126 Provincial Occurrences : Lincolnshire, Devonshire, Sfc. [3vLlt, 



A numfrous meeting of operatives was held, 

 June 15, at Aldnionbury, when the following re- 

 solutions were unanimously adopted by the people 

 present : — That it is the opinion of this meeting, 

 that the nation can never become permanently 

 prosperous, until the national debt has become a 

 dead letter, and the public expenditure been re- 

 duced to the lowest possible amount. — That it is 

 the opinion of this meeting, that macliinery is in- 

 jurious to the labouring community of this coun- 

 try ; and that, inasmuch as it takes away their 

 labour, and thus disables them from contributing 

 to the revenue, it ought to be made to pay its 

 ratio of the taxes. — That tliis meeting is of opinion 

 that an organised system of co-operation ought to 

 be immediately entered upon, in order to direct 

 the energies of the labouiing part of the popula- 

 tion, to the removal of those acts of legislature 

 which press exclusively upon them. — Leeds In- 

 telligencer, June 18. 



LINCOLNSHIRE. — Burringham Warping 

 Sluice opened,May29th, amidsta great concourse 

 of persons whom the line weather and novelty of 

 the scene had attracted. The procession, consist- 

 ing of 8 boats, preceded by the Gainsborough 

 steamer, and an excellent hand of music, sailed up 

 the Trent, and shot through the archway of the 

 sluice in gallant style, amid the discharge of can- 

 non, the display of banners and ensigns, and the 

 shouts of the delighted inhabitants of Burringham 

 and the surrounding villages. The sluice is also 

 intended for a navigation, and is allowed to be the 

 completest work of the kind that has yet bceu 

 erected on the banks of the Trent. 



The public attention has been powerfully drawn 

 to a correspondence which has been published 

 between the Bishop of Lincoln and a clergyman 

 of his diocese. The facts seem to be, that a 

 clergyman, who had a family of thirteen children, 

 was obliged to resign a curacy, with the income 

 of which he eked out that of a vicarage oS jEGO 

 a-year, of which he was incumbent, by a mandate 

 of the Bishop requiring him to do double duty; 

 and since this exercise of authority he finds that 

 a considerable number of clergymen of the same 

 diocese and archdeaconi7, who have large in- 

 comes* and more populous parishes than his own, 

 are permitted to perform single duty only. The 

 case, on the showing of the complainant, is very 

 hard on the Vicar. We wait farther information 

 before we decide on such a seemingly cruel case ; 

 iema<-king only, that the late Rev. Earl of Bridge- 

 water, and the Rev. Viscount Barrington, cum 

 mvltis aliis, were not so strictly looked after! 



June 12. Arrived in the river at Lincoln, a Lon- 

 don trader, and the sloop Blessing, of 7S tons, 

 with cargoes; thus rendering Lincoln a port! 

 The goods brought by these vessels were delivered 

 in the town with the honours of music and ban- 

 ners.— ijnco/ra Alercury. 



DEVONSHIRE.— In the Report of the Com- 

 mittee of Accounts made to the magistrates of 

 this county, on the suljject of the alarming ex- 

 penses for criminal jurisprudence there, the Com- 



* It appears from a late analysis, that the 

 grand total of benefices, dignitaries, and minor 

 canonries, in England and Wales, is 12,200 ; that 

 they are divided amongst 7,669 persons, of whom 

 3,853 hold one preferment only ; 3,304, two ; 3/0, 

 three ; 73, four ; 38, five, 13, six ; 4, seven ; 1, 

 eight ; 2, nine ; and 1, fifteen \\\— Clerical Guide. 



mittee remark, "The Judges of Assize, as well as 

 the chairman of the Quarter Sessions, have had 

 frequent occasion to lament the trifling offences 

 for which prisoners are brought before them fox 

 trial ; and your Committee are of opinion, that 

 nothing can be more detrimental to the general 

 welfare, than the commitment of persons for 

 trivial and insignificant offences, by which no ex- 

 ample is offered to the public, and the individual 

 returns to society corrupted by an Intercourse 

 with more hardened offenders in a gaol [fre- 

 quently kept «i> monftis before trial!!!] and often 

 deprived of the means of obtaining an honest live- 

 lihood by the stigma which a commitment fixes 

 indelibly upon his character." 



WORCESTERSHIRE.— The several Sunday 

 schools assembled, as usual, at Worcester, on 

 Whit-Monday, and went, in procession, to their 

 respective places of worship, at each of which, ad- 

 dres.ses were delivered to nearly 3.000 children, 

 and thoy were afterwards regaled with tea and 

 cake. On Whit-T,iiesday, also, 1,100 children be- 

 longing to the schools of the different denomina- 

 tions of dissenters, at Kidderminster, walked in 

 procession to the Old Meeting House. 



HEREI'ORD, — Last week. Dr. Symonds, of 

 Hereford, caught a salmon in the Wye, which 

 proved to be an old fish tLat had not spawned, 

 though the belly was full of spawn, a very uir- 

 nsual occurrence, we believe, at this period of the 

 year. The salmon are now more plentiful in the 

 Wye than they have been for the last thirty years, 

 a convincing proof of the obstruction the late 

 Wear offered, and the benefits which have resulted 

 from its removal, which every succeeding year 

 will probably increase. — Hereford Journal. 



The fine spire of Ross church has been com- 

 pletely restored to its original beauty ; and n» 

 doubt will, for many years, continue to grace the 

 landscape, and perpetuate the munificence of the 

 " Man of Ross," and the good taste of those under 

 whose superintendence the necessary repairs have 

 been completed. 



GLOUCESTERSHIRE. — After 12 years of 

 litigation in the Court of Chancery, between Cor- 

 pus Christi college, Oxford, and this parish, we 

 have much pleasure iu Informing our readers that 

 there is now a fair prospect of the suit being ter- 

 minated by an amicable arrangement, and the 

 funds arising from the ancient grant of Richard 

 Pates, being applied to the purpose originally in- 

 tended. Great thanks are due to the committee 

 appointed by the parish to promote this desirable 

 event, and we hope their praiseworthy exertions 

 will be rewarded by the speedy formation and 

 endowment of a free grammar school in Chelten- 

 ham, which shall be equal to any in the kingdom. 

 — Cheltenham Chronicle. 



On Whit-Monday the 24th anniversary meeting 

 of the Bristol Methodist Sunday Schools was held 

 at that place, when 1,600 of the children assem- 

 bled at the Ebenezer chapel. From the statement 

 read. It appears that the committee have at pre- 

 sent under their care 19 schools, containing 2,960 

 children ; there are nearly 500 teachers and 

 superintcndants, who all act gratuitously, and 

 some of them subscribe besides to the fund. Since 

 the formation of the society, in 1804, upwards of 

 31,000 children have been admitted into the 

 schools !!1 



