1826.] Wiltshire, Devonshire, CorwivaU, Wahs, and Scotland. 



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Ci«i.] At Walshain-le-\VUlow.«, Ann, wlc!ow of 

 the Rev. C. MiUer, Dean of Chichester. 



WII.TS0inE. 



The calendar at the late Quarter Sessions for this 

 cbunt^■, contained a list of 4.1 prisoners. 

 ] The present Mayor of Devizes is Rector of Brom- 

 ham, in this county, with an income of £fjilO per 

 annum, non-resident. So says JuhuDuil; adding, 

 two letters have been forwatdetl on the subject some- 

 time since — one to the Bishop of Sarum, the other 

 to his secretary ! 



SOXfERSETSHIRE. 



The Lord of the Manor (Mr. Hunt), of Glaston- 

 bury, has lately summoned the principal farmers to 

 attend him, for the purpose of appointing jurits 

 according to the feudal system ; they attended to 

 nearly the number of 200, and the juries were 

 formed and took the usual oaths : when the Lord of 

 the Manor informed them, that in another year, 

 acting in the name of the King, he should enforce 

 the regulations of the court in such a manner, as to 

 make them worthy of the great authority of Alfred. 



" Our columns this week abound with roblieries 

 and assaults. \Vhen will our citizens bestir them- 

 selves to get a proper pfAice f If there were no better 

 or justifiable a cause for petitioning the King for a 

 new charter, to amend and alter the present mode of 

 electing the magistracy of Bristol, thi:t alone would, 

 wc are well informed, claim the attention of the Se- 

 cretary of State for the Home Department."— Bm<o< 

 JwirtuiL 



Died.'] At Bath, Mrs. Collbeck, widow of the 

 late C. Collbeck, esq., and sister to Admiral Sir 

 Isaac Coffin, Bart. — At Frome, Mrs. Hare, relict of 

 the Rev. R. Hare, Prebendary of Winchester. 



BEVONSHIUE. 



We are utterly unable to account for the appalling 

 mcrea-'C of crime which now prevails throughout 

 the Kingdom, from one extremity to tlie other; 

 but such is the fact, and a most lamentable one it 

 Is. In our own city, with a population by no means 

 large, a numerovis list of criminals, of almost every 

 grade in iniquity short of nuirdtj, have this week 

 rcceiveil judgment from the Recorder ; and in the 

 Devon court the calendar presents a proportionate 

 accumulation of offenders. Thus far the Krctcr 

 Cuz'tte : to which is to be added the observation of 

 the Recorder; " The calendar," said he/ " contains 

 a longer and more serious list of oiltnces than ever 

 came under my notice at this bench." 



Oct. 2.) Devonjiort exhibited gymnastic exercises, 



which were attended by nearly lo,(j(K)i)Cople. The 

 point of honour was contended between two heroes, 

 of Cornwall and Devon, Cann and Polkinhorn, for 

 the sum of 21X1 sovereigns ; when, after great efforts 

 for the championship, a dispute arose in deciding 

 which of these wrestling contenders won the civic 

 crown, and the golden sovereigns, when it ternii- 

 natc-d In a drawn battle. — Sic trunsit gloria muiidi 

 frynautni I 



Uamstable new nuildhall, which has been recently 

 opened for business, Is a handsome building In the 

 Orecian style, and is capable of holding .'jfld persons ; 

 at the south end Is the robing-room, over which are 

 two withdraw ing-rooms, opening Into galleries for 

 the grand and petty jurleii. 



MnrrieilA At Dartmouth, Roljert Edward, eldest 

 ■on of the Baron de Bruce, to Ml»» J. 11. O' Donovan. 



1)1 <f.] At Kxeter, Mr. II. .Saunders, aged H.'i — At 

 Bcoilwinch, tl. i'almer, e»i|.— At Axminster, Mrs. 

 Knight. 



COENWALL. 



Die/.] At S't. Austell'H, Mr. John Julyan, auoi 

 tu yeai:^ fur muiv thou half a ceulury ckik uf that 



parish, and from the seventh year of his age a con- 

 stant and celebrated church singer. 



VALES. 



The parishioners of Ruthin, Llanrhyd, and Ltan- 

 furog, have presented to the Rev.»R.Newcombe a su- 

 perb candelabrum and salver, as a public testimonial 

 of regard for his 'meritorious public conduct as a 

 clergyman and magistrate, and for his private worth 

 in the exemplary performance of all the relative 

 duties of life during twenty-two years of his resi- 

 dence among them. The plate weighed .130 oz., and 

 is richly chased, and was purchased by unsolicited 



subscriptions The Trustees of the Breconshire 



turnpike roads, have come to the determination of 

 petitioning Government to take the mail road from 

 Gloucester to Milford Haven (leading through that 

 county) under their care, in the same manner aa 

 the turnpike road from Shrewsbury to Holyhead, 

 with the view of having Mr. Telford's survey carried 



efficiently into execution On the 24th Sept. as the 



ship CiTTus, Capt. Davison, of Newcastle, was pass- 

 ing under that stupendous structure, Menai bridge^ 

 she struck her main royal mast head in it, which 

 fell on the deck ; notwithstanding the height from 

 the top of the main royal m.ist head to the water 

 was afterwards ascertained to be no less than 116 

 feet ! — The Branch Bank of England opened at 

 Swansea, Nov. C. The notes are the same as those 

 issued by the parent establishment, only dated 

 Swansea, and payable there and in London. No 

 note exceeds £500, and none less than £5. 



Died.] At Gorphwysfa, near Bangor, Fleetwood 

 Williams, esq., brother to Sir John Williams, Bart, 

 of Bodlewyddan. 



SCOTLAND. 



It is lamentable to detail the distress of the ma- 

 nufacturing population. There being but a small 

 chance of their condition being soon bettered, they 

 are fallen into the most gloomy despondency ; and 

 are now quite callous and indifferent about public 

 affairs. Long suffering appears to have completely 

 broken their spirits ; and destroyed that tone of 

 manly independence for which they were formerly 

 distinguished. Weavers of the most virtuous cha- 

 racter, and whose lives have been devoted to uni- 

 form and incessant industry, finding all their exer- 

 tions vain to procure the means of subsistence, or 

 to give their families that education which alone 

 can render them of value to society or themselves, 

 are now zealously devoting their attention to the 

 means of expatriation to a foreign 'and, as the only 

 hope of relief. Their ordinary working apparel is 

 completely worn out, and unfit to withstand the 

 severity of winter : and many families, who are 

 solely dependent on the loom, arc in a state border- 

 ing on starvation. They are scarcely able to com- 

 mand a meal a day, and are f»ften witliout a fire. 

 It is the general opinion of those best informed, that 

 the habits of the working rlassts are fxst deteriorat- 

 ing to the condition of the neglected Irish; while 

 the Scotsman has not the buoyancy of spirits of the 

 Irishman, who will make a jest of his own misery. 

 The weavers of Parkhead, and other districts near 

 Glasgow, are about to have meetings to send up to 

 Parliament a representation of their dreadful state 

 of destitution, and the Impossibility of their con- 

 tinuing longer to exist under such privations. 



Married.] At Wemyss Castle, the Rl. Hon. Lord 

 Loughborough to Miss Wemyss, of Wemyss. 



Died.] At Edinburgh, John Macdonald, aged 111 ; 

 he served as a private in the I5th regt. of foot for 

 14 years, and was discharged on a pension in 174a — 

 At Edinburgh, Sir Stephen Sharp, late Consul- 

 General at St. I'etcrslmrgh — At Comric, Rev. .S. 

 Oilfillan, well known as the the author of " Essays 

 OQ tltc banctiUcation of the LurU'i Day." 



