The morning comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-1856, 1856-10-18
Tim FAr1uRE OF THE ROYAL BRlT-


Tim FArtuRE OF THE ROYAL Burr
ISL BANK. Extraordinary Reuela-
lions. The London correspondent of
tbs New York Commercial Advertiser,
in bis letter of September %, says;
II WINS mentioned in the last advioes
that at a meeting Of the creditors of
the Royal British Bank just about to
be held, some extraordinary revela-
iions were likely to be made, and that
among the persons comprised two
members Of Pariment would be in
GUIDED These antlcipations have been
verified It appears that the losses Of
tbs bank, during the seven years Of its
existence, have amounted to glOO,0OO,
and that 100000 Of this sum has
been swallowed up in advance to direc-
tors. Two Of these personages, Mr..
Humphrey Brown, the member for
Tewkesbnry and Mr., John Macgregor
the member for Glasgow, figured re-
spectvely for 10000 and $4,000
Of the first amount not BALI. and of
the last not q farlhing, are likely TO
be recovered Mr. Brown was known
chiefly MS a railway Speculation class
Of men by whom the tone Of all recent
Parlilnenis has been owered--but
Mr.. Macgregog had wider reputation,
and his works on commercial statistics
on the progress Of America from the
discovery Of Columbus to the year
1S47, are probably well known in the
United States He was joint secretary
Of Trade from 1910 to 1877, and re-
signed the appointment, which was an
excellent one, to be returned to Parli-
mcnt, where he utterly failed in at
tracing any attention. 1t gave him,
however. sufficient Influence to get up
the Royal British Bank. and to mix
himself in a variety of other concerns,
none Of which have ended well. When
bo concocted the bank, he induced
Mr.. Cameron to come from Scotland
to manage it on the Scotch principles.
and it turns out that this gentleman
has made advances to himself Of G33
600 almost wholly without security.
A SoENE ron PAINTER Some
Of the police hearing on Tuesday night
that a dead man was lying in house
at the swamp terminus of Poydras
street, repaired to the spot The
house was little. old rlckcty affair
to behold externally, while its inside
was q picture Of extreme poverty, filth
and degradation. On q bare cot lay
the body of a man, on which destitu-
ton bad imprinted its saddest seal
that Of starvation. In corner, on the
floor, lay another man but alive, and
beastly drunk. Nesting close to this
beast, and shivoring with the cold, lay
. forlorn-ooking little girl, about
twelve years old--ber thin clothes all
'attered and dirty, her hair bloused.
She appeared to BIO conscious only Of
The cold, being as unmoved by the re-
pulsiveness of the dead man on the cot
as that Of the drunken beast on the
floor. A whisky bottle, half its con-
tents gone, sitting on the floor within
reach Of the drnnkard, completed
this picture Of misery. Yesterday,
when the Coroner held bis inquest, the
drunkard had cleared out, and only
the forlorn little girl remained with
the corpse, which was that of her faith
err. The dead man was Jacob Schnei-
der a German. forty two years old,
and the verdict of the Coroner's in
quest, was verdict that be had died
Of congestion of the lungs, brought on
by exposure and starvation
Grescentl