New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-09-02
CANADA BANKS-THE BANK ROBBERS

TORONTO, Tuesdsy, Aug. %, 1857.
Auditor Laneton's return Of tire incorporated
banks in Canada being the averages for jay, down
to the lst inst. contains the following aggregates
fro d ten banks having charters: Capital paid up,
Sl7, OlO, les; cash deposits s., $50; notes in
circulation, only $40 C96, 625; cash in their ccfer'
50 243 o53; Government securities (Which take
to mean Municipal LOAF Fund Bonds, or the bonds
of loca tiles handed to Government, who keep
them, and hand to the parties Provincial bonds of
peculiar ioIm) 81 800 4-7; notes discounted, and
other debts III variety of shapes and forms, due
the banks, so, 2ol. The Gore Bank makes No
return and the branches Of the Bank OF British
North America merely state No" many ~ and %
bills they haze out
These returns are not made under OATH nor are
they to be implicitly relied upon. Some Of the
banks have over twenty branches and agencies, aud
the reports frcm several agencies, embraced 10 the
above Aggregates may vel be coubted. Inc light
thrown upon bank management III Canada by tao
arrest Of Moses c. Cummings, vii prove useful.
YESTERDAY, Cummings was sent to the october
ssszes for trial on charge Of robbery; he had pre-
yi,usly been held to bail charge Of embezzllng
bank funds. He is son of the clerk or precentor
Of the Middle Parish Church, GIeenocb, Scotland,
and has brother in your city, physician. The
Greenock amen deaf ia notes OF praise and glcry:
the Toronto clerk Of warrants preferred blank
lot, "and erroneous entries oftemporal TRANSACTIONS
Mr.. &. 4. Anderson was Montreal broser-sot
a ceiksbp at $1,000 IN the PROVINCIAL lress-
urers office-is now called Deputy keceyer-Geg.
eral-has brother, from Nova Scotia, WHO has Just
started IN Toronto as broker or money -ender-and
is the person who persuaded the Bank Of Upper
Cant da to occupy room IL the public offices here,
call It bank flee or agency, and place Cummings
IN it, | do net know that this was done 10 give An
deTson better chance fer Specializing with the
public fluids if be so chose. but II that was not us
object it seemingly had none.
The BaIk placed clerk in room and gave hun
| a safe; the keg of the branch was hung outside
the door " hen Cummings was absent -Four or five
millions Of dollars have passed through bis hand, ~
this wsy. His accounts have neither been checked
nor audited After several weeks had elapsed since
the ROBBERY" the Bank could not tell what condl-
ton bis books @: accounts were ID. Clerks are nor
trying to fud cut. Up to tie time OF the robbery
$50 Called he said bis account, we're quite correct
AfIerWaId he confessed thai he had aosIaced nfge
| .Uus Of bauk moneys. and given them III partner
sbip schemes, or in loans to his gambling "clnain'-
ances He drew 5000 from the mother Bank Oh
| July %, and another 5000 On The 3Oth on pre-
| teLse that Sl2, 600 were wanted TO pay salafce'
| though L,Le were payable til the 3lst on "hcn
, morning be declared his geucy bad been robbed
Tie probabilities are either that ne lever deposited
| these sums IN Ire sale, or that ne "ds IA "
| with Tie thief who had been advised taey were
there. The Bank has offered NJ reward ara I iD.
mires's defalcation would have been discovered IL
day or two, "a another clerk was 70 be paced De-
side lin in the ofice. a.
If this Bauk, the real treasury oi tne
Canada Government. Was thus cuPaoy care
less If tie CO, duct If toe ogercy nlahsset oea'eu
st their deer what may We not inter ss 10 tGeN
general supervision Of many agencies auu vra.Gue'
scattered over /, -GO miles Of TERRITORY mere
never wa az order If the Beard for this CuminAs'
sefncy az all. .I,o.
Recei7er-Ceners. Morrison, wto tea'es hhoeE'on
sid sub, to DO tie wncle fnauciai work Of hl' once
was in the witness box few days slnie, ana meg
lind that Gun minss rad confessed hmselt ms,
tslfr yh.re IL had sid he Morrison! had trusted
the contractor. MeGsfey (wbo had ADVISED Sanl-
nipgs TO make large haul WIN ni' MO- Sii
risou's note, iudorseo bank. mr. mOrrlson dld
lot swear. Aoa ever, That he had rCt signed such
bal. I'D i. i,tr.ate ccn-oction VITA the wood
siork and northern railways. Ind "t1 han! Z. or
most otorio t,acklees aud spectators gives cause
Tor deem r. get that dcTeet cautious careful ana
t,r.t- me- nc ,'aeei oyer Ancerscn as si' So
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