478 Provincial Occurrences : Worcester, Gloucestershire, ^c. [|Oct. 



rage of tlie Imnicane in 1824, and until this was 

 erecteJ no divine service bad been perlormed. 



■WORCESTER,.— Tlie Mayor and Corporation 

 of Worcester have unanimously resolved to abo- 

 lish, at the end of the present tenancy (whiclj 

 will expire in less tiian two months), tliose tolls 

 which have been hitherto levied at the Sidhury 

 anil Tything entrances to the city, upon the goods, 

 &c. of non-freemen ; which, though small in 

 amount, weie very vexatious. 



GLOUCESTERSHIRE.— At the assizes for 

 this county, 21 prisoners were recorded for death, 

 8 were transported, and several inqirisoned. i\Ir. 

 Serjeant Taddy, in addressing the grand jury, 

 said, "Gentlemen, you have, by your exertions, 

 rendered your county an example to the rest of 

 England, by the perfection to which you have 

 brought the regulations of your | risons, and by 

 the discipline you have introduced, by which 

 alone you are capable of eifccting moral improve- 

 ment." 



The increase of commei-ce in Cluuccster since 

 the o)'ening of the Ship Canal has exceeded the 

 most sanguine expectations. In 1827, the ton- 

 nage amounted to lii6,SI96— in 1828, to 22^!,5/4— 

 and this year, up to August only, to 1'19,/'18 tons. 



NORFOLK. — A new Roman Catholic chapel 

 was opened at Norwich Septe.tiber 2, in very grand 

 style ; the superior size of the building, its chaste 

 and elegant architecture, and the number and 

 superior quality of the Instrumental and vocal 

 performers, attracted a more general notice than 

 usual upon such occasions, and many of the Pro- 

 testant clergy were to be seen in the chapel. The 

 high pontifical mass was sung by the Rev. Father 

 in God the Bishop of Amyclae. The Protestant 

 bells of St. Giles's and St. Peter's evinced their 

 fashionable apostacy, and rang merrily all the 

 evening on the occasion I Notwithstanding which, 

 complaint has been made, that " the Nornich 

 folks were not giving the Roman Catholics /air 

 play!"* 



Parties of weavers lately assembled at the en- 

 trances of Norwich, and examined the carriers' 

 carts, in search of pieces of goods manufactured 

 in the county for Norwich masters, with the 

 avowed intention of destroying them. A nume- 

 rous body of operatives took a case of silk from a 

 constable, which had been marked at the under 

 price, and destroyed it ; and men in disguise have 

 entered houses in Norwich and its neighbour- 

 hood, and cut work from the looms, on pretence 

 of its being taken under the scale agreed to. 



KENT.— The new church at Tunbridgc Wells 

 was consecrated September 3, in grand cere- 

 mony. The style of building has been adopted 

 which prevailed in England during the 13th and 

 14th centuries, and of which beautiful examples 

 may be seen in York, Carlisle Cathedrals, and 

 Westminster Abbey. It contains 1,500 sittings, 

 800 of which are free ; and the total cost does not 

 exceed ^12,000. 



At Canterbury, an old custom has been re- 

 newed ; and at eight o'clock in the evening, by 

 order of the Dean and Chapter, in memory of 



• In a Late debate at the meeting of the Re- 

 formation Society, held at St. Andrew's Hall, 

 Norwich, for promoting the principles of the Re- 

 formation, \\\H language was uttered, says the 

 respectable tivrfolk C'lironicle of September lU, 



" good old times," and vassalage, and the feudal 

 system, again 

 "The curfew tolls the inell of parting day." 



NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.— At Nottingham as- 

 sizes, sentence of death was recorded on no less 

 than 20 persons; four of whom were for mali- 

 ciously shooting at a peace officer, whilst execut- 

 ing a warrant of possession under an ejectment 

 obtained against them from properly to which 

 they pretended to have a rii;ht. It was altogether 

 a most appalling scene, that husband, wife, son, 

 and dauglilcr, should all be thus comlemned to 

 die at once! 



CHESHIRE.— Notwithstanding the unfavour- 

 able weather, the musical festival at Chester was 

 well attended ; and the number of tickets disposed 

 of for the whole of the performances amounted to 

 6,a.i'2. At the fancy ball 776 persons attended, 

 presenting "such a galaxy of lovely females as 

 were never before congregated uuder the canopy 

 of heaven." — Chester Coiiratit. 



SOAlERSETSHiRE.— At the assizes for this 

 county 37 prisoners were recorded for death, 9 

 transported, and '21 imprisoned. Among tlie con- 

 demned for death were two boys, one of 14, and 

 the other 13 !I! — The infirmities of Mr. Justice 

 Burrougli occasioned both inconvenience and re- 

 gret. In consequence of his deafness, and the 

 indistinctness of his utterance, the jury-box, 

 which laces the judge, was filled by thegcntlemcn 

 of the bar, and on the left hand side of bis lord- 

 ship, the post usually allotted to the attorneys, 

 was turned into a jury-box, and a machine was 

 placed in the centre of the table, very near bis 

 lordship's desk, for the witnesses to give their 

 evidence. 



According to the recent arrangement of the 

 magistrates, this county is to be divided into 20 

 divisioiis, within and for which special sessions 

 shall be held, and such divisions are to bear the 

 names following, viz. Bath, Bedminster, Bishop's 

 Lydeard, Bridgewatcr, Carhampton, Chewton, 

 Frome, Ilmiuster, Keynsham, Kilmersdeu, Mil- 

 verton.Shepton Mallet, Somerset, Taunton, Wel- 

 lington, Wells, Williton, Wincauton, Wrington, 

 and Yeovil. 



September 8, the ceremony of laying the foun- 

 dation of St. Paul's Church, at Bedminster, took 

 place in very grand style, in which the various 

 schools, as well as the charity children, with 

 large banners, *' Protestant Ascendancy," were 

 in tlie procession. The style of architecture will 

 be Gothic, and the church is to contain accom- 

 modation for 1,700 persons, including a great 

 number of free sittings. — Farley's BristolJour- 

 nal. 



OXFORDSHIRE- — Improvements are to be 

 adopted for the benefit of science and the fine arts 

 in this place, which will put Oxford on a par with 

 lier sister* university. A large room in the vacant 



• If such a public spirit existed at Oxford, for 

 embellishment and improvement of its buildings 

 as at Cambridge, the miserable dilapidated pile of 

 buildings in front of Christ Church would not be 

 suffered to remain ; nor would the filthy broken 

 windows of the Chaplain's Quadrangle (in Wol- 

 sey's splendid foundation) be su/fered to exist — it 

 is as bad as Westminster Abbey (which ought to be 

 the first building in tiie world in point of decorative 

 preservation), only « ith this diflercnee, at the lat- 

 ter sometliiiig has been going on for the \ast forty 

 years, to make it appear as it should do ; but it 



