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MONTHLY PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCE?. 



NORTHUMBERLAND. —The exliibition of 

 pictures by British artists, at Newcastle, of the 

 Northern Acatiemy of Fine Art«. has recently 

 closed. The attendance throughout has evinced 

 a considerable improvement upon that of last 

 year ; the numbfr was nearly 300, bnt nnt above 

 20 have been sold. An cxhiliition of paintings, by 

 ancient and deceased masters, will shortly be 

 opened at Newcastle, as several gentlemen of the 

 county have promised to send some of the best of 

 their collections. 



.' The permanent directors of the Newcastle and 

 Carlisle rail-mad were elected at a meeting held 

 at Newcastle, lately. Amongst them are the Riirht 

 Hon, the Earl of Carlisle, Lord Durham, J. Pow- 

 lett. M Bell, Esq. M. P., T. W. Beaumont, Esq. 

 W.P.,&c. 



Two skeletons were found in a tan-yard at New 

 castle, a week or two back, when the worI;men 

 were sinkin? new pits; probably the remains of 

 persons buried in the times of monkery. 



A fine specimen of the great Northern Diver 

 (Cylumbus Glacialis, Lin.) was lately shot at 

 Embleton, and presented to the Society of Natural 

 History in Northumberland. 



DURHAM.— The Darlington and Croft railway 

 was opened at Darlington on the 27th of October. 

 Great rejoicings took place at Darlington in con- 

 Bequence. 



The Charity Commissioners have discovered 

 that.£10liO lias been vested in the funds for the use 

 of Donnison's charity, in Sunderland — where it 

 has remained for many years— both principal and 

 interest. 



YORKSHIRE.— At the audit of the Earl of 

 Egremont for his Aram and Leckonfield, &c. 

 estates, held on the 20th iilt , he forgave the rents 

 of all his tenants who had had their ci-ops drown* 

 ed I! To others who had not suffered so much, he 

 returned in proportion, and to those who had suf- 

 fered nothing he returned them 10 per centl!! — 

 York Chronicle, "Sm-. 5. 



The Aire and Calder Company intend shortly 

 commencing a rail-road between Goole and Barns- 

 ley, with a view to open a communication with the 

 Dianuracturing districts of Lancashire. 



There have been several desperate encounters 

 between gamekeepers and poachers in the West 

 Riding of Yorkshire, In one instance, on the 

 grounds of Sir W'lliam Ingilby.at Ripley,a poacher 

 was killed, and the gamekeepers have been com- 

 mitted lo York Castle. 



The Barnsley turn. out terminated the first week 

 in November, by the men accepting the wages 

 offered bytlie masters. 



In the evening of November 5, the Cathedral 

 ringers, in commemoration of the day, ran^ 1GS8 

 changes of grandsire catres, upon the Minster 

 bells. It is rather curious lo observe, that no 

 idea of this nature liad been previously entertained 

 by any of the perforniers ; they having started for 

 a peal of .OO.'iS changes, but lost the method, just 

 aft the singular coincidenre of nnnilters corres- 

 ponding with the year of the Revolution had been 

 effected, and could proceed no further. — York- 

 thirc Oazeltc. 



The cominitlcc of tlio Leeds and Selby rail- 

 road have determined tj apjily lo aj'ply to parlia- 

 invnt for a bill. 



A subscription has been entered into for lighting' 

 the town of Rothcrham with gas. 



The Orange Lodges in Leeds and Huddersfield 

 celebrated the 5th of November with great icint. 



Trade in Leeds is reduced to a low ebb : out of 

 about 2,240 looms 785 aic entirely idle, and many 

 of the others only partially employed. At Hali- 

 fax, Huddersfield, and the neighbourhood, as great 

 a scarcity of employment prevails. 



There has been anotherdiscnvery of fossil bones 

 in Yorkshire, near Market Weishton. A farmer 

 found them in a pit, when digging for marl, and 

 he took them to Hull to sell. He offered them to 

 a member of the Hull Literary and Philosophical 

 ?ociPty, who visited the spot, and made a most 

 interesting repi^rt of his visits at one of the meet- 

 ings of the Society. 



At the " Faithful Female Servant's Society," 

 held at York, Nov. 2, it appeared by the chair- 

 man's report, that some of the females who had 

 received prizes, had lived 36 years, some 27, 25, 

 and 22 years in the same situations, discharging 

 their duty with fidelity !1! Rewards were distri- 

 buted to 36 servants — 52 were distributed during 

 last year. — Yorkshire Gazette. 



At the West Riding quarter sessions. Lord 

 Wharncliffe, the chairman, said, at the conclusion 

 of his address to tlie grand .jury, on the subject of 

 the Barnsley rioters, " I have thought it right to 

 make these remarks to you, and I hope others 

 will profit by them ; a«, in these times, notliing 

 can be said, scarcely in any place, but what goes 

 before the public througli some medium or other." 

 The few rioters found guilty received slight im- 

 prisonment. 



It is stated in the Sheffield Iris as a remark- 

 able fact, that in t"..e town of Sheffield, containing 

 60 or 70, COO inhabitants, there is not a single 

 family residing either in a cellar or a garret. 



The magnificent Commercial Buildings, or Ex- 

 change, at Leeds, the first stone of which was lai(l 

 in Slay, 1826, have recently been opened to the 

 public. This event was celebrated by a splendid 

 dinner, at which was seen a cordial union of all 

 parties ; the county members attended, and many 

 of the principal gentry of the neighbourhood. 

 Mr. Bccket's {chairman) health, one of the toasts, 

 was most appropi lately given, and lapturously 

 received, as a ptculiar tribute to this cuuimercial 

 establishment.* 



The Rev. N. T. Ellison, rector of Huntspill, 

 has allowed 20 per cent to his parishioners on 

 tlieir corn tithes. Mr- Lane Fox, at rent day, 

 returned 10 per cent, to his tenarjts— the steward 

 saying, that if necessary, from the depression of 

 the times, the rents should be diminished still 

 farther. Mr. Bcthell, of Rise, at liis last audit 

 returned the whole of the half-year's rents to his 

 tenants, in consequence of the damage done to 

 their crops by the Hoods ; it should not be for- 



• His conduct during \]iv jiiinic ought never to 

 be fnr.'rotten ; it was iteclaicd, in pi'oposing Iho 

 toast, that the assistance of his baiiii was thi'U al- 

 most unlimited, and saved many a good and re- 

 spectable lainily from titter ruin ! " 1 consider 

 our rustiiiners (said he. at that unfortunate pe- 

 riorlj along witli ourselves, at this nielaiicholy 

 crisis, as placed in one boat : we are at the helm, 

 and rather than suffer one hiiiiest man to be 

 thiown overboard, we have resolved that we will 

 all sink together'",!! — Yoikshirr Gaxclle, 



