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Marriages Deaths Provincial Occurrences. 

 The Poets," " British Thea- 



471 



DEATHS ABROAD. 



At Malta, Elizabeth Jemima, Conn- 

 tess Dowager of Errol, wife of Right 

 Hon. J. H. Frere, and sister to Lord 



Wallscourt ; the benutiful portrait of 

 this lady adorned La Belle AssemhlCe for 

 the last* month. At Bombay, Hon Sir 

 J. Dewar, Chief Justice of the Supreme 

 Court. At Pisa, Hon. J. K. Erokine, 

 son of the Earl of Cassilis ; he married 

 Miss Augusta Fitzclarence, 4th daughter 

 of His Majesty. 



MONTHLY PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES. 



NORTHUMBERLAND. At the 



assizes for this county Mr. Justice Lit- 

 tledale, in his charge to the grand jurv, 

 remarked, that the calendar generally 

 exhibited a less proportion of crime than 

 any other county of equal population, 

 and that there were only three prison- 

 ers for trial on the present occasion. 



The Duke of Northumberland has 

 accepted the office of patron of the 

 " Society for the Relief of Widows and 

 Orphans of Shipwrecked Mariners," es- 

 tablished at Newcastle, and has presented 

 to it a donation of 100., besides annually 

 subscribing 10 guineas. The Duches's 

 has likewise presented a donation of 20. 

 The Bishop of Durham and Lord Prud- 

 hoe, have accepted the office of vice- 

 patrons ; the Bishop presenting a dona- 

 tion of 50 guineas, and Lord Prudhoe 

 100. The Corporation of Newcastle 

 have also presented a donation of 50 

 guineas, and an annual subscription of 

 10 guineas. 



The opening of the new channel of 

 navigation of the river Tees, lately took 

 place, amidst loud rejoicings, and in the 

 presence of a great concourse of spec- 

 tators, who lined the banks of the river 

 and the quays, in such numbers that the 

 whole population of the town and neigh- 

 bourhood seemed to be congregated on 

 the occasion. 



DURHAM. At the Spring assizes, 

 Justice Littledale, in addressing the 

 grand jury, said, " he was sorry to per- 

 ceive the calendar was more numerous 

 than it had been on any former assize." 

 The learned judge in conclusion, repro- 

 bated a practice which he found from 

 the depositions to be very common, that 

 of inducing the prisoners to confess ; 9 

 prisoners received sentence of death, 

 and one executed for murder. 



WESTMORELAND. The whole 

 business of these assizes occupied the 

 Court only 7 hours. 



LANCASHIRE. At these assizes 

 17 prisoners were recorded for death, 

 and a few transported. 



WARWICKSHIRE. In conse- 

 quence of some variation from the ori- 

 ginal idea of the establishment of the 



New Agricultural Society of this county 

 Sir E. Wilmot has resigned the secre- 

 taryship " But," he says, " as far as I 

 am' concerned. I shall persevere in my 

 object, as expressed in the resolutions 

 of the society of the 4th of February ; 

 and the money I intended to apply 

 to that object, through the medium 

 of the society, I shall apply through 

 my own. If gentlemen will assist 

 me, so as to make up the necessary 

 funds, I shall put one of the original 

 objects of the society into execution ; 

 and shall send a sovereign and a half 

 to the minister of every parish in the 

 county, to devideinto 3 premiums of 15s. 

 10s. and 5s. for the three best cultivated 

 gardens in his parish ; for I am proud 

 in declaring, that I would sooner see one 

 labourer, honest, industrious, and happy, 

 than ten landowners or land occupiers 

 rich ; and that the sight of a cottager 

 on a Sunday, with a nosegay in his but- 

 ton-hole, sitting down to a smoking meal, 

 the produce of his garden, is more gra- 

 tifying to me, than all the bulls, boars, 

 stallions, and rams collected from the 

 four quarters of the world ! ! !" 



STAFFORDSHIRE. 13 prisoners 

 were recorded for death at these assizes. 



NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. At 



these assizes 8 prisoners were recorded 

 for death, and u, few transported and 

 imprisoned The Chief Baron expressed 

 his satisfaction to the grand jury of the 

 state of the county, specifying that, 

 with the exception of 2 cases of machine- 

 breaking and arson, the crimes were of 

 an ordinary nature. 



LINCOLNSHIRE. At the Spring 

 assizes, Baron Vaughan observed to the 

 grand jury, that "' the catalogue of crime 

 that day presented to him, was of a most 

 fearful and unprecedented nature." 18 

 prisoners were recorded for death at 

 these assizes, and a few transported. 



The following petition has been 

 presented to both Houses of Par- 

 liament, by Lord King and Mr. Hunt. 

 " To the Honourable the Houses of 

 Lords and Commons in Parliament 

 assembled. fc When a rich man speak- 

 eth, every one holdeth his peace, and, 

 lo ! what he saith is extolled to the 



