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Provincial Occurrences : Leicester, Rutland, <$r v 



[JAN. 



LEICESTER AND HUTLAND. 



An infant school has been opened at Hinckley, 

 under the patronage of the ladies ; thus affording 

 an asylum and education suitable to their age, and 

 relieving, which is a main point, their parents from 

 the care of attending during eight hours of the 

 day. 



Died.] At Gilmorton, 84, Ann, relict of the 

 late Mr. T. Strciton. At Smithland, the Hon. 

 Lady H. Eiskine, wife of the Hon. and Rev. H. 

 1). Krskine. and daughter of the Earl of Portar- 

 Hugton. 



WARWICK AND NORTHAMPTON. 



A meeting of the Warwickshire Bankers has 

 been held at Birmingham, when resolutions were 

 entered into for more effectually protecting the 

 country bankers from the injurious consequences 

 of the unjustifiable attacks to which they have 

 been subjected and that the continuation of spe- 

 cial privileges to the Bank of England, renders the 

 establishment of Branch Banks inconsistent with 

 the principles of free trade. 



Several persons have been taken up lately and 

 committed to gaol for bull-baiting, under the Act 3 

 Geo IV. (commonly called Mr. Martin's) "to pre- 

 vent the cruel and improper treatment of cattle." 



The Hdyhead and Chester mail was overturned 

 near Walford Bridge, which divides the counties 

 of Northampton and Leicester, when one of the 

 inside passengers, W. Egerton, esq., was killed on 

 the spot, and others grievously wounded. 



Married.] AtTuxford, W. Kirke, esq , to Anne, 

 sister to SirT. Woollaston White, bart. At Pilton, 

 Mr. J. Baseley to Miss Selby. 



Died.] At Warwick, "6, Rose French, cook at 

 the Woolpack-inn, who for more than 60 years 

 served in the family of the late and present pro- 

 prietors of that establishment. At Ladywood- 

 nousp, near Birmingham, Lady Essington. relict of 

 the late Vice-Admiral Sir W. Essington. At Wel- 

 ford-bridge, Major-general Egorton, of Grest'ord- 

 lodge, Denbighshire, killed by the upsetting of the 

 Holybead mail in which he was a passenger. At 

 Northampton, Col. Thursby. 



WORCESTER AND HEREFORD. 



On St. Andrew's Day, the foundation stone was 

 laid of Netherton Chapel. After divine service, 

 the mayor, with a numerous train of gentlemen, 

 preceded by a band of music and 500 charity chil- 

 dren, repaired to the site, which is a fine elevation 

 commanding one of the most extensive and varied 

 prospects in England, when the vicar of Dudley 

 laid the first stone. The chapel is to be plain 

 gothic, to contain 1,500 sittings, 1,000 of which are 

 to be free. 



A very handsome window of stained and painted 

 glass, of the Crucifixion (after Le Brun), is now 

 erecting at the east end of St. Martin's Church, 

 Worcester. 



Married.] At Worcester, T. Chavasse, esq., to 

 Catherine Margaret, daughter of Col. L. Grant, 

 Kempsey. At Great Malvrrn, T. F. Cobbe, esq., 

 to Rosella Emma, daughter of Col. Torre. At 

 Inkborough, T. S. Heptinstall, esq., to Miss 

 Heath. 



Died.] At Hereford, 65, J. Perry, esq. At 

 Downton-castle, A. Knight, esq., junior, whose 

 death was occasioned by a most melancholy acci- 

 dent. He was with several friends on a shooting 

 party, when a pheasant rose, and one of his com- 

 panions his most intimate friend, brought up Ms 

 gun to fire at it : the instant he pulled the trigger. 

 Mr. K. advanced from behind a tree, within the 

 line of the ghot, received part of the charge, and 



fell. He expired about 10 o'clock the following 

 morning ; and was interred near the tomb of hU 

 uncle, R. Payne Knight, esq., who bequeathed big 

 valuable marbles and statues to the British Mu- 

 seum. 



GLOUCESTER AND MONMOUTH. 

 Within the last five years, " a new-created 

 world" of rational delights, if not of elegant so- 

 ciality, has aiisen in the south-east district of the 

 Royal Forest of Dean. This has been accom- 

 plished, in the construction of a church, in a truly 

 ecclesiastical style of architecture, capable of 

 holding 800 worshippers, a parsonage-house, and a 

 school-house, with all needful domestic appen- 

 dages; by means of which two hundred boys and 

 girls are already learning to " remember their 

 Creator." The organ, lately removed from Ross, 

 (to give place for a larger instrument) being well 

 adapted to the dimensions of St. Paul's, Park End, 

 has been re-edified in that church, and was, No- 

 vember 29, made vocal to the surrounding neigh, 

 bourhood, aided by a full cathedral order of vocal 

 and instrumental music, which passed off with a 

 degree of spirit and correctness, that proved the 

 possibility of conducting an /amateur choir without 

 either visible or audible markings of the time, 

 such as have been too often supposed a needful 

 exhibition in the presence of devotional hearers, 

 by singers, who had yet to learn, that those only 

 " sing well together" who " listen while they sing." 



OXFORD AND BERKS. 



The parochial authorities of Faringdon have 

 determined to apportion small tracts of land for the 

 use of the poor ; convinced that if the system were 

 brought into general practice, it would tend in a 

 great measure to do away with that abject state of 

 pauperism under which our agricultural labourers 

 are suffering. 



The late Lieut.-Col. Boden, of the East-India 

 Company's Service, has bequeathed a property to 

 the University of Oxford, to be appropriated to- 

 wards the erection and endowment of a Professor- 

 ship in the Sanskreet language, in one of the col- 

 leges of the said University, being, as the will 

 states, " of opinion that a more general and criti- 

 cal knowledge of that language will be a means of 

 enabling his countrymen to proceed in the conver- 

 sion of the natives of India to the Christian reli- 

 gion, by disseminating a knowledge of the sacred 

 Scriptures amongst them, more effectually than all 

 other means whatsoever." 



The University and the City of Oxford have each 

 offered a reward of .100 for the discovery of the 

 person or persons who so atrociously murdered Ann 

 Crotchley. The body has been disinterred for fur- 

 ther examination. 



Died.] At Buckland, 85, Rev. J. Berington, 

 priest of the Roman Catholic church, author of 

 the " Literary History of the Middle Ages," e. 

 His funeral was attended by several clergymen of 

 the Church of England. At Oxford, Mr. R. Eaton. 

 80, Elizabeth, relict of the late Dr. Parsons, 

 bishop of Peterborough. At Henley, 27, VV. 

 Neale ; he had undergone tapping 49 times within 

 the last 8 months, and lost in all 689 pints of 

 fluid. At Newbury, 25, James, the eldest son of 

 Mr. J. \\ ells. 



NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK. 



By the report made at the last annual meeting of 

 the subscribers to the Norfo\k and Norwich Mn- 

 seum, it appears that the museum has been greatly 

 augmented dnring the last year by numerous do- 



