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

PRIVAT3 AND JOINT-STOCK BANKS•

The Bankers' Magazine furnishes the returns of circu-
lation of the private and joint-stock banks in England
and Wales for the four weeks ending the Ibt of AuguA
1857, and gives the following as the average weekly eir
culation of those banks during the past month, viz.
Private banks
Joint-stock banks 2,981),°'
Average weekly circulation ,5`119 „
On comparing the above with the returns for the pr"
ceding month, ending the 4th of July last, it shows--
A decrease in the circulation of the private
banks of V4,326
A decrease in the circulation of the joint-stock
banks of 16,0°
Decrease on the month £63,8.4_,"
And, as compared with the return for the correspos"
ing period of the preceding year—viz., Aug. 2, 1856) It'
shows—

A. decrease in the circulation of the private
banks of 2100,81°
A. decrease in the circulation of the joint-stock 1.65)
banks of
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 t--
The private banks are below their fixed issues V84,5°
The joint-stock banks are below their fixed
313,323
issues,
Total below the fixed issue E1,197,W

FATAL AGRARIAN OUTRAGE IN LONGFORD. --11:1°
hal! joined statement appears in a letter from Longferii-;
dated Monday night :—" The peace of this usuf7„l .
tiat!quil county was last night broken by a feBr',o
outrage of an agrarian character, whereby the 1,,,11h",
of two men are placed in extreme jeopardy.
facts of the case are these :—Oa Sunday night a purvi-,,
armed men, numberieg, it is said, 40 indiviclaa','
knocked at the house of a man named Matthew
Farrell, who resides in Moydon, about three Wile!
from this town, and on being refused admittance iturvvh.
diately commenced smashing the door. Farrell, wit"'
his son, who happened to be in the place at the timer
got out of bed and armed themselves with Pitbli
forks, determined to keep the villains out at --
hazards. However, after a considerable resistance the
door gave way, and the party rushed into the hea et
vowing vengeance against their devoted victims, vila:
they at once surrounded, and deliberately discharge° -
fearful volley of shot and slugs into their
ic
Alter repeated il-usage the cowardly villa to
retired. It is almost miraculous how the unfortuv
Farrels could have survived. The eldest Farrell?
face is completely disfigured from the shot ; an"
hould he recover, his eyesight can never be restore.'
His son has not received so much injury ;
other
arm and shoulder are much injured with
brui,es f a less seri ch. The police,
on receivo using information of thearacter occurrence, inlracci„:,
ae
ately scoured the country, but we regret to east '-
trace of the ruffians bas been found. The onV -
cause that can be assigned for this outrage is thntsaG,
some parties had been evicted from the go° A
occupied by;Farrell, who is a caretaker on the estate, an`_!
that after repeated'threateniug he refused to giveit up or,.
discontinue his employ meat, and that this has been 1,..b
length the consummation of their object. It is WO
painful to state that outrages of this discription atenot uncommon recently in the locality in which this tcc
place. Ou last Suulay night wee` la armed party ;wen!
through the same neighbourhood and administered fb.':
oath to several nersous, to the effect that they shouiv
hold no intercourse with certain parties who bad tn 9
ousted the outlaws' displeasure."