1816.] 



cd. — At Skipton, Mr. Joseph Hardcastle, 

 much esteemed. 



At New Malton, 58, Mr. Liiccock, mer- 

 chant, mncli respected. — At Newlaml, 88, 

 Mrs. Sarah Elli.son. — At Lant;tlicrp-liall, 

 74, William Garton, esq. — At Paytliorn, 

 73, Mr. Thomas Wilkinson, much respect- 

 ed. — At Hippsrliolni, Mis. Asstrctti, 

 greatly lamented. — At Bramharti, Mr. John 

 Keniiison, ofHull.— At Skircnats, 71, Mr. 

 John Walker.— At Hunslet, oO, Mr. John 

 Allinson. 



LANCASHIRE. 



The cause of tlie people has had a si£;nal 

 triumph in Wigan. A day was fixed for 

 a public meetinij, and the meetinf» was 

 held at the large room, Bear's-paw liin. 

 About five hundred persons crowded (o it, 

 and about an e(|iial nunibci- placed them- 

 selves oDtside the door and v\indow.«, so as 

 to be vsitliin hearing. The various speakers 

 entt-red fully into the subject, tracnig our 

 political evils to their political source — the 

 want of a fair representation. The man- 

 ner of tilling the House of Commons was 

 fairl> displayed, the profllitate expenditure 

 of the prbiic money in useless war«, in 

 sinecures, and in ostentatious parade— the 

 Red Book was opened — the whole of tlie 

 Pitt system exposed — and the consequent 

 distresses in every part of the kingdom 

 described. Several resolutions to this ef- 

 fect were adopted, and, after an animated 

 discussion of three hours, the next meet- 

 ing being appointed, the assembly sepa- 

 rated. 



At Great Bolton all business is nearly at 

 a stand : out of 4635 looms, 1432 are un- 

 employed. The same proportion are stand- 

 ins: in Little Bolton. Many more are on 

 their last warps ; and, to increase the nij- 

 iery of the labouring manufacturers, the 

 masters are refusing to credit them any 

 advance of wages. 



A late Liverpool Courier states, that 

 foolpaii robberies are becoming very fre- 

 quent in the neighbourhood of that town. 



A knife has been made at Messrs. Travis 

 Senior and Co.'s shops, at Manchester, 

 contaiiiinir seventeen articles, viz. tiiree 

 blades, bntlou-hook and saw, puiicli and 

 ^crevt-iliivor, box cork-sciew, hook and 

 ginihlet, two plileuu!', picker and tweez- 

 ers, two lancets, with a ring at the head; 

 the knife is only ll-l6ths of an inch long, 

 and weighs one penny weight, fourteen 

 grains. 



Marritd.] Mr. C. H. Cowdroy, to Miss 

 Martha Kathboue: Mr. Thomas Smcdley 

 White, to Mrs. lAclia Ain^cow: Mr. Thns. 

 Jlampson, to iVfvs. Ann Kydcr : all <.f 

 Waiichenter. — Mr. M. Kiernan, to Miss 

 Elizabeth Uoberts, both of Salfoid.— Mr. 

 Jones, of Manchester, to i\!rs. Hulton, of 

 Blakeley. — Mr. John Vickais, of Man- 

 chester, to Miss l)<'aii, of Warrington. — 

 ;Mr Jdlin WoNtencioft, of Maiiclicster, to 

 hliu Wary Oakes, of Norllicn. — .Mr. 



Lantashire. 279 



George Grnndy, to Miss Eroma Billinge : 

 Mr. Wm. Hindar, to Miss Eliza Clements: 

 Mr. John Mashiter, to Miss Catharine 

 Swift : Mr. R. Gillovv, of Great Cross-hall- 

 street, to Mrs. Henshsil : Capt. Dixon, to 

 Miss Deakers: all of Liverpool. 



Died.^ At Manchester, in Oldham-street, 

 the wife of Mr. J. F. Petitjean, regretted, 



— 81, Mrs. Ann Chester, srreatly lamented. 

 —In Dickenson street, John Gott, one of 

 the Society of Friends.— 73, Mrs. Dawes. 



— In Fouiilain-strect, CI, Mrs, Blartha 

 Stevenson. 



At Salford, in Cross-lane, tlie wife of 

 Mr. Robert Wetherall. 



At Liverpool, in Williamson-street, 61, 

 Mrs. Martha Croft.— J2, Mr. Peter Parr, 

 — In Christian-street, 2s!, Miss Edwards, 

 justly esteemed. — M9, Mr. Edward Taylor. 

 — I'i, Mr. Jo>e|jh Peers. — .54, Charles 

 Clement-, esq. solicitor. — 53, James Cros- 

 bie, esq, — 36, Mr. Thomas Kossiter. 



At Wallsuches, 77, Thomas Ridgway, 

 esq. — At Gieat Crosby, 3.', the wife of the 

 Rev. N. Riirby Baldwin, prebendary of St. 

 Paul's, Lundon. 



Aged 53, the Rev. William Cowherd, 

 the founder and minister of Cm ist-church, 

 Salford, Manchester, whicli was opened 

 for public wor>!iip in the yeir HU)0. He 

 possessed tiaiiscendant talents, and was 

 indefatitably zealous in his ministerial du- 

 ties : he preached the word of God gratis, 

 and supported himself by the practice of 

 physic. He established an academy near 

 the church, where young men are educated 

 for theministiy, and in 1807 built Christ- 

 church in Hiiline, wliich i> conducted on 

 the same principle as that in Salford. At- 

 tached to no sect, his creed was the Bible 

 only, and his foilaweis are desiiznated, 

 " Bible Cliristians." He observed, and 

 zealously inculcated, during the last sevea 

 years of his life, the duty of abstaining 

 from animal food and all intoxicating li- ■ 

 qiiors ; an<l about three hundred of his 

 hearers have been induced, by his exam- 

 ple, and the authority of Scripture, to 

 adopt a vegetable diet. Respecting tlie 

 doctrine of the Trinity, which he taught 

 from Scrip! lire, it may be well to give his 

 own words, extraeted from tlie prefaca 

 to a Selection ot Hymns compiled ijy him, 

 a new edition ot which was lately publi;4»- 

 ed :— " The following hymns, coriected 

 and enlarged for the use of ' Bible Chris- 

 tians,' represent the Trinity, not a> con- 

 sisting of thiee visible beings, or personal 

 subsi-teucies, somewhere localized in a 

 heavenly 'mansion,' but as three combi- 

 nations uf Sjiiiit in one united kingdom. 

 In this Great S|)irit of Heaven the inmost 

 is the Father, or essential Divme Spirit ; 

 the second, eflluxed by, and every where 

 coniliininil with, the Father, is properly 

 the Son oi God ; and the ihiid, assumed by 

 the Father And tho Son, in and around hii- 

 uiau or an;;elic individuals and societies, is, 



