1831.] 



Hampshire, Warwickshire, Herefordshire, fyc. 



sons dependent for support on their 

 daily wages, and, therefore, from their 

 station in life, liable to be actuated by 

 every variety of undue influence, while 

 nine-tenths oJthe substantial household- 

 ers have no voice in the election of their 

 representativ2s. That the continuance 

 of such flagrant abuses in the system of 

 representation, in an age and country ce- 

 lebrated for liberal views and free insti- 

 tutions, is an outrage on the common- 

 sense of mankind, and a lamentable in- 

 stance of the difficulty of getting rid of 

 enormities, however gross, when sanc- 

 tioned by time and blended with the 

 question of alleged municipal rights and 

 immunities." 



HAMPSHIRE. The general annual 

 statement of the Portsmouth and Port- 

 sea Savings' Bank, made up to the 20th 

 November 1830, shews the amount of 

 receipts to that period to be 79,363. 

 19s. 4d. ; the number of depositors, 

 1,673 ; charitable societies, 7 ; and 

 friendly societies, 20. 



The inhabitants of Gosport and Ports- 

 mouth, at separate meetings, have pe- 

 titioned parliament for a reform in the 

 representation of the people, a reduction 

 of the public burden, by uncompromising 

 economy, and a diminution or abolition 

 of those taxes which press on the mid- 

 dling and labouring classes. And " The 

 humble Petition of the Owners and Occu- 

 piers of Land and Tithe, of Hambledon, 

 to the House of Commons, sheAveth, 

 That the labourers, who have for many 

 years been reduced to a state too misera- 

 ble for Honest and Laborious Men to 

 bear, have now, being unable to endure 

 their sufferings longer, risen and de- 

 manded an augmentation of wages ; that 

 the farmers are unable to comply with 

 their demand without utter ruin to them- 

 selves, because the heavy taxes on the 

 necessaries of life take from them the 

 means of paying adequate wages : they 

 therefore pray for the repeal of those 

 taxes. 



At Winchester assizes several prison- 

 ers have been convicted of arson and 

 destruction of agricultural property. 



WARWICKSHIRE. The exhibi- 

 tion of the works of modern artists at 

 Birmingham is closed. The number of 

 season tickets sold, we understand, ex- 

 ceeded 900 ; and the total receipts, inde- 

 pendent of Sir Robert Peel's donation 

 of 100., amounted to 840. 10s. 6d. 

 The exhibition has supported the pre- 

 vious high pretensions of the Society of 

 Arts. The conversaziones have been 

 eagerly and numerously attended, and 

 have tended not a little to advance the 

 general popularity of the institution. 



HEREFORDSHIRE. ~ Hereford 

 County Meeting. A meeting of the ma- 

 gistrates of this county was held at the 



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Shire-hall, Hereford, on Saturday last, 

 by desire of Earl Somers, the Lord Lieu- 

 tenant, and the precautionary measures 

 recommended by government were then 

 unanimously adopted. It was, however, 

 expressly stated by the assembled ma- 

 gistrates, that no act of outrage or vio- 

 lence was apprehended, the people of the 

 county appearing to be animated by the 

 best feelings and the most peaceable dis- 

 position. 



The 31st exhibition of the Ross Hor- 

 ticultural Society took place Decem- 

 ber 1, and notwithstanding the wea- 

 ther was not very favourable, there was 

 a large attendance of subscribers and 

 their friends. Previous to the opening 

 of the show-room, the annual meeting 

 was held at the Swan hotel, when the 

 present officers were re-elected for the 

 year ensuing. The grand stand was 

 extremely well coloured with all the 

 varieties of hardy evergreens, and being 

 well mixed with chrysanthemums of 

 various colours, the effect was pleasing 

 and generally admired. The long table 

 contained upwards of 200 plates of the 

 choicest apples and pears, and consider- 

 ing the scarcity of fruit this season, the 

 quantity exhibited was truly surprising. 

 The chrysanthemums were in fine trusses 

 of bloom, and nearly every known va- 

 riety graced the exhibition. The num- 

 ber of specimens ticketed and entered 

 amounted to 434, and the evening sale 

 of unremoved fruits amounted to 3. 

 7s. 7d. 



SOMERSETSHIRE. The inhabi- 

 tants of Creech St. Michael, North Pe- 

 therton, and vicinity, following the ex- 

 ample of the Freeholders of Devon, have 

 lost no time in addressing the House of 

 Commons on the important subject of 

 Parliamentary Reform, in consequence 

 of the numerous and very heavy bur- 

 dens which have fallen on the people by 

 Misrepresentation in the Commons' 

 House of Parliament. 1. As to inordi- 

 nate Taxation to support a standing 

 army in the time of Peace, and for the 

 needless purpose of supporting Sinecu- 

 rists and others, who hold Unmerited 

 Pensions. 2. As to the severe, and, at 

 present, almost overwhelming pressure 

 of Tithes, both Lay and Ecclesiastic, 

 upon the depressed and overburdened 

 Agriculturist. 3. As to the Abuses that 

 exist in our Courts of Law and Equitv, 

 and whereby the Poor Man is entirely 

 shut out from any fair competition with 

 the Rich -And, lastly, they earnestly 

 call attention to that upon which hinge's 

 the whole, and without which all other 

 minor alterations will be of little or no 

 avail namely, a full, fair, and free 

 Representation of the ' Whole' of c the 

 People,' in the Commons' House of 

 Parliament." Somersetshire Gazette. 



