The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-11-27 00:00:00

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had been wasted in commissions and military preparations ;
in stock exchange transactions and stock exchange job-
bing. The Greek deputies received allowances larger
than these paid to the diplomatic agents from great courts.
Mr. Hume' in his ardour for Greece, had £lO,OOO assigned
him of the first loan. The price fell 16 per cent., and his
ardour was said to have fallen in proportion. Alarmed at
a loss so great, the senator endeavoured to release himself
from the burden ; but when he applied to the deputies
and contractors, he was met with the reply, that had the
stock risen, he would not have returned the gain. The
argument was sound, but the head is obtuse when the
purse is endangered; and Mr. Hume—clear-headed gene-
rally—could not see the fairness of the position. After
ndence, the deputies agreed to take it off

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Mr. Hurtle's hands, at 13 instead of 16-per cent. discount ;
thereby saving Mr. Hume £3OO out of the loss of £1,600,
which he first feared. In time, the Greek cause grew
prosperous, the stock rose to par, and Mr. Hume, with a

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singular power of perception compared with his previous
notions, claimed the £1,300 which he had lost. The sur-
prise of the deputies may be imagined, and they must
have had curious ideas of the way in which the friends of
Greece wished to serve her. Mr. Hume, however, was
powerful ; Mr. Hume was a senator : and to Mr. Hume
was accorded a privilege for which others might have
looked in vain. But a further question arose. Mr. Hume,
remarkable for the closeness of his calculations, discovered
that £54 was due for interest. This he applied for, and
this was granted. The defence of Mr. Hume was com-
prised in the assertion, that some of his actions having
been misinterpreted, because he was a proprietor of stock,
he had determined to part with it. The deputies offered
to save the friend of the cause so great a loss ; and Mr.
Hume thought the conclusion at which they had arrived a
sound one. After some correspondence, they agreed to
take his stock at 13 per cent. discount, the market price
0f.16 per cent. being but nominal. Mr. Hume wished to
be relieved entirely, but this the deputies declined.
Shortly after, Mr. Hume was informed that these gentle-
men would pay him the sum he was deficient ; and as he
considered this as fair, and not as a favour, he also consi-
dered he was entitled to the interest. " The worst that
any one can say of me," concluded Mr. Hume, " is that
I may have evinced an OVER ANXIETY TO AVOID A PE-
CUNIARY Loss." Mr. Hume probably remembers his
over anxiety to the present day.—Chronicles of the Stock
Exchange.
FIRST APPEARANCE OF SOUTHEY IN PRINT.—It was
not long, however. before he found an opportunity of
making his first essay in print, which proved not a little
unfortunate in its results. Having attained the upper
classes of the school, in conjunction with several of his
more particular friends, he set on foot a periodical entitled
The Flagellant, which reached only nine numbers, when
a sarcastic attack on corporal punishment, as theninflicted,
it seems, somewhat unsparingly at Westminister, roused
the wrath ofDr.Vincent, the headmaster, who immediately
commenced a prosecution for libel against the publisher.
This seems to have been a harsh and extraordinary pro-
ceeding ; for the master's authority, judiciously exercised,
might surely have controlled or stopped the publication::
neither was there anything in the paper itself which ought
to have made a wise man angry; like most of the others,
it is merely a school-boy's imitation of a paper in the
Spectator or Rambler. A letter of complaint from an
unfortunate victim to the rod is supposed to have been
called forth by the previous numbers, and the writer now
comments on this, and enters into a dissertation on flog-
ging with various quotations, ascribing its invention to
the author of all evil. The signature was a feigned one;
but my father immediately acknowledged himself the
writer, and reluctantly apologised. The doctor's wrath,
however, was not to be appeased, and he was compelled
to leave the school.—Life of Southey.

MELANCHOLY END OF ABRAHAM GOLDQMID.—In
1810, the houses of Baring and Goldsmid were contrac-
tors for the ministerial loan of fourteen millions ; but. Sir
Francis Baring dying, the support of the market was left
to his companion. The task was difficult, for a formid-
able opposition had arisen, which required the united ener-
gies of both houses to repress. It was the interest of this
opposition to reduce the value of scrip, and it succeeded.
Day by day it lowered, and day by day was Mr. Goldsmid's
fortune lowered with it. He had about eight millions in
his possession, and with the depression of his fortune his
mind grew dispirited and disordered. Another circum-
stance °warred at this particular moment to increase his
embarrassment. Half a million of Exchequer bills had
been placed in his hands to negotiate for the East India
Company, and the latter, fearing the result of the contest
on the Stock Exchange, claimed the amount. His friends
did not rally round him, as at such a moment and with
such a man his friends should have done; and Abraham
Goldsmid, dreading a disgrace, which his sensitive and
honourable nature magnified a hundredfold, after enter-
taining a large dinner party, rashly destroyed himself
in the garden of his magnificent residence in Surrey.
This sad event created a sensation in the city, unparal-
leled by the loss of any single individual. The death of
the great loan contractor was regarded as of national im-
portance. Expresses were sent with the news to the King
and the Prince of Wales. The funds fell 3 per cent. The
journals united in eulogising the man whose death they
recorded. The jobbers of Capel-court crowded in anxious
'--, The merchants of the Exchange assembled be-
'me. The thoroughfares resounded
_nd hurried replies. Little or no
, and it is said the great question of
ver created a similar confusion. The jury
recoru.. and when the remains were carried
to their home, the procession was followed by a crowd
who, partaking of his charity in life, thronged to honour
him in death. Sobs and snppressed moans attested

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