The Bank has published the following account of its assets

and lia- bilities on the average of the quarter from the 1st of July to the 25th September 1834, both inclusive.

Circulation £19,126,000 Securities £28,691,000 Deposits 14,754,000 Bullion 7,695,000 This return, as the Times remarks, "announces a further decline in the stock of bullion ; and as there has occurred since the commence- ment of the year, with very slight exceptions, a gradual decline in the averages of bullion, it necessarily follows that the actual amount in the coffers of the Bank must be much lower than the sum last returned. Thus the average amount of bullion in the Bank, from the 1st of July to the 234 of September, is set down at 7,695,0001.; but the real stock is supposed not to exceed 6,500,0001.; which is a small amount to meet liabilities, consisting of circulation and deposits, extendiag to 33,830,000/. In January last, the average of bullion amounted to 8,948,000!.; in February, 9,94,000l.; in March, 9,&29,000l.; in Aril'

9,431,0001.; in May, 8,884,0001.; in June, 8,645,0001; in July, 598,000l., and at the end of August it only amounted to 8,272,0001.

Mr. Raikes, the Governor of the Bank, withdrew from his post on Wednesday, in consequence of the failure of the firm of W. and.T.Raikes

and Co., in which he is a partner. The transactions of this house,

though a very old and respectable one, have not recently been ex- tensive; its failure therefore is not in itself of great importance. Mr.

Patteson, the Deputy-Governor, will take the place of Mr. Raikes at the Bank, for the present. The Bank has no claim against the firm of the late Governor, who derived no personal accommodation from his office. It is said that he has left town, and is at present:at Calais.

Certificates of shares in the United States Bank to the amount of 16,000/. or 17,000/. have disappeared from Mr. Rothschild's counting-

house. They have been either lost, mislaid, or stolm ; but which of the three, Mr. Rothschild's people cannot say. [Yesterday it was as- certained, that the certificates had been sent by mistake, with other se- curities, to Paris.] Considerable interest is directed to the state of the tea trade at pre- sent, owing to the near approach of extensive supplies for the home market under a free trade. The arrivals by the Colombia, from Sin- gapore, are expected to be offered soon.

The Commissioners of the new Metropolitan Police, have recently made arrangements for the creation of a superannuated or compensation fund, for those members of the force 'he may be so severely injured while in the execution of their duty as to incapacitate them from ful- filling the duties of their situation, or who may be discharged from the police force after a lengthened period of service. The fund is create]

by the stoppage of a small sum weekly from the pay of each member of the force ; and as they are upwards of 3000 men, a very considerable sum has already accumulated.

There was a numerous meeting of the shopkeepers of Somers Town, and of St. Pancras parish, on Wednesday night; when a large amount of subscriptions was handed in to the general fund for the relief of workmen out of employ. The contributions are chiefly from customers dealing at the various shops where money- boxes are placed ; and per- haps in no part of the suburbs of the Metropolis is there more sympathy excited for, or greater willingness displayed to support, the journey- men.—Herald.

The parishioners of Clerkenwell have decided, after a poll of three days, to vote a three-halfpenny instead of a farthing church-rate : the numbers at the close of the poll were .593 to 127. Several rate-payers have protested against the legality of the rate, on the ground of various alleged informalities on the part of the parish-officers.

The Rev. Dr. Richards, the Rector of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, has been induced to resign that living, on account of the disputes so long prevailing in the parish. The living is in the gift of the Bishop of London. —Herald.

The Marylebone Vestry decided yesterday, not to return answers to the questions of the Secretary to the Poor-Law Commissioners ; but, on the motion of Mr. Potter, adjourned the consideration sine die.

The medical school of King's College was opened for the season on Wednesday afternoon, by an introductory lecture from Professor Mayo. The theatre was completely filled.

The office of Sexton of St. Luke, Chelsea, having become vacant by the death of Mr. Wilson, several candidates have started, and a spirited canvass has taken place. It appears that the situation is worth 3001. per annum ; but at a meeting of the Parochial Board, it was sug- gested, that instead of giving the office to a decayed tradesman, as for-

merly, who had been a resident in the parish for some years, they should dispose of it to the highest bidder, it being an office of such value. Seve- ral sums have been offered ; one tradesman has offered as high a sum as 900/. The Board has not yet finally determined ; and the majority appears to be in favour of the proposition.—Herald.

The Woolwich Florist Society had a superb show of dahlias on Tuesday. After the show, the Society dined together at the Barrack Tavern ; and Mr. Burnard, the Chairman, stated, that the number of cottagers' gardens in England was rapidly on the increase.

Miss %ouch, cousin of the Earl of LonsdaIe, who a few years ago rendered herself so notorious by the breaking off of her marriage at the altar at St. George's, Hanover Square, with a young gentleman of large property, is a candidate for the situation of matron, at present vacant at St. George's Hospital. She is very busily employed soliciting the votes and interest of the Governors of the Hospital. The situation is said to be worth 300/. per annum.

Two commissions of lunacy were held a few days ago at Walhalla Green, to inquire into the state of mind of the Honourable Frances

Roberta and the Honourable Isabella Anne Rowley, one about thirty and the other forty-five years of age. It appeared that the eldest lady had, for a long time past laboured under delusions, fancying that per- sons were in the room, and that she frequently heard voices speaking to- her. She also imagined that she was under the special protection of the King. Several females who had been in attendance upon her, and also Sir George Tuthill, were examined, and proved the unsound state of her mind. The other lady, it appeared, had laboured under insanity from a very early period of life, and bad in consequence been placed under professional care. The Jury returned a verdict of " Insanity " in both cases.