_THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. [Jan 7, 
Stated the aggregate receipt td be 2,2497. 19s. 6d. Other 
evidence was adduced to show that he had been previously 
in custody at Manchester, for obtaining goods by means 
of a false bill of Exchange. After a long inquiry, the 
Chairman said the Bench had a painful duty to perform, 
but they were compelled to execute it, inasmuch as the 
prisoner had not lately lone been going about in thé man- 
ner described, but had beeh doing so for many years. It 
Was time, therefore, to put a stop to such deeds. The 
Bench were unanimously of opinion that he should be im- 
are. in the House of Correction at Salford, and there 
kept to hard labour, for three calendar months on the 
first charge, and that he should be conimitted to the Ses- 
sions for trial on the second. 
Cai marthen.—We learn by the local papers that the 
marble statue of Diana, executed fér the King of Prussia 
by German artists resident at Rome, and which was on 
board the galliot stranded about a fortnight since on the 
Cefn Sidan sandbaik, has been recovered from the wreck, 
It appears, froth the letter of 4 correspondent of the Car- 
marthen Journal, that it had a narrow escape from muti- 
lation. The wooden case, part of which was four inches 
in thickness, had, in consequencé of the top being off, 
become nearly filled with sand. This, added to its own 
weight, had made it so ponderous, that, not being Able to 
raise it from the hold with the tacklé then in the vessel, 
orders had been given to pull the statue from its case, a 
process which would certainly have broken it into frag- 
ments. Ropes had been actually placed for that purpose 
under its legs and arms, when Mr. Rees, of Kilmaenllwyd, 
arrived at the wreck; after consulting with Mr. Mansfield, 
of Lianelly, as to the possibility of its being raised entire, 
er him directions to let the statue remain for tliat day, 
4nd to bring on the following day the tackle, &¢. necessary 
for raising it in the case. Accordingly, Mt. Kiernan, of 
Purry Port, sent On the next day his powerful tackle and 
Screw-pump; and, under the directions of Mr. Mansfield, 
the statue was hauled by horses out of the hold, placed 
‘upon two pair of wheels, and conveyed to the storehouse 
at Pembrey, with the loss of part of a finger only. In 
addition to this the vessel was fréighted with numerous 
cases of matbles of Smaller size, all of which have been 
recovered without much injury. 
Cheltenham.—Mr. Newton, the son-in-law of the late 
Sir Robert Ricketts, who recently brought himself promi- 
nenitly before the public by charging Lady Ricketts and 
other parties with compassing the death of the deceased 
baronet, has again made his appearance before the bo- 
rough magistrates. On the former occasion, his case com- 
pletely broke down, and not one of his charges was sub- 
Stantiated. He has now caused the valet of the late ba- 
ronet to be apprehended on the charge of being a party 
to the alleged poisoning. The accused was brought be- 
fore the bench last week, When the information was read 
over, and the chairman asked who was the complainant ? 
No answer was returned, though the question was re- 
peated threé times, and the prisoner was thereupon or- 
dered to be discharged. Mr. Newton then rose, and said 
he was the complainant in this case, and demanded that 
it should be proceeded with. The inagistrates said he 
onght to have stated this before ; and as the man had been 
discharged, Mr. Newton must procure a fresh inform- 
ation if he intended to proceed further in the matter. 
Chichester—The affairs of the Chichester Old Bank 
have been again brought before the public by the applica- 
tion of Messrs. Charles and William Ridge, the two 
senior partners, 
position of the monies of their customers, under pretence 
of administering to their father’s will, by which means 
they paid large legacies to their own family out of the 
funds deposited in the bank. These allegations were sup- 
ported by a minute history of the affairs of the hank, in 
which it Was stated that at the death of their father in 
1829, the partners who now applied, without ascertaining 
how their affairs stood; paid legacies to their relatives to 
the amotiit of 12,5062., and drew out 9,000/, each for 
themselves, showing a total of 30,5007, they had taken 
from their ciistomers’ funds ; and, according to the exam- 
ination of Mr. Charles Ridge, it appeared that all this was 
‘one without ascertaining whether the father was indebted 
to the bank or not. Their annual bulances were never 
Properly ascertained ; and, a8 a principle of bookkeeping 
they carried their bad debts, including the 48,0002. owing 
by Messrs. Fry and Chapman, their London agénts, to 
the profit side of their accounts, and charged interest atid 
compound interest on those bad debts from year to 
year. No distinction was made between good and bad 
debts, and by this system of bookkeeping it would, of 
course, to the casual observer, appear that they were 
transacting a profitable business. Tt was also stated that 
Mr. Charles Ridge had lived at the tate of 1,5002. per 
annum for yeats, when the bank was insolvent. A state- 
ment prepared from the accounts of the establishment 
put béfore the Court of Review gave the actual deficiency 
for eich year since 1828. From this it appeared that in 
I é ey was 51,4002; in 1830, 51,9007.; in 
te 1s 47,0002. ; in 1833, 42,0007, : in 
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52,0002. ; in 1836, 59,0000; in 
, 22,0002. ; in 1839, 79,6007, yin 
1841, the year in which the firm 
2837, 62,0007 
1840, 80,0004, ; 
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and in 
stopped payment, thé deficiency was 83,0007, and yet it 
was found that they had drawn out large stims of money 
from time to time, Under their fiat no less than 1,100 
persons proved debts, many of whom were sufferers to the 
extent of the whole savings of a hard-worked and frugal 
life. Mr. Missing, for the bankrupts, replied to these 
charges, and contended that the bankrupts having made 
a true statement of their affairs, were entitled to their 
certificates. Although fraud had been alleged against 
them, no such motive had been discovered upon reading 
the examinations which had taken place. The errotieous 
method of keeping the accounts did not involve fraud, 
neither could it be said that the world had been deceived 
by them, since their books were never open to the inspec- 
tion of the customers or the public. It was error of 
judgment, and out of the fallacious system of making the 
accounts, the payment of the legacies was made. In cén- 
clusion, he argued that the bankrupts were innocent ofany 
intended fraud, believing, up to the period of their stop- 
page, that they were solvent, and as they had made a full 
discovery of their estaté and effects, they were in his 
opinion entitled to their certificates. Mr. Commissioner 
Fane took time to consider his judgment. He should, he 
said, before he gave his decision, carefully read over the 
examinations referred to in the speeches of counsel on 
either side. : 
Coventry.—The papers have lately noticed the measures 
taken by the Bishop of Norwich for the removal of pews 
in churches, and for the restoration of the ancient ctistom of 
fitting-up the body-of the building with open benches. We 
now find that similar efforts are making by the Bishop of 
Worcester, and that his lordship, in conjunction with the 
Archdeacon, has stated to the churchwardens of Trinity 
Church in this town, that the parish church is éqitally the 
property of all the parishioners; that any chatge for pews 
or sittings is decidedly illegal; and a practice which the 
bishop; as the Ordinary, cannot sanction. In consequence 
of this communication, the wardens have allotted the pews 
and sittings indiscriminately to the parishioners on appli- 
cation, and free of any charge. 
arham.—A petition has been forwarded from the 
Bannockburn Colliery to the Marquess of Londonderry, 
for presentation to the House of Lords, praying for an 
alteration in the Collieries’ Bill Of last session. In 
acknowledging the receipt of this petition, Lord London- 
detry recommends “‘ that efforts should be thade by all the 
other collieries in Scotland; and that petitions should be 
prepared in like manner by each of them, disapproving of 
the late bill”’ He also states that, in order to effect their 
purpose, ‘‘ the petitions should be very numerous, and 
active exertions sould be madé by all colliers.’”” From 
this {t is evident that an attempt will be inade in the en- 
suing session of Parliament, on the part of the owners of 
collieries, to procure a repeal, or an alteration in Lord 
Ashley’s Act. 
Halifax.—An extensive system of forgery on the pro- 
vincial banks of the Midland counties, and also on the 
Bank of England, has recently been discovered in this 
town. Hight persons were apprehended as the principal 
parties in the confederacy, and the most important wit- 
ness was one of their accomplices, who had been in cus- 
tody at Nottingham on three cliarges of utteting false 
notes, and who now appeared to give evidence against 
them. The notes which were forged were those of the 
Wirkworth and Ashbourne Bank, and thosé of the Halifax 
and Huddersfield Bank. There appears to be ho doubt 
that the system has been cartied on for a cotisiderable 
time, and to a large amount. Seven of the prisoners 
have been committed to York to take their trial at the 
next assizes. : 
Harwich.—The corporation and inhabitants of this 
town have addressed a memorial to the Lords of tlie Trea- 
sury, representing the rapid changes which are daily 
taking place in the harbour, caused by tlie fall of the cliff 
called the Beacon-hill, on the western entrance of the har- 
bour; and stating that further and more extensive changes 
are daily taking place in the southern point of the beach, 
below Landguard-fort; the point laving encroached so far 
into what was formerly the deep-water channel; that the 
lights erected but a few years since, at a great expense, 
are no longer found to be a safe leading-mark into the 
harbour: They express their belief that these changes 
arise principally from the removal of stone from the Ord- 
nance shore for. the purpose of making cement, many 
thousand tons being aitnually removed and converted, 
with the cohsent of the Board of Ordnance ; so that, in a 
few years, unléss a stop is put to such proceedings, Har- 
wich must inevitably become an island : and the harbour, 
if not entirely destroyed, will be so much deteriorated anid 
blocked up, as to render it; in a great nieasure, useless as 
a harbour of refuge; to the injury and danger of a numerous 
class of vessels which now resort to it for shelter. oe 
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Police had made offers to offenders to compromise, for 
trifling péctiniaty returns; eharges which had been pre- 
ferred against thei. In the opinion of the chairman, it 
was the bounden duty of the cowity to prosecute with 
rigour all such cases. After some discussion, with refer- 
ence to the sale by auction of thé Berkhampstead and 
Hitchin Bridewells, and the proceedings advisable to be 
taken to obtain a more equal assessment of the county 
rate, the sessions Were adjourned. 
ersey.— We learn by the Jersey News that the Mayor 
of Weymouth has addressed letters to the Chamber of 
Commerce in Guertisey arid Jersey, intimating that 
Governinent are about to Allow the mails to and from the 
Channel Islands to be conveyed by contract from South- 
ampton, and that the vessels now ruiniig between that 
port and the islands had been surveyed and approved, in 
consequence of which he requested their influence to pre- 
vent the removal of the packet station. The Chamber of 
Commerce in Giveriisey having already voted in favour of 
Weymouth, decline any further interference, but that in 
Jersey have decided in favour of Southampton by a ma- 
jority of 7; the numbers being, for Weymouth, 18, and 
Southampton, 25. 
Liverpool.—The Liverpool papers mention, as a proof 
of newspaper despatch, that the President’s Message, 
brought by the Independence, was received in that port on 
the afternoon of Sutiday the 25th, at three o’clock. A 
copy of it was forwarded, at a quarter past four, by an 
express engine to Birmingham—the distance from the 
Edge-hill station of the Grand Junction Railway to that 
town (97 miles) having been performied, including the 
stoppages to take in coal arid water, in two hours and 
30 minutes. From Bitminghami, it was forwarded bya 
second express engine to Lohdon. There it was set up, 
and Copies of the Times containing it weré received in 
Liverpool at a quartér to four o’élock on Monday after- 
noon—just 24 hours front thé time it left Liverpool; and 
after haviig travelled; up did down, 420 miles.—On 
Thursday evening this city was the scene of atother ex- 
tensive fire, It broke out suddenly about half-past five, in 
in the workshops of Messrs. Foster and Stewart, the 
extensive joiners and buildérs, in Lawton-street. The 
yard in which the workshops stood éxtends from Lawton- 
street to Newington, and is 112 yards in length by 60 in 
breadth, The shop was filled with timber and new work, 
all of which, with thé building; were destroyed; the flames 
having spread with great rapidity, the strong north-west 
wind which was Blowing at the time fanning them in an 
extraordinary manner. The buildings on the same site 
were completely destréyed about ite years ago by a similar 
calamity. 
Norwich —Thé local papers inform us that the number 
of presents sent by the different coaches from Norwich 
to London during the Christmas week, amounted—by the 
Ipswich mail to about 400; by the Newmarket mail, 400 ; 
Phenomenon; 250; Telegraph, 346 ; Magnet, 1,400; 
Mack’s Van, 280. Total, 3,076.—They also state that 
the amount already stibscribed to the publi¢ monument to 
the memory of the late Earl of Leicester, is 4,440/. 6. 6d. 
Pembroke.—The Naval papers inention that the Admi- 
ralty have given orders that the Royal steam-yacht now 
building at this dockyard for the ttsé of her Majesty be 
entered in the Navy List, under the title of «The Victoria 
and Albert Yacht.’’ Ske will cost, it is said, little short 
of 100,0002., and is expected to be ready for sea in the 
course of the erisuing spring. 
Portsmouth.—On Sunday morning Admiral Sir Charles 
Rowley hoisted his flag (white at the main) as the Com 
mandeér-ih-Chief at this port, on board the St. Vincent, 
under the customary salutes. His prédecessor, Sir Rdward 
Codrington, hauled down hig flag onl Saturday evening at 
sunset, having in the coutsé of the day mustered the ship’s 
company and taken his Jedve of them. On quitting the 
ship, the men gave hit thres cheers ; aid as he passed the 
Victory, the crew of that ship mantied the rigging and 
cheered him.—The Archduke Frederick of Austtia, whose 
frigate, the Bellotia; has been lyitg at Spithedd for about 
a fortnight, detained by the strong westerly winds, has at 
length been enabled to také his departure; the wind having 
shifted to the northward. Hig Itiperial Highness had 
only landed once since he left thé harbour on ‘Thursday 
fortnight. 
Reading.—Karly in the ensuing spring, a new church 
will be erected at Sonning, near this town, on a piece of 
ground given by Lord Sidmouth for the purpose. The 
estimated cost of its erection is 2,0007., and neatly that 
amount has beéh already subscribed: Mr. R. Palmer, 
one of the members for the county, has presented the 
sum of 200/. in aid of the undertaking. 
of Sonning very nearly approaches 3,000, and it is in- 
conclude by praying for an inquiry into the 
their memorial, in order that Government may adopt mea- 
sures for preventing the results to which they refer. 
Hertford—The Genera) Quarter Sessions for this 
county commenced on Tuesday, the Marquis of Salisbury 
in the Chair. The principal topic of discussion related to 
the county expenditure for the maintenance of the rural 
police. lt appeared from the Parliamentary documents, 
which were quoted by several of the inagistrates, that the 
cost of maintaining the police force in the county of Hert- 
ford greatly exceeded that of other counties in England. 
Durham, with 80 police constables, cost the county 7502. 
less than Hertford with only 70. In Suffolk, which had 
67 constables, the cost of the rural police was 2,0000. 
less than that of Herts; and in Worcestershire, where 
there were also 64 constables, the cost was 1,750/. less. 
‘Two or three cases were brought under the consideration 
of the Court during the day, where members of the Rural 
about 4 milé from this town. 
these grounds thé families and tribes of the gips 
forest were invited, according to the yearly cus ‘om, to 
partake of a @inuer, and to receive vatious articles of 
winter clothing. ‘These presents are furnished by medus 
of subscriptions of the residents in all parts of the county, 
At two o'clock, neatly 200 gipsies, consisting Of men, 
women, and children, sat down to a dinner of toast beef 
and plum pudding; and were waited on by the gentry of 
the neighbourhood, who assembled in large numbers to 
witness the scene.—On Monday, the 26th ult., a party of 
labourers from Lea and Romsey assembled at a shooting- 
match at-Toothill, near the latter place. In the course of 
the evening a fight ensued between the people of the two 
villages, during which an old man named Savage, 70 years 
of age, was so seriously wounded, that he died in about 36 
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