Star.
London, England, 1826-01-21 00:00:00

Tuesday, .
Tuesday, .
Wednesday .

FROM THE LEEDS INTELLIOENCER.

Pursuant t.' a requisition of the Committee appointed
at the former Meeti..g of the creditors of this-Bank, a
numerous Meeting of the creditors assembled yesterday,
at two o'clock, in the Merchants' Hall, Yotk. It was.
computed that about 750 persons were present, several
of whom were very respectable.
R CATTLE, Esq. having been called to the Chair,
htiefiy introduced the business, and said, that Mr.
Anderson would read the Report of the Committee.--
T:ie Report stated, amongst other things. teat the Ciro-
mit ee had m tde application to Mr. Pollock, and had
liid the following c4se before him;
the creditors of Messrs. Wentworth and Co. who
resided at Wakefield nd Btadford, c uld Vote for the
election of assignees under the present co s.mission, and
assent to, or dissent from, the allowance of the bank-
rupts' certificate?' To which the following answer was
returned :_« None but the creditors of the York Bank
can vote under the present commission."
The Committee deemed it expedient that the York
creditors should proceed without delay, and th it they
should keep the accounts separate and dist•nct. They
would gist:lly give every facility for the appointment
of separate assignees Ist the Walt, field and Bradford
creditors, and everything should be transacted on the
pri ciples of equity and justice between man and man,
on condition that the delegatesmight he allowed to ma-
nage their affai s at the respective plates where they
were appointed. The aff sirs of the concern should be
wound up as early as possible. The Report concluded
by recommending the following Gentlemen as assig-
nees; the Committee had been careful in Orer choice,
as the amount of the dividend depen led on their inte-
grity and activity :—Mr. Rilert Cattle, Mr. Atexander,
Mr. Scawirs, Mr. Samuel *Like, and Mr. V. Beilby.
Mr JOHN OMEN moved, that the Report read be adopted by
the Melting.—Agreed to. .
Mr. CATTLE then read a statement of the affairs of the York
Bank, by which It appeared that the
Debtor Account was . . 5E203,737 10 I
And the Creditor Account 205,248 10 is

Making a balance in favour of the Firm of X 1,491 0 0 -
Us afterw lids read one of the affsin of the Bradford Bank
Creditor Account . £144 831 9 5
Debtor ditto 130,983 9 11

Balance in favour of Estate

e 13,641 0 6

The following Resolutions were then premised and carried:-
Ist. Moved by Mr. H. Garinam, and seconded by Mr. D. Tuft;
—That three persons be named by the creditors .•f each of the
Banks of York, Wakefield, and Bradford; and that the York Cre-
ditors should vote for suck persons only as were nominated at the
suggestion of the Bradford and Wakefield creditors, together with
such as they should nominate on their own behalf._
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4d. Moved by Mr. Mascot, and seconded by Mr. Reloug—That
a correspondence be opened with the Wakefield and Bradford ere.
ditors, for the purpose of carrying this Resolution into effect.
The Meeting then adjourned to Monday neat, at two o'clock, to
meet for the purpose of choosing assignees.--Thanks were voted to
the Chairman, &c. and the crowd dispersed.

On tl-e 4th i .it. Mr. Minor, of Shiwbury, Salop, shot
a white blackbird.

A young farmer in Kent, residing not a hundred
Imiles from Trnterden, rezently married a Lady who is
seven years oldrt than her grandmother.
Monday, a Public Meeting was held at Bradford,
and Resolutions eoteted into, for the relef of the di:-
tressed poor in that populous district.
Wednesday evening, a poor old woman, of the name
of Mary Waters, nearly sixty years of, lee, a nurse in
Clarence's Ward, Greenwich College, was accidentally
burnt to death.

Sunday Morning last, about three o'clock, the house
of Mr. S. Woodbead, the sign of the Blacker's Arms,
Thornhill, near Dewsbury, was discovered to be on
fire. Happily, the inmates effected their escape without
material personal injury ; but as no engine was near,
the house, in a few hours, Kith most of its contents,
was completely consumed.
As Mr. Mettler, of Paul-street, Finsbury-sqntre, was
returning home last night, soon atter seven otelock, he
fell at the corner of Foster-lane, owing to a quantity of.
ice having accumulated there. A well-dressed man
assisted him up, and contrived to rob him of hts watch
aad two gold seals, together with his pocket-boi.k, con.
taining many valuable paper..
Yesterday morning a number of boys had got upon
the ice in the Regent's Park, near the Chalk Pal m-
fields, and in spite of the caution administered to them,
would continue sliding, although the rotten state of
the ice was very apparent. B-tween eleven and twelve
o'clock the ice gave way, and three of them were bud-
denly immersed, when, bawling low* for belp,luckily
for them, a labouring man was passing at the time,
and, hastened to the spot, he fortunately succeeded in
drying the whole of the urchins ash.ire, who, al-
though drenched to their skin, seemed well pleased with
their escape, and quickly started off towards their
homes, in Somers' Town, as if nothing had happened.
The great race for 300 sovereigns, between Captain Payton, of
Patton, Cambridgeshire, and IL Bidder, a relative of the great
Yorkshire runner of that name, took place on Wednesday, over
three bibles of prepared ground,-between Stilton and Papworth,
the Captain receiving five minutes of time, and to start at opposite
ends. The distance was 25 miles, and was performed by Captain
Payton in 156 minutes, 25 seconds. Iliddoe was beat in the 21st
mile, and resigned without trying the List mile ; having been 131
minutes 6 ascends performing 24 miles.
Johnson, a runner from Northampton, was matched on the
ground, for 10 sovereigns, to run a mile in live seconds within five
minutes, and be won by four seconds.
Ward was challenged by Crawley's backers on Tuesday, at tb,
Commissary's Levee, over the water, but Ward's hackers said he
. would nut fight fur less than 500&