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Provincial Occurrences : Cumberland, York, 



[JAN. 



Rose Price, Dart Mrs. Lewis, 75, relict of the late 

 Mr. W. T. Lewis, principal comedian at Covent- 

 Garden Theatre Mrs. George Dorien, sister of W. 

 H. Ashurst, esq., M.P. for OxfordshireThe Right 

 Hon. Charles Kimiaird, Baron Kinnaird In Arling- 

 ton-street, Hon. G. Duncombe, Grenadier-Guards, 

 son of Lord Feversham Joseph Cradock, esq., 85, 

 senior fellow of the Society of Antiquaries At 

 Pimlico, Mrs. Burnett, 83, widow of the late Gene- 

 ral Burnett. 



MARRIAGES ABROAD. 

 At the British Ambassador's, Paris, the Hon. F. 



St. John, to Selina Charlotte, daughter of Colonel 

 Keatlnge, and niece to the Earl of Meath. 



DEATHS ABROAD. 



At Martinique, Lieut.-General Francis Delaval 

 At Florence, Isabella Langley, wife of John Moore 

 Cave, esq At Boulogne-sur-Mer, John Chalmers, 

 esq., 74 At Lisbon, John James Stephens, esq., 

 79, member of the ex-British Factory of that city 

 The most noble Erancis Rawdon Hastings, Mar- 

 quess of Hastings, 72, onboard H.M.'s ship Revenge, 

 in the Mediterranean At Berlin, the celebrated 

 astronomer Professor Bode, 80. 



MONTHLY PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES; 



WITH THE MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. 



NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 



The foundation-stone of the intended Suspension 

 Bridge across the Wansbeck, near Morpeth, was 

 laid Nov. 20; the subscription list contains the 

 names of the members, the late candidates, and 

 most of the gentlemen of the county. 



Dec. 2, a meeting of the coal-owners of the Tyne 

 was held at Newcatle, when they resolved to coope- 

 rate with the ship-owners in their project to retard 

 the selling of coals in the London market, and far 

 this purpose appointed a committee to proceed to 

 the metropolis. Tyne Mercury. 



Died.'] At Swarland-house, Mrs. Harriet Davi- 

 son, sister to W. Gosling, esq. of Portland-place 

 At Newcastle, Jane Robson, 100 At Callaby Castle, 

 J. Clavering, esq., G2. 



CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND. 



The weavers of Carlisle have sent a petition to the 

 House of Lords on the subject of the Corn-Laws, 

 and their dreadful distresses, in which they say, 

 " tens of thousands of suffering persons were asking 

 whether it would be better to die on the scaffold or 

 to die of hunger ?" 



A great number of pictures exhibited at the late 

 Exhibition at Carlisle have been sold a very flatter- 

 ing proof of the preeminence of this northern display 

 of the Fine Arts, considering the state of the times. 



YORKSHIRE AND CHESHIRE. 



A meeting at Saddleworth of the merchants, 

 manufacturers, and other inhabitants, has been 

 held in the Parish Church, at which petitions passed 

 for the Legislature, praying " that a progressively 

 decreasing duty should be laid upon the import of 

 foreign grain, assuring a fall of from 10 to 15 per 

 cent., and to be slowly decreased until the importa- 

 tion was' entirely free. 



The fund subscribed for the relief of distressed 

 work people at Sheffield, amounts to 3,593. 2s. 6d. 

 all of which has been expended, a balance of about 

 13. excepted. One subscriber gave 1,000, under 

 the appellation of Londinensis. 



On the 29th of November, the foundation of an 

 elegant bridge and terrace, to be erected at Scarbo- 

 rough, for the purpose of making the ascent and 

 descent from the cliff easier, was laid by E. Hebden, 

 Esq., the senior bailiff of that town. The projector 

 of this useful design is R. Cattle, Esq., of York. 



There are between 80 and 90 prisoners for trial in 

 York-Castle : a larger number than was ever remem- 

 beredas It wants nearly three months to the 

 assizes. 



At a meeting of the Hull Choral Society, on the 

 13th of December, nearly 1,200 were subscribed for 



the purpose of erecting a new suite of rooms in that 

 town, for balls, concerts, &c. 



A bazaar, under the patronage of the Archbishop 

 of York, was opened in the Festival Concert Room, 

 on the 19th of December, for the sale of Ladies' 

 Work* for the benefit of the distressed manufac- 

 turers. 



Died.'] At Blessington-Hall. Yorkshire, Harring- 

 ton Hudson, esq,, member in the last two parlia- 

 ments for Helston. 



LANCASHIRE. 



At the recent Kirkdale sessions, two boys, one 

 only eleven years of age, were tried for stealing 

 10 Ibs. of manure. They were in the habit of col- 

 lecting manure on the roads, and they happened to 

 go into a field at Ormskirk, and collected a small 

 quantity of cow-dung, for which offence they were 

 taken before a clerical magistrate, and by him com- 

 mitted for trial. The poor boys were confined in 

 gaol nearly two months upon this trivial charge, and 

 put upon their trial. The jury very properly re- 

 turned a verdict of not guilty, and they were dis- 

 charged We recollect, at the Leicester assizes a few 



years ago, Mr. Justice Grose exclaiming : " I wish 

 there was not a parson xipon the bench ; discharge 

 the woman immediately !" The cause of his warmth 

 arose from the situation of a poor woman, who had 

 been kept in goal five months for stealing a mutton 

 pie from the basket of an itinerant venckr of tfiose 

 savoury delicacies at Loughborough ! 



The inhabitants of Rochdale, including all parties 

 in politics, and all denominations in religion, have 

 presented the Rev. J. Aspinall, curate of that place, 

 four splendid chased silver dishes and covers, of the 

 value of 200, in testimony of their esteem for his 

 services whilst he resided among them, and espe- 

 cially for his exertions in behalf of the poor during 

 the severe distress of 1826 !!! 



The length of the two late petitions from the inha- 

 bitants of Great and Little Bolton against the Corn- 

 Laws to the Legislature, exceeds 66 yards and the 

 number of signatures to each petition is more than 

 8000. They were signed by all parties. 



A dreadful accident has happened at Liverpool, 

 occasioned by the fall of an immense chimney of the 

 smelting furnace of Messrs. Acken and Co. In fall- 

 ing, it demolished three houses in Norris-court, and 

 the whole of the inmates were buried in the ruins. 

 Three were taken out dead, and seven dreadfully 

 wounded and bruised. 



Difid.l Rev. John Yatcs, of Dinglchead, 71 At 

 Hawkcshead, Mrs. Park, sister of Sir Robert Peel, 

 Bart. 



