Carlisle Patriot, 14 Jan 1826 - Local News (1)
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Saturday 14 Jan 1826 (p. 3, col. 1-2 + 5 + 6)
A statement of the affairs of Messrs. JOHNSTON, ADAMSON, and HOPE, Bankers, is in circulation at Whitehaven, of which the following is a copy:—
Dr. To Cash owing on notes, deposits, and cash £
accounts...................................................... 93,000
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Cr. By Cash due from Agents.............................. 14,000
By do. on Accounts and Securities................ 79,000
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£93,000
Dr. To loss and bad debt, per John RANEY........ 6,000
To supposed diminution in value of Estate
at Clifton..................................................... 1,000
To Bad Debts, none known at present, but
take the same, including expences.............. 3,000
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Deficiency in Bank Funds.................................... 10,000
Surplus.................................................................. 19,800
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£29,800
Cr. By Mr. JOHNSTON's separate estate............ 22,000
By Mr. ADAMSON's separate estate............ 6,600
By Mr. HOPE's separate estate, of which
£870 is in the Bank..................................... 1,200
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£29,800
Should this be realized, the creditors are in a much better condition than most of them anticipated. The Commissioners are sitting at Whitehaven; and the choices of assignees, &c. is likely to create much bustle and rivalry.—We observe by the country journals, that a considerable number of the Banks lately stopped, have resumed payments.
Mr. Commissioner BOWEN will come on the next Northern Circuit for the relief of Insolvent Debtors: the Court will sit at Newcastle, Saturday, March 11; Carlisle, Friday, March 17; Kendal, Tuesday, March 21; at Lancaster, March 23.
We print in our front page an important advertisement from Messrs. KNIGHT and LACEY, announcing GUTTERIDGE's tables, for ascertaining the relative quantities of the old and new weights and measures, without the aid of which few persons will be able to conduct business free from error. It is extremely desirable that the new system should be brought into general use as soon as possible; tradesmen should therefore supply themselves with what will enable them to employ the Imperial standard with ease as well as certainty.
John Henry LOWTHER, Esq. M. P. for Cockermouth, and |Wm. BECKETT, Esq. of Leeds, are named Deputy Lieutenants for the West Riding of York.
Fletcher RIGGE, Esq. Clerk of Assize for the Northern Circuit, has appointed, as his deputy, Mr. Christopher John NEWSTEAD, of York, attorney-at-law, in the place of his late father.
The Carlisle Harriers will cast off, on Monday the 16th Jan. at Harrowby-Bridge; on Wednesday, at Thomas PESCOD's, Stone-raise; and on Friday, at Raven-gill: each morning at nine o'clock.
Nothing particular occurred at the Appleby Sessions on Monday. Sir P. MUSGRAVE in the chair.
We have inserted in our fourth page a letter from a Correspondent, calling public attention to the generally defective state of the highways, and to the inefficiency or inapplicability of the laws affecting them. We agree with him, that something better than the present system is imperatively called for, now that our turnpike roads are chiefly put into such admirable order. The contrast, indeed, is become so striking, that the old system must give way; and the sooner the matter is taken up by some influential person the better for the country; for good highways are quite as important, in almost all respects, as the great lines of turnpike.
There was a slight explosion of Gas at our Gas Works, on Tuesday evening, between seven and eight, by which one of the workmen was scorched in the face rather seriously, but not dangerously. In consequence, the shopkeepers in most parts of the city experienced a momentary deprivation of light.
A smart frost set in on Monday morning, and has gradually increased in severity up to this day (Friday). The river Eden is more than half frozen over, near the Bridge, and persons of light weight skate on the ice without danger. On Tuesday, we had a partial fall of snow, which still lies on the ground.—We observe by the London papers, that three persons have already perished by the breaking of the ice of the Canal in the Park.
On Stainmore, in Westmorland, the weather has been more severe during the last week than it has been for three years. The frost was not only more than usually intense, but the snow lay in fearful drifts, and the wind, on Friday and Saturday, blew a perfect hurricane, rendering it extremely difficult, if not dangerous to travel. On the night of Friday last, indeed, between the hours of ten and eleven o'clock, the Express coach was overturned in passing over Stainmore, in its way from York to Carlisle—the driver being a stranger and not acquainted with the road; and he and the guard went forward to Brough with the horses. The passengers were obliged to stay all night in the toll-house, and the coach was not dug out of the snow till the following day. The only injury sustained, however, we are happy to add, was, that the squares of glass in the coach windows were shattered to atoms.
A few nights ago, Mr. ARMSTRONG, of Drawdikes, near this City, had stolen from his farm-yard, six turkeys and a number of ducks and hens. On the same night, Mr. BOUSTEAD, near Drawdikes, had six geese carried off. It is believed that the thieves conveyed away their plunder by means of a horse and cart; and as there is a clue, they are expected to be discovered.
On Saturday evening last, as a country farmer was returning home from the market with his horse and cart, he went into a shop in Botchergate to purchase some trifling article, leaving the animal for a moment standing alone in the street. Having obtained what he wanted, he left the shop, but the horse was gone; and he proceeded forward, thinking he should overtake it at the Toll-bar at the foot of Botchergate; but, to his surprise, he learned that no such horse and cart had been there. The poor man returned into the town in a state of mind not easily described, and went in search of the wanderer; and after having sought the whole of the night about the outskirts of the city in vain, he discovered the object of his search about day-light next morning, nearly exhausted, lying in the harness, with the cart upset, amongst the stones and rubbish at one of the new buildings in Lowther-street, where it is probable the poor animal had been seeking shelter from the inclemency of the weather.
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Years ago a list member sent me a letter written by a Reveley that he discovered looking for old postage stamps!
Since Reveley was on the return address, he figured I would be interested. I was!
The letter was written by a distant cousin, Thomas Reveley.
