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THE NEW YORK SITUATION. Four More Banks Have Suspended. The Panic, However, is Subsiding, and it Is Probable Things Will Adjust Themselves More Speedily. (By Special Wire to the ARGUS.) New York, Oct. 25.-Four other New York Banks suspended payment temporarily this morning. These are] the United States Banks, with a $1,000,000 of deposits; the Brooklyn Borough Bank, with $3,250,000 deposits, and the United States Trust Company. At the Trust Company of America, great stocks of crisp, U.S. Treasury and National Bank notes, and great piles of yellow gold filled the table in the Paying Teller's room, when busiopened to-day. There was a much smaller number of depositors on hand to withdraw, and some of these retired without doing so. This bank paid out twenty million yesterday and the day previous. The Lincoln Trust Company opened on time and announced it was ready to pay everybody who wanted their money. Yesterday the Lincoln Bank paid out one and a half million. It is announced to-day that the Knickerbocker Trust Company people have set to work to resurrect that institution and put it on its feet again. All its depositors will be paid in full, it is declared. The fourth Bank to close its doors this morning is the Brooklyn Bank, Fulton and Clinton streets, with a capital of $300,000 and deposits $2,110,430.