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STAFFORDSHIRE AND WARWICKSHIRE, 



The new church (an elegant specimen of the flo- 

 rid Gothic) at Hampton Lucy has been consecrated 

 and opened. The ceremony was performed by the 

 Bishop of the diocese. It has been erected by the 

 liberality of the Lucy family ; the descendants of 

 the prosecutor of Shakspeare for his venison pro- 

 pensities. 



The Court of King's Bench has granted a rule for 

 a criminal information against the present mayor 

 and eight aldermen (out of 12) of Warwick, for cor- 

 ruption, and in concert omitting to attend the usual 

 charter-day of presentation and election of mayor (on 

 29th Sept. last), and swearing in the present mayor for 

 his third successive year, the charter prescribing the 

 annual new election of an alderman for the office of 

 mayor, who had not served that office within two 

 years. The burgesses complained that one of the 

 corporation is not only a non-resident, but a colonel 

 in active service, and member for the borough also ; 

 whilst another is a non-resident clergyman ! Since 

 the proceedings of the Court of King's Bench, the 

 burgesses have met and chosen another mayor and, 

 we understand, that ulterior measures will be taken 

 by them relative to the rights, franchises and public 

 charities of the borough. 



A rule has been granted against the mayor of Staf- 

 ford, to shew by what authority he holds the office 

 of mayor this year, he having held it last year. 



Died.] At Winson Green, Mrs. Steward, 82 At 

 Rugby, Mrs. Scarborough. 



NOTTINGHAMSHIRE AND LINCOLNSHIRE. 

 Died.] At Grantham, R. Holt, esq. 68. 



LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND. 



The Hinckley Clothing Society has distributed 

 linen and flannel to upwards of 300 aged and indigent 

 women. 



lH-d.~\ At Leicester, W. Harrison, esq. f>(i, de- 

 puty-registrar of the archdeaconry court At Halla- 

 toiij the Rev. J. Wilson. 



WORCESTERSHIRE AND HEREFORDSHIRE. 



Married.] At Worcester, J. Dimsdale, esq., son 

 of the late Baron Dimsdale, to Jemima, daughter 

 of the Rev. H. Pye, prebendary of Worcester. 



GLOUCESTER AND MONMOUTH. 



Some time ago, when it became necessary to pur- 

 chase a tenement to improve one of the docks of the 

 Bristol Bridge, the proprietor, a person in humble 

 life, brought forward his original deed, which was a 

 grant from King Stephen, rudely and almost unin- 

 telligibly written on a piece of parchment, with 

 that monarch's signature attached. 



A liberal subscription has been set on foot at Glou- 

 cester (very worthy of imitation at this melancholy 

 season ! ) to form a fund to assist the poor in the pur- 

 chase of clothing. 



The trustees of the Wells turnpikes have con- 

 tracted for making a new line of road from Chewton 

 Mendip to Bristol, so as to avoid the dangerous hill 

 leading out of Chewton. 



The Report of the Bristol committee for the relief 

 of the distressed manufacturers, claiming the public 

 sympathy for an additional fund, states " In the 

 townships of Blackburn there are, at this moment 

 (Dec. 7), more than 30,000 paupers, rendered such 

 through absolute want of employment, and on the 

 remaining 70.000 inhabitants so heavy is the pressure 

 of the poor-rates, that, if urged much further, they 

 also will be reduced to the class of pauperism ! The 

 employment of the people of Blackburn was hand- 

 loom weaving it is gone for ever !!! The power- 

 loom has entirely superseded it !!!" 



A dreadful fire has happened at Bristol, at the 

 houseof Mr. Oxley Mrs. Oxleyand threeof her chil- 

 dren were burnt to ashes by this dreadful calamity. 



Died.'] At Cheltenham, Sir James Monk, for- 

 merly Chief Justice in Lower Canada At Glouces- 

 ter, Sarah Weatherstone, aged 105 At Bristol, Mr. 

 James Bevan, 34 ; he had occasionally delivered che- 

 mical and other lectures at " the Inquirer's Society," 

 and, although his early education was a very slender 

 one, he had made himself a proficient in the Hebrew, 

 Greek, Latin, Spanish and French languages, and 

 had compiled a Hebrew dictionary. 



DERBYSHIRE. 



Married.'] At Heanor, H. S. Wilmot, esq., eldest 

 son of Sir Robert Wilmot, Bart., to Maria, eldest 

 daughter of E. M. Mundy, esq. of Shipley-Hall ; 

 and the Hon. and Rev. F. Curzon, son of Lord 

 Scarsdale, to Augusta Marian, second daughter of 

 Mr. Mundy. 



Died.'] At Stanton-by-Bridge, Mary Holt, 82; 

 she was aunt and great aunt to 140 persons, and has 

 left a legacy to each ! 



OXFORDSHIRE. 



Died.] At Oxford, A. Robertson, D.D. F.R.S. 

 Savilian Professor of Astronomy and Radcliffe Ob- 

 server, 75. 



BUCKS AND BERKS. 



The number of prisoners in Aylesbury goal amount 

 to 153 ! Among these, no less than one-third have 

 been committed for poaching ! Young hungry coun- 

 try fellows do not require, at this pinching season, 

 to be dragged to goal, when they can get but 4s. or 5*. 

 a week as allowance from their parish, and see such 

 ample provision, with good security, before them. 

 On Sunday last, three men of this description exhi- 

 bited a curious spectacle on their way to goal. The 

 officer in whose custody they had been placed walked 

 before them down the market-place, and they fol- 

 lowed him very orderly. They had, on Saturday, 

 come from Sherrington, about 27 miles distant, and, 

 after walking with their conductor 20 miles, they 

 had slept that night, under no unnecessary restraint, 

 at Wing. From such a case as this the general state 

 of the country may be fairly inferred!!! Bucks 

 Chronicle. 



The question whether the corporation of Reading 

 had aright to toll on corn, was decided last week in 

 the Exchequer, after being 13 years in dispute, 

 against the corporation, who have expended, it is 

 said, about 5,000 in litigating their claim. 



Died.'] At Terrier's-House, Bucks, the Right 

 Hon. Lord Dormer, of Grove-Park, near Warwick 

 At Formosa-place, Berks, Sir Samuel Young, 

 Bart. 01, F.R.S. and F.A.S. 



NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK. 



Nov. 25, a numerous and respectable meeting of - 

 the owners and occupiers of land was held at the 

 Shire-Hall, Norwich, for the purpose of resisting 

 an increase in the county rates, " for appointing dis- 

 trict surveyers of the highways," and for expressing 

 their sentiments as to the practice which prevail* at- 

 the Shire-Hall of " conducting the county buinesa 

 with closed doors," &c. ; when several spirited re- 

 solutions were passed against the preceding mea- 

 sures, as well as petitions to the Houses of Lords 

 and Commons, declaratory of the same. It appears 

 by one of the resolutions, that the county rate in 

 1807 was 7,200 and in this year, viz. at Midsum- 

 mer last, it was at the enormous sum of 20,406 !!! 

 In 1781, the expenditure for Norwich made by the 



chief-constable, amounted to 334. lite. lOjd in 



1826, to 3,876. 125. 4rf. !I! 



A meeting at Yarmouth has been held at the 

 Town-Hall, for the purpose of opposing the project 

 of making a harbour at Lowestoft, and a ship navi- 



