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-PROVINCTAL, OCCURRENCES. ° 
Including Accounts of all Improvements relating to the Agriculture, the Commerées 
the Economy, the Police, Sc. of every Part of the Kingdom ; with Notices of 
eminem Marriages, and of all the Deaths recorded in the Provincial Prints; te 
which are added, Biographical Anecdotes of remarkable. aid diftinguifbed 
Char. Gers. 

NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. a 
A ConsiDERABLe progrefs has been made in 
~~ the arrangement of preliminary bufinefs rela- 
tive to the Durham Farm, and a profpect is now 
afforded of completing an eftablithment which 
has been fo long called for, and is fo likely to 
promote the, wellare of the community. The 
Yum of 8001. has been already fubfcribed for 
the purpofes of the fociety. 
The expences of the projected Durham Ca- 
nal are eftimated in Mr. Whitworth’s Report, 
“juft publifhed, at 79,0001. and the probable 
advantage to fubfcribérs, caiculated to amount 
to upwards of 20 per cent. 
A correfpondent of Mr. Hopcson’s Mew- 
cafile Chronicle reprehends the very penurious 
mode of the diftributwn of lamps, in the 
ftreets of that opulent and populous bo- 
rough ; a parfimony the more culpable, as,:ac- 
cording to his account, the inhabitants are often 
expofed tothe dangerous alternative of flicker- 
ing in the Tyne, cr on the mud of its banks ! 
The Durham Agricultural Society, at their 
faft meeting, at Darlington, offered a number 
of premiums, to be paid at their next annual 
meeting: to the farmer whofe ground (not lefs 
than'150 acres) fhall be judged to be in the 
moft fkilful mode of cultivation, and in the 
heft cond tion, 10 guineas, or a filver cup of 
equal value; to the farmer who fhall have 
laid down to. grafs, at his own expence, a 
piece of ground, not lefs than ro acres, being a 
part of his farm, not lgfs than roo acres, fo that 
-at the end of three years fuch ground {hall be 
judged to have been the moft fkilfully laid 
down, and fhall have been uid as pafture or 
meadow for the three preceding years, § gul- 
fieas ; for the beft crop of turnips on a picce 
of fallow land, notlefsthan 5 acres, by dill or 
ether hufbandry, and which {hall not have had 
more than 10 two-wheeled fhort carts of dung 
fpread on each acre thereof (except compoft, 
which fhall not have any dung mixed there- 
with) and which fhali have been twice hoed, 
3 guineas ; for the greateft quantity and beft in 
quality of rye-grafs feed, which fhall have been 
produced froni two acres of land, 3 guineas 3 
to any perfon whe fhall difcover the cheapeft 
and beft methed of deftroying wild oats, 3 gui- 
“meas; for the cleaneft and beft crop of win- 
ter tares, produced on 4 acres of ground, 3 gni- 
neas ; for the cleanefl and beft crop of eabbages, 
produced on two acres of fallow ground, under 
the fame reftrictions of dung or compoft as the 
turnip crop, 2 guineas ; alfo, for the beft ftal- 
lien for harnefs or draught horfes, which fhall 
@ave been kept in the county, at oue guinea, 

a mare for two feafons afterwards, 5 guineas ; 
fox the beit ftallion, for hunters or road horfes, 
under the fame reftrictions, 5 guineas; tor 
the beft two-year old bull, which fhall be kept 
in the county for cows two years afterwards, 5 
guineas; and for the fecond bcft, 2 guineas ; 
alfo, for the beit breeding cow, in milk or with 
calf, bred either in Darlington or Stockton 
wards, and which fhall be kept afterwards in 
the county as a breeding cow two years, 3 
guineas 5 for the beft heifer, with calf, fubject 
to the fame reftriétions, 2 guineas; and for 
the beft tup, fubjeG to ditto, 3 guineas. 
The fame premiums were alfo offered for the 
beft breeding cow, heifer, and tup, that fhall 
have. been bred either in Chefter or Eafing- 
ton wards. Different’ premiums of 4 and 5 
guineas each, were alfo offered for bringing up 
the greateft number of legitimate: children, 
without parochialafliftance ; and for diligence and 
fdclity exemplified in male and female fervants. 
It is in contemplation to make a canal: from 
Stockton to Winfion, that fhall pafs by Dar- 
lington and. Staindrop, and have ‘collateral 
branches extending to Pierfe Bridge, to ‘Croft 
Bridge, and to’ Yarm\; alfo, a branch which 
fhall connect with the intended Durham Canal, 
and a farther extenfion of the line from Croft 
Bridge to Boroughbridge, that fhali pais by 
Thirtk and Northallerton, 
At Newcattie and Gatethead, laft veer, were 
$71 baptiims, and 662 burials, exclufive ‘of the 
interments at the Ballaft Hulls, ameunting te 
nearly 609 ; of tac former, decreafed 33, of the 
latter; 22, 
Married.|—-At Newcaftle, Mr, J. Seager te 
Mifs M. fohnfoa. Healey, -ciq:. to’ Mits 
M. E. Mewburn, of Stockton, - ° 
Died. '—At WNewcattle, Mifs E. Robinfoa, 
Mi Clazout.s avin Bult. Mrs. Bells 
Mr. J. Feamey. Mr. Archbold, 
C. A. Atkinfon, e(g. alderman: of a wore 
thy character. Walking, incompany with his 
fon, among his coal-works, at Dumfermline, 
Scotland, and proceeding to examine the mouth 
Gos 
_ of an old pit, the timber on which he ftood 
gave way, and precipitated him to the bottomy 
adepth of 40 fathums. It was feveral hours 
before his mangled remains could be recovered; 
At Sunderland, aged 76, Mrs. Young, fitter 
of the late rey. Mr. Romaine, of London, 
Mrs. Atkinfon. Mr. W. Irvine. 
At Hexham, Mr. J, Craigg, and Mr. M. Roe 
binfon. 
At Unthank, aged 59, Mr. W. Forfter; 
many years principal agent ta the late Sir W, 
and the prefent Su T. Blackett, at Allenheads, 
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