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[Topeka Commonwealth, 9.1 The murky outlook in the bank failure case, is beginning to be superseded by a more comprehensive view, and the depositors are beginning to realize that the gentlemen connected with the bank are gentlemen and not rogues, as some persons have intimated. The petition to the Comptroller of the Currency, signed by the creditors of the bank, asking that the bank be permitted to go into voluntary liquidation, was answered yesterday morning by the following telegram : WASHINGTON, D. C. August 8. 1873. H. B. CULLUM.-Application for voluntary liquidation of Topeka National Bank will be granted. Blanks sent you to-day. J.S. LANGWORTHY, Acting Comptroller. This is what has been desired, and will result in the adjustment of the affairs of the bank sooner that if a receiver had been appointed. The blanks will probably reach here by the first of next week, after which the doors of the bank may be opened for the settling up of the business. When the bank is opened it will not be for the taansaction of general bankiug business. but exclusively for paying the liabilities of the Topeka National Bank. Another banking company can be formed under the state laws and transact business in the same building, but any profits or moneys received by such banking company will have no more to do with the moneys of the Topeka National Bank than the moneys have to do with another." The officers say that upon a careful examination of the securities of the bank they find that after paying depositors, a surplus mill be left, so that the stockholders will not be compelled to sustain a very heavy -loss. They think that a small dividend will be declared shortly after opening, but