446 Provincial Occurrences : Buds, Berk*, Hants, $c. [APRIL, 



imprisoned. At Berks Assizes, 17 received sen- 

 tence of death ; 4 transported ; 10 imprisoned. 

 3 of the condemned were poachers ! 



March 2, St. Mary's Church, Oxford, was re- 

 opened for divine service. Its interior has been 

 rendered chaste and appropriate, and the monu- 

 ments, which so disfigured its beautiful columns, 

 have been removed. The organ has been re-cased, 

 the galleries entirely rebuilt, and the windows 

 have been filled with ground glass. 



Died.] At Witney, 77, Mr. Ashfield, for more 

 than 40 years postmaster of that place. 



BUCKS AND BEDFORD. 



At the assizes at Aylesbury,4 prisoners received 

 sentence of death; 1 transported; and several 

 imprisoned, among which there was one only 15 

 years old ! 



R. Saunders was indicted for a burglary in the 

 house of the Rev. T. Jones, at Radnage, and 

 stealing 24 sovereigns, a gold and silver watch, 

 valuable jewellery and trinkets, &c. The prisoner 

 forced his way, with throe others, all masked, 

 through the bed-room window of the prosecutor, 

 who was 77 years of age, and effected the robbery. 

 Susannah Payne, a maid -sen-ant, who slept in 

 the adjoining room to her master and mistress, 

 heard the thieves, bolted her door, dropped from 

 the window, went to the coachman's house, about 

 200 yards, and gave the alarm. The coachman 

 and gardener immediately proceeded to the lawn, 

 intercepted the prisoner, and, after a desperate 

 conflict, secured him. After Susannah Payne had 

 given her evidence, Mr. Baron Gairow addressed 

 her as follows : " I cannot permit you to leave 

 that place without saying to you, in presence of 

 this large assemblage, that your conduct was 

 most praiseworthy, and the means, in all proba- 

 bility, of saving the lives of your master and 

 mistress. Ycu are a host against a gang of 

 housebreakers, and have set a good example to 

 the rest of your sex." We trust that the magis- 

 trates for the county will reward this spirited 

 female, for the sake of example, by some mark of 

 their approbation from the county purse, which 

 will have a more powerful effect than the well- 

 merited praise of the learned judge!! 



At Bedford Assizes, 9 were recorded for death ; 

 7 were transported, and 15 imprisoned for various 

 periods. Of those condemned to death, one is 16, 

 another 17 years of age only ! 



HANTS AND SUSSEX. 



About three o'clock of the morning of March 4, 

 a tremendous fall of the cliff took place just 

 beyond the East Well, about a quarter of a mile 

 to the eastward of Hastings, consisting of many 

 thousand tons of earth : the shock was distinctly 

 felt in several parts of the town. To those houses 

 which are situated on the declivity of the hill it 

 had the effect of an earthquake, as every thing in 

 them was set in motion. No property is destroyed, 

 if we except a small truck containing some tools 

 used for cutting stone. It was lucky it occurred 

 at the time of low water, as otherwise the 

 blockade-man must have been buried in the 

 mass. 



A meeting of the householders and .proprietors 

 of Portsea lias been held, to take into considera- 

 tion the propriety of petitioning Government 

 against the contemplated inclosure of the Com- 



mon Hard, as affecting the property, health, and 

 convenience, as well as the prosperity, of the 

 inhabitants ; when a petition to His Royal High- 

 ness the Lord Hi$h Admiral was resolved OH. 



The expenditure, for the last half year, of 

 Brighton, viz. from June 30, to Dec. 31, 1827, 

 amounted to no less a sum than .9,000 ! 

 The duties on coals, for the same period, pro- 

 duced .1,852. 13s. lid., and the market tolls 

 1,032. 19s. 8d. 



Married.] H. R. Mitford, csq., of Exbury, to 

 Lady Georgiana Ashburnham, daughter of Earl 

 Ashburnham. 



Died.] At Hastings, 100, Mrs. Anson ; Char- 

 lotte Philadelphia, daughter of Sir W. Rowley, 

 M.P., Suffolk. 



NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK. 



On the report of the present state of the Great 

 Hospital being read to the common council of 

 Norwich, it appeared, that in 1763, there were 

 86 poor people and 4 nurses supported by that 

 charity, and the revenue was .1 ,670. The annual 

 income now amounted to .5,740, and 150 persons 

 enjoy the benefits ; it was therefore resolved to 

 add 24 more poor folk to the advantages of this 

 excellent establishment of the piety of Edward 

 VI., and a committee formed to inquire what 

 further additions could be made. These resolu- 

 tions were received with cheers from all parts of 

 the room ; affording a hint of the necessity for 

 others to look particularly to their local cha- 

 rities I 



Upwards of ,200 has been collected by the 

 sale of fancy articles at the Assembly-rooms at 

 Lynn, chiefly manufactured by the ladies of that 

 place, for the benefit of the Visiting Society and 

 the Dispensary. 



In the parisli of Hemingstone, a farm which 

 was let, forty years ago, at .40 per annum, ia 

 now let for 120. The yearly tithes, which were 

 at the former period .4, are now .15. 15s., and 

 the small tithes in proportion. The price of 

 labour was the same then as now III 



CAMBRIDGE AND ESSEX. 



The Plumian Professor of Astronomy at Cam- 

 bridge has published a statement to the members 

 of the Senate, relative to the present state of the 

 Observatory, which, it appears, is better adapted 

 to its purposes than any similar building in 

 Europe. But he states, that the income attached 

 to the care of it is too small to induce any one to 

 bestow his full attention to it III Surely this will 

 be remedied, for those who " observe all night and 

 calculate all day," ought to be liberally rewarded, 

 and the kingdom itself no longer degraded by 

 such miserable parsimony, in the cause of the 

 noblest of sciences ! 



Sentence of death was recorded against one 

 prisoner only at Huntingdon, and a very few 

 transported and imprisoned. 



At the Cambridge Assizes, 7 were condemned 

 to death ; 3 transported, and 8 imprisoned. 



The sale of ornamental work, conducted by the 

 ladies at the Bazaar at Wisbeach, for the Female 

 Friendly Society, produced .150. 



The assizes for Essex closed according to a 

 term commonly used a maiden assize. Not a 

 life, out of 67 guilty persons, has been sacrificed 

 to the offended laws of the country. The calendar 



