1829.] 



Chronology; Marriages, and Deaths. 



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Gardner.— At the Mauritius, Capt. Barclay, 99tli 

 regt., aide-de-camp to his Excellency the Hon. 

 Sir 0. Colville, to Elise, youngest daughter of the 

 Blarcjuis de Rune. 



DEATHS ABROAD. 

 At Paris, the Eail of Blessington.— At Madrid, 

 the Queen of Spain.— At Wisbaden, the reigning 



Dulte of Oldenburg.— At Geneva, Sir Humphrey 

 Davy, Bart.— At Paris, Prince Hohenlohe, tlte 

 dealer in miracles.— At Hamburgh, Mrs. Hercules 

 Ross, daughter of Sir A. Crawfurd, Bart. — At 

 Brussels, Elizabeth Dowager Countess of Arran. 

 — At Lima, C. Arundell, esq., /."i, of the House of 

 Wardour, formerly of St. Vincent, and latterly of 

 Mexico. 



MONTHLY PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES. 



NORTHUMBERLAND. — On Whit Tuesday 

 2,9G3 children, and 385 teachers, of the Sunday 

 schools in Newcastle and its neighbourhood, were 

 assembled according to annual custom. A report 

 was made, by wliich it appeared that there are 

 DOW connected with the Newcastle Sunday School 

 Union 128 schools, containing 18,0/6 children, 

 and 2,39{r teachers, whose labour is entirely gra- 

 tuitous!!! 



Great improvements are going on at Newcastle. 

 Blackett-street is about to be mateiially increased 

 in length ; a splendid square and crescent are to 

 he erected ; and a spacious new carriage road is 

 ■ constructing A new street, the houses all to be 

 in tlie old English style, is also contemplated. 



The Chamber of Commerce of Newcastle have 

 resolved to operate mo^t zealously in the attempt 

 to procure the removal of the restrictions upon 

 commerce, to the East Indies and China. 



' DURHAM.— The foundation stone of a new 

 bridge over the Tees, at Whorlton, was lately 

 laid by Miss Headlam, daughter of the venerable 

 Archdeacon of llichmondshire. 



A young man who was engaged in repairing 

 the roof of Durham cathedral, fell, on the 15th of 

 June, from a height of 78 feet, upon the flags in 

 the chapel of the Nine Altars, and only received a 

 trifling injury. 



YORKSHIRE.— A very severe contest took 

 place at Northallerton on the 2Gth, 27tb, 28th, 

 and 29th of Jlay, for theoffice of Registrar of the 

 North Riding. The candidates were R. W. C. 

 Peirse, and J.'Valton, Esqrs. The former was 

 successful, the numbers being fur Mr. Peirse 

 546 ; and for Mr. Walton 470 ; majority 76. The 

 whole number of voters that polled and paired off 

 was l,15ij ; in 17S3, wljen the last contest took 

 place, only 374 freeholders voted. The qualifica- 

 tion for a vote is, the possession of ^100 a-year 

 freeliold property. 



Tliere are in Leeds workhouse, 16 male and 9 

 female paupers, whose united ages amount to 

 1,119 years, making an average of upwards of 76 

 years each. 



Selections of sacred music were performed at 

 Sheffield and Wakefield on the 9th and 10th of 

 June, for the benPlit of the fund for the restoia- 

 tion of York Minster. The performers all gave 

 their aid gratuitously ; at Wakefield .£180, and at 

 Sheffield .£50 were taken. 



It is finally resolved that a rail-road shall be 

 formed from Leeds to Selby, at an expense of 

 jei50,000. Application is to be made to Par- 

 liament for power. 



There were no less than 152 candidates for the 

 niBHtrrbhip of the grammar scliool at Ripley, in 

 tUii couoty, which was given away by th« trustees 



on the first Tuesday in June. The successful 

 candidate was Mr. Tliomas Heslop. 



The ISth of June was observed as a day of 

 great rejoicing in York, on account of the cessa- 

 tion of the toll over Ouse Bridge. The toll had 

 existed for 10 years, being laid onto defray the 

 expenses of building the bridge, and it was con- 

 sidered as very hurthensome and oppressive. At 

 twelve o'clock at noon, when t!ie toll ceased, a 

 procession of 13 mail and other coaches, with a 

 number of private carriages, &c., passed over the 

 bridge. 



On the 13th of June,Huddersfield and its neigh- 

 bourhood were visited by a most tremendous 

 hurricane. The dust was collected in the streets 

 in such an overwhelming mass, that nothing could 

 be seen, and the passengers were in danger of 

 suS'ocatioD. 



The Junction Dock at Hull has been recently 

 opened; it has been completed in one year and-a- 

 half, at an expense of £'180,000 ; its water sur- 

 face is about 6 acres, and it affords accommoda- 

 tion for upwards of 60 square-rigged vessels ; a 

 communication is, by this enterprise, now opened 

 (independently of the Old Harbour) with the Old 

 Dock, one of the most capacious in England : the 

 additional quay room, along a line of 720 yards, 

 is another convenience. Perhaps it may be hardly 

 necessary to add that, in addition to the accom- 

 modation of the harbour, the Old Dock in super- 

 ficial measurement covers about 10 acres, and the 

 Humber Dock, including the basin, upwards of 9. 

 — Hull Advertiser. 



Barnsley has been for several weeks in a state 

 of great excitement. The master manufacturers, 

 owing to a lessened demand for their goods, have 

 given out less work, and in one or two instances 

 there has been a reduction of wages. The result 

 has been, that popular meetings have been held, 

 and the assemblies have been harangued by the 

 disaffected, until tlie minds of the people have 

 been prepared for any work of destruction ; and 

 several thousands marched in a body, threatening 

 summary punishment upon several manufac- 

 turers ; until at length the magistrates read the 

 riot act, and called the Yeomanry to their assist- 

 ance, when the meeting gradually dispersed, but 

 not before they had revenged themselves by throw- 

 ing vollies of stones at the Yeomanry, who re- 

 ceived them with great forbearance. — Leeds In- 

 telligencer, June i. 



" In consequence of the large and accumulating 

 stocks on baud," says the Sheffield Iris, " most 

 of the iron-masters in the neighbourhood of Shef- 

 field have determined to effect another reduction 

 in wages, and to discharge several of their work- 

 men. At the Elsicar furnace, worked by Earl 

 FitzwiMiam, all the workmen are under notice to 

 leave." 



