1827.] 



Nottingham, Leicester, Rutland, 



565 



Hai-lhvroiigh, 68, the Rev. P. A. Reaston ; he had 

 been rector of that parish 34 years. 



NOTTINGHAM. 



The first stone of a new Catholic chapel was laid 

 at Nottingham, April 3, by the Rev. W. Wilson, 

 the priest, who delivered a short address on the 

 occasion, inculcating peace, charity, and brotherly 

 love. The stone bore the inscription, " Ad Ma- 

 jor em Dei Gloriam, A.D. 1827. The building is 

 to be of the Grecian order. 



The foundation of the new gaol was also laid the 

 same day. 



LEICESTER AND RUTLAND. 



At the assizes at Leicester, a greater number of 

 prisoners were tried than has been known for 

 many years ; fifteen were condemned to death, but 

 three only were left for execution; one of them 

 W. Brown, for a murder committed two years ago 

 nt Asfordby. Great praise is due to the magis- 

 trates for their perseverance in bringing this of- 

 fender to justice, after the long period of commit- 

 tal of such an atrocious assassination. 



The frame-work knitters have forwarded a me- 

 morial to the President of the Board of Trade, 

 praying for relief from their present dreadful dis- 

 tress ; they say, "that their wages are lower now 

 than they were in 1819 (then seven shillings per 

 week), and that sixteen hours a-day many are com- 

 pelled to labour, with only a morsel of bread to 

 support them through the day ; and that, compared 

 with their present situation, transportation would 

 be a paradise to them!!!" The answer of the 

 Board says. " their lordships regret very much 

 that it is not in their power to point out a re- 

 medy ! !" 



WARWICK AND NORTHAMPTON. 

 Thirty-one prisoners were recorded for death at 

 the assizes held at Warwick, 22 were transported, 

 and 49 imprisoned for various period^. One cul- 

 prit was sentenced to seven years' transportation 

 for being armed for the destruction of game ; 

 whilst another was ordered one year's imprison- 

 ment, and fined a shilling, for the manslaughter of 

 his son!!! 



A petition from the mechanics of Birmingham, 

 deputed by all the different trades of that town for 

 the purpose, has been recently and unanimously 

 voted to the House of Commons, in which they 

 feelingly describe their melancholy situation, which 

 deprives their skill and industry of its due reward, 

 and degrades them to the misery of parochial re- 

 lief. In praying for redress, they notice the sys- 

 tem of emigration, which they consider as " de- 

 structive of the moral attachment of the people to 

 their native land ; nor can they comprehend by 

 what train of reasoning the productive classes, 

 who create the wealth and power of the kingdom, 

 are stigmatized as being a burden to it." 



The iron trade partakes in more than a common 

 degree the general gloom and depression which 

 pervade most branches of business at the present 

 moment. The demand in Birmingham and neigh- 

 bourhood has suffered a very sensible decline since 

 Christmas, instead of experiencing an increase, 

 which is the natural change. 



It appears by the statement published of the 



Northampton Savings' Bank, that the sum of 



.273,501. 3s. l|-d. has been received from its first 



establishment up to April 4, 1827. 



A case has been recently decided by appeal in 



the House of.Lorda, in which a clergyman, having 

 been presented to the living of Kettering, in 

 Northamptonshire, by Lord Sondes, on condition 

 of his resigning it to a son of his lordship when 

 ready for it, or paying .10,000, this bond was set 

 aside as simoniacal b> the existing law. The 

 Archbishop of Canterbury immediately brought in 

 a bill, containing such restrictions as would pro- 

 tect bonds of this nature heretofore made, and 

 exempt the parties from the penalties incurred, 

 under an erroneous impression of the law on the 

 subject. A patron is liable to a penalty of double 

 the value of the living, and the forfeiture of the 

 patronage for that time ; and the incumbent is 

 liable to double the value of the living, and to be 

 disqualified from holding it. 



Married.'] AtAlvcstone, J. Fullarton, junior, 

 esq., to Louisa, fourth daughter to Sir Gray Skip- 

 whh, bart. 



Died.'] At Peterborough, 84, John Benson, esq. 

 one of the principal committee clerks to the House 

 of Commons. 



WORCESTER AND HEREFORD. 



At Worcester assizes, 24 prisoners were recorded 

 for death, 29 transported, and 20 imprisoned. 

 There were 96 prisoners in the whole; 23 who 

 could read and write, 27 that could read only, and 

 4(5 that could neither read nor write ! 



Although the glove trade at Worcester has 

 lately improved, yet it is but too true that the ad- 

 mission of French gloves has diminished the for- 

 mer demands for British gloves. 



Sentence of death was recorded at Hereford 

 assizes against 14 prisoners, 8 were transported, 

 and 18 imprisoned. .300 was awarded, by a spe- 

 cial jury at this assize, to a gentleman, as compen- 

 sation for an injury sustained by being overturned 

 in the Bristol and Milford mail-coach. 



At a meeting of the friends and supporters of 

 the union of the " Three Choirs," lately holden at 

 the Deanery at Worcester, it was resolved, that in 

 order to give due effect to the gracious inten- 

 tions of His Majesty, who has become patron 

 of the institution, arrangements upon a more ge- 

 neral and enlarged scale be in future adopted. 

 The list of president, vice-president, and stewards* 

 already contains all that are distinguished by rank 

 and property in the three counties. 



GLOUCESTER AND MONMOUTH. 



At the Clifton and Bristol Bazaar, recently pro- 

 jected by some benevolent ladies of the neighbour- 

 hood, in aid ol the funds for the distressed imuiu- 

 facturers in the north, as much as .9(50 were 

 received. The produce of a ball at the Clifton 

 Rooms, also, for the distressed inhabitants at Pill, 

 amounted to near .100. 



At Monmouth assizes, a respectable farmer, a 

 constable, and two servants, were convicted of 

 having cruelly maltreated Mary Nicholas, aged 

 90, on the supposition of her being a WITCH, whose 

 unholy arts had proved destructive to the cattle in 

 her neighbourhood. The brutes concerned in this 

 proceeding tore her garments down to her waist 

 wounded her flesh with a thorny stick, tore her 

 hair from her head to see if it would burn, and 

 compelled her to kneel down by a colt, which she 

 was required " to bless ! !" The sentence was six 

 months' imprisonment for the farmer, and three 

 months' for the others. Sentence of death w as 

 recorded at the same assizes against 8 prisoners, 



