1828.]_ Worcester, Hereford, Gloucester, Monmouth, Devon, §c. 
for trial; 30 of whom had been tried before, and 
returned to prison for similar offences committed 
since they had been liberated!!! At the Warwick 
assizes, 28 were recorded for death, 17 trans- 
ported, and several imprisoned. : 
The Committee of the Birmingham Society of 
Arts have given notice in their Address (prefixed 
to their Catalogue of Pictures by Ancient Mas- 
ters) that “ their next exhibition, in 1829, will be 
of Modern Pictures; and that they hope for va- 
luable assistance, not merely upon the principle 
of peeuniary recompense, but from the more ele- 
yated consideration of benefit to the community, 
by the wider difusion of works of taste and 
genius,” 
At Coventry assizes, few cases for trial, and 
only one of importance; it was for horse stealing, 
and the sentence transportation for life. 
WORCESTER AND HEREFORD. 
At two o’clock this morning, July 26, the col- 
lege of this city, Hereford, was discovered to be 
on fire, and in a few minutes hundreds were 
around the college walls. The building forms a 
quadrangle, the sides of which are nearly one 
hundred feet each. The entire of the south-east 
angle was in a mass of flame. A quarter past 
six o’clock the fire was extinguished. The plate, 
the deeds, and other papers, and the library of 
the college, escaped uninjured ; but the private 
library of the Rev. H. Munday suffered consider- 
able damage, as also the furniture of several 
other members. The cause is involved in mys- 
tery. Thisis the fourth time within these last 
five years that the college has been on fire; but 
this last conflagration has been more destructive 
than the preceding ones. The loss is estimated 
at £1,500. 
At Worcester assizes, 2 culprits recorded for 
death, 3 transported, and a few imprisoned. 
At Hereford, sentence of death was recorded 
against 8 culprits. 
The iron trade appears now rapidly tending to 
that state of extreme depression, which the most 
ordinary foresight might have anticipated as con- 
sequent upon the high prices of 1821.—Hereford 
Journal. 
Married.] At Donnington, Rey. W. Borro- 
daile to Miss A.S. B. Shaw.—At Abberley, T. J. 
Maling, esq.,to Miss Jemima Bromley. 
Died) At Hereford, 44, Mr. J, Constable, but- 
ler to Hereford College, in consequence of the 
injury he sustained at the destructive fire at that 
building.—At Mount Craig, Ross, 89, J. Lloyd, 
esq. 
GLOUCESTER AND MONMOUTH. 
A meeting was held at Bristol (which was ad- 
journed for a second day’s discussion) for the 
establishment of a Reformation Society, when it 
was proposed, “ That the committee should report 
to the next general meeting, whether there still 
remains in the Liturgy of the Church of England 
any relics of Popery, and what are the best means 
of securing the expulsion of such relics.” This 
proposition threw the meeting into a scene of 
uproar and confusion, when it was finally re- 
jected. ; 
Barou Vaughan complimented the grand jury 
at Gloucester assizes, on sceing such a diminution 
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of crime (41 prisoners), and said “that the re- 
dundancies and excrescences of the criminal code 
had been cut off, and that the Augsean stable had 
been cleansed by three or four acts, which repeal 
the unintelligible acts of former times II!!!" 
Ten were recorded for death. 
DEVON AND SOMERSET. 
There is nothing recorded in the annals of 
Mineralogy of this kingdom or of Europe, that 
will bear comparison with the extraordinary exu- 
berance of the curious Calcedonies recently dis- 
covered in the Haytor Iron Mine, Devon. From 
this small spot there have been collected of this 
mineral, by Mr.Woolmer, of Exeter, 300 varieties, 
every one of which is entitled to a distinct de- 
scription in colour, formation, or singularity, and 
many of them are of exquisite beauty, elegance, 
and delicaey.—Taunton Journal. : 
The Royal Adelaide, 120 guns, was launched at 
Plymouth July 28, the ceremony of naming having 
been performed by the Duchess of Clarence, in 
the presence of the Lord High Admiral, and many 
thousand spectators’ she is a beautiful ship, and 
has been nine years in building, 
At the assizes for Somerset, the calendar was 
extremely light, the number of prisoners being 
only 30, yet some were of the deepest dye, and 15 
were recorded for death. Mr. Justice Park com- 
plained of the small number of magistrates in at- 
tendance, and their delay in returning the depo- 
sitions, &c. The mayor of Bridgewater was fined 
40s. for non-attendance. 
Four prisoners were recorded for death at 
Devon assizes, 6 transported, and a few impri- 
soned, 
A new market is about to be built at Dart- 
mouth, 
During the performance of morning service at 
Compton Pauncefort, on Sunday last, the rain 
fell in such torrents, and descended from the 
neighbouring hills so rapidly, that the water rose 
in the immediate vicinity of the church to a height 
which prevented the congregation from reaching 
their houses otherwise than in carts, which were 
sent for them. 
Married.) At Exeter, T. T. Gillett, esq., of 
Brussels, to Miss Ann Sparks. 
Died.| At Wells, 88, Mr. J. Evii—At Taun- 
ton, 89,'T. Woo@forde, esq. 
DORSET AND WILTS. 
The Act of Parliament for disfranchising Cran- 
bourne Chase bas passed, and the gradual destruc- 
tion or remoyal of the deer already commenced. 
Their inerease of late years has been so much, 
and the winters so fayuurable, that there are 
12,000 in number. So many fawns have recently 
been shot, that they have been disposed of at the 
low prices of 5s. or 6s. a piece. By the Act, it 
appears that Lord Rivers’s franchise expires on 
the 10th of October, 1830, by which time the deer 
of all ages will be sold. 
Atthe Dorset assizes, 2 recorded for death, and 
2 transported. 
At Wilts, 7 received sevtence of death (2 for 
murder), and a few transported and imprisoned. 
Married.| At Dorchester, J. C, Clive, exq., 
to Miss E, J. Park, 
