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Provincial Occurrences : Lancashire, No/folk, ^c [_Df.c, 



ifolten that tljis gentleman, in some instances, last 

 year, retuineil to the same tenants the wliule of 

 llitir respective rents, and to others a jiroportion. 

 Tiie collections made at the recent opening of 

 Ihc M'esleyan chapel, at Halifax, amounted to 

 ^521. 4?. 3i'J., hesides a voluntary subscription of 

 ^1 ,601) previously made tor its building ; and 

 .£1/3 for pulpit and communion-plate given by 

 llic ladies. 



LANCASHIRE.— It appears, from vthat took 

 place at the recent engineers* dinner, in Liver- 

 pool, that a railway conimunicali';n is projected 

 from Goole to Karnsley, and that the line has 

 been actually surveyed hy Mr. Vignoles, civil en- 

 gineei', one object of its promoters being to supply 

 the London market with c<»al, in competition ^\ith 

 the Newcastle monopolists. In the event of this 

 in'-'a-^ure being carried into effect, there will only 

 reiinire about 35 miles farther, in oriler to have a 

 railway acrojs the hingdom, uniting Liverpool, 

 Jlanchester, Barn-ley, and Sheffield, with the 

 newly-erected port of Goole. 



At nur market, on Saturday evening last, ani- 

 mal food was sold at an unprecedented low price. 

 Mutton, the very best cuts, was to be had for 

 threepence halfpenny per pound : pork, by the 

 side, for the same price; and fine fat geese for 

 precisely the same charge. — Preston Pilot, 

 Nov, "• 



The symptoms of improvement which lately 

 manifested themselves in the trade of this district, 

 liave, we are sorry to say, given way to symptoms 

 of an opposite character. The complaints of the 

 manufacturers at this moment are as loud and as 

 general as we remember them ever to have been ; 

 and not without reason. The calico printing 

 business is duller than it has been for many years 

 at this season, and what is doing is chietly for 

 shipping. The fustian trade is, if possible, still 

 more discouraging. The prices are falling every 

 week, and the wages have been reduced so low, 

 that it is painful to think on what terms the poor 

 weaver has to eain his bread. He must bea good 

 weaver who can clear 8d. or 9d. per day by 

 weaving fustians. In the silk trade also, a very 

 great change has taken place within the last few 

 days, and the activity which existed three weeks 

 ago is no longer to be found. — .Manchester 

 Courier. 



At a meeting held lately at Prcscot, of the gen- 

 tlemen interested in the St. Helen's collieries, and 

 theNorthwich salt works, and intermediate places, 

 it was unanimously resolved, that application 

 should he immediately made to parliament to 

 authorize the formation of a .ai'.way from St. 

 Helen's tn Runcorn, with a variety of branches, 

 and a connexion with the Liverpool and Man- 

 chester railway. 



NORrol.K. — The payments made by the trea- 

 surer, incurred by the expences for this county 

 from ."Midsummer, 1828, to Midsummei-, 1S29, 

 amount to nearly ^ir,UOO I IMore than .£8,000 

 was expended for the maintenance ol Norwich 

 (lastle, SwalTham and VValsingham Bridewells^ 

 besides .£4,0110 for prosecuting expenses at the 

 assizes quarter se-^sinns, &c. 



A meeting has been recently held at Norwich, 

 for the pur; Ore of forming a *' Norftdk and Nor- 

 wich Horticultural Society," when a committee 

 was estaldished and subscriptions entered into to 

 carry it into effect. 



NOTTINOHAM. — In addressing the grand 

 jury at Newark quarter sessions. Rev. J.T. 

 Beecher mentioned that there are above 10,090 

 Friendly Societies in Englaud, " and in this 

 county ahuie," said he, " there a*e from 22 to 

 2.'j,000 members; and the late statute made fer 

 their security, provides that at the Friendly So- 

 cieties no money shall be spent in feasting, and 

 that no money shall be lent on personal security : 

 for it is an indisputable fact, that one gentleman 

 in London had borrowed .£120,000 of the I'riendly 

 Society, upon his pjrsonal security; this was 

 now put an end to. The sums arc to be paid 

 into the Bank of England, or into the Savings' 

 Banks." 



LINCOLNSHIRE.— At the quarter sessions 

 held at Boston, Oct. 20, the chairman (Mr. Tun- 

 nard) addressed the grand jury on the State of 

 the Poor, on the present Agricultural Distress, 

 and the support and maintenance of the Cottager 

 and his Family. It has been puliiished at the re- 

 quest of the magistrates, and of the grand jury ; 

 its object is to decrease the parish rates, " in en- 

 couraging industry amongst the labouring poor, 

 and restoring them to that healthy state of inde- 

 pendence which nauseates the bitter bread of idle- 

 ness !"• 



OXFORD. — The disbursements by the treasurer 

 of this county, from Michaelmas sessions, lS2S,to 

 Trinity sessions, 1829, both inclusive, amount to 

 .£6,369. Is. 5d. nearly the whole of which was 

 spent in the all-devouring law — bridges only 

 .£i;3. 9s. 4d.— militia .£31. 13s. 



CHESHIRE.— Condition of the suffering class 

 of hanJ-loom weavers : a very good hand-loom 

 weaver, when in full work, 14 or K! hours a day, 

 will earn about 6s. a-week — and there are men 

 innumerable that can earn no more, who have 

 three, lour, or live children to provide for, all of 

 very tender age. Suppose a man to have four 

 children; those, with his wife and himself, make 

 six in family. The man can earn Ss. provided his 

 wife can wind him bobbins, besides doing her 

 other domestic work. Then suppose that to be 

 his net income ; the house-rent will be at least 

 2s. a-week; 6d. a-week will supply them veiy 

 poorly witli fuel ; and Is. a-week for shoes and 

 cloathing — only 2d. each ; and 6d. more lor little 

 matters too numerous to enumerate— leaving 4s. 

 to provide victuals during seven d-.iys for six per- 

 sons — not a penny farthing a-day each !!1 — Slock- 

 P'jrt Advertiser. 



How the free-trade advocates will be able to 

 explain the Increased and iiicreasii g impoitatiou 

 of foreign manufactures in spite of the piesent 

 state of the country, we know not ; here is a 

 sample for their ingenuity — it is a statement, from 



• It is entitled " Employment of the Poor." — 

 There is not an ii. dividual here who would not 

 yield a ready bounty to assist the helpless iniant 

 or support the crutch of age — none so unthankful 

 to Providence for the free use of their limbs and 

 the enjoyment of their senses, as to refuse com- 

 miseration to the cri[q)le or the sightless pauper ; 

 and it is for such objects of charity we should 

 erect our parish poor houses, alTording an asylum 

 to the destitute, a home to the houseless, and a 

 hospital to the sick. Let us never then seek to 

 torn the refuge for the unfortunate into a Bride- 

 well for the (;niltv, or hlcnd Vice and -Mislortune 

 together!::— Piigc It. 



