The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-10-04 00:00:00

BANK OF ENGLAND.

The usual return under the new act of the average circu-
lation of bank notes in the United Kingdom for the four
weeks ending the 17th of September, which appeared in
Friday night's Gazette, presents the following results :
The average circulation of notes in England in
the four weeks ending the 17th of September, as
compared with the four weeks ending the 20th of £
August. shows a decrease of .192,710
This decrease is formed in the following
manner:—
Decrease in the notes of the Bank of England 437,000
Decrease in the notes of the private banks 52,369
Decrease in the notes of the joint-stock banks 3,341
Total decrease in England....

During the same period the average amount of notes in
Scotland and Ireland shows a decrease of £21,616, which,
with the amount above, forms a total decrease in the United
Kingdom of £514,326.
The average circulation of notes in England in
the four weeks ending the 17th of September, as
compared with the four weeks ending the 18th of
September, 1841, being the corresponding period £
last year, shows an increase of
This increase is formed in the following man-
ner :
Increase in the circulation of the Bank of Eng- £
land
Deduct decrease in the circulation of £
private banks
Deduct decrease in the circulation of
joint-stock banks
1,162,069

Total increase in England 1,682,931
During the same period the circulation in Scotland and
Ireland shows a decrease of £782,794, which deducted from
the amount above, forms a total increase in the United
Kingdom of £900,137.
The average circulation of the Bank of England
for the four weeks ending the 17th of September
was £19,941,000, and the stock of bullion is stated
to be £9,816,000, showing an increase of £246,000
in the average amount of bullion held by the Bank,
as compared with the preceding four weeks. As
compared with the same period last year, the in- £
crease in the bullion is

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cordant screeching noise overhead, as if amidst the tops of
the trees. For some time they were unable to discover
whence or from what the sounds proceeded ; hut, upon
reaching an open space, they perceived a sparrow-hawk and
a large stock-dove, high up in the air, in deadly combat.
The battle for some time seemed doubtful ; the dove, from
its superior weight, driving off her voracious enemy when
he attempted to make a strike. At length the hawk wheeled
some twenty feet above his prey, and then struck down upon
it with unerring aim, and they both came tumbling to the
ground together, within a few yards where those who wit-
nessed the novel sight were standing. One of them imme-
diately ran to the spot, secured the stock-dove, which, al-
though very much torn about the breast, was not fatally
wounded, and took it home, the hawk flying away. But,
" blind we are unto the fate of things, the poor bird, the
theme of many a despairing lover's song, no more went
cooing to its mourning mate ; for being left in the kitchen
of Mr. John Moser, King-street, whose son it was who had
taken it up, it was found dead in the morning, having been
killed by a cat. In its crop were found upwards of thirty
beans perfectly whole, ar.d a great number of vetches.—Lan-
caster Gazette.