566 
during the year 1828, was £43,130. 12s. 9d.; out 
of which £5,616. 17s. was paid for churches and 
clergy, and upwards of £2,700. for salaries. 
WARWICKSHIRE, — At Warwick Assizes, 
judgment of death was recorded against 66 pri- 
soners, 28 of whom were poachers, found guilty 
of shooting at the gamckeepers of the Earl of 
Denbigh and D. S. Dugdale, Esq., M.P. ; 22 were 
transported, and 57 ordered to be imprisoned for 
various periods. The calendar of these assizes 
presented a lamentable list of juvenile offenders, 
One child, only eleven years old, has been three 
or four times imprisoned, and has lived entirely 
by theft since he was but eight years of age; he 
was sentenced to seven years’ transportation. 
Four prisoners were 13 years of age, four were 
15, eight 16, ten 17, and there were sixty-seven 
others, the ages of whom did not exceed 21 
years!!! The whole number of prisoners exceeded 
200; many of whom had necessarily been in pri- 
son three, four, and tive mouths before trial! 
Surely this system ought to be altered! 
The Chamber of Manufactures and Commerce 
in Birmingham, have resolved to petitiou the two 
Houses of Parliament, praying them to take into 
consideration, during the present session, ‘* the 
restrictions which impede the commerce of this 
kingdom with India and China, for the purpose of 
facilitating and extending a more beneficial inter- 
course with those vast regions than has hitherto 
existed.” , 
LINCOLNSHIRE. — The persons petitioning 
in the matter of the Free Grammar School, at 
Sleford, have received permission from the Vice- 
Chancellor to lay before one of the Masters of the 
court a scheme for the re-establishment thereof. 
In consequence of this permission, a public meet- 
ing, in the vestry-room, was lately he!d, when it 
was agreed to propose tothe court, that the sti- 
pend of the master, who must be an under-gra- 
duate of one of the universities, should be £80 
per annum; which sum, with a house free of 
rent, itis thought will make an adequate allow- 
ance to any gentleman duly qualified, and the 
charity will be of inestimable benefit to the town 
and neighbourhood. 
The annual report of the Lincoln General Dis- 
pensary, from the 25th March, 1828, to the 31st 
March, 1829, has been published. ‘The number 
of out-patients is 901 ; of home ditto, 455—total, 
1356: of which number 965 have been discharged 
cured. As home-patient, 66 remain, and 145 as 
out-patients. This popular and useful institu- 
tion, though so recently established, now pos- 
sesses a roomy and convenient building, a liberal 
income from subscriptions, and the foundation of 
a reserved fund to meet contingencies. 
The greatest and most ornamental addition to 
the town of Stamford made within half a cen- 
tury is now in course of erection. Twenty new 
and very handsome houses are building on the 
site of the late bowling-green and its adjoining 
enclosure, at the western entrance of the town: 
they are to be finished with French windows and 
balconies in front, and each with a coach-house 
and stables behind. They command the delight- 
ful south view of Burghley Park, Wothorpe, and 
Easton. 
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. — About half- past 
seven o’clock of the evening of April 13,a tremen- 
Provincial Occurrences : Warwickshire, Lincolnshire, Sc. 
[May, 
dous fall of rock (some hundred tons) took place 
nearly at the back of the Loggerheads’ public- 
house, in Nottingham, in which, it appears, the 
landlord, Mr. Godkin, then was. In about three 
minutes, the whole extent of Cliff gave way, and 
five houses were crushed into one general wreck. 
The street was completely buried im the mass of 
huge rock stones, and buildings crushed down 
with their weight. As soon asthe clouds of dust 
arising from the ruins had somewhat subsided» 
every hand was ready to render aid in endeayour- 
ing to ascertain whether any person had been 
buried under the now immense heap of rubbish 
that spread itself for the extent of about 120 feet. 
A young man was dug out in a state of insensi- 
bility, bat shortly afterwards recovered, having 
only received a few bruises. Reports were cir- 
culated that others were under the ruins, but no 
more bodies have been found. The Nottingham 
Review adds, that about 30 houses in the conti- 
guity of the ruins are now shut up, as another 
fall of rock is continually expected. 
NORFOLK.—At the Lent Assizes for this 
county, Baron Vaughan, in addressing the grand 
jury, regretted exceedingly to observe a frightful 
and appalling calendar of crimes, and the more 
especially so, because it was not with respect to 
the county of Norfolk alone that the remark was 
to be made; he was sorry to say that it had been 
the case also in every county through which he 
had passed. To what cause to attribute such an 
increase of crime he could not now inquire ; it 
might possibly arise from the long continued 
peace, and the consequent redundaney of popu- 
lation!!! 15 prisoners were recorded for death, 
and 10 transported, besides several imprisoned 
and hard labour, 
A fine new vessel, of 450 tons, intended for the ~ 
East India private trade, was launched, April.23, 
in honour of His Majesty’s birth-day, at the yard — 
of Mr. Palmer, at Yarmouth; and the new Sus- 
pension Bridge, over the Bure, or North Rive 
was opened to the public the same day with gr 
ceremony. 
SUFFOLK.—At the Lent Assizes, 18¢pri mers } 
received sentence of death; one of then Par j 
tridge, 21) was for the murder of two little boys, 
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LEICESTERSHIRE,—At these assizes 17 « 
the criminals were recorded for death, 4 were 
transported, and seyeral ordered to be imprison 
CAMBRIDGE.—By the abstract of the a 
counts of the treasurer for this county for th 
last year, it appears that £3,687. Is. 4d. was th 
total amount ofits expences ; all but about £55 
was expended in gaols, sessions, assizes, and other _ 
objects connected with the administration of the 
laws. At the Isle of Ely assizes, the chief justice 
of the Isle, in addressing the grand jury, congra- 
tulated them ‘‘on the now admission of the 
affirmation in a court of justice of that’ very re- 
spectable and unimpeachable sect, the Quakers, 
who before had, on account of their religious 
principles, been excluded as witnesses; and ] 
wish to see all religious distinctions done away 
5 prisoners were recorded for death, and 
transported and imprisoned. © 
Seven prisoners were recorded fo al 
Cambridge assizes, and:a very few trans 
