5(54 Provincial Occurrences : 



A considerable number of operatives have set 

 out to ebmark for America by the spring vessels. 



Died.'] At Warwick, 92, Mrs. M. Scott At 

 Nirkoswald, the Rev. J. Fisher, 50 years vicar of 

 that parish. At Ricliardby, W. R. Graham, esq. 

 At Thursby, 76, Dr. R! Jackson, inspector of 

 military hospitals, and chief of the medical de- 

 partment of the army in the West Indies. 



YORKSHIRE AND CHESHIRE. 



Trade has not improved as was expected, and 

 there are 500 looms now wanting employ in Hou- 

 ley, near Hnddersfield. 



At the assizes for the County and City of York* 

 sentence of death was recorded against seventy- 

 six prisoners!!! four were transported, and six 

 were imprisoned. There were 154 prisoners in 

 the jails. 



In the vinery at the botanic garden, erected last 

 spring, belonging to Mr. Bonn, upon a new, light, 

 and economical plan, a vine of the genuine Tokay 

 was planted on the 10th of April last, without 

 either ball or earth attached to its roots, and it 

 has now produced the prodigious number of 200 

 bunches of grapes, above 130 of which at present 

 remain on the tree. 



Two Joint Stock Banking Companies have been 

 established in this county; one at Hudderstield, 

 the other at Bradford, 



As some persons were digging for clay to make 

 bricks, about 500 yards east-north-east of Conis- 

 brough Castle, they found, at five feet from the 

 surface, a sort of vault, in which had been depo- 

 sited the remains of a human being. It must 

 have been many centuries in the earth, from the 

 decayed state of the bones : and was most pro 

 lably of the Saxon line, as the body was inclosed 

 in rough unhewn stone, after their manner of in- 

 terring. The cavity or vault was about seven feet, 

 in length, three in breadth, and two in depth 

 completely inclosed above, beneath, and on tht 

 sides, with rough stones ; unfortunately, the un- 

 thinking workmen have destroyed every vestige of 

 the place. 



The Hull and East Riding Institute for the pro- 

 motion of the fine arts, have determined to open 

 their exhibition of pictures, drawings, sculpture, 

 &c., on the third Monday in July ; to close the third 

 Monday in October. The Northern Society do not 

 propose to have an exhibition at Leeds this 

 year. 



A general meeting of the silk-weavers of Mac- 

 clesfield was held at the Market Hall of that town, 

 by permission of the mayor, for the purpose of 

 petitioning the Legislature for an enactment 

 for the better regulating of prices paid for 

 labour. It was numerously attended, and con- 

 ducted with decorum ; several resolutions were en- 

 tered into, with the petition, and carried nem con. 

 The second resolution was "That this meeting 

 considers, from the protection granted to the landed 

 proprietors, that a corresponding protection for the 

 labouring classes of society would be equally just 

 in principle, and easily put in practice, as their 

 labour is to them equally the same as the noble- 

 man's estate is to him ; the refusal of which will 

 tend to create dissatisfaction in the minds of the 

 labourers and artisans, apprehensions in all other 

 classes of society, and render the peace of the 

 country dependant on military coercion." 



Married.] At Sculcoatex, the Rev. Charles 

 Dodgson, to Miss Saturdge. At Brotherton, 



, Cheshire, $c. [MAY, 



T. P. Zeale, esq., to Miss Joherwood. At Leeds, 

 J. P. Clapham, csq., to Miss Ann Olapham. 



Died.] At Addle Croft, 105, J.Whitehead. He 

 enjoyed, during the whole of his life, a singularly 

 good state of health, unaided by medical science ; 

 the only doctor's bill he ever had amounting but 

 to fpurpence. His food was plain and simple, con- 

 sisting principally of dishes made of oatmeal. He 

 never drank tea, and never was intoxicated. He 

 retained his faculties to the last, and his sight was 

 so perfect that he had never occasion for spec- 

 tacles. At York, 79, Rev. W. Donnison, vicar of 

 Felis Kirk. At Bawtry, G. Hill, and J. Kaye, 

 esqvs. At Greenhead, near Huddersfield, Ann 

 Elizabeth, daughter to B. H.Allen, esq. At Be- 

 vei'ley, the widow of Thomas Grunston, esq. At 

 Bricllington, Miss Hebbthwayte. 



STAFFORD AND SALOP. 



The assizes at Shrewsbury were protracted be- 

 yond all former precedent ; 20 prisoners had judg- 

 ment of death recorded against them, 13 transport- 

 ed, and 22 imprisoned. At Stafford assizes, 16 pri- 

 soners received sentence of death. 



Died.'} At Ellesmere, 84, F. Lee, esq. 



LANCASHIRE. 



The Emigration Committee have made a report 

 on a special case which had been presented to it, 

 viz. the condition of the hand-loom weavers, for 

 whom it has been suggested that some relief might 

 be afforded by emigration. The Manufacturers' 

 Relief Committee have signified their readiness to 

 contribute .25,000 out of the funds raised by the 

 King's letter ; and the Emigration Committee re- 

 commend a grant of .50,000. By this sum of 

 .75,000 it is calculated that 1,200 families may be 

 removed to Nova Scotia, 



The ship Commerce Trader, having 200 barrels 

 of gunpowder on board, was recently discovered 

 on fire off Peel Castle, on the Lancashire coast. 

 The crew immediately abandoned her ; and, in ten 

 or fifteen minutes after, she blew up with such a 

 tremendous explosion, that, for 100 miles along the 

 coast, it was supposed an earthquake had hap- 

 pened, and considerable damage was done to the 

 windows, &c. in many places. Such was the ter- 

 ror at Lancaster, 40 miles distant, that many of 

 the inhabitants ran to the open plains near the 

 town ; the windows flew out, and the doors crashed 

 with amazing velocity. The shock was felt at 

 Carlisle. 



Married.'] At Manchester, T. C. B. Cave, esq., 

 third son of Sir W. C. B.Cave, bart., to Miss Ann 

 Walker. 



DERBYSHIRE. 



A public meeting of the inhabitants of Derby 

 convened by the mayor, has been held at the Guild- 

 hall, for the purpose of petitioning Parliament to 

 adopt such measures as may suppress the horrid 

 practice of widows immolating themselves on the 

 funeral piles of their husbands in British India ; 

 and resolutions to that effect were unanimously 

 agreed on. 



Six prisoners were recorded for death, and six 

 transported, besides several for imprisonment, at 

 the Lent assizes. 



The accounts up to March 28, 1827, of the Derby 

 Savings' Bank, amounted to .99,452. lls.O^d. 



Died.] Near Ashbourn, 81, Mr. W. Taylor. 

 At Bradley, 80, Mrs. Hartshorn At Findern, 83, 

 Mr. Ashmole. At East Moulsey Park, 61, the 

 Dowager Lady Crowe, relict of the late Sir H. H. 

 Crcwe, bait., of Calke Abbey. At Hardstuff, f5, 

 Mr. Shooter. At Breaston, 85, J. Snow, esq. At 



