1829.) 
ing at Barnsley, the Pro-Catholics were beaten by 
a majority of 3to1. At Doncaster, on the 26th 
of February, a Protestant meeting was held, and 
petitions adopted by a large majority. On the 2d 
of March, a Pro-Catholic meeting was held, which 
was attended by the Anti-Catholics in such num- 
bers, that the chairman (Sir W. Cooke) did not 
dare to put the petition to the vote. 
At Beverley, on the 5th of March, a meeting 
was held, at which were both Anti-Catholics and 
Pro-Catholics, the former in great numbers. It 
was assembled in the East Riding Session’s 
House: and as the Anti-Catholics could not all 
get in, an adjournment was moved. The Mayor 
and the Anti-Catholics accordingly went to the 
market-place, where Protestant petitions were 
agreed to. The Liberals remained in the Ses- 
-sion’s House, and passed resolutions of a different 
tendency. At Rotherham petitions on both sides 
‘the question have been adopted. 
The New Junction Dock Bridge, at Hull, was 
opened on the 7th of March; on which occasion 
the mail-coach passed over; a band playing God 
Save the King, and Rule Britannia, 
A meeting was held at Doncaster on the 0th of 
Mareh, at which it was resolved to open an insti- 
tution in that town for the benefit of the deaf and 
dumb children of the poor of the county. The 
amount of annual subscriptions, at present, is 
about £100. 
A yery numerous meeting was held at the Fes- 
tival Concert Room, York, onthe 5th of March, 
of noblemen and gentlemen connected with the 
county, at which Mr. Smirke’s report as to the 
damage done to York Minster by the late fire, 
and his estimate of the sum required for its repair, 
were read. The former differs nothing from the 
details previously laid before the public in the 
papers ;: the latter was estimated at £60,000. It 
was resolyed, that the choir should be restored as 
“nearly as possible to its former state ; the expense 
_ to be defrayed by public subscription. 
select vestry. 
A new church is about to be built at Hull; Mr, 
Hanson, of York, is the architect. ‘The expense 
is estimated at £6,000. 
* Almost every village in Yorkshire have adopted 
petitions against the Roman Catholic claims. 
* LINCOLNSHIRE.—By the abstract of the 
accounts of the treasurer of the hundred of Elloe, 
it appears that the sum of £5,008, 83s, 2d. was 
raised for the expenses of that hundred, from 
Epiphany Sessions 1828, to those of 1829 inclusive, 
The monthly report of the casual poor who 
have received relief in Boston during the month 
of January, has been published by order of the 
No less than 23! names are insert- 
_ ed, and the sum distributed is littleshort of £100! 
“This item is entirely exclusive of the regular 
paupers, who are wholly supported by the parish !!! 
- At Lincoln assizes, 20 prisoners were recorded 
for death ; and a few transported, and imprisoned. 
STAFFORDSHIRE, — The trustees of the 
Savings’ Bank, established at the little town of 
Shenstone, bave published an account of their re- 
ceipts up to Nov. 20, 1828, by which it appears 
that the sum of £17,924. 14s, 84d. has been re- 
ceived since its establishment. 
WARWICKSHIRE.—At a public meeting held 
at Warwick, March 20, it was resolved to estab- 
lish a Mechanics’ lustitutionein that town, and 
— 
Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Staffordshire, $c. 
447 
the names of 200 individuals were forthwith en- 
tered as members, 
WORCESTERSHIRE.—At Worcester assizes, 
28 prisoners were recorded for death; 4 trans- 
ported, and 13 imprisoned. 
BEDFORDSHIRE.—At Bedford assizes, 17 
prisoners were recorded for death, 15 were trans- 
ported, and 15 imprisoned for yarious periods. 
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, — At Northampton 
assizes, 6 prisoners were recorded for death, and 
13 transported. 
SOMERSETSHIRE.—At a meeting of the in- 
habitants of Taunton, conyened by the bailiffs, 
March 10, it appeared by the report of the com- 
mittee appointed for the relief of the distressed 
silk-weavers, that their distress has increased 
since the last public meeting for their relief in the 
proportion of five times its amount, they therefore 
resolyed to call the attention of the affluent in- 
habitants, and particularly the ladies, to their 
melancholy situation, and to solicit personally 
from house to house, in aid of the fund. 
By the annual report of the Taunton Eye In 
firmary, it appears that last year 502 patients 
were received there, and 43 of the preceding year 
remained on the books ; of whom 473 were cured, 
32 benefited, 13 incurable, and 27 remains on the 
books. 
GLOUCESTERSHIRE.—At the reeent meet- 
ing of the managers, &c. of the Bristol Sayings’ 
Bank, it appeared by the statement made up to 
Noy. 20, last, that the whole reeeipts amounted to 
£307,278.7s. 8d., and that the number of de- 
positors had been 6,642. 
At a very respectable meeting of principal Jand- 
owners and agviculturalists lately held at Ciren- 
eester, it was resolved unanimously, that a society 
should be forthwith formed, to be called ‘* The 
Cirencester and Gloucestershire Agricultural As- 
sociation,” when Lord Sherborne was appointed 
president. 
The city of Bristol has yoted its freedom to the 
Earl of Eldon, as a token of respect for his oppo- 
sition to the ministers in their encroachment of 
the constitution of settlement of 1688. 
The concert and ball for the Spitalfield’s wea- 
vers, at Bristol, under the auspices of the Mayor, 
&c., produced the sum of £318. 10s., after de- 
ducting all expenses, 
WILTSHIRE.—At the assizes held at Salis- 
bury, 12 prisoners were recorded for death, 17 
were transported, and several imprisoned for 
various periods. 
The first anniversary of the committee of the 
Trowbridge Tradesmen’s Nightly Watch, was 
held, March 3, when it was announced with gra- 
tification, that for the last 12 months not a single 
depredation had been committed within the 
watchman's beat, inwatch hours—that the whole 
expense attending it (including watch coats, 
rattles, lanthorns, printing, &c., together with 
the use of a room for the members to assemble in, 
on having gone their hourly rounds), had not 
‘amounted to £40, a great part of which would 
not occur again; whereas to employ and pay re« 
gular watchmen would cost upwards of £200,— 
That the society is still in active operation, de- 
