680 
with felony, admitted to bail, whose names, of 
course, do not appear in the calendar. The 
Bench, previous to proceeding to business, made 
an order for the holding of a second Court, of 
which.a reverend gentleman was appointed the 
Chairman, 
The merchants of Hull, Huddersfield, Wakefield, 
Bradford, and Leeds, have petitioned for the re- 
moval of the East-India monopoly. 
A number of persons, emigrating, have lately 
sailed from Hull for America. 
Martin, the incendiary, was removed from York 
on the 27th of April, to be confined in the Criminal 
Lunatic Asylum, St. George’s Fields. 
‘On the 28th of April two Jews publicly em- 
braced Christianity, and received the rites of bap- 
tism from the hands of the Rey. J. Graham, St. 
Saviour’s, York. 
The place for the organ to be erected in York 
Minster, is agreed upon. It has been arranged 
by Dr. Camidge, and the instrument will be the 
largest and most complete in the world. 
A number of rare organic remains have lately 
been discovered in Huddersfield, which are now 
in the possession of Mr. James Milnes, of Croland 
Moor. The most remarkable of these relics is 
that of a petrified fish, resembling the Anguilla 
species ; it is about 3 feet 8 inches in length ; near 
the head, the circumference is about 11 inches ; in 
the middle, 6} inches; and just above the tail, 4 
inches, | 
On the 29th and 30th of April, the Bradford 
Auxiliary tothe British Reformation Society held 
a public meeting, at which some of the funda- 
mental errors of the Church of Rome were ex- 
posed. Henry Hall, Esq., Recorder of Leeds, 
was in the chair, 
At the East Riding Easter Sessions, the sin- 
gular circumstance took place of a boy being sen- 
tenced to 35 years transportation; 7. e. seven 
years on each of five indictments. 
The Directors of the York Sayings Bank in- 
tend to build a handsome edifice for the purposes 
of the institution with the surplus fund. 
On the 12th of May, a heron caught a pike 
weighing 4lbs. in one of the ponds at Studley 
Royal. It flew with it in its mouth about half a 
mile; when it alighted to feast upon its prey. 
Being frightened, however, by a party of ladies 
and gentlemen, it flew off, and left its prey alive, 
which was sent as a present to Mrs. Lawrence. 
Trade still continues very bad in the West Rid- 
ing; but itis not so depressed as in many other 
places—the woollen manufacture never having 
been reduced to so low a point of depression as 
those of silks and gloves, 
LANCASHIRE.—The County Rate Committee 
for Lancashire have recently made their new 
report, by which it appears that the amount of the 
old assessment was £3,106,009., of which Liver- 
pool contributed £584,687; the new assessment 
amounts to £4,214,634, towards which Liverpool 
contributes £751,126. By the last report of the 
Manchester and Salford Bank for Savings, it ap- 
pears that the sum in hand amounted to £226,224. 
10s. 11d.—that, during the last year, there had 
been 2,440 additional depositors—that the total 
number of depositors, from its institution up to 
the present moment, is 13,647. 
At Oldham, April 20, the foundation-stone of 
the new Blue-Coat School was laid in grand ce- 
Provincial Occurrences : Yorkshire, Lancashire, Sc. 
[Jung, 
remony. It will be a splendid fabric, in the Colle- 
giate style of architecture ; its length will be 180 
feet, and depth 60: it is to be composed of two 
stories, and both centre and wings will be orna- 
mented with turrets and pinnacles, forming a su- 
perb ornament tothe town. At the dinner on the 
occasion, after the usual loyal toasts, the “ Man- 
chester Courier’ informs us, the following was 
given—‘‘ Prosperity to the industrious labouring 
classes of this community’—and introduced by 
the information that the workpeople of one house 
(Mr. Gee’s) had subscribed nearly £200, towards 
completing this excellent establishment, « The 
Oldham Blue-Coat School” !!! 
In consequence of a considerable deficiency in 
the funds of the Bolton Dispensary, the ladies of 
that place opened a bazaar for its benefit, and, by 
their meritorious exertions, have accumulated the 
sum of £716. during two days’ sale and admis- 
sions. 
Serious disturbances have broken out at Man- 
chester, in consequence of the reduced price of 
weaving ; and the rioters destroyed a yast quan- 
tity of goods, looms, &c., which they devoted to 
the flames. At Rochdale, affairs took a more 
serious turn, and much mischief was done, and 
several of the ringleaders committed to prison ; 
when an attempt being made at forcing the pri- 
son, for rescuing them, the military fired, and 
seven persons were killed, besides a numbe 
wounded. Similar disturbances took place a 
Macclesfield, but not to so great an extent. 
By an actual survey just made to ascertain the ; 
condition of the poor of Colne, and the neighbour- — 
ing townships of Folridge and Trawden, it ap- 
pears that nearly one-third of the inhabitants had, 
on an average, an income only of Is. 22d. per 
week, and that the weekly income of nearly ano- 
ther fourth did not exceed Is. 93d. per head! 
HANTS.—By the abstract of the Receipts and 
Expenditure of the parish of Portsea for last 
year, it appears that the amount was no less than 
£14,361. 11s. ; the article of victualling, including 
bread (37,834 Ibs.), given to the out-door poor, 
was £3,407. 10s, 9d. ; and that, for weekly relief 
alone, £4,514. 6s, 10d. 
es in 
GLOUCESTERSHIRE.—The rate ordered at 
the Gloucester Sessions, last week, is considera- 
bly less than one-half of that levied at the last 
Epiphany Sessions, and little more than one-fifth 
of the rate ordered twelye months ago. This re- 
lief, it is hoped, may be still further extended. _ { 
The expenses for paving, pitching, cleansing, and 4 
lighting the city of Bristol last year, amounted to 
upwards of £10,000; the lighting alone aes ; 
the sum of £3,999, Ils. 3d. . 
Nearly £700. has already been subserib i to. 
wards the reparation and embellishment o ‘the — 
fine old Abbey Church at Tewkesbury ; and whet 7: © 
it is remembered that a great portion of that va 
has been contributed by the inhabitants of t ; 
borough, and by a few liberal individuals in its 
immediate neighbourhood,—that there has beens 
recently upwards of £2,000. collected by rates 
upon the parishioners, for the exclusive purpose 
of repairing this grand and almost sole relic of ” 
one of our richest monasteries,—and that the { 
whole of the immense revenues which the noble 
founder and his pious successors gave for its sup- 
port, were alienated at the Reformation,—it can- 
not be denied that the inhabitants haye a strong 
