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since they were built, the timber is nearly us fresh 

 as when first put together. 



- The first stone of a new poor-house was laid at 

 Bishopwearmouth on the 30th ult. 



Mr. II. Irwin, gardener, at Hexham, lately pur- 

 chased a horse, which died on the 30th of August. 

 It was dissected, and in the body not less than 

 twenty stones were discovered in a layer of tine 

 sand, varying in weight from one pound to half an 

 ounce, and weighing together six pounds five 

 ounces. There appears no doubt, but the stones 

 were formed in the body of the horse, and they 

 were so placed in reference , to each other, that, on 

 the least motion of the animal, they must have 

 moved simultaneously, and the friction thus pro- 

 duced, gave them a varietv of singular shapes. 



A trial has been made, in a steam-boat upon the 

 Tyne, of a new rotatory steam-engine, for which a 

 patent has been taken out by Mr. Galloway, en- 

 gineer, of Newcastle. It answered very well. 



Married.'] At Durham, G. Goldie, esq., to Miss 

 M. A. Bonomi. At Bowness, Mr. Thompson, to 

 Miss Faulder. At Cockermouth, Mr. Sawyer, to 



time is saved, inasmuch that the inhabitants of 

 Dewsbury and neighbourhood now receive their 

 letters from town thirteen hours earlier than they 

 used to do. 



At Knaresborough trade is still very bad, and 

 there are no less than 400 empty houses in that 

 small and seemingly decaying place. 



The Archbishop has consecrated two new 

 churches ; one at Boothroyd, the other at Earls- 

 heaton. Collections on two Sundays were made 

 at Huddersfield for Ramsden Chapel, the first pro- 

 duce .210, the second .194 total .404! ! 1 

 The exhibition of the Bradford Artists' Society of 

 Painting and Sculpture was opened Sept. 18. 



A nightly delivery of the mails commenced at 

 Leeds, Sept. 17, by which means the inhabitants 

 will receive their letters several hours earlier than 

 usual. 



The receipts taken at the Selby musical festival 

 have left a balance in the hands of the managers 

 for the benefit of the charities of that town. 



At Doncaster races 26 horses started for the 



SE^^.W^!S^-% G-'StLege,. s, tes; a, the, advanced ,o ,h. 



to Miss Milburn. At Barnard Castle, Mr. Charles 

 Raine, to Miss Mary Hedley. At Bishop Auck- 

 land, Mr. C. Winter, to Miss Jfi. Errington. 



Died.] At Newcastle, Mr. H.Brodie, 85; Cathe- 

 rine, 66, relict of Rear Admiral Charlton ; Mr. 

 Fountain, 78. At Gateshead Low Fell, J. Smith, 

 96. At South Shields, Mrs. E. Steel, 87, and Mr. 

 C. Dixon, 89,-At Whalton, W. Hepple, esq., of 

 Blackheddon ; in less than seven months Mr. H., 

 his sister, and five other relations, have pursued 

 each other to the tomb. At Durham, Mr. Paul 

 Edgar, 85 ; Mrs. Martha Milner. At Norton, Mr. 

 Charles Tatham. At Tillington, Mr. John Clen- 

 nell. At Newcastle, John Fox, Esq. 



CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND 



The fifth annual exhibition of pictures has been 

 opened at the Academy of Arts, at Carlisle. j 



Married.'} At Carlisle, G. G. Morensey, to Miss 

 J. Heysham. At Whitehaven, Mr. Layburn, to 

 Miss Magee. At Kendal, Mr. Medcalf, to Miss J. 

 de Lambert. 



Died.'] At Wheelbarrow Hall, MSssE. Earl. At 

 Whitehaven, Mrs. Sallaney, 72 ; Mr. Nicholson, 

 70. T. Wybergh, esq., 71, of Isel Hall. 



YORKSHIRE. 



A very numerous meeting of the inhabitants of 

 Brightside Bierlow, has lately been held for the 

 purpose of uniting that village with Attercliffe, in 

 the expenses incurred in the erecting a new church 

 and other ecclesiastical dues ; when it was resolved 

 to memorialize the commissioners for building new 

 churches to the contrary. 



The branch bank at Leeds has commenced opera- 

 tions upon the same principles as the Bank of Eng- 

 land ; discount 4 per cent., and bills at 21 days are 

 given for cash, but no interest allowed for de- 

 posits ; dividends from the public funds paid free 

 of all expense except postage. 



The Dean of York has resolved to take down the 

 Deanery, and to erect thereon a grammar school 

 or college, at which youth may be educated suffi- 

 ciently for ordination for the church. 



A subscription has been entered into at Rother- 

 ham for building a New Dispensary, the old one 

 being totally inadequate for the purpose. 



An important change has taken place in the 

 post-office of this county, by which considerable 



rising ground the bright colours of the riders ap- 

 peared like visions gliding on the verge of the 

 course. The Hon. E. Petre's Matilda was the 

 winner the subscribers were 90, at 25 sovereigns 

 each : 30,000 persons attended, whose conduct 

 was highly respectable ; all seemed well clothed, 

 well fed, and happy. .2,000 were taken at the 

 grand stand for admission. Penury and poverty 

 seemed banished for once ! Would it were always 



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Hull and several other parts of Yorkshire, 

 were, in the latter end of August, visited by a 

 number of those red little insects, so well-known 

 by the name of cow-ladies. They are supposed to 

 have been brought in steam-boats from the 

 south. 



York can at present boast of more improvements 

 carrying on than perhaps any town in the king- 

 dom. A new museum is building on the Manor 

 Shore ; a new Deanery in the Minster Yard ; 

 new cattle market is nearly completed ; altera- 

 tions and improvements are carrying on, upon a 

 very extensive scale, at the castle and city jail; 

 Michellgate-bar and Fishergate-postern will be 

 much improved, by the repairs, &c., now making ; 

 added to which various public and private im- 

 provements are in progress in various parts of the 

 city. . - 



\ Great interest has lately been excited in 

 York by the discoveries made by the workmen 

 who were employed to lay the foundation of a new 

 museum, to be erected on the Manor Shore. Walls 

 have been uncovered and apartments exposed, 

 that had long been buried in the earth ; and several 

 articles for ornament or use in other days, have 

 been turned up with the rubbish. 



A dispute exists between the local preachers and 

 superintendents of the Methodists at Leeds, and the 

 Conference, about erecting an organ in Brunswick- 

 chapel there. The Conference, on the petition of 

 the people, have decided that one shall be erected ; 

 the preachers are against it. 



The town of Leeds is rapidly improving. A 

 large market is nearly finished in the centre of the 

 town ; a new corn exchange is building, the first 



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