired. It is almost miraculous how the unfortunate
nimbi could have survived. The sliest Farrelli°
face is c unpletely disfigured from the shot ; an u,'
h )uld he recover, Lis eyesight can never be restored'
His son has not received so much injury ; big
arm , and shoulder are much injured with other
bruises of a less elli us character. The polio?'
on receiving information of the occurrence, iruniecw
ately scoured the country, but we regret to say, no
trace of the ruffians has been found. The only
cause that can be assigned for this outrage is al
some parties had been evicted from the got°
occupied byiFerrell, who is a caretaker on the estate, end
that after repeated threatening he refused togiveit up 411:
discontinue his employment, and that this has been te,
length the consummation of their object. It is mos_
painful to state that outrage of this discription
Ay
not uncommon recently in the locality in which this t
place. Oa last Sua, ay night wee a u armed party we"
through the same neigubourhood and administered II
oath to several persons, to the effect that they shot?
hold no intercourse with certain parties who had al
curred the outlaws' displeasure."