1831.] Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, $c. 239 



at three millions and upwards, pays but 

 3. a-year. Norfolk is computed to con- 

 sume 300,000 chaldrons ; the removal of 

 the tax would be to the inhabitants of 

 that county alone equal to a boon of 

 75,000 chaldrons of coals. 



A meeting has been held at St. An- 

 drew's Hall, by the inhabitants of Nor- 

 wich, on the subject of Parliamentary 

 Reform, Taxation, Sinecures, &c., ami 

 a petition, founded on several resolu- 

 tions, ordered to be presented to the 

 Legislature. 



A Parliamentary Reform Meeting was 

 lately held at the Guildhall at Lynn, 

 and various resolutions entered into, and 

 a petition unanimously passed to the 

 legislature. Allusions were made to the 

 present institutions of the country as 

 necessary to undergo a radical change, 

 many of them having existed from five 

 to 600 years, and although they might 

 originally be well suited to the neces- 

 sities and the ignorance of those times, 

 it was monstrous to suppose that they 

 would suit every age and circumstance 

 of the people. 



The receipts of the Norfolk and Nor- 

 wich Savings' Bank up to Nov. 20, 1830, 

 amount to 106,178. 11s. 7d. depositors 

 2,781. 



amounted to the sum of 179,661. 19s. 9d. 

 the savings of 3,625 depositors, 5 chari- 

 table societies, and 53 friendly societies. 

 The Queentock Savings' Bank account 

 up to November 20, last, amounted to 

 34,487. 4d., by 524 depositors, and 15 

 societies. 



The inhabitants of Yatton and Kenn, 

 Somersetshire, have sent a petition to 

 the House of Lords, stating" That 

 believing that nearly all the statutes 

 enacted 'in the earlier ages, when bar- 

 barism and superstition prevailed, are 

 either revoked or so ameliorated as to 

 have some reference to the present im- 

 proved state of society, with the excep- 

 tion of the Tithe Laws ; they, therefore, 

 pray for their abolition, which would 

 materially promote the cause of religion, 

 the comforts and welfare of all the pro- 

 ductive classes of society, and destroy a 

 fruitful and never failing source of liti- 

 gation." 



The county expenses of last year 

 amounted to 24,820. 19s. 8d. 



ESSEX. There are in this county 15 

 Savings' Banks, established at Barking, 

 Chelmsford, Colchester, Dunmow, Ep- 

 ping, Halstead, Harwich, Castle Hed- 

 ingham, Leyton, Manningtree, Roch- 

 ford, Romford, Saffron Walden, West 

 Ham, and Witham. The total number of 

 depositors in these Banks is 7,897 : the to- 

 tal amount of deposits, including interest, 

 is 273,182. 8s. 7|d.; average amount 

 of each depositor's account is 34. 4s. Ofd.; 

 and of these depositors there are 4,340 

 whose deposits are under .20. each, 

 amounting in the whole to 32,521 .4s. 6d. 

 There are also 173 Friendly Societies, 

 having .21,977. 2s. 5|d., and 56 Chari- 

 table Societies, having 3,909. 9s. 9d. de- 

 posited, making the total amount in the 

 several Banks 299.069. llz^d. 



The committee appointed to carry 

 into effect a plan for ameliorating the 

 Condition of the Poor, at Saffron Wal- 

 den, &c., have published their Report, 

 on the successful issue of the plan 

 adopted of spade husbandry, and small 

 allotments of land which plans they 

 hope will be adopted in other districts. 



NORFOLK. Lord G. Bentinck, in 

 presenting a petition to the House of 

 Commons from Lynn for a remission of 

 the duty on sea-borne coals, gave the 

 following statement of the partial bur- 

 then this tax inflicts upon the county ; 

 which, with 351,000 inhabitants, and 

 assessed to the property tax, in 1815, its 

 greatest prosperity, at no more than 

 1,541,000., actually pays 90,000. ster- 

 ling to the coal tax ; whilst Yorkshire, 

 with 1,200,000 inhabitants, and a yearly 

 income of more than four and a half 

 millions, contributes but 7,432. ; and 

 Lancashire, with a population of upwards 

 >f one million, and with an income rated 



SUFFOLK. The total number of 

 depositors in Bury Savings' Bank, No- 

 vember 20, last, was 871, and the amount 

 then due to them 35,867. 10s. 2d. 



LINCOLNSHIRE AND RUT- 

 LANDSHIRE. At the last annual 

 meeting of the " Stamford and Rutland 

 Savings' Bank," their property amount- 

 ed to 42,680. 14s. 11 ^d., and the total 

 number of accounts to 832. The Spilsby 

 Savings' Bank amounted to 8,904. 

 16s. lid.; the actual number of deposi- 

 tors were 255. 



A meeting has been called by the 

 High Sheriff for petitioning the Legis- 

 lature upon the excessive Taxation of 

 the Country, and the best means of re- 

 ducing it without breach of National 

 Faith, the wasteful Expenditure of Pub- 

 lic Money, and the means of checking 

 it, and that all-important question, Re- 

 form of the House of Commons. Seve- 

 ral resolutions were passed and a petition 

 founded thereon. 



LEICEST ERSHIRE. The inhabi- 

 tants of Leicester have held a public 

 meeting in favour of Reform and Re- 

 trenchment, and to support his Majesty's 

 ministers ; when 10 resolutions were 

 unanimously passed, and a petition to 

 Parliament resolved on for those pur- 

 poses. Among the observations elicited 

 on the occasion, it was remarked by one 

 of the speakers, that " the present misery 

 and distress are the results of ruinous 

 wars, wanton expenditure, unequal tax-. 



