449 Provincial Occurrences : Yorkshire, Salop, Stafford, $c. 



The ship Diana lately arrived at Hull from New 

 York in 25 days, being one of the quickest pas- 

 gapes ever known. 



Considerable alterations are projecting in Scar- 

 borough against the approaching season. The 

 gardens on the cliff are to be laid into one, to 

 form an elegant promenade ; and a mascara for 

 subjects in natural history is erecting. 



At Spurn Point, on the 28th February, as a 

 young boy, son to Mr. Richardson, master of the 

 life-boat, was firing at a mark, his sister, about 

 14 or 15 years of age, was unfortunately shot by 

 him in the head, and died before medical assist- 

 ance could be obtained. 



The first stone of a new church was laid at 

 Collar, near Huddersfield, by the Rev. J. C. 

 Franks, vicar of the latter town, on the 13th of 

 March. 



As some men were cutting down a tree at King 

 Cross, near Halifax, on the llth of March, it fell 

 tipon a man who was passing on horseback, and 

 killed both the horse and the rider. 



Twenty-four pairs of hand-polished steel scis- 

 sors, weighing altogether only one grain, have just 

 been manfactured by Mr. Peter Hatherton, Spring, 

 street, Sheffield. Who would believe, unless they 

 saw them, that 11,520 pairs of hand-polished scis- 

 sors could be manufactured, completely perfect, 

 the weight of which would be only one ounce ? 



On the 20th of March, as the workmen were 

 digging the cellars for some new houses about to 

 be erected in Davy-gate, York, they found, about 

 8 feet below the surface of the earth, three skele- 

 tons, which had evidently been thrown in promis- 

 cuously without coffins, as they laid in such a way 

 that they could not possibly have been inclosed in 

 a shell of any kind. It is impossible to conjec- 

 ture how long they had lain there, but certainly 

 long before the memory of man. 



. Married.'] At Hull, J. Brooks, esq., to Miss 

 S. Middleton. At York, H. Cobb, esq., to Miss 

 Wolsterholme. At Middleton, G. Hompson, esq., 

 to Miss Taylor. At Snaitli, M. Gibson to Miss 

 Dunn. At Malton, F. Bitton, M.D.,to Miss Tem- 

 ple. At Howden, Mr. G. Atkinson to Miss James. 

 At Scarborough, W. Jeffeison, esq., to Miss 

 Johnson. At Bradford, J. Greenwood, esq., to 

 Miss Tetty. R. Hudson, esq., to Miss Stanhope. 



Died.] At Bedale, Miss Williamson. At 

 Masham, R. Edon, esq. At Holmfirth, C. Ste- 

 phenson.esq. At Selby.Miss Dobson. At Wake- 

 field, R. Drake, esq. At Hull, Mrs. Byron. At 

 Dry pool, 88, Mr. Lee. At Farnham, Mrs. Mason. 

 At York, Lady Crawford Pollock; and, a few 

 days after, Mrs. Musket, her ladyship's mother. 

 At Demming-house, Mr. Prescod. At Scarbo- 

 rough, J. Oldfield, esq., M.D.-At Chapel Aller- 

 ton, Mrs. Nicholson. At Burton-lodge, near 

 Leeds, Mrs. Busk. 



SALOP AND STAFFORD. 



Died.] At Oaken, 82, the Hon. Frances Dowa- 

 ger Lady Wrottesley. Her ladyship was the 

 daughter of William first Viscount Courtenay; 

 nhe was born March Id, 1746, and married June 

 7, 17/0, to the late Sir J. Wrottesley, bart., by 

 whom she was left a widow, on the 22d of April 

 1787, with seven children, the present Sir J. 

 Wrottesley, bart., M.P. for the comity of Stafford, 

 being the eldest. At Armitage-park, T. Lister, 

 esq.; his son.T. H. Lister, esq., is the author of 

 " Granby" and" Herbert Lacy ;" the latter dedi- 

 cated to his father. 



LINCOLN AND NOTTINGHAM. 



The ladies' productions at the Fancy Bazaar, 

 at Stamford, have produced, during the course of 



three days' sale, more than .1,6001! Tho funds 

 are destined for the benefit of the Stamford and 

 Rutland Infirmary. 



It is our painful duty to announce that on the 

 6th instant seven more sheep were maimed and 

 slaughtered in the East Marsh Field, which 

 added to the former number, make 119 sheep and 

 one heifer. And on Sunday evening last, be- 

 tween seven and eight o'clock, at Cleathorp, 

 about two miles hence, seven beasts (five of which 

 are dead) were maimed and hamstrung, and a 

 valuable mare slaughtered in the stables and 

 crew-yard adjoining the house of Mr. J. Osbourn. 

 The deed was perpetrated during the time the 

 family were at the methodist chapel. The strict- 

 est investigation is now going on to find out the 

 monster who committed these atrocities. Stam- 

 ford Mercury. 



The demand for weavers continues unabated at 

 Bolton. The extraordinary quantity of looms now 

 employed with silk and cotton, has created a 

 scarcity of muslin weavers, and this scarcity will 

 increase unless our manufacturers pay something 

 like corresponding wages. We have been in- 

 formed that, in the neighbourhood of Leigh 

 alone, 1,000 hands have been transferred from 

 mu?lin to silk and cotton fabrics. Bolton Chro- 

 nicle. 



Died.'] At Lenton-priory, 73, W. Stretton, 

 esq. At Newark, 73, Mr. R. Hutchinson. 



LANCASHIRE. 



The Chairman of the Committee of the Liver- 

 pool Mechanics' and Apprentices' Library, read at 

 their last meeting their 4th annual report, in 

 which it is said : " It is with no common degree 

 of satisfaction that we state the fact, that there is 

 a constant demand in the library for elementary 

 works of science and art ; that those relating to 

 the trades and occupations of the readers have 

 been in particular request; and, next to these, 

 the numerous voyages and travels. Works purely 

 imaginative are, in comparison, seldom inquired 

 for, though they may be said to form, at the pre- 

 sent day, the chief mental aliment of the higher 

 classes of society. In such works as have been 

 named by the readers themselves as desirable of 

 acquisition, the committee have, with pleasure^ 

 observed that they have always been unobjec- 

 tionable in moral principles, and generally con- 

 ducive to the real interest of the applicants, and 

 their only regret has been, that their funds have 

 not, in every instance, enabled them to comply 

 w.ith the wishes of the readers." There are about 

 900 readers at this library, and the number is 

 daily increasing. 



A melancholy accident occurred at Manchester, 

 on the occasion of launching the Emma, at the 

 New Quay Company's Yard, which was upset, 

 and 38 persons were drowned. 



Tho recent demand for exportation has, we be- 

 lieve, more than realized the hopes of the Man- 

 chester folks ; but the home trade has hitherto 

 been much more limited than was expected. The 

 latter circumstance is occasioned by the distress 

 of the agricultural districts, the low wages of 

 labour, and the general scarcity of money. The 

 demand for yarns is increasing, both for home 

 manufacture and for exportation ; and the wages 

 of the operatives are higher than they have been 

 for some years. Respecting our foreign trade, a 



