The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-07-30 00:00:00

BANK OF ENGLAND.

The usual average return of the liabilities and assets of the
Bank of England, embracing the period from the 27th of
April to the 20th of July, both inclusive, which appeared in
Friday's Gazette, gives the following result, viz :
That the average of the 13 weeks ending July 20, as com-
pared with the average of the 13 weeks ending April 27,
shows an increase in the circulation of .£234,000
An increase in the deposits of
And an increase in the stock of bullion of 532,000
Wherefore it appears, that the increase in the liabilities is
£755,000 ; and this represents the increase in the total
quantity of money, in the 13 weeks ending July 20, as com-
pared with the 13 weeks ending April 27, in so far as regards
the administration of the currency by the Bank of England
The yearly comparison is as follows :
T

he average of the 13 weeks ending July 20, 1841, as com-
pared with the average of the 13 weeks ending July 21,
1840, shows a decrease in the circulation of ....:C130,000
Au increase in the deposits of
An increase of the stock of bullion of
Wherefore it appears that the increase in the liabilities is
£38,000; and this represents the increase in the total quan-
tity of money in the 13 weeks ending July 20, 1841, as com-
pared with the 13 weeks ending July 21, 1840, in so far as
regards the administration of the currency by the Bank of
England.
The variations in the stock of bullion have taken plaoe in
the following manner and proportion :
In the four weeks ending November 10, 1840, as
compared with the four weeks ending August
11, 1810, there is a decrease of ..
In the four weeks ending February 2, 1841, as
compared with the four weeks ending November
3, 1840, there is an increase of
In the four weeks ending April 27, 1841, as com-
pared with the four weeks ending January 26,

842,000

1841, there is an increase of
In the four weeks ending July 20, as compared
with the four weeks ending April 20, there is an
increase of
The changes and fluctuation in the circulation will appear
from the following statement :-
In the four weeks ending November 10, 1840, as
compared with the four weeks ending August
11, 1810, there is a decrease of .......... £1,407,000
In the four weeks ending February 2, 1841, as
compared with the four weeks ending Novem-
ber 3, 1810, there is an increase of
In the four weeks ending April 27, 1811, as com-
pared with the four weeks ending January 20,
there is an increase of
In the four weeks ending July 20, as compared
with the four weeks ending April 20, there is an
increase of
'File following are the changes and fluctuations that have
taken place in the deposits :-
In the four weeks ending iik;ovember 10, 1840, as
compared with the four weeks ending August 11,
1840, there is a decrease of .
In the four weeks ending February 2, 1841, as
compared with the four weeks ending Novem-
ber 3, 1840, there is an increase of
In the four weeks ending April 27, 1841, as com-
pared with the four weeks ending January 26,
there is an increase of
In the four weeks ending July 20, 1841, as com-
pared with the four weeks ending April 20,
there is an increase of
The changes and fluctuations in the securities
will appear from the following statement :-
In the four weeks ending November 10, 1840, as
compared with the four weeks ending August
11, 1840, there is a decrease of
In the four weeks ending February 2, 1841, as
compared with the four weeks ending Novem-
ber 3, 1840, there is an increase of
In the four weeks ending April 27, 1841, as com-
pared with the four weeks ending January 26,
there is a decrease of..
In the four weeks ending July 20, 1841, as com-
pared with the four weeks ending April 20,
there is an increase of

972,000

383,000

1,027,000

42,000

1,716,000

757,000

2,191,000

CHRONOLOGY OF THE LAST TWENTY-FOUR
BRITISH PREMIERS.

Y. D.

Appointed.
1754 April G.—Duke of Newcastle—until successor
appointed
1762 May 29.—Earl of Bute
1763 April IG.—G. Grenville, father of Lord Gren-
ville
1765 July 12.—Marquis of Buckingham _
1766 August 2.—Duke of Grafton
1770 Jan. 28.—Lord North (Earl of Guildford) .. 12 182
1782 March 3.—Marquis of Rockingham
July 13.—Earl of Shelburn 266
1783 April s.—Duke of Portland....

8 6
322

2 19

. ......,
Dec. 27.—William Pitt .• . • 17 86
1801 Mar. 17.—Henry Addington (Lord Sidmouth) 3 56
1804 May 12.—William Pitt
1806 Jan. B.—Lord Grenville
1807 March 13.—Duke of Portland 3 102
1810 June 23.—Spencer Perceval
.. 1 350
1812 June B.—Earl of Liverpool
1827 April 11.—George Canning
Aug. 10.—Lord Goderich l6B
1828 Jan. 25.—Duke of Wellington
1830 Nov. 22.—Earl Grey
1834 July 11.—Lord Melbourne
Nov. 16.—Duke of Wellington (temporarily) 128
22
Dec. B.—Sir Robert Peel
..... .....
1835 April 18.—Lord Melbourne

VOTERS AT ELECTIONS 1N THE UNITED KINGDOM

Total number of registered electors in places which 152,,599
have returned Conservatives
Total number of registered electors who have re- 1 273,17 s
turned Whigs....

Conservative majority in the United Kingdom .. 257,721
This list does not include those places which have returned
one N'S hig-Radical and one Conservative, as they may be
considered neutralised.

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Sunday,
NARY ESCAPE PROM PRISON.—PLYmourg,
y, July 25.—This morning, when Cook, one of the
town-sergeants, took their breakfasts into a cell where three
men were confined, one of them, named Randell, who is
under sentence of transportation for fourteen years, snatched
the prison keys from Cook's hand, and with them inflicted
a violent blow on bis forehead, which knocked him down and
stunned him. He then produced a knife, and, using threats,
be stripped off the town-sergeant's trousers, and put them on
himself; he pocketed two sovereigns and twenty shillings in
silver, and Cook's watch; he took a frock-coat from a fellow
prisoner, and having with cords lashed the town-sergeant on
the prison bed, with
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