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A House of Commons return shows that the total number

of military de- positors in savings banks on the 31st March 1848 amounted to 6,365; and the deposits received daring the year ended on that day, to the sum of 45,885/ The amount withdrawn by depositors during the year was 34,494/, and the balance due by the public on the 31st March 1848 was 81,579/ In a review of Colonel Reid's recent volume upon the Law of Storms, the Morning Chronicle mentions an authentic "list ot twelve ships, collectively of more than 3,000 tons, manned by 200 men, and all insured at Lloyd's, which have not been heard of since their sailing from Cuba between the 13th of August mid the 9th of December 1848."