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CAMBRIDGE AND HUNTINGDON. 
At Cambridge, 2 culprits imprisoned, and 2 ac- 
quitted, being all the prisoners for trial! 
At Huntingdon, 2 recorded for death. 
At Wisbeach, only7 prisoners for trial. 
NOTTINGHAM AND LINCOLN. 
At Lincoln, judgment of death was recorded 
against a woman (Frances Stephenson, 21) for 
stealing a mare. 
The assizes at Nottingham were not distin- 
guished by any trial of importance; not one pri- 
soner received sentence of death. 
DERBY. 
At the assizes for this county, 7 culprits were 
recorded for death, a few transported and impri- 
soned. 
LANCASHIRE. 
The Bolton and Leigh Railway was opened 
August 21,in a very grand style, at which up- 
wards of 40,000 persons attended. In the proces- 
sion a coach was seen carrying nearly 60 ladies 
and gentlemen, with favours of all colours, ban- 
ners, &e. &c,, 6 waggons laden with coal, 2 tons 
each, were attached to the coach, besides 13 other 
waggons, 6 in front and 7 behind, They started 
at Pendlebury Point, conveyed by the steam car- 
riage to the stationary engine, about a mile and a 
half from Bolton. Several experiments were 
made of the capabilities of the locomotive engine, 
christened The Lancashire Witch, and on one 
occasion it travelled twelve miles an hour, but it 
was unladen at the time. 
The first stone of the new Custom-house at 
Liverpool, has been recently laid by the mayor, 
in the presence of myriads of spectators. When 
completed, it will probably be the noblest custom- 
house in the world, The site on which it is erect- 
ing is that space formerly calledthe Old Dock. It 
will have four splendid fronts; the north and the 
south will be 430 feet each in length, and every 
other part will be eqnal in grandeur and effect. 
Over the centre will rise a beautiful dome 127 
feet high ; the crown of which will be supported 
by a tasteful circle of Corinthian columns, be- 
tween which will be placed a number of perpen- 
dicular windows, admitting a body of light in the 
largest recom in the building. 
CHESHIRE. 
An idea of the violence of the rain and hail in 
the late storms at Chester, may be formed from 
the fact, that an impetuous torrent of water, al- 
most sufficient to float a boat, flowed from the 
High Cross through the East Gate. The river 
yose to an unusual height. The ancient ram- 
parts themselves, that resisted the repeated as- 
saults of the Puritans, have yielded to the “ pelt- 
ing of the pitiless storm ;” a part near the Pho- 
nix Tower (from the summit of which Charles I. 
witnessed the defeat of his army) gave way with 
a tremendous crash, the foundation having been 
undermined by the heavy rains. At Sealand, the 
water rose higher than the great flood in 1795, the 
greatest in the memory of man in this part of the 
kingdom.* 
* Similar accounts have been sent us from all 
parts of the kingdom, but more particularly the 
north and west, where several deaths have hap- 
pened from the dreadful effects of the lightning. 
Provincial Occurrences : Cambridge, Huntingdon, Sc. 
[Sepr.. 
Died.| At the Parsonage, 62, Rev. L. Heapy ; 
he had been Prime Curate of Macclesfield for the 
last 35 years. A melodious organ, a reformed. 
psalmody, extensive accommodation for schools, 
numerous ffee pews for adults, structure of a- 
parsonage, rebuilding of great part of the paro- 
chial chapel, remodelling of the whole beautiful’ 
interior—these be his works, so, that on survey-. 
ing these his works, it may truly be said of him, 
as of a great architect, in justice to his influence, 
his taste, and his devotion * Would you see his 
monument ?—look around!" Yet his parishioners, 
asamark of their esteem, have entered into a 
subscription for the erection of a monument-to 
his memory.—Alacclesfield Couwrier—At Chester, 
Miss Wilson. > 
SALOP AND STAFFORD. 
Staffordshire county rate has been reduced to 
three farthings in the pound. 
At the assizes only one culprit was left for exe- 
cution: it was for forgery. 
The interest usually excited by the fate of or- 
dinary felonshas been wholly absorbed at Shrews- 
bury, in that of the murderers from Drayton and 
Old Bury, by which 6 miserable wretches were 
condemned to death, The former had something 
very remarkable about its history—Pugh, the 
father, was called to convict his son; Ellson to 
convict his own mother, father-in-law, and bro- 
thers-in-law ; his wife corroborated his evidence 
against her father and brothers; and the evi- 
dence of Mary Blakeman, the daughter of Ann 
Harris, tended to confirm the testimony which 
fixed the guilt on her mother! 
Married.) At Wolverhampton, S, Tayler, esq., 
to Mrs. Hartshorn. — At Swinnerton-park, F. 
Fitzherbert, esq., to Miss Maria Teresa Gan- 
dolfi. 
Died.] 70, Mrs. Walter Waring, of Church 
Stretton—At the Iron Bridge, Salop, 91, Mrs. 
Jukes. 
LEICESTER AND RUTLAND. 
Chief Justice Best in his charge to the grand 
jury of Leicestershire, congratulated them on the 
considerable diminution of crime. He said, “he 
was glad that the law with respect to capital 
charges had been altered, and he was certain, 
from his own knowledge, that the alteration had al- 
ready proved very beneficial.” We trust, therefore, 
that our law-menders will proceed, and entirely 
do away the common observation of foreigners, 
that the great fault in the jurisprudence of Eng-' 
land lies in not making it equal to the knowledge 
of the times we live in; ‘‘all the English esta- 
blishments were made in days of ignorance (say 
they); and so true is this, that one of their 
ministers (Peel) has at length dared to enter the 
arena, and boldly annihilated near 200 acts, by 
putting one or two of common sense in their 
place!!!” Nine prisoners were recorded for death, 
and a few transported and imprisoned. 
At Oakham assizes nothing of importance oc- 
curred. 
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WARWICK AND NORTHAMPTON. . 
At Northampton assizes, 6 culprits were re- 
corded for death, 7 transported, and 8 imprisoned. 
Near £900, it appears, were expended in the 
criminal jurisprudence, goals, &c. &e., from Mi- 
chaelmas 1826, to Easter 1828, in the town of 
Northampton alone. 
At Warwick sessions, there were 105 prisoners 
