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    • THE DISTRICT SAVINTGS BANK (LIMITED.)
    • THE MYSTERY OF MURDER.
    • THE MARKSIDE PIQ-lRONf COMPANY (LIMITED). the
    • ASKEW'S IMPROVEMENTS IN WINDOW SASHES,
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      of his death , namely , Financial INIinister of the Council of India . In this capacity his acts are freshin public recollection . _ He \ vas the author of a comprehensive scheme of Indian finance , in which an income tax formed a conspicuous item , and the opposition to which we have had occasion to record in our narrative of current events . Mr . Wilson was more successful as a writer than as a speaker . His habits of thought , which rendered him in every w « y qualified for intellectual exercitation and precise exposition , militated ,, perhaps , against mere rhetorical accomplishments . He-was better versed in the figures of political arithmetic than in the figures ot of exact economical

      speech ; more successful in the demonstrations science , than as a demonstrative and flowery orator ; but in the long run he produced an amount of permanent effect by his facts and figures , and the sound theories he deduced from them , than any mere showy speaker or interminable debater could even hope to produce by flowing periods and verbal graces , which , after all , are mere vox et preserea nil . Mr . Wilson is a striking proof that a man may be a thoroughly practical man in his scientific and theoretical views , and in respect of these may win the highest distinction though unsuccessful in the mere practical business of trade . JSTo man ' s views were more sound oii political economy , finance , and statistics than

      Mr . Wilson ' s ; though Mr . Wilsonhirnself had not been fortunate in his own mercantile speculations . Perhaps the mind that was capable of grasping the great commercial principles on the application of which the prosperity of a nation depends , was not adapted , to the tedious complication of small details ; , and thus the very man who succeeded at the head of one of the great departments of the national business did not exhibit the same aptitude in a small mercantile concern . Mr . Wilson is an instance in point to show ; how a man may succeed when he finds a congenial sphere of action . He has died universally respected for hisbusiness capacity even by those who differed from him most in theoretical points .

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      TT is becoming a bye-word and a reproach to the efficiency of our X police that the old saying that " murder will put " is being practically reversed . That a clue has come to light respecting the Stepney tragedy may be safely asserted without prejudging the case of any accused or suspected , party ; but it does not appear so much to bive been discovered by the vigilance of our detective agents , as revealed by the course of events . Still , so far as the investigation has gone , the result is satisfactory as tending to show that , modern experience , so far as this case is concerned , does not falsify the conclusions arrived at of old . But in the Road murder all is still bound in the darkest mystery . Various suggestions have from time to time been made with regard to the measures that should be taken to bring the perpetrator or perpetrators of the dreadful deed to justice . The authorities have been called upon to take what many consider not merely extraordinary , but inquisitorial and unconstitutional proceedings to probe the matter to the very core . The

      detectives have brought to bear on the circumstances all the acumen tney have become masters of in a life-long experience in the hunting down of criminals and the dragging to light deeds that seemed , as this does , to defy every effort to clear them up . Indeed , in this respect they have been charged with officiousness and precipitancy in seekingto criminateparti . es , against whom there is proved to be no tangible evidence . But all this has been to ho purpose . The deed , like one of those remote nebulae which resist the most powerful telescopes , remains still in inextricable and unresolvable mvsterv . That it will ultimately be fathomed , sooner or later , we

      cannot bring ourselves to doubt . On the contrary , we haye every expectation , that the discovery of a clue to the mystery will como upon us as suddenly , but as surely as the light that has broken over the murder at Stepney , Indeed , we have reason to hope that , although there is no apparent stir , which indeed would be impolitic , the most active measures are still being surely and silently taken ,

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      YVO Ul * V © DCUii tUMJL AAWV » / pi . **** J g * *» v * w « , "" Q ** " — O ' — globe itself * " a farthing would make in compound intorest , had ifc been bo invested for accumulation , at the commencement of our era , and some great calculator has computed how many cannon balls of iron the ore already discovered would make * and hpw many cities of the same eizo as London it would batter down on the average expenditure of shot . But fresh seams are bebig opened up every day ; and in fact u good iron jinine is , to all intents and purposes , eo fur as commercial profit goes , virtually a gold mine . There is the mineral property , for instance , to utilize whioh the enterprise which forms the Bubjoot of this article , has been undertaken . It consists of 300 acres , ¦ with three abundant seams pf the best iron ore . Who two smaller are about flvo feet in thickness , and of what is known as the olayband or argillaoious formation , and similar in composition ia

      to the flrst-olasa ores of Low Moor . The largest seam oolitic and of a thickness ranging from 12 to 15 feet . It " orops up " ot u convenient elevation , and is worked by an adit level about 50 feet above thp qaloining floors . The property in question is situate in tho Egtoa Estate , near Whitby , in tho valley of the JSek , and county of York , and the district is famous for the superior qunlity and abundance of the iron stone it produces . According to Professor Phillips , of Oxford who among other competent authorities examined tho district , the yield of ironstono per aoro averages between twenty and thirty thousand tons , while the quantity ie praotioaHy inexhaustible . Tho oro is free from phosphorus and sulphur , and it is oBtiHiated to produoo thirty-flve per cent , of pure metal , quite equal to tho best StaUbrcUUn'o iron . Tho great limestone formation ie within an easy distance , and lime stone can be delivered at the worfce » fc as Iowa charge oa 2 e . and 2 s . 6 d . per ton > and coal and ooUo at 0 a , « nd 13 » . Gd . pox * ton respectively ,

      The entire cost of raising , winning , royalty , &c , is computed at 2 s . 6 d . per ton of 24 cvrt . of ore , so that pig iron of firafc-class quality can be turned out at these works at from £ 2 to £ 2 2 s . per ton . Experiments we understand have been made which justify these results . The means of carria ge , moreover , afford every facility for the transit of goods . The property is connected by a siding with the Whitby arid Pickering Railwavj affording direct communication with the Leeds , Masborough , Derbyshire , and Staffordshire- iron districts . Now , it is matter of calculation that a couple of bLast furnaces would turn out 15 , 000 tons of pig iron per year , yielding from 12 to 15 per cent , profit oh a capital of £ 30 , 000 , exclusive of the profit arising from the sale of ore in the raw state , whicli would also be considerable . It likewise appoars that the whole outlay requisite for getting the j > roject into thorough working order , including the completion of furnaces and the sinking to the lower seams or measures , will not exceed £ S , 000 . The management , we understand , has secured the services of agents of long experience and well tried ability , and the enterprise bids fair to become a highly successful commercial undertaking .

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      In connexion with this banking establishment the following statistical faets ' are not without interest : — . In 1856 , the number of savings banks in the United Kingdom was about 600 ; depositors , above 1 , 300 , 000 . ; .. amount deposited in 1857 ( one year ' s deposits ) above £ 7 , 000 , 000 while the average , sum now deposited in savings banks is nearly £ 40 ^ , 000 . The importance of these institutions may be made more dear by comparison with other monetary companies : thus , all the banks in the United Kingdom , whether incorporated or unincorporated , joint-stock , chartered , or private , including the Bank of England , ( as shewn by their issues ) , possess , only an aggregate capital of £ 31 , 000 , 000 sterling , being nearly £ 9 , 000 , 000 less than the capital now invested in savings banks . Again , there are in the United Eihgdom about 300 Life , Annuity , Endowment ,

      Reversionary , Fire , Marine , aiid Oeneral . Accident Assurance Institutions , whose total aggregate yearly incomes from premiums , lapses of policies , interest from investments , and all other sources , do not exceed £ 4 , 500 , 000 , or about £ 3 , 000 , 000 per annum less than was invested in 1857 in the savings banks , even under the very severe commercial crisis . In proof , either of their importance or / their extent , nothing further need be urged ; . the next thing to find but is whether or not there be good grounds for believing that ample room is left for the operations of this institution . ? There are about forty towns , electing Members of Parliament , that are without a savings bank . There are above one thousand towns , having local commercial banis , but no savings banks . There are fourteen counties without a savings bank . There are two thousand towns without a savings bank ; above three

      thousand places with money-order Offices but no savings banks ; less less than one town in every six with a savings bank ; fifteen millions of the population are without a savings bank ; and , lastly , the total amount invested therein does not amount to £ 1 5 s . per head upon the population of the United Kingdom . The rate of interest paid to depositors in savings banks , by the last returns , only amounted , upon an average , to £ 2 18 s . 8 d ^ per cent ,, while that paid by joint-stock banks to their depositors last year was sometimes as high as eight per cent . ; and one year the Union Bank paid to its shareholders twenty-two per cent . Thus it appears that the field is so open for a sound commercial com- ' pany , that , with the most oxdinnry prudence and enterprise , it is believed one of the largest and best monetary institutions of the times may be speedily and solidly founded .

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      The danger attendant uppn the usual mode of cleaning windows higher than the ground floor , and , in cases where there is an area higher than the basement , is eo serious as even to have attracted the attention of the legislature . But a very ingenious invention has been recently brought to our notice , which is of a nature to obviate the risk in question . By a very simple mechanical contrivance every window sash may be made reversible and turned inside out , so as to bo cleaned from the interior of the room instead , of suspending the cleaner in the air , witb . all the peril but none of the romance of " one who gathers samphire . " TJhis is no inconsiderable advantage , But the same device is subservient to purposes of ventilation . Tho sash that can bo rovoraod can be semi-reversed , that ia placed in a horizontal instoad of in a vertical position ; so that for oil practical purposes the whole nroa oi

      the window , instead of only Imlf , may bo m » do available tor - sion of fresh air . Perhaps this latter oiroumstanoe will furnish tho consideration that will cause the invention to bo most extensively patronised . A , convenience of daily and oven hourly use , is something that is pontinually reminding every by ody of ita importance , and thua , by an acouralation of small but perpotually-roourring . advantages , makes a large * sum total of utility in popular estimation . But tlio rtml importance of the invention in a humanitarian point of view is unquestionably the safety it alTords in the operation of cleaning . And , apart from tho speoifio benefit arising from such safoty , thoro is tho eoonomy of labour which will be incidentally seouvod . Any nieuhunioul oontrivanoo economising labour , tends to sooial advantagos oi quno another kind than those within the moro range of ita direct und pbvioufl influence . This rendoriiig ostornal objootB subservient to tho humun utilities is , nt the same timp , one of the ohief results und ono ol tlio most potent agencies of tho highest civilisation .

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      UuiTisn Awp Irish Maowetio TELEOiiAxui Company ( Limitkp ) . Ab a specimen of the proaout rapidity of telegraphing , it m « y ou raentipnod , tho rate at which tho Queen ' s Speech was sent by tUo Magnetic Tolograph Company , from their neiy Oontral London Station , in ThreadnoecUe-stroot , to some of tho principal towns . Iho speeoii contained 872 words , and wns sent to Mnnohostor £ „ twenty minute * j Liverpool twonty-pno minutes } Glasgow twenty-five minutoa } «>»' other pluoes , including Leeds , Hull , &c , in tho same proportion , xiw whole transmission averaging about forty words per minute . J . i » o quickest transmission was forty three words por mmuto . It was also eont direct to Paris from the etinao station .

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      804 The Saturday Analyst mid Leader . [ Sept . 15 , I 860

      The District Savintgs Bank (Limited.)

      THE DISTRICT SAVINGS BANK ( LIMITED . )

      The Mystery Of Murder.

      THE MYSTERY OF MURDER .

      The Markside Piq-Lronf Company (Limited). The

      « w THE MARKSIDE PIQ-lRONf COMPANY ( LIMITED ) .

      Askew's Improvements In Window Sashes,

      ASKEW'S IMPROVEMENTS IN WINDOW SASHES ,

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 15, 1860, page 804, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2365/page/12/