The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-28 00:00:00

LABOR FAILURE IN LIVERPOOL.

(RIOTER'S TELZGRAY
LIVERPOOL, Sr??. 28.
A Liverpool stockbroker bas suspended payment,
with liabilities reported to exceed 600,0001.
He is said to hare disappeared.

HELL COEN MARKET, Strr. 27.—At to-day's
market a moderate supply of laglish wheat, meetly new,
which sells slowly et barely teat Tuesday's currency; beet
runs of ruts making 36e. to Sae. per 5041 be. to the grower.
Foreign held above ideas of buyers, and next to oothisg
doing. Barley, grinding rather easier. Beans and peas dull,
and cheaper. Oste slow male, at rather less mooey.
NEW PHASE IN THE COMPORITION-DELI. QUM-
TlON.—Yestorday several cases were decided by Mr. Justin
Shee at the Judgee' Chambers co the composition-deed
question. The cameo differed from those already reported.
le the case Bonfield is. Ellis and others, Mr. Besley applied
for the discharge on the ground that the deed was executed
before the arrest and after the protection was produced to
the officer. Mr. Arthur Stone, as counsel for the plaintiff,
urged that it was not a proper deed, and that the debt had
bees improperly contracted. Mr. Justice Shee said the
release would be granted. Mr. Arthur Stone again pressed
the case on his lordship. Mr. Justice Shee said the leaned
comm.' had done ell that could he done in the :SM. Order
accord:ugly. In another case, Turner r. Fowler, his lord-
ship ordered the release. The deed was executed after the
arrest, and the production wee exhibited to the officer
before be was taken to Maidstone Gaol.
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A GIRL hits iv,:.—Harriet Salmon, aged 16
years. a nursemaid in the service of the Rev. A. Paten,
Tuddeoharn, neer Irewicb,left the vicarage of her own .
on the night of Wednesday, the 21th ult., and bas not
since been heard of. She escaped by the Cinlow, and
no one appears to have aided her in her She
took with her an extra pair of boots. a supOy of stock-
inp, an umbrella, and her Church•servict. Ta her
apartment was found a letter written in pencil. addressed
to one of her fellow.servants, in which she s.id " her
friends were to make no sorrow for her, end they would
never see her any more alive in this world, act that she
hod something on her mind which caused her mi.uy miser-
able 11.3nrs since she and her fellow-servants hod been
picking currants together." The girl is a native of Sprough.
ton, where her relatives reside. Her friends are greatly
anxions about her, and every inquiry has been made re-
specting her. but without success ; the belief is that else
was decoyed from her home. She is represented ea a well
educated girl for her station. Any information respecting
ber will be thankfully received by the parents, or communi-
cations may be made to the Police-atations, Il swich or
Tuddenbenn. —Bury AoreichPad.

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A DA N,IEROIN MNTAKR. A few cl.tyq ago •
German WOMB living io this town, but imperfectly ac-
quainted with the English Immtup, went into ■ chemist's
shop end asks] for corns chocolate, endeavouring to explain
that she wanted medicated chocolate to improve the health
of her children. From the meaner in which she r rououtwed
the word "chocolate," and from mismulorstatidiez her ex-
planation of what .be wanted it for, the chemist's assistant
thought she wanted sugar of lead, sod served her with that
article. Fortunately the woman discovery] in time that
the article with which she had been served was not No
harmless and beneficial condiment she wasted.—lpswich
Journal.