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clothing.—Trade at Manchester is approaching con- 
valescence, though not at a rapid rate; it will be 
the work of time, and we hope, the reward of pa- 
tience.—Sept. 15 the first stone of the new Welsh 
church at Liverpool was laid by the Bishop of Ches- 
ter, with very great ceremony and effect. This is 
the first Welsh church ever erected in England. 
His Majesty has contributed £500 towards it, and 
the corporation have given the grant of the lana, 
and also a stipend of £60 per annum in aid of the 
salary to the minister.—Oct. 3 and 4 the Bazaar was 
opened at Manchester for the sale of contributions 
furnished by the ladies, in aid of the distressed ma- 
nufacturers; and we record, in honour to the place 
and all concerned, that £31() were collected at the 
door, and that the articles sold amounted to £1,430 
—total £1,740. The bands of the 2d Dragoons and 
Grenadier Guards attended, and the lots were all 
sold by the ladies.—At a late meeting of the commis- 
sioners of pilots at Liverpool, it appeared that the 
gross receipts of the eleven pilots at that port had of 
late greatly increased, and averaged for the last two 
years £32,418. 4s. 3d. per annum. It was resolved 
therefore to lower the rates of pilotage. 
M@rried.], At Urswick, H. Remington, esq. to 
Miss Ashburner—At Grassmere, W. Wardell, esq. 
to Miss E. Crump. 
Died.) Mr. D. H. Perry, of Salford, an artist of 
considerable local celebrity—At Standish, Alice Bir- 
chall, 98, for upwards of half a century a highly 
esteemed preacher among the Society of Frients. 
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE AND LINCOLNSHIRE. 
The Earl of Bristol's Lincolnshire tenants have 
presented him a massive piece of plate, for his re- 
turning them 20 per cent. on their rents during many 
years of unprecedented distress. The noble Earlin 
return thus expressed himself: ‘‘ The good opinion 
and regard of those with whom we are connected by 
the various relations of life,, constitute the whole 
ornament and comfort of it; and in leaving to my 
descendants this record of the feelings which sub- 
sisted between me and my Lincolnshire tenantry, I 
shall leave them one of their most valuable heir- 
looms, and a pledge of similar feelings in succeeding 
generations.” 
LEICESTER, AND RUTLAND. 
The receipts at the anniversary sermon in aid of 
the Leicester Infirmary, Sept. 22, produced £109 
10s. 10d.—The produce at the Bazaar at the large 
room in the Exchange, during the races, by the pur- 
chases of the different articles, amounted to £295, 
-which is meant to be appropriated to charitable pur- 
poses, under the direction of a committee of ladies 
at Leisester.—Ths frame-work knitters have held a 
meeting on account of their depressed state, and 
they have voted an address to the hosiers, respect- 
fully claiming an advance of wages. In their address 
they state the bare fact, that their average earnings, 
even of good workmen, do not exceed from seven to 
eight shillings per week |!!! 
Di a.J “At Wimeswould, W. Fox, esq. 86—At 
Melton Mowbray, R. Sharp, esq. He attended the 
embassy to the King of Persia, as surgeon to our 
ambassador, Sir Gore Ousely—At Wymondham, G. 
Mann, esq. 63—At Houghton-on-the-Hill, G. Scar- 
borough, labourer, 100. Till within the last two 
years, he worked on the highway—query, ought he 
not to have been taken better care of? He was one 
of eleven children by the same father, whose united 
ages at their respective deaths amounted to between 
BO) and 90 ! 
WARWICKSHIRE. 
The commissioners appointed to investigate the 
state of the Public Charities closed their important 
Nottengham, Worcester, Gloucester and- Derby. 
573 
labours at Warwick, Sept.27. We trust therefore 
the New Parliament will be better informed upon 
this subject than any preceding one, for the Public 
Charities have been hitherto sadly neglected, parti- 
cularly the grammar schools, and other public esta- 
blishments for education. There is at Rugby, in this 
county, ‘‘ a free grammar school, excellently well. 
endowed, and several alms-houses.” These we hope 
have been attended to by the commissioners, for we 
see by the provincial prints that hints are thrown out 
of applying to the Legislature. 
The Triennial Musical Festival at Birmingham 
for the benefit of the Hospital has been very produc- 
tive: the receipts the first day, at the church and the 
theatre, were £1,681 (ls. 4d.; second day, £2,731 1s. 
Gd.; third day, £2,157 19s. 7d.; fourth day, £2,840 
16s. 6d. ; donations, £350:—making a total of £9,760 
17s. 1ld.—The ceremony of laying the first stone of 
the new church, dedicated to St. Thomas, at Bir- 
mingham, has lately taken place. The Bishop of 
Lichfield and Coventry attended; the expense, 
£16,402. 5s., is to be paid by the Commissioners for 
building New Churches.—At the Quarter Sessions at 
Warwick, there were upwards of 100 prisoners for 
trial: it began Oct. 16. 
WORCESTERSHIRE AND HEREFORDSHIRE. 
Viscount Dudley and Ward laid the first stone of 
the intended new church at Sedgley, Sept. 16,— 
The tolls collected at Worcester Bridge were let by 
auction for the next year for £1,090, being £65 
less than last year.—Sept. 28, a flock of sheep passed 
through one of the towns of this county (Worces- 
tershire, be it remembered) for which toll was paid 
at three gates, within half a mile of each other, to 
the amount of £7 16s. 3d. Query, ought not the 
Legislature to remedy such an evil, and would it not 
contribu‘e to render meat cheaper ? : 
Died.) At Shenstone, Miss E. Williams, of Wit- 
lench—At Beoley, Mary, the wife of the Rev. T. 
Cormoules—At Hom Lacy, aged 81, Mrs. Scuda- 
more, relict of Mr. J. Scudamore—At Catherine 
Hill, John Wheeley, esq. 84—At Hereford, Mrs. E. 
Allen, 93. 
GLOUCESTER AND MONMOUTH, 
The 103d meeting of the Three Choirs took place 
on the 13th, 14th, and 15th September, and was 
distinguished by as numerous an attendance of com- 
pany as almost ever graced any preceding festival. 
The collections at the cathedral door were, jthe first 
day £276 17s.; second, £248 7s. Gd.; and the third, 
£287 5s. 7d.: Total £812 10s. 8d., being £52 16s. 3d. 
more than was collected at the last festival.—The 
disbursements of the county stock for Gloucester- 
shire, from Easter Sessions 1825 to Easter Sessions 
1826 inclusive, amount to £14,502 8s. 103d.—A pe- 
destal monument has been recently erected in St. 
Mary de Lodé’s-square, Gloucester, in memory of 
Bishop Hooper, with this inscription: ‘* John 
Hooper, D.D., Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester, 
was burnton this spot, on Saturday, Feb. 9, 1555, 
for his steady adherence to the Protestant Religion.’ 
Died.) At Woodchester, Dame Margaret Wathen, 
8), wife of Sir Samuel Wathen—At Ebly, Martha, 
relict of the Rev. J. Pettatt, and eldest daughter of 
the ipie Sir H. Hicks, Bart. of Whitcomb Park— 
At Cheltenham, Rey. C, Jervis; he had been perpe- 
tual curate of that place, and the ‘* grac’d respect ” 
that was shewn at his funeral is what falls to the lot 
of very few—At Gloucester, Mrs. Warren, 78, relict 
of the late Alderman Warren. 
DERBYSHIRE, 
The first stone of St. John’s Church at Derby was 
laid by the Bishop of the diocese, Sept. 14, when 
a grand ceremony, suited to the occasion, took place. 
