1827.] 



Derby, Oxford, Buckingham, Berkshire, 



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.31,275 4s. 4d. In the Tcthury Savings' Bank, 

 November 1, 1826, to ^26,702 9s. In the Dursley 

 ditto, November 20, 1826, to .14,428 2s. 5d. In 

 the Stow ditto, on November 1, 1826, to the sum 

 of .43,231 3s. lid. In the Monmouth ditto, on 

 the 20th November, 1826, to .26,177 5s. JOd. 

 In the Chepstow ditto, November 20, 1826, to 

 .12,835 5s. 3d. 



It appears, by the report recently made of the 

 Visitors of the General Lunatic Asylum for the 

 city and county of Gloucester, for 1826, that the 

 annual expense was .2,960 9s. 9d., and the 

 amount 'per board of patients .2,554 Os. 2d., 

 leaving a deficiency of i06 9s. 7d ; and the 

 committee have to regret that, from this circum- 

 stance, they were under the necessity of applying 

 to the county and city for pecuniary assistance. 



There were no less than 133 prisoners in con- 

 finement at Gloucester, for the purpose of trial, 

 to commence the new year with ! ! ! 



Notwithstanding the great distress and stagna- 

 tion of trade which generally prevailed throughout 

 the kingdom last year, it appears that the receipt 

 of customs at Bristol were .65,836 more than in 

 the year 1825, which has ,ariscn solely from the 

 large importation of sugar, the increase of that 

 article being about 3,646 additional casks. 



Died.'] At Clifden, R. Nicholas, esq.,F.S.A. of 

 Ashton Keynes, Wilts, formerly M.P. Cricklade, 

 and Chairman of the Board of Excise. At Fair- 

 ford Park, in the 85th year of his age, John Ray- 

 mond Barker, esq. 



DERBYSHIRE. 



At the late annual meeting of the trustees and 

 managing committee of the Derby Savings' Bank, 

 held in the Town Hall, it appeared that the amount 

 In the hands of government and their treasurer, 

 was .92,464 8s. tJd. 



A public dinner took place recently at Chester- 

 field, at which the inhabitants celebrated the im- 

 portant event of the introduction of water and 

 gaslight into that town. 



At the Epiphany Sessions for this county, the 

 chairman, after lamenting the number of prison- 

 ers to be tried, said to the grand jury : " I la- 

 ment to see in the calendar a large proportion 

 of cases under the game laws; this, I fear, proves 

 the increase of the crime of poaching. 1 may here 

 say, that I am of opinion that some modification 

 of those statutes is required, and I hope that a 

 great amelioration of them will shortly be de- 

 cided upon in parliament; this must, sooner or 

 later, be the case." 



OXFORDSHIRE. 



A large and respectable meeting of persons as- 

 sessed to the poor-rates has been held at Oxford, 

 when resolutions were entered into, to oppose the 

 proceedings of the Boar.l of Guardians, " who 

 have prepared a bill, for regulating the poor, 

 within the united parishes of Oxford," without dis- 

 closing to the town one word of its contents, and 

 held out their intention of carrying it through 

 Parliament, this session. 



It appears, by the report of the Oxford Savings' 

 Bank, made up to the end of December 1826, that 

 the produce amounted to .60, 135 4s. lOd. 



At the commencement of the Epiphany Sessions 

 for this county, there were no less than 182 cul- 

 prits in imprisonment ! 



Married.] At Studley Priory, Sir Charles 

 Wetherall, his Majesty's Attorney-General, to Jane 

 Sarah Elizabeth, second daughter of Sir Alexan- 

 der Cooke. 



Died.} At Oxford, 88, W. Fletcher. He served 

 the office of mayor three times, and had been 

 sixty years member of the council-chamber. At 

 Sibford, 90, Jeremiah Lamb, one of the Society of 

 Friends. 



BUCKS AM) BERKS. 



Nocturnal depredations in Bucks have been 

 more frequent than usual in any former winter, 

 and the consequence has been, that the number of 

 prisoners in Aylesbury goal has continued fright- 

 fully to increase ; and at the commencement of the 

 new year (Jan. 1), they amounted to 2001 



Died. At Clayton-House, near Winslow, 84, 

 Mrs. C. Verny, relict of the Rev. R. Verney. 



BEDFORD AND HERTS. 



At a meeting of the trustees and directors of the 

 HeitfordshSre Savings' Bank, held at the Shire 

 Hall, in Hertford, January .5, it appeared by the 

 re port, that the sum of .123,766 10s. 8d. had been 

 paid into their hands since its original establish- 

 ment, and is now invested in the Bank of England 

 and their treasurer's hands. The last year's re- 

 ceipts alone amounted to 25,618 6s. 8d. 



Died.} At Chorley Wood, 73, Edmund Morris, 

 esq. At Clifton, where he had been rector thirty- 

 sixyears, 71, the Rev. D.S. Olivier. At Cheshunt, 

 Jane Frances, youngest daughter of the lute Sir 

 Richard Bickerton, hurt. 



NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK. 



A meeting has been lately held in the Guildhall 

 at Lynn, for the purpose of forming a Society for 

 Relieving the Sick and Indigent at their own 

 houses, when it was resolved, that it should be 

 under the management of a lady's committee, with, 

 the Mayoress as president ; and upwards of .300 

 was subscribed upon this praiseworthy institution. 



Various meetings have been held by the occu- 

 piers of land in the hundreds of Erpingham, Lod- 

 don, Clavering, and Launditch, (Norfolk), when 

 petitions to the Legislature were unanimously 

 voted against altering the corn laws. 



It is highly honourable to the public spirit and 

 delicate feeling of the county of Norfolk, that so 

 many of its respectable inhabitants have come 

 forward in support of the widow of the Rev. Mr. 

 Drew, late rector of Sandringham, whose over- 

 whelming misfortunes and death have left her 

 and ten children without the means of decent 

 support. Nearly .3,000 have been subscribed. 

 We trustthe list .vill finally amount to a sum suffi- 

 cient to attain its well-intended object. 



The Lords of the Admiralty have undertaken to 

 give every support to the plan of making Norwich 

 a port by way of Lowestoffe. 



Died.} At Holkham, 90, Mr. W. Jones, up- 

 wards of fifty yi-ars huntsman to T. W. Coke, esq. 

 At Assington Hall, Rev. J. Hallward, forty-six 

 years vicar of Assington. 



HANTS AND DORSET. 



A county meeting has been held at the Town 

 Hall, Blandford, for the purpose of establishing 

 " The Dorset Friendly Society," which was at- 

 tended by the principal gentry of the county, all 

 of whom took a decided interest in its success. 

 The advantages arising from the proposed plan of 

 this institution appears to be very superior to the 

 old societies. Directors and trustees were chosen, 



