1829.] 
LANCASHIRE.—A society has been establish- 
ed at Bolton, in conjunction with the parent 
society in Manchester, for protecting children 
employed in the cotton factories, by enforcing the 
provisions of 6 Geo. LV. “for regulating the hours 
of working children in cotton manufactories.”’ 
Subscriptions were intered into for its support. 
A yery numerons meeting of the merchants and 
principal inhabitants of Liverpoool was lately 
held at Liverpool, presided by the mayor, for the 
purpose of taking into consideration the best 
means of removing the restrictions imposed upon 
commerce by ihe present charter of the East India 
Company, and for prevailing on the legislature to 
secure to the public all those benefits which a free 
commercial intercourse with India and China is 
capable of affording ; when several resolutions 
were unanimously passed, by the last of which the 
mayor is requested to transmit copies of them to 
all sheriffs of counties, and chief magistrates of the 
principal trading and manufacturing towns in the 
United Kingdom, requesting the consideration of 
all their inhabitants to the important subject. 
LINCOLNSHIRE.—The expenditure for that 
part of the county of Linculn called * Parts of 
Lindsey” for the year 1828, amounted to no less a 
sum than nearly £22,000—deducting about £4,000 
for bridges, &c.; the rest was swallowed up en- 
tirely for the administration of justice, and its 
attendants, gaols, houses of correction, &c. &c.!!! 
In addition to which, £1,356. 4s. 6d. was likewise 
expended for the borough of Stamford ! Notwith- 
standing these heavy expenses for punishing 
crime, sheep-stealing, in the south-east division of 
the county, where some considerable works are 
executing, is arrived at a pitch that calls for pre- 
ventive measures of severity and vigour commen- 
surate to the evil, and to do away the discredit 
which attaches to the police of the county ; inde- 
pendent of the numerous burglaries and otber 
daring robberies which have been almost without 
a parallel! 
WARWICKSHIRE.—Two more incendiary 
fires bave taken place in the neighbourhood of 
Stratford-upon-Avon. At one farm, the barns and 
avaluable wheat-rick were destroyed ; at another, 
a rick of bay was consumed, During the last 
twelve months there have been fourteen fires of a 
similar kind in the neighbourhood, all supposed to 
be the work of one miscreant. Rewards to the 
amount of £600 have been offered for his appre- 
hension ! 
SUSSEX.—The gross amount of expenses for 
the better regulating, paving, improving, and 
mavaging the town of Brighthelmstone, for the 
last half year, was £13,317. 148. 7d.!!! indepen- 
dent of the maintenance of the poor! 
CHESHIRE.—A meeting has been held at the 
Guildhall, Congleton, of the inhabitants and 
tradesmen of that borough, at which it was unani- 
mously resolved, that the alarming state of stag- 
nation and distress in which the trade of this 
borough is now placed is unparalleled ; and pro- 
ceeds, in the opinion of this meeting, from the 
reduction which has taken place in wages, and 
the want of employment by the working classes, 
thereby rendering them incapable of purchasing 
a sufficiency either of food or clothing requisite 
for their subsistence and comfort—that the dis- 
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tress they suffer can only be improved by the 
improvement of the staple trade—which can only 
be effected by a return to the prohibitory system 
in the silk trade !!! 
A meeting has been held at the Town Hall, in 
Macclesfield, of the principal inhabitants, to take 
into consideration the present distressed state of 
the working classes, as the relief found in the 
ordinary operations of private benevolence, had 
become utterly incapable of meeting the demands 
upon them !!!—A subscription was entered into, 
which we trust will be more effective, if support- 
ed by other resources in addition to those of the 
town. A petition has likewise been forwarded to 
Parliament, stating “ that the deplorable state of 
the town is wholly attributable to the recent 
changes in the commercial policy of the coun- 
try fp? 
WILTSHIRE.—The manufacturers of Trow- 
bridge, we are sorry to say, are in a yery dis- 
satisfied state, and, to such an extent, that the 
trade of the town is suffering very severely ; and 
the cavalry have received orders to be ready for 
prompt attendance whenever called on. The poor 
workmen are dreadfully oppressed by the bad 
system among the small manufacturers of paying 
- intruck. Meetings of the Union are frequently 
held in different pnblic-houses, and the magis-~ 
trates have interfered to prevent it. Those who 
are employed in respectable establishments have 
still plenty of work, and are satisfied, it appears, 
with their wages ; but it is to be feared, the steady 
course of trade will, with them, be disturbed, by 
the influence of the suffering thousands. We 
have heard it asa fact, that the workmen of a 
respectable firm in Wilts have been offcred £1,000 
to be paid weekly from the Union, if they would 
strike, but the men informed their employers, 
expressed their satisfaction, and would not com- 
ply with their request. It appears that the society 
above alluded to, extends throughout Yorkshire, 
and to many parts of the kingdom, containing 
more than 300,000 members,—T7ewman’s Exeter 
Flying Post, Jan, 29. 
DORSETSHIRE.—Preparations are making to 
proceed with the Dorset County Lunatic Asylum 
early in the spring, and the utmost care will be 
taken to render it in every respect well adapted to 
its object, and ready as soon as may be for the 
reception of patients, From the central situation 
of Forston House, in respect of the whule county, 
an easy opportunity will be afforded to magis- 
trates, and to overseers of the poor of parishes 
having patients in the asylum, as well as to other 
persons interested in the condition of Iunaties, to 
inspect and judge of the merits of the establish- 
ment. There remains to be provided the accom- 
modation for sixty pauper lunatics, towards which 
nearly £3,000 has been already subscribed. The 
vote of the Court of Quarter Session, just closed, 
reduces the burthen ef the contributors to the 
county rates to the half only of that amount to 
which they are by law liable in this instance, but 
the most sanguine expectations may justly be en- 
tertained, that, through the operation of snbserip- 
tions, what may further be required will be raised, 
and that the county rate may be exonerated from 
the whole expense. 
WORCESTERSHIRE.—A general meeting of 
the subscribers and friends fo the newly formed 
institution for the diffusion of useful literary and 
