Dr. THE UNION BANK OF LONDON (CHANCERY LANE BRANCH) IN ACCOUNT WITH THE ST. GEORGE'S FUND. 1. To Balance. 1876. Feb. 22. 25. Mar. 3. 0 Oct. 12. "Per John Ruskin, Esq. "Draft at Bridgwater "Ditto at Douglas, £25, less charges 24 18 9 66 13. "Draft at Bridgwater "Cash per John Ruskin, Esq. ..... July 6. "Dividend on £8000 Consols Oct. 12. "Draft at Bridgwater 24. "Per J. P. Stilwell Dr. CASH STATEMENT OF ST. GEORGE'S COMPANY TO 31ST DECEMBER, 1870. 785 1 10 461 2 7 Interest on £7000 Consols to Jan., 1875, and Balance remaining due to Mr. Ruskin for sums advanced at various times 1292 5 5 1007 17 Power of attorney for dividends. Cheque book and other small charges at Purchase of land and house at Sheffield for Museum Law expenses on the above. F. D. Acland, for chemicals at Museum. Fittings, salary, taxes, etc., at ditto, per separate accounts to Dec. 31 Repairs of cottages at Barmouth. Colnaghi and Co., for prints Law charges for the Company Mr. Rydings, for feeble "home spun at Laxey 918 15 0 25 0 0 9 18 0 108 8 0 £2418 8 11 £2418 8 11 Dr. EGBERT RYDINGS IN ACCOUNT WITH ST. GEORGE'S COMPANY (From June 29th, 1876, to January 16, 1877). 1876. Cr. £ 8. d. 1 Dec. 14. By Cash paid to the Union Bank to the St. George's Fund 33 15 0 1877. Miss Sargood. 2 2 0 Jan. 16. "Balance in E. Ryding's hands.. 26 3 0 My expenses to the end of the year are as follows: Thus leaving me, according to my own views, (I don't vouch for the banker's concurrence in all particulars,) £140 68. 1d. to begin the year with, after spending, between last New Year's Day, and this, the total sum of-I won't venture to cast it till next month; but I consider this rather an economical year than otherwise. however, when fairly nailed down in exposition, as a sufficient specimen It will serve, of my way of living for the last twelve years, resulting in an expendi ture during that period of some sixty thousand, odd pounds. I leave, for the present, my Companions to meditate on the sort of Master they have got, begging them also to remember that I possess also the great official qualification of Dogberry, and am indeed losses." In the appropriate month of April, they shall know precisely "one that hath had to what extent, and how much--or little-I have left, of the money my father left me. With the action I mean to take in the circumstances. III. I reprint the following admirable letter with all joy in its sturdy statements of principle; but I wish the writer would look at Mr. D. Urquhart's Spirit of the East.' He is a little too hard upon the Turk, though it is not in Venice that one should say so. "TURKISH LOANS AND BULGARIAN ATROCITIES. "To the Editor of the Carlisle Journal. "Sir,-There appears to be one probable cause of the present Eastern imbroglio which has escaped the notice of most of those who have written or spoken on the subject, viz., the various Turkish loans which have been floated on the London Stock Exchange. "At first sight, few would be inclined to regard these as the root of the present mischief, but investigation may reveal that Turkish loans at high rates of interest, and Bulgarian atrocities follow each other simply as cause and effect. "Of course few of the Christian investors in these loans would ever (a) In advance, because he goes home to Assisi at Christmas. (b) The old Venetian sculptor who cast the Colleone statue for the Crystal Palace. Payment for casting Noah's vine on the Ducal Palace. (c) My godson at Boulogne. (His father, a pilot, now dead, taught me to steer a lugger.) Christmas gift for books and instruments. |