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there, Mr. Huskisson said, " I am not unaware 

 that I am in the centre of a great manufacturing 

 district, in which there is the greatest British in- 

 dustry and ingenuity, and the greatest wealth, 

 arising from manufactures, in any part uf the 

 world ; I am not, also, unaware, that those mea- 

 sures of Government, of which I was the official 

 organ in recommending to parliament, must have 

 excited difference of opiuiun. lean only say tljat 

 I am always glad to court fair discussion, and to 

 bear the arguments of those opposed to me. 

 Probably their information and judgment may so 

 modify my view as to lead me to change the prin- 

 ciples I have hitljerto advocated. At all events, I 

 shall be always glad to profit by the knowledge of 

 tliose whose experience entitles them to atten- 

 tion." 



At the Lancaster assizes, 16 prisoners were re- 

 corded for death ; three transpoi ted, and 20 im- 

 prisoned ; amongst the latter, were included the 

 Rochdale rioters. 



Sept 4. A general meeting of the commissioners 

 of Police was held in the Town Hall, when the 

 first annual report of the Improvement Committee 

 was thus introduced : — " The Improvement C'om- 

 iniltee, in presenting the first annual report of 

 their proceedings, have to appear before the com- 

 missioners with a much shorter detail of public 

 improvements, effected under the provisions of the 

 new Act of Parliament, than they trust future 

 years will enable them to record." — Tlie Town- 

 Hall, Peter-street, St. Peter's-square, Lower MoS' 

 Jpy-street, Cliancery-Iane, and Smithy-door, have 

 been the objects of these first improvements. — 

 Manchester Courier. 



The turn-out of fine-spinners at Manchester, as 

 well as the gingham weavers , still continues, 

 without any apparent intention of resuming work. 



A general reduction in the prices of vi'eaving 

 has taken place in Blackburn ; this will make a 

 serious diminution in the already scanty, too 

 scanty, earnings of the industrious weaver, who, 

 in tiuth, is now unable to procure for his family 

 any food beyond oatmeal and potatoes, to say 

 nothing of clothing. — Leeds Intelligencer. 



The Bank Quay Glass Company, at Warrington, 

 have presented Earl Eldon with a magnificent 

 glass vase, in testimony of the high sense they en- 

 tertain of his lordship's manly and energetic re- 

 Bi>tance to the " breaking up of the constitution." 

 It is particularly worthy of record, that when the 

 workmen employed on the vase were made ac- 

 quainted with the purpose for which it was de- 

 signed, they requested that they might be allowed 

 to contribute their labour gratuitously to the 

 work, as a mark of veneration and regard for the 

 noble earl. — Manchester Courier. 



SHUOP.'milHE.— At the late assizes, it was re- 

 solved by the Grand Jury, Lord Clive, foreman, 

 " That a request from the Grand Jury be present- 

 ed to the Members of Parliament seiving for the 

 county, and for the boroughs within the county of 

 8alop, to watch narrrowly any bill brought into 

 parliament fur changing the present line of the 

 Iilsb road through the county of Salop ; and that 

 the foreman he directed to forward a copy to each 

 of the Members of Parliament serving for the 

 county, and for the boroughs within the county of 

 Balop." 



A nnmunient to commemorate the worth and 

 perpetuate the memory of the Utc Uibhop Ucber, 



has been erected on the right hand side of tha 

 altar of Hodiiet Church, near the communion- 

 table ; and is more remarkable for modest and 

 humble simplicity, than decoration and grandeur. 

 It presents a profile, or side face of his Lordship, 

 and the artist has delineated the countenance by 

 strong lines of dignity and interest. The inscrip- 

 tion is said to have been written by the celebrated 

 author of " IViUiam TellV' 



The important and interesting question, whether 

 the Court of Great Session at Chester has a crimi-' 

 nal jurisdiction over the city, was decided at the 

 recent Shrewsbury assizes, by the jury returning 

 a verdict fur the defendants, thereby establishing 

 the jurisdiction of the Court of Great Session over 

 the city in criminal cases. 



HANTS. — The Victualling Establishment— a 

 pile of buildings as magjiiticent almost as any we 

 are acquainted with, including an extensive 

 bakery, the whole of which we are assured could 

 not have cost Government less than ^120, OUO — 

 was knocked down by a London auctioneer, for a 

 sum under .^8,000. The old Victualling Esta- 

 blismcnt in this town has not realised, by the 

 hammer, .£15,000 ; yet more than ,£100,000 have 

 been e;:pended in the new buildings at Weevil ; 

 and before the wharfs, and the canals to the 

 wharfs are comiileted, half a million of money will 

 be swallowed up, and that decidedly to the incon- 

 venience of the public service. — Hampshire Tele- 

 graph. 



A bazaar was held on Southsea Common during 

 the late regatta, for the benefit of the General 

 Dispensary, when the condescending politeness 

 and attention of .Mesdumes les Marchands de 

 Bagatelles succeeded in obtaining to; the in- 

 stitution £300. 



At a meeting of the friends of reform, held at 

 Winchester, Aug. 31, it was resolved to establish 

 " a Society for restoring to the People their legiti- 

 mate Influence in the House of Commons," when 

 a fund was commenced by each member, at the 

 moderate sum of 2s. Cd. per quarter, for the pur« 

 pose of, we understand, niakingit general all over 

 the kingdom. 



The IGuth anniversary of the Charitable So- 

 ciety of Natives and Citizens, was celebrated at 

 Vi'inehester, Sept. 15, with the accustomed fes- 

 tivities. The jirucession was rendered more than 

 usually gay by the introduction of banners and 

 splendid new dresses. 



STAFFORDSHIRE. — The Birmingham and 

 Liverpool mail-coach was los^near Lawton Gate, 

 in passing a small rivulet, which, owingto tlie late 

 rains, was so much swollen as to be increased to a 

 formidable river. So great was the accumulation 

 of the water at the bridge, that when the mail had 

 reached the centre, the arch gave way, and the 

 whole mass, arch, horses, and passengers, were 

 precipitated into the surge below. — Two inside 

 passengers were drowned, Mr. Newman, of Wal- 

 sal, and Mr. Bennett, uf Liverpool. 



DORSETSHIRE.- The beautiful little church 

 erected at Fleet, near Weymouth, has been opened 

 for divine service by the Bishop of Bristol, at- 

 tended by most of the clergy of the dioceso. The 

 coup-d'ail, on viewing this unique specimen of 

 Gothic archileiturc, erected at the sole expense 

 of the Uev. G. (iould, is highly picturesque. The 

 old church was destroyed by the tcmpestuoui 



