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Provincial Occurrences : Yorkshire, fyc. 



[JUNE, 



improvement or improvements in a part or parts of 

 the apparatus for making paper by macftinery. 

 2-it/i April, six months. 



To Thomas Petherick, of Penfullick, in the 

 Parish ot Tywardreath, Cornwall, mine agent, for 

 certain machinery for separating copper, lead, and 

 other ores, from earthy and other substances, with 

 which they are w may be mixed, and which -is more 

 particularly intended to supersede what Is commonly 

 called jigging. ZSth April, six months. 



To John Walker, of Weymouth-street, Middle- 

 sex, esq. for an improved cock for fluids. th May, 

 two months. 



To Henry Robert Salmon Devenoge, of Little 

 Stanhope-street, May Fair, Middlesex, gentleman, 

 for certain improvements of machinery for making 

 bricks. 8th May, two months. 



List of Patents which expire in the present month 

 of June, 1830. 



William Shand, Villiers-street, Strand, ar- 

 tificial limb-maker ,f or improvements in the construc- 

 tion of artificial legs and feet. 



John Foulerton, Upper Bedford-place, Rus- 

 sell-square, esq. for improvements in buoys. 



Edward Light, Foley-place, professor of mu- 

 sic, for improvements on the harp lute. 



John Burnett, Bristol, iron-founder, for his 

 convolving iron axletree, for the reduction of fric- 

 tion. 



John Hawkins, Barton, Leicester-place, 

 Goldsmith, for improvements on tea-urns, tea-pots, 

 tea-boards, or tea-trays. 



James Ransome, Ipswich, ironmonger, for 

 improvements on ploughs. 



MONTHLY PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES. 



YORKSHIRE. The expenditure of the We it 

 Riding accounts has increased from 29,484?. 2s. 7jd. 

 in 1814 to 41,8197. 15*. lj<i. in 1829, and it is deeply 

 to be regretted that nearly the whole of this increase 

 is caused by the increase of crime ! ! ! In 1814 the 

 expense of prosecuting felons was 2,8237. 45. Od.; in 

 1829 it was 16,3247. 18*. 9d. including 2,5367. Os. 5rf. 

 for the expense of conveyance a charge now made 

 separately. 



An adjourned meeting of the inhabitants of Al- 

 mondbury has lately taken place, when several reso- 

 lutions were entered into, and a committee formed 

 for establishing "a Political Union on the Metro- 

 politan Principle, for restoring back to the People 

 those privileges and rights which had been unlaw- 

 fully taken- from them." 



WORCESTERSHIRE. It appears from a par- 

 liamentary document that the quantity of foreign 

 gloves imported for home consumption, since the 

 prohibition was taken off, was, in 1827,865,000 

 pairs; 1828, 1,189,000; 1829, 83T,000 ! ! ! The 

 kind thus imported were chiefly habit gloves. 

 Barrow's Worcester Journal. 



DORSETSHIRE. At Blandford Guild-hall a 

 meeting has been held for petitioning Parliament 

 against the Beer bill, when several resolutions were 

 entered into and the petitions agreed on ; one of the 

 resolutions states, " That the repeal of the Malt 

 Tax would be preferable to that on beer, as it would 

 be an inducement to the poor and labouring man 

 to brew his own beer at home at a less price, and be 

 a stimulus to him to share it with his wife and fa- 

 mily at home, instead of, as is too often the case, 

 spending his time and money at the ale-house." 



So enormous a quantity of soles has been caught 

 on our shores, within the past week, that they have 

 been selling at Id. per pair. Dorset Chronicle. 



DERBYSHIRE. The members of Hognaston 

 S'ck club lately assembled to celebiate the anniversary 

 of the club, which had been established for half a 

 century. In the morning they attended the church. 

 Afterwards they dined together at the Bull's Head 

 inn, attended by the minister and medical atten ant 

 of the club. Four members were present, who en- 

 tered at the first establishment ; the oldest, eighty- 

 six years of age, was chaired in the evening, attended 

 by au excellent band of music. 



NORTHUMBERLAND. The table subjoined 

 to the last report of the Northumberland, Durham, 

 and Newcastle Infirmary for Diseases of the Eye, 

 shows to what an extent this institution has been 

 beneficial to the poor of the district during the last 

 year. The number of fresh applications for relief 

 has been 833, and 108 having remained from the 

 former year, the number under treatment has 

 amounted to 941 ; 768 patients have been cured, 

 and 36 have derived less perfect relief. The total 

 admitted since the commencement of the institution 

 has been 6,262, and of these 5,814 have either been 

 cured or materially benefited. 



May 9, about a quarter past 8 o'clock, p. m. the 

 Durham Packet, which was lying in Sunderland 

 harbour loaded ready for sea, broke from her moor- 

 ings in consequence of the heavy fresh which was 

 running rapidly down the harbour. This ship was 

 hurried with dreadful impetuosity against the next 

 tier of ships, which were at once driven from their 

 moorings; and in a few minutes every ship which 

 was afloat on the south side of the Wear was drift- 

 ing towards the sea. The vessels, however, stopped 

 and formed a complete dam across the river for 

 nearly half an hour, during which time the water 

 rose several feet. At last a sloop situated about the 

 centre of the fleet was forced out by the extreme 

 violence of the flood, and immediately the whole of 

 the ships drifted to the entrance of the harbour, 

 where they grounded and stopped, the tide being 

 out. The damage done was immense. It is cal- 

 culated that at least from 65 to 75 ships have suffered 

 more or less. 



WILTSHIRE.-Bythe abstract of the account 

 of the receipts and expenditure of Wilts county, 

 from Hilary sessions 1829 to Hilary sessions 1830, it 

 appears that the sum of 15,0007. was expended, up- 

 wards of 7,0007. of which was required for the cri- 

 minal jurisprudence of the county, including gaols, 

 bridewells, assizes, sessions, &c. &c. for county 

 bridges, 9997. 9*. 2rf for apprehending and convey- 

 ing vagrants, 10207. 19.* 8d. 



HANTS. The town commissioners at Ryde 

 (Isle of Wight) have commenced operations.for the 

 completion of the new market and the town hall ; 

 almost all the houses on the intended site are already 

 down, and the first stone has been laid in grand ce- 

 remony, and the anniversary held of the improve- 

 ment act receiving the royal assent. 



