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London, England, 1857-10-27 00:00:00

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another, were obliged to contract their discounts,
compelling them to seek elsewhere for the means to
pay their hands. They have sold goods on eight
months to the large trades in St. Louis, Chicago,
Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and all the
principal cities. From present indications they see
no prospect of a resumption of business for months
to come by the hat manufacturers to whom they
have given employment.
"In Danbury and Bethel, Connecticut, the peo-
ple are almost wholly employed in the manufacture
of hats. Not less than from 1,500 to 2,000 persons
find employment there, all of whom have been de-
prived of business by interruption of this branch
of trade.

" All these establishments are winding up and
finishing what is on hand, but they are not manu-
facturing one new hat. There is, they say, a large
demand for the goods, but they have no money to
pay the hands with, and must therefore stop. The
proprietors of one of the largest houses say they
will not resume, at any rate, before the Ist Jan.
" Frank and Straus, No. 51, Vesey-street, do-
thiersyfailed), employed from 175 to 200 hands, all
of whom are thrown out of employment. Every
girl and man, however, was paid off before they
we re discharged."
Under the head of "The Disasters of the Day,"
we find the following in the New York Evening
Post of the 10th :

"Joseph H. Conies and Co., a well-known dry-
goo is commission house, has also suspended. They
are known to be worth three or four times their*
liabilities, and went to protest from inability to
procure some $7,000. It is to be presumed that
their suspension will be but temporary. Mr. Cor-
lies, the senior partner, has been more than forty
years in business in this city, part of the time as a
member of the well-known Quaker firm of Conlies,
Haydock, and Co., and has always been distin-
guished for his prudent business habits.
" The Bowery Bank, of this city, and the Central
Bank, of Brooklyn, stopped yesterday.
" Henry A. Coit, who has long been regarded as
one of our wealthiest citizens, and whose business
operations have been very limited in proportion to
his means, was obliged to let his paper go to pre-
test yesterday for the want of some five or six thou-
sand dollars. The character and extent of his liabili-
ties beyond has not transpired, though no ultimate
loss is likely to be sustained by his creditors.
" John M. Genin, the hatter, has also been
obliged to suspend. He has been doing a very large
business, his sales amounting to some 800,000 dole.
a year. He hopes to get an extension and pay in
full."

The New York Courier of the 14th inst. says :
"What resources have we abroad to depend upon ?
And what aid can Europe give us during the coming
year ? These questions are of vital importance, and
will be asked and answers given in domestic as well
as commercial circles. We can best resolve the pro-
blem by a consideration of the effect of the panic
of 1837 upon our foreign trade. Not that ourtrou-
bles are as great, but they are of a similar kind ;
otherwise the comparison would not hold good. We
give some statistics illustrating the changes at that
time in our foreign trade, and from this we call
form some estimate of our foreign trade for the next
year :

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Oct. 26.

WORSHIP-STREET.---A VICTIM.—After the
night charges had been disposed of, a young person
of lady-like address and deportment, entered the
Witness-box, and timidly requested the advice and
assistance! of the magistrate under the follow-
ing afflicting circumstances :--
The applicant, in a low and tremulous voice,
proceeded to state that she had recently returned
from Australia, where she had occupied a happy
and comfortable position for a considerable period,
as the wife of one of the clerks in the Melb )urne
Post-office. About three years ago her husband sud-
denly died, but she was left with a sufficient provi-
sion to enable her to continue in the respectable
sphere to which she had always been accustomel,
until she was induced in an evil hour to accept an
offer of marriage from a person who represented
himself as a man of fortune, in which character he
had obtained admission into the first circles at Mel-
bourne. Immediately after their marriage, how-
ever, she discovered that she had united herself to
a penniless adventurer, of such lavish and extrava-
gant habits, that in less than 12 mouths he had
squandered nearly the whole of her property, but
still kept up his lofty pretensions, and in order to
induce her to draw out from the Australian Bank
the small residue of her money, amounting to 801..
'be deposited his will in her keeping, which he as-
sured her would put her in possession of his patri-
monial estate, in the event of his death. After
placing the whole of her remain;ng funds at his dis-
poaal, they embarked for this country, where he
told her that his presence was imperatively required
to look after his property, which had been greatly
neglected in his absence, and as soon as they ar-
rived, he engaged obscure apartmen's in the neigh-
bouruood of Mile-end, where he commenced a con-
tinuous career of drunkenness and dissipation, for
the indulgence of which he deprived her by degrees
of all her personal ornament.,, including her gold
watch and chain, which he afterwards laughingly
told her he bad seen the last of, as he had pledged
them all, and lost the duplicates. About three
weeks since he was brought home by a policeman at
two o'clock in the morning in a helpless state of
drunkenness ; and on upbraiding him with his
heartless conduct when he recovered his conscious
ness, he coolly took up his hat and left without a
parting word, since which time she had se nno
more of him. After disposing of the few trifling
articles of wearing apparel which had not been sa-
crificed to the debauchery of her worthless husband
she was reduced to such extremity that she was
co mpelled to take refuge with her child in the
Bethnal-green Workhouse, the matron of which
had advised her to submit her unhappy case before
the magistrate.

In corroboration of her sad narrative, the appli-
cant produced some of her wedding cards, her mar-
riage certificate, and the valuable will, which ha•l
been manifestly intended as a mere instrument of
deception from the obviously mythical character of
some of the bequest 4, one of which einnowerad the
lega'ee to receive all the rents and profits accruing
from two of the testator's houses, situate in King-
street, in the county of Wilts.
After examining the documents of the unfortu-
nate lady,

Mr. flammill expressed a hope that the case
would be noticed by the press, for the consideration
of the benevolent, as a more lamentable instance
of unmerited distress and wretchedness had never
before been brought under his notice. In the
meantime he should present a sovereign to the
applicant for her immediate exigencies, and re-
gretted that the funds at his disposal were in such
an exhausted state that he was unable to afford
her further assistance.
The poor lady- returned her heartfelt thanks to
the magistrate, and left the court in tears.

LAMBETH. —TILE RECENT ROBBERY AT PECK
HAM-RYE.—Mrs. Caroline Richardson, a middle-
aged female, the wife of a notorious thief and
burglar, who about 12 months since had been con-
victed and sentenced to eight years' penal servi-
tude, for stealing a cash-box containing a consider-
able sum of money, from a public-house at Bognor,
in Sussex, was brought before Mr. Elliott for final
examination, on a charge of being cincerned with
a man named Brookes, and a woman named Peao:h,
in stealing 2301. in gold and notes from the Kiug's
Head public-house, in Meeting-house lane, Peck-
ham.

It will be recollected, from the testimony before
given, that the bedroom of the prosecutor; Mr.
John Coleman, which was on ihe first ft,or, had
bten entered on the night of the Ist Sept. last,
and cash to the above amount carried away from
one of the drawers. Some days after a notorious
thief named Brookes and a woman named Peach,
with whom he cohabited, were apprehended, and at
theirbdging4 were found two gold watchesaud a
qu tutity of jewellery, which they had purchased the
day after the robbery, and fur the possession of Vie
money with which it had been purchased they coul,l
not account, beyond Brookes saying that it w is a l et
woo on a horse-rat. The prisoners were spoked
to as having been at the King's Head wend times
before and on the evening of the robb?ry, but not
afterwards, and they were committed for trial.
The present prisoner was subsequently taken into
cult Aly at a shop in the Borough she bad se,, up
business in, and though at the time she denied to
Sergeant Bond, 2 P, that she had any money in
the house, or books relating to money, a savings
hank book for 301., deposited on the day after the
robbery, was found in her box, as well as several
articles of new wearing apparel, and yesterday the
following additional evidence, conclusive of her
participation in the robbery, was given
Mrs. Mary Greenfield, 1, Meeting-house-lane,
Peckham, deposed that on the evening of the Ist of
September, at about half-past ei.;ht o'clock, she
wCole-
man,thoowuasredosfiAlipe.King,.
Head, sh
and 8 a the
theprisoner
prosec come fror,and on passing up a Short dis-
tance stopped
and , returned
un the
de
Line o clock, on going to Mr. Cole-
man's beer she saw her standing at
eat
b
mthaenb'sr her p
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drinking
su
a glass of gin.
Thomas George Alen, who described himself as
a leather-dresser, residing at 7, Earl-street, South-
wark-bridge-road, said—I ktow Mrs. Peach who
has been committed for trial with a man named
Brookes, and visited her iu llotiemonger-laue ga)l.
She told me to tad out ttle prisoner's residence,
muse know I ain in Horsemonger-
and ahi.nernotiling.,)
and I did so, and told Mrs, Peach of it. She (Peach)
thou saidto me, "Then you g., to Mrs. Richardson,
we with money for counsel, and
and tell her she m
lane Gaol, where she ()tight to be, and that it she
does not provide
also ma,.ntain me whie here I shall not be quiet.
She knows she had a share of the property, and can
vseanidotinbeenply4ch a fool with it as
du it." I, said the wi.tu(ss, took the message to
ofth et
he m prisoner,oney Iwhh
have
" If I had my share
they have. been,
tell her I shall give making good use of it, and
the message I communicated to Mrs. Peach at Horse-
'l his reply to
munger-laue Gaol, who told me to go back to Mrs.
Richardson, and tell herto cousid.er hotter about it ;
I did so, and she gave me 11, 63., saying, "That is all
she shall have." I returned to her at the request
of Mrs. Peach, who told me to say that that was
not enough, and she then gave ~,, 10s. more.
Richards, a detective ouster on th, B ighton
Railway, was present to disprove a sta:emeut in ,de
by the prisoner, that the money was made by the
sale of her furniture, by stating tot whet' he
(Richards) hail her husband in custody, and at the
time of his trial, she was iu the deepest distress,
and without a particle of furniture of any descrip-
tion.

The prisoner, who reserved her defence, was fu'ly
committed for trial.

GREENWICH.--SINGULAR APPLICATION.--
Mr. Inspector Barry applied to Mr. Tradl for
advice as to the bringing of three prisoners into
court, who were then in a at ite of cake them ex-
cepting their shirts, confined in one of the police
co.'s.

The inspector observed, that the prisoners, three
young lads, were brought before his worship a few
d Lys since for teadng their clothes and leaving
themselves in a state of nudity on Blacicheath, on
which occasion they were taken into custody and
supplied each with new suits of corduroy by the
authorities of Greenwich unou. His worship had
discharged them from custody,
ordering them to be
taken to St. George's workhouse, ziouthwa, k,
where thy stated they belonged to ; but the
authorities of which place hal ft fu ed them admit-
tance, on the ground that they had no legal set la-
ment. [laving been found destitute iu the parish
of Lewisham, they had had a night's accommoda-
tion afforded them ; but had sine,. disposed olheir
clothes furnished them Ey the Greenwich union, on
which charge the/ were then lick, d up. A pplica-
ti• n htd been made at the Greenwich unit.n for
oth r clothes for the prison, re, Lut which had been
r fusel to be supplied.
Mr. Tra;ll ordered the case to stand over until
after the summorPes were heard, when the prisoners,
who gave their names Williaar Hibbert, Henry
.A.unersley,
broeght int ) court, canvas t oosers having ben
and Thomas Henry James, were
furnished them during the int-trim.
Thomas Martin, potter at the Greenwich union,
raid that on Wednesday last the police authoritie.
male application for and were supplied with four
suits of clothing for boys who hid been found naked
on Blackheath. New suits of corduroy were fur
niched to them, the value of each suit being 12 .
The prisoners, in reply to the magistrate, con•
fessed that they had sold their clothes to same man
who had given them 3s. each.
Mr. Train said he regretted that the prisoners had
not actually been inmates of the Greenwich union
when furnished with the clothes, when he could