The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-08-15 00:00:00

DIED.

On the 14th March last, at Sydney, aged 32, Mr. CHARLES
MARTIN, late of Manchester.

Ou the 21st of May last, at Secunderabad, India, aged 51
years, Captain THOMAS GIBSON, of her Majesty's ath Re-
giment of Foot, and late of this town. He was greatly es-
teemed as an able officer, and his death has caused general
regret amongst the officers and men of his regiment.

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isNW wife of Mr. W. ASPIN-
HARDACASTLE, innkeeper, of Bolton.
On the 27th ultimo, at Ki, ((dale, Mrs. MARTHA NAYLOR,
in the 59th year of her . age, wife of RICHARD NAYLOR, Esq.
of Uphollaud-moor, Lancashire.
On the 29th ultimo, at Melling, in her 71st year, MARGARET,
wife of Mr. JAMES BENNETT.
On the a .st ultimo, after a long and painful illness, aged 60,
Mr: THOMAS Hll MPH REY 5, flour devler, Vauxhall road.
On the ist instant, at sea, Mr. PHILIP COIGLEY, chief
mate of the barque Benjamin Hart.
Same (lay, in the 21st year of his age, after a severe and
lingering illness, Mr. WILLIAM TINTENSOR, Grosvenor-
street.
On the 2nd instant, aged 74, Miss MARGARET JOHNSTON.
Mount Pleasant.
Same day, at the house of Mr. John Lloyd, port gauger,
Knight- sfreet, aged three-a-half-years, Al ARY .1A NE, youngest
orphan child of the late THOMAS and JANE HIGH lON
JONES, of Cooper's-row.
On the 4th instant, aged 14 years, FREDERICK, youngest
son of Mr. GEORGE HALBRIDGE, auctioneer, of Warring-
ton

Same day, at the house of her son, Great Newton.street,
ELIZABETH DEAN, in her 9oth year, relict of John Dean,
formerly of Gayton, Cheshire.
Same day, at the Sanitorum, Regent's-park, aged 30, JAMES
DYER, Esq. Mr. Dyer was formerly editor of the Manchester
Chronicle, and on the change Of proprirtorship of the (Arfor‘
Herald, in May last, undertook its management, though at that
time far from being in the enjormvut of good health. He left
Oxford a few days previous to his death, with the intention of
consulting his London medical attendant, and in the bright hope
of a speedy return, when he was confined to the bed from which
he was never more to rise.
On the sth instant, suddenly, in the 43rd year of his age, at
his residence; North-quay, Douglas, Mr. JOHN QUIGGIN,
printer and bookseller, highly .respected by a large circle of
riends and acquaintance.
On the sth instant, Mr. JOSEPH CARTER, aged 77 years.
Same day, at his residence, Knotty Ash-house, after a short
illness, JOHN WORRALL, Esq., aged 49 years, deeply and
deservedly regretted.
On the 7th instant, at his residence, Horatio-street, far ad-
vanced in years, Mr. THOMAS DEAN, boat builder, much and
deservedly respected.
On the 9th instant, at her residence, Church-road, Old Swan,
near Liverpool, Mrs. ANN BYRNE, late of Ellesmere, Salop,
aged 71 years.
Same day, at Glasgow, Mr. JAMES M'COMB, aged 48, late
of this town, 26 years a member of the Loyal Orange Society.
On the ilth instant, Mr. SAMUEL PERRY, well known and
highly esteemed in this town Miring his long connexion with the
City of Dublin Steam-packet Company. A contemporary says
of Mr. Perry, " It always afforded him pleasure to do a kind
and generous action ; to serve the poor ; to advance the objects
of every Christian institution ; and take a venture in proinotinc
the prosperity of a friend. None knew him intimately who did
not love him."
On the 11th instant, at his residence, 9, North Bedford-street,
street, Abercromby-square, aged 49, Rev. RICHARD CARGILL,
LL.B., incumbent of St. John the Evangelist Church, in this
town.
On the 12th instant, aged 76, THOMAS FOURNIS DYSON,
Esq., Everton, and Yv illow-hall, near Halifax, Yorkshire.
Same day, at his residance, Green-cottage, Sutton, aged 71,
JAMES CARSON, Esq., M.D., F.R.S„ late of this town.
On the 13th instant, the infant daughter of Mr. JOHN FOGG.
upholsterer.

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House Visiters, Daniel Neilson and John Clint, Esqrs.
Treasurer, R. W. Bateson, Esq.
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17 1) -- SO I

that craving for the occupation
of land, at any price and in any quantity, which
binds down the_great m--,s of the Irish peasantry to
the condition of Helots upon the soil where they
ought to breathe as free men—will still remain. We
shall still, under any law which can be devised
for the amelioration of the habits and condition
of the Irish peopi , be compelled to witness
agrarian outrage, arising out of competition for
land, and still to see contracts entered into, and
their fulfilment enforced, which are at once disgrace-
ful to the landowner and ruinous to the tenant.
There is no really effective remedy for the condi-
ion of the Irish people but the influx of capital and
enterprise into that country, in sufficient amount to
employ their surplus labour, and detach them from

them present position as mere squatters upon the
soil. Ireland wants employment for her peasantry
—continuous and remunerative employment—to
create, out of her miserable cottiers and small
holders, a race of independent labourers. But that
capital can never be supplied whilst agitation is ram-
pant through the land. Tranquillise Ireland ; put
down her rebellious spirit ; proclaim to her misled
population that they have nothing to hope for from
violence, and capital will at once and steadily flow
towards her shores, and convert a scene of squalid
misery into one of contented industry and hap-
piness.

Sir Robert Peel hopes, it would appear, to effect
this good by a legislative movement in the direction
„, ~..wturu, withdrawn to make way
the proposed measure of government. We feel
convinced, however, that may such measure—any
measure which arbitrarily and greatly interferes with
the contracts between landlord and tenant, and espe-
cially one which gives the latter an undue portion of
the rights of the former—will be found injurious
and dangerous. We can dispense in England with
such interference. We can leave each party to make
their own bargain; and, if Ireland was in a healthy
condition, she could equally dispense with such in-
agitation which now distracts
'ut down, she would speedily
ion. Her labour, bid for by
, would cease to cling to the soil, and
waste its strength in improvident bargaining for oc-
cupation. Her peasantry now chained down to their
miserable holdings, would be emancipated from their
compulsory idleness and poverty, and enabled to
depend upon their own exertions for a continuous
and assured prosperity.

terference

and deforms

If the

er was

arrive at such a condit

le capitalist;

The night of Monday last was to have been an
era in the history of England's Parliament. On
that night the members of that noble assembly
walked down to the house with palpitating hearts,
prepared to be amazed, awed, terrified, withered,
annihilated, or driven into hysterics of delight, by
the eloquence of the maiden parliamentary effort of
the meek and modest representative of the city of
Durham. John Bright was on that night for the
first time to throw his broadhrim into the wordy
arena, strip off his brown or drab, and make of
the entire Conservative party a collection of the most
wofully shattered and battered caricatures of huma-
nity that ever presented themselves to the contem-
plation of mankind. Whiggery was up in the stir:-
; Conservatism shook through all its
The ministry of Sir Robert Peel was
" catawampously thawed up." !

rups in extam
borders.
about to be

1, the important hour arrived. Blushing like

a bride—with the anticipation of victory gleaming
in his eye, and the very buttons of his coat throw-
ing out intelligence and radiance—John Bright
arose, run his fingers through his hair, hemmed
twice or thrice, and then began. But such a be-
ginning such a middle! such a termination ! The
records of Parliament—the pages of history—nay,
romance itself—never furnished to the world so
dire a specimen of bathos. The uncorking of a
bottle of smoke—the bursting of a boiler—a colliery
explosion,—these were nothing compared with the
wofui break down, or blow up, of the be-puffed and
be-praised quaker ! A prepared speech it was, no
doubt. It smelt villanously of the counting•-house,
and Rochdale flannel. But the unlucky orator's
self-possession had deserted him; and the diatribe
which was to have electrified the house, by the force
of its argument and the grace of its delivery, lite-
rally rolled out of his mouth, or ran out of it, a
continuous stream of trope and metaphor, bombast,
and railing, one huddled upon the heels of the other,
until at length the hapless gentleman concluded,
much after the fashion of a spent water-engine,
which has exhausted the small supply of mud and
water to be drawn from some village well!
In truth, a more utter failure than Mr. Bright's
we never remember to have noticed. Little as we
have always thought of his pretensions to the pos-
session of wisdom or of talent, we never dreamt to
have seen his very impudence desert him, as it ap-
pears to have done on this occasion. After all, the
exhibition proves to us, however, that the House of

ries. There can be no more doubt of the fact than
we have of our own existence, that, whoever may be
their leader or leaders, amongst the followers of Re-
becca are to be found many who occupy respectable
positions in life—men who are to be met with by
day, at fair or market, enjoying respectable charac-
ter in the eyes of their fellow-countrymen. If the
bulk of the active disturbers are labourers, colliers,
or copper miners, they have with them, to guide
their movements and to provide the means of suc-
cess, both tradesmen, farmers, and perhaps gentle-
men. And in this circumstance is to be found the
threatening character of the conspiracy, which appa-
rently extends now throughout the principality, and
the pressing necessity of an immediate examination
into the causes of its origin and the objects of the
conspirators. They can be no light causes—they
can be no petty objects—which have thus bound
together and organised against the law an entire
people !

We fear that such an enquiry would elicit the
fact that a great portion of the farming classes and
small traders throughout Wales are, from some cause
which we do not stay to point out, labouring under
the pressure of severe distress. For the alleviation
of this, a government commission could of course
provide no remedy, and even " the wisdom of par-
liament" might find itself at fault. But there must
be other and serious causes for the prevailing discon-
tent, which such a commission might be able to
trace and parliament to remove. At all events the
effort must be made; and, we trust, that we shall
not see the present session permitted to conclude,
without some explanation from Sir Robert Peel's
government and some assurance offered, not that
the peace of the country will be preserved—for
that we have a sufficient military force to effect—
but that the evil—the mysterious evil—which pro-
duces all this disaffection and violence, shall be
probed to its root.
It may be possible that the " do-nothing policy"
may be the wisest course to pursue towards the dis-
affected masses in Ireland, though we fear and be-
lieve that it is not. It is true that nothing in the
shape of remedial effort towards Ireland can be made
with any prospect of success, whilst the people of
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such a difficulty does not exist in the case before us.
We have in the Principality a loyal Saxon people,
hitherto the devoted supporters of peace and order.
We see them, it is true and to be regretted, just now
taking into their own hands the redress of real or
imagined grievances; but we hear of no rebellious
threats uttered aganist the throne or the institutions
of the country. The grievances of the Welsh peo-
ple are local, and of local cure; and here the go-
vernment may, without the sacrifice of its dignity,
step in at once, with at least a disposition to arrive
at the truth and to apply the remedy, if found to be
within its reach.

HEALTH OF TOWNS COMMISSION.--We per-
ceive that a circular has been addressed by the com-
missioners to the authorities of Manchester, calling
their attention to the increasing mortality of the
town, and announcing that th y have requested Dr.
Lyon Playfair, one of the commissioners, to under-
take an enquiry into the causes of its unhealthiness.
Possibly, when so near us, the board may direct
their commissioner to pay Liverpool a visit.
Since writing the above, we perceive that a similar
announcement has reached this town, and that Dr.
Playfair tmay be expected here on the 15th instant.

NEWS FOR THE SPANISH.-Our contemporary,
the Liverpool Times, remarks, on Tuesday last, of
the hostile parties who are contesting for supremacy
in Spain :

" We see from an article in the Journal des D‘bats,
that the members of the two factions, which brought
about this revolution, have already begun to quarrel at
Barcelona, and to threaten each other with death; and
it won't be long before these threats are fulfilled."
We trust our contemporary is right, and that the
two factions (like the celebrated Kilkenny cats)
will very shortly carry their threats into execution
and kill each other. Such an event will be a blessed
riddance for the Spanish people, if indeed there are
likely to be any people left after the factions have eat
each other up.

VALUE OF GUANO AS A MANURE.— h e Man•
cliester and Salford Advertiser of Saturday says—
" We are informed by a correspondent, that a meadow
belonging to Messrs. Walmesley and Crompton, fire-
brick makers, Boar Edge, near Bury, was, on Thursday
last, mown for the second time this season. The crop is
unusually heavy, rich in quality, and ample in quantity.
Scarcely six weeks have elapsed since the former crop
was taken from the land, which, it may be of use to our
numerous agricultural readers to state, has been dressed \
with guano."

We may add that, in the neighbourhood of this
town, on the land of Mr. W. Skirving, a similar
result may be named of the efficacy of this manure.
A field of grass belonging to this enterprising culti-
vator has already been twice cut, and a third crop is
fast becoming ready for the scythe.

THREAT OF THE REI'EALERS TO DRINK UP THE
BOYNE WATER !—The apostle of temperance is
no doubt working miracles in this country; but we
fear that we must resign ourselves to his speedy
departure for his own land, unless we wish to hear,
some fine morning, of the Liffey and the Shannon,
or a portion of the Irish Channel itself, being drunk
dry by his disciples, the Repealers of Ireland.
" When the cat's away, the mice will play ;" and,
in the absence of the worthy father, his Irish proto-
g6es display a propensity for drinking which is
quite shocking to contemplate ! The Rev. Mr.
M'Cormack, p.p. inspector of repeal wardens in the
county of Westmeath, in a letter to the Repeal Asso-
ciation, offers the following evidence of this awful
growth of Irish drinking capabilities and prac•
tices:—

" 1 read somewhere of an army that drank the river
Xanthus dry, but future historians, peradventure, will
record the more astonishing fact, that a multitude assem-
bled at Tara in 1843, so great, that they drank up all the
Boyne water, without leaving as much behind as would
cool a Saxon rat." (!)
A meeting assembled to drink the Boyne dry will
be an awful object for contemplation ! And horrible
to reflect upon is the possibility that men with such

SIGNIFICANT—BUT OF WHAT?—The repealers
are becoming savage. Scarcely an Irish paper
reaches us which does not record three or four
murderous attacks committed upon some unpro-
tected protestant, or some loyal member of their
own faith. The " peaceful agitation" is degene-
rating into a system of midnight ruffianism or open
outrage, similar to that practised in years past under
the dictation of the " Ribbon" authorities, or Cap-
tains " Rock" and " Starlight." Along with this
changed state of affairs it is scarcely possible to
avoid noticing the absence of that tone of furious
bluster and bravado, which used formerly to cha-
racterise the speeches of Daniel, the great leader of
the repeal sedition. We hear less of hi, professions
of readiness to shed his blood for his favourite
hobby ; and, more than all, we see the promised
meeting of a parliament in Dublin, with its ac-
companying measures of confiscation and proscrip-
tion, postponed from this year 1843—" the repeal
year (!)"—to a more distant and indefinite period !
Of what are these things significant ? Is the
" peaceful" system found to be one unlikely to
succeed ? Have the preparations of " the Iron
Duke"—the preparations of lead and steel, musket
and artillery—at length been discovered to be such
as repealers have little chance, ultimately, to with-
stand ? We much suspect that some notion of this
sort has alarmed the cowardly blusterer—that " re-
bellion has ill luck," (thanks to the preparations of
that member of her Majesty's government, who
assures us that nothing in his department is ne-
glected ;)—and that henceforth we are to be visited
merely with desultory murder and outrage in Ireland,
instead of that simultaneous and successful stand
against the law, which perhaps was originally con-
templated ! There is a changed feeling somewhere,
it is evident; we do not say that it is for the better.
We much prefer the open onset to the cowardly
night attack. Of one circumstance, however, this
change is significant. It proclaims to us that,
ruthless and bloodthirsty as are the agitators for re-
peal, they prefer a whole skin and immunity from the
gallows to the overt indulgence of their longing for
rebellion, with the prospect before them of an
adequate force to put it down. However dilatory
and hesitating may be, in our opinion, and in the
world's opinion, the policy of the present govern-
ment towards the repeal traitors, by the aid of the
sturdy duke's precautions, we are enabled to sleep
in our beds, here in England, with tolerable as-
surance of safety. Our brethren in Ireland, how-
ever, are scarcely in so happy a position. The rebel
arm, which cannot reach far enough to strike at the
integrity of the empire. may reach them in their
pistol may meet them at fair or market, on the tint
side, or in the highway. As a body, however, we
fear not for their security and their ultimate triumph
in the emergency with which they are threatened.
They will look about them and "keep their powder
dry.

VISIT TO ENGLAND OF THE DUKE OF PAL-
MELLA.—In our last publication we expressed our
opinion, founded upon what we believed to be au-
thentic information, that the visit of the Duke of
Palmella to this country would be found to be for
the purpose of concluding, upon the terms offered
by this country, the long negotiated Commercial
Treaty between Portugal and Great Britain. Since
writing the article in question, although we have
had to notice the doubts of one or two of our con-
temporaries, we have heard nothing to shake our
faith in the views which we originally advanced ;
and we have now to offer to our readers the follow-
ing confirmating opinion, which we find in a lead-
ing article of the London Times of yesterday.

The Portuguese Government appears to have made
up its mind with unusual promptitude as to the probable
consequences of the revolution in Spain. Politically speak.
ing, the disturbances which convulse the larger monarchy
cannot be indifferent to the minor state ; and the exam-
ple of Barcelona and all the pronouncing" towns on the
Mediterranean is not without a bad effect on Oporto and
the distressed wine-growing districts on the Atlantic.
The Government at Lisbon is probably, therefore, the
less disposed to adhere to a line of commercial policy
which is as dangerous to the tranquillity of the country as
it is fatal to (her interests. The arrival of the Duke of
Palmella in London is an occurrence which cannot be mis-
understood ; and, as we were led to believe that the fail-
ure of the former negotiation was mainly attributable to
the influence of certain private and local interests, we may
now hope that the renewal of the question in London, and
by the intervention of so distinguished a representative of
the Portuguse Court, affords the strongest grounds of
hope, and will ere long justify the confident predictions of
our Lisbon correspondent.
`• The immediate effect of such an arrangement with
Portugal would be, to establish along her whole internal
frontier a system of smuggling into Spain as complete as
that which prevails on the side of the Pyrennees, and
Spain would be compelled in self-decence to accede ulti-
mately to the same terms. In the meanwhile, the very
same trade which, from its illicit character, must be inju-
riods to the revenue and the manufactures of Spain, would
be eminently productive to the revenue of Portugal.
Lisbon and Oporto would share with Cadiz and Barcelona
the trade of the whole Peninsula ; and, provided the scale
of Portuguese duties is sufficiently low to defeat the Spa-
nish smuggler on the coast, an important change will be
effected in the mode of introducing those commodities into
Spain."

In the anticipations expressed in the concluding
paragraph, with respect to the importance of an in-
creased trade with Portugal as an inlet for smug-
gling into the Spanish dominions, we fully agree.
For a considerable period it is well known that our
exports to Lisbon have been, to a great extent, t ken
off by the free traders for Spanish consumption ;
and in the present distracted state of the latter
country, with reduced duties on importation into
Portugal, we see nothing to prevent an immensely
increased trade of this description. Such a trade,
however, is not the benefit which we contemplated
as likely to result from an arrangement, such as
that to which pointed, or a benefit for the realizatitin
of which a country ought to model its measures of
customs' relaxation. We expect from this arrange-
ment with Portugal, a protective arrangement for
a legitimate commerce with Spain, and ultimately
with France ; and in this anticipation we do not
expect to be deceived.

IMPORTANT PROBLEM.—At the meeting of the council
on Wednesday, Mr. Alderman Earle proposed the fol-
lowing important query :—" Can any policeman stop a
woman's tongue ?" and intimated his own opinion that
" be would find that a work of some difficulty." We would
suggest that the attention of men of science be directed
to the solution of a question so momentous; and that
they may derive some valuable hints from the difficulty
experienced by the mayor in stopping the tongue of the
worthy alderman himself.

LIVERPOOL REPEAL BOBADILS.—At a recent meeting
of the Repeal Association, held at the Corn Exchange,
Dublin, a letter was read from Mr. G. Smyth, of Li-
verpool, remitting £l6 from the repeaters of that town,
and stating that they were not at all alarmed at the
rumours afloat respecting an attempt to prevent the in-
tended Tara-hill meeting, and assuring the association
that the more brass cannon sent to Ireland by the govern-
ment, the more gold would be sent by the Liverpool re-
pealers. (!) Where will they get it?

The Solicitor-General (Sir W. Follett), Mr. Hill, (At-
torney-General of the Palatine), Mr. Temple, and Mr.
Hanmer, counsel for the plaintiff; and Mr. Jervis, Q.C.,
Mr. Welsby, and Mr. Townsend, for the defendants.
The SOLICITOR GENERAL stated the case, to the effect
that the plaintiff, Mr. W. Hanmer, was the trustee of Sir
John Hammer, under the will of the late Sir Thomas
Hanmer, who was possessed of considerable estates in the
county of Flint, including the mine in the parish of Flint,
known as the Dee Bank Colliery, arid which it was com-
plained had been destroyed by the negligent or wilful
wrong acts of the defendants, the Messrs. Eyton, large
mining proprietors, in the same county. The property
in question borders the River Dee, and consisted of
several valuable veins of coal ; the dip was from
the uplands down towards the river ; the veins
were the three and five yards, which were very valuable,
and dipped under the river. In 1826 it was leased to par-
ties named Howells, for twenty-five years, reserving a
royalty of one-seventh. It was since worked by the Dee
Bank Colliery Company. Adjacent to this colliery was
one worked by the defendants, leased from Dr. Richard-
son. About 45 years ago the late Mr. Ellis, of Cornist,
worked Sir John Hammer's mines, and several also of the
the adjacent mines. He worked through two faults, and
opened into one. which let an immense body of water
supposed to be tapped from the river Dee, which filled a
large space under ground, and formed a sort of subterra-
nean lake, known as the boot water, from the Boot Col-
liery ; and which was kept out of the rest of the collieries
by a fault. This body of water was well known to all the
colliers, and it was also known, that if the fault was dis-
turbed it would have disastrous effects upon all the adja-
cent collieries. The defendants began to work their mine
at Bagillt about eight or nine years ago, and had nearly
exhausted them. It was so situated that water flowed
from it into toe pits, whose engines had to remove it. About
3 years since they sunk a pit towards the fault which was the
barrier against the boot water. Notice was given to their
agent that they were proceeding in driving levels, which
would destroy all the collieries ; and which notice was re-
peated. He should prove by their own workmen, that
this notice was given, and that they coutinued to work
towards the fault in question. The accident happened on
Sunday, the 2nd of July last; and it was providential that
it happened on that day, as one hundred lives might have
been lost ; the boot water burst in, and first destroyed the
defendant's pits, and then the plaintiff's pits. In the first
instance the defendants offered to pay the expense of drain-
ing the plaintiff's pits ; but the learned counsel said he
was instructed that that could not be done, but that the
colliery was totally destroyed. With respect to the ques-
tion of damage, he entered into a variety of calculations,
by which it appeared that for some years the royalty had
averaged annually about £1,547 ; and that there were
about ninety-one acres of the three and five yard veins,
which gave a gross tonnage of 2,344,427, but deducting
the usual per centage, the net tonnage would be about
1,687,998 tons. It would take 90 years to exhaust these
beds. He entered into two calculations founded upon
different scales; one came to £20,194, the other to £30,944.
After some further observations, he stated that he should
sustain his statement by evidence ; and as Sir J. Hanmer
had lost his property by the default of the defendants, he
was entitled to full compensation at their hands.
A number of witnesses were then called to prove the
case as stated by the learned Council, and at the rising of
the Court there remained two witnesses to examine on
behalf of the plaintiff.
The cause excited considerable interest, in consequence
of the amount of property at stake, the damages being
laid at £200,000.

BANK OF MANCHESTER.

I„ The proceedings of the London Court of Bankruptcy

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during the past Week have disclosed to the world a novel
feature in the ruinous and scandalous career of the Bank
of Manchester. Whilst that mis-managed concern was

busily engaged in propping up the various mushroom
firms which its own improvident advances had brought
into existence ;—whilst engaged in bolstering up specu-
lation in railway shares, mines, mills, and other bubbles,
—it was, although the public was not aware of the fact,
itself, the greatest bubble of all, supported by the efforts
of its runaway cashier, and a couple of London bill-
brokers, who have confessed to the fact that, although
they were not possessed of a shilling in the world, and
the bank must have known of that fact, they succeeded
in raising for it capital to the extent of between two and
three millions, at a time when its own London bankers
would not discount a shilling's worth of its paper, and
the Bank of England had equally closed its books against
all unguaranteed transactions with such a ricketty con-
cern. For two or three years, previous to its final blow
up, when the world imagined it a prosperous concern—
when dividends were being paid, and flattering reports
being issued—it was a hopelessly struggling thing, upheld
only by the activity and tact, in staving off an evil day,
of a couple of adventurers, one of whom had but recently
emerged from the clearing process of bankruptcy, and
neither of whose security was intrinsically worth the price
of the smallest piece of paper upon which his name could
be written.