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private telegram received from Boston this morning gives the liabilities of the senior firm at $1,000,000, but Mills, and other prominent publishers, who are well informed in regard to the business of the house, say the sum involved will not exceed $330,000, and that they will probably be able to pay 50 cents on the dollar. The World, editorially, is very severe on the Directors of the Bank of California in the absence of specific facts, and condemns their summary dismissal of Ralston as harsh and impolitic. It holds the directors more responsible than the manager to private depositors, and that they owe to themselves a prompt and full statement before the tide of adverse opinion strengthens. The Treasury has transferred to San Francisco by telegraph $1,401,000 in gold, since the failure of the Bank of California, for the benefit of nine of ten different bankers, who have deposited with the Sub-Treasury at New York. The Treasury declines to make further transfers at present. Judge Brady, of the Suprme Court, to day, at the suit of Nathaniel B. Hoyt, issued an attachment against the property in this State of the Bank of California, to recover $15,000 deposited with said bank. It is thought that at least forty thousand pounds, and Ξoport says sixty thousand pounds, of bills of the bank of California were sold here the week before the failure, and could not have reached London for presentation for acceptance before the failure was known by cable. Thr Gold Bank and Trast Company. WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. The National Bank Examiner for the Pacific Coast has been directed by the Controller of Currency to examine into the affairs of the National Gold Bank and Trust Company, of San Francisco. Sad Accident. BOSTON, Aug. 30. Yesterday, at Hopkinston, a boy named Morris Ryan, aged 16, started down stairs with a loaded gun, intending to shoot a cat, when his sister Mary, aged 15, who desired to save the cat's life, caught her brother by the shoulder to pull him back; at thesame time two other sisters, younger than Mary, came to the head of the stairs, In the scuffle between Morris and Mary the gun went off, killing Mary and one of the other sisters. The third sister was wounded in the leg. The Direct Cable Repaired - The San Domingo Rebellion Overrated-Honors to Distinguished Taagedians in New York. NEW YORK, Aug. 30. It was reported yesterday that a dispatch had been received stating that the direct cable was repaired and communication between this country and Ireland was completed. From the statement of the captain and passengers of the steamer vester-
