{ March “1, . 
PROVINCIAL OC CUPRENS hs; 
WITH atu THE MARRIAGES anp DEATHS ; 
Arranged zeograptically, or in the Order of tae Counties, from North to South. 
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NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 
+ is in contemplation to form, at North 
Shields, a new Infurance Affociation for good 
thips of not lefs than twelve, or more than 
twenty five, keels OF coals. 
At a late meeting of the Durham Agrie - 
cultural Society, the following rewards were 
offered f6r the prefent year: To the farmer 
whofe grouad, not lefs than rgo acres, thall 
be deemed tg be moft skilfully omc and 
in the beft conditio A, five guineas —For the 
preateft quantity and bef in peal of tye- 
grafs feed, produced from two acres of ground, 
five guineas.—For the bef fallions for get- 
ting harnefs, or. dta ught horfes, and hunters 
or road horfes, three guineas ey Shale = or the 
beft bull, five guineas —For the befi tup, five 
guincas.—For the beft cow or heifer, five 
guineas —For the bef pen of five fat wedder 
thee p under two years old, bred. and fedin the 
comity; and which have been fed only with 
ercen food, ten guineas.—-For the beft fat 
ox, bred and fed in the county, ten guineas ; 
and an additional five guineas if the beat 
fhould be of any other true and unmixed 
breed than the fhort-horned.—For the beft 
fat pig, five guineas. ‘Premiums are likewife 
offered for cottagers who maintain and edu- 
cate the greatelt number of children without 
parechial aid. , 
At a numerous meeting of the thip-owners 
of North and South Shields, held in confe- 
quence of the depreficd ftate of the fhipping 
ntereft, and to take into confideration the 
beft means of relieving it, it was refolved, 
that a Memorial on the fubjeét fhould s 
tranfmitted tothe Board of ‘lrade. It was 
likewife refolved, that another Memorial 
fhould be prefented to the Lord Mayor, Alder- 
$45 and Common Council of London, re- 
ipeCting certain parts of the ia AG far 
eftablifhing a free market for coals; but more 
particularly refpecting the prefent improper 
mode of meafuring coals inthe Pool. 
Married.| At Newcaftle, Mr. Hofimeyer, 
merchant, to Mifs Key.—Mr. W. T. Hew- 
fon, fhip-owner, to Mifs Dale’—Mr. Roper, 
of Lancashire, to Mrs. Dorothy Moore, widow 
of Mr, Robert Moore.—Mr. Jehn Sharp, 
grocer, to Mifs Elizabeth Mawthen. 
At Sunderland, Mr. Thomas Armftrong, 
ghigv-owner, of Wewcafile, to Mifs Sarah 
Todd, daughter of Mr. John Todd, of Big- 
gins, ee. George Goodwin, merchant, of 
Bull, to Mifs Clarke. 
At Alnwick, Mr. H. Henderfon, of the 
Abbey Mills, to Mi ifs Ord, of Sharperton. 
At Durham, Mr, Charles Hodgfon, to Mifs 
Baker, daughter of Br, Baker, of Bear Park, 
=-Thomas Burn, efq. of Monkwearmouth, 
to Mifs Lawfon, of Blakemoor. i 
At Staindrop, Mr. Binns, draper, in Sun- 
derland, te Mifs M. Watfon, daughter of 
Dr. Watfon. 
Died.|}. At Newcaftle, aged 72, Lieut. 
Wilfon Carte of the Royal Invalids, late 
of Guernfey, and fermerly ferjeant-major in 
the North Vork rnilitia Mr. John Brown, 
fchoolmafer.—Aged 26, Mrs. Cookfon, wife 
of Mr. Cookfon, fhip- ow neha Maes Harrifon, 
widow of Mr. Robert Harrifon, woollen 
draper. 
At Alnwick, Mifs Grey, a maiden lady, 
aged $5. 
At Cramlington, Mrs, Milburn, wife of. 
as Milburn, principal agent to Sir M. 
’. Ridley, bart. —Mr. W. Hodfon, of Bar- 
Mi Cafile.—-Aged 22, Mifs Margaret Dick- 
infon, daughter of Mr. John Dickinfon, of 
Chefterwood. 
At Dalton-le-Dale, the Rev. Mr. Budiey. 
curate of that place—Mifs Watfon, of North 
Seaton, aged 59. Her death was occafiened 
by her clothes catching fire from a fpark. 
At Durham, Mrs. Robinfon, wife of Mr. 
George Pohiaten, aged 33. 
At Blackwell, near Darlington, Lieut, W; 
B. Garth. 
At Acklington Park, aged 2a, Mifs Carr. 
At Ebchefter, Mrs. Surtees, wife of Mr. 
John Surtees. 
At Sunderland, Mr. Hutchinfon, Ahip- 
owner, 
Act Bifhopwearmouth, Mrs. Sanderfon, 
wife of Captain W. Sanderfon.—Mrs, Riches 
ardfon, res of Mr. John Richardfon, tanner. 
CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND. 
Lord Lowther has, for fome time pa@, em- 
ploye d experienced miners in boring and fink- 
ing for coals within his manors in thefe coun- 
Pe A large {eam of an excellent kind has 
been difcovered on Warnell manor, in Cum- 
PEERS which his lordfhi ip intends to work 
a greatextent. The diftance is only nine 
oe from Carlifle, fourtten from Penrith, 
and five from Dalfton, at all which places 
extenfive manufaCtories are carried on; and, 
as thofe towns are befides fituated in a very 
populous country, great public benefit is ex 
pected from this undertaking. 
The plan for lighting the city of Carlifle 
has, at length, been carried into execution 5 
and (fays the Carlifle Journal) ‘¢ about 400 
lamps kindly diffipate the gloom in which 
our numerous lanes and ftreets have long been 
involved. There is every reafon to expect 
that, in a Giort time, the flagging will be 
completed, 
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