Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-28 00:00:00

him twice and hot Conceife, ,use as tO it is Sal a Le way of ,e oPini°9 it neYe f ptur e; bet Nimissi°n" ssage w as. , a i of D e wade s,°l6 rs ,oll ners ear od, , a sor; , e in the 70 year s. atelo leade rs )ne P re ' Idr• z oo, r eceive GeDe re ' 000 0' al be en y tb ° re' ed acme Unite d ring th ! ailure 111 I of is st at the t. i ra raolic l o sag o, disP lo , will ' A n der - Lat th e ' of w" j ue tioo ne 1116 'dors° rioil la itioll g iro t° e, Lwo w dpriAg T ELEGRAPHIC NEWS. . 11 Y .British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 21. e:43l4mercial and financial embarrassment is Tit Bi". Porte is sending troops to the Danube. battalions are concentrated at Widdin. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING. Three per Cent. Rentes have closed at 66f. ~lttk above despatch be correct, the fall amounts ko r . than 1 per cent. THE BOMBAY MAIL. S TRIESTE, Nov. 26. k ta. teamer Bombay arrived here this morning i th , al., from Al exan d r ia, b r i n gin g th e f o ll ow i ng Tateh ALEXNNDRIA, Nov. 21. I ndia and China mails leave this morning dates from Calcutta to Oct. 23 ; Bombay, ro bber 3 ; Hong Kong, October 16. k ott e ' Column under Colonel Greathead reached k i e n the 10th of October, when it was suddenly 41: e ci by a large body of mutineers. p enemy was repulsed with immense slaugh , Th e column was on its way to Lucknow, where Sg e 4iected to arrive about the 30th of October. 461, b i 4 ew was safe. t% ll , c hvisions under Outram and Havelock were 4. 14 the Residency. It v ' lef ercements of 2,000 men, it was supposed, ci I• each them from Cawnpa re about the 24th. ib te nel Wilson had attacked and defeated th e 4e4 at Bithoor, on the 18th of O c t o b er . 4 4 . . 4e ral Penny was in command of the Delhi 4013 • iii t -s adier Showers was settling the neighbouring b e of the 32nd Bengal Infantry had muti n i e d O R llll r, and had murdered one of their officers or 7o civili ans . t he 15th of October two regiments of the t 44 1 g Conti n ent had mutinied and had murdered 1) e i tleal Agent. iJah [Rewah?] continued faithful. t e : t, t een men of the Bombay Grenadiers were N ot ti e d at Ahmedabad on the 26th o f October for Th a n insurrection. ve Madras Presidency was tranquil. gneat depot of Europeans was to be formed at dt POre • R~rCalcutta operations in the produce market ai e ko , aerate. There was but little improvement I , q Port s 1 4 .k :Ietigl;tness in th e money mar k e t s till con ttxq. Four per C en t . L oan was at 24 di scount. At tange, 23. 2id for documents. Gl4 o ; ll3 May the import market was expected to 0 1 , er .e. Righer rates of interest were antieipated• 4,:: 4l ent Securities continued depressed. ~otob 1) ge at Hong Kong, 5s ; Shanghai, 7th of 1 , es. 01. e 7 1111 la arrived at Suez this morning with Oi e a'ned a t £300,000. The missing portion O as l nails per Emeu was picked up by the of from Bombay, at the entrance of the th el D.Suez. t, t, t4 tp• 'lng of Delhi is to be tried by a military ts hell and j ell. Two more of his sons have been shot. TRIESTF, Nov. 26. -11 ntra : near Gbazepore, Major English had vr,„ l)t ) 'ecl the rebels : Brigadier Stewart's detach- 1 11 had , ,ganier k e taken Dhar, and routed the rebels. k 3 9111 Bengal N. I. had mutinied at Deoghur, v a lo r regiments of the Kotah Contingent, killing thaurton, his sons, and the other Christians Residency. eo lksPiracy had been discovered among the tlit o ? Grenadiers, at Ahmedabad, and the con ,h executed. O kltZlier Showers column was scouring the l v : round Delhi, advancing to Kootulc', and Ilk o ' rd S to Renaree, which they found abandoned 14, Jooleran, who left his guns, &c., behind jee l 11'11 :t . h _ e states that M. Lagrange, formerly 713 representa legt o tople in the Constituent Assembly, is seriously (I, itqopqe llague. Illipld 4 0 8 eirs FOR INDlA.—Advices from the Cape of ,It tpi Pe mention the arrival there of the steamers it ~,is 4 and Lady Jocelyn. tokb,Oderstood that on Tuesday evening the issues of : 4 i t4 at i li.,_" England had returned to a point within the 1 4 44 e :wised by the Act of 1844.—Times. Y i tte r arkh was received in town, on TharFday, from ill ° I 1., eh„, P co, announcing the departure of Lord Stratford I tZlt t ,;" l 44 "from that capital, en route for England. N 4 f rom Hong Kong, which are received in Paris 1, 1 4 4 ' l 3 ) , stat e that i n several of the pri n cip a l p rov i nces ,l'igt% he Mandarins are again persecuting Catholics. ,ttlitlt olverhampton Chamber of Commerce held a Qo ti ( 1 111 Wednesday night, with a view of determining i. , k g Steps whereby another bank might be estab -744918 town, but they have adjourned the further i r `th s ,e )l l of the question until the bank re-opens.— ,'N: 4 / -Daily Press. :i041., 1 ,." °US AFFAIR AT PRESTON. — In consequence of ~Vtd:Vtordinery rumours that the deceased had been ' l o,°lltholbody of a man, named Edward Turner, who ) ' 4l :.t 44 ,7 2 0th September, and was interred on the 27th P ? , 4 ; ll th at the cemetery, was on Thursday exhumed. NI:. 4 1 Pectable jury was sworn, and an inquest opened t Itir ai Pes, at the Cemetery Hotel. The body having 'N to k i i4 ed, the inquiry was adjourned to Thursday lash (3, time for an analysis of the contents of the tt, 1 3 1 14 intestines. o I k, 4I ` I C.RUPTCY COURT, Wednesday.—/n, re liar- N, ro, and Co. of Hull, bankers this day had I: 4 4 Jo ti ,:°r the last examination ' of the be' nkrupts ; but i !it-al l -4 ' 3 ot was asked for, on the ground that the lt : :4 , tn i est had not been prepared. The assignees iiellt th e t .8 . , adjournment was made to the 6th January. Iti t r 4l l thOright, of Hull, corn merchant, this was the 4, k. k tai last examination and proof of debts ; but an , Ill t i t ±4i tz . 4l of two months was asked for on behalf of le o L g t Pt. After some objection, the assignees L AVq. th an — adjournment for one month, his honour Ni, et,,, i,%t p o - DREN KILLED —A melancholy accident hap 11400t t jtougee on ursday. A large beam of timber, k t,4 1, : -. h r , i4 .—" ac i k a s st three years . lay on a cliff near the quay, k 3 , p , ‘ _ and fishing boats were generally moored, t tkk of i": 4l °.'ved forward on the verge of the cliff for the tI 4 ,Ilat ti a l l'S sawed, and to which a smack belonging to 11 ) o . l fin el l' Shanahan, was moored by a rope from the o ti toka:d r c___Pe youngsters were in the habit of laying s sl b lz it t 4 13 7 1 ang ou th th e s ms o t f 3l f v ro es m ba l c o kw t a o rd l s 3 an e d a f r o s r o w f arde e . Olt!? frorn y achool on Thursday evening, went " 11 41 s in that way, when, melancholy to relate, I a hiL li 1 41 ,,-e f ell .P,Red or canted off the cliff and fell on the ~,,,, t ti :.... from a height of from nine to ten feet, ' I N 14 ; • 1 4 ) ot three of them, named Hussey, Foley, gl ee a ll e. so seriously injuring the other two, named C kv i r zc h te e i lta that they expired on Friday evening.— THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY, MONETARY.. DIFFICULTIE S THE BANK CRISIS IN GLASGOW. GREAT PUBLIC MEETING. A public meeting of the inhabitants of Glasgow, called by the Lard Provost, was held onThursolay, for the purpose of expressing their apprehension of the appalling consequences of the final stoppage of the Western and City of Glasgow Banks, and their opinion of the public expediency of maintaining these banks, as well as to consider the propriety of memorialising her Majesty's Government on the aub'ect . The meeting was to have been held in the Merchants' Hall, but long before the hour for beginning the business had arrived, it was found necessary, from the number of persons unable to procure admission, to adjourn to the City Hall, which was speedily filled in every part. The Hon. the Lord Provost took the chair, and was surrounded en ehe platform by many of the leading merchants and manufacturers of the city. His Lordship, in a short speech, opened the meting, expressing in strong terms his opinion that the final stoppage of the suspended banks would result in great calamity, not only to the city, but to the country generally ; and supported his opinions by statistics, showing the number of depositors, shareholders, and others, whose interests would suffer severe damage by the winding up of those establishments. Sheriff Steele then rose and proposed the following resolutions : I.—That the English Banking Act of 1844, by pro hibiting any new Bank of issue, established practically a monopoly of the business of banking in Scotland in favour of the then and now existing banks, and the business of Scotland, whether commercial or agricultural, which has increased prodigiously since 1845, would receive a ♦iolent check were either the amount of capital now applied to banking, or the paper issue, by which that business is almost exclusively carried on, materially diminished, or even concentrated in the hands of a smaller number of powerful corporations than at present. 2.—That the final stoppage and judical winding-up of the affairs of the western and City banks, two of our moat extensive local banks, would farther he a public calamity, as entailing great loss upon the proprietor s, and serious inconvenience to upwards of 50,000 depositors, and ruining a great number of manufacturing and commercial houses throughout Scotland, who have been doing their business in these banks and their branches, and who, although perfectly solvent if afforded the usual banking facilities, could not, if suddenly forced into liquidation, realise means sufficient to meet their engagements. In supporting his motion, the learned sheriff made a number of remarks expressing disapprobation of the system of monopoly established by the act of 1844. He characterised the restrictive act as a most absurd and pernieions measure, illustrating the compulsory bullion reserve as being like compelling a gardener to lay up in his garner one seed for every two he pleated in his garden. Then the act provided that if business. extended the proportion of reserve must be increased so that the act had either done too much oe too little, for if further restriction could be good for the new, it must also have been good for the old circulation. He referred to the Scotch Chartered banks, characterising them as being chartered to do mischief, and c illed upon the public to take such steps as would bring the conductors of those banks to see the danger of the course puisued by them in throwing obstacles in the way of the resuscitation of the suspended banks. In concluding, he expressed in very strong terms the great loss which would accrue to the shareholders, many of whom were widows and the trustees for orphans, by the winding up of the concerns. The legal expenses of such a step would be very heavy, and he hoped and believed that the public would give the bank every assistance to keep themselves out of the hands of the men of law. Alexander Morrison, E - q., Dean of the Faculty of Procurators, seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. Mr. Smith, of Jardan-hill, then moved the following resolution, ,which having been seconded by Bailie Clou:- tan, was also carried unanimously : That the ultimate security of the creditors of these two banks cannot be doubted ; and the first thing requisite to enable these establishments to resume business, and so avert the evils already described, is the restoration of public confidence—a result to be attained chiefly by the forbearance of the creditors, and by the liberal support of the other great banking concerur, both in England and Scotland, to whom the public are entitled ti Lok for aid in a crisis like the present, in excaange for the peculiar privileges conferred on them. It)bert Dalglish, Esq., M.P , then proposed the follow- nb resolution : That Her Mejesty's Government ought to be made acquainted with the present critical position of the mer cantile interests in Scotland, and solicited to take such steps as shall seem most expedient for averting so much suffering and loss to the nation ; and Caw - , for this purpose the following deputation be appointed to proceed to London, to communicate with the First Lord of the Treasury and the ChancAlJr of the Exchcquer—The L )rd Provos', the Lord Dean of Guild,Bailie Ciauston, the Dean of Faculty of Procurators, Hugh Tennant, E , q , of Wellpark, Robert Napier, Earl, of Lanccfield, with power to add to their number. Mr. Dilglish, in speaking to his motion, said that he believed that there was sufficient commercial talent and energy in Glasgow to enable them to get throtgh the present difficulties withoit applying to Government, but he thought that they had a right to expect assistance. When the panic came upon Scotland the relaxation of tho Bank Charter Act was proposed, but the proposal was unheeded, and the crash had gone on in th it country, but whenever the difficulty appeared serious in Eaglaud—when one of the largest dLco ant bonsai in London had to suspend payment, and the American houses in London were applying in vain to the Bank of England, then the measure of relief was granted. He therefore thought that Glasgow was entitled to relief from Government; for had they taken means to relieve the pressure is time, the present calamities might have been prevented. defended the chartered banks from the charges that had been brought against them, and believed that they would be found of very great use in the present commercial crisis. He concluded by moving the resolution, which having been seconded by Bailie M'Calloch, was carried unanimously. W. Buchanan, M.P., then proposed a vote of thanks to the Lord Provost which closed the proceeding:. THE NORTHITIMERLAND AND DURHANI DISTL'ICT BANK. NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, THITIMAY, The following announcement was posted upon the bank doors at Shields and other towns at ten this morning. The District Eaok regrets to announce that it has received orders from the head office to close its doors. Deposits and :credit accounts will b.: fully paid with as little delay as possible. A meeting of the shareholders will be immediately held. The branches of the bank are at Sunderland, North and South Shields, Hexham, Morpeth, Berwick, Ainwiek, and Durham. Several large concerns on Tyneside, it is to be feared, must stop, as the principal iron-works and collieries in the neighbourhood did their business with the District Bank. There is little doubt but the bank has made advances to speculative concerns in the neighbourhood, but it would be premature to enter into any details at present. The men of business here are making a manly effort to prevent a panic, and run upon the other banks this morning and so far have succeeded. An announcement has just appeared that several leading shareholders in the District Batik intend opening a private bank at once to meet the difficulties of trade. The temporary suspension, at least, of several large concerns seems to be imminent ; and great difficulty will be experienced in raising the funds requisite to pay workmen's wages te-morrow. NEWCASTLE, THURSDAY NIGHT. Bank hours arc over to-day without any absolute run upon either the Union or Lambton's banks in this town or upon the branches of the Union or the liT.tionsl Provincial Bank in Shields or Sunderland. Thongtt one appears stupefied by the stoppage of the PO O Pplt this morning, there is no panic. The ethpf kph considered to be quite safe. The stoppage of the District Bank is likely to prove the worst calamity that has been known in this district. The absolute loss, it is conjectured by well-informed persons, will exceed .E 1,000,000. The directors and leading shareholders have been sitting with closed doors all day. Nothing has transpired. The meeting of shareholders takes place in a day or two. The Branch Bank of England in this town undertakes to assist Carr, Palmer, Hutt, Bowes, and Co., Marley-hill Collieries, Nicholas Wood, Black Boy Collieries, and other coal owners and large manufacturers doing business with the District Bank, so that some thousands of wurkmen will be paid their wages on Saturday, and they will remain employed. Mr. Hodgson, from the Bank of England is coming down to see what can be done to relieve trade. (From the Newcastle Chronicle of Friday.) The shareholders are 402 in number, and, as will be seen in the list of them which appeared in the London. Gazette in February last, they comprise a number of the wealthiest and most respectable persons in the district. There cannot therefore be the slightest doubt that the depositors and other creditors of the conc3rn are amply covered, even were the liabilities of the bank many tines doub'ed ; and it is to be hoped that the public will see the necessity of moderation and forbearance uttil the directors are enabled to liquidate the claims upon them—a step which, all persons may 'oe assured, -will not be delayed a single day longer than is absolutely necessary. It is said that the average weekly amount paid for wages a'one through this bank is not loss than £35,000 ; but we are glad to learn that the branch Bonk of England, as well as the ether banks in the town, are rendering the. utmost assistance fn their power to those extensive establishments which are temporarily inconvenienced by the catastrophe, and we hope that no serious suspension of trade or employ. talent will occur in the district. The directors and several of the wealthier shareholders met yesterday for the impose of considering the beet means of resuming the business of the concern without delay, and we understand that immediate steps will be taken for the reconstruction of the bank upon a new and extensive basis, which, it is hoped, will meet with public confidence and support. MEETING OF BENNOCH, TWENTYMAN, AND RIGG'S CREDITORS. Yesterday afternonn, a meeting of Messrs. Bennoch, Twentyman, and Rigg's creditors was held at the Gui dhill Coffee-house, London, for the purpose of receiving a balance sheer, and considering the general affairs of the firm. The meeting was very numerously attended ; upwards •of sixty persons being present. At first there was some difficulty in obtaining a chairman, several gen/e -men who were put in nomination. including, Mr. Eaton, one of the largest creditirs, having declined to act in tlut capacity. Ultimately Mr. Foster, a cash creditor, accepted tt..e cffice. Mr. Parrinton, of the firm of Parrinton, Eustbury, and Co., accountants, read the balance-sheet as follows : Drs: To credi'ors, as per list, £167,552 5s 101 ; less securities held by them £6.722 5s 3d—X160,830 Os 7d. (In the above claims £50,950 lls 91 is included deprecia tion in the value of silk in the hands of the brokers.) To bills accepted Li- consignees, £99,663 18 s 91 ; less bills fully or partly secured by goods on hand, £62,680 13s 61 —X36,983 5s 81; to liabilities on bills receivable dis counted considered good, £127,511 14s 101 ; ditto bad, £23,547 6; 11d; less security held on account thereof, £550—£22,997 6s 11d ; liabilities on guarantees in respect of which it is considered there will be a claim of £3,000; creditors of Messrs. Lovatt and Gou'd, whose debts Messrs. Bennoch, Twentyman, and Rigg, have undertaken to pay £38,884 3.21; total, £257,694 15s 111. By stock in trade in London and Manchester, cast £65,768 5s 81, estimated at £39,193 183 41 ; book debts, good, £41,357 53 2 ; le=s debts on consignor's account, £10,191 Os 1d—£31,156 53 Id ; book debts, doubtful and bad, £16,267 18s 1d; estimated at £5,057 15s 41 ; bills receivable on hood, £7,218 73 ; so portion due to con signors, £435 13s 9d—£6,812 13s 3d ; cash in hand and at bankers, £874 13,41; by cash,at bankers, £2,023 16, 41; deducted front their claim of £5,000; fix , urea at Manchester, £154; furniture, c r sce., at Wood-street, £3OO ; shipments to Melbourne, Sydney, New Yo:k,&c., amounting to £4l 021 5 lld ;- subject to advances and claims thereon £20,163 1 - 05-1d—£20,857 158 101; estimated at £12,794 8 s 31 ; value of shares, £lOO ; securities deposited with creditors and deducted per contra, £6.722 55. 3d. ; leases and fix tures of premises 77 and 78 Wood-street, and land in Silver -street, £1,400 ; stock, book debts, utensils in trade, furniture, &c., of Messrs. Lovatt and Gould, of Leek, £4,382 lls. 71.; equity of redemption in freehold land and mill of Messrs. Lovatt and Gould, subject to martg ige of £lO,OOO, £102,228 ss. 23. less rent, salaries, &c.. £7Bl 11e. 81—Total, £101,446 13s. 61. ; deficiency, £156,248 2s. sd. Mr. Parrinton ad ,led to this statement the remark that the firm commenced business in 1848, Mr. Bennoch having a capital of £1,457, Mr. Twentyman .£2,182, and Mr. Rip; - £5,700, making together £9 410. This capital went on increasing until it stood at £38,247 on the 24th December last. The misfortune of failure had overtaken the firm through allowing parties to overdraw upon them in respect of silk and ocher goods, ond becoming liable for the debts of Messrs. Lavatt and Gould, of Leek; amounting in the whole to £22,977. The two other principal losses had resalted from the failure of two firms, one in Derby and the other in Coventry. In 1846, the firm of Reid and Co. was established at Derby. It consisted of Mr. Reid, cf that plaCe, who put in £3;000, and of Messrs. Bennoch and Twentyman r.ho put in £3,000. The firm of Bennoch, Twentyman, and itigg, had been drawn on by this Derby house to the extent of £32,323, bat the goods consigned, were not worth more than £14,278, an d h are, t h ere f or - , there was a loss of £18,278. In 1836 the firm of Taylor and Co., was- established at Coventry with a capital of £l,OOO. Bennoch, Twcn - yrnau, and ei g, had been drawn upon by this house for £18,750, but the goods consigned wero now only worth £11,961. The Coventry firm were als ) cash deb!ors of the Landon house to the extent of £10,637, and the less by the Coventry firm was put down at £17,427. Mr. Reed, the solicitor to the firm, gate some explana tions of the private estates of the three partnev, and then observed that since the balance-sheet was made out the assets had become depreciated 10 per cent. The'proposal be had to make on behalf of the firm was that the estate should be liquidated under ins e ection until it had realised a dividend of, say, 6; in the pound ; and that then the insy ctors should be a' liberty* to determine whether the liquidation should go on, or' whether it would be better to accept any comprotd.se the firm might in a position to make, and so end the matter. Ultimately it was roiolved that this pronosal should ba accepted, and Mt s3rs. DaraLt, H. W. Eaton, J. R. Foster, and David mans ware appointed inspectors. DISTRESS IN MCDDLErON. The broad fancy silk trade at Middleton, Tmge, Chadderton, and its vic , nNes, is in a more depressed state than it has been for the last thirty years ; the weavers of mixed goods have been reduced io their wiges during the last twelve months nearly one-half, and many of them are obliged to take provisions instead of money for their work. There are alsa nearly one-half of them destitute of any kid of work, and in many cases whole families are literally starving ; it is true, however, that subscriptions have been made amongst the more wealthy es the neighbours, and those who have nothing to resort to have had meal and other kinds of food distributed amongst them. During the last and present week, the members of many sick and burial clubs have been obliged to draw the mmey that should have been paid in eases of sickness and di ath ; and i. is feared that some of the clubs will have to be broken up if an alteration dces not speedily take place for the better The drawing out of the clubs is almost general, and meetings are held almost nightly at these sick and burial societies. Those who are employed have not mere than three or four days' work per week, except in a very few cases. The shopkeepers, and other small tradesmen, make loud complaints, and we are sorry to state that distress is alarming in the extreme. BIRMINGHAM. We understand a petition for private arrangement was brought info the Court of Bankruptcy, on Tuesday, in the case of Messrs. Rose, Higgins, and Rose, and in that of Messes. Fetcher and Rosa.-Biriningham Daily Hews. WO LV MPTON. The affairs of the - Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Benk are now assuming an aspect which is affording some hope to the inhabitants of the town and district that the crisis between this time and Christmas will not be quite so severely and extensively felt as was feared. ft is expected that ba-iness will be resamed certainly with the new year. The Chamber of Commerce held a meeting on Wednesday night, with a view of determining upon some steps whereby another bank might b established in the towr, but they have adjonrae the further consideration of the subj.iet until the bank rei opens. The district is not assuming a mnch more cheerfu appearance. Everywhere portions of works are being made to stand, and blast furnaces are being blown out. No business could be transacted on 'Change on Wednesday, sales, even at ruinous rater, being prevented either by want of orders or by a capital that might be otherwise used in profitable speculation being required for self-support during a period of almost general inaction which has begun. Some few offers were, however, made for small quantities of pigs, bat the offers were at a figure that no man who was not absolutely compelled to get money would accept. During the day the stoppage of Messrs. T. Morris and sone, pig iron waken, Tipton, was anzotinced. The liabilities are set down at £40,000.----Birminghain Daily Press. On Tuesday (says the Wolverhampton Chronicle), a meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Motteram a d Deeley, of Toll End, Tipton, was held at the Swan Hotel, in this town ; Mr. Churchill in the chair. The creditors of the firm were represented at the meeting to the extent of £20,000. A statement of accounts showed that the liabilities amounted to about £44,458, while the assets were calculated at £20,050. Ultimately two resolutions were adopted, the one that the creditors should file a petition for adjudication under the private arrangement clauses of the Bankruptcy Act, with the view to the assignment of the estate for the benefit of creditors; and the other that a committee of five gentle men be appointed to place an inspector over the workv, to watch over the interests of the creditors. It was the opinion of the meeting that if the concern were ss mind up under bankruptcy there wouldb e nothing for the creditors ; but under the present arrangements, it is anticipated that from 5s to 7s 6d in the pound will be paid. HOW TO FEED THE POOR AND HELP THE UNEMPLOYED. A former curatt of a manufacturing district writes to a London cotemporary :—The tone of your articles on the threatened and actual distress of the manufacturing popu lation so completely chim s in with my own feelings, that. I venture to address you on the subject. I wish simply to relate my own experience about fifteen years since, I was then a curate in a large manufacturing district. Our poor were fearfully destitute. Our rates had hien raised to such a sum as to render many small properties untenable. On these grounds we applied for and obtained a grant from the sum of money which bad been collected throughout the nation for the relief of the distressed operatives. We determined to husband our resources. Aided b 7 the most influential persons in the di.tict, I formed a committee of persons of all persuasions, religious and political. We obtained the use of the old poorhouse, procured a large iron boiler or copper, as it was called, and set it up. We bought g od wholesome meat ; our butchers obtained it for us at wholesale prices. Our neighbours right and left gave us garden vegetables, such as carrots, onions, celery, &e. ; peas and berley were purchased. The ladi s of the place organised themselves into a cooking coin mittee, and we forthwith manufactured good, wholesome, first-rate soup, savoury and palatable, the very odour of which would have inclined you to taste it, the taste of which would induce you to taste again: Then we bought potatoes who'esale. Thus prepared. we announced that we were ready to receive applicants. There we sat, the clergy and laity, with our overseers. parish medical doctor, Quaker guardian, and prircipal manufacturers. We were uni el in our object—the relief of the distress of our poorer brethren, and the relief of our own retea. Our rpolic ants came in; was astonishing what we krew about them. 0 e was a good, hard-working fellow, with a large family ; gave him a couple of quarts of snip and a peck of po'a toes. Another was a ne'er do wee), but his wife w s thrif y and his children hungry ; giving them a quart of soup or two, and a supply of potatoes. Somehow or other, parson, master, doctor, overseer, or constable, we could give amongst us the history of every one. Well, our soup was recd ; so good, the mothers blessed us, and told us that they put a quart of water to two quarts of soup and boiled it up, and so made two quarts three. But the mcst remarkable thing was how our soup grew, it was almost like the widow's cake and cruse of oil. Contact with so much misery roused our two committees, male and female; our pot received so many contributions it kept boiling, with little money, all through the dreary winter. Kind-hearted manufacturers said, "Nay, ye shan't give our men soup for nought ; you make it, we will send our men for it, and pay you. for all you give them." Thus we relieved our rates, fed our poor, and kept true-hearted brave men from the degradation of parish pay till times grew better. And then, actually, we had a sum in hand, which we distributed among the poor mothers and children in warm cloths and good shoes. I would not trouble you with this history of our proceedings, it was so common-sense like, did I not remember bow different was the fate of some of our neighbouring districts, though they were not so distressed as ourselves. They spent their money recklessly, like charity money. They made had soup, cheap stuff; and the poor, hungry as they were, poured it into the gutters, grumbling and cursing. The secret of our success was, that what we made and want we distributed was good. We learnt, from following the rule of doing to others as we would be clone by ourselves, that what was savoury and tasteful was likely to be healthful and really helpful. We thus learnt that dietical philosophers are only now just beginning to discover. We uncovered the thousand rills of charity among our neighbours which only required a. a guide to direct them into a common stream, and we were all astounded, when the dismal days passed over, at how much was done with to little for, ign aid. THE DE.NNI3TOUN FAILURE. In the Times City article of yesterday, we find the follow ng :—" A meeting of the creditors of J. and A. Dennistoun and Co., of Glasgow, with branch houses at London, Liverpool, New York, and New Orleans, whose suspension was announced on the 7th inst., was held to-day, when the following statement of affairs was sub mitted by Mr. Coleman, the accountant : BALANCE STITEMENT OP AFFAIRS TO NOVEMBER 7, 1857 DR. £ s. d. To creditors on open account . 91,947 10 8 Ditto, holding security .................. ..... . 217,278 1 9 Ditto, on bills payable (this amount includes our acceptances—£296.6B7 17a sd—glyen for the account of Dennistoun Brothers and Co., of Australia).. Liabilities.... .02042,701 15 6 Amount of capital standing to the credit of the several partners... £56J,897 2 9 Ditto, iverpool Borough Bank shares cost 208,873 2 11 769,770 5 8 Balance of profit and loss accounts, .. 23,520 7 5 £2,935,9: , 2 8 7 CR £ s. d. By cash in hand Count'ng-house;, furniture, &c Produce on hand........ ........... ......... 26,360 0 0 Bills r ceivab'e on hand 111,7€6 9 3 Deb' ors in Great Britain £213,013 7 11 Ditto and property in America 1,584,215 14 9 1,797,229 2 8 Secarit:es with creditors ..... 187,080 12 10 Amount to debit of Dennistouu Brothers and Co., Australia In2lusive of acceptances amounting to 4_96,687 173 51 .......... • •...... £2,483,340 9 0 Further separate estates of the partners available 190,379 16 8 D3bts due to the separate partners in America.. 48,399 0 0 Liverpool Borough Bank Shares, contra 208,873 2 I t 2,9:35,992 8 7 CL MIS AND ASIETS AFTER DEDUCTING CONTRA ENTRIES Da. s. d. To creditors on open acconnts........ ..... ........ 91,947 10 8 Ditto on bills payable Less balance to the debt of parties for whose account the bills are accept xi, the principal part of which are considered g00d.... 1,214,414 5 3 Creditors partially se curel Security held 619,063 li 10 34,610 19 11 Cred!tors fully secured Security he'd Claims .e 4,415 n 0 LiabiLties on Vlls discountel, £514,769 lOs 4d, of which it is estimated the e may rank on this estate •• •••• £795,622 8 5 Liabilities in respect of letters of credit. Di. of partners on Liverpool Borough Bank shares or any other company. Cr. e s. d. By cash in hand, &c. (subject to the due payment of bills discounted by the commercial Bank of 9,038 10 9 Counting-houses, furniture, &c... Produce on hand • • • ..• 26,360 0 0 Bill receivable on hand.... Debtors and property Surplus from securities contra •• • • ••• 4,413 11 0 Amount to debit of Dennistoun Brothers and Co., Australia, (inclusive of acceptances amounting £296,687 17s 5d)....... 1,091,261 1 11 Further separate estates of Vas partners available 190,379 16 8 Debts due to the separate partners in America .. 48,399 0 0 £1,330,039 18 7 Liverpool Borough Birk shares held by the several partners £208,813 12s 114. N OVEATI3ER 28, 1857 MISSIONARY OPERATIONS IN INDIA. A numerous meeting was held at Willie's Rooms, St. James's stree', London, on Thursday afternoon, to promote the extension and enlargement or the Missions for the Propaga ion of the Gospel in India. His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury presided, and on the plathrm were the bishops of London, Oxford, S'. Asaph, and Nora Sco'ia, Vice-Chancelor Sir W. Page Wood, and many of the clergy and laity, The meeting haying been opened by prayer, his grace proceeded to explain the objects proposed by the society, and to dilate upon the new fields which are 1 kely to be opened to missionary enterprise by the recent occurrences in India. The Society for tho Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, under whose au.pices the proposed new bishoprics are to ba created, submitted a statement of facts, which were laid before the meeting. _ _ _ The Bishrp of London moved the first resolution, which was as follows :—" That the Church of England is celled, by the late calamitous events in in India, to adopt more energetic measures for the diffusion of the Gospel in that benighted land; and that this meeting will give its hearty support to the SoJoty for the Propagation of the Go-pel in ier efforts to strengthen and extend its mission among the Hindoos and Mahometans." The right rev. prelate said he fel' it a great privilege that he was not compelled himself to E xpress his views on the day appointed for a general humiliation ; for we knew little of the cause of the disasters that had occur ed in India, and we knew little also of what would be their issue. He thought. therefore, it was presumptuous to speak wi h that sort of fluency with which some hail spoken of the causes and the consequences of this great and mysterious disaster. When they Lipka I back upon the past history of India they found that it was the custom to find fault with the conduct of its rulers during the last hundted years. It was a melancholy sign that when such dis turbances as these broke out men were disposed to complain of and quarrel with each other, instead of buckling on their armour to see how these misfortunes might be averted. The rulers of India had hitherto been spoken of as though it was in their power to Christianise that vast peninsula. Our rulers had to take posses-ion of that vast continent, not with an overwhelming army, but we had conquered India by the force of its own inhabitants and this country had been placed in its present peculiar position of governors of India through the instrumentality of Indians themselves. No doubt a general mistake had been committed in the government of India ; but that mistake might be averted tlarough the events of the last few months. On one other point he might make a remark An impression had got abroad that the pre sent meeting had been got up for the purpose of aiding in the establishment of eight new bishoprics in India It was undoubtedly the conviction of the society that additional bishoprics ought to be erected in India, but the meeting would not be called upon to pledge itself to any resolution upon that point. Another point to which he might allude was too erection of the proposed memorial church at Cawnpore. A sort of feeling had got abroad that this was a matter on which some patty feeling might be expressed ; but the sole object of the proposed church was the expression of admiration of the heroism of those who had died as Christians there, and that that seat of demoniacal wickedness might become the seat of Christian truth. He trusted that in this and other matters of a like kind, those who went forward to preach the Gospel would forget the foolish party distinctions which at home made them stand asunder from each other. (Loud cheers ) Mr. C. W. Puller, M.P., seconded the resolution, which was unanimously adopted. The Bishop of Oxford moved the second resolution : " That the proposal of the society to establish missions in the presidential and other principal cities. with a view to bring the truths of Christianity before the minds of the upper as well as the I favor classes of India, is deserving of the most cordial approbation and encouragement ; and that it is desirable to promote, by every available means, the education, training, and ordination of the more ' advanced native candidates for the work of the ministry among their own countrymen.'' The right reverend prelate dwelt upon our enormous responsibilities in con nection with India, and repudiated charges against the East India Company, or the particular agents of the government of that c aintry, for the blame, he held, rested upon the nation itself. The fact was, that in its tule of India, England had been afraid and ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, and that it had practically built its administration of India upon the toleration of heathenism, rather than upon !he belief that God's providence had given it to us, and that God's might would keep it for us. !t had been said that this meeting had not been called for the purpose of promoting the erection of new bishoprics He trusted that nothing would be done under false pre tences, and that the - meeting would affirm that new bishops were wanted in India, and that by God's help, the sight means woun be taken for evangelising the natives of ludia, and maintaining Christianity among our own people. Vice-Chaecellor Sir W. Page Wood, in seconding the resolution, denounced the preposterous policy which in the government of India had induced England to keep England in the background. He also urged the duty of adopting measures for immediately rooting out the peStilential sys em of religion now prevailing in India, end for increasing the episcopate in that country, encouraged by the success which had attended the extension of hishs pries in Australia and New Z ntland. The resolution was unanimously adopted The Hey. Ernest Hankins, the Secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel inForeigrt Par r, expressed regret that, large as the meeting was, numbers of persons had g, , rte away unaccommodatef He had the permission of his Grace the Archbishop to say, that at the close of the meeting it would he adjourned to another day, and to a larger room to be hereafter named. The Bishop of St. Asaph moved, " That the cordial thanks of this meeting be given to his Gesca the Arch bishop of Canterbury for presiding on this occasion ; and that lists for annual subscriptions for The extension of our Indian missions be at once opened in London, and as far as msy be possible in every town an .f village of the country " Mr. W. Cottoo, late Governor of the Bank of England. seconded the resolution, which was adopted, after a few words from the Bishop of 1 1 , - )ray and Ross, who ear nestly recommended an agitation of this question in Scotland The Archbi,hrp acknowle3ged the compliment, aid tho proceedings terminated. LORD BURY, 111. P., ON CANADA AND TIIE COLONIES. Lord Bury, 3I P., lectured, on Tuesday, in St, Andrew's Hall, Norwich, on the social and political condition of Canada. The noble lord, in an address which occupied about an hour and a half, sketched the rapid pr-grcss of Canadian c;vilisation, and took a bird'.:-eye view of the principal features and physical geography of the country. To the latter subject, he observo i, too little attention was paid at home ; and on a late occision our diplomatists hai adopted the worst of all boundaries, an astr:nomical line, which the American emigrant would disregard at some future time. The American principle was, " The American Continent for the Americans," and he feared that thi; question of boundary contained the seeds of warfare more than the Central American dispute In regard to emigration, his lordship expressed his opinion that fi ee grants of land were not all that was wanted. The settler hal oft, n no money with which to pay his paspage out, and he would recommend that the Crown lands should be sold, and the pr c2eds applied to pay the passage of emigr nts, as in the Australian colonies. Energy and persevennce, unless harked by capital, were aometimes useless in the overstocked labour markets of Europe, but they would ensure success to their possessions in Canada. The noble lord expressed hie approval of the system of lo2al government adopted in Canada, and also commended the 3 710 educational establishments of the colony, the society of which, he said, corresponded greatly with that of the mother country, although at the same time there was a more equal distribution of wealth in Canada: no colossal fortune s, but no abject poverty. Canada was our nearest colony, it possessed a healthy climate, the soil produced the finest crops, the land was easily obtainable, taxation was 85 per cent. cheaper than in England, and religion was perfectly free. The tendency of the Canadian mind was at present in perial The Cana dians would be happy to remain an integral part of the British empire, but if once they found themselves in a position in which they could make to themselves a greater name, and be more independent by separation than by remaining in connection with us, they would go. In conclusion, the noble lord expressed his belief that a glorious future awaits our colonies, and that England will not be disgraced by her young and vigorous scion beyond the western seas. The lecture was frequently interrupted by the applause of the audience. Gaiignani says M. Desprez, Auditor of the Council of State, in returning three days ago from a mission t) Algeria, was so violently afflicted with sea sickness, that he had an attack of apoplexy, and he died jast as the steamer reached Marseilles. A WOMAN BURNED TO DEATIL—On Wednesday, Mr. F. Dearden held an inquest at Heywood, on the body of Ellen Kershaw, a married woman, aged 37. On the 9th instant, she was lifting a pan off the fire, with a baby in her arms, when she was seized with a fit, and both fell upon the fire, and were severely burned. The child recovered, but the mother died on Monday. Verdict, "Accidental death." DEATH OF ONE OF THE SURVIVORS OF THE WRECK OF THE " ROTHSAY CASTLE" STEAM PACKET, IN BEAUMARIS BAY, IN AUGUST, Mrs. Payne, formerly of Greengate, Salford one of the twenty-one su vivors (out of above 150 passenge s) from the wreck cf the Rothsay Castle steamer, was interred on ' Thursday last, in the Salford New Cemetery. The case of Mrs. Payne, at the time of the wreck, excited deep in 'erest and sympathy. The following is a notice of her case, as elven in Mr. Adshead's narrative of the wreck : —" Mr. and ' Mrs. Payne were still lashed !ogether, and the frien 1 1y plank, with its projecting i on bolt as a ha Ifast, still supported them ; but, es before noticed, Mr. Payne's previous exertions had unfitted him for the severe trial which he had new to undergo, and exhaustion began to take awful effect upon him. The dreadful scene which ensued may be imagined, but cannot be described, The unhappy husband felt his dissolution approaching, uncheered by any prospect of his children having even a mother left to protect them; and , the wretched wife was aroused from the stupor which pressed upon her by the appalling conviction that her husband was dying. This melancholy event took place about six o'clock in the morning. Mr. Payne struggled with delirious wildness for a few minutes, diving which he caught hold of his wife in a manner that threatened destruction to both, by rendering the plank useless. She extricated herself with difficulty, and by the time she ha 1 again emerged from the water, and recovered sight and breath enough to seek her husband, she found he had got to the opposite side of the plank. But the terrible moment hal arrived. He threw up his hands above his head, gasping at the same time with frightful vehemency, and then sank ; he seemed to expire, however, in the act of raising his hands Fatigue, anxiety of mind, and the horror consequent upon the fatal I ravages which he felt these had ma a upon him, with re ference more particularly to consi !orations for a beloved wife and f amily,—these hal overwhelmed him like another sea; and he died, and sank beneath the waters ; but Mrs. Payne, in her distraction, by asu iden effort, reecho 1 across the plank in time to seize a portion of his clothes, by which she held for some time, though her streng - h was insufficent to raise him to the surface. At length her grasp was relaxed by increas ing weakness, and he sank as far as the rope would extend which still bound the lifeless body to the living. Mrs Payne thin s that she passed abort two hours in this dreadful state. She could feel the weight of the suspended body, which had swung under the plank, but she could not see it, in consequence either of the roughness of the sea or the dimeess of her sight. She could not see it, though she frequently and anxiously endeattoured to do so ; and it was well she could not, for the toe templaticn of the features of her husband, swollen with water, and distorted by convulsion, would surely have been too horrible for her senses to bear. There was enough as it was to produce madness if the greatest fortitude had not been exercised. It was now nearly nine o'clock ; she ha l been about seven hours in the water, and she again felt a growing stupor oppress her, like that from which an excitement so terrible had awakened her. She now thought that it was deat , z, and cried aloud in her despair—'Lord have mercy on my soul! If Thou be not with me, I perish !' The next moment she heard the stroke, of cars, awl in a very few minutes a boat came to her assistance. It seems that the crew, in se trching for sufferers from the wreck, perceived a hat at some dis tance; and, on pulling towards it, the head of a human being was seen a long way farther in advance, which proved to be Mrs Payne. Had it not been for the hat, they were of opinion that they should never have discovered her, as they were about to proceed in a contrary direction. When the sailors were lifting her into the beat, they expressed surprise as to what it could be that was attached to her, when she exclaimed—' My husband. my husband!' An honest tar, in his good-natured z atl, said—' Never mind; we'll save you both :' to which she feebly rejoined —' That's impossible ; he has been dead these two hours. The body was taken up and placed in the bottom of the b ,at, and Sirs. Payne, :notwieestanding all the humane efforts made to rouse her, sunk into insensibility, and in that state was rowed towards Beaumaria supported by one of the crew " In another part of the narrative it is stated that Mrs Payne returned to Manch:ster under the cars of Mr. Atiehead, who was on hoard the steamer at the time of the wreck; he aloe to, k charge of the body of Mr. Payne, which was subsequently interred in St. Phillip's Church, Salford. SUPPO32f) EARTHQUAKE AT DUDLEY. 13.,tween Tuesday and Wednes 'Tay some alarm was created amongst the inhabitants of Dudley and the sur rounding district by many of them having been areuse.l . from their midnight slumbers, by what some describe as "an neearNy rucabling noise,' accompanied by a t7e mendous shaking of the houses, and even in some instances the beds up-m which they lay. So sensibly was this felt by some with whom we have conversed upon the euilj-tet, that they got up; and several went out of doors to ascertain the cause; the officers in charga of the railway station declare that they thought 'the station was falling about their ears, others that an edjoieing house had tumbled down ; some likened the noise to the round of distant nen .tom. That some unusu tl convulsion had taken place in :he district there can be no dcubt, v.hicla most probably was a light shock of earthquake e we may add that on the previous Tuesday afternoon, some atmospheric Phenomena were observed. About three o'clock, the wind being nearly due east, there appeared dense clouds of such unusual darkness, as almost to require the gas to be lighted in t' e shops at the early hour of three o'clock ; some rain fell at the time, but which passed oft' about six o'clock. On Wedneslay morning, a rather heavy fall o snow took place, which c)ntinued up to bout noon, when it abated, and the atmosphere seemed to be clearing up. Biriningliam, Daily Press, ART MANUFACTURE EXIIIBMON AT EDINBURGiI. Her Majesty has conixibuted towards the second exhi bition of the Art Manufacture Association, now open at Edinburgh, a very interesting selection of articles, namely, the long jewellel sword and scimitar, the coat of &lain mail and shield of Tippon Sahib, the jewelled sabre of HolkAr, and other valuable Indian trophies, twelve swords, and other specimens of the armour of the 16:11 and 17th centuries, the butil writing table of the Duke of Ritz. and various other objects of much inter. at. The Duke of Portland exhibits hi; celebrated aVPuner service in bleu de roi Sevres, and numerous other articles in old French china. The Duke of Hamiltcn sends some exquisite works in Limoges enamel and some bronzes on pedestals of lapis lazuli, &c The Duke of Roxburgh displays several pieces of can'elabra. The East India Company show about 70 different illustrations of Indian art ; and Mr. Johnstone, of Alva, exhibits a piece of Indian jewels, including a gold bracelet wile the portraits of the old King of Delhi and his sons, lately captured and shot, a gold necklace with miniature paintings of buildings in and around Delhi, a frontlet of jewels presented to him by the late Rajah of Gwalior, and a seiraPar, the gift of the late King of Gude; while 1:0. Leckie shows a yatagan given him by the King of Delhi. Cardinal Wiseman exhibits here a number of statnettes, plaques, and jewelled crucifixes Mr. Baresford Hope elntributes a great variety of ivories and enamels; and Mr. Napier, of Shandon, Mr. Stirling, of Kier, and other eminent collectors and antiquarians, add to the exhibition many exquisite objects of ancient art. In all the different departments of modern art there is a most, attractive, and in many cases an excellent exhibition. In wood carving and other branches of household decoration, there is a spirited cc repetition between the north and south; in jewellery th:re are very rich displays both by London and Edinburgh houses ; in pottery and glass, the Staffordshire and metro politan firms make a most attrac:ive appearance, many new designs having been got up specially for this interesting display in textile fabrics there is a limited but display ; whi'e of numerous other productions there are specimens showing great merit in design as well as artistic manipulation. The exhibition is to remain open over the Christmas holidays. A CURIOUS CASS.—In the Manchester County Court, on Thursday, an action wa3 brought by Mrs. Eliza Dennis, of Butler-street, Manchester , against Mr. John Remick , of Ashton-street, Liverpool Road, to recover £3O for eight years' interest upon kro, at 5 p er cent. The plaintiff s t a t e d that, in May, 1649, she sold the defendant a number of cow, in payment for which he gave her a promissory note for £75. This amount was to be paid within six years from that date, and, in the meantime, interest was to be charged at the rate of 5 per cent. Neither the principal nor the interest had been paid, and the present ac ion was brought to recover the interest. Mr. Myers, attorney, who appeared for the defendant, urged that the debt altogether was barred by the statute of limitations but the judge was of a different opinion, thinking that the statute would not begin to take effec until the expiration of the six years referred to in the promisscry note. The defendant, in his examination, stated that the cows were transferred to him by the plaintiff, in order to escape an execution, and he had since sold them at a low rate, which had scarcely repaid him for the cost of their keep. The plaintiff denied that the animals were transferred by her to avoid an execution. After the case had proceeded some time, Mr. Myers consulted with the plaintiff, who niti ' mately agreed to accept £lO in full for the cows, including principal and interest, which together amounted to £1.05. Jr the )et ice I°' :0 10, as', fr