Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1857-11-26
Foreign Items.

England hut all over the Continent. But it is in
England that its intensity is most fatal. The
great house of Dennisoun, Cross l. Co. has gone
BY the board, and so has the Western Bank Of
Scotland at Glasgow, with many other establish
ments Of less note. most of them engaged in the
American trade. The ru! promises 10 be quite
as .wide spread and thorough as that through
whit h We have just passed in this country. The
Bank of Eng land has raised its rate Of disc un to
10 per cent. Cutton has fallen with stagnant
market. Our great staple is evidently on the
downward course, and We may be tina, it will
sink TO lower figure than ii has been for years.
fine British manufactures being ruined, and there
being foreign demand for yarns chiicoes,
there will be nobody buy it, and the great crop
Of 1857 stands in danger OF going begging
From Inda-'rhe Atlantic brings confirmation
of the reported fall of Delhi, but very few par'icu-
lars The following is the latest Geographic dis
patch received al the Foreign Office:
"Delhi, which fell into our hands on the oOh
Sept; was entirely occupied On the 2lst, and the
whole of the enemy expelled. In the assault OF
the 18th, 81 officers aud LIS men.-bring abou,
third Of the storminy f,rcr-kied and wuun-
hrd. Gen Nicholson had died Of his wounds on
the 2l~l. The old kim, said to be 20 years of
.g-. surrendered to Captain Hcdgson ard his cav
airy, about fifteen miles south vi Delhi lie WAS
eccnm panied by his chief " lie Their lives were
spared.
Two Of his sons and grandson. also captured
by Capt fiodg>on about FIVE miles from Delhi
were shot on The spot and their bodies brought
to the city and exposed a, the police Office. Two
movable columns We're dispatched from Delhi en-
The 3d. in pursuit of the enemy. ny accounts
fret" Agra. one column appears TO have reached
tie n'lshhorhood Of Ally @hu; ard HE other thai
lt Mtri "a, he )St of thor lt1v
-rIoct. with , $50 men. crossed the Gauges from
C"wnpore. S"pl 10. and relieved Lucknow Re-
heicy on the Soh. Just as It Vas ready Ia be
bio" Up by It's be>lrSer>. On the 26i the
eny' entertainments stnrmpd. and on the
!9''' large part OF ie city Was taken-1o0 Kill
led and wuuu,trd
Gen. Neil killed.
There has been slight RI mo of the rebels near
N">sack In thu Presidency in the suppression o!
which Lieut.. Henry Of IN police was killed
Madras troops defeated the necrs Uf the IL,
near hrnp'er, and kie,! $50.
A native of licer, and Srpny having been con-
vIcttd of treason, were blow away from the guns
at Bombay, on the 9th October.
Predatory tribes in the Purjaul, between AIoul.
tan "nh Lahore, have given some trouble !airiy,
and the disturbance seems to have been SUPPRESS
I'd
Dream Tlegraph.-The work of,akng the Al.
Niagara, has been completed Tie attempt Ia
lay the cable next year is to be made the end at
Jane or beginning Il July: and it has been de-
-rnne'i 10 rtsort 10 the plan orr gnaily content
patet!-vlZ TO commence the Subn-rnlny pro-
cess in the middle OF the Atlantic. the vessels
engaged sailing respectfully for the shores of New.
tundland and Ireland. Three thousand miles OF
cable are to be cniied on the vessels, instead Of
wo thousand six hundred as in the first attempt.
The CHASE AND CAPTIVE OF AN AMERICAN
SLAYER the London illustrator Ne,cs OF Sept
10, contains fhe following account of the capture
If the capture Of the schooner Abbot Drvr.nux
an American, vessel, which for several years lra-
ded between Savannah. and Cuba:
II. NJ S. Iraser, Lagos.
Western Coast Of AjvcG, Aug. 8. 1857
| Having seen IL one Of your recent numbers an
eng rnvlng. and likewise The short account of the
capture of SLAYER. | thought, perhaps. this
might Re equally acceptable. early Sunday
morning last, being eff Nhytah, and about sixty
miles at sea, the masthead innn reported strange
sail ; sail was i,nmedlAtcl Ill hde ship. hui
! tn purpose, she made three feet to our two.
Steam was now got up, and the chase began in
earnest. After about t" hours hard chase We
mad neared her very considerably. Casks. boats
hampers. in fact everything they conId throw over
board to Tighten their vessel they did We nov
! fired our Long Tom in order to bring her To, bn
| to no purpose The chase now. yen may suppose
kept bravry on, although our Shot (32 FOUNDERS
nearly fell on her deck more than once. She trrt
every means to escape, and kept on to the v-r,
last, hoping. no doubt, that our machinery Nigh
give out. She hove to about four O'Clock. 4 iout
hurr"h procI"unfd the event. She proved to b,
the Abbot Devreaux. a vessel of I2U tons, will
235 aves, and mixed crew, consisting of Spar.
iards, Americans. Portuguese, and BrAZilians. 81
in all. A. boarded her ih, matches
We're opened. aud snch a scene never was wit.
messed The slaves had been h"ltentd down al
day during nine houI-', chase, they ntre a.
SEA sick. and the stencil and filth indescri.
babe: perhaps You can irn"glne 235 human he.
lag, shut up IN place 50 lr"i by 20 feet. and
only 3 feet e inches high. just room enough II
clear the top Of their heads when they in u
sitting position. During the chase We ran dis
lance Of eighty five miles.
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CRIME IN New IoRK.-The New York papers
overflow with accounts ni Standings and murdt rs
too numerous and horrible for US 30 describe or
enumeratc. In the heigit Of The garotie. pam
ic there Was never half the real ocra.ion Of fear
for ptrs onal SAFETY that may he found in these re-
peaed and frequent cranes. A very large prnpor-
ton Of ihrm have been committed IN The brutIeI>
or observation-disclosures which New York morality
81 ems to have come TO Tolerate As necessary evils ;
ans; in one or Two Cases tie victims have BEEN
l.wi women, hurried horribly from the midst Of
crime tn Judgment.
Reaofts ike these tend to discourage the NEST
hopeful! ABOUT any good results from the new police
administration.
One of the New York papers Of Monday sums
up the criminal OF one day in this bloody
little catalogue:
To-day we detail probably fatal assault upon
officer; savage but less serious beating Of
another officer; brutal fgh, in saloon stab
bing in sailor boarding. house a garo,,e
robbery, and several smaller affairs These are
all new. OF the old murders, we have t!r inquest
on Hamilton, and the commitment OF his murderer,
the arrest "f man accused one of the as>as>ins