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Provincial Occurrences: Hants, Sussex, Dorset, $c. [SEPT. 



Died.'] At Bottislmm, 77, B. Rider, esq. At 

 March, 81, Mrs. Morgan; and her daughter, Mrs. 

 Jones. 



HANTS AND SUSSEX. 



At the Hants Sessions, it was stated by Sir T. 

 Baring, that the expenses of last year had been 

 .3,000. less than those of the preceding year ; 

 and that .8,000 of the county debt had been liqui- 

 dated. 



Married.'] At Southampton, T. S. Warner, esq., 

 to Miss H. Hennessay. At Brighton, G. Hilhouse, 

 esq., to Miss A. Barclay. 



Died.'] At Brighton, the lady of M. Ricardo, 

 esq., At Worthing, 87, the Right Rev. S. Good- 

 enough, bishop of Carlisle. 



DORSET AND WILTS. 



At Salisbury Assizes, 8 prisoners received sen- 

 tence of death, 12 transported, and 18 imprisoned. 

 Chief Justice Best addressed the grand jury on his 

 conviction of the melancholy fact of crime and vice 

 being so much increased in this country." I an* 

 afraid," said he, " that they aie not now that pea- 

 santry which were formerly called their country's 

 pride ;" and then alluded to the necessity of allow- 

 ing the inferior orders of society such wages as 

 they can decently subsist on without parish al- 

 lowance. " There can no greater curse befal a 

 country," said his lordship, "than that it should 

 be reduced to a state in which the virtue of the 

 peasantry is undermined by the destruction of that 

 self-esteem, and that honest, industrious, manly 

 pride, which makes a peasant prefer his own exer- 

 tions to any other mode of obtaining a subsist- 

 ence. Unless such are his feelings, the country 

 which he inhabits can never become, or never re- 

 main, a great country. Gentlemen, the greatness 

 of the country does not consist in the extent of its 

 empire, nor even in the knowledge and publicity of 

 useful and ornamental arts. Such things may be 

 among the proofs of its greatness, but they are not 

 its cause, nor by them alone can a nation always 

 hope to remain great. A country may truly be 

 said to be great, when the mass of the people are 

 in the enjoyment of comfortable and easy cir- 

 cumttances a state in which alone they catt al- 

 ways be expected to be virtuous ; and he is the 

 greatest benefactor who lends his aid to introduce 

 such a state among them." Chief Justice Best 

 gave public notice on trial for furious driving of 

 stage coaches that in every future case, in which 

 a conviction followed a charge of furious driving, 

 he would, beyond all doubt, transport the offender 

 for life. The grand jury requested his lordship to 

 print his charge, to which he acquiesced. 



Married.] W. Hallett, junior, esq., of Philliots, 

 to Miss Kadclyff . At Dovvnton, Ti. Brooncker, 

 esq., to Miss M. Shuckburgh. 



Died.] At Warminster, 78, H. Wansey, esq., 

 F.S.A. ; he had devoted his attention and time in 

 collecting materials for the History and Topography 

 of Warminster, lor the magnificent work on the 

 county of Wilts, of Avhich Sir R. C. Hoare is the 

 director. 88, J. Wickens, esq., of Mapperton. At 

 Stinsford, 8.0, Right Hon. Susan O'Brien, sister 

 to the Earl of Holiest er. At Downtou, 92, Mr. 

 Huxhtim. 



DEVONSHIRE AND SOMERSETSHIRE. 



The imposing structure which Mr. Beckford has 

 erected on the brow of Lansdown, is now com- 

 pleted, as far as regards the masonry work. The 

 building is square, to an altitude of 130 feet from 

 the foundation ; it then assumes an octagonal 



form, for 12 feet more ; and this is crowned by 12 

 feet of octagonal v. ood work, of a lantern shape, 

 which will be protected by an iron pillar at each 

 angle, and th"se pillars will be gilt. This will 

 constitute the apex of the tower, the summit of 

 which presents to the eye of the spectator the 

 meander ings of the Severn, the immense tack of 

 Salisbury Plain, and even Mr. Bcekl'ord's former 

 residence, Fonthill. 



At the Devonshire Assizes, 12 prisoners were 

 recorded for death, 3 transported, and 15 imprisoned 

 for various periods. 



A meeting has been held at the Palace, Wells, 

 the Bishop of Bath and Wells in the chair, for 

 establishing a friendly Society, to be called " The 

 East Somerset Friendly Society," when a commit- 

 tee was appointed to prepare rules and regulations 

 for that purpose. 



At Somerset Assizes, 27 prisoners were sentenced 

 to death, 21 were transported, and 16 imprisoned 

 for various periods. Chief Justice Best charged 

 the grand j ury at considerable length, in which he 

 very strenuously alluded to the pad state of the 

 poor, respecting their wages, the Game Laws, and 

 the battus of the modern feudals ; the dreadful 

 increase of crime in the county ; modern educa- 

 tion; boxing; the absolute necessity of obliging 

 people to go to their respective places of worship 

 on a Sunday, &c. &c. 



Married.'] At Burnham, G. P. Dawson, esq., 

 to Miss Dodd. At Sturminster, Newton-castle, 

 S. W. Long, esq., to Miss A. Bird. At Tor, W. T. 

 Lear, esq., to Miss E. Templer. Rev. H. Taylor, 

 rector of South Poole and West Oswell, to Mari- 

 anne Hallifax, third daughter of the late Bishop 

 of St. Asapli. 



Died.'] At Plymouth, 67, Lieut. Dennis Lahitf r 

 53 of which were spent in the service of his coun- 

 try in various parts of the world ; he was the first 

 person who instructed Cobbett in his drill (55th 

 regt.) in North America. At Bath, Mary, relict of 

 the Hon. D. Anstruther. At Exmouth, 96, Mr. 

 T. El?on. At Endicott, Cadbury, 69, Mr. J. Tur- 

 ner, an experienced agriculturist ; not only De- 

 vonshire, but all the western counties, have con- 

 siderably benefited by his spirited exertions in 

 producing some of the largest and most extraor- 

 dinary sheep ever bred in this kingdom. At York- 

 souse, Bath, J. Buller, esq., of Downes; he repi'e- 

 hented Exeter in four parliaments. 



CORNWALL. 



At the assizes held at Bodmin, 5 prisoners re- 

 ceived sentence of transportation, and six impri- 

 soned. Chief Justice Best, after remarking on 

 two or three other cases in the calendar, made 

 some striking observations on the state of the la- 

 bouring people of Cornwall. " I am gratified to 

 learn," said his lordship, " that the rate of wages 

 in your county is not pressed down to the extreme 

 point at which it is possible the labourer can exist. 

 The best and wisest economy is to reward the la- 

 bourer, that, by the exercise of a due industry, he 

 may not only be enabled to provide the necessaries 

 of the day as it passes, but to make some provision 

 for old age and infirmities." The learned judge 

 then eulogized the existence of friendly societies, 

 as tending 1 , under proper regulations, to the most 

 beneficial result?. His lordship then adverted to 

 several points in the Criminal Law, as altered by 

 Mr. Peel. 



The Looe and Polperro driving boats have taken 

 a considerable quantity of fish, some of them as 

 many as 6,000 pilchards on a night. The driving 

 louts belonging to St. Ivcs have even been more for- 



