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      State Of Trade. The Advices From The Var...

      S fullv covered ); Messrs . Wilson ,. Morgan mid Co ., of Ch / apsSe ; wholesale stationers (^ abilities , about 40 , 0000 ? Messrs . Fitch and Street , provision mer-SiS , owing to tha suspension of Sanderson and Co . CUabiUties , 55 , 000 / . ); Messrs . Coddington and Co ., of Liverpool , iron merchants , connected with New York ; « vd some Scotch houses . In some of these cases , it is thought that the debts will be paid in full . Some failures on the Continent are announced . At Paris the large American house of John Munra and Co . hSstoppei payment . At Amsterdam , the finura has . SXilEea of the mercantile house of Gullerkamp , ° mmwss ^ i ssSxsas-s quiaite , sjii . cin . 1 " o ...,.. * ;¦•'__ . „_„ ni , in * nav . withiio uic uvfiv »«¦ i

      " whnle-bbdv-of "• cremtors -w . . r- ~ - -u ¦ li ^ t tt &^ 'Z Z & tf Liverpool , the accountant . ¦ _ ,, . / , During last week ( says the Glasgoio ^ cnl y 3 fad ) , iJ ^ L ~ * have been out on strike in Glasgow . We

      W ^ tM ^^^^^ r ^ tS thV r iniend to offer 5 d . per hour which is only one balfDenrrv less than the men contend for . ha of Glasgow Bank closed its doors on Wednesday morSng : . Thto establishment has about a hundred " branches . - - ¦" . ¦ ¦ ¦ . /¦ ¦' , ' ¦ ' ' ' - . "' ' ¦ . '' . ' . ¦ ¦¦ . -- ¦ , . ¦¦ : ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ' : ' ¦ ' . ;

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      [ No . 399 , November 14 , 1857 . j

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      VTTEMPTED MURDER A 1 STD SUICIDE AT BARNSTAPLE . Afvum-servant named Henry Featherstone , recently " in tiie employ of Mr . Passinore , a farmer at East P « wn , . near Barnstaple , Devonshire , has haiiged himself , after attempting ta shoot two of his master ' s female domestics by firing into the room . Avhere they were sitting . . A / ¦ ... . . ¦ _ ¦ _' . " c * * irtMf / Min oniprfcunpcl an idea that 1 uuiu oiv »» v « .. »— I

      , chorf tune utru * x ^* . ^ S e two xvomJn had some unkind feelings ^ vith respect | S him , i * consequence of which he gave his employer notice to quit his service , and , having received the amount of wages dueto hini , he departed . ^ One evening aTthe two women-servants were sitting at work mi the Stchen , they were startled at hearing the no . se of fire- ; inns ? and , immediately afterwards , shots -entered th ^ room through the windows , which they broke , but did no ^ arnv to anyone . Mr . Passmore , accompanied by i uu uoii " .. ™ ^ j . I , , t met ran nut . intne i

      some friends who yrere ; .-.. nou » e , » . u « .-.--, . u-vvr-I into the garden with lights ; but , although they found several loose shots and percussion-caps , together with son ^ gunpowder , i n a jacket which they recognxzed ^ as SLL s , - . / they failed to discover ' who it was that bsiSBSi ^ tss ^ pjsa mj ^^^ ^^^^ z

      , AnTnquest washeld , and the jury returned a verdict of Temporary Insanity .

      The G6vernme5tt And The B^K Of The Fbllo...

      THE g 6 vERNME 5 TT AND THE B ^ K OF The fbllowing letter was adu ^ essed , or ^ Tliursday Jfternoon to the Governors of the . Bank of England : — u Downing-street , Nov . 12 . " Gentlemen , —Her Majesty ' s Government haye ^ obr SSSE-SSsS «

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      limits of the exigenciea of the « " * -W « ^ J ^ " G . C Lkwis . | " To the Governor and Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England . "

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      months , for enlisting . into that ^^[ J ^ S *™? - nreviouslv joined the Marines and Artillery , tie ap ^ - tote a xnan of incorrigibly bad char-gg- _ eruiamuuiiuniB j

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      lown before the doov , and forcing Mr . rocooK » c »™^ a & m

      , 3 «? E . ^ S-S ^ shouM jo -iwlUj ^ ! Stton , and that he hoped those opposed to Him would « £ e ? e 7 en ^ ara , w « a »« d ut Mar . orough-s ^ et witn bLcaiuit i

      „ ,, Mondav ; uiji ^ ' ° " > o-- » - * - iS-Hs 13 SfStCStii ^ r Mar . ff"i r = s ' , rs ;» 'f rn fe"Kfi !^ T ^ SST-SS

      drove hint ^ about to various coiTce-shops where the i vehicle made a stop , and he gave the cabman a sovereign each time , but received no change . He was remanded for a week . . . . . ¦ Assaults by Soldiers . —Two privates in the 2 nd Regiment of Life Guards have been fined respectivel y fifty shillings and ten shillings for a drunken assault on a teacher of languages , committed near the dead wall of Chelsea Hospital . There was also a charge of a more violent assault on a woman of loose character ; but the girl had been to the barracks 'during the interval of a remand , and compromised the matter . This proceeding was highly censured by the Westminster , magistrate . ' " \ ' Dkunic to Death . —Mr . Joseph Dodgson , a solicitor of Leeds , has lately died under rather remarkable circumstances . He went to Sheffield and called upon a woman named Ann Stead , with whom , according to her own statement , he had formerly been in love . This woman lived apart from her husband , and kept a small shop at Sheffield . Dodgson remained in her . compaiiy for some days , sleeping first at a tavern , and afterwards at the house of a Mrs . Wood . During this time , Mrs . « - .- i- -i t _'^— ...: * K -n ^ mt cnirW a + r * on 5 im . i 7 . iii <** fivtpnt ^ I

      He was taken extremely ill directly after he went to Mrs . I Wood ' s house , and several times said that he was dying ; I notwithstanding which Mrs . Stead refused to call in a I surgeon , saying that , as Mr . Dodgson would shortly be I dead medical aid was of no use . She likewise expressed I . a hope that he would die at once . As he continued to I cret worse , Mrs . Stead wanted to remove him to her own sent ior i

      | house ; but Mrs . Wood opposed tins , ana a sxirgeon , who immediately attended and forbad * any I more spirits to be given to the invalid , on which Mm . I I Stead , who was . intoxicated at the time , ordered the I sur-eon to quit the house , aud then bought a pint of I brandv , part of which she administered to Mr . Dodgson . I She was prevented , however , from giving him any more I spirit by the police , who at last interfered and turned I the woman out of Mrs . Wood ' s house . The patient 1 then got better , and stated that he intended to prosecute I Mrs . Stead for stealing his money , as she had previously I abstracted 561 . 10 s . from under his piUow , while hewas I insensibly with the intention , as she asserted , of takm . ^ . I care of it . She was accordingly apprehended on that charge ; but : Mr . Dodgson suffered a relapse and died beforVhc was able to give his evidence ; An- . inquest .-w ^ . 3 Keld on the body , anu terminated in a verdict of i ^^ Srvrs . —A man , named George Stake , lias been stabbed in the Edgeware-road by a youth of u . neteen i named Harris . The youth was met by Stake . on tht j

      morning of the 29 th ot aeptemper , ana wu * »^ « him what the time was . Instead of answering , he made ] use of an offensive expression , and , on being remon- , strated with , drew forth a knife , and wounded btake in several parts of his person . The latter was removed to I oe » s j" f" ,, ., •¦ __ , ,. „„ ! - „ - _ , ,, rnli > r medical treatc-r ^ of

      , IZS & SS " wing ^^ us his XSn ^ r ^ urt ^ ^^ i ^ r ^^ , extenua

      | and otl-rwise ill-using her . He alleged nx - tion that his wife had an irritating temper . CtivvuTY ax Ska . —Charles Yates , a sailor in -in AmerSship ^ though an Englishman , attended before lunsuicuuu ^—

      -----he had . no uv « w »»» . > - .. pmimm tesaplii « . » ¦ nvnoH « ncl on several of the crew of the Oiicnt M ot at 1

      YorKthe vessel on board which Yates ~ je . u ^ ss ^^ s ^^ ^^^ k ^&^^ T- ^^ x ^ \ 1 . . i ¦ i ... „ c > rn ^ iAim mastitii wnicii > y «« » --

      nictca on mm uy » - — , he wfts sri ^^ -ffiB ^^ Sssass At the timo on 1 > ib G mc «« , land . 1 .

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      Wa » reviewed by Judge Alison , a » u . »« .- g altering the interlocutor so an to aasoil both the noWt defender and Taylor . This judgment has givoa mutli dissatisfaction in the district . imiucstlms [ This Mubukbw H « iwiron » Biu » B . —An muu « st »"

      mmmm £ £ TiJ * l £ 2 & chose « , go . ¦! ' ¦*> c » bm . u I

      Obitua Uy. , Slr Auxucn C*Ab«, M , D. -I...

      obitua uy . , SlR Auxucn C * ab « , M , D . -Ireland has . to £ « £ ^ leas of this eminent physician ™ % ^ £ ™™ P ^ > va 9 I died on the 10 th UvBt ., m his " &\ £ ^ f Z ^^ nuutou * respected and popular with all classes ot a p miea

      ia Ireland , and hod ™ °£ """ g ~ itde « ervcd credit tlons under successive Bwenmenta JJti ^ ae . ^ fo , decayed gcatUUy , after the pa « ^ ^^ ^ ivrni * nna dc SantV . lil * Atmur vii * i Wn . l . 1

      Sidney ^ »* « ^ i" consolaTion and and whoso gifted d » u 6 ™ wor ^ sapport of h » % \ 6 lw SSigJJ Tom lMrto the plan of Morgan who in M ^ S ^ ub established in Dublin by tba Af « won

      worl-s is his Essay 'On the Exhibition of -. iodine . Tul ^ Consui ^ tion ' -a treatise which reached tea editions We may add that Sir Arthur Clarke liau fifty years ^ respected magistrate in his native C I ) Kth of tub Duchess of Nemouus .-The Duchess I Castle on Tuesday afternoon , was first cousin to her hSestv and the Prince Consort , having been the dS * hter . of Duke Frederick of Saxe-Coburg , uncle to th « Queen and Prince . Ou receiving the iiews , which ciused ' reat affliction to the Queen and the Prince , vvho had visiie-1 the Duchess at Clareniont last Saturday when apparently convalescent , orders were given fox postponing the State reception of the Siamese Ambassadors , fixed for Thursday ; and all invitations tc Windsor Castle have been postponed for the present .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 14, 1857, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14111857/page/8/