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Provincial Occurrences : Yorkshire) Lancashire, fyc. [FEB. 



total amount of deposits with interest 

 1,443,492 ; the average of the same 

 placed to each account is 35. 4s. 2d. 



A public meeting of the inhabitants 

 of South Shields has been held at the 

 Town Hall for the purpose of taking 

 into consideration the sending its own 

 representatives to the Commons House 

 of Parliament ; when a petition to both 

 Houses was unanimously agreed to and 

 several resolutions entered into for the 

 purpose. 



YORKSHIRE The inhabitants of 



Knaresborough have recently held a 

 meeting at their Sessions House, Sir 

 W. A. Ingilby, Bart., M.P., in the chair, 

 on the state of the country, when several 

 resolutions were passed, and petitions to 

 both Houses of Parliament resolved on. 

 Resolution 4 states" That the People 

 of this country, especially the Middle 

 and Lower Classes, are now labouring 

 under an Oppressive Weight of Taxa- 

 tion, a circumstance which this Meeting 

 principally ascribes to the Defective 

 State of Public Representation, the Want 

 of a due Sympathy with those Classes, 

 and a Profuse or otherwise Unwarrant- 

 able Expenditure of the Public Money." 



LANCASHIRE. The new and 

 beautiful church of Blackburn has been 

 nearly burnt down. It was considered 

 one of the noblest pieces of Gothic archi- 

 tecture erected in modern days, and its 

 estimated cost, when totalty completed 

 would not have been far from 50,000. 



A very numerous meeting has been 

 held at Manchester on the subject of 

 Parliamentary Reform, when resolutions 

 were passed, and petitions ordered to be 

 presented to both Houses of Parliament, 

 praying for immediate Reform. 



Nothing has yet transpired to lead to 

 the discovery of the parties guilty of the 

 diabolical murder of Mr. Ashton, at 

 Hyde, although a reward of 500. has 

 been offered by the father of the un- 

 fortunate youth'; another 500. by his 

 other relatives ; and 1,000. more by 

 Government, with an offer of pardon 

 to any accomplice, excepting the hand 

 that actually fired the pistol, who will 

 come forward and give the desired in- 

 formation. 



NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. The 



amount of cash received at the Savings' 

 Bank of this county from its institution 

 in August 1816, to December 20, 1830, is 

 354,162. Us. 0*d. ; out of which up- 

 wards of 200,000. have been repaid to 

 depositors. 



DORSETSHIRE. During the sit- 

 ting of the Special Commission for this 

 county, no less than four incendiary 

 fires took place. 



WORCESTERSHIRE. The pre- 

 sent amount of the Droitwich Savings' 



Bank is 14,452. 14s. lOd. ; the total 

 number of accounts being 320. 



WARWICKSHIRE. The trustees 

 of the Birmingham Savings' Bank have 

 published their account up to November 

 20, last, from which it appears that 

 72,839. 3s. 8d., have been received 

 since its institution by 3,139 depositors. 



WILTS. Twenty-fiveprisonerswere 

 sentenced for death at the commission 

 for holding the special assize for this 

 county. There were upwards of 300 

 persons for trial. 



GLOUCESTERSHIRE. At a pub- 

 lic meeting held at Dursley Town Hall, 

 the Bailiff in the chair, the inhabitants, 

 amongst other resolutions, unanimously 

 " Resolved, that this meeting deplore 

 that any of their countrymen should be 

 guilty of those acts of outrage and in- 

 cendiarism, which have unhappily dis- 

 graced various parts of the kingdom, but 

 cannot refrain from ascribing them to 

 that lamentable Pauperism, which is the 

 result of an intolerable burthen of Tax- 

 ation, occasioned by long and destructive 

 Wars, by expensive Establishments in 

 time of Peace, by Sinecures and Grants, 

 by immoderate and unmerited Pensions, 

 and useless Places ; whereby a sum of 

 money is wrung from an impoverished 

 people astounding in amount and ruinous 

 in its pressure, on the springs of produc- 

 tive industry." Petitions were voted 

 to both Houses of Parliament upon the 

 subject. 



A public meeting of the bankers, 

 merchants, and other inhabitants of 

 Bristol and its vicinity has been held at 

 the Guildhall, for the the purpose of 

 petitioning Parliament for a Reform in 

 the Representation, when the petition 

 and several resolutions were unani- 

 mously passed for that purpose, as well 

 as for the Repeal of Vexatious Laws, 

 the Removal of Unjust Monopolies, the 

 Abolition of Sinecures and Useless Places, 

 and Shortening the Duration of Par- 

 liaments. 



The Dursley Savings' Bank account 

 up to November 20, 1830, amounted to 

 18,992. 5s. 10d., contributed by 441 

 depositors and 17 charitable and friendly 

 societies. 



The receipts at the Custom House, 

 Gloucester, have increased prodigiously 

 since the opening of the Canal between 

 3 and 4 vears ago. In 1827 the receipts 

 were 28,500. ; in 1830, 90,300. 



The calendar at the last Gloucester 

 Quarter Sessions consisted of 183 pri- 

 soners !!! 



SOMERSETSHIRE. At the 13th 



Annual Report of " The West Somer- 

 set Savings' Bank," it appears that the 

 accounts made up to November 20, last, 



