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A letter from Lord Eldon to the Ship-owners 
of the Society of North Shields, has been recently 
-published; it is dated July 23, and announces 
that the Duke of Wellington purposes giving his 
attention to the important case of the shipowners 
during the present recess of Parliament. 
YORKSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE. 
Lately part ofthe cliff at Owthorne, once the 
site of the Sister Churches, fell into the sea, by 
which circumstance a leaden coffin was discover- 
ed, containing the remains of a clergyman, interred 
there upwards of 120 years ago; he had been 
murdered, and thrown into a well, where he was 
found four years afterwards. 
The question relative to the Vicarial Tithes at 
Halifax is row finally settled, with the concur- 
rence of the Archbishop of York, who has under- 
taken to recommend the measure to the Crown; 
the°sum to be paid to the vicar is £1,500 per an- 
num. The arrangement will ultimately be rati- 
fied and settled, in perpetuity, by an act of Par 
liament.—Leeds Mercury. 
The Exhibition of Fine Arts (Northern Society) 
at Leeds has closed; and £400 were taken for the 
sale of pictures during the season. ‘The number 
of single admissions, sold at Is. each, were 5,422, 
besides 442 season tickets at 5s. each.—Leeds In- 
telligencer. 
In consequence of the increased population of 
Preston, His Majesty has been pleased to grant 
to the Corporation a new Charter, bearing date 
August 7, 1828, and appointing the late mayor and 
the senior alderman, for the time being respec- 
tively, His Majesty’s Coroners, and the residue 
of the aldermen His Majesty’s justices of the 
peace for the borough, in addition to the Coroner, 
and four justices of the peace, heretofore appoint- 
ed by former charters. 
At Lancaster assizes, 3 prisoners received sen- 
tence of death for burglary; the calendar (like 
all the other counties of the northern circuit this 
summer) was very light. 
The firststone of a new Wesleyan Protestant 
Methodist Chapel has been recently laid at Hol- 
beck. 
At the September meeting of the Yorkshire 
Horticultural Society, a cucumber was presented, 
called the Wellington, which measured upwards 
of two feet in length, and of a proportionate thick- 
ness. 
The Bazaar at Wakefield has produced 
£444, lls. 6d., for the benetit of the Dispensary 
and Fever Ward. 
The stupendous work of removing a mountain 
into a yalley, in the Godly-lane-road, near Hali- 
fax, is proceeding successfully, and will, when 
completed, surpass any improvement ever at- 
tempted in Yorkshire.» 
Married.| At Liverpool, Sir John Jervis W. 
Jervis, bart., to Miss Bradford. 
CHESHIRE AND DERBY. 
Respecting the Silk Trade, and comparing the 
present state of the throwing mills in Congleton, 
as contrasted with 1824, it appears that, in 1824, 
there were 52 mills in Congleton, containing 
13,340 dozen spindles in full operation, furnishing 
Provincial Occurrences : Yorkshire, Lancashire, &c. 
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a remunerating return on the outlay employed, 
and an adequate price for labour, the average of 
each hand being somewhat more than 6s. per 
week. In 1825, communly called the “ mad year,” 
12 new mills were erected, and several others 
wereenlarged. In 1828, the trade began with 64 
mills, capable of containing 20,784-dozen of spin- 
dles. ‘Of these mills, 25 are wholly unoccupied ; 
and there are 12 parts of mills standing, compre- 
hending 8,439 dozen of spindles ; and the remain- 
der, viz. 12,345 dozen, the number now in opera- 
tion, are worked at a weekly loss to the occupier, 
notwithstanding aninadequate price forthe labour, 
wages averaging somewhat more than 4s. per 
head, being a reduction of almost one-third, or 
upwards of 30 per cent.— Macclesfield Courier. 
August 19, a new church was consecrated at 
Derby by the bishop of the. diocese ; it is in the 
Spanish Gothic style; and consists of a large ob- 
long building, with fourlight and elegant towers 
at the corners, and other smaller embattled 
tuwers along the sides, and reminds the beholder 
of the Moorish buildings of Grenada.—Derby- 
Reporter. 
The canse against certain members of the cor< 
poration of Chester, as trustees of Owen Jones’s 
Charity,’’*has been argued before the Vice-Cham- 
berlain’s Court, and given against them with costs, 
thus obliging them to render a faithful account of 
their stewardship, or ‘sufferan attachment aeeiiak 
the Chancery of the Palatinate. 
At the Derby Musical Festival, the sum of 
£961. 4s. 11d. was received at the church doors 
during the four days ; and the amount of tickets 
sold produced £2,944, 17s. 6d. 
Died.] At Glossop, 70, the Rey. J. Barbe, a 
Roman Catholic clergyman, who had quitted 
France in 1793, in consequence of the revolu- 
tionary atrocities, and remained in England until 
his death, highly respected. —At Macclesfield, Mr. 
Batt,-who for 2h years superintended the Sunday 
School.—At Bank-hall, Chapel-en-le-Frith, 70, 
S. Frith, esq., deputy lieutenant of the county. 
SALOP AND STAFFORD. 
The foundation stone of a new church has been 
recently laid at Wolverhampton ; it will contain 
2,300 sittings, of which 1,300 are to be free. 
A new Wesleyan Chapel has been begun at 
Walsall ; it is to be in the Grecian style. 
Lord Kenyon has addressed ‘a Letter to the 
Protestants,” dated August 30, on the state of the 
Catholic Question. With a proper respect for his 
lordship’s motives and character, we read the 
following paragraph with surprise and sorrow :— 
“« We live in times when every man who values 
principles should depend on his own exertions, 
and not on those’of princes, prelates, nobles, 
politicians, or parliament. Some of the last 
sessions of parliament have shewn how little safe 
it is to trust to suca quarters forsecurity.”— 
Shrewsbury Chronicle. 
A meeting has been held at — for the 
purpose of promoting the building of a free 
church in the vicinity of Castle Foregate in that 
town, when a committee was formed, and a sub- 
scription entered into for that purpose. 
A monument has been opened in St. Mary’s 
Church, Shrewsbury, to the memory of the Rev. 
J.B, Blakeway, 31 years ordinary. and official, 
