Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-22 00:00:00

THE HAMBURG H CRISIS.

A Copenhagen letter of the 13th says :—" The
First Chamber has followed the example of the
Second, and voted almost unanimously the sum of
450,000 rixdollars, asked for by the Minister of
Finance, to be devoted to the moot pressing wants
of the commercial community. A fresh sum of
money has just been sent to the banking house of
which the Danish consul•goneral at Harnburgh
head, and one o the directors of the Bank of
Copenhagen still remains at Harnburgh to take
up tho hills over duo, and which the bank had put
into circulation after they had discounted them.
Yesterday, a deputation of four of the principal
merchants went to the palace of Frcdrielesborg, to
rt quest the King to grout out of the reserve fund
of the monarahv, a temporary loan of four millions
of rixdollars (nearly twelve millions of francs) on
good guarantee and on the deposits of merchandise.
The King replied that he had been made aware of
the present deplorable condition of Danish com-
merce, that he hoped those sufferings would be but
of short duration, and that as a constitutional
sovereign he would arrange with his Government
for the prompt adoption of measures to ward off
the eff nts of the crisis which weighs so heavily
on the whole country."

TUE WORCLSTER BANK.—At the Birmingham Bank-
ruptcy Court, on Thursday, John Owen and John Matthew
Gutch, the only surviving partners in the Worcester Bulk,
known by tte ram) of F4rley and Co., surrendered, and an
allowance of £5 a week was obtained for Mr. Owen, Mr.
Gutch did not apply for an allowance. On Mayday next,
a pr-v Jte meeting wi'l be bell at Worcester, to examine
the balatue sheet now in course of preparation, and there
will also b 3 meetings held for the proof of debt?, at Wor-
cester, on the 2nd January, at twelve o'clock, and on the
4 h of January, at ten o'clock. The meetings in the court
a-e fixed for the Bth January and the sth February. We
understand that at the meeting on Monday, the question
will be decided as to whether a composition shall be ac-
cepted by the creditors, or the bankruptcy ba proceeded
with..—Birmingham Daily Press.
BITTA.L MURDER IN NORTH Dsvoy. —On Wednesday
evening a fearful, and, so far as we may at present draw an
inference from the facts that have reached us, a most cruel
and deliberate murder was committed at Lynton, in North
Devon. The facts, briefly told, are these :—A young man,
named John Berwick, a sort of jobbing labourer in the
town, had for some months past kept company w:th a
young woman, named Maria Blackmoor. On Wednesday
evening she sent a messerger to Barwick, desiring him to
come across to her mother's residence, as she wished to
speak with him. lie at once ecniiplied—went to the
deceased as requested, and remained in conversation with
her far more than a quarter of an hour, in the passage
leading to her mother's residence. What the nature of
that conversation was is not known, but immediately fol.
lowing, the poor girl rushed into the room in which her
mother was, covered with blood, and after exclaiming,
" Good God, mother. I am bleeding," she instantly fell
.on
the floor, and died. It would appear that the man Barwick
struck the poor girl in the neck with his clasp knife,
which he had sharpened the same morning, completely
severing the arteries, which, there can be no doubt was
the immediate cause of death. Barwick was soon after-
wards arrested at his own house, lo which' he hal re-
turned.