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    AMERICA . AirHOtuE the worst of the financial disasters appear to o < e ever for the present , a grood deal of embarrassment s * 31 exists . Furthej failures have occurred ; among ^ hem , the bank of the Sta . te of ^ Iissouri ; the "Merchints * Bank , and ¦ tie Southern Bank . The Xeic York Ti . ii ^ s of the 26 th ult . remarks that " the standing ba nking firms who draw © uPeabody ,. Browns , Dennistoun , linden , and others , are under no apprehension as' their friends on the other side [ of the Atlautie 3 , nor {¦ ug ht the public to be , in view of their known strength . " A singular comment on this , as far as regards the house ¦ of Dennistoun , is conveyed iii the fact , published almost simiutaneoiujly -with the arrival of the mails from America , of that establishment being compelled to suspend

    for a time owing to the failure of payments from their "branches at New York and New Orleans . The journal already quoted proceeds to sayi— " The falling off in . the freight and passenger business among the various railroad and steamboat lines running out of this city presents in a striking light the extent to which the whole business of the countr y has been affected by the revulsion . There is scarcely one that has not lost from one-third to two-thirds of 3 ts business during the three weeks of October . The Governor of Missouri-is for farther strong and direct measures to secure the prompt payment of interest on the public debt , and fkrours the j-toppage of the issue to the railways under par . In addition to the present sinking and interest funds ,

    provided by the Legislature , he suggests that a direct tax be levied on the - whole property of the State , at a rate to render certain , beyond all contingency , the payment of interest . " The Governor of Georgia will Withhold any action against the suspended banks until the meeting of the Legislature . According to the New York Tribune , exchange closed en the evening of the 24 th ult . at 98 to 103 , with some leading drawers asking higher figures . The New York Evenin g Mirror of the 2 Gth says : — " The bank statement is encouraging . It is supposed that , before the twenty days are out from the date of suspension , our principal hanks will resume specie payments . A large sum has arrived by the Baltic , and large sams are expected by the next steamers . "

    The Courier and Inquirer gives some tabulatreturns showing that the holders of State bonds have ample security , apart from State credit and honour . The total debts amounted to 238 , 902 , 542 dollars while the taxable property in 1850 was 6 , 580 , 000 , 000 dollars . The amount of bullion in the coffers of the Boston banks when they suspended was 2 , 461 , 000 dollars ; on the 24 th , it had reached 2 , 888 , 100 dollars . The Mayor ol New York has £ issued a proclamation , in -which he remarks that there are now more than 200 , 000 working men in that city , and that if the present want'of employment continues , there will be reason to fear they will commit breaches of the peace rather than submit to the ' precarious and humiliating dependencies' Of public or private charity .

    The . Nicaraguana are taking precautions againet the anticipated desoent of Walker and lua filibusters . All tho Americana suspecUd of sympathizing with thorn havo boon expelled the country . It hns been suggested by some that , should Walker find transport "by sea unattainable , ho will endeavour to turn liia Tcxam levies upon THexico . A severe btorm has raged at Boston and along the coast . Tho Reindeer , a lake steamer , has been lost off Big Point au Sable , when twenty-one persons perished . She was caught in a Htorm , but was doing well until a sea came aboard and oxtinguished tho fires . The captain then run her for the land , which sho struck about midnight . Almost immediately , a heavy breaker fell over her ; only two h ' remeu escaped . Considerable damage has been occasioned to agricultural produce iu the valley of tho Mohawk by an inundation . Two negroes have been burnt , at Camden , Arkansas , for the alleged violation and murder of au old woihua .

    while at t tie stake , one of the negroes -acoused a "white man named Millnr , "who was a spectator , ol having excited him to the deed ; the other iwgro protested his innocence to the last . In the United States District Court , at Columbus , Ohio , on thi > 21 st . urt ., Judge Leavitt charged the grand jury in relation to the provisions of the Fngitivo Slave Law , remarking that a complaint founded on the the 7 th section of that act would be submitted for their ¦ iiryestigntion . His Honour in reality nullified the .-worst features of the act by the following declaration : — " The offence of " harbouring' is not committed unless the result is the actual prevention of the Tecapturo of the fugitive . In regard to ¦* concealing , * it implies actual *

    knowledge ontho part of the person charged with the offence , that the party wfts a fugitive slave , and-tiiat he concealed Mm from observation in such way as to defeat the vigilance and intentions of the party seeking to make the ' ¦ arrest . In speaking of this , I will remark ajjain that there must have been a knowledge that the person escaping was a fugitive slave , and that knowledge TOnv be a positive knowledge , or deduced from the circumstances of the case . It hns been decided in this and other courts , that , under this law and the old law o-f 1793 . the offence of harbouring and concealing and assisting 5 a the escape of a negro was not consummated by merely ministering to his wants , and giving to him that charity and assistance which might unite for his comfort and necessities . "

    . ¦ A riot , lias taken place at Ncnv Orleans , in "which one man was killed , and about a dozen badly woxinded . A . ship : arriving-at ; Savannah from Nassau reports the vreck of the British ship Kossxrth , on the 8 th ult ., off ^ Manilla . She also reports felling in with a ship on the 2 Srd nit-, water-logged and abandoned . She -was too low in the -water for hername to be ascertained .

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    CONTINENTAL NOTES . ' ; . . ' - * : * - ' . * V ¦ ; '¦ . '" . FRANCK . ¦ ¦ . ' * ¦ ¦ . ¦ . "¦ * ¦ ¦ . ; ¦ ' ¦ T iik financial state of the nation has drawn forth from the EmpeTor a letter to the Minister of Finance , which has been pnbTished in the .. MpnUeur . It is dated " Palace of Coinpjfegnc , November 10 th , ' and is as follows : — " Monsieur leMinistre , —! see A \ -ith paiii that , -withont an apparent or Teal cause , public credit is assailed by chimerical fears and by the propagation of soi-disant remedies for an evil ^ rhich only exists in the imagination . In preceding years , it must be ' owned , there were some grounds for apprehension . A succession of bad harvests compelled us to exiiort anmially many hundreds of millions in specie to pay for the quantity of com of Vhich we stood m need , and yet we-were able to meet the crisis

    and to defy the sad predictions of alarmists by a few simple measures of prudence taken momentarily by the Bank of France . Ho-vv is it , then , that at the present moment it is not understood that a similar measure , Tendered still more easy by the law which allows an increase of the rate of discount , must suffice a fortiori to preserve to the Bank the specie which it wants , as we are in a better condition than we were in last year , having had an abundant harvest and- a most considerable metallic reserve in the Bank ? I therefore beg of you publicly to deny all the absurd projects attributed to the Government , the propagation of which so easily causes alarm . It is not without some pride that we inny state that France is the country in Europe where public credit rests on the broadest and on the most solid basis / The

    remarkable report 3 'ott have addressed to me is the proof thereof . Give heart to tiiosc who arc vainly alarmed , and assure them that I am firmly resolved not to employ those empirical means which have only been had recourse to in circumstances , happily so rare , -when catastrophes beyond human foresight h < iv « befallen the country . May the Almighty have you in his good keeping . —Natoi . egn \" The prohibition of the export of grnin , & c , hns been rescinded . The Mvniteitr publishes the following decrees : — - " The decree of the 22 nd of September , 1857 , in

    revolted ( rapporta ) us regards the prohibition of the export of grain and flour , potatoes and vegetables ( legumes sees } , chesnuts , and the flour of the same . Tho decree of the 26 th of October , 1854 , which prohibits distillation from corn and from any other "farinaceous substance used as food is revoked ( rapyorle ) . The distillation from corn , or from any other farinaceous substance used as food -must be « o man aged that tho residue thereof may bo used as food for cattle . Any disregard of the nbovo regulations may lead to a prohibition to distil from fariniic « ou 3 substances . Tho decrees of tho 11 th of

    February and tho 80 th of July , 18 £ > 7 , nro also revoked Q-apportes ' ) as regards tho distillation froin rice and "foreign grain . " A band of robbers and assassins , who , it is alleged , have been pursuing a course of organized cximo for some years past , are now being tried heforo the Court of Assizes of tho Aisno . GaliynanVs Mcsscw / cr supplies some particulars of these- miscreants , which appear to bo a little tinged with romantic colouring . lAnrrlucn persons arc now on their trial . " The indictment , -which ift of very great length , begins by giving a brief description of the different prisoners . Of Leinairo , the chief , it said that , though only twenty-flvo years of « go , he ia a most desperate criminal , and took real plcaBuro iu the

    perpetration of crimes-whic * were attended with daheerhe thought nothing of murder , and declared that * hl would murder a thousand people without caring a straw ™ llugot was described as a most dangerous malefactor possessing great skill in cutting holes through walls -m . l the peculiar faculty of seeing in the dark as well ' the light ; he had no hesitation , it was added , in com nutting murder when it would facilitate robbery r d'he third prisoner , a man named Bourse , forty-eight years of age , wus represented to have -passed not fewer than thirty years in prison . Tlie fourth , the real chief of the band , siuee it was . he who " . planned the execution of most of the crimos , was a publichouae-keeper named Villet of Vroly , who in early lifo served in the Koyal Guard at the Restoration , and was employed in the stabks of Marshal Sfarmont . He was described as of considerable intelli

    gence , with groat cunning , and as of a very pompous style of speech , one of his most frequent fsxpreasions since his arrest having been— ' I defy all the seven sages of Oreece and all the magicians of Egypt to prove me guilty ! ' and another behig—' ' ¦ Hiigbt is a murderer , his head belongs to Jupiter ! The indictment concluded by summing up ' the or ixnes alleged to have been committed by each of the accused : —Lemaire , two murders and forty-two : ' robberies or burglaries ; Hugot , two murders and fifty-four robberies or burglaries ; Bourse , one murder and one robbery ; Villet , one murder , two incendiary ih-es , twenty-nine robberies ; Prosper Villet , two incendiary fires and one robherj- ; Jean Villet , one murder and robbery ; the other accused , various robberies or receiving stolen goods . After the indictment was read the court adjourned for the interrogatory of the prisoners . "

    _ Two Trench medical ineu ha / ve just left for Lisbon , with the view of studying the -nature of the pestilence which has been so long desolating that cit 3 % The ceremony of military degradation took place a few mornings ago at tlie Ecole Militaire in presence ol detachments from the different regiments in garrison in Paris . Nine men condemned were present-to hear their sentences read . The directors of the taris Hackney Carriage Company have made three experiments with a new time and distance meter invented by . Van Ilecke . This instrument Will give the public an exact idea of the distance run

    over a given time , aiid consequently of the speed obtained iii exchange for the money paid . To the directors it furnishes an infallible means of control as to the distances gone over in the ccmrso of the day ; it will also enable them to detect when coachmen have overdriven their horses , and will thus cause a saving to the company in the wear and tear of their horses . Many persons keeping privato carriages will also find an advantage in adopting the use of one of these meters , as it will enable them to detect when their coachmen nse their horses and carriages for their own profit . —jT / Vw ^ s J * aris Correspondent . Tlie Marseilles journ ^ ih ? state that what w ere lately considered shocks of earthquake bave turned out to be nothing but the blasting of son > e unusually large mines at La Joliette .

    Orders have been given to prepare ± hc Palaco of St , Cloud for the reception of the Emperor and Empress on the 17 th . The Compiegne festivities aTc therefore drawing to a close . The papers have been very sparing in their notices of these festivities . " The progress of extravagance in dress , " says the Dcdhj News Pari * correspondent , has provoked a slight counter-demonstration on the part of the French Court . Last year , it was understood that no lady invited to Compiegno could appear twice in the name dress . This senaon it has been intimated that the reappearance of a dress once in the oonrae of a ^ veek will be not on \ y tolerated but approved . The coiisoquence is , thai ladies iuvited to pass a week at Compiegne pack up only eight dresses instesid of sixteen . "

    M . Abbiitucci , Minister of Justice , died on Wednesday . It is thought he will be succeeded by M . liillault , whose post at the head of tho Horn * Department will in that oase be filled by M . liouhind , the present Minister « f Public Instmction , or M . l'ietri , t ' refoot of Police . The J ' atric of Monday Wii 8 seized for an article on the financial criaiu . A crime somewhat niniilar to the Waterloo-brid ge mnrder has been diaoovcred iu France . A cask , labelled Provisions , ' was left for some timo at the railway stati on at GhoiBy-le-Koi , and , at length , on being opened , it was found to contain the luilf- ^ putrofi ed body of a woman . The head and feet had boon cut off , and " tlie corpse wad otherwise mutilated . One of the papers asserts that tho body is simply a mummy , and that tho woman jmmt have boon d ( a I at lenBt fifty yearcs .

    AUSTltlA . Tho rnih'dnd froni Itosenheim to Salzburg was opened to the public oil tho 1 st inat . Tho encroaching tendencies of tlio Auntrian bishops have received sonio recent illnatnitionn , whioh ani tliub Ktntod by the Vienna corTCspondent of tlm Turns :- — u The conflict between tlm bi » hops and tho inmates < 'f tlio Ucncdictlno convents in their respectivo diocoscs Iih * already coimnonccd . During tlic *' visitation' nl JSHVlk shiiTp words were exchanged between tho bishop uiult'io mitred -abbot of tlie cemvent , and ilio lattw in said t »

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 14, 1857, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14111857/page/6/