574 
—Sept. 20, the 4th anniversary of the Society for 
Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews took place, 
at Derby. The report stated, that £350 6s. 6d. had 
been received in the course of the year. The chair- 
man very properly descanted on the horrible perse- 
cutions that had been inflicted on that suffering 
nation, and on the opposite feeling now pervading 
the minds of the people of this country. There are 
‘now in England and Ireland 150 societies of the same 
kind. 
Died.] At Bugsworth, Peter Bate, nearly 105. 
He followed his business of collier and farmer 
until 94. 
OXFORDSHIRE, 
Died.] At Henley-upon-Thames, the Hon. C.'E. 
Lady Smith, wife of Sir C. Smith, Bart., and daugh- 
ter of the late Lord Eardley. 
BUCKS AND BERKS. 
A report has been made at Aylesbury Vestry tela- 
tive to the employment of farm labourers who are 
out of employment now, or who may become so in 
the winter, as many are expected to be thrown on 
the parish during that season. A contract has been 
entered into in consequence, by which a single man 
is to receive 4s. 6d. per week—a man who has a wife 
6s.—to a man who has a wife and child 7s., and one 
shilling more to every additional child, till the sum 
amounts to ten shillings !!! 
Married.] At Swanbourne, Sir James Fitzgerald, 
Bart. to Augusta Henrietta, daughter of the late 
Vice-Admiral Sir T. F. Freemantle. 
NORFOLK. 
At a meeting lately held at the Guildhall, Nor- 
wich, it was unanimously resolved to apply to Par- 
liament for an Act for making ‘‘ a navigation for 
sea-borne vessels from Norwich to the sea by Lowes- 
toft.’ The proposals for a contract for the above 
purpose was presented, guaranteeing the whole ex- 
penses for less than the sum of £100,000. It/is like- 
wise intended to apply for Acts relative to the work- 
house, and for other improvements in the city of 
Norwich, by which an opening from the market- 
place is intended to be made at the north-east corner, 
toextend into St. Andrew’s Broad-street. This new 
aveitue will be forty feet wide, exclusive of the 
side-pavement. We understand that it is designed to 
erect the Corn-Exchange on one side; the Post 
Office and Excise Office opposite ; lower down, the 
Artists’ Room, and a little beyond that the Public- 
Library.—The Norwich Museum has opened for the 
inspection of the public. ' 
HAMPSHIRE. 
The ceremony of laying the first stone of the 
intended new buildings at Alverstoke, to be called 
«* Anglesea Ville,” in honour of the Marquis of An- 
lesea, has recently taken place. A magnificent ban- 
quet was given on the occasion.—A report of the 
Commissioners of Inquiry into the State of the 
Public Charities in the city of Winchester has just 
been published, and sent to the respective church- 
wardens, although it was made in December 1823; 
whith, the provincial papers inform us, excites con- 
siderable attention, for it appears that the corpo- 
ration have entrusted to their charge, .exclusive of a 
farm called ‘* Pudding House,” consisting of 50 
acres, property to the yearly amount of £1,448 lés. 
l0d., for which they receive only £152 8s, 4d. real 
annual rent, and £6 16s. chicken money, with 
£1,415 2s. Gd. for fines upon renewal of leases; but 
these leases are for 21 or 40 years !!!—Petitions are 
preparing at Romsey to be preseuted to Parliament 
for the protection of the agricultural interest.—Lord 
BLgremont has munificently otiered to the proprietors 
Provincial Occurrences: Norfolk, Sussex, &c. 
[ Nov. 
of the Portsmouth and Arundel Canal a surrender 
of his shares, to the amount of £15,750, on con- 
dition of the proprietors completing the canal as 
originally contemplated. 
Died.] At Portsmouth, Mr. J. Burnard, 101— 
Rev. H. Inglis. D.D., Rector of Easton—At South- 
ampton, the Rev. R. B. B. Philipson, and Major- 
general W. Fawcett, Governor of Limerick, 76— 
At Southampton, Charles Mills, esq. the celebrated 
historian. 
SUSSEX. : 
Such plans of economy haye been pursued at 
Brighton by the town commissioners, that the whole 
amount of the savings will be more than £1,000 per 
annum.—As a proof of the improvement in New- 
haven harbour, there was 16 feet water at the 
water-gauge on Sept. 10; the same over the jetty 
work, and 19 feet in the middle of the channel. 
All this, it must be remembered, was at the dead of 
the neaps.—Sept. 21, the new church of Little- 
Hampden was consecrated by the Bishop of Chiches- 
ter. It is considerably larger than the old one, and 
is admired for its chaste and elegant simplicity.— 
Arundel Castle has lately had a valuable acquisition 
of eight large Arctic owls from Nova Zembla. 
Died.) At Deane Park, J. Edersfield, esq.—At 
Chichester, Miss Hounsom. 
WILTSHIRE. 
Died.], At Bourton, Matilda Ottley, wife of Capt. 
R. Hoare, R.N., and youngest daughter of Rear- 
Admiral Sir C. Fahie. 
SOMERSETSHIRE. 
The fourteenth anniversary of the Bristol Mis- 
sionary Society was held Sept. 28, Admiral Pearson 
in the chair. The report announced that the sum 
of £1,700 had been received during the year, not- 
withstanding the severe pressure of the times, a 
sum exceeding nearly £500 more than the preceding 
year.—A meeting of the occupiers of land in the 
vicinity of Bristol has been lately held at that place, © 
for the purpose of re-establishing the association 
*© for the mutual protection of the cultivators of the 
soil, and the defence of their just claims before the 
Legislature.”—The inhabitants of Frome have ad- 
dressed a petition to his Majesty, praying him, on’ 
behalf of 60,000 unemployed journeymen of the 
woollen manufacture, ‘to impose restraints on all 
recent injurious inventions,” to which they attribute 
all their distress. 
The magnificent altar-piece that was taken down 
from Westminster-Abbey to:make room for the jast 
coronation, has been recently put up in Burnham 
Church, at the expense of the Bishop of Rochester, 
vicar of that church. 
Died.] At the Palace at Wells, Jane, wife of the 
Bishop of Bath and Wells, and daughter of the late 
General Adeane—At Exeter, aged 75, Mr. John Hop- 
ping, who had formerly been in the army, and in 
June 1775 was in the severe and long remembered 
battle at Bunker’s Hill. In 1777 he was under Gene- 
ral Burgoyne in the expedition from Canada to Al- 
bany: and on the evening of the 8th October in that 
year, the day following the bloody engagement in’ 
which the brave Colonel Acland, who commanded 
the grenadiers, was seyerely wounded and taken pri- 
soner, Hopping was serjeant of an advanced picquet, 
in which situation it became his duty to assist the 
heroic Lady Harriet Acland, when she embarked in a 
frail boat and threw herself on the merey ‘and gene- 
rosity of General Gates, in, order to,murse her 
wounded husband. dao ~\ 
' DORSETSHIRE. 
Sept. 23. A meeting of the inhabitants of Wey- 
mouth was held at the Guildhall, the Mayor in the 
chair, for the , purpose of taking into consideration 
the best means to be adopted for alleviating the dis- 
tressed state of the widows and orphans of the crew ~ 
