1828.] Warwick, Northampton) Worcester, Hereford, Somerset, $c. 445 



treaty of commerce has recently been entered into 

 between Bavaria and Wirtemberg. The conse- 

 quence is, the lines of custom-houses are closed ; 

 the two countries have a free interchange of their 

 own productions, and jointly collect duties on 

 foreign ones. Thus the duties on British manu- 

 factured goods, which have hitherto in Wirtem- 

 berg been moderate, are now brought up to a 

 level with those of Bavaria ; that is, more than 

 trebled! So much for reciprocity!! 



WARWICK AND NORTHAMPTON. 



18 prisoners were recorded for death at North- 

 ampton; 6 were transported, and 18 were sen- 

 tenced to imprisonment. J. Goodman was left 

 for execution, for having unlawfully entered into 

 8 plantation armed with a gun, with intent ille- 

 gally to kill game !!! Northampton Mercury. 



At the last annual meeting of the Banbury 

 Savings' Bank, the gentlemen assembled expressed 

 their entire approbation of the report of the com- 

 mittee, which shewed that this admirable institu- 

 tion did in reality assist the very persons for 

 whose use and benefit Savings' Banks were esta- 

 blished. About .50,000 had been deposited by 

 labourers, servants, mechanics, small tradesmen, 

 benefit societies, children, and others. 



Died.] At Warwick. 90, J. Tew, esq. At 

 Wroxall Abbey, C.R.Wren, esq. At Birming- 

 ham, Rev. J. Darwall. 



WORCESTER AND HEREFORD. 



At the assizes at Worcester, 11 culprits were 

 recorded for death ; 4 transported, and 6 impri- 

 soned. 



The Worcestershire Medical Society has for- 

 warded a petition to the Secretary of State, for 

 presentation to the House of Lords, in which the 

 society represents, in strong terms, the disadvan- 

 tages under which the profession labours, in con- 

 sequence of the difficulty of procuring human 

 subjects for dissection, and hinting that " they 

 manage these things better in France," thus 

 obliging young men to pursue their studies there. 

 SOMERSET AND DEVON. 



At Taunton there are above one hundred and 

 seventy prisoners for trial ; and at Exeter, one 

 hundred and ten!!! where, at the latter place, 

 Mr. Justice Gaselee, in his charge to the Grand 

 Jury, observed, that it gave him pain to say that 

 the calendar contained not only a greater number 

 of prisoners than he remembered since he had 

 had the honour of filling the situation he then did, 

 but exceeded that of any previous period during 

 the time he had, as counsel, travelled this cir- 

 cuit. He lamented extremely this excess of crime, 

 and trusted that the inquiries now generally set 

 on foot, to discover the cause of so much depra- 

 vity, would be successful. He could not but 

 observe, that the numbers in the calendar had 

 more than doubled since the judges first met to 

 determine on their respective circuits ; nor could 

 he refrain from pressing on their attention the 

 obvious advantages that would arise from holding 

 a session for the purpose of delivering the gaol 

 of all prisoners for minor offences, just before the 

 assizes. Many, certainly, had been committed 

 since the Epiphany sessions ; but there were fif- 

 teen or sixteen cases the dates of which were 

 previous to that period, and there were not want- 

 ing in the calendar, instances of commitments as 

 long since as August or September last ['# 



months in gaol BEFORE trial III] on which he 

 would say, that, if even found guilty, he should 

 feel it a duty to observe to them, that their 

 punishments had been already disproportioned 

 to their offences, and, so admonishing, should 

 discharge them ; and of the others, in the event of 

 conviction, he should proportion their further 

 punishment to that which they had already under- 

 gone!!! 



At Wivcliscombe,the inhabitants (without brief 

 or aid from Government) are building a new 

 church, at an estimate of at least .6000; and 

 have erected an Independent chapel, at an expense 

 of .2000. They have also completed a new line 

 of road leading to Southmolton, which cost 

 .20,000. 



By a document published recently by the mana- 

 gers of the Exeter Savings' Bank, since their 

 annual report, it appears, that the sum of 

 .112,857. 16s. lid. belongs to 6,645 children, no 

 part of which can be withdrawn but by their 

 own consent, nor until they are of sufficient age 

 to give such consent!!! 



At a recent meeting of the subscribers to the 

 Bath Penitentiary, after the report of last year's 

 proceedings was read, it was announced, that a 

 legacy of about .12,000 had been bequeathed by 

 the late Mr. Williams of Bath, to be equally 

 divided between the General and the United 

 Hospitals, and the Peniteutiary, at Bath, and the 

 Bristol Infirmary. 



The improved line of road through the village 

 of Yarcornbe was opened for the mail-coach to 

 pass over it, on March II. Some obstacles which 

 presented themselves, when the road was origi- 

 nally made in 1815, have been overcome, and an 

 easy sweep and a moderate ascent substituted 

 for an acute angle and steep pull. 



Died.] At Plymouth, 72, Mrs. Calmady, relict 

 of the late Admiral Calmady ; 95, Mrs. May. At 

 Kingweston, Somerset, 26, the Rev. J.Scott, M. A. 

 of Wadham College, Oxford, eldest son of J.Scott, 

 esq., Winfrith, Dorset 



DORSET AND WILTS. 



At the assizes held at Salisbury, 22 were re- 

 corded for death, and at Dorset assizes 7 besides 

 a few transported and imprisoned. 



March 11, the teachers of the Church Sunday 

 Schools, Poole, held their annual tea-party in the 

 school-room ; having previously invited the teach. 

 ers of the Sunday Schools of other denomina- 

 tions, with their friends, to join them. About 260 

 sat down. The party did not separate until they 

 had been addressed by several of the reverend 

 divines present, on the important and sacred 

 nature of the task in which they were engaged, 

 and the gratifying union which that evening 

 presented of so many different sects of religion !i! 



HERTS. 



At the assizes for Herts, 10 prisoners received 

 sentence of death ; 2 were transported ; and a few 

 imprisoned ; one of them for six months, for 

 having been found out at night armed with guns, 

 with intent to kill game ! 



Died.] At Hartsborne Manor-place, 62, Vice- 

 Admiral Sir T. B. Thompson, Bait., Treasurer of 

 Greenwich Hospital, and formerly Comptroller of 

 the Navy. 



OXFORD AND BERKS. 



At the Oxford Lent Assizes, 7 culprits received 

 sentence of death ; 9 were transported, and 10 



