Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1857-12-10
Foreign Items.

! FoREIGN NEws.-By the Baltic, which arrived in
New York on Monday afternoon we learn that &C,
cordng to the Times on Monday the 23d, the tone
| of improvement in all departments of mercantile
business distinct than at any time, since
the first turn became observable. There
tinued absence of farther failures and additional
amount of bullion taken to the Bank. The
news is highly encouraging for an early rcstora-
ton of trade. American stocks are active in Eng
land Cotton at Liverpool is unchanged Man
chester reports unfavOrable. The market for bread
| stutfs had an upward tendency.
meeting of Paris distillcrs had memorializcd the
| Government to raise an impo tant duty foreign
sprituous liquors, on the ground that they cannot
compete with foreigners.
i A MILLIONAIRE WORKING FOR TWELVE SIiILLINGs
WEEK AND LIVING AS A PAuPER-A recent for
eign arrival brought the intelligence that the
great English millionaire Morrison, worth twenty
millions of dollars, had died. The following extract
from letter in the Boston Post shows how little
benefit he permitted himself to receive from all his
wealth
"Mr Morrison retired from active business seve-
raj years since, without withdrawing his capital
from the mercantile house, and though managing
his vast funds himself up to the time of his death
with all the sagacty Of earlier days. he has for the
last three years been possessed with the idea that he
should come to want. More than two years ago he
commenced doing day labor upon a farm held by one
of his tenants for which he received twelve shiings
week. and this he continued up to tie time of his
! illness For the last eighteen months he had been
regular applicant for relief to the parish, assemb
! ling twice week with the town paupers at the door
! of the Union, and received with each one of them
his two shillings and a quarter loaf. His friends
| have INDUCED him in these fancics on the ground
that it was the best choice Of two evils The truth
is money was his god and the idea became at las.
! too great for him. and broke him down. And yet
he has said to have made most judicious will and
his investments up to the last are characterized by
great good sense. The probate duty on his will ex-
ceeds tlOO, OOO.'
The following has been communicated to the
Poonah ndia Observer By recent letters received
from Brigadier Havelocks force, it appears that
the arrival of the detachment of the 18th Highland
ers at that place of skulls, Cawnpore after the mas
sacre of our countrymen, women and children, they
by some means or other found the remains of one
of Gen. Whecler's daughters. The sight was hor-
rble, and aroused them to that PITCH that, gather
| poor girl head portion of which was carefully
selected and sent home to her surviving friends.
The remainder they equally divided among them
selves; and on each man receiving Ills careful y
served out portion, they all quietly and very pa
ticntly applied themselves to the tedious task OF
counting ont the number of hairs contained III each
| individual S lot and when this task was accom-
| plished, they one and all most solemnly by
| heaven and the GOD that maze tneIn, tfaC loT as
many hairs as they held in their fingers SO many OF
the cruel and treacherous mutincers should die by
their hands-an oath that they WILL no doubt, most
religiously keep.
| CoNDITIoN OF THE BANK or ENGLAND.-The Bank
| of England had not f250, 900 in gold and not
$500 900 in notes to meet instant liabilities, debts
due depostors on demand of Els, 250, 600, when it
is suspended. The bank must have suspended
specie payments in less than twenty four hours if
the government had not sanctioned the excessive
is ne of paper; and it is by means certain that
the Bank of England will not yet be driven to re-
fuse specie for its own notes.
THE GREAT EAsTERN.-Tlc failure of the second
attempt to launch the Great Eastern steamship in
England will be much regretted. The Liverpool
Courier mentions that the first attempt is said to
have cost O,0OO," enough to build very re-
spectacle steamship Of the ordinary size.
We are concerned to find that new method Of
getting up Prayer books and Bibles for church use
enables the ladies to find their own amusement VIII lie
apparently engaged in worship. 1t seems to be
really the fact that the ladies' Prayerbook have
small mirror bound up with the cover Westminster
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