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these measures as relate to themselves ; we saw 

 with admiration the struggle the Silk Manufac- 

 turers successfully made. We saw the Scotch 

 Bankers defeat those regulations intended for their 

 annihilation. We see the English Bankers en- 

 gaged in a struggle with the Bank of England, 

 instigated by the advocates of this new system, 

 against changes, in which, if .they are defeated, It 

 will go far to effect their ruin and extinction, as 

 they can no more compete with their untaxed com- 

 petitor, than we can with the untaxed ships of 

 foreign nations. We see the Maltsters arrayed in 

 active hostility to regulations which they assert 

 will be the cause of their destruction ; in short, 

 which ever way we turn, we find some interest in 

 a state of alarm and distress at contemplated, or 

 actually effected, changes. The Landed Interest 

 (recently in some degree exempt from the pressure 

 of distress so heavily felt by others) is about to 

 experience its full share of it, if the depressed state 

 of the markets for its produce can be taken as a 

 criterion on which to form a judgment. A deficient 

 revenue, most unnecessarily and wantonly occa- 

 sioned by a repeal of taxes, whose repeal has only 

 benefited partial and individual interest, threatens 

 the public creditor with the defalcation of his divi- 

 dends. The Colonial Interest has long and loudly 

 complained of their treatment: other interests, 

 apparently more remote, are not less threatened. 

 A union of all, therefore, who possess any stake in 

 the country, appears indispensable, to arrest the 

 progress of these changes, by which all are equally 

 threatened. The proprietors of the ships of Eng- 

 land, than whom His Majesty possesses no more 

 loyal or peaceable subjects, must rouse themselves 

 into exertion, as they are the most prominent link 

 in the chain of destruction, now extending over this 

 noble land ; fortunately for them, all are interested 

 in their preservation, from His Majesty on the 

 throne from the loftiest peer to the humblest pea- 

 sant, all, all are equally interested in their pre- 

 servation." 



The Dean and Chapter of Durham mean to open 

 the Galilee chapel, attached to the cathedral, and 

 fit it up with free sittings for the inhabitants ; 

 divine service to be performed in an afternoon. 



In two gales, on the 29th of November, and on 

 the 5th of December, damage was done to the 

 shipping in the port of Sunderland to the amount 

 of .10,000. 



A bridge is about to be erected across the Tyne, 

 to communicate with the turnpike-road from Gates- 

 head and Hexham. 



TheTyne Yeomanry Hussars are dismissed from 

 all further service after the 24th December, in con- 

 sequence of the letter of LordLansdowne. 



In the second week in December, there were 

 some severe gales experienced in the city of Dur- 

 .harn. which did considerable injury, by blowing in 

 windows, and injuring roofs and chimnies. 



Married.-] At Bishop Middlcham, Mr. W.Wright, 

 ' aged 16, to Miss Mary Ann White, aged 15. At 

 Newcastle, John Trolovc to Mi?s Wilkinson ; T. W. 

 Keenlyside, to Miss Louisa Pollard. At Durham, 

 Mr J Kitsouto Miss Judith Taylor; Mr. W. At- 

 kinson to Miss Stoker ; Mr. T. Anderson to Miss 

 ; o . Lowes. At Bishopwearmouth, Mr. Macdoiiald 

 toMissTullock. 



Died.] At Durham, 86, Mr. Palmer ; 61, Mrs. 



Isabella" Appleby.-At Chillingham 

 Thomas, LL.D.-At Newcastle. ' 

 Mrs. Ellison. At South Shield? 



the Rev. A. 



Mrs. D. Ions ; 

 Mr. W. Turner, 



At Gateshead, Mr. W. Hunt. At Bishop Auck- 

 land, Mrs. Pickering. At Stainton,/0, Mrs. Bain- 

 bridge. At Monkwearmouth, Mr. Bell.- -At Dar- 

 lington, R. W. Johnston, esq. 



CUMBERLAND AND WEST MORELAND. 



The Trustees of the Savings' Bank established at 

 Carlisle, have made their report of the state of 

 its funds, by which it appears that the sum of 

 .27,949. Os. 5d. was invested in the bank at the 

 date of Nov. 20, 1827. 



Died.'} At Whitehaven, 77, H. Jefferson, esq. ; 

 81, Mrs. M. Royle. 



YORKSHIRE. 



Some poachers, who were netting in a field near 

 Meaux, the last week in November, caught an un- 

 fortunate bird for them; they entangled a pas- 

 senger in the meshes of their net, who immediately 

 gave information to the magistrates, which led to 

 their conviction. 



There appears to be a numerous gang'of villains 

 dispersed over Yorkshire. Scarcely a week elapses 

 but several burglaries and highway robberies are 

 committed. 



A cabinet of curiosities has been received in 

 York from Ceylon. They consist of a very curious 

 lady's work box; a silver statue of the mother of 

 Boodha ; a figure of Boodha, preaching; four 

 carved ivory figures, three about five inches, and 

 the fourth about two inches in height, beautifully 

 executed ; a cinnamon peeler, and a tom-tom 

 beater, carved in wood ; specimens of the Singha- 

 lese mode of writing, on slips of the talipot leaf: 

 these slips are folded in a particular way, accord- 

 ing to the rank of the party addressed ; drawings 

 of Singhalese idols; specimens of jewellery, in 

 brooches and rings, the workmanship of which is 

 very fine, &c. 



A coin of Vespasian's was found lately in York ; 

 being one of those struck to commemorate the 

 capture of Jerusalem. The Emperor's head is on 

 the obverse; inscription " Vespasianus, Rom. 

 imp. Aug." On the reverse is a paper tree, the 

 emblem of Judea, and at the foot stands a Jew, 

 with his arms bound, to denote the state of cap- 

 tivity to which the Jews were reduced. The in. 

 scription is, "Judea capta." In the exergue there 

 are the letters S. C. 



On the night of the 30th of November, a most 

 desperate encounter took place in Kirkley planta- 

 tion, near Huddersfield, the property of Sir G. 

 Armitage, bart., between the watchers and a party 

 of poachers, twelve or fourteen in number. The 

 latter were armed with guns and bludgeons, the 

 watchers had only sticks. One of the watchers 

 was killed at the beginning of the affray, by a blow 

 from a bludgeon, and three others were badly 

 wounded. Four of the poachers have been appre- 

 hended, and committed to York Castle for the 

 murder. 



The first rtone of the New Junction Dock at 

 Hull was laid on the 10th of December by J. C. 

 Parker, esq. 



Preparations are making for the Yorkshire Mu- 

 sical Festival of 1828. The Rev. W. H. Dixon. 

 prebendary of Ripon, has accepted the office of 

 chairman of the committee ; and various arrange- 

 ments have be en made. 



Lodging-houses are about to be built at Whitby, 

 for the accommodation of visitors ; and consider- 

 able alterations are making in the Museum of the 

 Wbitby Philosophical and Literary Society,-"by the 



