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No. 450, November jfrjgggj__ ¦ THE LEADE...
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FliOM TIIE LONDON GAZETTE. Tuesday, Nove...
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BANK OF ENGLAND. A.u Account, pursuant t...
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Sihmamnic Tisleouai'U to IIanovkr. —Duri...
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No. 450, November Jfrjgggj__ ¦ The Leade...
No . 450 , November jfrjgggj __ ¦ THE LEADER . 1205
Fliom Tiie London Gazette. Tuesday, Nove...
FliOM TIIE LONDON GAZETTE . Tuesday , November 2 . BANKRUPTS . Eobert Gilbert Saunders ,-Bush-lane , Cannton-streel merchant ... . Edwin G » i ? st , Blackfriars-rqad , ironmonger . William Slade , Bagnor , near Newbury , paper-maker . Samuel Manning , Marylebone-road , mason . Henry Louis Winter , New North-street , Finsbury millowner . George Lionel Fitzmaurice , Gloucester-place , Port man-square , boarding-house keeper . John Harris , College-hill , Upper Thames-street , enve lope manufacturer . James Henrx" Wills , Hammersmith , liceused victualler Jabez Edmanson , Sheffield , linendraper . SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS . Rev . Robert William Fraser , Edinburgh , parisli minister . James Wallace , Devonside , woolspinner . Alexander Watt , Dunfermline , cattle dealer . William Bowie , Elgin , flesher . William Leitch , Glasgow , writer . Thomas Cram Temperley , Portobello , shipbroker . Gavin Park , Glasgow , flesher . Thomas Arbuckle , Glasgow , tobacconist . John Douglas , Glasgow , wright . BANKRUPTS . Friday , November 5 . Wm . Udy Wilcock , Hoxton , Middlesex , builder . Thomas Wilkins , Jun ., Miluer-terrace , Sloane ^ street , ' Chelsea , carpenter . John Wilkinson and William Joseph Wilkinson , Kingston-upon-Hull , engineers . John Thomas Davis , Alton , grocer . Obilon Lehrner , Oxford-street , -watch and clock maker .. . ' . Edmund William Fraser , Kensington-park-terrace North , builder . . Joseph Goodciiild , Aldenham , Hertfordshire , cattle dealer . Dixon Beedzler , Bourne , Lincolnshire , general dealer . William Richard Heath , Birmingham , electro-plater . EDWAftD Masojj , Manchester , commission agent . William Harrop and Henry Tathah , Cullingworth , Yorkshire , worsted manufacturers . Robert Bishop , Church-street , Minories , licensed victualler . Joseph Henry , Craven-terrace , Bayswater , upholsterer . Agnes Taylor , Newcastle-under-Lyne , provision dealer . Edward Wootton , Wednesbury , Staffordshire / iron manufacturer . Richard Chase , Bristol , commission agent . Joseph Atkinson , Blackpool , Lancashire , outfitter . SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS . Roderick Macicay , Invergordon , innkeeper . Neil Service , Helensburgh , joiner . Michael Archibald , Stirling , commission agent . Alfred Leigh , Perth , attorncy-at-law and scrivener . John Carrick and Co ., Glasgow , timber-merchants .
Bank Of England. A.U Account, Pursuant T...
BANK OF ENGLAND . A . u Account , pursuant to the Act 7 th and 8 th Victoria , cap . 32 , for the week ending on Wednesday , thoSrd day of November , 1808 . ISSUE DEPARTMENT . £ , £ Notes issued 32 , 403 , 910 Government debt .. 11 , 015 , 100 Other securities ... 3 , 450 , 000 Gold coin and bullion 17 . 02 S . 010 Silver bullion £ 32 , 403 , 0-JI 0 . £ a 2 ,-t 03 . HANKING * DKPAltTMENT . Proprietors' capital 14 , 553 , 000 Govornmont soouttost 3 , 103 , 080 ritios ( including Publio deposits ( In- Dead Woltflit Aucludtii ft Excho- unity ) 10 , 800 , 407 QUor . Covnmission- Other Securities . lt , H 07 , 00 l ) ors of National Notes U , 041 , 005 Dobt , Savings' Gold and Silvor Banks , and Divi- Coin , 083 , 045 Ound Accounts ) .. 0 , 570 . Wl Other deposits .... 12 , 210 , 720 Sovon Day & othor Bi » 8 . 850 , 203 ^ 37 . 342 ^ 10 £ 37 , 342 , 410 M . MARSHALL , Chief Cashier . Dntod tho 4 th day of Novombor , 1858 . ;
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Sihmamnic Tisleouai'U to IIanovkr . —During the last wook ft numbor of telegraphic engineers h « vo boon ongagod in tho work of submerging a tologrflpliio cable from Woybourno Hoop , near Cromor , on the Norfolk coast , to Embdon , In Hnnovor . Tho telegraph will bo oarrlud from Oromor to Norwich on posts ; which are " being erected with nil poeaiblo dospntoh on tho turnpike road . At Norwich tho tologmpj \ will , of course , join tho existing system of tho Jilootrio and International Telegraph Company . Edinburgh ajnjo Gi-asoow . Bank .- ^ TIio . poeltion of
this bank , though almost forgotten iii the greater magnitude of the Western Bank disaster , promises also to be the subject of litigation in the civil courts . It may be remembered that in February last one-half of the capital t , of the bank , or 500 , 000 . ? .,. was written off , but the share-» holders suspecting that the losses exceeded that sum , made further investigation , . and tjie result of the negotiations following thereon was tliat the business of the bank Was transferred to the Cly desdale , the directors of ¦ , which estimated the assets of the Edinburgh and Glasgow at about 105 , 000 ? ., only , and agreed to give the - partners in the latter concern stock in the Clydesdale according to the value of their assets as eventually - realised or ascertained . An action has now been raised by certain partners against the trustees appointed in . room of the directors of the Edinburgh and Glasgow for carrving out the agreement with the Ctydesdale , the object of which is to obtain access to all the books , i papers , and documents kept by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank . The pursuers allege that " at the annual meetings held in . 1854 , 1855 , 1856 , and 1857 , reports were presented by the directors to the shareholders which gave a . false representation of the affairs of the bank , as the directors well knew , in respect that they represented it as being in prosperous circumstances , while the reverse was the fact . Dividends , as out of realised profits , were recommended by the directors ; and , accordingly , dividends were declared , and paid to the shareholders , during the years 1854 , 1855 , 1856 , and 1857 , upon the whole subscribed capital of 1 , 000 , 000 / ., while , before these years , more than half , and as the pursuers have been informed and believe nearly the whole , of the capital had been lost . " They also allege various other " fraudulent devices" to conceal the state of matters from the company . . Natioxal Bank of Austria . — We learn from Vienna that the Bank has resumed payments in silver | according to the new currency , 105 fl . new for 100 old . j Considerable alarm had been caused in the commercial world by the discovery that notes of the Bank for lQOfl . each had been reproduced , by means of photography , with such exactness that it was difficult to distinguish the false from the true . Western Bank . —The call of 100 / . per share , which , is expected to produce a million , became due on Monday , ' and up to the close of bank hours oii Tuesday the sum of 567 , 000 ? . had been paid up by the shareholders . This is considered satisfactory . A number of willing and competent shareholders cannot pay till Martinmas , which falls on the 11 th inst ., at which da £ e many payments upon heritable securities fall due in Scotland . At and between that date it is known that a large additional sum will be paid in . The liquidators will then proceed stringently against those who decline to pay and have the means of paying . The Snip Hudson . —The amount of the insurance at Lloyd ' s on the Hudson steamer , just burnt , is not upwards of 70 , 000 ? ., as stated in the reports , but only 21 , 000 ? ., the amount of a policy on . the hull and machinery ,, valued at 55 , 000 ? . The Growth of Silk in Italy . —We learn by the Milan Gazette that the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian , who has now returned to the capital of the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom , received on the 28 th ult . Count Castellani , one of the gentlemen who propose accompanying Count Freschi on bis journey to Asia , with a view to attempt the regeneration of the silkworm in Europe by the importation of new species from the East . His Imperial Highness had upwards of an hour ' s conversation with Count Castellani , and evinced the deepest interest in the undertaking . The New Currency in Vienna . —If judicious arrangements had been made by tho Finance Department of the Bank , the change from the old currency to the new might have been effected here with little i difficulty ; but things have been so badly ma- ' naged that very few of the inhabitants of the i city have oven seen a now coin . Yesterday was I a holiday , but still there were very violent disputes < in the markets between tho vendors and tho purchasers , j Tho latter are not well " up" in the new currency , and < many of them aro totally unable to understand why they ] now get less for their money than they did on Sunday i laat . " What is tho price of beef to-day ? " says a i cook-inaid . " Twenty-five new kreutzers a pound , " ' , replies tho butcher . *• How much is that in Conventiona-Munse ( conventional money ) ? " inquires tho girl , j " Fourteen kreutzors and a half , " rejoins tho man of the 1 knlfo and steel . Tho pound of moat having been t weighed with nearly twice as much as tho proscribed ] quantity of bono , tho servant proffers payment to 1 the butcher ' s wife . That lady glances at tho 14 J c kreutzors old currency , and curtly remarks to her ' customer that it ia of no uso to attempt " to do 1 her" ( flnschmieren ) . Tho noat-liandod but sharp- i tonguod Phillid rejoins , a violent dispute ensues , and c continues until a market commissary walks into tho < shop , and explains to tho excited girl that tho old kroutzors are of loss value than tlioy were , and that i she must oithor make up the difference ( 2 J old a kroutzors ) to tho butcher , or pay him twenty-five e kroutzcrs in tho now ourrenoy . The language used t by tho lower classes is extremely violent and ( abusive , but comparatively few persona aro ar- j
. . rested , as the policemen endeavour not to hear what is said . One and the same expression is employed by almost all the railers , but it cannot be repeated , as persons uttering it in connexion with the name of the Sovereign are guilty of the crime of lesemajest }' . No pickpocket was ever more abused than is ? the Minister of Finance . —Vienna Letter . The West Yorkshire Collieries . —On Wednesday tiie miners of Leeds , Wakefield , and Methley , met for the purpose of considering the recent decision of their employers with respect to the 15 per cent , reduction . There was a large attendance of the unemploj-ed , about twelve hundred being present . Several speakers addressed the meeting , and the following resolutions were passed : — " That this meeting , reviewing the conduct of the masters with respect to the 15 per cent , reduction , and the manner in which they have treated the efforts of the men to bring about an early settlement of the struggle , pledges itself to stand or fall by the fifteen per cent . " " That , as the only hope our masters have is in the starvation of our ranks , we hereby pledge ourselves that throughout both districts we will join penny for penny , and that those who are better off will do what they can , in order to afford the requisite help to our poorer brethren , " This terminated the proceedings , and the miners dispersed in an orderly and peaceable manner , —On Wednesday evening , a public meeting was held in the Leeds Court-house , when resolutions expressing sympathy with the miners , and an opinion that they were harshly treated by their employers , were adopted . . The African Mails . —The following is the answer which lias been received , after much delay , from the Treasury , in reply to Mr . Collier ' s remonstrance against the withdrawal of the African mails from Plymouth ,- — Treasury Chambers , 29 th October , 1858 . —Sir , in reply to your letter of the 6 th instant i am commanded by . the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty ' s Treasury to state that their Lordships , before consenting to the change of the port of departure and arrival of the African mail packets from Plymouth to Liverpool , gave the subject their fullest consideration ; and I am directed also to state that the circumstances as regards the communication Vt ith the West Coast of Africa are « so peculiar that their lordships , in assenting to the alterations comprised in the modified contract , were not influenced solely by postal considerations , and that it was an essential part . of the hew arrangement * that Liverpool should be the port of . departure and arrival of the packets . I am , sir , your obedient servant ; Geo . A . Hamilton . —To . R . P- Collier , Esq ^ M . P ., & c , Plymouth . " Wo may also state that Mr . Collier wrote another letter to Mr . Rowland Hill , who replied that the Post-office had nothing to do with the arrangementsindeed , it is well known that Mr . Hill warmly opposed the change . —Plymouth Journal . Our Coming Trade with Japan . —A wellrinformed and influential friend writes us in respect to this matter , and says , " Having been a near neighbour for many years of the Japanese , and having well studied their character and , institutions , I am warranted in saying that for some years the English trade will be of very limited extent ; as covertly the Government will take care to prevent its development , by ouly granting permits to certain individuals to trade with us , and those individuals wilL be burdened with such imposts and surveillance as to render the ( ostensibly ) liberal traffic almost entirely inoperative . Eventually , say some ten years hence , we shall do a magnificent trade with Japan . Our exports will be woollens , cottons , and silver , and we shall import copper and gold . These two metals are relatively abundant in Japan , an « l hitherto silver has been with them quite twenty per cent , more than its standard value in Europe with relation to gold . " — Plymouth Journal . Vauxhaix-bridge . —Tho half-yearly meeting of tho Vauxhall-bridgo Company took place on Thursday , Mr . Prendergast , Q . C , in tho chair . Tho accounts were read , and showed a balance available for a dividend at Lhe rato of 12 s . per share , which was agreed to . Some iiscusslon took place on tho subject of reducing the : olls in consequence of tho competition through the ne w Chelsea-bridge , and a resolution was moved by Mr . Mooro , seconded by tho Rev . Mr . Box , that the tolls bo 'educed in future from 8 d . to 2 d . for one-horse carnages , and from Gd . to 4 d . for two-horse carriages . This motion was carried , and tho meeting adjourned . Paris Stockbrokers . —A Paris letter in tho Indd-> endanoe of Brussels states that tho agents de change xavo offered to tho municipality of Paris to pay annually : o tho city tho amount obtained for admission to the Bourse , on condition that that payment shall no longer ) o exacted , and tho municipal council is to tako tho ) ffer into consideration in ono of its next meetings . The amount avoragos 750 , 000 f . a year . Tho sumo ottor , howovor , adds that , according to what is said in ivoll-informed circles , tho offer will bo rejootod on tho icoro of morality , tho entrance foo bolng supposod to shook speculation . Thm Qutwaud Australian Mau . 8 . —Tiio Postnastor-GJonoral gave notice yesterday , that tho Niagara " vould tako out tho noxt overland Australian mall , and that ililp mails will bo made up In tho Gonorul Poat-ofllco on , ho morning of tho lOfcli inst . for Now York and Nowbundland , to bo forwarUod from On 1 way in tho Prlnoo fVlbort etoamor .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 6, 1858, page 29, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06111858/page/29/
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