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Chronology, Marriages, and Deaths. 



[ APRIL, 



and i*ter to Lady Dryden. At Paris, 78, tbt 

 Duchess de la Rochefaucault. At Naples, 92, 

 General Actoun ; he had been in the Neapolitan 

 service ever since 1792. At Spanish Town, Ja- 

 maica, aged 151, Mrs. Judith Crawford. She had 



the powers of her bodily strength, as well as her 

 faculties, until within a few years since. She 

 remembered the dreadful earthquake of 1682. 

 At Paris, 79, M. de Lally Tolendal. At Hieres, 

 Marshal Gouvion St. Cyr, 67. 



MONTHLY PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES. 



NORTHUMBERLAND. At these assizes two 

 prisoners were sentenced to death. Mr. Justice 

 J. H. Park, in his address to the grand jury, 

 aid : " The police of this town in regard to pre- 

 ventive justice, he could say from his own ex- 

 perience of 40 years, was admirably conducted."* 

 He congratulated them on there being only 5 

 cases in the calendar; and he congratulated them 

 the more, " because in the town where they now 

 were, there was more vice among a small num- 

 ber of people than ever he witnessed on a similar 

 occasion !" 



The Corporation of Newcastle hare appointed 

 a deputation to go to London, to remonstrate 

 against an application made to government, by 

 the inhabitants of North and South Shields, for 

 additional *' Custom-house facilities." 



A very fine mummy has been presented to the 

 Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle. 



DURHAM. Three culprits received sentence 

 f death at these assizes ; there were very few 

 prisoners in the calendar. 



. The church-yard of Sunderland is now lit-up 

 with gas ; and the light is so vivid, that no person 

 could move across the ground without being seen. 



The Marquis of Teesdale has presented the 

 committee for making the road from Alston Moor 

 to Gretna Bridge, with the sum of .1,200, to be 

 appropriated by them in employing the distressed 

 miners of Teesdale, who are out of employment. 



At the Durham assizes, Mr. Justice Park in- 

 tructed the jury to acquit a prisoner charged 

 with stealing a sheep, because the animal was 

 a ewe, and it was not described as such, but merely 

 us a sheep. 



During the late severe frost, which prevailed 

 over the whole kingdom, the thermometer was 

 generally from 4 to 5, and sometimes as much as 

 8 degrees higher in Durham and its neighbour- 

 hood than it was in Oxford and London. 



* Notwithstanding this eulogium on the pre- 

 ventive police, we find the following instance of 

 early crime recurring at the same assizes: Jane 

 Wilkinson and Mary Mutton, two very little 

 children, were charged with breaking into the 

 dwelling house of L. Sloddart, and stealing there- 

 from a flannel shirt, cotton handkerchief, and 

 two towels. They both pleaded guilty. His Lord- 

 ship recommended them to plead not guilty, as 

 there was another charge of housebrealuiig 

 against them, and if found guilty of both offences 

 he should find it right to send them out of the 

 country probably for their lives. They still per- 

 sisted in their plea. They were then arraigned 

 for breaking into the house of Eleanor Fenwick, 

 and stealing therefrom a bombazeen gown, and a 

 coat and waistcoat. To this charge they also 

 pleaded guilty. His Lordship said, that as the 

 prisoners, young as they were, had been the sub- 

 jects of 4 or 5 criminal charges before this, he 

 thought it his duty to the public to sentence them 

 for the first offence, to which they had now 

 pleaded guilty, to 7 years transportation, and for 

 the second offence to a further transportation of 

 7 yaw. Tync Mircury, March 2. 



At a meeting held at Blampland on the 18th of 

 March, it was resolved to petition Parliament on 

 the distressed state of the mining districts. 



CUMBERLAND." In looking back on the 

 proceedings of the recent assizes," savs the Car- 

 lisle Patriot, " we should almost, we think, for- 

 get our duty, and our responsibility, if we did uot 

 indulge in a few obssrvatiuns, to which the most 

 ordinary reflections naturally give rise. The first 

 is, the defective state of the police in some parts 

 of this county, and the second, the great increase 

 of crime amongst youth. But another and a still 

 more deplorable fact cannot be overlooked, the 

 increase of juvenile offenders. Nearly one half 

 of the prisoners at the late assizes were under 21 

 years of age I Two under 18 were convicted of 

 horse-stealing, and two under 15 of house-break- 

 ing I !! These facts ought to impress upon all 

 who duly regard the well-being of society, the 

 duty of encouraging every endeavour to train up 

 the rising generation to habits of religion and 

 virtue. Persons in authority, and in responsible 

 situations, have much to answer for where this 

 subject is neglected. It is incumbent on all who 

 have the power, and more especially on the 

 Clergy and Magistracy, to repress every kind of 

 vice and impiety, and to exterminate the haunts 

 and seminaries of profligacy and villany ; thus 

 preventing rather than punishing crime!" 



YORKSHIRE. A meeting of the gentry, 

 clergy, shopkeepers, and other inhabitants of the 

 town and neighbourhood of Huddersfield was held, 

 March 11, at the Court-House, to consider the 

 propriety of petitioning Parliament to investigate 

 the cause of the General Distress, and if possible 

 to adopt such measures as may give permanent 

 relief. It was determined to petition Parliament, 

 and Lord Wharncliffe was requested to present 

 that of the House of Lords, and Lord Milton that 

 of the Commons. Various resolutions passed, one 

 of which was : " That the Distress mainly re- 

 sulted from long and expensive Wars, occasioning 

 an immense load of Debt, and Taxation to an 

 insupportable amount." In another, advice is 

 given to abolish all Sinecures, and reduce Sa- 

 laries and Pensions, under whatever denomina- 

 tion, civil and military [Fjeld Marshalism, of 

 course, in a time of profound peace, not to be 

 forgotten!] Huddersfield and the out-townships 

 contain nearly 90,000 persons, of whom the pro- 

 portion of 1 to 6| are deeply distressed. Leedt 

 Intelligencer. 



A public meeting was held at Rotherham, 

 March 17, at which a series of resolutions was 

 passed in favour of a still more extensive re- 

 mission of taxes. The meeting was remarkable 

 for the good sense that distinguished the speeches 

 of that class of the community " who gain their 

 bread by the sweat of their brow." There was. 

 very little of that " humming and hawing " 



