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Prov'mcial Occurrences : Wiltshire, Somersetshire, SfC. QSept. 



bury for this county, 12 prisoners were recorded 

 for death, and two transported. Anne Hooper, 

 for receiving a pair of stockings, l<nowing them 

 to be stolen, was acquitted. The prisoner was a 

 very interesting young woman, with a tine child 

 in her arms. The house had been broken into 

 on the 3d of January, and on the 13th the stock- 

 ings were found in a basket which she was carry- 

 ing in company with another woman. The judge 

 said that it would be too much to convict the pri- 

 soner with this felonious transaction : ten days 

 had elapsed from (he time of the robbery and the 

 discovery of the stockings, and there was nothing 

 that could lead to a conclusion, otherwise than 

 that she had come by them honestly. She was 

 acquitted, and instantly discharged. She had 

 been in confinement for six months!!! — Thomas 

 Penny, a poor hoy, was indicted for stealing a 

 piece of gooseberry pudding! When this trum- 

 pery case was brought forward, the whole court 

 appeared to have but one feeling of disgust. The 

 judge said, " however much such prosecutions 

 might be regretted, yet the law, now that the 

 indictment' had been preferred, must take its 

 course." The jury found tbe boy guilty. Hewas 

 recorded for death I while W. Chiven, and E. 

 and T. Wilcox, for attempting to strangle and 

 drown Mr.J. Vines, near Chippenham, were sen- 

 tenced to six months' imprisonment. — Hampshire 

 Telegraph, Aug. 10. 



SOMERSETSHIRE.— At the anniversary of 

 the Bath and Wells Association, held July 23, at 

 Bath, it appeared by the report made on the oc- 

 casion, that the children of the schools had be- 

 come more numerous, more regular in their at- 

 tendance, and were distinguished by greater order 

 and cleanliness than before, and that they amount- 

 ed to 1,600 receiving their earliest instructions 

 from the society. 



A collection of fossil animal remains, found in 

 the cavern called Kent's Hole, near Torquay, has 

 been added, within these few days, to the Museum 

 of Natural History attached to the Somerset and 

 Taunton Institution. Ir may be proper to ob- 

 serve, that these fossils are not lapideous, but are 

 found in the natural state of skulls, teeth, and 

 bones — not forming entire skeletons, but in dis- 

 jointed portions, and sometimes in fragments of 

 bones. In this collection there are the molar 

 teeth of the rhinoceros, both of the upper and 

 lower jaw; portions of the upper and lower jaw 

 of an extinct hya?na, larger than any of the exist- 

 ing species, with the cheek rnd canine teeth or 

 tusks, the check teeth being considerably worn 

 down, and the upper surface highly polished by 

 use ; several molar teeth and incisors of the horse, 

 ox, and deer; and also of tbe bear, ursus priscus 

 of Cuvier ; together with many molar teeth of 

 email animals belonging to the natural order 

 Rodentia, and also fragments of bones broken 

 and gnawed to their actual present state by the 

 hysena, marks of gnawing being now visible on 

 their surface. — Taunton Courier. 



CORNWALL. — At these assizes five prisoners 

 were recorded for death. 



SCOTLAND.— In the vicinity of Edinburgh the 

 damage done to the crops by the late tempest has 

 been very serious, but not so great as to be con- 

 sidered irreparable. The gale, however, was 

 very strong, and in various parts it actually tore 



up trees by (he roots. It would appear that the 

 Injury felt in our neighbourhood has been trifling 

 indeed, compared with the extent of that expe- 

 rienced on tlie other side of the water. The 

 whole face of the country has been altered by the 

 overwhelming power of the tempest, which was 

 accompanied with fearful discharges of thunder 

 and lightning. The fruit, the grain, the cattle, 

 have all suffered severely ; bridges have been 

 borne away by the rivers, which were swollen to 

 an extraordinary degree by the torrents of rain 

 which (ell incessantly. From Dundee, St. An- 

 drews, Newburgh, Perth, Couper Angus, Mon- 

 trose, Aberdeenshire, Banff, &e. &c., all the ac- 

 counts stote the injury to be of immense extent. 

 The following relates to Rothes, as described by 

 a correspondent in the Edinb)irgh Evening Post 

 of August 8, " The traditionary and historical 

 annals of our country are numerous and wonder- 

 ful, but in reference to river floods they all sink 

 into the shade when compared to those of the 3d 

 and 4th instant, produced by the Spey, the Find- 

 horn, and the Lossie, and their tributary streams. 

 The loss of lives has, however, not been so very 

 great as that of property, but the beautiful vales 

 through which these majestic rivers roll, will not, 

 while the world stands, regain their pristine 

 grandeur. The number of families which have 

 been rendered houseless and destitute is great ; 

 hundreds, if not thousands, of acres have beea 

 swept away by the irresistible torrents — bridges, 

 mills, and machinery, have fallen before the tre» 

 mendous element of water. All communication 

 to the north or south is entirely at an end, unless 

 across the rivers by boats, and along the roads on 

 foot or on horse-back.'' 



IRELAND. — In addition to the proclamation of 

 Julyl 8, last, " for suppressing all meetings for com- 

 memorating political events," which was publish- 

 ed by the Lord Lieutenant, it has been found neces- 

 sary to issue the following:— CHi/!» Castle, 5th 

 August, 1829. " Whereas it hath been repre- 

 sented to the Lord Lieutenant, that a party of 

 persons called orangemen, on their return home 

 after dining together in the vicinity of Arney- 

 bridge, were attacked by a large assemblage of 

 persons called ribbonmen (who had been pre- 

 viously dislodged from a position which they had 

 taken on the mountain between Florence court 

 and Swanlinbar), when one man of the orange 

 party was piked to de.ith, and six others wounded, 

 three of whom have since died. Now, we, the 

 Lord Lieutenant, for the better apprehending and 

 bringing to justice the person or persons concern- 

 ed in this barbarous mnrder, are pleased hereby 

 to offer a reward of two hundred pounds to any 

 person or persons (except those actually concern- 

 ed in the commission of the murder) who shall 

 give such information as may lead to the appre- 

 hension and conviction of the persons concerned 

 not already apprehended. By his Grace's com- 

 mand, F. Lkvkson Gower." 



All the accounts which have hitherto reached us 

 relative to the coming harvest in this unhappy 

 and turbulent portion of the empire, concur in 

 saying that the prospects of its being an abundant 

 one are very cheering ; indeed there is strong rea- 

 sons for expecting that it will be the richest har- 

 vest that has been for several years. The Eng- 

 lish merchants trading to Ireland, augur from this 

 an increased demand for their manufactures. 



