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BANKING HOUSES.
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Birmingham & Midland Bank ; Sheffield Banking
Company and branches; W. H. Lambton & Co.,
Newcastle and branches ; Huddersfield Banking
Co. and branches ; Hull Banking Co. and branches ;
Halifax Joint Stock Bank ; Carlisle City and Dis-
trict Bank and branches; West of England and
South Wales District Bank, Bristol, and branches ;
National Provincial Bank of England and branches ;
Moore and Bobinson, bankers, Nottingham ; Coven-
try Union. Bank ; Yorkshire Bank, Leeds, and
branches; Lancaster Banking Company and
branches; Bank of Whitehaven (Limited) ; White-
haven Joint Stock Bank ; Barnsley Bank ; County
of Gloucester Bank, Cheltenham, and branches ;
Derby and Derbyshire Bank and branches ; Messrs.
Gurney & Co., Norwich, and branches ; Royal
Bank of Ireland, Dublin ; National Bank and
branches ; Ulster Bank and branches ; Belfast Bank
and branches ; North of Scotland Bank, Aberdeen,
and branches ; Caledonian Bank, Inverness, and
branches ; certain branches of the City of Glasgow,
National, Royal, and Union Banks ; Bank of
British North America and branches ; Union Bank
of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Commercial Bank of Scotland, 10 Gordon
Street — Agents, Stuart & Sloane; accountant,
Robert Mitchell; tellers, Samuel Peploe, Alex.
Home, Thos. S. Mitchie, Geo. Halliday, and James
M'Laren. Sub-branch, 15 Trongate, John Wyse,
pro agents. St. Enoch square, Wm. M'K. Came-
ron, pro agents. Bridgeton, Thomas Dun, pro
agents. Are agents for, or draw on, the following
establishments : — viz., London and Westminster
Bank, London ; Coutts & Co., London ; Bank of
Leeds (Limited) ; Beckett & Co., Leeds ; Birming-
ham Joint Stock Bank; Boyle, Low, Murray, &
Co., Dublin ; Bradford Banking Company ; Bank
of Whitehaven; Carlisle City and District Bank
and branches; Cumberland Union Bank and
branches ; Hardcastle, Cross, & Co., Bolton ;
Halifax Joint Stock Banking Company; Hibernian
Bank; Hull Banking Company and branches;
Lambton & Co., Newcastle ; Cunliffes, Brooks, &
Co., Manchester and Blackburn; Leicestershire
Banking Company and branches ; Liverpool Com-
mercial Bank ; Manchester and Salford Bank ;
Manchester and Liverpool District Bank and
branches; National Provincial Bank of England and
branches ; National Bank (Ireland) and branches ;
branches of the Bank of Scotland ; North of Scot-
land Banking Company and branches ; Northern
Banking Company, Belfast, and branches; Parr's
Banking Company, Warrington, and branches ;
Preston Banking Company and branches ; Royal
Bank of Ireland, Dublin : Sheffield Banking Com-
pany ; Warwick and Leamington Banking Com-
pany, Leamington ; West Riding Union Banking
Company, Huddersfield, and branches ; Wolver-
hampton and Staffordshire Banking Company,
Wolverhampton ; J. & J. C. Wright & Co., Not-
tingham ; York Union Bank and branches ; Bank
of British North America and branches ; Wake-
field and Barnsley Union Bank ; J. G. King's
Sons, New York ; Commercial Banking Company,
Sydney, N.S.W. ; Union Bank of Australia and
branches ; De Rothschild Brothers, Paris ; Oriental
Bank, India, China, Australia, Ceylon, and the
Mauritius ; Bank of Natal, Africa ; Bank of
New Zealand.
The Commercial Bank of Scotland negotiates
bills on every place in Great Britain and Ireland
where there is a bank or banker ; issue circular
notes ; grants drafts or letters of credit on the
principal cities and towns of England and Ireland,
and of Canada, and on New York, Paris, and Ham-
burgh ; grauts drafts and letters of credit, and nego-
tiates bills on India, Australia, and New Zealand.
The East End Savings' Bank — Offices, 534
Gallowgate, Glasgow, and Dalmarnock Street, Park-
head. Open on Monday and Wednesday evenings
from 7 to 9 p.m. ; on Saturdays from 6 to 9 p.m.
Patron : the Honourable The Lord Provost of Glas-
gow. Trustees : Hugh Turner, Esq., M.D., Bell-
grove ; Councillor M'Ewen, merchant ; William
M'Gregor Burns, Esq., M.D., Canning Street ;
Bailie Burt, Canning street ; John Burns, Esq.,
M.D., Bridgeton ; John Paterson, Esq., solicitor,
Wishaw; John Twaddle, Esq. (of Twaddle and
Watson), Gallowgate ; William Young, Esq., M.D.,
Parkhead; Rev. William Auld, Tollcross Manse;
Councillor Moncur, Soho Street Turning Works ;
Rev. James Findlay, Camlachie Free Church ; John
Filshill, Esq. (of J. Filshill & Co.), Gallowgate ;
Thomas Stevenson, Esq., Atlas Grain Mills, Market
street ; Peter Abernethy, Esq. (of P. Abernethy
and Son), Parkhead. Treasurer : James A. Kelman,
Esq., banker, 516 Gallogate. Auditor: J. B.
Dunbar, Esq., writer, 11 West Nile street.
Bankers : The City of Glasgow Bank.
Glasgow Southern Savings Bank, 73 South
Portland Street. — Thomas Smith, agent, City of
Glasgow Bank, Gorbals, treasurer. Open every
Monday and Wednesday evening from seven till nine
o'clock, and every Saturday evening from six till
nine o'clock. This Bank is under the general super-
intendence of a highly respectable body of gentlemen,
and was established in February, 1865, "to provide
for the safe custody and increase of small savings."
Individuals ma}' deposit any amount from Is. to
£150.
National Bank or Scotland, Queen Street. —
John Hart, agent; J. C. Stewart, assistant agent;
George B. Hart, cashier. District branches — Argyle
Street, James Clark, agent; St. Rollox, James Stew-
art, agent; Trongate, James Lamont, agent; Sau-
chiehall Street, John M. Warden, agent; Gallow-
gate, Donald M'Lean, agent; Anderston, John Paris,
agent ; Partick, Thomas Arklay, agent ; Rutherglen,
James Wallace, agent. Draw on Glyn & Co.,
London, on the Union Bank of London, and on
Messrs. Coutts & Co., London ; and have correspon-
dents in all the principal towns in England and
Ireland, on the Continent, in the Colonies, and in
Foreign Countries. In addition to their own seventy-
one branches, the Bank grant drafts or letters of
credit on most other places in Scotland. The Na-
tional Bank of Scotland have Correspondents in all
the principal towns in England and Ireland. They
also issue Foreign Credits and Circular Notes avail-
able in all parts of the world, and they negotiate
bills in every place in Scotland, England, Ireland,
and abroad, where there is a bank or banker.
The National Bank of Scotland's London Office
is at 37 Nicholas Lane; James Miln, agent.
National Security Savings Bank of Glas-
gow. — William Meikle, actuary and cashier ; George
H. Mackay, accountant; William M'Kim, assistant
cashier. Head Office, 99 Glassford Street, open