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Provincial Occurrences : Yorkshire, Stafford, 



[JUNE, 



Died.] 88, Mrs. Adamthwaite, of Ravenstons. 

 dale. 



YORKSHIRE. 



On the 13th, some boys playing in Kirkstall- 

 abbey, discovered a stone coffin in the wall of the 

 building, about six feet from the ground, contain- 

 ing the skeleton of a full-grown man. The coffin 

 was so accurately fitted into the wall as to appear 

 a part of it ; and there is another stone of pre- 

 cisely the same shape alongside of it, which is pro- 

 bably a coffin. From the place and manner of 

 their burial, these remains doubtless are those of 

 some man of rank, probably one of the Abbots of 

 Kirkstall ; and it is certain that they have been 

 interred some centuries, as that abbey was dis- 

 solved, with the large monasteries, in 1540. 



April 19, 1826, Mr. Donn, at the Botanic Gar- 

 den, Hull, planted a vine without either ball or 

 earth attached to its roots ; and it has now pro- 

 duced the prodigious number of 200 bunches of 

 grapes, above 130 of which remained on a few 

 days back. . . 



A silver penny of Edward I. was lately found 

 in the area of Baynard-castle, Cottinghain, where 

 that monarch kept his court in 1268 It has been 

 deposited in the museum- of the Hull Literary 

 Society. 



A gentleman named Janatt is about to build a 

 church at Doncaster at the expense of .10,000. 

 The corporation have voted him an address on 

 the occasion. 



Married.] At Whitley, C. H. Wells, esq., to 

 Miss Simpson. At Hull, W. Burton, esq., to Miss 

 Walker. At York, the Rev. C. H. Eyre, to Miss 

 Foulis. At Sessey, R. Toes, esq., to Miss Barker. 

 At Cottingham, J. H. Coulson, esq., to Miss 

 Thornton. At Lockington, G. L. Woolley, esq., 

 to Miss Taylor. At Knaresborough, Mr. B. Caw, 

 to Miss Shawe. At York, the Rev. J. H. Brad- 

 ney, to Miss Preston. 



Died."] At Beverley, J. Lockwood, esq. At 

 Knottingley, Mrs. Bedford. At Seaton-grange, 

 Mrs. Paull. At York, the Rev. G. Briggs. At 

 Rallborough, the Rev. P. A Reaston. At Leeds, 

 the wife of J. Murphy, esq. At Swarland, N. 

 Sykes, esq. At Beverley, P. Acklow, esq. At 

 Howlen, Valentine Frederick, youngest son of R. 

 Wirsop, esq. At Scarborough, T. Parkin, esq. 

 At Stamtord-bridge, Mrs. Ridley. 



STAFFORD AND SALOP. 



The magistrates assembled at Stafford sessions 

 have passed an unanimous vote of thanks to the 

 Right Hon. Robert Peel, for his distinguished ser- 

 vices in improving the administration of criminal 

 justice. 



At Tixall, the coming of age of Sir Clifford 

 Constable was lately celebrated by his tenantry, 

 whose hilarity was rendered doubly effective by 

 the announcement that at the next audit fifty per 

 cent, would be deducted from their rents. 



A beautiful and magnificent ox is now feeding 

 at Eyton, near Wellington, Salop. His weight 

 last year was 28 cwt., nearly one ton and a half. 

 The supposed weight by judges is 26 score per 

 quarter ; the fore quarters are judged to weigh 

 30 score each. His height is 6 feet 6 inches ; 

 length from nose to tail 1 1 feet four inches ; girth 

 near the fore legs 11 feet; width of the bosom 3 

 feet within one inch. 



Died.] At Shrewsbury, J. Mason, esq. ; he had 

 devoted his time to literature, and had written 

 several works. At Oldington, 94, a man-servant 



to Mr. Worrall ; he had been servant on the same 

 farm for 60 years ! At Colebrookdale, 72, Mrs. 

 Luckcock ; she was a member of the Society of 

 Friends. 



LANCASHIRE. 



An increased demand for cotton goods has been 

 visible for several weeks past at Bolton. A fort- 

 night since, one of the respectable houses advanced 

 their weavers 6d. per cut; and this week the prin- 

 cipal houses in the fancy trade have advanced their 

 wages on various fabrics from 8 to 15 per cent. 

 Employment on the 6-460 reed cambric, which has 

 been worked as low as 6s. 6d. per cut. At Chor- 

 ley, we are informed, a slight improvement in 

 wages has taken place. At Preston business is 

 extremely brisk, and an advance of wages is- 

 shortly expected. At Ashton-under-Line, a gene- 

 ral advance of 10 per cent, in weavers' wages has 

 taken place, and in some particular instances as 

 much as 25 per cent. 



We are gratified to find that the accounts from 

 Manchester, also Liverpool, Blackburn, and other 

 great manufacturing towns, fully confirm the de- 

 cided improvement in the trade of the country^. 

 The weavers have constant employment at in- 

 creased wages. The calico-printers are said to 

 have their hands so full of work that they refuse 

 to take further orders. Large shipments of goods 

 are now making for Hamburg and the Baltic. 

 The stock of manufactured goods on hand is con- 

 siderably reduced, and a great many buyers are 

 in the market. We are told that the low prices 

 at which the British goods have been sold, beat 

 down and nearly destroyed the foreign manufac- 

 turers. From an increased trade we shall.no 

 doubt derive an increasing revenue. 



Died,] In Lancaster castle, 80, W. Green; h 

 had been confined 11 years for a debt of .1,000, 

 and is said to have died worth .40,000. 



NOTTINGHAM AND LINCOLN. 



Some weeks since a tiger escaped from the- 

 menagerie of an itinerant showman, and was at 

 large in the forest. The animal has been de- 

 stroyed, after having committed ravages amongst 

 the sheep-flocks in the neighbourhood; above a 

 hundred have been preyed upon by the furious 

 beast since he made his escape ; and the farmers 

 agreed to subscribe a sum of money, to be paid 

 to any person who should destroy it. In conse- 

 quence of this, seven resolute fellows armed them- 

 selves with guns, and went in pursuit of it. He 

 had been seen in the vicinity of Farmesfteld, and 

 thither the tiger-hunters repaired, and without 

 any danger or difficulty succeeded in destroying 

 him by fire-arms. 



Died.] At Staunton, 77, Rev. J. Mounsey; he 

 had been curate of Staunton and of Flamborough 

 half a century. 



LEICESTER AND RUTLAND. 



A meeting of the working classes has been held 

 at Leicester, for the purpose of voting an ad- 

 dress to His Majesty relative to the late change 

 in the administration, when the address was voted 

 and signed by the chairman. One of the speakers 

 said, in describing the situation of himself and his 

 fellow workmen : " That when they looked around 

 them and beheld the beauties of the season when 

 they saw the brute creation in the full enjoyment 

 of that which nature had so amply provided for 



