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I 131IF()LILDSHI RE, COMMUNI.
UAIATIC PILLS
CATED I.IY MR. PHILLIPS, CHEMIST ANL) DRUGGIUT.
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TO SR. PROM', 229, STRAND Lor„,o0,
LUTON,U ;r a n d
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SIR,-1 feel desirous of expressing to
Luton, Bedfordshire, Oct 19, 1841.
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THE BARONESS DE F EUC lIERES.—The property be-
queathed by the Prince de Conde to Baroness de
I eucheres, and sold in Paris, on Saturday, by the heir
of the latter, was adjudicated as follows, viz.:—

Francs.
'net domaine of Mortefontaine, fur 1,20,000
Th 3 Hotel at Place Vendome 542,050
The Forest of Montmorency,
First lot
Second lot .
Third lot
Fourth lot
Fifth lot ...
Sixth lot ...
Seventh lot .

236,000
501,000
624,050
500,000
584,050
261,000
320,000

Total
The domain of Mortefontaine and several lots of the
forest were purchased by the Thanaron family.
AUSTRIAN AMBASSADORS.—In Athens, Diogenes
never sought for an honest man more hopelessly than
Prince Metternich in Vienna for a fit Ambassador to
the British Court. Count Colloredo, who was
first on the list, is named to St. Petersburgh. Prince
Felix Schwartzenburg, now grown a brindled, serious
diplomatist, is sent to do penance for his jeunesses
on the Bosphorus instead of on the Thames, in whose
waters he had hoped to cast his anchor once more.
Count Scnfft Pilsach is a valetudinarian, and it is
questioned whether he could endure the martyrdom of
pleasure called a London season, during which a di-
plomatist is obliged to eat two dinners a day (although
the first is called a breakfast), and squeeze him-
self into six soirees a night. One of the men who has
most chance of coming to the British Court is Count
Maurice Dietrichstein. Ire has rank, energy, shrewd-
ness, and his family enjoy great influence in Austria.
The fact is, that Austria is poorly provided with men.
There are no eareers to form them for public busi-
ness except that of diplomacy.—Letter in the Post.
THE ENCROACHMENTS ON THE FOREST.—At length
we find that effective steps are about to be taken to
remedy the encroachments on the forest, :which have
been so much complained of.' At a meeting at Ley-
ton, presided over by Mr. Alderman Copeland, reso-
lntions in favour of the revival of the Forty-day Court,
as the most effective means of attaining the object,
were entered into, and it appeared that it was the
earnest desire of the Commissioners of Woods and
Forests that it should be resumed.—Essex Herald.
DREADFUL MURDER.—We regret that we are tl►is
morning called upon to record the occurrence of a
case of murder similar to that for which, some years
ago, so many individuals suffered in this city—the
murder of a wife by her husband. It appears that
yesterday (Sunday) morning Charles Mackay, a ham
curer, in the employment of a provision merchant in
the city, had been drinking, in company with his wife,
in a dram-shop in the lower part of the toNvn, and that
some dispute had afterwards taken place between them
in their lodgings at the foot of the Old Wynd, in a
house occupied by a woman named Tenney or
,M'Kenzie. The immediate cause of quarrel is un-
derstood to have arisen from the circumstance that
Mackay had found no breakfast prepared for him, on
account of which some angry words passed between
the parties. At two o'clock, while a number of
people were in the house, and when his wife was
standing at a window, Mackay laid hold of a sharp-
pointed knife, and making a violent attack upon her,
stabbed her in the thigh, inflicting a wound of great
depth, which caused the blood to flow so profusely,
that immediate fears were entertained for the woman's
life. A surgeon was instantly called, but, notwith-
standing every effort made in her behalf, the un-
fortunate woman died within an hour and a half after
the wound had been inflicted.—Glasgow Argus.
A POLITICAL DUEL.—At an early, hour on Satur-
day last, a hostile meeting took place between J.
P. Stanfield, Esq., of Marford House, Surrey, and
Sir Robert Cardington, of Wilford. The parties, ac-
companied by their respective seconds and a medical
gentleman, met on Westwood-common, and an ex-
change of shots took place without effect. The seconds
then interfered, but failed in effecting any adjustment
of the affair, and the principals were again placed in a
hostile position, the distance beinc, twelve paces, and
the firing simultaneous. At the second discharge
the ball from Mr. Stanfield took effect on the right
arm of his opponent, severely shattering the bone
near the elbow, whilst the ball from Sir Robert's
pistol glancing across the left shoulder of Mr. Stan-
field, passed completely through the collar of that
gentleman's coat, without inflict►ng any injury. The
affair then terminated. The misundelitanding arose
at a late Anti-Corn-law meeting held at Wilford, and
at which the two gentlemen took opposite views of the
question.—Advertiser.
There will be no business transacted in the Liver-
pool Cotton market on Monday next.—Manchester
Guardian. _

ROCIIDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY.—We
have had a very still market to-day ; few buyers
have attended, and the business has been very li-
mited. The wool market has been similar to that of
last Monday, as regard prices. The manufacturers
purchase for immediate use only, and firmly resist an
advance of prices.

The effects of the banking system of this country
and America have excited much alarm in India,
which is threatened with a plethora of joint-stock
' institutions. This alarm is forcibly represented by a
well-written letter to the Shareholaers in the Bank of
"Western India, under the signature of " Aristides,"
published originally at Bombay, and lately reprinted
in London. Doubtful of the expeliency of the joint-
stock system generally, the author disbelieves above
all its fitness for Bombay, where there is a population
which has become in mercantile affairs one of the
most speculative and gambling in the world, and
where everything like a disposition to over-advance
is a beginning of mischief. The progress of trade
from a sound condition to phrenetic love of specula-
tiion, in consequence of over-accommodation, has
often been traced, but the concise description of it
by " Aristides," is well worth extracting, presenting,
as it does, a long chain of events in a very few words :
" The general course of these destructive hurricanes
may be thus described. We shall suppose the panic
to be over ; that the failures of merchants and bankers
having cleared away, it is supposed, the greater part,
it' not the whole, of what had been rotten and unsound
in trade and banking ; that to all appearance a general
character of prudence and sobriety prevails in most
• branches of trade, without any apparent resort to an
undue extension of credit; that caution has been
taught and enforced among the commercial classes by
the reverses and losses which had been recently sus-
tained, and due attention paid to the most obvious
elements of mercantile calculation. Everything seems
going on quietly, and although large fortunes are not
being made, yet the cautious and prudent merchant is
slowly but surely augmenting his real capital. At
this juncture something or other, either real or ima-
ginary, always occurs (for no two panics are to be
ascribed to precisely the same cause.;) to disturb this
state of things. An impression perhaps gains ground
that some kinds of goods are much wanted abroad,—
some shipments of commodities purchased at low
prices (for prices are generally low after a re-action)
had answered in the foreign markets; the profits
thence arising naturally encouraged others—" the
servile herd of imitators."—to follow the example of
the earlier and successful adventurers ; the markets
assume a decided upward tendency; the example of
successful early purchase attracts general attention,
and induces extensive imitation. Here is the critical
point. The impulse to prices having been thus given,
and every succeeding purchaser having realised, or
appearing to have the power of realising, a profit, a
fresh inducement appears, at every step of the advance,
to bring forward new speculative buyers. The ex-
ample of early successful speculation becomes infec-
tious. At this particular juncture everything appears
to be prosperous ; the banks are pressed by their cus-
tomers, who, tempted by favourable mercantile as-
pects, become more urgent for cash, in the shape of
advances and discounts • instead of arresting the spe-
culative furor by withholding the means, they apply
the match to this train of private credit, which quickly
expands into irresistible power. Commerce degene-
rates into unprincipled adventures, not founded on the
demands of trade, but solely on the command of un-
stinted resources."

It is the discount of bills at long dates, and the
purchase of bills not payable in India. which are as-
sumed to be the object of the Bank of Western India;
and that both of these must inevitably lead to over-
trading, with the ruin that immediately follows the
hollow prosperity, "Aristides" is quite right in sur-
mising. Borrowing the expressions of another local
writer, he says, that the first impulses of a commer-
cial movement always come from low prices and a
tendency to higher; but the banks soon step in, dis-
counts become more liberal, and what was at first
little more than a " healthy breeze" rises into a
hurricane, sweeping along with it, not only the vic-
tims of inordinate specuation, but also those who
aided them with resources.

Rather unfortunately for their cause, the friends of
joint-stock banking in Bombay had held up as a
mole! th 3 Union Bank of Calcutta, which gives
" Aristides" an opportunity of showing one of the
erects of that institution in the failure of Messrs.
Ferguson, Brothers, and Co., to whom it hid ad-
vanced 353,0001. The short history of this important
failure furnishes an instructive lesson :

" In order to convey to your minds a clearer idea
of the evils of advancing upon produce, which every-
body knows perfectly well the tendency of the Bank's
operations w►ll be to perpetuate, and of discounting
and making advances 'of a longer date than three
months,' I shall quote, as a practical illustration, a
case with which the greater number of you must be
familiar—l allude to the bankruptcy of Messrs. Fergu-
son, Turner, and Co., of Bombay. The failure of that
firm is to be ascribed to precisely the same causes which
brought about the panic in 1825, viz., ' the extreme fa-
cility with which discounts and advances were procured
upon bills at long dates,' both of which branches of
business are to be taken up by the Bank of Western
India. The facilities thus afforded to that firm by
their bankers furnished them with the means of enter-
ing into speculations which eventually resulted in
their ruin, and but for the great wealth of their
bankers, and the assistance rendered them by their
friends
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undertaken
forced suddenly into the market and sold at a sacrifice,
would probably have brought them down also. One
adventure into which the command of money fur-
nished by their bankers tempted them to embark was
a, speculative purchase of iron ; in fact, the whole
stock at that time in Bombay, in the ex-
expectation that the price would advance. Prices,
which these speculative purchases in themselves con-
tributed to enhance, did accordingly rise, so long as
they continued to purchase, and when they
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Bank of Western India!
" The more immediate cause of their downfal was
overtrading in cotton ; and here again they were sup-
plied with ' advances' by their bankers—that is, with
money by which they were enabled to enter the mar-
ket, and purchase the cotton. These inordinate spe
culations resulted in their downfal. Do I allude to
this in reproach ?—No; I do it with sorrow, in order
to illustrate the evils of a system which all the world
(and you also, shareholders, by this time) must be
perfectly aware will be encouraged and aggravated by
the new bank." _ _ _

The trade of Bombay will not, according to
" Aristides," bear the interference of an advance
system. The price of interchangeable commodities
must be regulated by the legitimate process of con-
sumption and demand, and any departure from this
process by means of a system of inordinate credit
will engender a host of speculators, whose name will
be " Legion."
The slight sketch that the writer gives of the par-
ties interested in joint-stock projects is neat and not
without humour. First, he says, comes the attorney,
a Parliamentary agent, who reaps a harvest by an
enormous bill of costs ; having pocketed the amount
of which he sells off his shares at the best price he
can, and takes no more interest in the concern, unless,
indeed, when its credit is diminished, he can make a
speculation by buying up some of the obligations at
a low figure, and then selecting some rich share-
holder as his defendant. Another party is he whose
credit is desperate, and who hopes to gain something
by influencing the Manager or a Director ; and a third
is he, who merely wishes to purchase shares that he
may back out when they are at a remunerating
premium. The word "Bank," says "Aristides," is
a favourite bait with many who take tinsel for gold,
and do not find they have been deceived till it is
too late to repair the damage.
Whether as applicable to the adaptation of banking
for India, or as an eloquent dissertation on the system
generally, the pamphlet is likely to prove of consider-
able interest.—Times.

INGENIOUS ROBBERY.—On Tuesday the police re-
ceived information that, about eight o'clock on Sunday
evening, two women knocked at the door of the house
of Mr. Johnson, butcher, No. 37, Adam-street, West
Portman-square, and said they smelt fire, and while
the inmates were gone to examine the premises, they
decamped, stealing a great coat, a body coat, and
other articles which were hanging in the passage.
Both were between thirty and forty years of age, one
five feet two inches high and the other taller. Both
were respectably dressed.