1829.] 



Dur/uim, Yorkshire, and Lancashire* 



357 



The foundation stone of a new briJge across 

 the river Wansbeck, at the High Ford, leading to 

 Blitford, was laid Aug. 10. 



Sunderland, duringthe month of July, was most 

 busily emijloynd. No less than 1,1/1 ships had 

 cleared up to the 29th of July, coal-laden ; and 

 since the coniracncement of the year, during which 

 period 120 ships were despatched to Archangel. 



On the ni^ht of the 24th of July, a storm of 

 thunder and rain visited the cotinty of Durham, of 

 great and unusual severity. The new bridges at 

 Langley Castle, and in Gee's Wood, were swept 

 away by the rai^ing of the Langley Burn, and 

 other damage was done. 



The committee of the Mechanics' Institution, at 

 Sunderland, have twice unconditionally rejected 

 iord Byron's works. 



Warehouses for bonded grain have been opened 

 at South Shields, in consequence of more foreign 

 grain having arrived at Newcastle than the ware- 

 bouses there will hold. , 



YORKSHIRE.— The number of prisoners tried 

 at these assizes amounted to 82 ; 31 of whom 

 were recorded for death, 7 transported, and 6 im- 

 prisoned. 



Melthara has been the scene of a more violent 

 riot than ever [see our last, page 237], and on 

 Monday, after the Riot Act had been read, and 

 25 of the ringleaders taken into custody, the corpse 

 of Joseph Taylor (the man who died at fllelkham 

 three weeks ag'o.') and which has been kept in 

 a leaden coffin, was carried into the church ; the 

 sexton refusing to ofBciate in digging the grave, 

 another person was found for that purpose, the 

 friends of the deceased all the time waitingtill the 

 grave was prepared! — Leeds Intelligencer, 

 Aug. 6. 



On the 29th of July a new Roman Catholic 

 chapel was opened at Hull, with great pomp. — 

 Twelve clergymen officiated. 



The chancel of Trinity Ciiuich, Hull, is under- 

 going a thorough repair and improvement. The 

 windows are tu be replaced with painted glass ; 

 and, when finished, it will be oue of the most 

 teauliful chancels in the kingdom. 



A new church is building at Holbeck, near 

 Leeds. 



There were 179 causes, and 82 prisoners for 

 trial at the Yorkshire summer assizes. Sixteen 

 of the causes had special juries. The number of 

 prisoners was greater thanwasever remembered. 

 A high-pressure steam-engine, forming a com- 

 plete working model, the cylinder of which is 

 only one-sixteenth part of an inch diameter, and 

 the weight of the whole only one ounce, has been 

 constructed by Mr. John Blanchley, of Bristol. 



Trade, towards the close of last month, revived 

 a little in the West Riding ; but the state of the 

 working classes is most deplorable. 



The rockite system has been introduced into 

 tlic East Riding of Yorkshire. Mr. Wray, near 

 Wcdon, had a stack of rape burnt last month, 

 and a threatening notice was posted up ; and 

 another Utter was posted at Keyingham, threaten- 

 ing llie property of the farmers with destruction, 

 unless they adopted means to gratify the la- 

 buun-ra. 



The Methodist Conference has just closed at 

 Sheftield. It Is considered to have been the best 

 rr.nterence since the death of .Mr. Wesley, The 

 increase ol the society is 2,131 in Ureal Hritain, 



and 2,743 in the missionary stations ; making a 

 total of .'j,177 since the last conference. 



The skeleton of a horse, and many bones of the 

 sheep and dog, with muscle, cockle, and oyster- 

 shells, were found twelve or fourteen feet below 

 the surface of the earth, on the Foss Bank, York. 



Isaac Brown, of East Morton, near Keighley, 

 has invented a gig, drawn by a wooden horse, 

 which runs six miles an hour, with three passen- 

 gers. It may be guided in any direction by a rein 

 fixed in the horse's mouth. A poor man, at Leeds, 

 has also invented a carriage, which, without either 

 horse-power, or steam, will run on a rail-road 

 from 18 to 20 miles an hour, with 16 or 18 passen- 

 gers ; and on a highway, 1 2 or 15 miles an hour, 

 with six or eight passengers. The machinery is 

 under the carriage. 



LANCASHIRE.— On July 27, a meeting of 

 merchants, and other inhabitants, was held at 

 Liverpool, when it was resolved, "That this meet- 

 ing have learned, with deep regret, that James 

 Maury, esq., has been removed from the situation 

 of Consul for the United States of America at 

 this port, which he has filled for the last forty 

 years, with the greatest credit to himself and ad- 

 vantage to his country. — That having for so long 

 a period, during which times of extreme difficulty 

 and political irritation have freqaently occurred, 

 witnessed his undeviating integrity, and expe- 

 rienced the urbanity of his manners in the dis- 

 charge of his public duties ; being also impressed 

 with a high respect for his private character and 

 honourable conduct during his long residence 

 here, this meeting are desirous to present him 

 with a memorial of their regard and atiachment 

 apon his removal from office. — That a subscrip- 

 tion be now opened to raise a fund, to be applied 

 to the purchase of one or more pieces of plate, to 

 be presented to Mr. Maury, in testimony of their 

 esteem and approbation ; and that the amount of 

 each individual subscription be limited to the sum 

 of five pounds." 



While so much distress exists in various parts 

 of the kingdom, and while such loud complaints 

 are every where making of the state of trade, it 

 is remarkable that there should exist in Liverpool 

 some of the strongest symptoms of prosperity. 

 New streets are springing up in every direction, 

 and there are so many churches building, or in 

 contemplation, that it would perhaps be impossible 

 to adduce a parallel to it in the history of church 

 building throughout the kingdom. The Railway 

 Tunnel, too, of which Liverpool may be justly 

 proud, and which, indeed, will become a national 

 advantage, was opened, in ceremony, July 31, 

 when the mayor, in company with a party of 

 friends, went through it in a common railway 

 waggon highly gratified. The tunnel runs under 

 the town of Liverpool from the back of Edge-hill 

 to Wapping. On the Cheshire side of the Mersey 

 new houses are erecting all along the shore ; and 

 at Woodside, a square, not inferior to the most 

 beautiful squares in London, is buiMing. In ad- 

 dition to these facts, the poor-rate is lower than in 

 the most prosperous years ; it is reduced to Is. 6d. 

 in the pound, a gratifying pronf that the labouring 

 classes in Liverpool have, in a great measure, 

 escaped the distress wliich jjas fallen so heavily 

 on those classes in other places. •- Uoerpool 

 Times. 

 The mastcr-spinncrs of fine numbers in Man- 



