This travelling piece of information simply states, that the number of individual depositers in savings banks, ..
... the quarter ending November, 1840, amounted to 782,374; the sum tototal of whose deposits, including interest, was L. 21.979,797 —averaging upwards of L.28 each depositor.” What can be more consolatory to our pseudo philanthropists, or more flattering to the people themselves, than this result ? Upwards of three-fourths of a million of the working-classes—for such are the depositors supposed ...