220 Provincial Occurrences : Salop, Stafford, Lincolnshire, $c. 



151anchfird to Miss Wad 9 worth .At Bilbrough, 

 W. Holdsworth, esq., to Miss Ogle. 



Died.'] At Wakctield, Miss Naylor ; Mrs. Fen- 

 ton. At York, Mrs. Beal; Mr. Beau. At Hud. 

 dersfield, R.Fritty, esq. At Emley-park, Mrs. 

 Stead. At Halifax, T. Preston, esq. At Years- 

 ley, 100, airs. Cordukes. At Woodhouse,in Ras- 

 trick, J. Armitage.esq. At Hull, Mr.G. Scanar. 

 At Leeds, Mr. J. Hargreaves. At Cusworth, W. 

 Wrightson, esq. At the house of W. Dauby, esq. 

 Miss Ridsdale, the celebrated dwarf; who was 

 55 years old, and 31 inches high. At Doncaster, 

 J. J'arratt, esq., the founder of the new church now 

 building there. - At Thorney, Mrs. Carr. At Cha- 

 peltown, Miss Hives. 



SALOP AND STAFFORD. 



Married.'} At Blithfield, J. N. Lane, esq., to 

 the Hon. Agnes Bagot, second daughter of Lord 

 Bagot. 



Died.] At Shrewsbury, 67, Rev. Archdeacon 

 Owen. 



LINCOLNSHIRE. 



An important result has transpired in the pro- 

 gress of boring for spring water in Boston. Seve- 

 ral specimens of hard shelly substances have been 

 met, and the auger brought up specimens of hard 

 rock, pulverized by the process ; but a chip of the 

 original stratum, which proves to be red granite, 

 came up accidentally with the auger. The ex- 

 treme hardness of the rock prevents much pro- 

 gress being made, and blunts the auger so as to 

 require its being frequently ground. Having 

 reached the decided proof of bottoming the im- 

 mense bed of clay, at the depth of 430 feet, rea- 

 sonable expectations are now indulged of a suc- 

 cessful result. 



It appears that the celebrated bell, ycleped 

 " Great Tom of Lincoln," has at length met with 

 a disaster. It has sustained a serious crack, the 

 fissure of which extends one foot on that part of 

 the bell upon which the hammer of the clock has 

 usually struck. Great Tom was cast in the reign 

 of James I., and weighs 96 cwt. Sqrs. ISlbs. 



LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE. 



The weavers of certain descriptions of silk 

 goods, who turned out a few weeks ago, in con- 

 sequence of an attempted reduction of their 

 wages, have resumed their employment, the ma- 

 nufacturers having agreed to give the prices 

 which were paid before the turn-out. 



Although the accounts of the quarter's revenue 

 present a falling off, as compared with the corre- 

 sponding quarter of 1827, amounting to .188,000, 

 yet the deficiency upon the total income of the 

 year amounts only to the comparative trifling 

 sum of .5,993. We have, at the same time, the 

 pleasure of stating, that the gross receipt of 

 the customs at the port of Liverpool is the 

 largest ever known, exceeding three millions 

 and a quarter sterling; and the nett receipts, 

 alter the disbursements of the heavy boun- 

 ties, repayments, expenses, &c., is more than 

 .3,113,000, which is a great advance upon the 

 last year, and 180, 000 more than even the great 

 trading year of 1825. 



A meeting of the Chamber of Commerce lately 

 took place at the Exchange Committee Room, 

 Manchester, when it it was resolved to petition 

 the legislature for a total and unqualified repeal 

 of the receipttax. 



The general amount of the sums received on 

 account of the Macclesfield Savings' Bank up to 



Nov. 20, 1827 (the period of the last report by the 

 trustees) is stated to be .58,490 7s. 5d. 



Married."] At Prestbury, T. Legh, esq., of 

 L-yme-hall, to Miss Turner, daughter of W. Tur- 

 ner, esq., of Shriglcy-park. 



Died.] At Liverpool, the Rev. J. Mott, one of 

 the first preachers in the Methodist New Con- 

 nexion, 1797; 77, B. Batley, esq,, formerly of 

 Streatham. 



NOTTINGHAM AND DERBY. 



At a meeting held at Chapel-en-le-Frith, Dec. 

 29, 1827, of the freeholders and inhabitants of the 

 Hundred of High Peak, Derby, it was resolved to 

 oppose the removal of the Midsummer Sessions 

 from Chesterfield to Derby by the following 

 (among other) reasons : " Resolved, That the 

 greatest pait of the population of this hundred 

 being located on the western andthe north-western 

 sides of the county, at a distance of fifty miles and 

 upwards from Derby, the expense of conveying 

 prisoners thence to the county town, and of at- 

 tending there as jurymen, is a serious evil ; that 

 the costs of a sessions cause differ very little from 

 that of a cause tried at the assizes ; and that, in 

 consequence of such oppressive charges, the 

 parishes and individuals of this hundred are in- 

 duced, in many instances, to suffer injustice, 

 rather than encounter the costs of a trial at 

 Derby."!!! 



Died.] At Derby, 87, Mrs. Dorothy Evanson, 

 sister of the late Rev. E. Evanson, M.A.. of 

 Emanuel College, Cambridge, author of " The 

 Dissonance of the Four Gospels," "Sermons on 

 various Subjects," &c. At Hardstaff, 95, Eliza- 

 beth Rooth, sister to Robert Askew, the wrestler ; 

 he threw Isaac Newton, of Remstow, on a stage 

 erected at Bingham, Nottinghamshire, on Easter 

 Monday, 1/62, and was never thrown by any 

 prize wrestler. 102, Mr. R. Budill ; he was the 

 principal hatter in Nottingham for upwards of 60 

 years. 



LEICESTER AND RUTLAND. 



The Epiphany Sessions for Leicester com- 

 menced on January 12; when the grand jury 

 were called, so few were the individuals who 

 answered to their names, that it was necessary to 

 send for several. After a long time, only sixteen 

 appeared, including the chamberlains, who were 

 obliged to volunteer themselves to make up even 

 that number. The Recorder said he was ex- 

 tremely sorry to see so few gentlemen attend ; he 

 thought it would be necessary to put a stop to 

 such neglect, as the court were empowered, by 

 Mr. Peel's Act, to fine every grand or petty jury- 

 man who did not attend. He was sorry to see 

 that the calendar was so heavy. He there per- 

 ceived the names of twenty-one prisoners, most 

 of whom were youthful offenders. Every friend 

 of his country must wish to see a period put to 

 this. A gaol would soon be built, which would 

 admit of classification and hard labour, and 

 where, he hoped, such punishment would be in- 

 flicted that crime would soon decrease. 



WARWICK AND NORTHAMPTON. 

 The very long Chancery suit relative to the 

 appointment of a lecturer to St. Mary's, Warwick, 

 has at length been decided by the Lord Chancel- 

 lor to be in the vicar, and not in the corporation ; 

 it is worth about .60 per annum ; and the law 

 expenses has exceeded .15,000. The cause com- 

 menced in 1615, and has been continued under the 

 various chancellors from that time, being rather 

 more than two centuriet!!! 



