there a man more talented in the art of deception. "He deceived everybody by an appearance of wealth." He lived handsomely, "though scarcely with any particular extravagance;" he was above mere "gig respectability," and rode in his carriage. "For the reputation of honesty, probity, and wealth," said Mr. Taylor, "there was no man in Rochdale who stood higher;" and so far did he disguise his real character, that his most intimate friends were those who were most deceived by him. "He was not only," says a friend of ours, who himself suffered by his frauds, "never suspected of doing wrong, but he was regarded as above suspicion and uncommonly safe." It is true that some persons now and then expressed their surprise that George Haworth should act as actuary to a Savings Bank, and moreover attend so closely to his duties there when his hands were otherwise so full; but Haworth deceived even these people by putting his connexion with the bank on the ground of charity, and an anxious desire to promote the happiness of his poor fellow-tradesmen,--for whom indeed he was each day laying up increased stores of untold misery. Clever to the last, but supposed by some--of course wise after the event--to have gradually failed in heart and strength after losing his father-in-law, who it now seems was his confidential assistant and accomplice, he escaped his justly-merited punishment in this world, and by an inscrutable Providence was allowed to die unmolested on the 19th of November, 1849. Deluded to the last, his fellow-townsmen considered his loss irreparable; it was a general feeling that this man should have a public funeral, and it was nearly being so concluded when the relatives of the deceased stepped in and wisely put their veto upon it. Strange to say, but only in keeping with the unnatural strangeness of the whole affair, suspicion never entered into the heads of any one, high or low, in connexion with the bank, till this man was far beyond the reach either of earthly anger or law. The trustees and managers were called together after the funeral; and so ignorant were they of the real state of the case and the true nature of their late actuary, that they thought they were met simply to elect his successor, and were actually prepared with different nominations, and not to hear from the dead man's attorney that the "wealthy and respected man" had been for twenty years trading on the falsest of false pretences, and fattening on the hardly-earned scrapings of the poor whom he had so patronized.