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September 6,1856.] THE lEADEH. 843
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STATE OF TRADE. The accounts from -the m...
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AMERICA. Concjuess has adjourned, and be...
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THE FATE OF CICERUACCHIO. We linvo recei...
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Fall Of A House. A House B Little Swaa-A...
The police , aided by several of the neighbours , who worked most manfully , set about rescuing those who were involved in the ruins , with the greatest despatch . Among the various occupants rescued alive -was Mrs . King , who held her infant in her arms . A beam had fallen across her shoulder , and she had bad the presence of-mind to hold the cMld beneath it as the dgbris v /& re falling . Neither was much hurt , but Mrs . King ' s husband was seriously injured . Mrs . Palmer ' s eldest boy was playing in the alley in front of the house when it fell , and so escaped unhurt . A house adjoining the one which has fallen , has since been pulled down , as it was-in a dangerous state , and the approaches to the alley have been barricaded .
September 6,1856.] The Leadeh. 843
September 6 , 1856 . ] THE lEADEH . 843
State Of Trade. The Accounts From -The M...
STATE OF TRADE . The accounts from -the manufacturing towns for the week ending last Saturday report' no changes , except such as axe favourable . At Manchester , business has still been , rather limited , but the Birmingham advices describe aa improvement in tlie iron trade , owing to orders from the United States , while there has also been increased activity in the general occupations of the place , most of them having been assisted by a good Australian demand . At Nottingham , there has been , a large attendance of buyers on home account , as well as for America and GeTmany . In the woollen districts , the transactions have likewise been to a full extent , and , in the Irish linen markets , prices are well maintained . —Times .
The Royal British Bank stopped payment on " Wednesday mornings For some time past doubts have been prevalent as to the position of the bank , and a run has been going on , which terminated on Wednesday in the closing of the establishment , at about eleven o ' clock , with a notice that business was suspended " pending negotiations . " The negotiations in question were commenced on the same day with the National Bank , an institution formerly known as the National Bank of Ireland , but which , under the powers of its charter , entered upon business in London in October last . The directors of this bank , however , were willing to afford assistance to the Royal British only with such prudent limits as might be thoroughly " warranted by the nature of the assets to be made over , and it is believed that ,
upon the discovery that the Koyal British Bank had been compelled to close its doors , all idea of proceeding further was abandoned . It is feared : the prospect of any arrangements for a resuscitation is at an end . Tflie capital of the bank is divided into 3000 shares of 100 ? . each , on ¦ which 50 ? . has been paid , making a total of 150 , 000 ? ., and among many practical people an opinion prevails that the greater part , if not the whole , of this will be found to have been lost . There are strong rumours that very improper advances hare been made to persons connected -with the establishment , and it is understood that some time back it made a large advance upon certain ^ ironwoiks , which , have not only proved a dead weight , but which in the old . fashion , have been allowed to absorb further and heavier sums through delusive efforts to retrieve the original loss . —Ttlem .
A petition for an adjudication of bankruptcy was . Thursday filed against the Royal British Bank in the Court of Bankruptcy . The petitioning creditor is Mr . Walter Morisse , of Jewin Crescent , Cripplcgate . From Liverpool , we hem of the suspension of the firms of Messrs . M'Larty and Co ., and Lamont . M'Larty , and Co ., with liabilities to the extent of nearly 100 , 0002 . Their losses in the Australian trade and in their Italian steamers have been the cause of their stoppage . Tho struggle between the Barnsley colliers and their employers , after extending over a period of eight weeks , was brought to a sadden termination last Saturday , in consequence of a number of the men liaving signed articles to work for the proprietors . The result was
that several more were expected to follow , when the committee at onco resolved to close the strike . They met at the Baltic Inn on Saturday morning , Mr . Siddons in the chair . The xoll having beon called , it was agreed that those men who had been applying for work at the Oaks Colliery should not bo admitted . On the motion of Mr . Clcgg , it was resolved : — " That after the funds at present in hand had been divided on . Monday next , the struggle in which they had been engaged should terminate , and that tlioso men who thought fit to accept work should not in nny way be interfered with by those who declined to work under the present mannger . " The men present declared their intention of seeking employment olsowhero rather than nm the risk of again working under the present management .
America. Concjuess Has Adjourned, And Be...
AMERICA . Concjuess has adjourned , and been ro-convoncd . Tho adjournment took plnco on the 18 th ult . ; but , as the Army Appropriation Bill had not been passed , tho Tresident immediately issued n proclamation for an extra session on the 21 st , alleging tliat , ns hostilities " exist with various Indian tribes on the remote frontiers of tho United States , " and as " in other respects the public pcaco is seriously threatened , " tho adjournment of Congress •? without granting the necessary supplies for the army , " thus " depriving the Executive of tho power to perform its duty in relation to the commou defence nud
security , " must be considered " an extraordinary occasion" which necessitates the assembling the two Houses . The Legislature , it seems , broke up in great confusion . The Democrats asked for an extension of the session , which was refused ; owing to which , the Array and many other bills were lost It is stated that several bills failed to receive the President ' s signature from want of tune . Southern , members are very indignant with President Pierce for calling the extra session , as a number of them had previously met aud addressed him a letter requesting him not to do so .
Mr . Soule has left New Orleans for Central America ; and many reports are in circulation respecting the objects of his visit . The storm at New ~ Orleans turns out to be more disastrous than originally reported . New Orleans was completely inundated , and the damage to the sugar , cotton , and corn crops was great . Many houses were swept ayray ; some hundreds of lives have been lost ; and the steamer Nautilus has gone down , with , it is feared , all hands . Last Island , a short distance above New Orleans , suffered severely , and the dead bodies were stripped , and robbed by a set of pirates inhabiting the spot . —There has been great excitement in Mobile in consequence of the sale of abolition books there . A Vigilance Committee was formed , and the offending parties were ordered to leave
the city in five days . Havamiah has been suffering greatly from yellow fever . TJic decree creating General Concha Marquis of the Havannah and Viscount of Cuba has been mado public . Kansas is still torn with internal dissensions . The New York papers report that " two hundred Freesoilcrs attacked the town of Franklin ,. Kansas , in which were only twenty pro-slavery men . The light lasted four hours , and ( according to one account ) four pro-slavery men and six Freesoilers were killed . The assailers robbed the post-ofiice , and then set it on fire , and finally retreated , carrying off the cannon of the town . Other reports say that seventeen Freesoilers were killed aud wounded . One hundred United States troops occupied the town the next day . Three hundred of Lane's men have entered Topeka . "
The Emperor Soulouque and the Dominicans are renewing their amicable relations . The fear of yellow fever at New York has died out , the disease being on the decline at Quarantine . The condition of Nicaragua is still far from settled . We read in the Panama Star and Herald :- — " Walker ' s position is a most precarious one . . He has only 1200 followers—all told—while Rivas , who still contends that he is president , is fortifying himself at Canendagua , and has already 300 O well armed troops . He lias the sympathy of the entire country , except the few American ' s who still adhere to Walker , and his countrymen are daily rushing to his standard . Honduras and Guatemala are organizing forces to invade Nicaragua , and drive Walker from the country ; and it is understood that as soon as the dry season resumes—now near at hand- —they will make a descent on Nicaragua . " Walker , adds the writer , has disgusted the Nicaraguans by his cruelty and by his arrogating to himself the right to depose Kivas .
From Chili we learn that Don Manuel Montt has been re-elected President . The Government has announced that no hostile attempt will he made against Peru . The treaty o > f friendship , commerce , and navigation , concluded with the United States , lias been submitted to the approbation of the Senate , and has raet with a complete approval . Goneral Robler has beon elected President of Ecuador by a large majority . A companion to the Brooks outrage is reported by the Washington correspondent of the New Yoi-b Times , who writes : — " A most disgraceful assault has been committed b > y Mr . M'Mullen , of Virginia , upon . Mr . Granger , The parties were in an omnibus , riding to the Capitol . They got conversing on politics . Both wero very earnest in tho discussion . M'Mullcn said in effect that tho
South would not submit to tho election of Fremont . Granger replied , ' After November , it - will bo mado to submit . ' M'Btullen immediately changed the discussion from a political to a personal one . He professed to bo insulted , and told Granger that grey hairs alone protected him . Mr . Granger said , ' I ask no immunity on that account . ' M ' j tfullen thereupon clenched him , and struck him two sovero blows , bruising Granger ' s face badly . Grangor defended himself us well aa ho could . Tho parties were sopnrated immediately by Colonel Chester , of tho Pennsylvania , Inquirer , who gave substantially tho foregoing account . Granger Is an old man , considerably under tho medium height , very earnest in his manner , but frank , good-natured , and generally popular /'
The Fate Of Ciceruacchio. We Linvo Recei...
THE FATE OF CICERUACCHIO . We linvo received tho annexed note from Signor Angcloni : — Sirs , —An article , furnished to the Gazetta Officiala di Milano by M . Enrico Montazio , the London correspondent , concerning tho fate of Ciccruaechio , having betin quoted by the English press , permit mo to rofiito tlic statements mndc by the above-mentioned gentleman . After a sneering allusion to tho article in the Timea on Garibaldi ' s letter , tho corespondent alleges that Ciccruacchio and his children wero not shot by tlio Austrians , but that they " wero drowned while
mdeavourmg to woss a stream m their flight from Some . He who assures me of this fact , " says the correspondent , " is an ottimo galantuomo—a certain Giuseppe Angeloni—¦ who , after the fall of Rome , came to London , married an Englishwoman , and now earns an honest livelihood as an hotel-keeper , which employment he would find more profitable if his extreme goodnature did not make him the dupe of so many emigrants , who , abusing his kindness , feed themselves at his expense . " I , sir , am the humble individual -with whose family affairs M . Montazio thinks fit to trouble the public I feel obliged by the respectful terms in which he mentions rne , and am sorry to be obliged to repay them by asserting that his statements concerning the information given by me to him about Ciceruacchio arc utterly false . I mber
reme , about two months since , -when dining at my table ; d'hote , M . Montazio questioned me concerning my poor friend . I replied tlat . I supposed he was dead , my invariable supposition about all of our friends of whose fate we are ignorant , and whom we know to be obnoxious to one or other of the Italian Governments . Had I been in possession of any particulars , a talh d'Mte was not the place iu which I should have revealed them , nor was M . Moutazio the man I should have chosen foi my confidant . But in this instance I was totally in the dark . "VVlien I parted from my friend in Rome he accompanied Garibaldi in his retreat , and I embarked for England in a steamer off Civita Vecchia , the 5 th July , 1849 . From that moment until General Garibaldi ' s letter appeared in the papers , I have waited anxiously
for tidings , fearing the worst . Henee the * stream , ' the crossings , ' and tlie ' death by drowning , ' exist only in the inventive brain of the London correspondent of the Gazetta Officiate di Milano . Perhaps if I had been in the liaMt of receiving Austrian money for communications fabricated for an Austrian official journal , I might have been in possession of Austrian secrets , and . long since liave given over hoping against hope that some future day might give me back my friend again . As it is , I am tut a poor innkeeper ; but so . from complaining of the ' ¦ malajede di molti emigraii , 'I am glad to see at my table those of rny brothers exiled for the holy cause in wlich the noble Ciceruacchip and bis sons , together with such myriads of our countrymen , have lived and died .
I have -written a letter to this effect to the Gazetia , but well aware that it has no chance of insertion . I ask you , sir , to give publicity to my statement . It is due to General Garibaldi— -who affirms , on the word and rer searches , of Colonel Sacclii , that those seven brave ones fell by Austrian bullets—that false assertions should not prevent the inquiries of honest men into this matter . And for myself , I should grieve that my brothers in exile , and my brothers in my native land , should deem me a traitor to the common cause . I am , Sir , with respect , yours , 32 , " Warwick-square , Aug . 29 . G . AsrGEtXHtt .
Continental Notes. -.. Fkance. . ' . ' ....
CONTINENTAL NOTES . -.. FKANCE . . ' . ' . The growth of cotton 5 n Algeria forms the subject of a rather interesting report from Marshal Vaillant to tho Emperor , which appears in the Monkeur . In this document , the Minister of War recognizes the good effects of the decrees of tho 16 th of October , 1853 , by which an annual prize of 20 , 00 Ofr . was allotted for five years to the best cotton-grower in the Franco-African colony ; and for three years , commencing with 1854-, the wholo cotton produce of Algeria was ordered to bo purchased by the State at a price fixed beforehand and advantageous to the producer . In consequence of this encouragement , the growth of cotton has" increased , and it has been proved , not only -that tho plant flourishes in many districts of the colony , but that its quality is comparable to that of the finest produce of tho United States . A prolongation of the advantages assured to the producer is suggested , and it has accordingly been decreed that tho Government will continue to purchase the whole of tho Algerine cotton until tho crop of 1858 inclusively . — Times Paris Correspondent . Tho groat Pcsentorcs trial will take rank among the French tau-ses cc'lcbret , by reason of the strong interest it has excited , and of tho real importance of the question at issue . In this case , tho interest does not attach to tho parties to tho suit , but the public has recognized in it an attempt on tho part of tho clergy to got over tho necessity of civil marriage . In Franco a couple cannot be married by the priest without producing tho certiflcuto of their previous nnJoa by tho lay authorities . M . Donnot , Cardinal Archbishop of Bordeaux , tried to evade this law , and to ostabliah a precedent by sending M . Pcscjitorc n . nd Madamo Wcbor to be married at tho
little village of Ronteria , a few miles beyond the Spanish frontier . On tho death of M . Peseatoro , tho fortune ho left was claimed by his blood relatipns , on the ground of there having been no legal marrin # o , and in their favour tho tribunal has just decided , Hail a contrary decision been come to , it would have been a triumph . for the Church party , and a . great blow atruck at the French law enjoining civil marriage , eince . people would onlj have had to cross a frontier in order to contract a loyal union without reference or submission to the civil authorities . Such marriages would havo been encouraged , b } the priests , and might have given rise to many irregularities . —Idem .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 6, 1856, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06091856/page/3/
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