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CAMBRIDGE.— Extensive remains of a Ro- 

 man villa, and other iiigUly Interesting Roman 

 antiquitiei liave been recently discovered at Lit- 

 lington ill this county. — Cambridge Ckronicle, 

 May 29. 



NORFOIvK.— Tlie first sea-vcsscl Iniilt in Nor- 

 wich was launched from the yard of Mr. Batley, 

 May 28 ; the ceremony was attended by thousands 

 of spectators. The vessel, named " The Spring,"' 

 is of 108 tons admeasurement. 



The foundation stone of New Fye Bridge, Nor- 

 wich, was laid, June 2, by the Mayor, in the pre- 

 sence of a large concourse of persons assembled 

 to assist at and to witness the ceremony. Tlic 

 mayor noticed, with much satisfaction, the spirit 

 of improvement which shewed itself in this city, 

 not only by the evidence of public works, but also 

 by that of the vast number of houses which had 

 sprung up in almost every part of the civic juris- 

 diction. 



.rune 8. A meeting of the inhabitants of Yar- 

 mouth was held at the Commercial Hall, Quay, 

 for the purpose of establishing a Mechanics In- 

 stitution in that town, which was unanimously 

 agreed to, and a committee immediately appointed 

 to form rules and regulations for its management. 



Great improvements are going on at Lynn ; a 

 new market-house is immediately to be built; 

 new granaries are to be erected ; water-works 

 are to be commenced; the gaol rebuilding ; and 

 a new set of alms-houses are constructing. 



HANTS.— Some admirable improvements have 

 been effected in the Chapelry of Winchester Col- 

 lege, by the restoration of about 3,000 feet of 

 beautiful stained glass, which was commenced 

 eight years ago, and is now completed ; the rich 

 and mellow tints emanating from this splendid 

 collection, have a most holy and characteristic 

 effect. 



On Monday night (June 8)in the Bourne Mouth 

 Bay, 100,000 mackarel were caught by four boats, 

 and multitudes escaped in drawing in the nets on 

 the Bourne Beach. An equal quantity had been 

 caught a few evenings before, the bay being now 

 full offish. 



At Wadhurst, 28 persons have died, within the 

 last month, of small-pox. Several of these suf- 

 ferers had had it before ; and whose faces, in two 

 or three instances, were actually marked with the 

 disease. Whole families have been carried off by 

 the dreadful scourge, and scaicely a person has 

 sickened with it but has perished, whether old, 

 middle-aged, or young. 



May 22. The Brisk, and the Philomel, arrived 

 at Spitbead from the Mediterranean. Tlie latter 

 vessel sailed from Malta on the 13th ult. By these 

 vessels we learn that Count Heyden, with the 

 Russian squadron, is progressively extending his 

 blockade of the Mussulman's dominions, ostensi- 

 bly to prevent supplies of provisions reaching 

 Constantinople, and to cut off communication be- 

 tween Kgypt and Candia. The latter seriously 

 injures our cotton trade from the Nile, and the 

 former is a considerable annoyance to our Levant 

 trade. The Russians have very recently declared 

 the whole of the coast between the Gulf of Saros, 

 and the Gulf of Contcssa, to be included in the 

 Dardanelles blockade. This comprehends all the 

 •ea-sidc of Rumelia. When the Philomel left 

 Malta, there were one Russian line-of-battle-ship 

 and two frigate! retittiog, in great liaste, to join 



the main body of their squadron In the Archipe- 

 lago. There was not much familiarity observed 

 between the squadrons. The Russians were in 

 constant dread of Sir Pulteney Malcolm's re- 

 ceiving ordei-3 to raise all their blockades. — 

 Hampshire Telegraph. 



DERBYSHIRE. —The expenses for this 

 county, from Easter sessions 1828, to those of 

 1829, amounted to ^20,530. 5s. 6Jd.,the principal 

 part uf wiiich was appropriated to the support of 

 the criminal law: the county bridges, .£1,834. 5s. 



SOMERSETSHIRE.— The newly-formed road 

 at Seavington St. Mary, near Ilminster, is now 

 traversed by the mail, and other western roaches. 

 This alteration, so creditable to the trust, in the 

 short space of three quarters of a mile, saves no 

 less a distance than half-a-milel The under- 

 taking was commenced only 4 months since, and 

 has, by energetic superintendence, been thus 

 brought to' its present early state of practicable 

 usefulness. 



BERKS.— In Reading gaol there is a ponr 

 staymaker, named Thomas Turbutt, who has 

 been confined in that dreary abode upwards uf 12 

 weeks for a debt ii{ fourteen shillings .' He has 

 a wife and 6 children under 9 years of age, who 

 aresuppoited by St. Mary's parish, and he him 

 self receives 6d per day from the same source. — 

 Reading Mercury. 



SHROPSHIRE.— On the 19th inst. judgment 

 was given in the Court of King's Bench upon the 

 long pending Quo /Warranto cause — the King, v. 

 John Salwey, Esq., a member of the corporation 

 of Ludlow. It was shewn that Mr. Salwey was a 

 member of such body of less than 6 year's stand- 

 ing ; that he was at the time of his admission, 

 and had ever since been, a person not residing 

 within the liberties of the borough ; therefore 

 the court decided that he was not competent to be 

 a member of the corporate body. It has been the 

 practice of an influential party in the corporation 

 of Ludlow for more thau a century past, to choose 

 about two-thirds of its members from «on-resi- 

 dents, some of them residing at distances of 100 

 and 160 miles. A most animating scene of re- 

 joicing has been witnessed in the town, such as 

 bells ringing, flags flying, friends congratulating, 

 and liquor distributed in abundance ; with nume- 

 rous placards, exhibiting expressions of indig- 

 nation at the pa't usurpation of the corporate 

 rights by strangers to tlie borough. The result 

 of this Quo //-'arranto cause is not the only 

 benefit rendered the tovvn of Ludlow. The in- 

 come of the corporation is ;£4,000 per annum, 

 about .£900 of which had for many years been 

 appropriated to the use of the bailiffs. Hence 

 large sums of money, intended for the benefit of 

 the town exclusively, were alleged to have been 

 given into the hands of persons non-resident, and 

 before but little known in the borough. — Shrews- 

 bury Chronicle. June 5. 



SUSSEX.— The improvements and alteration 

 in Chichester Cathedral are being proceeded with 

 very rapidly— upwards of thirty men being now 

 employed ; and the antiquary, in particular— as 

 well as the admirers of ancient buildings, will be 

 gratified to learn that the whole of the white-wash 

 and yellow with which the walls were bedaubed a 



