706 Provincial Occurrences : Somersetshire, Wilts, Bucks, ^c. [Dkc. 



ll(i.!!I — Tlie annual salaries of masters are: 

 bead master, ^400. ; second master, ^300. ; assist' 

 ants, ^200 each ; writing and drawing-masters, 

 ^lOOeach. The head master, in addition, derives 

 about ^200 a-year from land appropriated to liim, 

 and both lie and the second master liave residences 

 on the school premises, free of expencc. — In 1S27 

 there were 1 15 boys educating in tlic school. The 

 tc'iool buildings are in a very ruinous state !!! 



SOMERSETSHIRE.— Mr. Williams, at his 

 a'ldit at Limmington, Yeovilton, he, willi noble 

 and generous feelings towards his tenants, gave 

 tl/em back iO per cent, on tlii'ir last half year's 

 rent, in consideration of tlie depressed state of the 

 times and the heavy losses they had sustained by 

 disease amont'st their cattle. 



A public meeting has been held at the JIarket 

 House, in Taunton, for the purpose of forming an 

 Association in connexion with the Newfoundland 

 and British North American School Society, when 

 resolutions and subscriptions were entered into 

 for tliat effect. The report states, that the poor 

 among the colonists are lahonring under the de- 

 privation of Christian instruction, and that 

 25,0(10 persons had emigrated from Ireland alone 

 to IJrilisb North America during the last year.— 

 Taunton Courier. 



WILTS.— Mr. Gingell, of Naish House, has 

 lowered the rents of his tenants in the parish of 

 Bremliill iO per crnt., in cousequence of the pre- 

 sent agricultural depre-sion. 



In the vicissitudes of the celebrated Foiithi'l 

 estate, after its magnificent Abbey has become a 

 desolate pile of ruins, and its various splendid 

 attributes have vanished in all directions, that 

 portion of the estate whicli fell to tlje lot of Mr. 

 Mortimer was, on Thursday, brought to the ham- 

 mer at the Auciion Mart, and produced .f -10,500 ; 

 the rest nearly ^1/000; so that Fonthill now 

 exists only in nanje, — yet it will tor ages serve as 

 one of the numberless monuments which record 

 the frail and unstable character of earthly gran- 

 deur. 



BUCKS.- At the Magistrates' Chamber, Ayles- 

 bury, Nov. 1, a conversation took place on the ne- 

 cessity of their meeting for the purpose of revising 

 the rate of payment to the poor, as the farmers are 

 totally unable to pay the presciit amount of poor- 

 rates. Mr. Owen stateil (hat be had this year 

 signed four rates for the parish of Cbolesbury, 

 amounting to sixteen shillings in the pound ; tl'iat 

 there were only three farmers in the pansh, and 

 they were all going to give up tl)eir lands, as they 

 could not pay the rates; and tiat the poor must 

 bave (he land. An appiication is intended t<t be 

 made to Pailiament in the ensuing Session for an 

 Act to watch, light, cleanse, regulate, and improve 

 the town of Aylesbury, and for the better collec- 

 tion of the poor rates, by assessing the proprietors, 

 instead of the occupiers of cottages. 



BKRKS. — The blessed eflFects of the grinding 

 system of local taxation, which prevails in this 

 borough, is daily becoming more and more appa- 

 rent ; l>uilding is now over. Houses which, ac- 

 cording to the sums laid out in their erection, 

 outjlit to yield arerjtal of .^60 and .£70 a year, are 

 now going a-begging for tenants at .£40 and ^50 ; 

 and building ground, which formerly was worth 

 .£3 or .£4 a foot frontage, 

 Rrniii"x .Memtry. 



In consequence of the depressed state of the 

 agricultural in terest,Wm. Mount, Esq., of Wasing 

 Place, at his last audit, allowed his tenants ten 

 per cent, on their respective rents. What renders 

 this hooii the greater is, that mo-t, if not all, his 

 farms are let at a corn rent. 



ESSEX — The following is a copy of a circular 

 to all the occupiers of one of the most extensive pa- 

 rishr? in the count) of Essex ; the only resident in- 

 cumbent in tlie hundred, who farms his own glebe 

 lands, of upwards of 200 acres, with as much econo- 

 my and ability as the most experienced farmer, anil 

 consequently well knows the justice and expediency 

 oftlie example he is setting: — Jiy dear Sir, — I liave 

 fixed on Monday, Nov. 16tb, for my Tithe Audit ; 

 anil as I feci persuaded that the difficulties the agri- 

 culturist has at present to contend against can 

 chiefly be mitigated by foibearance on the part of 

 the landlords and tithe-owners, I sliall be disposed 

 to remit fifty per cent, this year on your usual 

 payment, thougli such a consideration is not made 

 without great per-onal inconvcnietice on my 

 part. I am, dear Sir, your's faithfully, Thomas 

 ScuKEiBKR. Bradwell Lodge, Oct. 27, 1829.'" 



WALES. — At the recent county meeting of Car- 

 marthenshire, it was resolved, that the judicature 

 of Wabs be not abolished, but modified ami im- 

 proved. At a meeting of the inhnljitants of the 

 borough of Carmarthen, also, a similar resolution 

 passed, and petitions to Parliament ordered to be 

 prepared for both. 



SCOTLAND.— In Edinburgh, bythelastweek'a 

 report, 71 men, 133 women, one boy. and one girl, 

 from four to 80 years of age, (in all 206 peisnns) 

 were brouglit, in one day, into the dilTe'rent polii-e 

 watch-houses, in a state of intoxication. Upon 

 15 of these, namely,nine women, five un-n, aiid the 

 girl, the stomach-pump was used with success, and 

 their lives thertliy most prol)ably saved. 



niKLANP. — Four prisoners received sentence 

 of deatli, at Cork, for a conspiracy to murder tliree 

 magistrates. Four others wereatterwards put on 

 their trial, out of the remaining 13 for the same 

 ofience; and after the jury liad retired, and been 

 confined 16 hours, they could not come to unani- 

 mity — medical men having been called in, and 

 stating the danger, without sustenance, of further 

 keeping the jury, from their dreadful state of ex- 

 haustion, tliey were allowed to be discharged : 

 tlie foreman of the jury said, ■' Were your lordship 

 to confine us for a month, there is no likelihood of 

 our agreeing." In one case tliere were nine for 

 acquittal and three for conviction. In the other 

 two cases, II for conviction, and one for acquittal. 

 Thus the reign of terror has commenced ; and 

 ,this trial has elicited a state of society in Ireland 

 unprecedented in the annals of any other country. 

 Its description has been thus ;;iven by the solicitor- 

 general in his introductory speech on tliis occasion. 

 — ''There exists in Ireland a seciet and extensive 

 confederacy ; br.MKid together by oaths ; organized ; 

 headed by captains, acting in concert ; directed by 

 committees; exercising an unfortunate controul 

 over too many of the unlbrtunate people; at whose 

 bidding burglary, robbery, and nnirder are perpe- 

 trati'd ; who have but to issue their orders to he 

 obeyed."' — So much for the boasted emancipation, 

 of the Catholics ! Discontent seems as prevalent 

 as ever, and O'Coune'l has given noKce that Ire- 

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