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Provincial Occurrences : Cambridgeshire, Hants, ^c. [|Nov. 



one Jialf in agvicultural distiicls. In Sliropsbire, 

 the reduction in price is greater than in Staiford- 

 (hire. — Burrows' fForceater Journal, Oct. 22. 



CAMBRIDGESHIRE.— Mr. Serjeant Storks' 

 in his address to tlie grand jury at the late quarter 

 sessions, at Cambridge, regretted to find the num- 

 ter of cases in the calendar so numerous ; for al- 

 though the charges were most of them of a trivial 

 nature, still it must remove the impression that 

 there was any diminution of crime. It might be 

 that tljis increase was in a great measure to be 

 attributed to tlie present inefficient state of the 

 police. The town of Cambridge had of late much 

 increased in population and extent, and yet there 

 was nothing to protect its peace and good order 

 but the old system of common constables, which, 

 it is evident, is not adequate to pievent the in- 

 crease of crime !!! The grand jury would judge 

 whether they might not with some benefit, as a 

 portion of the individuals whose property and 

 happiness was concerned, turn their attention to 

 the consideration of some plan which might tend 

 to prevent this apparent evil. 



HANTS.— If the great annual mart of VVeyhill 

 fair be allowed to be a fair indication of the 

 times, they are deplorable indeed. Upwards of 

 150,000 sheep were exhibited for sale, for a great 

 portion of which not even a price was asked, and 

 those which were sold were at prices lower by 5s. 

 and 7s. per head under the low prices of last year, 

 4s. per head cheaper than at the late Weyhill 

 Lammas fur, and several shillings under the late 

 Wilton fair. 



CHESHIRE.— St. George's Chapel, Maccles- 

 field, one of the most elegant edifices in England, 

 and which was originally built for a congregation 

 of Evangelical Dissenters, has, with the greatest 

 portion of its congregation, seceded from the ranks 

 of dissent, and been consecrated by the Bishop of 

 Chester. 



At the inauguration dinner given by the new 

 mayor of Macclesfield, the healths of the county 

 members were toasted by the mayor. On rising 

 to propose the health of the county members, the 

 mayor begged to offer them his warmest acknow. 

 ledgments, and he was sure he spoke the senti. 

 ments of thousands around, when he thanked 

 their honoured and honourable county members, 

 for the votes they had given six months ago, when 

 the constitution of the country was placed in such 

 imminent peril. He would thank them too for 

 their benevolent and strenuous exertions on be- 

 half of the distressed and famishing poor of the 

 neighbourhood — and he would thank them too 

 most heartily for their unwearied assiduity to pro- 

 mote the interests of the staple trade of the town ; 

 had their exertions been crowned with the success 

 they merited, Macclesfield would have still been 

 a flourishing town, and the silk trade one of the 

 most prosperous in the kingdom. He wished 

 their long tried and faithful-found members' hap- 

 piness and comfort, and sure he was their com- 

 forts would not be diminished by knowing that 

 they were co-existent with the comforts of the 

 poor III* 



• The Whig Clublately held a meeting at Ches- 

 ter, and from a letter addressed to the chairman 

 liy the county member, Mr. Davenport, we select 

 the following : — " For some years past the coun- 

 try has been labouring under difficulties with 



Mr. Sadler has been presented with the free- 

 dom of Macclesfield for his public conduct in and 

 out of parliament ; and more especially for his 

 defence of the long established, but now abandon- 

 ed, commercial policy of this country. 



Owing to the depressed state of trade, the usual 

 festivities at the Wakes were not observed in any 

 great degree ; there was not a single show ex- 

 hibited to gratify the holiday people; several of 

 the benefit clubs, the members of which used to 

 parade the streets and then dine together, omitted, 

 for economy's sake, the latter part ol tbe/e<e / 



GLOUCESTERSHIRE.— By the abstract of 

 receipts and disbursements of the treasurer of 

 this county, it appears that from Easter sessions, 

 1828, to those of 1829 inclusive, the expenses 

 amounted to upwards of .£25,000— the whole of 

 which, after deducting about .£11,000 for building 

 and repairing bridges, &c. — was swallowed up in 

 the proceedings of justice and Its accessaries, 

 gaols, bridewells, &c. &c. 



DEVONSHIRE.— At the recent annual meet- 

 ing of the Devon and Exeter Infant School So- 

 ciety, it was announced in the report, that the daily 

 attendance of the children had been increased 

 from the previous year, from 70 to 80, to 100 and 

 120 children. Colonel Macdonald remarked that 

 he had been in most parts of the world, and in the 

 principal towns of the united kingdom, but that he 

 had never been in any place where there were so 

 many charitable institutions, and so well support- 

 ed, as in Exeter.— Woo/mer'* Exeter and Ply- 

 mouth Gazette. 



SOMERSETSHIRE.— Some of the principal 

 tradespeople of Bath having submitted to the cor- 

 poration their wishes to plant and lay out the 

 estate belonging to the freemen, as shaded drives 

 and promenades, by which the properly would be 

 much improved, and a great desideratum obtain- 

 ed, they were pleased to give their sanction and 

 support to the plan, and the proper means are 

 now being pursued to effect the same. The estate 



which nothing but a vigorous opposition, or a 

 minister who preferred the public welfare to his 

 place could grapple. Yet during the first year of 

 the present parliament all effort was suspended, 

 every tongue was tied by the m^re promise of a 



Finance Committee Wait and see what the 



finance committee will do Yet in the last 



session this famous bugbear, which has kept us all 

 in check for above two years, was as much for- 

 gotten as if it had never existed, scarcely any al- 

 lusion having been made to iti . . . . For my par- 

 I know not of what use it is to study politics un- 

 less it be to promote the welfare of our fellow- 

 creatures i and for men, whether in or out of par- 

 liament, calling themselves politicians, to think 

 themselves justified in sitting still, boasting past 

 triumphs, or crowing over fallen foes when Rome 

 is on fire in a dozen quarters, instead of contri- 

 buting energetically whatever rights or know- 

 ledge they possess, or such sentiments as their 

 good feeling may dictate, is, I think, not the way 

 to evince either the purity of their faith, or the 

 efficacy of their works And yet I appre- 

 hend there never was a time when Bankruptcy, 

 and ruin, and distress, were so widely spread In 

 England as now. Read the reports from all the 

 great towns in the empire, some of which describe 

 .whole districts subsisting upon earnings not ex- 

 ceeding fifteenpence a-weekll! And why are these 

 abominations suffered to endure for a moment? 

 To enrich the loan-monger, the placeman, the pen- 

 sioner, and the capitalist, to whom, no donbt, 

 .allusion is made when we hear of the " geneial 

 and permanent interests.of the country!!!' '' 



