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brated at Bristol, when the following collections 
for charitable purposes were made:—Dolphin So- 
ciety, £612. 14s.—Anchor, £415. 7s. 6d.—Grate- 
ful, £300. 10s. How honourable for Bristol that 
it should thus annually celebrate the memory of 
this great and good man! 
BEDFORDSHIRE. 
Died.} On the 9th, at Harpur-place, Bedford, 
the Rev. W. Hooper, in his 87th year. He wasa 
man universally respected and greatly beloved by 
his parishioners. In his conduct through life he 
was highly exemplary as a Christian minister, 
and his werth, amiable qualities,and benevolence, 
will be long remembered by his friends. He was 
upwards of 60 years rector of Chellington, and 
upwards of 57 rector of Carlton, iu Bedfordshire. 
Three rectors have now held the living of Carlton 
for the incredible number of 196 years. 
LEICESTER AND RUTLAND. 
The new county gaol, at Leicester, is at length 
opened for the reception of prisoners ; it stands 
upon three acres of ground, and is circular; the 
governor’s house is so constructed as to afford 
him occasion of viewing every prisoner’s yard 
without quitting his residence; escape is impos- 
sible. The chapel contains pews for 150 persons, 
and is so constructed that they cannot see each 
other out of their own pew. ‘This edifice has cost 
£55,000.—Leicester Chronicle, Oct. 25. 
A white marble statue of the late Duchess of 
Rutland, size of life, has been lately placed at the 
head of the new drawing-room at Belvoir, on an 
elevated pedestal of the same material. 
STAFFORD. 
A gang of bull-baiting wretches, who purchase 
the poor animals, and then take them from place 
to place to be baited, and obtain considerable 
sums by their inhuman yocation, have, at Lich- 
field, received their deserts in part, as eleven of 
them have been committed to prison for three 
months; which examples, we trust, will have the 
effect of preventing the repetition of similar bru- 
tality. 
The parish church of Wednesbury, considerably 
enlarged and improved, so as to contain nearly 
600 additional sittings, was re-opened November 
9; the exterior is richly ornamented with a stone 
battlement, and has a very imposing appearance. 
This gothic chureb, nearly all re-built, is in the 
form of a cross, and has a beautiful chancel, or- 
namented with painted windows. The sum of 
£288 was collected at the church-doors, &c. It 
has cost upwards of £5,000, which has been raised 
by the inhabitants for the purpose, except £500 
allowed by government. 
The iron trade of this neighbourhood still con- 
tinues in a healthy state ; the price is steadily ad- 
vancing, and there is every appearance of a good 
winter trade. The quantity of iron made con- 
tinues to increase, several new furnaces having 
very lately been put in motion; and the facility 
of meeting an increased demand is a further proof 
of.the mineral resources of our country, and the 
personal exertions of its manufacturers, What 
may be the extent of this trade it is impossible 
even to conjecture, if by a liberal interchange of 
commodities with France and other foreign coun- 
tries, a free exportation of iron to them could be 
effected. By the present restrictive system it is 
loaded with heavy duties on its arrival at a fo- 
Provincial Occurrences : Leicester, Stafford, &c. 
[Dec. 
reign port, which in France and America amount 
to a prohibition of its import; where, but for 
these duties, we are informed, the consumption of 
English iron would be immense.—/¥ olverhamp- 
ton Chronicle. 
Died.] At bis seat, Loton-park, Sir Baldwin 
Leighton, bart. 
LINCOLN. ‘ 
It is with extreme pleasure we notice the noble 
example of the Earl of Cardigan, in allotting to 
eacli poor person, in the parish of Deen Thorpe, 
half an acre of land for the purpose of cultiva- 
tion. We understand it is his lordship’s intention 
to ‘appropriate twelve acres of land in the parish 
of Glapthorne, near Oundle, to a similar purpose. 
This plan, if generally followed, would excite a 
spirit of genuine industry among the peasantry, 
and tend more than any other to the suppression 
of pauperism.—Lincoln Mercury. 
Married.] At Leadenbam, Lieut.-Col. Chap- 
lin, M.P., to Millicent Mary, daughter of W. 
Reeve, esq. 
SOMERSET AND DEVON. 
November 5, Axbridge again witnessed the bar- 
barous exhibition of bull-baiting. After the rab- 
ble had enjoyed their cruelties, and the poor ani- 
mal had lost an eye, and the civil officers, with 
the mayor at their head, assaulted, they returned 
triamphing at their infringement of the laws ; but 
as they were watched, the next day several of the 
miscreant ringleaders were convicted, and fined 
according to the statute. At the Episcopal City 
of Wells, some dozen ruffians were allowed, on 
the 5th of November, the privilege of tormenting 
a bull up and down the streets for three or four 
hours, and then permitted to tie the animal to a 
ring fixed in the ground, in the market-place, to 
be there baited by dogs, for the enjoyment o 
numbers of brutal bipeds!!! . 
We are sorry to hear that the silk trade at 
Taunton is notoriously in a state of unusual de- 
pression, both as to its weaving and throwsting 
branches, and its future aspects are of a very 
gloomy description.— Taunton Courier, Mov. 19. 
By official accounts, the trade at Plymouth 
port has nearly doubled within the last 30 years, 
and the increase during the last 10 years hears a 
much greater pioportion than any former 10 years 
of that period. The quantity of shipping has in- 
creased in a proportionate rate, the number of 
vessels at present registered at our Custom-house 
exceeding 220, most of which are employed in the 
foreign trade, either to this or other ports in the 
kingdom. The Mediterranean, Baltic, and Bri- 
tish North American trades have been as yet our 
principal channels of commerce. The West India 
trade has opened lately, and we hope may be ulti- 
mately established. The quantity of tonnage now 
discharging, &c., from Sutton Poole alone, ex- 
clusive of the traders at Devonport and Stone- 
house, is at this moment upwards of 4,200 tons.— 
Trewman’s Exeter Flying Post. 
Died.|] At Stonehouse, Major Archdall, 83, 
many year's inspector-general of bairacks in the 
western district. 
_ CORNWALL. 
At Penzance, November 8, it blew a perfect 
hurricane, with a tremendously heavy sea run- 
ning. About 20 fishing-boats, of from 15 to 20 — 
