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BANKING HOUSES.
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branches ; Royal Bank of Ireland, Dublin ; National
Bank and branches ; Ulster Bank and branches ; Bel-
fast Bank and branches; North of Scotland Bank,
Aberdeen, and branches; Caledonian Bank, Inver-
ness, and branches ; certain branches of the City of
Glasgow, National, Boyal, and Union Banks; Bank
of British North America and branches ; Union Bank
of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Union Bank of Aus-
tralia, and branches.
Commercial Bank of Scotland, 10 Gordon
Street — Agents, Stuart and Sloane; accountant,
Robert Mitchell ; tellers, Samuel Peploe, Alexander
Home, Thomas S. Mitchie, George Halliday, and
J. M'Laren. Sub-branch, 180 Trongate, Andrew Kerr,
pro agents. St. Enoch square, W. M'K. Cameron,
pro agents. BriJgeton, Thomas Dun, pro agents.
Are agents for, or draw on, the following establish-
ments: — viz., London and Westminster Bank, Lon-
don; Coutts & Co., London ; Bank of Leeds (limited);
Beckett & Co., Leeds'; Birmingham 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; Leices-
tershire Banking Company and branches; Liverpool
Commercial Bank ; Manchester and Salford Bank ;
Manchester and Liverpool District Bank and
branches ; National and Provincial Bank of England
and branches ; National Bank (Ireland) and branches;
branches of the Bank of Scotland ; North of Scotland
Banking Company and branches; Northern Banking
Company, Belfast, and branches ; Parr's Banking
Company, Warrington, and branches ; Preston Bank-
ing Company and branches ; Royal Bank of Ireland,
Dublin ; Sheffield Banking Company ; Warwick and
Leamington Banking Company, Leamington ; West
Riding Union Banking Company, Huddersfield, and
branches ; Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking
Company, Wolverhampton ; J. & J. C. Wright & Co.,
Nottingham ; York Union Bank and branches ; Bank
of British North America and branches; Wakefield
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 ; grants drafts and letters of credit, and nego-
tiates bills on India, Australia, and New Zealand.
National Bank of 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, D. M'Lean, agent; Gallowgate, T.
B. Marshal], agent; Anderston, John Paris, agent;
Partick, Thomas Arklay, agent ; Rutherglen, James
Wallace, agent. Draw on Glyn & Co., the Union
Bank of London, and Messrs. Coutts & Co., London;
and have correspondents in all the principal towns
in England and Ireland, on the Continent, in the
Colonies, and elsewhere abroad. In addition to their
own seventy-one branches, grant drafts or letters of
credit on most other places in Scotland. Have
correspondents in all the principal towns in England
and Ireland. Also issue Foreign Credits and Cir-
cular Notes available in all parts of the world, and
negotiate bills in every place in Scotland, England,
Ireland, and abroad, where there is a bank or
banker.
London Office, 37 Nicholas Lane, E.C., William
Strachan and James Cowan, agents.
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
every lawful day from 10 till 3, and on the evenings
of Wednesday from 7 till 9, and Saturday from 6 till
9. Eastern Office, 107 Canning Street, near Barrow-
field Toll ; Western Office, 2 Dumbarton Road, cor-
ner of Elderslie Street; open every evening from 7
till 9, Saturday 6 till 9. This bank was established
in 1836, under Act of Parliament, "to provide for
the safe custody and increase of small savings
belonging to the industrious classes." Individuals
may deposit from Is. to £30 in a year, and £200
in all, including interest. Societies majr lodge larger
sums. Interest is allowed at the rate of £3 per cent.
The funds of the bankamount to£l, 720,447 14s. lOd.
The number of depositors is 70,000. Government
annuities from £4 to £50 may be purchased through
this Bank.
North British Bank, 1 Victoria Place, West
Regent Street. — Interim managing director, James
Orr; cashier, John Howie. Other officers, Robert
Eglinton, Thomas Elder, David Pollock. Draw on
Union Bank of London, London. Negotiates bills
on all towns in Great Britain and Ireland.
Royal Bank, Exchange Square, Queen Street. —
Cashier, Archibald Robertson , sub-cashier, Hugh
Cowan; assistant, John Taylor; accountant, Wm.
Gow; tellers, Alex. R. Munro, George D. Charles,
Thomas Young, Alexander Mitchell, and Jas. Neill ;
exchange teller, John N. Parker ; clerks, Thos. Bell,
George H. Robertson, John S. Park, John A. Fletcher,
Wm. Young, Geo. B. Martin, Robert Reid, jun , John
M'Kinven, George F. Grant, James S. Cameron,
John S. Keith, Alex. Dykes, William D. Main, and
William Wyse; porters, John Davidson, Alexander
Thomson, and Stephen Lyons. District branches,
244 Argyle Street, Thomas Somervail, agent; 130
Cowcaddens, Walter Denham, agent; 44 Canning
Street, Calton, Alex, and James Waddell, agents ;
439 Gallowgate, Alex, and James Waddell, agents;
27 Crown Street, Hutchesontown, Henry Dallachy,
agent ; 105 Eglinton Street, James Hamilton, agent ;
104 Trongate, John M'Gibbon, agent; St. Rollox,
107 Castle Street, Henry Wyse, agent; Garscube
Cross, Walter Denham, agent; 204 Duke Street,
A.&J. Waddell, agents. Draw on Bankof England and
Coutts & Co., London; on Bank of England branches
at Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Hull,
Bristol, Leicester, Newcastle, Portsmouth, Plymouth ;
on Bank of Ireland and branches; Halifax and
Huddersfield Union Bank ; Stuckey's Banking Com-
pany at Bath, &c, &c. ; Cumberland Union Bank
(Limited), Carlisle, Cockermouth, Keswick, Mary-
port, Penrith, Wigton, and Workington. The Royal