444 Provincial Occurrences i Stafford, Salop, Cheshire, 



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tone of the south elevation of which was laid on 

 the 2Sth of August, by Mr. John Cawood ; a fine 

 range of buildings, to be called the Commercial 

 Buildings, are also erecting. 



A musfcroom, measuring twenty-eight inches in 

 circumference, and weighing twelve ounces, was 

 gathered at Gawood. 



On the 3d of September Doncaster was lighted 

 up with gas for the first time. 



A number of fragments of the horns of deer were 

 dug up in a street in York, a few weeks back ; 

 some in very fine preservation. 



Married. J At Barwick-in-Elmet, R. Bramley, 

 csq., to Miss Eliza Skelton. At Sheffield, S. Smith, 

 esq., third son of VV, Smith, esq., M.P. for Nor- 

 wich, to Miss Shone, of Tapton. Rev. D. Mark- 

 ham. Vicar of Stillingfleet to Catherine, daughter 

 of Sir W. M.lner, bart.-At Sheffield, Rev. J. B. 

 Brownell, to Miss M. Major ; the same day they 

 departed for New Providence as missionaries. At 

 Doncaster, Rev. R. H. Formby, to Miss Harriet 

 Peel. At Leeds, Mr. H. Rogers to Miss E. Crow- 

 der At Handsworth, J. Simpson, Esq., M.D., to 

 Miss Ward. At Ripon, C. H. Schwanfeldor, esq., 

 to Miss King. At Pontefract, the Rev. William 

 Birch, A.M., to Miss Jefterson. At Horbury, W. 

 W. Battye, esq.. to Miss Scholefield. AtKnares- 

 borough, William Wailes, esq., to Miss Wailes. At 

 York, Mr. Scott, to Miss Armitage. At Scar- 

 borough, the Rev. C. Jobnstone, to Miss Hawks- 

 worth. At Richmond, the Rer. T. Marshall, to 

 Miss Whitelocke. 



Died."} Mr. Whittaker, late teacher, at Bever- 

 ley ; as an arithmetician he was almost unrivalled ; 

 his memory was astonishing, having been known 

 to repeat 6,000 lines of poetry without an error. 

 At Howden, R. Spofforth, esq. At Sklpton, 

 Mrs.Wheelhouse, 90. Mr. Rust, of Hull, author of 

 "The Swearers' Prayer." Near Hallifax, T. 

 Dyson, esq., 83 ; he left 1/0 full suits of mourning 

 to his poor neighbours I At Doncaster, Mrs. M. 

 King, 92. At Sheffield, Mr. T. Gray. At York, 

 Mr?. Overton At Marham, Mr. T. Bunell. At 

 Leeds, William Davy, Esq. At Hull, William 

 Horncastle, Esq. At Wakelield, Mrs. Bacon. 



STAFFORD AND SALOP. 



At a late meeting of the teachers and friends of 

 St. Chad's Boys' Sunday School, Shrewsbury, it 

 * as resolved to establish a " Relief Fund," having 

 for its object the temporary relief of the scholars 

 when in a state of indisposition and distress. 



According to the Report of the Parliamentary 

 Commissioners on the state of the Public Charities, 

 it appears that in one of them in the county of 

 Salop, there ar arrears now due to the poor for 

 upwards of forty-two years 1 ! ! We trust that a II 

 the provincial newspapers will extract from these 

 reports as they are published what relates to their 

 local interests, that the public, seeing the enormity 

 of these time-crusted dilapidations, may seek the 

 means of employing to the original purposes of the 

 pious donors no less a sum than .9/2,396 annually 

 to England only. 



The Anniversary of the Shropshire Society, in 

 aid of the Sunday School Society for Ireland, has 

 been held at the Town-hall, Shrewsbury, the Earl 

 of Roden in the chair, when a flattering report was 

 made. " The Society," said the noble chairman, 

 " knows no party, it comprehends all sects, and its 

 benefits are not confined to the poor only. I my- 

 self, as a Sunday School teacher, have received the 

 highest benefits from it." 



Married.] At Morton Say, Mr. J. Hazledine^to 

 Miss Rhoda Brayne. At Easthope, Rev. R. L. 

 Benson, to Miss Amelia Dyer, grand-daughter of 

 Lieut.-Gen. Sir G.S.Browne. AtLichficld, H.Chet- 



wynd, esq., youngest son of the late Sir G. Chet- 

 wynd,hart.,to Miss M.A. Petit. 



Died'] At Pipe-gate, 70, Mr. Latham. Aug. 5, 

 Mrs. Charlesworth, Woodlands (Stafford); Aug. 1*, 

 Mr. Charlesworth; and Aug 18, Mr. C. Charles- 

 worth, their son. At Wolvcrhanipton,84,R. Dick- 

 inson, esq. ; 73, J. Mander, esq. At Linlay-hall, 

 A. Malo, esq. At Market Drayton, within the 

 same week, 20, Miss Ann Bradbury; and her sis- 

 ter.Miss Eliza, 25, of typhus fever. At Sandon-hall, 

 Granville Henry, infant son of Viscount Ebring- 

 ton. At Wenlock, 96, Mr. Patten. Near Eccles- 

 hall, 85. J. Faulkner, esq. At Pool-hall, 70, Mr. 

 Latham. 



CHESHIRE. 



Married.] At Prestbury, N. Pearson, esq., to 

 Miss M. Milner. 



Died A 71, Rev. T. Ward, prebendary of Ches- 

 ter. At Holt-hill, 77, Rev. J. Shewell. 



LANCASHIRE. 



A meeting of the lay-payers of Chorley was 

 lately held, when the rate of 9d. in the pound, to- 

 wards defraying the expenses of the new churches, 

 being proposed, was totally disallowed. 



At Blackburn Vestry Meeting, it was resolved, 

 that the attempt to impose a perpetual tax for 

 lighting and airing the parish church was inexpe- 

 dient, and in the present circum stances of the work- 

 ing classes, cruel in the extreme. The Poors' Rate 

 for the ensuing quarter, at Blackburn, as allowed 

 by the magistrates, is 9d. in the pound that of last 

 year was 2s 6d.!l! 



A meeting of the working classes and others of 

 Manchester, was held August 8, and adjourned to 

 Augut-t 29, when several resolutions were entered 

 into, and embodied in a petition to be presented to 

 His Majesty, expressing their approbation of the 

 firm and decisive manner in which H. M. lately 

 exercised his prerogative ; and complaining, as the 

 cause of their late severe distress of an unjust 

 monopoly of the land by the Crown, the Church, 

 and the Aristocracy generally, which can only be 

 remedied by a complete representation of the peo- 

 ple in Parliament. 



At a meeting of the inhabitants held in the Town 

 Hall, at Liverpool, it was resolved to erect a monu- 

 ment to the memory of the late Right Hon. George 

 Canning, by public subscription, and a committee 

 was formed ior that purpose. 



Lancaster Assizes have exhibited crimes of great 

 enormity a husband has been found guilty of mur- 

 dering his wife, and executed for the offence ; a 

 daughter has been tried on a charge of murdering 

 her father by poison, and very narrowly escaped ; 

 the trial for poisoning her mother having been de- 

 ferred 1iil the next assizes. A desperate gang of 

 robbers, the terror of that wild part of the country 

 which was exposed to their depredations, have been 

 convicted of crimes little short of murder ; and a 

 father and two of his sons sentenced to be executed, 

 without any hope of mercy having been held out 

 to them, for these offences. 



Married.'} At Rochdale, Capt. W. Hepwortb, 

 to Miss Mary Crossley. At Ripon, C. H. Schwan- 

 felder,esq.,to Miss King. At Bury, J. Shearson, 

 esq., to Miss Anne Kay. 



Died.'} At Bolton, 82, Mr. B. Hamer. Rev. J. 

 Allonby,36 years incumbent minister of Cartn.ell- 

 fell. At Leeds, W. Davy, esq., Consul of the 

 United States of America for Hull and its depen- 

 dencies ; Mrs. J. Barker, after an afflictive con- 

 finement of 35 years 176, Mr. C.Wheeler, original 

 proprietor of the Manchester Chronicle. At Li- 

 verpool, J. B. Hollinshead. csq,, alderman of that 

 town. 



