1828.] 
Meeting, that since the commencement of its 
institution, 5,549 persons have paid into the 
bank the sum of £225,826. 3s. Zd., and have, as 
their occasions required, withdrawn the sum of 
3€123,079. 18s. 10d. The interest money with- 
drawn bears a very small proprortion to the 
interest accumulated, and, including such 
accumulation, there remains the sum of 
127,197. 1Ys. 9d. at the disposal of the 
present depositors, being an increase of 
£8,121, 12s. 7d. since last October. 
An Exhibition of Pictures and Sculpture, the 
works of living artists, has opened at Leeds, at 
the ‘‘ Northern Society’s’’ Gallery. The exer- 
tions of the committee, to provide a suitable dis- 
play of the productions of the fine arts, on the 
presert occasion, have been cordially seconded by 
the profession. The Exhibition consists of 522 
works of art: a greater number by nearly 100, 
than ever the Society were able to present to the 
public previously ; surpassing, as well in propor- 
tion as in the degree of excellence, those of former 
years, 
On Whit-Monday, the annual meeting and pro- 
cession of the teachers and scholars of the Leeds 
Sunday School Union took place, when between 
4 and 5,000 children were present. By the re- 
port, it appears that there are 62 schools, 1,812 
teachers, and 7,990 children in this Union; the 
increase during last year amounted to 11 schools, 
198 teachers, and 1,043 scholars. 
June 11.—The foundation of a new church was 
laid at.Lindley (Huddersfield) ; the ceremony was 
attended by twenty-three clergymen, and more 
than 5,000 spectators. 
Married.) At Hull, the Rev. W. Huntington 
to Miss Lambert; Mr. Crabtree to Mrs, Ann Har- 
rison, a buxom widow of 19, who had been twice 
married before.—At Knaresborough, the Rev. H. 
Milton to Miss Ann Hutchinson.—At Doncaster, 
the Rey. R. Hutchinsonto Miss Marsh.—At York, 
the Rey. T. Dayrell to Miss Maria Hawksworth. 
—At Richmond, G. L. Ridley, esq., to Miss Ann 
Thompson. 
Died.) At Halifax, J. Walter, esq—aAt Whit 
by, 90, Sarah Shepherd.—At Richmond, W. Close, 
.—At Searborough, R. Williamson, esq.—At 
Wilsden, 96, J. Piehiles; he has left 309 descen- 
dants, exclusive of 101 deceased. He was fol- 
lowed to the grave by 135 of his deseendants.— 
At Shepley, 104, Hannah Holmes. 
LINCOLNSHIRE. 
At ‘length, after boring 500 feet for water, a 
spring is evidently existing, the water of which, 
since the discovery, has actually risen above 300 
feet in the orifice. It indeed is probable that the 
water found does not flow from a main spring; 
but it is evident that one must exist in the adja- 
cent earth, and by boring a few feet farther, that 
will most likely be met with, 
NOTTINGHAM AND DERBY. 
_ Died.) At t > . '° 
Beet fr eee’ 72 AT ens dennt 
LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE. 
_ The gross receipts at the Ladies’ Bazaar, at 
Manchester, for the benefit of the National and 
Lancastrian Schools, amounted to £488. 178.; 
nearly 2,000 persons visited it, paying admission. 
The whole of the Soho Foundery, at Ancoats, 
Manchester, was destroyed by fre May 15; hun- 
dreds of hands have by this dreadful accident 
Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Nottingham, Derby, &c. 
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been thrown out of employment. It is estimated 
that the loss amounts to a great sum, and that the 
whole of the property belonged to Messrs. Peel 
and Williams. 
There has been of late a considerable ferment 
amongst the owners and occupiers of land in 
Wigan, in consequence of a demand having been 
made upon them by the rector, for tithe of hay, 
which has never been. paid in that parish in the 
memory of man; in consequence of which a meet- 
ing was held, Earl Balearras presided ; when it 
appeared, from a variety of ancient documents, 
that the tithe now demanded, had not been paid or 
heard of for several hundred years!!! After a 
long discussion a committee was appointed, and a 
subscription entered into, to defend any suits 
that the rector might institute against any of the 
parishioners, until the question be finally settled, 
If the rector should succeed in his claim, it is 
said, he will add about £1,500 a year to his in- 
come!!! 
In most of the dissenting chapels: at Liverpoul, 
the ministers have returned public thanks to God 
for the national mercy received in the Repeal of 
the Corporation and Test Acts. . 
No less than 153,156 spindles are now unem- 
ployed in the fown of Macclesfield. 
SALOP AND STAFFORD. 
The Right Hon. Charles Earl Talbot is ap- 
pointed Custos Rotulorum of the county of 
Stafford, in the room of the Marquis Stafford re- 
signed, 
Married.) Sir Henry Edwardes, bart., of 
Meole, to Miss Hope, daughter of J. ‘I’. Hope, 
esq., of Netley-hall. 
LEICESTER AND RUTLAND. 
There are three places of worship for Dis- 
senters now building in Loughborough, viz. the 
Independents, Methodists, and Baptists. June 7, 
the first stone of the new chapel for the General 
Baptists was laid; it will be the largest General 
Baptist chapel in England. 
Died.) At Husband’s Bosworth, 90, the Rey. 
J. Pinnock, rector of that parish, and vicar of 
Notton, Warwickshire. 
WARWICK AND NORTHAMPTON. 
May 29, at the High Bailiff's sumptuous din- 
ner at Birmingham, notice was taken of the re- 
cent failure of representation for that town, 
‘* which,” said Mr. Smith, foreman of the court- 
leet jury, “ is one of the most important manufac. 
turing stations in the world; a district containing 
half a million of inhabitants, employed in work- 
ing up the native produce of the country; and 
yet this is the population which the minister of 
the day, although inthe lap of commerce, thought 
right to neglect!” It was remarked that the 
rental of Birmingham is £300,000 ! its local rates, 
£55,000; its estimated capital, £10,000,000; and 
its advance to ‘intellectual weight” may be esti- 
mated from the fact, that about “ fifteen thousand 
ebildren” are constantly in progress of education ; 
and yet this grand emporium, “ with all its ap- 
pliances and means tv boot,” has no representa- 
tive, no special guardian in Parliament!!! 
By the report of the committee of the Birming- 
ham Eye Infirmary, made May 28, it appears 
that, since its establishment (only four years) 
7,000 individuals have experienced its benefits; 
