Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-12-31
FOUR DAYS
Later from Europe.
Arrival Of the steamship AraRe.
MORE LARGE FAILURES.

The steamship Arago, from Southampton
10th inst, arrived at New York, Wednesday,
Dec. 80.
Cotton was very dull Flour had advanced
cd. barrel Wheat was 3d. higher, and
corn slightly advanced. Consols closed on
Tuesday at 81 S-S 9l5S.
The steamship Niagara, from Boston, ar
rived at Liverpool on the l4th.
Several large failures were announced,
among which are Messrs. H. s. NJ Toldorpt &
Co., Swedish merchants in London. The
amount of their liabilities is not stated. Row.
Prescott & Co., the chief house in London in
the Swedish trade, had failed liabilities
100000. The prospect of their liquidation
is quite satisfactory Richard Wiley & Co.,
silk merchants, London liabilities $3.50 900.
$. c. Lister & Co., large wooden merchants at
Halifax; liabilities heavy. Salfeld Broth
ers OF Leeds, London, and Hamburg, in the
WOODEN trade; liabilities G200, 900. Bali s
Abaleypa Marseilles, commercial trade liza
bilities f20S, 900.
The Austrian Government has advanced
loan of 100000 forms to the city of Ham.
burg at per cent. The loan will be EMPLOY
ed In giving aid to the large Houses. A prop
osltion had been made to the Swedish Cham
bers to contract loan of 50, 900 900 for the
same purpose. Six Or eight more Houses at
Hamburg had stopped previous to the 10th,
and the Savings Banks were crowded with
perons anxious to draw the smallest deposits.
The authorities had recource to the military
to keep order.
On the 18th there was no general return of
confidence, and further failures were expect
ed. Five houses in Stockholm had suspend.
ed.
The British Parliament adjourned its sit
tings on the the 18th, till the 4th of February
next the royal assent having been previously
given to the bank issues indemnity bill.
The Danish Council of State had authoriz-
ed the minister, Kerr Krieger, to bring in
bill for the loan of $500, 900 sterling, at eight
per cent, secured on the finances of the whole
kingdom.
The financial crisis had become more ag-
gravated at Smyrna, and was increased by the
fall in the prices of almost all kinds of com
modities
1t was said that the king of Portugal $ mar.
rage would take place in April next.
Twenty-seyen men Of the order of st. Vim
cent de Paul were about to leave Paris for
China.
Lord Panmure read letter from Sir Colin
Campbell, in the House of Lords, on the day
of Propagation, in which he effectually dis.
patched the report that he had been on ill
terms with, Lord Canning at Calcutta.
Gibson was elected member for Ashton
over his opponent by large majority.
The Shah of Persia had ordered Teraup
Khan to leave Paris in January, and travel
tor two months in other countries in Europe
The Belgian elections had resulted in a
large ministerial majority in favor of the lib
eral policy. There were los mem ers to be
elected, and of these 70 of the new deputies
belong to the liberal scale, and only 3S to the
opposite.
1t was rumored at Vienna, that news had
been received from Constantinople, to the ef-
feet, that the Porte acting with the consent
of the Powers, which signed the treaty of
Paris, had issued frmau Tor the dissolution
Of the Divans in the Danubiau Principah.
ties, but the statement required confirmation.
John Edward Stephens, of the late London
and Eastern Bank, had failed to appear be.
fore the Bankruptcy Court at Edinburg, after
several days examination.
Henry Smith Bright, formerly large Com
mission Merchant at Hull, had been sentence
ed to ten years penal servitude for forgery.
An Ambassador has been,sent to England to
sue for the hand of the Princes Alice for the
crown of the Netherlans.
There was great agitation in Syria. con-
hict had occurred between the inhabitants of
Bethlehem and lamar, in which one person
was killed and several wounded
A portion of the crew of the United States
frigate Congress were on visit to Jerusalem.
The Arago brings sixty.seven passengers
and $4,000 in specie. No further progress
had been made towards launching the Levia-
than. Trade in the manufacturing districts
OF England was bad The markets were in
animate, and at Haddersfeld prices were
shade lower.