1827.] 



Stafford, Lancashire, Nottingham, Leicester, 



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On the 14th of February, a diocesan committee 

 of the Society for Propagating the Gospel, was 

 formed at York. President, his Grace the Arch- 

 bishop. 



Married.] Rev. II. Torre, rector of Thornhill, 

 to Sarah Caroline, eldest daughter of Sir John 

 Lister K aye, bart., of Denbigh Grange. At Wake- 

 flcld, Edward Fenton, esq., to Miss Briscoe. At 

 Pickering, Captain Gray, to Miss Bird. At York, 

 Mr. Gawson, to Miss Wolstenholme. At Terring- 

 ton, John Atkinson, to Miss Tate. At Leeds, 

 Thomas Ferguson, esq., to Miss Emma Bevyen. 



Died.] At Holme-on-Spalding Moor, Mrs. Fal- 

 kingtiam, widow ; she lett behind her upwards of 

 160 children, grand-children, great grand-children, 

 and great -great-grand-children ; and she occupied 

 the house, in which she died, the last 73 years of 

 her life. At Easintrworth, Thomas Jackson. esq. 

 At Whitby, Mrs. Walker. At York, Miss In- 

 gram.-J- At Harden Grange, the lady of Walker 

 Ferrand, esq. 



STAFFORD AND SALOP. 



The foundation stone of Wolverhampton race 

 stand has lately been laid. 



A number of workmen are nowi engaged in 

 lowering the hill on the Bristol road, between Bir- 

 mingham and the first turnpike. 



LANCASHIRE. 



The distress which has prevailed so extensively 

 and for so long a period in the neighbouring 

 towns, appears at length to have reached Liver- 

 poo!. The applications for parochial relief are 

 numerous beyond any precedent for several years 

 past. More than four hundred individuals, and 

 the families of many of them, were relieved yes- 

 terday at the parish offices. The workhouse is al- 

 most as full as it will hold : it contains nearly one 

 thousand six hundred pauper?. Disease, the sure 

 concomitant of starvation, is very prevalent ; the 

 fever ward is full, and a temporary one has al- 

 ready received several inmates. Liverpool C/tro. 

 nicle. 



The differences which have so long existed be- 

 tween the cotton-spinners of Oldham and their 

 workmen, have at length beeh accommodated, by 

 the return of the men to their employment, at the 

 prices which they before refused to accept. Most 

 of the men signified their wish to return to work ; 

 and, with the exception of a few, who were known 

 to have been active instigators of the late riots, 

 they were accepted by the masters. On the day 

 before this event took place, however, there were 

 some further disturbances, of a rather serious 

 character ; in which, the civil and military autho- 

 rities displayed great decision and promptitude ; 

 which, we have no doubt, had considerable eilect 

 in leading to accommodation. 



Died.] At Harrock Hall, 77, the Rev. Rigbye 

 Rigbye. 



NOTTINGHAM AND LINCOLN. 



There has been a trifling amendment in the lace 

 trade at Nottingham, and there has been a small 

 advance in the price. 



Such is the extreme scarcity of provender and 

 winter keeping in many parts of Lincolnshire, 

 that the most serious apprehensions are feJt by 

 the farmers for their cattle, and the horrors of 

 scarcity are prevalent. The calamity has been in- 

 creased by severe and most unfavourable weather. 

 In the neighbourhood of Horncastle, the sheep and 

 caitle, both beasts and horses, are dying by mul 

 titudes. 



Died.] 82, Rev. W. Harrison, vicar of Win- 

 terton. 



LEICESTER AND RUTLAND. 



The nobility and gentry of the county of Lei- 

 cester have come to the resolution of patronizing, 

 on an extensive scale, a grand musical festival, 

 for the benefit of "the Infirmary, Lunatic Asy- 

 lum, and Fever House of Recovery," and a com- 

 mittee has been formed to carry their benevolent 

 intentions into effect for which purpose they have 

 already engaged some of the first performers in 

 the kingdom. It is to be solemnized on the 4th, 

 5th, and 6th of next September, at Leice-ter. 



At Lougliborough, a ball lately took place, for 

 the benefit of the Dispensary ; it was well atten- 

 ded, and produced .90. ' 



Died.] AtNewhall Park, 86, Mr. Jackson ; and 

 the day after, Mr. Gilbert, an inmate of his house, 

 and for whom he had liberally provided, expired, 

 after a few hours illness. At Loughborough, 87, 

 Mr. Nash. At his seat, Cole Orion Hall, 73, Sir 

 George Beaumont, bait. He was well known as 

 one of the best amateur painters in the kingdom, 

 and the liberal donor to the nation of his excellent 

 collection of pictures. At Bisbrooke, Rutland, Mr. 

 Robert Clarke, a man well known in the neigh- 

 bourhood for his singular habits. It will appeal- 

 that he was d?scended from an eccentric stock, 

 when our renders are informed, that he put down 

 a grave-stone to the memory of his lather, agreeably 

 to his directions, with a gorgeous representation 

 of a waggon and horses, a waggoner, a gate, 'and 

 a green hedge, with the following lines : 

 " 'Here lies the body of Nathaniel Clarke, 

 Who never did no harm iu the light nor in the 



dark ; 



But in his blessed horses taken great delight, 

 And often travell'd with them by day and by 

 night." 



WARWICK. 



In the case of the King v. the Mayor and Cor- 

 poration of Warwick, the rule for a criminal infor- 

 mation has been discharged, the defendants paying 

 all the costs: "This, I think," said the Lord 

 Chief Justice, " will be sufficient to make the de- 

 fendants know that it is their duty to attend on the 

 election-days specified in the Charter." 



The Warwick Gas Light Company have made a 

 dividend of five percent. 



Died.] Mrs. Millicent Ludford, sister pf the 

 late J. N. Ludford, esq., of Ansley Hall. At War- 

 wick, Mrs. E. Hudson. At Siitlon Coldneld, Mrs. 

 Perkins. 



NORTHAMPTON AND HUNTINGDON. 



Died.] At Pitsford, Charles, second son of E. 

 Bouverie, esq., of Delapre Abbey. 



WORCESTER AND HEREFORD. 



Died.] At Leigh, 102, Catherine Hill. - At 

 Worcester, 97, Philip Lane ; he was known by 

 the appellation of Blind Phil, and had been bell- 

 ringer at Hereford Cathedral for upwards of 

 seventy years. At Flagoner's Green, Bromyard, 

 lOl, Hannah Smith, widow; and at Eccles Gieen, 

 100 ! Mary Powles, widow. 



GLOUCESTER AND MONMOUTH. 

 His Majesty has consented to become the patron 

 of the miisical festival, called the " Union of the 

 Choirs of Worcester, Hereford, and Gloucester." 

 The Friends congregational collection in Bris- 

 tol, for the relief of the distressed manufacturers, 

 on Sunday, January 24, amounted to .159 5s. 2d. 

 It appears, by the third annual report of the vi- 

 sitors of the General Lunatic Asylum, for the 

 County and City of Gloucester, that its expense 

 for 1829, was .2,%0. 9s< 9d., while the amount for, 



