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Show UnclilB-d CoasoU. One curious result of tlieconvir-slou tlieconvir-slou of lirittsli coutolsuas the dts-coery dts-coery of a large amo'iut uion which interest nas uuclaimed, aud some fur the principal of which there were no on iivrs at all. Out of bSjSlK) notices po-UAl there were re-turneJ, re-turneJ, llituuh the uead letter olllce, owing to defective addreiw, li,70J, cf uiiich only about I&JOau-nnUetl I&JOau-nnUetl of bUng jioeted to frrab ad-ilntHs. ad-ilntHs. JIauy of the letters to returned re-turned were marked "deceased," aud from th s and other source the bauk learned for the first time that buttdredsofstoiltboldira were dead. Many perfotis wireremiuded by the notices that they Wereow uers of Kvck wIiIlIi thej bad becu too careless care-less to ibum for many yeat, while others were made aw are, for the flrt time, tnat they bad tuoney in tbe fund, aud In some instau-s the stoik lit quKlioii. about u Iilcli there was this agreeable Mirprhe, amounted amount-ed tu as much a.- 1UJU, with many back divitiiuus accrued. The nniemptiuu ojiUMtlons were contluued till tbu and of September, 1S59, and when they were concluded con-cluded thin, remained at tlie Kank ol Knglaudasumof X7,S49,755 due to ttockhoMcrs, but unclaimed. This sum was credited to ld.OIW accounts, ac-counts, vthicu induded more than lorty holdings of over 10,000, the holJiug of one individual hn-oosols and n-duccd threes amouiitins together to-gether to X1S7,593. In addition there were unclaimed stocks iu tbe bauds ol tho national debt commissioners com-missioners amounting to o76,DtW, so that the total amount f stock for which no owuent could l found was $5." IS,141. Mmlrcal Slar. |