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Provincial Occurrences : Lancashire, 



[DEC. 



the chair, the following address was 

 unanimously agreed to : " To the King's 

 Most Excellent Majesty. Sire We, 

 your Majesty's loyal and dutiful sub- 

 jects, inhabitants of the parish of Stan- 

 hope, in the county of Durham, approach 

 your paternal throne, with reverence 

 and love. To our King we declare our 

 grievance from the Father of his Peo- 

 ple, we seek redress. With doubt and 

 regret, we have heard the declaration of 

 our rector, Henry Phillpotts, Doctor in 

 Divinity, that the tithe of this parish, 

 affording a temporal remuneration of the 

 services of its priest of 4,000 a year, is 

 to be enjoyed by him, conjointly with 

 the Bishopric of Exeter, and the spiritual 

 care of 12,000 inhabitants delegaced to 

 a hirling ! ! ! We humbly represent to 

 your Majesty, that a parish so populous, 

 paying so largely for religious assistance, 

 might claim the advantages of a resident 

 pastor. We submit the utter impossi- 

 bility of a bishop in Devonshire having 

 ability to discharge his duties in Dur- 

 ham ; we submit that prebendal stalls, 

 and other religious sinecures, should 

 alone be afforded to create revenues for 

 the heads of the church ; we declare the 

 cure of souls to be a duty of eternal mo- 

 ment, which cannot be delegated, with- 

 out awful responsibility which cannot 

 be sacrificed to present considerations, 

 without fearful daring of future ac- 

 count ! ! ! We invoke your Majesty, 

 as the head of our church, graciously to 

 consider our prayer ; and if expediency 

 should require the elevation of our pre- 

 sent minister to the episcopal bench, 

 that your royal prerogative may also 

 secure to us a resident rector, whose 

 undivided help may constantly be given, 

 in exchange for the secular advantages 

 of this richly endowed benefice ! ! !" 



LANCASHIRE The commission- 

 ers of watch, scavengers, and lamps, of 

 the parish of Liverpool, have published 

 their account of the expences for last 

 year from Sept. 29, 1829, to Sept. 29, 

 1830, which amounts to 18,435. 19s. ! 

 The surveyors of highways have also 

 published their account for the same 

 parish, amounting to 11,313. 10s. 6d. 

 from Michaelmas, 1829, to July 15, 

 1830. 



^ WESTMORELAND. The ex- 

 penses for this county from June 23, 



*-' .' 1829, to June 22, 1830, amount to 

 3,170. 6s. 9d. about 2,000 of which 

 was for law and its contingencies the 

 county bridges and roads at the ends 





thereof, 411. 5s. 5id. 



LINCOLNSHIRE. A meeting of 

 the electors of Stamford to petition the 

 King, and the two Houses of Parlia- 

 ment, on certain circumstances relating 

 to the late election for that borough, and 



to secure to themselves a free and effi- 

 cient representation in the House of 

 Commons, has taken place. Ten reso- 

 lutions were unanimously agreed to, and 

 the Duke of Sussex and Lord Holland 

 were requested to lay a petition before 

 the King ; and Earl Grey and C. Ten- 

 nyson, Esq., before the Houses of Lords 

 and Commons. The seventh resolution 

 states, " that the Marquis of Exeter 

 did by his agents, illegally and uncon- 

 stitutionally, interfere with the election 

 by influencing several electors to vote 

 for his own relations ; and afterwards, 

 when the election was over, gave notice 

 to electors, being his tenants, who voted 

 contrary to his desires, to quit the tene- 

 ments held under him." Lincoln and 

 Stamford Mercury. 



GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Colston's 



Anniversary was celebrated, 13 Nov., at 

 Bristol, with the usual demonstrations 

 of respect and veneration, in honour of 

 the memory of that philanthropist. The 

 Dolphin Society met their president at 

 the cathedral ; and at their dinner the 

 collection amounted to 340. The An- 

 chor Society met their president at the 

 Merchants' Hall, where dinner was pro- 

 vided, and the collection amounted to 

 540. 11s. Cd. The Grateful Society's 

 collection amounted to 440. 10s. 6d. 



NORFOLK. At the last meeting 

 (Oct. 22) of the Justices in the Grand 

 Jury Chamber the Prison Report was 

 made, when Colonel Harvey declared 

 that the cause of crime was want of 

 labour, and, after detailing the number 

 of prisoners in the jail, lamented the 

 great increase of the poor's rate in the 

 county, stating it to amount to more 

 than 600,000 ! ! Within the last 20 

 years it had increased 100,000 ! ! ! 

 1 The labourer only received 2s. 6d. a 

 ' week," said he ; "I consider the poor 

 ' man's labour his property, and when 

 'he receives merely 2s. 6d. for that 

 ' which ought to be 10s., I cannot help de- 

 ' signating it as a species of legal swind- 

 4 l}ng ! ! !" The learned chairman (Mr. 

 Weyland) stated, that he had lately seen 

 in this county a Mr. Benning, the'agent 

 of the Dowager Empress of Russia, who 

 was surprised at seeing in the gaol wo- 

 men with infant children at their breasts, 

 and inquired, " Whether the country 

 " was in such a state as to render it 

 " necessary to send Women, so situated, 

 " to prison ? ! ! !" 



OXFORDSHIRE. By an abstract 

 account of receipts and expenditure of 

 the commissioners of the Oxford light- 

 ing and paving acts, it appears that the 

 sum of 3,088. 19s. 7d- was expended 

 for that town between Oct. 27, 1829, and 

 Oct. 28, 1830. 



