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November 22, 1856.] THE LEADEB. 1107
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STATE OF TRADE. a The accounts from the ...
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THE GREAT BULLION UOBBERY. A FURTiiEK ex...
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November 22, 1856.] The Leadeb. 1107
November 22 , 1856 . ] THE LEADEB . 1107
State Of Trade. A The Accounts From The ...
STATE OF TRADE . The accounts from the manufacturing towns for the Weefc ending last Saturday , continue to show great steadiness in every quarter , although the rate of discount noTV causes all parties to confine their operations as much . as possible to the requirements of the moment . At Man chester therehas been a moderate extent of business , and stocks are safiS-ciently low to prevent any permanent depression . The Birmingham advices describe little alteration in . the iron-market , but such as is noticeable is rather in the direction of improvement . In . the gene- ral trades of the place there is satisfactory employment , and in some branches considerable activity . A Mr . Jobson , of Wordeslcy AVorfcs , has suspended , with liabilities for 25 , 000 ? ., and has proposed an unsecured composition of 12 s . ( 5 d ., running over two years . The arrangements in connexion with the liquidation of Messrs . Fox , Henderson , and Co . are in . regular progress , and their works are going forward as usual . At Nottingham , the hosiery demand has been good , at full pr ices . The business in the woollen districts has been eq-oal to a full average , and the Irish linen-markets are without any material change . — -Times . In the general business of the port of London during the same week there ba 3 been increased activity . The number of ships reported inward was 229 , being 53 more than in the previous week . These included 3 with cargoes of sugar , 12 with cargoes of fruit , and the very laige number of 67 laden , with grain and flour . The total number of vessels cleared outward was 128 , showing a decrease of 9 , those in ballast being 13 . — ¦• . Idem . ¦' ; :.,... . ¦' . ¦ ;¦ "¦¦'¦ ¦ . ''¦ ' . . . ; ¦¦ .. . A petition was pi - esented last Saturday , before Vice- Chancellor Kindersley , on "behalf of Mr . Wallis , a share- holder in the Newcastle Commercial Banking Company , praying that it might be wound up under the older of the court . The purchase of this concern by James Saileir , and by Messrs . Kennedy ajid Law , and its sub- sequent connexion with the Tipperary Bank , will be fresh in the recollection of our readers . After considerable discussion , the Vice Chancellor ordered , by consent , that the petition stand over until the second petition- flay , next Hilary Term . Some correspondence between Mr . It . P : Ilardinge anl Mr . James Wyld , with reference to the affairs of the British Bank has been published . On the 18 th instant , Mr . Hardiuge writes to Mr . Wy lcl ¦ : — " I beg to inform you , as the chairman of the Committee of De positors , that I was yesterday in a position , to declare a dividend at the rate of 4 s . in the pound upon the debts piovedinthis matter ( amounting to upwardsof 553 , 000 / . ) and that the payment of such dividend is delayed only by the proceedings in bankruptcy , which you are sup porting . " To tins , Mr . Wyld rejoins , under date November 14 th : — " Iiv reply to your letter , I beg to in form you that your statement that the payment of the dividend is delayed by the proceedings in bankruptcy which I and the other members of the Committee of Depositors are supporting , is not true . The Committee of Depositors saw from the commencement that tho interest of the creditors would be best consulted b upholding the bankruptcy , because they could thereb obtain a speedy and equal distribution of the available assets amongst the creditors , at a cost infinitely less tlan the enormous expense of the Court of Chancery , to say nothing of its delays . If you consent to the funds being handed over to tho official assignee , a dividend ¦ will be made under the bankruptcy within three -weeks . Further on , Mr . IVyld says : — " If you had strictly con fined yourself to the legitimate means of protecting your ovn personal interest , I should have less to complain of but when I findtliat you anil your advisers have urged tie directors to appeal against the confirmation of the bankruptcy by tho commissioners , and have actuall applied to tho Vice-Chancellor ' s clerk for leave enable them to do so . at tho expense of the estate although you were informed by the solicitor of the bank that they did not wish to do so , you cannot bo surprised that I should express my unmitigated indignation that you utterly disregard tho interests of tho creditors , and are guilty of the liypociisy of pretending to benefit them "whilst you arc doing all in your power to create and prolong litigation , and then , having yourself been the cause of locking up tho money of tho creditors , you seek to make them believe that tho delay is caused by the i proceedings in bankruptcy . You know that is untrue You say in your letter that you arc ready to divide the money in . tho bank amongst tho depositors . Allow me to ask if you have yet obtained the authority of the vice-Chancellor to part with a shilling of that money and -whether there is nny portion of it under your own ¦ control ? You know that tho Bank of England has re fused to allow the money to bo drawn out except upon "the authority nncl signature of tho Vice-Chancellor him self , the amount having been lodged in his name nnd your own . And yet you havo dared to meek creditors , by holding out to them that you nrc ready favido tlio money . The assignees are also rendy Umdo tho money immediately , unless you prevent them ft ™ ma ^ k ° somo oxciiao f or your zeal in tho great Stake for which you aro playing , as I tirnl that accord pm \ a ° tll < i Acfc ol > 1 > nr "'"" -cnl-, your reniunoration upon i i > W , 00 OJ . would bo no less than 21 , 000 / ., besides expenses of your clerks and others , -which cannot I estimated at loss than SOOOJ , moro ; bat you - \ vill
a g - J _ , _ , * ^ and-by be made also to remember that you are playing with the stake of starving families , ruined tradesmen , and defrauded creditors ; and for what ? For percentages and costs ; and public opinion , and not myself , -will hurl upon you and your advisers the bolts of its wellmerited indignation . " Mr . Wyld appeared in the Vice-Chancellor's court on Tuesday , at the head of a deputation from the creditors of the Royal British Bank , for the purpose of presenting a memorial to his Honour , praying that he -would give speedy judgment in the case . The Vice-Chancellor refused to receive the statement , it being ear parte , and denied tliat there was any delay , as he could , not give a rash judgment on so important a case .
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, . , . - - tho to to , - tho bo by- . > i ¦ ¦ i > j I STARVATION OF A FAMILY , e Considerable horror has been created in Marylebono k by the discovery , in a house in Walmer-plaee , Crawforde street , of a whole family , comprising a mother and four j . children , in a state of utter nudity , and dying from e starvation . The facts would not perhaps havo then ie come to light had not somo persons occupying tho le ground-floor of the house , and who believed themselves r , to bo Its only tonants , seen one day by chance a little n naked and wretched-looking boy run hastily down tho 3- stairs into the yard , pick up a few crumbs of bread , and m oat tlicm . Ono of tho lodgers ( a woman ) told her l- husband , who was at his tea , and the child was brought id in and received somo bread , for which lie evidently \ o craved . Having told tho man and his wifo that ho had to a mother and sisters up-stairs , they wont to the first-floor to back room , on entering which , they beheld , stretchod on n . an ol < l and dirty mattress , tho emaciated and inanimato at body of a middle-aged woman , while , in a corner of tho d- room lay throo naked and famished children liuddlod togc-[> u ther . Tho oldest girl was quite doubled up , lier head leanho ing on her I'uot . Thero wns not an article of furniture in bo the room except the mnttrcfls already mentioned , nnd no y-1 clothes of any kind were to bo seen . The relieving
\ < i 1 officer and inspector of the poor were immediately sent fox j and , shortly after their arrival , the aid of the pariah surgeon was obtained . The children were then sent to the workhouse infirmary , while the surgeon applied strong stimulants to the mother , and tried all in his power to Tally her , remaining by her side for considerably upwards of an hour , and endeavouring to restore animation , but in vain . She was afterwards removed to the infirmary , where , notwithstanding every effort that was made to save her , she gradually sank , and died the ~ following day . The children are doing well , with the exception of the two eldest , who still remain ia a precarious condition . The whole family had teen previously inmate ? of the workhouse which the mother had voluntarily left in September last . She had been supplied by the parish officers with bread , meat , tea and sugar , money , and numerous household conveniences , at the tune of her dismissal , and she had never applied for relief or readmission .. When first discovered , the children said that they had had nothing to eat for five days , and the eldest girl stated that she had lately been compelled to sell all her clothes with the exception of an old black skirt , to buy food for herself and the others . One of the children , a girl ten years old , was examined at the incjuest on Monday . She said that ¦¦ " her father was a carpenter , and sometimes brought tlem money for food . Her mother did not get tipsy , but had complained for a long while of pains in the head . Herself atid her sisters and little brother had cried to ler mother for bread , but her mother had not spoken ; a word for a fortnight before they were found . When found on the Thursday , they had not had any food since the Monday before . Her eldest sister got that . Her mother would not go to the workhouse , because she said she had no clothes . " From the evidence of the workhouse ffurgeon , who made a post mortem examination of the woman , it appeared that her brain was diseased . A tumour , about the size of a walnut , was found on the third ventricle at the base of the brain . \ The inquiry terminated in a verdict of "JSTatttral Death . ' ¦ ' . ¦ .. . . ' " ,. . .. ¦ ¦; . / " . . ¦ . ; . / . : .:- ¦ .
The Great Bullion Uobbery. A Furtiiek Ex...
THE GREAT BULLION UOBBERY . A FURTiiEK examination of Pierce and Burgess , the two men charged-with participation in the great robbery of gold on the South-Eastern Railway , took place before the Lord Mayor on Monday , when the evidence of Agar , the convict approver , was continued . He stated that one hundred ounces of the bar gold were disposed of before the rest was melted . " We took the bar into the washhouse , " he said , " and cut it off -with a chisel and a heavy hammer . We took it off a long bar of Australian gold . It took us about fifteen minutes . to cut it off . The gold was very tough and very hard . The hammer I had at the time was too light , and Pierce bought a heavier one at a . toohnaker ' s named Buck in the Totten-Iiam-couit-road . Fanny Kay was in the house at the time the hundred ounces were cut from the bar . The vrindows were whitened so that nobody could see what we were doing in the waahhouse . Fanny Kay knocked at the door several times for a saucepan and other things , which we handed out to her ; but we did not let her in , and she did not know what we were doing . Pierce sold the hundred ounces at 8 L per ounce , and brought back the 300 / ., and I , took possession of it . The remainder of the gold was then melted by Tierce and myself . We first of all cut the gold into small pieces . We then took the stove out of tl * e grate in the back room on the first floor and built a iurnace . I told Pierce I should want some firebricks , as a strong lieat would be required in the process of melting-, and he purchased four firebricks and brought them to ray house in a large canvas bag in a cart . " Mr . Bodkin here showed a firebrick to Agar , who continued : — " The brick shown to me is ono of those -which we used , in the furnace . That ( pointing to the side of the brick ) was tho side of the brick next the fire . " Somo particles of gold were still sticking to tho bricks . AgaT afterwords went on : — "We used charcoal and coke for tho melting , and we procured it at a place in St . Jo-hn ' s-street , Wilderness-xow . We molted the gold in five or sbc . crucibles , which Pierce and I bought in St . John ' s-square , Clerkenwell . Wo wore engaged three or four days in the melting . Fanny Kay was in the house on somo occasions while this operation was going on , but on one occasion I sent her away to see her child . Pierce usod to como in the morning and go away in the evening . We nover admitted Fanny Kay into the room whero tvc were melting . Tho action of the furnaco created a very great heat . Fanny Kay mad < 5 tho remark that tho place was very hot , and that we appeared to be ia a great perspi-I ration , and she wanted to know what wo were doing . Tho bricks got so hot on ono occasion that we were afraid the house would catch fire , and we were obliged to oxtinguish it in order that tho bricks might get cool . Eventually we succeeded in molting tho whole of tho gold . During tho process , however , an accident occurred to ono of tho crucibles . In lifting it out of tho fire , tho bit of tho pot of which tho tongs had hold broke ofl ^ and the crucible fell , part of the liquid gold falling into a tub of water , and part running over tho floor , which it burnt . Wo melted tho gold into bars weighing about ono hundred ounces each . Tho burs wcro then placed in my trunk in tho bedroom , were they remained for some little
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 22, 1856, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22111856/page/3/
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