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The congregation of Monkwearmouth church 

 have presented a massy silver salver, to their late 

 lecturer, the Rev. E. Neale, B.A., in testimony of 

 his able and orthodox ministry, and as a memorial 

 of the grateful feeling which they entertain for his 

 services. 



No less than 1,129,824 chaldrons of coals, im- 

 perial measure, were shipped from the port of 

 Sunderland last year. 



CUMBERLAND. A meeting of the free- 

 holders took place at Wigton, called by the High 

 Sheriff, to take into consideration the distressed 

 condition of the country, when petitions to the 

 legislature was unanimously resolved on. About 

 4,000 persons were present.* 



The ship-owners of Maryrort and vicinity have 

 forwarded a petition to parliament, praying to be 

 rescued from their nearly insolvent state, by the 

 protection of the shipping of Great Britain, 

 against that of other nations, which alone can 

 enable them to compete with foreigners. 



YORKSHIRE. The llth Report of the Direc- 

 tors ot the Pauper Lunatic Asylum for the West 

 Riding, contains details which are particularly 

 satisfactory. Notwithstanding the appropriation 

 of .1,000 to improvements, there still remains a 

 balance of nearly 3,000 in favour of the institu- 

 tion. There are 255 patients in the house. Since 

 the opening of the asylum, 556 sufferers, under 

 this most lamentable of human maladies, have 

 been restored to society in a sane state, and 103 

 much relieved. Yorkshire Gazette. 



The last report from the committee in favour 

 of the unemployed poor of Leeds, dated at the 

 Court House, states that 2,085 families, compre- 

 hending 8,432 individuals, had been relieved. 



Business at Huildersfield is growing worse and 

 worse, and unless speedy relief is afforded, hun- 

 dreds of virtuous and respectable families in this 

 district will become the victims of our destructive 

 policy. Never did Huddersfield present such a 

 gloomy and wretched appearance ; never had it 

 so much cause. Leeds Intelligencer. 



Feb. 3- A public dinner was given on the oc- 

 casion of opening the splendid Bradford Ex- 

 change buildings. After the Royal Family, 

 "The Ladies" were toasted, and then followed 

 " the immortal memory of Bishop Blaize," (it 

 being the anniversary of this great author of the 

 combing trade), which introduced some remarks 

 from Mr. Rand, who wished he could congratulate 

 the company on the nourishing state of the coun- 

 try ; " but the melancholy fact exists," he said, 

 and is acknowledged by men of all parties, that 



* Mr. Blamire addressed the meeting. ' All 

 parties," he said, "were suffering; merchant, 

 manufacturer, tradesman, agriculturist, miner, 

 mechanic, and labourer, all in distress and misery, 

 n consequence of an enormous and overwhelming 

 debt : and nothing could relieve them but a great 

 reduction of taxation." Mr. Jamrs (late M.P. 

 for Carlisle), observed, that, they heard much of 

 the poor rates ; but the little paupers did not 

 drain the nation to the extent of the great 

 paupers : and there was scarcely an article for 

 which the poor man had not to pay a tax for 

 malt, beer, leather, soap, candles indeed for al- 

 most everything that he saw, touched, and smelled 

 for the very air he breathed. Nothing could 

 save the country but a large remission of tax. 

 ation the knife and sponge must be both applied, 

 the latter partially, the former with an unsparing 

 hand." 



loth commerce and agriculture are labouring 

 under very severe depression." 



A meeting has been held at Leeds of the stuff 

 manufacturers, operatives, and others, to con- 

 sider the propriety of petitioning the legislature 

 on the effects produced by the rapid increase of 

 the Power Loom, when several resolutions were 

 entered into for curtailing its extensive use, and 

 a petition unanimously resolved on to be de- 

 livered to the House of Commons, by their towns- 

 man, Mr. Sadler, who was respectfully requested 

 to support its prayer.* 



There are in the small town of Beverley, nine 

 societies for the promotion of knowledge. 



A new national school for boys was opened at 

 Pontefract, on the 19th of January ; when an ap- 

 propriate speech was delivered by the Rev. J. 

 Atkinson, incumbent of the endowed lectureship 

 in that town. 



The Hon. E. Petre, Lord Mayor of York, 

 though a Roman Catholic, has chosen the Rev. 

 G. Hodson, a clergyman of the church of Eng- 

 land, for his chaplain, during the year of his 

 mayoralty. 



On the 2d of February, the Yorkshire Philo- 

 sophical Society held their anniversary meeting, 

 at their New Museum, which was then publicly 

 opened. It is one of the most elegant buildings 

 in the kingdom ; and the collection of fossils is 

 probably the best in this country. The museum 

 is also rich in zoological specimens. 



Petitions to both houses of parliament, against 

 the renewal of the East India Company's charter, 

 were agreed to at a public meeting at Leeds, held 

 on the 6th of February. Similar petitions have 

 been agreed to at public meetings held at Brad- 

 ford and Huddersfield. 



A young man named John Smith, of Bielby, 

 near Porklington, has constructed a very inge- 

 nious and curious piece of mechanism. It is a 

 species of clock for measuring distances. The 

 works are contained in a box, which can be fas- 

 tened to the axle-tree of a waggon ; and the con- 

 trivance reflects great credit upon him, as he has 

 had no mechanical education, but has worked at 

 the farming business all his life, and has executed 

 this machine, after his daily labour was done. 

 Yorkshire Gazette. 



Mr. Belli well, of Greenhurst Key, near Tod- 

 morden, has manufactured a beautiful cotton 

 russet cloth, and also yarn for stockings, from the 

 wool produced by the moss crop plant found upon 

 his estate there. 



NORFOLK. At a vestry meeting held at Ken- 

 ninghall, Jan. 15, for the purpose of taking into 

 consideration the better employment of the sur- 



* The chairman in addressing the meeting, 

 said: " Unprecedented distress and want of em- 

 ployment has called us together. Many of you 

 have arrived at the middle of life ; others of you 

 are in declining years ; and some few of you bear 

 the marks of old age ; and I appeal to you, 

 whether you ever experienced distress to that de- 

 gree which you are now experiencing Irom the 

 want of employment?" (Universal cries of 

 "No! no! never ///) The following is resolu- 

 tion 8 : " That we are now arrived at a period 

 wherein justice, policy, and humanity, loudly call 

 for prompt legislative measures, which would 

 have the salutary effect of obviating any burst of 

 popular frenzy that may arise from the accumu- 

 lated masses of human misery so unhappily pre- 

 lent, disgraceful to the national character, and 

 far surpassing any former precedent." 



