1829.) 
CHESHIRE.—At a highly respectable meeting 
lately held at Stockport, it was resolved unani- 
mously, ‘“* That it is highly desirable to form a 
railway for the purpose of connecting the Liver- 
pool and Manchester with the Cromford and High 
Park Railway, and for the purpose of giving the 
town of Stockport a direct communication with 
each of those railways. Subscriptions were en- 
tered into for application to Parliament in the ap- 
proaching session for the purpose. It is ecaleu- 
lated the expense will not exceed £166,000, to be 
raised by shares of £100 each; £13,000 were 
subscribed in the room. Upwards of £70,000 
haye been subscribed in Liverpool alone. 
In the memorial lately presented to the Board 
of Trade, by the broad silk and ribbon weavers of 
Congleton, and vicinity, it is stated that, ‘¢ Prior 
to the introduction of foreign wrought silks your 
momorialists could, by industry and economy, 
maintain their families in comparative comfort 
and happiness, as the average of an expert work- 
man wonld, under the prohibitory laws, amount 
to twenty-four shillings weekly; but under the 
present system they have sustained a continual 
reduction, both in the price and quality of the 
material, and in the regularity of employment, so 
that the same average wages of the same work- 
men, at the present time, will not exceed ten shil- 
lings weekly, in both instances subject to a de- 
duction of three shillings per week, for the un- 
ayoidable expenses in performing the work, 
leaving an average of clear wages at the present 
time, of seven shillings weekly.” 
” We have for some time past forborn to comment 
on the state of trade in this town, but cannot, 
under the impression made by the daily cases of 
distress which present themselves to our view, 
refrain any longer from publicly condoling with 
our manufacturers, throwsters, and artizans, 
upon the distress now felt in this town and dis- 
trict. What few goods the masters are getting up 
are for an already overstocked market, at prices 
which are by no means remunerative to them: 
and the workmen are weekly reduced in the time 
of labour, so that their earnings are inadequate 
to their support. ‘The workhouse is hesieged 
with applicants, who have increased in a four-fold 
degree within the last six weeks, and the rates are 
onthe increase, with diminished means of pay- 
ment. 
'SUSSEX.—On Sunday night, Dec. 7, there, 
was a very heavy storm of hail, rain, thunder 
and lightning, at Brighton ; the wind blew a bur- 
Yicane, and the sea ran mountains high. The tide 
was also very high; andthe waves dashed with the 
utmost fury against the Chain Pier and Esplanade, 
which sustained little injury; and the Pier itself 
stood firm against the wind and tide. Part of the 
new sea wall was washed down near Lamprell’s 
baths. The storm was the most violent that we 
have had since the memorable one in November, 
1824; and the spray dashed, as it did then, 
although not to a similar extent, upon the marine. 
parade, being carried over the saloon, and up the 
new steine, to the imminent drenching of the 
humerous spectators who fell in its way. 
DEVONSHIRE.—Notice has been given in the 
London Gazette, of the intention of constructing 
a jetty in the harbour of Ifracombe. 
Cheshire, Sussex, Devonshire, Oxfordshire, §c. 
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A numerous meeting of the Inhabitants of Ply- 
mouth was held at the Guildhall, pursuant toa 
notice issued by the mayor, in compliance with a 
most respectably signed requisition, tu consider 
the propriety of expressing their sentiments to 
Government, with respect to the contemplated 
measure of dispersing the Portuguese refugees 
resident there. Resolutions were passed, anda 
petition to the Secretary for the Home Depart- 
ment, praying that the refugees may not be dis- 
persed or removed, was adopted. 
The foundation stone of the Episcopal Chapel, 
to be built for the Rey. J. Hawker, in Plymouth, 
to be called “ Eldad Chapel,” was laid, Dec. 3, by 
the Mayor, attended by the Aldermen, Common 
Councilmen, and other members of the Corpora- 
tion, in the presence of several thousand persons. 
The interior of the chapel (wlich is to be Gothic) 
will be 102 feet long, by 56 feet wide, and suf- 
ficiently large to comfortably seat 1,500 persons, 
besides some free sittings. 
Dec. 5. the first annual meeting of “ The Tiver 
ton Institution for the Promotion of Useful Know- 
ledge,” was held at the Guildhall, Tiverton, the 
Mayor inthe chair. The report of the Committee 
was read, which detailed the operations of the 
Institution for the last year. Several of the most 
respectable ladies and gentlemen of the town were 
present, and appeared to take much interest in the 
welfare of the Institution. 
The Exeter canal was opened Dec, 12, by which 
vessels of 200 tons will now be enabled to come up 
to the quay at the lowest tides. This is the first 
time the sea has flowed up so near the city of 
Exeter for many centuries. 
A meeting has been held at Crediton, for the 
purpose of considering the propriety of cutting a 
new line of road through that town, when several 
resolutions were passed, and subscriptions enter- 
ed into for that purpose. 
OXFORDSHIRE.—At a late general meeting 
of the governors and subscribers to the Oxford 
Lunatic Asylum, it was resolved, still farther 
to add to the honour and advantage of this cha- 
rity, and to mark the sense entertained by this 
society of the munificent donations of the Rad- 
cliffe trustees (amounting altogether to £2,700), 
the Committee recommended ‘‘ That the Asylum 
be called ‘ The Radcliffe Asylum ;’ and that the 
style and title of the charity be ‘ The President and 
Governors of the Radcliffe Asylum, on Headington 
Hill, near Oxford, for the Relief and Cure of the 
Insane, from whatever County recommended.’”’ 
After acknowledging Dr. Warneford’s late muni- 
ficence, of £5590, the Report stated, “ That in two 
years and a half, 76 patients had been admitted— 
that of these, 25 continued in the house—and that 
4 had died—that 20 had been removed by their 
friends, either from motives of economy, or as 
convalescents ; that of those 20, 10 had recovered 
—that 27 had been discharged, cured—and that 
the result of these facts would be, that if to the 27 
discharged, cured, there were added the 10 just 
mentioned, the total number of cures, upon 47 
discharges, would be 37, or about 3 out of 4.” 
GLOUCESTERSHIRE, — Cirencester is at 
length likely to be much improved. A considera- 
ble number of old and ill-fashioned houses, most 
inconveniently situated in the very centre of the 
town, are about to beremoved, and some handsome 
