The number of bankruptcies in Paris, declared between the 1st
of January and the 26th July 1839, was 607. Among them were 93 joint stock companies, whose debts amounted to 14s,o00,000E, or nearly 6,000,000/. sterling. The number of bankruptcies between the 1st and 26th of last month was 87.
An old man, a cousin of Isis Majesty the King of Sweden, was taken Into custody on the 19th ult., for cutting a little fire-wood in a forest near Beauvais. He was so infirm from his advanced age, as to resider it necessary to he conveyed to prison in a cart.
Mrs. Fry is stated, by the Federal of Geneva of the 30th ult., to have been several days in that town visiting the Penitentiary, with the good
arrangement of which that benevolent lady had declared herself much satisfied.
Sir Moses Montefiore is at present in Egypt ; where he has offered to establish a hank, with a capital of a million sterling, if the Pacha will relieve the Jews in his dominions from the disabilities and persecutions from which they at present suffer. Sir Moses went to his first audience 'the Viceroy in his ex-official costume as Sheriff of London.
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