We find that the report t...
The Times, 1824-12-14T00:00:00

We find that the report to which we alluded in our paper of Saturday, of the failure of a bank in a dty of the W'est of Eng. land. originateL in the failure of a great commercial house of the same name, and in the same city, one of the partners of which is nearly related to a partner in the bank. WVe are happy to state, that the banking establishment, which is quite unconnected with tbe other, is not in the slightest manner affected by the failure.- Fven. img paper. A paragraph, headled " Honesty," has run through all the newspapers, of a Mr. Whitehead having just paid his ce~ditors in full. Tle facts are these :-When he failce he owed about 4,0001., and hisbrother,who was a miser, latelv dead, has left him very nearly 200,0001. Wirith interest on his old aebts, he has paid away about 7M0001., so that there is not so much to boast of. He has been heard to say by our informant, that after paring all debts, leaacies, and ex- penses, he could give to each of his five children 30,00fl.-Stack. port Advertiser. During the riots in 1780, a magistrate being asked wvhy he had not celled upon the posse comsitatns. replied, " that he would have done 8o, but he knew not his address." A rentleman, who had nieither voice nor skill, onCo at- temtttmg to sing in company, when he had come to a conclusion, Banister aid, '- Your song, Sit, is like the small-pox. " How is that ?" said the company: " explain. exhplain." yh," rejoined the wit, " a devIlish good thting wrkcn it is ovcr." The severe losses the grazier is now sustaining by the rot in sheep is become truly alanring. Every post conveys to us addi- tional tidings of the destructior that direful disease is making in most parts of WVest Kent, particularly in the low la.idq. We are cdntinually receiving letters from our lamb-keepers (adds a corres- pondent), saying they have the rot amongst the lambs and tegs, and that their losses are daily increasinK. Thte disease is also in that part of Roniney MIarsh called the Yoakes, and a most respectable gazier has within the last week sustainetI a very serious loss. In- dced,,so wet is the land, that unless drv weather shortly takes piace, it is feared that numtbers of persons, who have *the whole of their eanitalenibarkod in grazing, will be totally ruine(d.-Kent sli Gazette: On WVednesday last, between the hours of four antl five, two vUlatns entered the ground-floor apartment of No. 3, ef the Rev. Rowland Hill's almshouses, Blackfriars-road, uider the pretence of seeing vnat repairs wvere necessary, stating thertsclves to be surveyors: they stole from the mantel-shelt an eight-4ay time-piece, belonging to the poor wom)lan who occupies the room, who is aboave 814 years of aFe, and has been confined for the last 15 weeks to her bed. She had had it in her possession a great number of years. MUtRDER OF JAMES GARDEN AT WARALav.-BrisI Dcc. 8.-The several persons in custody on suspicion of committing this horrid murder, were this day brought sip for final examination at tle Sessions-house, Lawford's-green, befote thc magistrates; when, after a full investigation of all the circumstances, from the testimony of 20 witnes.ses, Mfas WJitilg, Jams Cainles, Tlmaus Wiln ot, antd Laec Br{ton, Fere fully committed to takec their trials for the murder at the next lloceater Assizes. It is but justice to observe, that the magistrates have been indefatigable in. their exertions to diseover andl briDg to jtdstice the perpetrators of this