730 Provincial Occurrences : Leicestershire, Ireland, fyc. JuNE. 



LEICESTERSHIRE The expenses for this 

 county from Easter sessions 1829 to those of 

 1830, amount to 19,024/. 10s. 5d. almost the whole 

 of which was absorbed by criminal jurisprudence, 

 law, and its contingencies, gaol, bridewell, assizes, 

 judge's lodgings, constables, &c. &c. &c. 725/. 15s. 5d. 

 was all that was required for repairs of ridges, and 

 surveyor's salary. 



CORNWALL. Government has recently esta- 

 blished steam-packets, to sail regularly from Fal- 

 mouth for the Mediterranean the beginning of 

 every month ; thus affording the traveller an expe- 

 ditious passage either to Greece, Cadiz, or Egypt. 

 To invalids this mode of conveyance will be most 

 serviceable, as in the short period of six days they 

 can inhale the salubrious air of the Mediterranean. 



BUCKS. A fair was held for the first time at 

 Stony Stratford on the 30th April ; there was a great 

 show of beasts, sheep, and horses, which were 

 nearly all sold, and, considering the depressed state 

 of business in general, at prices that gave satisfac- 

 tion to the sellers. 



SOMERSETSHIRE.-There are not fewer than 

 4000 persons now unemployed in any profitable 

 labour in Taunton and its immediate vicinity; and 

 it is only a few weeks ago, that Mr. Dickinson, one 

 of the members for the county, in presenting a 

 petition to the House of Commons, asserted, that 

 one-third of the population of Taunton was then 

 actually receiving parish relief; estimating the po- 

 pulation to be from 10,000 1012,000, this propor- 

 tion, however lamentable it may appear, will be 

 found to be not far from the truth. About four 

 years ago, the silk trade alone employed at least 2000 

 persons here : but from the depressed state of that 

 manufacture, not more than one third of that 

 number, if even so many, may be said to be now in 

 full work. Fifty years since there was an extensive 

 manufacture of serges and light woollen cloths at 

 Taunton, and there were then more than 500 wool- 

 combers in the town ; now it is believed not a single 

 piece of serge is manufactured there in a year, and 

 there are not more than five or six wool-combers at 

 the most ! 



KENT. The important local undertaking of the 

 Canterbury Rail-Road has been brought into opera- 

 tion, and the rail-road to Whitstable opened for the 

 purposes of business. The work has been five 

 years in progress. The whole length is between 

 and 7 miles, and runs direct to Whitstable. There 

 is a tunnel, 822 yards in length, carried through the 

 Brethren Hills, which cost 13,000?. The first4 miles 

 are constructed upon an inclination of one foot in 

 90, down which waggons travel at the velocity of 

 25 miles an hour, merely from receiving the im- 

 pulse of one man's exertions. The remaining dis- 

 tance, smiles, is a level, and here the waggons are 

 attached to a locomotive steam-engine. The im- 

 mense advantages which the district will derive 

 from the facility of transmission may be anticipated 

 from the circumstance that coals alone will expe- 

 rience a reduction of 6s. a chaldron for carriage. 

 Passengers also will be conveyed for 9d. per head in 

 20 minutes the usual time in land conveyance 

 being nearly two hours. 



STAFFORDSHIRE The Savings' Bank last 

 Report of the little town of Shenstone states the 

 amount of fundsto be 18,217?. 12*. IJd. 



WALES. A county meeting was held at Welsh 

 Pool, Montgomery, for the purpose of taking into 

 consideration the present state of the Welsh judi- 

 cature, when a petition to Parliament was unani- 

 mously agreed to for the prevention of dividing the 

 county of Montgomery as proposed by the Law 

 Commfssioners. 



The county expenses of Montgomery amounted 

 for the year ending April 22, 1830, to 58851. Us. Id., 

 upwards of 2000/. of which were devoured by the 

 law, jails, prisoners, vagrants, &c., and about 2000J. 

 for county bridges. 



We have much pleasure in announcing that the 

 National Institution for the Preservation of Life 

 from Shipwreck have ordered a silver medal and 41. 

 to be presented by their secretary to David Griffith, 

 as a reward for his humane and spirited exertions in 

 saving the lives of the- passengers of the Newry. 

 They have also given 2?. each to the three men by 

 whom he was assisted. North Wales Chronicle. 



IRELAND. A proclamation has been issued by 

 the Lord Lieutenant for suppressing the " Society 

 of the Friends of Ireland," which had been founded 

 by Mr. O'Connell and his friends as mentioned in 

 our last. 



The proposed new duties announced by the Chan- 

 cellor of the Exchequer for this country have arous- 

 ed the attention of all parties, one being considered 

 a direct attack on the Press; and almost every 

 where meetings have been held to oppose their pass- 

 ing in the Legislature. In the Belfast petition the 

 inhabitants declare '* that every measure calculated 

 to shackle or to crush the Press of Ireland, has a 

 direct tendency to augment and perpetuate the moral 

 and intellectual darkness too prevalent in this is- 

 land. The Press is the Handmaid of Knowledge 

 the Herald of Social Order ; and it is at once the 

 duty and the interest of a free state, to encourage 

 and to foster this useful instrument of mental im- 

 provement and civilization. Turbulence and disaf- 

 fection have always been the consequence of nati- 

 onal ignorance. It is only an enlightened popula- 

 tion which can fully estimate the advantages of good 

 government, and yield from the impulse of Reason, 

 Information, and Affection, that obedience to the 

 law which is exacted from the uninstructed by the 

 servile terror of punishment alone." The petition 

 from Galway states, " That your Petitioners are 

 justly alarmed at the proposed Bill to assimilate 

 the Stamp Duties of Ireland to those of England, 

 and more particularly at a period when great distress 

 pervades the entire country. That they attribute 

 the introduction of this odious and oppressive im- 

 post to ignorance of the circumstances of the coun- 

 try, and of its inability to sustain this additional 

 burthen. That they look upon it to be repugnant to 

 every principle of justice to assimilate the Taxes of 

 the poorest to those of the wealthiest country in the 

 world. That the direct effect of the new Stamp Act 

 will be to place an additional burthen on trade al- 

 ready unable to sustain more to disqualify the poor 

 from becoming artizans to check industry, and 

 thereby retard the improvement of the country and 

 the developement of its resources. That the Liberty 

 of the Press, the Palladium of our Rights, is immi- 

 nently endangered by the proposed additional tax 

 and they view with alarm any measure calculated 

 to injure that powerful engine, so beneficial for the 

 diffusion through the country of useful information, 

 so essential to the preservation of our liberties and 

 the correction of abuses !", 



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