The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-11 00:00:00

BANK RETURN'S.

"'The number of fires from Jan. 1. to Dec. 31, 1860, both
days included have been as under :-Fires at which the
premises were totally destroyed, 27 ; dD. considerably. da-
maged, 395 ; do. slightly damaged, 63 4 ; total fires, 1,056.
False alarms, 69 ; chimney do., 13',3. Total calls, 1,241.
The
rk-ireSoins due. nut include ell) coneys on fire known to
be such, but only such as were said to be buildings on fire.
according to
" Enclosed is a list of fires, arranged
the
different trades, also a list of fires where the premises were
totally destroyed, with sortie remarks thereon
"ALPHABETICAL LIF3T op TRADES WHERE •.17IRES TOOK
PLACE IN LONDON IN THE YEAR 1860.-Apothecaries and
dealers in drugs, bv:t no chemical works carried on, 5-
bacon dryers, 2-bargnios, 5-bakers, 18-ditto sea biscuit,
4-barge and boat 'builder, 1-baths and public washhouses,
1-beershop kriepers, 10-booksellers, binders, and sta-
tioners, 14-bottle merchant, 1-brewers, 2-brokers and
dealers in old clothes, 18-builders, 10-butchers, 6-cabi-
net-makers, 22-caoutchouc manufacturer, 1-carpenters
and wrzkers in wood (not cabinet-makers), 48-chandlers,
24- charcoal and coke dealer, 1-cheesemongers, 4-che-
w.ists, including all places in which are laboratoriesfor che-
mical purposes, 5-china and glass, dealers in, 5-churches,
4-cigar makers, 2-coachmakers, 4-coal merchants, 2-
cocoanut-fibre manufacturers, 3-coffee-shop and chop-
houses, 13-coffee roaster, 1-colour makers, 3-confec-
tioners and pastrycooks, 14-coopers, 3-corkcutters, 3-
ditto burners, 2-cornchandlers, 6-curriers and leather-
dressers, 3-distiller, 1-ditto tar, 4-docks, 2-drapers,
woollen, linen, and mercers, 32-drysalter, 1-dyer, 1-eat-
inghouses, 3-engineer,,mechanical, 1-farming stock, 7-
feather merchant and dresser,l-fireworkmaker, 1-firewood
(patent manufacturer), 1-flour mills, 3-flowers (artificial
makers), 5-founders, 4-French fancy merchants, 6-
gaming-house, 1-granary keeper, 1-grocers, 19- gutta-
percha works, 1-hatmakers, 5-hempdressers, 3-hop
merchants, 1-hotels, including club houses, 6-inkmaker,
1-ditto, printers', 3-japanners, 3-laundresses, 7-lodg-
ings, 93-lucifer match makers, 4-maltsters, 2-Manches-
ter warehousemen, 7-manure, dealer in, 1-marine stores,
dealers in, 12-mast and bloekmaker, 1-mattress maker, 1
-milliners and dressmaksrs, 10-musical instrument
makers, 6-nuts and oranges, dealers/in, 1-oil and colour-
men, not solourmakers, 14-oil works, 2-painters, glaziers,
and plumbers, 3-paperstainer, 1-pasteboard maker, 1-
pawnbroker, 1-photographers, 2-pottery, 1-printers, 11
.-ditto, lithographic, 1-prison, 1-private, 196-provision
merchants, 2-railways, 5-rag merchants, ',7-rope-
makers, 3-sackruakers, 2-sailmakers, 2-sale shops
and offices, 56-saltpetre refiner, 1-saw mills (steam), 2-
scaleboard cutters, 3-schools, 4-skips, 3-ditto, steam, 2
-ditto, builders, 6-ditto, chandlers, 3-soot merchants, 2
-stables, 17-straw bonnet makers, 3-sugar refiners, 3-
tailors, 14-tallow melters, tallow and wax chandlers, and
soap boilers, 2-tanners, 2-tinmen, braziers, and smiths,
17-tobacconists, 12-tobacco manufacturer, 1-try ware-
houses, 3-under repair and building, 12-unoccupied, 4-
upholsterers, 4-victuallers, 53-wadding makers, 2-
warehouses, 2-waterproof canvas makers, 3-weaver, silk,
1-ditto,lmats, 1-ditto, trimming, 6-wharfingers,ls -wine
and spirit merchants, 6 -woolstaplers, 2-wood merchant,
1-workshops, no hazardous goods or process, 2. Total,
1,056-chimney alarms, 116-false alarms, 69- -and total
calls, 1,241.
" The following is a list of fires where the premises were
totally destroyed :-1860: January 26, Greenwood-road,
an unfinished house of six rooms. Jan. 31, East End,
Finchley, victualler's, a house of 13 rooms, over 7 miles.
Feb. 15, Friars Mount, house on fire before the arrival of
the engines. Feb. 20, Northumberland-park, Tottenham
-Wood street, Cheapside, a Manchester warehouse, com-
pletely on fire before the arrival of the engines. March 2,
Tottenham, a building of 2 storeys, over 7 miles from the
nearest engine of the brigades-Wilmot-road, Dalston,
saw-mill with workshops, over 2 miles. April 1, Percival-
place, Lower Tottenham, over 6 miles-Charlotte-place,
Bagnigge Wells-road-Heath-place, Cambridge-heath, a
beer-shop, over 2 miles-Wood-wharf, Greenwich, princi-
pally timber sheds, and some small houses, over 5 miles-
Red Cross-street, Cripplegate, very old buildings, com-
pletely on fire before the arrival of the engines-Hornsey-
road, unfurnished house of six' rooms, used as a workshop
for other houses building, over 2 miles-Cow Cross-street,
builders' workshops, water 20 minutes late-Bridge-road,
Victoria-park, Portsdown-road, Maida-hill, an unfinished
house of seventeen rooms-Roadside, Mile-end, a baker's
house of eight rooms, completely on fire before the arrival
of the engines - Long-acre, a coach builder's - Sun-
tavern-fields, Shadwell, a ropemakers's-Horseferry-road,
Limehouse, a sugar refinery, the new and double houses,
seven storeys 'high-Queen-street, Ratcliff, a timber
merchant and lathrender's-Cornwall-road, Westbourne-
road, unfinished house of ten rooms, over 2 miles-Sugar-
loaf-court, Leadenhall-street, a bookbinder's-Carlton-road,
Maida-hill, a temporary church, timber built, with iron
roof-Upper Seymour-street, Euston-square, a grocer's-
Back Church-lane, a cabinetmaker's-Half-Moon-crescent,
Barnsbury-road, a beershop keeper's : total, 39."
The following is an abstract of the report of Mr. Samp-
son Low, the secretary of the Royal Society for the Protec-
tion of Life from Firo, which was laid before the committee
yesterday :-During the quarter ending March, 1860, 134
fires were attended, and 20 lives saved by the oscapemen,
viz., in High-street, Shoreditch, Houndsditch, Blackman-
Leman-street, Great Winchester-street, Kingsland-
road, and Drury-lane. For the quarter ending Juno 30,
128 fires were attended, and 21 lives saved, viz., in Spec-
tacle-alley, Whitechapel-Upper Wellington-street, Coach
and Horses, Aldersgate-street-Tooley-street, and Road-
side, Mile-end. During the quarter ending Sept. 30, 143
fires were attended, and 10 lives saved, viz., in the White-
chapel-road, Tooley-street, Upper Chapman-street, and
Crown-street, Finsbury. During the last quarter of the
year ending Dec. 31, 141 fires were attended by the con-
ductors, and 18 lives saved, viz., in Queen's Head-row,
Newington-Inn's-yard, Bow-Long-acre, Blackfriars-
road, and Barbican-making the total number of fires
attended by the society's men 516, and the lives saved
69. The report stated that the foregoing statement
could not but afford gratification to the friends and sub-
scribers of the society, which during the year just closed
had been instrumental in rescuing no less than 69 lives from
death either by fire or from suffocation, and that such facts
must be interesting to all, as no one could regard himself
entirely exempt from the danger attending a night fire. The
details of many of the cases referred to reflect great credit
on the zeal and intrepidity with which the fire-escape men
discharge their duty, called upon, as they often are, to risk
their own lives in rescuing those of their fellow-creatures.
The society's usefulness has also been often developed dur-
ing the year by the aid rendered by the fire-escapes and
conductors to the brigade in assisting to extinguish fires
after their own duties are over. Several improvements have
lately been added to the fire-escape machinery, and escapes
have been supplied at King's-cross, Tottenham-court-roadl
13t*ronaal
Finsbury-circus, King-street, Baker-street, the . d
Sanctuary, Westminster, and Brompton, and an acjda,
station added at St. Mary-le-Bow, Stratfor Society
ist
77,
number of stations now maintained by
e d
inspectors.c u nd u e
attended at all hours of the night b
tors, who are visited by ythweedll:l-2stterrae:

THE 11141 LS.

MAILS DUE.

....___ .
Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South-
• • e (via •
anipton) • • •• .. Jan. 18.
Do. Marseilles)••• Jan. 12.
Brazil and Cape Verds
... ..Feb. 4.
Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, &c. .. .. Jan. —.
Cuba and Mexico ~ ..
.. • • •
Jan. 28
Canada, &c. (via Galway) .. .. .. Jan. —.
Cape of Good Hope, &c... .. .. .. Feb. 1.
China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'arapton) Jan. 18.
Do (via Marseilles) Jan. 12
Gibraltar (via Southampton) .. .. .. Jan. 10
India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) Jan. 18.
Do. (via Marseilles) Jan. 12.
India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. .• Jan. 10.
Do. (via Marseilles) .. .. Jan. 19.
.. .. Jan. 11
Lisbon .. . • • • • •
Malta, Egypt, and Men (via Southampton) .. Jan. 10.
Do. (via Marseilles) .. Jan. 4.
Vigo, and Oporto .. .. .. • • .. Jan. 11.
United States, California, &c. • • • • .. Jan. 16.
Western Coast of Atrica , Madeira, Teneriffe .. Jan. 10.
, West Indies and Pacific, Cartbagena, Cuba, &c. Jan. 14.

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Sth Victoria
cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes, of the
several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in circa-
latiou during the week ending Saturday, the 29thday of
December, ISGO.

PRIVATE BANKS.
Andover Bank, Andover-Heath and Co
Ashford Bank, Ashford-Jemmett, Pomfret, & Co. 11 002
Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury-Cobb and Co 26,600
Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade Bank,
Biggleswade-Wells, Rogge, and Co.
Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple-Marshall and Co 5,178
Basingstoke and Oldham Bank, Basingstoke-
Seymour, Lamb, and Co.
Bedford Bank, Bedford-Barnard and Co 27,6D7
Boxedley Bank, Bewdlcy-Nichols, Baker, and Co 9,911
Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank,
Bicester--Tubb and Co.
Binning!.ara Bank, Birmingham- Attwoods,
Spooner. and Co.
Boston linnk, Boston-Claypons and Co. .• • 62,320
Boston Bank, Boston-Gee and go.
Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater-J. &J. L. Sealey 7,811
Broseley and Bridgnorth and Bridgnorth and
Broseley Broseley-Pritehards, Boycott,
and Co.
Buckinghan-1 Bank, Buckingham-Bartlett, Par-
rott, and Co.
Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, and Stow-
marlwA Bank, Bury St. Edniunds-Oakes, Bevan,
and Co.
Ban'oury Bank, Banbury-J. C. and A. Gillett
Be.nbury Old Bank, Banbury-Cobb and Son 22,695
TJedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton
Buzzard-Bassett, Son, and Co. . 30,346
Birmingham Bank, Birminglrun-Lloyds and Co. 26,820
Bradford Old Bank, Bradfcrd,nrorkshire-Harris
and Co. . 12,020
Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and Co 51,658
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-
Worlledge and Co.
Cambridge Bank, Cambridge-Mortlock and Co .12,990
Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cambridge
-Messrs. Fosters ... 41,885
Canterbury Bank, Canterbury-Hammond and Co. 28,420
Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen-David Morris and
Sons
Chertssy Bank, Chertsey-La Costa and Son 2,973
Colchester Bank Colchester-Rcund, Green, &Co 13,805
Colchester. and Essex Bank, and Witham and Essex
Bank, and Hadleigh, Suffolk, Bank, Colchester-
Mills, Bawtree, and Co.
Cornish Bank, Truro--Tweedy and Co 41,970
Coventry Bank, Coventry-Little and Woodcock 5,017
City Bank, Exeter-Milford and Co.
Craven Bank Settle-Alcoeks, Birkbeck, and Co. 66,792
Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Monmouth
Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and
Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow-
Bromao-e, Snead, and Co
Derby Bank, Derby-W. and S. Evans and Co. 10,579
Derby Bank, Derby-Samuel Smith and Co 35,020
Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak
Bank, Derby-Crompton, Newton, and Co 25,406
Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes-Locke and
Co.
Disc Bank, Diss-Fincham and Co 10,376
Doncaster Bank and ,Retford Bank, DoncaAter-
Cooke and Co.
Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton-on-
Tees Bank, Darlington-Backhouse and C 0.... 80,687
Devonport Bank, • Devonport-Hodge and C 0.... 6,775
Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dor-
chester- It. and H. Williams 44,752
East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard-Robins, Foster,
and Co.
East Riding Bank, Beverley-Bower and Co 46,555
Essex Bank and Bishop's Stortford Bank, Chelms-
ford-Sparrow, Round, and Co 34,285
Exeter Bank, Exeter-Sanders and Co 25,072
Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Farling-
don-Barnes, Medley, and Co
Farnham Bank, Farnham-John and Jas. Knight 7,864
Faversham Bank, Faversham-Hilton and Co 4,935
Godalming Bank, Godahning-Mellersh and Keen 3,438
Guildford Batik, Guildford-Messrs. Haydon 11,435
Grantham Bank, Grantham-Hardy and Co 24,887
Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford-Mat-
thews and Co
Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull-
Smith, Brothers, and Co 18,991
Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting-
don-Veasey and Co.
Harwich Bank, Harwich-Cox, Cobbold, and Co. 4,800
Hertfordshire, Hitchin Bank, Hitchin-Sharples
and Co.
Hereford, Ross, and Archenfield Bank, and Ross
and Archenfield Bank, Ross-Morgan and Co 16,966
Ipswich Bank, Ipswich aeon and Co
Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Had-
leigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and
Woodbridgo Bank, Ipswich-Alemanders & Co 53,510
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 42,578
Longton Staffordshire Bank, 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 26,497
Lewis Old Bank, Lewis-Whitefeld and Co 24,850
Lincoln Bank, Lincoln-Smith, Ellison and Go
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
Barbo
Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Legis-
Gurneys and Co.
.

54,107

Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis—
Jarvis and Co 10,991
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