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Provincial Occurrences: Gloucester, Derbyshire, S^. [Dec. 



Michaelmas Sessions 1825 to "Michaelmas 1820, that 

 the total expense amounted to i'7>'l09. 1». 7rf- 



Married.1 At Severnstoke, Rev. M. Vavasour to 

 Miss M. A. St. John. 



nierf.] At Worcester, G. Hill, esq., one of the 

 coroners of the county. 



GLOUCESTER ANB MONMOUTH. 



Drerf.] At Cheltenham, J. Fletcher, esq., of 

 Ebworth Park— At Clifton, Martin Whish, esq. 84, 

 late Chairman of the Board of Excise. 



DERBYSHIRE. 



A meeting has been held at Derby on the subject 

 of the Corn-Laws ; several resolutions were entered 

 Into, and passed unanimously, as well as two pe- 

 titions to be presented to the Lords and Commons, 

 on thesame subject. The fourth resolution states, — 

 "That, since the Legislature, with an enlightened 

 regard to the interests of the country, have, in va- 

 rious instances, removed restrictions from our 

 national commerce, it is highly desirable they con- 

 sider how far the same principles may be advan- 

 tageously applied to the trade in corn, with a view 

 cither to the gradual abolition of the Corn-Laws, or 

 to such alterations of those statutes as shall effec- 

 tually relieve the country from the evils of the pre- 

 sent impolitic and oppressive system." 



Dial.'] At Bufrworth, Mr. P. Hate, 105, farmer; 

 he worked in the field imtil he was nearly 94 — W. 

 Smith, at the ('avendish Aims-Houses, Derby, aged 

 1(H) years— At Derby, Rev. R. Hopper, aged II!) 

 yeai-s; he had been for forty years a disinterested 

 minister of the Particular Baptist Interest at Not- 

 tingham— At Wcnsley, Mr. A. Hill, !)1— At Durley 

 Pale, Mr. Gregory, aged 05. He had filled the 

 office of parish clerk .W years, and had never been 

 absent of a Sunday but once during 47 years; he 

 also had been schoolmaster durmg iy years. 



CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 



At the Quarter Sessions lately held at Cambridge, 

 the Recorder expressed his regret at finding the 

 offences in the calendar so numerous, and reminded 

 the Grand Jury that they were called upon to pre- 

 vcnt rather than to punish crime ! ! ! He also alluded 

 to the town goal, and said, that he would not hesi- 

 tate to affirm that it was a disgrace to the town I!! 

 We trust the learned gentleman's hints thus pro- 

 fessionally elicited, will be attended to, and that 

 assizes and sessions will be more f reciuently held, not 

 only at Cambridge, but throughout the country — 

 for it is notorious, that the long confinement of 

 culprits in prison befitre they are tried, is not only 

 one of the great defects of our criminal jurispru- 

 dence, but it is worse, as it contributes to render 

 them more perverse, even if they are acquitted ! 



OXFORDSHIRE. 

 The expenditure for this county from Michaelmas 

 Sessions 1823, to Trinity Sessions 1826, amounts to 

 £9,6«>4. 5*. 3rf. This includes vagrants, felons, goal, 

 coroners, bridges, clerk of the peace, treasurer's 

 salary, chief constables, militia, and incidental ex- 

 penses. The receipts of four orders of county rates 

 at Id. in the pound, £10,841. 0«. 8rf A fund is rais- 

 ing at Oxford to supply (during the winter months) 

 the poor with coals at a reduced price. — Application 

 is to be made in the present Parliament for leave to 

 bring in a bill, to alter and amend the present Local 

 Poor Bill for the city of Oxford. 



Died.'] At the Rectory-House, Islip, near Oxford, 

 Susanna, wife of the very Rev. Dean of Westmin- 

 ster, aged 71. 



BUCKS. AND BERKS. 

 At the Quarter Sessions held at Aylesbury, the 

 Dukeof Buckingham said, that this county enjoyed 

 the paiaful pre-eminraice of having its poor-rates 



heavier than any other county, and tlint unfortur 

 nately the poor had lost that spirit of Independence 

 which they once possessed. He then remarked, that 

 the labourer ought to be paid according to his earn- 

 ings, and that it was the duty of the magistrates to 

 find work for the poor in their respective parishes. 

 He then detailed the means which he had used, andi 

 which he advised the justices to follow, — which were 

 by letting each labourer a certain quantity of land, 

 about three chains, at the full rent, for cultivation 

 at his leisure hours, — ^which he said had fully 

 answered his expectations. He likewise powerfully 

 called their attention to the very depressed state of 

 the lace trade. — At Winslow, with only a population 

 of 1,244, the poor's-rate amoimted Sn the year end- 

 ing March 1825, to £2,250! By a more prudent 

 management it has this year been less by the sum of 

 £385. lis. 03 rf. 



Married.'] At High-Wycombe, Rev. C. Thurgar 

 to Wiss A. C. Williams. 



Died.'] At Great Marlow, W. Hales, esq. 75. 



BEDFORD AND HERTS. 



At a meeting of owners and occupiers of lands 

 held at Bedford, Oct. 14, it was unanimously re- 

 solved to present petitions to Parliament, praying 

 that no change may be made in the present Corn- 

 Laws, and recommending economy in every branch 

 of the public expenditure. 



A most destructive fire has taken place on the 

 premises of Mr. Bates, of Turner's-Hall Farm, Har- 

 penden. The stables, and barns full of corn, one 

 of which was 7,") feet long, with forty shee)) and a 

 beautiful horse, were all reduced to ashes. Dis- 

 tressing as these details are, we are sorry to add, that 

 the mob who attendeil, with a number of Gypsies, 

 entered the house during the confl.igration, and stole 

 every thing they could lay their hands on; the 

 wretches went into the cellar, and got so drunk, 

 that their inebriety added to the general confusion, 

 and the scene beggared all description. We trust the 

 Police will at length be aroused to a closer attention 

 to the vagabond race of Gypsies, that so much infest 

 the counties near the metropolis ! 



NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK. 



A meeting was held at Norwich, Oct. 19, for the 

 purpose of petitioning Parliament on the subject of 

 the poor's-rates, occasioned by their extraordinary 

 increase during the last six months, when several 

 resolutions were proposed and passed unanimously. 

 —The Rev. J. Brown, chaplain of the county gaol 

 (Norfolk), has made a very able report of the state 

 of the prisoners, and the causes and origin of crime ; 

 he mentions the useful assistance he has received 

 from the appointment of a schoolmaster. In allud- 

 ing to the connexion that exists between Ignorance 

 and Crime, he says: •■ Of 593 prisoners, 300 could 

 not read at their commitment; G8 could read 

 a very little ; C8 could read moderately well ; 



and 157 could read and write The most 



common origin of crime, I have found to be the 

 violation of the Sabbath but I cannot forbear ob- 

 serving, that Poaching leads more easily and rapidly 

 to the perpetration of the higher crimes than any 

 other incentive, and that the time and nature of the 

 employment, and the desperate combinations that 

 are entered into, create a greater ferocity of s}ufit 

 than I have hitherto found in ;my other class of 

 offenders." — The new cattle market has been opew^d 

 at Lynn ; it promises to become an extensive mart, 

 equally to the advantage of the neighbourinig coun- 

 try as to that town. 



Married.'] Rev. W. J. S. t'asbornc, of Paken- 

 h.im, to Anne, daughter of the late Capel Lofft, esq. 

 of Tooston-Hr.ll— At Sudburv, C. Harris, esq. to 

 Caroline, thini daughter of sic Lachlaii Maclean-. 



