It has been learned that the National City Bank and the Hanover Bank were the only two New York Banks who received yesterday their allotment of a special deposit of $10,000,000 of government funds which Secretary Shaw last week announced. The news has caused much talk and criticism in banking circles. In a special message to the Senate and the House the President said that the action of both houses in passing the resolution directing the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate the subject of railroad rate discriminations and monopolies in coal and oil was hasty, ill-considered and ineffective. _Foreign News_ February 9.—Mutiny is said to continue in the Russian Black Sea fleet. Admiral Chouknin is wounded by a woman at Sevastopol. Siberian plague has broken out among the Russian troops in Manchuria. Professor Cattier, a prominent Belgian, publishes a book stating that King Leopold has received $15,000,000 graft from the rubber trade of the Congo Free State. Passengers from Venezuela say President Castro is actively preparing for war with France. The people do not agree with the President’s views and a revolution may follow. The negro inhabitants of the Transvaal and Orange River Colonies, South Africa, are demanding of England all the political rights enjoyed by the whites. The Colonial Minister of France presents to the Council of Ministers, a plan for the political, administrative and economic reorganization of the French Congo. Because of recent disorders, King Charles dissolves the Portuguese Parliament. Fifty-five miners are drowned in a gold mine at Johannesburg, Transvaal. The foreign representatives unite in demanding that the Shah investigate conditions in the Province of Shiraz, Southern Persia. Reports from other parts of Persia also show strong feeling against the Shah. February 10.—A bomb kills four gendarmes at Warsaw. Assaults on police continue throughout Russian Poland. The English garrison at Tibet is reported surrounded by hostile tribes. The Irish members of Parliament again elect John Redmond chairman of the Irish Parliamentary party. An armed expedition is sent against the religious fanatics of Natal. February 12.—The general opinion at Algeciras is that France and Germany will reach an agreement on the Moroccan question. General fear of another uprising and massacre in China is expressed by despatches from different parts of that country. A proclamation is issued by the Governor-General at Odessa declaring the Russian Government will put to death any one found with deadly implements. Ex-Premier Balfour, of England, declares his policy to be one to build up British industries by maintaining a larger foreign market for manufacturers.