1829.] 
The commissioners under the South Level River 
Act are proceeding rapidly with the execution of 
their work, upwards of 400 labourers being now 
employed in excavating the intended new river 
between Ely and Littleport. The steam-dredging 
engine used upon this occasion is capable of 
raising 40 tons of earth per hour. 
HUNTINGDONSHIRE.—At the Lent assizes 
two convicts were recorded for death, and two 
‘transported. Baron Vaughan congratulated the 
grand jury in not having any one for trial for the 
violation of the game laws, hoping before long 
there would be some amendment in those laws, 
for his mind had been very much harassed on this 
cireuit, having been obliged to sentence several 
to the most severe punishment for those offences. 
DEVONSHIRE.—The old adage of ‘ bringing 
coals to Newcastle,” was exemplified last week at 
Barnstaple, by the quay being covered with packs 
of wool landed from the Bristol traders, whilst 
there are immense stocks of wool now in the 
hands of the growers in that neighbourhood ; 
many of the farmers have four, five, and even 
more, years’ clip by them. The depressed state 
of the wool trade, at the last Bristol fair, offered 
an opportunity uf which some of the North Devon 
1 manufacturers availed themselves, of making pur- 
chases there at a much lower price than they 
could buy for at home ; and hence the unusual 
circumstance of an importation of wool, in the 
place where large quantities were used to be 
exported. 
Since the destruction of the Axminster carpet 
manufactory by fire, a large and commodious one 
has been erected on a new site, the extreme di- 
mensions of which are 110 feet long, by 28 feet 
_ wide, and four floors high. Aprill, Mr. Whitty 
" gave a dinner to his work- -people, and the arti- 
ficers employed, in a room the whole length of the 
building, and about 150 persons were regaled 
with the old English fare of roast-beef, plum 
budding, and strong beer. 
passengers in the Plymouth coach, on its 
to Barnstaple, on Saturday last, were placed 
prevention to travellers from pur- 
way ; the coachman, however, ven- 
skill and power that he could again set them in 
motion ; this cpwever, he effected, after the fire 
At Dorchester assizes 9 
ed for death, 4 were trans- 
tenced to hard labour and 
RE. — Forty-one prisoners 
‘or death at these assizes ; 30 re- 
Huntingdonshire, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, &c- 
567 
ceiving sentence of transportation, and 52 im- 
prisoned. The number of prisoners, originally for 
trial, amounted to about 200, and it is a remark- 
able fact, that such was the rapid increase of 
commitments, even during these assizes, that 
after Mr. Justice Littledale had been disposing of 
prisoners for three days, there were as many for 
trial on the fourth day as when he began. 
The glove trade at Yeovil still continues in- 
active, and the stock of the manufacturers, which 
is considered to be larger than at any former 
period, is become altogether unsaleable. The 
distress among the lower classes, arising from 
this depression, is in the highest degree lament- 
able. 
The collections made by the benevolent exer- 
tions of several gentlemen of Bath, in favour of 
the Spitalfields weavers, and the monies sub- 
scribed by the corporation, and at the banks and 
libraries, amounted to £542. 2s. 6d, 
The ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of 
the new church in the parish of Walcot, Bath, 
took place April 2, 
BUCKS.—At the assizes for this county, death 
was recorded against 13 prisoners, 15 were tran- 
sported, and 20 imprisoned. 
SUSSEX.—April 14, the mackarel boats of 
Hastings returned laden with fish, haying from 
4,000 to 10,000 in a boat—the whole number 
landed that day was 17,000, varying in price ac- 
cording to the quality, but, on the average, 
fetched 14s. per hundred. The next day the boats 
again returned heayily laden. This unexpected 
good fortune has come most opportunely to the 
relief of the fisherman, many of whom were abso- 
lutely insolvent, and but for the above providen- 
tial assistance, must have parted with their boats, 
to defray the expense of cordage, &c., and, with 
their families, taken refuge in the poor-house. 
It has diffused a general joy among those poor 
industrious people. The oldest fisherman of 
Hastings say, they never saw any thing to equal 
this, particularly so early inthe season, 
GLOUCESTERSHIRE,— At the assizes at 
Bristol, 9 prisoners were recorded for death ; two 
brothers were tried, one for stealing goods from 
his employers, and the other for receiving them 
knowing them to be stolen, when the first was 
transported for 28 years, and the latter for 14, 
At the Gloucester assizes no less than 157 pri- 
soners were for trial; 17 were recorded for death; 
1 for stealing a pig, and a gun from different per- 
sons, was transported for twice 7 years; several 
others were transported, anda number imprisoned 
for yarious periods. 
This county rate, which has been very expensive 
hitherto, has been reduced to nearly one-half the 
amount which was levied at the spring sessions of 
last year. 
An interesting and affecting spectacle was pre- 
sented on Easter Wednesday morning, in the 
assembling of all the children belonging to the 
schools connected with the Church of England in 
this town, at the parish church. Upwards of 
1,000 neatly dressed boys and girls were present, 
who receive gratuitous education in the charit- 
able establishments of Cheltenham. Notwith- 
standing the unfavourable state of the weather, 
the chureh was crowded ; many ladies of highrauk, 
and a number of the most respectable inhabitants 
