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BUSTED SAVINGS BANKS.-Two savings banks in Massachusetts closed their doors on Saturday. The Dorchester bank, with four hundred and fifty thousand dollars of deposits, and the Rockport, with two hunIred thousand dollars, were enjoined from doing further business. They are expected to pay up pretty nearly in full, but will go into liquidation. The better method. however, if there is an ability to pay mostly it full, would be the scaling process--marking down the books, by consent of the deposit ors, to a point where the solvency is assured. A Chicago bank has just resumed business after such a step, adopting the constitutional provision that any depositor may at any time examinè the bank's books. A third bank of Massachusetts in trouble is that at Haydenville, which has required thirty days' notice before the withdrawal of deposits. The president of the bank is Joel Hayden, who has just failed, and consequent upon his failure comes a run. If there was permission there to look over the books the failure of the manager could not produce a panic, unless he had done what the law of Connecticut forbids.