18262], 
flowers,were, beautifully. formed, and emitted the 
most) fragrant perfume,... It 1s believed to be the first 
instance of this, plant's flowering in that city. 
"Seventeen stone, ten. pounds, « of grapes, very fine 
ones, and, quite, ripe,.., were. gathered | in October, ; 
from a vine. growing in front of a cottage, in the 
open; ait, at-Helmsley. — ‘Grapes had never ripened 
but once before on this,v vine within memory. 
On-the 10th Noy.,:there was a grand concert in 
‘the Festival: CORE | Room, York, at which 500 of 
the first, persons in the city, and neighbourhood were 
present, ,It was ‘under the patronage of the Arch- 
bishop; for, the benefit. of the, distressed manu- 
facturers.. 
A steam-boat boiler exploded i in the Humber, on 
the 7th. ‘November, ‘Six persons were killed, and 
twenty wounded. The accident appears to have 
been owing to the badness of the boiler. 
Married.| At Alderley, Cheshire, Captain W. E. 
Parry, R. N. to Isabella ‘Louisa, fourth daughter of 
Sir John Thomas Stanley, Bart., of Alderley.—At 
Thirsk, Rev. T. Cautley to Miss M. A. P. Henson— 
At York, Rey. Jas. Dallin to Mrs. Jenkinson—At 
Thornhill, Thomas Ellerby, esq., to Miss Thorn- 
hill—At Hooby, Rev. G. Gi derdale to Miss Smith— 
At Scarborough, W.W, Wilkinson, esq. to Miss M. 
Thornton. 
Died] ‘At Leeds, Charlotte, youngest daughter 
of Jas. Rhodes, esq.—At York, Mrs. Horncastle, 
relict of Richard Horncastle, esq. 
/STAFFORDSHIRE AND SALOP. 
~A very handsome vase, weighing 550 ounces, has 
been presented by the tenantry of the Earl of Bridge- 
water, and other inhabitants of Ellesmere and 
neighbourhood, to Robert Clark, esq., as amark of 
their esteem for his anxiety and fatherly affection 
towards them for twenty years, during his manage- 
ment of the noble Lord’s estates. Mr. Clark in 
returning thanks said, that when the late Earl of 
Bridgewater entrusted him with the management of 
his estates, his instructions were, ** let the tenantry 
be made comfortable and happy, and, wherever it is 
practicable, let my property be made subservient to 
the amusement of the country gentlemen !” 
At the Stafford Sessions, one of the magistrates 
(Sir Oswald Moseley) remarked, that the number 
of prisoners for trial was greater than at any former 
period—there were three hundred in the county 
goal 
Died.] At Rolleston ‘Hall, Miss S..E. G. Every, 
cet n Bis Henry Every, Bart., of Egginton, 
Derby. arts 
Settee al beeen CABHIBE- 
Oct. 26, a numerous meeting of the working 
glasses and. others was held at Manchester, for the 
purpose of petitioning Parliament on the repeal of 
the Corn-Laws, the reduction of taxation, the enor- 
sums bestowed on the dignitaries of the Esta- 
d Church, and the reform of representation 
ag SE ete when several resolutions were 
Be octignts framed from them unanimously 
arate e presented to the houses of Lords and 
orn H.01 hy Lord King, and the other by Mr. 
ume.— he ‘sentence of death passed at the last 
ancashire assizes, upon the rioters has been com- 
muted for imprisonment and transportation. 
A meeting of the inhabitants of Liverpool has 
tak ken place in the Town-Hall, for the purpose of 
presenting petitions to the Legislature on the sub- 
ect of the Corn-Laws; when several resolutions 
a passed \inaviimously, Mdicating the necessity 
‘of a modification of the Corn-Laws. All the com- 
‘Wiercial gentlemen of the town attended, and Col. 
Williams, in the course of his speech, said: ‘* he 
‘was a cultivator of corn, and had to give one-tenth 
of his produce to the Rector of Childwall, and that, 
Staffordshire, Lancashire, Nottingham, Leicester, §c. 
685, 
although he had lived in the parish, twenty-five’ 
years, yet he had never seen his teverence’s face but 
orice in a quarter of a century?” ob. 99mo10lT'9 
FTE a v fe 
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE AND LINCOLNSHIRE. 
At the 44th anniversary meeting of the’ General 
Hospital, Nottingham, held Oct. 18, the’ contribu- 
tions réceived at the church door of St. Mary’s for 
admission, amounted to’ £320. 10s. A sélection of 
sacred music, with full -chorusses, was performed 
during the service.—A petition of the inhabitants of 
Nottingham to the House of Commons for the total 
abolition of the Corn-Laws and excessive taxation, 
has been agreed to, and about 10,000 signatures have 
been attached to it, at the’ Town-Hall. Similar 
petitions have passed at Radford, Basford, Nyson 
Green, and Beeston.—The Corporation of Not- 
tingham are improving their extensive market- 
place—the unemployed poor are to do the labour, 
and the parish is to receive 4d. per yard for the 
same. 
Died.] At Newark, Rev. W. Rastall, 74. 
LEICESTERSHIRE. 
Nov. 4, 1826.—The vicar of a parish not twelve 
miles from this town, who within the last seven 
years was in the enjoyment of a living which pro- 
duced him £600 or £700 a year, was observed, 2 
few days ago, breaking stones by the road side, ina 
parish not far from Boston, Lincolnshire. The 
individual who saw him, wasa respectable dissenting 
minister of the Baptist denomination, who resides 
in a neighbouring parish to that in which the vicar 
formerly lived. ‘Scarcely crediting what his eyes 
beheld as he passed along the road, he stopped his 
horse and_entered into conversation with hin. The 
appearance of the aged and unfortunate divine was 
truly wretched, and he was much affected at being 
discovered in his forlorn situation, but said, that :he 
hoped again to see better days, as in the course of 
five or six years the pecuniary engagements into 
which he had entered would be satisfied, and that 
then he should return to the vicarage where he had 
been resident for so many years. The dissenting minis- 
ter, commiserating his situation, gave him. 5s-5 
promising, on his return home, to, make jhis case 
known to the clergy of the neighbourhood. The 
wife of the vicar had some time before applied for 
relief from the parish of which her husband was 
vicar, but did not obtain any, as he had subsequently 
acquired a settlement elsewhere.— Leicester Chronicle. 
WARWICKSHIRE, 
At the last quarter Sessions, it appears by the an 
calendar, that no less than one hundred and twenty 
prisoners were for trial; ninety of whom were com- 
mitted by the magistrates of Birmingham. Surely 
it is high time that something were done to render 
speedier the administration of our criminal laws— 
would it not be more creditable to us, as a nation 
famed for its jurisprudence, to remedy the abuses in 
the interior of our country, and to preyent crime, 
before we presume to make the nations abroad bet- 
ter ?—** look at home,” has long been an adage 
among the wise and prudent, and why should Eng- 
land forget it ?—Four youths at Warwick were fined 
6d. each damages, and 8s. costs, for trespassing and 
gathering the chesnuts in the pleasure grounds ad- 
joining the Castle, during divine service on Sunday. 
Died.) At Coventry, Mrs. Butterworth, 73, 
relict of the late Alderman Butterworth—At Man- 
cetter-House, W. Owen, esq. 72. 
WORCESTERSHIRE AND HEREFORDSHIRE. 
It appears by the Worcester County Treasurer's 
abstract account of receipts and expenditure, from 
