The Express.
London, England, 1861-02-11 00:00:00

PARRINTON TESTIMONIAL.

The retirement into private life of Mr. Joseph
Furnace, of the firm of Parrinton, Ladbury, and Co., ac-
countants, King-street, Cheapside, has been taken advan-
tage of by the principal houses engaged in the Manchester
trade as affording a fitting opportunity for the expression of
the high regard and esteem in which his services are held by
them. A meeting was held at the Guildhall Coffee-house
on Friday last, at which most of the large City firms were
represented, for the purpose of presenting Mr. Parrinton
with a valuable service of plate, previously subscribed for.
JOHN Ditf.ox, Es q. (Morrison, Dillon, and Co.), on being
called to the chair, expressed the great pleasure he hilt in
occupying that position on such an occasion, and adverted
is laudatory terms to Mr. Parrinton's long and successful
career, extending as it did over a period of 40 years. as
exemplifying the sever•fsiling result of sterling integrity
sad untiring energy in business pursuits; he referred eve.
Melly to the unflinching independence and firmness of pur.
pose which had characterised Mr. Parrinton's conduct in
trammeling the business of debtors aud creditors, displayed
as these qualities often had been under circumstances of

great anxiety and difficulty ; he considered that the pub-
lic generally, and more particularly their own trade, owed
Mr. Ysrriuton • debt of gratitude which they could never
hope to pay, and he therefore, on the part of what be would
term a meeting of debtors, begged Mr. Parrinton to accept
the service of plate before him, by way of • composition.
Mr. PARRINToN, with some emOtioo, responded to the
chairmac's address, by saying that he could only express his
heartfelt gratitude to the gentlemen present for the honour
they did him, sad to the chairman who had given so high
an opinion of his character, and to Mr. Asburst, the hon.
secretary of the committee, who had cheerfully performed
what he felt must have been • very onerous duty.
He was not conscious of powwowing the virtues
to the extent so liberally ascribed to him, and
he should receive the expresoiona of their approval and
esteem as being applied to the prineiplea he hail endeavoured
to follow rather than to any 111011 i 011 his pert. He then
proceeded to make some valuable reloark• MI the seneral
conduct of bankruptcy and insolvency matters, especially in
relation to the duties of the seuountant, and coocluded by
expressing himself as favourable to the principle of Orin;
insolventa a direct late:rat in the proper realisation of their
estates, by assigning then, a percentage on the amount of
assets recovered for the et-edam-a.

A cordial votes, thanks to the eliairman brought a very
interesting nesting to • close.
The testimonial, which is very haudsornely executed, com-
prises an elaborate centrepioce, a largo oval ether, on which
o engraved the names of the seventy firms who subscribe to
the testimonial, and the circumstance which led to it. pre-
sentation ; a round salver somewhat smaller, an ink-stand,
a tea-kettle, a claret jug, and a full tot and coffee set ; the
whole, together weighing toon ounces, is from the manufac-
tory of Messrs. Smith and Nicholson, of Dukestreet, Lin-
coln'ainn-fields. Among the subscribers we noticed the
names of Memo. Morrison, Dillon, and Co. ; Copestake,
Moore, and Cranium's ; Dent, Alcroft, Lycell, and Co. ;
Truman, Hitchcock, and Co. ; Caldecott, Sons, and Co. ;
Lest, Sons, and Co. ; George Hitchcock and Co.; Thomas
Tapling sad Co ; Cook, Sons, and Co. ; J. F. Pawson, Fos-
ter, Porter, and Co.; White, Son, and Co.; Hocking, Hitch.
cock, and Co., he.