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Sunday to and from the Roman Catholic chapel 
at North Kilvington, four miles distant.—At Can- 
nington Convent, the Rey. Dr. Collenridge, 90, 
yicar apostolic of the western district—At Hale’s- 
place, Sir E, Hales, Bart. 72.—In Harley-street, 
Mrs. B. E. Lloyd.—At Dummer-house, near Ba- 
singstoke, T- Terry, esq., 89. 
DEATHS ABROAD. 
At Rome, Mrs, F. Buller, wife of Lieut.-Gen. 
Buller. — At Chatelaine, Geneva, Mrs, Lloyd, 
Chronology, Marriages, and Deaths. 
[APRIL, 
sister to the late Earl Whitehurch—At Paris, 
Miss Haggerston, daughter of the late Sir Car- 
naby Haggerstone, Bart.—At Florence, Sir Gren- 
ville Temple, Bart,—At Port Sal, South America, 
Colonel W. Perks, he was basely murdered by 
bandittii—At Antwerp, Rey. R. Heber, of Bossal 
Hall, York.—At Rome, Giovanni Torlonia, Duke 
of Bracciano, long known as a celebrated banker 
there.—At Rome, Viscount Barrington, 68, Pre- 
bendary of Durham, and Rector of Sedgefield.— 
At Rome, Lady Abdy, 78. 
MONTHLY PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES. 
NORTHUMBERLAND.—The trustees of the 
Newcastle Savings’ Bank have published their 
account of last year up to Nov. 20, 1828, by which 
it appears that they have received since their 
establishment (and which is invested with the 
commissioners for the reduction of the national 
debt) the sum of £260,299, 13s. 6d. The number 
of depositors are 4,080; besides 120 friendly 
societies. 
A grand ball was given, Feb. 6th, to the work- 
men and others employed at Gosforth colliery, on 
account of the coalbaving been won on the Satur- 
day previous, The ball-room was at the depth of 
nearly 1,100 feet below the surface of the habitable 
globe, in the shape of an L, whose width was 15 
feet, base 22 feet, and perpendicular 48 feet. 
Seats were placed round the sides of the room, 
the floor was flagged, and the whole place was 
brilliantly illuminated with lamps and candles. 
‘The company beganto go down about half-past 
9 o’clock, a.m.; the Coxlodge band was in at- 
tendance, and dancing continued, without inter- 
smission, till 3 o’clock pm. There were present 
100 ladies, and not the slightest accident occurred, 
At the assizes for this county seven prisoners 
received sentence of death; one of them, Jane 
Jamieson, for the murder of her mother, in a fit 
of intoxication! She was executed March 7. 
The combination, or vend of coals, at Neweastle 
and the neighbourhood, has fallen to pieces, in 
consequence of the seceding of some of the prin- 
cipal coal-owners. Coals fell immediately 4s, 
per chaldron. 
At Newcastle, on the 10th of March, a meeting 
was held to petition Parliament in favour of the 
removal of all civil disabilities from the Roman 
Catholics. In a meeting of 12,000 persons, the 
petition was negatived by at least three to one, 
Hare, the associate of Burke, has been appre- 
hended at Newcastle, on suspicion of murdering a 
young man named Margetts, whose disappear- 
ance some time since occasioned considerable 
emotion in that town. 
DURHAM.—At the Lent assizes, Mr. Justice 
Bayley regretted, in his address to the grand jury, 
that the calendar contained a very great number 
of charges. Seven prisoners were recorded for 
Yeath, and several transported. 
At the last Durbam sessions, an inquisition was 
t aken before the magistrates, to determine what 
amount should be paid by the Stockton and Dar- 
lington Railway Company to the Bishop of Dur« 
ham for 6 acres, 1 rood, and 26 poles of land, re- 
quired by the company for their railway; the 
inquiry lasted from 10 o’clock in the morning til] 
8 at night, when £2,000 were awarded to the 
Bishop !!! 
A penny post has been established to run be- 
tween Hartlepool and Stockton, 
A main of cocks was fought in Durham, the 
last week of February. The owner of one of the, 
birds gave it the name of Lord Eldon; and this 
bird vanguished all its opponents, including one 
belonging to a man named Peel, and finally won 
the main! 
A meeting of the Committees of the Insurance 
Associations of the port of Sunderland was held 
on the llth of March, at which it was resolved 
not to accept lower rates of freight than were 
agreed to at the meeting of the 20th of January. 
A gentleman who holds oftice under the Duke 
of Wellington, lately wrote to his brother, a 
clergyman in this county, to this effect—‘‘ His 
Grace—I heard it from his own lips—purposes, 
when the Catholic Relief Bill has become the law 
of the land, to make some important and unex- 
pected alterations in the ecclesiastical depart- 
mients,’”’ 
YORKSHIRE.—A meeting of the proprietors 
of lands interested in the drainage of the Level of 
Hatfield Chase, was held recently at Doncaster, to 
consider a plan of warping and drainage for the 
general benefit of the Level.—The plan, of which 
prospectuses haye been very extensively issued, 
comprehends the drainage of upwards of one 
hundred thousand acres, and the warping of fif- 
teen thousand acres. The immediate object of the 
meeting was to ascertain whether the genera’ 
consent of the proprietors to the proposed terms 
would be given. It appears, from the prospec- 
tuses, that the estimated expense of the works is 
£110,000. It was resolved that the plan should 
be adopted ; and a committee appointed, to take 
the proper steps for carrying it into execution. 
On account of the great increase of police busi- 
ness at Leeds, there is some talk of a stipendiary 
magistrate being appointed. 4 
A gveet number of the inhabitants of Sheffield 
haying agreed to a petition against concessions to 
the Roman Catholics, some of the Pro-Catholics 
called a meeting, at which an opposition petition 
was gotup. The former was signed by 30,000, 
the latter by 8,000 persons. 
On the 2d of March, an Anti-Catholic meeting 
was held. Ten thousand persons were present, 
There was no opposition; and petitions to the 
King, and to both Houses of Parliament, were 
gidopted unanimously. The same day, at a meet; 
