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MONTHLY PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES; 
WITH THE MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. 
NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM, 
Lieut.G. Lindsay has suggested to the principal coal 
proprietors of that district a method for the addi- 
tional ventilating of mines. He proposes that two 
air pumps should be erected in the present ventilator, 
forcing down continually a column of atmospheric 
air; they are to be worked by the engine at the bot- 
tom of the ventilator. He proposes hoses to be fitted 
to conduct the air to any part of the workings where 
it may be required. 
Mr. Wm. Wood, a gentleman who resides at Lum- 
ner-hill Grove, near Newcastle, has contrived a 
means of taking hydrogen gas out of coal-pits, by 
an apparatus which is so devised, that ignition may 
be produced by it at any hour. 
The mail passed for the first time along the new 
line of road over Gateshead Fell on Saturday night 
Junel7. This alteration, in the great road between 
London and Edinburgh is of very great advantage 
to travellers. 
A meeting of the principal inhabitants of the pa- 
rish of Ryton was lately held, to take into considera- 
tion the best means of relieving the distress occa- 
sioned by the late disastrous occurrence at the Town- 
ley Main colliery, by which twenty men and eigh- 
teen boys lost their lives, and nineteen widows with 
sixty-two children are left in the greatest distress, 
when a subscription was immediately entered into, 
and amounts now to nearly a thousand pounds. 
At a meeting of the ship-owners of Newcastle, on 
July 4, resolutions were entered into expressive of 
their sentiments of alarm at the alterations that have 
been made by his Majesty’s government in the navi- 
gation and colonial system of Great Britain, anda 
Committee was appointed to wait on the Northum- 
berland. Durham, and Newcastle members, to en- 
deavour to impress on their minds the necessity of 
an immediate revision of those laws. 
Married.) At Newcastle, Wm. Smith, esq., to 
Margaret, daughter of the late Major John Werge; 
Robert Jackson, M.D., to Miss Tidy—At Durham, 
Mr. Kirkley, to Miss M. Shafto; Mr. Hopper, to 
Miss Tayler—aAt Northallerton, Mr. Gifford, to Miss 
Nicholson—At Earsdon, Capt. R Kell, to Miss EK. 
Lamb, of Blyth Link-house—At Bishopwearmouth, 
Mr. R. Crow, to Miss Fairbridge. 
Died.] At Shoreston, H. G. Grey, esq., eldest 
son of Robert Grey, esq.—At Langton Grange, Jane, 
wife of Capt. Watt—At Whitholm, the hon. Thos. 
Grey, fifth son of Earl Grey—At Newcastle, 88, 
Mrs. J.Gardner; Mr. R. R. Rankin; C. Ogle, esq. 
He had been thirty-four years collector of the Cus- 
toms at that port ; 71, Mrs. J. Hall, of St. Lawrance 
—At Bishop-Auckland, 75, Mr. G. Douglas—At 
Evenwood, 84, George Emmerson; J. Moore, esq., 
Son of W. Moore, esq., of Gromeshill, Westmorland 
At North Shields, 88, Mrs Robinson—At Roth- 
87, Mrs. Davidson; G. D. Shafto, esq., of 
Bavington-hall; Miss Frances Blackett, daughter to 
the late Sir W. Blackett, bart., of Maften-hall. 
CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND, 
The anticipated withdrawal of Scotch notes has 
been the principal topic of interest in these counties, 
and ata meeting held at Carlisle, July 13, it was re- 
solved to present memorials on this subject to the 
Treasury, and to the Scotch bankers. 
Married.) Mr. T. Burgess, to Miss Isabella Carr; 
Mr. J. Smith, to Miss Nicholis—At Rockliff, Mr. 
H. Rowlands, to Miss S. Barnes—At Kendal, Mr. 
Leadbeater, to Miss E. Bellman; Mr. W. Shep- 
herd, to Miss M. Rigg, of Stavely; Mr. J. Miles, 
to Miss M. Glendinning; Mr. B. Garrod, to Miss S. 
Parker—At Workington, Mr. G. Relph, to Miss M. 
Johnston; Mr. W. Myers, to Miss M. Mairs; Mr. 
J. Jared, to Miss I. Thompson. 
‘Died.| At Carlisle, Miss Hornsby; Mr. R. Noble 
orkington, 81, Mrs. H. Mounsay; 73, Mrs. 
J.T wentyman; 89, Mary Sewell—At Rockliif Cross, 
65, Mr. J. Wright—At Henry's Town, 76, Mr. J. 
Hamilton—At Bogburn, 85, Mr. Robt. Lamb—A 
Castle-carrock, Mrs. Watson—At Maryport, Mr. T. 
Parrat; Mrs. J. Thomson—At Kendal, 76, Mr. J. 
Carlyle; 79, Mrs. John; Mrs. Simpson. 
YORKSHIRE. 
The weather was very sultry during the whole 
month of June. In the last week of June and the 
first of July there were some most severe thunder- 
storms, attended with violent showers of rain and 
hail. The hail-stones were larger than a pigeon’s 
egg, and great damage was done to the fruits in the 
gardens; and a vast quantity of glass broken in 
pineries, hot-houses, &c. The damage done at Cas- 
tle Howard, the seati®f the Earl of Carlisle, in glass 
alone, was estimated at £600. 
The Yaux Gloriosa (Adam’s needle), a very rare 
plant in this country, is in flower at Messrs. Black- 
house’s garden, York. It is ten feet high, about 
fifteen years old, and this is the first time it has 
flowered. 
The conflagrations upon the Moors, which is 
supposed to have been caused by the lightning, has 
been most destructive; on Ilkley Moor 300 acres 
are burnt; Burley Moor is partly consumed; Thorn- 
ton Moor is entirely destroyed, and with it all the 
young plantations, which cost upwards of £2,000 in 
planting ; Oaksworth Moor is entirely burnt; Oven- 
den Moor, Holme Moss, Burnsall Fell, Hebden and 
Grassinton Moors, are on fire; and unless incessant 
and heavy rain should speedily fall, every one of 
these must be entirely destroyed. 
A public meeting of about 1,000 persons, was lately 
held on Hunslet Moor, Leeds, arid a series of reso- 
lutions passed, attributing the causes of the present 
melancholy distresses not to over-trading, but to the 
government’s tampering with the national currency, 
and other expensive management. 
Married.] At Featherstone, Geo. Ton, esq., to 
Elizabeth Duroure, niece of Sir Edmund Mark 
Winn; John Henry Cottey, esq., to Frances Doro- 
thy, daughter of Thomas Cottey. 
Died.| At Lethington, Henry Masterman, esq. 
—At Welham-bridge, Wm. Simpson, esq.—At Don- 
caster, John Henry Mawe, esq.—At Lutton-hall, 
Lady Hoare Harland—At Swabow, Miss Margaret 
Paul—At Leeds, Lieut. Geo. Teesdale—At Langton 
Grange, near Darlington, Mrs. Watts—At Dar g- 
ton, Mrs. Wright. 
LANCASHIRE. 
The magistrates of Manchester have (under the 
authority of a recent act of parliament) awarded da- 
mages to those persons whose windows, &c. were 
broken during the late riots, where the damages did 
not exceed £30, beyond which sum the justices have 
not power to go. The damages claimed against the 
hundred of Blackburn alone amount to nearly 
£14,000. 
The cost of the distribution of bacon, meal, peas, 
and herrings, July 7, to the distressed manufactu- 
rers, amounted to £518. 19s. lid., and that of July 
14, to £477. 6s. 8hd. The subscriptions fall off, and 
when it is remembered that nearly 50,000 persons are 
now living upon this fund, and above 10,000 upon 
the poor’s rates, the reflection appals one, as there 
is not the least improvement in commercial affairs. 
On the contrary, bad as things have been, there is 
every appearance of their becoming worse. 
The Wellington road and bridge through Stock- 
ton were opened July 3. The procession reached a 
mile in length; and although 50,000 persons attended 
no accident occurred. 
July 5, just before midnight a most. tremendous 
fire broke out at the warehouses of Messrs. Aspinall 
and Knowles, sailmakers, at Liverpool. The bulk 
of the ee ae on this melancholy occasion con- 
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