of one these gentlemen. "Possibly in four years," was the reply.
Miscellaneous.
The London Times of October 20th thinks it not uncharitable to suppose that the Federal accounts just now are made as favorable as possible, to suit the political emergency.
It deplores the prospect of continued war as most melancholy and depressing to the whole world, and as presenting the greatest reproaches to mankind.
The English financial crisis reached a point of great intensity on the 18th of October. Twenty mercantile firms, engaged in the American trade, failed between that day and the morning of the 20th instant.
Other failures are reported from London and the English manufacturing towns.
A London bank manager committed suicide in a fit of despair at his position, and we to-day detail the particulars of the suicide of Mr. Drosten, a corn merchant in London, from the same cause.
Mr. Henry Lafoce, in a letter to the London Times, says: "I must positively contradict the assert
