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MONTHLY PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES; 



WITH THE MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. 



NOUTHUMBEni.AND AND DURHAM. 



The coach, established on tlie Stockton and Dar- 

 lington railway, carried, lately on oneday, 138 passen- 

 gers ; the whole of whom were drawn by two horses. 

 A new coach luis been launched, more comfortably 

 fltteil up than the former one. The inside fare is 

 Is. (Jd. in the new coach, or Is. in the other. 



A meeting of the inhabitants on Newcastle-uiran- 

 Tyne, was helil on Friday the 5th of May, to con- 

 sider " the distressed state of the manufacturing 

 districts near Manchester, and afford them such 

 relief as may be considered expedient," at which a 

 committee was appointed to carry this desirable 

 object into effect . 



Afurricrf.] At Stockton-on-Tees, the Rev. J. M. 

 C'olson, of Piddlehinton, to Julia, daughter of the 

 late A Story, est]., of Newboltle. 



DiVrf.] At Alnwick, W, Dorothy, relict of the 

 late T. Bell, es<i. 



CL'MUERLAND AND WESTMORELAND. 



The foundation stone of the new Western I'ier at 

 Whitehaven, was laid on Saturday the fith of May, 

 with the assistance of a diving bell, in which two or 

 threegentlemen descended, who, when at the bottom 

 of the sea, discussed the merits of a bottle of wine in 

 drinking success to the undertaking. 



Murrit'd.'] At Kendal, the Ilev. W. W. Jabctt, to 

 Mary, daughter of — Talhani, esi]. — At Wigton, 

 J. Nicholson, esq., of Keswick, toKlizalx'th, daugh- 

 ter of the late J. Westmorland esq. — At Carlisle, Sir 

 (}. G. Ayhner, bart., to Maria, daughter of the late 

 Col. J. Hodson. 



YORKSHIRE. 



The friends of the Leeds Infirmary, ;have subscri- 

 bed in shares of £-25 each, for one fourth of the de- 

 ficiency of funds for the erection of a concert room 

 at York, on condition of receiving five per cent, 

 interest till the principal can l)e paid, and an equal 

 share of the profits of future perfonncmces at the 

 musical festival. 



Marrh'd.'i At York, the Rev. J. Homer, M.A., 

 to Sophia, daughter of J. Hall,;esq., of Farlington — 

 At Seaton, E. Price, esq., of NewjPark, near Axmin- 

 ster, to Elizabeth, daughter of the late R. Michel, 

 esq., of Sangpor— At Kirk Ella, R. Brandt, esq., to 



Margaret, daughter of the late M. Dobson, esq 



At Northallerton, Major H. Booth, to Marianne, 

 daughter of J. Moukhouse, esq., of Romanby— At 

 Huddersficld, W. Tumbull, esq., M.D., to Eliza- 

 beth, daughter of the late T. Nelson, esq. 



Died-^ At Yoik,(;«, J. Roper, esq. ; 27. Eliza, wife 

 of S. Atkinson, esq. 



LANCASHIRE. 



In the House of Commons, on Friday the 5th of 

 May, the Birmingham and Liverpool Rail Road 

 bill was, on the motion of Mr. Lawley, withdrawn 

 for the present session, with an intimation that the 

 application would certainly be renewed in the next. 

 The Manchester and Liverpool Railway bill passed 

 the House of Lords on Monday the 9th, and has 

 since received the royal assent. 



A female ringed snake was killed lately in the gar- 

 dens at Woodford Park, near Blackburn. It mea- 

 sured five feet two inches in length; upwards of 

 forty eggs were extracted from the reptile. 



The amount of customs and excise receipts at 

 Liverpool, in the last quarter, presents a diminution 

 of o£70,*Nl'l, as compared with the same (piarter last 

 year, but the loss to the revenue in the reduction of 

 one shilling per pound duty on tobacco is alone, in 

 the'i late quarter, very short of this sum, so that 

 the receipts at this port exhibit a very trifling dimi- 

 nution of the customs and excise. 



The amount of duty paid to government, by five 

 of the principal calico printers in Lancashire, for the 

 six weeks ending the 5th of Aptil 1825, wasi.'19,355 ; 



and for the same perloil in 1028 £i2,(!06, making a 

 deficiency of £7,25!). 



Most alarming riots have taken place among the 

 weavers at Blackburn, and the neighbouring manu- 

 facturing towns, occasioned by want of employ. 



Mnrriid.'] At Liverpool. T. W. Rathbone, esq., to 

 Lucv, daughter of E. Pearson, esq. — .\t Ormsklrk, 

 — F,1lis, esq., to Mary, daughter of II. Wright, esq. 



Died.'] Alice, relict of the late R. Alsop, esq., of 

 Litchfield-hall, BUckley— At Ajdwich, T. Walton, 

 esq. 



CHESHIRE. 



His Majc>sty has made a most liberal donation of 

 £\,m) for the relief of the distressed poor of Mac- 

 clesfield. 



Married.'] At Malpas, R. Harvy, esq., of Ireland, 

 to Maria, daughter of J. Vaughan, esq.— .\t Stock- 

 port, J. Peers, esq., of Plasnewydd, to Caroline, 



daughter of the late J. Beevor, esq M. Pickford, 



esq., of Manchester, to the daughter of E. Johnson, 

 esq. — .\t('headle, G. Peel, esq., to Frances, daugh- 

 ter of J. Chapman, esq. 



Died.] Mrs. L. W. Boode; — Bevin, esq.; the 

 Rev. J. Turner, M.A. ; 4fi, J. Baxter, esq. 



DERBYSHIRE. 



The cattle fairs which have long been held in the 

 neighbourhood of the Friar Gate, Derby, the best 

 and most open entrance to the town, are, for the 

 future, to be held in the Morleilge and Siddals Lane, 

 which, on account of the roads recently made to 

 that part of the town, will afford every facility 

 desired by dealers and farmers. 



A meeting of the inhabitants of the town and 

 neighbourhood of Chesterfield was held on Tuesday 

 the 2d of May, for the purpose of devising some 

 mode of co-operating with the benevolent exertions 

 now making in London and elsewhere for the relief of 

 the manufacturing districts, and a liberal subscrip- 

 tion commenced. 



On Monday the 1st May two men in the employ- 

 ment of Messrs. E. Smith and Co., Chesterfield Iron 

 Works, who had that day completed a service of 

 fifty years, were treated by their masters with a sub- 

 stantial supper, along with nine others, who have 

 all been in the service of the same firm upwards of 

 forty years. The sum of the ages of these veterans 

 is 75'J years, being an average of sixty-nine each ; 

 and the total number of years they have served 

 Messrs. Smith and Co. is 518, being an average of 

 forty-seven years for each. 



Died.] At Chesterfield, 72, J. Crofts, gent. ; 4.3, 

 J. Ratcliffe; Eleanora, daughter of the late W. 

 Turbatt, esq. 



NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 



Married.] At Southwell, C. Cooke, esq., of Sal- 

 ford, to EUzabeth.daughterof thelate — Maltby.esq. 



Died.] At Carlton.the Rev. R.P.Goodenough, M. \. 

 LINCOLNSHIRE. 



Died.] m. Rev. W. Gray, M.A. ; Rev. R. Wright 

 —M Belchford, the Rev. F. Bedford. 



LEICESTER AND RUTLAND. 



A meeting of deputies from the different trades in 

 Leicester was held lately in Leicester, and addresses 

 unanimously resolved on to the clergy and landed 

 proprietors, requesting them to step forward for the 

 relief of the poor by exerting their interest for the 

 repeal of the com laws. 



A great improvement has lately been made on the 

 Loughborough canal, which has given employment 

 to numbers of the labouring class in that neighbour- 

 hood for some months, and obviated the difficulty of 

 fachig Kegworth Bridge, which, in time of high 

 water, was always dangerous, and, to narrow boats, 

 nearly impassable. 



Near 4,(i(H) persons were present at a meeting, held 

 in the Infirmary Square near Leicester, and a peti- 

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