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At Rochford, E, Harris, esq., 68.—At Worcester, 
Mrs. Barns, 93. 
GLOUCESTER AND MONMOUTH. 
Three unfortunate men have Leen lately suffo- 
cated with foul air, in emptying a large and deep 
vault, which received the contents of offices be- 
longing to several houses in Gloucester. They 
were all fine middle-aged men, of industrious 
habits, and have left large families to lament their 
loss. 
That beautiful specimen of taste and skill in 
architecture, St. Stephen’s Tower, at Bristol, is 
no longer to remain in the mutilated condition to 
which it was barbarously permitted to be reduced 
a few years since, the Bishop having ordered it 
to be restored to its pristine elegance ; the funds 
for the purpose are to be raised by the parishioners, 
The right of the corporation of Bristol to the 
import and export duties, has been confirmed by a 
verdict. This result, so favourable to their claims, 
was tried by a special jury before the Lord Chief 
Justice of the Court of King’s Bench. 
The Cheltenham Chronicle says that the sub- 
scription raised for the support of the widow and 
children of the late Rey. H. Fothergill, who 
perished in one of the desolating floods of last 
winter, amounts to £1,373. 2s. 9d., and has been 
vested in trustees for the family. 
Died.] Rev. B. Grisdale, 84, vicar of Ched- 
worth. 
Gloucester, Monmouth, 
DEVON AND SOMERSET. 
A meeting has been held at Torrington, for 
taking into consideration the best method of un- 
dertaking a new road from thence to Hatherleigh, 
when subscriptions were entered into for that 
purpose, 
A very numerous and respectable meeting was 
held at the 'Town Hall, Devonport, to consider the 
best means of making some provision for the Rey. 
J. Hawker, who, the chairman stated, had been 
curate of Stoke Daramel for upwards of thirty 
years, and who received dismission from the new 
rector, through the steward of the manor, re-— 
quiring him “ to provide an asylum for himself and 
numerous family within siz weeks!”—this too, 
although he had been promised to be continued in 
the curacy by the new rector. After several gen- 
tlemen had addressed the meeting on the hardship 
of the case, the chairman announced that the sub- 
scription amounted to upwards of £2,600, when 
the whole assembly simultaneously gave three dis- 
tinct rounds of applause !!!—The parishioners had 
some time past memorialized the late Lord Chan- 
cellor Eldon (when he was in office), for some 
small living for Mr. H.’s declining years, but 
without effect; and Mr.H., it seeins, had recently 
made application to his Diocesan, for some relief, 
in away of employ, or in a recommendation to 
some curacy, but received an answer from his 
lordship ‘‘ of his inability to do either !!!—Tawn- 
ton Courier, July 16. 
Died.] At Moorland, Mr. Thomas Macey, 
103!—At Bridgewater, Mr. J. Binning, editor and 
printer of the Bridgewater and Somersetshire 
Herald.—At Bath, J. Moody, 70, and his wife ; 
they were found drowned in their bed in the night 
of July 8, from the effects of a most tremendous 
storm that has more or less caused inundations in 
all parts of the country. 
OXFORD, BERKS, AND BUCKS. 
July 1, being the anniversary of the establish- 
Devon, Somerset, 5:c. [Aveusr, 
ment of the ‘“ Banbury Female Friendship So- 
ciety,’ the different members walked in grand 
cavalcade to the church, preceded by a band of 
music, and the girls of the Blue and National 
Schools, bearing banners, &c.; several ladies of 
Banbury, not forgetting the foundress of the So- 
ciety, walked also in the procession. After 
divine service a dinner was given. This useful 
society has been relieving the sick and lying-in 
members for these 22 years, in which time, up- 
wards of £4,000 have been expended, It is sup- 
ported by the foundress (Miss Long), the ladies of 
Banbury, and the neighbouring gentry. The 
‘ Beneficent Society of Friendly Brethren,” also 
held their anniversary the same day, and joined 
in the procession to and attendance at church. 
At the recent annual festival of the Oxford 
Branch of the Associated Brethren Benefit So- 
ciety, the chairman announced that it had heen 
established 26 years; that the contributors ex- 
ceed 3,500; and that full 200 persons ave support- 
ed weekly from its funds; and that it had, since 
its commencement, expended not less. than 
£170,000 for benevolent purposes among its 
members !!! 
At Oxford assizes, 4 prisoners were recorded 
for death, 4 transported, and a few imprisoned. 
At Abingdon, 6 for death; 5 were transported, 
one of them was sentenced to transportation for 
life, “ to afford,” said Baron Vaughan, “ an ex- 
ample of the punishment which the laws of this 
country awarded to crimes beyond description in 
brutality’—the culprit had stepped back, and 
looked one of the witnesses in the face, and then, 
with great violence, kicked the unfortunate Lord 
Mountsand{ford on the head, as he lay bleeding on 
the ground—the verdict was manslaughter. 
NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK. 
The first annual meeting of the members of the 
Lynn Mechanic, Scientific and Literary Institu- 
tion, took place July 7, when a very satisfactory 
report was made of the first year’s proceedings, 
both as regarding donations, and the purchase of 
books, not forgetting the instructive lectures 
which had been delivered. 
July 4, the first stone, weighing nearly 5 tons, 
was laid at the Company’s works, at Mutford 
Bridge—thus commencing a harbour at Lake 
Lothing, and Norwich a port. 
At the annual meeting of ‘‘ The Norfolk and 
Norwich School Society,” the report stated that 
four new daily, and seyen Sunday Schools, compri- 
sing about750 children, had been established during 
the last year—making im toto 186 schools, in this 
county and city only, and thus affording the bless- 
ing of education to more than 10,000 children I} 
July 17, the children of the City Schools, to the 
number of 2,000, were assembled in the nave of 
the cathedral, all neatly dressed, with their banners 
arranged up the centre. They were afterwards 
regaled at St. Andrew’s Hall, and sang God save 
the King! 
Died.) At Swaffham, Mrs. Gostling, 91, of 
East Derebam,—At Dunwich, Barne Barne, esq., 
late M.P.—At Twinsted Hall, Lady Denys, wife of 
Sir G. W. Denys, Bart.—Mrs. Green, 83, relict of 
the late E. Green, esq., of Lawford Hall.—Capt. 
J. M. Browne, son of the late Rey, N. Browne, 
Minor Canon of Norwich cathedral ; Capt. B. 
bad been in the Peninsnlar War, and was author 
of “The State of Portugal, by an Eye-Wit- 
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