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Provincial Occurrences : Yorkhire, Norfolk, fyc. [JAN. 



pay great attention to the Natural His- 

 tory, Natural Philosophy, and Minera- 

 logy of the county ; and to collect, if 

 possible, portraits of all eminent men of 

 the county. 



and a most profligate waste of the 

 public money ; forming a train of evils, 

 threatening, in their consequences, to 

 involve in distress and ruin every class 

 of the community." 



YORKSHIRE. A meeting was held 

 at Leeds, on Tuesday evening last, of 

 the labouring classes, when it was deter- 

 mined to form a junction with the " Na- 

 tional Union" among all trades, the ob- 

 ject of which was to prevent, by every 

 legal means, any further reduction of 

 wages. Resolutions were passed to the 

 effect that the general distress among 

 the working classes is attributable to un- 

 necessary reduction of wages ; that the 

 remedy lay in national unions for the 

 .protection of labour and independence 

 of working "people; and that a new 

 weekly paper be established, that the 

 poor might be certain of seeing their real 

 situation truly represented. This " Na- 

 tional Union" already consists of 100,000 

 workmen, and its funds amount to a con- 

 siderable sum. Leeds Intelligencer, Dec. 

 9. 



At a recent meeting of the inhabitants 

 of Dewsbury and the neighbourhood, se- 

 veral Resolutions were unanimously 

 passed for Reform in Parliament ; the 

 following is the 3d Resolution " That, 

 without stating instances of wasteful 

 profligacy more determined in their cha- 

 racter, this meeting cannot but have no- 

 ticed a statement made in the House of 

 Commons, that 210 placemen receive 

 annually among them nearly 1,000,000. 

 of the public money, which sum is equi- 

 valent (as this meeting may be admitted 

 to suppose each labourer to have a wife 

 and two children) to what is allowed for 

 the sustenance of 217,000 individuals for 

 for the same space of time, or one place- 

 man receiving annually so much of the 

 public money as is paid as wages in the 

 disturbed districts to 216 working men 

 and their families, amounting to nearly 

 1,000 persons!!! 



NORFOLK. By the Abstract of 

 Receipts and Disbursements of the trea- 

 surer of this country, from Midsummer 

 1829 to Midsummer 1830, it appears 

 that the sum of 19,873. 3s. 5d. was col- 

 lected and expended, almost the whole 

 of it, in criminal jurisprudence, prisons, 

 &c., and the Lunatic Asylum buildings 

 and repairs ; the cost of 'the latter was 

 upwards of .3,000. county bridges not 

 quite 400. for burying dead bodies 

 washed on the shore, 25. 3s. 



The sixth annual meeting of the 

 subscribers to the Norfolk and Norwich 

 Museum has recently taken place, when 

 the report was made, and ordered to be 

 printed ; many valuable donations have 

 been received'in the different branches 

 of Natural History. It was suggested 

 at the dinner held on the occasion, to 



A large fish, of the genus Delphinus, 

 has been taken by six fishermen at Lynn, 

 having grounded itself on the sands ; it 

 required six horses to drag it on shore 

 its length was 22 feet its circumfe- 

 rence 13. 



WORCESTERSHIRE. By the 



treasurer of the public stock of this 

 county's abstract amount of receipts and 

 expenditure, from Michaelmas sessions 

 1829 to Michaelmas sessions 1830, it ap- 

 pears that the sum of 9,164. 8s. 5d. was 

 collected and expended 8,000. of 

 which was wanted for jails, prisoners, 

 prosecutions, transports, clerk of the 

 peace, vagrants, lunatics, and coroners 

 6. 10s. was only required for repairing 

 the county bridges. 



LANCASHIRE. Dec. 4. The Pla- 

 net locomotive engine took the first load 

 of merchandize which has passed along 

 the Railway from Liverpool to Man- 

 chester. The train consisted of 18 wag- 

 gons, containing 135 bags and bales of 

 American cotton, 200 barrels of flour, 63 

 sacks of oatmeal, and 34 sacks of malt, 

 weighing altogether 51 tons 11 cwt. 1 qr. 

 To this must be added the weight of the 

 waggons and oil-cloths, viz. 23 tons 8 

 cwt. 3 qrs. ; the tender, water, and fuel, 

 4 tons ; and of fifteen persons upon the 

 train, 1 ton making a total weight of 

 exactly eighty tons, exclusive of engine 

 (6 tons). The journey was performed 

 in 2 hours and 54 minutes, including 3 

 stoppages of 5 minutes each for oiling, 

 watering, and taking in fuel ; under the 

 disadvantages also of an adverse wind, 

 and of a great additional friction in the 

 wheels and axles, owing to their being 

 entirely new. The train was assisted 

 up the Rainhill inclined plane, by other 

 engines, at the rate of 9 miles an hour, 

 and descended the Sutton inclined plane 

 at the rate of 1C| miles an hour. The 

 average rate on the other parts of the 

 road was 12^ miles an hour, the greatest 

 speed on the level being 15!j miles an 

 hour, which was maintained for a mile 

 or two at different periods of the jour- 

 ney. Plans for no less than fourteen 

 rail-roads, all more or less within the 

 limits of the county of Lancaster, have 

 last week been deposited in the office of 

 the clerk of the peace, in Preston. 



At a meeting of the rate-payers, re- 

 cently held at Liverpool, it was unani- 

 mously resolved, " That the town ard 

 immediate vicinity of Liverpool com- 

 prise a population of about 180,000 souls. 

 That the number of burgesses who polled 

 at the late election, including out-voters, 

 was 4401, consisting principally of per- 



