1828.] Yorkshire, Salop, Stafford, Lincolnshire, Lancashire,. fyc. 333 



The teachers and scholars of the Sunday School 

 at Mirfield, have presented a superb silver cup to 

 the Rev. S. Watt, for his unparalleled exertions 

 during a period of five years ; the Sunday School 

 having increased in that period from 40 to 500 

 scholars, and from 10 to 100 teachers ! 



In the beginning of last month there were very 

 severe gales on the coast ; several vessels were 

 lost at Scarborough, Whitby, Bridlington, &c. 



A mariners' church has been established at 

 Hull. 



The king has consented to patronize the next 

 Yorkshire musical festival. The Guarantee Fund 

 amounts to near 10,000. It will commence on 

 the 23d of September. 



On the night of Saturday the 19th of January, 

 the bank of the river Ouse, about a mile from 

 Booth Ferry, burst, and all the adjacent low 

 lands were laid under water. Great damage was 

 done at Howdeu, Knedlington, Anelley, and 

 Barmley-on-the-M arsh. 



The gentlemen of the law resident in York have 

 agreed to establish a law library in that city. 



About the last week in January, the workmen 

 engaged in widening the road in Clegg's-lane, 

 Huddersfield, found embedded in the earth, near 

 the surface, a bayonet ; and on the following day 

 a quantity of human bones were dug up. A hu- 

 man skull was discovered in the year 1816 near 

 the same place. It is conjectured that the person 

 had been murdered with the weapon, and that 

 both were buried . 



A fine heifer lately died on "a farm at Orgrave 

 near Attercliffe, after lingering three months in a 

 state of great exhaustion, the whole carcass 

 scarcely containing any blood whatever. An 

 adder was found in its head, which is supposed 

 to have been taken into the stomach, and worked 

 its way to the extremity, drawing from the heart 

 all that was intended for its nourishment. 



A young gentleman at Leeds (Mr. J. Osburn) 

 has deciphered the hieroglyphics upon a mummy 

 lately given to the Literary and Philosophical 

 Society in that town. They are the royal legend 

 of RemessesV., the Amenophis-Memophis of the 

 Greek writers, the father of the great Sesostrrs, 

 and the last monarch of Manetho's eighteenth 

 dynasty of the kings of Egypt. He ascended the 

 throne of the Pharaohs, in the year 1493 B.C. 



At the end of six months, the Bradford New 

 Banking Company have declared a dividend of 

 5 per cent, on the capital subscribed, 2 per cent, 

 as a bonus, and 2| per cent, to be reserved as a 

 back-set, to reach any future bad debts or other 

 contingencies. 



In the beginning of February, the workmen 

 employed in a new street erecting out of Mickell- 

 gate-bar, York, whilst sinking a drain, found a 

 .tone coffin, of large dimensions, and which con- 

 tained a skeleton, apparently that of a female. 

 The next day, the bones of a man were found, 

 who must have been an individual of extraordi- 

 nary stature. They were about one -third larger 

 than the bones of a full-sized man. The jaw 

 bone was an enormous one, and the teeth were in 

 a good state of preservation. Two Roman coins 

 were found in turning up the earth, a little dis- 

 tance from where the stone coffin and bones were 

 found. 



Sir R. H. Tnglis has been elected one of the 



representatives for Ripon, vice Sir L. Shadwell, 

 now vice-chancellor. 



Sir James Scarlett does not intend to come the 

 northern circuit any more, now that he has re- 

 signed the office of attorney-general. 



Swallows were seen in the plantations of 

 Colonel Croft, at Stillington, near York, on the 

 31st of January. 



Married.] At Sheffield, the Rev. T. Tatter- 

 shall to Miss Ann M . Tattershall ; J.F.Wright, 

 esq., to Miss Whittenbury. At High Hoyland, 

 J. Shearwood, esq., to Miss Norton. At Bever- 

 ley, J. Harrison, esq., to Miss Lambert. At York, 

 M.Richardson, esq., to Miss Hick; J. Garlick, 

 esq., to Miss Grainger. At Leeds, M. H. Wood, 

 to Miss Bower At Bridlington, W. Newmarsh, 

 esq., to Mrs. Kingston. At Hull, J. Richards, 

 esq. to Miss Collings. At Wakefield, Mr. W. 

 Ridsdale.to Mi.s Ellen Teale. At Northaller- 

 ton, Captain Clayhills to Miss Beckitt 



Died.'] At York, Mrs. Barton. At Sheffield, 

 P. Brownell, esq. At Sewerby, Miss Rhoda Hall. 

 At Lotherton-hall, Mrs. Norclilfe.--At Mount 

 St. John's, near Thirsk, Colonel Elsley. At 

 South Otterington, the Rev. J. Sampson. At 

 Hull, Mrs. Carrick. At.Hollins, near Halifax, 

 Ellen Eliza and Caroline Ann, the two daughters 

 of Colonel Deasden. At Droinanley-hall, Mrs. 

 Cleveland. At Chapeltown, M. Chambers, esq. 

 .At Leeds, T. Wade, esq.; Mrs. Fawcett. At 

 Fulford.J. Hotham, esq. At Bridlington, Miss 

 Mather. At Heath, Miss Henrietta Hardy. At 

 Helrnsley, the Rev. T. Lamb. 



SALOP AND STAFFORD. 



Died.] At Perry-hall, Stafford, 82, J. Gougb, 

 esq. At the Grove, Market Drayton, 96, Lady 

 Markham, widow of Sir J..J. Markhain, bart., 

 and sister of the late Robert Lord Clive- 



LINCOLNSHIRE. 



The custom duties of the port of Boston last 

 year exceeded those of the preceding year by 

 .8,190; and the expenditure of the department 

 was j\, 458 less. 



Died.] At Stamford, 96, Mrs. Barbara Hen- 

 rietta King. 



LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE. : 



The annual income of the Corporation of Liver- 

 pool was, on an average of 10 years, from 1721 to 

 1/30 inclusive, .1,603. Gs. 2d ; from 1/39 to 1748 

 it amounted to .2,126. 19s. 6gd. ; and last year, 

 1827, the income was .131, 202, 11s. 2d.!!! 



Messrs. Johnson and Son, of the Congleton 

 bank, who, during the 1826 panic, were compelled 

 to stop payment, have announced their intention 

 of liquidating all claims upon them, by paying an 

 additional 5s. per pound, 15s. having already beea 

 paid. 



A musical festival in the ensuing autumn will 

 take place at Manchester, and the guarantee 

 fund of .10,000, which it has been thought ne- 

 cessary to provide, in order to avoid all risk of 

 the receipts, is very nearly, if not quite, filled up. 



An unexpected claim has been made on the 

 part of the Duchy of Lancaster for the Crown, of 

 all the unenclosed strand of the river Mersey 

 generally. In pursuance of which, the solicitor 

 to the Duchy has served a notice on the trustees 

 of the docks, not to pay to the Earl of Sefton . or the 

 corporation, any sum on account of the purchases 

 to the southward, the subjects of adjudication in 

 1826 and 1827. Liverpool Tuesday's Adver- 

 tiser. 



Died.] Dr. Davis, of Macclefield. This re- 

 spectable gentleman uuy be considered a third, 



