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THE

LOCAL REGISTER

SHEFFIELD.

THE

LOCAL REGISTER.

AND

Ciironolotrtcal Jtmmni;

OF

OCCURRENCES AND FACTS

CONNECTED WITH THE

TOWN AND NEIGHBOURHOOD

SHEFFIELD.

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EXPLANATION

OF

ABBREVIATED AUTHORITIES.

H. H.— Hunter's History of Hallamshire.

A. C. B.— Accounts of the Church Burgesses.

P. R. — Parish Register.

W. P.— Wilson's Papers.

Trust. Ace— Accounts of the Town Trustees.

Work. Acc.-Overseers' Workhouse Accounts.

Pari. Rep.— Report of the Commissioners appointed by

Parliament. Hist. Burg.-Samuel Mitchell's History of the Burgery.

TABLES

OF MATTERS NOT TO BE FOUND IN CPIRONO- LOGICAL ORDER.

SURVEY OF THE PARISH.

TOWNSHIP OF SHEFFIELD.

The Park, the Park-hill, the greatest part of the town of Sheffield, and a small portion of the parish lying north-west of the town, comprehending the villages of Portobello and Leavy Greave, and reaching to the brow of the hill that overhangs the reservoirs on Crookes-moor, form the town- ship of Sheffield. From that brow, the boundary is an irregular line, which passes beyond the Infirmary to the Don, opposite Neepsend. To this may be added a small tract lying along the Don near the Castle-hill, which was formerly orchards and other appendages of ths castle. The whole of this township lies on the right bank of the Don, and its area is 3436^ acres.

TOWNSHIP OP ECOLESA.J.L BYERLOW.

The ground betiveen the Porter and Sheaf, until ihese streams enter the Park, a part lying north of the Porter comprising Broom-hall, and a considerable portion of Crookes-moor, form the township and Manor of Ecclesall. To this must be added, Lidgate and a small territory round, which, on the division after the inclosure act of 177^ were assigned to Ecclesall and Nether Hallam. The area of the township is 4180 acres.

TOWNSHIP OF UPPER HALLAM.

This township lies between theRiveling on the north and the Porter on the south. Its eastern boundary line is at the

SURVEY OF THE PARISH,

distance of about two miles from SheflBeld. On the west it adjoins Derbyshire. This township has the largest super- lices of the six which compose the parish of Shetfield. Its area is 8836 acres.

TOWNSHIP OF NETHER HALLAM.

This township lies to the north-west of Sheffield, and ad- joins Ecclesall and Upper Hallam. The Don separates it from Brightside Byerlow, and the Riveling 'and Loxley from Ecclesfield. (A small portion of the ground on the left bank of the Loxley is laid down as appertaining" to the township in the map of the parish of Sheffield.) This town- ship contains 1900 acres.

TOWNSHIP OF BRIGHTSIDE BYERLOW.

That part of the parish of Sheffield which lies on the left bank of the Don is the township of Brightside Byerlow. In the map of the parish, about ten fields on the bank of the river near Carbrook are coloured as belonging to this township. The little stream, called Blackburn Brook, divides it from the parish of Rotherham.

TOWNSHIP OF ATTERCLIFFE-CUM-DARNALL.

A tract of country which is nearly in the form of an equilateral triangle of the area of two square miles, is the township of Attercliffe-cum-Darnall. One side is on the line of the Park-wall, another the course of the Don, and the tlTird is marked by the course of a little rill called the Carbrook, which rises near Bowden Homesteads, and falls into the Don near the village which bears its name. It lies east of the town of Sheffield.

TABLE OF THE POPULATION OF SHEFFIELD

FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD.

TOWN.

A.D. FAMS. RIAL. FEBI. TOT.

1561 1500

1615 2207

1736 2152 2695

1755 2793 12571

1768 3142

1775 4707

1785 5256

1788 5587 25141

1789 6065

1796 6565 29013

1801 15483 15831 31314

1811 17387 18453 35840

1821 9049 20815 21245 42157

For the 'population of the parish of Sheffield, with its six to^vnship3, refer to years 1796, 1801, 1811, and 1821 .—Total population of Sheffield and its townships, 65,275,

HAMLETS.

A.D.

FAM.

MAL,

FEM.

TOT.

1736

211

245 503

893 Brig-htside Byerlow. 1075 Attercliffe-cum-Darnall. 2352 Ecclesall and two Hallams.

1801

2028

2023

4030 Brightside Byerlow.

1222

1059

2281 Attercliffe-cum-Darnall.

2675

2687

5362 Ecclesall Byerlow.

1041

933

1974 Nether Hallam.

439

355

794 Upper Hallara.

1811

2462

2437

4899 Brightside Byerlow.

1436

1237

2673 Attercliffe-cum-Darnall.

3190

3379

6569 Ecclesall Bverlow.

452

413

866 Upper Hallam.

12.33

1151

2384 Nether Hallara.

1821

1594

3308

3307

6615 Brightside Byei-low.

699

1615

1557

3172 Attcrclifte-cum-Darnall.

1912

4526

4587

9113 Ecclesall Byerlow.

651

1659

1542

3200 Nether Hallam.

195

523

495

1018 Upper Hallam.

TABLES OF COMPARATIVE POPULATION.

From 1561 to 1600

1308

4649 3715

„ 1601 „ 1640

1912

674 7188 2539 6208 2493

„ 1641 „ 1680

2007

25 8150 ^)G2 1817 2609

„ 1681 „ 1720

3161

1154 11153 3003 11090 2273

„ 1721 ., 1760

5997

2836 21349 10296 19208 8118

„ 1761 „ 1800

13659

7662 49668 28210 42678 23470

No. 1. — Total of Marriages in forty years. 2. — Increased in forty years. 3. — Total of Baptisms in forty years. 4.— Increased in forty years. 5.— Total of Burials in forty years. 6. — Increased in forty years.

THB f Baptisms

RBLAUVE PROPORTiOT OF \ to Marriages,

From 1561 to 1600 as 1601 „ 1640 „

1641 1681 1721 1761

1680 1720 1760 1800

3-55 to 3-62 „ 4-60 „ 3-52 „ 3-57 „ 3-63 „

and as

f Baptisms (. to Burials

. 1-25 to 1-15 „

1-92 „

1-005 „

1-11 „

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PARISH REGISTER,

Shewing the number of marriages, baptisms, and burials at the Parish Church and the chapels under it, for each ten years from the commencement of the register in 1561.

YEARS.

1561

to 1567

1571

„ 1580

1581

„ 1590

1591

„ 1600

1601

„ 1610

1611

„ 1620

1621

„ 1630

1631

„ 1640

1641

„ 1650

1651

„ 1660

1661

„ 1670

1671

„ 1680

1681

„ 1690

1691

„ 1700

1701

„ 1710

1711

„ 1720

1721

„ 1730

1731

„ 1740

1741

„ 1750

1751

„ 1760

1761

>, 1770

1771

,, 1780

1781

» 1790

1791

„ 1800

1801

„ 1810

. MAR.

BAP.

BUR.

inclusive. 234

1085

712

275

955

721

340

1245

959

459

1364

1323

417

8475

1049

469

1699

1359

532

1884

1606

564

2130

2194

413

2136

2276

475

1698

1888

„ 583

2086

226G

537

2240

2387

540

2595

2856

688

2221

2856

942

3033

2613

991

3304

2765

1212

3874

3828

1369

4635

3876

1584

5904

5232

1833

7036

6270

2551

8885

7547

2962

10697

9898.

3863

13851

11849

4277

16152

13139

5031

17760

13344

ARISH REGISTER CONTINUED.

Vt-iR« MAR. BAPTISMS. BURIALS.

ALARt. MAR. _ j^j^jj_ ^0^

1911 563 020 906 1926 740 719 1459

w i 541 984 905 18829 638 623 1261

\t]i 580 922 859 1817 606 604 210

\fu 618 92l 885 1809 616 609 225

8 5 773 1139 1088 2227 900 7^1 6b

ft 6 7 3 1105 1066 2171 710 632 1341

1ft 7 573 1107 1060 2167 840 72b 566

^?!1 ?Qi inil q« 9014 861 785 1656

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«9l 802 \u6 1056 2172 1028 898 I9l6

IS ?9l 1095 970 2065 1038 937 1975

CATALOGUE

OF THE

HEAD MASTERS OF THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

Thomas Rawson died in 1615. 1645—1648 William Yonge.

1648 Roger Stiere. 1649—1651 Peter Lanfitt. 1652—1658 VVilliam VVhitaker.

Francis Potts. 1664—1696 Thomas Balguv. 1696—1699 Charles Daubuz.

Christopher Robinson.

William Humpton, assistant minister.

John Cliffe, died 1748.

Thomas Marshall.

John Smith, assistant minister. 1776—1809 Charles Chadwick, Vicar of Tinslev. 1809-1818 Joseph Wilson. 1818— William White, A. M., Fellow of

St. John's Colleg-e, Cambridge.

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CATALOGUE

OF THE

CURATES OF ECCLESALL.

1622-1629 Edward Hunt. 1629—1635 William Dawson. 1635 — 1656 Uncertain. 1656—1659 John Crooke. 1659—1662 Uncertain. 1662—1689 William Gardner. 1689—1694 Samuel Leech. 1694—1720 Robert Turie. 1720— 1752 William Humpton 1752—1766 John Dickinson. 1766— J 769 Henrv Charnley. 1769—1804 George Bavliffe. 1834—1817 George Smith. 1817—1829 Mathew Preston. 1826 W. H. Vale.

CURATES OF ATTERCLFFE.

1630—1635 Stanley Gower.

1635—1642 James Bright.

1643 — 1648 No regular curates, but the chapel was supplied by the aged Mr. Toller, who had been vicar of Sheffield ; Mr. Pool, Mr. Ber- beck the vicar, Mr. Rawson the assistant minister and others.

1648—1651 William Bagshaw.

1652 John Bridges.

1653—1662 Matthew Bloome.

1662—1673 Cuthbert Browne.

1673—1708 Daniel Leech.

1708—1715 George Lee.

1719—1729 Benjamin Ferrand.

1729 — 1731 Isaac Hemingway.

I73I-I755 Robert Tempest."

1755—1776 John Smith.

1776—1817 Edward Goodwin.

181 7 John Blackburne.

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A PERFECT CATALOGUE

OF

rHE

MASTER

CUTLERS.

162i Robert Sorsby

1655 Thomas Pearson

1625 John Rawson

1656 John Webster

1626 William Warter

1657 Malin Sorsby

1627 William Webster

1658 John Rawson

1 628 Robert Sorsby

1659 William Creswick

1629 John Webster

1660 Stephen Carr

1630 William Creswick

1661 Robert Allen

1631 Robert Stacie

1662 James Staniforth

1632 James Creswick

1663 James Newton

1633 George Vallance

3664 John Pearson

1634 William Walker

1665 Thomas Jennings

1635 Thomas Creswick

1666 Nathaniel Robinson

1636 Richard Wilkinson

1667 George Creswick

1637 John Crook

1668 John Webster

1638 James Creswick

1669 Robert Sorsby

1639 Robert Carr

1670 Edward Barlow

1640 Robert ScargiU

1671 Richard Paramore

1641 Thomas Milward

1672 Matthew Arnold

1642 Richard Slack

1 073 'John Sutton

1643 William Baves

1674 Castles Shemeld

1644 William Pit't

1675 William Crawshaw

1645 William AVarter

1676 James Newton

1646 Thomas Ludlara

1677 John Pearson

J 647 Malin Sorsby

1678 Thomas Jennings

1648 Robert Brelsforth

1679 Joshua Baves

1649 Richard Jackson

1680 Jonathan Webster

1650 George Barnesley

1681 Robert NichoUs

1651 William Birley

1682 John Winter

1652 Thomas Bate

1683 Edward Badger

J 653 Edward Barlow

1684 William Ellis

1654 William Crawshaw

1685 Thomas Tooker

1686 Benjamin Kirkby

1687 John Webster

1688 Robert Brelsford

1689 James Webster

1690 Joseph Downes

1691 John AVebster

1692 Thomas Johnson

1693 John King

1694 John Trippet

1695 Robert Spooner

1696 Christ. Broomhead

1697 Richard Downes

1698 Andrew Wade

1699 Benjamin Pearson

1700 Robert Savage

1701 Richard Marsh

1702 Ephraim Nicholls

1703 John Pearson

1704 Edwaid Sanderson

1705 Joseph Nutt

1706 Ezra Cawton

1707 George Cartwright

1708 John Downes

1709 James Hoole

1710 John Morton

1711 Samuel Smith

1712 Samuel Twible

1713 Thomas Tooker

1714 John Birks

1715 William Moor

1716 Thomas Broadhead

1717 John Guest

1718 Tobias Ellis

1719 Peter Symon

1720 James Longsden

1721 James Crawshaw

1722 John Smith

1723 Jonathan Moor

1724 Jeremy Beet

1725 Thomas Redforth

1726 John Tooker

1727 Andrew Wade

1728 Andrew Wade

1729 Thomas Cotton

1730 Samuel Wainwright -* He died in ihc yeat of his oiiicc.

1731 Thomas Wilson

1732 John Ward

1733 Thomas Watkin

1734 John Osborne

1735 Joseph Turner

1736 Joshua Cawton

1737 Joseph Shepherd

1738 Joseph Kenyon

1739 Jonathan Dixon, jun.

1740 Jonathan Dixon, sen.

1741 Richard Kent

1742 Thomas Rose*

1743 George INIarriott

1744 John Spooner

1745 Joseph Leathley

1746 Robert Dent

1747 Edward Windle

1748 Leonard Webster

1749 George Smith

1750 William Hides

1751 Thomas Newbold

1752 Joseph Parkin

1753 Thomas Law

1754 Joseph Owen

1755 William Webster

1756 Benjamin Withers

1757 John Wilson

1758 Jonathan Moor

1759 Jos. Ibberson

1760 William Webster

1761 William Parker

1762 George Graves

1763 Josh. Hancock

1764 Samuel Bates

1765 Josp. Bower

1766 William Birks

1767 John Turner 1758 Thomas Beelev

1769 Jeremiah Ward

1770 Joshua Cawton

1771 William Trickett

1772 Robert Owen

1773 George Britain

1774 Joseph Keynon

1775 John Winter

, and Richaid Kent served again.

1776 John Green

1777 Samuel Norris

1778 William Linley

1779 Josephus Parkin

1780 John Rowbotham'

1781 Peter Spurr

1782 William Fowler

1783 Joseph Hawksley

1784 Benjamin Broomhead

1785 Thomas Settle

1786 Samuel Wilson

1787 Jonathan Watkinson

1788 Thomas Nowell

1789 Thomas Tillotson

1790 Jos. Ward

1791 George Wood

1792 John Henfree

1793 Thomas Warris

1794 Benjamin Withers

1795 William Birks

1796 J. Fletcher Smith

1797 William Linley

1798 S.B. Ward

1799 Benjamin Vickers

1800 Samuel Newbold

1801 Joseph Bailey

1802 Joseph Withers

1803 Jatnes Mekin

1804 William Nicholson

1805 John Eyre

1806 John Sorby

1807 Peter Brownell

1808 Ebenezer Rhodes

1809 Robert Brightmore

1810 John Tillotson

1811 JohnEadon

1812 James Smith 1113 John Holt

1814 Joseph Parkin,

1815 James Makin.

1816 Thomas Asline Ward

181 7 George Tillotson

1818 John Fox

1819 John Hounsfield

1820 J. Dixon Skelton

1821 William CoUey

1822 Thomas Champion

1 823 Thomas Dewsnap

1824 Peter Spurr

1825 Henry Moorhouse

1826 William Sansom

1827 Samuel Hadfield

1828 James Crawshaw

1829 Philip Law

1830 Enoch Barber.

* He died and Mr. Parkin served again.

ANALYSIS OF GALES AND MARTIN'S DIRECTORY,

1787.

Persons or firms Persons or iirms in Sheffield. in neigh Vill.

Manufac. of Anvils and Hammers 5 0

„ Buttons, 10 0

„ Ditto horn, 13 .3

„ Bits and Stirrups, 4 0

„ Cases for knives, &c 3 0

„ Clasps and Dog Collars, . . 3 0

„ Combs, 5 0

Edge Tools, 12 6

„ Fenders,., 3 0

Files, 30 17

„ Forks, 10 6

„ Inkstands, 6 0

„ Lancets and Fleams, 11 0

,, Lantern Lights 3 0

„ Pen and Pocket Knives,.... 90 6

., Com. Pocket and Penknives, 34 14

„ Razors, 40 10

„ Razor Strops, . . 9 ... 0

„ Saws, lO 0

„ Silver and Plated Goods, .. 17 0

„ Scissors, fine, 37 2

„ Ditto common, 24 24

„ Scythes, 0 24

„ Sickles, 0 34

„ Shears, 13 2

„ Sheath, Paper Inkstands,&c. 8 0

„ Stamped Brass, White me- tal, & metal framed Kn. 22 0

„ Spotted Kives 9 76

Table Knives, sil. & plated, 16 0

„ Table Knives in general, . . 54 0

" Table Knives, common, .. 11 6

Factors, 19 0

Founders, 5 0

Haft Pressers, 8 0

Merchants, 15 0

Nail Factors, 2 0

Opticians, 2 0

Steel Converters and Refiners, 17 S

The total number of persons or firms of one or more persons engaged in the manufactures of Sheffield within the township, 580, in the neighbouring villages, 230,

TRADES AND OCCUPATIONS OF SHEFFIELD,

AND THE

NUMBER OF PERSONS EMPLOYED THEREIN,-

Two or more Parties in one Firm computed as one.

1797

Academies, keepers of

Accountants and collectors

Anvil makers 4

Architects

Attornies

Auctioneers

Bakers

Bankers

Basket-makers

Bayonet-makers

Bellows-makers 2

Blacking-makers

Blacksmiths and farriers

Bookbinders

Booksellers and stationers

Boot and shoe makers

Brace and bit makers')

Brass foundries

Brewers

Bricklayers and slaters

Britannia metal manufacturers

Brush-makers

Buff and glazier manufactories

B u tchers

Button and button mould makers

Cabinet makers and upholsterers .......

.821

1828

63

72

Jl

37

3

4

4

12

29

35

9

7

19

25

3

3

4

9

1

2

2

1

4

15.

20

3

5

15

17

39

112

5

11

8

18

4

6

9

18

13

12

s

10

1

3

130

175

14

18

16

28

1797 Cabinet case and razoi- strop makers.. ..

Carpet manufactures

Carvers and gilders

China glass and earthenware dealers ., .

Chasers

Cheesemonger >

Clasp makers

Clothes brokers

Coach builders

Coal masters

Comb makers » 5

Confectioners

Coopers

Cornfactors ,.

Corn millers

C urriers

Cutlery — Auger makers

Awl blade makers 4

-= Edgetool makers 13

Fork makers 15

Joiners' tool makers

Lancet and fleam makers .... 13

Pen and pocket knife maker 133

Kazor manufacturersM 32

Saw makers... 14

Scissor makers 56

Scythe, hay, and straw knife

manufacturers

Shoe and butcher knife manu-

facturers 12

Snuffer manufacturers

Table, dessert, and fruit knife

manufacturers 81

Dentists

Die sinkers

Distillrse and rectifiers

Drapers, lineu and woollen

Druggists

Dyers

Emery makers

Engravers and copper plate printers ....

Etchers and gilders

Fellmongers ,

1821

1828

14

U

2

3

5

8

3

4

2

3

4

5

9

11

3

7

3

5

15

19

6

17

11

21

12

8

3

4

9

9

2

3

7

9

40

8

10

10

-20

10

12

156

177

63

80

43

60

63

81

8

15

18

21

2

2

133

143

3

5

7

8

2

.2

27

34

21

29

4

9

2

1

11

12

5

6

3

G

1/97 Fender and stove grate manufacturers. . 6

File manufacturers 40

Fire iron manufacturers

Fire and life insurance company agents.

Fishmongers

Flax dressers

Furniture brokers «

Gardeners

Grocers, tea dealers, and provision mer- chants

Bun makers ^

Hair seating manufacturers

Hat manufacturers

Haft and scale pressers and cutters 9

Hosiers

Ink stand makers ... , 7

Inns, keepers of

Iron and brass founders

Ironmongers

Ivory, horn, bone, &c. merchants

.Tewellers

Joiners, carpinters and builders...

Land and building agents and aurveyors.

Lead manufacturers

Leather dressers and sellers

Libraries, keepers of

Machine makers and mill wrights

Maltsters

Mark and figure makers

Merchants, factors, and dealers in cutlery 62

Milliners and dress makers

Millwrights and engineers

Musical preceptors and venders

Nail manufacturers 3

Newspapers, publishers of 1

Opticians

Painters, portrait, &c

Painters, house and decorative

Paper makers

Patten makers

PaM-nbrokers

Perfumers and hair dtessers

Physicians

1821

iA2i<

15

27

47

80

3

/

6

18

7

7

3

3

16

20

30

37

20.5

257

I

■?

3

3

16

22

32

47.

8

13

7

9

7

9

32

43

16

20

19

26

6

7

53

61

6

9

1

1

10

13

6

9

6

9

10

12

3

A

107

138

80

101

5

7

/

14

9

11

3

4

5

12

2

3

10

oo

2

3

2

11

12

17

29

37

3

8

1797 1821 1828

Plasterers 4 15

Plumbers and glaziers 17 24

Pocket-book and pattern-card makers.. 5 7

Powder-flask and shot-belt makers .... 8

Printers 8 l4

Pump makers 1 2

Rag and iron merchants 6 7

Rollers, tilters, and forgers 17 21

Rope and twine manufacturers 4 6

Rottenstone dealers c 2

Rule (box and ivory) makers 1 2

Saddlers and collar makers 7 10

Shear makers 9 7 J 1

Silver refiners 2 4

Manufacturers of silver and plated goods 22 22 29

Silver plated and metal rollers 2 3

Skate makers 7 10

Slaters 6 7

Slate merchants 2 2

Soap boiler \ 1

Spade and shovel miikeis . .

Spindle and tiy manufacture! »

Spoon makers

Steel busk m«k^r«

Steel conveiters and Stone and marhU' .n Straw hat and b(. rim 1

Sugar refiner

Surgeons' instrument makers i- _, 4

Tailors 44 / 6

Tallow chandlers I4 9

Tanners 4 fi

Taverns, inns, and public-houses 190 270

Tea and coffee warejiouses 4 g

Timber and raft merchants 8 8

Tobacco and snuff manufacturers 4 6

Trunk and band-box makers 2 4

Truss makers 2 4

Turners in wood 13 ij

Typefounders 2 2

Umbrella makers 5 g

Upholsterers 3 g

Veterinary surgeons, 2 3

Watch and clock makers 11 Ig

d

1737 1821 1828

Wheehvrig^hts 5 7

Whitesmiths, jobsmiths, &c 15 23

Wine and porter merchants 6 24

1828, — Total, 254 trades or occupations, in M'hich are engaged 3588 persons, or companies of two or more persons.

1797. — Total number of trades or occupations, carried on by one or more persons, (according to Robinson's Direc- torv,) 1350.

LIST OF THE MERCHANTS AND FACTORS,

ARRVING ON BUSINESS IN THE YEAR 17f»7.

Rol/inson's Director

Antt, Jos. and Son

Bailey and Eadon, 103, Westbar

Barnard and Co., 16, Scotland-street

Bailey and Green, 14, High-street

Bentley and Wilson, 3, High street

Bishop, Weldon, and Carr, 18, Bridge-street

Bland, Thomas, 25, Queen-street

Blonk, Silcock, and Company, 42, Norfolk-street

Brittain, Wilkinson, and Brownell,4, Sycamore-street

Broomhead and Rutherford, 7> Fargate

Brightmore, William, 1, Townhead-street

Bramhall and Son, 1, Portobello

Cadman, Peter, and Company, 37, Coalpit-lane

Fenton, Francis, 4, Church-lane

Froggatt, Coldwell, and Lean, Eyre-street

Greaves, Woodhead, and Hodgson, 32, Norfolk-street

Green, Jane, and Sons, 31, Arundel-street

Greaves, John, 98, Fargate

Green and Hague, 19, Sim's-croft

Harwood and Thomas, 21, Market-Place

Hawksley, Joshua and Sons, 118, Westbar

Hawksley, Wreaks, and Company, 1, Surrey-street

Hadfield, Robert, and Company, 13, St. James's-street

Hawks worth, Oates, and Company, 44, Campo-lane

Holy, Newbould, and Suckling, Sheffield-moor

Hodgson, Nicholson, Rotten, & Thompson, 61, Pond-street

Hounsfield, John, and Company, 2, Sycamore-street

Houlden, John, 1, Sim's-croft

Holmes, Thomas, 6, Broad-street, Park

Ibbotson, William and George, and Co., 13, Bridge-street

Kenyon, John, 9, HolHs-street

Knutton, Thomas, 5, Paradise-square

Love and Spear, 19, Scotland-street

Lonffflen, Binney, and Company, 72, Campo-lane

Mitchell, Thompson, and Company, 3, Forge-8tre€t

Norris, Samuel, 55, Westbar

Gates, Colley, and Wigham, HoUis-street

Rotherham, James, 8, Spring-street

Saner, Ej're, and Shepherd, 55, Norfolk-street

Sharrow, Colley, and Company, Eyre-street

Sorby, Hobson," and Sorby, AVicker

Staniforth, Parkin, and Company, 2, Arundel-street

Stanley, Lester, and Kay, 17, Norfolk-street

Sutcliffe, Robert, 16, Allen-street

Taylor, Parkin, and Company, High-street

Walton, Richard, 27, White-croft

Withers, Benjamin and Joseph, 37, Fargate

Wood, George and Son, 88, Pea-croft

Younge and Whitelock, 43, High-street

COMPANY OF PROPRIETORS,

OR ORIGINAL SHAREHOLDERS OF THE NAVIGATION

OF THE RIVER DON,

1730.-

SHARl

The Cutlers' Company .. Corporation Doncaster . . Town Trustees of Sheffield James Crawshaw, sen. . . .

Samuel Shore, sen

Jno Brown ....•.••••••

:s.

6

10

10

1

2

3

2

2

Q

T

2 2 2 4 2 1 1 1 1 1 2

1

2 <i 4

SHARE

Jno. Balguy

Jno. Drake

Samuel Staniforth

Jno. Fell

Elias Wadsworth

Matthew Charlton

Thomas Short

3 1 5 3

John Smith ......>.<>••

Jno Ellison .......t....

Samuel Shore, jun

Lvdia Shore •...••••..••

Francis Sitwell

William Brookes

Benjamin Roberts, jun..

Benjamin Greaves

Jos. Steer

Thomas Buck ..........

Jno. Cell

Thomas Middleton

William Parkin

Trustees Mollis' Hospital William SitweU

2

??

William Wildman

Charles Wright

James Crawshaw, jun ... . Ann Parkin ............

Nicholas Broadbent ....

Thomas Wilson

Joseph Turner

Jno. Dickson ..........

2

2 1 1

?

Elizabeth Drake

Christopher Robinson .. William Steer ..........

Jonathan Moore

Joshua Matthewman . . . .

Thomas Cauton

Jno. ^forton , . - .

1

Jno. Dossie

I

ii2

SHARES.

George Bradshaw 4

William Dickson 2

Thomas Rayney 3

Jno. Cowley 1

Richard Fayram 1

Jno. Smith 1

Ann Heaton 1

William Machon 1

Jno. Arthur 3

Richard Whitaker 1

SHARES.

Jno. Beale .« 1

Thomas Cooper 1

Jno. Nodder 1

George Steer 1

Henry Broomhead 8

Thomas Hardcastle .... 2

Jno. Newsora 2

Charles Arthur 1

Richard Ellison ....... . 5

Total 157 Shares.

SUMMARY

OF THE

COMMITTALS FOR VARIOUS OFFENCES,

ORDERED

By the sitting Magistrates at the Town-Hall, from the 27th of April, 1819, to 7th April, 1830.

6 7

9 10 11 12

1819-20—157 3

—

23

52

77

7

7

_

19

40

385

1820-21 — 150 10

23

42

32

8

12

13

43

333

1821-22— 94 3

I

19

41

30

8

10

1

12

36

255

1822-23-106 7

1

18

27

51

1

3

—

4

56

274

1823-24—110 11

~

18

29

58

2

—

—

20

29

337

1824-25—122 3

1

15

19

44

8

I

8

94

315

1825-26- 98 11

1

13

20

59

3

7

_

9

71

292

1826-27-142 18

12

30

29

31

10

13

19

39

363

1827-28-182 14

2

25

21

39

7

6

_-

23

27

341

1828-29—161 12

8

39

31

43

2

3

_

33

51

386

1829-30—127 21

4

33

19

73

2

4

—

26

36

344

1. Commitals for trial for Felonies.

2. Ditto under Penal Statutes.

3. Ditto under Game Laws.

4. Ditto on complaint of Overseers for Neglect of Family.

5. Ditto disobeying Orders of Affiliation.

6. Ditto for Vagrancy.

7. Ditto for Desertion from the Army.

8. Ditto to Assizes for Capital Felony.

9. Ditto Ditto for Murder.

10. Ditto for want of Bail to answer to Indictments.

11. Ditto as Disorderly Apprentices, Workmen, and Paupers

12. Total.

SUMMARY OF THE CHARITIES

BELONGING TO THE

TOWNSHIP OF SHEFFIELD, AS REPORTED BY THE PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONERS,

1826.

ENDOWMENTS. The Grammar School. £ s. n. Estates at Wadsley and Gilberthorpe, pro- ducing per annum 160 0 a

The Town Burgesses' Trust.

In houses and lands, annual rental 383 16 1

In the Dun navigation, canal shares, roads,

&c 902 8 9

Annual receipts ... » ^1346 4 10

William Parkin's Charity.

Interest of ,^£100 paid in trust to the Cutlers' Company, for distribution yearly amongst poor filesmiths 4 10 0

Henry Young's Gift.

Rent charge of .£30 per annum, for the be- nefit of the poor ^ Lapsed.

The Church Burgesses' Trust.

In houses and lands, occupying 177>356 square yards, and 146 acres 3 roods 8

perches, producing per annum 1351 1 9^

Pews and sittings in parish church 21 15 6

Rent charges 1 8 6

.€105 mortgage to Han. Cooke 5 5 0

4.1000 in the 4 per cents 42 0 0

Total ^1421 10 9i

Anne Swan's Gift. £ s. d.

The interest of ^25 — 10s. 6d. for a sermon,

93. 6d. for the poor 1 0 0

Joseph Harrison's Charity.

Interest of ^200, distributed amongst poor

file strikers annually 8 10 0

Thomas Hanbey's Charity.

^8000, 3 per cent consols, for the relief of housekeepers of the Church of England, and the maintenance of the boys' charity school 240 0 0

Earl of Shrewsbury's Hospital.

Various endowments of land and houses, for the maintenance of poor persons, first made by Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury, in or about 1625.

By 10 George III. all right, powers, and interests, provided under the original constitutions, re- served to the right heirs or family of the foun- der, and consequently exempt from the com- missioners' enquiry.

Francis Barlow's Gift.

Lands at Middlethorpe, annual rent distri- buted to twelve poor tradesmen 6 0 0

Hollis's Charities.

Lands and houses bequeathed by Thomas Hollis the elder, Thomas Hollis, (son,) John Hollis, Thomas Hollis, (grandson of Thomas Hollis the elder,) Timothy Hollis, and Thomas Brand, annual rental 368 17 11

From money in stocks, bequeathed by the same, shares, &c. acquired by savings of income 312 2 0

Total ^680 19 11

Lydia Wright's Gift.

Interest of ^£50, for the benefit of poor dis- senters of the upper meeting-house .... 2 10 0

Bamforth's Charity.

Lands purchased with legacies of Margaret

XXXViil TABLES.

£ s. p. Bamfortb, widow, and Margaret Bamfortb, spinster, annual rental distributed to tbe poor of Sheffield and the townships .... 12 0 0

William Birley's Charity.

Lands and houses at Nether Ashop, (Derby,) purchased with a bequest of ^£950, annual rent for maintenance of the free writing school, the jNIinister of the Shrewsbury Hospital, and the poor of Sheffield ". 191 15 4

Elizabeth Parkin's Gift.

;f762. 15s. 8d., 3 per cent, reduced annui- ties, purchased with the original bequest of ^£500, annual interest distributed by the Vicar, three Assistant Ministers, and Churchwardens, amongst such poor per- sons as they may select 25 17 7

Richard Broughton's Gift.

Rent charge on lands at Broomhall-lane, dis- distributed by the Vicar, Assistants, and Churchwardens, amongst poor persons by them selected 5 0 0

George Younge's Charity.

Interest of £62 stock, distributed every

Easter-eve, to ten poor housekeepers . . 3 2 0

John Kirkby's Charity.

Interest of .£400, in pensions to live poor women, .£1. 17s. 4d. each, paid each ca- lendar month 22 10 0

Mary Parson's Charity.

.^1528, new 4 per cents, annual interest (out of which £2 is paid for a sermon on St. John's day) distributed amongst 48 poor platers or silversmiths 61 2 6

Boys' and Girls' Charity Schools, exempt from Parliamentary enquiry, (59 Geo. III. c

?1.)

NUMBER OF PERSONS

EMPLOYED IN THE STAPLE MANUFACTURES

OF SHEFFIELD.

1830.

TABLE-KNIVES.

Forgers and Strikers 47O

Hafters — men and boj^s ] 130

Grinders 75O

Haft and Scale Cutters 172

Pressers ^ , I50

2672

SPRINiG-KNIVES.

Blade Forgers, Scale and Spring Hafters — men

and boys, and Grinders 2380

RAZORS.

Forgers and Strikers , J ] 5

Grindei-s 274

Hafters and Pressers , 265

■ 654

SCISSORS.

Forgers , 158

Filers 205

Dressers 132

Grinders 252

Finishers 140

887

FILES.

Forgers and strikers 256

Grinders 1 55

Cutters 905

Hardners 142

1-158

Carried forAvard 8051

xl- TABI.KS,

Brought forward 8051

SAWS. Makers and grinders ow. 463

EDGE TOOLS.

Forgers and strikers 432

Grinders 171

603

FORKS.

Forgers 307

' Grinders ...220

527

Others emplo}'ed in the country 190

SILVERSMITHTS.

Men 548

Boys 143

Women 205

896

METALSMITHS.

Men 147

Boys 80

Women 216

443

SUNDRIES.

Stove grate makers, fender makers, workers in copper and brass, employed in various trades, &c. (estimated) 1130

Total 12303

SHEFFIELD

LOCAL REGISTER,

200—525.

A. D. The artisans of Sheffield manufacture arrows for the Brig-antes and Coritani (tribes of native Britons) who oppose the Roman invaders. — Trad.

" ' From their leafy homes

The vassals of the Lord full oft go forth And track the yellow streamlets, till they reach The secret place, where easy labour gains The precious stone, which broken and subdued By fire, gives to the warrior's joy, the targe. The spear point, and the helm of proof."— MS. 200. Municipal colony of Roman leg-ionaries settled within

the manor of Hallam. — H.H. 220. The Roman legionaries introduce among^st the Britons in the neighbourhood of Sheffield the arts of social life.

. Iron mines and minerals first excite attention. — H.H.

450. The people of Hallam cease to be subject to the Romans.

. Ravaged by the Picts and Scots.

525. A great tribe of adventurers, in fourteen different bodies, with their Thanes and chieftains at their head, landed on the East coast, and after fighting many battles, finally succeeded in making a settle- ment in Hallam.

B

2 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

550—1075.

550. Hallamsliire and the neighbouring country possessed Ly the Saxons, and forming a portion of one kingdom (Etheldred's, Mert-ia or SouthHumber)of the Heptarchv. 600. The Saxon government of the people of Hallam. — " There are now only three names remaining of the fourteen mentioned "in history, viz, Hull, Hallam, and Halifax, which at one tinie were like petty in- dependent states ; their lords had their castles, with knights and esquires, and all the people as vassals, who were called out to war at their Lord's pleasure ; they had likewise laws peculiar to them- selves, which," it appears, M-ere arbitrary, barbarous, and cruel, as may be»upposed from those reproach- ful terms preserved in history, 'from Hull, Hell, (Hall, or Hallam,) and Halifax, good Lord deliver us.' " 623, Christianity first introduced into UaWam.—Bede. 830, Hallamshire possessed or ravaged by the Danes.

1050. Earl Waltheof and his Hallamshire men, having defended the castle of York against William the Conqueror, and having no prospect of relief, capi- tulate upon honourable terms, after a close siege of six months.

. The lands of the parish of Sheffield acknowledge

three Saxon lords, Ulfac, Sweyn, and Earl '\^'aI- theof.—" Eastward a little, traced by the golden rills, richer than streams of Pactolus, sheltered by gentle hills, at whose fair feet the modest valleys lie, a warrior and a warrior's followers dwell. ""il/-S.

. Sheffield (originally one of the bereivitcB of the manor

of Hallam) obtained a degree of independence, and was the little capital of a very small manor to which it gave name.

1075. Waltheof, the last Saxon Lord of the Manor of Hallam, (Sheffield,) having conspired with Ralph de Waer against the life of William the Conqueror, and for the freedom of the country, was beheaded at Winchester.

1075. King William, to put it out of the power of the Hallamshire men either to rise themselves or pre- pare arms for others, determined to lay that part of the country waste, as he had done the North of Yorkshire ; hiding his purpose under the pretence that this severity M-as a punishment for, and in

SHEFFIELD LOCAL RKGISTKR. O

1075— 1160.

consequence of the conspiracy entered into by Waltheof. He therefore sent a strong force of Normans to destroy Hallamshire with fire and sword, giving orders that all who made resistance should be put to death, without sparing age or sex. The city of Hallani, with Earl Waltheof's hall, were razed to the ground, and the wretched inhabitants compelled to carry the ruins awaj', that it might never be said, " here stood once the city of Hallam." Nor was Sheffield spared, — the church and priory were destroyed, and the endowment given to a monastery in Normandy ; every house in the town was destroyed except a few poor cot- tages for the poor vassals. An edict was issued that Hallam should not be rebuilt, nor iron works be wrought, nor the inhabitants be suffered to settle as owners of possessions, on pain of the King's dis- pleasure.— Corres. Merc.

1075. The chapel of the blessed Lady of the Bridge, and free habitations for poor widows erected. — Trad.

1080. The manor oi Sheffield possessed by the Countess Judith, widow of Waltheof.

1100. Sheffield and the lands of Hallam possessed by Wil- liam de Lovetot. (Henry I.)

. Sheffield possessed every thing essential to the com- fortable residence of a considerable population ; a church, a corn mill, an hospital, a bridge, and a castle for its protection. — H.H.

1110. Sheffield CMirch. — Foundation of St. Peter's, or Parish Church of Sheffield, by William de Lovetot, and endowment of the same M'ith one-third of the tythe of the whole parish. — Trad.

1155. Earliest known residence of the Lords of Hallam- shire at their castle at Sheffield.

, St. Leonard's hospital erected by the house of De

Lovetot, on a little eminence on the East side of the town, (Spital Hill.)

. Inhabitants of the town of Sheffield probably for the

most part small artificers, or persons who had cer- tain services to perform at the castle.

1160. Iron works established. " To the other inhabitants of the parish of Sheffield we may add a rude and untractable people, whose occupations were in working the iron mines, or preparing for useful purposes the nicfal that was extracted."'

4 SHEFFIELD LOCAL HEGrSTER.

1170—1264.

1170. The parish of Sheffield contained thirty-seven ca- rucates and a half of taxable land, with nearly an equal number of ploughs. — Domesday Book.

. The manor of Sheffield Ttrra Rogerii de Busli. —

Dom. B.

1177. The heirs male of the family of the Lovetots, Lords of Sheffield, became extinct.

. Maude de Lovetot, heiress of Hallamshire, given in

marriage by Henry II. to Gerald de Furnivall, a Norman Knight.

1183. The abbey of Beauchief founded by Robert Fitz Ra- nulph de Alfreton, of Norton. " They (the people . of Hallam) might now also look to enjoy those ad- vantages of religious instruction and consolation, and of the orderly performance of the rites of their religion, wliich the proximity of a monastic estab- lishment afforded ; not to mention that there M'ere crumbs falling from the well-spread board, that were thankfully accepted by the neighbouring poor. This house, therefore, soon became popular with its neighbours at Sheffield." — H.H.

1215. King John, then in arms against his barons, visited Sheffield, and sojourned with Gerald Baron Fiir- nivall, who attached himsef to his party. — Trad.

. King John, on his way to York, was entertained at

a house in Pryor-row, High-street, (some time oc- cupied by the late Mr. Trippett, 1815,) and was so well pleased with his reception, from the towns- people, that he granted them many privileges. — Sheffield being in a state of vassalage under the Lord of Hallam, and the lord under the crown, the King granted the appointment of Town Regents, with a Town Clerk, (who was to be a man of learning and well versed in law,) and a town seal. — Anon.

1219. Gerald, first of the Barons Furnival, and Lords of Sheffield, died at Jerusalem.

1237. Thomas de Furnival, son and heir of Gerald, slain in Palestine.

1240. Gerald de Furnival, third Lord of Hallam, died without issue.

1264. The town of Sheffield totally destroyed by fire, by John D'Evvell, in arms with the barons against Henry III.

SHEFFIKI.D I.OCAI, PvliGlSTER. O

J 270—1332.

1270. The second castle at Sheffield founded by Thomas de Furnival, Lord of Hallam,

" I Lord Furnivall

I built this Castle Hall

And under this wall

Within this tomb was my buriail."

1279. Thomas de Furnival, fourth Lord of Hallam, and successor to his brother, died.

1294. Thomas (fifth) Lord Furnival, Lord of Hallam, sum- moned to Parliament.

1296. King Edward I. granted to Thomas Lord Furnival,

a charter to hold a market in Sheffield, on the Tuesday in every week, and a fair every year for three days.

1297. Furnival's "^ Grant, or JMagna Charta of Sheffield,

providing " that it should be a free borough; that the base and uncertain services by which the inha- bitants held their lands should be abolished ; that Courts Baron should be held for the due adminis- tration of municipal justice ; and, lastly, that all venders and buyers should be free of toll through- out Hallamshire," executed before the chief persons of the neighbourhood, and Robert de Breton, se- neschall.

, Sheffield became the staple for the iron manufactures,

especially for faulchion heads, arrow piles, and an ordinary sort of knives called whittles. — Harrison.

. Extent of the town. " Some idea of the extent of the

town may be formed from the position of the parish church. The site chosen for such an edifice would be close to the town, but not actually within it. A few straggling huts and smithies forming an irregular street, extending from the castle and bridge to the church gate, with a few houses lying towards the town mill ; and perhaps a branch ex- tending in a South-west direction, forming what is now (1820) called the Fargate, in respect of its distance from the ciistle, seemed to have formed the whole town of Sheffield. The parsonage house would then be a country residence, commanding a beautiful view of the M'oody hills to the North of the town, and separate from the other buildings by ihe extent of a spacious church ',rard." — H,H.

1332. Thomas (fiith) Lord of Hallam died.

0 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1239—1453.

1339. Thomas (sixth) Lord Furnival, and Lord of Hailara,

died. 1346. Sheffield obtained an extensive reputation for her manufactures. — H.H. " A Sheffield thwytell bare he in his hose,

Uonde was his face and camysed was his nose. — Chaucer, 1366. Thomas (seventh) Lord Furnival, and Lord of Hallam,

surnamed the Hasty, died. 1383. William Lord Furnival, of his house the last Lord of Hallamshire, died without male issue.

. The family of the Furnivals cease to be Lords of

Sheffield, after having possessed (in virtue of a grant of King John, made in the fifth year of his reign) for the space of one hundred and eighty years. 1390. Foundation of a Grammar school. — Trad. " 'Twas in that mart of ancient honest fame. How ancient. Fox, let Chaucer's verse proclaim ; 'Twas here to form aright our tender youth. Instruction mild pour'd forth the light of truth ; And wayward nature first was taught to bear The yoke of thraldom in a master's care."— Rca-. Di: Inchbald. 1406. Sir Thomas Nevil, Lord Furnival, and Lord of

Sheffield in right of his wife, died. 1408. Maud de Nevil, first daughter of Thomas Nevil Lord Furnival, married to John Talbot, first Earl of Shrewsbury, succeeding in right of his wife to the Lordship of Sheffield. 1410. John Talbot, first Earl of Shrewsbury, summoned to Parliament by the style of John Talbot, of Hal- lamshire. 1428. John Kav hung in Sheffield for horse stealing, 6

HencyW.— She f. Court Regis. 1434. Barker Pool. — The water reservoir called Barker Pool first made by Barker, of Balm Green, to supply water to the town. — Trad. 1453. John Talbot, first Earl of Shrewsbury, and Lord of Hallam, together with his son, slain at Chatillon ; "which Sir John Talbot, first Sir John Furnivall, \vas the most worthy warrior we read of all." " The live to report of this foresaid Lorde, How manly he was and full of chivalroze, AVhat deeds that he did, I cannot by worde,

Make rehearsal by metre ne prose ; In Ireland, France, Normandy, Gyon, and Gasconc, His fere no lenyng I rcdc of none."

SHEFFIELD LOCAI- REGISTER. 7

1460—1501.

" So greatly did the Hallamshire men suffer while fig-hting round the Earl, as he lay bleeding on the field of battle, that there was not a house nor a family in all Hallamshire that did not lose either a father or a brother, a husband or a son, on that fatal day." — Hist.

HGO. John, second Earl of Shrewsbury, and Lord of Hallam, slain at the battle of Northampton.

1473. John, third Earl of Shrewsbury, and Lord of Hallam, died, and was interred in the chapel of the church.

1485. Historians, in their accounts of Bosworth Field

Aug. 22. battle, remark that the largest arrows Avere made use of by the Earl of Richmond's forces, that were ever known before. The pile heads were big-ger, well pointed with steel hardened; the backs were sharper, being ground in flutes, and much better polished than heretofore. It is further remarked, that this was the last improve- ment which was made in pile and arrow heads, one of the staple manufactures of Sheffield, as in the year 1521 muskets were introduced into the Royal army.

1485. Our Lady's Bridge. " Sir John Plesaunce, vicar of Sheffield, and William Hill, of the same, maister mason, bargain for the making of a brygge of stone over the watyr of Dune, nighe the castell of Shef- field, well and sufficiently, the whych shall be made V arches embowed, IIII jowels and II heedys, with sure hutments at eyther ende, and shall have for the making of it a C. marks." — Orig. Ind. To cross the bridge it was necessary to ascend a flight of steps, the space of ground known as the Isle being the level of the bottom of Waingate. — 1810.

1495. John Dore hung in Sheffield for murder, 10 Henry YU.—Sheff. Court Reg.

1498. John Hynde, of Sheffield, bequeathed to the vicar and ministers, in trust, " three tenements and a smithy house, in Water-lane, the rents thereof to pay the priest of St. Catherine saying mass." — It is evident that there were at least two chantries, that of the blessed Virgin and that of St. Catherine, in the church of Sheffield." — Hunter.

1501. Felice, wife of William Hynde, gave also in trust, a tenement, in Change-alley, London, to make sale

O SIIKKFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1510—30.

thereof, and buy with the money arising thereby a cross of silver and gilt, Avith the image of the cru- cifix of our Lady and Saint John, to be used in the church, and remain for ever, to the intent that the said Felice, her husband, father and mother, may be better remembered and prayed for. 1510. The Sheffield Manor House or Lodge raised by George, fourth Earl of Shrewsbury. " Hitherto the Lords of Hallamshire had no mansion at Shef- field but the castle, or at most only a small lodge in their Park. The castle, though spacious, mag- nificent, and strong, was not, on several accounts, the most desirable of residences in time of perfect peace. The Earl therefore made great additions to the lodge in the centre of his park, about two miles from the castle and town, or raised there from its foundations a noble country residence, which he completed early in the reign of Henry

. The sepulchral chapel of the Shrewsbury family raised

in the parish church. "Here the funeral obse- quies of the Lords of Hallamshire were performed, and here their bodies, one by one, were returned to the earth out of which they were taken. Before the reformation might be seen a fine series of their monuments, arranged on each side the choir, im- mediately before the altar, and in the Lady chapel, commencing with the founder and ending with the third Earl of Shrewsbury, (Edward IV.) but not

without some intermissions. The nameless and

mutilated effigies in an obscure corner of the church are all that remain of this once splendid series." — H.H. 1824.

1530. Vicarage of Sheffield. Clear income of the vicar of Sheffield, (parish priest,) ^£12. los. 2d., or the vicarage house and croft, and twenty-four times

their value in yearlv income. Income of the

three assistant ministers, seventeen pounds per year.

iVof. 8. Cardinal Wolsey, having been disgraced by Henry VIII., delivered to the custody of George, fourth Earl of Shrewsbury, and by him confined at the manor.

My high blowr pride

At length broke imdcr nic, and now h.if left mc ,

SHEFFIKLD LOCAL REGISTKR. V

1533—53.

Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of the world, I hate ye ! I feel my heart new oi)ened."— SAoAr*.

1533. Price of provisions, — beefed, per lb., mutton fd. per

lb., a fat lamb, Is.

1534. Saint Peter's Church first called the Church of the

Holy Trinity. "Now whilst some country people sate in consultation what new saint such church should assume, being' divided in their opinions to whom the same should be dedicated, an old mau gave his ad\ ice ; — even dedicate it to the Holy Tri- nity, which Avill last and continue when all other saints may chance to be taken away." — Fuller''s Church History.

1535. The profits of the vicarage of Sheffield consisted of a

house and croft, value per annum ten shillings ; tythe of wool and lambs <£1. 16s. ; oblations £Q. 18s.; Easter book £4 ; minute and privy tythes 2s. 8d. ; total, £13. 6s. i,(i.—Ecdes. Surv.''-2Q Hen. Fill.

" If it pass against us

We lose the better half of our possessions ; For all the temporal lands which men devout By testament have given to the church. Would they strip from us." — Sfiaks.

1538. George, fourth Earl of Shrewsbury, died, and was July 26. interred in the chapel built by him in the

church of Sheffield, after having been Lord of

Sheffield and Hallamshire, including his minority,

seventy years. 1544- Advowson and presentation to the church at Sheffield

possessed bv Robert and William Swift. — Lett.

Fat. 36 Henry Fill.

1552. Prices of labour; a labourer in husbandry, £\. 6s.

per year ; chief hind, carter, or shepherd, 20s. ; common husbandry servant, 16s. 8d.; female ser- vant, 10s.; a child, 6s. 8d.

. Advowson and presentation of the church of Sheffield

conveyed by Royal grant to Francis Earl of Shrewsbury. — 6 JEdward FI.

1553. Inhabitants of Sheffield represent to the Queen

(Mary) that the fourTeen hamlets within the parish were never void of plagues and other evil diseases.

. Robert Swyfte and William Taylor, of the parish fo

Sheffield, " for and in the names of all other habv-

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1554—57.

tance of the said parish," present a petition to the Queen (Mar)) praying for the restoration of certain lands of h hich thev had been deprived by the Com- missioners under the first of Edward VI., for the suppression of colleges and chantries, " the profits of which had been heretofore g>Ten and assigned by dy vers persons of long tyme paste to and for the leparacon and amendnit. of several brygs and waves M'tin. the said parish, and to the reparacon of the church ther, and to the relieffe of the nioast needj'e and indigent persones ;" and further, that the Queen would " imparte and yerlye bestowe sume porchon of the said revenues to and for the f\nd- ynge of III priests wtin. the said church, to help and assist the Vycare there." 1554. Letters patent (granting the prayer of the petition) June 8. published by the Queen, wherein the burgesses and inhabitants (burgenses et inhabitantes) of the town are declared to be one body politic and corporate, by the name of " Twelve capi- tal burgesses and commonaltj' of the town and parish of Sheffield," with power to acquire lands, plead and be impleaded.

. Town or burgesses seal first made and used; device —

two sheafs of arrows in saltier between twopheons; inscription— SIGILLYM. VILL^. DE. SHEF- FELDE. ANNO. 1554. . The names of the first burgesses in the Queen's Ma- jesty's letters patent: — RobertSwyfte, Hugh Smith, Richard Fenton, William Taylor, Robert More, William Walton, Robert Smith, Hugh Chawlner, William Borowes, John Hollande, Thomas Mit- chell, Thomas Parks. 1557. Foreign iron used in Sheffield; " Danske yron and and Spanysche yron." — A. C. B. " It ^^•as wanted by the burgesses for a structure which was erected in the parish churches at Easter, called the sepul- chre house. We may collect from these entries the relative value of Spanish iron to that which was imported from the Baltic. It was as 7 to 6 ; the 100 of Spanish costing by retail 14s., and of Danish 12s."

. First account of the receipts of the church burgesse*

since the incorporation: — " The reckonings of Ro-

SHEFKIEM) LOCAL RKttlSTEB. II

1558—63.

bertlNloreand Wm. Walton, collectors of the lands belonging- to ye capital burgesses, within the town and parishe of Shetiielde, made this second day of November, Ann. Dom. 1557, before Robert Swifte and others, inhabitants of the sd. town, as follow- eth — Reed, by the sd. collectors M'ithin this time, namely for one whole year, as doth appear by the rental of the same, £30. 5s. 5d."— ^. C. B.

1558. Burials frequent within the church. "Received for

three graves in the church, 20s." — A. C. B.

1559. A clock in St. Peter's church. " Paid for mending

the clock three times, 5s. ; and pd. for taking down the clock and setting it up again, 12s. 8d. — A.C.B.

1560. Commencement of the parish register, or record of

the baptisms, marriages, and burials of the whole parish.

&^;.28. Francis, fifth Earl of Shrewsbury, and Lord of Hallam, died at Sheffield manor.

Oct.lX. Interred with great pomp in

the chapel in St. Peter's church.

iVov.6. Sir William Houton (assistant minister) was hyi-ed in the presence of the holle parish by the XII. capj^tal burgesses, and had given to him Xllld.

. An organ in St. Peter's church. " Pd. John Howe

the organ maker, 10s.; pd. for mending the organ, 6s. 8d. ; pd. to John Lysdale, 20s. l|d. ; pd. for mending the organs, 2s. 8^d. ; pd. for a lock and valve for the organs, 6d." — A. C. B.

15G2. Expenses of apprehending felons paid by the church burgesses. " Pd. to the churchwardens and con- stables for conveying George Hood to the justice. N.B. The ward rent, and other great expenses about this man, who appears to be a felon or noto- rious vagrant, from his being committed to York castel."— ^. a B.

1563. The freeholders and copyholders of Hallamshire re- fuse to pay George, sixth Earl of ShreAvsbury, the ancient and customary benevolence on the occasion of the marriage of his eldest daughter to the Earl of Pembroke. They afterwards paid for lands and houses in Sheffield, £22. 4s. ; same in the Park, £S. 7s. 2d.

. The right of customary bene- volence or aid abolished by Act of Parliament.

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1564 --70.

15G4. Grainniar school — master, Mr. Yong-e. " Pd for his ga\t to York and his lycens to kepe the schole,

156o. Town estates — annual value, £"1. Js.

. The steeple of St. Peter's church repaired. " Pd. John

Holbertstone, plumber of Worksop, for pointing the steeple, ^10. Paid him for making the wea- thercock, 13s. ; pd. him for setting on ye weather- cock, Gs:'—A. a B.

. The towo trust — book of accounts first kept, entitled,

" The l)ook a-s well of the burgesses rents there, as also of tije reconynge of the same; how and after what manner the sayde rentes are empioj-ed as by fxod's grace therein shall appear made begovne in the yere of our Lord God M.Vc. LXV." ^

. Court rolls of the manor of Sheffield recite that a

jury of cutlers M-as impannelled ^Hth the other ju- ries, to assign marks to the different manufacturers, wherewith to distinguish tlieir respective wares, to enroll indentures of apprenticeship, and to levy the fines to which persons became subject M'ho wrought in opposition to certain regulations agreed upon by the whole fellowship of cutlers, and sanc- tioned by the lord of the manor.

1566. Money "gev\'n towards the makjiige of Brightaide brydge, xxs."' — A. C. B.

J 56". Money "gevyn towards the makynge of Hygheley brydge, xxs." —A. C. B.

1568. Cost of " the burgesses dyner th€ reconynge day wth. diynke for the neybours, v. iiiid.'' — A. C. B.

. Part, if not the whole of the taxes imposed on the

town by Queen Elizabeth paid by the town trust.- MitchelVs Ess. on the Burger}/.

Thomas Younge, Archbishop of York, died at Shef- field.

. Market cross and Irish cross rebuilt.

1570. Mary, Queen of Scots, brought to Sheffield castle,

Dec. and committed to the charge of the Earl of Shrewsbury.

" Now again a prison's shade

Holds a Queen whom realms obeye ; There the tumults of her breast Cease their strife and are at rest ; Changeless friends the place supply Of the world's false flattery.

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1570.

They who in my pride of power. Shared my fortune's brighter hour. Now in love unwearied dwell, With the captive in her cell."— Roya; Eiile,

1570. Artisans from the Netherlands settle in Hallamshire. " The cruel Duke of Alva had driven numbers of artisans from their homes in the Netherlands ; they fled for safety to England, where they Avere cor- dially received by the Queen, and by the advice of her Chamberlain, the Earl of Shrewsbury, settled in various parts of the kingdom, all of one occupa- tion in the same place ; thus enabling them to carry on their several crafts with advantage. Of these recusants, all or the greater part of them who were artificers in iron, were sent to the Earl's own estate in Yorkshire, and hence we may date the first im- provement in Sheffield cutlery. Now began to be made shears, sickles, knives of every kind, and scissors ; the manufacturers of each article confining themselve to some particular village, which ar- rangement in a great measure continues to this day." — Northern Star.

. " The crosse in the church yard," and the " rood

quire," destroyed in obedience to the injunction of the Queen (Elizabeth), and in furtherance of the work of reformation.

. The poor of the town supported out of the funds of

the church burgesses : — £ s. d.

Given to the poor of the town and parish, 10 0 „ by the burgesses to the poor, .... 1 6 8 Donation to Thomas Knowles' son, .... 0 10 2 Given to Thos. Wood's wife, for helping

to set two of her children to service, . . 0 6 8

Paid to four poor people, 0 10 4

Given to Thos. Trippet's daughter, that came from London this Novembei', for

doubting the plague, 0 2 0

Paid for the charges of Anthony Hibbard and his wife and her mother, with their children, and others, for keeping in their houses for ye space of a month, for fear of ye plague, 1 7 9

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1571-74.

Pd. for cloth to set poor Lancelot's daugh- ter to London to service, 0 5 0

For the burial of ye poor body called

Broadbent, '. 0 0 7

—A. a B.

1571. The pillory. — Town trustees erect a pillory in the

town at their own expense,

. The Wicker. — The " nare butt and far butt/' in the

Wicker, set up by the town trustees.

, The space of ground extending from the foot of Spi-

tal-hill or Handley-hill, to the Lady's Bridge, (the Wicker,) was the place for the sports, the pastimes, and the athletic exercises of the inhabitants of the town. Here were the public butts at which the inhabitants were trained to archery. Here, also, the freeholders of Hallamshire were accustomed to assemble with horse and arms at the annual muster.

1572. "Francis Swyfte, M'ho dyed in the yeai-e of our Lorde

God 1572, dyd bequeath by his last will and testa- ment to the xii capetal burgesses, one house with appurtenances in the tenure and occupation of one Thomas Byrley, cutler, neyghe unto the Barker powle, after the natural deathe of his two sisters." —A. a B.

. The chapel of our Lady, standing at the foot of the

bridge, used as a wool warehouse.

" Time was hard by our Lady's chantry stood, Where Dun and Sheaf unite the spousal flood ; Its lengthening shadow fell 'midst sun-set gleams, A hallowing symbol o'er the nuptial streams."

Holland's Sheffield Park.

1573. Paid " at the buryinge of Robert Sikes, the aqua vita

man, xx pence." — A. C. B.

. Town burgesses distribute out of their funds, " to ye

poor of ye towne and parishe of Sheffield, v. vi. viii." —A. C.B.

. Town burgesses "gave to William Lee, a poore

schoUer of Sheffield, towards the scttynge him to the univcrsytie of Chambridge, and buyinge him bookes and other furnyture, xiii. iiii."

1574. " The grievous dearthe over the land did sprede fare

North, and Sir Robertus Holland (the vicar) be- soughte the poorer sortc that they Mould buy and

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1575—90.

consume as little as may be of all sorts of commo- ditye out of ye market." — T. M.

1575. Sheffield manufactures. — "Lord Shrewsbury presented to his friend Lord Burghley a present of a case of Hallamshire whittles, being; such fruictes as his poor country afforded with fame therefrom." — H. H.

1579. The cuckstool, with two chairs and locks, in use.

1584. Mary, Queen of Scots, removed from Sheffield castle, Sep. 3. and committed to the charge of Sir Ralph Sadler.

" Now blooms the lily by the bank, The primrose down the brae ; « The hawthorn's budding in the glen.

And milk-white is the slae : The meanest hind in fair Scotland

May rove their sweets amang ; But I, the Queen of a' Scotland, Maun lie in prison Strang." — Buins.

1585. Many watchinges was sette out, to keepe away all

fellowshippe with people from Doncaster, wherein was the plage. " For three weeks the town of Sheffield was watched, to prevent any communica- tion with the infected place, and we find no trace of its appearance in the town." — H. H.

1586. The town pavor, the town clerk, the beadle, clerk of

the market, bellman, swineherd or pinder, the ringers, and the pipers or wayts, paid and main- tained by the town trust. — A. C. B.

1587. Robert Sanderson (afterwards bishop of Lincoln) bap- Sep. 20. tised in St. Peter's church. — P. Reg.

. At Chesterfield manye dide dye of the plage, and the

Lordshippe payde for watche to keep it out from this place.

1588. Town estates — annual value, £8. 9s. 8d.

1590. George, sixth Earl of Shrewsbury, and Lord of Hal- Nov.l'i. lam, died at Sheffield manor, "and was interred in the family vault in Sheffield. " Such as desire to live when fatall thread : spunne, Syth man's life is short ther course they must runne; That fame and worthy acts and vertues maie conjmend Unto posterities that live unto the end."

Verse of Epit. preserv. by Dodstvorth, 1620.

. Actes and ordinaunces made and agreed of our Sove-

Sep. 1. raigne Ladye Elizabeth, as well by all the holy fel- lowship and company of cutlers and makers of

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1592—1600.

knives within the lordshippe of Hallamshire, as also by th' assente of the right honorable Geors>:e, Earle of Shrewsbury, lorde and owner of the said lordshippe of Hallamshire, for the better reliufe and commodytie of the porer sorte of the said fel- lowshippe.

1592. This year the north front gallery of the parish church was erected, as appears by the date deeply inscribed upon a supporter at the last end. — Ed. Goodwin, 1797.

1598. State of manufactures. — " After the death of the good Earl, (George, sixth Earl of ShreM-sbury,) this heterogeneous mass of manufacturers (the artisans from the Netherlands and the native cutlers,) no longer under any controul, began to follow their own fancies in the management of their fabrics ; and in despite of the wise regulations before laid down, M'hich peculiarly tended to give a celebrity to their wares, for the goodness of their workman- ship, and their consequent durability, their only idea seems to have been, to make as many articles as possible, and those of a spurious kind. They laid aside all restrictions in respect to the persons who should be employed, or who ought to be in- structed in the respective businesses, and before the end of the succeeding reign, (James I. — 1624,) brought the trade into such a state of disrepute, as to render it necessary, in order for its restoration, for the legislature to throw the spirit of the former laws of the Earl of Shrewsbury into the shape of an Act of Parliament."' — North. Star, Hist, of Iron Trade.

] 600. " The manufacturers began an ordinary sort of tobacco boxes, and a silly musical instrument called a Jew's trump." — Harrison.

. The Sembly-green (Wicker). "I cannot here omit a

royalty that this manor (Sheffield) hath above other manors ; that is upon every Sembly Tuesday (Tues- day after Easter day) js assembled upon the Sembly- green, where the court is kept and near unto the castle, at the least 139 horsemen with horses and harness provided by the freeholders, copyholders, and other tenants, and to appear before the Lord

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1602—13.

of tlie JVlanor, or the steward of the court, to be viewed by them, and for confirming the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King." — Harrison.

1602. Inventory of the town's armour lodged at the castle —

" two black and one whit corslet, with three hede peces, and two other hede peces ; towe callavers, a tlape with a touch box, one other flape without a touch box, 2 swords, one dagger, 4 pykes, and ten gyrdles."

1603. Grammar school. — Mr. Thomas Smith, ofCrowland, July 2. in Lincolnshire, bequeathed to the town of Shef- field " thirty pounds a year as long as the world shall endure, for the finding of two sufficient learned men, to teach and bring up the young chil- dren there in godliness and learning."

1604. Grammar school founded according to the tenour of Alat/i. the will of Mr. Thomas Smith, by royal letters pa- tent, " The Free Grammar School of King James of England."

. First governors, Thomas Toller,

vicar, William Slack, William Lee, William Dick- inson, Robert Rollinson, Hugh Ranson, George Wilkinson, Henry Bright, John Holland, Robert Mitchell, William Ranson, Thomas Bright, and Malin Stacey.

1 605. Mr. Robert Rollinson bequeathed two houses in Fig-

tree-lane, to the burgesses, in trust, for the use of the assistant ministers.

1606. Grammar school. — ,£103. 18s. Id. raised by assess-

ment on the parish of Sheffield "towards the charges in establishing the school." — l^F^. P.

1610. Town estate — annual value, .£11. 8. 4d.

. Trees in the parish church yard. " Received of Ar- thur Courtnall for a trespass, for stubbing up an ash in ye church-yard. Is." — ^. C. B.

1613. " Survaie of the toM'ne of Sheffield by twenty-four of

Jan. 2. the most sufficient inhabitants ; in the towne 2207 people, of which 725 not able to live without the charity of their neighbours, being all begginge poore ; 100 householders which relieve others, but are poore artificers, not one of which can keep a team on his own lande, and not above ten who have grounds of their own which will keep a cow ; 160 householders not able to relieve others, such, thouerh c2

Is SHKFF£ELD I.OCAI: REGISTER.

1613—19.

they heg not, not able to abide the stornie of one fortnight's sickness, but would be thereby driven to beggary ; 1222 children and servants of the said householders, the greatest part of which, such as live of small wages, and are constrained to work sore, to provide them necessaries." — H. H. 1613. The steeple and church repaired ; " Money borrowed of the tenants for pointing the steeple withall ^18. Is.Cd. — Pd. to Pitt, the M-orkman, and others who assisted in pointing the steeple, ^17. 2s. lid. Pd. churchwardens for money had for whitening the church, =£4."—^. C.B. '

1615. Communion plate for the parish church. — " Pd. for

two silver cups and 2 pattins, in weight 38^ oz. at 5s. 8d.— .£10. \%^.—A.C.B.

1616. Gilbert, seventh Earl of Shrewsbury, and Lord of May%. Hallam. died at his house in Broad-street, London. . The hospital of Gilbert Earl of Shrewsbury founded

by his will. "Item, I will and appointe an hospi- tall to be founded at Sheffeilde for perpetuall main- tenaunce of twenty poore personnes, and to be called the hospital of Gilbert Erie of Shrewsbury ; and the same to be endowed with such revenues and possessions as my executors shall thincke fitt, not being under two hundred poundes a year."* Aug.\1.Gi\hev{, seventh Earl of Shrewsbury," interred with his ancestors at Sheffield. " The profuse mode of his living, rather than the superiority of talents, or the peculiar eminence of the stations he attained, obtained for him the title of the great and glorious Earl of Shrewsbury," — Hunter.

161 7. Edward, eighth Earl of Shrewsbury, and Lord of Feb. 8. Hallam, died without issue, and was buried in West- minster Abbey.

" To strangers now descends the heapy store. The race forgotten, and the name no more."

, Lady Mary Talbot, Lady Elizabeth Talbot, and Lady

AltheaTalbot, co-heiresses of the manour of Shef- field-

. Courts of the manour of Sheffield held in the names

of the Earls of Pembroke and Arundel, (Lords of Man' and Althea.) 1619. Grammar school. Church burgesses grant to the go-

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1620—21.

vernors a lease of the school-house, with the garden and croft adjoining-, to be holden for 800 years, at one shilling a-year rent. 1620. Sheffield lodge or manour " stood on a hill in the midst of the parks, fairly built with stone and timber, with an inward court and an outward court, two gardens, and three yardes, containing 4 acres, 1

rood, 15 perehe." — Dugdale. " the chieftain

of the age of the eighth Henry, living here in the bosom of his numerous family, and unwillingly is- suing forth to disperse the cloud of rebellion — the fallen Wolsey treading the gallery with heavy steps, or engaged in conference with his courteous host in one of its windowed recesses, and hearing the name of Kingston with alarm, — and at the window which bears her name, the victim of the lawless power of Elizabeth, looking for the friend M'ho was to bring the means of descent from a height so fearful, that she might regain the liberty she loved." — H. H.

1620. The late Earles of Shrewsbury "were wont on every

yeare, on a certyne day, to have many bucks lodged in a meadow neare the towne side, about a mile in compasse, to which place repaired almost all the apron men of the parish, and had liberty to kill and carry away as many as they could M'ith their hands." — Dodsioorth.

. " Sheffield owed to the house of Lovetot the establish- ment of an hospital for its sick infirmis." " This hospital stood on an eminence on the east side of the town still called the Spital-hill, and continued to afford relief to the poor of Sheffield, till the eight Henry swept away so many institutions of our forefathers, the beneficial Avith the useless, in un- distinguishing fury. Dodsworth, who visited Shef- field in August 1620, speaks of it only as a thing Avhich had heen.'^~H. H. " There hath been a spital there on that side of the hill." — Dodsivorth.

. " The hawle at the poandes," an appendage (the laun- dry) to the castle, existed.

1621. Town estates ; annual value, £\%. 10s. lOd.

. Bill presented to Parliament for " the good order and

government of the cutlers of Hnllarashiie." , Mr. Robert Brightmore, of Sheffield, mercer, gave !>}

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1622—26.

will 20s. per annum to the church, 40s. to the cut- lers' company, .£10. to the workhouse, and ^10. to the free-school.

1622. Ecclesall chapel: — The inhabitants of the township

set about restoi'ing its dilapidated walls, and fitting- it up as a place of religious worship. They laid down a floor in the chancel, erected a small wooden steeple, set up pews, a pulpit and communion table, and new glazed the windows.

1623. Assessment of Sheffield for defraying the expenses of

the King's (James) household, "(in lieu of the antient tax in kind,) 9s. l^d.

1624. Bill for the incorporation of the cutlers presented a Mar.25. second time to the House of Commons by Sir John

Saville, entitled "an act for the good order and government of the makers of knives, sickles, shears, scissors, and other cutlery Mares, in Hallamshire and parts near adjoining."

u4j)7'il23. Received the assent of the

Commons.

, Cutlers' Company. — First officers appointed under

the act of incorporation. Master, Robert Sorsby ; wardens, GodfreyBurleyand John Rawson ; search- ers, William Warter, William Creswick, Thomas Philipot, Robert Wilkinson of Hills, John Dung- worth, and John A\'ebster ; assistants, William AVebster, Tlion^as Creswick, George Smedley, James Creswick, Robert Stacey, Edward Creswick, Thomas Wright, sen., Henry Dyson, George Wil- kinson, Robert Pearson, sen., George Barnsley, Edmund Swift, Robert Carr, Robert Barnsley, William Wilde, Richard Jackson, Lawrence Pear- son, jun., Thomas Smyth, Thomas Crofts, Thos. Milward, George Dam, Thomas Pearson, Thomas Parkyn, and Thomas Haworth.

1626. Thomas Wild, cutler, living in the Crooked Bill yard. High-street, made Lie'ut. Fclton the knife "with M-hich he stabbed the Duke of Buckingham. — (Charles T.) " The knife was found in the Duke's body, and on examining it, a corporatitm mark Mas observed upon it, vhcn enquiry was made to the Jjondon cutlers whether the knife had been made in London, Mho all agreed it had been made at

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1626—38.

Sheffield, and the corporate mark would soon find out the real maker. An express M'as sent to Shef- field, and the poor cutler Wild was sent to London, and taken to the Earl of Arundel's house. Wild ac- knowledged the mark was his, and that it was one out of two knives M'hich he had made for Col. Fel- ton, who was recruiting- at Sheffield, for which he charged him tenpence. The Earl was well satisfied of the truth and simplicity of Thomas Wild's testi- mony, and ordered him to be paid the expenses of his journey home."— -SZ/e/". Merc.

1626. Burntland well — money paid by the town trustees for

support thereof.

. " Certain landes given by Rob. Rollinson to the church

buigesses, viz. a house in the Market-stead, a cot- tage in Grimesthorpe, with three other houses in Sheffield, for which the burgesses are to pay to Rob. Rollinson and his heirs the sum of 50s. a year for Figtree Hall."— ^. C. B.

. Eighty-one freemen admitted into the corporation of

cutlers.

1627. Thirty-four freemen admitted into the corporation of

cutlers. 1630. A workhouse built. " Gyven towards building of the

workhouse, £12."— yi. C. B.

. A new clock set up in St. Peters church, £\'ii.-A.C.B.

1633. Price of wine : — " Delivered to Sheaffield castle, when

the surveiors and other gentlemen were there, 36

quarts of Avhite wine, 24s. ; three quarts sack, 3s. ;

and one quart claret, eightpence." — W. P. •

1636. AtterclifFe chapel consecrated, and endowed with .£10,

per annum ; the inhabitants of Attercliffe built the same (1629) at their own costs and charges.

1637. The Park contained 2461 acres, 3 roods, and 11

perches, within a ring fence of eight miles ; and there were in it a thousand fallow deer, and 20O deer of antler.

. Grammar school. — John Hill bequeathed £100 for the

benefit of the school ; Francis Barlow bequeathed £140 for the same purpose. — Tf^. P.

. "Sheth bridge" built of stone by Nicholas Hickc.

1638. The corporation of cutlers being possessed of an in-

come, arising fiom the amercements of the lord's

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1640—43.

juries then given up to them, fees on indentures, admissions, and mark rents, built a hall on the site of some old burbage houses opposite the south side of the church.

1640. Water-lane well ; money paid by the town trustees for the support thereof.

. 'Manufacture of files, razors, and spring-knives, first

commenced.

. Sheffield and its neighbourhood represented by the

rovalists as being actively disaffected ; the Presby- terian partv supported by Dr. .Tohn Bright, the vi- car; the families of the Jessops, at Broomball, the Brights of Carbrook, and the Spencers of Atter- cliffe, the most considerable in the parish, declared Parliamentarians.

1642. Lords Mowbray and Malti-avers send from the castle

June. of Sheffield" to Doncaster, four wheel-pieces and their furniture for the king's (Charles I.) use.

1642. The Presbyterian and Parliamentarian party seize the

castle of Sheffield. " Supported by Sir John Gell, who was in force in Derbyshire, they succeeded in gaining military possession of the castle and town, about which they cast up entrenchments.""

" Where roU'd the confluent rivers at their base,

Frowning and dark tlie chieftain's towers aro e,

Th' embattled strength of SheffieWs earlier days. Pride of his friends and terror of his foes : Through many a summer's sun and winter's snows

There waved his banner. Long these towers withstood

All that time, war, or tempest could oppose ;

Till red rebellion rear'd his standard there.

Then desolation foUow'd through each future year. "

W. H. Stetndalc.

1643. Earl of Newcastle took military possession of the April. town and castle ot Sheffield, and appointed Sir

Wm. Saville, grandson of the sixth Earl of Shrews- bury, goiernor in the name of the King.

. Cast iron cannon and other instruments and engines

of war, made at the iron works near Sheffield, for the Ro\al party. " Descending hence, where now the load descends, 'Till the Park's precincts at the river ends, Where spreads the vale and its green skirts outrun Along the winding margin of the Dun:—

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1(544—48.

There black and huge, the haunt of Cyclop bands And crown'd with spiry flame, a furnace stands; Incessant day and night its crater roars. Like the volcano on Sicilian shores; Its fiery womb the molten mass combines. Thence lava like the boiling torrent shines ; Down thetrench'd sand the liquid metal holds. Shoots showers of stars and fills the hollow moulds."

HoUantTn Sheffield Pat!:.

1644. The castle of Sheffield summoned by the Earle of July 2'^. Manchester to surrender to the Parliamentary

party.

Aug A. Major-General Crawford atttacked the castle of Shef- field, " wherein were a troop of horse and two hun- dred foot, strongly fortified with a broad and deep trench of eighteen feet deep, and water in it, a strong brest work pallizadoed, a wall round of two jards thick, eight pieces of iron ordnance and two mortar pieces."

Aug. 10. Castle of Sheffield surrendered to the Earl of Man- chester and forces of the Parliament, by Major Thomas Beaumont, deputy governor.

. The army of the Parliament gut the church, and de- stroy every pane of glass in the beautiful painted window; very few were left in the Shrewsbury chapel, the monuments of which were, however, left uninjured. — Anon.

1645. Captain Edward Gell, governor of Sheffield castle. . Sheffield castle, and the estates surrounding it, seized

by Commissioners of the Parliament, and a lea.se of the manor of Sheffield granted to Philips and Holland.

1646. Resolution passed the House of Commons that the AprilSO. castle of Sheffield should be made untenable. . Sheffield summer fair not held on account of " a great

presse of souldiers tlieare."

1647. Resolution passed the House of Commons that the JulglS. castle of Sheffield should be *' sleighted and de- molished."

1648. Aug. 23. The demolition of Sheffield castle began.

. Earl of Arundel (husband of Lady Alethea Talbot,

Nov.24:. co-heiress of the manor of Sheffield, with her sis- ters Lady Mary and Lady Elizabeth) admitted, for the sum of jC6000, to the composition of his for- feited estates.

24 SHKFKJELD lOCAI,. REC-ISTKR.

1(348—54.

1648. The grammar school, near Townhead-cross, built on

the foundation of the original school-house, then " not habitable."

" Where sooty tops of clacking tilts arise.

Which heave their smoky volumes to the skies ; Where the red furnace boils with hollow roar That melts to fiery wave the massy ore ; Where cheerful labour whistles on the wheel. Which soothes to keenest edge the stubborn steel."

Rev. Dr. Inchbald.

1649. Earl of Arundel issued a warrant " for the repairinge Jan. 5. the roomes at Sheffield castle, then undemolished."

" Its ruined walls were never built up again ; — from this period, the once proud castle of Shef- field was but a heap of shapeless ruins, every year doing something to complete the destruction whicli the axe of violence had begun. A few vaults are all which now (1828) remain to bear witness that such an edifice once stood on what is still however called the Castle-hill."

1649. Salaries of the assistant ministers. " There be three

assistant ministers belonging to the said clmrch, viz., ]\Ir. Bridges, INIr. Metcalfe, and IMr. Bag- shawe,all able and powerfull preachers, who have for their salaryefortye markss a-piece." — Pari. Ret.

. Vicarage of Sheffield ; amount of profits returned to

the parliamentary commissioners, .£22. per annum.

. The chapelry of Attercliffe contained " two hundred

and fifityefamelyes." — Pari. Ret.

1650. The organ of the parish church, "silenced by the pu-

ritan spirit which prevailed in the parish." — H. H. . During these times a justice of the peace was appointed

both to marry and christen publicly at the Alarket-

cross. . Workhouse well — money paid by the tOMn trustees

for the support thereof. , Clasp or spring knives began to be made, with handles

of iron, which in a little time they covered with

horn, tortoise shell, &c. ; this century steel was

made at Rotherham, and brought here. — Harrison. 16.53. Town estates — annual value, >£31. Is. 6d. 1654. Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, on the decease of

tlie d;Hi'>-hters of Earl Gilbert and their husbands

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. ^5

1656—66.

without issue, entered into tlie undivided possession of the castle and manor of Sheffield.

1656. The Protector (Cromwell) proclaimed in the town. — " Pd. to two trumpeters at the proclamation of the lord protector, 10s. To Edward Berry and four musicians at that time, 20s. To the ringers and others, 29s." — Trust. Ace.

1659. Town-hall, standing on the town's part of the church wall, repaired at the expense of the town trustees.

. Gravestones laid in the church and church yard. —

" Pd. for getting and loading 19 loads of pavers, and for laying part of them in church and church- yard."—^. C. B.

1661. Great rejoicings amongst the town people upon the proclamation and restoration of the king, (Charles II.) " Spent by the townsmen when the king was proclaimed, £8. 13s. 4d." — Trust. Ace.

1663. Rev. James Fisher (ejected from the vicarage the pre- ceding year) founded the first society of dissenters or nonconformists in Sheffield.

1665. The hospital; — Foundation laid of the hospital of

Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury.

. Thomas Rainscar, cutler, of Sheffield, issued a cop- per money token ; face, issuer's name and daggers in saltier of the cutlers' company ; obverse, initials of name, date, and place of issuing.

. Westbar-well and Robinson-well ; money paid by the

town trustees for the support thereof.

1666. This tyme dide the plage greatly rage at Eyam, and

the constables sete w^atch to keepe the peste from the towne.

. Sir William Dugdale (college of heralds) held his vi- sitation in Sheffield ; " he found Mr. Francis Rad- clifFe residing at the manour, an agent of the Nor- folk family, who led him through the half-deserted rooms, in which he noted the heraldic insignia of its former possessors still remaining in the win- dows."—i/. H.

. The Shrewsbury hospital completed for the habitation

July. of twenty poor persons.

. Town of Sheffield contributed the sum of ttventy-

Nov.22. seven pounds, ten shillings, " towards the reliefe

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] 671— 78.

of those persons who have beeiie greate suffeiers by the late sad fire within London '" — P. R. 1671. Flint-well and trowes, or troughs, in Coalpit-lane; money paid by the town trustees for tlie support thereof.

167*^- The hospital first occupied; inscription over the en- trance : " The hospital of the right honourable (jibert earl of Shrewsbury, erected and settled by the right honourable Henry earl of Norwich, eail inarshall of England, great-grand-child of the afore- said earl, in pursuance of his last will and testa- ment. Anno Domini, 1673."

. The neighbourhood of Sheffield celebrated for its

growth of oaks. " I am informed by a person of credit, that an oak in Sheffield park, called the La- dy's oak, when felled, contained forty-two tons of timber, which had arms which held at least four feet square, for ten yards in length ; the body six feet of clear timber ; thus, in the same park, one might have chosen above a thousand trees Morth above six thousand pounds ; another thousand worth four thousand pounds, et sic de ccsteris. To this Mr. Hatton replies, that it might possibly be meant of the lord's oak already mentioned to have groMn at Rivelin, for now Rivelin itself is totally desti- tute of that issue she once might have gloried in of oaks; and as to the computation of 1000 trees worth £6000, it is believed there were a 1000 much above that value, since, in what is now enclosed, it is evident, touching a liundrcd worth a thousand pounds." — Evel%pi's Sylva.

1676. The church-yard paved. " Pd. to Mr. Cook, for pa- ving the church-yard, £2. Is. 6d. — A. C. B.

1678. A new clock set up in the church, and the seats re- paired. " Pd. to John Atkinson for the new clock, and for other work about ye clockhouse, j£13. lis. 4d. Pd. William Bullass for the clock-case, £2. 19s. 2d. Pd. Eusebius Hancock for repairing the old dial and setting up anew, £A. 9s. Pd. John Atkinson his yearly allowance for looking after ^e clock, 2s. 6d."— ^. C. B.

. The first public meeting house for the dissenters, called

Jan. new-hall, opened for public worship.

SHEFFIELD I.OCAI. RPrftlSTKR. ZV

1680—87.

1680. Town estates — annual value, £41. 18s. 4d.

. " Cawsey" or bridge made over the river from Alill-

sands-head to Bridgehouses. 16;il. Rev. Mr. Timothy Jollie ordained minister (the third) ylprl.2S. of the dissenting or independent church.

. The town trust. Decree of the court of chancery

Sept. 6. obtained, conveying the lands and tenements held by the burghers or free tenants of Sheffield, to thirteen peisons in trust to hold and administer the proceeds and rents thereof to charitable and public uses.

1682. Town trustees " lett out to twenty scizzorsmiths on

bond, £200."

. Attempt of Sir Thomas Degge, and Thomas Eyre,

Esq., to bring Sheffield within the scope of the Peverel court, defeated by Thomas Duke of Nor- folk.

. Fifty-eighth celebration of the cutlers' feast, John

Sept. 7. ^Vinter, the master, entertained Avith others, the duke of Norfolk, lords Cliiford, Coniers, Castle- ton, and Hexington ; hon. Sydney Wortley Mon- tague, sir Henry Marwood, sir Wm. VVyvill, sir Ralph Knight, lord Castleton's eldest sons, and lord Conier's two sons.

1683. The town trust. Trustees paid to the overseers

" twenty pounds towards the relief of the necessi- tous poore in the storme."'

1684. Duke oi Noifolk, (Thomas Howard, earl of Arun-

del) lord of the manor of Sheffield, died.

. succeeded by his eldest son, Henry,

the seventh duke of Norfolk.

1686. The dissenters of the town present an address to the

king (James II.) on the occasion of his declaration for liberty of conscience : — " We prostrate our most sincere and grateful acknowledgments of this your princely bounty and goodness at your majes- ty's feet, blessing from our hearts that great God by whom kings rule and princes decree justice, for directing your royal majesty unto that truest me- thod of government which leaves entire to God his absolute sovereignty over the souls of men."

1687. The steeple of the church repaired. " Pd. the char-

ges for pointing the steeple, £77- 7»-3d." — ji.C.B.

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1688—96.

1688. The income of the vicar of SheflSeld estimated at

ninety pounds per annum, including certain gra- tuitous payments.

1689. Lady's bridge repaired at the county expence.

. Francis Barlow willed that his houses in Sheffield

Mar. 2. should be charged with the payment of six pounds a- year to the overseers of the poor, to be given to the most needy decayed tradesmen of the town. — " This annuity is received from the proprietor of certain lands at Middlethorpe, (charged in lieu of the houses,) and is usually given to twelve poor tradesmen in sums of 10s. each, at or about Christ- mas."—Par/. iJe^ 1829.

1692. Pond mill made by the town trustees.

1693. " I have conversed with those who have heard it from

persons who had witnessed it, that the Duke of Norfolk and his sister-in-law, the Lady Howard, used to attend public service at the church of Shef- field, and that the appearance of their carriages on the Park hill top, was the signal to the ringers to ring their last peal." — Joseph Hunter y 1819.

. Ancient roads: — "Before the unhappy civil wars

broke out, (1644,) the gate of the park next Glead- less-moor, was, by order of the owner, (Henry, Duke of Norfolk,) four times every year stopped up, to prevent the same being claimed as a high- way, and several times I have seen the same chained up, and the carriers' pack-horses, carts, and carriages stopped from going that way, with- out asking leave or paying something. The an- cient highway leading from Sheffield to the North- east part of Handsworth parish Mas through Kt- tercliffe and Darnall ; and to the South-east side of the said parish through Little Sheffield, Heeley, and Newfield-green, to London." — Depos. of A'i- i kolas ShiercUffe, cutler of Sheffield, aged %%, given in the Duke''s suit about the right cf road to the market.

1695. Three new bells put up in the church. — " Pd. to Mr.

Smith, of York, for casting 5th, 4th, and 3d bells, and money paid on the acct. of bringing the bells from Rotherham, ^6. 10s. lid."— ^. C. B.

1696. About this time Mas built in Pepper-alley, the first

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1 ()<J7_99.

brick liouse in Sheffield; which wa'i viewed by the inhabitants with wonder and ridicule, they suppo- sing; it to be built of such perishable materials, tliat it must soon yield to destruction. It is now (lyi'T) A[r. Broomhead's warehouse. " Communicated by Mr. Hall, who died in 17^6, aged 95. — EiJirard (roodwin, 1797-"

U>ft7' "Assessment made yp. 5 day of May, Anno Dom. Iti97, for the use of the churchwardens and over- seers of ye. poor of ve. toune of Sheffield, made by us, who doo alsoo agree and order the same to be ^fathered fowerfold. Totol of ye. three first books £177- 17''- K'd." — Orig.doc. It appears from thi:* document that the total number of persons assessed • for the relief of the poor was 760. — Edit.

. Supply of water : — Mr. Peter Whalley, an enjrineer

of Nottingham, obtained from the Duke of Norfolk the lease of a rood of land near the Lady's Bridge ; a lease of that part of the river Don wliich lies be- tween Lady's Bridge and Cawton's weir, and a lease of a piece of waste ground near Barker-poo], with license to break up the streets of the town for laying down his pipes, for the purpose of better supplying the town with water.

1699. Mr. Richard Broughton by his will charged his lands called Gist Carr, with the payment of ,£5 per an- num for the use of poor cutlers and scissorsmiths.

. Well at church gates, gTeat well in Trippet-lane, and

many other wells, made by the town trustees.

. Fall of the forest trees -in the Park, and destruction

of the Lord's oak, whose bole was twelve yards in girth.

•' Planted by him who waved the vengeful sword

Of conquering William's desolating iie,

A wrath the Saxon long in vain deplored.

Amidst thy city's niins, Hallamshire. And so it grew unscathed by wind or fire. The red deer's shelter and the falcon's nest ;

Long waved it there ev'n wlien the hoary sire Told how the hand for ages had been blent With kindred dust that reared that sylvan monument."

W. H. Sterndale.

. The parish of Sheffield first divided into six town -

ships. " I'lie Park, the greater part of the town D 2

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1700—1.

of Sheffield, and a small piece of ground lyin^' north of the town form the township of Sheffield. The part of the parish which lies on the left bank of the Don, is the township of Brightside Byerlow. The triangular piece of land of which the river Dun and the line of the Park wall are two sides, and the eastern boundary of the parish the third, forms the township of AtterclifFe-com-Darnall. The rest of the parish was anciently but one town- ship, known by the name of Hallamcum-Ecclesall ; but was divided into the three townships of Eccle- sall, Hallam Upper, and Hallam Nether." — H.H.

1700. "At the entrance of the chancel door of the church,

(St. Peter's,) was interred William Walker, of Darnall, supposed to have been the executioner of Charles the First, (Ed. Goodwin, 1797,) but with better reason to have been the translator of the Vindicice conti-a Tyrannos.^^ — Huntei\

. The toM'n hall erected at the South east corner of the

church-vard, towards which the Duke of Norfolk gave .£lOO, on condition he should there hold his manorial courts.

. Dissenters : — Second and larger meeting house (the

upper chapel) erected in Sheffield for religious wor- ship, on a piece of ground between Pepper-alley and Alsop-fields; first stone laid by Mr. Fielcl Sylvester.

. "At this period the inhabitants of the town and neigh- bourhood were less distinguished by the elegance and refinement of .social life, than by feelings of independence and rigid honesty, by hospitality and a rude and boisterous conviviality. There were no assemblies, no theatre, and the principal amuse- ments of the place were the sports at the castle bowling-green, and social meetings at the taverns." — Hunter.

1701. Decease of William Henry Howard, seventh Duke

of Norfolk. . succeeded by his nephew, Thomas

Howard, eighth Duke of Norfolk. . Town estates — annual value of the lands in Hallam,

possessed by the trustees, £22. lis.

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1702—5.

1702. Town estates — annual value, (including Hallam lands,)

^73. 13s. 4d.

. A volume, entitled " De Spiritualibus Pecci,^'' pub- lished by W. Bagshaw, formerly (1649) one of the assistant ministers of the parish church, and curate of Attercliffe ; printed for Nevill Simmons, book- seller, in Sheffield.

. The timber felled at Broom-hall spring. " It ^vas a

grove of oaks without underwood, and stood on the spot now (1818) occupied by Wilkinson-street." —H.H.

1703. The hospital Shrewsbury: — Lady Mary Howard no-

minated John Dossie, vicar of Sheffield, to be go- vernor of Shrewsbury hospital, enlarged the chapel therein, and made provision for the performance of Divine worship.

. Hollis's hospital and schools : —Thomas Hollis having

amassed a fortune by the sale of Sheffield wares in the Minories, (London,) purchased an old chapel called the New Hall, together with a house adjoin- ing, and converted them into sixteen dwelling- houses, for as many elderly women, widows of cutlers.

. " Ordered that the pulpit be removed to ye. old place,

and that what new seats or ceilings newly set up thereabouts, that do obstruct the light to the pulpit, be likewise removed." — A. C, B.

. The chancel of the church thoroughly repaired by the

direction of Lady HoAvard, (widow of Lord Thomas Howard, and guardian to his son Thomas, Duke of Norfolk,) whose initials appear on several places on the East wall.

17<H. Second dissenters', or upper chapel, conveyed t&

Nov.25. Thomas Hollis, of London, and John Browne, William Stead, Samuel Shore, William Bench, Jo- nathan Smith, Benj. Kirkby, Luke Winter, Josh. Sanderson, Samuel Sanderson, and John Crooke^ all of Sheffield, in trust for the use of Protestant dissenters.

1705. Rev. Mr. Jolly, Sheffield Protestant dissenting minis- ter, established an academy at Attercliffe, for edu- cation of young men designed for the Protestant dissenting ministry, in which was taught Sander-

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1706— 9.

son, (the blind professor,) Bowes, (Irish Chancel- lor,) and Seeker, (Archbishop of Canterbury.)

1706. The boys' charity school ;-^first promoted by Air.

Drake, the vicar, and Mr. Terrie, assistant minister,

. Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, ordered the dismantlings

of the manor house, and the dispersion of the fur- niture.

" In later times rose those baronial halls,

Where once the lights of feudal grandeur shone : Amidst whose courts the winding serpent crawls And makes his nest within the broken throne Where lordlings sat.— Those bowers are now o'erthrown. Where gentle hands once gathered fairest flowers. To garland brows that should have worn a crown."

iV. H. Sterniiiili:

. "An assessment made ye. 4th of July, Anno Dom.

1706 By ye. constable of the town of Sheffield, for ve. use of ve. said towne, ve. which is to be jjatliered twofold,"" "total, £30. Is. lOd. assessed by Christo- pher Stacey, John Lovitt, Andrew Hirst, AVilliam W^ebster. — Orig. Doc.

1707. Supply of water ; — decease of Mr. Whalley, and trans-

fer of his lease, license, &c. (for dams and water courses) to Messrs. Chapel, Lee, Drake, Terrie, and Waterhouse.

. The Lord"s house (residence of the Duke of Norfolk)

built in Fargate.

. The Park surroiindine: the manour stript of its forest

trees, divided into farms, and distributed amongst twenty tenants.

. Parochial libiarv : — "J'wo hundred volumes criven by

different benefactors, to commence a library in the vestry of the church.

. 3/rtr. 7. "Buried Wm. Hunt, aoed 102 years.— /-./?.

. Younj? trees planted in the church-yard : — " Pd. for

stakes for yc. lime trees in tbe church-yard, and digging holes fur the trees to stand in, and watering them, 6s. 5d."— ^7. C. B.

. " Pd. for getting and bringing the lime trees from

Mr. Monesmith, 10s. 6d. Pd. charges." about set- ting the said trees, £\. 4s. 5d." — A. (.'. B.

i7''9. This Aear, the <-utlers' company began to have a ser- mon preached at their feast. — Harriyon.

. (irammar School, — !Mr. Jitmes Hill, an under master,

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1709—14.

gave lands at Gilberthorpe-hill, valued at £6 per annum, for the benefit of the school.

1709. Grammar School — House builtfor the use of the head

master.

1710. Persons employed in the corporated trades of Hallam-

shire estimated at 6000, besides several thousand more in and about Sheffield engaged in different departments of the iron trade (smiths, anvil makers, edge tool makers, and nailers,) not wihout the scope of the corporation laws. — H. H.

1710. " First stage waggon to convey goods from Sheffield to

the south, established byoneWright, of Mansfield.'' —H.H.

. Estimated value of goods manufactured each year,

upwards of £100,000.

. The boys' charity school erected at the north east

corner of the Parish Church yard, by public sub- scription.

. A causeway made on the south side of the church.

1711. Price of provisions in Sheffield ; half a load of white

wheat, 7s. ; 26 gall, of ale, 35s. 6d. ; rump of beef, 3d. per lb.; eleven chickens, 3s. 2|d. ; six geese, 3s. 6d. ; 1 libs, of salmon, 3s. ; lobsters and 2 crabs, 20s. ; 4i lbs. trout. Is. 6d. ; a pike and half a doz. of pigions, 6s.

. Principal inhabitants gave large quantities of liquor

Aug. to the populous in celebration of the peace of Utrecht.

1713. St. Peter's church injured by a great storm.

. Sheffield races at Crooks-moor ; — town's trustees "at

charges to get horses to the races." — A. C. B.

. Supply of water; — Messrs. Goodwin and Littlewood

obtained from the Lord of the manor, a grant of the privilege of laying pipes through the commons, highways, and waste grounds of the manor, for the purpose of conveying water for the use of the town, from the springs and dams near White-house.

. make the reservoir near the Fargate.

1714. Decease of the Rev. Mr. Timothy Jollie, third mi- il/«r. 28. nister of the (Dissenters,) upper chapel.

. interred in the burial ground of the

upper chapel, " 5 Calend. Aprilis, aetatis suae 56 — Christus in vi'ta, in morte lucrum."

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17H— 19.

1/14. Rev. J. Wadsworth, (fourth minister,) succeeded as pastor,

. Secession of one-fifth of the congre^tion of the (Dis-

sentei s,) upper chapel, and their establishment in the nether chapel, under the ministry of the Rev. Mr. De la Rose, 1715. The upper chapel — congregation of Dissenters at the upper chapel consisted of 1,1 C3 persons, 7^ of whom were fieeholders of the county of York.

• . The Hospital, (Shrewsbmv) IVlr. William Birley, of

London, endowed by will the governor of the hos- pital with an income of £300, and a share of an estate at Neepsend.

. Mr, William Birley bequeathed £300 for the founda-

June lO.tion of a school, wherein should be taught writing and arithmetic ; £.300 to old and indigent tiades- men, or their widows, and £300 for the support of a minister to perform divine service in the chapel of the hospital*

. The muster of horsemen, with horses and harness

provided by the freeholders and other tenants of the Lord of the Manor, who heretofore appeared on the Tuesday after every Easter-day, on the Sembly-green (Wicker) discontinued. 171 8, Decease of Mr. Thomas Hollis, (founder cf the hos- pital bearing his name,) aged 81.

. St. Paul's Church. — The building and endowment

first proposed bv Mr. Robert Downes, goldsmith, of Slielfield, w ho oflcred one thousand pounds to- wards its erection, and a settlement of £30 per annum for the support of the minister, 17 19^ Rev. James Cawthorne born. " Amongst those (in Aor. 4. Sheffield) who merit attention in connection with poetry, Cawthorne stands first in the order of time, and i-« pre-eminent as a poet." — Cumb. Rtc. for Oct. 1824.

. Woods in Sbeffiehl. — Survey of woods in the parish

of Sheffield, belonging to the Duke of Norfolk, re- turned fourteen in number, occupying 429 acres. The Duke had, besides 25 woods in Ecclesfield, containing 1380 acres; 7 in Bradfield, 240 acres ; 2 in Ilandsworth, 200 acres; 2 in Treeton, 96 acres ; and 2 in Whiston, 240 acres.

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1719. Archbishop of \ ork granted a commission to the

Oct. 2. Duke of Devonshire, and twenty-eig-htof the prin- cipal inhabitants of Sheffield, to purchase a piece of ground adjoining- the town, called Sha\v"s close, or Oxley's croft, to erect thereon a chapel of ease tp the Parish Church of ShefSeld, the patronage of which should be vested in Robert Downes and his heirs.

J 720. Ma>i 28. The first stone laid at St. Paul's Church.

, '"An assessment made, the 20th day of June, Anno

Dom. 1720, for the reliefe of the poor of the towne of Sheffield, by us, whose names are hitherto sett, alt the end, and we doe agree the same shall be gathered fourfold; total of assessment, £1"!. 12s. ii^d., assessed by us, whose names are hereto sub- scribed.

.'oN'A. Hurst, ^ Church-

Thos. Ibbotson. ^ wardens.

Bknj. Pkahsox, J

(i. Hasi.khlrst, \_ Overseers

W M . H a w I E Y , r" of ve poor.

Thos. Yolnoe, .1 un. j

-^itflJ. 25. — Perused and allowed by us, .!. Bhadshaw, \V. Jkssop." — (J riff Due. From this document, it appears that the number of persons in the whole towne assessed towards th(^ support of the poor was 1.S20. — Ed.

. The tailors" society, (the first benefit club in the town)

Sept. 20. first established.

. The causways (nearly as they now ap])ear, 18^$0,) first

laid down in the churcli yard : — " Pd. Saml. Smith, forthe pavors,.£l(i. .5s, (id. ; Pd. Wm. Sampson, for laying causevs in the church vard, £6. 1.5s. lid." —J. B.C.

1721. Saint Paul's Church, so far finished as to receive a congi-egation, when the patron of the Parish Church, and the Vicar opposed .Mr. Downe's claims to the presentation thereof and claimed it for themselves.

. The free writing school and Biiley's charity built,

(near the grammar school, in 'rownhead-slieet,) and used according to the directions of the foun- der.

36 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1722—27.

1722. Vicar and Churchwardens of the Parish Church,

obtdn of the Archbishop of York, an order that the friends of all deceased persons interred after four o'clock in the afternoon, shall pay the sum ot twenty shillings, to be disposed of as thev shall think'fit.

. Part of the church steeple, " being thought by some

people to be in a tottering state," pulled down and rebuilt: — " Pd. John Platts, for taking down and re- building part of the steeple, £16. 12s. 4d."—A.C.B.

1723. Nether Chapel — decease of the minister, Mr. De la Dec. 31. Rose, and succession of Mr. Robert Kelsall. . Darnall-hall built.— i/. P.

1724. The Town-Hall let by the town trustees to a com-

pany of comedians, at the rent of 30s.

1726. Bill, empowering the company of cutlers "to make 3Iar. 11. the river Don navigable, from Holm-stile, in Don- caster, to the utmost extent of Tinsley, westward, and to enable them to improve and keep in repair the highway from Sheffield to Tinsley," first read in the House of Commons ; and Mr. Samuel Shore, and Mr. John Smith, appointed deputies to support the same.

MdJ/ 6. The bill passed into a law.

. HoUis's Hospital and School. — Thomas}Hollis,son of

the founder, vested the estates of Whirlow Hall, Brocco-hill closes, and Creswick close, (Hollis- street,) together with £2,000 South sea stock, in fourteen trustees for the benefit of the said.hospital.

. The cutlers' hall in Church-street, built.

1727. Advertisements published, offering great advantages

to file makers to settle in France, and nearly the whole body of the workmen began to dispose of their effects, and to pack up their tools for the journey.

. Upon the recommendation of Judge

Jessop, a memorial signed, by the principal inha- bitants, presented to the King^ praying an order in council to prevent the departure of the workmen.

. Proclamation, offering a reward for the

discovery of the publishers of the advertisement, and prohibiting the emigration. — She/. Iris. Mr. Francis Greaves gave to the churchwardens the

SHEFFIEI-D LOCAL REGISTER. 37

1729—33.

sum of .£30, the interest to be given to such poor persons as have no other provision, every Christ- mas-eve for ever. 1729. Fullvvood chapel : — William Ronksley bequeathed in trust to his honoured and esteemed friend, William Jessop, of Broom Hall, .£400, the interest whereof at the first should be appropriated to build a chapel, and afterwards to pay a dissenting minister to offi- ciate therein : — the testator was born in 1650, and educated at the grammar school. 1732. Mai: 2. Filesmiths' benefit society established. April 6. Cutlers' benefit society established. July. Shepherds' benefit society established.

An engraved plan of the town published by Ralph

Gosling. " The oldest engraved plan of the town is supposed to be that published by Ralph Gosling in 1732, who made some small collection for the history of Sheffield."—//.//. 1820.

. Thomas, eighth Duke of Norfolk, Lord of the Manor

of Hallam, died.

. Succeeded by his brother Edward.

. The corporation of cutlers, in conjunction with the

corporation of Doncaster, relieve themselves from the powers granted by the navigation bill, of May 6, 1726, and obtain an act, transferring such powers, in one hundred and fifty shares, to sub- scribers, incorpo)-ated — " The company of proprie- tors of the navigation of the River Don."

. The town consisted of the following streets, lanes,

and passages : — High-street, Fargate, Balm-green, Hollin-lane, or Blind-lane, Red-croft, Town- head-street, Pinfold-lane, Church-lane, Ratten-row, Broad-lane, Westbar, Westbar-green, Scargill- croft, Figtree-lane, or New-street, Campo-lane, Hartshead, Snig-hill, Irish-cross, New Hall-street, Mill-sands, the Under-water, the Isle, Water-lane, Castle-green, Castle green-head, Castle-fold, Cas- tle-hill, Waingate, Bull-stake, Dixon-lane, Shude- hill, the Ponds, Jehu-lane, Pudding-lane, or King- street, Truelove's-gutter. 1733. The house of maintenance for the poor (Workhouse)

first opened — governor, William Lotas. Al)rill2.0\(\. Unanimous benefit society established.

D

:w

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGIST'ER.

J 733.— 35.

1733. Assemblies held in two rooms belonging the building occupied by the charity boys. The town lighted at night time by Mr. Parkin, who received of the town trustees, ^3. 15s. lid. for the same. Decease of William Jessop, of Broomhall, Esq. justice of the peace for the district, and member of Par- liament, (nine times returned) for Aldborough, Yorkshire. Coals brought to the house of maintenance since

j4ug. 10. Aug. 10, 1733, 55 loads, cost i;8. 12s. 6d. ; corn also brought in during the same time, ^f^ loads, cost je33. 8sj 8^d. ; 12 quarters of malt, ^14. Is. --IVork. Acct.

; Charge of the house of maintenance, during Christ-

1734.

1 73 J

mas week

Beer ....

Bread

" Baking ..

Cheese . .

Coals ....

Flour ....

Meat .

Milk ....

Salt

Shop good

Odds ....

£

s.

D.

0

3

6

0

6

9

0

0

^

U

3

0

0

2

6

0

3

9

0

7

6

0

0

0

0

0

3

0

3

4f

0

3

H

1 16 7

ft I I

12;

. •. Received March 11, 1735, of the churchwardens and

Mar. 11. overseers of the poor of the town of Sheffield, the sum of eleven pounds, for five months' wages in full, of all debts, dues, and demands. Witness, my hand, William Lotas.

Test. Jos. Steer, Thos. Young, Robt.Hawksworth, Henry Hancock, Thos. Broadbent, John Ing- ham.— Work. Acct. . Prices of various commodities charged to the Shef- field house of maintenance, whereof Wm: Lotas was master ; , £ s. n.

ILoadofwheat 0 13 0

i Do. of rye 0 4 8

1 Do. of blend corn 0 10 tJ

2 Pecks of oatmeal 0 1 3

SHEFFIELD LOCAL KEOISTER.

39

1735—36.

£ s.

1 Load of coals 0 2 6

1 Do. of Attercliff coal 0 5 10

1 cw-t. cheese, 2id. lb 1 0 4

1 Quarter of malt 1 0 6

1735. The charges of the house of maintenance from Aug, ^ug. 10. 10 last year-- £ s. d.

Corn 20 18 3^

Coals 3 14 11 i g

Malt .. Baker.. Salt.... Meat .. Milch . . Oatmeal

7 7

1 4

0 19

12 9

Cheese t 7

G---ddins . Shop goods . Shaving . . . Odds .....

ol

0

Wages

1

10

111

69 25

5

0

51 0

94 4

5 5

5i 5i

Work done . ,

90 0 0 , -^

1736. The charge of the house of maintenance, from April ^4pril^. 9, to 16 do. when Thomas Braine entered gover-

nor.— Shop goods :

4 Yards | of whit dimathe

2 Do. white flannell

Pins

Ink :

Yard linen cloth , 0

2 Dussan gartrin

1 Q. paper

Beef

2Pigs .

4 Sawcers, 2 dishes, 2 mugs, glass. .

3 Wood dishes, laddell

6 Tinn canns

lb. hops

J 00 of needles

£

S. D

0

4 9

0

2 0

0

1 6

0

1 3

0

1 0

0

2 0

0

0 10

0

4 6

0

10 0

0

2 3

0

0 7

0

1 9

0

1 6

0

0 10

40 SHEFKIKLD LOCAL REOI.STEB,

1736—39.

1736. The population of Sheffield included 172 members of

the society of friends, and 246 Roman Catholics.

. The number of persons in the poor house ; men 9,

May 9. women 7, children 8 ; total 24. — Work. Acct.

. Townhead cross taken down.

— — . Number of houses in the township of Sheffield, 2152.

. Population of Sheffield and its parishes, taken by

order of the town burj^esses, preparatory to pre- senting; a petition to Parliament, to make Saint Paul's church parochial : —

Families. Individuals.

Township of Sheffield 21 52 9G95

Brig-htside Bierlow 2J I 983

Attercliffe cum Darnall . . . . 245 1075

Ecclesall and 2 HaUams 503 2352

Totals 3111 14,105

1737. Mr. Hatfield, and Mr. Greaves, came in overseers of May 2. the poor for the year ensuing.

. Cbargiss of the house of maintenance to the 12 May,

10 days, £5. 6s. 7d. ; number of poor persons, 34.— Work. Acct.

1738. Jan. The old shambles removed.— S. M's. Pap.

. Mr. Thomas Rawson, and Messrs. Leathly, came in

May\. overseers of the poor.

Charges of the house of maintenance from April 28, to

May 12, £10. Os. 7d. ; number of poor persons 35,-17 of them badly.— ^orA; Acct.

1739. Mr. Dyson, and Mr. Kindle, came in overseers of the May. poor of Sheffield for the ensuing year.

. Charg-iss of the house of maintenance from May 22,

to June 8, £23. 6s. Id. ; poor in number, 33. — Work. Acct.

. St. Paul's church.— Mr. Robert DoAvnes, and other

May I. contributors to the building and endowment of Saint Paul's church, having been prevented for the space of nineteen years from performing divine service therein, by the claims of presentation made by the patron and vicar of the parish church, pre- sent themselves before the justices at Pomfret Sessions, and under the toleration act, certify the building as a meeting for Protestant Dissenters.

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REOISTKK. "*'

1339—42.

1739. Company of proprietors of the navigation of the Kher Don obtain a fourth act of Parliament, empower- ing them to improve the navigation of the river, from Wilsick-house to Fish Lake Ferry.

. St. Paul's church. — Act of Parliament obtained that

JVov. St. Paul's church should be deemed a chapel of ease to the parish cluu-eh.

. St. Paul's Church; — JohnDownes, M.A. nephew toR.

Downes, (the founder) appointed the first minister.

Jan 3. Buried Mary Bradley, Avidow, aged 105. — P. B.

IJAO. Jan. 4. Union benefit society establislied.

. St. Paul's church (built "by Platts of Rotherham,)

May 2. first opened for public Avorship.

. consecrated by Dr. Martin Benson,

iVot'. 16. Bishop of Gloucester — the first sermon preached by the Rev. Mr. Downes , from 7th 2 of Chroni- cles 16 & 17 verses.

Nov. 5. Carpenters' sick society established.

\74i.Jprilll. The market cross finished. — S. M's.Pap.

. Mr. Leathley, and Mr. Betts, entered overseers of the

May 4. poor; poor in number, 78. — TFork. Acct.

May 23. The shambles again removed, and the new shops rebuilt in the same place as heretofore. — S. M. Pap.

Sept.\. Society depending on Providence (benefit) esta- blished.

. Wesleyan Methodists. — Mr. Edward Bennett (foun- der of Coalpit-lane and Howard-street chapels,) built a chapel for the Wesleyan Methodists, in Pinstone-lane.

. Francis Sitwell bequeathed to the cutlers' company

^400, to be lentout'jin small sums, not exceeding ^5, each, to any necessitous member, or other inhabi- tant, without interest. " There are no traces ex- isting of the receipt or application of the gift in the books of the company, and the charity, if it ever took effect, has long since ceased." — Parliam. Report, 1829;

1742. The reservoir formed at Crookes-moor.

. Mr. .Toseph Owen, and Mr. Jonathan Cutt, entered

May 2. overseers of the poor; chargiss of house of main- tenance, from IMay 16to June 4, £\%. 9s. 9d ; poor in number, 77--- iVork, Acct. e2

42 SHEFJ-IEtD LOCAh REGISTKR.

1743—45.

^743. May 5. Wesleyan chapel in Pinstone-lane deniolislied by rioters.

. Overseers, Mr. Webster, and Mr. Nutt ; chargiss of

May6. house of maintenance, to 20 May, ^10. 4s. 9d. ; number of poor, 'JO.--- ff^ork. Jcct.

. Decease of William Ellis, aged 69, " clerk to the pa-

Sept, 11. rish church forty years, in which he approved him- self both knowing and faithful; — a man who, in the midst of a corrupt age, retained, in spite of custom and example, a primeval simplicity of life." This inscription appeared on an oval slab against the wall of the porch, which when it was destroyed (I79O) was thrown unregarded into the Shrewsbury chapel.

1744. Overseers, Mr. Gjeaves and Mr. Jessop ; chargess of

house of maintenance from April 20, to May 4, .£8. 6s. 9d. ; number of poor, 60. — Work. Acct.

. Rev. J. Downes, A. M. resigned the ministry of Saint

Paul's church, and was succeeded by his son, the Rev. H. Downes.

. Upper chapel : — Rev. John Wadsworth resigned the

pastorship, after a ministry of thirty years.

. Supply of water : — Messrs, Matthewman and Battie

succeeded to the powers and privileges granted by the Lord of the Manor in 1713, to Messrs. Good- win and Littlewood, and constructed works in the valley of Crookes-moor, which, M'ith the original works at Whitehouse, produced a supply of water nearly equal to the demand.

. Mr. E. Bennett's methodist chapel, in Pinstone-lane,

attacked and partly destroyed by a mob.

1745. St. Peter's church : — The bells taken down and recast. . Upper chapel : — Rev. Thomas Haynes succeeded the

Rev. John Wadsworth, as fifth minister of the

congregation.

. Ovej-seers, Mr. Marriott and Mr. Creswick. Charge

May 4. of the house of maintenance, from May 4 to May

17, -£14. 7s. 3d.; number of poor, 94. — JFork.

Acct. . Price of commodities : — Crop of beef for roasting,

2s. 4d. per stone ; load wheat, 9s. 6d. ; 7 lb. sugar,

3s.; 2 stone salt, 2s. 6d, ; 3 lb. candles. Is. 4d ;

2 1b. hops, 2s. 8d.; 100 of cheese, 19s.; qt. train

oyll, U.— JFork. Acct.

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. -13

1745—47.

1745. A set of eight bells for the parish church completed Aug. and set up.

. Subscription papers published by the clerfi^y of the

N0V.5. town, " so that now every inhabitant of this riding, who has a mind to shew his concern for tlie safety of his countr}', by lending his purse towards tlie defence thereof, has an easy opportunity of doing it ; next to doing it heartily is doing it soon. The money collected paid to Richard Milnes, Esq., at Wakefield, or Thos: Lee, at Leeds, appointed by the Lord Lieut." — Govert. Advt.

. The rebells expected, and great alarm in the town.

Nov. SO. —S. M.'s Pap.

1746. Visited and enquired into the affairs of the poorhotise, Jan,\2. and was informed of Anne Pitt and Hannah Clay- ton conveying a linen sheet and three breadths of blue lindsey to Mary Woodhouse, at ye. White Horse in Gregory-row, and ordered Pitt and Clay- ton into the dark hole.

John Abbey, John Spooner.

. This day the two women (Pitt and Clayton) were

Jan.}9. whipt. — Signed by overseers and churchwardens. — Work. Acct. Orig. Doc.

. Great rejoicings in the town, bonfires, &c., on the

April26. news arriving of the defeat of the rebells, and that they would not enter the town. — 5. M.^s Pap.

. Overseers, John Spooner and John Atbey ; num-

MayZ. her of poor in house of maintenance, 108. — Work. Acct.

. Decease of Mr. Joshua Bayes, (his father was master

cutler in 1679, and a principal person among the dissenters in the town,) aged 75. He was educated at the grammar school of the town; his life was spent in London, as pastor of two congregations in succession ; — he published several M^orks of contro- versial divinity.

1747. Mr. J. Broadbent, merchant, first established a fo-

reign trade for Sheffield wares.

. Master manufacturers began to visit the INIetropolis,

as well as other parts of the kingdom, in search of orders, with good success. Several factors now established a correspondence with various parts of

44 SHKFFIKI.n LOCAL EEGISTER,

1747—50.

the continent, and engaged foreigners as clerks in tlieir counting-liouses. Ed. Goodwin.

1747. Three waggons,' loaded with the rebels, brought April2i. through the town, and removed the following dav,

being ordered for tiansportation. — 5". M.'s Pap.

. Overseeis, jNIr. Lambert and Mi". Young. Chargiss

Jwiei. of the house of maintenance for a fortnight,

4.14. lis. 7d.

1748. Overseers, Mr. Staniforth and Mr. ^A'ild. March 1 6. Grinders' benefit society established.

. Nether chapel — Rev. John Pye ordained minister of

MaylQ. the congregation.

. Decease of Mr. John Balguy, (master 1664 — 96 of

Sept.^ii. the grammar school,) aged S2. " he at- tained no inconsiderable eminence as a theologian, and was engaged in several of tlie controveisies ' which were agitated among the divines of the for- mer half of the eighteenth century."

1749. Expenses of the cutlers' feast : — Rump of beef, 3s. 4d. ; jVov.25. six fowls, 2s. 8d. ; ham, .'is. ; pifs and puddings,

2s. 6d. ; hare, Is. 6d. ; loin veal. Is. lOd. ; bread. Is.; butter, 2s.; roots, 4d. ; ale and punch, 20s. 7d. ; dressing, 4s.; total, £2. 2s. 9d. ; — collected of thft company, 21s.; paid out of the stock, 21s. 9d. ; reed, contents in full by William Dixon.

1750. The rates for the relief of the necessitous poor of the

township of Sheffield amounted lo less than four hundred pounds. . (/'hargiss of the house of maintenance during Mr. Roe- buck's fortnight, .£12. 5s. lOd. ; poor in the house, 65. — fVork. Acct.

■ Prices of various commodities bought for ye. house

of maintenance, 2 ounce tay Is., a Testament and four horning books Is. 4d., a skin to mak a pair of breeches 7d., a quarter of lamb Is. 7d., a shoul- der of mutton Is. 6d., a stone of soap 6s. 4d. — IVork, Acct. — — . Robt. Rawson gave lip his trust as governor of the Feli.f-. workhouse ; his salary was £3. 15s. per quarter. — fVork. Acct.

. John Ludlam chosen governor of the workhouse by a

Uar.]^i. majority of the freeholders, to enter Lady-day next. — ffork. Acct.

KHKFFIEI.D COCAl, REGISTER. 45

1750—53.

1750. July 4. Bishop Blaize club established. July 5. Old Gentleman's club established.

17 — 1800. "During a considerable part of this century, the Sheffield manufacturers discovered more labour than ingenuity; the workmen durst not exert their abilities for fear of being over-stocked M'ith goods — their trade was inconsiderable, confined, and pre- carious. None presumed to extend their traffic beyond the bounds of this island, and most were content to wait the coming of a casual trader, or to carry their goods with much labour and expense to an uncertain market ; and it is well known, that the chief produce of the manufactory was carried weekly by a few of Mr. Newsom's pack-horses, to the Metropolis, the inhabitants viewing their pas- sage up the Park-hill with much pleasure." — Ed, Goodwin, 1797.

. Discovery of the art of silver-plating : — " Mr. Thomas

Bolsover, an ingenious mechanic and member of the corporation of cutlers, first discovered and practised the art of silver-plating; being engaged in repairing the handle of a knife which was made of silver and copper, he was impressed with the idea that the two metals might be united so as to form a cheap substance, M'hich would present an exterior of silver, and established a manufactory for this ma- terial."

1751. Surveyors of highways of the township expended only

.£47. Is. Ijd. in the necessary affairs of their office during the past year. — Sheff. Merc.

1752. April 14, Overseers, Mr. Shaw and INIr. Batty. April 15. Indefatigable union society established.

. The closs at ye Harvest-lane, and a house thereto ad-

May\. joining, was resigned into the possession of Mr.

Obran and Mr. E. Robuck, overseers of the poor.

— JVork. Acct. May9>. Number of paupers in the workhouse, 73. May 19. United society (benefit) established. . Reformed society (benefit) established.

1753. May 4. Overseers, Mr. Steer and Mr. Thomas Roe-

buck.

. " Mr. John Browne agreed to be the apothecary for

May 25. the poor of the township, and to have jC20 a-year

for his sallary." — JFork. Acct.

46 SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGlSTEn.

1754 55.

1754. Srpl.6. Laurel united society established.

. Dec. 24. Decease of the Rev. John Dossie, vicar of

Sheffield. . Buried \Mlliam Congreve, " who is stated on his

grave in the parish church-yard to have been one

hundred and eleven years and eight months old at

the time of his death."—/:?, if.

1754. The first Sheffield newspaper, called Lister's Sheffield ^pril'ia. Weekly Journal, published every Tuesday, price

2d. Subscriptions and advertisements taken in by — Lister, printei-, opposite the Cock, in High- street, Sheffield, and by Mr. Simmons, in Sheffield. Advertisements of a moderate length 2s. 6d., and subscriptions for the ncM's 2s. pci- quarter.

. " Agreed that the officers present do piesent Dr. John

May2A. Browne with a guinea, for his extraordinary care and attendance upon the wife of Kdmund Rawood, over and above bis salary and bill." — tVork.Acct.

. Mayll. Overseers, Mr. Ibbotson and ISIr. Taylor.

. Providence society (benefit) established.

Rev. J. Wilkinson, vicar of Sheffield, preached his

Nov.^. first sermon in the parish church ; text, 2d verse of the 100 Psalm.

1755. The organ put up in St. Paul's church, by subscrip-

tion. Benj. Withers, churchwarden; Mr. Snetzler, of London, the maker.

. "It was opened with an excellent band of vocal and

AugA'd. instrumental music. The town M-as very gay and splendid, and shewed such unfeigned delight and satisfaction at this noble entertainment, that we are assured the inhabitants are resolved to ha\e the like annually, and will spare no necessary cost for that purpose " — Homfriiy' s Journal.

May&. Overseers, Mr. Robuck and Mr. Oborn.

. Number of houses in the township of Sheffield, 2667.

. The excessi\e rains raised the water to such a degree

Aiig.5. that three wooden bridges were forced down by the rapidity of the stream, and although it was market- day (Tuesday) fev' people could pass the river with safety. — Homfray's Jour.

. Sheffield post office: — " As his Majesty's post master- general has thought proper to make an alteration in the several stages, for the more speedy convey-

SHEFFIELD LOCAI. REGISTEK. 4,

ITS.")— 58,

ing of lettt^rs, it mav not be amiss to give our read- ers an account ho\v they go out and return from the North ; sets out on Wednesday morning at nine o'clock, and returns on Friday at noon ; goes out Friday evening at nine, and returns on Sunday at noon ; goes out on Sunday at nine, and returns on Tuesday at 1:3. All letters for London by ^vay of Chesterfield, go oitt on Monday at three at noon, on Wednesday at noon, and on Saturday at tive evening." — Homfrnif h Journnl.

1755. Prices of grain in the town market : — Wheat 23s. to to 2.5s. per quarter, Barley 12s. to 14s. 8d., Oats lis. to 13s., Rye I7s. to ijs. (id., Beans IGs., Peas 14s. to 18s., tares 18s. to Ills., pale malt IJs. to 19s , brown Itis. to 17s.

'. The Sheffield Weekly Register, or Boncaster Flving

Oct.29i. Post, (Revil Homfray"s,) printed at Doncaster>

Dec. 9. Number of paupers in the workhouse, 74.

I75G. The first public brewery, near the gi-ammar s<4iool, (Townhead-cross,) erected by Mr. .lohn Taylor.

July 17- Friendly benefit society established.

Aug. 10. Admiral Byng burned in effigy by the mob.

-. Revil Homfray advertised that he had purchased the

Aug.\2. materials for printing, and stock of the widow of the late Mr. Lister, and intended to continue print- ing and publishing the Sheffield Weekly .louriial every Tuesday as usual.

Aug. 24. Disturbances by the rioters in tlio town.

1757. The cricket players supported by the town trustees: —

*' Pd. cricket players on Shrove Tuesday to enter- tain the populace, and prevent the infamous pruc: tice of throwing at cocks, 14s. 6d.'" — A. C. B. April 6. Decease of Mr. Richard Smith, bookseller, n<jed 52.

" At thirteen years I went to sea To try my fortune there. At twenty-three I taught to dance. At thirty-five laid dancing down To be a bookseller in this town, Where I continued without strife, 'Till death deprived me of my life."

Jii-Krip. on stone X. .tide pa,: cli.

-. Overseers, Mr. Parker and Mr. Greaves.

1758. Jan. 25. Careful society (benefit) established.

48 SHKI'KIEI.D I.OOAI, REGISTKR.

1758—61.

1758. Rlr. W. Bower at the Nortli end of the town erected

a silk mill. . The lead works at the South end of the town first

established.

. Overseers, JMr. Didsbury and Air. Birks,

. Upper chapel : — Decease of the Rev. Thomas Haynes,

Dec. 3. and succession of Mr. Dickenson and Mr. Joseph

Evans, as joint pastors of the congregation.

1759. Paid to chargis to Justice with assessment book Is., Fob.l. to horse hire 2s. Gd., book signing 2s., summons

Is., to Mr. Wood, clerk, for two examinations Is., to one warrant Is., taylor's wages one week 3s., a letter from York 3d., to William Roberts' funeral Is. 6d., to bread for same Is. tkl., for bleeding a child with horse leeches 2d., for the books carrying to church 4d. — IFork. Jcct.

Feb. 12. Young men's sick society established.

. Green Forester benefit society established.

. Ordered by the overseers that the workhouse be iin-

JuneG. proved and enlarged, and a school room built.

. The lower iron works established by Dr. Roebuck, a

native of Sheffield.

I7t)0. Overseers, Mr. John Abbott, James Conyon, Wm. Birks, Thos. Moor.

. Chapel in Scotland-street built by Mr. Bryant, a

minister ordained by a bishop of the Greek church.

. The first stage coach from Sheffield to London set up

by Mr. Samuel Glanville, at the Angel Tnn,

. Broomhall ; — the modern part built by the Rev. James

Wilkinson, vicar, who resided in this hall of his maternal ancestors. It was here that in his charac- ter of magistrate he was accustomed to administer justice with prudence and equity.

. Proclamation in the town of the accession of his Ma-

A^ov.2. jesty George III.

I7GI. The Lady's bridge widened, and the alms houses near it removed.

. Mr. Cawthorn, the first Sheffield poet, killed by a fall

-^yj/vV 15. from his horse. "The acquired knowledge of Cawthorn is allowed to have been considerable, but his literary talents, it is said, bore but an in- significant proportion to his moral excellence." — Cainbridge Review, Oct. 1824

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1761-67.

1761. Number of paupers maintained in the workhouse, 111. July 11. Tradesman's benefit society established.

. Impro\'ement in the manufacture of silver plated ar- ticles ;-— " Mr. Joseph Hancock commenced the manufacture of articles of silver plated on copper, and applied it to a number of articles hitherto made only of wrought silver."

. Improvement in the manufacture of fine cutlery ; —

" Mr. Robert Hinchcliffe produced the first scissors which Avere hard polished."

1762. The assembly rooms, in Norfolk-street, built. . Theatre added.

1763. The hospital (Shrewsbury) pensioners' allowance ad-

vanced to 3s. 6d. per Aveek.

. Overseers of the poor, Jno, Turner, Jno. Webster,

AprilW. Jno. How, and Thos. Wilkinson.

1761. The Quakers' (friends) meeting house, in the Harts- head, rebuilt.

1765. Refining of metals ; — the business first established by

Mr. John Read. . Mr. Holland, at the Angel, opened a public coiFee-

room. Feh.'iX. Braziers' benefit society established.

1766. Boys' charitj' school; Mrs. Elizabeth Parkin be-

queathed i500 for its benefit, and the further sum of ^500 in trust to the vicar, ministers, and church- wardens, the interest whereof should be distributed yearly to poor persons.

. — ^^ "- Mr. Thomas Hanbey bequeathed

.£3000, 3 per cent, stock to the cutlers' company, in trust for the benefit of the school.

. George Young bequeathed £50, the interest thereof

Aug.29>. to be given on Easter eve to ten poor housekeepers of the town, such as his executors " should ho- nestly judge to answer the true and righteous ends of piety and charity."

1767. Feb. 22. Young benefit society established. Feb.23. Half -boot benefit society established. April 21. Masons' benefit society established.

. The manor and castle of" Sheffield entailed by will on

JulyW. the Graj'stoke and Glossop branch of the Norfolk family, by Thomas the eighth E^rl, in the event of the failure of male issue from Edward the ninth

F

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J 7li7— 69.

Earl, and Philip his brother, and settlement re- newed and confirmed.

J 767. Roman catholics ; — return made to the Archbishop of York, that the number of pers-ons in the Roman catholic communion residing in Sheffield mzl$ 319.

. The old alms-houses at the foot of Lady's bridge taken

down.

1768. The passage from Bridgehouse foot to C'oulston-

crofts across the river by stepping stones about a yard high.

jVovA. Waterman's benefit society established.

. Flood in the river Sheaf, which carried down tiie

houses forming the North side of Talbot's hospital, and drowned five of the pensioners.

. State of buildings in the town ; — " There was not an

erection of any kind (except a garden-house now standing on jNlr. Dewsnap's premises in Arundel- street, 1830) on the South-east side of Norfolk- street, from upper or unitarian chapel, to Little Sheffield ; nor was there a house at all on Sheffield - moor, from Norfolk-street to Little Sheffield, ex- cept Mr. Kirkby's old house, and one at the bowling green, where the large house and Avare- , house now stands, in the middle of South-street, on the North-west side. — There was not a house from Norfolk-stj-eet to Pond lane, and very few in Pond-lane, except the tilt and a part of the lead- works." — J.H.'s Pap.

. " Where Paradise-square now

(18.30) is, I have seen a field of oats; the cross now in the Square formerly stood at the head of Snig- hill, facing the sign of the Castle. Barker-pool was a square sheet of water, with a very ancient wall round it; the water was for the pm-pose of letting off in case of a fire within the reach of its running." — J.H.'s Pap.

1769. The dome added to Saint Paul's church.

. The Sheaf or Shear bridge rebuilt by Edward, Duke

of Norfolk. " The passage into the town from the Park is over the Sheaf bridge, or as it was anciently, and is now commonly and properly called the Shear bridge. That is its name ; a name m hich jnay assist in unravelling the etymology of the name

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1769—71.

of Sheffield, the field not on the Sheaf but on the Shea, a word formed from the Saxon ea, water, to which the f has been corruptly added, borrowed from its adjunct field." — Corres. of Hunt.

1769. Overseers of the poor, Mr. Jackson, Mr. Homfray, May 28. Mr. Townsend, Mr. Stocks.

. Public meeting of the inhabitants of Sheffield, to

adopt means to obtain further subscriptions to the sum of £55Q then in hand, and to obtain a bill for building another church.

. Grand musical festival, Messiah, and Acis and Gala-

JimeTfi, tea, at the church (St. Paul's) and at the theatre, "by the same hands." Chapel wardens, Samuel Burke and George Ayre; conductors, Messrs, Cramer and Harrison ; instrumental performers, 98; vocal ditto, \60.— OngPap.

1770. The Sheffield Public Advertiser ; — weekly newspaper May2. first published by William Ward.

. The hospital ; — Edward, Duke of Norfolk, endowed

the Shrewsbury hospital with the sum of jEIOOO, to repaii the damage done by the flood, (1768,) and to erect a larger and moi-e commodious chapel.

. The first banking establishment opened by Mr. Roe-

Augt.2%. buck ; he built the bank in Church-laiie, now oc- cupied by Messrs. Walkers and Stanley.

. Invention of steel ; — " the person who has the honour

of this ingenious effort, (reducing bar steel to a fluid state, for the purpose of improving its quality,) was named Huntsman ; he met with great success, and for a considerable time was the only person famed for its manufacture." — Hist. Iron Trade, North. Star. 1771- Anniversary of the Cutlers' feast; — master, William Oct. 3. Trickett; guests present, Dukes of Norfolk, De- vonshire, and Leeds, iMarquis of Rockingham, Earl of Holdei-.iess, Earl of Scarborough, Lords George and John Cavendish, Earls of Effingham, Bute, and Stafford, the Hon. John Manners, Lord John Murray, and Sir George Saville. " The cutlers' feast was observed as a great holiday, the bells were kept constantly ringing during the three days it lasted, booths were erected in the church-yard, High-street, and Church-street, for the sale of

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1771—73.

fruit, spices, &c., and all business was generally suspended." — Sheffield Courant.

1771. The town library commenced by forty-nine subscri-

bers, who paid one guinea each; first president, the Rev. John Dickinson.

. The painting of the Last Supper, done by Nathaniel

Tucker, put up over the communion table in the church.

1772. Decease of Thos. Short, M. D.— " He was the author Nov, 28. of various medicinal, political, and scientific works.

Before the time of Dr. Short, there had practised at Sheffield, Dr. Morton, Dr. Waterhouse, Dr. Lee, and Dr. Pearson ; about the decline of Dr. Short's practice, Dr. James, the inventor of the fever powder, settled in Shefiield; Dr. Buchan also practised here, and duiing his residence composed that popular book his ' Domestic Me- dicine.' "

. Town library; president, Rev^ Ed. Goodwin.

. NorfoJk-street (about the top of Howard-street) wasr

lowered more than a yard, and the church-yard was raised with the earth from the street, chiefly at the East end and South side. On the Sunday before the digging began, the minister ga^e notice that all persons who had friends or relatives buried in the church-yard, should mark the spot with a stick, and on Alonday morning the place was co- vered with long rods stuck on the graves. — J, H.'s Papers.

1773. July 15. Benevolent society of tradesmen (benefit)

established.

. Town library ; president. Rev. John Evans.

. St. Peter's or Trinity church ; — the chimes put up by

Mr. Whitehurst, of Derby.

. HoUis's hospital ; — enlarged by further endowments

from different members of the far.ily of the founder.

. Assay office, for the test and marking articles of plate

Sept. 20. manufactured in Sheffield, first opened.

. The assembly rooms ; — the stone columns added to

the front of the building. — H. P.

-, The theatre (the present, 1825) built adjoining the as- sembly rooms, on the site of the old one.

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1774—75.

1774. Nether chapel ; — decease of Rev. John Pye, and sue

cession of Rev. John Harmar as minister.

. Coalpit-lane chapel; — Mr. Edward Bennett, sugar

baker, (at his own expense,) with a number of se- ceders from the nether chapel, opened for religious service.

. Town library; — president, Rev^ John Dickinson.

. A great riot in the town, occasioned by a rise in

the price of coals, by Mr. Furness, agent to the Duke of Norfolk. The coal stage and wooden railway (two miles long, from the high part of the Park, the expense of laying down which was the cause of the advance) burnt — a man of the name of Shaw, struck by a constable, died afterwards. — The mob afterwards paraded the town, and in Far- gate were met by a party of soldiers, who fired over them. — H. P.

. The premises on" Sheffield-moor (occupied by Mr.

Abraham as a school, 1829) built by Mr. Schofield, schoolmaster.

. Foundation stone laid of the chapel of the Duke of

Sept.2'i:. Norfolk's hospital, on the eastern side the river Sheaf.

1775. Decease of the Rev. H. Downes, M. A., curate of St. July\. Paul's.

. Succeeded by the Rev. Thos. Radford, B. A.

. Town library; — president. Rev. Ed. Goodwin.

. The Wicker ; — the old sembly house standing, and

kept by — Hill, as a public house ; there were no houses beyond, excepting Mr. Smelter's, between that and the occupation road, then a foot-path, and the ground open to Tomcross-lane ; there was here a large pasture, kept by — Handley, of Old- carr, who took in a great many cows ; hither the lasses came in great numbers every night to milk them.— G^. F,

. Quantity of wrought plate manufactured in the town,

and assayed at the public office, during the past year, 3070 lbs. 10 oz. 9 dwts.

. The hostilities which took place in British America,

created much alarm in the town, particularly amongst the several merchants and factors who f2

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1775-77.

during- the last fifteen years had opened a trade to

Philadelphia, Boston, and other places. 1775. Grammar school; — £805 raised by subscription for

the reparation and benefit of the grammar school.

" The gloomy entrance with its double door, The scooped threshold and the deep-worn floor. The low ranged forms to glossy smoothness wore. With many a name oft track'd and mangled there ; Tlie high raised wall, that half shut out the day. And fixed attention while it bounded play ; The piteous case disastrous to disclose. There oft I've seen the little lingerers pause. With artful head the truant tale contrive, To Chadwick's frown all tremblingly alive."

Rev. Hi. Inchbald.

. Coroner of the district, (wapentake of Straflforth and

Tickhill) ; — " On Wednesday se'nnight, came on at the castle of York, the election of two coroners at large for this county, (in room of IVIr. Thomas Bower, of Selbj', and Mr. Gilbert Dixon, of this town, (Sheffield,) who had resigned on account of his ill state of health,) when Mr. Henry Bacon, of Selby, and Mr. William Cooke, of Tinsley, near this place, were chosen without opposition. — ff^ardi's She/. Pub. Advertiser, Jan. 6.

. Town library; — president. Rev. Jos. Evans.

, The American war Mas the subject of complaint

amongst masters and workmen — many of the latter, notwithstanding they were unemployed, were paid their weekly wages, in the hope that the Ministry would conclude a peace with the United States. — Several masters engaged in the plated manufacture advanced more than £100 to individual workmen, —R. L.

1777. Vestry and burgesses room in St. Peter's church, made.

. The chapel of the Duke of Norfolk's hospital finished.

Sept.l'i^. Earthquake felt in the town.

. Edward, seventh Duke of Norfolk, and Lord of the

Sept.2(i. Manor of Sheffield, died at the age of 91,

. succeeded (in virtue of settlement made

by Thomas, and confirmed by Edward, Dukes of Norfolk,) by Charles Edward of Grevstoke, the younger, Earl of Surrey.

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1777-79.

1777. Town library; president, Rev, John Dickinson.

1778. Evening service first commenced in the parish church, Dec. 27. and the assistant ministers who officiated, remune- rated by public subscriptions.

. The town library; (1771) president, Rev. John

Dickinson. — First listof subscribers or proprietors to the Sheffield library ; — William Berks, Jno. Booth, Miss Broadbent, Mr. Brooks, Rev. J. Dickinson, Miss E. Dickinson, Rev. Mr. Downes, Mrs. Elliott, Joseph Epworth, Rev, Mr. Evans, Thos Eyre, James Fenton, Jacob Gehrwin, Rev. E, Goodwin, George Greaves, Rev, Mr, Hall, Miss Hare, Wm, Harrison, John Hawksley, Benj. Hen- frey, John Heppenstall, Thomas Holy, Samuel Kii-kby, Richard Mangnall, John Parker, Wm, Pearson, Rev. Mr, Radford, Thomas Rawson, John Rawson, Jacob Roberts, John Roebuck, Joseph Roberts, Benj. Roebuck, William Booth, John Rutherford. James Shemeld, Samuel Shore, John Shore, INIiss S, Shore, Mark Skelton, ■Wm, Staniforth, Samuel Staniforth, John Stani- forth, T. R, Corbett, M,D. Henry Tudor, James Turner, William Ward, James Wheat, Francis Wheelhouse, Rev. Mr. Wilkinson, Joseph Wilson, George Woodhead ; admision money two guineas.

. Librarian, Esther Caterer, her salary

10 guineas.

. Mr. Roebuck's bank (the first established) failed.

, Joseph and Thomas Broadbent opened a bank in

the Hartshead, (the house occupied by Mr. Cope- land, solicitor, 1825.)

1779' Mr. John Kirkby bequeathed in trust to the Rev.

Jiily'iX. John Dickinson, and the Rev, Joseph Evans, minis- ters of the upper chapel, Samuel Shore, of Meers brook, Esq, and Joseph Roberts, merchant, the sum of <£400, directing them to pay the income thence arising to two poor widows, in such pro- portions as they should think proper,

. £50 collected in the parish church, for the benefit of

Sept 27. the society for the propagation of the gospel.

, Town library; president. Rev, W, Downes.

\ The Rein Deer, top of Waingate (hotel, 182G) ; Mr.

Godfrey Fox purchased of Mr. Barlow the old

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1780—82.

public Louse and blacksmith's shop, and on the ground whereon they stood, built the Rein Deer Tavern. 1/80. Jff?2. Town library; president, J. R. Stuart, M. D.

. The bank kept by Messrs. Broadbent, failed. " It was

said at the time, that if so much money had not been spent in law that they could have paid 30s. in the pound." — Hutchinson'' s Pap.

, The Pond-lane brewery — the establishment began by

INIessrs. Rawson, Wheat, Eyre, and Browne.

, Lee-croft chapel— built by a society of Independent

Methodists, under the ministry of ]Mr. Povah. Sept. 21. Friendly and united benefit society first established. . Garden-street chapel— erected by the Rev. Mr. Bris- tol, who presided over a small congregation of Independent Methodists. .hiile^O. Norfolk-street Wesleyan Methodist chapel first

opened. 1781. Jan. Town library ; president, Mr. John Rutherford. June. The races this year were the last of the Sheffield races; the course was held on Crookes-moor, and the house now (1829,) occupied by Mr. Middleton, was the grand stand. — H. P.

. The Nursery-house, (White-rails)— the gardens and

Nursery grounds open and resorted to by the public.

. The Duke of Norfolk, the vicar, and many principal

gentleman of the town entertained at the Nursery- house-the dinner, &c. brought by servants from the Rein Deer, (hotel 1825,) kept byJNIr. Godfrey Fox.

3(^. Quantity of wrought plate manufactured in the town,

and assayed at the public office, during the past year, 2569 lbs. 11 oz. 5 dwts. Nov. 4^ IvTumber of paupers maintained in the poorhoose,

156. 1782. Jan. Number of paupers maintained in the poorhouse, 146.

. Supplv of water. — Earl of Surrey, Lord of the Manor,

granted to ]\Ir. Joseph JMatthewman, and three others, at an uncertain annual rent, varying ac- cording to their success, at a lease for 99 years, of the powers and privileges granted to Messrs.

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1782—83.

Matthewman and Battie, in 17^2, for uncertain periods, to enable them better to supply the town with water.

1782. Population of township of Brightside Bierlow, 2186. Jan. 10. Mr. Thomas Hanbey bequeathed to the cutlers'com-

pany, payable after the decease of his wife, £8000, 3 per cent, stock, in trust to employ the proceeds of £3000 in the education and maintenance of child- ren in the boys' charity school, and the proceeds of the remaining £5000 for the benefit of poor house- keepers, each to receive twenty shillings in money, a black hat, and a blue coat.

. Town library ; president, Rev. Benjamin Naylor.

March. Frank Fearn gibbeted on Loxley-edge, for the murder of Nathan Andrews, a respectable watch- maker, in High street. — H. P.

. The house of Thomas Gates, publican, in the Harts- head, burnt, and with it his wife and servant girl. —H. P.

Aug. 9. Royal Union benefit society first established.

Sept. 6. Rodney club benefit society first established.

1783. Jan. Number of paupers maintained in the poorhouse,

163.

. Town library ; president. Rev. Thomas Radford.

. The Tontine Inn commenced by a number of sub- scribers of £100 each, who engage to be governed by certain rules to be hereafter propounded — a piece of ground whereon stands the Castle-barn, taken on lease from the Duke of Norfolk, for 99 yeais, by the Rev. J. Wilkinson, for the benefit of the subscribers.

March'i. Decease of John Wilson, Esquire, of Broomhead, aged 63. " A gentleman to whom we are indebted for the preservation of so much documentary mat- ter, which but for his care, it is too probable, would have been entirely lost; leaving this district (Hallamshire,) destitute "of that evidence, by which alone the character of authenticity can be given to the history of many of its institutions, and the account of many of its principal inhabitants.

April. Parish accounts for the past years ; overseers, W. Hoyland, Gilbert Tinker, James Elliott, and Josh. Kay; amount of rates collected £3557. Os. 3id.;

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1783—85.

amount paid for the relief of the poor, .£3224. 5s. ; county rate, £2'J. 16s. lid.

1783. Queen-street chapel.— The town burgesses grant to Jutie20. Thomas V'ennor and John Read, of Sheffield, "a

lease of a piece of ground near a new street, to be called Fig-street or Queen-street, for the term of 99 years, at a rent of £5. 2s. per annum," for the purpose of erecting a chapel thereon. Sept. 4. Young Royal benefit society first established.

1784. Number of paupers maintained in tlie poorhouse, Jan. 145.

. Town library ; president. Rev Jos. Evans.

. The old shambles taken down.

. A new set of chimes set up in the parish church.

. Improvement in the market ; the commissioners under

the new market act, widened and improved the streets, in the neighbourhood of the market, and removed the cattle market from the Bull-stake (then called the Haymarket,) to the Wicker.

. Queen-sti-eet ; — the first house built (Mr. Houns-

field's, 1825,) by Messrs. Rainer and Turner, — the ground was covered with trees, and was called U'ade's orchard-

^pril. Parish account for the past year; overseers, Thomas Rodger, Robert Bailey, Isaac Barnes, I3enjamin Wethers; amount of rates collected j;3543. 6s. lljd. ; amount paid for relief of the poor, .£3223. 9s. 9d. ; county rate, ^£55. 13s. 8d.

July 15. The news came that peace with the American United States had been proclaimed at the Royal Ex- change, London, and general satisfaction expressed thereon.

1785. Number of persons maintained in the poorhouse, Jan. 134.

. First establishment of Sunday-schools ; — " A lady of

the name of Loftus was the first patroness of these useful institutions. By her directions one was opened in West-street. Mr. David Hinchcliffe, scissor manufacturer, of the Nursery, was the fiist gratuitous teacher, which office he fulfilled for thirty years. "" — S. D.

— — . Town library; — president, Mr. John Hoole.

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1785.

I'785. Forges first erected in the neighbourhood for the ma- nufacture of shear or German steel. " The origin of the latter term must be traced to the fact of that article having been imported from Germany, so kite as forty years ago (1775) much of this kind of steel was brought over for the more valuable purposes. The first manufacture of it in England was estab- lished in Newcastle, and having been found very suitable for making shears, it -thence obtained the ■latter of the titles just mentioned." — Hist. Iron Trade, North. Star.

Feb. The large reservoir of Crooks-moor completed, occu- pying four acres of ground, and computed to con- tain 300,000 hogsheads.

-. Parish accounts for tlie past year ; overseers, Thos.

April' Warris, James Cam, Wm. \A'eldon, Geo. Bate- man ; amount collected in rates, £3500. Os. Dd..; amount paid for relief of the poor, i,'3l02. 3s. 7d. ; county rate, <£3(>. J 5s. Gd.

Man- The Church-lane made wider, l)y taking in a portion of the church-yard, and removing a certain num- ber of bodies and coffins.

Sfpt. 2^. The Tontine inn being finished, a general nioet- inc: of the suljscribers took place, when articles of agreement were entered into, tliat each subscriber of £100 should by himself or nominee participate in the benefits and rents thereof, in the way of a Tontine, tintil the last or fortunate nominee only shall be living, who (his or her executors or assigns) shall become entitled to all benefits and advantages arising from the said Inn. Original subscribers — Earl of Surrey 4 (shares £100 each), Henry Ho- ward, Esq. 2, Michael .Tones 2, Vincent Eyre 2, Rev. .John Stacey 1, Henry Tudor 1, William Brightmore I, .Fos. Matthewman 1, M. Guiining 1, John Kenyon 1, Benj: Roebuck 1, Joseph Mitchell 1, Thomas Boulsover 1, Anthony Thomp- son 1, John Read 1, John \A'inter 1, Kenyon Par- ker 2, John Carr I, Gamaliel Milner 1, Rev. .1, Moorwood 1, Samuel Broomhead 1, Joseph Clav 1, George Townsend 1, Benj. Broomhead 1, Joseph Broomhead 1, Jonathan Watkinson 1, James 'Wheat 1, John Sharrow 1, George Greaves 1,

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1785—86.

Thomas Rawson 1, Joseph Ibbotson 1, George Brittain 1, Rev. J. Wilkinson 1, Samuel Phipps 1 Benj. B. Thompsons, Robt. Athorpe ],John Parker 2, John Froggatt 1, Joseph Hawksley 1.— First landlord, INIr. James Watson. 1785 Supply of water;— a public meeting, to consider Nov's. the report of Mr. William Jessop, engineer, of Newark, upon " the possibility ot equalising the supply of water to the various works erected on the Sheffield rivers, when it was resolved that the re- port aiforded sufficient grounds for prosecuting further enquiries.'' . , . , ,

1786. Jan. Number of paupers maintained in tlie poorhouse, 156

Population of the township of Brightside Bierlow,

2741.

Town library; president, John Duncan, M. D.

' gt. James's church — act of parliament obtained, enabl-

ing the vicar to set a part a portion of the vicarage estate, for the purpose of erecting another church or chapel of ease.

, Benefit societies,— 52 benefit or sick societies existed

in the town, out of the contributions of which the sura of £.3670 15s. 71d. was distributed to sick members. Feb Steam engine grinding wheel, first erected by INlessrs. Proctor, on the east side of the Sheaf, about 200 vards south of the bridge.

" Blush venal genius of those outraged groves,

iVnd thy apostate head with thy soil'd wing.

Veil ! who hast tlius thy beauteous charge resigned

To habitants illsuited ; hast allow'd

Their rattling forges and their hammers din.

And hoarse rude throats, to fright the gentle train,

Dryads and fair hair'd naiades ;— the song

Once loud as sweet of the wild woodland choir

To silence ;— disenchant the spell,

And to a gloomy Erebus transform

The destined rival of Tempean vales."— Wi^.? Setcai-d.

■hji-il. Parish accounts for the past year ;— overseers, Wm. Nicholson, John Fisher, Edward Cooper, JBarnet Hansod ; amount of rates collected, £3784. 7s. Jd. ; amount paid for the relief of the poor, .€3684. 3s. Id.; coiintv rate, £44. 2s. 4d.

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1786—88.

1786. The new shambles ; — Vincent Eyre, Esq. principal Aug. 31. agent to the Earl of Surrej', under certain powers

granted in an act passed in the session of 1784, opened the new shambles ; madea readier commu- nication between the upper and lower parts of the town, through New Market-street ; removed the market from the Bull-stake to a convenient place set apart in the Wicker; and also removed the slaughter-houses to a situation South of the Lady's bridge. " The Wicker is no longer a place of di- version ; the town has been allowed to extend itself over a great part of it, and the more open parts are occupied by the stalls in which the cattle are penned on the weekly market." — H. H.

1787. Number of paupers maintained in the poorhouse, Jan. 1 64.

. Post mistress, Miss Lister; ofl&ce in the Market

place.

. The London mail arrived at ten o'clock at night.

. One hundred and sixty-one persons carried on the

business of licensed victuallers in the town. — Gales and Robinson's Direct.

. Town library; — president, Mr. J. Henfrey.

. The number of persons, or firms of one or more per- sons, engaged in the manufacture of Shetiield wares within the township, 590 ; the same in the neighbouring villages, 230. — Gales and Martin's Direct.

. Attercliffe school built on the public green, (enclosed

I8I7.)

April. Parish accounts for the past year ; — overseers, John Lindley, Martin Gillott, John Bagnall, Richard Creswick; amount of rates collected, .£3926. 4s. 4d.; amount paid for relief of the poor, ^3894. 4s. 9d. ; county rate, .£31. 12s. 7d.

Nov. 11. Decease of Henry Howard, Esq., aged 74. "Mr. Howard acted as agent to the then Duke of Nor- folk, and had his offices in the large house in Far- gate," (father of the present Duke of Norfolk, 1830.)

1788. Nun)ber of paupers maintained in the poorhouse, Jan. 169.

. Revolution benefit society first established.

. Town library; — president, Mr. H. Cheney.

t;2 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

J 788— 89.

1788. Number of houses in the township of Sheffield, 6161.

. Howard-street chapel built.

St. James's church erected on part of the Vicarage- croft, at the cost of about .£3000, raised in shares of £50 each, entitling the holders to a pew in the church, as a freehold inheritance.

. Rev. Thomas Radford, M.A. appointed minister.

Jpril. Parish accounts for the past year ;— overseers, James Smith, James AVard, Sara. Nicholson, Dennis Sykes ; amount of rates collected, £4200. 16s. 2d. ; amount paid for relief of the poor, £4096. Os. 8d. ; county rate, £18. Os. 5d. jitiff. 5. John Howard, Esq., the philanthropist, visited and

examined the prisons in Sheffield. Sept. 13. Decease of Mr. Thomas Bolsover, at Whiteley

wood, aged 84. Nov. 5. The centenary of the revolution celebrated at \\ hit- tington and "the neighbourhood, at which great numbers of persons attended from Sheffield. DeclS. The neAv chapel at Ecclesall first opened for Divine

service. 1789. Number of paupers maintained in the poorhouse, Jan.' 164. . . ....

. Town library ;— admission money raised to two gui- neas and a half; president. Rev. H.Tudor.

The new Attercliffe or wash-ford bridge erected ot

stone, by INIr. George Blagden, of Attercliffe.— " There was formerly an ancient very narrow bridge of many arches — this bridge becoming unsafe, ano- ther of one arch was built, (the old one yet stand- ing). This in a few yeaas discovered dangerous signs of falling, and the third (Blagden's) was erected. All these stood together for years, until the last built proving to be substantial, the other two were taken down. On the East bank of the river may now be seen where they stood." — J.H.'s Pap., 1829.

The chapel at Whiteley wood ;— Mrs. Huttou (daugli-

ter of Mr. Thomas Bolsover) and Mr. Mitchell, erected the chapel for the convenience of persons employed on the works on the Porter. Mar. 18. General rejoicings and public illumination of the

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1799—90.

town, in honour of the recovery of his Majesty-, George III.

April. Parish accounts for the past year ; — overseers, Richd. Morton, Peter Cadman, Jos, Shemel, Ant. Huf- ton ; amount of rates collected, £4563. 9s. 8d. ; amount paid for relief of the poor, £4483. 14s. 7d. ; county rate, <£77- 8s. 5d.

June 17. Mrs. Siddons first appeared at the Sheffield theatre.

20. Matthew Wadsworth (from Dronfield) and his

horse killed by lightning on Sheffield-moor.

— —30. Public meeting; — committee appointed to cho<)se a suitable situation, plan, &c. for a new workhouse.

Aug. 5. St. James's church consecrated by William, Arch- bishop of York.

. The new chapel at Ecclesall consecrated by William,

Archbishop of York. " The site chosen for it was a little removed from the site of the old chapel, on a spot called Carter-knoll. A brief for the erec- tion of this chapel was certified at Doncaster ses- sions, (21st Jan., 1784,) estimatedexpense, <£1553.''

Dec. Rev. Thomas Radford resigned the curacy of St. Paul's church, on being- appointed curate of St. James's. >

. Succeeded by the Rev. Alexander Mackenzie, M.A.

1790. Number of Paupers maintained in the poorhouse,

Jan. 173.

. Town library ; — president. Rev. G. Smith.

Howard-street chapel — built chiefly by money be- queathed by Mr. Edward Bennett, founder of Coal- pit-lane chapel, (I774,) opened by the congregation of the latter.

. Scotland-street chapel, built by Bryant, occupied by

those who had seceded from the body of the Wes- leyan Methodists, on points of internal discipline. Alexander Kilham sometime minister.

5. Decease of Mr. Samuel Froggatt, optician, " the first

person who introduced the business of optician in the town.'' — Slifff. Reg.

Feb.\2. Punishments; — "nine men put in the stocks for tippling in a public house during Divine service, and two boys made to do penance in the church for playing at trip during Divine service, by standing in the midst of the church with their trip .'■ticks * erect.'" — Shi'ff. Reg.

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1790.

Feb.26. Rev. Dr. Coke, by advertisement, "returns thanks to the very generous persons of the town of Shef- field, who have contributed towards the support of the missions which have been instituted in the West Indies, for the instruction of the poor ne- g^-oes in the principles of the Christian religion." — Shef. Reg,

Mar.Q. Decease of Mr. William Cooke, coroner of the district.

12. Petition from certain freemen of the company of

cutlers presented to Parliament, complaining that several sets of the public officers of the company appoint their own successors.

31. Public meeting ; resolved to accept certain propo-

posals made by the Northumberland fishery society to supply the town with fish ; subscribed £1580 to support the scheme.

April- Parish accounts for the past year ; — overseers, Simon A. Younge, Wm. Pearson, Rich. Yeomans, Jos, Hawksley; amount of rates collected, .£4289.'^s.4d.; amount paid for relief of the poor, £4130. IJs. ; county rate, -£53. lis. 2d.

1. Meeting of the gentlemen, clergy, merchants, and

principal inhabitants ; resolred that the mode of electing the officers of the cutlers' company by the statute of the 21st James I. is the best for the order of the town and the interest of the trade.

— — 5. A sacred oratorio, " the Resurrection," set to mu- sic by Mr. John Hall, Sheffield Park, performed at the hospital chapel.

— — . Coach fares by Watson, from the Tontine; to York lis. and 7s., Leeds 5s. and Ss., Birmingham 8s. and 6s.

16. Mr. Thos. Sambourne, attorney, of Sheffield, ap- pointed depute' clerk of the peace. . John Steven* and Thos. Lastley, button makers, ex- ecuted at York, for robbing John Wharton, on the bridge, on the 30th November, 1789. -■ 22. The race stand, on Crooks-moor, taken down and the produce divided amongst the original subcri- bcrs to its erection.

MayT.lihQ sunday-Bchools — 750 children taught in them.

June. The old part of the South side of the parish church

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1790.

taken doAvri atid rebuilt, uuitonn with tlie ne^v part.

June. Price of wrought and cast iron goods, delivered by Booth, Birks, & Co., Sheffield Park furnace ; steam-engine cylinders bored i"21, pump barrels bored .£18, common pipes £l(\, wrought iron boil- ers £32, common goods cast o£.12, forge hammers and anvils 10 gui. per ton.

18. William Wilberforce and Henry Duncome, Esqs.

entertained at the Tontine, on the occasion of of- fering themselves candidates for the representation of the county.

■ 23. Price of shares by public auction ; a share in the

Dun navigation .£1275, a share in the theatre and assembly rooms j6130, and a life intei'est in the Tontirie inn .£70.

30. Quantity of wrought plate manufactured in the

town and assayed at the public office during the past year, 3079 lbs. 4 oz. 1 dwt.

Juli/ 1. Decease of Mr. George Townsend, steward to the Duke of Norfolk.

8. Prince of Wales benefit society first established.

Aitff, 7. Meeting of the manufacturers of scissors ; — resolved to call a meeting of the masters of every trade, to oppose the unlawful combination of the scissor grindeis, and the combinations of all other work- men.

. Number of master scissor smiths, .35.

Sept. 2. Anniversary of the cutlers' feast ; — master cutler, Mr. Joseph Ward ; guests present, Bohun Shore and John Bagshawe, Esqs., Rev. T. Wilkinson, and magistrates of the district.

9. General meeting of the merchants and manufactu- rers ; resolved that a committee be appointed and subscription entered into, to prosecute the scissor grinders and other workmen who have entered into unlawful combinations to raise the price of labour,

21. Messrs. Luke Palfreyman, Benj. Withers, Wn).

Trickett, and Saml. Senior appointed surveyors of highways.

24. Admiral Rodney presented his portrait to the mem- bers of the Rodney club.

OcL The porch of the parish church taken away.

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1790—91.

Nov. 22. Theatre opened by Mr. Whitock ; principal per- formers, Messrs. Cooke, S. Kemble, Stanley, Nor- man, Morton, Abbott, Betterton, Hill; Mrs. S. Kemble, Mr. Whittock, Mrs. Hill.

I)ec. 3. The winter feir held in the Wicker ; — cheese 38s. to 48s. per cwt.

10. Public meetings (adjourned); — resolved that the

ofter of the Duke of Norfolk to let land necessary for the erection of the new workhouse, at Id. per square yard, on lease for 800 years be accepted, and a committee appointed to raise the sum of .£5000 on credit of the poor rates, to erect the same.

16. Decease of Timothy Hollis, F. R. S. " Of this ex- cellent man it may be said, as of his cousin, the great Thos. Hollis, that he possessed 'the most amiable and excellent character, both in public and private life.' A spirit of munificence might be said to have been hereditary in him, being descended from ancestors who employed part of their great fortunes in promoting religion, found- ing establishment for the relief of decayed trades- men, or other useful charities, and the encourage- ihient of arts and sciences. The hospital in this town (HoUis's hospital) is indebted to his munifi- cence."— Sheff] Reg.

31. St. John (sick) society first formed.

1791. Number of persons maintained in the poorhouse,

Jan. 134.

. Town library; — admission money raised to three

guineas ; president, Rev. T. Younge.

Mar. 18. " Upon information before R. A. Athorpe, Esq. a tailor of this place M'as convicted in the penalty of forty shillings a dozen for setting covered buttons upon a gentleman's waistcoat, and the wearer in a like penalty, for appearing in the waistcoat so made." — Skeff. Reg.

jipril. Parish account for the past year; overseers, John Withers, Henry Hall, John Hawksly, John Raw- son ; amount of rates collected, X4982. 6s. lid.; amount paid for relief of the poor, £4529. Is. 9d. ; county rate, £87. 9s.

' 3. Scissorsmiths' benefit society first established.

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1791.

April 4. Theatre opened for a short season by Messrs. Bet- terton and Hamilton.

— -. The post office removed from the Bijarket- place to Castle-street, near the end of Castle-green ; mas- ter, Mr. James.

► 6. Public meeting, to assent or dissent to the draft of

a bill prepared for the erection of a new workhouse, borrowing money for the same, and other purposes, agreed upon at former meetings ; — resolved " that all further proceedings for the erection of a new workhouse be abandoned, and that the proposed bill be not passed into a law."

June 9. Bill for the better regulation of the company of cut- lers, providing " that the makers of knives, scissors, shears, sickles, razors, forks, and files, be incor- porated ; that aliens may exercise any of the trades by paying a fine of i;20 ; that non-freemen may be employed as strikers; that boys educated at the charity school be on the same footing as the sons of freemen; that twelve of the existing officers of the corporation should give way every year to twelve others, to be chosen out of twenty-four persons no- minated by the master manufacturers, who are to meet for the purpose of nominating them, on the first Monday in August in each year," passed into a law.

——24, Act of Parliament passed for the enclosure of the waste and common lands of Upper and Nether Hallam ; " this enclosure caused some commotions, but they soon subsided."

30. Society instituted at the house of Mr. Booth, the

coftee house, in Howard-street, for the improve- ment of mechanical knowledge.

July. Society for the preservation of marks (corporate), instituted at the Fountain, in Westbar.

. Daily post established to Buxton and Manchester.

— — 22. First case determined by the magistrates on a complaint of invasion of the right of mark ; penalty awarded, ^10.

——29. Detachment of light dragoons entered the town, in consequence of the application of the magistrates.

— — , The doors and windo^vs of the gaol, and the house

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1791—92.

of Mr. (Jodfrey Fox, destroyed i)y a mob, an J tlie prisoners liberated.

July. Broonihall, the residence of the vicar, the Rev. Mr, Wilkinson, attacked by the mob, the furniture and library damaged and burnt, and four ricks of hay- destroyed.

Awj. 2. Five men (Fiirness, Johnson, Froggatt, Bennett, and Ellis) committed to York, charged with being concerned in the riots.

!<f}tt. 1. Anniversary of the cutlers" feast ; master, Mr. Geo. Wood.

2. The festival of the mistress cutler.

. Bennett, convicted of setting lire to the premises of

the Rev. Mr. Wilkinson, at Broonihall, executed at York.

— : — Itl. Theatre opened by Mr. S. Kemble; principal per- formers, Messrs. Brown, Fox, Inchbald, Edwin ' Archer, jun.; Mrs. Kemble, Mrs. Whitock, Mrs. Hail, Missduest.

- — I'.']. Dr. Graham delivered a lecture at the Tontine, on the efficacy of earth bathing, and afterAvards exhi- bited himself and a female- patient, " buried up to the lips in earth, in the garden of Mr. Beets, at the Elephant."

Oft. 20. Girls" fharitv school ; trustees receive a donation of .£100 from John Sykes, Esq. of Hull.

-2."». tSpence Broughton, John Oxley, and Wm. Shaw,

examined at the Town-hall before N. Bond, Esq., on a charge of robbing the mail near Sheffield.

AV/c. 22. I)r; Younge chosen one of the church burgesses, and a governor of the grammar school, vice Mr. Jonathan Matthewman, deceased.

2q. Decease of Mr. Joseph Hancock, aged 80. " This

gentleman might justly be called "the founder of the plated business in Sheffield," as he was the first person Mho commenced a manufactory of plated uares. — Slirff. Rerj.

/><(•. Society formed under the name of" the association for constitutional information."

17!^'2. Number of paupers maintained in the pobrhouse,

.hm. 121.

. Towi' 11 bra i;y> president, Mr. B. Barnard. '

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1792.

Jan. 2. The Sheffield and Rotherham bank, of Samuel Walker, Vincent Eyre and William Stanley, first opened.

— — 3. The Court Baron of the Manor of Ecclesall Bier- low, for the recovery of debts under 40s. renewed (after lying many yeai-s dormnat,) by Earl Fitz- william, Lord of the Manor j steward, Counsellor Danser; business transacted at the Old Hermitage.

7- Mr. Rimington appointed law clerk tx) ihe cutlers'

company, vice Mr. Hoyle, resigned.

Feb. 9. The cotton mill belonging to Messrs. Wells, Heath- field, & Co., destroyed by fire. " This noble edifice was levelled with the ground, and nothing remain- ed but the gable ends."

12. Decease of Mr. Jno. Winter, an eminent manufac- turer of plated goods. He was one of the town regents, church burgess, trustee of the grammar school, and of the boys' charity school.

20. Public meeting, — resolved to present a petition to

Parliament for the abolition of the African slave trade.

27. General meetings of the societies for constitutional

information held at the Freemasons' Lodge, Foun- tain, Townhead-cross, and the Tyger, New-street.

Mar. 9. Decease of Mr. John Osguythorpe, proprietor of the Cricketers' publichouse, in Broad-lane. " This same Osguy (for that was the name he was generally called) a few years ago was thought to be the first cricket player in Eogland.^^ —Shejieid Meg.

19. Paid by the county, to defray the loss occasioned

by the riot in Sheffield, (July 29, 1791) ; to the Duke of Norfolk, £54. 5s. 8d. ; to Mr. Wheat, jei85. 14s. 5d. ; to the Rev. Mr. Wilkinson, (ex- clusive of a claim of £409. 1 Os. for hay destroyed) £190. 5s. Id.

April. Parish account for the past year ; overseers, S. Mar- shall, Samuel Morris, John Reed, Thos. Settles ; amount of rates collected, ^£4832. 13s. 9d. ; amount paid for the relief of the poor, ifc'4347. 4s. 2d. ; county rate, ^107. lis. Id,

14. Spence Broughton executed at York, for robbing

the Rotherham mail near Sheffield.

16. ■ — hung in chains on Attercliffe Common.

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I7i'2:

u'lprill'i. The general infirmary — the first meeting to pro- mote theestablishment of a Sheffield general infir- mary, held at the Town-hall, Rev. Jas. Wilkinson, the vicar in the chair; resolved, " that from the particular kind of manufactures carried on in Sheffield and its neighbourhood, an Infirmary near this place Mould be extremely advantageous," — the original subscribers appointed a committee ; the sum of ^£2867 collected at the meeting.

May 4. Disturbances in the streets between certain of the inhabitants of the town and the officers on duty — several persons wounded, and the Avindows of "the Tontine broken.

June 1. The constitutional society publish a declaration of their principles and objects.

11. Public meeting at the Town-hall, Dr. Browne in

the chair; the following motion proposed, — " That an humble address be presented to his Majesty, thanking him for his gracious and royal procla- mation against seditious writings and criminal cor- respondencies," which was negatived by a very great majorit)'. — Sheffield Reg.

June 13. Public meeting at the cutlers'-hall ; resoU'ed, " that an address be presented to his Majestj-, expressive of thanks for his late royal proclamation against seditious writings, and that the meeting do esteem it their duty to give the utmost efficacy in their power to the said proclamation." — SJieffield Reg.

July 4. First public meeting for the purpose of taking into consideration the bringing up the navigation from Tinsley to Sheffield ; committee appointed, and shares subscribed for to the amount of ^8450.

20. First conviction of five sickle smiths, in the penalty

of 40s. each, for working as journeymen without having first obtained their freedom of the company of cutlers.

27. The erection of a barracks for the accommodation

of 200 cavalry, commenced on a piece of ground beyond Shales-moor.

Aug. 29. Public meeting ; resolved, that a navigable cut or canal from the River Dun to Barnsley would be of great public utility ; committee appointed, and sub-

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1792-93.

scriptions entered into to carry the object into effect. Sept. G. Anniversary of the cutlers' feast; master, Mr. Hen- frey; guests present, the Earl of Effingham, Count Zenobio, &c.

10. Theatre opened by Mr. S. Kemble ; principal

performers, Messrs. Browne, Clarke, Edwin, Ross • IMrs. Kemble, Miss Ross, Mrs. Edwin, ^

21, (iirls' charity school;— trustees receive a bequest

of i;iOO from the executors of Mr. John Morton deceased. *

Oct. 28. Surveyor of hij^hways, Messrs. John Butcher, Thos. Colley, AVilliaDi Tyas, John Jervis, and William Staniforth ; expended during the last year .£627. 12s. 8d. A^ov. 4. First anniversarv in commemoration of the revolu- tion of 1688, held at the Tontine.

23. The success of the French revolutionary armies

in the Netherlands celebrated by five or six thou- sand people, who roasted an entire ox, and paraded the town with banners amidst the firing of can- non, &c. Nov. 27. The Wicker fair ; cheese, new 42s. ; old, 56s. per

cwt. ^

Dec. 6. Meeting at the Angel, to promote the intended canal from the town to Rotherham, attended bv the owners and occupiers of land, situate on its intend- ed course ;— the project abandoned.

10. Society for constitutional information enter into

subscriptions to defend printers and authors of M-orks, which in the opinion of counsel are not libelous and seditious.

31. Public meeting at the cutlers' hall; resolved, to

print and publish a declaration, expressive of inviolable attachment "to the excellent form of Government by King, Lords, and Commons, un- der which they (the subscribers) have the peculiar hapiness to live. 1793. /««. Number of paupers maintained in the poorhouse,

. Town library; president. Rev. John Downes.

' The first house on the site of Barker-pool built bv

Mrs. Potter. -^

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1793.

. Barker-pool destroyed ; — "th«> walled in pool, which

was destroyed about this time, seems to have been that made by Robert Rollinson, a mercer in Shef- field, who died in 1731, aged 91." — Hunter. . 'J'he hospital <Shrewsbury,) pensioners' allowance en- creased to five shillings per week.

. The first hackney coaches set up by Mr, J. Nelson.

18. Price of grain in the SheflBeld m"arket ; wheat, 5s.

lOd. ; barley, 4s. Gd. ; oats, 2s. 4d. ; rye, 4s. 2d. ; Beans, 4s. 6(1. per bushel. Fch, Thirty recruiting parties in the town, occupied in en- listing men for the ensuing war. Mar. 2. The second and last of the octagonal towers, form- ing part of the manor house in tlie Park, fell down during a storm in the night.

*' There was — remembrance dimly paint3 Its form— A lofty turret nodding to the storm ; Wrapt in a vest of ivy proud it stoo<l. As some gay wreek that had survived the flood ; There angry winds in furious skirmish met, Swept its green cloak and mouldering parapet,— Seem'd as with fingers rude to mock at crime And pluck'd the wizard beard of hoary time : The bat here claim'd hereditary right ; The owl its tenant scream'd, unscared at night : At last like age weigh'd down with years it fell. Nor left a vestige of its fate to tell."

Hollan<fi Sheffield Park.

11. A printed declaration, expressive of the attachment

of the town of Sheffield to the present constitution, printed by Mr. U''ard, and distributed at the ex- pense of the town trustees.

Jpril. Parish accounts for the past year; overseers, Geo. Woolhouse, J. Andrew, J. Atkin, J. Frith ; amount of rates collected, X'4709. Os. 8d. ; amount paid for the relief of the poor, 4)4234. 4s. 5d. ; county rate, ^'ItiG. IGs. lid.

8. Public meeting on the Castle-hill, Mr. Jos. Gales

in the chair; resolved that a reform in the repre- sentation of the people in Parliament is necessary for the peace and happiness of the country, and ihat a petition be presented to the House of Com- mons, praying for the thorough reform thereof.

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1793.

May The Sheffield petition for reform rejected by the 6. House of Commons, for containing disrespeetfiil expressions. June^. Tontine inn opened hy William Carnelly.

— 7- The last number of" the Sheffield Advertiser pub-

lished by Mr. Ward.

— 10. The first number of the Sheffield Courant published

by Mr. John Northall, New Market-street. Jnlyl. VnhWc subscription (^96. 8s.) for the distressed French clergy in England.

— 16. Mr. Peech, of the Angel, having been very suc-

cessful in getting in his harvest, treated his" mow- ers, &c. with a plentiful dinner, at his farm &t Car- bi-ook, and brought them to his house in coaches

drawn by four horses each, with bands of music.

The cavalcade proceeded to the Angel, where a cold collation was served to the company, and Mrs. Peech gave half a dozen very large bowls of cold posset.

Atig. Declaration of war ;— " The war (with France) gave such a check to the commerce of the town, as oc- casioned gloom and dismay to overspread every class of its population."— i/z«2ifer.

&;j. 4. Sheffield general infirmary; the first stone laid by Mr. SwalloAv, deputed by IMrs. Fell, of New Hall, (a donor of .£1000;) the" ceremony attended by all the public officers of the town, and upwards of 20,000 people.

— 5. Anniversary of the cutlers' feast; master, Mr.

\\ arris .

— 5. Cricket match between Sheffield and Derby players,

at South Wingfield ; won by the former, and nine wickets to go down.

— 12. Francis Sitwell, Esq. deceased, bequeathed .£500 to

the general infirmary.

— 16. Great rejoicings in the town, on the news of the tak-

ing of Toulon, by Lord Hood. Oct. The Sheffield Register (newspaper); Mr. J. Gales, 19. the proprietor, announced the sale of the previous week to be 1468 copies.

— 21. Repairs of the highways; expended during the last

year, £639. 13s. Id. ^

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J 793—94.

Nov. Meeting of the members of the constitutional society; 13. resolved that Mr. Matthew C. Brown be sent as a delegfate to the ensuing- convention of the friends of reform, to be held at Edinburgh.

[S. Committee formed and subscription entered into to

limit the expenses and charges of attorneys in the Courts Baron, "evils which have caused an im- mense increase in the poor rates, and brought dis- tress on many large families."

— 28. Theatre openei by IMr. Pero ; principal performers,

Messrs. Rlaxwell, Robertson, Dun, Bowles ; I\lrs.

Pero, Mrs. Sisson, Mrs. Bosville.

. AVinter fair ; price of cheese, 32s. to 40s. per cwt.

Bec.S. Decease of Mrs. Jane Bower, of Blind-lane, aged 98.

— 6. Nineteen funerals occurred at St. Peter's church.

— 16. Meeting on an open piece of ground in the Park, of

the friends of freedom and Parliamentary reform ; declaration drawn up in favour of reform, and in disapprobation of Government prosecutions for se- ditious writings and libels.

17^)4. Number of paupers maintained in the poorhouse,

Ja7i. 129.

The benevolent or "the strangers' friend," society

established by the society of Alethodists. ^- As we have opportunity let us do good to all men,"— GaW.

. Decease of John Hall, at the Duke of Norfolk's Hos- pital, " the old man who composed the oratories of the Redeemer, Resurrection, &c,, several times performed in the town for his benefit."

9. The new coffee house in George-street opened

with a splendid supper and ball.

12. Decease of John Parker, Esq. at Woodthorpe,

steward of the manor court ;of Sheffield. " In his ofl&cial capacity he so discharged his duty, that respect and reverence must ever accompany his name and memory— as a man, his life must draw after it the unfeigned regret of the good part of mankind."

. Buried Aaron Rodger, aged 101.— P, R.

Feb. Price of flour in the town ; best, 2s. Id-; seconds, 19. 2s.; thirds, Is. lid.

— 28. Public fast observed.

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1794.

Feb, Public meeting " of the friends of peace and reform," held in an open piece of ground in West-street ; resolution passed " declaring the abhorrence of the meeting for the present war carried on against France, the landing in England of Hessian troops without the consent of Parliament, &c." present 5000 people.

Mar. The new school house at Crookes erected by the inhabitants.

— 10. Mr. C. Brown, the delegate from the constitutional

society, arrested and held to bail at Edinburgh on the charge of sedition.

j4pril Parish accounts for the past year ; overseers, J. Lind- ley, J. Vickers, J. Bishop, R. L. Walker; amount paid for relief of the poor, ,£5649. 5s. 1 d. ; county rate, ,£42. Is. Id.

. The first volunteer corps of infantry raised, consist- ing of 590 men ; colonel, the Earl of Effingham.

— 7- Public meeting on the Castle-hill, Henry Yorke

chairman, resolved " to present an address to the King, on behalf of Muir, Palmer, Skirving, Mar- gorott, and Gerald, convicted of libels ;: to petition the King for the total abolition of slavery; and that no further petitions be presented to the Hous« of Commons on the subject of reform."

— 24. Acting constables of the town, Samuel Hall, Josh.

Hinchcliffe, and George Eyre.

. Mrs. Brown deceased, bequeathed to the girls' charity

school jC45; to the Sunday-school .£20; and the boys' school 12 guineas.

Tl/ff^l.Sale of the Sheffield register, 2025 copies. — Gales' s Sheffield Register.

. Proposals first published for raising a corps of Inde- pendent Sheffield Volunteers.

— 29. William Broomhead, secretary to the constitutional

society, William Camage, late secretary, and J. Moody, apprehended and conveyed to London under a military escort. June Several inhabitants of the town arrested and held to bail on charges of sedition.

— 19. R. A. Athorpe, Esq. of Dennington, accepted com-

mand of the Sheffield Volunteers.

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1794.

June The premises of Mr. .Tenkinson,in Paradise-square,

— 22. and stock, value £.500, destroyed by fire.

— 26. Mr. Joseph Gales, printer and publisher of the Shef-

fieldjiRegister, published an address in which, bid- ding farewell to the town and neighbourhood, he says " the suspension of the Habeas Corbus Act prevents him staying amongst his friends unless he would expose himself to the malice, enmity, and power of an unjust aristocracy,"

. The Sheffield Register (new'spaper,) discontinued after

publishing 369 weekly numbers.

.7i^/j/3. First number of the Sheffield Iris, published on Mr. Gales' late premises in the Hartshead, by James Montgomery and Co.

— 11. The new organ at St. James' church, built by Mr.

Donaldson, opened with a grand musical festival.

— 17. Decease of Dr. Roebuck, aged 76. "He was edu-

cated at the grammar school of the town, and was celebrated for his chemical and mechanical know- ledge."

— 30. Members of the constitutional society vote an address

of approbation and condolence to Mr. Joseph Gales.

Aug, Sheffield Independent Volunteers presented bv Josh. 18. Walker, Esq. in the name of Miss Benton, daugh-

ter to Lady Cope, with a set of colours.

Sep t. Anniversary of the cutlers' feast ; master, Benjamin Withers ; — guest present, Earl Fitzwilliam.

. First anniversary of laying the foundation stone of the

general infirmary.

— 22. Decease of Mrs. Sarah Tricket, of Hollis' hospital,

aged 97. Oc. 15. Grand jury (Sheffield Michaelmas Sessions,) returned a bill against Mr. James ]\Iontgomery, for printing and publishing a supposed libel, entitled "A patriotic song by a clergyman of Belfast."

— 20. Theatre opened by Messrs. Taylor and Robertson ;

principal performers, Messrs. IManlev, Hammerton, Sidney, Thorne, Mr. Taylor, Miss Robinson. Nov. Loyal Independent Volunteer sick club first esta-

10. blished. Dec. The secretary and members of the constitutional I. 5. society apprehended in May last, discharged on en-

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1794-95.

tering' into recognizance to give evidence against Mr. Henry Yorke. — — , Rlajor Athorpe appointed lieutenant colonel com- mander of the Sheffield Independent Volunteers.

— 26. Friends of reform dine together in the great room

in Watsons'-walk, to celebrate the acquittal of Mr. Thomas Hardy and others, and the liberation of five members of the Sheffield constitutonal society.

1795. Number of paupers maintained in the poorhouse,

Jmi. 144.

— 1. First anniversary of the benevolent society; report —

relieved during the past year, 444 poor and sick fa- milies, for the sum of £53. 3s. 6d.

. Town library; president. Rev. George Smith.

. The iron bridge from Bridgehouses to Coulston-

crofts put up.

. Female benefit society first established.

— 22. Trial of Mr. James JMontgomery, at the Doncaster

quarter sessions, for selling and publishing a cer- tain song, containing a libel "of and concerning the war, and his Majesty's conduct therein," sen- tence— fine .£20, and three months imprisonment.

— 29. Decease of Mrs. Fell, " who had arrived at an ad-

vanced age in the exercise of every virtue which can exalt humanity. She was accustomed to exer- tions of generosity which are rarely met with amongst the more affluenJ^ To promote the Shef- field infirmary, she gave £1000."

— 30. Public meeting ; " resolved that the inclemency of

the weather, the very high price of provisions, the obstructed state of trade, and the general want of empiojnnent, render necessary a subscription for the relief of the poor ;" subscriptions at the meet- ^ ing, £1000. Feb. Society of friends of literature vote an address to Mr. 11. James Montgomery; president Mr. J. Pye Smith, secretary James Horsfield. i>/rt?'.8. Decease of Aai'on Roger, of Pond-street, aged 101.

— 25. Churchwardens and overseers advertise a bountv of

fifteen to twenty guineas to each volunteer to'the body of 38 men, to be raised in the town for the sea service, pursuant to an act for raising a certain number of men in each county. h2

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1705.

u4priL Parish accounts for the past year; overseers, Jo>., Frith, Ralph Hodgkinson, John Smith, Jos. Wild- smith ; amount of rates collected, i;8231. Os. Id. ; amount paid for relief of the poor, .£7524. 16s. 8d. ; county rate, .£20. 4s. 2d.

May Mr. James Marshall, "inohedience to a verbal re- 14. quest made by his late sister, Mrs, Lydia Marshall, which operated on his mind with the same force as a written will," paid =£100 to the trustees of the general infirmary, and <£100 to the trustees of the girls' charity school.

June Independent Sheffield volunteers, and West-Riding 4. yeomanry cavalry, under the command of Colonel Athorpe and Capt. Newton, reviewed on Brinds- worth common by Lord Darlington.

— 18. Decease of Mrs. Eleanor Heaton, " the last surviving

sister of several maiden ladies, who during their lives were distinguished by unaffected piety, and the most benevolent dispositions towards the poor ; she bequeathed i!800 and the residue of her personal estate to the general infirmary, and .£100 each to the boys' and girls' charity schools." — Sheff. Iris.

— 29. Price of "wheat, &c. in Sheffield market, the load (3

bushels, 33 quarts each) 35s.; bread fiour, 3s.3d. per stone of 14 lbs. ; and oatmeal Is. 8d. per peck of 8 lbs.

. Public meeting, to take into consideration the high

price of corn ; resolved that a committee be formed and subscriptions entered into to supply tiie poor with cheap flour; and a further subscription (<£8100) to guarantee any sum borrowed for the purpose of buying corn for the neighbourhood. July\. Applicants for relief to the corn relief committee, be- tween four and five thousand. , General infirmary; abstract of the whole of the re- ceipts and payments, from the commencement, (April 25, 1792):— £ s. d. Received by subscriptions and le- gacies 18,013 1 0

Total interest 340 19 10

„ rents 127 10 0

£\SA%2 10 10

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1795.

Paid on account of building .... 7812 18 9| Topayfurther 3637 11 10

i:i],450 10 7i

In hand in favour of the charity, £7031 0 2^

. Public engagement entered into by many families, to

restrain the use and prevent the waste of flour, &c. Aug. Decease of Mr. George Close, aged 87. " Few peo- 3. pie were more universally known, and none more

generally respected. His hospitality and kindness to the unfortunate and distressed excited the admi- ration of all his acquaintance." — Sheff. Iris.

— 4. Disturbances amongst the privates of Col. Cameron's

new regiment, and the Sheffield independent volun- teers called in ; Col. Athorpe read the riot act, after which two persons were shot in Norfolk-street, and several wounded.

— 6. The corn committee for relief of the poor, report that

they are obliged to pay for wheat £7. 10s. per quarter, and for oats £1. 18s., and will retail flour at 4s, lid. per stone, and oatmeal at Is. lid. per peck.

— 10. Bread flour retailed at 5s. 6d. per stone.

. Public meeting of the friends of the constitutional so- ciety and others, on the Castle-hill ; resolved to present an address to the King, praying for peace.

— 18. Meeting of deputies from friendly societies established

in the town ; resolved to form a joint stock for the purchase of flour, &c. for the use of the members, at cost price.

— 19. The corn committee sell at the ToM'n-hall, fine flour

at 2s. 6d., and bread flour at 2s. per stone.

— 20. Public rejoicings in the town, on account of the sud-

den fall in the price of corn.

— 22. A number of women, %vith ribbons and cockades in

their hats, entered the room at the cutlers'-hall, in which the gentlemen of the corn committee had assembled, and after thanking the gentlemen most heartily for the great reduction which they had that day made, marched up in a body to the head of the table, and told Dr. Browne, the chairman, that they had brought a chaise to the door, and beg-

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ged leave to-draw him through the principal streets of the town. The doctor declined the honour, " as it would invert the order of things, and be ungal- lant," and the women having repeatedly and ur- gently preferred their petition, retired invoking blessings on those who had been the cause of the great and sudden reduction in the price of corn. — Cou)-a7it..

— 28. A eoncerto spirituale, for the benefit of the benevolent

society, performed at St. James's church ; col- lected ^70. Sept.3. Anniversary of the cutlers' feast ; master, Rlr. Birks.

— 10. General Scott arrived to inspect Col. Cameron's regi

ment, and accepted the whole 600 men raised, ex- cepting six.

— 23. Decease of the Rev. Alexander JM'Nab, minister of a

congregation of dissenters in the town. Oc. 15. Bill found by the grand jury at Barnsley sessions against Air. James jNIontgomerv, for a libel on Col. R. A.Athorpe.

— 16. Theatre opened by Messrs. Taylor and Robertson,

principal performers, Messrs. Thorpe, INIanley, Franklin, Robertson, Sidney, Mrs. Sidney, IMiss Robinson. JVov 5. The members of 43 friendly societies of the town, with music, flags, &c. attended by an immense con- course of people, went in procession to Hullfoot, to lay the foundation of a new corn mill, to be built for their common use and benefit.

— 17. Public meeting on Crookes-moor, of the friends of

the constitution as established in 1688 ; resolved to present a petition against the bills depending in Parliament against treason, sedition, and conven- tions.

— 18. The shock of an earthquake (11 p. jsi.) very severe-

ly felt in various parts of the town. — Shejicld Iris.

— ?8. The Wicker fair ; cheese 48s. to 60s. per cwt. 1796. J(m. Number of paupers maintained in the poorhouse,

143.

. Town library ; president, Rev. Thos. Younge.

. Township of Sheffield contained 7*i57 houses.

. Upper Hallam contained 105 houses.

. Nether Ilallam contained 188 houses.

— 20. Decease of Mr. John Turner, aged 68. " Seldom

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has our obituary recorded the exit of a character so trulj' honourable ; possessed of an ample for- tune, be employed the bounties of providence in the exercise of beneficence." — Sheffield Iris.

. Mr. John Turner bequeathed to the boys' and g^irls'

charity schools .£200,

Jail. Trial of Mr. James Montgomery for a libel on Col. 21. R. A. Athorpe, contained in some remarks which appeared in the Iris of the 6th August, 17^5, rela- tive to his conduct in dispersing an assemblage of people in Norfolk-street ; sentence, fine of .£30, and six months imprisonment.

Feb. 5. Decease of Mary Hides, aged 95. " This woman performed the office of sexton at the new church for many years."

— 9. Decease of Dr. James Wright, aged 76. "He was

great in his profession ;" there is a small monument to him within the west end of St. Paul's church. — J. H:s Pap.

il/a.28.Mr. Ryley, (author of the Itinerant,) gave his enter- tainment at the theatre, entitled " Original New Brooms."

^pril. Parish accounts for the past year ; overseers, John Staniforth, James Sharrow, James Rotherham, Richard Gregory ; amount collected in rates, ^£8621. 19s. 8d. ; 'amount paid for the relief of the poor, £8588. 5s. 8d. ; county rate, X99. 19s. 6d.

— 3. Rev. Jehoida Brewer preached his farewell sermon

on his resignation as minister of the dissenting chapel in Queen-street.

— 5. Wheat sold in the market at 24s. 6d. to 31s. per load.

— 27. The steam grinding M^heelin the Park partially des-

troyed by fire. May 500 widows received pecuniary relief, from the pro- 20. fits of a tragedy and farce performed at the theatre by amateurs. June First appeal made by the friends of the missionary 15. society — donations of cutlery, &c. solicited for the missions to Otaheite and the South Seas. July Journeymen spring knite cutlers and other branches 14. of workmen, 5^nA-e for an advance of wages.

. Meeting of the master manufacturers — resolved, not

to agree with the demands made by the workmen

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1796.

for extra wages, and not to employ the journey- men of a former master without consent in writ- ing-.

Aug. 27- The club of Odd Fellows instituted.

Sep^ 1. Anniversary of the cutlers' feast; master, J. Fletcher Smith;

— 2. Second musicial performance for the benefit of the

Methodist benevolent societj', produced ^120. 16s. 6d.

. Price of grain, wheat 20s. to 25s. per load ; oats 22s.

to 24s.

Oc^27. Theatre opened by Messrs. Taylor and Robertson, principal performers, Messrs. Mansel, Gordon, Jerrald, Sidney, Mrs. Taylor, and Mrs. Robeitson.

Dec.5. The premises of Mr. JamesBramall, cutler, on Red- hill, destroyed by fire.

— 15. Plan of the parish of Sheffield, published by William

Fairbank and Son, price 21s.

— 31. Price of provisions; bread per quartern loaf, S^d ;

Meat, 8J ; butter, Is. 2d. ; cheese, 8d. ; sugar, 13(}. per lb. 1797. Number of paupers maintained in the poorhouse, Jan. 120.

. Contents of the parish of Sheffield and its township,

according to the return made to the deputy clerk of the peace, for the information of the board of agriculture. : —

Houses. Acres.

Sheffield 7351 3436^

Ecclesall Bverlow 1071 4180

BrightsideByerlow .... 822 2630

Attercliffe-cuin-Darnall.. 500 1336^

Upper Hallam 105. 8836

Nether Hallam 188 1902

10,037 22,371

— 5. Hanbey's charity.— The charitable bequests made by the will of Mr. Thomas Hanbey, in 1782^ first dis- tributed.

. St. James's church. — The eastern window taken down,

and replaced by a painted one, executed by Peckitt of York.

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Jan. Town library; president, Rev. C. Chadwick.

School of industry m the Hartshead, established for

teaching poor children reading, knitting, and sewing.

. Price of grain ; wheat, 17s. to 19s. 6d. a load; oats

17s. to 18s. per quarter.

Feb. 145 individuals carrying on the business of licensed victuallers in the town. — Rohinson''s Direct.

. Sixteen pactitioners of the law, resident in the town,

end carrying on their profession therein. — Rohin- sons^s Direct.

. Coaches that come in and go out from Sheffield; one

to Birmingham from the Angel, four times a week ; two to Doncaster every day from the Angel and Tontine ; one to Halifax from tlie Angel three times a week ; one mail coach to Leeds every day from the Angel; one heavy coach to Leeds every day from the Angel ; one mail coach to London every morning from the Angel ; one heavy coach to London every morning from the Angel ; one coach to Manchester four days a week from the Angel ; total two mails and seven coaches.

Ma. 1. Meeting of the master cutler and principal gentle- men and manufacturers; resolved, " that wishing to support public credit, and being satisfied of the solidity of the two banks in the town, we do agree to accept the notes of the said banks in all our transactions, in lieu of specie, until such time fas the directors of the bank of England shall make their payments in cash."

— 15. Decease of Dr. Lund, " an eminent surgeon in the

town".— .7^. H.'s Pap.

— 24. Decease of Mr. John Booth, aged 62, after alife spent

in contributing as much in his power to the com- fort of those around him. " Here (Brush-house,) he spent the latter end of an active life, in mathe- matical and philosophical studies, and indulging a natural and patriarchal desire, prepared his own sepulchre amidst the shades his own hand had form ed, in which his i-emains are now reposing." — H.H. April. Parish accounts for the past year ; overseers, Samuel Peach, Jno. IMiddleton, Jno. Batcher, Thomas Pearson ; amount collected in rates, ^£10,322. 14s. ;

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amount paid for the relief of the poor, ^10,15G. 13s.; county rate, ^162. 10s. Apr. Actinjr committee of the town, Joseph Eyre, Samuel Hail, George Eyre, Jno. Hinchcliife.

— 19. Decease of the Dowager Mrs. Rimington, in Nor-

folk-street. " The noiseless tenor of this lady's life yesterday secured the best of worldly posses- sions,—a good name ; to day — immortality." — Shef- field Iris.

— 24. Decease of Mr. William Brightmore, merchant

and manufacturer, of Broad-lane, aged Cyl.

— 31. ]\Ir. Hanbey's legacy (Jan 10, 17^2,) — a declaration

of trust of the stock £8000 executed by the cutlers' company under the corporate seal.

June Violent storm over the town ; eleven o'clock a. m. 3. themometer at 40.

. greeting of the " cutting butchers of the town ;''

" resolved, that it is our opinion, that the practice of carcase butchers in monopolising the markets on which the Shetfield market is dependent, is one cause of the dearness of butchers' meat in this town, and that therefore it ought to be restricted and the trade of carcase butchers regulated ; that forestalling and regrating of late years much en- creased, have tended to enhance the price of butchers' meat, &e."

— 22. Decease of Joseph Clay, Esq. of Bridgehouses, aged

8.1, " lamented by his friends and thepoor, to whom he was a liberal benefactor."

. Meeting of the master cutler and company ; resolved,

to petition Parliament against the bill relieving the owners of ships from their responsibility as carriers.

— 30. Price of Sheffield newspapers (in consequence of

additional taxation) raised from 4d. to 6d. Jail/. The most ancient of the inscriptions on brass plates (many of which were formerly found in the church or chancel) now remaining, is tlie following near the north corner of the communion rails : — " Here lyeth Elizabeth, doughter of Thomas Erie of C)rmond, and Lore his wyf somtyme, which Eliza- beth deceased the 20th day of February, the year of our Lord mcccccx. on whose soul then have mercy — men." ^

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1797.

l?^/. The number of boys taught and supported at the charity school, N. E. corner of the parish church,

54^ and the number of girls in their school, 50.

Ed. Goodivin,

. Eight hundred children taught in the different Sunday

schools established in the town.

.4ugA.The last number of the Courant Sheffield newspaper published by Mr. Northall.

— J7. Violent storia, a. m. " The rivers Sheaf and Dun

were swelled to an amazing height ; the flood of the former was so sudden and impetuous, that of two men who were getting sand, one was instan- taneously swept away, and the other was with diffi- c\x\tY.s2i\eA:'— Sheffield Iris.

Sep. 7. Anniversary of the cutlers' feast ; master, Mr. Lind- ley, guests present. Earl FitzwiUiam, and Hon. Henry Lascelles.

Oc^. 4. Sheffield General Infirmary,— the institution first opened for the reception of patients ; first trustees appointed, T.Walker, Esq., G. B. Greaves, Esq., Richard Swallow, Esq. Rev, J. Wilkinson, C. H. Rhodes, Esq., Samuel Shore, jun. Esq., Vincent Eyre, Esq., Thomas Rawson, Esq., Thomas Holey Esq., Jno. Browne, jVT.D. , " '

. Service in the parish church, with aselection of sacred

music.

. Procession from the church to the infirmary the

magistrates, clergy, public officers, freemasons, members of societies, &c.

• ^"^I'f dinner at the Angel; Dr. Browne president.

— — . Grand miscellaneous concert at the theatre

— 5. The sacred oratorio of the Messiah performed at the church.

Second concert at the theatre.

Grand selection of sacred music performed at the church principal singers; Madame Mara, Miss Leak, Miss Neild, W. Neild and Meredith; instrumen- tal, Messrs. Cramer, Flack, Holmes, Wilson Leanders, Linley, &c. ; organ, Mr. J. Mather.

J hird concert at the theatre.

Ball at the assembly rooms.

First medical officers of the general infirmary • phy- sicians, Dr. Steuart, Dr. Wainwright, and Dr.

— 6

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J 737—118.

Younge; surgeons, Mr. Chonev, Mr. Staniforth, and Mr. Webb.

. Produce of the musical performances for the benefit

of the infirmary, £10.55. Is. lid. Total expences, ^748. 4s. 3d.

— 19. Decease of Mr. Thomas Taylor, captain in the

Sheffield Independent Volunteers.

— 30. Theatre opened by jNlessrs. Taylor and Robertson ;

principal performers, Messrs. Manby, Pero, Gordon, Sidney, Mrs. Sisson, Taylor, &c. Nov. Independent Sheffield Volunteers vote a donation 9. of 100 guineas to the widows and orphans of those who fell on the 11th Octobej-, (the defeat of the Dutch fleet by Admiral Duncan.)

— 27. Play, farce, &c. performed at the theatre, for the

benefit of the infirmary; produce, jt'oO.

Dec. The compassionate society first instituted for the distressed, without regard to religious denomina- tions.

. The number of persons, or firms of one or more

persons, manufacturing Sheffield goods in the town and neighbourhood, 1350. — Robinson's Direct.

1798. Number of paupers maintained in the poorhouse, Jan. 147.

. Town library; president. Rev. C. Chadwick.

— 4. Fourth anniversary of tlie bene-\ olent society ; trea-

surer's report ; received in subscriptions, &c. j612B.

lis. lOd., and relieved with the same 2030 objects

of charity. . The hotel in the Haymarket, as lately kept by Mr.

Francis Beardsall, occupied by Mr. James Healev. Feb.2. The Tontine inn entered upon by Mr. Ashmore.

— 21. Public meeting; — resolved that a public subscription

be opened under the authority of Parliament, for the defence of the country ; subscribed at the meet- ing, 4 sums of £100 each, 3 sums of £50, and 12 sums from £10 to £30.

. The cutlers' company vote the sum of ^£^200, usually

appropriated to the annual feast, in aid of the sub- scription for the defence of the country.

Mar. Decease of the Rev. John Harmar, minister of the nether chapel. " Diligent and conscientious in the discharge of his ministerial functions for 25

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1798.

years, an approving' heart afforded him a perpetual feast, and his affectionate addresses to his hearers, particularly that which he delivered from the pulpit the day before his death, as if prophetic of his end, will be long- remembered." — Sheffield Iris.

. Upper chapel ;--Mr. John Dawson appointed minister.

— . The Aoluntary contributions (agreed to at the meeting-

of the 21st February,) advertised to amount to =eiG52. 13s. 6d.

^pril. Parish accounts for the past year; overseers, Jno. Morver, Ebenezer Brookes, Jno. Jennings, Jas. Maivin ; amount of rates collected, ^£9009. 17s.; amount paid for the relief of the poor, .£8085. 2s. 7d. ; county rate, £843.

. Mr. John Bagnall deceased, bequeathed to the boys'

and girls' charity schools ,£20 each.

— 16. Sheffield Independent Volunteers received by vote,

at a pul)lic meeting, the thanks of the town for their offer of services to the Government in case of invasion, or the imminent danger thereof.

— 1.5. Public meeting to raise t\^'o troops of cavalry, and

form companies of infantry for the defence of the

town and neighbourhood. May Decease of Joseph Epwojth. " He was clerk to the

Rev. J. AVilkinson the magistrate, before Joseph

Gregory." Juh/o. jMr. Hanbey's charity first distributed to 38 poor men,

and 19 poor women, each a blue cloth coat or cloak,

and a black hat, with twenty shillings in money;

six boys admitted to the charity school under Mr.

Hanbey's will. Aug3. Decease of Mr. Ward, many years printer of the

Sheffield Advertiser newspaper.

— io. Decease of John Sutcliffe, M.D. " The simplicity

of his manners, the active benevolence of his dis- position, and indefatigable attention to the duties of his profession, rendered his character known and venerated in the nG\gho\\r\iOO^.— Sheffield Iris. Sep. 2. The first charity sermons for the benefit of the infir- mary, preached by the Rev. John Lowe, m.a. " Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought to love one another," 1st. Epist. John.— Collections at the churches, £76, 9s. 4d.

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1798.— 99.

— 6. Anniversary of the cutlers' feast, — (the money usually

applied to defray the expences of the feast, having- by vote been appropriated to the subscription in aid of the exigencies of the Government,) tickets 10s. 6d. each; master, Mr. S. B. Ward.

— 26. The Rev. Rowland Hill preached in Queen-street

chapel, and in Paradise square.

— 27. The Sheffield armed association organised and com-

pleted. Oct. 3. First anniversary meeting of the trusteesysubscribers,. and friends of the general infirmary, reported that the annual income for tlie support of the institu- tion amounted to ^2090. 123. lOd., exclusive of the current income expected from charity sermons, benefactions, concerts, &c. amounting to ^1017.

— 16. Mr. Dixon's joiners' tools' manufactory in Eyre-

street, destroyed by fire.

— 22. The theatre opened by:Messrs. Taylor and Robertson ;

principal performers, Messrs. Manley, Gordon, Sidney, Wrench, Wilks, Stanvvix, and Mrs. Robertson,

— 24. The town illuminated in honour of the victories ob-

tained by Lord Nelson, and Sir J. B. Warren, over the French fleets.

— 25. Lady Fitzwilliam presented the standard to the Shef-

field Independent Volunteer Cavalry. Nov. Decease of Mr. David Greenwood, " many years 10. distinguished as a schoolmaster of approved talents, and indefatigable diligence."

— 28. The winter fair ; price of cheese, 45s. to 55s. per

cwt. J>c. 4. Decease of Mrs. Ruth Abdy, aged 81, at her house

in Howard-street. 1799. The committee of the club corn mfll paid 5 per cent. Jan.T. to the societies which had advanced money.

. Town library ; president, Rev. C. Chadwick.

M(t7-. An examination and inspection taken of the paupers

in the poorhouse ; past 70 and incapable of work,

15; children under ten, 27; Lunatic, 8; total,

114 persons. 9. Signior Petro's house and fire work manufactory

partly blown up by gunpowder, and destroyed by

fire; two lives lost, and many persons injured.

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1799.

^ipril. Parish accounts for the past year; overseers, \Vm. Birks, John Bennett, Francis Beardsall, John Marshall; amount of rates collected, ,£10,J 99. 16s. 4d. ; amount paid for the relief of the poor, i'9759. 5s. ; county rate, <£43. I5s, 4d.

— 21. Benevolent society; collected . during the past year,

=£167. 3s.; cases relieved, 2448; disbursements, .£191. 13s. 7d.

— 22. The old peal of eight bells taken out, and the new-

peal of ten bells set up, in the parish church, and opened by the Ashton-under-Lyne ringers.

— 27. Decease of Mr. John Barlow, of Campo-lane.

. Decease of Mr. Charles Whitlock, formerly joint ma- nager, with Mr. JNIunden, of the Sheffield theatre. June Mr. Dibdin gave his entertainment called the Sphvnx

15. at the theatre. *

./i^/.2.5.Nelson benevolent society first established. -^M.l_6.Duke of York society established.

— 17- Great storm over and about the town ; " The rivers

Dun and Sheaf, as well as the brooks and stream- lets, were swollen to an unusual height, overflowed their banks, inundated the houses adjoining, and did considerable damage to the hay and corn fields." — Sheffield Iris.

Sept. Hugh Parker, of Woodthorpe, Esquire, qualified as 2. a magistrate within the West-Riding.

. Piev. John Lowe qualified as a magistrate of the

West-Riding.

— 3. Anniversary of the cutlers' feast; master, Mr. B.

Vickers.

— U. Feraalebenefitsociety; balance in hand, c£232.3s.3d.;

honorary members, 145 ; benefit do., 359 ; mem- bers relieved during the past year, 55. Oct.l. Theatre opened by Mr. M'Cready ; principal per- formers, Messrs. Harley, Halpin, Johnson, Stan- wix, Noble Egerton, Harlowe, Munden, (three nights ;) Mrs. Harlowe, Mrs. Siddons, (five nights,) ^ JMrs. Coates. ' v g ,/

— 2. Second anniversary meeting of the trustees, sub-

scribers, &c. to the general infirmary.

— 8. Performance of the first of six subscription concerts,

(leader, Mr. Ware,) for the benefit of the general infirmary.

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1799-1800.

— 25. Decease of Mr. Samuel Roberts, merchant, at bis

house in Union-street, aged 63.

. Price of carriage of goods, to Manchester, 3s. ; to

Liverpool, 3s. 6d. ; to Chester, 4s. 6d. per cwt.

— 31. Right Hon. Earl of Effingham appointed Colonel of

the Independent Sheffield Volunteers, vice Colonef Athorpe resigned.

Nov. The clock at the general infirmary put up at the ex- 10. pense of Dr. Browne.

. Major Fenton promoted to Lieutenant-colonel of the

Sheffield Independent Volunteers ; Captain Thos. Leader to be Major; Lieutenant Charles Brook- field to be Captain.

— 25. Mrs. Mountain first sung -at the theatre.

. The churchwardens and overseers advertise that they

are willing to receive proposals for the establish- ment of one or more town's banks, for receiving pledges, the profits arising from which to be ap- plied to the relief of the poor.

— 28. Tire M'inter fair ; price of cheese 60s. to 70s. per cwt. i)ec. 5. Soup sold at Ijd. per quart, at the cutlers'-hall, to

the necessitous poor. 1800. The Priory ; "There are no remains of the old pri- Jan. cry, and its existence can only be known from old deeds, and the right side of High-street, coming from the market, still retaining amongst the oldest inhabitants the name of Prior-row."' . Town library ; president. Rev. C. Chadwick.

— 5. Decease of Mr. Hawke, of Church-street, aged 90.

— 13. The Rev. Mr. Chadwick, master of the grammar

school, " concerned to observe that persons arc persuaded to consider the language and learning of the great models of antiquity of little use to boys not intended for a learned profession,"' advertised the commencement of classes for instruction in the English language.

— 20. Sheffield Independent Volunteers present to their late

Colonel, R. A. Athorpe, Esq., an elegant gold cup. Fcb.G. Decease of Mr. Richard Hoystrop.

— 13. Independent Volunteers vote 4il00 towards a sub-

scription for the relief of the necessitous poor, and a further sum of ^'100 (if necessarv) for the relief of

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1800.

members of their own corpa, exposed to the pres- sure of the times.

. Decease of Mr. Antt, merchant, of Broad-lane.

. Price of grain in the town ; wheat 38s. to 48s., oats

459. to 559. per load.

Mar. Mary Thorpe executed at York castle, for the mur- 7. der of her child, (seven days old,) by casting it with a stone tied to its neck, into the river at Bridgehouses.

— 15. Decease of Mr. John Staniforth, merchant, of Nor-

folk-street. j4pril. Parish accounts for the past year ; overseers, Robert Hadfield, Jos. Bailey, Robert Unwin, Saml, Stan- ley ; amount of rates collected, ^4^9371. 29. 3d. ; amount paid for the relief of the poor, if 9172. 17«. lOd. ; county rate, .;ell7. Hs.

— 1. Second subscription (during the year) for the relief of

the necessitous poor, " rendered necessary by the great scarcity and dearness of all the necessaries of life."

— 2. The millers, bakers, meal and flour sellers, of the

town, in public meeting, resolve "to use all law- ful means in their power to suppress the selling of corn by sample, particularly that sold by the petty- fogging corn-jobbers, being convinced that their trade is thereby greatly imposed upon, the public in general injured, and the labouring part of man- kind most shamefully oppressed." — S/ipf. Iris.

— 15. Acting constables of the town, William Battle, Saml.

Hall, Joseph Eyre.

— 22. Disturbances in the town on account of the high

price of provisions; riot in Queen-street, and at- tack on a flour warehouse.

Mai/ Decease of Mr. William Booth, of Brush-house. — 3. " To his unremitting exertions may be principally attributed the perfection and extent of the steel works established at Rotherham, which for a long time have chiefly supplied the town with the essen- tial article of its manufacture." — Sheffield Iris.

. Decease of Mr. R. James, postmaster,

— 29. Public meeting ; address to bis Majesty voted, on tfce

occasion of his escaping the attempt on his life made by Hadfield the lunatic.

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Aug, The anniversary of the birth-day of the Kev, James 5. Wilkinson, celebrated by a public dinner at the Tontine; president, Dr. Browne; present, 13U of the principal persons of the town.

— 20. Rev. Dr. Majendie, Bishop of Chester, confirmed

1726 young persons in St. Peter's and St. PauKs churches.

— 20. Decease of Mr. Samuel Marshall. " He held not

money for himself, but as a generous almoner for others ; poverty in its rags, sickness in its anguish, the debtors in the prison, and old age in its help- lessness, have poured forth many a blessing on his head.'" — Sheffield Iris.

. bequeathed .€200 to be placed

out on securitj', and the interest applied to aug- ment the salary of the minister of the nether chapel for ever; £\Q0 to the boys" and girls' cha- rity schools each ; 4)200 to the general infirmary ; and thirty guineas towards an organ for St. Peter's church.

— 25. Thermometer fell from '60 to 5i-

— 2G. The first rain fell after a drought of ten weeks. Sept. IMeal and flour sellers' shops attacked by mobs in con-

2. sequence of high prices.

— 4. Anniversary of the cutlers' feast ; master, ^Ir. Saml.

Newbould.

— 17. Sheffield armed association dissolved by authoritv of

the Lord Lieutenant of the county.

— 23. A large quantity of corn sold in bulk in the market,

at from 24s. to 3.3s. per load.

— 25. Theatre opened by ]\Ir. M'Cready; principal per-

formers, Messrs. Harley, Halpin, Lee Lewis, Egerton, Macartney, Quick, (five nights ;) iNFiss Duncan, ISIrs. Brown, Mrs. INIacartney, i\Iiss Biggs. OctA. Third anniversary meeting of the trustees, subscri- bers, &c. to the general infirmary ; report, admitted during the last year 242 in-patients, and relieved 406 out-patients. -^ ]5, jNIusical festival for the benefit of the infirmary; per- J6,&]7. formances at the church, theatre, and assembly rooms.

— 20. Corporation of cutlers resolve that it would be un-

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advisable to make a by-law prohibiting tbe manu- facture of cast iron cutlery within the litaits of the corporation.

. Mr. Holman first played at the theatre.

— 23. Rev. James Wilkinson, " in consideration of the dif- ficulties under which public charities labour,, from the extreme dearness of the necessaries of life," pre- sented .50 guineas to the infirmary, and 40 guineas to the boys'^ and girls' charity schools.

JV^sf. 3. General meeting of the seatholders of the parish church ; resolved " that the interior of the church should be repaired pursuant to the order of the archdeacon; that the church burgesses do (as they have agreed) pay for the pulling down the pillars and the arches in the body of the church, raising them higher, altering the roof over the north and soi^th aisles, &c., and that the seatholders do defray the expense of new paving the church." Rev. George Smith chairman ; George Knowles and John Morver, churchwardens.

. The Romans had a temple on or near to the site of

the old church, and what confirms it is a that when the repairs and addition were making, it was found that the east end stood upon a vast bed of bones, and it excited the curiosity of the under- takers to examine further, when they found that that part almost entirely stood upon bones, and they were surprised how the church stood on such a foundation. It has always been remarked that where the Roman Campa is found, that there also many bones are discovered. It is without dispute that Campo-lane has the same reference to the Campa as Church -street has to the church. The old Brocco Bank was a Roman appellation ; and Ponoters-lane is supposed to be Roman. — Anon. Dec. l.Two thousand people assembled at night time in a field in the Park, to consider the distress arising from the high price of provisions. — 15. Public meeting at the Town-hall; resolved, "that in consequence of the very high price of provisions and other necessaries of life, many persons in this town being in very great distress, that a public

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subscription for their relief be commenced ;" put

down at the meeting, £1200. 1801 . Number of houses in the township of Sheffield, 7720. Jan. — Ridge's Pict. of Sheffield. . Town library; president. Rev. C. Chadwick.

— 7- Public meeting of the rate-pavers ; resolved, " that

it is absolutely necessary that a new workhouse be built, for the future comfort, accommodation, and employment of the poor," and a conimitteeap- pointcd to carry the resolution into effect.

— 8. Decease of the Rev. J. Reece, minister of the inde-

pendent chapel, in Howard-street. " An amiable man, and a most exemplary character."

Ma7'. " Upwaids of ten thousand persons receive at this time the benefit of the very liberal subscription entered into for the relief of distressed objects in the parish ; so unprecedented is the wretchedness arising from the excessive high price of all the necessaries of life." — Sheffield Iris.

. Public notice of application to Parliament, for a bill

to regulate the making and vending of cast iron cutlery, and for amending the Act 31 Geo, III. for the better regulation and government of the company of cutlers within Hallamshire.

— 25. General infirmary ; — committee of subscriptions ap-

pointed to increase the receipts, and prevent the diminution of the number of patients relieved, on account of the high price of the necessaries of life. —Shpff. Iris. j4pril. Parish accounts for the past year ; ovej-seers, Jno. Eyre, W. Harwood, Thomas Harrison, William Hutchinson, amount of rate collected, =C1 2,589. Os. 6d. amount paid for the relief of the poor, c£12344. 14s. county rate, .£124. IGs. Gd.

— G. Decease of Vincent E3're, Esq. banker and agent to

the Duke of Norfolk. " His death is deeply and justly lamented, as a public loss to the town and neighbourhood.'" — Iris. - 30. Population of Sheffield, according to the Parliamen- tary census : —

Males. Females. Total. Sheffield Town and Park, 15483 J5831 31314 Ecclesall Byerlow 2G75 2G87 53G2

SHEFFIF.M1 "LOCAI, UEftlSTER. Do

1801.

Brightside BverUnr 2&2S 2002 4030

Atterclifte-cum-Darnall.. 1222 1059 2281

liallam Nether 1041 933 1974

llallani Upper, 439 355 794

Total 22HS8 228(;7 45755

il/«_yl. Birmingham Royal Mail first start -^rl. — Ashmore,

Tontine. June Decease of Mr. Thomas Chapman, aged 91. He was 19. the principal benefactor to tlie school at Heeley, whereon there is an endowment of i;14 per annum.

— 30. Quantity of wrought plate manufactured in the town,

and assayed at the public office during the last

year, 3848 lbs. 6oz. 12 dwt. July6. Brightside Bierlow new workliouse commenced. ^iif/. Second anniversary of the biith-day of the Rev. James 5. Wilkinson, at tlie Tontine ; jjresident, J)r. Wain-

wright.

— 24. Decease of Mr. Fairbank, surveyor.

Sp/^. 3. Anniversary of the cutlers' feast; master, Mr. Joseph

Bailey. . School of industry established by a number of ladies.

— 11. Decease of Mr. Harrison, of Hollis-croft, merchant. . Decease of Mr. John Love, of Scotland street, mer- chant.

. Executors to the estate of Mr. J. Wilson, deceased,

pay the trustees of the girls' charity school his be- quest of .£50.

— 22. Theatre opened by Mr, M'Cready; principal per-

formers, Messrs. Harley, Twaits, Turner ; ftir * and Mrs. Pope, (one week;) Mrs. Degville, IMrs. Macready, INIrs. Chapman.

— 30. Mr. James Kay, after keeping the King's Head in

Change-alley, forty-six years, let the house to Mr. George Howson. Or(. 3. Public rejoicings, on the news being brought to the town that articles of peace M'ith France' had been signed by Lord Hawksbury.

— 12. The town illuminated in honour of the peace. . Piice of grain ; wheat, per load 21s. to 28s.

JVov. Rev. Charles Chadwick, jun. A.M. elected under- 5. nvdster of the grammar school, vice Mr. Anthony Robinson resigned.

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1801—2.

— I'C.-Mr. John Thclwall commenced a series of lectures on

elocution at the Tontine.

— ?8. The Winter fair ; cheese 60s. to 70s- per cwt.

Dec. Executors to the estate of Joseph Walker, Esq. de- .3. ceased, pav trustees of the infirmarv his legacy of

— 20. Decease of Mr. Greaves, merchant, of Norfolk-street. . Decease of Mr. George W'ood, merchant, of Leavey

Grange.

1802. Marriages at the parish church (during the last year)

JanA. 465 ; increased beyond last year, 83; beyond the yearly average of the last ten years, 36, and ex- ceeding any former year except 1792, when there M'«re 472. Baptisms decreased since last year, 96, and beyond the average of the last ten years, 141 i. Burials decreased beyond last year, 276 ; bej-ond the average of the last ten years, 161. Monthly average of baptisms, 123J ; of burials, 98 l-12th. Excess of births above burials, 305. Excess of males baptised above females, 72, or about 2 in 41 ; of females buried above males, 19, or 1 in 62.

Town library ; admission money raised to three gui- neas and a half; president, Rev. C. Chadwick.

. Freeholders ; Duke of Norfolk obtained an act of

Parliament " for vesting several detached parts of his estate in trustees, upon trust, to sell, and pur- chase other estates elsewhere.^'

. The master and journeymen button-makers of the

town give notice that, after the 11th of September, they will lay informations under 8th Queen Anne, against all tailors using, and other peisons wear- ing, garments having buttons covered m ith cloth or other stuff, whereby they incur penalties of .£5 and 40s. — [This statute remains unrepealed, 1830. — Ed.]

— 21. A great storm over the town and neighbourhood ; — " The wind here arose early in the morning, and bjew with increasing violence until late in the af- ternoon ; scarce a house in the town escaped dila- pidation. The slates were torn from the roofs, and scattered through the streets so dreadfully, that it was perilous to pass them. A stack of chimneys in St. Janies's-strect fell through the roof of an

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adjoining- house, and overwhelmed a bed from which a person had just risen. A sheet of lead, about 2000 lbs. weig-ht, was precipitated from the flat roof of the Tontine into the yard, immediately after the Doncaster mail coach ' had set out, and upon the very spot where it had stood. Many chimney pipes were destroyed, casements blowii out, signs carried off, and decayed buildings shaken to pieces. A child Avas crushed to death at Shef- tield-moor, by a falling wall. Two trees by the river side near the Nursery, were torn up by the roots, and laid across the" road. Tn the Wicker, three high chimneys at iMr. Dixon's silver refinery' were laid to the ground."— S/^ef. Iris.

Feb. Death of Mr. Timothy Gales, printer. "He had 19. languished under an afflicting illness for Seven weeks, during which his mind and body had been reduced to a state of melancholy Aveakness ; in an agony of delirium, he escaped from his house and friends, and was lost in the river before assistance could be afforded. He served faithfully and indus- triously in the office of the Slieffield Register and Ins for upwards of ten years."— Sheffield Iris.

— L8. Decease of Mrs. Hartop, Brightside. " The business of her life was the happiness of others, and her fortitude in death had all the fulness which is de- rived from religious faith and philosophic medita- tion."— Iris.

Mar. Decease of Mrs. Hancock, relict of the late Mr. Jos. 4. Hancock, the first founder and establisher of the silver plated manufactures.

April. Parish accounts for the past year ; overseers, God- frey Fox, Henry Froggatt, John Bingham, Robt. Burnand ; amount of rates collected, ^15,175. Is. lid.; amount paid for the relief of the poor! .£14,323. lis. 9d. ; county rate, =-€127. 10s. 6d.

— 22. Mr. Francis Chantrey (the sculptor) advertised to take portraits in crayons, at 24, Paradise-square " and trusts in being happy to produce good and satisfactory likenesses, and no exertion shall be wanting on his part, to render his humble eiforts

deserving some small share of public patronage."

Sheffield Iris.

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Mat/ His Majestv's proclamation of peace publicly read in 5. the High-street and Market-place.

— 14. Storms of snow and hail during the last three days.

— 17. The Sheffield Independent Volunteers disbanded, and

the colours of the regiment deposited in St. Peter's church.

— 25. Day of thanksgiving (restoration of peace) observed ;

service at the churches and chapels, business closed.

. The sum of ^405. 5s. 2d. subscribed by the Rev.

James Wilkinson, the Easter jury, and some hu- mane inhabitants of the town and Rotherham, and given to the poor, instead of expending the same in illuminations in honour of the peace.

. The thermometer was at 29, three degrees below the

freezing point. " The late colds must have done incredible harm to the fruit, since even the knnes of hardy trees are dropping oftV — Iris.

— 28. The thermometer (noon) was at 73.

Jttl^ General infirmary ; trustees receive of the executors 1. of Mr. Thomas Chapman, (Heeley,) the sun* of .£514. IGs. lOd., the residue of his property be- queathed by will.

11. Fifty-two banns of marriage published in the parish

church; the average number of banns during the last twelve months of the ^^■ar, was thirty-one for each Sunday, or rather more than ten a-Meek ; the number of marriages in the last month was 55.

u4ug. At the parish church this day, nine couple Mere mar- ried, forty-two children baptised, and one funeral.

— 5. Third anniversary of the birth-day of the Rev. James

Wilkinson ; president, Hugh Parker, Esq.

— 9. Henry Ibbotson and Mary his wife, of Bridgehouses,

committed to Wakefield for assaultingand wounding Elizabeth Berry, their niece; " These poor wretches were filled with the idea of being bewitched by the ■young woman, and had long meditated a plan to draw blood from her, which they fondly imagined would break the charm that afflicted them. Meet- ing her in our market on Saturday evening, (7th,) they both at once assailed her ; the wife with her teeth bit her inhumanly in the arm, and the hus- band with a sharp instrument, stabbed the unfortu- nate woman in the body." — Sheffield Iris.

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1802.

Sept. Anniversary of the cutlers' feast; master, Mr. Jo- .?. seph Withers.

— 9. The members of the society of friends subscribed the

sum of .£70. 13s. 6d. for the benefit of the general infirmary.

— 13. Decease of Mr. Thomas Tyson, (Fountain, Coalpit-

kne,) a distinguished florist ; " his funeral was at- tended by the florists of the town, who strewed his coffin with a profusion of the most beautifulflowers."

— 22. Public meeting; resolution signed by the heads of

260 firms, pledging themselves, " in consequence of a great and unusual run on the bank of Messrs. John and ^Viliiam Shore, occasioned by misrepre- sentations," to take their notes in payment as usual, until some just cause for refusing the same shall appear.

. Additional water reservoir commenced on Crookea-

moor.

Oct.Q. Fifth anniversary meeting of the trustees, sub- scribers, he. to the general infirmary; present, Earl Fitzwilliam and the Earl of Effingham.

— 6 Musical festival ; the oratorio of the Creation per- and 7- formed at St. Paul's church, and concerts at the

theatre ; principal singers. Miss Tennant, Miss Richardson, and Mr. Harrison.

— 26. Decease of Mr. Robert Hinchcliffe, " an ingenious

man, who had essentially contributed towards the improvement of the manufacture of scissors in the town." Nov. State of Shefl5eld prisons ; prison for the liberty of 14. Hallamshire, property of the Duke of Norfolk, for debtors, gaolor, Godfrey Fox ; fees in high court, (processes from courts of Westminster,) for com- mitment and turnkey, 25s. [n the low court, ls.8d. Number of prisoners, 5. Low court prisoners de- tained for debts under 40s. The actions entered in the Sheffield court every three weeks, are, on the average, 300 — number of prisoners, 14. Sheffield Town-Hall ; the lobbies under the Town-Hall are three dark cells, which open into a narrow passage, the largest 8 feet high by 6 feet square. —NielcCs Reniarks on Prisons in 'Yorkshire.

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1802.— 3.

JVb.29. Theatre opened by Mr. M'Cready ; principal per- formers, INTessrs. Harley, Austin, Tu-aites, Falkner.

. Ireland, the Yorkshire leaper, exhibited at the cir- cus, in Gibraltar-street.

Dec. Decease of Mrs. Elizabeth Wainwright, aged 92, 24, thirty-two years an inmate in the Duke of Norfolk's hospital.

— 26. Executors of the estate of Isaac Hawkins, Esq. of

Burton, transfer to the trustees of the general infir- mary the sum of .£3000, 3 per cent, consols.

1803. Marriages at the parish church during the last year,

Jan.l. 607; increased beyond last year, 142; beyond the average of the preceding ten years, 178.

. Town library ; admission money raised to four gui- neas ; president, Rev. C. Chadwick.

. Town trustees make a donation of sixty guineas to

Mr. Fenton, Lieut. Col. of the Sheffield Volunteer Infantry, for the purchase of a horse.

— 8. Death of Mr. Joseph Frith, (proprietor of the steam

wheel in the Ponds) by accidentally falling on the crank of the engine.

— 19. J. Stuart Wortley (Right Hon. Lord Wharncliffe,)

qualified as a magishate within the West-Riding.

— 20. Decease of the Rev. C. Chadwick, jun. A.M., under

master of the grammar school.

— 24. Navigable canal from Tinsley to Sheffield ; public

meeting at the Cutlers' Hall, to consider the forma- tion of a company for the prosecution of the same ; report of a committee of the cutlers' company adopted, and subscriptions for shai-es opened.

Feb. 7- Decease of Jno. Read, Esq. of Norton.

JJ/rtj'.7.W'illiam Lee, and William Ronkesley, two workmen . of the town, sentenced at York to seven years

transportation, for administering unlawful oaths to engage in a seditious association.

— 30. Public meeting; resolved to present to his Majesty

a loyal address of congratulation on his escape from the late treasonable conspiracy (Col. Despard.)

— 31. Trustees of the Methodist chapel in Garden-street,

dispose of the same, and the congregation sub- scribe ^£2000 towards the erection of a larger cha- pel at the top of Carver-street.

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1803.

j^pril Parish accounts for the past year; overseers, Jno. Hoyland, Robert Turner, W". Silcock, Jos. Nichol- son • amount of rates collected, £10,275. 14s. Id. ; amount paid for the relief of the poor, ^9,922. 19s. 2d. ; county rate, ^131. 19s. 2d.

— r 3. Cong-reg-ation of Independent Protestant Dissenters remove from their chapel in Coalpit-lane, to the chapel in Garden-street, purchased by their minis- ter. Rev. Archibald Bell.

. Society for bettering the conditon of the poor first

established.

. Establishment of the Sheffield Jennerian society (in

connexion with the general infirmary,) for the ex- termination of the small-pox.

— 7. Funding or money society (the Eagle) established

at Mr. Anthony Branson's, Fleur-de-Lis, Barlev- street; proposed capital £10,000, shares £50 each, paid by monthly instalments of 4s.

— 13. The new tenor bell set up in the parish church.

— 15. Acting constables of the town, .Joseph Eyre, John

Hinchcliffe, and Thomas Smith.

— 28. Richard Danser, Esq. appointed by Earl Fitzwilliam

steward of the Ecclesall Manor court; vice John Danser, Esq. deceased.

May Sheffield and Tinsley new canal ; committee appoint- 12. ed to prosecute the work resign their trust on ac- count of the failure of the negotiation with the Duke of Norfolk.

June Earl Fitzwilliam entertained the members of the 10. Sheffield and Rotherham Yeomanry Cavalry at the house of Mrs. Peech.

/«/j/ 7- Produce of raw hides and skins (searchers' official return for the town,) since midsummer, 1802; ox and cow hides, 3603; calf skins, 415G; sheep skins, 30,666.

— 13. Decease of Mr. A, Robinson, upwards of forty years

master of the grammar school,

— 14. Public meeting ; resolved that a regiment of volun-

teer cavalry be raised in the town and neighbour- hood, for internal defence during the war.

. Messrs. Pickford, carriers between Sheffield and

London, offer for the service of Government, the use of 400 horses, 50 waggons, and 28 boats, k2

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./m.14. Subscriptions opened to purchase a bell for the clock of the parish church.

. Decease of j\Ir. Samuel Glanville, (formerly keeper of

the Angel Inn,) in the Duke of Norfolk's alms- house, aged 83.

— 28. Mr. Jacob Geiirwin presented £100 to the general

infirmary, and .£40 to each of the charity schools.

. Completion of two town troops of yeomanry cavalry.

. Corps of volunteer infantry ; formation commenced,

and subscriptions (Earl Fitzwilliani £300) entered

into for clothing, &c. ..4?/;<7.5. Fourth anniversary of the birth-day of the Rev. J.

Wilkinson ; president, JNIr. James tockshutt. Sep A. A nniversaiy of the cutlers' feast; master, Mr. James

Makin. . Completion of the Sheffield Regiment of Volunteer

Infantry, 600 men ; captain, Mr. Thos. Newbould.

— 12. Mrs. Billington .commenced five nights performance

at the theati-e.

— 22. Lord Eardley presented 100 guineas to the tinastees of

the general infirmary.

. Patriotic subscription opened for the support and

maintenance of the newly raised regiment of volunteers.

Oct. Sheffield Regiment of Volunteer Infantry; Hon. Earl of Effingham, Colonel ; Francis Fenton, Lieut. Colonel; Thomas Leader, Esq. Major ; Captains, JNIessrs. Charles Brookfield, Joseph Read, Robert Wreaks, Robert Lowther, William Newbould, S. Carver, Win. Warris, W. Champion, and John Jeeves ; Lieutenants, INIessrs. Joshua Hawksley, Samuel Lucas, Wm. Hutton, Robert Gainsfor^, Robert Wade, Godfrey Machon, Thomas Asline Ward, Charles Shore, John Norris, Matthew Jep- son, John Yeomans, and Thomas Norris; Ensigns, Messrs. Henry Elgie, William Howard, William Tattershall, Charles Pickslay, John Furness, and William Radford; Adjutant, Mr. John Be^ Quarter-Master, Jas. Woollen ; Surgeons, Messrs. Henry Jackson, and John Sterndale.

— 20. The theatre opened by Mr. Macready ; principal per-

formers, Messrs. Harley, Meggett, Austin, Carles, and Mason.

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1803—4.

iVo.28. Winter fair; price of cheese, G8s. to 78s. per cwt.

. Several hundred persons sworn before the magis- trates as special constables, to act in case of an enemy landing-.

Dec, Association corps of infantry, 100 ; troop of cavalry, 50; and a thousand special constables, formed for the preservation of the peace of the town and neighbourhood, and assisting tlie civil magistrates in the event of the volunteers being called into service.

— 31. Quantity of rain in the town and neighbourhood during the past year, 26.06. of which 6.75. feli during the last three weeks.

• . Decease of the Rev. Joseph Evans, appointed in 1758,

on the death of the Rev. Jos. Haynes, one of the ministers of the upper chapel. " I will not deny myself the satisfaction of saying, that a fairer name than the one last mentioned, adorns not these pages; single hearted, mild, devout, benevolent, his unblemished life M'as spent in the search after truth, the unwearied discharge of his pastoral duties, and the promotion of every benevolent and useful undertaking." — H. II

1804. Marriages at the parish church during the past year,

Jan. 573; decreased since the preceding year, 34'; in- creased bevond the average of the last ten vears, 144. * ^

. Town library; president, Rev. C. Chadwick.

. Town trustees make a donation of ^'100 to the Com- mander of the Sheffield volunteer infantry.

Feb. Association for the prosecution of felons first formed, 29. principally by the exertions of Mr. E. Rhodes.

. Decease of Mr." Samuel Hoyland, aged 81 . "He was

the oldest foot hunter in the Sheffield hunt, and after the late Mr. Peter Hinchcliffe, the eldest pub- lican in the town."

Mar. Preachers and trustees in the methodist connexion 1. laid the foundation of the new chapel at the top of Carver-street. The first stone, laid by Mr. Thos. Holy, bore the following inscription :— " On March 1, 1804, in the 44th year of the reign of Geo. IIT. the lather of his people, and the protector of reli- gious liberty ; at a time when the nation was en-

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gaged in an expensive war, and threatened with extermination by a liaughty usurjier ; — this was laid in the first stone of a methodist chapel, as an act of faith towards God."

April. Parish accounts for the past year ; overseers, Geo. Bennett, Saml. Roberts, John Sykes, John Salt ; amount of rates collected, £12,598. lis. lid.; amount paid for the relief of the poor, £11,621. Is. 5d. ; county rate, £152. 15s. Id.

7. Public meeting; committee appointed 1\\\ Jan., 1801,

to take measures for the erection of a new work- house, dissolved, and a second committee appointed for the same purpose.

— 13. Public meeting; the churchwardens and overseers,

Rev. James Wilkinson, Hugh Parker, Esq., Dr. Browne, Dr. Younge, V. Eyre, Esq., Mr. Samuel Roberts, and Mr. Geo. Bennett, appointed a ctim- tnittee to purchase land for the erection of build- ings for the better accommodation of the poor.

— 16. Public procession, headed by Dr. Browne, to welcome

the return of the Volunteer I nfantry, after dismissal from permanent duty at Doncaster, " where they had obtained the commendation and applause ot Lord Mulgrave, the General of the district; Lieut. - Col. Bell, the Inspecting Field Officer; Mr. Frank, the Vice-Lieutenant of the riding, and of the Mayor and Corporation." — Iris. Mau Ei<^ht silver medals shot for by the eight companies ''S of Volunteer Infantrv ; winners, Messrs. VV . Flackwall, ^^'m. Darwent, Wm. Naylor, jun., Geo. Swift, John Lambert, Robt. Rodgcrs, Robt. Woodhead, Mich. Kockley.

— 28. Meeting of the rate-payers who had subscribed to

indcmnifv the committee appointed (1.3th April last) to enlarge or rebuild the workhouse, resolved, by a majority of 47, that the situation near the Watery-lane be chosen for the site thereof June The gold medal shot for by the eight winners of sil- ver medals, (25th May,) won by Mr. (ieo. Swift.

— 25. Inspector's return of raw hides and skin.s from slaugh-

ter houses in the township of Sheffield, for the past year, beast hides, 3003; calf skins, 4575: sheep" and lamb skins, 28,470.

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July Mrs. Mountain gave her entertainment at the theatre, 2. entitled the Lyric Novelist.

— 20. Decease of INIrs. Mary Singleton, first appointed ma-

tron to the general infirmary ; " the blessing of those that M'ere ready to perish was often upon her."

. Providence sick society; members, 146; amount of

stock, i;924. 8s. 3|d."

. Decease of Mrs. Gosling, of Norfolk-street, " known

as the author of a small volume of moral essays, and the novel of Ashdale Village."

Aug. Fifth anniversary of the birth-day of the Rev. James G. Wilkinson ; chairman, Mr. James Cockshutt.

. John Stockton, alias Stockdale, a ring-leader of the

desperate gang of villains who for many years past had plundered Avarehouses in this and o'tlier towns, of property of great amount, brought hither from Birmingham, and committed to York, charged with breaking open Messrs. Rhodes & Champion's Avarehouses, in the Wicker, in 1802.

Sept. Anniversary of the cutlers' feast ; master, Mr. Wm, G. Nicholson ; guests present, Earl Fitzwilliara, Lord Milton, Hon. Mr. Vernon.

— 17. Master H. W. Betty, "the young Roscius," com-

menced eight nights' performance at the theatre, under the management of Mr. Macready, Oc^ 4. Sheffield Volunteer Infantry; Ensign Henry Elgie to be Lieutenant, vice Hawkesley resigned ; John Ardron, Ensign ; Rev. Alex. Makenzie, Chaplain.

— 5. General infirmary ; meeting of governors and others,

and reported " that it appears to them satisfactorily, and is evinced clearly by facts deduced from figures, that the fund of the charity has been increasing every year since midsummer 1801, and that it is at present in a very flourishing condition."

— 17. Mr. F. Chantrey advertised that he had commenced

taking models from the life, and hoped to " meet the liberal sentiments of an impartial public." — Sheffield Iris.

— 24. " There was not one funeral at our parish church

from Friday to this day, (Wednesday,) an inter- regnum of funerals longer than can" be remem- bered for many years.". -Sheffield Iris.

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1804.— 5.

Kov. Theatre opened by Mr. Macready ; principal per- 26. formers, Messrs. Carter, Harley, Holmes, Waring ; Miss Norton, Mi-s. Blanchard, Mrs. Courtney.

— 30. General infirmary ; Dr. D. Davis, M. D. appointed

physician. Dec. Master and company of cutlers discontinue the dis- tribution of the money g-iven away on St. Thomas's day, and order that the money be divided amongst the officers of the company, to be by them given to the poor of the corporation entitled to receive the same.

— 20. Decease of the Rev. George BaylifFe, aged 84, senior

assistant minister of the parish church, and curate of Ecclesall; " ripe with age, and laden with plenty, he calmly resigned his soul into the hands of God who gave it, supported by the comfortable hope and reviving prospect of a blessed immortality." — Sheff. Iris.

1805. Maniages at the parish church during the past

Jan.\. year, 445.

— 3. Rev. George Smith appointed by the church bur-

gesses, assistant minister, andby the Rev. .T.Wilkin- son, to the curacy of Ecclesall, vice Rev. Mr. Bayliffe deceased.

. Town library; admission or share money raised to

five guineas, and an annual subscription of 12s . 6d. ; president, JRev. C. Chadwick.

— 18. Decease of the Rev. James Wilkinson, A.M. (aged

75,) vicar of Sheffield, and justice of the peace for Yorkshire, " whose life had been pre-eminently distinguished by unafi"ected piety, inflexible integri- ty, and unwearied zeal in the service of the public during a period of half a century." " His whole life was devoted to the public good. Such Avas the commanding influence of his superior charac- ter— his unfeigned, though unostentatious piety — his quick penetration and solid judgment — his mild, modest, and conciliating, yet dignified man- ners— his inflexible integrity — his respectable fami- ly and fortune — and lastly, his venerable age and estimable 8er\ ices, — that few persons have had the enviable opportunity of being so eminently useful to society. However it might be suspected that

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the language of panegyric is improperly used by the pen of friendship to describe the deceased * excellent of the earth,' they who knew the sub- ject of that praise, know well that it is not over- charged, but faithfully characteristic of this, one of the most worthy and amiable of human beings." — Iris.

Jan. Bequest by the Rev. J. "Wilkinson to the general 18. infirmary, ^600 ; to the boys" and gii-ls' charitv schools, i£200 each.

— -21. Rev. Stuart Corbett, D.D. qualified as a magistiate within the West-Riding.

— 24. Decease of James Wheat, Esq. aged 64. "In the

whole of this populous town and neighbourhood, there Avas not a single person more generally ad- mired, or more cordially respected, than the late Mr. Wheat." — Iris. i<V^. 2. Tontine Inn taken and entered upon by Mr. Wm. Simpson.

— 3. The interment of the Rev. J. Wilkinson observed by

public mourning.

Mar. The Rev. Thomas Sutton, A.M. Fellow of Worces- ter College, Oxford, instituted by liis Grace the Archbishop of York, on the presentation of Philip Gell, Esq. of Hopton, to the vicarage of this town.

. New Town-Hall; the TownCollector and his Assistants

having determined upon the plan of a new Town- Hall, prisons, and other public buildings, on the site of Castle-hill, advertise to contract M'ith buildeis and workmen.

. The workshops of Mr. Robert Collier, haft-presser,

in Charles- street, destroyed by fire.

April Parish accounts for the past year; overseers, Jacob Roberts, W. Justice, Thos. AVild, Rich. Wilson ; amount of rates collected, ,£14,167. 12s. 2d.; amount paid for the relief of the poor, .£13,388. 2s. Od..; county rate, £107. 7s. 3d.

— 1.1. Profits of the concerts during the past year for the

benefit of the infirmary, jC95. 2s. 3d.

— 2."i. Acting constables of the" town, Joseph Eyre, John

Hinchcliffe, and Thomas Smith.

— 2!>, Tiiis (lay fell one of the deepest snows of the past

winter, and certainly the greatest that can be re-

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1805.

collected, at this time of the year in this neigbour- hood.

May Public meeting' called by Mr. William Nicholson, 27. Master Cutler, Gamaliel Miller, Capital Church Burgess, Wm. Staniforth, Town Collector, and Thomas Leader, foreman of Easter Jury, " to consider the propriety of applying to Parliament for an act for paving, lighting, and cleansing the town ;" proposition negatived " on the ground of the refusal of the Town Trustees to periodically publish their accounts, and a supposition that their funds are adequate to accomplish all the purposes for which a rate (by the intended act) is proposed to be raised,"

July The new Methodist chapel in Carver-street opened 25. by Mr. Benson.

— 29. Sixty-second annual Methodist conference (the first

held in Sheffield) held in the new chapel in Carver- strtet.

Aug. Sixth anniversary of the birth-day of the late Rev. G. James ^^'ilkinson ; president. Rev. John Lowe.

. Right of mark ; Daniel Brammall, manufacturer of

files in Sheffield, obtained a verdict of £2000 da- mages against Mr. B. Power, manufacturer of files in IBirminghani, for wrongfully using his mark.

— 15. The Sheffield Volunteers, roused by the accidental

firing of the beacons, assembled on parade, and marched to the appointed place of rendezvous. " Of the volunteers of this town and neighbourhood, every man Hew immediately to arms who was not prevented by sickness or absence; out of six hun- dred men (the regiment of infantry) only nine were absent." — Sheff. Irit,.

— IG. The overseers provided for the comfort of the women

and children left behind by the volunteers ; those who applied received 2s. each, and Dr. Browne gave Is. to each of the wives, and (id. to each child of the \olunteers, out of his own private purse. St'pt. Anniversary of the cutlers' fea.st ; miister, Mr. John 5. Eyre.

— 2.'^. Theatre opened by Mi". Macready ; principal per-

formers, Rressrs.'Harley, F'awcett, Huddart, James, Blandford, Master Betty, (one week,) S. Kemble, (five nights ;) INFrs. Stanley, Mrs. Kniverton.

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1805.— 6.

Oct.G. The parish church, which has lately undergone such an entire alteration as to make it assume the appear- ance of a new edifice, re-opened; a sermon on the occasion preached by the Rev. Thomas Sutton; and in the course of the service, a very large new organ opened, and a number of pieces of sacred music perforraed.^ — Advt. in Iris.

— 9 Grand musical festival, for the benefit of the general & 10. infirmary; sacred music in the parish church in

the mornings, and concerts at the theatre in the evenings ; principal vocalist?. Miss Parke, Miss Munday, Messrs. Harrison, Bateman, and Goss ; produce of the festivals, rehearsals, sermons, &c. ■£11.39. 17s. l^d. ; cash paid to performers, and expenses, £833. 9s. lid, leaving a balance of nett profit to be applied to the use of the infirmary, £306. 7s. 2^d.

— 14. Right Hon. Lord Milton, IM.P. qualified to act as a

magistrate within the West-Riding.

— 31. Steam corn mill, (AtterciiiFe,) with the grain, ma-

chinery, &c. totally destroyed by fire. Nov. Battle of Trafalgar ; news came to the town of the 4. great victory of Trafalgar, and the death of Admi- ral Nelson, on the 21st October.

" The hour of vengeance comes— by Gades' towers. By high Trafalgar's ever trophied shore. The godlike warrior on the adverse powers Leads his resistless fleet with daring prore.

Full on the foe he hurls his fires.

Performs the dread behest, and in the flash expires."— P^e.

Dec.5. Observed as a day of thanksgiving for the transcend- ant victory of Trafalgar ; collected at the three churches, "for the relief of the families of the slain, ^100. 17s. lid.

. ]\Ir. Jos. Sykes, of Hull, bequeathed to the general

infirmary £100.

1806. The Wanderer of Switzerland, poem, published jby

Jan. Mr. James Montgomery.

" Though long of winds and waves the sport, Condemn'd in wretchedness to roam, LivB ! thou Shalt find a sheltering port, A quiet home."

110 SHRFFIELD LOOAT, RKfllSTER.

J 806.

1806. Marriages at the parish church during the past vear,

479. . Town library; president, Rev. C. Chadmck.

— 16. The highest floods in the river ever remembered ; the

high road between the Wicker and Bridgehouses completely overflowed.

— 23. Decease of R. A. Athorpe, Esq., of Bennington, for-

merly a magistrate of the Riding, and Colonel of the Shefiield Volunteers.

— 26. Right Hon. Wm. Pitt ; news came of the decease of

Mr. Pitt, at his house at Putney, on the 23d inst,,

aged 47. Mar. York spring assizes; no prisoners from Sheffield

8. tried for any ofl"ence. jipril Parish accounts for the past year; overseeis, Geo.

Senior, Peter Brownell, Jos. Hawksley, George

Gates; amount of rates collected, i 1 5,969. ;

amount paid for the relief of the poor, £15,76.^.

2s. ; county rate, ^133. 6s.

— 9. Public meeting; resolved to petition Parliament to

abandon the tax on pig iron.

■ Court Leet; acting constables, John HinchcliiFe,

Thomas Smith, and William Smith.

May The intelligence that the Ministry had abandoned the

22. tax on pig iron, difi'used the most lively sensations

of joy amongst the manufacturers and "inhabitants,

which were displayed on the following day by the

ringing of bells, bonfires, firing of cannon, &c.

— 23. Decease of Mrs. Eyam, of Paradise-square, aged 75.

" The numerous excellent qualities which adorned her character, entitled her to the high estimation in which she was held ;" — bequeathed ^20 to the infirmary, and .£20 to the boys' and girls' charity schools. — Iris.

— 25. This day (Sunday) ten couples were married at our

parish church, thirty-six children christened, and what is very extraordinary, there was not one fu- neral at all the three churches. June Moritz (manager of a company) advertised that Sig- 5. nior Belzoni, the Patagonian Sampson, would

perform three nights at the theatre. [Belzoni,

afterwards the celebrated traveller, and author of Egyptian antiquities, literature, &c.] — Ed.

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1806.

July. The Quakers' (friends) meeting- house in the Harts- head rebuilt.

Aug. Report of the society for bettering the condition of 1. the poor; receipts for the past year, ^366. 4s. 6d. ; average number of persons provided with spinning and knitting, 50 ; sick persons relieved, 228 ; lying-in cases relieved, 94; young people edu- cated, 200.

— 4. Theatre opened by Mr. Macready, for one month ;

Miss Smith (London) six nights, Mr. Barrymore, Mrs. Johnstone, Mr. Munden, Mr. Edwin. Sept. Anniversary of the cutlers' feast ; master, Mr. John 4. Sorby.

— 18. Boys' charity school ; report of the trustees and

state of accounts of the charity : —

£. s. D.

Expended from Jan. 1, 1805, to Jan. 1, 1806, in maintaining, clothing, and instructing 60 boys, (including three on Mr. Hanbey's establishment, .... 660 3 9

Receipts from rentals, annual subscrip- tions, (£167. 12s. 7d.) collections at churches, (<£65,) &c 594 14 10

Deficiency of income, £65 8 11

— 25. Hon. C. J. Fox ; news came to the town of the death

of Mr. Fox, on the 23d inst., aged 59.

— 26. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Clarence

(guests of Earl Fitzwilliam at Wentworth House, during the races at Doncaster) privately visited the town, and examined many manufactories, &c. — ^ T. M. Oct.\. Sheffield banks; hours of business fixed from ten to three at noon.

— 6. Female benevolent society first formed.

— 10. Public meeting; resolved that a new Town-Hall

should be erected, to provide necessary accommo- dation to the magistrates ; overseers agree to pay £1050 out of the rates, as theifr proportion of the expense of the new building.

— 16. Theatre opened by Mr. Macready; principal per-

formers. Master Betty, (three nights,) Messrs. Faw-

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1806—7.

cett, Chalmers, Edwin, Harley, (yGallag-her ; Miss Greville.

Oct. First anniversary (commemoration of the battle of 21. Trafalgar) of the Nelson club ; " Its fund, the be- nefit of which no member can receive, is raised by regular contributions, and is applicable only to pa- triotic and charitable purposes."

— 24. Mr. Lascelles, INIr. Fawkes, and INIr. Wilberforce, severally address the freeholders of the town, at the Town-Hall and Tontine, on the occasion of of- fering themselves (Mr. Fawkes ^rst time) to repre- sent the count^^

Nov. Duke of Clarence and s'uite visited the manufactories 5. of the town.

— 28. Winter fair; price of cheese, 58s. to 70s. per cwt. Dec. Chantrey's first public piece of work, the monumeni

23. to the memory of the late Rev. J. Wilkinson, placed in the parish church. "This monument, just erected by subscription, has been much and de- servedly admired, not only as a faithful and affect- ing resemblance of a venerable and lamented cha- racter, whose virtues will consecrate the marble which records them — but also as a chaste and ex- quisite specimen of the talents of a young artist, Whose genius we are firmly of opinion is destined hereafter not only to confer celebrity on the little village of Norton, the place of his birth, but to reflect glor\' on his native county itself." — Iris.

1807. Marriages at the parish church during the past year,

Jan. 484 ; increased beyond the former year, 5 ; beyond the average of the last ten years, 5.5.

. The business before the magistrates transacted at

the Cutlers'-Hall.

. Town library ; president. Rev. C. Chadwick.

. Independent and Dissenting chapel at Attercliffe

built; first minister, Rev. jNIaurice Philips.

— 19. Decease of Mr. John Trevor Younge, merchant, of

Union-street; "he was one of the oldest inhabi- tants of Sheffield, a trustee of the town and church estates, and having preserved an unblemished character for integrity and piety, died in his 88th year, in peace with all mankind." — Iris.

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1807.

Feb. Town fire engines ; — the fire engines belonging to

27. the trustees of the town presented to the directors

of the Birmingham fire office, who undertake to

keep the same in repair, and employ men to M'ork

them.

Mar. Choir of St, Paul's church ; — :;i2nd anniversary of the

'?2. collection (£22. 8s. fid.) for the benefit "of the

choir.

— 1.'8, The Sheffield Mercury newspaper; — the first num-

ber published by Mr. William Todd, in the Mar- ket-place. A^pril Parish accounts for the past year ; overseers, Jno. Wreaks, Peter Spurr, J. W. Wright, Wm. Skid- more; amount of rates collected, £14,.315. lls.lOd.; amount paid for the relief of the poor, 4^14,169. 9s. 7d.; county rate, £\A\. 4s. 2d.

— 7. There are at this time upwards of 40 recruiting-

parties in the town, successfully employed in pro- curing young men and boys for limited service. — Iris.

— 16, New Town-Hall. — Town Collector and Trustees

present the town with the site of ground at the top of Waingate, and on the south of Castle -street, for the new Town-Hall.

— 29. First public meeting at the Tontine to promote the

election of Lord Milton as M. P. ; — first committee formed, H. Parker, V. Eyre, Sir W. C. Bagshawe, S. Shore, S. Shore, jun.,' Richard Swallow, Thos. Rawson, Dr. Browne, Dr. Cheney, Joseph Read, Rev. AVilfred Huddlestone, Rev."J. Dixon, Robt. Turner, Hugh Mellor, and G. Woolhouse.

. . Mr. Lascelles' committee for promoting hiselection

as M. P. ; — James Stuart Wortley, Thomas Sutton, Stuart Corbett, Benjamin Wainwright, M.D., Mark Skelton, jun., John Jeeves, Samuel Newbould, George Bustard Greaves.

, Mr. Wilberforce's comTnittee ; — S. Walker, William

Alderson, Richard Stanley, S. B. Ward, B. Sayle, D. Holey, W, Staniforth," F. Parker, G. Bennet, S. Turner, G. Senior, and Joshua Spooner.

, John Sorby, Master, and Company of Cutlers in meet- ing, resolved " that this Company are truly sensible of the very great Parliamentary attention which fc2

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1807.

Mr. AVilberforce and ]\Ir. Lascelles have uniformly given to the interests of the town, and deem them highly worthy of support at the ensuing election." iliff^l. Public meeting; resolved to present a loyal and dutiful address, expressing the " unalterable at- tachment to his Alajesty's sacred person and Government ;" chairman, Rev. jNIr. Sutton.

— 2, The river (Dun) "suddenly swollen by the waters of

the Kivelin and Loxley, a mass of clouds having burst in a deluge on the high lands at Bradfield ; the torrent, in its progress, ploughed up the soil, and carried with it great quantities of earth, shrubs, trees, utensils of husbandry, &e." — Sheffield Mercury.

— 10. Public collection in the parish church for the benefit

of the singers, and to purchase sacred music.

— 20. Society established and subscriptions opened, to im-

prove the condition of children employed by chim- ney-sweepers, and to supersede the necessity of employing them.

— 25. General infirmary ;^Trustees receive, through the

hands of Messrs. Coutts, London bankers, the sura of .£0337. 2s. lOd., the produce of .£1000 3 per cent, stock, the donation of one unknown. Juiie A.VxxhWc procession through the town, to celebrate the return of Lord Milton as M.P.

— 25. Society for bettering the condition of the poor;

fourth annual report, i-eceived during the past year, j£268. 15s. 5jd.; disbursed, ^335. 6s. 5d. ; varlue of flax, worsted, linen, bedding, &c. on band, £267. 3s. 5d.

— 26. Sheffield Volunteer Infantry inspected by Colonel

Gooch. July 7. Decease of the Rev. S. Barnard, minister of Howard- street chapel, "sincerely and justly lamented by a numerous and respectable congregataion, more than 500 of whom attended his inwex^V— Sheffield Mercury.

— 12. General infirmary ; — Trustees receive £o^, donation

from Mrs. Martha Wigfleld of Darnall, deceased.

— 22. Public dinner at the Tontine, to celebrate the return

of Lord Milton as M.P. ^«^.5. Theatre ; Mr. Munden played (4 nights.) , — 7. Samuel Paramore, aged G8, executed at York, for

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1807.

criminally assulting two infant children in a house in Carver-lane.

Aug. James Gordon (a well known character in the town) 29. committed to the house of correction for publish- ing a libel on J. Ireland, excise officer of the district. — Sheffield Mercury.

<Se/;. 3. Anniversary of the cutlers' feast; master, Mr. P. Brownell; guests present, Duke of Norfolk and Lord Milton.

— 4, ]\Irs. Brownell gave an elegant dinner

to the ladies, and in the evening, an assembly at the rooms in Norfolk-street.

— 7. Sheffield Volunteer Infantry ; public meeting, . Dr.

Browne chairman, resolved, that a committee be formed, and subscriptions entered into, for three years if necessary, to meet the exigencies of the regiment.

— 14. Theatre opened by the " managers ;" principal per-

formers, Messrs. Dwyer, Harley, Huddart, and Lancaster, Mr. and Mrs. Hill, Mrs. Young, Miss S. Booth, Miss Macauley, Oct. 7. Decease of Mr. Joseph Hattersley, of Pond-street, aged 82. " In the early part of his life, he was the most celebrated steel, drawer within the limits of the corporation."'

— 19, Oratorio at St. James's church, for the benefit of Mr.

Joseph Taylor, "the venerable father of music in Sheffield."

— 22. First subscription concert and ball, for the benefit of

the Infirmary.

— 23. Sheffield Regiment of Volunteer Infantry inspected

by Colonel Baldwin, at Broom-hall. Nov. Promotions in the Sheffield Volunteer Yeomanry: — Francis Fenton, Esq. to be Lieut.Col. Commandant.

Major T. Leader Lieut. Colonel.

Captain Joseph Read Major.

Lieut. Robert Wade Captain.

Lieut. Godfrey Machon Do.

Lieut. T. A. Ward Do.

Lieut. M . Jepson Do.

Ensign C. Pickslay Lieutenant,

Ensign John Turner Do.

Ensign John Ardron Do.

il6 SHEFKIEtD LOCAL REGISTER.

1807.

Ensign George Tillotson Lieutenant.

Ensign John Blake Do.

Joseph Nowill, Gent Do.

Ensign Thomas Walton Do.

John Brown, Gent Do.

Simon HefFord, Gent Ensign.

Thomas Barber, Gent Do.

G. R. Cooke, Gent Do.

Jamas Hide, Gent Do.

John Wiley, Gent Do.

Thomas Bradbury, gent v Do.

— 28. Winter fair held ; cheese, 60s. to 67s. per cwt. Z)ee. 1 . Decease of Mrs. Woolen, wife of Mr. Wm. Woolen,

of the Park. "She had just finished reading a letter, which contained an account of the loss of a ship, on board of M-hich all the crew perished, excepting her own son and another boy; when, being suddenly overcome with joy and apprehen- sion, she fell on the floor and instantly expired : — Sheffield Mercitry. ■— 2. Sheffieldfire officejfirst formed ; shares of j^l 00 each.

— 12. Decease of Mr. John Northall, formerly publisher of

the Sheffield Courant newspaper.

— 14. Rev. C. Chadwick, A. B., master of the grammar

school, presented with a silver cup by the gentle- men educated by him, "in token of their grati- tude and high regard." — Inscrij). Reverendo Viro Carolo Chadwick, A.B., Scholce liberce Sheffield- ensis rectori sedulo, anno jam trigcsimo secundo laboranti, discipuli proeceptoris et amici beneficio- rum inemores, D. D. — Anno mdcccvii.

— 24. Master Cutler and Company give notice " that they

will enforce their act of corporation, making it penal in the amount of ten pounds per month, for any person not a freeman of the said Company to carry on any of the corporate arts or trades."

— 31. Expended by the Church Burgesses during the past

year out of their trust fund ; to the clergy .€400 ; to repairs, &c. of the church, £2\']. 13s. 7d. ; to the poor ^15 ; to general and incidental expences, £2U.5s.U.—P.Rep.

— 31. Public meeting ; resolved toraise tlio sum of £300,000,

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1808.

in shares of £100 each, for the establishment of the Sheifield fire office.

. Price of conveyance of goods, (Wade and Co.'s,

Jan. Shudehill ;) Manchester to Sheffield, 2s. per cwt. ; Sheffield to Manchester, 2s. 2d. ; to and from Shef- field and Liverpool, 2s. lOd. per cwt. . Town library; president, Rev. C. Chadwick.

— 30. Committee of the new insurance company announce

receipt of subscriptions to be ,=£155,000. Mm\ General infirmary ; Mr. John Dawson elected Secre- 9. tarj', vice Mr. William Lowrie, resigned,

— 25. General infirmary ; fifth subscription concert and

ball for the benefit of tl>e infirmary ; leader, Mr. White ; principal singer, Mr. Frith. April. Parish accounts for the past year ; overseers, Thos. Watson, James Cam, Jos. Hawksley, Francis Carr ; amount of rates collected, £16,151. Os. 7d. ; amount paid for the relief of the poor, £16,001. 10s. 8d.; county rate, £147. 16s.

— 6. Sheffield fire insurance office ; committee of formation

announce the subscriptions to have reached £297,500, and the opening of the establishment the ensuing midsummer.

— 25. Acting constables of the town, John HinchclifFe,

Thomas and William Smith ; assistants, Edward

Jennings and William Jones. . Decease of Mr. William Warris, aged 38, " merchant,

and Captain in the Sheffield regiment of Volunteer

Infantry." May Performance of sacred music, and collection at the 1. doors of the parish church, for the benefit of the

singers. - 7> Angel Inn, Angel-street, first kept by Mr. M'^illiam

Peech. . Old Town-Hall, at the corner of St. Peter's church- yard, taken down.

— 28. Mr. Lambert (weighing 50 stone of 141bs ea.) adver-

tised that he would " see company" at the Angel Inn. Jime Summer fair held in the Wicker ; price of cheese, 14. 75s. to 85s. per cwt.

— 16. Sheffield Volunteer Infantry inspected on Brinsworth

Common, by Col. Baldwin.

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1808.

June Bill passed "to facilitate the recovery of debts under 18. five pounds, within the jurisdiction of the Courts Baron of Sheffield and Ecclesall ;" Clerk (Deputy Steward) of the Court, John Watson, Esq.

— 23, The foundation laid of the new Town-Hall.

— 24. Samuel Mather appointed organist of St. Paul's

church, vice his father, Mr. John Mather, de- ceased.

— 25. Offices of the Sheffield fire insurance company first

opened for business, at the house of Mr. T. Willey, (principal agent,) Market-place. Julj/i. Decease of Mr. Charles Proctor, aged 69, " a most useful member of the community at large taking, on all occasions, a most active persevering part to accomplish any object for the benefit of society."

— 5. Decease of Mr. Thomas Wilson, Sycamore-street,

aged 63 ; " his hand and purse were always ready to serve the cause of humanity, and support the interests of religion."

— 7. First court day of the Sheffield Court of Requests ; of-

fice, the Freemasons'-lodge, in Paradise-square ; Steward, Thos; Wybergh, Esq.

— 10. Sermons preached at the Nether, Howard-street, Lee-

croft, Garden -street, and Queen-street chapels, and collections made for the benefit of the British prisoners in France, and the relief of unemployed workmen in the town.

— 11. Sheffield regiment of Volunteer Infantry, grand field

day; addressed by Col. Leader, on transferring themselves, at the recommendation of Government, to the militia; present, 398 ; volunteered as recom- mended, 338 ; including 26 officers. — 20. Non-commissioned officers and privates of the Shef- field regiment of Volunteers, present Lieut.-Col. Fenton with a superb sword, " as a testimony of their sincere regard and attachment."

— 22. General infirmary receive ^£100 ; boys' and girls'

charity schools, £50 each ; and Sunday Schools, £20 ; bequeathed by IMr. Charles Proctor. Au(/. Committee of the association for the prosecution of felons, present Mr. Ebenezer Rhodes with a gold cup, " in acknowledgment of his public services in the establishment of the institution."

SHEFFIELD LOCAI, REGISTER. 1J9

1808.— 9.

Aug. Mr. John Bannister delivered at the theatre his en-

jy. tertamment, called " Bannister's BudL'et " Sept. Anniversary of the cutlers' feast ; master, Mr Ebe- 1. nezer Rhodes.

— 2. Mrs. Rhodes entertained the ladies ; dinner and as-

sembly, at the rooms in Norfolk-sti'eet.

- uX Public meeting ; resolved to present an « address of

congratulation to his Majesty, on the sio-nal and successful efforts of Spain against the perfidy and tyranny of France," '

Oct. Shefield' Volunteer regiment mustered for the la<t ly. time ; enrolled for the Local Militia, 456 : com mi^- sioned officers, 32.

— 31. Theatre opened by Mr. Macreadj-, for six weeks-

principal performers, IMr. Oon^vay, (first appear- ance,) Fawcett, Harley; Miss "Grayson, Miss Young, Miss S. Booth. Dec.2. The Hope London and Sheffield coach fir^t com menced running; Thomas Simpson, Tontine

— ^12. I irst meeting of the directors (24) of the Sheffield fire

office. !— 31. Expended by the Church Burgesses during the past year, out of their trust funds ; to the clergy =f 400 • to repairs, &c. of church, ^380. 14s. 9d."-' to the

1"wq'i1^^iM° ^i^"^^^' ^""^ incidental expenses, i»3. 13s. lid.— P. i?6yj. ' '

1809. Places of public worship in the town at which ser- vice is performed : —

Clunch of England St. Peter's Church

■■ St. Paul's.

...... St. James's.

7"; 7 Hospital Chapel.

Independents Queen-street Chapel.

Norfolk-street.

Howard-street.

Garden-street.

77" n Lee-croft.

Methodists Norfolk-street.

* Carver-street.

,, , ,. ■*♦ Bridgehouses.

Catholics, Norfolk-row.

Unitarians, Norfolk-street.

F'-'ends, Haitshead.

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Baptists, Coalpit-lane.

Methodist New Connexion, Scotland-street.

Jmi. Town library; president, INIr. Thomas Asline AVard. 11. Public meeting; resolved, "in consequence of the unprecedented stagnation of trade, the very high price of provisions, and the extreme difficulty of collecting the parochial rates, that a subscription be opened for the relief of the poor."

17. Public meeting for same purpose at the court room,

Ecclesall Bierlow, and at Nether Hallajn.

. Decease of Adam Ashton, agetl 82, " fifty years

overlooker of the water-works."

— 20. Committee appointed at the public meeting for the

relief of the poor, (Sheffield township) announce the receipt of subscriptions £1300, and the number of applicants for relief, 10,0<0n.

27. Tontine Inn first kept by Jno. Batty.

Feb. ]Nrr. Joseph Lancaster, at the Assembly-rooms, pub- 14. licly elucidated his plan of educating poor children.

16. Public meeting ; resolved that a committee be ap- pointed and subscriptions entered into, towards the establishment of a shcool for 1000 boys, on the plan of Mr. Lancaster.

April Parish accounts for the past year ; overseers, Jno. Eadon, jun., Samuel Mitchell, Benj. Shepherd, Henrv Whitelock ; amount of rates collected, ^18,990. 17s. Id.; amount paid for the relief of the poor, £18,831. 3s. ; county rate,£135. ISs. 7d.

— 12. Public meeting; resolved that thanks be given to

Colonel Gwilliam Lloyd Wardle, for his conduct during the investigation of the charges brought against the Duke of York ; address conveying the thanks received 15,035 names.

May Decease of Mr. Samuel Peccb, aged 70. " He was 30. one of the greatest coach proprietors and post- masters in the kingdom, and kept the Angel Inn thirtv years."

Jmic LancasWrian school, in Gibraltar-street, first opened ; 5. master, Mr. Charles Bower.

. Mr. VVheatcroft, of Sutton, appointed a master of the

free grammar school.

17. Sheffield Yeomanry Cavalry reviewed on Brinsworth

Commoji, bv Col. Gooch.

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June Decease of the Rev. Charles Chadwick, B.A., vicar 19. of Tinsley, and head master of the grammar school for more than thirty years, aged 71 years. " He was a man of considerable erudition, and ranked high as a classical scholar ; he was highly respected by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance." Sheffield Merc.

— 21. Confirmation in the parish church of 1073 young per-

sons, by the Hon. Edward Venables Vernon, Archbishop of York.

July5. Sheffield regiment of Local Militia, under the com- mand of Lieut.-Col. Fenton, commenced fourteen days' exercise at Doncaster.

. Fifth anniversary of the annuity society, at the Ton- tine; reported, ^750. 14s. 4d. stock; members, 120.

— 6. Thirteenth anniversary of the female benefit society;

stock, £971.

— 24. Town-Hall ; the new clock first set a-going.

— 27. The vault beneath the Shrewsbury chapel in the pa-

rish church explored by Mr. Joseph Hunter, Mr. V. H. Eyre, and Mr. John Greaves. " By eight or nine steps from the chancel, we descended to an upright door, which we found so decayed that it fell from its bolt and hinges on a slight force being applied to it. We were then admitted into a room about ten feet square and six feet in height, its stone roof supported by a rough hewn pillar, rising in the centre. We found only two coffins Iving on tressels, (Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury, 1616, and Henry Howard, Esq., 1787.) Foi-merly more of the coffins were in sight; the others deposited here are probably walled up in that part of the vault which lies under the founder's tomb." Aug. Mr. Incledon, the singer, gave a vocal entertainment

7. at the theatre. — 26. Rev. Jos. Wilson, M. A. elected master of the free

grammar school, vice Mr. Chadwick, deceased. Sept. Anniversary of the Cutlers' feast; Master, Mr. Ro- 7. bert Brightmore. Corporation announce, that in consequence of the state of their finances, they suspend the annual feast, and dine by tickets, 15s. each.

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Sept. A cloud descended precipitately on Crookes-jnoor, 8. from whence the water rolled down through the in- tervening fields and gardens, bearing away walls, and ploughing up the soil, until it reached Young- street, on Shef&eld-moor, where, after inundating the ground floors and cellars of the houses, the flood spent itself over the road and adjoining \dsi^.— Sheffield Mercury.

— 19. Early in the morning, the town and neighbourhood

nsited by a most tremendous hurricane, exceeding in violence any storm experienced at such a season. In its impetuous course, it tore trees from the roots, destroyed fruits and gardens, walls, windows, &c. — Sheffield Mercury.

— 26. Dr. Cori and his pupils perform a musical melange

at the theatre. Ocf.9. Theatre opened by Messrs. Robinson and Manley ; principal performers, Messrs. Pritchard, Shelton, Piatt, Earl, Sidney; Mrs. Wrench, IMiss Camp- bell, Mrs. Sidney.

— 14. Decease of Mr. Robert Gales, aged 75, father of I\Ir.

Jos. Gales, publisher of the Sheflfield newspaper.

— 16. First appearance of Miss Feron at the theatre.

17. Decease of JNIr. Ebenezer Radcliffe, dissenting mi- nister, aged 77- " He was educated at the gram- mar school of Sheffield ; he had powers of a very superior order, and may be said to have established a permanent reputation upon works (theological discussion) which rarely survive the occasion which produces them."

— 2.5. Celebration of his Majesty's entrance on the 50th year

of his reign ; business closed, churches and chapels open, and collections for charitable puj;poses ; Ju- bilee public dinners at the Angel and lontine, and other inns ; seventj'-one poor men of tiie age of his Majesty receive each a new coat and hat, and dine at the tJutlers'-Ilall, at the expense of the corpo- ration ; fire-works, balls, &c.

Nov. Winter fair held in the Wicker; price of cheese, 78s. 28. to 90s. per cwt.

Detf.4. General meeting of the merchants and manufacturers, (Mr, John Tillotson chairman,) to take into consi- deration measures necessary to be adopted in con-

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sequence of the demands of the journeymen for an advance of M'ages ; resolved that a committee of trades be appointed to ascertain the expediency of an advance.

Dec. Charge of conveyance of merchandize from Sheffield 31, to London, lis. 8d. pfir cwt. ; Messrs. Pickfords, Hunt, and Ibbotson.

. Expended by the Church Burgesses, during the past

year, out of their funds ; to the clergy, ^400 ; to repairs, &c. of church, .^^380. 2s. Id. ; to the poor, .£15; to general and incidental expenses, ^214. 7s. 2d.— P. Rep.

1810. Public news room established in an elegant and com-

Jan.l. modious room in the old church yard.

. Town library ; president, Rev. Thomas Sntton.

— 11. Meeting at the Tontine, of the friends of Col. Wardle,

to promote a public subscription towards defraying the expenses of the legal proceedings attending the enquiry into the conduct of the Duke of York ; collected (about) .^130.

— 17. Decease of Sergeant Street, aged 79, "Orderly Ser-

geant in the Sheffield Volunteers, commanded by the late Col. Athorpe." Feb.o. Sheffield Auxiliary British and Foreign Bible Society public meeting, and subscriptions opened for its' formation.

— 23. The screw manufactory in Millsands, belonging to

Messrs. Hattersley and Co., destroyed by fire. jipril. Parish accounts for the past year ; overseers, Saml. Carver, John Tillotson, Francis AUwood, Jona. Francis; amount of rates collected, .£16,241. 10s.7d., amount paid for the relief of the poor, j616,016.' 18s. 6d.; countyrate, £149. lis. 7d.

— 6. Journeymen scissor makers combine together, and

resolve not to work for masters making cast steel scissors ; workmen in several branches combine for an advance of wages.

. Meeting of the merchants and master manufacturers ;

resolved " that subscriptions be raised, and that pro- secutions be commenced against workmen who have entered into unlawful combinations."

— 10. Decease of John Browne, M. D., aged 70. ** Distin-

guished by powers of mind which are only given to

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1810.

the few and favoured instruments of a gracious Providence, to promote the interests and happiness of the society in which they are placed, these high endowments were actively and uniformly dedicated by him to every object of social usefulness, and every exertion of compassionate benevolence ; on all occasions the public mind turned to him as a man devoted to its interests, — the foremost in every measure directed to the public good, with talents adequate to every undertaking, and a heart which bestowed the gifts of an ample fortune on every meritorious object." Go thou and do likewise. April Sheffield Auxiliary Bible Society ; — first report. Earl 14. Fitzwilliam president ; amount of donations, £292; annual subscriptions, £355; one-half of total amount transmitted to the Parent Society, and the remainder appropriated to the purchase of Bibles and Testaments.

— 16. The funeral of Dr. Browne attended by the principal

inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood.

" The light his life has ceased to give, Will e'en in his example live ; And memory's grateful incense bum. Diffusing radiance from his urn."

. Bequests of Dr. Browne ; to the Infirmary, £500 ;

boys' and girls' charity schools, ^100 each.

— 19. The new Town-Hall opened, and business first trans-

acted there by the magistrates.

— 28. Female friendly society first formed.

May Sheffield regiment of Local Militia assembled for 20 2. days' training and exercise.

— 3. Joseph Ward, James Knight, Samuel Hawke, Elia-

zer Clayton, Thomas Booth, and William Brom- ley, six residentblind musicians, have a benefit con- cert at the assembly rooms. . Mr. Blewitt appointed organist of the parish church.

— 7. Di"' Browne ; — resolved at a public meeting to place by

subscription a bust (value 100 guineas) of Dr. Browne, deceased, in the infirmary, and to raise a monument to him in the church.

— 8, Decease of Mr. John Eadon, master of the free writ-

ing school, aged 80. " As a mathematician, he ranked among the first in the kingdom, and the

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last fifty years nf his useful life were devoted to the education of thousands of the youth of Sheffield."

May Pitt Club ; first meeting- and dinner of the members, 28. at the Ang-el Inn. Rev. Stuart Corbett, D. D. pre- sident.

June^ Public meeting-; "about seven or eight thousand of t». the inhabitants assembled in Paradise-square, to take into consideration the assurajjtion of privilege by the House of Commons, in imprisoning his Majesty's subjects for offences cognizable in the usual courts of law, to consider the subject of a reform in the representation of the people, and the propriety of returning thanks to Sir Francis Bur- dett for his great and unremitted exertions in the service of his country."— Address and petition voted.— Sheffield Mercury.

. lAIaster Cutler, (Robert Brightmore,) Church Bur- g-esses, and Town Collector, (Robert Turner,) and three hundred merchants, manufacturers, &c. pub- lish a declaration, declaring their dissent from the objects of the meeting-.

— 14. Lancasterian school; first report of the committee;

expended in salaries, rent, books, &c., £803; re- ceived in donations, M^'J ; number of scholars, (i20 ; master, Mr. M'Coy.

— 20. Humane society, for the recovery of persons appa-

rently dead, first formed by INIr. F. Cluley, the directors of the Sheffield fire office, and governors of the infirmary.

— 28. Court of Requests removed to the room in the new

ToM-n-Hall.

. Public dinner at the Tontine, of the friends of con- stitutional reform; Thomas Rawson, Esq., pre- sident. ^ ^

July\. Disputes between the masters and journeymen sprint knife cutlers amicably adjusted.

. Public dinners given at the Tontine, and sixteen other

inns, to celebrate the liberation of Sir Francis Burdett.

— 10. Decease of Mr. John Smith, aged 63, "many years

an eminent bookseller in this town, and father to the Rev. John Pye Smith, D.D., of Homerton."— Sheffield Mercury.

IZXt SH£;r>-IELD X.OCAL REGISTER.

1810.

Auff. J. A. Stuart Wortley, Esq. M. P., and a number of 1. the friends and customers of Mr. Peech, deceased, dined at the Angel Inn, in compliment to the man- ner in which the house had been conducted by him- self and family.

— 20. Sale of the property, horses, wines, &c. of Mr. S.

Peech, deceased, at the Angel Inn ; a brass can- dlestick sold for £6, the old two-armed elm chair, used for so many years by Mr. Peech, in the bar, five guineas, and the set of silver casters, so well known and admired, jC24. Sept. Sir Sidney Smith visited the town, and was received 1. publicly by the members of the corporation, &c.

— 6. Anniversary of the Cutlers' feast; Master, Mr. John

Tillotson ; dinner by tickets, 1 5s, ; guest. Lord Milton.

— 18. Mr. Thelwall lectured on elocution at the theatre, Oc.27. Lord Milton presented jEIOO to the infirmary.

JVov. Messrs. Revill and Co.'s sugar-house, in the Nursery, 9. partly destroyed by fire ; damage, ^1000.

— 12. Mr. Charles Adams appointed vestry clerk, vice Mr.

Thomas Scholefield resigned.

— 16. Princess Amelia; the day for the interment of the

deceased Princess (died 2d instant) observed in the town.

— 23. The cotton mill of Messrs. Heathfield, Middleton,

and Co. destroyed by fire ; " by twelve o'clock, four hours after commencement, the building, with the exception of one end, appeared a mere shell ; no lives lost."— Shef. Merc.

— 26. Theatre opened by Air. Simms ; principal performers,

Messrs. Harley, Amthos, Tuthill, Shaw, Bennett, Ryan ; Mr. J. Bannister, (six nights ;) Mrs. Wood, Miss Walcot, Miss Feron, (three nights.)

— 29. The Messiah (oratorio)performed at St. Paul's church,

on the occasion of re-opening the organ ; principal performers. Miss Feron ; Messrs. Gotham, Brad- bury, Lees, White, Ellis, and John Mather. Dec. Police act; — resolved, at a public meeting held at the 17. ToAvn-Hall, that it is expedient to procure an act of Parliament for the better watching and lighting the town, removal of nuisances, &c. ; original com- mittee, Messrs. J. Rimington, W. Shore, J. Bailey,

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J. Tillotson, T. Hawkslev, E. Nanson, R. Walton, W. Thompson, G. Bennet, J. Withers, J. Favell, J. Shearwood, E. Rhodes, T. A. Ward, and J. Nowill.

Dec. Chantrey's marble bust of Dr. Browne placed in the 31. board-room of the infirmary.

. Expended by the Church Burgesses during the past

year, out of their trust funds ; to the clergy, X491. 10s.; to repairs, &c. of church, ^268. 14s. Id.; to the poor, ,£15; to general and incidental ex- penses, ,^193. 8s. Id.— P. Rep.

3811. Population of Sheffield, according to the Parliamen-

Jan. tary census : —

^, ^ Townships. Males. Females. Total.

Sheffield Town & Park, 17387 18453 35840

Ecclesal-Byerlow 3190 3379 6569

Brightside-Byerlow.... 2462 2437 6899

Attercliffe-cum-Darnall, 1436 1237 2673

Hallam Nether 1233 U5l 2384

Hallam Upper 453 413 866

Total %,161 27,070 53,231

. Town library; president, Mr. George Bennet.

. Attereliffe and Darnall ;— the common fields and waste

lands within the manors of Darnall and Atterciffe (50 acres of common field, and 230 acres of waste land) enclosed by act of Parliament.

: Number of houses in the township of Sheffield, 7927.

—Ridge's Picture of Sheffield.

— 23. Public meeting; — resolved to petition the post-master to expedite the London mail by Worksop.

Feb. Publication of the Sheffield Mercury removed to Mr.^ 23. Middleton's late premises, head of the Market- place.

Mar. General fast observed ;—je 135 collected at the church- 20. es and three chapeTs for the relief of British prison- ers in France.

—21 . Public meeting to receive the report of the committee appointed to prepare a police act.

April Parish accounts for the past year; overseers, Samuel Young, Benjamin CoUey, Edward Wilson, Samuel Luca5 ; amount collected in rates, ^16,640. 10s.

i28 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1811.

7tl. ; amount paid for the relief of the poor, ^16,453. 10s. 8d. ; county rate, .£154. 17s. Od. April Public meeting'; — resolved, " 1st, That the report of 5. the committee appointed in December 1809 be adopted as the basis of the proposed police act ; 2nd, That the Town Trustees having'' declined ap- propriating any portion of the funds tOM'ards the objects of the bill, that it is expedient to institute proceedings in Chancery, to obtain a proper specific settlement of the trust adapted to the wants and exigencies of the town."

— 8. First annual meeting of the friends of the Auxiliary

Bible Society held at the Cutlers'-Hall.

— 16. Court Leet ; — acting constables, John Hinchliffe,

Thomas Smith, William Smith ; assistants, Jones, Deakin, Watkin, Morton.

— 17. Miss Osborne first sung at the subscription concerts

for the benefit of the infirmary. May Dreadful storm ; — " In the afternoon, between five and six o'clock, this town and neighbourhood were visited by a tremendous storm of hail, accompanied with thunder and lightning — the streets Avere covered with hail-stones three to five inches in circum- ference ; fruit trees, hot-houses, &c. were destroy- ed; on the premises of 32 persons only 10,710 panes of glass were destroj^ed." — Sheffield Merc.

— 13. Friendly female society ; — first report and anniver-

sary meeting at the Town-Hall ; distributed during thepast year, ^256, with which 341 objects have been in some degree relieved ; of these, two-thirds are upwards of 70 years of age, thirty-seven upwards of eighty, and one more than 90.

— 27. Sheffield Local Militia inspected by Major-General

Stevenson.

— 28. Second anniversary of the Pitt club at the Tontine,

president, Rev. Thomas Sutton.

JuneS. Decease of Sir S. Sitwell, aged 42 ; — ^bequeathed to the Sheffield Bible Society .£400, to the infirmary .£300.

. Vestry meeting ; — Churchwardens authorised to pur- chase a piece of land to be given to the Church Burgesses, in exchange for two acres and a half

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situate at the top of Broad-lane, to be used as a burial-ground. JuneB. Meeting of Protestant Dissenters at Queen-street chapel — day of thanksgiving appointed for the re- jection of Lord Sidmouth's bill.

— 25. Eighth report of the society for bettering the condi-

tion of the poor ; receipts, £3:^2 ; stock and debts due, £93. 5s. ; disbursed £288.

— 30. Quantity of wrought-plate manufactured in the town,

and assayed at the public office during the past

year, 3882 lb. 1 oz. 4 dwts. July Price of gi'ain, &c. in Sheffield ; wheat, 26s. to 35s. ;

rye, 22s. to 25s. ; barley, 35s. to 44s. ; oats, 24s. to

32s.; beans, I9s. to 20s. per quarter Winchester. . The young society; — stock, £2482; members, 553.

— \2. Election of Town Trustees ; — public meeting for

the election of three new Trustees, resolved " that the committee appointed on 5th April last, do, with- in two months, report the opinions of Sir James MansTfield and Sir William Grant, touching the right of electing persons as Town Trustees."

— 20. The directors advertise the club corn mill to be sold^

— 29. The sixty-eighth annual conference of Wesreyatr

preachers held in the town.

. Sheffield fire insurance, new offices opened in George- street.

Aug. Rev. W. Hedges, of Thribergh, bequeathed £100 to the infirmary.

Sep. 5. Anniversary of the Cutlers'^ feast; — Master, Mr. John Eton ; dinner by tickets. 15s. each.

. Master and Company of Cutlers advertise to raise

£2100, in sums not less than £500 each, by way of annuity.

— 14. Patent granted to George Kitchen, silver-plater, for

making portable sconces or branches. Oct. 1. Theatre opened by Messrs. Manley and Robertson ; principal performers, Messrs. Yates, Carter, and Clarke, Miss Wallis, Miss Irwin, Miss Plowden.

— 11. Public meeting; — resolved, that in consequence of

the encreasing scarcity of small change, (money) that the overseers, under the sanction of the town, do issue a coinage of silver tokens, not exceeding £10,000, of Is. and 2s. 6d. currency.

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1811—12.

Oirt.16. Steam engines ; — true bills for nursances found by the grand jury at the sessions, against the o^vners of two steam engines in Arundel-street and Pond- sti'eet, for not consuming the smoke.

— 26. Decease of Mr. Joseph Taylor, aged 81 ; — " He was

the fii'st public spirited person who introduced oratorios into the town, and as a tribute of esteem, honourable both to the givers and receiver, per- formances of sacred music ha^e been yearly pre- sented for his benefit by his musical friends, the profits of which in age, infirmity, and blindness, enabled him to live comfortably."

jVof.G. Decease of the Rev. Thomas Spencer, " a man of great worth and sincerely lamented by his friends."'

. John Westn-ood issued silver tokens, value sixpence

and one shilling.

— 26. Mr. William Lawton, (Bay Childers) aged 39, in

crossing the Market-place, fell down and expiicd Avithout a groan or convulsion of nature.

— 28. The M'inter fair; — price of cheese, 75s. to 90s; per

cwt. Dec. 8. Decease of Mr. James Kay, aged 79, of Eyre-street, and formerly of the King's Head, Change-alley.

— 30. Public meeting ; — resolved, " that it is unadvisable

for the overseers or private individuals to issue any more tokens, and that none excepting those issued by the overseers be taken after the expira- tion of one month."'

— 31. Expended by the Church Burgesses, daring the past

year, out of their trust funds ; to the clergy, ^£460 ; to repairs, &c. of church, ^218. 7s. 3d.; to the poor, ^15 ; to general and incidental expences, ^191. 4s. \U.—P.Rep. 1812. /a?j. Town library ; president, Mr. George Bennet.

— 13. Meeting of the friends of Church Sunday Schools; re-

solved, that a building be erected or procured, capa- ble of containing 500 scholars, and that the system of Dr. Best be introduced, — subscriptions entered into.

. Messrs. Incledon and Matthews produce their enter- tainment of the Travellers at the theatre.

. General infirmary ; — Treasurer receives ^£70. 2s. 3d.,

a proportion of the undisposed balance of the York- shire Tontine.

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n. Patent granted to Mr. John Sorby, jun. for a ne^v

method of making' shears. 22. Rer. Henry Stephen Milner, D. D. qualified as a ma- gistrate within the West-Riding.

— , Rev. George Chandler qualified as a magistrate with- in the West-Riding.

26. Decease of Mr. Josephus Parkin, age 79. " He was

elected Master Cutler in 1779> and on the death of his successor in 1780, he Mas called upon a second time to discharge the duties of that office." — i:hef- field Merc.

27. Decease of Mr. J. Brady, a member of the Society of

Friends. " Though deeply lamented by the more immediate circle of his connexions, yet to society his memory will be long deservedly dear, and all will unite in the regret at the early termination of a life devoted to benevolence."— (S/^^e/t^ Merc.

29. Decease of Mr. Anthony Norton, aged 86, " he was the first person who drove a coach or chaise be- tween Sheffield and Chesterfield." 31. Subscriptions for the maintenance of the Church Sunday Schools, proposed at the meeting of the 13th inst., amount to i^800.

?i. 3. Public meeting; — resolved to petition Parliament to rescined certain " Orders in Council," in conse- quence of which, the American'Congress have pro- hibited the importation of British manufactures.

ar. Decease of Mr. Longden, aged 58, "thirty-five years a preacher in this town, of the Methodist connec- tion." "The goodness of his character requires no panegyric, hundreds of happy spirits, to whom he has been rendered useful, will hail him welcome to the skies." — Sheff. Merc

— . Decease of Mrs. Dorothy Broadhead, a member of the Society of Friends, aged 73. " She left sons and daughters, and 30 grand children, to lament her loss, — she has, in the fullest sense of the word, done all the good for which she was intended." — Sheff. Mercury.

■ 9. Second anniversary and report of the Auxiliary Bible

Society at the Town-Hall ; Rev. Thomas Sutton in the chair.

■ 25. The hospital (Shrewsl)ury) ; — Duke of Norfolk in-

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creased the pensioners' allowance to ten shilling's per week to the men, and eight shilling's per week to the women.

Mar. Master and Corpoi-ation of Cutlers vote that petitions 28. be presented to Parliament against the renewal of the East India Company's monopoly, after the 1st March, 1814, the period of its expiration ; — Mr. T. A. Ward appointed deputy, to further the object of the petition to London.

April Parish accounts for the year; overseers, Samuel 5. Young, Benjamin Colley, Edward Wilson, Samuel Lucas ; assistant overseers, Thomas Deakin, Jarvis Brady, J. Shaw, James Wild ; amount collected in rates, .£18,607. 10s. 5d.; amount paid for the relief of the poor, j£18,327. 16s.; countvrate, £149. 5s. 8d.

. Anne Phoenix and Hannah Machon sentenced at the

sessions to six months' imprisonment and to stand once in the pillory in the town, for keeping disor- derly houses.

— 7- Sheffield regiments of Yeomanry Cavalry and Local

Militia upon service to assist the civil power in preserving the peace of the town,

— 13. Deceaseof Mr. Peter Cadman, aged 78, merchant, of

Norfolk-street.

— 14. Attack made by several hundred persons upon the

military dep6t of the Sheffield Local Militia ; the Dragoons called out by the magistrates ; thirty stand of arms destroyed.

— 15. IMagistrates of the town order the special constables

to parade the town in parties during the evening and night, and apprehend all persons refusing to disperse, and that all publicans close their houses by ten preciselj', except permisson to the contrary be given.

— 20. Disturbances in the town, chiefly on account of the

high price of provisions.

— 27- Town Collector and Assistants offer thanks to the ci-

vil and military powers, for their spirited and ju- dicious conduct during the late unhappy distur- bances. May Mr. John Bailey, Messrs. Naylor, and Mr. Ebenezer 2. Rhodes, appointed a deputation to London to give

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evidence in the Parliamentary committee, touching' the revocation of the Orders in Council.

May Members of the Pitt Club advertise " That in conse- 16. quence of the late atrocious assassination committed oo tlie person of Mr. Perceval, the Minister, (who was so strict a disciple of^ and so able a successor to the late Right Hon. W. Pitt,) the proposed anni- versary of the 28th be postponed."

. Additional special constables sworn at the Town-Hall,

and association formed for the preservation of the peaee.

— 31. 'Decease of Mr. Brittaiii, aged 73, merchant, partner

in the house of Messrs. Brittain, Wilkinson, and Brownell. Jvne South Devon Militia quartered in the town, and in- 1. spected by General Stevenson.

— 11. Third anniversary of the formation of the Lancaste-

rian schools ; scholars, 551 ; received in subscrip- tions, donations, &c. the past year, ^390. " And we would cause, as we very easily may by God's help, all the youth that are of the English nation to be put to learning; and that they should be set about no other business until they first know how to read English." — Alfred the Great.

— 19. Rejoicings in the town, upon the news of the suspen-

sion ot tne Orders in Council.

— 22 Yorkshire amateur music meeting ; performance in & 23. St. Paul's church, dinner at the Tontine, concert

at the assembly rooms, and ball.

— 29. Decease of Mr. Porter, of Howard-street, aged 76.

"A principle of benevolence, integrity of heart, and fervour of friendship, were conspicuous in his character." — Sheffield Mercury. July\.V[i\A\c meeting; resolved to vote "thanks to those Members of Parliament who supported the revo- cation of the Orders in Council, by which the va- luable trade to the United States of America has f, been restored to Sheffield;" and a subscription, li-

mited to sixpence each, formed, to present a piece of plate to Mr* Brougham, for his able advocacy of the revocation. •

— 18. General infirmary; received a donation of .£100 from

a person unknown.

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Juft/ Anniversary of the Pitt dub, *t the Tontine ; presi-

20. dent, Leut.-Col. Leader. u^uf. Trisla of the prisoners at Yorjc, charged with th« .,vJL riot in SheflBfild on tiie 14th of April ; Rodgers,six .(]•»-. <inonths' imprisonment; Gibbons, twelve months; . ' ■ Wolstenholin, acquitted.

— rdSu Price of fine flour, upwards of five shillings per stone.

Public meeting ; resolved that the overseers increase

generally the weekly allowance made to the neces- i J «itott8 poor.

— 16. Gold tokens issued by Young, Wilsona, aii4 Young,

and silver tokens issued by C. Younge &0«., with- dranrnfrom circulation.

— 18 A great number of persons assembled in the town, it d9. fuad proceeded in a most tumultuous iDa»ner to the

meal and flour dealei-e, and compelled tbem by force to aril their flour at 3s. per stone. The riot act read in diifereot parts of the town, the military called out, and several persons -apprehended.

1—29. PoWic noeeting ; general subscription for the relief of 4he poor of the township of Sheffield, and the ham- lets, not receiving actual relief from the overseers.

Sept. Anniversary of the Cutlers' feast; Master, James 6. Smith, Esq.

— r 8. Hev. Rowland Hill, M. A. preached a sersnon in the theatre, for the benefit of the London Missionary Society; collected, £72.

— 11. Flour sold at 68. 4d. per stone. _ 12. at 4s. 8d. ditto.

— 13. Decease of Mr. Joseph Hawkrigg, aged 55; "No

one ever sought his aid in affliction and distress in

vain.^^— Sheffield Mercury. . General infirmary and girls' charity school receive

jeSO each, the bequest of Mrs. Ellen Downs, de- ceased. — -— . M?*l communication between Sheffield and Worksop

first established. —- 16. Public dinner of the Mends of Parliaraentary reform

at the King's Head; chairman, Thomas Kawson,

£aq. ; present, M^or Cartwright. Oci.2. Mr. William Staniforth, jiin. elected surgeon to the

infirnifkry, vice Dr. Cheney resigned.

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(kt.5. J. A Stuart Wortley, Esq. addressed a meeting in Paradise-square, on offering himself a candidate for the representation of the county.

— 8, Theatre opened by Messrs. Robertson and Manley ;

principal performers, Messrs. Earl, Carter, Clarke; Munden, (three nights;) Miss Jervoise, Miss Treby.

— 9. Lord Milton addressed a meeting in Paradise-square,

and vindicated his political conduct, on the occasion of offering himself a second time to represent the county.

— 22. Public dinner (130 present) at the Tontine, in com-

pliment to J. A. S. Wortley, Esq., and in appro- bation of his conduct from the commencement of the canvass to his resignation of the contest to re- present the county ; president, Dr. Younge.

— 27. Amount of subscriptions for the relief of the poor,

opened August 20, ^£1883. ITs.

— 29. General infirmary ; Earl of Harewood and Hon. W.

Lascelles gave fifty guineas each. Nov. Decease of Mr. Taylor, " well known for having per- 1. formed several astonishing cures on the lame, the deaf, and the blind."

— 4. The members of the Orange club, in full costume,

paraded the streets, and heard a sermon delivered by the Rev. George Smith.

— 20. Decease of Mr. James Healey, of the hotel.

, Public meeting ; overseers of the poor requested to

issue copper tokens, for the convenience of the re- tail traders.

— 21. General infirmary; received ^£100, the legacy «f J.

Shepherd, Esq. of Greenhill.

— 28. Advertisements to discover the heir-at-law of the Rev.

James Wilkinson, late vieai\ . The winter fair ; — price of cheese, 75s. to 85s: per

cwt. Dec.5. General infirmary ; received £50 from Earl Man vers.

— 15. Mr. Joseph Hudson, late of London, bequeathed to

the Master Cutler, in trust, je200, 4 per cents., the interest whereof to be distributed every Christ- mas eve, to sixteen of the saost indigent file makers or file strikers.

— 21. HolUs's hospital ; dtsU'ihution of funds of the charity

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declared on occasion of the feast day — to each wi- dow, one guinea every three weeks ; to the school- master, fifteen guineas quarterly, also the use of a g^ood house in the hospital yard ; to the minister of the upper chapel, jESO per annum ; to the minister of the nether chapel, jEIO ; to the Fullwood minis- ter, £20 ; to the ministers at Rotherham and Don- caster, j£20 each ; to the schoolmaster at Doncaster, ^£20 ; and to the schoolmaster at Rotherham, ^"40. Bee. Public meeting; resolved to petition Parliament 23. against the East India Company's monopoly; Mr. T. A. Ward and Mr. Leader sent to London as deputies of the committee ; two hundred guineas subscribed.

— 31. Expended by the Church Burgesses during the past

year, out of their trust funds ; to the clergy, <£560 ; to repairs, &c. of church, .^'79. 19s. 4d.; to the poor, ^£120; to general and incidental expenses, ^85. 9s. 3d.— P. Rep. 1813. Jrt«. Town library ; president, Mr. Thomas Smith.

— 20. Public meeting; overseers report that the amount ©f

weekly payments to the poor exceeds the rates collected, and that money must be obtained at in- terest, or the collection of rates made more frequent and rigorous ; a committee of fifty-two appointed to assist the overseers, as district superintendents, jj/r. 6. Decease of Mr. Hall, the postmaster.

— 10. Public fast observed.

— 29. Decease of Mr. William Lee, aged 92, twenty-seven

years governor of Hollis's hospital. April Parish accounts for the past year; overseers, John Yeomans, Barth. Hounsfield;, J. B. Furniss, John Heppenstall ; amount collected in rates, Je27,253. 9s. lOd. ; amount paid for the relief of the poor, £27,005. Os. 9d. ; county rate, £163. lis. 9d.

— 14. Public meeting; resolved to petition Parliament,

" that provision may be inserted in the new charter to be granted to the East India company, to enable persons of all Christian denominations to proceed to India, for the purpose of diffusing moral and re- ligious knowledge." — — . Decease of Mr. John Brookfield, solicitor, aged 60.

— 23. Public meeting ; Thomas Rawson, Esq. chairman;

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resolved to present an address of congratulation ta ■ the Princess of Wales, on the ocrasion of proving herself innocent of tbe charges broB^t against her. A£ay " Tike World t)efore the Flood," poem, liy Mr. lames Meutgotnery, firat poMished.

*• Of «ne departed world , I sethe toiglily dadow.^— liOMUffi

— ]£. Theinas Rawsenn, H«nry Wheat, and James Riming-

ton, Esqre. ywsent tJw Sheffield address to the Prin- cess of Wales, at Montagne Hotwe.

— 21 . Mr. Brmi^am acknowledged the receipt of a tcflcen

of ^rartitade presented to bim hy the workmen of S'heffield. - 28. Anniversary of the Pitt club, at the To«tine ; presi- dent, G.'B. Greaves, Esq. Jun£ Pnbiic Baeeting; reeolved " tbatfhis meeting highly disapproves of the conduct of the overseers erf 1810 and 1811, in having taken the Hberty, and incurred Ae responsibility, of appointing surveyors toassess 21 new rate, at an enormous expense ; and those io^ierseers) of 1812, in having added to the exjoenses of iJie workhouse, by additional salaries, without the authority or concurrence of a town meeting." — Sheffield Mercury.

— 7. First ajHa-vereary meeting oi 1jie Simday-School

Union held at the nether chapel ; reported the state of Red-hill, Queen-street, Scotland-street, Howard- stase^, iGarden-«treet, Lee-croft, and Nether -chapel Sunday-Schools.

. Portrait if Dr. Browne, painted by Mr. F. <Jain»ford,

put up in the infirmary.

— 18. Fourth anniversary of the Laneasterian schools. Jm,]^ ^Sheffield National schools ; directors receive a dorra-

1. ^©n of ^300 from the London parent society for ^leir support.

— 13. Public meetiBg, >te consider the expediency of com-

jfletmg -the water carriage of goods between tfee town and Eotherham ; committed of enquiry ap- pointed, and subscriptions raised. i— 30. Deoeaseof Mr. Joseph BJak«, of Nethcrtftorpe, aged 40; *'|}i« -death was awful and sudden; whilst a* tending the arduous duties of his office, (overseer n2

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of the poor,) he was seized with a fit of apoplexy,

and instantly expired." Aug. York summer assizes ; no commitment from Shefi&eld

1 . appeared in the calendar. — 27. Meeting of inhabitants at the Pheasant inn ; resolved

that the present new rate is unjust, and that means

be taken to equalise the mode of rating property.

— 30. Decease of Mr. Nathaniel Gower, aged ^. " He

was the father of the white metal trade in this town, having carried on that business forty years ago, in partnership with Mr. Georgius Smith." Sept. Archbishop of York, after confirming 1300 young 11. persons at the parish church, visited and expressed his approbation of the Sheffield national schools ; present, 400 female children.

— 26. Armed ride established between Glossop and Shef-

field, to facilitate the delivery of the London mail. Oct. 4. Decease of Mr. R. Wheatley, Sergeant-Major in the SheflBeld Cavalry.

— 6. Sixteenth anniversary of the Shefl&eld general infir-

mary, at the Tontine ; president at the board, Earl of Effingham ; at the dinner, S. Walker, Esq.

— 7. Sheffield musical festival held at St. Paul's church ;

principal singers, Madame Catalan! and Mrs. Salmon. , — — . Theatre opened under the management of Messrs. Manley and Robertson; principal performers, Messrs. Earl, Rayner, Carter ; Miss Jervoise. .i— 11. Master Betty, the young Roscius, played at the the- atre three nights.

— 14. Public entertainment given by the gentlemen of the

town, at the assembly-rooms, in compliment to the officers of the Sheffield Local Militia.

• — 21. Friends of Methodist Missions held a meeting, and entered into subscriptions to support their objects.

Nov. Rejoicings in the town, to celebrate the news of the , victories of Dresden and Leipsic.

D€c.\. Public meeting of the inhabitants ; resolved to pre- sent a congratulatory address to the Regent, on the recent glorious victories of the British aii4 allies over the Freijch troops; and that a public subscrip- tion for the relief of invalid soldiers, sailors, and

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and their widows and orphan children, resident in the town, be commenced. Dec.6. Public dinners to celebrate the victories over the French, balls, fireworks, &c. ; illumination, dis- play of flags, &c.

— 30. Decease of Mr. Simon Andrew Younge, aged 80 j

" few have been more ready, during a long life, to benefit this generation ; none stepped before him in benevolence and liberality of sentiment."

— 31, Expended by the Church Burgesses, during the past

year, out of their funds ; to the clergy, 4)560 ; to repairs, &c. of church, £94. lis. 2d.; to the poor, £25. 10s.; to generaland incidental expenses, .£111. 9s. Od.—P. Rep.

1814. Jan. Town library; president, Mr. Thomas Smith.

. Boys' charity school ; gross rental of the real estate

of the charity, ^283. 15s. per annum encreased by donations and legacies, collections at churches, &c. subscriptions and £30 yearly donation from the Duke of Norfolk.

— 13. Public thanksgivings in the churches and chapels to

Almighty God for blessings bestowed on the nation.

. London mail reaches the town by way of Worksop

by eight o'clock at night, instead of eleven as heretofore by way of Leeds.

— 29. General infirmary ; received .£100 bequest of Mrs.

Millicent Kay widow, deceased, formerly of the King's Head.

': Continued frost and snow ; magistrates receive a

circular from the Secretary of the Home Depart- ment, requesting them and the overseers to em- ploy the poor in cleaning the public roads. .

Feb. Decease of Sarah, wife of Mr. Laurence Potts, of 10. Low-field. " If the great purposes of creation be to smooth life's thorny path, and plant it with the seeds of genuine kindness and benevolence, it may be truly said that herein her diligence- was exem- plary, and her labour most effective." — Sheffield Mercnry.

— 14. Decease of Mr. Laurence Potts, of Low-field. "The

fair fame of an unsullied integrity had been his companion through life, affording a consolatary

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1814.

prospect tliat <rei»dered less pungent the anguish of death." Mar. Fourth aniraal meeting of the friends «f Ite Bible 14. Auxiliai-y Society; H. Parker, Esq. chairman.

— 19. Promotions in the Shefl&eld Local Militia; — Lieuten-

ant Joseph Noirill to be Major, vice Tillotson resigned, Lieut. G. R. Clarke, to be ditto, vice Machin resigned. Ensign Th«mas Watson, and William Binks, to be Lientenant.

— 23. Public meeting ^ resolved to establish a society

under the title of " The Sheffield Mercantile and in anafeeturing Union," — committee formed of two 3Be«nbers from each ti-ade, to consider the present prices of labour ; resolved, that no merchant, a Baeaaber of the onion, under a forfeit of JGIOO, pur- chase any article of Sheffield manufacture, at a higher price than he paid in 1B13, &«. ; subscription eotered into, first list, 21 firms ^£100 each, 20 jEoO, 29 from ^20 to ^30, and 102 from ^£5 to £15.

April Parish accounts for the year; or^rsecrs, Daniel Cooper, Benj. Roee, Thomas Dunn, Jos, Rayner ; asoaiint collected in i-ates, £21,%^. 8s. Id. ; amount paid iat the relief of the poor, ^21,730. 6s. 7d. ; county rate, £ i'91 . 15s.

. The goal for debtors in King-sti'eet ; Mr. Thomas

SaoSh succeeded Mr. Godfrey Fox as^goaler.

— 2i. PuUic dinner at the Tontine ; chairman, John

Horner, Esq. Master Cutlra-, tocrftsbrate the en- trance of the Allies into Paris, and the afodica4i«n «f Baonaparte.

Majf Petition to die Conraoons, against Aepwjposed altera- 'ib. tioncfthe Com Laws, ^having for their object tbe ratfiing the import priee of grain," ^igoediby 25,880 persons.

— :fl8. Arariwa-sary of the Pitt club at the Tontine ; presi- dent, Samuel Walker, Eaq.

— — , Meetii:^ »of the committee of ibe ■** Mereantile and Macttfactiirtng Union," formed 23d March.

. Thirteen persons employed as grinders, sentenced at

IheSessioDBtoiiuiee tnooths' imprisitnaient, fbr oom- laBidglqgether fertile purpose «ff obtaining anad- -vanoe<rfwag»¥.

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i7iM«€7' Summer fair held in the Wicker; price of cheese, Derbyshire, yOe. to 80e. ; Cheshire, SOe. to 958. per cwt.

— 15. Fifth annual report of the Lancasterian School

Committee ; — admitted since the opening in Aug. 1809, 2836 boys; 630 of these educated during the last year.

— 22 First anniversary of the Auxiliary Missionary Society & 23. for the West-Riding of Yorkshire.

— 29. Decease of Mr, John Jeffcock, aged 50, Captain of

the SheflBeld West-Riding Cavalry. " His remains were interred atHandsworth, with military honours; and insensible indeed must have been that heart^ which felt not the most poignant anguish on con- signing so truly philanthophic a character to its kindred dust." — Sheffield Merc.

— 30. Public procession on the proclamation of peace by

the Sheriff's deputy ; — present, the magistrates, public officers, and members of various societies. Thus arranged, the procession stopped in the Market-place, and the Peace was then publicly pro- claimed by Mr. Needham, the Sheriff's deputy. This part of the ceremony was preceded by the sound of trumpets, and by the bands playing " God save the King." The same ceremony was observed at the usual places appointed, and concluded in the Haymarket, all the societies and clubs stopping to music in front of the magistrates, and others on horseback ; after which the incalculable multitude joined in the national song of " God save the King," and concluded the ceremony by the loud huzza of triumph usually denominated three times three. — Sheffield Mercury.

. Public illumination in celebration of the peace.

Julyl.YvMxc thanksgiving offered ; collected at the three churches ^6186, for the relief of the distressed Germans.

— 8. Public meeting ; petition to Parliament adopted,

expressing regret that in the recent treaty with France, no stipulation has been made for the abolition of the slave trade, and praying the minis- ters to enforce such abolition.

— 28. Public meeting to receive the report of the committee

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1814.

Jul^ appointed in July last year, to prepare tke best plan of bringing "the Sheffield navigation from the River Dun up to Sheffield ; resolved, that subscrip- tions be entered into for the purpose of forodng a company for the completion of a casal from the township of Tinsley to Sheffield, on the southern side of the River Dun.

— 31. Decease of Mr. James Best, aged 46, many years

Captain and Adjutant in the Sheffield Local Militia. Aug^. Anne Hough, aged 12 years, (Carver-street,) found dead in Busk Wood, near Norwood-Hall; over- seers advertise for the discovery of the murderer.

— 5. Messrs. Incledon, Williams, Claremont, Horncastle,

and Sinclair, ga\Te an entertainment at the theatre. • — 30. First meeting of the members of the Yorkshire

Choral Concert at the Tontine. iSept.l. Anniversary of the Cutlers' Company ; Master, Mr.

Joseph Parkin.

— 34. Subscriptions entered for Ae Sheffield canal advertis-

ed to amount to .£35,900. Oa.p. General infirmary ; seventeenth anniversary at the Tontine.

— 10. Theatre opened by Messrs. Robertson and Manley;

principal performers, Messrs. Carter, Watson, u. Butler, Young, Earl, Miss Browne, Miss Jervoise, Mrs. Jordan, (one night.)

Nov. Bequests the of late Dr. Brown, paid by his executors ; infirmary .£500 ; boys' and girls' charity school £100 each.

2Jec.4. Public meeting to consider the best means of supply- ing a quantity of change for paying the poor, after the taking up the local tokens heretofore issu- ed by the overseers ; resolved that they (the over- seers) be authorised to take up the silver tokens issued by their predecessors, at the value for which they were issued, and that they be authorised to obtain a supply of bank tokens, not exceeding X20,000, for the various purposes connected with the towTi's business.

— 31. Expended by the Church Burgesses, during the past

year, out of their trust funds ; to the clergy, £560 ; to repairs, &c. of church, jflSl. lOs. 2d.; to the poor, £15 ; to general and incidental expenses, .^202. 168. 9d.— P. Rep.

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1815.

\9l5.Jan. Town library; president, Rev. Thomas Sutton.

— 2. Public meeting; — formation of the Lancasterian

school for gins. — J 27. The house of Mr. Smith, in the Hiartshead, partly destroyed by fire ; one life lost.

— 31. Formation of the Sheffield Auxiliary Society for the

" promoting; Christian knowledge." ■Wft.i.PoMie meeting; petition to Parliament adopted against the renewal of the tvsr property tax.

— 9. Eleventh annual meeting of the association for ^e

prosecution of felons ; resolved, " that the meet- ing anticipating that the income from the funds of the society will shortly be sufficient to meet its expences, that no contribution be paid for the en»uin|f year ; report, balance in hand i» favour of the association, ^849, 7s. 7id.

— 25, 3ill presented to Parliament, for making and main-

taining a navigable canal from Sheffield to Tinsley;

Bernard John Wake and Benjamin Burbeary,

solicitors. M((r. Public meeting in Paradise-square ; — resolved to

present a petition to Parliament, praying them to

interfere in behalf of the long suffering nation, in

soch a manner as to prex'cnt the enacting of any

biH to prohibit or restrain the free importation of

com. April. Parish accounts for the past year ; overseers, Jos.

Wreakes, Jonathan Beet, Gfeorg^ Eadon, George

Deakin; amount of ratescoUected, ^el6,9&2. 5s. Id.;

amount paid for the relief of the poor, Xl6^7H.

I9s. Id. ; county rate, £195. 6s. 8d. itffl^G. Mr. William Todd, printer and publisher of the

Mercury newspaper, appointed post-master, vice

Mr. Richard Griffiths, nominated agent for the

Government packets at Holyhead, -r- 7- Blucher Birmingham coach first set up, and run by

William Wrigttt from the King's Head.

— 15. Post office removed to Mr. Tordd's premises in the

Market'place.

— 29. Anniversary of the Pitt club ; president. Rev. Alex.

Mackenzie. Jime The battle of ^I'^aterloo ; arrival of the news of the 22. engagements of the 1 fith and 1 7th, between the allied

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armies and the French, in Belgium, and covfirma- tion of the rumour of the great victory and over- throw of Buonaparte at Waterloo, on the 18th of June.

— 17. Act of Parliament for the canal between Sheffield

and Tinsley received the Royal assent.

— 29. Annual Yorkshire Amateur Music meeting (held

alternately in Sheffield, Leeds, and York,) at St. Paul's church, and the Assembly-rooms.

July Decease of Mr. Greaves, of Bridgehouses, aged 99 25. years and ten months,

i^tt^. 2. Tried and sentenced at tlie sessions for breaking into the engine wheel of Mr. Ellin, and threatening and assaulting him; George Hall two years' imprison- ment, J. and G. Dickens, and B. Short, 18 months, Wm. Dickens 12 months, and Thomas Hall 6 months.

-^ 4. Public meeting; resolved . to open a public subscrip- tion for the relief of the families of the British troops, who have fallen or become sufferers in the glorious victory of Waterloo.

Sl^<.7. Anniversary of the Cutlers' Company; Master, Mf. James Deakin.

—^ 14. Mr. Emery performed four nights at the theatre.

— 16. Decease of Mr. Ezra Ridgard, bookseller; ''his in-

tegrity as a tradesman for half a century, has es- tablished his reputation in the memory of his friends, and his liberality to all the great public charities of the town renders his death a public loss. "--SA^. Merc.

— 30. Decease of Mrs. Mary Parsons, "who, from an affec-

tionate regard to her brother's memory, bequeathed ^elSOO to be invested in the public funds, the inte rest or dividend thereof to be annually distributed among 48 aged, infirm, and poor silver platers ; and £2 to a clergyman, duly appointed for preaching a sermon on the anniversary of St. John the Evan- gelist, for ever. Oct A. General infirmary; anniversary at the Tontine; pre- sident, Earl Fitzvvilliam.

— 9. Theatre opened by Messrs. Robertson and Manley;

principal performers, Messrs. Baker, Sheridan, Yarnold, Mr. S. Kemble, (three nights,) Mr. W.

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Macreadv, (four nights,) Clarke ; Miss Macauley, Mrs. Sidney.

Oct. 9, Cricket match at Bent's Green, for 66 guineas ;

1(),&11. Brocco eleven; Hoyland, Austin, Carr, Sheppard, Sampson, Bramall, Fenton, Hague, Shaw, Elliott, and Green ; against Holly-street club, Calback, AVinterbotham, Littlewood, Marsden, Champion, Radcliff, Wilkinson, Gascoigne, Claj'ton, and. Bishop ; won by the latter by 34 runs.

Nov. Formation of the Grateful society, (consisting of in- dividuals educated at the boys' charity school,) for the purpose of aiding the objects of the charity.

— 28. The winter fair held in the Wicker; price of Derby

cheese, 65s. to 85s.; Cheshire, 75s. to 90s; per cwt. Dec. The Wednesday evening lectures at the parish church, " voluntarily undertaken by the assistant ministers of the parish.

— 23. Decease of the Rev. W. Windle, aged 73.

. — 31. Expended by the Church Burgesses, during the past year, out of their trust funds ; to the clergy, ^560 ; to repairs, &c. of church, ^95. 6s. 9d. ; to the poor, £\5 ; to general and incidental expenses, ^'256. 13s. 8d.—P.Rep. 1816. To^vn library; admission or share mOney, five gui- Jan. neas ; annual subscription, ISs, ; president, Mr. Thomas Smith ; librarian's salary, ^630 per annum.

— 5. Decease of Mr. Middleton, aged 71, "partner in and

principal manager of the cotton works in the town." — 29. Stephen Kemble gave readings and recitations at the

assembly rooms. Feb.l. Decease of Caleb Hartley, at Brightside. He Avas born about 1738, in a house near the Irish cross, (Sheffield ;) he was the veteran Mho, during the ce- lebrated siege of Gibraltar, took a lighted shell out of the laboratory, carried it some distance, and threw it on the ground, M'here it exploded. For this action he received a present of money, and the thanks of General Elliott, the governor of the for- tress.

— 12. Theatre opened by Mr. Amthos, for 14 nights.

— 14. First anniversary of the Lancasterian school for girls.

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1816.

F'eb. Decease of Samuel Foster, of Brido^ehousea, cutler, 28. aged 94.

. Decease of John Dickenson, of Bridgehouses, farmer,

aged 93.

Mar. Public meeting, Samuel Shore, Esq. in the chair; 1. petitions to Parliament adopted, praying against the renewal of the property tax, under any modi- fication whatever.

■. Petition in favour of a continuance of the property

tax prepared, and received a number of signatures.

— 14. Patent granted to Mr. John Stead, of the Wicker,

for certain improvements in stage coaches and car- riages.

— 18. Public meeting at Queen-street chapel, (Mr. George

Bennet, chairman,) and formation of the local re- ligious tract society. April Parish accounts for the past year; overseers, Wm. Parker, David Davys, Jno. VVingfield, Jas. Deakin; amount collected in rates, j£18,189. 6s. Id. ; amount paid for the relief of the poor, £17,865. 10s. 5d. ; county rate, £242. 8s. lid.

— 19. Petitions sent to Parliament, praying relief from the

the leather tax.

— 22. Sixth anniversary of the Bible societj:.

— 27. Patent granted to Mr. John Sorby, jun., for making

improved augers for shipwrights, carpenters, &c. May\- Opening of the new Catholic chapel, in Norfolk-street; sermon by the Rev. Peter Baines, from Ample- forth ; priest, the Rev. Richard Rimmer.

— 4. Decejise of Mr. George Badger, of Pond-sti*eet, sur-

veyor.

— 13. Condmercial travellers' society; committee appointed

for the formation of a branch society in the town.

— 21. Decease of Mr. Thomas Cradock, " one of the oldest

local preachers in the Methodist connexion in the town." — Sheffield Mercury.

— 28. Anniversary of the Pitt club at the Tontine; presi-

dent, Peter Brownell, Esq. Ju^ie First stone of the canal basin laid by Hugh Parker,

19. Esq. . Charles Booth, driver of the Sheffield and Leeds

Alexander coach, committed to York, in con3e-

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cjuence of the death of Mr. Samuel Ward, occa- sioned by his overturning the coach at Bridgehousee. Juli/ Female benefit societj' ; possess property in cash, 8. goods, and stock, value X1433. Us. 9d.

— 15. J. Winterbotham and Bancroft's match at nur and

spell; Bancroft, 20 rises, 194 score; Winterbo- tham, 20 rises, 179 score.

— 20. Consumption of animal food ; slaughtered in Sheffield

during the past year, 4686 beasts; 22,910 sheep; 5198 lambs; 4387 calves.

— 29. The Angel Inn, partly rebuilt and newly furnished,

opened by iMr. David Hawkins. Sept. Theatre opened by Messrs. Robertson and Manley ; (four nights,) for the performance of Miss. S. Booth.

— 4. Anniversary of the Cutlers' feast; Master, Mr.

Thomas Asline Ward.

— 7. Mr. Joseph Hunter first published his prospectus for

the publication of the "History of Hallarashire." Oc;<. 7- Theatre opened by Messrs. Robertson and Manley; principal performers, Messrs. Frederick Brown, the Ormskirk Roscius, (three nights;) Browne, Morland, Earl ; Miss Sidney, and Mrs. Manley.

— 9. Public meeting in Paradise-square, to consider means

to be adopted for the relief of the country ; Thomas Rawson, Esq. president ; resolved to present a pe- tition to the Prince Regent, praying him to direct his Ministers to reduce the burden of taxation, and to restore a free representation to the country.

— 28 Cricket match, for 50 guineas, eleven of Sheffield & 29. club against eleven of Mansfield club, won by the

former in one innings.

— 30. Decease of the Rev. Alexander Mackenzie, 28 years

minister of St. Paul's, aged 61. "He was a man of a highly cultivated understanding, universally re- spected, and will live long in the remembrance of his family and acquaintances." — Sheffield Mercury.

, Succeeded by the Rev. Thomas

Cotterill, M. A.

Nov. Interment of the Rev. A. Mackenzie, in St. Paul's

6. church-yard, " amidst every testimonial of reverence

and affection that his character excited in life, and

of rejgret and sorrow that his death occasioned." —

JSheJ/ieid Memir^.

148. SHEFFIELD LOCAL RKGIPTER.

1816-17.

Nov. Decease of the Rev. Thomas Radford, M. A., first 10. minister of St. James's church, aged 69, " having exercised his ministerial office in the town of his birth forty-one years, loved and respected." — Shef- field Iris. " Through life he was revered and be- loved, for the warmth and benevolence of his heart, and the faithful exercise of his ministerial, social, and relative duties." — Sheffield Mermry.

— 22. The wife of Mr, Clarke, of th* theatre, unfortunately

burnt to death, in endeavouring to prevent injury to her child, who had overthrown a lighted candle.

— 28. Winter fair held in the Wicker ; new cheese, 50s. to

70s. ; old, 72s. to 80s. percwt. Dec.3. Assemblage of a number of persons near the Wicker, for the purpose of representing their political griev- ances ; a number of them afterwards paraded the town with symbols, and committed many acts of disorder. John Blackwell apprehended as a leader.

— 6. Popular meeting attempted on the new burial ground,

dispersed by the soldiers.

— 26. Public vestry meeting; resolved " that it is inexpedi-

ent to raise money by way of loan for the relief of the poor, and that the town be divided into 26 dis- tricts, three persons to be appointed to each, as as- sistants to the overseers in collecting the rates, and in assisting investigations of claims."

. Theatre opened for a season by Messrs. Adams,

with an equestrian and pantomimic company.

— 31. Expended by the Church Burgesses, during the past

year, out of their funds ; to the clergy, ^560 ; to repairs, &c. of church, ^£152. 2s. 8d. ; to the poor, .£15.; to general and incidental expenses, ^202. 2s. 9d.— P. Rep.

I8I7. Jfl«, Town library; president, Mr. Thos. Smith.

-. . St. James's church ; Rev. Thomas Best, M.A. pre

sented to the curacy.

— 8. Public meeting to take into consideration a public

subscription for the relief of the labouring and distressed poor in the neighbouihood ; resolved that a collecting committee be appointed and the subscription commenced ; subscribed at the meet- ing, six sums of £105; four of 50 guineas ; seven of 30 guineas; two of .£21; two of 15 guineas;

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nine of 10 guineas ; 10 of five guineas ; 9 of three and two guineas each ; total subscribed, ^2857. Mar. During the seven days last past, the overseers of the 11, poor have relieved the individuals of 1504 fami lies, in which they expended the sura of ^'509. — P. A.

— 20. Public meeting in Paradise-square, to consider the

propriety of petitioning for a reform in the re- presentation of the people ; — adopted resolutions and petition to the Commons for reform.

— 30. Government exchange at the Town-Hall of the old

silver coin for the new silver. Feb. 2. Petition from the town, praying for a reform in Par- liament, signed bv 21,500 persons, presented to the Commons by Sir Francis Burdett.

— 22. A loyal and dutiful address from the Wardens and

(part of) Company of Cutlers, clergy, gentry, and others of the town and neighbourhood, presented to the Prince Regent, Mar. First anniversary of the Sheffield Auxiliary Church 17. Missionary Society.

— 19. John Blackwell tried at York for being concerned

in the riot which took place in the town on the 3rd of last December ; two years' imprisonment, April. Parish accounts for the past year ; overseers, Malin Shepherd, Charles Pickslay, T.A. Ward, Verdun Brittain; amount of rates collected, .£24,242. 8s, Id. ; amount paid for the relief of the poor, J£23,662, 7s. 7d. ; county rate, jC533. Is. lOd. 7. Decease of the Rev. George Smith, IM.A,, assistant minister of the parish church, aged 53,

" Not holy office, nor the sacred vest. Nor prayers of wife nor children's tears could keep

The wearied body from this house of rest — The pastor and hi flock together sleep."

Insciiijtion in Ecclesall Chapel.

>.. ' 9. Acting constables for the town, Thomas Smith, Wm. Smith, Thomas Flather, (first appointment ;) assis- tants, John Waterfall, John Hague, and Thomas Fox.

— 16. Public meeting; resolved to petition Parliament to

adopt measures for the prevention of masters tak- o2

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ing apprentices to the occupation of chimney sweeping. April The town trust ; decree in Chancery " that the 26. right of electing Trustees was vested in the inha- bitants of the town of Sheffield being freeholders." May Rev. W. H. Vale, M.A., appointed by the Church 15. Burgesses one of the three assistant ministers of the parish church ; vice Rev. G. Smith, deceased.

— 24. General infirmary ; donation of <£51 from Mr. Patten,

of Birmingham.

— 26. Fifth anniversary of the Sunday School Union ; re-

port 35 schools in the Union, supported by 1400 teachers, and containing 9D00 scholars.

— 28. Anniversary of the Pitt club ; president,Dr. Corbett.

. William and Thomas Wolstenbolme, Rowland Hart- ley, James Rowin, George Robinson, and Wm. Bradwell, workmen of the town, apprehended on warrants charging them with high treason.

June Mail coaches ; fares to London £'d. 5s. and £\. 18s.

— 4. William King, edgetool-maker, living in the neigh-

bourhood of Arundel-street, killed his wife with a poker ; committed to York on the coroner's war- rant.

— 9. William and Thomas Wolstenholme, and four others

charged with treason, removed fi-ora the Town- Hall to Newgate (London.)

^- 10. " Seven persons arrested here (Sheffield) for high treason, three weeks ago, and sent off this morning in the True Briton coach, under a strong escort of dragoons, to be delivered into the custody of the Constable of the Tower." — Northern Star.

. The special constables augmented from th^ number

of 200 to 1000.

. Decease of Mr. Carnall, (Sheffield) aged 99.

— 14. General infirmary; executors of the late Mr. God-

dard, of Norton Lees, pay his legacy of ^100. , Banner-cross ; the ancient Esquire's seat of Banner- cross, in Ecclesall, taken down : —

A gloomy mansion, where, in empty state. And cobwebb'd ruin, hangs a gootlly list Of pictured lords, and many a beauteous dame Of Athol's princely race-

■ the mouldering mansion wears

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In every view the signal of decay :

Slow whispering winds creep through the chilling rooms.

The tattered hangings shake with every breeze:

Through the long passages and cold dark halls,

(So fame reports) the flimsy spirits glide

In robes of white, or sweep the narrow stairs

In all the shapes of fear-form'd misery."

Mrs. Hofland.

June The new seat of Banner-cross, commenced by General Murray, according to the plan of Mr. Wyatt, architect. 25. Decease of Mr. Daniel Leader, (of the firm of Thos. and Daniel Leader, silver-platers,) aged 73.

/w/y 1 . Decease of the Rev. Edward Goodwin, assistant minister in the parish church, and curate of Atter- cliiFe, in the 86th year of his age, and the 62d of his ministry. " One of the assistant ministers at the parish church for forty-three years ; after a long life, uniformly devoted to the service of God and the good of man, he was removed to eternal rest, in the 86th year of his age." — Inscription in Attercliffe Church.

. Northern Star ; the first number of the Northern Star,

or Yorkshire Monthly Magazine, published by. Christopher Benthara, Fargate.

— 15. Decease of Mr. Thomas Badger, aged 73, architect

and builder, in Orchard-place.

— 16. Edward Venables Vernon, Archbishop of York, con-

firmed 1913 individuals at St. Peter's church, con- j secrated the new burial ground, and visited the 1 National School in Carver-street.

— 19. Consumption of animal food; slaughtered in the town

since July 20, 1816; beasts, 5017; sheep, 25,448; lambs, 5656 ; calves, 5092.

— 28. Seventy-fourth annual Methodist Conference held in

the town, attended by nearly 300 preachers ; presi- dent, Rev. John Gaulter.

— 31. William King hanged at York castle for the murder

of his vi^ife (June 4th.) y^t«7.6. Henry Walker, Esq. (Blythe) qualified as a magis- trate of the West-Riding.

— 14. Decease of Mr. Thomas Wilson, (son of the late

John Wilson, Esq, of Broomhead,) at Shirley Hall, aged %%,

152 priKKhiel-D LOCAI, RECflSTKH.

1817.

SeptA. A nniversary of the Cutlers' Company ; Master, Mr. George Tillotson.

.^ 5. Persons carrying on the business of pawnbrokers, Bowman, "Hammond, Binge, Wood, Batt, King, Davies, Fox, and Morton.

__ 8. Total amount of the public subscription begun Jan. 8, and placed at the disposal of the society for bettering the condition of the poor, ^3357. 4s.

Oct. ]. General infirmary; twentieth Anniversary ; presi- dent, Jonathan Walker, Esq.

22. Rev. William Alderson, (Aston) qualified as a magis- trate within the West-Riding.

27 Theatre opened under the managment of Mr. Fitz- gerald ; principal performers, Messrs. Carter, Mansel, Foster, Crisp, Wilkinson, Kilner, Larkin, Stanley, Mrs. Humby, Mrs. Stanley.

Nov 7.The death of the Princess Charlotte announced at the theatre by Mr. Fitzgerald; house dispersed, and the doors closed.

— 19. The interment of the Princess Charlotte observed

by the closing of all business, service at churches and chapels, general mourning, &c.

— 28. Winter fair held in the Wicker; thin cheese 00s. to

60s. ; thick 60s. to 70s. percent.

Dec.5. Three Trustees elected to fill up the vacancies in the body (13) of the Town Trustees.

_18 Meeting of merchants and manufacturers; resolved to petition Parliament to pass a law compelling the manufacturers of cast metal cutlery to put a dis- tinguishing mark upon their goods ; signed by up- wards of 10,000 merchants and manufacturers.

_ 26 Meeting of the Magistrates, Town Trustees, principal officers, &c. ; resolved that it is expedient to obtain an act of Parliament for the better lighting, watch- ing and cleansing the town.

_ 31. Expended by the Church Burgesses during the past year, out of their trust funds ; to the clergy, .£bJb. "5s. Od. ; to repairs, &c. of church, ^'206. 17s. Id. ; to the poor, £15; to general and incidental ex- penses, £399. 6s. 2d.— P. Rep.

1818 Town library removed from Surrey-street to tieorge- lart ' street ; admission or share money, three guineas ;

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annual subscription, 21s. ; president, Mr. Thomas Smith ; librarian, Mr. Isaac Hatfield. Jan. Female benefit society ; funds amounted to ^1500; benefited members, 574 ; honorary members, 145.

. Decease of Joseph Atkinson, Esq. suddenly, at the

meeting-house of the society of friends, at Man- chester.

" Kindness all his looks express'd. Charity was every word ; Him the eye beheld and bless'd ; And the ear rejoiced that heard.

" Like a patriarchal sage.

Holy, humble, courteous, mild. He could blend the awe of age

With the sweetness of a child." — Montgomei-y.

— 10. Decease of Esther Caterer, librarian of Surrey-street

book rooms.

" Ye book-worms a' wi' sorrow meet. Nor wi' few tears your een be weet ; For ance, spite o' the warld's deceit.

By pity led. Be yours the wail o' Surrey-street,

Auld Esther's dead."

Jofin Holland.

— 23. Decease of Mr. John Shaw', (Shaw, Cutler, & Co.,

Wicker ;) " his death was occasioned by endeavour- ing to save a person from drowning ; in the act he broke a thumb, which occasioned a locked jaw."

— 30. Adjourned meeting of the Magistrates, Town Trus-

tees, parish officers, &c. ; resolved that the draft (produced) of a police bill be adopted, and that its clauses be publicly considered on the 6th February next. Feb. Public meeting; resolved that the draft of a police 6. bill submitted to the Magistrates and others on the 30th ult., be adopted, and that application be made forthwith to pass the same into a law.

— 7- New public library; public meeting, to receive report

of committee relative to a proper site for the new public library ; resolved that the money necessary for raising the building, &c. be subscribed in shares of £25 each, bearing 5 per cent.

— 12. Decease of Mr. Philip Smilter, aged 93, of Goddard

Hall.

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1818.

Mar. (las lights; public meeting; resolved that the sum of ^"40,000, in shares of -£25, be raised for the formation of the Sheffield gas company.

— 13. Decease of Mr. Joseph Wilson, head-master of the

free grammar school. — — . Decease of Mr. William Hill, of the Wicker, aged 80. " He was the father of the society of church singers in Sheffield, and the last (but one) male de- scendant of one of the oldest families in the neigh- bourhood of Sheffield."

— 27. Adjourned meeting of the subscribers and friends to

the proposed gas company ; original committee appointed, Messrs. T. Newbould, G. Young, J. Montgomery, E. Nanson, T. A. Ward, J. Frith, J. Eadon, "B. Withers, jun., C. Pickslay, G. Hawksworth, Hall Overend, Wm. Staniforth, R. Fisher, T. Cooper, S. Mitchell, Wm. iVfarsden, F. W. Everet, J. Blackwell, S. Owen, J. Hodg- son.

April Parish accounts for the past year ; overseers, Richd. Walton, Henry Elgie, Robert Fisher, David Haslehurst; amount collected in rates, £31,244. 19s. 2d. ; amount paid for the relief of the poor, .£.30,102. 2s. 8d. ; county rate, £1087. 13s. 7d.

May Publication of the first part of the " Peak Scenery," 1. by iMr. Ebenezer Rhodes.

— 16. The police act, for the better watching, lighting, and

cleansing the town, received the Royal assent.

— 25. Commissioners under the new police act held their

first meeting; Mr. J. Staniforth appointed clerk.

— 28. Anniversary of the Pitt club ; president, Samuel

Walker, Esq.

— 29. The premises of Mr. Harrison, knife manufacturer,

and of Mr. Hague, button manufacturer, at Sheaf bridge, destroyed by fire. June First anniversary of the Church Missionary Society ; 4. amount collected during the past year, £317.

— 6. Jacob Ghcrwin, Esq. presented £100 to the trustees

of the national schools, and £50 each to the trea- surers of the boys' and girls' charity schools.

— 17. J. A. S. Wortley, Esq. addressed the freeholders as-

sembled at the Tontine, and declared himself a can- didate for the representation of the county.

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1818.

Jutie Tenth Yorkshire amateur music meeting held a t the 18. assembly rooms.

— 30. Quantity of wrought plate manufactured in tiie town,

and assayed at the public office, durine the past year, 6214 lbs. 8 oz. 11 dwt. Jtily'i. Female benefit society; annual report, funds, ,£1530 ; honorary members", 145 ; benefited, 574.

— 11. J. A. S. Wortley, Esq. presented to the infirmary

^'100. --If

— 18. Mr. Francis Fenton appointed surveyor to the com-

missioners under the new police act. Aug. The old gaol and buildings adjacent to King-street, f removed. ' /

— 4. Public dinner given to J. A. S. Wortley, Esq., in

honour of his election as member of Parliament.

— 22. The gaol for debtors in King-street ; the prisoners re-

moved to a building in Scotland-street, fitted up as a gaol. . The old gaol in King-street taken down.

— 29, Decease of Lieut.-General Murray, aged 62, at Ban-

ner-cross. 5e/)i'.3Anniversary of the Cutlers' Feast; Master, Mr. John Fox; guests present, the Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Surrey, and Sir Arther Pigott.

— 7- First stone laid of the new Gas Light Works, new-

Sheaf Bridge.

Oct."!. General infirmary; anniversary at the Angel Inn ; president, Thomas Walker Esq,

• - 20. Decease of Mrs. David Cadman, of Porter-street, aged 75, " of an active, cheerful, and benevolent dispo- sition, she sought out, enlivened, and relieved the widows in their affliction, in times when the afflict- ed widows of the town had not so many friends to care for and to comfort them as they now have." — Sheffield Mercury.

— 26. Theatre opened under the management of Mr. Man-

sel, as deputy of Mrs. and Miss Fitzgerald ; princi- pal performers, Messrs. Neville, Robertson, Chap- man, Incledon, (four nights,) Foster, Carter, Miss Green, Miss Diddear, Mrs. Stanley, Miss Blan- chard, iVf/t'.8. The monument to the memory of the Rev. Alexander Mackenzie, executed by F. Chantrey, R. A. put up in St. Puul'schuch.

16B SHKFKrEf^D LOCAL REGISTER.

1818—19.

NoiK The Rev. W. White, A.M., appointed head master

— 14. of the grammar school.

— 27. Public meeting; resolved, that forthwith be establish-

ed the Sheffield and Hallamshire Savings' Bank ; subscription entered into to defray incidental ex- penses.

Z)ee. 2. Funeral of her late Majesty, Queen Charlotte, ob- served by the closing of shops, services at the churches and chapels, &c.

. The ordination of the Rev. Thomas Smith, at the

nether chapel in Norfolk-street.

— 11. Decease of Mrs. Anne Brailsford, agedGl.

. Bequests; boys' charity school, <£100;

girls' do. ^100; infirmary, ^50; and the national schools, ifSO.

— 26. Decease of Mrs. Anne Andrews, aged 100 years.

— 28. Mr. Kean first appeared at the theatre, and com-

menced four nights' performance, Richard, Shy- lock, Overreach, and Hamlet; received at the doors, ^500.

— 31 . Expended by the Church Burgesses during the past

year out of their trust funds ; to the clergy, £J2T.

JOs. ; repairs, &c. of the church, ^'150. 8s. Id. ; to

the poor, £65; general and incidental expenses,

£205. I7s— P. Rep. 1819. Jati. Town library; president, Mr. T. A. Ward, /"ijfe. 5. Association for the prosecution of felons report a

fund in hand of ^1119. 10s.

— 10. Decease of Mr. John Rawson, partner in the brewery,

Pond-street.

— 17- The Yorkshire choral concert ; performance in the

upper chapel, the use of St. Paul's church having been refused by the perpetual curate, Rev. Thomas Cotterill,

— 22. The opening of the Sheffield canal ; the first barge,

the Industry, (Pearson's) entered the basin of the canal ; public dinners at the Tontine, Angel, &c.

" A navigable stream, along whose banks,

Sheffield of late pour'd forth her various ranks; What time the I.'tDUSTRv her pennous spread, And the hope-laden gay flotilla led To tlieit baptismal font, around whose flood, Parents and guardians nobly answering stood."

Hollan-rs Sheffield Path:

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1819.

Feb. Petitions to Parliament presented, praying the adop-

26. tion of the insolvent debtors' act. Mar. Sheffield and Hallamshire Savings' Bunk first opened 1. for receiving deposits.

— 10. Public meeting; petitions to Parliament adopted,

praying the rejection of the proposed tax on inland pit coal. i'\ '

. Public meeting ; petitions to Parliament adopted,

praying the abolition of state lotteries as opposed to morality and religion, and injurious to the people.

— 15, Norfolk sick club first formed.

April Parish accounts for the past year; overseers, Aaron Hadfield, John Broadhead, W. Lockwood, James Yeomans ; amount collected in rates, ,£22,651. 9s, Od. ; amount paid for the relief of the poor £20,206. lis. 1 Id. ; county rate, £1486. 4s. 9d. '

— 14. Dr. Brown appointed one of the physicians to the

general infirmary.

— 24, Greenland, &c., poems, first published by Mr. James

Montgomery.

— 25. Decease of Mrs. Hannah Benton, Brown -street, aged

93 years. . Decease of Mrs. Mary Fowler, Ladies'-walk, aged 91.

— 30. Public meeting; pe'titions to Parliament adopted

against a proposed " bill to amend the laws res- pecting the settlement of the poor." May \ Mr. Roh&xt Rogers appointed organist of St. James's church.

— 6. Public meeting ; Churchwardens' accounts reported to

be £1200 in arrears, of which £700 had been ex- pended on the new burial ground, and the remain- der in the services of the church ; resolved that the collection of a church rate having been oppos- ed for the last three years, that a public subscrip- tion be entered into to pay the debt incurred.

Sheffield Mercury.

— 10. Ninth anniversary of the Female Friendly Society ;

reported " 325 widowed single M^omen, from 65 to 108 years of age, relieved from the small funds of the society during the past year.— Sheffield Mercury.

— 17. Mr. John Favell elected surgeon to the general infir-

mary, vice Mr. Staniforth, resigned.

y^. j(KKFFJK/,» I.OOAI. RKOISTKft,

J819.

Map Anniversary of the Pitt club; president, Sir W. 28. C. Bagshawe.

— 29. Decease of Benjamin Wainwright, M. D. " The

death of Dr. Wr.inwrJght cannot be recorded with- out giving a tribute of respect to his talents as a jphyaician and his. -character as a man. The general confidence which the former acquired dur- ing a pj^ctice of thirty years in Sheffield, proves the estimation in whict they were held." — Sheffield Mercury. /uncS. Jacob Gherwin, Esq. presented » donatioa of ^IW ix> the general infirraacy.

— 15. Bequests from one unknown, by the hands of Messrs.

W. and G Younge ; to the national schools, ^£50 ; •iutnane society, JeiO ; society for bettering the con- dition of the poor, £20.

— 18. Aantversary of the Battle of \A''aterloo celebrated at

the Hotel ; president, James Rimington, Esq.

— 30. Quantity of wrought plate manufactured in the to"/n

and assayed at the public office during the last veai', 6128 lbs. 10 oz. 16dwt.

Jm/^ 8. Second anniversary of the Church Missionary Society; amount of donations andsubscriptions for the past year, ^467. 6s. 8d.

-^ 19. First account published of the receipts and disburse- ments of the Commissioners under the new Police Act; amount of rates, ^3473. 10s. 2d. ; paid for cleansing streets, £207. lis. Od. ; for lighting ditto, 4£660. lis. lOd. ; for watching ditto, ^1000. lis. 3d.; salaries, ^e25l. 3s.; Miscellanies, £150. 14s. 7d.

. Great alarm in the town, on account of several deaths

ha\ing occurred, occasioned by the bites of mad dogs ; public meetings, and orders of the magis- trates for the destruction of all dogs found in the streets, and £700 subscribed for expenses and de- fence of actions brought by owners of dogs.

— 27. Anniversary of the Auxiliary Missionary Society. Aug. Ninth anniversary of the Sheffield Auxiliary Bible

18. Society; president, Earl Fitzwilliam. <&/>*. 2. Anniversary of the Cutlers' Fea&t; Master, Jofcn. Hounsfield, Elsq. ; guests present, Lord Milton,

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1819.

J. A. S. Wortley, Esq. M.P., and magistrates of the district. Sep. 3. Vestry meeting at the parish church ; proposition made, " that a church rate of 2d. in the pound be levied ;" amendment carried, " that the expenses of providing necessaries for the performance of divine service ought to be defrayed by the pew owners, who have excluded the rest of the parish- ioners from the use of the church, and claim an absolute right to their pews.''

— 6. Mr. Matthews delivered his " Trip to Paris," and

other amusements, at the theatre.

Oct£. Leopold, Prince of Saxe Cobourg, in company with Earl Fitz William and Lord Milton, visited the ma- nufactories of the town.

. (ias lights first used in the streets.

— 7- Anniversary of the general infirmaiy ; president.

Lord Mifton.

— 11. Sheffield cricket club play the Leeds club on Wake-

field Heath ; won by the former at one innings, and 64 runs over.

— 16. Decease of John Houseman, Esq. Land Steward to his

Grace the Duke of Norfolk.

— 25. Theatre opened under the management of Mr. Man-

sel ; principal performers, Messrs. Clarke, Wil- liams, Neville, Larkin, W. Chapman, Miss Har- greave, INIrs. Gannon, Mrs. Poole.

. Public meeting ; resolved that the meeting gives its

full concurrence to the proceedings of the meeting at York, and the address then adopted, praying that justice be done on those who took part in the recent afflicting and apparently atrocious proceed- ings at Manchester.

. Loyal declaration, signed by many freeholders and

inhabitants, presented to the Prince Regent. Nov. First anniversary of the Shakspeare club at the Ton- 4. tine ; president, James Rimington, Esq. " Graceful he mov'd and scann'd the waste of air. As hi« wrong arm th' avenging 1»U could wield. Or catch the tempest by the rugged hair. Or bid m earthquake 'whelm the bhwted field."

— 12. Vestry Toeeting at the parish church ; proposed to levy a oburcb rate of Id. in he pound; amend-

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1819-20.

ment carried, *' that the meeting be adjourned to the first Friday in May following."

iVo.l8. Dr. Camidge appointed organist at the parish church.

Dec. 4. Mr. Joseph Hunter's "History and Topography of

Hallainshire" first published. " — 11. The Sheffield Independent neAvspaper; the first num- ber printed and published by Mr. Henry Andrew Bacon, at 9, Snig-hill.

— 25. The spring knife trade ; the master manufacturers

and workmen in the spring knife trade publish an address to the rate payers, in which they set forth the injury done to the Sheffield trade by the manu- facture of low priced inferior articles ; agree to give the workmen the prices of 1810, and solicit a public subscription to support those who may, in consequence of other resolutions, suffer temporary distress,

— 27. Devonshire thoughtful sick society ; firstanniversary.

— 31. Expended by the Church Burgesses during the past

year, out of their trust funds ; to the clergy, ^750. ;

to repairs, &c. of church, ^182. 19s. 5d. ; to the

poor, £83; general and incidental expenses,c£241.

13s. 2d.— P. Hep. -1820. Town Trustees expend £500 in the purchase of houses Jan. to widen Barker's-pool. . Town library; president, Mr. T. A. Ward.

— 27. Public meeting at the Town-Hall, to consider the

propriety of devising salutary measures for the re- lief of tiie poor ; resolved " That the burdens of the poor's rates has become so oppressive, that unless means be resorted to for the reduction of the paro- chial expenditure, it will be impossible to collect the amount of the assessments, and that a commit- tee be appointed to assist the overseers in the dis- charge of their duties." Meeting adjourned until March 15. ^eb.l. Spring knife cutlers' union dissolved by a meeting of the members, at the Cutlers'-Hall.

— 2. Earl Fitzwilliara ; presentation to him at Wentworth

House, of the address " to testify the gratitude of the West- Riding for his Lordship's services, during his continuance in the office of Lord-Lieutenant, a period of more than twenty years."

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1820.

Feb.S. Public proclamations in the town, of the accession of his Majesty, George IV.

— 15. jMr. Gleadhill elected organist to the parish church.

— 16. Interment of George III. observed by the general

closing of shops, and the perfbriTiance of Divine service at the variffus chtrrches and chapels. Mar. L<Jrd Milton, on the occasion of offering himself a 7. fourth time as one of the representatives of the county, addressed the freeholders of the town as- sembled at the Tontine.

— 15. Adjourned public meeting of the rate payers, to con-

sider the state of trade and the poor rates ; associa- tion formed, and subscriptions entered into, to sup- port workmen not able to obtain eraployroent at certain prices.

— 28. The new churches ; first meeting held in the vestry of

St. Peter's, to consider the proposal of building three new churches. jdpi'il Parish accounts for the past year ; overseers, Thos. Cooper, Edward Kay, John" Rodgers, Jas. Drabble; amount collected in rates, «£37,508. 16s. lid.; amount paid for the relief of the poor, ii;35,166. Os. 9d. ; county rate, .£2301. 6s. lid.

— 4. Address to George IV. ; Master and Company of

Cutlers, Burgesses, Magistrates, Clergy, and com- monalty of Sheffield, present a loyal and dutiful address to his Majesty.

— 11. John Blacker, (" King of the gallery,") committed to

York, for collecting mobs and endeavouring to ex- cite the unemployed workmen of the town to com- njence rioting.

May Sunday-school anniversary; eight thousand children,

22. taught in forty-five schools belonging to the Union,

and three thousand children, taught at the church

Sunday schools, assembled, and afterwards attended

service in the various churches and chapels.

June Surgeon to the infirmary ; Mr. Waterhouse elected, 14; vice Mr. C. H. Webb," deceased.

— 30. Quantity of wrought plate manufacttired in the toTvii,

and assayed at the pubHe office during the past year, 52361b8.0oz, 6dwt». July General- TOf^rmary; rAPsators cf Mr. WiBiam Mab- 25. son, deceased, pay the treasurer his bequest of .C200, f 2

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1820.

Atig. Public meeting, at which it was resolved that a du- 9. tiful and loyal address be presented to her Majesty, (Queen Caroline,) congratulating her on her re- turn to. England.

— II. Earl Fitzwilliam ; a silver gilt cup, manufactured by

Watson, Pass, and Co., value eighty guineas, (pur- chased by a subscription of one penny a-piece from the journeymen and mechanics of Sheffield,) pre- sented to the Earl, at Wentworth House, as a tri- bute of respect. SepA. State of the town ; three hundred and t\ventj'-seven summonses issued in one day, for the non-payments of poor rates.

— 7- Annual feast of the Cutlers' Company; Mr. J. D.

Skelton, Master; guests present, J. A. S. Wort- ley, Esq. M.P., and Hugh Parker, Esq.

— 15. Address, signed by 10,600 females of Sheffield, pre-

sented to the Queen (Caroline.)

— 22. Surveyors of highways ; appointed, Messrs. William

Thorpe, George Hawkswortb, Jonathan Beet, and Wm. Battie. Oct. The remaining habitable portion of the manor castle used as a public house, and for the lodgings of working people.

" Lone wreck of antient splendour I where are they Whose perish'd forms outstripp'd thy slow decay ? No longer heard in this once princely haunt. The festal merriment nor bridal chaunt ; Through roofless chambers and slow crumbling halls. Viol and song unheard, and midnight balls ; — Now the patch'd cottage in the pile is seen. And poverty resides where wealth has been. So with Palmyra's prostrate marble wrecks. The wretched Arab his mean mansion decks ; Rich polish'd stones construct the vile abodes. Where caitiffs haunt the residence of gods."

Holland's Sheffield Park.

Nov. General infirmary ; executors to the estate of Thomas 2. Wilson, of Sharrow mills, Esquire, deceeised, pay • to- the treasurer his legacy of <£200.

— 23b Illuminations in many parts of the town, in honour

of the acquittal of Queen Caroline, by the abandon- ment of the billof pains and penal.ties.

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1820—21.

Dec. Mr. George Bennet, of Sheffield, departed to join the London Missionary Society's deputation to the South Seas.

— 28. Public meeting at the Town-Hall; resolved to pre-

sent an address to his Majesty, praying him to dismiss his Ministers. . Shakspeare club ; second anniversary held at the Ton- tine ; Dr. Younge in the chair.

— 31. Expended by the Church Burgesses during the past

year out of their trust funds ; to the clergy, £1b^;

repairs, &c. of the church, ^£325. 8s. 2d.; to the

poor, ^'68; general and incidental expenses, i;358.

5s. 9d — P. Rep. 1821. Town Trustees expend £200 towards the expense of Jan. widening Sheaf bridge. . Town library, (George-street;) president, Mr. T. A.

Ward ; librarian. Miss Hatfield, salary, ^£45. . Number of houses in the township of Sheffield,

10,036.— i?/(/^e'5 Picture of Sheffield. . Houses unoccupied in the town, 1664.

— 27. Removal of the workhouse ; first meeting of the rate-

payers, to consider the propriety of purchasing the cotton-mill lately occupied by Messrs. Ileathfield, and converting the same into a poorhouse.

— 31. Decease of John Rimington, Esq., at Hillsbro' house,

aged 60. Feb. Law Clerk to the Cutlers' Company; Mr. J. Wilson, 23. solicitor, elected to fill the office vacated by the

decease of J. Rimington, Esq. Mar. Sheffield and Hallamshire Savings' Bank ; second an- 5. nual meeting of ti-ustees and others ; funds declared

to amount to .£6546. 7s. 5d., the property of 323

depositors. yipril. Parish accounts for the past year ; overseers, Lewis

Thomas, George Ingall, Thomas Champion, John

Sykes; amount of rates collected, .£36,246. 2s. 7d.;

amount paid for the relief of the poor, £^32,30].

17s. 7d.; county rate, £146 1.1 4s. lOd.

— 19. Protection of trade; resolved, at a public meeting

held at the Town-Hall, that an association should be formed, and subscriptions entered into, for the prosecution of persons " illegally exposing goods

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for sale in the town," to the injury of the resident shopkeepers. April. New Independent Methodist chapel, top of Church- 22. street, first opened for service.

— 23. The theatre opened under the management of Mr.

Bickerton. May Baptist chapel ; Rev. C. Larom, successor to th« 16. Rev. Mr. Jones, appointed minister.

— 31. The past month distinguished by the coldness of the

weather which prevailed. jK««f4.The theatre; Miss Clara Fisher's first appearance. . Pitt club ; anniversary held at the Tontine ; J. D.

Skelton, Esq., Master Cutler, in the chair.

— 24. State of Sheffield ; number of inhabited houses, 8726;

houses uninhabited, 1310 ; houses building, 29. Ecclesall Bierlow; houses inhabited, 1814; unin- habited, 1.35 ; building, 22. Brightside Bierlow, inhabited, 1344 ; uninhabited, 91 ; building, 18. Atterclifte with Darnall, inhabited, 680 ; uninha- bited, 69; building, 1. Nether Hallam, inhabited, 628; uninhabited, 49; building, 9. Upper Hallam, inhabited, 189; uninhabited, 10; building, 1.--- Total population, 65,275, comprising 14,100 fe- milies; of which, 916 are chiefly employed in agri- culture ; 11,196 chiefly in trade or manufactures^ and 1683 not comprised in either of the preceding classes. — ; 29. Hanbey's charity distributed to sixty-six poor men and women.

— 30. Quantity of wrought plate manufactured in the town,

and assayed at the public office during the past year, 53lolbs. 4o2. 3dwt. July Consumption of meat for the past year ; slaughtered 13. in Sheffield, sheep, 24,260 ; lanibs, 4739 ; calves, 3333; beasts, 3923.

— 19. Celebration of the coronation of his Majesty-, George

IV.; public dinners at the Tontine and assembly rooms; sixty aged men clotheil by the Cutlers' Com- pany, Town Trustees, and Church Burgesses-; grand ball; illumination, fiieworks by Petro, &c.; one hundred poor people entertained by Mr. Rim- nwr, Catholic clergyHMHS.

. St. George's new church; the first stooe laid by tb*

Rev. Thomas Sutton, vicar.

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1821.

Aug. New road to Glossop viewed by the magistrates, and 23. opened for carriages.

— 27. Filesmiths' society ; the members assemble at the

Acorn tavern, Shales-moor, and celebrate their 100th anniversary. Sept, New water company; public meeting at the Town - Hall, to take into consideration the expediency of forming a new water company.

— 10. Savings' Bank; deposits, .£9608. 6s. 6d. ; depositors,

432. — 26. New water company ; adjourned meeting at the Town- Hall ; address moved to the Duke of Norfolk, so- liciting his support in the formation of a new com- pany.

— 27. Public dinner at the Tontine, given to his Grace the

Duke of Norfolk ; chairman, Dr. Younge ; pre- sent, the Earl of Surrey, Hon. E. Petre, H. Parker, Esq., officers of the corporation. Burgesses, and principal manufacturers. Oct.^. Mr. Henry Walker, of Blythe, presented a donation of £50 to the infirmary.

— 7- Upper chapel, Norfolk-street ; new organ opened by

Mr. Mather.

— 22. Theatre opened by Mr. De Camp ; principal per-

formers, Messrs. Butler, Pearman, Carter, Ne- ville, Mitchell, Holland ; Mrs. Pope, and Miss Halford.

. Sheffield canal ; first sloop built on the canal wharf

launched into the basin.

Nov. Sheffield library ; Miss Hatfield appointed librarian, 1. vice her father, deceased.

— 6. Theatre ; first appearance (Hamlet) of Mr. Mude.

— 17. The Shakspeare club ; third anniversary, at the An-

gel; Peter Brovvnell, Esq. president; Benj.. Sayle, and B. J. Wake, Esqrs., vice-presidents.

— 28. Winter fair held in the Wicker ; price of cheese 4d.

to 5^d. per lb. . Weekly payments to the casual poor, less than ^£100

per M'eek. Dec.l. Theatre; value of an original .£100 share, (public

sale,) 145 guineas and auction duty.

— II. The warehouse and stock belonging to the assignees

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1821—22.

of Messrs. Green, in Union-street, destroyed by fire ; loss of stock estimated at £6'800.

Dec. Expended by the Church Bur^^esses, during: the past

31. year, out of their funds ; to the clergy, £~ioi)\ to

repairs, &c. of church, ^'330. 1 Is. 6d. ; to the poor,

j6162. lOs. ; to general and incidental expenses,

.€409. 148. oA.—P. Rep,

1822. Bust of Mr. J. Rimington, deceased, (executed by

Jan. I Mr. Law) placed in the hall of the Cutlers' Company.

. Town library; president, Mr. T. A. Ward.

. Gas corapa,ny ; £25 shares produce a premium of £\0.

— 23. Decease of Mr. John Feather, of Pond-street. " Many

of the best essays which have appeared in the Sheffield papers, were from the pen of this worthy individual." — Sheffield Independent.

— 29. Robert Burns; third anniversary of his birth-day,

held at the Angel, principally by North Britons re- siding in the town.

— 31. Mr. Braham first appeared in Sheffield at the choral

concerts. Feb. The grammar school ; Mr. Wm. Wright appointed

16. second master, vice Rev. G. Harrison, Mar. Sheffield humane society distributed twelve rewards 7. to persons who had been instrumental in preserv- ing life in case of accident.

— 26. Decease of Robert Turner,Esq. aged 67. " In public

life he was truly patriotic, and always evinced an ardent desire for the welfare of the town and parish of Sheffield." — Sheffield Independent.

. • bequeathed by will ^flOOO to the infirmary,

and ^*500 to the boys' and girls' charity schools.

— 28. Madame Catalani first appeared at the choral concerts

at the theatre. April Parish accounts for the past year; orerseers, Jno. Fox, W. Rowley, Jno. Feather, Thomas Willey ; amount of rates collected, 4)20,195. 4^. lOd.; amount paid for the relief of the poor, ^18.832, 12s. 6d. ; county rate, £1250. 28, 2d,

— 5. Town Collector; Trustees elected Peter BrowneU,

Esq., vice Mr. Robert Turner, deceased.

— 6. Jameri Moeley executed at York, for stabbing John

Mackay, in Sheffield Park, the 3d of August pre-

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1822.

ceding. " The man had been tried March 16, po the charge of wilful murder and acquitted, he vra« detained to be tried on a bill founded on the cut- ting and maiming, convicted and executed."-5^e^ Independent. A^H Unitaariana. of Sheffibeld petition Parliameat,. and with

10. othera, obtain leave to bring in a bill ta amend the

marriage act, (26 Geo. TJ.) touching the marriage of Unitarian Dissenters with the members of the Church of Eng-land.

— 18. Public meeting ; resolved to petition ParUament to

cepeal or amend the laws relative to insolvent debtors. Ar«^,4. Police of the town; £3252. ISs. 4d. raised duringthe pa&t year by police rates, and expended for the pur- poses directed in the police act.

— 17. Public meeting at tlie Cutlers'-Hall; committee form-

ed to collect subscriptions for the relief of the distressed peasantry in Ireland ; amount collected^ about .£1600.

— 23. Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Sciety ; eighth anni-

versary ; amount collected, je220.

. Shares in the River Dun Company ; value (public

auction) of 7i shares, iCl2,950, exclusive of one quarter's dividend due, about .^1726.

— 24. Public meeting at the Town-Hall ; petition adopted,

praying the Parliament to reject Mr. Scarlett's pro- posed "non-removal of the poor" bill.

— 28i The Pitt club ; anniversary at the Tontine.

June. Dry grinding; the Society of Ai'ts present Mr. J. H. Abraham, of ^effield-moor, with a large gold medal, in testimony of their approbation of his magnetic apparatus for the piotection of persons employed in dry grinding.

— 23. Buildings in the Black Lion j-ard, Snig-hiU, destroy-

ed by fire, damage £240.

— 30. Quantity of wrought plate manufactured in the town

and assayed at the public office during the past year, 4617 lbs, 3 oz. 8 dwt, July 1. Explosion of fire damp at the Intake colliery ; Mr. BeBJamiB Clayton, the under ground steward, and Mr. Thomas Clayton, his son, with five other persons, killed.

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July Consumption of meat for the past jear ; slaug-htered

— 13. in Sheffield, sheep, 29,457; lambs, 6863; calves,

3657; beasts, 289.

— J7- John Eaton, workman, of Hawley-croft, murdered.

" He was awakened in the night by two men en- deavouring to break into his house, and upon rais-^ ing- an alarm, was struck on the head by a stone thrown byoneof the thieves, which causedafracture and death." — Sheff. Independent.

Aug. The old cricket ground at Darnall opened by Mr. Steer.

. The poor; weekly expenditure for their support

under ^50.

— 26. First cricket match between 15 players of Sheffield

and 1 1 of Nottingham, won by the latter. . a large booth erected on the play

ground, containing nearly 2000 persons, suddenly

fell without occasioning the loss of life. Sep. 5. Annual feast of the Cutlers' Company ; Master, Mr.

Thomas Champion ; guests present, J. A. S.

Wortley, Esq., magistrates of the district, &c.

— 9. Savings' Bank ; funds, ^^0,407. 14s. 9d. ; depositors,

752.

— 13. Decease of William Shore, Esq., of Tapton ; " he for

many years bore an active part in the banking establishment of Messrs. Parker, Shores, and Blakelock."

. bequeathed to the infirmary, .£200 ;

boys and girls' charity schools, .£200 ; Lancasle- rian schools, .£200.

— 18. Town Trustees ; meeting of freeholders, and election

of Mr. William Battie, Mr. William Fisher, and Mr. Thomas Pearson, as Trustees ; vice Messrs. Rawson, Staniforth, and Turner, deceased.

— 26. St. Philip's new church; first stone laid by Philip

Gell, Esq., of Hop ton. Oe<.2. Infirmary; twentj'-fifth anniversary meeting of sub- scribers and benefactors, at the Tontine; the Duke of Norfolk in the chair.

— 4. Decease of John Foster, Esq. of High Green, coroner

of the district, aged 72, at the Bull and Mouth, Waingate, at which place he had been taken ill a week before, whilst presiding on an inquest.

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1822.

Oct. New Music-Hall ; meeting' held, at which Dr. Younge 14. presided, for the purpose of electing a committee of management for the erection of a new Music- Hall.

— 21. Ebenezer chapel, at Shales-moor ; first stone laid by

Thomas Holy, Esq.; inscription, " erecteS by the Wesleyan Methodists in Sheffield, aided by a dona- tion of ^500 from Thomas Holy, Esq., in the 83d year from the commencement of an extensive and increasing revival of primitive Christianity in this land, begun by the Rev. John Wesley."

— 28. The theatre opened by Mr. De Camp, manager ; prin-

cipal performers, Messrs. Mude, Neville, Carter, Holland, Hamblin ; Mrs. Hamblin, Mrs. W. Clif- ford.

— 30. Andrew Allen Hardy, Esq. elected coroner of the

upper division of StrafForth and Tickhill.

. New church at Attercliffe ; the first stone of Christ

church laid by the Duke of Norfolk.

■. Confirmation at the parish church, of 1120 individuals,

by his Grace the Archbishop of York.

Nov. Literary and Philosophical Society ; first meeting for 6. the formation, held at the Cutlers'-Hall, and the following committee appointed for the furtherance of the object: — Mr. T.A.Ward, chairman; Mr. Offley Shore, Mr. James Montgomery, Dr. Knight, Mr. S. Bailey, Mr. T. Waterhouse,' Mr. L. Pal- freyman, jun.. Rev. P. Wright, Mi-. Wm. Jackson, and Mr. H. Overend.

— 7- The Shakspeai-e club; fourth anniversary, at the

Tontine; president, Benj. Sayle, Esq.

— 28. Winter fair held in the Wicker ; price of cheese,

40s. to 50s. per cwt. Dec. Literary and Philosophical Society ; public meeting 12. held, for the formation of the society ; resolved that the plan recommended by the committee be adopted, and that an association be formed for the promotion of polite literature and science, under the title of "The Sheffield Literary and Philoso- phical Society."

— 15. St. Peter's church first lighted with gas.

— 31. Mr. J. H. Abraham; a vase and several articles of plate, manufactured by Messrs. Smith, Tate, Hoult, Q

l-TQ SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1822—23.

and Co., " presented to hira by his townspeople and others, in token of respect for his talents, and in acknowledgment of his services to an afflicted class of workmen, by his ingenious invention of the magnetic guards and dust apparatus, for the reliet of dry grinders." , . .,

Bee. Expended by the Church Burgesses during the past

31 . year, out of their trust funds ; to the clergy, £loO. ;

to repairs, &c. of church, ^241. lis. S^d. ; to the

poor, £65; general and incidental expenses, *328.

17s. Ud.— P. Bep.

1823. Jan. Town library ; president, Mr. T. A. W ard.

_ 10. Literary and Philosophical Society ; first officers ap- pointed; president. Dr. Knight; vice-presidents, Rev. Thomas Cofterill, Mr. Montgomery, Mr. f. A Ward, and Mr. Samuel Bailey ; treasurer, Mr. Offley Shore; secretaries, Mr. L. Palfreyman and Mr Thomas Waterhouse ; curator, Mr. W. Jack- son- committee, Messrs. J. H. Abraham, Edward Barker, M. Ellison, Wm. Jeflfcock, Wm. Lucas, James Ray, N. Phillips, H. H. Piper, P. Wright, J. Todd, H. Overend, and B. J. Wake.

_ 11. Meeting at the Cutlers'- Hall, to consider Mr. Samuel Roberts's plan for the establishment of a safety coach to and from London.

— 18. Messrs. Holy, Wilson, Dunn, and Co. opened a new

coal-pit near the canal basin, and sent a present ot coals, drawn by fifty colliers, for the use of the infirmary. , , i. c

— 21. Kelham wheel (Mr. Dunn's) partly destroyed by fire ;

damage, ^6400. tt n i.

Feb.3. Meeting of freeholders, at the Town-Hall, to support the petition for a reform in Parliament, adopted at the county meeting held at York; Hugh Parker, Esq. chairman.

— 14. Free grammar school ; the governors propose to build

a new and commodious grammar school, near bt. George's church, and solicit contributions; hrst subscribers, Duke of Norfolk, ill 05 ; Earl Fitz- wiUiam, ^100; Rev. T. Sutton, £31 10s.; Ga- maliel Milner, Esq., Mr. W. Wilson, Mr. T. Wat- son, Mr. S. Tounge, Mr. C. Younge, Dr. y^junge, Godfrey Sykes^ Esq., Messrs. Paxkcr

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1823.

and Brown, Messrs. James and John Wheat, and

Mr. William Patten, twenty guineas each. Feb, Literary and Pliilosoghical Society ; the introductory 21. lecture delivered at the Tontine, by Mr. James

Montgomery'. Mar. Town Trustees expend ^400 in the purchase of

houses to extend Queen-street.

— 10. Savings' Bank; deposits, ^28,335, 2s. lid.; number

of depositors, 1000.

— 20. Gas company; shares (£25) at a premium of c£] 1. 10s. .— 31. Music-Hall; first stone laid by Dr. Younge.

j4prii Parish accounts for the past year; overseers, Wm. Fisher, Peter Frith, Thomas Porter, Jos. Wa- terhouse ; amount collected in rates, .£15,728. 16s. 2d. ; amount paid for the relief of the poor, .£14,719. lis. lOd. ; county rate, £944. Is. Id.

— 2 Musical festival, at the parish church, for the benefit

of the boys' and girls' charity schools.

— 10. Police rates; Mr. William Wilson appointed collector,

vice Mr. Cantrell resigned.

— 16. Public meeting; resolved that the Master Cutler,

(Thomas Champion, Esq.) Mr. Thomas Lindley, and Mr. James, be appointed deputies, " to concert, in London, with deputies from other towns, the means of promoting the repeal or amendment of the insolvent debtors' act."

— 30. Public meeting at the Town-Hall ; resolved that a

petition be presented to both Houses of Parliament, praying for the gradual and total abolition of Negro Slavery in the British Colonies.

Mat/9. Church rate ; at a meeting in the vestry of the parish church, Thomas Rawson, Esq. chairman, it was resolved " that in consequence of the absence of the churchwardens, it is presumed that the Bur- gesses have agreed to pay the necessary expenses for which such rate is legally applicable, as re- quested by a former meeting, and that the present meeting be adjourned."

^19. Whit-Monday; eleventh anniversary of the Sunday- school Union; number of schools, 47; scholars, 10,000 ; teachers, 2000.

" As flowers which from the sun receive Their fragrant scent, and lovely hues,

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J 823.

■When night comes on are seen to grieve.

And steep their heads in gloom and dews ; But with returning beams unfold. In grateful sign, their leaves of gold,— " So we our gratitude would prove

To thee whose goodness crowns our daj-s. In whom we live, in whom we move.

By keeping wisdom's peaceful ways. And thus a sweeter fragrance yield. Than aught that decks the smiling field."

Pf. of Hymn sung by the Chil. in Unit, School,

May Town Trustees vote £B0 towards furnishing St,

24. George's church with a peal of bells. June Grinders' preservative of health ; society for the en- 1. couragement of arts and manufactures vote the in- ventor, Mr. John Elliott, a gold medal.

— 4. Anniversary of the Pitt Club held at the Angel.

— 9. Town Trustees vote fifty guineas towards the erection

of the new grammar school ; amount of other sub- scriptions advertised, jflll6.

— 30. Quantity of wrought plate manufactured in the town

and assayed at the public office during the past year, 4422 lbs. 9 oz. 0 dwt. July\ . Inhrmdiry -f bequest to the infirmary, by the Rev. Francis Gisborne, of Staveley, Derbyshire, of the sum of ife'6726, 3 per cents.

— 10. Removal of the Shrewsbury Park hospital ; " act for

the removal of the hospital, and for the better re- gulation of the affairs of the charity," received the Rojal assent.

— 12. Consumption of meat; slaughtered at Sheffield during

the past year, 29,843 sheep; 6540 lambs; 3805 calves ; and 4927 beasts.

— 17. Volunteer society; anniversary held at Mrs. Lawton's,

the George. " This institution was originally formed of members from the Sheffield regiment of Volunteers, who, from the exercise of a narrow policy, were precluded from participating in the benefits of the existing clubs. '"---5//^'. Ind.

— 21. Sheffield Flower Society ; first exhibition at the Cut-

lers'-Hall.

— 27. Ebenezer chapel. Shales-moor, first opened by the

Rev. Adam Clarke, L.L.D. ; itcontains sittings for 1579 persons, and cost if 3000. During the ser-

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1823.

vice, an alarm raised that the building was falling ;

the congregation escaped in confusion, breaking

700 panes of glass. Jul'j Wesleyan Methodists; eightieth annual conference 27. held in Sheffield, attended by 350 preachers ; mi- nisters appointed for the j-ear, Revs. Charles At-

more, William Leech, Daniel Isaac, Partes Has-

well, and Joseph Agar. Aug. The chapel in Coalpit-lane occupied by the sect of

Johannaites. Si'pt. Annual feast of the Cutlers' Company; Master, Tho- 6. mas Dewsnap, Esq. ; guest present, S. B. Brookes,

Esq., American Consul. . The surveyors of Sheffield highways collected in rates,

and expended the same in repairs, during the past

year, £4494. 19s. Id.

— 18. Mr. Sadler made the first ascent of a balloon from

Sheffield.

. British Bible Society ; contributions received during

the past year, by the Sheffield Auxiliarv Society, ^7714.

. The turret of St. Paul's church repaired.

(5^!^l.New grammar school; the Church Burgesses, by deed dated this day, granted to the governors of the grammar school, in lieu of their lease for 800 years of the old site, (ToAvnhead-street,) which they surrendered, a lease of a piece of ground of equal value, containing 2400 square yards, near Broad-lane, for 595 years, at the yearly rent of one shilling.— Co7?z. Rep.

. Infirmary ; twenty-sixth anniversary meeting of sub- scribers and benefactors, held at the Angel; Henry Walker, Esq., of Blythe, president.

— 2. Nether chapel ; tenth quarterly meeting of the congre- "'''■ gation under the care of the Rev. T. Smith, A.M. ; ^■' reported that jESOI. 2s. 4d. had been collected in

129 weeks, towards erecting a new chapel.

— II. Donations from the Misses Harrison ; Sheffield infir-

mary, ^£300; boys' charity school, girls' charity school, and national schools, ^^200 each. • — 13. Savings' Bank; amount of stock, .£37,540; number of depositors, 11 70.

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1823.

OcL Sheffield " new building company" established ; soH- 14. citor, Mr. Branson.

— 18. The poor rates ; amount paid at the workhouse for

the relief of the casual poor, during the past week, .£15. 9s. 9d. ; " the smallest sum paid in one week to that description of individuals, within the recol- lection of the oldest rate payer."--- SAe/. Ind.

— 27- Theatre opened by Mrs. Ue Camp ; principal per-

formers, Messrs. Mude, Carter, Holland, Neville, Crisp; Miss Fisher, Mrs. Hall, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Melvin. . Sheffield infirmary ; ^£1800, a fourth part of the pro- fits of the Yorkshire musical festival, paid to the treasurer.

— 30. Public dinner given to Earl Fitzwilliam, at the assem-

bly rooms ; Hugh Parker, Esq., president ; present. Lord Milton, Mr. Ramsden, M.P., Hon. F. Pon- sonby, and 180 of the principal persons of the town.

. Dinners in honour of Earl Fitzwilliam's visit, held at

Mr. Wright's, Change-alley ; Mrs. Healey's, Hay- market; Mr. Fordham's, Castle-street; Mr. Ste- vens's, Campo-lane ; Mr. Stafford's, Coulston- street; and at Mr. Bramley's, Silver-street head.

Nov. Literary and Philosophical "Society; Mr. Webster 7. concluded a course of twelve lectures on steam and steam engines, and other scientitic subjects.

— 19. Fifth anniversary of the Shakspeare club, at the

Tontine ; president, B. J. Wake, Esq.

— 28. The winter fair held in the Wicker ; price of cheese,

60s. to 70s. per cwt, Dec A. Violent storm of M'ind ; " the streets of this place were plentifully spread with slates, chimney pipes, &c. which had been displaced by the violent winds." Newspaper.

— 8. Public meeting at the Town-Hall, of the journeymen

mechanics, and other tradesmen and artisans of the town ; resolved to petition Parliament for the repeal of the combination laAvs.

— 27. Public meeting at the Town-Hall; resolutions en-

tered into, and committee appointed, for the estab- lishment of a mechanics' library.

— 29. Decease of the Rev. Thomas Cotterill, A. M., mi-

nister of St. Paul's church, aged 44.

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 1/j

1823—24.

Dec- Expended by the Church Burgesses during the past

31. year, out of their trust funds ; to the clergj^ .^£750;

repairs, &c. of the church, £5't5, 3s. 7d. ; to the

?oor, ^^65 ; general and incidental expenses, .£139. 8s. 8d.— P. Rep. 1824. Jan. Town library; president, Mr. T. A. Ward.

— 2. Literary and Philosophical Society ; election of

officers ; president, INIr. James Montgomery, vice- presidents, Dr. Knight, Mr. S. Bailey, Dr. Phillips, and Mr. T. A. Ward ; secretaries, Mr. L. Palfrey- man and ftlr. T. Waterhouse; curator, Mr. Wm. Jackson.

— 17- Yorkshire and Derbyshire magazine; first number

published by Mr. John Blackwell, High-street.

— 26. Mechanics' and Apprentices' library ; first general

meeting of proprietors and honorary members; number of members enrolled, 150. Feb. Church Missionary Society; contribution to this 28. society from Sheffield, made during the past year only, reported at ,£2300.

— 30. Sheffield gas company ; current price of shares {£25)

^32. 10s. Mar. Public meeting ; resolved that a committee be ap- I. pointed to prepare a petition praying the House of Commons " not to adopt the propositions of Mr. Hume, permitting the exportation of British tools and machinery, and the emigration of artisans."

— 6. " The Parlour Fireside," weekly publication ; first

number issued by Mr. Ridge, King-street.

— 16. Decease of Joseph Bailey, of Burngreave, Esq., aged

73. " Early in life, he commenced business as a manufacturer ; subsequently, he embarked in an extensive mercantile concern, and became one of the first American merchants in the town ; we shall rarely, if ever, have to record the death of a better man." — Pari. Fireside.

— 19. Public meeting; petition to Parliament adopted,

praying the repeal of the inhabited house-tax and window duty.

— 20. The casual poor who applied to the overseers for

parochial relief during the past week, all relieved for the sum of £14,

['J6 SHEFFIELD LOCAI. REGISTEH.

1824.

u4pril Parish accounts for the past year ; overseers, Robert Sorby, Jno. Hutchinson, W. Marsden, ^\'. An- drews ; amount of rates collected, .^^16,923. 8s. 2d. ; amount paid for relief of the poor, ^15,764. 4s. ; county rate, ^1022. 16s. 4d.

— 6. Literary and Philosophical Society; Dr. Williamson,

of Leeds, delivered at the Tontine, a lecture " on the influence of Lord Bacon's philosophical specu- lation in promoting the advancement of experi- mental science."

— 7. Public meeting of the merchants and manufacturers;

resolved that a petition be presented to Parliament, praying a bill to prevent the retailers or others (not the' manufacturers of cutlery) stamping or mark- ing the same.

22. Public meeting; resolved that a petition be presented

to Parliament, praying for an act " to render more efficient the laws relatingto landlords and tenants.'" ~ 23. Miss Paton first appeared at the Sheffield Subscrip- tion Concerts. 3/rt^l. Spring knife cutlers publish a statement complaining of their distress, and that the master manufacturers take off from 2.5 to 50 per cent, from the last prices of 1810, leaving their earnings 9s. to lis. per \veek.

, Return of the number of persons employed in diffi?r-

ent branches of the Sheffield cutlery business. " The returns Avere made by persons engaged in the respective branches, with great care, for official reference.'' — T. C. Table knives ; Forgers & strikers, oc- cupying 200 hearths 400 Hafters, men and boys 1000

Grinders 540

Haft & scale cutters. . 160 Pressers 140

2240

Springknives ; Blade forgers 240

Scale and spring ditto 120 Hafters, men and boys 1470 Grinders .' . 360

2190

Carried forAvard, .... 4430

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1824.

Brought forward .... 4430

Razors; .... Forgers & strikers,

(40 hearths) .. 80

Hafters, men and boys 120

Pressers 28

Grinders 250

Scissors. inO Forgers 147

cludinglined>- Filers 196

blades; ..3 Dressers 110

Grinders 238

Finishers 115

478

806

Files; Forgers and strikers

(:i double hearths).. 238

Grinders 133

Cutters 795

Hardeners 118

1284

Saws ; Makers and grinders 400

Edge tools ; . . Forgers and strikers . . 401

Grinders 140

541

Forks; .... Forgers 280

Grinders 200

480

Additional for the country. . 130

8549

A/flrj/20. Savings'^ Bank ; secretary appointed, Mr.B.Schofield.

— 22. King's Head, Change-alley; kept by Mr. William Woodhead, on the resignation of Mr. W. Wright.

. Angel Inn, Angel-street ; kept by William Hera-

mings, vice Mr. T. Walker.

•^^. Petition signed by 327 persons of Sheffield, presented tothe House of Commons by Lord Milton, deprecat- ing all prosecutions for the publication of certain theological opinions, and "seriously entreating the Honourable House to adopt such measures for the security and protection of all parties and opinions, as the spirit and temper of this more liberal age imperiously require and demand."

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1824.

May William Ladsle alais Runcorn, a bearward, destroyed 27. by bis own bear, which he was leading unmuzzled in the Park.

— 29. Spring knife cutlers; 1600 out of employment, in

consequence ot disagreement with the masters.

J^fOifl. St. Paul's Church; Rev. James Knight, M.A. ap- pointed to the perpetual curacy.

. 'Sir. George Crosland appointed vestry clerk for

Brightside BierloTS', iiice Mr. Wm. Willey, decased.

. Commissioners of Police publish an account of their

receipts and disbursements for the past year ; ex- pended for cleansing streets, ^403. 3s. 6|d. ; light- ing streets, .£1238. 2s. lOd. ; watching streets, .£1670. 7s. Id.; salaries, ^304. 7s. ; miscellanies, ^e280. 9s. 5d; total, ^4464. 6s. 2d.

— 4. General infirmary ; since the opening of the same,

(4th October, 1797) there have been admitted 35,877 patients, out of which number, 3102 were persons injured by sudden accidents requiring im- mediate assistance. — Di'. Ernest.

. Jennerian institution, since the

establishment of the same 25,195 persons have been vaccinated by Robt. Ernest, M.D., without the loss of a single individual in consequenceof the disease.

— 15. Bill in the Commons, to regulate the marking of

cutlery, and for the protection of the Shefiield ma- nufacturers, opposed by the London cutlers, and withdrawn in the committee.

— 20. The combination laws ; deputation of mechanics

from Sheffield wait on Lord Milton, then attending Parliament, and solicit his exertions toM-ards theic repeal, and afterwards give evidence before a select committee appointed by the House.

— 29. The Hanbey charity (20s., a coat and hat to each)

distributed to sixty poor men and women. .hiJyI. Garden-street chapel re-opened.

— 15. Journeymen spring knife cutlers; committee publish

a statement, shewing that their number amounts to 1806, of which 800 are in work, contributing to the support of the others, and that the sums collected for their general relief since May 11, amount to i;2684. 19s. lid.

— 20, Amateur (Yorkshire) music meeting held at the

aHEFFIKLD LOCAL RKOISTEK. Ijf^

1824.

New Music-Hall; professors present, Mr. Camidge, Dr. Camidge, Mr. Knapton, Mr. Cudmore, and Miss Travis. July Friends and subscribers (90) to the amateur music meeting dine together ; president, Rev. T. Lowe, of Wentworth.

— 28. Public meeting ; resolved, that thanks be presented

to his Grace the Duke of Norfolk, for his liberal oiFer of land for the site of the third church pro- posed to be erected in Sheffield. ^w^.l.The new cricket ground at Darn all opened by Mr. Steer.

— 6. Public meeting; resolutions passed, and subscriptions

entered into, for the protection of the public against canine madness.

— 10. Mr. Charles Brown ascended from Sycamore-street

in a new balloon of his own construction.

. Criekei match ; Darnall club against Bingham, won

by the former.

— 19. Public meeting to promote the union of the Sheffield

Canal with the Peak Forest, Chesterfield, and Cromford Canals.

— 20. Public meeting for the establishmeni: of the Sheffield

Auxiliary Anti-Slavery Society, in co-operation with the London Parent Society.

— 21. Sheffield gas company ; price of shares {£lo) at pub-

lic sale, ^£32. 12s. exclusive of auction duty and expense of transfer.

— 23. Theatre opened by Mr. Calvert (Handet) for one

night

— 26. Theatre opened by Miss S. Booth for three nights. Se,pt.\.^\T. James Montgomery; his portrait painted by Mr.

Barber, of Derby, for the members of the Literary and Philosophical Society, placed in their hall.

— 2. Anniversary of the Cutlers' Feast; Master, Mr.

Peter Spurr ; guests present, J. A. S. AVortley, Esq. M.P., the magistrates of the district, &c.

— 10. Savings' Bank; total fund, i'52,514 7s. 2d. ; deposi-

tors, 1367. . Cricket match ; Darnall club against Leicester, won

by the latter by one notch. Ovt. 6. General infirmary ; twenty-seventh anniversary meet-

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1824—25.

ing^ of the subscribers and benefactors ; president, Dr Knight.

Oc^.l4. Public (adjourned) meeting, to promote the junction of the Sheffield Canal with Manchester ; subscrip- tions entered into, and engineers report of the practicability thereof ordered.

. Anniversarj' of the Pitt club held at the Tontine;

chairman', J. A. S. AVortley, Esq. M.P.

— 25. The Theatre opened by De Camp; Hamlet by Mr.

W. Macready ; principal performers, Messrs. Mude, Carter, King, Bennett, Pope, Mrs. Brudenall, and Mrs. Macnamara.

. Anniversary of the Jubilee Society ; stock, ££1902;

members, 167-

Nov. Sixth anniversary of the Shakspeare club ; presi- dent, James Rimington, Esq.

— 30. Winter fair held in the Wicker ; price of cheese,

Derby, 58s. to 67s. per cwt; Cheshire, 70s. to 76s.

per cwt. Dec, Expended by the Church Burgesses, during the past 31. year, out of their funds; to the clergy, ^750; to

repairs, &c. of church, ^£^398. 6s. Id. ; to the poor,

£65. ; to general and incidental expenses, .£231.

5s. 3d.— P. JRep. 1825. Town library removed from George-street to the Jan. new Music-Hail; president, Mr. Thomas Asline

Ward.

— 3. The Commercial News Room at the Music-Hall first

opened.

— 6. Tradesman's annual ball held at the Angel.

— 7. Literary and Philosophical Society; officers elected

for the ensuing year ; president. Rev. N. Phillips, D. D., vice-presidents. Dr. Knight, Mr. Montgo- mery, ]Mr. S. Bailey, Mr. T. A. Ward.

— 8. Price of shares by public auction, subject to duty and

exclusive of dividends due ; gas company '(^25

shares) ^£35; Sheffield fire officeif25. 4s. per share. 12. Public meeting to form a plan of co-operation with

the grand junction rail-road company. . Mortality of the past year; 1131 burials at the parish

church ; out of which number 91 attained the age

of 70 and upwards.

SHUFPIKLD r.OCAL REGISTER, 1G9

1825.

Feb. 7. Boys' charity school ; determined, at a meeting of the trustees and subscribers, to erect a new school.

— L3. Public meeting- ; resolved that a petition be presented

to Parliament, in favour of the "county court or small debts" bill." '

. Sheffield Fitzwilliain Society ; deputation of the

society entertained at VVentworth house, and pre- sented with a splendid emblazoned tiag.

il/rtAl, Boys' charity school; scholars removed to theCutlers' Hall, and removal of the old building commenced

— 10. Public meeting at the Town-Hall; resolved that

petitions be presented to the Commons, praying tor the repeal of the duties on imported iron, and other materials used in the Sheffield trade; for a revision of the corn laws ; and for the total aboli- tion of the remaining house and window tax.

— 28. Marking of cutleiy; resolved at a public meeting

that subscriptions be entered into, and a petition prepared, to oppose a bill presented to Parliament permitting the London cutlers to put fictitious marks on goods. April Parish accounts for the past year ; overseers, George Wragg, George Walker, T. Aldham, Jno. Hazle- hurst; amountof rates collected, ^16,818. lls.3d. • amount paid for relief of the poor, £\2 944. 14s' - county rate, ^1185. 16s. Id. ' " *'

— 4. The theatre opened with a representation of the battle

of Waterloo.

— 6. Boys' charity school ; first stone of the new buildin<^

laid by six of the eldest scholars. "

— 11. Cooke's Olympic circus in Sycamore-street built and

opened.

— 13. Combination laws ; mechanics of Sheffield appointed

a committee to collect evidence shewing the good effects produced by the repeal of the combination laws. i>/«2/4. Public meeting of masters and workmen; resolved to petition Parliament not to make any alteration in 5 Geo. TV., c. 49, repealing the laws on combi- nations.

— 23, Cricket match; twenty-two of Darn all (including

Sparks) against eleven of all England, won by 28

181 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTKR.

1825.

May Mr. Francis Cluley receives from the London Socieh' 30. of Arts, the gold vulcan medal for his improved lithotomy forceps.

— 31. Summer fair held in the Wicker; price of cheese,

Derbyshire, 65s. to 70. per cwt ; Cheshire, 68s. to 80s. per cwt. Juiie Rev. C. H. R. Rodes, of Balbro', presented 100 1. guineas to the Sheffield infirmary.

— 3. Decease of Mr. Samuel Woodcock, of Change-alley,

aged 75. . Decease of Mr. Robert Wiley, of the ]\Iarket- place.

— 11. Mr. Taylor, jun. elected organist of the upper chapel,

vice Mr. Ramsay resigned.

— 13. Savings' Bank; general fund, ^£67 ,388. 16s. 4d; num-

ber of accounts, 1629.

. Police commissioners' receipts and disbursements for

the benefit of the town during the past year; col- lected and received, j£4,001. I4s. 5d. ; expended in cleansing streets, .£502. 15. 5d. ; in lighting streets, ^1,147. 13s. lOd.; watching streets, ^1,569. lU 5d.; salaries, it'304. 7s. ; miscellanies, ^88. 5s. t^d.

— 29. St. George's new church consecrated by the Arcii-

bishop of York. . The Hanbey's charity distributed to 60 aged and poor men and women.

July^. St. George's new church opened, and the first sermon preached by the Rev. S. Langston, A. M. the minister. The cost of building the church, £14,819, defrayed out of the Parliamentary grant ; the length of the church is 122 feet, and the breadth 67, con- taining 2000 sittings, of which about 800 are free. . The new hospital and chapel of Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury, commenced on the high ground on the Park,

AtigA. The new grammar school, near the new St. George's church, (W. White, M. A., head master) first opened for the reception of schdiars ; the inaugural address pronounced by Dr. Younge.

— 13. Isaac Charlesworth executed at York, for a highway

robbery committed in Sheffield.

— 19. Protection of grinders; the committee for awarding

certain premiums granted by the London society for ))ettering the condition* of the poor, pay to

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1825.

William Calton the sum of 10 guineas, as a reward for his application of the fan to the apparatus lately invented for carrying off the dust from grinders M-hen at work ; and to Peter Redfern, a reward of eight sovereigns, for improvements adapted to the same purpose, offering likewise other encou- ragements to workmen disposed to adopt the newly invented means of protection. Aug. Rev. Mr. Harris commenced a series of four lectures 25. on elocution at the Music-Hall.

— 29. Cricket match (return) ; Darnall club against Leices-

ter ; won by the latter, with ten wickets to go down. SeptA. Anniversary' of the Cutlers' Feast; Master, Mr. H. Moorhouse ; guests present, J. A. S.Wortley, Esq^. M.P., Mr. J. Wortley, and local magistrates.

— 15. Decease of Mr. William Grant, of the High-street,

while reading in the Sheffield news room.

— 17. General infirmary; Mr. Joseph Harrison, of London,

bequeathed ^500 for its benefit. . Town trustees expend .£400 in the purchase of

houses to widen Pinstone-lane. Oct A. Sheffield Iris newspaper piiblished in an enlarged

form, by ]\Ir. John Blackwell, successor to Mr

Montgomery.

— 5. General infrmary ; twenty-eighth anniversary at the

Tontine ; chairman. Sir G. Sitwell, Bart.

— 18. Committee of the " Ladies' Hibernian Female School

Society," hold a Bazaar at the Cutlers'-Hall, for the benefit of the charity.

— 24. Jane Brickhill sentenced at the Sheffield sessions to

transportation for seven years, for forcibly stealing money from John Mooney, in the Hartshead.

— 31. Theatre opened by Mr. De tamp ; principal perfor-

mers, Mr. W. Macready, (seven nights only) Messrs. Salter, Neville, Chapman, King, and Holland ; Miss Ogilvie, Miss Fisher, Miss Morton, and Miss Rock. Nov. Public dinner at the Tontine, given to Mr. James 4. Montgomery, " out of respect to his virtues and talents;" chairman, Lord Milton; stewards, Drs. Younge, Knight, and Brown, and Messrs. Sayles, Ellison, J. Read, H. Wheat, E. Rhodes, Riming- ton, and T. A. Ward; present, 116 persons. 'Ht

183 SHEFFIELD LOCAL HEGJSTEK.

1825—26.

is fashionable amongst us to pay homage to moral worth, and reward with public praise, a career of benevolent usefulness. Nor is the acknowledg- ment of excellence anwngst us tardj' or posthu- mous— we do not praise the flowers when the colours are gone, and their sweet savour alone remains ; we admire them in life, and value them while they are yet on the living earth." — Sheffield Independent. Nov. Public meeting, J. A. Stuart Wortley, Esq., M, P., 17. in the chair; resolved that the committee appoint- ed approve of Mr. Telford's report of the practi- cability of a canal communication between Sheffield and Manchester, and that the scheme be promoted in every possible way.

— 28. Winter fair; price of cheese, thin, 63s. to 74s. per

cwt. ; Cheshire, 66s. to 80s. per cwt.

— 30. Seventh anniversary of the Sbakspeare club;- Mr. E.

Rhodes, president. Dec. Public meeting of the merchants, manufacturers, and others, atthe Town-Hall, to express their unshaken confidence in the stability of the Sheifield banking establishments,

— 26. Thetheatre; Mr. S.Butler first appeared (Coriolanus.)

— 31. The theatre; Mr. Booth first appeard (King Lear.) . Expended by the Church Burgesses, during the past

year, out of their funds ; to the clergy, .£750 ; to repairs, &c. of church, ^£266. 2s, 3d. ; to the poor, £^5. 2s. 3d. ; to general and incidental expenses, ,£394. 18s. 8d.— P. Rep. 1826, Jan. Town library ; president, Mr. T. A. Ward.

— 2. Theatre ; Miss Foote's first appearance, (Letitia

Hardy.)

— 3. Mechanics' Library ; second annual meeting and re

port; number of volumes, 1600; members, 460 receipts of the last year, ^180.

— 6. Literaiy and Philosophical Society ; election of offi

cers, president, Mr. Samuel JBailey ; vice-presi dents. Dr. Knight, Mr. Montgomery, Rev. Dr Phillips, and Rev. H. H. Piper.

— 16. Gas Company; Mr. Thomas Wilcockson elected se

cretary, viceMw Pearse. . Public meeting; petition adopted, praying Parliaihen

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1826.

"for the immediate mitigation and future abolition of Negro Slavery."

'^^%\ ^^^T^^. of Thomas Rawson, Esq. of Wardsend, aged -^- 7», a gentleman eminent for talent, honesty, and independence ; a fiiend to the poor and to his country; a strenuous advocate for the ancient and tundamental laws of the nation ; a man of true pa- triotism ; never flinching nor refusing his aid when he thought truth and justice required it, though it was to vindicate the poor and weak against the ricli and powerful."— .S/^^jf: /;i^. ^

' * ZTZTa — \ -charitable donations: infirmary,

AlUUU; Lancasterian schools, ^200: national,

J? 1 A ^. ^^ ' ^'^v ^"'^^' ^"''^"ty schools, £100 each. i«P Kv ""' ^^y- Y«""&'s first appearance, (Hamlet.)

— 18. Public meeting at the Town-Hall, "to express the

public confidence M-hich exists in the stability of the Sheffield and Rotherham banks."

— -1. River Dun Company; price of an original ^£100

share, by public auction, 4:2160. Mar Rattening ; attempt to blow up with gunpowder Messrs. I. Chadburn and Wright's steam-engine Avheel, iu the Nursery.

— 9. Public meeting ; resolved to oppose an application

made to Parliament by the River Dun Company, tor a bill to alter the navigation, and increase the dues.

— 10. General infirmary and boys' charity school: trustees

receive .£200 and .^100 fi-om the executors of Sa- muel fetaniforth, Esq. deceased.

— 27. Hyde (High) Park new cricket ground, formed bv

Messrs. Wright and Hazlehurst, in the Park, opened. '

April Parish accounts for the past year; overseers, Jno. Johnson, Jos. Wigfull, Samuel Owen, John P Cutts; amount of rates collected, £15,911. 3s. 6d.- amount paid for the relief of the poor, ^11 497! lOs. 6d.; county rate, £2943. 19s. lOd.

Fire on the premises occupied by Mr. Stones, in Watson's- walk ; loss in stock, &c. £450

Average number (per week) of paupers in" the work- house during the past year, 219.— IFork. Acct.

— 1

(v

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1826.

Apr,3. James Rimington, Esq., (Broomhead Hall,) qualified

as a magistrate of the West-Riding. . Montgomery sick society instituted.

— 7« Laneasterian schools ; Mr. Thomas Oates re-elected

master, vice Mr. G. Tucker retired. . Town Trustees expend sixty guineas in putting down

public pumps in Fargate and New-street. ilffl?/l. Cricket match, Darnall club against twenty- two of

the town ; won by the latter, with 80 notches.

— 4. Presentation to the Duke of York, by Henry Moor-

house, Master Cutler, John Sansom, Warden, amd Hugh Parker, Esq., of Woodthorpe, of a number of specimens of fine Sheffield cutlery, manufactured by Messrs. Rodgers and Sons, INIessrs. Sansom, Messrs. Champion, Mr. Crawshaw, and Messrs. Thompson and Barber. " The specimens are cer- tain proofs that the manufacturers of Sheffield have no occasion to be under any alarm that the London cutlers will long deprive them of their fair share of business, and that the quackery of marking " Lon- don" on their knives, will be of no avail when they are fairly brought into com^et'\t\on,"-— British Press, London Paper. 15. The old pavement in Waingate and the front of the Town-Hall taken up, and the road laid down on M* Adam's plan.

— 23. Summer fair; price of cheese, Derbyshire, 50s. to

60s. per cwt. ; Cheshire, 60s. to 70s.

— 24. General infirmary ; resolved at a special general board

of governors, to join the York, Leeds, and Hull infirmaries, and advance .£1000 towards the cost of the new concert rooms at York, the same being assigned to trustees for the benefit of the four cha- rities.

— 26. Fire at Messrs. Creswick's premises, in Paternoster-

row ; loss, .£200.

— 27- The Angel Inn opened by Mr. Edward Hancock.

— 30. Cricket match, (second,) eleven of Darnall club against

twenty-two of the town and neighbourhood ; won by the former, with G6 notches

— 31. St. Paul's church; Mr. Thomas Frith, jun, elected

organist, vice Mr. Wigfield, deceased.

SHEFFIELD T.OCAL REGISTER. !&/

1S26.

Juiie Public meeting, to take into consideration the state of 5. the distressed poor ; subscription opened, and com- mittee appointed " to appropriate the subscriptions to individuals or families in distress for want of em- ployment;" chief subscriptions, Londinensis, (un- known,) two sums, ^500 each ; three banks, ^£50 each; Church Burgesses, £o2; London general fund, £500; Rev.W. Bagshawe, £30; Rev. T. Sutton, ^31. 10s. ; EarlFitzwilliam, £200 ; Cutlers' Com- pany, £100 ; John Marshall, Esq. M.P., £30 ; Duke of Norfolk, £200 ; Rev. M. Preston, £30 ; Samuel Shore, Esq. £50 ; Town Trustees, £52. 10s. ; and Rev. J. Blackburne, Robert Brightmore, Green, Pickslay, and Appleby, Joseph Rodgers and Sor/s, T. and C. Rawson, Samuel Shore, jun., Thomas Watson, Thomas Weldon, Samuel Younge, and Charles Younge, ^20 each; total, ^3593. 2s. 6d.

— 7. Richard Rethell, Esq., William Duncombc, Esq.,

and Richard Fountayne Wilson, Esq. address in person the freeholders of Sheffield, and solicit their votes at the ensuing election of Members of Parliament.

— 8. Lord Milton and Mr. Marshall address the freeholders

assembled in Pai-adise-square, and solicit their votes at the ensuing election ; afterwards attend a public dinner at the Tontine. Jidy\. Patent granted to John Poole, of Sheffield, for cer- tain improvements in steam-engine boilers or ge- nerators.

— 6. Female benefit society; stock, £1489. 2s. 9d. ; ho-

norary members, 76 ; benefit do., 372.

— 10. Public meeting; resolutions adopted to take measures

for the prevention of hydrophobia.

— 16. Unitarian chapel; Mr. Edward Jones elected organist,

vice Mr. Taylor deceased.

— 24. Cricket match, eleven of Darnall and Leicester against

eleven of Nottingham ; won by the forpser with 204 runs. Marsden scored in the match at one in- nings (two days) 227.

^?f<7.2. Music- Hall shares ; dividend of 4 per cent, declared.

-T- 17. Decease of Jacob Gherwin, Esq., aged 84, "a great benefactor to our public charities, having given in

J 88 SHEFKIEJ-D LOCAL REGISTER.

1826.

his life time considerable donations to most of them:'— S/ief. Ind. Aug. Decease of Mr. John Bardwell, (formerly auctioneer,) 21. aged 81.

— 28. Cricket match, twenty-two of Darnall and Leicester,

against eleven of All England; won by the former with twelve runs. - 30. Decease of ISIr. Edward Oakes, merchant, aged 75. " One of his late departed associates had not in- aptly called him the ' laughing philosopher,' as his risible faculties might be truly said to be almost in perpetual motion amongst a large circle of his ac- quaintance." Sept. Cricket match, (return,) twenty-two of Darnall and 3. Leicester, against eleven of All England ; won by the former with five runs.

— 7" Anniversary of the Cutlers' feast ; Master Cutler, Mr.

William Sansoni ; guests present, Lord Milton, and Messrs. Duncombe, Wilson, and Marshall, County Members ; magistrates, &c,

— 14. Public dinner at the Music-Hail, given to Lord

Wharnclift'e, " as a testimony of gratitude for his unremitting attention to the arduous duties of a representative for the county of York, during the last two Parliaments. "---^f/re/'<. Chairman, Dr. Younge^ present, I7O persons.

. The Hollis's charities distributed as follows : —

£ s. r>.

Alms people's stipends, 282 12 0

Clothing for alms people and orator, . . 13 0 0

Coals for alms-houses, 28 0 0

Orator or schoolmaster, fi3 0 0

Minister of upper chapel, 15 0 0

„ lower ditto, 5 0 0

„ Fulwood ditto 10 0 0

„ Rotherhara ditto, 10 0 0

•"- Schoolmaster there, 20 0 0

Minister at Doncaster,, ...o 15 0 0

Schoolma.ster there 20 0 0

^481 12 '0 Pari. Rep.

SHEFFIELD J.OCAf, BKGISTKB. Ib'J

1826—27.

Oct. 4. General infirmary; anniversary meeting of the sub- scribers and benefactors, Samuel Walker, Esq. president.

— 12. Saint Mary's new church; first stone laid by the

Countess of Surrey; present, Earl Fitzwilliam. Lord and Lady Wharncliffe, Earl and Countess of ^ Surrey, and principal persons of the town.

— 30. Theatre opened by Mr, De Camp ; principal perform-

ers, ]\Iiss Foote, (six nights ;) Messrs. Mude, Love- day, Carter, Larkin, Chapman, Neville, Barrett; Mrs. Shepherd, Miss Rock, Miss Scholey.

— 31. Ladies' Bazaar at the Music-Hall; ,£118 produced

by the sale of fancy articles, for the benefit of cha- rities. Nov^ Montgomery friendly society; second anniversary; b. present, Mr. James Montgomery; number of mem- bers, 210.

— 8, Sheffield Seamen's Friend, and Bethel Union Society

formed, and subscription opened for its support.

— 20. Public meeting; resolved that a petition be presented

to Parliament, praying " for such alteration in the corn laws as the necessitous circumstances of the suffering people so earnestly require."'

— 22. Eighth anniversary of the Shakspeare club, at the

Angel ; president, John Favell, Esq.

— 25. Mr. Wreaks appointed post-master, vice Mr. Wil-

liam Todd.

— 27. Winter fair; price of cheese, inferior^ 50s.; best,

65s. per cwt. Dec. Soho steam grinding wheel ; price of shares, (public 6. auction, exclusive of dutv,) .£131. 5s.

— 11. Savings' Bank; fund, ^79,845. 18s. 6^d. ; accounts,

2036. '

— 25. Number of paupers maintained in the poorhouse,

Dec. Expended by the Church Burgesses during the past 31 . year, out of their trust funds ; to the clergy, .£750. ; to repairs, &c. of church, .^191. 9s. 9d. ; to the poor, ^102. 9s. lid; general and incidental ex- penses, .£195, 8s. 7d.— P. Hep.

I827, Jan. Town library; president, Mr. T, A. Ward.

— 5. Literary and Philosophical Society ; annual meeting

and election of officers; president. Mi. Montgo-

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merv, vice-presidents, Dr. Knight, Rev. H. H. Piper, Mr. S. Bailey, and Mr. T. A. Ward. Jan. Wesleyan Methodists ; number in the town, according to the return by the conference, 2103.

— 8. Three hackney coaches set up.

— 17. Decease of Mr. Charles Adams, aged 48. " He filled

the office of Vestry Clerk for the township of Shef- field upwardsof IGyearswith the utmost integrity." —Sheffield Pap. . Public meeting ; to consider the best means of form- ing a junction yv\i\\ the Sheffield and Peak forest canals ; subscriptions entered into, and engineer's report ordered.

— 19. Interment of the Duke of York observed by the clos-

ing of shops and services at the churfhes and cbapels.

— 24. Gas company ; dividend declared at 10 per cent.

— 29. Theatre; first appearance of Mr. Listen (Paul Pry.) i^(?5.2. Mr. Thomas Crosland elected Vestry Clerk to the

town, vice Mr. Adams deceased.

— 9. Public meeting to oppose any bill making legal the

exportation of English machinery.

— 22. Friends of the chase hunting with Sij- George Sit-

well's hounds, entertain the Baronet, at a public dinner at the Tontine.

— 28. Public meeting to consider the propriety of building

by subscription a new post office, and a house for

the master; committee appointed. Mar. Patent granted to William Smith, merchant, of Shef- field, " for an improved method of manufacturing

cutlery, &c. by means of rollers." Jlpril. Parish accounts for the past year ; overseers, Samuel

Woodcock, Francis Chiley, Geo. Hawksworth, T.

Linley; amount of rates collected, 4116,317. lis. ;

amount paid for the relief of the poor, .£12,544.

5s. 8d.; county rate, ^2068. 16s. lid.

— 1. Average number (per week) of paupers in the Shef-

field workhouse during the past year, 322.

— 4. James Green and George Stott, sentenced at York to

be transported for life, for robbing James Watson (an aged man employed by Messrs. Booth) in the open day, on the banks of the canal near the town, ofXlll.

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1827.

April Paid out of the county rates during the past year- — 23. * .£ s. D.

To the Sheffield constables for search- ^

ing for, apprehending, and keep- > 223 12 fi

persons charged with felonies. . . . 3

To gaol fees 13 16 8

To conveyance of prisoners commit- ^ .n^ 10 11

ted to Wakefield or York S

To Coroner for 112 inquests, and^ .y^ 3 u

travelling 405 miles f

To conveyance of King's baggage .... 4 9 8 To gaoler for conveyance of lb debt- ^ jo . ,.

ors from Sheffield to Wakefield . . 5 To the Overseers for the casual poor.. 313 17 2 Tocloth, tables, anddesksatthe Town ^ ojt n n

Hall ..,. S"

To straw and repairs in the gaol 12 2 5

Total 1139 16 7

il/ay7. First stone of the new Independent chapel laid by the Rev. Thomas Smith, on the site of the old Nether chapel, in Norfolk-street.

— 13. New chapel of the hospital of Gilbert Earl of Shrews-

bury opened for divine service ; governor, Rev. T. Robinson.

— 20. Petitions presented from the congregation of the

upper chapel, and other bodies of Dissenters, praying the Peu-liament to repeal the corporation and test acts.

— 22. Sheffield " Irish Aid Society" formed " in aid of the

various benevolent and charitable institutions which exist for the amelioration of the state of the Irish people/' J«ne I.Sheffield markets; act of Parliament passed "for removing tlie corn, hay, and cattle rnartiets, and for erecting a corn exchange and improving the market places, and regulating the fairs and mar- kets, and for erecting a bridge over the River .y,. . Dun."

r- 4. Cricket match atDarnall, between 11 of Sussex and .to " 11 of All England; won by the latter M'ith seven .;,; M'ickets to go down. All'England men, Flavill,

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J 827.

BoAvyer, J. Sanders, W. Barber, Marsden, F. Pilcli, Da\vson, Beagley, Matthews, Jarvis, and Jupp ; Sussex, Lillywhite, Slater, Ward, T. Broadbridg-e, Tw^aites, Peirpoint, Brown, Dale, Duff, Meads. June9. Formation of the Sheffield Botanical Society.

" Soft roll your incense, herbs, and fruits, and flowers,

In mingled clouds to him whose sun exalts,

M^hose breath perfumes you, and whose pencil paints."

Thompson ,

— - 14. The Town Trust; act of Parliament passed "for fa-

cilitating- the execution of certain trusts for cha- ritable and public purposes within the town of Sheffield," provides that a majority of seven may grant leases; that the trust estates should be vested in newly elected trustees, without any deed of con- A eyance ; that the accounts should be submitted to the public (freeholders) in May annually. -^ 20 Nineteenth Yorkshire Amateur Music Meeting held &21. at the Music-Hall.

— ^9. Distribution of the Hanbey charity to six poor aged

men and women. Jul?/6. Sheffield Courant newspaper ; the first number pub- lished by Messrs. J. C. Piatt and Co., Haymarket.

— 11. Mr. C. Brown's second ascension in his balloon from

Hyde Park.

. Theatre ; price of an original share, (public auction,)

£IS5.

— 16. First anniversary of the Bethel friendly society.

— 17. Gas company ; dividend declared on the capital ad-

vanced, of 10 per cent.

— 19. Southcotians ; the whole body resident in the toM^n

took their departure, for the purpose of holding a solemn convocation at Ashton-under-Line.— aS/^c^. Papei\

— 23. Single cricket match at Darnall, between W. and

T. Broadbridge, and Mai-sden and Brown ; won by the latter.

— 25. Chevalier Southby's grand display of fire-works, at

Hyde Park.

— 30, Cricket match at Darnall, Darnall club against Not-

tingham ; won by the former, with 154 runs. Aug. Cricket match, (return,) Darnall club against Not- 27. tingham ; won by the latter, after u change of um- pires, Avith nine wickets to go down.

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1827.

Aug. Mr. C. Brown, accompanied by Mr. Glossop, as- 30. cended in his balloon from Sycamore-street.

Sept. Anniversary of the Cutlers' feast; Master, Mr. Sa- S. muel Hadfield; gnests present, Lord Milton, Richard F. Wilson, Esq. M.P., Hon. W. Dun- combe, M.P., &c.

•~ 19. The first stone of the new bridge to cross the river Dun, near Blonk-street, in the Wicker, ordered by the commissioners under the new market act, laid by Mr. Burkett, the contractor ; designed by Messrs. Woodhead and Hurst.

— 29. Sheffield Court of Requests; Hugh Parker, of Wood

thorpe, Esq., and Michael Ellison, of Sheffield, Esq., appointed by his Grace the Duke of Nor- fiilk. Steward and 'Deputy Steward, vice Messrs. ^Fyberg and Watson. Oct.d. General infirmary; thiitieth annirersary, at the Ton- tine ; president, Peter Brownell, Esq.

— iO, Decease of Mrs. Margaret Howard, aged 96, "first

nurse to the Sheffield infirmary,"

-:;r 25. Anniversary of the Ro^-alJubilee friendly society stock, £2304. 8s. IW.; members, 280.

. Surveyors of the highways for the past year, acknow- ledge the receipt of ie7064. 4s. 2id. in rates, &c., out of which they have expended .£6811. 15s. 7^d.

— 28. Soho grinding wheel, in Coulston-crofts, partly de-

stroyed by fire.

Nov. James Montgomery, Esq.; a number of ladies and 2. others, prevented from joining in the public tribute of respect paid him, (public dinner, Nov. 4, 1825,) present him with a silver inkstand. " It was there- fore determined to form a committee, to receive any contributions that might be voluntarily made, in Older to present you with a small piece of plate,' and if any thing remained after this was purchased, to give the residue (^£200,) towards the revival of the Moravian mission in the Island of Tobago, which was first established by your late father, and where the mortal remains of "your mother are in- terred."—Ze«er//-o?/2, Roivlahd Hodgson, Esq.

. Decease of Mr. Ralph Blakelock, aged 61, "many

years principal acting partner in the banking-house of Messrs. Parker, Shores, and Blakelock." s

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1827—28.

Nov^ Hive Literary and Philosophical Society ; first nieet- 2. ing at Mr. J. C. Sewell's acadeniy.

— 5. Theatre first opened by Mr. W. S. "Butler; principal

performers, Messrs. Moss, Williams, Jefferson, Hunt, Slaiter, Woodley, and Hardcastle ; Misses Penlej', Cleaver, Field,' Angel, and Shore.

— 10. Sheffield canal; value of shares, (public auction,)

je95.

. Infirmary ; donation of ^650 from Richard F. Wilson,

Esq. M.P.

— 17. Boys' charity school; Mr. Henry Webster appointed

head master, vice Mr. Swan, resigned.

— 28. The winter fair ; price of cheese, Derbyshire, 60s ;

Cheshire, old, 60s. to 72s. per cwt. Dec, Ninth anniversary of the Shakspeare club, at the 5. Tontine; president, Dr. Brown.

— 10. General infirmary ; donation from Earl Manvers,

^50.

. St. Philip's church ; Rev. William Drayton Carter,

M. A. appointed minister.

— 27. Mr. Parson's charity; forty-eight poor aged and in-

firm silver platers receive 24s. each. Number of paupers maintained in the pooi'house, 252.

— 31. Theatre; Mr, Charles Kemble made his second ap-

pearance; characters, Hamlet, Foscari, Jaffier,

and Benedict. 1828. Burials at the parish church during the past year, Jan. 1. 1124, 95 of which of persons 70 years and upwards. . Town library ; president, Mr. T. A. ^^'■ard.

— 3. Literarj' and Philosophical Society; election of

officers; president, Rev. H. H. Piper, vice-presi- dents. Rev. N. Phillips, D. D., Mr. Montgomery, Mr. S. Bailey, and Dr. Knight

•. committee report the extension and

arrangement of the museum belonging to the society.

. Number of persons, or fii-ms of one or more persons,

manufacturing Sheffield goods, or carrying on any trade or occupation within the town and neigh- bourhood, 3588. — BlacJciveW s Direct. 17. Public meeting to consider the report of Mr. Nicho- las Brown, concerning the means of better supply- ing the town with water; resolved "to apply to

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1828.

Parliament for means to carry into effect the works suggested in the report."

Jan. Meeting in the chancel of the church, in consequence 31. of a notice given by the Churchwardens of impos- ing " a rate for erecting and repairing certain fences to the old and new churches ;" resolved " that it is inexpedient and unjust to impose a rate upon the parish, either for the fencing in or defraying any other expenses connected with the three churches recently built, or for repairing the old church yard, or for any purpose mentioned in the ChurchM-ardens' notice, and that therefore the meeting be adjourned."

i^(?Zi. 4. Post office removed from Mr. Todd's late premises in the Market-place, to the corner house in Arun- del-street, opposite the Assembly Rooms.

— 15. Decease of Peter Brownell, Esq., aged fi6. " He

filled the office of Master Cutler in 1807 ; he was a member of the Town Trust, and had been Town Collector since the death of Mr. Turner. As a merchant, he was eminent. In all public affairs, he was most useful and munificent; in private life, liberal and generous." —i<heff. Ink.

— 21 . Theatre ; appearance of Mr. Charles Young (Hamlet,

Lear, and lago.)

. Boys' charity school ; trustees receive £50, the be- quest of Mr. Thomas Wild, deceased.

Mnr. The grammar school ; " the number of free scholars is 21, nominated by the governors. The school has formerly at different times been in considerable repute as a grammar school, and its present re- duced situation is rather to be ascribed to the pre- ference given by the inhabitants to a mercantile education than to any neglect or inattention on the part of the teachers." — Par. Rep.

. Amount of rentals from the school estate, .£160. 10s.

—Rar. Rep.

. The property in the town and parish of Sheffield

vested in the Church Burgesses ; acres, 78, roods, 2, perches, 26 ; — 25,985 square yards, producing ^383. 16s. Id. annual rent.

— 12. Mr, T. A. Ward, of Parkhouse, appointed Town

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Collector by the Town Trustees, vice Mr. Brow- nell, deceased. Jl!/a.20. Decease (suddenly) of Mr. Samuel Fouldes, surgeon.

— 30. Average number "(per M^eek) of paupers in the Shef-

field workhouse during the last year, 292. April Parish accounts for the past year ; overseers, Jno, Eyre Pearson, VV. Stenton, G. Robinson, J. Newton; amount collected in rates, .£15,988. 19s. lid. ; amount paid for the relief of the poor, .£14,101. 6s. lid. ; county rate, £1825. 9s 8d.

— 7- Theatre opened for the Easter holidays bv Mr. W.

S. Butler.

'-. Decease of Mr. John Greaves, aged 84. " He for

many years held the office of Town Trustee and Church Burgess, and was the last survivor of a highly esteemed and respected family." — Sheffield Independent.

— 10. Decease of Mr. Joseph Ridge ; bequeathed to the

infirmary, girls' charity school, and Lancasterian schools, <£100 each.

— 14. Public meeting ; resolved that the magistrates at

sessions be requested " to use all due economy with regard to the future expenditure of the county rates, and particularly with reference to the salaries of the different officers, and the new buildings at York."

. Fortj-fifth anniv'ersary of the Rodney club; "several

members of this society receiving £20 per annum, having arrived at the age of 72, the age of Lord Rodney, when he died — Shfff. Ind.

— 15. National Society (London) vote .^£100 towards erect-

ing a school, in connexion M'ith th« new St. George's church.

— 19, Resident Physicians and Surgeons petition Parliament

to remove the obstructions preventing the study of anatomy.

— 21. Mr. Hanbey's charity (a cloak or coat, a hat and a

sovereign) distributed to sixty poor and aged men, and to thirty poor and aged women.

. Sheffield Medical Institution ; trustees presented with

a donation of one hundred pounds from the Duke of Norfolk, and two hundred pounds from the Earl Fitzwilliam.

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1828.

April Captain J. Shore presented with a sword by the iion- 23. commissioned officers and privates of the Sheffield Squadron of Yeomanry Cavah-y, as a mark of their affection and respect.

— .30. Public meeting ; resolved to petition Parliament foi-

the repeal of an act passed in 1826, prohibiting country bankers from issuing any local notes under £5, after the expiration of three years from that time.

May The Town Trust; annual value of the town estates, ^1400 ; estates without the town, 44 acres of old enclosure, and 33 acres allotment of common in Upper Hallam. producing 4.' 100 per acre.

. John Sorbv, jun. Esq., elected Church Burgess, V2ce

Mr. John Greaves ; " upon whose demise Lieut. Col. Fenton, for the fourth time," became Capital Church Burgess. — Slifff. Ind.

— 5. Election of Town Trustees ; Michael Ellison, Esq.,

Mr. John Rodgers, of Norfolk-street, Samuel Had- field, Esq., Master Cutler, and Mr. Samuel Bailey, mercliant, elected Town Trustees by the resident freeholders, publicly convened at the Town-Hall.

— 19. Decease of the Rev. Richard Rimmer, in the 76th

year of his age ; " upwards of forty years Catholic priest of this place. Whatever opinions were? en- tertained respecting the principles of that church of which the deceased was a minister, individuals of different denominations in Sheffield, all concurred in bearing testimony to the excellencies of this kind- hearted, humane, and charitable man.''--^/?*^. Ind. June Methodist new connexion ; JNIessrs. Hearton, Batty, and Driver, appointed at the thirty-second confer- ence, at Leeds, to be stationed at Sheffield.

— 7- General infirmary; trustees receive ^50 from the ex-

ecutors of Solomon Cadm,an, Esq. deceased. . Town Trustees vote £50 towards the intended Shef- field medical institution, and £o() towards the erec- tion of a hall for the Literary and Philosophical Society.

— 8. Methodist new connexion chapel, in South-street, ^ first opened.

— 9. Public meeting ; resolved to petition Parliament " (o

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1828.

adopt effectual measures for the abolition of Negro Slavery in the West Indies." June. Savings' Bank ; amount of fund, ^93,118. 6s. ll^d. ; accounts, 2526.

— 12. Sixth anniversary of the Fitzwilliam Friendly Society;

stock, ^330. 7s. 6d.

— 14. John Brown, Esq., solicitor, appointed distributor of

stamps.

— 25. General infirmary; extract from the 31st Midsummer

annual report for the last year:---" receipts of sub- scriptions, rents, legacies, donations, fines, and miscellanies, ££4007. 12s. 6d. ; payments for meat, flour, &c., ^'1184. 18s. Ojd.; medicines and sur- gery, ^£603. 14s. 2d. ; repairs, furniture, and taxes, ^413. 7s. 3d.; salaries, ^"258. 7s. 6d. ; M'ages, .£192. 8s. lOd. ; miscellanies, ^103. 2s. Id.; one quarter share of the Music-Hail, at York, ^1000; total, £3755. I7s. lid.; leaving a balance in favour of the infirmary of ^231. 14s. 7d.

— 28. Accounts of commissioners of police ; received during

the past year, ^£4382. 3s. 3d. ; expended for cleansing streets, .£561; lighting ditto, ^1549; watching ditto, £'1876; salaries, £314.

— 30. Cricket match, (Leicester,) Uarnall club against Lei-

cester, with Pilch given ; won by the latter, with

seven wicki^ts to go down. . Public meeting ; resolved to petition Parliament " to

reject a bill empowering Churchvardens to levy a

rate for the maintenance of Divine worship in the

new churches and chapels." July2. Consecration of the new St. Philip's church, by the

Archbishop of York.

" Let the living here be fed,

With thy Word, the heavenly brea ; Here in hope of glory blest. May the dead be laid to rest."

Montgomery's Hymn for the occasion,

— 7' Cricket (return) match, Darnall cltib against Leicester,

(Pilch given ;) won by the latter with two wickets to go down.

— 9. First stone of the new medical institution, near the

Music-Hall, laid by Dr. Knight.

"An longa vita brcvi*. "— i«*o'>-

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1828.

July St. Philip's church opened ; Rev. T. D. Atkinson, 13. curate, first preached. The cost of the erection was .^£1 1,960. 13s.; it is 95 feet in length, and 78 in breadth.

— 15. Botanical and horticultural society ; annual exhibition

at the Music-Hail.

— 23. Mr. Hamilton commenced a series of lectures at the

Music-HalJ, on his system of communicating lan- guages. j4uff. Cricket match, (Nottingham,) between the Darnall 1. club and Nottingham; won by the former, with 160 runs.

— 4. The workhouse ; public meeting called by Francis

Cluley, T.N.Bardwell, Jno. Brown, Wm. Swift, Thomas Creswick, and Nath. Greaves, Church- ^vardens and Overseers ; resolved " that the present workhouse in Westbar should be abandoned and the materials sold, and that the cotton-mill for- merly occupied by Messrs. Heathfield, should be purchased and fitted up for the reception of the poor."

— 7- Public meeting; committee appointed and subscrip-

tions entered into for the formation of a self-sup- porting dispensary.

— 8. Stamp oifice (Messrs. Parker and Brown) in St.

James's-street opened.

— 9. General infirmary ; trustees receive .£50, the donation

of Miss Mary Younge, deceased. . Boys' and girls' charity school ; receive each £6'50,

donations of Miss Mary Younge, deceased. . Inspector of corn returns; appointed JNIr, P. Bright.

— 16. Scotland-street chapel, belonging to the Methodist

New Connexion pulled down.

— 19. New Independent chapel in Norfolk-street first open-

ed for service ; five sermons preached by the Rev. Jos. Gilbert, of Notts, Rev. Dr. Raffles, of Liver- pool, Rev. James Parsons of Yoik, and the Rev. VV. Thorpe ; collected towards the expenses of the building, ^384. ,Se/>. 4. Anniversary of the Cutlers' Feast; Master, James Crawshaw, Esq. ; guests present, Hon. William Duncombe, R. F. Wilson, Esq., M. P., magistrates of the district, &c.

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1828.

ScptA. Mr. Green and JMr. Glossop, ascended in a balloon from Hyde Park.

. Pjice of grain ; the first return published in the

London Gazette, of the quantity and price of grain sold at one market in the town ; wheat, 327 quarters 7 bushels for 4:1056. 2s. 8d.; oats 34 quarters, for <£29. 16s.

— 8. Cricket match (Darnall) between ten picked men

of All England, with T. Parry, Esq., and eleven best men of Sheffield, Leicester, and Nottingham. All England scored 334 ; the losers 92.

Ofi. 1. General infirmary; annual meeting in the board room ; Benjamin Sayle, Esq., appointed chairman of the weekly board ;" Mr. John Dawson resigned the office of Secretary.

. Thirty-first anniversary of Trus- tees and Subscribers at the Tontine ; president, Right Hon. Earl of Surrey.

— 11. The Rawson sick club formed; presented by Miss

Rawson, of Wardsend, brother to Thomas Rawson, Esq., with £100.

— 27. Theatre opened under the management of JNIessrs.

Butler and Cliff ; principal performers, Mr.

IVIacready. (five nights) Mr. Calvert, (five nights)

Mr. Sapio, (five nights) ; Messrs. Haines, Ellis,

Telbin, Calvert, King, and Wilton ; INliss S.

Booth, (five nights) Mrs. Piercy, Miss Cleaver,

Miss Telbin, and Mrs. Glover, (five nights.)

Nov. Decease of Mr. Benjamin Wilkinson, aged 75. "This

venerable individual was, from his long standing,

considered as the father of the Wesleyan Society

in this town, having been a member thereof almost

[ sixtj' j-ears, a considerable part of which time he

( acted as a local preacher and class leader, so that

I his caieer may be said to have been almost cotem-

porary with the whole history of ]\Iethodism in this

place, and of which he was regarded whilst living

as one of the best oral chronicles." — S/u;f. Ind.

— 16. Decease of Samuel Shore, Esq., of Mearsbrook, aged

91. "His long life had been spent in the service of mankind, and though inheriting that indepen- dence which precluded the necessity of exertion for bis own personal accommodation, he spent a niobt

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1828—29.

active and useful life. He was uniformly attached to the sacred cause of civil and religious liberty. He was the early friend of Priestley and Lindsey, and he warmly co-operated in the struggles which, during his life, w^re made to obtain a reform of Parliament — a repeal of persecuting laws— and the adoption of measures of economy essential to the welfare and honour of the state." — Shef. Lid. Nov. First bell (Mears' foundry) put up in St. George's 23. church.

— 25. New corn exchange ; first stone laid by Michael

Ellison, Esq. " I have, as agent to the Duke of Norfolk, and as his representative on this occasion, laid the first stone of a building intended to form the most prominent feature in the projected im- provements and extension of these markets." — Add. 011 the occasion.

— 26. Mr. Thomas Newbould elected Secretary to the in-

firmary, vice Mr. John Dawson, resigned.

— 28. Winter "fair held in the Wicker; price of cheese,

53s. to 65s. per cwt. Dec. Boys' charity school; Mr. Peter Wigfall,. of High- field, bequeathed .^^200.

— 8. Savings' Bank; capital fund, .^93,279. Is. lid. ; de-

positors, 2558.

— '[Q. Quantity and price of corn sold in the Sheffield

market ; wheat, 320 quarters imperial, £A. 5s. 4d. per quarter ; barley, 321 quarters, £2. 2s. 2d. per quarter ; oats, 7^ quarters, £] . 5s. 6d. per quarter ; beans, 36 quarters, £2. 9s. 8d. per quarter.

— 17. Tenth anniversary of the Shakspeare club at the

Tontine ; president, James Sorby, Esq. . Summary of the property vested in the twelve Capital

Burgesses of the town and parish of Sheffield;

land and houses occupying square yards, 177)356,

and acres ].4Q, 3 roods, 8 perches, let for i;i421.

10s. 9|d. per annum. 1829. Inquest on the body of Mr. James Vaughan, engineer, Jan.2. M'ho was unfortunately killed two days previous, by

the falling of a fly-wheel. . Literary and Philosophical Society; annual meeting,

and election of officers for the year; president, T.

A. Ward, Esq.; vice presidents, Dr. Knight, Mr.

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1828.

J. Montgomery, Mr. S. Bailey, and Rev. H. H. Piper ; secretaries, Mr. Palfreyman and j\Ir. R. Younge ; curator, Mr. W. Jackson. J(m-5. Dr. Spurzheim commenced a series of lectures on phrenology, at the Tontine.

— 9. Public meeting at the Town-Hall, " on the subject

of procuring a supply of water equal to the wants of the town;" committee appointed and subscrip- tion opened.

— 1 9. Second public meeting, to consider the formation of

a new water company ; James CraAvshaw, Master Cutler, in the chair; resolved that a capital of .£50,000 should be raised by shares ; Messrs. Tho- mas Dewsnap, R. Sorby, W. Thorpe, Moorhouse, Ciuley, Hawksworth, Linley, G. Marriot, Boult- bee, Blackwell, Saunders, Arundel, and Fairbank, appointed as provisional committee.

— 27' The medical professors resident in Sheffield, petition

Parliament for a removal of the difficulties which, obstruct the study of anatomy.

— 31. A number of table-blade grinders " struck work."

• . Solicitor of Stamps ; Mr. Joseph Timm appointed so- licitor to the Commissioners of the Stamp Office, vice Godfrey Sykes, Esq. deceased.

Feb.9. Third meeting for the formation of a new water com- pany, and a committee appointed to treat with the proprietors of the old Avorks.

• - 14. The committee of the new water company publish a list of subscribers to the amount of .£52,000.

— 16. First special general meeting, at the Town-Hall, of

the shareholders in the new water company, and a call made of ^2. 10s. per cent.

— 18. A meeting, pursuant to public advertisement, in the

sessions room of the Town-Hall, of" several cler- gymen of the established church, dissenting minis- ters, and other individuals, for the purpose of ad- dressing the King, and petitioning both Houses of Parliament, against the admission of Roman Ca* tholics to legislative and political power."

— 20. Public meeting, " for the purpose of petitioning both

Houses of Parliament, for the removal of all civil disabilities, on account of religious faith and wor- ship, and for the extension of civil and religious

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1829.

liberty to all classes of his Majesty's subjects " ad- adjourned from the Town-Hall to'Paradise-snuare ■ present, 1 0,000 people ; James Crawshaw, Master Cutler, in the chair.

Feb. Lord Milton, in the House of Commons, presented /y. the Sheffield petition in favour of Catholic eman- cipation.

Mar. Earl Fitzmlliam, in the House of Lords, presented b. the Sheffield petition in favour of Catholic eman- cipation.

. Boys' charity school ; trustees receive (from an un- known benefactor) a donation of .^800, the interest of which is appropriated to the maintenance and education of four boys, in addition to the ordinary number (80.) •'

— 24. Overseers of the poor for the ensuing: year ; nominated

ftlessrs. G. H. Woollen, Samuel Lavcock Mark Maugham, and Mr. Edward Vickers.'

— 30. Martin Slack (aged 18) executed at York, for the

wilful murder (in Westbar) of his illegitimate child

— 31. Decease of the Rev. Matthew Preston, one of the

three assistant ministers of the parish church of bhefteld, and perpetual curate of Ecclesall.

. Bovs' and girls" charity schools ; trustees recei\-e from

t'^e executors of the will of the late Miss Rowland,

• ^^^^/emale Society receives from the same source

^pril Parish accounts for the past year ; overseers, Thomas Creswick, John Brown, Nathaniel Greaves M Smith; amount of rates collected, ^21,327 Ss ' amountpaidforreliefofthe poor, ^19,173. 6s*3d*'- county rate, ^1419. lis. 4d. " ' '

— 1. Samuel Green and Lionel Burn, tried at the York-

shire Spring Assizes, on a charge of raUemna, and faring a loaded pistol at Thomas Frost, a watch- man. Guilty. Sefr.tence of death recorded, after- wards commuted to transportation.

— 4. The demolition of the old hospital chapel, in the

Park, completed, and the foundation stone removed vyhich was found to contain the following inscrip-' tion :— " This foundation stone to the hospitals of

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Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury, laid this 20th Oct., 1774, by Henry Howard, Esq." ^^ „ ,

An 5 Meet ng of the rate-payers at the Town- Hall, when ^ it was proposed and carried, that the materials of

the old workhouse should be sold by auction.

_ 9. Decease of George Hounsfield, Esq. at Wadsley House, near Sheffield, aged 67 years.

_ 12. Forty-sixth anniversary of the Rodney benefit society,

_- 9 Electkm of Churchwardens; St- P^t^^'s Mr John Rodgers and Mr. John Shepherd ; St. Paul s, Mr. John Willey and Mr. AV. Senior; fet. James s, Mr. Francis Newton and Mr. Robinson Carver St. George's, Mr. Gillbee and Mr laylor; St. Philip's, Mr. Paul Bright and Mr. J. Johnson.

.: ■ Easter Monday; theatre opened, under the manage-

■ ment of Mr- W. S. Butler, for a short season.

_ 26 James Udney and John Booth, tried and found guilty at PontefrLt sessions, for breaking open the pre- mises of Mr. Cam, in Norfolk-street; sentenced to seven years' transportation.

_ 28. Duke of Norfolk, Lord of Hallam, took his seat in the House of Lords.

Honourable E. Petre, a Catholic gentleman, qualified

■ in the open Court at Pontefract, to sit and act as one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the West-Riding. . r

May6. Meeting to promote a subscription to raise money for

the repair of York minster. Decease of Joseph Wilson, Esq., at Westbrook, aged

69 years. „ , • r v i,

_- 9. The amount of subscriptions for the repair of ^ oik minster announced; the total, ^^70 ; ot wliicli the Master Cutler and Company gave ^'lOU.

Committee of management for the ensuing twelve

months, appointed by the proprietors of tbe Shef^ field canalT Hugh P-^kcr, Esq Edward Snnth, Esq., Joseph Read, Es^i-, Mr. William Blagden Mr! John Shirley, Mr. Edward Nanson, sen Mr. Samuel Woodcock, and Mr. Samuel Hadfield.

_ 12. Decease of Mr. Wm. Wright, coach proprietor, of Change-alley, aged 58. ^ , j a^»

- 13. The primises of Messrs. Furniss, Cutler, and Sta- cey, burglariously entered.

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May Nineteenth anniversary of the Aged Female Society ;

13. 401 cases reported to have been relieved durin<^

the past year. *

. Duke of Norfolk ; meeting- at the To^vn-Hall, when

it was proposed and adopted, that an address of congratulation be prepared and presented to the Most Noble Bernard Eduard Howard, Duke of Norfolk, hereditary Earl Marshal of England, &c. on the occasion of his taking his seat in the House of Peers.

. Hiring workmen ; decided by the magistrates, that

if any paper purporting to contain the hiring of any workman or servant likewise provides for the pay- ment of a debt by instalments, or any other matter besides the terms" of the hiring, such paper cannot be produced as evidence, unless bearing a suitable stamp.

— 14. Samuel Shore, Esq., of Norton Hall, presented =elOO

to the SheflBeld infirmary.

— 1.5. Discouragement of the employment of children in

sweeping chimnies ; twenty-first anniversary of the society for this object held at the Cutlers'-Hall, on which occasion apetitionto Parliament was adopted.-

. Shares in the Sheffield Gas Works sold for ^139 per

share.

— 16, The Rev. J. Knight, minister of St. Paul's, appointed

by the Chancellor of the Diocese to succeed the late Rev. M. Preston, as surrogate for the grant- ing marriage licenses, proving wills, &c.

. Rev, W. Harris, M.A., and Rev, John Gibson, B.A,,

appointed under the Burgery Trust, as assistant ministers to the Vicar, in the place of the Rev M, Preston, deceased, and the Rev. W, H. Vale resigned, * '

— 24, Scotland-street Methodist New Connexion chapel (re-

built) first opened for Divine service, June Public meeting, to raise by subscription the sum of 3. £675, the sum required to enclose the church-yard of the new St, George's church ; first subscription, 100 guineas from the Town Trustees.

— 4. Annual meeting of the proprietors of the Sheffield

Subscription Library, and appointment of the fol- loM-ing committee:— Messrs. Samuel Bailey, Luke

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Palfrej-roan, T. A. Ward, T. Linley, E. Rhodes, and sixteen others. June The Sheffield address of congratutation to the Duke 5. of Norfolk, presented by the Master Cutler and Hugh Parker, Esq.

— 8. The Savings' Bank ; the half-yearly meeting- of the

Sheffield and Hallanishire Savings' iBank ; the ge- neral fund of the institution announced to be ^90,578. 7s. 5d.

— 9. Concert at the Music-Hall, in aid of the funds for the

restoration of York Minster.

. Eye dispensary ; Messrs. Badon and Gregorj-^, (late

pupils at the London Ophthalmic infirmary,) an- nounce the establishment of an eye dispensary in Norfolk-street, where the poor receive advice and medicine gratis.

— 16. Summer fair held in the Wicker, Tuesday and Wed-

nesday.

— 17. Regiment of 3d Light Dragoons, under the command

of Lord Robert Manners, arrive at the barracks from Manchester.

— 18. The nevi^ workhouse; the paupers having been re-

moved from the old workhouse to the new one, formerly the cotton mill, they were treated with 280 lbs. of beef and 320 lbs. o'f pudding; 317 pau- pers sat down.

— 20. Decease of Andrew Allan Hardy, Esq., solicitor, and

coroner for the Wapentake of Straffbrth and Tick- hill.

— 24. First anniversary of the Rawson sick society.

— 30. Ecclesall Bazaar, on Sheffield-moor, the property of

Earl Fitzwilliam, first opened to the public. July2. New Medical Institution ; Dr. Knight delivered the first lecture on the opening of the institution.

— 4. Sheffield troop of West- Riding Yeomanry Cavalry;

promotions ; Lieut. Vincent Corbett, Captain, vice John Shore, Esq. resigned; John Brewin, E^q. Lieutenant, vice Corbett, promoted.

— 9. Anniversary of the female friendly societj', on which

occasion they voted .£20 for the relief of the file- grinders out of work.

— 11. Journeymen file-smiths appeal to the public for sup-

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port against some supposed improper reduction of

wages by the masters. July Thomas Badger, Esq. solicitor, elected coroner of

13. the district, vice A. A. Hardy, Esq. deceased. . Anniversary of the Duke of Norfolk sick society.

— 15. Review of the Southern regiment of Yorkshire Yeo-

manry Cavalry, (under the command of Lieut.-Col. Lord Wharncliffe,) on Doncaster race-ground, by Lieut.-Col. Ross, 4th Dragoon Guards.

— \^. Anniversary of the Volunteer sick society.

— 22. Mr. Henry Rhodes appointed collector of police rates,

vice Mr. William Wilson resigned. . The iNIethodist Conference (being the 86th) held in

Sheffield, commenced under the presidency of the

Rev. J. Bunting.

. Annual meeting of the Sheffield National District

, School Society; the receipts of the past year

amounted to ,£383. 16s. 8id.

— 24. William Travis and William Moor tried and sen-

tenced to be transported for seven years, at Rother- hara sessions, for a burglary on the premises of Mr. Briggs, in Westbar.

— 29. The Gas Company's tenth annual meeting, and

appointment of committee of management for the ensuing year ; Dr. Younge, INIessrs. James Montgomery, William Battle, G. Hawksworth, J. Rodgers, J. Willey, B. Rose. W. N. AVade, T. Bradbury, S. Bailej^, J. Drabble, J. Creswick, J. Oakes, D. Holy, and Thos. Ellison, of Glossop.

. Shares in the Sheffield Gas Company sold by public

auction, by Mr. Saunders, for ^^43 each, inclusive of dividends.

. Rev. W. F. Parish, M.A. appointed, by the Rev.

Thomas Sutton, Vicar, to be minister of the new St. Mary's church, in Brammall-lane.

Aug. George Bennet, Esq., after his return from a Mis- sionary voyage round the world, addressed the monthly Missionary meeting held at Queen-street chapel.

. Gas Works ; the new gasometer completed, on which

occasion the committee dined within it.

— 7. The file trade; the differences between the masters and workmen amicably arranged.

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Aiig. Site of the workhouse; overseers advertise that the 8. plot of ground on which the old workhouse stood, had been divided into building lots, and was to be disposed of by auction.

— 12. Anniversarj' of the Earl of Surrey sick society.

— IG. First anniversary of the opening of the new nether

chapel, in NoriPolk-sti-eet.

— 17. Nomination of the Cutlers' Company for the ensuing

year ; Philip Law, Esq., Master Cutler ; Mr. Enoch Barber, and J. B. Furniss, Wardens; Searchers, Messrs. Edmund Wilson, Peter Cadman, Lewis Thomas, Thomas Ellin, Richard Jessop, and Blake ; Assistants, Messrs. J. Crawshaw, S. Hadfield, Joseph Hobson, James Wilde, James Hall, George Marriott, J. Wragg, E. Greaves, John Hawksworth, James Moorhouse, Wm. Steer, John Barber, William Wilkinson, Samuel Saynor, John Spencer, J. S. Bramhall, Joseph Levick,jun. John Sansom, John Ward, Samuel Windle, Wm. Hall, W. Pearce, Thomas Warburton, and Thomas Dunn.

— 22. Cricket match, Sheffield against Nottingham, at Dar-

nall ; latter winsbv 18 runs.

. Mr. Joseph Stones, of the Hartshead, unfortunately

killed by a fall from his horse.

— 30. Decease of INIr. William Wilson, one of the twelve

Capital Church Burgesses of Sheffield.

. The Overseers announce that the total expense of

maintaining the poor of the to\vnship for the past year (inclusive of 4)3000 expended in repair and alteration of the new Workhouse) to be ^21,327.

Sep. 3. Annual feast of the Cutlers' Company, Philip Law, Esq., Master; guests present. Lord Milton, and Messrs. Wilson and Duncombe, members for this county.

. Cutlers' Company voted that a portrait of Hugh

Parker, Esq., of Woodthorpe, to be painted by INIr. William Poole, should be put up in their Hall, as a tribute of respect to him.

■. Captain Hall's troop of 3rd Light Djagoons sudden- ly called from the barracks, to quell disturbances at Barnsley.

— 10. Mr. Cooper, formerly druggist in Church-street,

found unfortunatelv drowned in Crook's'raoor dam.

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Grand review of the Srd or King's own Light Dra- goons, stationed at the barracks, by Major-Gen. Sir Richard Hussey Vivian, Inspector-General of Cavalry.

Two troops of the regiment sent off to Doncaster, (first day of Doncaster meeting,) to assist the civil force in quelling a serious riot got up by the "thim- ble men.'

Elizabeth Calverly and John Pearce committed, under the coroner's warrant, to York Castle, to take their trial for the murder of an illegitimate infant child.

Several gentlemen, forming a committee of the Roman Catholics resident in this place, presented Luke Palfreynian, Esq., with a piece of plate, as a testi- mony of their respect for his services in the cause of emancipation.

The township of Sheffield contains 12,695 dwelling houses, besides shops, &c. — Parish Books.

Samuel Revell, Esq., elected one of the twelve Bur- gesses, and a Governor of the Free Grammar School, vice the late Mr. William "Wilson.

Blue coat boys' charity school ; a gentleman who had been educated at this school, transmitted, through the hands of Mr. George Marriott, the sum of ,£30 for its benefit.

Sheffield general infirmary ; the thirty-second anni- versary meeting of the subscribers, benefactors, and others"; Hon. J. S. AV' ortley, M.P. in the chair.

James Montgomery, Esq., elected chairman of the weekly board (infirmary) vice Benjamin Sayle, Esq., retired.

The new water company ; a committee of the new Mater company meet a committee of the proprie- tors of the old works, and agree to a union of in- terests.

First annual meeting of the self-supporting dispen- sary held at the Cutlers"-Hall,Rev. 'J'homas Sutton, the Vicar, in the chair.

Ecclesall gaol, belonging to Earl Fitzwilliam's manor court, announced to be so full of debtors, that per- sonal execution for debt was partially stayed. t2

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Oet. Highway surveyors for the ensuing year ; John 13. Ward, \yilliam Stacey, George Radcliffe, and T. Shirley, appointed for Sheffield.

— 15. Music-Hall ; the committee of management elected

for the ensuing year, Messrs. W. Fisher, H. Wilkinson, J. H. Dixon, T. Champion, J. Elliott, T. Pearson, J. Kirk, J. Staniforth, and W. Marsden.

— 22. Twentieth anniversary of the boys' Lancasterian

school ; Lord Milton presided.

— 24. Anniversary of the jubilee society ; stock declared

to amount to .£2,738. 13s. 3d.

— 28, Sheffield Sessions held at the Town- Hall ; chairman.

Lord WharncliiFe ; number of prisoners, 43.

. Boj's' and girls' charity schools ; the trustees receiv- ed of the late Mr. W. Halliday, the sum of £40.

Nov. Commissioners of Police signify their intention of 4. compelling the proprietors of the steam Avorks to burn the smoke issuing from their chimnies, after 5 th of January, 1830.

— 5. Anniversary of the " Glorious Revolution" benefit

society.

— 9. Mr. W. S. Butler commenced the third season of his

management of the Sheffield theatre.

. Proprietors of the water works, (old and new in

union,) give public notice of their intention to apply to Parliament, for " an act to establish a company for supplying, maintaining, altering, &c,, the present reservoirs, channels," &c.

. Court of Requests; new Commissioners appointed,

Messrs. John Brown, Samuel Park, Peter Frith, sen., John Johnson, Mark Maugham, John New- ton, George Fenton, John Cam, William Rowley, Robert Sorby, Samuel Laycock, George Wragg, Frederick Stones, James Crawshaw, James Wild, Hewan Hoult, George Ridge, George Marriott, Edward Nanson, William Vickers, John Eyre Pearson, Francis Cluley, William Jessop,and John Wilson.

— 28. Winter fair held in the Wicker ; price of cheese from

40. to 50s. per cwt. D^'c. 7. Infant schools; meeting at the Cutlers'-Hall, and

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subscriptions entered into for the erection and maintenance of infant schools. Dec. Some buildino^s attached to the Pond tilt, occupied 10. by INIessrs. Drury, discovered to be on fire ; damage done to the amount of £500.

— 14. Boys' charity school ; executors to the will of the

late Mr. AVigfuU paid to the trustees a legacy of £200.

. Sheffield and Hallamshire Sa\ ings' Bank ; annual

meeting to audit the accounts; balance announced due to the 20th Nov. last past, .£91,105. 16s. 7d.

— IG. Shakspeare club ; eleventh anniversary held at the

Tontine ; Luke Palfreyman, Esq. president.

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Jan. Literary and Philosopliical Society ; annual meeting 1 . and election of olficers for the year ; president, Mr. S.Bailey; vice-presidents, Mr. Montgomery, Mr. T. A. VVard, Mr. Abraham, Mr. Waterliouse ; secretaries, Mr. L. Palfreyman, Mr. R. Younge ; curator, i\Ir. W . Jackson.

— 2. Sheffield Independent newspaper ; Mr. Henry An-

drew Bacon having soH the copyright, Mr. Robert

Leader, the purchaser, published his tiist paper.

No. .525 of the series. . Hyde Park Cricket Ground occupied by Mr. W. H.

Woolhouse. . Bill of mortality for the parish of Sheffield for the

1)ast year, 1829 : — Baptisms ; Parish Church, males 035i females 920 ; St. Paul's, males 3, females 0 ; St. James's, none; St. Philip's, none ; Attercliflfe, males .37, females 27 ; Ecclesall, males 20, females 23; total, 2065 ;— Burials ; Parish Church, males 343, females 315; St. Paul's, males 238, females 224; St. James's, males 31, females 24 ; St, Phi- lip's, males 232, females 188; Attercliffi?, males 86, females 84; Ecclesall, males 108, females 102; total, 1975.

. Extracts from the parish register for the past year,

1829; marriages at St. Peter's, 798; burials at the four churches, (St. Peter's, St. Paul's, St. James's, St. Philip's,) 1595. Of this number, 838 were seven years old and under, and 144 attained the age of 70 and upwards.

— 4 The enclosure of the burial ground of St. George's

church completed: by public subscription, and the first interment therein ; fees permitted by the Arch.-

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bishop, minister Is. 3d , vicar 3d., clerk 6d., sex- ton 6d., grave digger 4s. 6d. Jo«.5. Decease of Mr. George Ibbotson, of Coulston crofts, merchant, aged 52.

— 7. Old Gentlemen's club dissolved; "it was originally

composed of fifty memljers, who agreed to meet once a month ; at the time of the dissoluticm twelve members only remained, and the remaining stock of .£100 was divided "

— 12. Decease of Mr. John Tomlinson, master of Crookes

endowed school, aged 73 ; " To this school he had been licensed by the Archbishop of York 47 years ; he was an upright and conscientious man, highly respected throughout the neighbourhood of Crookes, Hallam, Fulwood, &c. a great part of the inhabi- tants of which places were educated by him."

— 14. Assemblies commence for the season ; managers. Dr.

Younge, Offley Shore, Esq. Vincent Corbett, Esq.

John Brewin, Esq. . Markets ; Hav, £2. 15s. to .£3. 10s. per load ; straw,

22s. to 27s. fed. ; wheat, 26s. to 28s ; barley, 27s.

to 34s. ; oats, 19s. to 22s. ; beans, 13s. to 16s. ; beef

and mutton, 5^d. to 6d. per lb. ; veal, 6d. to Td. ;

pork, 5d. to 6d. ; butter, 9d. to Is. ; eggs, 14 for Is. ;

potatoes, 6d. per peck ; apples, 2s. per peck ; geese,

3s. to 4s. 6d. -— 22. Commencement of a thaw, after five weeks hard

frost. ■^— 23. Return of the " storm" and frost, -i— 27. William Cobbett delivered his fii-st political lecture

to about eight hundred persons assembled at the

Music-Hall.

— 30. delivered his second lecture at the

same place, to about six hundred persons.

Feb.l. delivered his third and last lecture.

. Decease of Mr. John Taylor, at his house, on Snig-

hill, aged 62. He bequeathed to the Infirmary jCIOO ; to the boys' and girls' charity schools, and the girls' Lancasterian school, £50 each.

. . First anniversary dinner of the shareholders of the

new water company, held at the Angel ; president, James Rimington, Esq.

— C. Published by R. Loader, Angel-street, "A Statement

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of the Population, &c. of the town of Sheffield, with a view to its beings comprehended in the motion about to be made by Lord John Russell, to enable Manchester, Birmingham, and Leeds to return Members to Parliament." Feb.6. Justice General Friendly Sick society established.

— 8. Theatre ; Mr. Iveau, jun. commenced five nights' per-

formances.

— J 2. Mr. W'aterhouse announced the resignation of his

office as surgeon to the Infirmary.

— 15. Theatre; Master Burke commenced five nights per-

formances. . Decease of Mr. George Jeeves, of Highfield, aged 85;

"he died much respected." . Breaking up of the frost, after a storm of upwards of

two months duration.

— 18. Decease of Mr. Duncan M'Donald, aged 84; "he

was a native of Lochaber, in Scotland ; he served in America, during the war of independence, and was at the battle of Bunker's Hill. He resided in Sheffield for 47 years, and was respected for his integrity."

— 19. Public meeting held at the Town-Hall, Philip LaM',

Esq. Master Cutler, in the chair, " to consider the propriety of petitioning Parliament to extend the elective franchise to Sheffield, as well as to other large and intelligent communities ;" resolved that a petition to the eifect of the requisition be adopted, and entrusted to Lord John Russell for presentation.

— 25. Members of the medical profession present a petition

to Parliament, praying " for the removal of the impediments which occur in the prosecution of anatomical investigations."

. Drs. C, F. Favell and G. C. Holland announce the

establishment by them of a dispensary for diseases of the chest, in Cheney-row, where the poor re- ceive advice gratis, every Monday and Friday morning.

. New parsonage house at Ecclesall ; Earl Fitzwilliam 'v

gave an acre and a half of land for the erection of | a parsonage house, near the Chapel at Ecclesall, | and the Rev. W. H. Vale, the incumbent, C. P. ! Vale, Esq. and William Parker, Esq. each gave

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4-100 towards its completion, and the inhabitants subscribed ^300.

Feb. Ecclesall Chapel ; Rev. Mr. Fisher, M. A. appointed 25. curate.

jt/a. 3. Meeting of Commissioners of Police; resolved, that " The Surveyor and police officer do report con- cerning six steam engines, of which the proprie- tors have not abated the nuisance occasioned by the smoke, and it be determined by ballot which of the proprietors shall be proceeded against."

•— 15. Public meeting at the ToAvn-Hall " to take into consideration the clauses of the bill (for which a petition has been presented to Parliament) for supplying the town with water," resolved to peti- tion Parliament against the passing of the pro- posed bill.

. Decease of Mr. Joseph Ellis, tailor, Furnace-hill, aged

101, " he was working at his trade two days before."

— 17. Mr. Norton Webster commenced a series of six

lectures on Mechanics, at the Music-Hall.

— 20. Number of paupers in the Sheffield poorhouse, 340;

weekly payments to the poor, .£91, 9s. 6d. ; to the

casual poor, .=€52. 9s. 9d. ; to the vagrant poor, 43. ;

total Aveek's expenditure, £130. 3s. 3d. . Lancasterian Schools ; received the sum of .£50, a

bequest of the late Mr. John Staniforth. . General Infirmary ; received from Mr. Dawson, late

secretary, a donation of 20 guineas.

— 22. Infant Schools ; first general meeting of the friends

and subscribers to the Sheffield infant schools, at the Cutlers'-Hall, for the purpose of appointing the public officers and committee, preparatory to the opening of the new school erected near the New St. Mary's church ; C. Bates and his wife appointed master and mistress.

— 24. Overseers of the poor for the year ensuing (town-

ship of Sheffield ;) Messrs. Samuel Revill, Norfolk- street ; John Hall, Park ; Elias Lowe, Bank-street ; and Edward Barker, Lead-mills.

. General Infirmary; Mr. Wilson Overend elected

to the office of Surgeon to the General Infirmary, vice Mr. Waterhouse resigned.

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Mar. The bills against Elizabeth Calverlv and John Pearce, 25. (commited the 16th September, 1829,) for the murder of an illegitimate child, ignored by the grand jury at York.

. Licensed victuallers in the town present petitions to

Parliament against^throwing open the trade in beer.

■. East India Monopoly ; Master and Corporation of

Cutlers petition Parliament against the reneAval of the East India Company's charter,

April Parish accounts for the past year; overseers, G, H. Woollen, Mark Maugham, Samuel Laycock, and Edward Vickers ; amount of rates collected, X18,.311. 1 8s. 6d.; amount of expenditure, jei 8,691. 8s. 8|d: county rate, .£1415. lis. 7d-

. Produce of the sale of the materials and site of the

old Workhouse (.£970) paid to the overseers.

. The Magistrates receive the congratulations of the

Judge sitting in the Crown Court, at York assizes, on the fact, that since the last assizes, they had not found it their duty to order a single commit- ment for crime perpetrated in Hallamshire.

. Letterpress Printers; petition from the printers of

Sheffield, praying the Parliament to reduce the duties on newspapers, advertisements, &c. pre- sented by Lord John Russell.

— 3. Weather; "The most extraordinary changes in the

weather, as experienced in this town, have lately taken place; the first two days of the present week M'Cre positively sultry, the glass standing at 80; on Tuesday night a slight frost was observed, and at the present time the fields again present the white garb of winter." — Sheffield Independent.

. Decease of Mr. John Hampshire, mason, Sands Pa-

vours, (57) and of Mr. Samuel Burrowes, mason, Trippet-lanc. " These two persons being com- panions visited this town together on 'the same day, many years ago in search of employment; they settled here, and at length both dying within a iew hours they Mere buried on the same day, and within a few hours of each other."

— 5. Infant Schools; meeting at the Cutlers'-Hall for the

further support of the establishment of Infant Schools.

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Apr. 5. Third regiment of Dragoons removed from the bar- racks in Sheffield to York, and their place taken by the loth Hussars.

■ — Wesleyan Methodist Missions j sixteenth anniversary (in Carver-street chapel) of the Sheffield Auxiliary Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society; presi- dent, Mr. James Montgomery.

— 8. Decease of Mr. Thomas Waterhouse, of Norfolk-

street, surgeon. " The premature departure of this amiable and excellent man, will not only be a source of inexpressible grief to his relatives, and of deep regret to his friends, hut it will be lament- ed by the inhabitants in general, so universal was the respect entertained towards him. He was an ornament to his profession, exemplary in all the relations of his life, he uniformly adorned his christian profession, and died in anticipation of future happiness." — Sheffield Independent. • — 10. Decease of Mrs, Waterhouse, (mother of the above- named Mr. Thomas VA^aterhouse, and relict of the late Mr, Waterhouse, of the firm of Waterhouse, Hodgson, and Co.,) of Portobello-place. " The family have lost in her an affectionate parent, and • the poor a benevolent friend." — Sheffield Pap.

— 12. Missionary Society; anniversary at the Nether Cha-

pel, Norfolk-street, of the Sheffield and Attercliffe Auxiliary Missionary Society ; president, W. F. Rawson, Esq.; present Mr. George Bennct, and the Rev. Clement Perrot.

. Friends to the non-employment of boys in cleaning

chimnies, give a treat to all the sweeps in the town (26) at tlie Cutlers'-Hall.

— 14, Court Leet of the Manor ot Sheffield; acting con-

stables, Thomas Flather, John Waterfall; sen., and James Wild ; assistant, John Waterfall, jun. ; extra, William Bland.

. Churchwardens for the ensuing year; St. Peter's

Mr. R. Bavlcv, and Mr. Jos. Cardwcll. sen. ;. St. Paul's, Mr. W. Senior, and Mr. William Hall; St. James's, Mr. S. R. Carver, and Mr. B. Fen- ton ; St. Philip's, Mr. Bright, and Mr. Jackson ; ,'^t. Georpp'-, Mr. Harrison, and Islr, Gilbce.

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yJp.H, Messrs. Needham and (iregory appointed by the overseers surf^eons to the town.

. Decease of Hugh Cheney, AI. D., of Portobello, aged

86. " Who, after a long- life of gieat activity and usefulness in his profession, was called bv an in- scrutable providence to spend his latter days under considerable privations, having- lost his sight for tMenty-two years past, and finishing- his course under great bodily sufferings, all of which ha hore with becoming fortitude and resignation — the senior practitioner of the medical profession in this town he was greatly esteemed — he for sixty years and upwards exerted himself most cheerfully in doing all the good in his power in the art of healing the afflicted," — Shfffield Ind.

— 15. The New Water Couipany; public meeting- to resoi\'e

on measures to oppose the bill presented to Parlia- ment by the present proprietors.

— 20. Mr. William Frith appointed Collector of Police

Rates.

— 22. Public Meeting ; to consider the expediency of erect-

ing a bridge over the River Don, to form a com- munication between Bridgehouses and Shales- moor ; committee appointed and subcriptions opened to further the object proposed.

— 23. Public Meeting; to consider the propriety of peti-

tioning Parliament for the nonrenewal of the In- solvent Act about to expire ; petition adopted.

. Water Company; subscriptions entered into to op- pose in Parliament the Sheffield Water ^Vorks Bill.

Muy?> Decease of Mr. William Andrews, of Fargate. " He fulfilled the office of Deacon in the Church, under the pastoral care of the Rev. .F. Boden, in this place many years."

— 6. Decease of Mr! Thomas Orton, (aged G2) bookseller

and printer. High-street.

. Storm over the town, (.5 o'clock P. M.) with loud

bursts of tliunder; a house in Allen- lane, ano- ther in Church-street, and several others, struck by the lightning. 7' I'lieatre ; the proprietors advertise in the town's pii- I'crs to let the theatre.

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May Sheffield Canal ; annual meeting ; coramitlee of

8. management, H.Parker and J. Foljambe, Esqs.,

Messrs. S. Bailev, E. Smith, P. Cadman, S.

Hadfield, J. Marshall, J. Shirley, W. Blagden,

Dividend declared at 3 per cent.

. Boys' Charity School ; the donation of .£1200

anonymously presented to the charity upon the condition, " that any future benefactors to the school may claim the privilege of nominating boys, or may appoint representatives to nominate in per- petuity' in the proportion of one boy for every two hundred pounds given or bequeathed ; such boy or boys to be upwards of seven years of age, and to belong to the parish of Sheffield."

— 10. Aged Female Society; annual meeting of the friends

and subscribers. " The number of widows on the society's list is between 300 and 400, more than fifty of whom are past eighty, and several verging to the hundredth year." Defalcation in the subscriptions announced, and the support of the benevolent requested.

— 13. Decease of Mr, William Greaves, of the house of

William Greaves and Sons, merchants, aged 78.

. Emancipation of the Jews ; " The residents in this

town, of the Jewish persuasion, have got up a peti- tion to Parliament praying for a removal of civil disabilities. A few individuals of their body waited on the householders, and a great number of signa- tures were obtained.'' — Sheffield Ind.

— 16. Yeomanry Cavalry ; Hon. James Stuart Wortley

appointed Captain in the Southern Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry, vice James Rimington, Esq. resigned; Cornet, Christopher Alderson appoint- ed captain, vice Mr. Shirt resigned; Mr. George Wright, Lieutenant, vice Mr. Foster resigned.

— 18. Decease of Mr. Bennett, gardener, of the Wicker.

— 20. Master Aspull commenced a series of concerts at the

Tontine Inn. ■ — 24. Bequests of the late ]\Ir. George Ibbotson, of Coulston Crofts; i;lOO to the Infirmary, iClOO'to the Lancas- terian Schools, and .£50 eacli to the boys' and girls' Charity Schools of this town.

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May. Opening- of IVIessrs. MafFey's exhibition du petit •H. Lazury, atthe jMusic-Hall.

— 31. Sheffield Water Works; "An act for the better

supplying with water the town and parish of Shetfield, in Yorkshire" passed into a law.

. Sunday School Union; eighteenth anniversary, presi- dent, Joseph Read, Esq.

Jwnel.New (,'onnexion Methodists; annual conference held in the town, attended bv a considerable number of ministers and delegates in the connextion.

— 7- J^ew Water Company ; fiist meeting of the sharehol-

ders in the New (extended) Water Company since the passing the bill ; first officers elected. Trea- surer, Offley Shore, Esq.; Committee, Messrs. Michael Ellison, John Sykes, Samuel Bailey, Jas. Montgomery, Edward Nanson, Edward Greaves, Joshua Denton, Samuel Hadtield ; Law Clerks, Messrs. Albert Smith and James Wheat.

— y. Summer Fair held in the Wicker; price of Welsh

and thin cheese 40s. per cwt., good old cheese 48s. to 55s.

. Savings' Bank; "the auxiliary fund arising from

tiie difference between the interest received from Government debentures, and that paid to the depo- sitors declared to amount to nearly .£2000."

— 12. St. Peter's Church Yard; Mr. Jolm Rodgers and

Mr. John Shepherd, churchwardens, return public thanks to those inhabitants who by their subscrip- tions have enabled them to put in good repair the walls and fences round the Parish Church yard, and to erect new wrought iron gates at the entrance thereof.

. The boys of the Charity School prevented from using

the church yard as a play ground by order of the churchwardens, and with the approbation of the Archbishop.

— 11. Association for the Prosecution of Felons; twenty-

sixth annual meeting, funds of the association re- ported to amount to £1309. 1.3s. 4d.

— 14. Sheffield and Hallamshire Savings' Bank; meeting

of Trustees and managers; reported balance in hand, £93,224. 17s. 0|d. Total number of depo- sitors since the commencement March 1, 1819, to

^riKrPim.D t.oc.ai, hkgistkh.

June June 8, 1830,5234; depositors paid off from same, 2699; i-emaining' depositors, 2535.

— 17. Fitzwilliam Society anniversary; "the number of

members of which this society is composed is 83, the number of years to which the venerable patron has attained."

— 18. Decease of Mr. George Alexander Dixon, silver

refiner.

— 2G. Decease of his Majesty George IV. ; news of the

Royal demise brought by the Courier on Sunday noon.

— 29. Mr. Thelwall commenced a series of lectures on elo-

cution at the Tontine. July Lord Viscount Milton and John Marshall, Esq. an- 3. nounce by advertisement in the Sheffield papers, that thej' should not, on the dissolution of the Par- liament, present themselves as candidates to repre- sent the county (Yorkshire.)

— 4. Decease of Mr. John Slater, aged 73, bookseller, for-

merly of the firm of Slater. Bacon, and Co.

— 5. Decease of Mr. Thomas Clithero, aged 103, of Gar-

den-street.

— 6. His Majesty King William TV. publicly proclaimed

in Sheffield ; " a procession was formed in the "New Market-place, which consisted of the bodies of ma- gistracy, clergy, corporation, military, &c. ; soon after the commencement of the procession, the rain fell heavily, and robbed the pageant of a great por- tion of its attraction." --Sheff. Ind.

— 7- Decease of Mr. Jeremiah Saynor, gaoler at the Town-

Hall. • — 10. Martin Stapylton offered himself by advertisement in the Sheffield papers, as a representative for the county.

— 12. Mechanics' Institution; annual meeting, elected, Mr.

J. Montgomery president, and Mr. Middleton Hoy- land secretary.

— 15. His Majesty George IV. interred; " the day appoint-

ed for the interment of his late Majesty was very generally observed by the inhabitants of this town, all business appeared to have been suspended by general consent, notwithstanding no official an- nouncement from the magistrates or other authori

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Julij ties had recommended any particulax- observance of the i\&\y—Shef. Ind.

— 17- William Bland appointed gaoler and keeper at the

Town-Hall. . Decease of .Mr. Jonathan Brown hill, table knife ma- nufacturer. " As an ingenious individual it is due to his memory to state that he was the inventor of the ' balance knives,' for which he obtained a pa- tent ; he was likewise a joint patentee of one of the knife sharpeners made in this town, and also the projector of a scheme for trausftrring vessels from one level to another, on canals, M'ithout the aid of locks."

— 20. Archbishop of York confirmed in 6t. Peter's church

421 males and 773 females.

— 21. St. Mary's (new) church, in Brammall-lane, conse-

crated by the Archbishop of York ; Messrs, l<i<iw- hould and Creswick, churchwardens. ' — 2G. Accounts of the commissif)ners of police for the year ending June 1830, published ; amount of receipts in rates, fines, &c. .£'4460. 13s. 4d. ; expended in cleansing streets, ^£520. 13s. ; in lighting ditto, X1424. Is. lid.; ^vatching ditto, X1975. 2s. 4d. ; salaries, .£21)7- Irfs. 8d. ; miscellaneous payments, ^230. 17s. 3.1d. ; balance in hand, ^7G. Gs."ll^d.

— 28. Sheffield Gas Company ; committee of management

for the ensuing year, Dr. Younge, Messrs. Mont- gomery, Battie, Hawksworth, J. Rodgers, T. Pier- son, i'. Roebuck, J. Creswick, J. VV'illcj', T. N. Bardwell, F. Hoole, T. Bradbury, jun., R. Bailey, jun., T. Settle, B. Ro.sc.

— 29. Henry Brougham, Esq. made his first public appear-

ance, on the occasionof offering himself a candidate for the representation of the county, and (seven o'clock in the evening) addressed upwards of 10,000 people, assembled in Paradise-scjuare.

. Dcceaseof Mr. Robert Wilson, of the firm of William

W^ilson & Sons, Pond-street.

— 31. Lord Morpeth, Mr. Brougham, Hon. W. Duncombc,

Mr, Bethell, and Mr. M. Stapylton, announce themselves, by advertisements in the Sheffield pa- pers, as candidates for the representation of the county in Parliament.

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Avfi. Police Goimnissinners' annual meeting; bpw conv 2. misHiiuners elected, Messrs. Sorby (Park Grange.) Broadbent (VV'aingHtc,) E. - Unwin (Waingate,) lioftiiotiso (Snighili.)

. Mr. Betbell, introduced by Dr. Corbctt, and Lord

Morpeth, introduced by Mr. John Parker, addressed upwards of 8000 persons, assembled in Paradise- square, on the occasion of offering themselves to represent the county in Parliament.

— 3. Hon. W. Duncombe addressed the freeholders on

the same occasion, from a temporary scaffoldings erected inBarker-pool.

■ - 9. Yorkshire institution for the deaf and dumb ; meeting- of the friends at theMusic-Hall ; Rev. W. C. Fen- ton, hon. sec. " stated that the number of deaf and dumb children in the county, known to the institu- tion,was aboutSOO; and thatin Sheffieldthere were about a score of persons deprived of their vocal and auricular senses ; and two families were mentioned, not far from the town, in which there were nine children thus affected. There were present thirty- nine children of both sexes, whose sealed lips, but intelligent countenances, presented an affecting spectacle, appealing through the eyes to the sympa- thies of all present." — SJipff. hid.

. Ecclesall Bierlov/; Mr. John Slater elected vestry

clerk, vice Mr. Richardson, and Thomas Dewhirst appointcdgovernorof the poor house and collector of rates.

— 9. Mr. Sheridan Knowles commenced a series of lectures

on dramatic poetry, at the Tontine.

— f2. Decease of Mr. Geoi-ge Atkinson, surgeon, aged 24.

" This promising young surgeon offered himself as a candidate to succeed the late lamented Mr. V^'ater- house, as one of the professionalattendants of the In- firmary; at that time he presented, as hejustly term- ed them, public and unsolicited testimonials of his ability to fill the office to which he aspired. Amongst the former of these were found the greatest number of certificates of honour (including the first gold medal) which the London University, in which he studied, could present to an individual ; five months only have elapsed, and Ihe honourable and nsefu)

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course which talent and youth seemed almost to en- sure, has been suddenly and for ever stopped." — • Sheff. Ind.

Atig. Nether Chapel; second anniversary of the (rebuilt) 16. chapel.

— 17. Nomination of the Cutlers' Company for the ensuing year : — Master, Mr. Enoch Barber ; senior warden, Mr. E. Wilson; junior ditto, Mr. John Blake; searchers, Messrs. P. Cadman, L. Thomas, T. El- lin, R. Jessop, J. Wild, and Thomas Dunn ; as- sistants, INIessrs. P. Law and J. Crawshaw, (past masters,) Samuel Hadfield, Joseph Levick, J. B. Furness, Joseph Hobson, James Hall, William Steer, John Barber, George Marriott, Joseph Wragg, John Hawksworth, James Moorhouse, William VV^ilkinson, Samuel Senior, John Sansom, Aaron Hatfield, Samuel Windle, William Hall, Samuel Smith, Samuel Peace, John Spencer, Jo- seph Brammall, and Sykes Bramhall.

• . New Cutlers' Hall ; plans, &c. prepared by order of

the Cutlers' Company, for the erection of a new and more commodious hall.

— 18. Commercial Travellers' Society ; Messrs. T. Linley,

E. Lowe, R. Leader, J. Gurney, B. P. Rawortii. T. AVreaks, J. W. Gregory, G. Curr, G. Johnson, G. Shaw, and J. Hoole, appointed a local committee to promote the objects of the INIetropolitan society.

— 18. Yorkshire Amateur Music Meeting; twenty-second & 19. anniversary held at the Music-Hall.

— 20. Formation of the " Hallamshire association for pro-

moting purity of election," by the committee for supporting the election of Lord Morpeth and Mr. Brougham.

— 27. Lord Milton ; public meeting, at the Town Hall, for

the purpose of expressing the sense entertained of "the talent and integrity of Lord INIilton, during his Parliamentary services of 23 years' duration, to the county generally, and to this neighbourhood in particular," resolved " that a piece of plate be pur- chased, by subscriptions not exceeding i" I each, as a mark of the opinion entertained by the inhabi- tants of SheflBeld of his past services, and as a small testimonial of his past services."

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Sep. 2. Annual feast of the Cutlers' Company; Enoch Bar- ber, Esq. Master ; guests present, Lords Milton, Morpeth, and Wharncliffe.

, Decease of Mr. Wm. Wood, of Bank-street, aged 72.

4. Sheffield and Manchester Railway; prospectuses and proposals for formation of company first advertised.

. Sheffield and Goole Railway ; prospectuses and pro- posals for formation of company first advertised.

— 10. Brewster Sessions ; total number of licensed vic-

tuallers in the township, 274.

— 20. Theatre opened by Mr. Beverley ; principal perform-

ers, Messrs. Waldron, H. Beverley, Carter, Roxby, Jones, Hamilton ; Mrs. Angel, Miss Crisp, Lan- caster, Sibery, and Nadin.

— 23. Premises of Messrs. Briggs and Smith, silver-platers,

&c. in Carver-lane, destroyed by fire.

— 27. Public dinner, given in the Music-Hail, to Lord Mor-

peth and Henry Brougham, Esq. " on the occasion of their return to Parliament as representatives of the county of York, and to commemorate the prin- ciples on which that return was effected — the elec- tion of men of liberal principles and distinguished talents, free of expense ;" president. Lord Milton ; guests present. Lord W. Bentinck, Hon. W. Ca- vendish, Hon. W. Howard, Daniel Sykes, Esq. M. P., Charles Wood, Esq. M. P., &c.

. Theatre ; Madame Vestris played one night.

. Floral and Horticultural Society ; first exhibition of

flowers, fruits, &c. at the Cutlers'- Hall.

Oc^ 5. Survej'ors of the highways for the ensuing year Sheffield, Bartholomew Hounsfield, John Johnson Samuel Gardnor, and John Kirk ; Ecclesall Bier low, (upper,) John Osborne, William Hodson, (ne ther,) Joseph Smith, John Pritchard ; Brightside Thomas Frith, George Swift; the Hallams, Wil liam Taylor, Edward Hoole, Edward Barlow, Wil liam Creswick.

— 6. General Infirmary ; thirty-third annual meeting of the

trustees, subscribers, and friends ; president, HG. Knight, Esq. of Langold.

— 13. Decease of Mr. John Greaves, attorney.

— 20. Sheffield Michaelmas Sessions, held this and two fol-

lowing days, at the Town-Hall; chairman, (first court,) Lord Wharncliffe; number of prisoners, 44.

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Oct. Sheffield Auxiliary Bible Society; twelfth anniver- 21, sary, held in the National School Room, Carver- street i president, Henry \\^alker, Esq.

— 25. Theatre ; Mr. Brahatn (vocalist) commenced five

nights performance.

— 30. Accounts of Surveyors of highways (Messrs. Ward,

Radcliffe, Shirley, and Stacey) for the year ending Oct. 1830; receipts, including balance from last surveyors, (£40. 15s. 3|d.) arrears of composition, &c. for 1829, received by the constables, (£130. 18s. 4d.) compositions, and assessments, total, £5159. 13s. 5^d.; expended for square stones, £667. 16s. 2d., edge stones, &c. £598. 10s. 6d., gannister, &c. £729. 16s. 7d., breaking ditto, £189. 9s. 3d., by sundry other disbursements, £2917. 13s. 2d., leaving a balance paid to the new over- seers, of £56. 5s. 9d.

Nov A. Opening of the New Cattle Market ; the new market for the sale of cattle, horses, beasts, and sheep, about 100 yards north of the New Corn Ex- change, on the ground formerly called the Castle Orchards, lying between the River Don and the Canal Basin, first opened and used instead of the old market in the Wicker, now abandoned.

. Decease of Mr. John Batty, (formerly of the Tontine)

aged 84.

— 2. Opening of the New Corn Exchange ; the buyers

and sellers of grain removed from the Market- place, top of the Shambles, to the New Corn Ex- change adjoining the New Corn Market.

— 4. The first general meeting of the Committee (in Shef-

field) of the Sheffield and Manchester Rail Road Company.

— 9. The Grinders struck work for the 1810 list of prices. . Decease of Mr. Thomas Holy, at Highfield House,

aged 79. "In private intercourse he was courte- ous, hospitable, and kind ; in public offices firm, active, faithful ; in his family they best knew all his excellence, and loved and venerated the hus- band and the father with corresponding dutifulness and affection." — Sheffield Pap.

— 17. Shakspeare Club ; twelfth anniversary at the Tontine

Inn; president, Mr, J. Sykes Bramhall.

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No. 20. Decease of Mr. George Vickers, (lately of Vicker's

Grove) aged 55. . Decease of Mr. James Jessop, steel refiner, aged 56.

" His death is deeply regretted by a numerous and

affectionate family."

— 21. Overseers' return of the state and expenses of the

Sheflfield Poorhouse for the past week ; number of paupers, 305 ; payments to the out poor for the week, £93. 2s. 6d. ; to the casual poor, £43. 15.s. 2d. ; to the vagrant poor, 3s.— Total £137. Os. 8d.

— 27. Sir J. V. B. Johnstone offered himself by advertise-

ment in the Sheffield papers, to succeed Mr. Brough- am (raised to the Chancellorship on the resigna- tion of Lord Wellington and Earl Grey's accep- tance of office) in the representation of the county.

. Free Grammar School ; the scholars present the Rev.

M. White, A.M., (on his election to the free school at Wolverhampton) with a piece of plate, in testi- mony of their respect.

. Rev. Perceval Bowen, M.A., curate

of the Abbey church of St. Albans, elected head master of the Grammar School, vice Mr. White.

29 & 30 Winter fair held for the first time on the ground opposite the new Corn Exchange, and in the new Cattle Market. Price of cheese, lean thin Derby- shire, 43s. to 45s. ; prime old, 55s. to 62s. per cwt.

Dec.l. Sir J. V. B. Johnstone addressed the freeholders assembled in Paradise-square, on the occasion of offering himself as a representative of the county.

. Public meeting for Reform ; resolved to present

petitions to the King, and to the two Houses of Parliament, praying for a *' full, fair, and free re- presentation ;" present, 5000 persons ; chairman. Dr. Knight.

— 13. Sheffield and Hallamshire Savings' Bank ; annual

meeting to audit the accounts ; balance announced due to the depositors to Nov. 20, £95,722. 4s. 7d.

— 17. Theatre ; Mr. Butler commenced four nights per-

formance.

— 21. Guardian Society; meeting of Merchants, Manufac-

turers, and others, at the Cutlers'-Hall, and resolu- tions entered into, for the formation of a Guardian Society for the prevention of fraud upon the mem- bers bv swindlers, &c.

CONTINUATION

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Bill of mortality for the parish of Sheffield for the past year, J»30:— Baptisms ; Parish Church, males 1024, females 938 ; St. Paul's, males and females 5 ; St. James' none ; St. Philip's, \5 ; St. Mary's, 7 ; St. George's 18 ; Attcrclilie, males and females 59 ; Ecclesall, males and females 4J; totaI,2m.— Burials ; Parish Church, males 240, females 234; St. Paul's, males 294, females 147; St. James's, males 41, females 27; St. Philip's, males 136, females 65 ; St. George's, males 490, females 228 : St. Mary's, 2; Atterclifle, males 108, females 54 ; Ec- clesall, males 134, females 62 ; total, 1679.

Extracts from parish records :- marriages at the Parish Church, 801 ; increased beyond last year 3; increased beyond the average of the last ten years (i. e. from 1011 to 1820 inclusive) 177; baptisms, increased be- yond last year 46 ; burials, decreased in comparison with the hist year 296. During the past year there have been 1437 buiials in the six churches in the town. Of the number 6,37 were seven years old and under ; 133 at- tained the age of 70 and upwards, according to the fol- lowing numbers :— 20 aged 70, 3 aged 71,7 aged 72, 9 aged 73, 8 aged 74, 1 1 aged 75, 13 aged 76, 8 aged77, 9 aged 78, 7 aged 79, 10 aged 80, 2 aged 81,2 aged 82, 3 aged 83, 2 aged 84, 5 aged 85, 4 aged 86, 2 aged 87, 1 aged 88, 2 aged 90, 1 aged 91, 1 aged 92, 1 aged 93, 1 aged 97, 1 aged 101.

Decease of Mr. James Robertson, formerly manager (in conjunction with Mr. Manley) of the Sheffield theatre.

New Methodist Chapel in the Park first opened, with sermons by the Mr. William Dawson and the Rev. R. Newton; collections £133. 12s. 11 Jd.-- contains 40O

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Jan. free sittings, and has a Sunday School room attached, suitable for 700 children.

. „ 7 Decease of Mr. Spooner, of Machon Bank, aged 66 years,

Marble bust of Watt, the Engineer, by Chantry, presented

to the Mechanics' Library, by Mr. Watt, (son) of Bir- mingham . , ,

_ 17. Joint Stock Banking Company ; formation of the company under the name of the Sheffield Banking Company.

— 21. Literary and Philosophical Society.- Officers for the en-

suing year; President, S. Bailey, Esq. • Vice-Presi- dents, Dr. Knight, Dr. Thompson, T. A. Ward, J. Montgomery; Secretaries, L. Palfrey man, Dr.tavell; Curator, W. Jackson.

— 23. Decease of James Gillies, spring knife cutler. "He was

formerly in the employ of Messrs. J. Rodgers and Sons, cutlers to their Majesties- he was one of those whose genius and talents have contributed to raise Sheffield to the pre-eminence it holds in the manufacture of cutlery." . ,. ^. ^ ^,

— 24. Sheffield Political Union ; first public meeting at the

Town-Hall ; President, T. A. Ward, Esq. Election of a council of 30 members for the current year. / Feb. St. George's Church ; the altar piece presented by Mr. V 1. Paris, placed over the communion table.

. Price of Iron ; forge pigs £3. 5s. (ton) ; refined iron ^4 ;

common bar ^6 ; hoops ^7- 10s. ; rods £6. 5s.; sheet iron ^8. 10s. , , , ..^ .

— 7. Political Union ; first meetine; (called by the council) at

the Town Hall ; petition adopted praying for the vote by ballot. . , ^„ , , ,

— 25. Sheffield and Goole Railway ;-meeting of Shareholders

at the Music Hall ; resolved that it is inexpedient to ap- ply to Parliament during the present session.

Leather fair (tirst established) held in the New Market.

The Reform BiU.-Intelligence of the plan of Reform m the representation (giving two members for Sheffield) received in the town, " with an almost unanimous ex- pression of satisfaction." — Ind. ~ 3. Association for the Prosecution of Felons ; funds possessed ^1279. )6s. 4^d. „.. c.,.

— 6. Decease of Mrs. Shore, relict of the late Sidney Shore, Esq. of Tickhill Castle.

— 7. Public Meeting in Paradise-square, "to express the pub- lic approbation of the Reform Bill, and to petition the Parliament to pass the same into a law"— petition re- ceived 13,360 signatures.

Mar.\ — 2.

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Mar. Overseers for the ensuing year; Slieftidd, Messrs. Web- 29. ster, Gregory, Walker, and Nicholson ; Brightside, Messrs. Taylor, Pearson, & Stafford ; Ecclesall, Messrs. Kershawe, Tinker, Osborne, and Wilkinson. Surgeons, (town) Messrs. Gregory and Clerk ; Churchwardens of the Parish Church, Messrs. J. Crosland and S. Marples; St. Paul's, Messrs. Wm. Hall and T. Machon ; St. George's, Messrs. R. Harrison and E. Hatfield; St. Philip's, Messrs. J. Watson and W, F. Dixon ; St. Mary's, Messrs. J. Newhould and E. Gilbee.

. Girls' Charity School receive an anonymous donation of

^1200.

April Waterworks Company— first annual meeting (since the 6. passing the Act for the extension of the company ;) com- mittee for the ensuing year, Messrs. M. Ellison, S. Bailej', J. Sykes, E. Smith, E. Nanson, John Rodgers, B. Hounsfield, and J. Levick.

— 14. Overseers' accounts for the past year; total parochial

expenditure (Poor) ^'17,086. 15s. 4d. — balance paid to the new officers, ^781. 3s. 3d.

— 18. St. George's Church, — the clock put up Mr. Payne, of

London.

— 19. Cricketers presented Tom Marsden with a silver cup, in

reward of his honesty and talents.

— 23. Execution (York) of Twihell and Turner, convicted of

robbing and barbarously using Jonathan Habershon, be- tween She.ffield and the Intake, on the 5th of October last.

— 24. Dissolution of the Parliament— news arrived in the town.

" Ever since the news arrived that our gracious King liad dissolved a Parliament whicii lias long lost the con- fidence of the nation, the people of Hallamshire have been in a delirium of joy." — Iiid. . Public subscriptions made to defray the expenses of re- turning independent reforming members for the repre- sentation of the county.

— 27. Representation of the county ; Lord Morpeth, Sir J.

Johnstone, John Charles Ramsden, Esq., and George Strickland, Esq., candidates to represent the county in the ensuing Parliament, present themselves in Paradise- square. " At the moment of their appearance, the most extraordinary spectacle ever witnessed by the oldest at- tendant at public meetings in Sheffield presented itself. Upwards of 16,000 persons, as if by previous consent, gave repeated and simultaneous cheers, as the old and new candidates came forward to the front of the hustings.

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u^pril The excitement which prevailed in this great meeting, exhibited itself in a general expression of triumph, and it was sometime before the speakers could prevail on the immense multitude to restrain their demonstrations of joy and loyalty."— /wrf.

. Public breakfast (after the meeting,) at the Tontine ; H.

Parker, Esq., Chairman.

Ma. 4. Horticultural Society ; first exhibition at the Music-Hall.

— 14. Representation of the county ; Lord Morpeth, Sir J. V.

B. Johnstone, George Strickland, and J. C. Ramsden, Esqrs. — return thanks to the freeholders for their elec- tion on the 6lh.

— 17. Decease of Mr. John Crome, 'printer. Bridge-street, aged

84 ; " he was the oldest member in the town of the profession to which he belonged, and he was much i-e- spected."

— 18. Public dinners and rejoicings in celebration of the suc-

cessful termination of the election at York.

— 25. Cricket Ground, (Darnall,) the land sold by auction, and

the ground broken up.

— 29. New Slarkets ; Commissioners, under the New Market

Act, appoint Tuesday for the sale of fat cattle, &c., instead of Monday as heretofore.

. His Majesty's King William's birth day ; first anniversary

(since the coronation) celebrated in the town.

. Decease of Mr. Hall Overend, surgeon, aged 59. " For

two and thirty years Mr. Oveiend had been uninterrupt- edly engaged in the practice of his profession, and few men ever pursued that profession with zeal, assiduity, and talent, superior to those evinced by himself." — In'd.

— 29. Decease of Daniel Holy, Esq., aged 77- '* A man highly

respected by a numerous circle of friends, whose loss will be long felt by his family and numerous relations."

— 31. Summer fair held in the New Market; cheese (best old)

75s.— Derbj'shire thin. 55s. to 60s. per cwt. June The Markets ;— Commissioners, under the new market 4. act, appoint Tuesday in every week in June and July

for the sale of wool in Sheffield, and the first Thursday

in the month of August for a fair for the sale of wool

and leather. . Police;— Report of the commissioners, receipts for the

last year, ^4320.

— 13. Savings Bank ; — General fund, ^95,680. Os. 4d. ; total

depositors, from the commencement, March 1, 1819, to June 7, 1831, 5818; depositors paid off, 3160; re- maining, se.'is.

(HEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. ZJS

1831.

Jutie Parish Church ; the transparent dial of the clock first il- 20. luminated by gas, by Mr. Payne, of London.

— 22. Decease of Mr. James Blake, aged 47. " His high sense

of honour and integrity had gained the esteem of all who knew him. He was strictly punctual as a trades- man, sincere and warm-hearted as a friend, and his loss will be long and deeply TegrpX\.eA." —Independent.

— 25. St. Philip's church ; Rev. John Livesey, M.A. appointed

minister, vice Rev. T. D. Atkinson, M. A. resigned.

July Sheffield Banking Company commenced business, in their

1. premises in George-street ; Directors, Samuel Bailey,

John Read, Jonathan ]>.Iarshall, Thomas Watson, and

Edward Smith, Esqrs. Manager, Mr. James Drabble.

. Population ; Sheffield township, 59,011 ; Ecciesall Bier- low, 14,279 ; BrightsideBierlow, 8968 ; Attercliffe and Darnall, 3741 ; Nether Hallam, 4658 ; Upper Hallam, 1035.

•• Population and statistics of the town, according to tlie

census taken by order of Parliament : — Total number of families, 19,998 ; people, 91,692. Number of inhabited houses, (township,) 12,144 ; unoccupied, 652 ; building, 265; total, 13,061. Of these, no fewer than 6383 are rated to the poor rates (2s. double book) at under £5 per annum ; 4308 are rated at from £5 to .^10 ; 1259 at from ^10 to £20 ; 301 at from ^20 to ^30 ; 107 from ^30 to ^40 ; 71 at from .£40 to £50 ; 21 at from ^50 to £60 ; 22 at from ^60 to £80; 12 at from ^80 to ^100; and 1 at £100. There are besides these, 514 shops rated under £5 ; 214 under ^^10 ; 141 under £20 ; 70 under =£30 ; 23 under .£40 ; 20 under ^50 ; 10 under ^60 ; 7 under £80 ; 2 under £100 ; and 18 above that sum. " We take it (the number of small houses in Shef- field) to be the best proof of our respectability, opulence, and good government. The working body of Sheffield have been long accustomed to dwell in single families, and those large and pestiferous buildings which abound in other places, sheltering under one roof from twenty to fifty individuals, are no where to be found in Sheffield." — Independent.

. Occupations of the families of the town ; employed in

the various staple trades, 8079 ; employed in retail trades and handicraft, 4012 ; merchants, professional persons, and other educated men, 785 ; labourers em- ployed by the three preceding classes, 1731 ; other per- sons, including retired tradesmen, labourers past work &c. 701. Total of males twenty years old and upwards

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Julu 15,455. Total of persons employed in trade and ma- nufactures in Sheffield and its townships, 14,/34.

— 9 Mr. Buckingham delivered his first lecture, ' ^i the

moral and commercial capabilities of the eastern world, at the Music-Hail. , , . j a

., Assay Office ; Mr. Thomas Howard elected warden, mce

Mr. Morton deceased.

— 19. Decease of the Rev. Thomas Parish, aged «3.

_. 27 Decease of Benjamin Bailey, Esq. of Westfield, aged 91.

A2,ff Police commissioners' annual meeting ; new appointments

1 Messrs. George Turton, Henry Atkin, Wm. Simpson,

Wm. Jackson, Edward foster, Thomas King, and K.

C. Holland. , .

— 2 Temperance Society— its establishment first proposed, by

' the Rev. Dr. Pye Smith, at a public meeting at the

Cutlers'-Hall. , „ , ,^-r ..• . x

_ 8. Cricket match ; Clarke, Jervis, and Barker, (Nottingham,)

31 • a«^ainst Marsdcn, Smith, and Rollins, (Sheffield,) 1\.

— 10. Society ""for bettering the condition of the POor ; 28th

anniversary— funds of the past year, ^238. 2s. Id. ; distributed, .£154. , t, r

_ 23. Sheffield and Manchester railway— Act of Parliament passed for the formation of the same.

_ 24. General Infirmary ; Dr. Corden Thompson elected phy- sician, vice Dr. Knight resigned. , , ,

— '>6 Representation of Sheffield- deputation from a body of freeholders and others wait on John Parker, Esq. at Woodthorpe, and request him to offer himself a candi- date for the representation of the town.

Sept. Annual Feast of the Cutlers' Company; -guests present, 1 Rev. W. Alderson, John Parker, Esq., &c., Officers lor the coming year ; master, John Blake; wardens. Thos. Dunn, Peter Cadman ; searchers, Thos. Ellin, Richard Jessop, James Wild, Josh. Levick, J. S. Bramhall, John Barker ; assistants, Enoch Barber, Philip Law, and 22 others. , . , . j r

_ 7 Representation of Sheffield ; deputation from a body of freeholders and others wait on Samuel Bailey, Esq. of Burngreave, and request him to offer himself a candi- date for the representation of the town.

— 8. Coronation of King William IV. celebrated in the town ; public procession of magistrates, merchants, societies, yeomanry, military, &c. ; public dinners beneath the colonade of the Corn Exchange, at the Cutlers'-Hall, and the principal Inns; Ball at the .\ssembly-rooms, hre- works, illuminations, &c.

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1831.

Sept. Representation of Slieffield ; deputation from a body of 12. freeholders and others wait on Mr. Buckingham, at the liouse of Mr. J. Ridgway, Staffordshire Potteries, and request him to offer himself a candidate for the represen- tation of the town.

— 14. ; deputation from a body of freeholders

and others wait on T. A. Ward, Esq. at Parkhouse, and request him to offer himself a candidate for the re- presentation of the town.

. Sunday School .Jubilee, in honour of their founder, (50

years since) Mr. R. Raikes, of Gloucester.

— 19. Mr. Buckingham addressed a public meeting at the Town-

Hall, in defence of his moral and political character, which had been attacked by the Editor of the Mercury Newspaper.

— 22. Surveyors of Highways (Sheffield) ; J. Raworth, J. Hawk-

rigg", J. Wild, and H. Gouldthorpe.

— 26. Public meeting Paradise-square; petition adopted to the

Lords, praying them to pass the Reform Bill, unaltered and with dispatch ; signatures 19,150. <)f<. 5. General Infirmary; thirty-fourth anniversary held at the Tontine; president, H. Walker, Esq.

— 8. The Reform Bill ; the news of its rejection by a majo-

ritv of forty-one in the Lords, arrived by express at

HP. M.

— 9. ; requisition presented to the Master

Cutler to immediately convene a public meetine.

— 10. ; public meeting in the Square, (present,

between 18 and 20,000 people); adopted an address to the King and memorial to Eail Grey, praying them to take such measures " as they may deem necessary for the final triumph of the Reform Bill, and for the peace and tranquillity of the empire." " About half-past twelve it was announced that Lord Milton, to whom an express had been sent by Mr. Parker, had arrived. This news dispelled the dangerous gloom which the black flags, the exhibition of effigies, and the sound of the muffled bells had spread over the people." — Ind.

— 20. ShefiReld and Manchester Railway ; at a meeting of pro-

prietors, resolved, to suspend all proceedings relative to the undertaking for six months. Nov. Church Burgesses ; election of B. Hounsfield, Esq. ; vice 3. C. Younge, Esq., burgess, deceased.

— 9. Board of health appointed for the adoption of measures

to prevent the introduction of the cholera and other malignant diseases.

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1831.

Kov. Decease of the Rev. John Smith, Wesleyau minister iii 10. the Sheffield east district.

— 11. Mechanics' Institute; Dr. Holland delivered at the Mu-

sic-Hall, the first lecture in aid of the formation of a mechanics' institute.

— 12. Sheffield Library; (containing nearly 7000 volumes, in-

cluding the public records presented by Government, Delphin classics, &c.) charge of admission raised to six guineas.

— 16. Political Union; members offer their services to the ma-

gistracy, in aid of the civil power, for the maintenance and preservation of the public peace and property.

— 21 . The Theatre ; opened by Mrs. Butler and Mrs.Percy, for

a limited season.

— 23. Churches and other places of public worship open for di-

vine service.

— 28. Winter fair held in the New Market-place ; cheese 65s.

to 7<5s. per cwt.

Dec, Shakspeare Club ; thirteenth anniversary, at the Tontine ; 8. president, Michael Ellison, Esq.

. Population and property of the town ; Parliamentary re- turns for the parish of Sheffield, and the townships at- tached to it participating in the elective franchise ; po- pulation, 90,657 ; houses at ^10 annual rent and up- wards, 4573 ; houses at .^20 and upwards, 473 ; amount paid in assessed taxes, (1830,) ^12,605. Number of electors if under universal suffrage, 18,131.

— 22. General Dispensary ; public meeting at the Town-Hall,

and committee appointed to consider the best means of establishing a general dispensary for the town.

CONTINUATION

OF THE

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1832.

Jan. Decease of Mr. R. Jobson, of Roscoe-place, merchant 3. and manufacturer.

— 6. Literary and Philosophical Society;— officers for the year:

President, Dr. Thompson ; Vice-Presidents. Mr. Saml! Bailey, Rev. J. Blackburn, Mr. Montgomery, and Mr. T.A.Ward; Secretaries, Mr. Palfrey man and Dr. Fa- vell ; Curator, Mr. W. Jackson ; Council, Dr. Knight, Dr. Holland, Rev. H. H. Piper, Rev. P. Wright, Mr E. Smith, Mr. Drabble, Mr. J. H. Abraham, Mr. E. Barker, Mr. R. J. Gainsford, Mr. G. Wilkinson, Mr. H. Thomas, and Mr. S. Mitchell. 16. General Infirmary ; proposition for the establishment of a Dispensary in the town, in connection with the Ge- neral Infirmary, negatived at a general meeting of the board.

— 18. Decease of John Shore, Esq. (at Scarborough.) aged 86. 24. Decease of Daniel Sykes, Esq. aged 66, (Hull.)

27. Overseers of the poor for the ensuing year; Sheffield- Messrs. George Rodgers, S. A. Ingleson, Henry Don- caster, and John Black well ; Brightside— Messrs. J. Holland and J. Stafford ; Ecclesall— Messrs, T. Ellin, S. Newbould, jun., S. Tinker, and T. W. Kershaw.

29. St. Paul's Church ; the dial of the clock first illuminated.

Feb. Proposed Public Dispensary ; public meeting of the friends

1. to the establishment of a public dispensary, and the

adoption of rules for the government of the same ; C. F.

Favell. M. D.. honorary secretary.

JO. Signior Paganini first performed in a concert at the Music- Hail-

23S »HEFFIELD LOCAL REQISTER.

1832.

Feb. Physicians ami medical practitioners ; nine physicians, five general practitioners, (who commenced their professioa before the passing of the apothecaries' act,) nineteen members of the college, and nine licentiates, resident in Sheffield.— CoKraw^.

— 27. Old Cutlers' Hall ; the furniture, &c. of the old Cutlers'

Hall sold by public auction.

— 28. Representation of Sheffield ; the House of Commons vo-

ted that the Borough of Sheffield should return two Members to Parliament. Mar.8. Mr. Cobbett delivered a political lecture at the Theatre.

— 10. The Cutlers' Hall; the demolition of the old Cutlers'

Hall in Church-street, " so long the interesting but in- commodious scene of the business and hospitalities of our ancient manufacturing corporation,'' commenced.

— 19. Theatre opened for a short season by Messrs. Neville and

Strickland.

— 20. Boys' Charity School ; .=£90 paid to the trustees by the ex-

ecutors of Mrs. Withers, of Crookes Moor. Jpril Waterworks' Company ; annual meeting ; dividend of three 11. pounds per share declared ; Committee, Messrs. Mich. Ellison, E. Nanson, S. Bailey, C. Smith, J. Rodgers, J. Sykes, J. Montgomery, anil J. Sorby.

— 15. Decease of George Cransioun Brown, M. D., aged 38.—

" The Doctor settled in Sheffield in 1819, and was elect- ed physician to the General Infirmary."

25. Overseers' accounts; total expenditure in support of the

poor for the past twelve months, .£17,342; average number of inmafes in tke house throughout the year, 315 ; and the average cost per head each week for main- tenance, 2s. lOd.

Ma. I. Churchwardens for the ensuing year; Parish Church, Messrs. Gould and J. Jarvis ; St. James's, Messrs. L. Potts and H. Elgie ; St. Paul's, Messrs. F. Machon and A. Sorby ; St. George's, Messrs. W. Taylor and E. Hat- field ; St. Philip's, Messrs. W. Dixon and J. Watson ; St. Mary's, Messrs. J.Newbould and E. Gilbee.

— 7. Public meeting in Paradise-square ; present, 18,000 peo-

ple ; petition to the House of Lords adopted, signed by 29,000 persons, praying that no alteration be made in the ^10 qualification clause, and address to the King, praying him to take measures for the security of the Reform Bill, " inasmuch as no solid satisfaction and permanent tranquillity can be expected to prevail throughout the country until tlie great measure of

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1832.

May. form, unchansred in all its important provisions, ha« been made the law of the land."

— 8. Representation of Sheffield ; Reform Bill ; " the an-

nouncement of the division in the House of Lords (yes- terday) on Lord Lyndhurst's motion, leaving the Mi- nisters in a majority of 35, has caused an extraor- dinary agitation of the public mind."— /««?.

— 9. ; continued excitement in the public mind re-

specting the fate of the Reform Bill."— /«</.

— 10. ; at noon, this day, the popular fever was still

liigher on the intelligence received by the coaches that Earl Grey and his colleagues had resigned. At three o'clock, the news was confirmed by the arrival of the mail. Mr. T. A. Ward, the president of the Political Union, and a considerable number of persons, assem- bled at the Town-Hall, to consider what measures the exigent state of affairs rendered necessary. At six o'clock, a simultaneous meeting of about 20,000 peo- ple took place in Paradise-square ; an address to the Commons unanimously voted, " praying them to exer- cise their undoubted privilege of withholding supplies until a redress of grievances was obtained;" likewise an address and remonstrance to the King, praying him " to recall his late Ministers to his councils, and by an immediate creation of Peers, enable them to secure the success of a constitutional reform."

— 11. ; intelligence of the division in the House of

Commons, carrying by a majority of 180 an address to the King, received by express from the Sun news- paper office. " It left London at half-past three in the morning, and reached Sheffield at quarter to six in the evening of the same day."

. ■ ; the Council of the Political Union declared

its sittings permanent.

members of the Political Union encreased in

number 1500, during the existing week.

18. ; intelligence of the recall of Earl Grey and his

colleagues, received with loud and enthusiastic ex- pressions of public approbation.

19. ; the official announcements of Earl Grey and

Lord Althorp, that they continued to hold their offices as Ministers as heretofore, received by express at 3 p. m.

public meeting in Paradise-square; present,

14,000 people ; memorial voted to Earl Grey, expres-

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1832.

May. sive of the approbation with which the people of Shef- field have viewed the conduct of himself and colleagues during the late crisis.

_ 26. ■ ; memorial presented to Earl Grey by Mr. Par- ker, Mr. Palfrevman, and Dr. Philipps. -28. General Infirmary; G. C. Holland, M. D., elected one of the physicians to the charity.

June Girls' Charity School ; the Reverend the Vicar paid the 1. trustees the sum of ^'800, which had been entrusted to him by one who wished to be unknown.

— 3. Decease of Mr. Thomas Smith, aged 64, " for thirty years

one of the acting constables of Sheffield, and for the last eighteen years deputy bailiff' of Hallamshire, and Bailiff of the Court of Requests."

— 4, New Dispensary ; wppoimment of offices. President, H.

Parker, Esq. ; Vice-Presidents. Rev. VV. Bagshaw. and Thomas Watson, Esq.; Committee. Mr. T. A. WHrd, and twelie others; Physicians, Drs. C. F. Favell. P. B. Harwood, and B. Stewart ; Surgeons, Messrs. J. Ray, S. Gregory, and Henry Thomas; House Apothecary, Mr. William Hutton.

— • 5. Reform Bill; " intelligence of the third reading of the Reform Bill, was lirought by the Sun Express into Sheffield by Mr. Wiley, soon after noon. The news was received by a concourse of people ; within an hour, loud and frequent discharges of fire-arms, ringing of bells, the display of flags, and the parading of the people, manifested the public ]Qy.''—Jnd.

-■• 6. Police Commissioners appoint James Leadbeater and George Wall, at annual salaries, as street-keepers.

— 8. Representation of Sheffield ; T. A. Ward, Esq.. of Park-

House, declared himself, by public advertisement, a candidate for the representation of the town.

— 11. Savings' Bank; general fund of this institution,

.=£93,819. 13s. Od. . New Cutlers' Hall ; the corner stone of the new Cut- lers' Hall laid by James Blake, Esq., Master Cutler ; the ceremony was attended by the Company, Mr. J. Wilson, clerk, Rev. J. Blackburn, chaplain, Mr. Samuel Worth, and Mr. Benjamin Broomhead Taylor, architects, and a number of the principal gentlemen of the town. —Beneath the stone was placed a number of coins, specimens of the existing state of the town's manufactures, (cutlery only,) newspapers, records, &c. After the business of the morning, the Cutlers' Com-

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1832.

June. pany and others dined together at the Tontine Inn, Estimated cost of the huilding, ^£6,500.

— 18. Celebration of the passing of the Reform Bill, and the enfranchisement of Sheffield, Early in the morning, 30,000 people, with music, flags, assembled in the Wicker ; these were presently joined by 5000 members of the Political Union, each bearing a medal struck for the occasion; after these multitudes had passed over Lady's Bridge, the decorated carriage of the Printers* Union, exhibiting the presses at work, and the exhibi- tions of the various trades, succeeded, the whole cover- ing a space of nearly two miles, The procession, after taking a circuit of the town, returned to the New Market, in the afternoon, where a hollow square was formed, and a hymn sung, written by Mr. Ebenezer Elliott. The great body of the people assembled re- tired to the numerous houses, where preparations had been made to celebrate the day. and about fifteen hundred with Mr. T. A. Ward at their head, proceeded to partake of a public dinner at Hyde Park.

No paltry fray, no bloody day. That crowns with praise the baby great ; The Deed of Brougham, Russell, Grey, The Dked that's done, we celebrate!

Mind's great charter 1 Europe sayed !

Man/o;- ever unenslaved ! Oh ! could the wise, the brave, the just. Who suffeied— died— to break our chains: Could Muir, could Palmer, from the dust. Could murdered Gerald hear our strains.

Then would martyrs, throned in blisf.

See all ages bless'd in this.

■ - 19. Summer Fair held in the New Market ; price of cheese, best 75s. per cwt. ; inferior, 45s.

— 23. Representation of Sheffield ; Mr. John Parker, Mr.

S. Bailey, and Mr. Buckingham, again announced their intention of standing for the representation of Sheffield.

■ . • ; general canvass of the electors commenced

by the friends of the candidates.

— 29. Town Gaol ; Cooper appointed keeper, vice Bland.

. Infant School ; a substantial building erected in Hoyle-

street, at an expense of ^1200, for the reception and instruction of young children on the principles of in- fant schools.

A 2

348 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTEK.

1832.

July. Police Act; monies collected under powers contained J. in the act, during the past year, ^£5073. 7s. 6d.

— 2. Public Dispensary ; this institution for the relief of ths

sick poor, first opened. . Mechanics' Library; yearly report, books 3246, ca&h

^32. 15s. 8d. , Messrs. Parker, Bailey, and Ward, delivered their first

public addresses to the electors of Sheffield, assembled

in Paradise-square. 4. Mr. Buckingham addressed the electors and his friends

in Paradise square.

— 8. Cholera; the Boanl of Health announce that the disease,

called Ciiolerrt Morbus, had appeared in the to>vn and neijihhourliood. — 14. Sheffield and Goole Railway; the scheme a*iandoned, and the balance of th» deposits paid the sliarehokleis.

— 21. Cholera; official report; cases since the commencement,

25; deatlis 10 ; patients remaining 10.

— 26. Public Hpalth ; meeiinfr of rate pnyers and others to

authorise the Board of Health to provide hospitals and accommodations for cholera patients ; voted, that the Overseers of Sheffield immediately advance ^1000.

— 28. General Infirmary; trustees receive ^90, the net pro-

ceeds of a legacy of Richard Bayley, Esq.

. Cholera; official report; cases since commencement, SO;

deaths 24 ; patients remaining 7.

— 29. Decease of John Hodgson, Esq. of Western Bank. " In

all his public transactions, he was- honest, just, and upright, and in private life, kind, and exemplary." — Ind.

— 30. Decease (at Harrogate,) of Thomas Watson, Esq. of

Broomhill. " He was one of the twelve capital church burgesses, was actively connected with most of our local charities, and always ready to promote both by his per- sonal and pecuniary exertions, every object which had in view the glory of God and the good of his fellow crea- tures."

. ■ Bequests made by Thomas Watson, Esq. Ge- neral Infirmary, ^1000; Boys' and Girls' Charity Schools, ^'1000 each. National Schools, ^500. Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor, ^300. Aged Female Society, ^200. Yorkshire Deaf and Dumb Institution, £^200. Dispensary & some other charities, ^800.

; anonymous donations; Rev. T. Sutton an-

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1832.

July. Dounced that the anonymous donations of ^51000, in two sums for the relief of the suffering poor of Sheffield; two sums of ^SOO ; and two others of ^51200 each for the benefit of the Infirmary, which had been announced within a few years, were made by Thomas Watson, Esq.

jiug. 4. Cholera ; official report ; cases since the commencement 177; deaths 59; patients remaining 85.

. Rating small tenements ; Overseers order that the usual

allowance of 50 per cent, made to landlords paying the poors' rates due from their cottage property, be reduced to 33| per cent.

— 10. Junction of the Sheffield and Chesterfield Canal ; com-

mittee of management appointed to raise £^50,000 by shares for this undertaking.

— 11. Cholera ; official reports; cases since the commencement,

352; deaths 122; patients remaining 141.

. '. all interments made in a small piece of ground

near to Clay Wood.

— 16. Church Burgesses ; Henry Wilson, Esq, of Westbrook,

elected a church burgess, vice Thomas Watson, Esq.

— 18, Cholera; cases 630 : deaths 207, patients remainin?

258. ^

— 22. ; observed throughout the town as a day of

humiliation and prayer.

— 25. ; cases 895; deaths 299; patients remaining

— 28. River Dun Company's Shares; single share sold by

public auction for ^£2420.

— 31. Decease of John Blake, Esq. Master Cutler.

Sep. Cutlers' Company for the ensuing year. Master:

1. Thomas Dunn, Esq. Wardens: Mr. P. Cadman and Mr. T. Ellin ; Searchers: Messrs. R. Joseph, J. Bar- ber, J. R. Furniss, J. Hobson, J. Hall, & W. Steer. Assistants : Messrs. J. Blake, E. Barber, J. Crawshaw) S. Hadfield, E. Wilson, G. Marriott, J. Hawksworth. J. Sansom, A. Hadfield, S. Smith, J. Spencer, T. Turton, W. Ryalls, G. E. Dawson, G. Merrill, T. Makin, C. Sanderson, J. Skelton, W. Jessop, S. Mar- shall, C. Shirtcliff, B. Etches, J. Wood, and J. Stafford.

. Cholera; official report; cases since the commencement,

1086; deaths 342; patients remaining 193.

— 8. : cases 1187; deaths 300; remaining 183.

$44 BHEFFIELD LOCAL REQISTBB.

1832.

Sept. Sheffield Independent Newspaper; publication removed from Angel-street, to 48, High-street.

— 10. Large meeting at the Music Hall, for the purpose of

giving expression to the public opinion held of the con- duct of the Russian Emperor, Nicholas, towards the brave and suffering Poles. Count Plater, a Polish exile, delivered an address.

— 10. General Infirmary; Mr. Henry Jackson, jun. elected

one of the surgeons to the institution.

. General Infirmary; trustees receive from the executor o.

Charles Younge, Esq. ^£100.

— 13. Decease of George Stacey, cutler. " He was one of those

who have been the means of bringing the Sheffield trade to its present state of perfection, and had been in the employ of Messrs. Rodgers and Sons, cutlers to their Majesties, during the last seventeen years.

— 14. Mr. Eneas Macdonnell, and Mr. Buckingham, at the

Music-Hall, publicly discussed the use and abuse of the East India Company's Charter, the right of Free Trade to India, &c.

— 15 Cholera ; official report, cases since the commencement

1236; deaths 368; patienits remainig 72.

. ' ; 16 cases only remain under medical treatment

in the town, exclusive of those in the Hospital and Park Dispensary.

— 22. ; cases 1263; deaths 376; patients remaining .34.

The Dispensary^in the Park closed, no new cases having

appeared in that district for some time. — ; 27- Political Union ; annual meeting of the members at the

Town-Hall, report read by Mr. Ward, president. Oct. 6. Cholera ; official report ; cases since commencement 1306 ;

deaths 390 ; patients remaining 34.

— 10. Decease of Edward Barker, Esq. of the Lead Works,

in the 34th year of his age.

— 13. State of the Town ; " the trade of Sheffield is in a very

depressed state, and there appears little prospect of material improvement. The American trade which usually furnishes employment for a large portion of our workmen is completely at a stand. In some manufac- tories the men are still all employed, but only in making goods to be " stocked," for which they must be obliged to submit to a reduction of wages. The pay- ments to the casual poor for the last four weeks have amounted to £352 ; while in the corresponding week* of last year they only amounted to £\67.''—Jnd.

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1832.

Oct. Cricket Match at Hyde Park ; 1 1 of Sheffield against 1 1 of 15. Nottingham, won by the latter by 153 runs.

— \7. Mechanics' Institute ; public meetintj at the Town-Hall,

resolutions adopted, and committee appointed for the establishment of a Mechanics' Institute.

— 20. Cholera; official report for the past week j new cases

6; deaths 2 ; recoveries 21 ; remaining 22; since the appearance of the decease, (8th July,) cases 1342; deaths 398 ; recoveries 922.

— 24. Michaelmas Quarter Sessions held at the Town-Hall.

Cliairman, Lord Wharncliffe ; numberof prisoners 91.

— 27. Tontine Inn; Mr. VV. L. Bickley succeeded Mr. Lam-

bert.

— 31. Highvva}-s of Sheffield ; collected during the past year

in raf's, cnntribuiions, &c. ^6807, 7s. Id. ; expended i£6785. 12s. ; surveyors, J. Denton, M. Maugham, J. Wild, and J. Raworth. Nov. Decline of the Cholera ; official report, that no new cases 3. or deaths have occurred for the past week ; patients remainins 5.

— 5. official report of the entire cecessionof the cho-

lera; number of persons afflicted, 1347; recovered 945 ; died, 402. -12. Voters for the Borough of Sheffield; the Commissioners appointed by Government for the revision of the lists of persons entitled to vote for the borough, held a court in the Town-Hall.

— 17. Borough of Sheffield; numberof person eligible to vote

for the borough, 3504 ; male population, about 43,458 ; giving a vote to each 13 individuals.

— 19. Theatre opened under the management of Mr. Bur-

rows ; (closed a few weeks afterwards.)

— 21, Mechanics' Institute ; first general meeting of the mem-

bers and friends ; a code of laws proposed and adopted ; announced by letter from M. Ellison, Esq., that the Duke of Norfolk had presented the institution with i£100 ; officers appointed— President, G. C. Holland, M. D.; Vice-Presidents, T. A. Ward and Dr. A. J. Knight; Treasurer, Mr. Stanley ; Secretaries, Messrs. T. Ellis and T. Champion ; Committee, Mr. C. Con- greve. Dr. Favell, and twenty-two others.

— 23. Day of Public Thanksgiving for the removal of the cho-

lera,' generally observed throughout the town, by the cessation of business, and the attendance of the inhabi- tants at the churches, and other places ot public worship^

W» «HErPIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1832.

Nov. Winter Fair, held in the New Market ; best old cheese, 28. 65s, per cwt. ; inferior, 4os.

Dec. Representation of the Borough of Sheffield ; Thos. Dunn,

12. Esq., Master Cutler, and returning officer, opened the

election for Sheffield, on temporary hustings erected

opposite the New Corn-Exchange ; present about 30,000.

people.

. ; Dr. Knight proposed, & Joseph Read, Esq.

seconded the nomination of John Parker, Esq., of Woodthorpe, as a fit and pioper person to represent the Borough of Sheffield, in the ensuing Parliament.

. • ; Mr. E. Smith proposed, and Mr. Fisher sup- ported the nomination of Samuel Bailey, Esq., of Burn Greave.

• . ; Mr. Ebenezer Elliott proposed, and Mr. Ed- ward Bramley supported the nomination of T. A. Ward, Esq., of Park House.

. ; Mr. Vickers proposed, and Mr. W. Ibbot-

son, supported the nomination of J. S. Buckingham, Esq., of London.

. — ^— ; the Master Cutler (having called for a shew of

hands) declared the choice of the electors to have fallen on T. A. Ward and J. S, Buckingham, Esqrs. Mr. Bailey and Mr. Parker demanded a poll.

— 13. ; polling commenced for the Township of Shef-

field, in the New Corn-Excbange; Brightside Bier- low, Healey's Warehouse, in the Nursery ; Nether and Upper Hallam,Crookes-moor Workhouse; Ecclesall Bierlow, School Room, in South-street ; Attercliffe and Darnall, School Room, at Attercliffe.

. ; First return of the poll, (non official,) Parker,

1084; Buckingham. 1060; Ward, 887 ; Bailey. 616.

— 14. ; (4 o'clock,) the final close of the poll ; present,

upwards of 30,000 people.

. ; (6 o'clock,) a number of men and boys as- sembled in front of the Tontine, and threw stones at the windows.

. ; (7 o'clock,) the windows in front of the Tontine

almost entirely destroyed ; an attack made on the house of Mr. Palfreyman, in Bank-street ; the riot act read ; the special constables assembled ; dispatch sent to Rotherham for the regiment of Infantry stationed there.

(8 o'clock,) assemblages of people in the

Haymarket, Castle-street, and Bank -street ; Hugh

•aEFPIGLD LOCAL RECilSTER. *4y

1832.

Dec. Parker, Esq., at the head of the special constables, passed through the principal streets.

• ' >■ (9 o'clock,) a number of special constables

thrown down aad otherwise ill-used; the Yeomanry called out.

• ; 0^ o'clock,) the streets near the Tontine,

partially filled with people ; stones thrown, and some violent expressions used by some individuals in the mob.

• — — '■> (quarter-past 10.) detachment of the 18th

Irish foot, commanded by Capt. Graves, attended by T. B. Bosville, Esq., Justice of the Peace, marched up Waingate, and formed in front of the Tontine; stones thrown at the soldiers ; Mr. Bosville struck over the head with a stone ; the military ordered to fire; twenty men and a corporal fired ball carlridge upon the mob, and continued to fire until ordered to de- sist by Hugh Parker, Esq. and Henry Walker, Esq., Justices; three men and two boys shot dead; several persons, including two watchmen, wounded. " A very short space of time indeed occurred, between the arriva'l of the soldiers at the Tontine and the firing,— not 80 much as five minutes; the soldiers were stoned while drawing up,— they entered the yard, and were almost immediately ordered to fire." Evidence of T. B Bosville. Esif., be/ore the Coroner.

- 15. Tranquillity of the town perfectly restored ; Lord Wharn-

•^Jifte and the Magistrates of the neighbourhood, order- ed the special constables to clear the space opposite the Tontine of the persons assembled. The Barns- ley, Kiverton, and Rotherham troops of Cavalry on duty. ■'

• — ; Result of the Election.— The Master Cutler

declared the election to have terminated as follows •— Mr. Parker, 1515 ; Mr. Buckingham, 1498 ; Mr. Ward 1210; Mr. Bailey, 812. The usual addresses, chair- ings, &c. postponed on account of the lamentable pro- ceedings of the previous dav.

- 17. Inquests held at the Town-Hall, before Mr. Lee, Coro-

ner, of Wakefield, (Mr. Badger excusing from act- ing, on account of his liability to be called on as a witness,) on the bodies of George Grimes, of Orchard- sreet, aged 28; William Howard, of Lambert-street, aged 14; David Ogden, of Eyre-lane, aged 14; Jame« Turton, of Weeldon-street, aged 36 ; and James Jack-

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1832.

Dec. son, of Brown-street, aged 40 ; who was shot opposite the Tontine oa the 14th inst.

_ 18. ; adjourned inquest; verdict touching the

deaths of the deceased persons, " Justifiable homi- cide."

— 22. Decease of Mr. Thomas Flather, aged 52.—" Flather

served the public with diligence and ability for about 15 years, and as an officer of the police, obtained dur- ing his career, a high and deserved character. — Sheffield Ind.

— 28. Mary Sandys, mortally stabbed by her husband, George

Sandvs, as she was standing in his open shop, in Pia- stone-lane.

_29. — ; inquest held before Thomas Badger, Esq. ver-

diet of " Wilful Murder" against George Sandys.

— 31. Died in the Infirmarv, Jesse Fretwell, aged 19, who had

been wounded on "the night of the I4tb, by the firing of the military before the Tontine. Verdict, " Justi- fiable homicide."

CONTINUATION

OF THE

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1833.

Jem. Literary and Philosophical Society ;-officers /or the en 4. suing year: president, J. Montgomery, Esq • vice presidents. Dr. Thompson, Dr. Knight, Mr. S. Bailev' Mr. T. A Ward ; secretaries, Mr. Palfreyman, and Dr Faveil ; Curator, Mr. VV. Jackson. — 6. Decease^ of Mr. Abraham Hartley, of Steel-house-lane , ^/g*:^ ^^ y^^'^ ' °»e of the oldest file-forgers in the trade' I. Mr. Buckingham returned thanks in the Music-Hall' for his election. '

4. Mechanics' Institute; opening address, delivered bv the Kev. 1. Allin. -15. Decease of Mr. William Bower, of the firm of Bower

and Bacon, type-founders. 18. The Honourable W. Wentworth Fitzivilllam attained his

majority. — . Messrs. Henry Doncaster. W. Jeffcock, T. Aldam N Crpswick, F. Huntsman, J. Shirley, N. Smith (Por'

'°^'1'1°;VV° ■"^°°^;'- I"'"' J""-' '^' ^^^^-d' ^Glossop road,) M. Tinker, Clay Bacon, T, Dunn, G. Rodgers (Not folk-street,) John Dyson. (Abbey Dale,) J Eyre' grocer, S. Gardner, and J.Hall, (Duke-street,) ao- pointed Commissioners of the Courts of Requests for the manors of Sheffield and Ecclesall.

-. Dinner at the Bazaar Tavern, Sheffield Moor, in honour of the Honourable W. Wentworth Fitzwilliam; Robert Rodgers, Esq., in the chair.

!2. Rev. T. Allin, by particular request, repeated his Lecture on the opening of the Mechanics' Institute,

-. A letter to the Members of the Borough, relative to the rumoured intention of Ministers to bring forward a

250 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1833.

Jan. measure on the subject of negro-slavery, which would fall short of its entire abolition, in two days received upwards of 1500 signatures.

— 22. Henry Whiteley, a grinder, stabbed in the stomach by

William Smith, in a quarrel, at Gallimore's wheel. . Decease of Mr. J. Gillatt, of Church-street, aged 73.

— 25. Sheffield Banking Company; first annual meeting ; divi-

dend of 4 per cent, for the last half year, declared.

. Decease of Mr. William Hall, of Mulberry-street, of the

firm of G. and D. Holy and Co., silver platers.

— 28. Alteration and enlargement of the Town-Hall com-

menced.

— 29. Inquest on Henry Whiteley, and a verdict of manslaugh-

ter returned against Smith.

— 30. Meeting of the Anti-Slavery Society, in the^Music-Hall ;

letters read from J. Parker, and J. S. Buckingham, Esqrs., stating that they had waited upon Earl Grey, and expressed to his Lordship the views and feelings of their constituents on the subject of slavery. The Rev. B. Godwin, of Bradford, and George Thompson, Esq., addressed the meeting. Adjourned meeting held in the evening in Carver-street Chapel. An address to his Majesty, and petitions to the Houses of Lords and Commons, agreed to.

30. News received in the town of the meeting of the reformed

Parliament.

Feb. Decease of Lewis Thomas, Esq. of Field Head, in the 3. 75th year of his age.

4. Annual meeting of proprietors of Music Hall; seven years

since the last dividend was declared.

— 5. Meeting of the clergy of the town and neighbourhood, held

at Tudor Place, Dr. Milner in the chair; resolved, that a subscription be entered into for the relief of the distressed Irish protestant clergy.

— 6. The King's speech on the opening of Parliament received

by express.

— 7, Shares in Sheffield Water Company sold by auction for

^89. per share ; shares in the Sheffield Fire Office for ^£20. 15s. per share; auction duty paid by the pur- chasers. . Shares in the Sheffield Banking Company selling at a pre- mium of ^18 per share.

— 8. Decease of the Right Hon. Earl Fitzwilliam, at Milton

House, near Peterborough. He was boru May the 30th, 1748.

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1833.

Feb. Public meeting held in the National School Room, at

— 14. which a petition was agreed to in favour of a legislative

enactment for enforcing the better observance of the Sabbath.

Baptist Missions ; a meeting held in Nether Chapel, Norfolk

street, when a collection was made amounting to ^34, towards repairing the loss sustained by the late dis- turbances in Jamaica. Present, the Revs. W. Knibb and Eustace Carey.

— 16. Died, Mr. Webster, Thorpe house, Norton, aged 64.

— 20. Decease of Mr. Philip Osborn, sen., of the firm of Osborn

and Sons.

— 24. Decease of Mr. Norburn, Howard-street, aged 42.

— 28. Surveyors of highways; at a meeting of rate-payers, the

surveyors were authorised to pay certain outstanding debts contracted by Messrs. Hall, Marriott, Gould- thorp, and Nicholson, in 1825-26 ; and to sell a piece of ground near Shales-moor, and apply the proceeds for the above purpose. March John Wright, clerk to a number of money clubs, brought 1. before the magistrates on a charge of embezzlement.

— 2. Yorkshire Spring assizes commenced.

— 5. The Bond ; the case of Heeley v. Goodinson was tried

at York. It was an action to recover the sum of £20 -upon a promissory note. For the defence, it was showa that no consideration had been given for the note, and that it was concocted for the purpose of controling the free exercise of labour. Verdict for the defendant.

— 6. Public meeting at the Town-Hall, at which it was resolved

that an address of condolence, on account of the death of his father, be presented to Earl Fitzwilliam, and that a bust of the late Earl should be executed by Mr. Law, to be placed in the new Cutlers'-Hall.

— 8. Trial of George Sandys, for the murder of his wife, on the

28th December last. Verdict, not guilty, on the ground

of insanity. — 9. William Smith, aged 15, found guilty of the manslaughter

of Henry Whiteley. Seven years transportation. . The Rt. Hon. Lord Milton elected without opposition

for the north division of Northamptonshire, in the room

of his father.

— 11. The first stone of a new Independent chapel, at Oughti-

bridge, laid by Mr. G. Grayson.

. Meeting in Paradise-square, to petition against the Irish

Coercion Bill, and for relief from the assessed taxes.

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1833.

March Mr. John Holland elected curator of the Literary and

— 15. Philosophical societj', vice Mr. Fenton resigned.

— 16. The Rev. T. D. Atkinson, M.A.. minister of St. Philip's

church, promoted to the rectory of East W'retham, Norfolk, - 19. Final examination of John Wright, at the Town-Hall. Bail required to the amount of £\Q0 for his appear- ance at the sessions.

— 23. Ecclesall Bazaar re-opened.

— 25. Decease of J. Patten, Esq. Endcliffe Place, aged 75. April 1. Decease of Mr. Hutchinson, coach maker, ajjed 77-

— 2. Overseers of the poor : Sheffield, Messrs. Joseph Barker,

John Stevenson. Wm. Steer, and J. H. Hawksworth ; Brightside Bierlow, Messrs. W. F. Rawson and Matthew Young; Ecclesall Bierlow, Messrs. T. Ellin, S. New- bould, jun., Josiah Davy, and John Sniitli ; Atter- cliiFe-cum-Darnall, Messrs John Sanderson and John Fernelly.

Sheffield overseers' accounts ; four double rate books have pro- duced ^22. 285. 16s. lOd.; total receipts, ^23,469; payments to regular ticket poor, ^£"4679 ; casual poor, .£4019; average number of paupers in the house, 315 ; weekly cost of each, 2s. lOd. ; payments on account of the board of health, .£1922 ; total payments, £22.593.

Ecclesall Bierlow : overseers' accounts ; amount of rates col- lected, £4275 ; total receipts, £5474. 12s. 3d. ; average number of in-paupers, 72, maintained at weekly expense of 3s. 2d. each ; amount paid to the out-poor, £1920 ; board of health, .£450 ; total expenditure, £5348.

— 3. First stone of a new \yesleyan chapel, in South-street,

Sheffield-moor, laid by Mr. Staley. . Decease of Mr. Francis Staley, aged 68.

— 4. Decease of Mrs. Holy, relict of the late Daniel Holy, Esq.

— 1. Congregational petitions, for the immediate abolition of

slavery, signed at the various Dissenting chapels.

. Re-opening of Bow-street chapel, by tiie Methodists of the

New Connexion.

— 8. Commencement of Pontefract sessions ; 171 cases of

felony for trial, being 60 more than on any former oc- casion.

. London Missionary Society; annual meeting of the Shef- field auxiliary society ; W. F. Rawson. Esq. in the chair.

Decease of Mr. John Lambert, late of the Tontine hotel.

aged 55.

— 10. Court Leet of his Grace the Duke of Norfolk.

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1833.

Jpril Churchwardens appointed:- Parish Church, Mr. G.

— 11, Jarvis and Mr. James Gregory; St. James's Church,

Mr. W. H. Carver and Mr. L. Potts ; St. Paul's Church, Mr. R. Sorby and Mr. Webster ; St. George's Church, Mr. Burdekin and Mr. Sharraan ; St. Philip's Church, Mr. J. Dixon and Mr. S. Blake ; St. Mary's Church, Mr. T. Ellin, jun. and Mr. N. Creswick ; Attercliffe, Mr. Charles Deakin.

— 13. Sharps in the Water Company selling at a premium of

^33 per share.

. John Wright convicted at Pontefract sessions of embezzle- ment. Seven years transportation.

— 14. Day of general thanksgiving for the cessation of the cholera.

— 16. Decease of Mr. John Wheatley, of the medicated vapour

baths.

— 18. Public dinner to John Parker, Esq. M.P. at the Music-

Hall ; nearly 300 gentlemen dined, under the presi- dency of Dr. Knight.

— 20. Boys' Charity School ; Mr. W. Marshall appointed mas-

ter, vice Mr. H. Webster, who has been elected master of the endowed school at Handsworth. --22. Nineteenth anniversary meeting of the west circuit aux- iliary of the Wesleyan missionary society ; the collec- tions amounted to il30.

— 24. Edward Bower killed in a prize fight at Shire Green ;

Charles Jackson as principal, and Henry Jackson, Jo- seph Lambert, James Mappin, and Wm. Hindes, com- mitted to York on a charge of manslaughter.

. Death of Mr. Joseph Pearson, builder, Bridgehouses,

in his 71st year.

— 25. Sheffield Political Union; T. A. Ward, Esq. president;

Mr. Bramley, vice-president ; and Mr. Leader, trea- surer, resigned. Mr. Alcock elected president, and Mr. Bridgeford vice-president.

'- — . Meeting of rate payers in the vestry of the parish church, to consider a supposed encroachment in the re-building of Miss Trippet's property, in High-street; resolved, that the meeting saw no reason to interfere with Miss Trippet's building.

May. Canal Company ; the annual meeting ; dividend of four 2. per cent, declared. Committee, Messrs. H. Parker, M. Ellison, S. Bailey, E. Smith, S. Hadfield, J. Shir- lev, VV. Blagden, Joseph Read, and John Haslehurst. ii2

2p^ SHEFFlliLD LOCAL REGISTEK.

1833.

Mai/ Decease of Mr. George Butler, of the firm of Messrs. G. &

— 5. J. Butler, in the 53d year of his age.

— 6. Public meeting at the national school, to petition in favour

of Sir A. Agnew's Sabbath Observance Bill.

— S. Horticultural Society ; first exhibition for the year.

— 9. Meeting, called by the council of the Political Union, held

at Mr. Chadwick's, in the cattle market; resolutions were passed condemnatory of the conduct of Ministers. Mr. Alcock in the chair. . Decease of Wm. Thorpe, Esq. of Norton Lpcs.

— 11. Decease of Mr. John Green, of the late firm of Green

and Pickslay, in his 66th year.

— 13. Foundation stone of a new Wesleyan chapel, in Bridge-

houses, laid by Mr. Jonathan Beet.

— 14. The Rev. J. M'Lean, and Messrs. W. Ibbotson and E.

Smith, went to London as a deputation from the Anti- slavery society.

— 15. Meeting of Police Commissioners ; Mr. Raynor elected

assistant surveyor.

— 16, Decease of Mr. Thomas Linley, of the firm of T. Linley

and Son, bellows makers, aged 53.

— 19. Decease of Mr. Godfrey Fox, in the 85th year of his age.

— 20. Public meeting, called by the council of the Political

Union, held in Paradise-square; it was proposed to present an address to his Majesty, praying him to dis- miss his present Ministers. The meeting was addressed by T. P. Bready, who urged that the meeting should not pray but demand ; the original resolution was there- fore negatived, and no amendment having been pro- posed, the chairman, Mr. Alcock, declared the meet- ing dissolved, and vvith the other officers of the Political Union, retired. Mr. F. Smith was then called to the chair, and after some further discussion the meeting broke up quietly.

— 22. Meeting of the council of the Political Union ; letters

from Mr. Alcock and Mr. Elliott were read, resigning their offices. The vice-president, the secretary, and other members of the council also resigned.

. Second exhibition of the Horticultural Society.

. Premises of Messrs. Pickslay & Co., in High-street, pur- chased by a company of shareholders, of ^25 each, in order to erect a post-oflice, and buildings for public and other purposes. Capital of the company, ^5000.

— 23. Meeting of the overseers of the several townships of the

parish of Sheffield, held at the Sheflield workhouse, at

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1833.

May. which it was agreed to petition for the abolition of im- prisonment for debts under £5, and for the extension to Sheffield of the proposed Local Courts' Bill. " The gaols of Sheffield and Ecclesall contain on an average about 100 persons, who discharge by their imprisonment debts amounting to about ^£1520 annually ; and the cost to the parish of Sheffield and the neighbourhood, of maintaining these prisoners and their families, amounts annually to ^1700."

— 24. Meeting of the Anti-Slavery Society ; resolutions were

agreed to declaring the concurrence of the meeting in the memorial of the delegates in London, and that let- ters should be sent to our county and borough mem- bers, pressing the memorial upon their attention ; it was also resolved, that a memorial should be presented to Earl Grey, by Mr. Parker and Mr. Buckingham, in favour of immediate emancipation.

— 25. Commissioners of Bankrupts ; the Lord Chancellor has

appointed James Rimington, of Broomhead Hall, and — Tyreman, of Conisbrough, Esqrs., and Messrs. Charles Brookfield, Robert Rodgers, and James Wheat, of this place, commissioners of bankrupts for Sheffield and 20 miles xonn&.— Ind.

— 27. Whit- Monday ; the Sunday-schools in the town and neigh-

bourhood held their annual festival this day.

— 29. Meeting of the governors of the Infirmary ; committee

appointed to consider the best means of ventilation. JuneA. Decease of Colonel Leader, aged 63. . Summer fair ; cheese selling from 45s. to 60s. per cwt.

— 5. At the meeting of police commissioners, James Law, John

Beatie, Thomas Norman, and John Hodgson, appointed sergeants of the watch.

— -. Meeting of shareholders of the proposed Sheffield and

Manchester railway held at INIanchester; resolved to dissolve the company, and abandon the undertaking.

— 12. Decease of Mr. Sterndale, surgeon, aged 68.

— 13. Meeting at the Savings' Bank, to consider the establish-

ment of Botanical and Horticultural Gardens ; re- solved, that a public Botanical and Horticultural Gar- den be established. A committee was appointed to draw up laws, and selert a site.

— 15. Shares in the Sheffield Canal Company sold at £\(i5 per

share.

— 18. Shares in the Sheffield Fire-Office sold by auction at ^522

per share. Gas shares at .£61 per share. Water Com-

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1833.

June. pany shares, (upon whicb ^£70 each have been paid,) at SWI per share. Purchasers to pay duty, and costs of transference.

— 19. Third exhibition of the Horticultural Society.

— 23. Opening of the new organ, erected in St. George's church.

— 24. Decease of Mr. Thomas Warburton, aged j6.

. Resolutions passed by the anti-slavery committee, pro- testing against the grant of ^20,000.000, as compen- sation to the slave holders, and against the proposed apprenticeship of the slaves.

— 25. Decease of Mr. Cecil, of Philadelphia, aged 4.').

— 20. Meeting of the proprietors of the Fire-Office ; Messrs.

S. Bailey, W. Blagden, J. Denton, N. Greaves, and W. Smith, appointed directors.

— 27. Performance of Masters Grossmith at the Theatre.

July Annual meeting of the members of the Mechanics' Libra- 1. ry ; there are 45 honorary subscribers, 411 proprietors,

and 185 apprentices ; amount received during the last

year, ^285. . Decease of Mr. \i . Markham, aged 53.

— 2. Second anniversary meeting of the Lancasterian Infant

School ; public examination at the Music Hall ; a ba- zaar was opened, and a collection made, for the benefit of the school, "^^le proceeds amounted to ^£30.

— 3. Dispensary; first annual meeting, Hugh Parker, Esq. in

the chair. The number of patients has been 2712. The assistance of the midwives has been rendered to 209 poor women, of whom only one has died.

— 15. Special meeting of the governors, to receive the report of

the ventilation committee of the Infirmary; resolved to adopt Mr. John Sylvester's ventilating apparatus.

— 17. The men committed to York, charged with the man-

slaughter of Edward Bower, in a prize fight, tried and found guilty ; Charles and Henry Jackson, Joseph Lam- bert, and James Mappin, 3 months imprisonment ; Hinde, having been taken only a day or two before the trial, 6 months' imprisonment.

— 22. Meeting of the Anti-Slavery Society in Queen-street cha-

pel, when resolutions were agreed to condemnatory of the Ministerial plan for the abolition of slavery. - 23. Mark Furniss convicted at York of the rape of Emma Turner. To be transported for life.

— 27. Publication of tlie accounts of the Police Commissionrr^

for the year ending in June. Receipts-rates, (;f4.i4(!.) and other sums, £\%9'6. Outlay, ^4,906.

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1833.

July Decease of Wm. Wilberforce, Esq., formerly member for

— 28. "Yorkshire, in his 74th year.

— 29. Last performance of Masters Grossmith at the Theatre.

— — . Opening of a new Independent chapel at Oughtibridge. . Annual meeting of the Sheffield Gas Company ; dividend

of 1\ per cent, declared. Committee— Messrs. Mont- gomery, Batty, Cooper, Hawksworth, G. Rodgers, J. Newbould, H. Staniforth, C. F. Young, J. Bradbury, jun., W. F. Dixon, Joshua Gillatt, Joseph Oakes, John Tillotson, and Wm. Wilson.

— 31. Meeting of the members of the Medical Profession, at

which a memorial was agreed to, to be presented to the governors of the Dispensary, relative to the indiscrimi- nate admission of patients, and other alleged abuses.

Aug. Special meeting of the governors of the Dispensary ; Mr. 5. E. Martin elected house apothecary, in the room of Mr. Hutton. Amended rules, for the management of the institution, aQ;reed to. The memorial of the medical gentlemen presented by Mr. Turton and Mr. Reedall, but afterwards withdrawn.

. The match at single cricket between Tom Marsden and

Fuller Pilch commenced at Hyde-park.

— 7- Special meeting of the governors of the Infirmary, to con-

sider the propriety of rescinding the existing orders re- specting Mr. Sylvester's apparatus. After a long dis- cussion, the meeting divided— for the adoption of the apparatus, votes, and proxies, 51 ; against it, votes only, 37.

. Conclusion of the cricket match; Pilch, 1st inning, 82 ;

2nd inning, 106 ; Marsden, Ist inning, 27 ; 2nd in- ning, ?>5.

— 8. Meeting held to receive the report of the committee ap-

pointed to draw up rules, and select a site, for the pro- posed Botanical Gardens. Tlie committee presented the rules they had prepared, and reported that they had decided upon a piece of ground near Roe-wood, as the most eligible. Meeting adjourned, to afford time for the consideration of the rules.

— 9. Horticultural Society ; fourth exhibition.

— 11. Decease of Mr. John Taylor, carpet manufacturer, of Hill-

side, in his 70th year.

— 15. First public meeting held in the new Cutler's Hall. — . Botanical Gardens ; adjourned meeting. A motion for

bringing forward the rules prepared by the committee was negatived, and the meeting adjourned for a week,

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1833.

June. pany shares, (upon which ^70 each have been paid,) at £^117 per share. Purchasers to pay duty, and costs of transference.

— 19. Third exhibition of the Horticultural Society.

— 23. Opening of the new organ, erected in St. George's church.

— 24. Decease of Mr. Thomas Warburton, aged 56.

. Resolutions passed by the anti-slavery committee, pro- testing against the grant of ^20,000.000, as compen- sation to the slave holders, and against the proposed apprenticeship of the slaves.

— 25. Decease of Mr. Cecil, of Philadelphia, aged 4.i.

— 26. Meeting of the proprietors of the Fire-Office ; Messrs.

S. Bailey, W. Blagden, J. Denton, N. Greaves, and W. Smith, appointed directors.

— 27. Performance of Masters Grossmith at the Theatre.

Julff Annual meeting of the members of the Mechanics' Libra- 1. ry ; there are 45 honorary subscribers, 411 proprietors,

and 185 apprentices ; amount received during the last

year, ^285, . Decease of Mr. W. Markham, aged 53.

— 2. Second anniversary meeting of the Lancasterian Infant

School ; public examination at the Music Hall ; a ba- zaar was opened, and a collection made, for the benefit of the school. IJ^ie proceeds amounted to ^30.

— 3. Dispensary; first annual meeting, Hugh Parker, Esq. in

the chair. The number of patients has been 2712. The assistance of the midwives has been rendered to 209 poor women, of whom only one has died.

— 15. Special meeting of the governors, to receive the report of

the ventilation committee of the Infirmary; resolved to adopt Mr. John Sylvester's ventilating apparatus.

— 17. The men committed to York, charged with the man-

slaughter of Edward Bower, in a prize fight, tried and found guilty ; Charles and Henry Jackson, Joseph Lam- bert, and James Mappin, -3 months imprisonment ; Hinde, having been taken only a day or two before the trial, 6 months' imprisonment.

— 22. Meeting of the Anti-Slavery Society in Queen-street cha-

pel, when resolutions were agreed to condemnatory of the Ministerial plan for the abolition of slavery.

— 23. Mark Furniss convicted at York of the rape of Emma

Turner. To be transported for life.

— 27. Publication of Uie accounts of the Police Commissioners

for the year ending in June. Receipts-rates, {£A546,) and other sums, .£4893. Outlay, X4.906.

■ S. He- ll. Le,

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257

1833.

-31,

Aug. 5.

July Decease of Wm. Wilberforce, Esq., formerly member for

— 28. Yorkshire, in his 74th year.

— 29. Last perfoimance of Masters Grossmith at the Theatre.

— — . Opening of a new Independent chapel at Oughtibridge.

— — . Annual meeting of the Sheffield Gas Company ; dividend

of 7? per cent, declared. Committee— Messrs. Mont- gomery, Batty, Cooper, Hawksvvorth, G. Rodgers, J. Newbould, H. Staniforth, C. F. Young, J. Bradbury, jun., W. F. Dixon, Joshua Gillatt, Joseph Oakes, John Tillotson, and Wm. Wilson.

Meeting of the members of the Medical Profession, at which a memorial was agreed to, to be presented to the governors of the Dispensary, relative to the indiscrimi- nate admission of patients, and other alleged abuses.

Special meeting of the governors of the Dispensary; Mr. E. ]\Iartin elected house apothecary, in the room of Mr. Hutton. Amended rules, for the management of the institution, ae;reed to. The memorial of the medical gentlemen presented by Mr. Turton and Mr. Reedall, but afterwards witlidrawn.

— — . The match at single cricket between Tom Marsden and

Fuller Pilch commenced at Hyde-park.

— 7- Special meeting of the governors of the Infirmary, to con-

sider the propriety of rescinding the existing orders re- specting Mr. Sylvester's apparatus. After a long dis- cussion, the meeting divided— for the adoption of the apparatus, votes, and proxies, 51 ; against it, votes only, 37.

. Conclusion of the cricket match; Pilch, 1st inning, 82 ;

2nd inning, 106; Marsden, 1st inning, 27; 2nd in- ning, 35.

— 8. Meeting held to receive the report of the committee ap-

pointed to draw up rules, and select a site, for the pro- posed Botanical Gardens. Tlie committee presented the rules they had prepared, and reported that they had decided upon a piece of ground near Roe-wood, as the most eligible. Meeting adjourned, to afford time for the consideration of the rules.

— 9. Horticultural Society ; fourth exhibition.

— 11. Decease of Mr. John Taylor, carpet manufacturer, of Hill-

side, in his 70th year.

— 15. First public meeting held in the new Cutler's Hall. . Botanical Gardens; adjourned meeting. A motion for

bringing forward the rules prepared by the committee was negatived, and the meeting adjourned for a week,

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Aug. when the report of the committee was to be read, and the site of the gardens decided upon.

— 15. Married, at St. George's Church, Hanover-square, Lord

Viscount Milton, to Lady Selina Jenkinson, daughter of the Earl of Liverpool.

— 17. Decease of Mr. William Hutton, aged 23 years, late

house apothecary to the Dispensary.

— — . Decease of Mr. Cockburn, many years a bookseller in

High-street, aged 62.

— 21. Decease of Mr. Wm. Staniforth, sen. surgeon, in the 84th

or 85th year of his age.

— 22. Botanical Gardens ; adjourned meeting, held in the Cut-

lers'-Hall, when the rules were agreed to, and it was resolved that the site should be near Clark Houses.

— 23. Presentation of a breakfast service of plate to T. A. V\''ard,

Esq. The cofif'ee-pot bore the following inscription : — " This breakfast service was purchased by a voluntary subscription of one penny, and presented to T. A. Ward, Esq. by ten thousand of his fellow townsmen, as a sin- cere, though most inadequate, testimony of their grati- tude, respect, and affection — 1833."

— 28. Special meeting of the governors of the Infirmary, the

Hon. J. S. VVortley in the chair. It was resolved, on the motion of Samuel Bailey, Esq. that the execution of the existing orders relative to the ventilation of the Infirmary, be suspended for six months ; and that at the end of that time another general meeting should be held on the subject. The meeting divided—for Mr. Bailey's resolutions, votes and proxies, 124 ; against it, votes and proxies, 78. Earl Fitzwilliam attended the meeting, and spoke and voted with the minority.

— 29. Signior Paganini gave a concert.

— 30. News received in Sheffield of the prorogation of Par-

liament. Sept. Commencement of the cricket match between eleven 2. Yorkshire and eleven Norfolk players, at Hyde Park.

— 3. The London Mail, pursuant to a new arrangement, ar-

rived in Sheffield for the first time, at a quarter past one in the afternoon.

— 4. Conclusion of the cricket match; Yorkshire first innings,

138; second innings 196; Norfolk first innings, 67; and second innings, 146.

. Police Commissioners resolved to employ 5& watchmen

from the 24th of October, 1833, to the 24th of February,

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Sept. 1834; and 41 from the '24tli of February, to the 24th of October. 1834.

— - 5. Mr. Buckingham, M. P. entered the town, attended by

a number of his friends, in procession.

. The Cutlers' feast held in the new hall ; Thomas Ellin,

Esq., Master Culler.— Wardens : Mr. Joshua Hobson, Mr. John Barber.-Searcliers : Mr. Josh. Levick, Mr. Rd. Jessop, Mr. Jas. Hall. Mr. Wm, Steer, Mr. Saml. Smith, Mr. John Spencer. Assistants : Mr. Thos. Dunn, Mr. Enoch Barber, Mr. Jas. Crawshaw, Mr. Saml. Hadtield, Mr. Edmund Wilson, Mr. George Mar- riott, Mr. G. B. Furniss, Mr. William Hall, Mr. George Merrill, Mr. James Moorhouse, Mr. Philip Law, Mr. John Sansom, Mr. Samuel Saynor, Mr. John Wilson, Mr. Wiiliam Wilkinson, Mr. Joshua Bramhall, Mr. Thomas Staniforth, Mr. T. A. Ward, Mr. Thomas Loxley, Mr. George Dalton, Mr. Henry Moorhouse, Mr. William Nowell, Mr. Samuel Dungworth, Mr. Benjamin Wood. — Among the company were Earl Man- vers. Lord VVharnclille, Lord Morpeth, George Strick- land, Esq., our Borough Members, the Hon. John and James Stuart Wortley, and H. G. Knight, Esq.

. Decease of Mr. George Marples, constable, of Ecclesall

Bieriow, aged 65.

— 6. Splendid ball given at the Cutlers'-Hall.

— 7> Mr. Buckingham dined with the Rancliffe lodge of the

Nottingham Imperial Union, at the Murray's Arms, in Queen-street. Lord Rancliffe was present.

— 9. dined with the Montgomery lodge of Odd Fellows,

at the Bazaar Hotel.

— 10. Decease of Mr. Benjamin Walker, confectioner. High-

street, aged &Q.

. Mr. Buckingham delivered a lecture in the Theatre, for

the benefit of the Mechanics' Institute ; —subject, voy- age to Gibraltar and Malta.

— - 11. Public dinner given to Mr. Buckingham, at the Music-

Hail. William Vickers, Esq., in the chair. About 170 gentlemen sat down to dinner.

- 12. Mr. Buckingham delivered a lecture for the benefit of the Deaf and Dumb institution ; — subject, continuation of his voyage to Smyrna.

. Dinner given to the freemen of the Corporation of Cut- lers, by the Master Cutler and Companv, in the New Hall.

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Sept. Attercliffe-cum-Darnall vestry meeting, called for the 12. purpose of levying a church rate; adjourned for 12 months.

— 13. Mr. Buckingham addressed an assembly in the Theatre,

in explanation of his Parliamentary conduct.

— 18. Bible Society: annual meeting of the Sheffield Auxiliary.

Hugh Parker, Esq., in the chair.

— 23. Cricket match at Bedale, between 11 of Sheffield and

22 of Bedale. Bedale, 1st and 2nd innings, 178 ; Shef- field, 1st and 2nd innings, 167. 25. Fifth exhibition of the Horticultural Society.-" The at- tendance on this occasion was numerous and fashion- able, far beyond what has ever before been seen." — Ind.

. Anniversary dinner of the Horticultural Society at the

Tontine Inn. President, Lord Wharncliffe, Vice-Pre- sidents, John Parker, Esq., M.P., and Dr. Younge.

— 27. Ecclesall Bierlow: John Birks, appointed by the Slagis-

trates to fill the office of constable till the next Court Leet.

.A piece of plate purchased by subscription, presented to

Earl Fitzwilliam, at Wentworth, by a deputation con- sisting of the following gentlemen : — John Parker, Esq., M.P., the Master Cutler, the Rev. W. H. Vale, as Chaplain, and James Wilson, Esq., as Law Clerk of the Company ; T. A. Ward, Esq., Town Collector, and S. Bailey and M. Ellison, Esqrs., as representatives of the Town Trustees; Offley Shore, Esq., Dr. Knight, the Rev. J. Blackburn, and T. Rodgers, Esq. The plate was manufactured by Messrs. Gainsford and Nicholson, and consisted of a 3-piece plateau, with richly embossed silver borders, supported on silver lions couchant; in the centre a candelabra, for eight lights, with a cut glass bowl and basket at top, surmounted by a silver plume, (his Lordship's crest,) and at each end a tripod em- bossed candelabra, each with a silver eagle cen- tre, bearing the following appropriate inscription: — " To the Right Honourable Charles William Viscount Milton, M.P. — To mark their sense of the distinguished manner in which he served as one of the Representa- tives for the County of York, for the period of twenty- three years, in five successive Parliaments, during which the principles of public virtue inherited from his Father and Lord Rockingham, have become still more insepa- rably connected by his own consistent example with the name and character of the House of Wentworth- this

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issa.

Sept. Testimonial, a Specimen of their Staple Manufacture, is gratefully presented by tiie Inhabitants of Sheffield and its Neighbourhood. October, 1832."

— 30. Anniversary of the Sheffield east Wesleyan missionary

association. The collection amounted to £\^T. 10s.

Oct. Surveyors of Highways appointed by the magistrates — 1. Sheffield, Mr. JohnFavvcett, Mr. John Jackson, Mr.

Wm. Bradley, and Mr. John Spencer. Upper Division of Ecclesall Bierlow, Mr. Jobn Lee and Mr. Joseph Barker; Lower ditto, Mr. Thomas Ellin, jun. and Mr. Josh. Eyre. Brightside Bierlow, Mr. Wm. Dobson and Mr. Wm. Hawkesley. Upper Hallam, Mr. David VVaite and Mr. Wm. Pitchford ; Nether do. Mr. Joseph Hatfield and Mr. John James.

. During their office the late surveyors of the lower divi- sion of Ecclesall expended ^£1470 ; the surveyors of Brightside, ^776; accounts passed by the magistrates.

— 4. T. Phillips, Esq. commenced his course of lectures before

the Literary and Pliilosophical Society, on vocal com- position and performance.

— 5. Publication of the accounts of the Surveyors of Highways

for Sheffield. Receipts, ^£7299 ; expenditure, .;£74j3 ; leaving a balance of ^£153 due to the bank.

— 7. Messrs. G. and T. Frith appointed organists of St.

George's church.

. Decease of Mr. W . Wright, in his S6th year, formerly of

the firm of Messrs. W. J. and G. Wright, merchants.

— 8. Meeting held at the Lancasterian school room, to pro-

mote the subscription for Joseph Lancaster.

— 9. Infirmary ; annual dinner of the subscribers, at the Ton-

tine Inn ; Earl Fitzwilliam in the chair, supported by the Hon. J. S. Wortley and John Parker, Esq. M.P.

. Decease of Matthew Sayles, Esq. assay master, having

held this office 25 years.

— 11. Decease of Mr. Cadman, of Handsworth Grange, aged 61.

— 12. Messrs. Raincock, Cottingham, and Cleasby sat at the

Tontine Inn, to revise the lists of the voters for the borough.

— 14. Single cricket match between James Dearman, of the

Sheffield club, and Thomas Heath, of Nottingham. The match lasted two days. Dearman, 1st and 2nd innings, 120 ; Heath, 1st and 2nd innings, \5.

. Illumination of the dials of the Town-Hall clock.

- 17. Meeting of Yorkshire and Derbyshire ironmasters, at the Tontine Inn. It was unanimously resolved to advance

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1833.

Oct. the price of metal. The price of best pigs is fixed at £&. OS. ; No. 2, at £o. los. ; No. 3, at £o. 5s. ; and a corresponding advance on manufactured iron.

-- 12. Anniversary of the ShetBeld Auxiliary Baptist mission- ary society. Present, the Rev. T. Burchell, missionary from Jamaica, and the Rev. E. Carey.

. Died at Soutbport, a few days ago, Mr. W. N. Wade, of

this place, solicitor.

— 23. Commencement of the sessions in the Town-Hall.

— 26. Escape of six convicts, who had been sentenced to trans-

portation, from the Town Hall :— John Rayworth John Smith, William Cocking, Thomas Pearson, Abraham Law, and John Haslam. . Saturday ; the sessions concluded at 12 o'clock, p.m.

— 31. First stone of anew Wesleyan Methodist chapel laid at

Griraesthorpe, by the Rev. W. Rigg.

Nov. 4. Theatre opened by Mr. W. J. Hammond.

. Anniversary of the Sheffield Auxiliary of the Religious

Tract Society, the Rev. T. Smith in the chair.

■ . First annual meeting of the Mechanics' Institute ; Dr.

Holland in the chair. There were 81 honorary mem- bers, 226 members, and \9o apprentices connected with the institution. J. Montgomery, Esq. was appointed president for the ensuing year. The receipts since the commencement of the institution, have been ^163. 18s. IHd. and the expenditure £11. 10s. T\A.

. Law, one of the escaped convicts, apprehended in the town.

— 7. Meeting at the Cutlers'-Hall to promote the public sub-

scription for the Wilberforce Memorial ; Lord Wharn- cliiTe in the chair-

— 8. Decease of Thomas Staylej', Esq. of Crookes-moor.

— 9. " Hardware Trade: We have heard with much pleasure

from several quarters, that the trade of the town is now generally brisk, and that there exists an unusual degree of satisfaction both among masters and workmen. In confirmation of these reports, we may state, that the payments to the casual poor yesterday, were lower than for any week within the last twelve months, and pro- bably within a longer period. We are also enabled, by the kindness of a friend, to give the following state- ment, from an official source: — Our accounts of the export of the iron and steel manufactured goods for tiirec fourths of this year, that is, to 5th of Oct. as com- pared with tlie same period of 1832, arc satisfactory.

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1833.

Nov. The value declared in the present year, is, ££1.121,308. In the same portion of the last year, it was ^936,723." — Independent.

— 13. Meeting of the subscribers to the proposed Botanical Gar-

dens. It was announced tliat more than the sum (■£6000,) at first fixed as the capital of the society, had been subscribed. Resolved, that the capital should be raised to .^£10,000, and the ground purchased, instead of beino; taken on lease. — 17. Joseph Pearce as principal, and Charles Staniforth, Phineas Dean, .John Jow, and Thomas Booker, as ac- cessories, committed to York, to take their trial for the manslaughter of Peter Bradshaw.

— 20. Annual dinner of the members of the Medical Institution,

at the Tontine Inn ; Dr. Favell in the chair.

— 21. Sandbeck Hunt dinner, at the Tontine Inn; John Ful-

lerton, Esq. of Thrybergh Park, in the chair.

— 26. Decease of Mr. Morgan Davies, of Westbar, in his 79th

year.

— 28. Sheffield Winter Fair : There was an immense quantity

of cheese, more than ever was known before ; it is sup- posed not less than 300 tons, but a very small pro- portion of thick. The price for thin ranged from 46s. to 56s. ; for Staffordshire lumps and prime Cheshire, from 51s. to 60s.

— 28. Meeting of the Attorneys of Sheffield : Memorial to the

High SherifF of Yorkshire, W. C. Maxwell, Esq., claiming the right to practice as advocates in the courts held under the 3rd and 4th Wm. IV. chap. 42.

Dec. John Smith, one of the escaped convicts, apprehended at 2. Northampton by James Wild.

. Meeting of the Medical Gentlemen of Sheffield, to con- sider the inconveniences to which the profession is sub- ject, and the means of removing them.

— 4. The High Sheriff's Court first held in Sheffield, for the

trial of issues in actions for debt not exceeding ^20.

— 11. Annual dinner of the Shakspeare Club; Dr. Holland

in the chair.

— 16. Captain Gipps, and John Aldridge, Esq. in the employ

of Government, visited Sheffield to collect the informa- tion necessary for the proposed incorporation of Bo- roughs bill.

— 20. Close of the Theatre for the season.

— 22. Memorial to Earl Grey, resolved upon by the Unitarian

Dissenters of Sheffield, requesting the attention of Go-

'_'04 snnrricLn lucal register.

1833.

Dec. vernmcnt to tlie removal of their grievances ; Dr. Plii- lipps in tiie chair.

— 27. Concert of Sacred Music, in the Upper Chapel, Norfolk- street, in aid of the Sheffield Choral fund.

-- 30. Mr. Robert Owen addressed a meeting in the Freemasons' Lodge, in favour of his national regeneration scheme.

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SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1834

Jan. Literary and Philosopbical Society. Officers for the ensu- 3. infj; year : President, J. H. Abraham, Esq., F.L.S. ; Vice- Presidents, the Rer. H. H. Piper, Mr. Montgomery, Dr. Holland, and Mr. S. Bailey; Secretaries, Mr. Palfrey- man and Dr. Favell ; Curator, Mr. W. Jackson.

. Decease of Mr. Samuel Lucas, of Royds Mill.

. Decease of Mr. Henry Bannister, many years clerk to

Messrs. Walkers and Stanley.

— 6. A public meeting of the Protestant Dissenters of Shef-

field and the neighbourhood, belonging to the Inde- pendent and Baptist denominations, voted a memorial to Earl Grey, in favour of the Dissenters' Claims.

— 8. Sheffield Anti-Corn-Law Society formed

— 13. Mr. Bochsa, Mr. Mori, and Mr. and Mrs. Bishop, gave

a concert at the Music Hall.

— 18. Meeting at Mr. Dawson's, in Surrey-street, for the pur-

pose of reviving subscription concerts. W. J. Bag- shawe, Esq. in the chair.

— 25. Shares in the Gas Company were sold for £72 each. — — . Prospectus of a New Gas Company advertised.

— 27. J. Murray, Esq., F.S.A.,&c., commenced a course of Lec-

tures on Chemistry before the Mechanics' Institute.

— 30. Meeting at the Town-Hall, to form a Sabbath Observance

Society.

— 31. Second annual meeting of the Sheffield Banking Company.

A dividend often per cent, declared.

. Death of Mr. C. Hammond, pawnbroker.

Feb.l. Subscriptions during this week to the New Gas Company,

nearly a hundred thousand pounds.

— 6. Public dinner to Samuel Bailey, Esq. ; William Fisher,

Esq., president.

. Decease of George Bradshaw, of Grimesthorpe, aged 94,

the oldest freeman in the corporation of cutlers.

— 8. Decease of Mr. Richard Jackson, carrier, Furnival street.

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1834.

Feb.l. First annual publication of the Town Trustees' accounts.

— 9. Several of the Sheffield clergy preached on the lawfulness,

expediency, and absolute necessity, of Church Esta- blishments.

— 12. Meeting of the friends of the Established Church, at the

Cutlers' Hail, to form an association to watch over the interests of the Church, and vote an address to Parlia- ment.

— 13. Openingof the Wesleyan Chapel, in the Bridghonses. Col-

lections were made amounting to £225.

— 14. Gas Company announced a reduction of the price of gas to

8s. per 1000 feet.

— 17. Post office opened at Attercliffe.

. An intermediate Sessions for the trial of felons, held at

Sheffield.

— 23. The Rev. J. Fox, (Howard street Chapel,) commenced a

course of lectures on Congregational Churches. — -. The Rev. J. W. H. Pritchard preached a sermon in Zion Chapel, Attercliffe, on the Scriptural provision for the maintenance of Christianity, in reply to the published sermons of the Revs. T. Best and J. Knight.

— 24. New Gas Consumers' Company formed. Subscribers met

at the Town Hall, and resolved that the capital should be £80,000, in 3200 shares.

— 28. A concert at tlie Cutlers' Hall, in aid of the Polish exiles.

Mr. V. Ivuczinski, an exiled Pole, was the principal at- traction.

— 29. The Clerk of the Peace, C. H. Elsley, Esq., sat in the

Grand Jury room, at the Town Hall, to collect infor- mation relative to the value of property here, as a pre- paratory step to the revision of the county rate. MarA. Decease of John Sheldon, Esq., of Machon bank, aged 6.5.

— 5. A meeting at the Cutlers' Hall, to establish a Church Sab-

bath Observance Society.

— 7. Decease of Mr. W. Stones, sen., Arundel street, aged 78.

— 8. Advertisement for the proposal to raise a fund by subscrip-

tion, in shares of £25 each, for the establishment of a Sheffield General Cemetery.

— 10. Dr. Lardner commenced a course of lectures on heat,

before the members of the Literary and Philosophical Society.

— 11. A concert at the Music Hall, in aid of the Polish exiles.

. Dr. Lardner commenced a course of lectures in Bow- street Chapel, before the members of the Mechanics' Institute, on the sources, accumulation, concentration, and preservation of power.

— 14. Decease of Mr. John Snirley, in the 55th year of his age. . Decease of Mr. Burn, of Rockingham-street, many years

the active superintendent of Red Hill Sunday schools.

— 20. Decease of Mr. Job Cnwood, of the Free Writing School.

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1834.

Mar. Mr. Robert Marnock appointed curator of the Sheffield 24. Botanic Gardens.

— 27. Meeting of the rate payers at the Town Hall : resolved

upon the revision of llie rate.

— 28. Joseph Pearce, Phineas Dean, Charles Staniforth, James

Booker, and John Jow tried at York, for the man- slaughter of Peter Bradshaw, and acquitted.

— 29. Thomas Rodgers convicted at York of an unnatural crime,

and condemned to death.

jipril Overseers of the Poor appointed for the ensuinp; year : 1. Messrs. Joshua Denton, Joseph Senior, W. Smith, and — Turner, for Sheffield ; Messrs. Samuel Mitchell and John Ward, for Ecclesall Bierlovv ; Messrs. George Merrill and W. B. Naylor, for Brightside Bierlow ; Messrs. Wm. Makin and S. Lindley, for Attercliffe-cum- Darnall ; Messrs. Henry Morley and Zaccheus Dyson, for Nether Hallam ; Messrs. E. Wilson and Jno. Broom- head, for Upper Hallam.

. London Missionary Society. Anniversary of the Shef- field auxiliary. Amount of the collections, (exclusive of a special subscription at Queen-street Chapel, of £110,) £130.

— 3. Churchwardens for the ensuing year : Parish Church,

Messrs. John Kirk and George Savage ; St. James's, Messrs. W. H. Carver and J. Laycock ; St. Paul's, Messrs. John Webster and John Webb ; St. George's, Messrs. W. Blake and — Sharman ; St. Mary's, Messrs. W. Newbould and S. Wilson ; St. Philip's, Messrs. R. Yeomans and B. Turner.

— 7. Water Works Company. Dividend of £3. 15s. per share

declared.

. First stone of a new Independent Chapel laid, in Devon- shire street, to be called Mount Zion.

. Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society. Anniversary

of the Sheflaeld District Auxiliary. The collections amounted to £144.

— 13. Decease of Mr. John Barber, razor maker, aged 52.

— 17. Mr. H. Kelvey appointed Master of the Free Writing

School, vice Mr. Job Cawood, deceased. ' Overseers' accounts allowed, at a meeting of rate-payers,

at the Town Hall. The expenditure of the year amounted to £17,603, being a reduction of £4890 on the outlay of the year preceding. Only three books were granted for the year ; part of the third remained uncollected, and there was a balance paid over to the new overseers of £1951.

— 25. Opening of a new Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, at Grimes-

thorpe.

— 28. Meeting of the Mechanics' Institution, to petition Farlia-

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1834.

^prit ment to extend pecuniary assistance to similar institu- tions. 28. Cemetery Company formed. Capital, £25,000, in a thou- sand shares. Before the meeting, £27,125 had been subscribed.

— 30. First exhibition of the Sheffield Horticultural Society. . Decease of Mr. Edward Barber, aged 58.

Mar/ 1. Sheffield Canal dividend of 5 per cent., declared.

— 5. Meeting of Dissenters, held in Queen-street School Room,

when the Rev. J. W. H. Pritchard and Mr. J. W. Smith were appointed to proceed as delegates to London ; and it was resolved, that Geo. Bennet, Esq., should be re- quested to act with them. — , The first of the revived Subscription Concerts took place. Principal performers, Madame Stockhauscn, Miss Ro- mer, Mr. A. Sapio, Monsieur Stockhausen, and Signor Masoni.

— G. Decease of Mr. William Hargreaves, of the finn of Colley

and Hargreaves, merchants.

— 9. Decease of Mr, George Mat riot, who, previous to his re-

tirement from business, was the oldest file manufacturer in the town.

— 16. Mr. Parker's motion in Parliament on behalf of the Da-

nish claimants acceded to by Lord Althorp.

— 21. Opening of Wadsley Church. Rev. Francis Owen, M.A.,

Minister.

— 30. Opening of Brunswick Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. Col-

lections amounted to £800. June3. Meeting at the Music Hall to petition against Lord Al-

thorp's Church Rate Bill. . Lectures on Electricity and Galvanism commenced at the

Mechanics' Institute, by J. Murray, Esq. -- 6. Cemetery Company. At a meeting of the subscribers, it

was resolved to purchase land near Sharrow head, for

the purposes of the Cemetery.

— 8. Decease of Wm.Tattershall, Esq., solicitor, aged CO.

— 9. Special General Board of Governors of the Infirmary

resolved to rescind the resolution of the 15th August last, ordering the adoption of Mr. Sylvester's ventilating apparatus.

^ 13. Last publication of the Sheffield Courant ,- commenced in 1827.

—^. Savings' Bank. The money paid into the Bank, with the interest upon it, has increased during last year, from £92,224 to £104,011, or £11,787. The total number of depositors, since the commencement, was last year 7024, and is now 7741.

— 16. Decease of Mr. Enoch Barber, of the firm of Thompson

and liarber.

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1834.

June Sheffield Association for the opposition of fraudulent In- 26. solvents, organized.

— 27. Decease of John Hoult, Esq., of Wadsley Bridge, aged 66.

Juli/2. Annual meeting of the Governors of the Dispensary. Pa- tients admitted during the year, 2018; discharged, cured, 1789 ; dead, 77. The remainder were discharged relieved, for irregular attendance, or for other causes.

— 12. Geo. Mason and Geo. Crookes, police sergeants, and Saml.

Shirt and Benj. Burgin, watchmen, tried at Rotherham Sessions, for an assault on Thomas Bradwell, of Shef- field. Shirt and Burgin guilty, judgment respited : Crookes and Mason not guilty.

— 13. Decease of Mr. Thomas Barber, aged 29.

— 14. Cricket match at Hyde Park — Yorkshire against Nor-

folk. Yorkshire, first innings, 191 ; second, 296. — Norfolk, first innings, 75 ; second, 289. The game was put an end to on Friday by the rain, when the Norfolk men gave up in favour of Yorkshire.

— 17. Twenty-sixthanniversary of the Yorkshire Amateur Music

Meeting, held at Sheffield.

— 18. Decease of Mr. W. Barber, Western bank, merchant,

aged 64.

— 19. The lower part of the town inundated, and much damage

done, owing to the excessive rain.

— 31. C. H. Pemberton, Esq., commenced a course of lectures on

Oratory, before the members of the Literary and Philo- sophical Society.

Aug.\. Termination of Slavery celebrated by the different reli- gious bodies of the town.

. Court for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors first held in

Sheffield, before T. B. Bowen, Esq., Commissioner.

— 4. Election of Police Commissioners. There were 31 candi-

dates. The choice fell upon the following : — Edward Nanson, jun., Luke Palfreyman, Samuel Younge, Thos. Wiley, Joseph Barker, Henry Wells, J. Denton, Wm. Unwin, J. W. Hawksworth, Philip Unwin, Thos. Ellin, jun.

— 14. Meeting of the Cutlers' Company ; John Sansom, Esq.,

elected Master ; Messrs. T. Shepherd and Jno. Spencer, Wardens.

— 18. Presentation of a piece of plate to Dr. Corden Thompson,

by the Medical Gentlemen of Sheffield.

— 20. Decease of Joseph Skelton, Esq., of Middlewood, aged 56. . Meeting at the Cutlers' Hail, to establish a Labourers'

Friend Society for this neighbourhood.

— 27. G. T. Burnet, Esq., F.L.S., commenced a course of Lec-

tures on Botany, before the Literary and Philosophical Society.

. Thomas Roberts, driver of the Halifax Mail, killed by

the overturning of the coach, at Wharncliffe Side.

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1834.

Sept. Cutlers' Feast. Bust of the late Earl Fitzwilliam, by Mr. 4. E. I aw, placed in the Hall.

— 7. Decease of J. B. Furniss, Esq., of Belle Vue.

— 8. Mr. Buckingham addressed his constituents at the Music

Hall. , Cricket Match at Hyde-park ; Sheffield against Notting- ham. SheflSeld, 1st innings, 88 ; 2nd, 51. — Nottingham, 1st innings, 162.

— 9. Martha Hardwick murdered at Upper Heeley.

— 10. Meeting of the Friends of the National and Church Infant

School ; Lord Wharncliffe in the chair.

— 11. Wm. Hallet, the farming man of Martha Hardwick, com-

mitted to York, charged with themurder of his mistress. . Meeting at the Music Hall, to revive the Sheffield Tem- perance Society.

— 13. Decease of Mr. John Siddell, solicitor. The verdict of

the coroner's jury was, " that the deceased cut his throat while labouring under temporary insanity, but that he died of delirium tremens."

. Publication of the income of the Town Trust. Rents,

£365 ; Navigation shares, £1035 ; Turnpike Road se- curities, £83 ; Water Works' shares, £30 ; Funded pro- perty, £120: total, £1633. Half the funded property IS sold out, and about £300 is due to the Bank.

— 20. Sheffield Banking Company; fourth instalment of the

subscriptions ordered to be paid in November.

— 24. Last exhibition and anniversary dinner of the Horticul-

tural Society ; Lord Wharncliffe in the chair. . Meeting of gentlemen desirous to promote the formation

of a Sheffield Subscription Grammar School. . Cricket match at Hyde Park, between Marsden and ten

picked players, and Cobbett (of the Marylebone club,)

with ten of the Wednesday's club. Cobbett's side, 99 ;

Marsden's side, 68.

— 30. Grand ball given at Wentworth House, in honour of the

coming of age of Lord Milton. The celebration had been deferred on account of the death of the late Earl.

Oc/. 4. Publication of the accounts of the Sheflield Highway Sur- veyors. Produce of rates during past year, £6250 ; expenditure, £6540.

. Prospectus of a railway from Sheffield to Rotherham issued.

— 5. Anniversary of the Sheffield East Auxiliary of the Wes-

leyan Missionary Society ; collections, £145.

— 7. Appointment of Highway Surveyors; Sheffield, Mr. Wil-

ley. Market-place ; Mr. Horrabin, Red hill ; Mr. Sa- vage, Park; and Mr. Warburton, Sliales-moor. Ec- clesall, Nether Division, Mr. J. Dixon and Mr. J. Mappin ; Upper Division, Mr. J. Creswick and Mr. A. Barber. Brightside Bierlow, Mr. J. Loukes, Mr. Stones, & Mr. John Skinner, Nether Hallam, Messrs.

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REOISTUR. 2^1

1834.

Oct. Hatfield and Spooner. AtterclifFe-cum-Darnall, Messrs. W. Harriot and Geo. Dawson.

— 8. Anniversary of the Infirmary; Lord- WharnclifFe pre-

sided at the ineeting and dinner.

— 18. News arrived of the destruction of the Parliament Houses

by fire.

. At a meeting of the subscribers to the Church Proprietary

School, it was reported that 89 shares had been taken.

— 22. SheflSeld Sessions; Shirt and Burgin, the watchmen, sen-

tenced to pay a fine of 40s. for the assault upon Brad- well. iVby.4. Annual meeting of the Mechanics' Institute.

— 6. Meeting of subscribers to the Sheffield and Rotherham

Railway. W. Ibbotson, [Esq., chairman, announced that there were 1908 shares subscribed for, or £47,700 out of £50,000. It was resolved to apply to Parliament for an Act.

— 16. News arrived of the unexpected dismissal of Lord Mel-

bourne's Ministry by the King.

— 19. Anniversary dinner of the Sheffield Medical Institution.

Dr. Holland presided.

— 23. Deceaseof Mr. ThomasSmith, of thefirmofSmith, Moor-

bouse, and Smith, merchants.

— 30. Decease of Mr. John Morton, Redhill, aged 53. DecA. Decease of Mr. John Aldani, Upperthorpe, aged 47.

— 11. Corner stone of the monumental cross on the Cholera

Burial Ground, laid by James Montgomery, Esq.

— 12. Decease of Mr. Dennis Davy, aged 72.

— 13. John Parker, Esq., M.P., published an address to the

electors, offering a renewal of his services.

. By the new county rate, the rating of Sheffield is raised

from £52,560 to £111,216, or 112 per Cent.

— 15. Samuel Bailey, Esq., issued an address to the electors,

declining to offer himself as a candidate at the ex- pected election.

— 17. Meeting of Licensed Victuallers to petition against the

increased duty on Spirit Licences.

— 20. J. S. Buckingham, Esq., M.P.-, published an address in

anticipation of the dissolution of Parliament.

— 22. John Parker, Esq., M.P., read an Essay on the study of

History, at the Music Hall, before the Members of the Mechanics' Institute.

— 26. Provisional Committee of a Peace Society appointed after

a lecture, at the Music Hall, on the Horrors of War, by Capt. Pilkington.

— 27. Sheffield Banking Company's shares at a premium of £40

per share. — — , In answer to a question submitted to the Poor Law Com- missioners by the overseers of Ecclesall, it was stated that to allow a discount to owners of cottage property, in consideration of their paying the rates instead of the occupiers, is not lawful.

CONTINUATION

OF THE

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1835.

Jan. 1. Opening of the Post Office and News Room, at the Com- mercial Buildings.

— 2. Annual Meeting of the Literary and Philosophical So-

ciety. Officers for the ensuing year— President, G. C. Holland, M.D. ; Vice-Presidents, Mr. Montgomery, Mr. S. Bailey, Mr. Abraham, and Rev. J. Blackurn.

— 3. Meeting of County Electors in support of Lord Morpeth

and Sir George Strickland, as candidates for the West- Riding, held at the Tontine Hotel; Committee ap- pointed.

. Publication of the addresses of Mr. John Parker and Mr.

Buckingham, offering themselves as candidates for the representation of the borough, Parliament having been dissolved.

— 5. Meeting of Mr. S. Bailey's friends at the Tontine, when

the report of a partial canvass, voluntarily undertaken by a body of licensed victuallers, was so favourable, that it was determined he should be nominated without his consent.

— 8. Nomination day. Mr. John Sykes and Mr. Joseph|Levick

proposed Mr. Parker ; Mr. Wm. Ibbotson and Mr. Edw. Vickers, Mr. Buckingham ; and Mr. Wm. Fisher and Mr. Dunn, Mr. S. Bailey.

— 9. First day's polling. Returns of the different Committees :

Mr. Parker's— Parker, 725 ; Buckingham, 724 ; Bailey, 645. Mr. Buckingham's— Parker, '726 ; Buckingham, 729 ; Bailey, 650. Mr. Bailey's— Parker, 717 : Buck- ingham, 719 ; Bailey, 645.

— 10. The returns of the three committees concurred in placing

Mr. Parker at the head of the poll ; Mr. Buckingham . second ; and Mr. Bailey third.

— 12. The Master Cutler (John Sansom, Esq.) declared the

result of the poll to be as follows : Mr. Parker, 1607 ; Mr. Buckingham, 1554; Mr. Bailey, 1434. The two Members expressed their thanks ; and Mr. Bailey, for the first time during the election, addressed the elec- tors.

— 13. Meeting at the TowH-Hall, to promote the erection of a

Mechanics' Hall. Resolved, that the capital be ^£10,000, in shares of 25s. each.

— 14. Formation of the Attercliffe Horticultural Society.

— 17. Lord Morjjeth and Sir Geo. Strickland re-elected' for the

West-Riding without opposition.

274 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1835.

Jan. 20. Decease of Mr. Nicholas Timm, aged 74.

— 21. Dinner at the Tontine, to John Parker, Esq., M.P.— B.

Saj^le, Esq., in the chair.

— 26. Riot in Eyre-street, and destruction of the Medical School

by the mob.

— 29. Wm. Taylor, of Ecclesfield, committed to York, to take

his trial for the murder of Hannah Tingle.

— 30. Meeting of the Sheffield Banking Company. Dividend of

10 per cent, declared. Feb. 10. W, J. Bagshawe, Esq., dangerously hurt by the fall of his horse, at the top of Derbyshire-lane.

— 13. Decease of Mr. Henry Greaves, of the firm of Greaves

and Newton, Portobello Works.

— 20. The news reached Sheffield, by the Sun Express, that on

the previous evening, Mr. Abercromby had been elected Speaker by a majority over Sir C. M. Sutton, of 316 to 306.

. Death of Mr. John Watson, aged 66, late of the firm of

Watson, Pass, and Co., silver platers.

— 23. Decease of G. Bustard Greaves, Esq., in the 76th j'ear

of his age.

— 27. News of the defeat of Ministers, on the address, by a ma-

jority of 309 to 302, reached the town by the Sun's Express. Mar.W, Lord Morpeth obtained leave to bring in a bill for the formation of a Railway from Sheffield to Rotherham.

— 19. Private Meeting for the formation of a Tory Association,

held in the Police Commissioners' Room.

— 23. Reform Committee formed to watch the movements of the

Tories, and attend to the registration.

— 25. Public Meeting at the Town Hall, when a petition in fa-

vour of the Sheffield and Rotherham Railway was agreed to ; the Duke of Norfolk having intimated that he should oppose it.

— 26. Intermediate Sessions opened at the Town-Hall.

April New Overseers : — Sheffield : Messrs. James Crosland, 1. James Fox, Thos. Laycock, and George Curr. Eccle- sall Bierlow : Messrs. Marsden, Chas. Brownell, John Ward, and Henry Furniss. Brightside : Messrs. W. B. Naylor, JamesLinley, and Joseph France. Nether Hal- lam : Messrs. Z. Dyson, and Charles Peace. Upper Hallam : Messrs. S. Green and JohnHoyland. Atter- cliffe-cum-Darnall : Messrs. Samuel Jackson and John Greaves.

— 2. John Unwin committed to York to take his trial for the

manslaughter of Wm. Simonite.

— 3. News arrived by the Sun Express, of the defeat of Mi-

nisters on Lord John Russell's Appropriation resolu- tions, by 322 to 289.

— 4. William Allott tried and found guilty of the murder of

Martha Hardwick, of Upper Heeley.

— 6. Allott executed at Y'ork for the above murder.

— 7. Thos. Staniforth and James Ogden were tried on a charge

of being concerned in the destruction of the Medical School, in Eyre-street, and acquitted.

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 275

1835.

Aprils. Resolution of the Police Commissioners in favour of the New Gas Company.

— 9. The Sun Express brought the news of Sir R. Peel's resig-

nation. ' Wm. Taylor tried for the murder of Hannah Tingle, at

Ecclesfield, and acquitted.

— 10. Decease of Mr. W. Thompson, bookseller, aged 56. . Sir R. Peel communicated to James Montgomery, Esq.,

that he had recommended the King to confer on him a pension of £150 a-year. . The workshop of Mr. By water, firework maker. Infir- mary-lane, destroyed by an accidental explosion. Mr. Bywater and his assistant escaped.

— 11. The Sheffield Conservative Committee issued a declara-

tion of its objects.

— 14. Annual Meeting of the Water Company. Adividendof4

per cent, declared.

— 20. Public Meeting at the Town-Hall resolved to petition in

favour of the New Gas Company's Bill.

. Lord Morpeth addressed the electors of the West-Riding,

having vacated his seat by accepting the office of Secre- tary for Ireland, under Lord Melbourne's Ministry.

. Meeting at the Tontine, to promote Lord Morpeth's re- election.

— 23. At the call of a meeting held at Wakefield, the Hon. J. S.

Wortley declared himself a candidate for the represen- tation of the West-Riding.

— 26. Decease of Richard Greaves, Esq., Sheaf Works.

— 27. Lord Morpeth addressed the electors in Sheffield.

— 29. First exhibition for the year of the Sheffield Horticultural

Society. May 5. The Hon. J. S. Wortley addressed the electors in Shef- field.

— 6. Nomination day at Wakefield. Lord Morpeth proposed

by Lord Milton, and Gervase Walker, Esq; and Mr. Wortley by the Hon. William Lascelles and Matthew Thompson, Esq.

— 11. First polling day. Sheffield district: Morpeth, 587;

Wortley, 358.

— 12. Second day. Morpeth, 723 ; Wortley, 452.

. Opening of Mount Zion Chapel, (Independent,) West- field Terrace.

— 14. Declaration day at Wakefield. Morpeth, 9066 ; Wort-

ley, 6259 ; majority, 2807. In Sheffield district : re- gistered voters, 1391 ; Morpeth, 716 ; Wortley, 455.

— 18. Decease of Mr. Francis Fenton, Surveyor of Police, se-

nior Church Burgess, and formerly Lieut. -Colonel of the Sheffield Local Militia, in the 80th year of his age.

— 23. In consequence of an error in casting up one of the poll-

books, Lord Morpeth's majority was erroneously de- clared by the High Sheriff. It was 2815.

— 26. Decease ol Mr. Malin Shepherd, Haymarket, aged 71.

— 27. Dr. Warren addressed a numerous meeting in South

street Chapel, on the subject of abuses in the Wesley an Connexion.

Vl/h SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1835.

May 2^. Decease of Mr. Geo. Woolhouse, of the finu of Kenyon,

Frith, and Woolhouse, aged 76. June 4. Decease of Mr. W. Burgon, of the firm of Burgon and

C'aduians.

— 10. Meeting at the Town-Hall, to establish a Reform Re-

gisiration Association. B. Sayle, Esq., President. . Edward Smith committed to take his trial for the man- slaughter of Ann Crookes, by a blow of his fist.

— 11. Treinendous thunder-storm,: in which the steeple of the

Parish Church was perforated by the electric fluid. Se- veral other buildings in the town were struck, but no person severely injured.

— 22. Meeting of the New Gas Company, at the Town-Hall,

when it was resolved not to accede to the proposal of the Old Company, sanctioned by the Committee of the House of Commons, to negotiate a union of the two Companies.

— 28. Decease of Mr. W. Stanifortli, surgeon, aged 47.

Jiilu 1. Annual Meeting of the Governors of the Dispensary. Number of patients during the year, 261)1 ; discharged cured, 1529 ; dead, 59 ; remaining on the books, 845 ; the rest discharged for various causes. This being the year for a new election of medical officers, Drs. Favell, M'Dowall, and Harwood ; and Messrs. Ray, Thomas, and Gregory, were re-elected.

. Decease of Mr. Wm. Thompson, solicitor, aged 64.

— 13. First Annual Meeting of Shareholders of the Botanic

Gardens; when the Committee reported the progress thfcv had made towards their completion.

— 14. ShelBeld Canal shares sold at £85 each.

— 20. Foundation stone of the new Primitive Methodist Cha-

pel, in Coalpit lane, laid by John Wilson, Esq.

— 22. Edward Smith, tried at York, and found |guilty of the

manslaughter of Ann Crookes — three months' impri- sonment.

— 22. .John Unwin found guilty of the manslaughter of Wm.

Simonite— six months' imprisonment.

— 24. Decease of Richard Stanley, Esq., aged 68.

— 25. Police Commissioners' accounts published. Income for

the past year, £5088; Expenditure, £4659.

— 27. Sheffield and Rotherham Railway Bill lost in the Com-

mittee of the House of Lords.

— 29. Commencement of the sittings of the Wesleyan Confer-

ence at Sheffield ; the Rev. R. Reece elected president.

— , 30. The Sheffield New Gas Bill, after having encountered a strong opposition from the Old Company, in both Houses, received the Royal Assent.

- — . A number of Delegates from various Societies in the Wes- leyan Connexion, met in Surrey street chapel, and addressed a memorial to Conference.

. Mr. Henry Thomas elected Surgeon to the Infirmary,

in the room of the late Mr. Stanifortli.

. First -Annual Meetingof the Sheffield Temperance Society,

and resolution to connect it, as an auxiliary, with the British and Foreign Temrcranre Society.

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. it i

1835.

^ug. 1. Dr. Warren expelled the Wesleyan Society by the vote of Conference.

— 3. Messrs. M. Coxon, Charles Peace, Henry Doncaster, Wm.

Ibbotson, and Anthony Whitaker, elected Commis- sioners of the Police, to fill up vacancies.

. Decease of Mr. Chas. Hodgson, of the firm of Hodgson

and Son, in the Ponds.

— I). The workshops and wood, in the yard of iVIr. Lomas,

joiner, Fitzwilliani-street, destroyed by fire.

— 10. Meeting at the Town-Hall to petition Parliament in fa-

vour of the Corporation Reform Bill.

— 14. First Meeting of the New Gas Company held under their

Act. Mr. Sykes in the chair. . Decease of Mr. Saml. Lucas, formerly of the Mills.

— 18. Sittings of Conference closed. The Rev. Mr. Grindrod

appointed superintendent of the Sheffield West Circuit, and the Rev. Mr. Treffry of the East.

— 19. Special Meeting of the Governors of the Dispensary, when

Mr. Walker was elected surgeon-accoucheur, and Mr. .T. F. Wright surgeon, vice Mr. Thomas resigned.

— 21. The Sheffield General Cemetery Company lield their first

Meeting, and received the report of the Provisional Committee as to the progress made in the work.

— 24. Lecture before the Mechanics' Institute, on the Literature

of Poland, by Mr. Zaba, a Polish exile.

— 25. Wadsley Church consecrated by the Archbishop of York. . The ceremony of Confirmation performed in the Parish

Church.

— 26. Return Cricket Match at Hyde Park, between the Man-

chester and Lead Works Clubs. Lead Works, 1st Innings, 244 runs ; Manchester, 1st and 2nd, 59.

— 27. Adjourned Meeting of the Sheffield Gas Company. No

dividend declared.

— 29. Decease of Mr. M. Dixon, Wicker, silver refiner, aged

80 years. Sept. 1. Decease of Mr. Wm. Ashmore, aged 77, formerly of the Commercial and Tontine Inns.

— 3. Acceleration of the Leeds and London Mail, by which the

whole distance is accomplished in 21 hours ; and letters for the South of England are forwarded immediately after their arrival in London.

Cutlers' Feast. .J.Spencer, Esq., Master ; Messrs. Thus.

Blake and George Wragg, Wardens.

— 7. The Canal Company gave notice of their intention to apply

to Parliament for relief from the burden of maintain- ing the Sheffield and Tinsley road. . New Gig Mail to Bakewell, taking the Manchester bag.

— 8. Yorkshire Grand Musical Festival on this and three fol-

lowing days. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria were present.

— 14. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria arrived

at Wentworth House on a visit.

— 15. Messrs. Cottinghara, Cleasby, Wiangham, and Hildyard,

revised the borough lists.

278 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1835.

Sept. 17. A Deputation from the Corporate bodies of Sheffield had the honour of presenting an address to the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria, at Wentworth House.

■ A Deputation of Gentlemen, from Rotherham, enjoyed a

similar honour.

. Messrs. Cottingham, Cleasby, Wrangham, and Hildyard,

sat on this and the following day, at the Town-Hall, to revise the West-Riding lists.

— 18. Their Royal Highnesses left Wentworth House for Bel-

voir Castle.

— 22. Shares in the Sheffield Water and Banking Companies

sold by auction, at £50 premium. New Gas Snares, £7 premium. Sheffield tire Office Shares sold for £21.103.

— 23. First stone of the Established Church Proprietary School

laid by Lord Wharncliffe. . Last Exhibition for the year, and Anniversary Dinner of

the Sheffield Horticultural Society. Lord Wharncliffe

in the chair. Lord Milton present.

. Decease of Mr. Barton, senior, Wicker, aged 82-

Oct. 2. Quarterly Accounts of the Overseers made up under the

new Act. Reduction of e.xpenditure on out-payments

in the half-year ending Sept. 1835, compared with the

half-year ending Sept. 18:34, £955. . Charles Batty committed to York, charged with cutting

and maiming Elizabeth Brown.

— 3. Publication of Highway Accounts. Receipts, £9,237 ;

Payments, £8,811.

— 4. DeceaseoftheRev. T.Fisher, Catholic Priest, aged 29.

— 5. Public Meeting, at which it was resolved to raise a sub-

scription for building a Church in the Park.

. Messrs. Joseph Rodgers and Sons voluntarily raised the

wages of their spring-knife cutlers, by restoring the allowance of Id. in the shilling as hie money.

— 6. Highway Surveyors. Sheffield : Messrs. Willey, Hor-

rabin, T. Turner, and C. Peace. Ecclesall, (Upper :) Messrs. Garlitt and Waterfall ; (Nether,) Messrs. S. Newbould and W. Ashall. Brightside : Messrs. T. Blake, W. Hoole;, and J. Wigglesworlh. Nether Hal ■ iam : Mr. Taylor, Mr. John Greaves; Heeley Divi- sion: Messrs. T.Bradbury and W. Roper. Attercliffe : Messrs. W. Marriott and Geo. Dawson. Upper Hallam : Messrs. \V. Howe and Thomas Andrews.

— 7. North Midland Railway. ]Meeting at the Tontine passed

resolutions favourable to the undertaking, and ap- pointed a Sheffield Committee.

Anniversary Meeting and Dinner of the Infirmary. Dr.

Younge in the chair.

. Decease of Mr. W. Holland, Castle Inn.

— 9. George Crookes, police sergeant, bound over to the Ses-

sions, on a charge of assaulting Charles Ramskar.

— 10. Halley's Comet visible to the naked eye.

— 12. Decease of Mr. J. Marshall, West-street, aged 83.

— 17. Publication of the Town Trustees' Accounts, from May

I

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 279

1835.

V^?t'J° ***y ^^^^ 5 receipts, £2,651 ; expenditure,

£l,ooO. Oct. 18. Decease of Mr. F. Morton, aged 57. ~ o?" B^^^^^e °^ ^^'■- •^°^'^ Holmes, plasterer, aged 57.

— 21. Meeting of the Shareholders of the Sheffield andRother-

ham Railway ; resolved to renew their application to Parliament for an Act.

— 29. Letter of his Grace the Duke of Norfolk, consenting to

.eranta site for a Church and Cemetery in the Park.

— 30. Kiver Dun Company gave notice of an application to

o ,/ »*Viament for an Act to improve their navigation.

I^ov. 3. Meeting at the Town- Hall, to establish a Church Refor- mation Society.

The following Gentlemen elected Commissioners for the

Court of Requests of Sheffield and Ecclesall : Messrs. Henry Atkinson, Howard-street, merchant; William Ashall, Little Sheffield, gentleman ; Joseph Atkinson, Angel-street, draper; Joseph Barker, Angel-street, grocer ;^ John Preston Cutts, Division street, optician ; John Cadman, Brammall-lane, gentleman ; Micah Gould, Fargate, flax-dresser; Wm. Keeton Gregory, Carver-street, silver plater; William Hall, Porter- street, file manufacturer ; Chas. Hoole, Castle-street, grocer ; John Hall, Sheffield Park, grocer; William Hutchinson, Sheffield Moor, coach-builder; Samuel Jackson, Saville Works, merchant; John Ryder, near Broom-hall, gentleman ; Robert Waterhouse, West- bar, confectioner ; Henry Wilkinson, Norfolk-street. silver plater; Geo. Walker, Snighill, grocer; Joseph Ward, Cherry-tree-hill, gentleman.

— 4. G. Cutts committed to York, charged with the wilful

murder of Mary Ann Swinden.

— 6. Decease of the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Milton, M.P.,

for North Northamptonshire ; born 18th Jan. 1812, and married to Lady Selina Jenkinson, on the 15th August, 1833.

— 18. Special Meeting of the Governors of the Infirmary re-

solved to give a portion oflandforthe widening of Ud- perthorpe lane. "^

— 21. Enlargement of the Sheffield Independent, by the addition

of one-fifth more letter-press.

— 22. Suicide of John Hodgkinson, by shooting himself in

Ecclesall Wood. The Coroner's Jury returned a ver- dict 01 felo-de-se.

— 23. Decease of Mr. John Shuttleworth, of Cannon Hall, aged

. In the case of a summons for wages, Ardron v. Wosten-

holm, the Magistrates, after hearing evidence at great length to ascertain what was the " town's price " de- cided that the aver.<ige wages for making three-blade dagger knives, were 8s. 9d. per dozen of 12.

— 24. Decease of Mr. James Greenwood, bailiflt of Ecclesall

Court of Requests, aged 56.

— 23. Prospectus of a Railway, from Sheffield to Manchester.

issued. '

£0» SHEFFIET.D LOCAL REGISTER.

1835.

Nov. 23. Three shares in the Sheffield Old Gas Company sold for ClOO.

— 28. The supply of cheese at the fair was about 300 tons. Dec. 2. Goaiarittee appointed by a Meeting held at (Tudor-place,

to promote the circulation of the publications of the London Peace .Society, on the Evils of War.

— 7. First Subscription Concert for the season.

— 8. The amount of deposits received at the fSavings' Bank,

on this and the previous day, was £1,32", being a larger sum than was ever before paid in one week.

— 10. Tory Dinner, at the Music-Hall ; Henry Walker, Esq.,

in the chair. Present, Lord Wharncliffe and the Hon. John S. Wortley.

— 14. Savings' Bank. Annual meeting. The sum deposited in

the year ending Nov. 20, was £33,119. 16s. 5d. ; paid out within the same year, £21,685. 8s. lid. Charge, 148,166. 7s. 5jd ; discharge, £22,071. 12s. 8d. Balance, £126,094. 14s, 9jd. Depositors of less sums than £20, 2071 ; from j^20 to £50, 1223 ; from £50 to £100, 511 ; from £100 to £150,143; from £150 to £200, 60; above £200, 12. Rate of annual interest allowed, £3. 6s. 8d. per cent. — — . Special Meeting of the Police Commissiorers confirmed the resolution of a previous meeting, at which it was resolved to adopt the lecommendation of the Watch Committee, not to suspend Crookes and Sanderson till they should have been tried on the indictment pre- ferred against them by Charles Ramskar, and that they should be defended at the public expense.

— 17. Meeting at the Cutlers' Hall passed a vote of thanks to his

Grace the Duke of Norfolk, for his munificent grant of three acres of land, in the Park, for the site and ceme- tery of the proposed new Church.

— 18. Foundation stone of the New Gas Works laid.

— 19. Three boxes, charged with gunpowder, and pull crackers

to explode the powder, brought from Chesterfield, by the Birmingham mail, addressed to Mr. Miller, and Mr. Rose, Fargate, and to Mr. Hobson, Snighill, deal- ers in cutlery. . Decease of Mr. George Glossop, aged 69.

— 21. Mr. Feargus O'Connor visited Sheffield, as the missionary

of a Radical Association in London.

— 22. Mr. Benjamin Rose, Fargate. brought before the Ma-

gistrates on suspicion of being concerned in sending the boxes charged with gunpowder, mentioned above.

— 29. — Mr. Rose committed to York on the above charge. The Coroners' Jury, on the body of Wm. Ball, found a

verdict of Manslaughter against Thomas Moulson. The Coroner's warrant issued for his apprehension, he hav- ing absconded.

LEADER, PRINTER, INDEPENDENT OFFICE, SHEFFIELD.

CONTINUATION

OF THE

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1836.

Jan. 1. Annual Meeting of the Literary and Philosophical So> ciety. President, Dr. Harwood ; Vice-Presidents, Dr. Knight, Mr. Bailey, Dr. Favell, & Mr. Montgomery.

— 2. Prospectus of Railway from Sheffield to Goole aud Hull.

Capital, £400,(;00.

— 4, Meeting at the Cutlers' Hall: (Lord Wharncliffe in the

chair,) passed resolutions in favour of a Railway from Sheffield to Manchester.

— 6. John Coe committed to York on the verdict of the

Coroner's Jury, for the manslaughter of John Fairest, of Oughtibridge. . Decease of Mr. John Laycock, aged 81.

— 9. Lady Viscount Milton (widow of the late Lord Milton)

delivered of a daughter.

— 11. Meeting at Cutlers' Hall : resolved to employ Mr. Lea-

ther, of Leeds, engineer, to ascertain if the line of the North Midland Railway could not be brought through Sheffield

— 13. Decease of Mr. Benj. Micklethwaite, aged 50.

— 25. Explosion of gas in the office of the Sheffield Gas Com-

pany.

. Appointment of Mr. Leather to revise the line of the

North Midland, with a view to the interests of Shei- field, adopted by the Directors, in London.

— 26. Death of Joseph Haywood, of Sheffield, against whom

a criminal information had been filed, for accusing Col. Fairman of treasonable practises in the Orange Lodges.

— 29. Sheffield Banking Company : Annual Meeting. Messrs.

John Read and Jon. Marshall re-elected Directors, and a dividend of 8 per cent, declared.

Feb. \. Strike of the Filemakers against several of the manufac- turers for an advance of wages; in consequence of which, almost all the other file-masters in the town turned out their men and closed their works,

. Mr. Buckingham addressed his constituents in the Music

Hall.

— 2. Social Meeting of the friends of the Mechanics' Insti-

tute, held in the Music Hall.

— 4. Opening of the Session of Parliament. The address se-

conded by J. Parker, Esq., M.P.

— 5. Decease of Mr. Thomas Sansom, (Sansom & Sons.) in

his 81st year.

— 8. Discounts in the price of edge tools reduced 10 per

cent., in consequence of the advance ou materials.

282 SHEFFIELD LOCAL UKGISTER.

1836.

Feb. 10. Meeting of Subscribers to the Mechanics' Hall : re- solved upon a site in North Church-street

13. Sheffield petition in favour of Mr. Buckingham's claims

signed by about 3,400 persons.

— 18. Meeting at Cutlers' Hall: entered into a subscriptioa

for the relief of the Irish Clergy.

— 21. The Rev. R. S. Bayley, F.S.A.i assumed the pastoral

office at Howard-street Independent;, Chapel.

— 23. Mr. Leather made his report'to the Committee appointed

Jan. 11, and a resolution was passed, that the North

Midland Railway might be brought by a good line

near Sheffield, w'iiliout detriment to the general un-

dertaking. 24. Meeting of Licensed Victuallers, to petition Parliament

for relief from the grievances affecting the trade. 29. Public Meeting at the Town Hall, in consequence of the

rejection of Mr. Buckingham's Compensation Bill.

Resolved to open a subscription to purchase him an

annuity. Mar. 5. Charles Batty tried at York, for cutting and wounding

Elizabeth Brown, at Sheffield, with intent to murder.

Found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged.

— 8. George Cutts indicted at York^ for the manslaughter of

Marv Ann Swinden, at Sheffield. Found Not Guilty. 9. Robert Ridge found Not Guilty of feloniously cutting and stabbing George Hawksworth, at Ecclestield.

. John Coe found Not Guilty of the manslaughter of John

Fairest, at Oiightibridge.

— 10. Benjamin Rose, of Shellield, tried at York, for sending

.1 box, ^charged with gunpowder, to David Miller, of Sheffield, and found Not Guilty.

14. Meeting at the Town-Hall, to petition in favour of the

Sheffield and Rotherham Railway.

~- 17, Ratepayers of Ecclesall Bierlow resolve to appoint a Hitjhwav Board, consisting of nine persons, under 5 & G William IV., c. 50.

. Public Meeting at the Town-Hall, called to receive the

report of the. Committee appointed Jan. 11 ; refused to sanction any opposition to Mr. Stephenson's line of the North Midland, and piefcired it to Mr. Lea- ther's. Mr. Stephenson attended the meeting, to de^ fend his line.

21. Meeting at the Cutlers' Hall, of persons favourable to

the North Midland Railway passing through Sheffield. Committee appointed, and subscriptions opened, to op- pose Stephenson's line.

— 23. Decease cf Mr. Wm. Wood, aged 92, the oldest free-

man of the Corporation of cutlers.

— 25. The townships of Sheffield, Ecclesiill, and Brightside,

ajipointed Highway Boards, under the 6th and Gth Wm. IV. cap. 50.

. James Mason convicted at the Sheffield Intermediate

Sessions, of a libel on Mr. T. T. ^■ickers. To enter

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into recognizances to aiJiieav for judgment when called

upon. Mar.2(j. Sheffield petitions, for the postponement of the North

Midland, sent up for presentation, with about 3,500

signatures. - 29. Messrs. W. Marshall, John Booth, John Gaunt, & Wm.

Stacey, appointed Overseers of the Poor. April 4. Messrs. Joseph Rodgers and Sons voluntarily give their

spring-knife cutlers 2s. 6d. in the pound file-money,

being an advance of about 4 per cent, on their wages. — — — . Decease of Mr. John Stacey, merchant, aged 43.

G. Meeting of Subscribers to the opposition to Stephenson's

line of the North Midland. About £5,000 subscribed.

— 9. Waterworks' Company. Dividend of 4| per cent.

declared.

— 11. George Crookes, police sergeant, and Thomas Sander-

son, watchman, indicted at Pontefract Sessions for an assault on Charles Kamskar, and acquitted.

— 14. Termination of the strike in the file trade ; the masters

agreeing to an advance of wages, and the men to the taking of more apprentices.

— 15. Second reading of the Sheffield and Tinsley Road Bill,

lost by a majority of 54 to 18.

— IG. Publication of Highway Accounts for ] 835-6. Expen-

diture, about £5,400.

. Prospectus of the Sheffield and Hallam.shire Bank. Ca- pital, £000,000 ; afterwards increased to one million, in £20 shares.

. Churchwardens for the ensuing "year : — For the Parish

Church, Mr. Joseph Wallis and Mr. Geo. ;Houlden ; St. Paul's, Mr. J. G. Wightman & Mr. Alfred Green; St. James's, Mr. George Wragg and Mr. John Shep- herd; St. George's, Mr. John Hawksworth and Mr. William Butcher. St. Philip's, Mr. J. K. Straw and Mr. Charles Elliott. St. Mary's, Mr. Samuel Cocker and Mr. Fawcett; Attercliife, Mr. H. Sorby.

— 23. Prospectus of a Sheffield Joint Stock Brewery Com-

pany. Capital, £100,000; shares, £10 each.

. Publication of the Sheffield Overseers' Accounts. E.x-

penditure reduced from £16,079, in 18.34-5, to £11,438, in 1835-6. Ecclesall expenditure, £3874.

— 30. Prospectus of a Sheffield Joint Stock Coal Company.

Capital, £200,000 ; in £20 shares.

. Prospectus of the Sheffield and Rotherham Joint Stock

Coal and Coke Company. Capital, £200,000; in £25 shares.

May 7. Prospectus to form a Company, to purchase the bank.s of Messrs. Walkers and Stanley, under the name of the Sheffield and Rotherham Joint Stock Banking Company. Capital, £600,000; in £25 shares.

— 9. Decease of Mr. Jonathan Oakes, scissor manufacturer,

AtterclifFe bridge, aged 68.

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1836.

May 11. Mary Ann Stacey committed to York, on the Coronet's warrant, for the murder of Elizabeth Marsden.

— 12. Joint Stock Brewery Company dissolved, by resolution

of the subscribers.

— 14 Prospectus of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway

Company. Capital, £800,000; in £100 shares.

15. Annular eclipse of the sun.

18 Special Meeting of Police Commissioners, to consider a

letter of H. Parker, Esq., suggesting— 1st, a Munici- pal Corporation ; 2nd, a Stipendiary Magistrate ; or 3rd, an increase of the West-Riding Magistrates, for the better administration of justice in the town. The subject referred to a Committee of Enquiry.

21. Amount of capital subscribed to the Sheffield and Man- chester Railway, announced to exceed, by £30U,000, the sum required.

23. Opening of the Sheffield and HallamshireBank, (Harts- head.)

28. Sheffield and Manchester Railway. Subscriptions ex- ceed estimates by £600,000. In another week, the subscriptions amounted to near £2,000,000.

30. Meeting at the Town-Hall: passed resohitions in favour

of the passing of the North Midland Railway Bill.

June 1. Mary Ann Stacey, waiting her trial for the murder of Elizabeth Marsden, committed suicide in York Castle.

6. New Mail established from Halifax, via Sheffield, to

London.

13. First annual meeting of the Sheffield Reform Associ- ation.

— 16. Decease of Mr. Wm. Evatt, dentist, aged 70.

18. Announcement that the opposition of Sheffield to the

North Midland 'Bill had been withdrawn, on terms favourable to the town.

— 20. Spring-Knife trade : Messrs. Joseph Rodgers and Sons

increase the allowance of file-money to 3s. Id. in the pound. . Sheffield Baths : opening of one of the swimming baths.

— 25. Prospectus for connecting the North Midland and Shef-

field and Rotherham Railways, with Doncaster, Goole, and the H umber. Capital, £350,000 ; in £50 shares.

— 29. Botanical Gardens opened. . Special Meeting of Police Commissioners to receive

the report of the Committee appointed 18th May. The recommendation was, that the increase of the West-Riding Magistrates was the best plan fur present adoption, and it was carried by a large majority. July I. The Sheffield and Rotherham Banks, of Messrs. Walkers and Stanley, opened as Joint Stock Banks. . ■ . New Magistrates inserted in the Commission of the Peace for the West-Riding — Henry Greaves. Esq. Offley Shore, Esq.; Samuel Bailey, Esq.; William Younge, Esq., M.D. ; A. J. Knight, Esq., M.D. ; Chas. Brownell, Esq.; Samuel Roberts, jun., Esq.; T A*

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1836.

Ward, Esq.;B. B. P. Burn ell, Esq; John Milner Esq. ; Michael Ellison, Esq. ; William Weldon, Esq - B. Hounsfield, Esq.; and the Rev. John Hand July 2. Brewers and Licensed Victuallers.- In the Sheffield col- lection there are, at present, three public brewers 1,117 victuallers, 751 licensed sellers of beer to be drunk on the premises, and .30 beer sellers, whose license does not permit the beer to be drunk on the premises where it is obtained. The brewers con- sumed last year 176,277 bushels of malt ; 895 vic- tuallers, who brew their own beer, consumed 289 436 bushels; and 281 keepers of beer shops of the first class, who brewed their own beer, consumed 42,551 bushels. The total quantity of malt consumed by the three classes was, therefore, 508,264 bushels. None of the last-mentioned class of beer sellers brewed their own beer.

— 4. Royal Assent given, by Commission, to the North

Midland and Sheffield and Rotherham Railway Bills

— 14. Decease of the Rev. J. W. H. Pritchard, minister of

Zion Chapel, Attercliffe, aged 32 years.

— 17. Decease of Mr. George Kitchen, of the firm of Kitchen

and Walker, silver-platers, aged 66.'

— 18. Coroner's jury returned a verdict of Manslaughter

against Mr. Spilling, surgeon, of Ecclesfield, on ac- count of the death of Isabella Turner, who died under his hands in labour.

— 19. Decease of Mr. Thomas Frith, aged 64, a proficient bass,

vocalist,

— 23. Publication of Accounts of the Police Commissioners

Receipts, £5,371; payments, £4,997.

. Prospectus of the Sheffield and Midland Railway-

capital, £900,000. ^ '

— 28. Meeting at the Cutlers' Hall, to form a Society for Pro-

moting the Observance of the Sabbath.

— 30. Opening of the Sheffield Cemetery announced ; the Rev W. T. Kidd, Registrar.

. Inquest at the Town Hall, on the body of Robt. Marshall

turnkey of Scotland-street Gaol, and a verdict of Wilful Murder returned against Wm. Newsome, who had caused jhis death, by knocking him down Aug. ]. Sheffield'CoUegiate School opened.

. Messrs. Edward Vickers, Samuel Jackson, and Edward

Bramley, elected Police Commissioners. 2. Rules framed by the Stewards and Deputy Stewards of the Courts of Requests, to prohibit the introduction of intoxicating liquours, and any work that might cause noise, dirt, &c. in the gaols. 6. The names of Samuel Hadfield, Esq., and Joseph Levick, jun., Esq., added to the Commission of the Peace. — ■ T- A Ward, Esq., appointed Secretary of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway.

286 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1836.

Aug. 8. Thomas Green committed to York, under a verdict of Manslaughter, returned by the Coroner's Jury, on the body of Abraham Gill.

9. First General Meeting, under the Act, of (he Sheffield

and Rotherham Railway Company.

12. Meeting of the Electors, in front of the Tontine, when

John Parker, Esq., announced, that he had been ap- pointed one of the Lords Commissioners of the Trea- sury, and solicited a renewalof their suffrages.|Resolved, that this Meeting highly approves of the conduct of Mr. Parker, in accepting the above-mentioned office, and of his general conduct in Parliament, and therefore pledges itself to use every exertion to promote his re-election, feeling convinced that the present unexampled prospe- rity of°the country is materially dependant upon the sta- bility & continuance of Lord Melbourne's Government.

. Decease of Wm. Ibbitt, aged 75, one of the oldest sil- versmiths in the town.

— 15. Officers of the Cutlers' Company for the ensuing year.

Master, Thomas Blake, Esq. Wardens,Mr. G. Wragg. and Mr. ThomasDeakin. Searchers, Messrs. Richard Jessop, John Greaves, Samuel Parker, Samuel Smith, James Moorhouse, and Thomas Wilkinson. Assistants, Messrs. John Spencer, John Sansom, Thomas Shep- herd, Thomas Ellin, Samuel Hadfield, Thomas Stani- forth, Wm. Nowell, Wm. Broadhurst, Samuel Saynor, Joseph Hobson, Thomas Loxley, Thos. Turton, Win, H. Jackson, Samuel Marshall, Geo. Shortland, John Bland, Geo. Johnson, Jph. Bramall, Ralph Bateman, Thos. Makin, Chas. Carr,Wm. Willey,Wm. Holmes, and John Skelton.

19. Election. — John Parker, Esq., proposed by Dr. Knight,

and seconded by Wm. Ibbotson, Esq. Mr. John Bell, proposed by Mr. James Levick, and seconded by Mr. Richard Sorsby. Show of hands in favour of Mr. Bell, and poll demanded.

20. Polling booths kept open during the day. Several hun- dred electors voted for Mr. Parker, but not one for Mr. Bell, who had resigned. Public Dinner given to Mr. Parker in the evening.

— 22. John Parker, Esq., declared duly elected for the Bo-

rough ; 414 votes having been recorded for him, and none for Mr. Bell.

— 27. Deposits at the Savings' Bank during the week, amounted

to £1,100.

— 29. Match between the Yorkshire and Norfolk Cricket-

Clubs, at Hyde Park. Yorkshire, first innings, GO; se- cond, 88. Norfolk,|first innings, 73; second, 76. Ma- jority for Norfolk, one, and one wicket to go down.

. Mr. Buckingham addressed his constituents at the Music

Hall.

— 30, Piece of Plate presented to the Rev. P. Bowen, M.A.,

head Master of the Sheffield Grammar School, by hi* pupils.

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1836.

7.31. The Rev. W. B. Lanclells ordained Minister of Mount Zicn Chapel. Soiree to Mr. Buckingham, at the Music Hall.

Sept. 1. Cutlers' Feast. Lord Howard of Effingham ; Lord Wharnclifife, the Earl of Surrey, the West-Riding and Borough Members, \V. B. Wrightson, Esq., M. P., J. W. Childers, Esq., M.P., and the Hon. John S. Wortley, the principal guests.

— 5. Day Police established.

— 14. Grand Exhibition of Flowers, Fruits, and Vegetables,

at the Botanical Gardens.

— 15. Prizes distributed by Lord Wharncliffe, and Public

Dinner at the Tontine.

— 20. Meeting at the Cutlers' Hall, passed resolutions in favour

of obtaining an Act to make two new streets.

— 23. Public opening of the Collegiate School ; Lord Wharn-

cliffe in the Chair.

— 28. First Stone of the Church of St. John the Evangelist

laid by Lord Howard of Effingham. The cost, £3,440, raised by voluntary subscription, and the site given by the Duke of Norfolk.

— 30. Decease of Mr. John Leaf, painter, aged 83.

Oct. 10. Meeting of Legal Gentlemen, resolved to establish a Law Library.

— 12. Lecture by Mr. Wm. Ibbotson, on the Corn Laws. . Thirty-ninth Anniversary of the Infirmary.

— 15. Prospectus of the Tilt and Rolling Mill Company ; capi-

tal, £.30,000; shares, £100 each.

— 27. Ordination of the Rev. J. A. Miller, as Copastor of

Queen-street Chapel.

— 31. Meeting at the Cutlers' Hall; resolved in favour of a

Union Railway, from Sheffield to the North Midland, at Woodhouse Mill; capital, £150,000, in shares of £50 each.

. Decease of Mr. Francis Sykes, Highfield, aged 84.

Nov. 1. Decease of Samuel Shore, Esq., of Norton Hall, aged 75. His memory will be cherished with grateful re- collection by those who were most intimately acquaint- ed with him, and by his numeious tenants and depen- dants, to whom he was known as a gentleman of strict integritj-, of universal kindness, and of liberal indul- gence. His retired habits, and unconquerable modesty, kept him from taking the public station, for which his rank, and especially his talents and attainments, qua- lified him. He was an accurate and profound thinker, well read in history and general literature, and possessed large and comprehensive powers of mind. Though he had arrived at an advanced period of life, yet, in the year 1832, Mr. Shore served the office of High Sheriff for the county of Derby. As a politician, he was a decided Whig, in the true sense of that term, appre- hending no evil in great political changes, when in accordance with the spirit of the British Constitution, and when in themselves necessary and beneficial.

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1836.

Nov. 6. The Northern and Central (Branch) Bank entered by

thieves, but no booty obtained. Much embarrassment in the Money Market, owing to the

contraction of the currency, to correct the exchanges.

Funds down, and Exchequer Bills at a discount. __ 8 Provisions rising in price. Wheat in to-day's market

rose 6s. per quarter. Sheffield average, 63s. 8d.

15 Sheffield average price of Wheat, 67s. 9d.

_ 19" Interest on Exchequer Bills raised to 23d. per cent.

per day, in order to relieve the Money Market. _ 21. Revision of the West-Riding lists of Voters, for the

Sheffield district. _ 22. Sheffield average price of Wheat, 66s ^,, ^ ^ Decease of Mr. Samuel Moore, aged 57, of the Town- head Brewery. , , , t^ -.r

— 23. Meeting at the Cutlers' Hall : resolved, that Dr. Younge

should be invited to a public dinner, and to allow his portrait to be painted, (by subscription,) in compliment " for his valuable services to this town and neighbour- hood, during a period of half a century."

— 23. Revision of the Borough Lists.

_ 26 Decease of Mr. Jph. Slater, Rockingham street, aged 66. _ 29* Joseph Farmer, butcher, Fargate, committed to York,

charged with the wilful murder of Joseph Wilks, his

step-son.

Sheffield average price of Wheat, 609. 7d. . „, «

, A hurricane of wind did immense injury south of bhet-

field, but was not violent here. Dec. 2. Northern and Central Bank obtained f ^il'^"" f"-";^

the Bank of England, to the extent of £500,L00, to

avert a stoppage.

— 6. Sheffield average price of Wheat, 64s. 5d.

— 7. Subscription Concerts. Principal vocalists, Mrs. Wood,

Mr Phillips, and Mr. Pearsall.

Police Commissioners appointed a Committee, to consider

the propriety of applying for an amended Act.

_ 11. Decease of Mr. Edwin Moulson, aged 36, of the farm of Moulson Brothers. . , ■ .l

_ 12. Savings' Bank. Annual Meeting. Deposits during the year £41,641. Payments to depositors, £24,997. Total number of depositors, 4791, and 36 Friendly So- cieties. Total amount of deposits, £147,136.

— 20. Sheffield average price of Wheat, 62s. 6d.

_ 22 Public Dinner to Dr. Younge, at the Cutlers HaU. Lord Wharncliffe in the chair.

-^ 24. Northern and Central Bank obtain another loan ol £500,000, from the Bank of England.

. Commencement of a snow-storm. The snow was so

heavy and drifted so much, that most of the roads were choked up, and the coaches for several days were unable to travel. , , 1

_ 26. Most of the shops closed to aflford the shopkeepers a holiday in lieu of Christmas day, which fell on Sunday.

— 27. Decease of Thomas Sanderson, Esq., merchant, aged b£.

— 28. Decease of Mr. Thomas Nowell, aged 78.

lEAnPR iniKiE.;. in..v.::m':;-;t -fft, f.. siikffield. .

CONTINUATION

OF THE

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1837.

Jan. 2. Meeting at the Cullers' Hall (J. Montgomery, Esq. in the chair) to consider the wrongs of the Caffres. Ad- dressed by Jan Tzatzoe, a CaflFre chief, and the Rev. James Read, Missionary. Subscription to present the Kat River Missionary Station with a press and print- ing materials.

— 4. The severest snow-storm known for many years, which

commenced on the 24th December, began to break up.

— 5. Anniversary of the Tee-Total Temperance Society.

Number of members, 1420.

— 6. Literary and Philosophical Society : The Rev. J. Black-

burn appointed president ; and Mr. S. Bailey, Rev. H. H. Piper, Mr. Abraham, and Mr. R. Younge, vice- presidents.

. Death of Mr. G. Rawlins, scissor manufacturer, aged 63.

. Pitsmoor Sabbath and Day School opened.

— 8. Paupers in Sheffield "Workhouse, 196; in Town Gaols,

87; Paid, during the week, to out poor, £84. 17s. 6d.

. Decease of Mr. Aaron Allott, in his 78th year. He bequeathed £50 each to the Infirmary, the Dispen- sary, and the Boys' and Girls' Charity Schools.

. Decease of Mr. John Hawksworth, of Attercliffe, pen and pocket knife manufacturer, aged 74.

— 10. Average price of wheat, in Sheffield market, 63s. lOd. . Decease in London of Mr. James Linley, of Sheffield,

merchant, aged 49.

— 14. Bill of mortality for the parish of Sheffield, for 1836,

published, as follows : —

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1837.

BAPTISMS.

BURIALS.

Males.

Fern.

Both.

Males.

Fern.

Both.

Par. Church,

1260

1266

2526

410

401

811

St. Paul's,..

5

3

8

156

145

301

St. James's,.

0

2

2

21

26

47

St. George's.

3

5

8

344

319

663

St. Philip's..

5

7

12

1115

95

210

St. Mary's,..

4

6

10

26

110

236

Attercliffe, .

37

27

64

70

67

137

Ecclesall, ..

15

23

38

81

73

154

Total, ..

\>29

1330

2ms

1323

1236

2559

19.

— 20.

- 24.

Ja«. 16. Public meeting at the Town Hall, to petition for the abolition of church rates ; Thos. Blake, Esq., Master Cutler, in the chair. . Sheffield Public Baths (Glossop road) opened.

Decease of Mr. John Hanson, of the Bay Childers, Bridge street, aged 75. He was a scissorsmith by trade, and made for the show-room of Messrs. Joseph Rodgers and Sons, a dozen perfect and beautiful scis- sors, which do cot all weigh one grain.

Decease of Mr. Wm. Dawson, Solly street, aged 61.

Mechanics' Institute : the Rev. R. S. Bayley com- menced four lectures, on English History.

Meeting of the Sheffield Banking Company. Dividend of 8 per cent, declared.

The influenza prevailing very greatly in Sheffield, and generally throughout the kingdom.

Decease of Rowland Hodgson, Esq., of Highfield, in the 64th year of his age.

Decease of Mr. John Crich, late of the Black Svpan Snighill, aged 67.

Deceaseof Mr. John Woollen, Westbar, aged 61.

Poorhouse Report : 209 paupers on the books ; 70 in the gaols; week's allowance to the out-poor, £79. 4s.

Average price of wheat, in Sheffield market, 60s. 7d.

Meeting of Sheffield and Rotherham Banking Com- pany. Dividend of 15 per cent.

The influenza continues to rage to a fearful extent. It is calculated that in this town there are 15,000 per- sons under medical treatment ; and the number of deaths is about three times the ordinary average.— Independent.

Decease, a few days ago. of Mr. John Swinden,of Di.'ion lane, solicitor, aged 62.

Decease of Mr. Wm. Parker, merchant, aged 53.

Decease of Mr. Matthew Hobson, of South street, Shef- field moor, aged 76.

27.

— 28.

— 29.

— 31. Feb. 1.

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1837. 6. Decease of Mr. Thomas Roebuck, Haymarket, aged 57.

8. Decease of Mr. Thomas Pierson, of Norfolk street, aged

82, formerly an eminent and highly respected book- seller, in King street.

9. Fire on the premises of Messrs. Whitham and Co., Coul-

ston crofts, which did considerable damage. Decease of Mr. Thos. Hawksworth, of AttprclifFe, aged 70.

— 13. Interment of Mr. Wm. Parker, at the Cemetery. The

male members of the church and congregation wor- shipping at Nether Chapel, of which the deceased bore the office of deacon, preceded the body ; the merchants of the town, to the number of more than one hundred, followed the last carriage. It is calculated that not less than 1500 persons were on the ground.

— 14. Publication of a letter from Mr. Buckingham, ;,M. P.,

announcing his intention to resign his seat.

— 15. Meeting of the Reform Association, at which it was re-

solved to convene, by circular, a meeting of the Liberal electors, to decide who should be invited to succeed Mr. Buckingham.

— 16. Meeting of Licensed Victuallers, at the Yellow Lion,

Haymarket, resolved to co-operate with the National Association of Vittuallers, and to subscribe towards its expenses. . Decease of Mr. Wm. Brown, teacher of dancing, aged 42.

— 18. Decease of Mr. Fiaucis Chambers, Sycamore street,

aged 49. He '.vas the first president of the Licensed Victuallers' Friendly Association.

— 19. Meeting of Tories, at the " Operative Conservative News

Room," at which Mr. Thomas Sands, of Liverpool, was talked of as a Tory candidate for the borough. . The works on the Sheffield and Eotherham railway com- menced at Brighlside, where the only considerable cutting on the line occurs.

— 22. Large meeting of electors at the Town Hall; Dr.

Knight in the chair. Mr. Palfreyman stated that Mr. Samuel Bailey had decided not to become a candidate again. Since the meeting on the 15th, communications had been held with the London Re- form Association, with M. D. Hill, Esq , late M.P. for Hull ; and with Col. Torrens, and T. B. Wrightson, Esq., Matthew Talbot Baiiies, Esq., and George Had- field, Esq., of Manchester, had also been mentioned. The committee of the Reform Association had, how- ever, come to the conclusion, that the fittest man was Henry George Ward, Esq., M.P. for St. Albans; and on Mr. Palfreyman proposing to the electors to adopt him, the motion was seconded spontaneously, and carried unanimously. 2'i. Meeting of the subscribers to Dr. Younge's portrait.

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1837. Resolved, that the price be 120 guineas, and Mr. John Moore, of London, the artist. Feb. 23. Decease of Mr. James Millington, saw manufacturer. Isle Works, aged 62.

— 26. Poorhouse Report: Paupers in the house, 194; in

the town gaols, 77; week's payment to the out poor, £88. 12s. 2d.

— 28. Average price of wheat in Sheffield market, 60s. 4d. March 3. A requisition having been forwarded to H. G. Ward,

Esq., to become a candidate for the borough, he replied, accepting the invitation.

. Decease of John iTobson, spring-knife cutler, aged 68.

He worked for Messrs. Thomas Nowell and Son 56 years, and, as a maker of fancy knives, was consi- dered almost unequalled.

— 4. Notice given of an application to Parliament for the Shef-

field Union Railway, to connect the Sheffield and Manchester with the North Midland, at Woodhouse mill.

. Decease of Mr. George West, of Sharrow Moor School,

aged 45.

— 8. True bill found at York, against Mr. Spilling, surgeon,

of Ecclesfield, for the manslaughter of Isabella Turner. Mr. Spilling not having been taken, was not tried.

— 9. Meeting of the inhabitants of Darnall resolved to com-

mence a subscription to erect and endow a church, to contain 300 sittings, (one third free,) and to build a national school.

— 10. Decease of Mr. Dibb, St. James' street, late supervisor

of excise, aged 66.

— 13. Wm. Newsome tried at York for the murder of Robert

Marshall, at Sheffield, in July, 1836. Found guilty of manslaughter. One years' imprisonment.

. Joseph Farmer, tried for the murder of Joseph Wilks,

his step-son, by stabbing him, on the 28lh Nov. 1836. Acquitted, on the ground of insanity.

. Joseph Romasarte, tried for maliciously stabbing Levi

Roebuck, at Sheffield, and found not guilty.

. Thomas Green, acquitted of the manslaughter of .Abra- ham Gill, at ShetKeld, on the 2ad August, 1836.

— 17. Thomas Froggatt, a basket maker, working for Mr.

Moore, Silver street head, murdered by Thos. Wil- liams, a fellow workman. As Froggatt sat at work, Williams cut him across the top of the head with a bill-hook.

— 19. Poorhouse Report: Paupers in the bouse, 179; in the

gaol, 73 ; week's payment to out-poor, .£'85. Is. 9d.

— 20. Mr. Ward addressed at length a crowded meeting, in

the Town Hail. It was resolved (only two or three hands being held up against it) that Mr. Ward was

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1837.

a fit and proper person to represent the town, and that he be returned free of expense. Mar. 21. Mr. Ward addressed the inhabitants of the out-townships, at the CornsExchange.

— 24. Report that Henry Walker, Esq., of Clifton, was to be

the Tory candidate for the borough, in opposition to Mr. H. G. Ward. ■■■ Decease of Mr. Simeon Tingle, land valuer, Loxley. aged 86.

— 25. Election of overseers and surveyors. The townships of

Sheffield and Brightside again elected boards of di- rectors. Ecclesall Bierlow returned to the old plan of having surveyors. Overseers for Sheffield : Messrs. F. Colley, Alfred Broadhead, Richard "Yeomans, and John Timm. Ecclesall Bierlow : Messrs. Thomas Ellin, jun., John Hill, Thomas Smith, and Samuel Smith. Brightside Bierlmv: Mr. Thomas Porter, Mr. Geo. Roebuck, and Mr. John Ragg. Nether Hallam : Messrs. William Warburton and William Egboiough. Upper Hallam : Messrs. George Pitchford and James Ogden. Attercliffe-cum-Darnall : Mr. John P. Shaw and Mr. Joseph Charlesworth.

— 27. Decease at Handsworth, of Mr. Thomas Birtles, builder,

iate of Sheffield, aged 59.

— 28. Average price of corn in Sheffield market, 58s. 5d.

— 29. Meeting of the inhabitants of AtterclifFe-cum-Darnall,

petitioned in favour of the Ministerial plan to abolish church-rates. . First stone of the Wesleyan Proprietary Grammar School,

laid by the Rev. G. Marsden. . New fire-engine and fire-escape ladders, procured by the Sheffield Fire Insurance Company, tried in the Hay- market. — - 30. Decease of Mr. Joseph Hobson, clerk to the Canal Com- pany, aged 70.

— 31. Decease of Mr. Cam, merchant, of Norfolk street. April 2. Decease of Mr. Thomas Milnes, of Bolsterstone, aged 78. -- 5. Public meeting at Cutlers' Hall commenced a subscription

to relieve the distress prevailing in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.

. Thomas Froggatt, wounded on the 17th of April, died at

the Infirmary.

— 6. Inquest on Froggatt. Verdict of Wilful Murder against

Williams : committed to York.

— 8. John Thornely, Esq., of Dodworth green, talked of as a

Tory candidate for Sheffield. . Churchwardens :— The following gentlemen are church- wardens for the ensuing year : For the Parish Church, Mr. Joseph Wallis and Mr. George Holden have been re-appointed ; St, Paul's, Mr. Alfred Green and Mr. A 2

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James Judd ; St. James's, Mr. John Shepherd and Mr. Edward Bingham: St. George's, (re-appointed,) Mr. Wm. Butcher and Mr. J. S. Hawksworth ; St. Philip's, (re-appointed) Mr. J. K. Straw and Mr. Chas. Elliott.

Aprils. The Rev. T. D. Gregg, curate of St. George's Church, left Sheffield this week, having been presented by the congregation of the church with a purse, containing £160.

!— 11. Adam Newton committed to York, charged with malici- ously stabbing, on the 25th March, Isaac Pearson, at Crookes, and Joseph Barker, of Western bank.

. Accountsof Sheffield Highway Board allowed. Amount

collected in the year, £8665 ; total receipts, £9,692. 3s. 6|d. ; total expenditure, £8923. 9s. 6d.

— 12. A corn and a hay stack, in Brightside lane, belonging to

Mr. Wm. Stones, burnt.

— 13. Overseers' accounts laid before the ratepayers. Expen-

diture of the year, £10,548. " The rates have not exceeded Is. 6d. in the pound, on the value of real property, or threepence per head on the population." — Independent.

, SheriflF's Court held to assess the value of land belonging

to the Duke of Norfolk, the River Dun Company, the devisees of the late Thomas Walker, Esq., and Joshua Walker and Co., required for the Sheffield and Ro- therham Railway.

— 15. Commercial difficulties intensely severe. Several large

American houses in London assisted by the Bank of England. Liverpool merchants applied to Government for relief by issue of Exchequer Bills, "as the only means of averting a general suspension of payments."

. William Wilkinson, a grinder, died of hydrophobia,

having been bitten on the 28th of February, by his own dog.

— 16. James Ibbotson also died of hydrophobia, having been

bitten on the same day as Wilkinson, and by the same dog. Several other persons, bitten at the same time by the dog, were not affected.

— 17. Private meeting of Tories, at the Angel Inn, resolved to

get up a requisition to Mr. Thornely.

— 22. Trade of the town much depressed. One third of the

table-knife hands out of employ. Many men in other branches on short work, or unemployed. -. The Dissenting congregations petition in favour of the Ministerial Church-rate Bill. , News received of extensive failures in America.

— 23. Decease of Mr. Thomas Dewhirst, governor of Ecclesall

Workhouse, aged 55.

— 24. Meeting at the Town Hall, ia consequence cf the recent

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1837. cases of hydrophobia, resolved to destroy all dogs found at large, and a subscription was raised to pay the expenses. April 2b. Average price of corn in Sheffield market, 59s. Id.

— 27. Decease of Mr. Jas. Laycock, Portobello, aged 47.

— 29. The number of dogs destroyed this week is 1122.

— 28. Decease of Mr. John B. Scantlebury, of Hillfoot, aged 48. . News received of the United States and other American

banks having issued their bonds to relieve the mer- cantile pressure.

— 30. Poorhouse report: Paupers in the house, 182; in the

gaols, 89 ; week's payment to the out-poor, £83. 8s. 6d. May 3. Public meeting in Paradise square, to petition for the

repeal of the Poor Law Amendment Act. . Tory requisition presented to Mr. Thornely, and accepted.

It was said to have been signed by 600 persons. . Police meeting. Committee appointed to prepare draft

of a new bill made their report, and it was ordered to

be printed.

— 4. Annual meeting of the Canal Company. Dividend of 5

per cent. The income exceeded by £1000 that of any previous year. 5. Decease of Joseph Swinden, aged 82, " well known as an excavator by trade, and a zealous reprover of sin." . Meeting at the Town Hall, to elect three new Town Trustees, in the room of Messrs. John Shore, Francis Fenton, and Rowland Hodgson, deceased. The attendance was unprecedentedly large ; and the result of the voting was as follows:— Mr. Joseph Levick, 212; Mr. J. W. Hawksworth, 143; Mr. William Vickers, 142; Mr. James Creswick, 103; Mr. Thos. Porter, 89 ; Mr. Edwin Unwin, 78 ; Mr. Robert Sorby, 50; Mr. Thomas Deakin, 43; Mr. John Sykes, 34. The first three were declared to be elected.

— 6. Dogs destroyed, 1541; and 400 entered by their owners

to pay duty. . Decease of Mr. George "Wells, solicitor, aged 32.

— 8. Decease of Mr. Peter Frith, optician, aged 74.

— 10. Meeting at the rooms of the Mechanics' Institute, to

establish a Physiological Society.

— 12. Private meeting at the Angel Inn, to receive Mr. Thorne-

ly's answer to the requisition.

— 14. Decease of Mr. William Atkinson, New George street,

Sheffield moor, aged 72. He left by his will the follow- ing legacies: — To the London Missionary Society, £100; to the Bible Society, £100; to the Lancasterian Infant School, £60; to the Nether Chapel Sunday school, £60 ; to ten poor widows connected with Nether Chapel, £60 ; and £60 to a parish in Yorkshire, where a poor relative ofhisformerlv received assistance.

A :i

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May 15. Opening of the Mechanics' News Room in George street. A guarantee fund of £ 1 6U subscribed by the Reformers to make up any deficiency in the subscriptions.

. Subscription of £200 raised to erect a monument, at the

Cemetery, to the memory of the late Mr. Wm. Parker.

— 17. Meeting of Overseers, and past Overseers, at the Town

Hall, to meet Mr. Gulson, Assistant Poor Law Com- missioner, who announced the intention of the Board to put the new system into operation here.

— 18. Decease of Mr. James Best, of the tirra of J., T., and J.

Best, merchants.

— 19. Mrs. George Wells elected librarian of the Sheffield Li-

brary, vice Miss Hatfield, resigned.

— 20. The petition agreed to at the meeting on the 3rd inst.,

transmitted for presentation, with 16,000 signatures.

— 24. The attainment of her majority (18 years) by the Princess

Victoria, celebrated by a procession and a public dinner. . Decease of Mr. Robert Ritchie Mitchell, aged 27, che- mist, Glossop road, in consequence of being thrown from his horse on Whit-Monday, the 15th.

— 25. Announcement that the King had had an attack of

asthma.

— 27. Decease of Mr. Robert Todd, merchant, aged 73.

— 28. Poorhouse report : Paupers on the books, 203; in gaols,

90 ; week's payment to the out-poor, £S5. 14s. Gd.

— 30. Average price of wheat in Sheffield market, 61s. 3d. . Intelligence of the failure of some of the American banks

received. June 1. Mr. Thornely introduced by Charles Brownell, Esq., to a select meeting at the Music Hall. He declared him- self a candidate for the borough; and his claims were urged by Mr. Samuel Cocker, the Rev. S. D. Waddy, the Rev. G. B. Macdonald (Wesleyans) and the Rev. W. H. Vale, perpetual curate of Ecclesall. In the evening, the party dined together at the Angel Inn; Henry Walker, Esq. in the chair.

— 2. Subscription for the distressed Highlanders amounted to

£720. 19s. 8d.

— 3. The number of dogs destroyed amounted to about 2040. . Intelligence received of the stoppage of three of the

largest American houses in London, the Bank of Eng- land having refused to continue its assistance.

. Decease of John Fowweather, aged 82, having been for

seventeen years beadle to the Honourable Rodney Sick Society, and the last native of Sheffield who was with the gallant Rodney at the taking of De Grasse, on the 12lh April, 1782.

— 4. Opening of the organ in Carver street chapel.

— 5. Report of the A gcd Female Society. Receipts, £3 1 4. 1 3».;

relieved, 398 aged females.

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1837. Jtaie 6. Orders from the Poor Law Commissioners for the forma- tion of the Sheffield, Ecclesall, and Rotherham Unions. . Rev. James Howe, a native of Sheffield, and missionary at Berbice, died there, aged 34.

— 9. Meeting of the Overseers and past Overseers of Shef-

field, held at the Poorhouse, at which it was resolved to call a public meeting, for the nomination of guar- dians.

— 10. Decease of Mr. Thomas Batt, of Broomhill, aged 78.

— 12. New Gas Company begin to supply gas.

. Bulletins of the state of the King's health began to be

published. . News from the United States to the 15th of May, when

all the American banks had suspended payment.

— 14. Public meeting in the Town Hall'. Resolutions passed

recommending the Overseers not to obey the precept of the Poor Law Commissioners, until the town had memorialized the Privy Council; and giving a pledge to hold the Overseers harmless. The townships of Attercliffe and Brightside subsequently had meetings, and passed resolutions to the same effect.

— 19. Meeting of the ratepayers of Ecclesall agreed to nominate

guardians, but also to memorialize the Privy Council against the new law.

— 20. Death of King William IV.

. Decease of Mr. Joseph Peach, aged 52.

— 21. The Sheffield Overseers submitted to a meeting of past

Overseers a communication from the secretary of the Poor Law Commissioners, to the effect that the order for the formation of the union must be obeyed. It was therefore resolved to take the necessary steps for the election of guardians.

— 22. Meeting of the friends of the Church, to form an asso-

ciation to protect its interests.

— 25. Poorhouse report : Paupers in the house, 234 ; in the

gaols, 79; week's payment to out poor, £101. 9s. 3d.

— 26. Lord Morpeth and Sir G. Strickland issued addresses

to the electors of the West Riding.

. Meeting of the friends to the connexion of Church and

State, in the National School Room. . Money market began to revive.

— 27. Fioclamation of Queen Victoria. Procession, and colla-

tion at the Cutlers' Hall.

— 27. Average price of wheat in Sheffield market, 61s.5d.

— 29. Meeting of the Commissioners of the Court of Requests,

and regulations adopted to facilitate the business of the Court.

— 30. Guardians of the Poor for Sheffield Union elected. July 1. Registration and Marriage Acts came into operation.

— 3. Guardians of the Poor for the Ecclesall Union elected.

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1837. July 3. The Hon. J. S. Wortley issued an address to the West Riding electors.

— 5. John Parker and H. G. Ward, Esqrs. published addresses

to the electors of Sheffield. . H. M. Greaves, Esq., of Ecclesall, qualified as a Magi- strate, at Rotherham Sessions.

— 8. Interment of King William IV.

— 10. Mr. Thornely declared himself, in a published address,

a candidate for the borough.

— 13. Mr. Parker and Mr. Ward addressed many thousands

of people in Paradise square, and the same evening they addressed the inhabitants of AttercliSe, at the Parish school. ' . Decease of Joseph Read, Esq., of the Mills, aged 62.

— 14. The Liberal candidates address the Ecclesall electors at

the Bazaar ; and the Upper Hallam electors at Full- wood. . Thomas Shaw found guilty, at York, of setting fire to the stacks of Mr. William Stones, Brightside lane. — Judgment of death recorded.

. Decease, in London, of Mr. William Henry Woolhouse,

late of Hyde Park Cricket ground, aged 46.

— 15. Decease of Mr. William Jewitt, manufacturer, Duke

street, Park, aged 64. . Lately, at Southwingfield, Mr. Matthew Hopkiuson,

formerly of the Peacock Inn. . WiUiams tried and sentenced to death for the murder of

Froggatt.

— 16. Woikshops of Messrs. Alcock, in Eyre street, destroyed

by fire.

— 17- The Queen went down in person and prorogued parlia-

ment, which was dissolved by proclamation. — — . Mr. Thornely spoke at Ecclesall Bazaar and at Atter-

cliffe. He was closely catechised and much derided.

In returning from the Bazaar, his flags were lorn, and

his friends dispersed. . Adam Newton, found guilty of maliciously wounding

Joseph Barker, and sentenced to twelve months'

imprisonment.

— 18. Mr. Ward delivered a lecture on Colonization before the

members of the Mechanics' Institute.

. The Hon. G. H. Cavendish and William Evans, Esq.

addressed the North Derbyshire electors at the Ton- line Hotel.

— 19. Mr. Buckingham delivered his farewell address to the

electors in the Theatre.

. Mr. Thornely addressed the electors at Fullwood and a

Owlerton.

— 20. Mr. Buckingham delivered a lecture, in the Music-llall^

on Temperance.

- 25.

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1837. .July 21. A few of Mr. Buckingham's friends gave him a farewell dinner at the Angel Inn ; after which he left for London

. First annual meeting of the Sheffield and Hallamsbire

Banking Company.. Dividend of six per cent, declared

— 24. Meeting at the Music Hall, to discuss the Poor Law.

Mr. Ward answered the objections against it, and an

unanimous vote of thanks was passed for his " frank

honourable, and enlarged explanation" of the law. '

Mr. Wortley spoke from the windows of the Exchancre Inn.

. Decease of Mr. Bussej', Castle-street, a^ed 63. °

. Average price of wheat in Sheffield market, 62s! 6d

26. Lord Morpeth and Sir George Strickland addressed an

immense meeting in the Haymaiket. . Old Gas Company held their annual meeting -no divi- dend was declared.

27. Nomination day : Dr. Knight and Mr. John Sykes pro-

posed John Parker, Esq. ; G. Brownell, Esq., and Mr. John Jones proposed John Thornely, Esq. ; Benj. Sayle, Esq., and Mr. Wm. Ibbotson proposed Henry George Ward, Esq. ; Mr. Soisby, (Albion Hotel,) and Mr. Duffy proposed Mr. Joseph Crabtree, of Barnsley. The show of hands was in favour of Mr Ward and Mr. Parker. A poll demanded bv Mr! Brownell.

28. Polling day.— The following is the result of each hour's

P°^^=~ PARKER. WARD, THORNELY.

9 o'clock J34 127 59

10? 958 885 409

>J 1119 1027 427

12 1450 1320 510

1 1655 1515 567

2 1781 1632 582

3 2004 1836 611

„ 4 2233 2028 667

29. Master Cutler declared the result of the poll to be—

for Mr. Parker, 2,186; for Mr. Ward, 1,976; for Mr. Thornely, 655. The members returned thanks, and in the evening a public dinner, ^to celebrate the vic- tory, was given at the Tontine.' The expense of the Committee of the Liberal candidates was <£464. lis. 6d., defrayed by subscription.

— . Poorhouse Report.— Paupers in the House, 226; in the gaol, 86 ; week's out payments, £104. 4s. 6d.

31. Nomination at Wakefield interrupted by a riotous fight, in which many persons were much hurt. Two after- wards died.

'. 2. Police Commissioners discussed and agreed to several of the heads of the proposed new Act.

— . Decease of Wm. Hanson, aged 85, the oldest scissor forger in the Corporation.

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1837.

Aiie 3. First day's polling for the West Riding.- Result atShef- field: Morpeth, 962; Strickland, 917 ; Wortley, 753. General result of the day : Morpeth, 10,442; Strick- land, 10,097; Wortley, 9,578.

_ 4. Second day's polling, Sheffield: Morpeth, 1,284 ; Strick- land, 1,205; Wortlev, 929. The expense incurred by the Sheffield Committee for Morpeth and Strick- land, was £520. 17s. 5d.

— 7 Declaration by the High Sheriff of the result of the elec-

tion. Morpeth, 12,576; Strickland, 11,992; Wort- ley, 11,489. A corrected return afterwards appeared as follows:— Morpeth, 12,627; Strickland, 12,037; Wortley, 11,427.

— 9 Annual meeting of shareholders in the Sheffield and

Rotherham Railway. It was stated that the expense of applying for the act in 1835, was £6,630; in 1836, £4.991 ; & the Company had paid for land, £19,802.

— 11. Decease ofMr. Ralph Merrill, of Harvest lane, aged 87-

— 12. Williams executed at York, for the murder of Froggatt. 14 John Greaves, Esq. chosen Master Cutler; and Messis.

Geo. W^ostenholme and Samuel Smith, wardens.

— J6. Foundation stone of Christ's Church, Fullwood, laid.

— 19! Some prospect of the revival of the Sheffield trade. The

cotton trade of Lancashire improving.

— 23. Annual meeting of the Cemetery Company ; dividend of

4s. per share declared.

— 24. Decease of Mr. Samuel Thompson, aged 29.

— 26. Amount subscribed for Mr. and Mrs. Buckingham's

annuity, £3,414; of which £2,6J7 had been invested securing for INlr. Buckingham an annuity of £100; and for Mrs. Buckingham, of £80.

. Poorhouse report : Paupers in the house, 255 : in the

gaols, 84; week's out-door relief, £97.

— 29. Average price of Wheat in Sheffield market, 59s. lid. .* Decease of Adamson Parker, Esq., at Longley.

30. The Rev. John Thorpe accepted the invitation to become

minister of Lee-croft chapel.

— 31. Rotherham Church-rate meeting. Resolved to adjourn

for twelve months. Poll demanded.

Sept. 1. The harvest going on rapidly. Weather fine, and. crops, notwithstanding the almost unexampled late- ness of spring, abundant.

. Decease of Mr. William Eels, Mulberry street, aged 46.

— 2. Close of the poll on the Rotherham Church-rate. For

the adjournment, 346 ; against it, 241 ; majority, 102.

— 6, Police Commissioners agreed upon several other clauses

of their new bill.

. Committee of the Collegiate School presented to John

Staniforth, Esq., an elegant antique massive silver tripod candelabrum, to mark their sense of the value of his services to the school.

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1837.

Sept. 7. First marriage under the new law, celebrated in Nethert Chapel, by the Rev. T. Smith. Mr. H. Crowther tdl\ Miss Sarah Jane Marsh. ^

Cutlers' feast. Among the guests weie the Earl of Scar- borough, Earl of Effingham, Lord Chief Justice Den- man, Lord Milton, Lord Howard, Hon. John and James Stuart Wortley; the Hon. Mr. "Wentworth Fitzwilliam; H. G. Knight, Esq., M.P.; Sir Thomas White, &c.

— 8. Inquest on Charles Musgrave, who died in Scotland street

gaol. The jury found that he died of effusion on the brain, but were of opinion, that the gaol allowance of food should be increased, as recommended by Dr. Knight and Mr. Jackson.

. Decease of Mr. G. Rock, of Lowfield, aged 71. He left

by his will, to the Boys' and Girls' Charity Schools, and to the Infirmary, £50 each.

— 13. Last Floral and Horticultural Exhibition, at the Bota-

nical Gardens. A dispute arose about the adjudication of the prizes for flowers. Agreed to be referred to the Committee of the Metropolitan Society.

— 14. George Eastwood and Catherine Walker, of Great

Houghton, married by the Superintendent Registrar of the Ecclesfield district; the first marriage so cele- brated in this neighbourhood.

— 15. Revising Barristers held their court at Sheffield. The

Tories had made 284 objections, of which all but 12 were disallowed, because the objector had wrongly described his residence.

. Silver Cup presented to Mr. Charles Clegg, jun., by the

Band of the South West Yorkshire Yeomanry Cavalry.

— 22. Decease of Mr. Poles, aged 66, of the firm of Furness,

Poles, and Co., silver platers.

— 23. Mild and damp weather prevailed, to the injury of the

corn in Lancashire and Derbyshire.

— 25. Mr. Geo. Thompson and Dr. Palmer detail the state

of the Negro Apprentices to a numerous meeting in the Bath Saloon.

. Decease of Mr. Hunt, cutlery manufacturer, aged 39.

— 26. Large meeting at the Music Hall, resolved to petition

Parliament on behalf of the Negroes. . Average price of wheat in Sheffield market, 61s.

— 27. Mrs. Graham made an ascent in her balloon from the

Botanical Gardens. It was to have taken place on the 26th, but the balloon was not sufficiently inflated.

— 28. Mr. Simpson (author of ' The Philosophy of Education,')

commenced a course of six lectures on National Edu- cation.

. Analysis of the prisoners for debt in Shetfield and

Ecclesall gaols chargeable to Sheffield :— Number

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1837.

without a child, 32; with one child, 12'; with two

children, 12 ; with three children, 13 ;' with four

children, 3; with five children, 1. Sept. 30. Poorhouse report — Paupers in the house, 247 ; in the

gaols, 73; week's out-payments, £119. 6s. Oct. 2. Mrs. Graham made a second ascent in her balloon from

the Botanical Gardens.

— 3. Decease uf Mr. Robert Woollin, Moor hall, aged 79.

— 4. Mr. Geo. Thompson commenced a course of three lectures

on American Slavery.

. Fortieth Anniversary of the Infirmary; Michael Ellison,

Esq., in the chair. . Meeting of Police Commissioners.— Adjourned the fur- ther discussion of the new bill for six months.

— 5. Earl Fitzwilliam presided at the annual meeting of the

Bible Society.

— 12. Decease of Mr. Micah Gould, formerly of Fargate, flax

dresser.

— 13. Public meeting at the Music Hall, to establish an Auti

Slavery Society.

. News from America that to relieve trade Congress would

issue treasury notes for 12,000,000 dollars ; and the United States Bank bills for 5,000,000.

— 16. Formation of the Sheffield Ladies' Association for the

Universal Abolition of Slavery.

— 18. Public meeting to petition for national education. The

Vicar proposed an amendment, which was rejected. ' _- 19. Meeting at Cutlers' Hall, to petition Parliament for protection against the fraudulent marks of foreign cutlery manufacturers.

. Meeting of ratepayers of Rotherham, attended by Earl

Fizwilliam and the Earl of Effingham, called by the churchwardens, to relieve them from their difficulties caused by the refusal of a church rate ; resolved to have another meeting on the 27th. Clock set agoing.

— 23. First general meeting of shareholders of the Sheffield and

Manchester Railway. Directors appointed, but re- solved that before the next meeting no call should be made, nor any expense incurred in furtherance of the undertaking

— 24. The Rev, R. S. Bayley delivered, in Howard street

Chapel, a lecture on National Education. . Latelv, decease of iVr. Samnel Tompkin, aged 37.

— 26. The revised rate for the township of Sheffield confirmed

by the Court of Quarter Sessions, at Sheffield.

— 27. Rotherham church-rate meeting; rate supported by Earl

of Effingham and Earl Fitzwilliam, and granted.

. John Wainwright indicted for refusing to sign the infor-

mation he had given to the Registrar of births and deaths, of the birth of his child. Lord Wharndiffe to

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1837.

defendant-" You are a great fool for your pains."

Fined 6d., with a warning. Oct.2H. Lately, decease of Mr. Henry Booth, hatter. . Dr. Corbett, lately appointed Archdeacon of York, refused

to call a meeting, at the requisition of some of the clergy

" To vindicate and maintain the rights and privileges

ofthe Church of England."

— 29. Poorhouse report— paupers in the house, 268; in gaols,

42 ; week's payment to out-poor, £124. 18s.

— 31. Average price of wheat in Sheffield market, 56s. 2d.

. The Rev. Mr. Wilkinson, curate of the parish church,

summoned for not giving the registrars sufficient infor- mation of the interments made by him without certi- ficate. Recommended by the magistrates to give to the registrars not only the names of the persons interred, but their places of abode. Nov. 2. Meeting in the Music Hall of the friends of the amend- ment proposed by the vicar, on the 18th of October. Meeting interrupted and broken up, because the clergy and their friends would not allow an amendment to be proposed. Resolutions published as having been cariied, and a petition praying that if Partiament should provide a national education, the reading of the Scriptures, &c., might be made "an essential and integral part" of the system.

— 9. Decease of Mr. Joseph Atkinson, aged 35, ofthe firm of

W. and J. Atkinson, drapers.

— 10. Private meeting at the National School, when Dr. Favell,

the Rev. James Dixon, the Rev. S. D. Waddy, the Rev. James Knight, and others, who had been 'pre- vented from speaking at the Music Hall, delivered their sentiments on national education.

. The petitions for national education signed by near 12,000

persons,

. Mr. Dawson'sconcert-M.Thalberg, Miss Fanny Wood- ham, Mr. Parry, jun., Mr. Lavenu, and Mr. Mori principal performers and vocalists, '

— 14. Inquest at the Brown Cow, Radford street, on the body

of John Hobson, who died in consequence of having been beaten, in Peacroft, on the 6th instant. Verdict, Wilful murder against some persons unknown.

— 18. A requisition presented to the directors of the Sheffield

and Manchester Railway, signed by the holders of 2,200 shares, for a special meeting to abandon the undertaking

. Mr. John Waterfall appointed bailiff of Hallamshire

and governor of the Sheffield gaol, vice Mr. Joseph Kirk, resigned.

— 21. Three express editions of the Sun, received by Mr.

Wiley, Haymarket, with the Queen's speech and the debates on the address.

304 SHEFFIKLD LOCAL REGISTER.

1837.

Nov. 25. Town Trustees' Accounts from May, 1836, to 1837, pub- lished—year's income, ^1,566 ; expenditure, £753.

. Notice by the Town Trustees of an application to Par- liament for power to make certain improvements of streets.

— 26. Poorhouse report: paupers in the house, 271; in the

gaols, 63; week's pay to the out-poor, £127. 3s. 6d.

— 27. Dr. Knight delivered a lecture at the Town Hall, in

reply to the aspersions of the Rev. Thomas Best, upon the advocates of national education.

— 28. Average price of wheat in Sheffield market, 58s. Id. Dec. 1. First poor's rate on the new valuation and rack rental

signed by the magistrates.

. Petition presented to Parliament from 638 inhabitants

of Sheffield, praying that the payment oi £\0 a year rent, though to different landlords, might qualify a borough elector.

— 4. Sheffield and Manchester railway. — Having taken the

opinion of Sir John Campbell on the requisition pre- sented on the 18th November, the directors declined to call a special meeting for the purposes stated.

— 6. Accident at the New Gas Works from the failure of one of

the supporters of the condensers. Company unable to supply gas till the 9th. — 7» Ratepayers of part of Nether Hallam adopt the provisions of an act of the 3rd and 4th William IV. as to lighting.

— 8. John Green, John Swift, and William Johnson com-

mitted to Derby, charged with several burglaries.

— 11. Miss Mary Fentem elected matron of the Infirmary, vice

Mrs. Blake, resigned.

. Savings Bank — yearly meeting— accounts up to Nov.

20, shew 4,827 depositors, and total of deposits and interest, £146,302. 2s. 10|d.

— 14. Meeting at the Town Hall to petition for the Ballot An

amendment adding universal suffrage and annual parliaments, proposed but negatived. H. G. Ward, Esq., M.P. present.

— 16, Decease of Mr William Aldam, Upperthorpe, aged 85.

— 19. Publication of the names of the Sheffield subscribers to

the Spoltiswoode fund.

— 22. Meeting at the Cutlers' Hall, originated a requisition to

theMasterCutler forapublic meetingto decide whether the town should petition her Majesty for a charter of incorporation.

— 23. Poorhouse report — paupers in the house, 296 ; in gaols,

53; week's payment to out-poor, £150. 8s.

— 26. Average price of wheat in Sheffield market, 56s. lOd.

LEADER, PRINTER, INDEPENDENT OFFICE, SHEFFIELD.

CONTINUATION

OF THE

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1838.

Jan. 1. Annual meetins of Temperance Society. Number of members, 2(100 ; of whom, 4U0 are reformed drunkards.

— 3. Public meeting : E«solved to petition the Queen for a

charter of incorporation, and a committee appointed to take the necessary steps.

— 5. Annual meeting of the Literary and Philosophical So-

ciety. Officers elected— President, Dr. Favell ; vice- presidents, Rev. J. Blackburn, Dr. Knight, S. Bailey, Esq., Wilson Overend, Esq.; secretaries, Rev. W. k' Smith, Mr. Boullbi-e ; curator, Mr. William Jackl sou; treasurer, Offley Shore, Esq.; council, Messrs James Montgomery, T. A. Ward, T. R. Barker, Will liam Lucas, John Ward, R. J. Gainsford, Henry Jackson, Rev. H. Parish, Rev. H. H. Piper, Dr. Holland, J. H. Abraham, and E. Greaves.

. Sheffield Poorhouse— Paupers in the house, 285 ; in

gaols, 4-5: outpayments for the past week, £126. Ss.'lOd

— 9. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, £"2. 16s. lid. per qr.'

— 13. John Richardson and Henry Roe convicted, at Don-

caster sessions, of destroying machinery at Messrs. Hudson and Clark's wheel, Furnace hill': To be im- prisoned three months each.

— 15. The thermometer 36 degrees below freezing point. Crick-

et match in skates on Little London dam.

— 18. Decease of Mr. James Hartop Strickland, of ' the Sports-

man's Inn, Westbar, aged 41.

— 20. The thermometer 37 degrees below freezing point.

~ 22. Public meeting, at the Cutlers'-Hall, to promote a sub- scription " to alleviate the distress of the poor, arising from the long continued depression of trade and the inclemency of the season." • Town Trustees voted to the Dispensary £100.

— 26. Annual meeting of Sheffield Banking Company ; Divi-

dend of 7i per cent.

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Jan. 27- Distress fund (for the relief of the poor) amounted to £1500.

, The foUoviing bequests paid by the executor of the late

Rowland Hodgson, Esq.: National Schools, ^200; Church Infant School Societv, <£200 ; Giris' Charity School, £200; Boys' Charity School, ^50; Infir- mary, £50 ; Sheffield Auxiliary Bible Society, £100; Church Missionary Society, £100; Heeley School, £50; Aged Female Society, £19. 19s.; Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor, £19. 19s. ; Park National Schools, ^50; Church Tract Societv, £19. 19s.; Moravian Missions, £100.

. Decease of Mr. Thomas Doughty, Shakspeare Tavern,

Allen street.

— 28. Decease of Mr. George Eadley, chemist, aged 32.

— 29. Decease of Mr. Benjamin CoUey, of Norton Lees, aged G7.

— 30. Decease of Mr. John Rayuer, aged 37.

— 31. Annual meeting of the Proprietors of the Botanical Gar-

dens : it was reported that the sura expended was £1S,5G2, and that the company were in debt to the amount of £5117- The income of the year was £1897 ; the expenditure, £1760.

, A whole sheep roasted upon the ice, on the riyer Dud,

just above the iion bridge.

Feb. 1, The ilev. Mr. Kelly, of Melton Mowbray, appointed minister of St. John's Church.

. Decease of Mr. George Woodcock, Pitsmoor, aged 97.

— 3. Decease of Mr. Jph. Pearce, manufacturer, aged 81.

— 7. Sheffield and Manchester Railway : The directors re-

port, to a general meeting of proprietors, that they had re-e.xamined the estimates, and could speak, with confidence, of the prospect of a net profit of nearly 17 per cent, on the proposed capital of £700,000.

— 9. The town divided into 11 districts, for the more efficient

distribution of the distress fund. The committee re- port that " they have distributed between five and six thousand l-.iaves, 300 loads of potatoes, 245 blankets, and 342 sheets. The sum of if480 has been granted to the visitors ot the Society for Bettering the Condi- tion of the Poor, and which has been distributed in personal clothing. The sum of £240 has also been appropriated to the relief of the distressed poor in the out-townships, under the direction of local committees."

• Decease of Mr. \V. Jewitt, cutler, aged 86.

. Meeting, convened by circular, at the Cutlers'-Hall :

Resolved to call a meeting of '' householders unfavour- able fo a corporation," to oppose the application for a charter.

— 12. R. M. Beverley, Esq., delivered alecture at the Cutlers'-

Hall, on the negro apprenticeship.

— 14. Meeting of the opponents of the incorporation of the town,

held at the 'I'own-Hall, Jos. Levick, jun., Esq., iu the chair: The first resolution being put in the nega- tive, was not carried. The others were not put in the negative by the cbairm>'.n ; but spontaneous shews of

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hands were made against them, that outnumbered those iu their favour. Ftb. 15. A petition against incorporation, said to have been passed at the above meeting, put forth for signatures. Addi- tional names received to the petition for a charter.

— 17. Decease of Col. Wm. Hinde, late of the 65th Regiment

of Foot, aged 71.

— 19. Decease in London of Mr. James Kesteven, aged 81.

Mr. Kesteven was born at Neepsend, and his family resided many years at Attercliffe.

— 20. Meeting of Dissenting congregations in Nether Chapel:

Resolved to establish a congregational union and town mission. -^ 22. Northern and Central Bank: Meeting at Manchester; losses of the Sheffield Branch stated at £27,089. 16s. 6d. ; total losses estimated at £.31'2,017.

— 23. Meeting of merchants and manufacturers at the Cut-

lers'-Hall: Approved a bill brought into parliament by Thomas Hawkes, Esq., M.P. for Dudley, to put an end to the system of exporting from this country to our colonies, as British manufactures, foreign cutlery and hardware, bearing the marks of celebrated Shef- field makers.

— 25. Decease of Mr. George Turton, aged 78.

— 26. Chamber of Commerce petition parliament for enquiry

into the causes of the depression of trade; and into the state of combinations among workmen. — — — . Meetiuii of workmen in the Sheffield trade to make ar- rangements for giving evidence before the parliamen- tary committee, appointed on the 11th iust. to enquire into the nature, constitution, and extent of combina- tions among masters and workmen.

— 28. Sheffield and Rotherham Railway : meeting of proprie-

tors ; authorized the borrowing of ^30,000. Mar. ]. Decease in Brightside Poorhouse of Thomas Calver, well known as " Billy Red-Waistcoat."

— 2. Breaking up of a storm that commenced the second week

in January. This day, the opening of the canal by breaking the ice, was completed, having employed 20 men and 22 horses four days. The canal had been frozen up for seven weeks.

— 4. Decease of Mr. Henry Milner, Green lane, aged 32.

— 5. Decease of Mr. Samuel Barlow, scissor manufacturer,

Arundel street, aged 70.

. Duputations from the advocates and opponents of a

charter of incorporation appeared before the Privy Council ; the petition for the charter havin<; received 9,6U0 siijnatures, and the opposing petition 15,000.

— 6. John Chadvvick, Samuel Ward, and Henry Burrill found

guilty at York assizes, of slaughtering a lamb in the field of John Lister^ net r Cook Wood, on the 21st August, 1837. Sentenced to be transported for life.

. Decease of Mr. Joseph Basket, accountant, aged 68.

He was found, when an infant, in a basket (whence his name), at one of the entrances to Wentworth

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1838. House. The Marquis of Rockingham caused him to be taken care of, and he was afterwards put out ap- preniice by the liberality of Earl Fitzwilliam. Mar. 7. The Rev. David Rees ordained as pastor of the Baptist congregation in Eldon street.

— 9. Matthew Spilling, surgeon, Ecclesfield, having surren-

dered himself, was tried and found guilty of the man- slaughter of Isabella Turner, of Ecclesfield, by the improper use of instruments to accelerate delivery Sentenced to six months' imprisoment.

— 10. The committee appointed 27th March, 1834, to super-

intend the revision of the rating of the township of Sheffield, announced the completion of their labours. The valuation by Bishop and Wilkinson, in 1812, cost from £2000 to £3000. The cost of the revision, " in reality an original valuation," only " £880, or some- thing less than 9s. per ^£100 of the rack rental."

— — — . Decease of Mr. James Crawshaw, cutler. High street, aged 61. " Some of his inventions in cutlery effected an important change in that branch of Sheffield manu- facture. The lobster knife, or four blades acting upon one spring, and the quadrangular knife (the latter ad- mitting any number of blades), both originated with him, and were introduced without patents. The orre- ries, made by himself, exhibit beautiful specimens of workmanship and mental power in their production." . John Charlesworth, indicted at York assizes for cutting and stabbing his wife, with intent to kill her, found not guilty,

~ 12. Joseph Greaves, Joseph Brown, and Henry Coldwell found guilty at York assizes of robbing the cloth store of Joshua Hoyle, Yellow Lion yard, Haymarket, on the 5th Nov., 1837. To be transported for 15 years.

— 20. Decease of Mr. H. A. Bacon, printer, aged 44.

— 23. John and James Jackson and Thomas Owen tried at

Sheffield intermediate sessions, on a charge of robbing the warehouse of Mr. \Vm. Levick, of a quantity of ivory handles, on the 18th January. Owen not guilty. The Jacksons guilty; to be imprisoned four months.

— 24. Sheffield Poorhouse : Paupers in the house, 337 ; 'Q

gaols, 64: out-payments for the week, £180. l4s. 3d.

— 25. Overseers'Accounts: Amount of rates collected, £13,624;

total expenditure, £14,084. I Decease of Mr. Wm. Horton, late button manufacturar,

aged 75.

— 28. Special general meeting of the proprietors of the Bota-

nical Gardens : Resolved to increase the number of shares to 1500, and to equalise the value of the old and new shares at £13. 6s. 8d.

. Petition from Sheffield for the abolition of negro ap- prenticeship, presented by Mr. H. G. "Ward, signed by 18,820 persons, more than 17,000 of whose names were obtained by the Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society.

. 29. Decease of Mr. Wm. Weldon, Richmond Hill.

■' — . Decease of Mr. Benj. Hartley, of the Compass Inn, Or- chard street, aged6J.

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Mar. 30. Decease of John Tillotson, Esq , aged 7.>.

Aprill- Capt. Jebb, appointed by the privy council to investigate the petitions for and against a charter, arrived in Sheffield, and had an interview with a deputation from each party, to whom he explained his instructions.

. Decease of Mr. John Ward, Wicker, aged 53.

— 3. Sheffield market: Average price of wlieat, 62s. per qr.

— 7. Sheffield Poorhouse : Paupers on the books, 330; in

gaols, 60 ; out-payments for the week. £\51 . 17s. lOd.

— 9. Meeting of Waterworks Company : Dividend, 6 per cent.

— 10. Distress Fund : Last meeting of the committee, at which

it was reported, that since the 25[h January, there had been "distributed, in exchange for tickets, 33,096 loaves of bread, 22,836 pecks of potatoes, 400 blan- kets, and 300 p^irs of sheets." The amount subscribed in money (besides donations of coals, clothes, food, &c.) was £3156. 15s. 85 d. ; of which, a balance of ^58. r3s. Id. remained, and was divided between the Betteriag and the Aged Female Societies. ■ — 12. Sheffield and Manchester Railway ; The completion of the subscription list and execution of the deed having been proved before the magistrates, was certified by them accordingly.

— 17. Accountsof Sheffield Highway Board : AmotFnt collected,

£8001; total receipt.s, £9,344. 19?.; total expendi- ture, £8.032. 5s.

— 19. Churt-hwardens: Mr. H. Atkin, Mr. Wm. Smith, For-

tobello, Parish Church. Mr. Judd, Mr. Joshua White, Park, St. Paul's. Mr. Edward Bingham, Mr. Edward Atkins, St. James's. Mr. Wm. But- cher, iMr. J. Hawksvvorth, St. George' s. Blr. Wm. Primrose, Mr. J. Houldsworth, t-t. Philip's. Mr. Sydney Roberts, Mr. Walter Gilbee, St. Mary's.

— 23. Decease of Mr. Mich.iel Ebert, Gell street, aged 67;

Mr. Robert Oram, cabinet maker, aged 50.

— 24. Captain Jebb concluded his iovesligation respecting the

jietilion for and against a charter. His return of the result was : For a charter, 1970 ratepayers, assessed at £46',0I3 against, 4,589 ratepayers, assessed at ^'76,741. 10s.

— 30. Meeting in Queen street Chapel, to express regret for

the loss of Sir George Strickland's motion to aboli.-h Negro apprenticeship, and petition again for the same object.

May I. Sheffield market : Average price of wheat, 70s. per qr.

. Decease of Mr. Matthew Coxon, Fargate, aged 46.

— 3. Decease of Mr. Geo. Whitehead, Park, aged 42.

— '. Sheffield Canal: Annual meetiog; dividend of 4 per

cent, declared ; reason of the diminished dividend being the loss of traffic, during the seven weeks that the canal was frozen up.

— 5. Gas : The two companies announce the price to be Ss. 4d.

per 1000 cubic feet by meter, subject to discount of from 5 to 20 per cent., in proportion to the quantity. .\ 3

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May 5. The present spring is the most backward that has been known for many years. — Independent.

— . Renewed petitions for the termination of the negro appren- ticeship sent to parliament, to which the Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society had obtained 25.189 signatures: namely, in Sheffield, 18,824; Rotherham, 4,058; Attercliffeaad neighbouring villages, 2,307.

— 9. First stone of Mount Tabor chapel, Rockingham street. — ■ 14. The Rev. B. T. Stannus, on assuming the pastorship of

the congregation of the Unitarian Chapel, met his friends in the Bath Saloon, when " a gown was pre- sented to the Rev. gentleman, in a beautiful and feel- ing address, by Mrs. Palfreyman, on behalf of the la- dies ; and a Bible and Hymn Book, on behalf of the gentlemen, by T. A. Ward, Esq."

— 16. Mr. Hawkes's bill to protect British hardware manufac-

turers against the fraud of foreigners, withdrawn, on the pledge of the President of the Board of Trade, that he would introduce a clause effective for the pur- poses of the bill into the new customs' bill.

— 18. The coroner's jury found a verdict of guilty of the man-

slaughter of Enoch Johnson, against Alfred Jones and Joseph Herod, as principlas, and Thomas Utley, Jo- seph Greensmith, John Blackburn, and Joseph Bever- ley, as abettors. Johnson died in consquence of the injuries he received from a party of men who were stealing rooks on the premises of his master, Mr. Thomas Ward, Park-House Farm, on the night of the 11th inst.

— 19. Sheffield Poorhouse: Paupers in the house, 321 ; in the

gaols, 88 ; week's out-payments, £154. 5s. 6d.

— 21. Decease of Mr. Abram Sansom, of the firm of Thos. San-

som and Sons.

— — — . It having been proposed to erect a Philosophical Hall in the Glossop road, opposite the Bath buildings, the plan of the projectors was laid before a special meeting of the proprietors of the Literary and Philosophical So- ciety, who assented to an arrangement, by which the building would be made to afford suitable accommoda- tion for the society. The subject was discussed oa several other occasions, but the project abandoned.

. Decease of Mr. John Lee, clerk of St. George's church,

aged 5G.

— 22. Josh. Farmer, butcher, who, being insane, murdered his

son-in-law, Wilks, was removed from York Castle to St. Luke's asylum, London.

— 23. Decease of Mr. John Gregory, Commercial st., aged 44. . Decease of Mr. Thomas FJell Alcock, aged 32.

— 25. Decease of Joshua Denton, Esq., of the Hagg, aged 46.

— 30. Meeting at the Cutlers' Hall, to arrange for the cele-

bration of the coronation of Queen Victoria in Shef- field, on the 28th June.

— 31. Splendid silver tea service manufactured by Messrs. H.

Wilkinson and Co., for presentation by the solicitors of the West Riding to Francis Maude, Esq., as *' a

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testimony of their respect and esteem, for tlie ability aad zeal, as a lawyer, and the affability as a gentleman, which he has always manifested to the profession dur- ing his long and extensive practice as a barrister." June '2. Some symptoms of a revival of trade, in the receipt of money and orders from the United States, by the Great Western and Sirius steamers.

— 7. The Church Burgesses voted £,50 to the Dispensary.

— 10. Death of Jonathan Mintin, \^lio set fire to York Minster

in 1829, in the Bethlehem Hf spital. London.

— 11. Royal Assent given to the Sheffield Improvement Bill.

— 14. An enquiry, under a writ of elegit, held by Thos. W.

Rodgers, Esq. as plaintiff's assessor, to ascertain' the extent and value of iha freehold property of the Rev. Jolni George Hounsfield, at the suit of Wm. Henry Malpas. The jury found that the net value of the estate was £360 a year, and that a fair and equitable half to be assigned to the plaintiff whs 32a. Ir. 1 Id. June 15. Decease of Mr. Francis Hoole, of Hallam gate, aged 85.

— 16. The season remarkably cold and uugenval.

. A salver and purse of gold presented to the Rev. T. Best,

by his congregation and other friends, as a memorial of affection and esteem, and ''to commemorate the faithful and upright discharge of his duliefs as minister of St. James's church, during a period of twenty years."

— 23. Decease of Mrs. Mary llimington, of Hillsbro' House,

aged 74, relict of the late John Rimington, Esq., solr.

— 28. Celebration of the coronation : In the morning, a public

procession ; in the evening, a ball, at the Music- Hall, and soiree at the Cutlers' Hall; and an exhi- bition of fireworks at the Corn-Exchange. There were many tasteful illuminations and decorations of private premises.

— 30. Decease of Mr. Edw. Law, sculptor, aged 37.

. Police Accounts : Rates ccdiected, £5319 ; total receipts,

.^£6790 ; expenditure, ( A'ith balance, £78,) .;£"6790.

July 4. First stone of a new Baptist Chapel at fortmahon, laid by James Dixon, Esq.

. Annual meeting of governors of the Dispensary: Dr.

Favell and Dr. Harwood re-elected physicians; and Mr. Gregory, Mr. Ray, and Mr. J. F.Wright, sur- geons to the charity.

. Tvventy-si.x children drowned in the day-hole of the

Huskar pit, Silkstone, by an inundation of water, caused by a sudden and remarkably lieavy storm of rain and hail. . Annual meeting of the Sheffield Bath Company: Divi- dend of 4 per cent, declared. 6. Meeting at the Cutlers'-Hall, resolved to procure, by sub- scription, a full-leuiith portrait of the vicar, by H. P. Briggs, Esq., R.A., to be placed in the Cutlers' Hall, as " a token of grateful acknowledgment from the inhabitants of this parish."

— 7. Sheffield Poorhouse : Paupers in the house, 302 ; in town gaols, 82; out-payments forthe week,.;£135. 5s. 3d.

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July 10. Average price of "Wheat in Sheffield market, 72s,

— 11. Beverley, Utley, Blackburn, and Greensmith tried at

York Assizes for the manslaughter of Enoch Johnson, (see May IS,) and acquitted.

— 17. Decease at Pisa, in Italy, of Mr. Samuel Deakin, mer-

chant, formerly of Sheffield, aged 67.

— 20. Meeting of the Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking

Company; Dividend of 6 per cent, declared.

— 25. Annual meeting of the Sheffield Gas Company: No

dividend declared.

— 26. Opening of the church of St. John the Evangelist, in

Sheffield Park : The Rev. E. Kelly, minister.

— 27. Decease of Mr. Joseph Foote, accountant.

— 29. Decease of Mr. John Beatson, Birdwell Flats, near

Kotherham, aged 57.

— 30. Decease of Mr. Spurr, Heeley bank, aged 70.

— 31. Average price of wheat in Shellield market, 76s. 9d.

/iug. 6. Election of 8 new police commissioners to fill up vacan- cies. John Crowley, manufacturer, Kelham IslaniJ, 136; Corden Thompson, M.D., Norfolk street, 81 ; Geo. Roebuck, currier. Castle street, 77 ; William Ash, manufacturer. Norfolk lane, 75; George Turton, sur- geon, Townhead street, 75; Richard Kitchen, Loot and shoe maker, High street, 72; Charles Hawks- worth, silverplater, Nursery, 70 ; Richard Muncaster, draper, Hi,;h street, 6!.

. Mr. Charles Brown made his first ascent in his new

balloon, from the Botanical Gardens.

— 7. Average price of wheat in ShetTield market, 79s. 4d. . Decease of Mr. J. Staniforth, aged 35.

— 8. Opening of the Wesleyan Proprietary Grammar School :

Governor, the Rev. John M'Lean ; head master, John Manners, Esq., A.M.

— 10. Decease of Mr. Wm. Fielden, Punch Bowl, South street,

aged 3-2.

— 14. The state of the weather causing the certainly of a late,

and great fear of a bad harvest. Average price of wheat in Shetlield market, 82s. 3d.

— 15. Cutlers' Coiiipiny chosen for the ensuing year: Mas-

ter, George Wolstenholme, Esq. ; /Fardens, JMessrs. i Samuel Smith and James Moorhouse ; Hearc/iers, \ Messrs. Thomas Wilkinson, Samuel Sayuor, William I Broadhurst, Thomas Ellin, jun., William Middleton, and Joseph Mappin ; Assistants, Messrs. John Greaves, ! Thos. Blake, John Spencer, Thomas She|)herd, Joseph Mohsou, George Wrugg, Samuel Hadfield, Wm. Hall, Joseph Elliott, Wm. Taylor, Wm. Nowill, Charles ■ Camm, Chas. Butler, William Bagshaw, Thomas Lo.x- | ley, George Johnson, William WiUey, Lear Wright, George Slack, John Innocent, Thomas Harrison, ! Samuel Skmner, John Skelton, Joseph Brammall.

— 18. SheHield Registration District, -July 1837, to June 1838 :

Po])ulation of the township of Sheffield, in 1837, 72,000 ; do. of ihe district, including Sheffield, Bright- side, Attercliffe, and Hands worth, 90,000. Births in

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Sheffield, 2664 : ditto in the district, 3261. Deaths in Sheffield, 1840; ditto in the district, 2248. The births being 36, and deaths 24 per thousand of the population. Informants of births and deaths who wrote their names, 3246 ; ditto who made marks, 2223. Total marriages, 980; or 11 per 1000 of the population. Aug. 18 Sheffield Poorhouse : Paupers in the house, 308 ; in gaols, 92 ; out-payments for the week, £127. 15s. 6d.

— 21. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 86s. 6d.

— 22. Decease of the Rev. John Ward, of Bridgehouses, aged

80. Mr. Ward had been for 31 years a travelling preacher, and 15 years a supernumerary in the Wes- leyan Methodist ministry.

. Second annual meeting of the Cemetery Company : No

dividend declared.

— 24. Escape from prison of Samuel Cooper, who, along with

James Eyre and Thomas Goulder, was chart^ed with the robbery of Mr. Habershon's house, in Bank street, on the 26ih July, and the highway robbery of Mr. Le Tall, the 11th August.

— 25. The weather: The hopes of settled fair weather, which

the improvement of last week had pretty generally inspired, have been blighted by a return of the un- genial and boisterous winds which have prevailed during the greater part of the summer, attended by a depressed state of the barometer, and some quantity of rain. Altogether, the prospects of the harvest in the northern part of the island are very gloomy. In the south-eastern counties, a considerable quantity of corn has been reaped and carried. . Decease of Joshua Lomas, Union Tavern, Coalpit lane, aged 39.

— 28. A terrific thunder storm, of very great duration, which

extended over almost the whole of England, and did much damage. Cusworth Hall struck by lightning.

— 29. Dr. Favell elected physician to the Infirmary in the

room of Dr. Younge, resigned, . Sheffield and Manchester Railway : The directors report to the half-yearly meeting that half of the line had been staked out, and that the rest was in progress; and that preparations were making for letting the works. Mr. Vignoles reported that he had no doubt of finishing the work in three or four years. Sept. 1. The harvest commencing in the neighbourhood of Sheffield ; but in cold situations, the corn far from ripe. Earl Fitzwilliam and other landowners defer the commencement of partridge shooting on their manors for a fortnight, in consequence of the state of the harvest.

— 2. Decease of Mr. Philip Raby, saddler, aged 40.

— 4. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 71s. Id.

— 5. Decease, during the same night, of Mr. John Mason,

builder. Regent Terrace, aged 36, and Sarah, his wife, aged 32.

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Sept. 6. The Cutlers' Feast : Thomas Blake, Esq., presiding in the absence of G. Wosteaholme, Esq.

. Silver claret jug presented by the manufacturers of Shef- field, to Thomas Hawkes, Esq., M.P., by a few friends at SheflHeld, for his exertions, in Parliament, to pro- tect the trade of the country from the fraudulent imi- tation of the names and marks of British manufacturers by foreigners,

. Decease, at Blackpool, of Mr. Peter Linlev- merchant

ofBolehiU, Norton, aged 66.

— 7- H. G. Ward, Esq., M.P., met his constituents in the

Town Hall, to explain the proceedings of the past ses- sion ; Mr. Beale and Mr. Gill, members of the Work- ing Men's Association, proposed a vote of want of confidence; an amendment was moved by Mr. \V. Fisher and Mr. L. Palfiejman. thanking JNlr. Ward " for his manly and independent conduct in parliament, and for his attendance on that occasion, and for the manly and satisfactory explanations he had given." The amendment carried by a very large majority.

. , Samuel Iladfield, Esq., appointed master in the place of

Mr. George Wostenhoime, excused from serving, oa account of his necessary absence abroad.

■. The aggregate average price of wheat being 70s. 2d., an

importation of about 1,500,000 quarters took place, at Is. per quarter duty.

i Decease of Mr. Thomas Spooner, aged 50, of the firm

of Samuel Parkin and Co., Ecclesall Brewery.

— 10. Marriage, at Dalmahoy Castle, of Lord Viscount Milton,

to Lady Frances Douglas, eldest daughter of the Earl of Morton.

— 11. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 68s. 7d.

— 14. Aggregate average price of wheat sunk to 64s. 2d., and

duty rose to 2s. 8d.

— 21. Aggrcjjate average price of wheat, 61s. lOd. ; duty,

10s. 8d.

— 23. Decease of Wm. Brittain, Esq., of Norton Lees, aged 67.

— 25. Meeting in Roscoe field, in support of the Working

Man's Charter.

— 26. Foundation-stone of a new church at Gleadless, laid by H.

Parker, Esq.

— 29. Much corn out in this neighbourhood, and in many parts

of the country the crops still unripe. Ocl, 1. London mail bags arrive in SheHield at 4 minutes past 1 1 a. m., being brought as far as Birmingham by the railway. -. Ground broken, near Woodhead, for the SheflSeld and Manchester railway, by Lord Wharncliffe.

— 2. Decease of Mr. Wm. Sansom llayner, agpd 1)6.

— 3. Annual meeting of the governors of the Infirmary: The

erection of a House of Recovery, for fever patients, suggested, and referred to the consideration of a special general board. . The produce of the harvest reckoned, by Messrs. Sturge, of Birmingham, one-fourth less than the average.

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Oct. 4. Consecration of Fullwood Church, (built and endowed by Miss Phcebe Silcock,) by the Archbishop of York.

— 7. An exchange of chapels took place between the Eev. John

Thorpe, with the Lee croft congregation, and the Rev. W. B. Landells, with the Mount Zion con- greijation.

— 9. Commencement of disturbances among the English and

Irish labourers, on the North Midland railway, near Eotherham, which continued for several days.

— 10. Marriage at Wentwortli House, of James John Ean-

dal Mackenzie, Esq., only son of Sir James W. Mackenzie, Eosehaugh House, near Inverness, to Lady Ann, fourth daughter of Earl Fitzuilliam,

— 13. Sheffield Poorhouse: Paupers in the house, 340; in the

gaols. 98 ; the week's out-payments, £134. 14s. 9d.

— 20. Ecclesall Bierlow Registration District : Population,

1837.30,000; births, 899 ; deaths, 557; marriages, 30. Number of informants who wrote their names, J 000 ; ditto, who made marks, 456.

— 22. Meeting of the ratepayers of Atterdiffe resolved not

to sell or let the workhouse, from which the paupers had been removed by the board of guardians.

— 27. Decease of Mr. John Broadhead, Tin.sley, aged 71.

— 29. Ecclesall Union : Paupers in workhouses, 175 ; out-

payments for the week, £49. 17s. Id.

— 30. Average price of wheat, at Shetfield, 74s. 2d.

— 31. Opening of the Sheffield and Kotherham railway.

A'oD. 2. Deceaseof Mr. J. Kuowles Rawlins, of Caiverst. aged 24.

— 6. Average price of wheat, at SheHield, 7'^s. 7d.

. Decease of Mr. G. Hawksworth,juu., of High st., aged 29.

— 7- Special meeting of the governors of the Infirmary — agreed

to allow a Fever Hospital to be erected in connexion with the Infirmary, on condition that the expense of the building should be raised by subscription.

— 8. Meeting, at the Cutlers' Hall, resolved to procure by

subscription a portrait of the Duke of Wellington, to be placed in the Cutlers' Hall.

— 9. Decease of John Henson, aged 35, maker of 24 pairs

of scissors, to be seen in Messrs. J. Rodgers and Sons' shew-ioom, which weigii only one grain.

— 10. Sudden decease of Wm. Younge, Esq., M.D., in his

garden, at fc-harrow grange, aged 76.

— 14. Public meeting at the Cutleis' Hall to promote a sub-

scription for the erection of a Fever Hosjiital.

— 16. Aggregate average price of wheat, 73s. lOd. ; duty,

13s. 8d.

— 17. Last publication of the Sheffield Chronicle newspaper,

which was ccmmeuced in February, 1837. j — 19. The congregation of St. James's Churcli presented to the Rev. R. E. Roberts, (who had been curate to the Rev. Thomas Best lor five years,) a purse of gold, as a token of their affectionate regard and esteem."

20. Average price of wiieat at Sheffield, 79s. Gd.

21, The Rev. Dr. John Harris (author of " Mammon") and the Rev. Dr. Raffles, of Liverpool, preached in Mount

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1838. Zion Chapel, on the occasion of its re-opening by the Rev. John Thorpe, and the congregation from Lee Croft Chapel. Nov. 24. Decease of Mr. JohnWalker,of the firm of Walker Eatou, and Co., aged 32.

— 27. Decease of Mr. Geo. Armitage, of Eldon street, aged 48.

— 30. Returns made by the clerks of the Unions cf Sheffield

and Ecclesall of the number and capacity of the places of worship, and children attending school, in the two Unions. Shfffield C7«/o« :— Sheffield town- ship : No. of Established Churches, 8, seating ] 1,170; Sunday Scholars connected with do., 1658; Day Scholars, 1303; Scholars attending both Sundays and week-days, 1472; — No. of Dissenting Chapels, 18, seating 16,095 ; Sunday Scholars connected with do., 6251 ; Day Scholars, 1420; Scholars attending both Sundays and week-days, 206. The Attercliiie and Brightside chapelrv contains 1 church, seating 2000 ; has 100 Sunday 'scholars, and 720 Sunday and day scholars, connected with the Establishment ; — 8 Dissenting chapels, seating 3520, and having 1652 Sunday scholars, and 252 day scholars connected therewith. The parish of Handsworth contains 1 church, seating 600, and has 266 Sunday scholars, and 226 day scholars, connected with the Establishment;

4 Dissenting chapels, sealing 1080, and having con- nected with them 170 Sunday scholars. Ecclesall Bierlotv Unioti : The townships in this Union contain

5 churches, seating 2,300 ; 12 Dissenting chapels, seating 6599 ; and a total of 2900 Sunday Scholars, and 2629 day scholars. — In addition to these, there are 1 102 day scholars, in the Sheffield Union, connected with the British and Foreign Society ; and the scho- lars educated in private schools are computed at 4104.

"Dec. 1. Sheffield Poorhouse : Paupers in the house, 349; in the gaols, 92 : week's out-payments, £121. 17s.

— 2. Decease of Mr. Joseph Rloulson, aged 47, of the firm of

Moulso-n Brothers.

— 1. Agi?regate average price of wheat, 75s. 6d.; duty, Is.

— 10, Decease of Mr. Thos. Bradbury, Arundel street, aged 75. — . Ecclesall Union: Paupers in the workhouses, 166 ; out- payments, £47. 12s. 7d.

— 11. Samuel Cooper, who had escaped from prison on the t

24th August, having been retaken in Hull, examined and committed to York.

— 14. Adjourned meeting, in Sheffield, of the committee for the

centenarv of Methodism; total sum subscribed in the Sheffield'district, £9,300.

— 26. Decease of Mr. Thomas Turton, of Spring Works, aged 59.

— 29. House of Recovery for fever patients : Subscriptions

amount to £5224s 19s. 6d. ' 31. Sheffield and Rotherham Railway: Passengers in No- vember, 37,876 ; in December, 43,630 : total of first two months, 81,506.

LEADER, PRINTER, INDEPENDENT OFFICE, SHCFFIELD.

[Presented GRATIS to the Subscribers to the Independent.^

CONTINUATION

OF THE

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER,

1839.

Jan. 1. Silver tea-service presented to the Rev. T. Smith, A.M., Minister of Nether Chapel, '• on occasion of his having completed the period of twenty years as a Minister of the Gospel, at that place of worship, and as a testimony of sincere respect," &c.

— 5. Mr. Paulton lectured, at the Town Hall, on the Corn Laws.

— 4. Literary and Philosophical Society : the Rev. H. Parish

elected president; Dr. Favell, S.Bailey, Esq., Rev. J. Blackburn, and J. Montgomery, Esq., vice-presidents.

— 5. Savings' Bank Accounts published : received during the

year ending 20th Nov., 1838, £33,706. 7s. ; total depo- sits, £152,560; individual depositors, 4993; societies depositing, 53.

. Canvass for new subscribers to the Dispensary.

. Sheffield and Rotherham Railway : Number of passen- gers in Nov. and Dec, 81,506.

— 6. Dreadful hurricane, commenced during Sunday night, and

continued during Monday. The Pennsylvania, Saint Andrew, and Lockwoods, American packets, wrecked in the Mersey, the floating light having been driven from its moorings. At Sheffield, part of the Cholera Monument was blown down, and various buildings were damaged, hut no lives lost.

— 9. D. Urquhart, Esq., addresses two meetings of the mer-

chants and manufacturers, on the subject of our foreign relations.

— 11. Import duty on wheat. Is. per quarter.

— 12. Sheffield Poorhouse: Paupers in the house, 362 ; in the

gaols, 128; week's payments to the out-poor, ^£135. 13s. 2d.

— 14. Ecclesall Union Poorhouse : In the house, 176; week's

payments, £45. I4s. 8d.

— 17. Decease of Mr. John Kirk, gentleman, Victoria street.

— — . Meeting of the ratepayers of Nether Hallam, to consider how the Workhouse of the township should be disposed

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1839.

of, the guardians having resolved to erect a Unian Workhouse. The subject adjourned for 12 months.

7a«. 18. Meeting of the Ecclesall ratepayers, on the same question, respecting their Workhouse : Resolved, that the Guar- dians be recommended to purchase and alter it for a Union Workhouse ; but if they should refuse to do so, * then that it should be sold by auction.

. Aggregate average price of wheat, 79s. 8d. ; duty. Is.

— 19. Sheffield Cemetery : Interments— 1836, 19; 1837, 106;

1838, 172.

. Upper Hallam ratepayers met on the same subject as those

of Nether Hallam and Ecclesall, and adjourlied the subject for twelve months.

— 22. Average price of wheat, at Sheffield, 80s. lid. per quarter.

— 23. Ecclesall Guardians resolved that the present buildings

could not be made into an efficient Union Workhouse, but suspended proceedings for three months.

— 24. Meeting of the Medical Profession, to present a silver

snuff-box to Dr. Robert G. Holland, on the occasion of his leaving the town, " as a memorial of the sincere esteem his strictly honourable professional career de- served and obtained from his medical brethren at Sheffield."

— 25. Sheffield Banking Company : Annual meeting — divi-

dend of 8 per cent, declared, and 20 per cent, of the profits transferred to the reserved fund,

•— 28. George, John, and William Liversedge, of Rawmarsh, near Rotherhara, arrested, charged with several bur- glaries.

. Anti-Corn Law meeting, convened at the Town Hall, but

adjourned to Paradise square, attended by Colonel P. Thompson. The Chartists moved an amendment on the first resolution, but the amendment was negatived by a majority of two to one.

— 30. Half-yearly meeting of the Old Gas Company : No

dividend declared, and none having been made for three years.

— 31. Decease of Mr, John Wooffinden, of Sheaf bank, aged 42, Feb. 2. Sheffield Anti-Corn Law petition sent off, with 13,000

signatures.

. Decease of Mr. John Ashmore. aged 81.

, Sheriffs' Court, held at the Tontine Hotel, to assess the

value of two pieces of land required by the North Mid-

land Railway Company.

— 4. Decease of Mr. Middleton Hoyland, Gell street, aged 42. . B. B. Pegge Burnell, Esq., of Beauchief, appointed She- riff of Derbyshire.

— 6. Sheffield and Rotherham Banking Company : Annual

meeting ; dividend of 10 per cent., and 40 per cent, of the profit added to the reserved fund.

— 7. Decease of Mr. Isaac Bunting, Broom Spring lane.

— — . Dr. Holland read a paper before the proprietors of the Literary and Philosophical Society, " oa the Social,

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1839. Intellectual, and Moral Condition of the Industrious Classes ; with Reflections on the Abuses and Evils of Medical Charities." feh. 7. Mr. Ward, on presenting the Sheffield petition against the Corn Laws, raised the question of the right of Mem- bers to speak generally on the subjects of petitions, on their presentation.

— 8. The rule, against Mr. Ward's claim, laid down by Mr.

Speaker, affirmed by 186 to 44. . London mail arrives, via Birmingham, at five minutes past

eleven, a.m. . Aggregate average price of wheat, 78s. lid. ; duty. Is.

per quarter.

— 9. Sheffield Poorhouse : Paupers in the house, 390 ; in the

gaols, 129 ; payments to the out-poor, £133. 12s. 6d. . Ecclesall Union Workhouses : In the houses, 166 ; out- payments, £56. 9s. 3d.

— 11. Decease of Mr. John Woodcock, Bridge Hill, aged, 83.

— 13. Wesleyan Centenary meeting, in Carver street and Bruns-

wick chapels : ^^526. 19s. subscribed, in addition to £4003. 17s., at the adjourned meeting of the general committee, held some time ago.

— 16. Births and Deaths in the Sheffield Registration District,

from the 1st July to the 31st December: Births, 1718; deaths, 1159.

— 18. Deceaseof Mr. Joseph Benson, Little Sheffield, aged 71.

— 19. Anti-Slavery meeting and Bazaar, at the Cutlers* Hall.

— 20. Decease of Mr. John Middleton, cooper, St. James's

street, aged 84.

. Mr. William Ibbotson, Globe Works, and Mr. William

Vickers, Dun Works, appointed delegates of the Shef- field Anti-Corn Law Committee, to Loudon. I — 23. Sheffield Poorhouse : Paupers in the house, 388 ; in the I gaols, 88 ; week's payments to out-poor, £133. Is. 6d.

j — 25. Ecclesall Union Workhouses : Paupers in the houses, j 166; week's outpayments, £60. 7s, 2d.

j , Decease of Mr. Frauds Cluley, aged 61, registrar of births,

marriages, and deaths, and for many years an eminent surgeons' instrument maker.

— 26. Average price of wheat, at Sheffield, 74s. 1 Id, per qr. . Decease, at Naples, of Mark Skelton, Esq., late of the

Yews.

— 27. George Thompson, Esq., lectures at the Music Hall, on

the condition of the people of British India.

. Sheffield and Manchester Railway : Half-yearly meeting

at Manchester ; a favourable report presented.

— 28. Public dinner at Rotherham, to Col. FuUerton, to present

to him his portrait, painted by Mr. John Moore. The inscription on the frame is, " Presented to John Ful- lerton, Esq., of Thrybergh Park, by the gentry, trades- men, and inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Rotherham, as a memorial of their respect and esteem."

. Died, at the Three Cranes Inn, Queen street, Mr. Chas.

Fentem, aged 36.

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1839.

Fe6.28.Sheffield and Rotherham Railway : Average daily number of passengers, during the first three months, 1202, pro- ducing 7fd. each. The parliamentary estimate was for the conveyance of 150,000 a year.

March 2. Sheffield Poorhouse : Paupers in the house, 389 ; ia the gaols, 87; week's outpayments, £134.

— 4. Decease of the Rev. Abel Bywater, Minister in the Me-

thodist New Connexion, aged 38.

. Ecclesall Union Poorhouses ; In the two houses, 167 ;

week's out-payments, £60. Is. 3d.

— 5. Commencement of a three nights' discussion, between Mr.

Pallister, of Leeds, against, and Mr. Lloyd Jones, for, Owenism, in Coalpit lane Chapel.

— 7. Mr. Ebenezer Elliott proposed as a member of the Literary

and Philosophical Society, and blackballed ; there being eight votes for his admission, and five against it.

— 8. Aggregate average price of wheat, 73s. 6d. ; duty Is.

— 12. Average price of wheat, at Sheffield, 75s. per quarter.

— 13. James Eyre, Wm. Skinner, and Samuel Cooper, tried at

York, for the highway robbery of John Le Tall, on the 11th August, in the Park. Skinner, not guilty; Eyre and Cooper, guilty— to be transported for life.

— 16. John and Wm. Liversedge, of Rawmarsh, found guilty of

a burglary, in the house of Jon. Whitaker, of Thry- bergh, on the 7th January. To be transported for life. George Liversidge, their father, acquitted.

— 19. Wm. and Henry Swaine, and Henry Palfrey, acquitted

of .shooting at Joseph Wilson, gamekeeper of the Duke of Norfolk, on Bradfield moors, on the 13th August.

— 21. Opening of the Exhibition of the Mechanics' Institute at

the Music Hall.

. John Slinn found guilty of maliciously stabbing Dennis

Binney, on the Ecclesall road, on the 25th August.

. Decease of Mr. Wm. Rowley, maltster, Union street,

aged 69.

. The ratepayers of Atterclifi'e resolve to adopt the provi- sions of the Lighting and Watching Act, 4 Wm. IV.

— 22. Decease of Mr. Jehoida Skidmore, accountant, aged 42.

— 23. The Sheffield Independent takes the name of the Sheffield

and Rotherham Independent.

— 23. Decease of Mr. Alban Booth, Change alley, aged 50.

— 27. Decease of Mr. H. W. R. Norman, painter,

— 28. Cutlers' Company authorise the Master Cutler to attend

the next meeting of the Literary and Philosophical So- ciety, and give the vote of the Company in favour of the admission of Mr. Ebenezer Elliott as a member.

— 30. Prospectus of the Borough Bank of Sheffield, to issue

only Bank of England notes ; capital, £300,000, in shares of £50 each.

— 31. Decease of Mr. John Senior, Castle folds, aged 81. .^jjrin. Decease of Mr. Charles Finder, aged 22, of the firm of

Finder and Sons, Edward street. —— . First stone of a new church and school laid at Darnall, bv W. Jefifcock, Esq.

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1839.

April l.Paupers in Ecclesall Union Workhouses, 170 ; week's pay- ments to the out-poor, £55. 5s. 8d.

. Sheffield Auxiliary of the London Missionary Society : At the public meeting, an additional subscription of £100 was raised for the missionary cause, as a token of the regard of the churches in Sheffield, for the Rev. Jame Boden, the last survivor of the founders of the Faren Society. '

. Th€ Rev. James Boden resigned the office of pastor to the Congregational Church, Queen street, which he had filled for 42 years. Succeeded by the Rev. J. A. Mil- lee, who, for the last two years and a half, had been co- pastor.

— 4. Mr. E. Elliott unanimously elected a member of the Li-

terary and Philosophical Society, at a numerous meeting.

. Mr. L. Langley, of Brampton Academy, committed to

York, on two charges of forgery.

•— , Churchwardens elected. Parish Church : Mr. Ballans, Angel street, and Mr. Wm. Marshall, Westbar. St. James's : Messrs. E. Atkin and Henry Colley. St. Paul's: Mr. White and Mr. Fenton. St. George's: Mr. J. S. Hawksworth and Mr. Butcher. St. Mary's ; Messrs. Parkin and W. Gillbee. Park: Messrs. Carr and Crossland. St. Philip's : Mr. Primrose, Westbar ; and Mr. Houldsworth. Ecclesall Chapel : Mr. W. Ellin.

^ 5. Decease of Joseph Holmes, sawmaker, St. Philip's road, aged 36. For several years, he had been secretary to the Sawmakers' Union, in which office " he gave the greatest safisfactioD, and exercised the most beneficial influence on the affairs of the Association." " His employers (the Messrs. Groves,) and representatives of all the united trades of the town," followed him lo the grave.

— 6. Sheffield Poorhouse : Paupers in the house, 381 ; in the

gaols, 84 ; week's payments to the out-poor, £133.2s.Gd.

— 8. New bridge over the river Dun, at Philadelphia: Publi<:

meeting to promote. ^£1000 subscribed towards the expense.

— 10. Application to Pontefract Sessions, to sanction the new

bridge, with a view to a future application for a grant towards the expense of erection, rejected. — . Opening of Portmahon (Baptist) Chapel. The Rev. D. Rees, minister.

— 12. Duke of Norfolk : Public meeting to originate a sub-

scription to provide a portrait of his Grace, to be placed in the Cutlers' Hall.

— 14. Died, in the Sheffield Poorhouse, where he had been

nearly eight years, aged 53, JohnBlackwell. tailor, alias Jackey Blacker, well-known in the early part of his life as "King of the Gallery" of the Sheffield Theatre. On Tuesday, the 3rd of December, 1816, Jackey dis- tinguished himself in a cheap bread riot, by carrying on a2

322 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1839. a pole a loaf smeared with blood. Being observed bf Mr. Wortley, (now Lord Wharncliffe,) that gentleman dashed into the crowd, and himself apprehended him. He was committed to York Castle, and tried on the 19th March, 1817, found guilty, and sentenced to two years' . imprisonment. Blackwell was also charged, at the York Summer Assizes of 1820, for behaving in a riotous manner at Sheffield, and encouraging other disorderly persons to riot, and having in his possession a loaded pistol, a pike, and other unlawful weapons. For this offence, he was imprisoned two years and a half. -(4/j/.16.Decease of Mr. Joshua Jervis, grocer, Snighill, aged 70.

— 19. Decease of the Rev. B. Birkett, Master of the Free Gram-

mar School, Rotherham, aged 67.

— 20. Sheffield Highway Accounts published : Expenses of the

year, £^8561. 15s. S^d, ; total receipts, ^9007.17s.5^d.

— 22. Decease of Mr, John Eyre, Wicker, formerly an extensive

corn merchant.

. Decease of Mr. Samuel Saynor, cutlery manufacturer,

Edward street, aged 53,

— 25. Meeting of Rotherham ratepayers : Proposed to grant a

rate of £240, for the police expenditure for the ensuing year. Amendment proposed and carried, granting a rate of £20. A poll demanded.

— .28. SheriQ's Court held at the Tontine Hotel, on this and the

two following days, to assess the value of several pieces of land required by the Sheffield and Manchester Rail- way Company. ——. Decease of Mr. Septimus Parker, aged 78.

— 31. Daniel Hague and George Froggatt committed to York+

charged with a rape on Harriet Hopkinson, at Attercliffe. May 1 . Public meeting ; resolved upon the erection of a Temper- ance Hall.

— 2. Literary and Philosophical Society : Monthly meeting ;

Mr. Elliott declined to become a member.

. Sheffield Canal : Annual meeting; gross income of the

year, ending April 20, ^£9,376. Us. 5d. Dividend, £.3,872 on ^70,000.

— 4. Sheffield and Rotherham Railway : Passengers from 1st

Nov., 1838, to 1st May, 1839, 203,037.

. Two town missionaries engaged by the Sheffield Congre-

gatioaal Union, commence their labours in Sheffield.

— 7. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 73s. 6d. per qr.

— 10. Rotherham police: Close of the poll, for rate of ^£240,

205; for rate of £20, 134.

— II. Decease at Meersbrook, of Lydia, relict of the late vene-

rable Samuel Shore, Esq., having herself attained the still more advanced age of 92.

. Sheffield Poorhouse : Paupers in the house, 391 ; in

gaols, 101 ; week's out-payments, ^129. lis. 6d.

— 14. Decease of Mr. Joseph Hobson, file manufacturer, Hirst,

aged 72.

— 15, Decease of Mr. John Waterfall, Fargate, aged 67.

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1839.

Afay 1 6. Sheffield Barracks the head-quarters of the 1st Roya' Dragoons, commanded by Col. Marten.

— 18. Opinioa of Counsel on the Rotherham police rate poll ; it

being stated that the opponents, instead of voting for the amendment, a rate of £20, had voted against the grant of any rate at all ; the opinioa was given " That the opposition, instead of voting against the act altoge- ther, ought to have voted for a sum of money, however small, and for the appointment of certain persons as In- , spectors ; and not having done so, their votes are of no effect."

— 20. Simultaneous meetings of the Chartists throughout the

kingdom. Mr. Wm. Gill, the delecate of the Sheffield Chartists to the Convention, resigned, because " he was resolved not to represent a disunited people."

— 22. Aged Female Society : Twenty-ninth annual meeting;

income, £307. 7s. 6d. ; expenditure, £306. 17s.

— 24. Decease of Mr, Thomas Murfin, Victoria hotel, High

street, aged 46.

— 26. Decease of Mr. Charles Ibbotson, Edge End, aged 79.

— 27. Decease of Mr. Joshui Grpgory, aged 67.

— 29. News of the Chancellor of E.'ichequer's declaration, that

Government would adopt Mr. Hill's plau of a penny postage.

— 30. Meeting at the Cutlers' Hall, Archdeacon Corbett in the

chair, to promote education accordinj to the principles of the Established Church. The meeting was addressed by several of the local clergy, by the Rev. F. Close, of Cheltenham, and the Rev. H. Stowell, of Manchester.

. Decease, atBawtry, of Mr. Wm. Staley, late of Sheffield,

aged 47.

— 31. Meeting of Inspectors of Rotherham police : Order made

on the overseers for a rate of .£240.

June\. Close of the Exhibition of the Mechanics' Institution, having been opened ten weeks.

. Overseers accounts published: Collected in rates during

the last year, £17,774. Their payments to the out- poor were, in the first quarter, £1585 in money, and £533 in kind ; second quarter, £1457 in money, and £407 in kind; third quarter, £1417 in money, and £385 in kind; fourth quarter, £1461 in money, and ^414 in kind. The cost of provisions, for the house, was £5013. The average number in the house, exclu- sive of gaol cases, 349 ; and the average cost of main- tenance, 23. 7jd. The total expense of the year, in- cluding ^500 for the new offices, has ^been £15,516. 88. Id. The balance paid to the incoming overseers is £2,811. 17s. 2d.

. Sheffield Poorhouse : Paupers in the poorhouse, 348 ; in

gaols, 101 : week's payments to out-poor, £135. Is. 6d.

— 3. Ecclesall Union Poorhouses : la the houses, 164 ; out-

payments, £52. Is. 6d.

— 4. Decease, at Maltby, of Mr. Richard Thompson, of the firm

of Thompson and Lindley, button manufacturers, Sheffield. a 3

3tti 8HKmRL.D LOOAX RKOISTHR.

1839. June 4.Decease of Mr. George Arundel, aged 54 ; the latt «ar-

viving member of the late firm of Robinson, Lamb,

and Arundel. *— . Cora averages at Sheffield ; Wheat, 708. 3d. per qr,

— 6. Meeting at Sheffield of the West Riding Geological and

Polytechnic Society.

— 8. Rotherham Police ; Opinion of M.T. Baines, Esq., against

the legality of the police rate made public.

— 11. Joseph Lenton committed to York, charged with stabbing

George Glossop, at the Omnibus beerhouse, in the

Brocco. — — . The spring has been one of the coldest and dryest known

for some years. Average price of wheat at SheflSeld,

70s. lOd. per qr. — 14. Aggregate average price of wheat, 70s. 3d. per quarter;

duty, 10s. 8d.

— 19. After several discussions, the Police Commissioners found

it necessary to pay the Gas Company an advanced price for lighting the public lamps, computed to amount to about £800 a year. — — . Decease of Mr. N. Burgin, kte of the firm of N. Burgia and Sons, tailors.

— 21. London letters, via Birmingham, arrive at§ past 10, a.m. ~ 25. Decease of Mr. William Rayner, merchant, St. James's

street, aged 64.

— 26. Annual Meeting of the Sheffield Fire Office : Dividend

10 per cent. Resolved to provide a water tender to accompany the engines.

— 27. Explosion at Rotherham gas works; damage about £100.

— 30. Decease of Mr. John Waterfall, aged 67, for many years

one of the constables of Sheffield. Julp 1. Annual Meeting of Mechanics' Library : J. Montgomery, Esq., chairman, gave his " deliberate opinion, that ex- cepting a few contraband books of comparatively harm- less character, there did not exist a public library of miscellaneous books in the kingdom containing a smaller proportion of exceptionable volumes than this." Vote of censure on the late committee, for their conduct in reference to the coffee-room, carried by a large majo- rity. By another vote, the thanks of the meeting were withheld from the late secretary, Mr. Isaac Ironside; and Mr. E. Hebblethwaite appointed to succeed him. Meeting adjourned.

— 5. Fifth annual meeting of the New Gas Company : Dividend

of IBs. 6d. per share.

— 6. Sheffield Poorhonse : Paupers in the house, 295 ; in the

gaols, 84; week's ojilkpayments, ^116. 1 Is. 6d.

— 8. Adjourned meeting of' Mechanics' Library: Censured

late committee for having admitted some books " s»b- versive of the principles of the Christian religion ;" and '' recognized the exclusion of novels, romances, and plays, as a fundamental principle of the Institution." ——> . Beclesall Union Workhoase : Paupers in the two houses, 159 ; wmV* out-pftynMU, £5a 13k. 9d.

BHKFFIEIiD LOCAL RE61STBR. aZb

1839.

Jm/^S. Rotherham Sessions: License for a lunatic asylum in the Workhouse of Sheffield refused ; application to be re- newed at Pontefract sessions.

— 10. Sheffield and Manchester Railway : Call for fourth in-

stalment of £5 per share. — — . Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 71s. 5d. per qr.

— 13. Joseph Lenton convicted at the assizes of stabbing George

Glossop on the 29th of May ; 12 months imprisonment. . Decease of Mr. Joseph Taylor, Union inn, Furnace hill, aged 60.

— 15. Meeting of Chartists in Paradise square : Elect James

Wolstenholme (vice Mr. Wm. Gill, resigned), as the delegate of Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster, Chester- field, and Brampton, to the Convention. Nightly meet- ings, and preachings on the Sunday in the open- air, commenced by the Chartists.

— 16. Daniel Hague and George Froggatt found guilty at York,

of the rape of Harriet Hopkinson, at Altercliflfe, on the 14th of April, sentenced to death.

— 17' Henry Whitehead pleaded guilty of a burglary iu the house

of Mr. Stevenson, Orchard street ; to be transported

10 years. . Marple? v. Plant: Seduction at Sheffield ; verdict for the

plaintiff, damages £100. — — . Annual meeting of the Proprietorsof the Baths : Dividend

of 6s. per share.

— 19. Sheffield and Ilallamshire Bank : Third annual meeting;

dividend of 71 per cent. ; £ 1976 added to reserved fund. . Aggregate average price of wheat, 68s. 6d. ; duty, 16s. 8d.

— 20. Publication of Police Accounts- Receipts, exclusive of

last year's belance, £6692; expenditure, £6858;

balance, ^5*28. . Oa the representation of certain householders, that the

nightly meetings of the Chartists caused alarm, the

Magistrates issued a warning to the inhabitants not to

attend such meetings. -T- 21. Decease, at Rotherham, of Mr. Charles Fleck.

— 22. Hague and Froggatt sentenced lo death on the 16th,

reprieved.

— 24. Decease of the Rev. Thomas Richard Rider, vicar of

Ecclesfield, aged 45.

. Ratepayers of Rotherham grant a church rate amounting

to ^£155. 4s. Committee appointed lo consider the question of closing the church yard, and making a new entrance to the belfry.

— 27. The nightly meetings of the Chartists continued: The

names of tradesmen, wl)0 contributed or refused to con- tribute to their fund, read over at the meetings.

• . Birth : In Grosvenor square, London, Lady Milton, of a

son and heir.

. Publication of table of births and deaths for th« Sheffield

Registration district, 1st Jan. to 30th June, 1839; births, 1899; deaths, 1291.

— 31. Archibald Bolam found guilty at NeweastW of the man-

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slaughter of Joseph Millie, on the 6th December ; <9

be transported for life. Ju^»/31. Meeting of the Sheffield Gas Company: Dividend of 22»

9d, per share declared. . Great flood, nearly equal to that of the 19th July, 1834.

The wooden centres used in the erection of the North

Midland Railway, over the Dun, carried down against

the wooden bridge of the ShefBeld and Rotherham

Railway with great force, but the shock was received

without injury. Aug. 1. Literary and Philosophical Society: Paper read by Mr.

Palfreyman, "on the History, Constitution, Policy, and

Importance of Friendly Societies."

— 2. Aggregate average price of wheat, 69s. 2d. ; duty, 13s.

8d. per quarter.

— 3. Nightly meetings of the Chartists continued.

. Sheffield Poorbouse : Paupeis in the house, 300; in the

gaols, 114; week's out-payments. £119. 9s.

— 5. Meeting of manufacturers at the Cutlers' Hall, formed " a

society for protecting the marks of manufacturers from fraudulent and spurious imitations."

— — . The Chartist Convention having referred the fixing of the " sacred month" to the people, a meeting was held in Paradise square : resolved, " That this meeting, while we believe that nothing less than an universal stand can get the Charter, we believe that this town and dis- trict are not as yet sufficiently organised for the adop- tion of the " Sacred Month," but, nevertheless, we wait the decision of the General Convention ; and pledge ourselves to adopt and carry out all measures VNcONDiTioNALLY, recommended by them for securing the People's Charter."

. Ecclesall Union Workhouses: Paupers in the two house*,

151 ; week's out-payments, £45. 2s. Id.

. Decease of John Fisher, Esq., Clifton, near Rotherham,

aged 71-

— 6. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 75s. 7d. per quarter. . Decease of Mr. Charles Senior, Sheffield "Wire Works,

aged 44.

— 7. Sheffield and Rotherham Railway : Annual meeting';

dividend of 20s. per share declared ; directors autho- rised to apply for an act to create additional shares to the amount of £70,000, thus making the capital £200,000, including £30,000 borrowed. After the meeting, the shareholders proceeded to open the coal branch from the Holmes to Greasbro' Canal.

— 8. Meeting of the ratepayers of Rotherham, receive and

adopt the report of the committee appointed 24th July, in favour of the total enclosure of the church-yard, and vote £60 for the purpose.

. Committee of the House of Recovery adopt the plans of

Mr. Wra, Flockton.

— 9. Josepb Pike committed to York on the coroner's warrant,

for the manslaughter, at Rotherham, of William Shack- letoD.

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jlw^.lO.Nightly meetings of the Chartists continued, but the at- tendance small.

— 12. Convention having recommended that three days be de-

voted to solemn processions, &c., instead of keeping the " Sacred Month," meetings and processions were held this day, morning, afternoon, and evening. i— 13. Magistrates issued a proclamation, forbidding Chartistmeet- ings: Peter Foden, charged as concerned in the un- lawful and riotous proceedings of the previous day, and Charles Fox, charged with seditious language ; were arrested, brought before the magistrates, and remanded to the next day (Wednesday.) In the evening, a riot took place, and the streets were cleared by the military and police. No lives were lost, nor any serious injury done. Between 70 and 80 persons taken into custody.

— 14. Foden and Fox again examined, and bail required for

their appearance at York. Till bail should be com- pleted, they were remanded to the House of Correction, at Wakefield. Most of the prisoners taken on the 13th were discharged unconditionally, or on their recogni- zances. Several were remanded to Friday. Much ex- citement in the town. In the evening, the streets were cleared by the police. . Cutlers' Company : Officers for the ensuing year : Mas- ter— Samuel Smith, Esq. fFardens — Messrs. James Moorhouse and Thos. Ellin, jun. Searchers — Messrs, Thomas Wilkinson, Wm. Broadhurst, Joseph Mappin, George VVragg, Wm. Steer, and George Wostenholme. /issistants—M.ess\s. Samuel Hadfield, John Greaves, Thomas Blake, John Spencer, Thos. Shepherd, Joseph Hobson, Wm. Middleton, Wm. Hall, Joseph Elliott, Charles Cam, W. Nowell, Thomas Loxley, George Johnson, Joseph Levick, Samuel Parker, Fras. New- ton, James Hall, Henry Atkin, Henry Mort, William Butcher, George Savage, John Hawksley, Thos. Stani- forth, and Thomas Moulson.

— J 5. Decease of Mr. Wm. Wilkinson, Grimesthorpe, aged 62.

— 16. Moses Farrar and Samuel Nail, concerned in the riot

of the 13th, committed tor trial to the Sessions, and John Marsden to York. Magistrates warn the public against unlawful meetings, and "express the gratifica- tion it has afforded them, in receiving the voluntary offers of many thousands of the working classes, to be sworn in as special constables, to assist in preserving the peace, and in preventing offences against the per- sons and properties of her Majesty's subjects." Shef- field Yeomanry called out, in consequence of the prin- cipal part of the troops in the barracks being called to Macclesffeld.

. Decease at Southport, of Mr. Edward Haslehnrst, table-

, knife manufacturer, Washington Works, in the 31st

year of his age. > — 18. Decease of Mr. John Woolhouse, aged 61, late joiner and builder, Sheffield Park.

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wiw^. 1 8. Chartists attend the Parish Church ia considerable nunw bers, having requested the Vicar to preach from a par- ticular text. The Vicar announced that he would do Ro the next Sunday.

— 25. The Vicar preached to the Chartists from the 5th chapter

of the Epistle of James, the 1st to the 11th verse.

— 26. Cricket match at Hyde Park, between eleven Sheffield

and eleven Leicester players. After three days' play, the Sheffield players scored 209 ; and the Leicester 1 63.

— 27. Decease at Boulogne, of Josh. Parkin, Esq., formerly a

merchant of Sh'eflBeld. He was Master Cutler in 1814.

— 28. Sheffield and Manchester Railway : half-yearly meeting at

Sheffield; a very favourable report of the state and

prospects of the works was given. . Decease at Warwick, of Thomas Dunn, Esq., in the 65th

year of his age, of the firm of Hounsfield, Wilson, and

Co., the Sheffield Coal Company. Mr. Dunn was

Master Cutler, in 1832, and acted as returning officer

at the first election for Sheffield. Sept. 1. Guardians of the Poor cease to relieve the debtors in

Sheffield and Ecclesall Gaols. .. Chartists again at Church.

— 2. Ecclesall Union Workhouses : Paupers in the bouses,

172; week's out-payments, £48. 3s. 8d.

. Borough Bank opened (or business.

— . 3. Mr. Ebenezer Elliott and Mr. James Wolstenbolme ac- cepted as bail for Peter Foden.

— 4. General Quarterly and Special Board of the Governors of

the Infirmary : Income of the year less than outlay by £1111. The resolution of the House of Recovery Committee, adopting Mr, W. Flockton's plans for that building, was confirmed by a majority of 7 to 6.

— — - Meeting of delegates from the various united trades of Ihe town ; resolved that they could not, as trades' unions, support the Chartists or any other political party.

. Hacl< ney Coach'regulations adopted, by agreement between

the Police Commissioners and the hackney coach pro- prietors.

— 6. Cutlers' Feast : Principal guests : Earl Scarborough,

Lord Edward Howard, Lord Morpeth, M.P., Sir Geo. Strickland, M.P., and John Parker, Esf)., M.P.

. Decease of Mr. Thos. Elliott, merchant, Victoria street,

aged 55.

— 7. Wadsley and Langsett road : Tolls let for £1465 ; thir-

teen years ago, they let only for £150.

. Town Trust accounts pulilished : Receipts, £3867 ; paid

into banks, £1846. l.^s. l|d.; expenditure, £2020. lis. 8d.

. Explosion of the boiler of the High Hazles Colliery ; boy

killed.

. Sheffield Poorhousc : Pauper* in the house, 298 ; in

fiaol, 104 ; week's out-payments, ^6120. ■~ 6. Chartists attended Church in considerable numbers, and a disturbance took place.

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J 839. Sepl.9. Meeting to establish a Mechanics' News Room, in con- nexion with the Reform Association. . Silent meeting of the Chartists in Paradise square.

— 10. Average price of wheat at SheflSeld, 75s, lid. per qr.

— — . The Vicar, the Rev. J. Gibson, and Churchwardens of the Parish Church, wait upon the Magistrates, at the Town Hall, " to claim the protection of the lawagaitut a recurrence of the painful scene which happened in the Parish Church on Sunday," arising out of the at- tendance of the Chartists.

— 11. William Martin, an Irishman, charged with sedition, in a

lecture delivered to the Chartists, in their meeting room. Fig-tree lane, on the 6th September. He was charged with having said, among other things, " If any Magistrate dare issue a warrant against him or his brothers, he would assassinate him, by day or by night ; and he further asked, ' Is there a man amongst you who cannot make a blade that will draw blood ?' "— Committed to York.

". Anothersilent meeting of the Chartists in Paradise square ;

pistol fired, and some panes of glass broken.

— 12. Decease of John Carr, Esq., Springfield house, aged 63.

- — .. Anothersilent meeting of the Chartists in Paradise square ;

dispersed by the military and police ; assembled again

at Doctor's field, and again dispersed ; much throwing

of stones, but no lives lost, nor any seriously hurt ;

36 prisoners taken.

^- 14. Accounts of the Society for Bettering the Condition of

I the Poor : Receipts, .^^334 ; expenditure, £287 ;

t relieved in clothing, 1878 cases ; in money and food,

1162} sick, 892 ; depositors, 177; total, 4109 cases.

. Wesleyao Centenary Fund : Treasurer acknowledges,

' among the first instalments of the Centenary Fund,

£3827. 178. from the Sheffield district. -. The prisoners taken on Thursday night (I2tl),) examined by the Magistrates; Robert Cox, George Gallimore, Joseph Lingard, James Bartholomew, Joshua Clay- ford, and Thomas Powell, committed to York, but allowed bail; a number of others were required to enter into recognizances, and find sureties to keep the peace. Thomas Mason, charged with the disturbance in the Church on Sunday, was held to bail to appear at the Sessions.

15. Armed policemen stationed at the Churchyard gates,

and in the Churcti, to prevent disturbance. In the afternoon and evening, the Chartists met at Sky Edge.

16. The remaining rioters of the 12th examined : William

Robinson and Joseph Jowitt committed to the Sessions ;

the rest required to find sureties for their keeping tha

peace. -. In the evening, the Chartists had another meeting at Sky .; Edge. -. Revising Bamsters' Court at Sheffield : County lists ;

new claims : Reformers, 178 ; T(Jrres, 92 ; doubtful,

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. 10. Struck off: Reformers, 187 ; Tories, 47 ; doubt-- ful, 10.

Se/>/,18.Another Chartist meeting to be held at Sky Edge, but preparations having been made to disperse it, and it becoming known that ball cartridge had been served ■ out to the troops, the meeting did not take place.

. Revising Barristers' Court at Rotherham : New claims :

Reformers, 31 ; Tories, 21. Struck off: Reformers, 33 ; Tories, 26.

— 19. Decease of Mr. William Mosely, aged 77.

. Rain : The following table shows the fall of rain that

has taken place this jear, compared with the years 1837 and 1838, up to the 19th September in each year. From the 1st June to the 19th Sepember. 1839, there fell 12.90 inches of rain, or nearly 13 inches ; whilst in the same month of last year, wet as the summer was, there only fell 6.18 inches — less than one-half. In the month of September this 3'ear, there has fallen sixteen times as much rain as in the same month of last year : —

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Total quantity .. 6.83 ,. 17.51 .. 17.26

— 20. Aggregate average of wheat, 71s. 3d. ; duty, Is. per qr.

— 21. Very little progress made in this neighbourhood with the

harvest, in consequence of its lateness, and the wetness of the season.

. Prospectus for the formation of a Cemetery Company in

Rotherham ; capital, £2500, in £10 shares.

— 23. Martha Bagshaw, servant of Mr. John Marshall, inn-

keeper, Grimesthorpe, committed to York, charged with the murder of her new-born illegitimate child.

. Rotherham Cemetery: Plan approved by a public meet- ing, and a committee appointed.

. Decease of Mr. Geo. Pinder, saw manufacturer, aged 24.

— 2 Wolstenholme, late delegate of the Sheffield Chartists

to the Convention, and Chatterton, their secre- tary, sailed for the United States.

— 30. Decease, at Broomhead Hall, of James Rimington, Esq.,

A.M., one of her Majesty's Justices of the Peace and Quorum, and Deputy Lieutenant for the West-Riding of the county of York.

Oct: I. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 75s. 8d. per quarter.

— — . Mr. James Jackson, Regent terrace, and Mr. Iiaac Iron- side, accepted as bail for Charlei Fox.

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Oct. 2. Annual meeting of the Infirmary, Earl Fitzwilliam in the chair. The committee of the House of Recovery having decliaed to proceed with the work, unless their adoption of Mr. Flockton's plans were approved by a greater majority than at their last meeting, (Sep. 4,) the former resolution was confirmed by 20 to 9 ; an amendment having been negatived by 19 to 7. No an- niversary dinner this year.

— 3. Decease of Mr. Samuel Woodcock, brush maker and tim-

ber merchant, aged 51.

— 5. Decease of Mr. John Pagdin, of the firm of Pagdin and

Sons, Howard street.

. Sheffield Poorhouse : Paupers in the house, 333 ; in gaols,

54; week's out-payments, £111. 2s. 9d.

— 6. Decease of Mr. Samuel Goodison, grocer, Castle street,

aged 60,

— 7. Ecclesall Union Workhouse : Paupers in the house,

176; outpaymentsfor the week, £47. 17s. .'id.

— 12. Address to the public, from the committee of the Mechanics'

Institute, soliciting aid to build a Mechanics' Hall.

. The crops in this neighbourhood, excepting barley, are

now secured ; but in high and cold situations, the har- vest is still in progress. — hidependent.

— 15. Decease of Mr. John Johnson, Gibraltar street, aged 77

years. Mr. Johnson was the oldest carrier in Sheffield, having conveyed goods to and from Manchester and Liverpool nearly sixty years.

— 17. Annual dinner of the Shefiield Licensed Victuallers' So-

ciety, held at Mr. Oldfield's, Pheasant Inn, Park. Mr. Saville, president.

— 18. Deceaseof Mr. Ward, late of the firm of Bawer and Ward,

High street.

— 19. Decease of Mr. James Briggs, Newcastle- on-Tyne, for-

merly of Sheffield.

— 21. Meeting at the National SchooUofona a Church of England

Mutual Instiuction Society.

— 22. Sheffield Sessions: License granted to Messrs. Gedge and

Lacy, for the Theatre, Mr. Hammond, the late lessee, having taken Drury lane, London. License refused to Mr. Parish, for the Circus.

— 24. Moses Farrar found guilty of rioting on the 13th August ;

Samuel Nail and Wm. Robinson, the first on the 13th August, the other on the 12th September ; Farrar sen- tenced to three months imprisonment; Nail and Robin- son to one month each ; each of the three to find sureties for their good behaviour for one year. Mason, held to bail for the disturbance at the Church, did not appear, ; to take his trial. No evidence offered against Joseph

Jowitt.

— 25. Sheffield and Manchester Railway. Special meeting to

determine on the expediency of enforcing the payment of arrears on the calls alreaay made. After a statement of the circumstances, by Lord Wharncliffe, the chair-

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man, it was resolved to leave the matter to the discretion

of the directors. Oc<.25.Celebration, by devotional services, of the centenary of

Methodism. Excessive rain for several days.

— 28. Decease of Mr. John Hall, merchant, aged 43.

. Annual meeting of the Mechanics' Institute, reported

that the building fund amounted to £1400: resolved to have another exhibition next year, to augment this fund.

— 29. Thomas Mason given up by his sureties, and brought

before the magistrates, on a bench warrant. CommiU

ted for trial at Doncaster Sessions. Nov. I. Harvest deficient in quantity and quality ; but the bad

quality of much of the corn keeps down the averages.

Aggre'gate average of wheat, 67s. 8d. ; duty, 18s. 8d. . London morning papers arrive at half past five, p.m.

— 2. Sheffield Poorhouse : Paupers in the house, 363 ; in tha

gaols, 8 ; week's out payments, £103. 5s. 6d.

— 4. Ecclesall Union Poorhouse : Paupers in the house, 180;

week's out payments, £50. IJ^s. 3d.

— 7 Meetin'^ of working men, connected with the different

trades of the town, formed an Anti-Corn Law committee.

— 8 Decease of Mr. Joseph Andrews, grocer, Furnace hill. . Marples v. Plant : Rule for a new trial in this case (tried

at the Summer Assizes) obtained.

— 9 Sheffield and Rotherham Railway . Number of passen-

gers carried from November 1st, 1838, to October 31st, 1839, bolh days inclusive :_1838.— November, 37,876; December, 44,614. 1839.- January, 28,07 1 ; February, 27 729- March, 30,034; April, 38,109 ; May, 50,325; June, 37,500; July, 43,358; August, 39,882; Septem- her 41,801 ; October, 36,076 : making a total of 455,375. Average of the year's traffic, nearly 1250 per day. The greatest number carried in one day, 7350. The stamp duty for the last half year's passengers amounted to £641. 19s. 10|d., being at the rate of Id. for every eii'ht passengers carried one mile. The stamp duty return for the month of October last, is 169,636 passen- gers conveyed one mile. Taking intervals of three successive days in every month of last year, on which tbe greatest number travelled, exclusive of the public weeks mentioned below, will shew as follows : Novem- ber, 8948; December, 5262; January, 4105; February, 5211; March, 7493; April, 5798; May, 5048; June, .5536; July, 6301; August, 6177; September, 5^9 ; October, 6133. Five of the largest weeks were— 1838. —November (Sheffield winter fair), 11,233; December (Christmas), 20,725. 1839. -May (Whitsuntide), 19,141 ; ditto (Sheffield summer fair), 14,212; Sep- tember (Doncaster races), 11,215. — 12 Decease of the Rev. E. W. Miller, formerly a travelling preacher among the Wesleyans, and of late years sta- tioned as a supernumerary in the Sheffield West Circuit.

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^OD. 13. Meeting in the Music Hall, of the Protestant and Reforma- tion Society; addressed by the Rev. R, J. M'Ghee, of Dublin, and the Rev. Hugh M'Neill, of Liverpool.

— 15. SheflSeld Gas Company : Shares sold by auction at .£37.

— 17. Decease of Mr. G. Hunter, Golden Fleece Inn, New Hay-

market, aged 51.

— 20. ShefBeld and Manchester Railway Company make a call

(the fifth) of £5 per share. ■ Decease of Mr. Joseph Smith, aged 76, of Upperthorpe,

many years an edge tool manufacturer, in Carver street.

— 23. The Queen declares to her Privy Council her intention to

marry Prince Albert of Sase Coburg and Gotha.

. Decease of Mr. Timothy Millington, formerly of Holly

.street, hat manufacturer, aged 66: Bequeathed the interest of £300, to be annually paid to the minister of St. Philip's church, for the benefit of the British and Foreign Bible Society.

— 25. Decease of Mr. Thomas Hammerton, Ben Lomond tavern,

aged 76.

. Chartist meeting announced to be held in the room, Fig- tree lane, to elect a delegate to a new convention, at Newcastle, but prevented by the Magistrates.

. Attempt to set fire to St. Mary's Church, by throwing

through one of the windows inflammable materials.

. Presentation to the Rev. H. H. Piper, of Norton, of a

magnificent silver inkstand, and 100 sovereigns, "con- tributed by several of his Unitarian friends in Sheffield and the neighbourhood, as a mark of the high opinion they entertained of his talent in the late controversy with the Rev. Thomas Best." The controversy con- sisted of a series of letters in the Mercury and Iris, on Unitarianism.

— 26. Torch-light meeting at Sky Edge, but broke up before the

Magistrates and the military reached the place. Torch lights afterwards seen at Spital hill, and three persons apprehended,

— 28. Decease, at Edge Bank, of Matt. Furniss, Esq., aged 72.

— 29. Three young men charged with having been at the meet-

ings at Sky Edge, or Spital hill, on the 26th : Exa- mined by the Magistrates, but discharged.

. John Bradshavv charged as a fraudulent bankrupt: After

several examinations, required to find bail to answer the charge at York assizes. 30. H. S. Stanhope, Esq., of Cannon Hall, appointed Com- missioner of Bankrupts, vice the late James Riming- ton, Esq.

Dec. 1. Decease of Mr. Wm. Norman, of Rotherham, chemi.st, aged 47.

. Sheffield and Rotherham Railway : Passengers during

the month, ending this day, 29,54L

— 2. Mr. Sydney Smith, lecturer on the corn laws, delivered

the first of two lectures at the Town Hall. . Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 65s. 9d. per quarter.

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Dec. 2. Ecclesall Unioa Poorhouses : Paupers in the housee, 186 ; week's out payments, £53. I4s. 8d.

— 3. Mr. Smith's second lecture: Some opposition made by

the Chartists to the resolutions proposed afterwards, but they were out-numbered by an immense majority.

. Decease of Mr. Thomas Walker, butcher and farmer, .

Ecclesfield, aged 36.

— 5. General reduction of Postages, above fourpence, to that

sum, preparatory to the adoption of the Penny Postage.

— 6. Aggregate average price of wheat, 67s. 5d. ; duty, 18s. 8d.

per quarter.

— 7. Decease of Mr. John Heppenstall, of Upperthorpe,

aged 55.

. Sheffield Poorhouse : Paupers in the house, 327 ;]in gaol,

1 ; out-payments, ^124. 3s.

— 9. Mechanics' Institute adopt a rule" excluding lectures and

discussions on controversial theology and party politics," for the sake of embodying in an express rule, a princi- ple acted on from the first formation of the Institute.

— 13. First sitting of the Rotherham Court of Requests, for

debts not exceeding £15. Steward, Fras. Maude, Esq.

— . 14. Sheffield and Hallamshire Saving Bank : Accounts pub- lished; total deposits to 20th November, £ir^2.354. Individual depositors, 5008 ; societies depositing, 40.

. Address of the "Working Men of Sheffield to the Work- ing Classes of the United Kingdom against the Corn Laws.

— 15. Decease of Mr. Samuel Frith, of the Barrack Tavern,

aged 60.

— 16. Meeting of Sheffield 'manufacturers to memorialise the

government on the subject of admitting American fiour, duty free, for 12 months. It was stated that the Americans owed to the manufacturers of Sheffield, if 600,000, and " that in consequence of the present deranged state of the Money market, of which there is no early prospect of improvement, the debtors in America' are wholly unable to pay off the amounts they owe, and dare not order further supplies of English goods, although such are wanted, and the consequence is, that your memorialists, in common with other manu- facturers throughout the kingdom, are compelled to cease to employ their workmen, and to lose their pro- fits on their capital invested in buildings and machi- nery ; and the masses of the working classes are neces- sarily driven to have recourse to parochial relief — a state of affairs which, unless speedily remedied, must bring loss and ruin to the capitalist and manufacturer, and daily increasing want and misery to the lower ranks of society."

. Decease of Mr. Ebenezer Rhodes, in the 77th year of his

age. Mr. Rhodes was Master Cutler in 1808, and to the time of his death, took an active part in the affairs of the Cutlers' Company. He was distinguished as a

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literary man, being the author of "Peak Scenery," (embellished with views by his friend, Sir Francis Chantry,) " The Palace of the Peak," and other works. He was an occasional contributor to a few of our periodicals, and edited the Sheffield Independent for several years, soon after its establishment. As a connoisseur in the fine arts, Mr. Rhodes was much dis- tinguished.

Dec. 19. Decease of Mr. George Hall, New George street, Shef- field moor, aged 54. — . Decease of Mr. Thomas Cooper, tanner and grocer, High street and Neepsend.

— 30. Sheffield Infirmary : Mrs. Hannah Barker elected matron, vice Miss Fentem, resigned.

CIRCULATION OF THE SHEFFIELD NEWSPAPERS,

In the Half- Year ending June 30th, 1839.

Total. Weekly Average.

Independent, 52,500 ... 2019

Mercury, 45,750 1759

Iris, 24,000 923

Patriot 13,000 .,.. 500

[No subsequent return has yet appeared.]

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LEADER, PRINTER, SHEFFIELD.

[Presented GRATIS to the Subscribers of the Independent. ~\

CONTINUATION

OF THE

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER,

FOR 1840.

Jan. 1. Anti-Corn Law Meeting, in the New Circus, adjourned to Paradise square. Opposed by Chartists ; but the resolutions, and a petition, [for the repeal of the Corn Law, were adopted. Meeting attended by the Members for the borough.

. Interments in Sheffield Cemetery : 1838, 172 ; 1839, 202.

— 2. Public Dinner to the Borough Members.

— 3. Sheffield Union : Paupers in the house, 373 ; week's pay-

ments to casual poor, £52. 7s.

— 3. Literary and Philosophical Society : Dr. Knight, presi-

dent; Messrs. H. Boultbee and W. Lucas, secretaries.

— 6. Ecclesall Union: Paupers in the houses, 225; week's

payments to out-poor, £bO. 5s. 4d.

— 7. Average price of wheat, at Sheffield, £3. 7s. 9d.

— 8. John Frost found guilty, at Monmouth, after six days'

trial, of high treason.

. Decease of the Rev. VV. Moorhouse, aged 61, late of West

Melton.

, Thomas Mason found guilty, at Doncaster Sessions, of

disturbance in the Parish Church of Sheffield, arising out of the attendance of the Chartists, in great numbers, at the church, on the 8th of September. Two months' imprisonment.

— 10. Decease, at Wincobank, of W. F. Rawson, Esq., aged 66. . Penny Postage came into operation.

— 11. Chartist conspiracy to take and burn the town, during the

night, frustrated. The Magistrates, police, and mil), tary, were on the alert, and at midnight, the leader of the insurrection, Samuel Holberry, was apprehended in his house, in Eyre lane, where a quantity of hand gre- nades and other combustibles were found. Some of the party, however, mustered, and encountered single watchmen, two or three of whom were wounded, but not fatally, and others were shot at. A number of prisoners were taken by the military and police.

— 12. Decease of Mr. Joshua Gillatt, druggist. Market place.

— 13. Great muster of Anti-Corn Law Delegates, at Man-

chester.

. Samuel and Mary Holberry, Thomas Booker, and William

his son, Samuel Foxall, and Samuel Thompson, exa-

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1840.

mined by the Magistrates on a charge of high treason. The table of the Court was covered with spears, dag- gers, firearms, bomb- shells, hand grenades, ball cartridges, and fire-balls, ./ffw. 14. Examination of the prisoners resumed, when Samuel Thompson, son of the prisoner of the same name, gave' evidence of the designs and plans of the Chartists, of whom he had been one of the class leaders. The charge of high treason was then limited to Holberry and Thomas Booker, who were committed on the charge, and, at the close of the examination, sent under a military escort to York Castle. Mary Holberry and Thompson, sen., were discharged. Wm. Wells, a young man respectably connected, was admitted to give evi- dence ; but as he appeared not to speak the truth, he was remanded.

— 16. John Frost, Zephaniah Williams, and Wm. Jones, con-

victed of high treason, at Monmouth, were sentenced to death ; but a point of law was reserved for the consi- deration of the Judges.

— 17. Resumed examination of the Chartists, when Wells ap-

peared as a prisoner, and Samuel Foxall was admitted as a witness. The prisoners were again remanded to Monday.

— 18. In consequence of the excitement produced by the

Chartist alarms, the number of the Independent printed this day was 4,600. -. Decease of Mr. Henry Osborne, AtterclifFe, aged 37.

— 20. Resumed- examination of the Chartists ; Earl Fitzwilliam

presiding. John Clayton, ,Wm. Booker, John Mar- shall, Tlios. Penthorpe, Joseph Bennison, Wm. Wells, and James Duffy, were committed to York, charged with conspiracy.

. Registered Births, in the Sheffield Union, from July to

December, 1839, 1709 ; deaths ditto, 1416.

— 24. Ann Law committed to York, charged with an attempt to

murder her daughter, a little girl, by throwing her into the water, near Rivelin Mill.

— 2.5. The Anti-Corn Law petition sent to Parliament, with

11,500 signatures.

— 29. A majority of the Judges decided that the legal objection

in the case of Frost, Williams, and Jones, would have been good if made in time, but was not in time when made. The sentence was commuted to that of trans- portation. Feb. 1. Sheffield Union : Paupers in the house, 408; week's pay- ment to casual poor, £100.

— 3. Ecclesall Union ; Puapers in the houses, 238 ; week's

outpayments, £&9.

— 4. Average price of wheat, at Sheffield, 55s. lOd.

— 5. The salary of Mr. Raynor, the Surveyor of the Police,

raised from 200 to 300 guineas a year. Thanks were

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; 1840.

also voted to the Royal Dragoons, to the West Riding Yeomanry, and to the constables, police, and watchmen, for their services in the late disturbances. Feb.lO. The Marriage of the Queen celebrated by a Soiree, at the Cutlers' Hall, a ball, and other entertainments. The same night, stacks belonging to Mr. Wm. Vickers, Firs hill; Miss Genn, Skinnerthorpe ; and Mr. Fearnley, of Norwood, were set on fire by incendiaries, and burnt.

— 10. Decease, at Barbadoes, of the Rev. Joseph Hellewell, a

native of Sheffield.

— J 2. Half-yearly Meeting of the Sheffield and Rotherham

Railway : dividend of 153. per share.

— 18. Decease of Mr. Richard Holdsworth, of Old Park Mills,

aged 69. . Mr. James Pringle, clerk to the Collector of Excise, exa- mined before the Magistrates, on a charge of forcing the receipts of pensioners, to defraud the Chelsea Hospital.

— 19. Examination of James Pringle concluded. Committed

for trial at the Assizes, but allowed bail.

— 23. Decease of John Mellor Sheldon, Esq., of Machon bank.

— 27. Sheffield and Manchester Railway : Directors report that,

in consequence of a misunderstanding with Mr. Vig- noles, the engineer of the line, he had resigned, and had been succeeded by Mr. Locke. MarcA 2.Ecelesall Union: iPaupers in houses, 259; week's out- payments, £62.

— 4. Resolutions of the Magistrates communicated to the Police

Commissioners, suggesting an application to Govern- ment to propose a bill, authorizing the appointment of a Police Magistrate and Commissioner, and a police office, for the borough. The Watch Committee were requested to confer with the Magistrates on the subject.

— 5. Anti-Corn Law Meeting held at Rotherham.

— 7- Sheffield Union : Paupers in the house, 436 ; week's out-

payments, £111.

. Decease, at Bombay, in the 33rd year of his age, Francis

Darling Bagshawe, Esq., Captain of the 5lh Regiment Bombay N.I., Sub-Assistant Commissary General, 7th son of the late Sir W. C. Bagshawe, of the Oakes.

— . George Jenkinson found guilty, at York, of the highway

robbery, with violence, of Peter M'Kinnell. Sentence of death recorded.

— 11. Discussion at the Theatre, between Wm, Ibbotson, Esq,,

and Dr. Holland, on the Corn Laws.

— 13. Martha Bagshaw found guilty of concealing the birth of

her illegitimate child. Twelve months' imprisonment.

— 14. Dr. Holland, in the public papers, challenges H. G.

Ward, Esq., M.P., to a discussion on the Corn Law, on several days, with an interval of three weeks between each.

340 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1840.

il/ar.l4. James Pringle found guilty of 'the forgery of pensioners' receipts. Fourteen years' transportation.

— 16. Samuel Holberry, Thomas Booker, Wm. Booker, and

James Duffy, found guilty of a seditious conspiracy ,at Sheffield.

— 17. Wm. Wells, John Clayton, John Marshall, Thomas Pea

thorpe, and Joseph Bennison, pleaded guilty of riot and conspiracy, at Sheffield, in January. Charles Fox pleaded guilty of a similar offence, in August. Robert Cox, Geo. Gallimore, James Bartholomew, Joseph Lin- gard, Thos. Fowls, and Joshua Clayford, charged with riot and conspiracy, at Sheffield, on the 12th September, were acquitted. John Marsden pleaded guilty of riot, at Sheffield, on the 13th August : one week's imprison- ment, and to be bound over to keep the peace. Wm. Martin, found guilty of using seditious language, at Sheffield, on the 6th September. Feargus O'Connor, also, was found guilty, on an ex officio information, of publishing a seditious libel.

— 18. Meetingof Police Commissioners: Resolutions, agreed to

at the conference of the Watch Committee with the Magistrates, were reported with the heads of a pro- posed Bill ; ordered to be printed, and considered at the meeting in April.

— 21. Mr. Ward, M.P., declines Dr. Holland's challenge, on

the ground that the discussion could do no public good, and that all the inconveniences would be on his side.

— 21. Sentences on the Chartists at York : Samuel Holberry,

four years ; Thomas Booker, three years ; and Wm. Booker, two years' imprisonment in Northallerton House of Correction ; and then to find sureties to keep the peace. Clayton, Marshall, Penthorpe, and Ben- nison, two years' each, at Northallerton, and then bound over to keep the peace. In Beverley House of Cor- rection, James Duffy, three years, and then sureties ; and William Wells, one year, and bound to keep the peace. Martin, 12 months at Northallerton, and bound to keep the peace. Fox, one week's imprisonment, and bound to keep the peace. All the recognizances for three years. — -. Ann Law found guilty of an attempt to murder her child. 18 months' imprisonment.

— 25. Accounts of Highway Surveyors: Receipts, £8920;

balance to new Board, ^668.

— 28. Thirty-four Anti-Corn Law petitions sent to parliament

from Sheffield and the neighbourhood, with 19,000 sig- natures.

— 30. Meeting of those friendly to Church Extension to petition

in its favour.

— 31. Passengers of the Sheffield and Rotherham Railway, for

three months ending this dav, 86,558 ; same three months of 1839, 85,328.

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1840.

April 1. Police Commissioners, on the motion of James Montgo- mery, Esq., resolve that it is not expedient, under ex- isting circumstances, to adopt the course recommended by the Magistrates.

. After a long cold and wet season, the weather became

very fine, and vegetation during this month and May advanced in great rapidity.

— 2. Decease of Mr. Robert Brightmore, aged 66.

— 7. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 65s. lOd.

.. Ecclesall Union: Paupers in the houses, 246; week's

out-payments, £&5.

— 8. At Pontefract Sessions, the subject of the adoption of the

Constabulary Force for the West-Riding, was adjourned to the 22nd" Sept Lord Wharnclitfe deprecated its adoption until the opinion of the ratepayers should have been expressed.

— 11. Sheffield Union : Paupers in the house, 441 ; week's pay-

ments to the casual poor, £120. . Decease of Mr. James Graham, Mill Sands, aged 64.

— 13. Decease of Mr. Henry Woodward, of Burgess street,

aged 57.

. Decease of Mr. Benjamin Wild, pearl scale cutter, of

Scotland street, aged 50.

— 16. Decease of Harry, second son of Mr. J. H. Abraham,

F. L. S.

— 19. Decease of George Henry, only son of Verdon Brittaiu,

Esq.. aged 25.

— 22. Public Meeting to petition against Church Extension.

— 23. Decease of Mr. Joseph Spooner, of Walkley, aged 52.

— 25. Meeting of Ratepayers of Rotherbam elect police in-

spectors, and grant a rate of £200.

— 27. Decease of Mr. Hewan Hoult, aged 67 ; formerly of the

firm of Tate, Hoult, Smith, and Tate, silver platers.

— 28. Decease of Mr. Henry Fenlon, of the firm of Fenlon and

Marsden, aged 52. May 2. Sheffield Union : Paupers in (he house, 467 ; week's pay- ment to casual poor, 177. Great distress prevalent. Many destitute workmen employed on tlie Duke of Norfolk's property, and by various gentlemen in the neighbourhocl.

— 4. Ecclesall Uuicn Paupers in the houses, 2."6 ; week's

payments to out poor, ^71. ■~- 5. Average price of wheat at Sheffield. 64s. 5d.

— 6. Postage Stamjis and Covers couie into use.

— 7. A piece of plate presented to I.ieul.-Col. Marten, of the

Royal Dragoons, in acknowledgment ol the seivices • rendered by himself and his troojis during last winter.

— 11. The North Midland opened from Derby to Masbro'. . Feargus O'Connor sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment

in York Castle, and then to find sureties for his good behaviour for two years.

— 13. Special General Meeting of the Proprietors of the Botani-

a2

342 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1840. cal Gardens, to consider the propriety of rescinding the rule that keeps them closed on the Sunday, A motion to that effect was lost by 193 to 132.

May 18. Decease of Mr. John Stevenson, aged 78. He was a zealous advocate for the instruction of the poor, and for more than forty years a teacher in Sunday Schools.

. Wm. Bowdler committed to Derby Assizes for the high- way robbery of Reuben Rodgers, of Norton, in Der- byshire lane. (Transported for ten years.)

— 20. Decease of G. P. Karstadt, Esq., aged 53. . Fire in the southwest tower of York Minster.

— 21. Decease of Mr. John Hasland, aged 74, of the firm of

Hasland and Berley, Upper Heeley.

— 24. Decease of Mr. Wm. Oxlej', late of Furnace hill, iron-

founder, aged 66.

— 25. Decease at Islington, of the Rev. James Mather, formerly

minister of Howard street Chapel.

— 28. Decease at Heeley, of Mr. W. Stanley, aged 71.

— 30. Decease at Mearsbrook, of Lieut. -Colonel Bohun Shore,

late of the 4th Dragoons, aged 77.

June 1. Opening of the second Exhibition of the Sheffield Me- ,

cbanics' Institute. j

— 6. Sheffield Union: Paupers in the house, 459 ; week's pay- )

ments to casual poor, .:£ 179. j . Ecclesall Union : Paupers in the houses, 236; out-pay- ments, £79. . Fiue weather causes decline in the price of corn. J

— 8. Decease of Mr. \\m. Rodgers, formerly of the George |

Inn, aged 52. 1

— 9. Decease of Mr. Thomas Booker, Change alley, collector. {

— 10. The Queen and Prince Albert shot at by Edward Oxford,

in Hyde Park. !

. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 60s. 3d. !

— 12. John Lee committed to York on a charge of destroying i

machinery at the Old Water wheel, Blonk street. "j

— 1.3. Decease of Mr. Spilling, surgeon, Ecclesfield, aged 54. |

— 17. The London mail due at 8 h. 15 m., a.m., and despatched I

at 6 h. 45 m. p.m.

— 19. Courvoisier found guilty of the murder of his master, Lord

William Russell.

— 21. Decease of Mr. Joseph Ingall, surgeon, Gell street.

— 22. Special Meeting of members of the Mechanics' Institu-

tion resolved to purchase a site for building upon, and elected trustees.

— 23. James Martin committed to York, charged with breaking

into the Industry Inn, in the Park.

— 24. Church rate granted at Rotherham.

. Decease of Mr. Robert Hunter, Intake, aged 79.

— 27. Unfavourable weather depressing the hopes of a good

harves'.

— 29. Decease of Mr. Wm. Major, saddler, Corn Exchange,

aged 52.

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1840.

June 30. Opening of the entire line of the North Midland.

July 1. Decease of Mr. Owen, draper, aged 63.

. Annual Meeting of the Dispensary : Patients during the

year, 3045; cured, 1779, and many relieved. The

Earl of Surrey elected president. Resolved to appoint

an assistant surgeon-accoucheur. ■ . Births registered in the Sheffield district, from January to

June, 1943; deaths, 1194.

— 2. Decease of Mr. John Wild, Brown Bear, Norfolk street,

aged .'53.

— 3. New Gas Company : Dividend declared of 29s. on each

share ; £22 paid up.

— 4. Sheffield Union : Paupers in the house, 452 ; week's pay-

ments to the casual poor, £148.

— 6. Annual Meeting of Mechanics' Library — resolved to expel

certain books that had been found to be subversive of the principles of the Christian religion.

> Execution of Courvoi-ier.

. Ecclesall Union: Paupers in the houses, 227; week's

out-paymeots, £73.

— 7. Decease of Mr, John Worrall, land valuer, of Ughill,

aged 61. . Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 63s. 3d.

— 10. Oxford found guilty of high treason, being insane.

— 11. In answer to a petition from certain inhabitants of Shef-

field, praying for commutation of sentence, in the case of James Pringle, the Secretary of State expresses his inability, after consulting the presiding Judge, to recom- mend the prisoner to the mercy of the Queen.

— 15. Decease of Mr. Jas. McMoran, merchant, Glossop road.

— 17. James Martin found guilty, at York, of^jiiie robbery of the

Industry Inn, Park. 15 years' transportation. . John Lee found guilty of breaking machinery at Sheffield.

One year's imprisonment. . Sheffield and Hallamshire Bank : Dividend of 7^ per cent.

— 20. Decease of Samuel Younge, Esq., Brindcliffe edge, in the

80th year of his age.

— 23. Wm. Hargott found guilty, at York, of stabbing Samuel

Cutler, at Sheffield, sentenced to two years' im- prisonment.

— 24. Decease of Mr. Joseph Snidall, of Wellington street,

aged 62.

— 25. Sheffield Police Accounts : Receipts. .£7390 ; balance, £18.

— 28. Decease of the Earl of Durham.

— 29. Mr. Turton elected assistant surgeon-accoucheur to the

Dispensary.

— 30. Harvest commenced in the south with favourable weather. Jug. 3. Ecclesall Union : Paupers in the houses, 235 ; week's

outpayments, £75.

. Messrs. Jon. Roebuck, John Nanson, Wm. Warburton,

Joseph Mappin, Thos. Jessop, E. B. Schofield, Josiah Davy, Robt, Daff, Joseph Steyenson, Charles Fox, John

344 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1840.

Fordham, Geo. H olden, and Wm. Jenkinson, elected

Police Commissioners. ^ugA. Decease of John Stansfield. M.D., aged 60 years. . Average price of wheat, at ShefKeld, 66s. Pd.

— 6. James and Aarou Hibbert found not guilty, at Derby

Assizes, of the murder of Wm. Coggin, tenter to Sir George Sitwell.

— 7. Action for libel, by Mr. Holworthy, of Hathersage,

against the Sheffield Iris, tried at Derby Assizes. The defence vras abandoned, an apology given, and a verdict recorded of 40s. damages, with all costs.

— 8. Sheffield Union : Paupeis in the house, 447 ; week's pay-

ments to casual poor, £162. . Decease of Mr. Edward Jackson, of the Highway Office,

aged 45. . Harvest proceeding favourably.

— 11. Sheffield and Rotherham Railway : Dividend of 15s. per

share, on tlie old shares, declared. — — . Average price of wheat, at Sheffield. 71s. 4d.

— 13. James Moorhouse, Esq., chosen Master Cutler fur the

ensuing year ; Messrs. T. Ellin, jun., and G. Woslen- holme, Wardens.

— 22. Decease of Mr. Wm. Barber, of Barber Nook, cattle

dealer, aged 62. . Decease of Mr. James Taylor, of Eldon street, scissor

manufacturer. . Decease of Mr. Wm. Pearson Slack, aged 50, for more

than 30 years coachman on the Doncaster road. 22. London mail arrives at 6h. 4m. a.m., and despatched at

7h. 45m. p.m. 25. Discus^u on Teetotalism, at Rotherham, between the

Rev.^ames Bromley and Mr. F. R. Lees, of Leeds.

— 28. The harvest proceeding favourably, but the duty on

foreign wheat brought down, by the intrigues of the dealers, to 2s. 8d. per quarter.

— 28. James Dawson, as principal, and John Marlon and Wm.

Backs, as seconds, found guilty of the manslaughter of Felix Gallagy, in a pitched battle near Hyde park. 30. The Rev. S. Langston's farewell sermon to the congrega- tion of St George's Church, after fifteen years' minis- trations. Succeeded by the Rev. Mr. Mercer.

— 31. Sheffield and Manchester Railway : Half-yearly Meeting.

John Parker, Esq., M.P., becomes Chairman of tlie Company, in consequence of the resignation of Lord Wharncliffe. Sept. 1. Presentation to the Cutlers'Company of a Portrait of the Duke of Norfolk, by the subscribers to the purchase of the painting.

— 2. Commencement of a discussion on Socialism, between

Mr. Brindley and Mr. Campbell, the Socialist mis- sionary.

. Decease, at Moor Lodge, Ackworth, of Mr. Favell, aged

73, many years surgeon in Sheffield-

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1840.

Sept. 2. Annual Meetingr of the Governors of the Infirmary. The year's expenditure had exceeded the receipts from all sources, by ^£275.

— 3. Cutlers' Feast : Principal guests, the Earls Fitzwilliam

and Scarbrough ; Sir Geo. Strickland, M.P., John Parker, Esq., JVI.P., and H. G. Knight, Esq., M.P.; the Hon. J. S. Wortley, the Hon. Mr, Thompson, and the Rev. Mr. Simpson.

— 7. Ecclesall Union: Paupers in the houses, 244; week's

outpayments, i£97. The corresponding week of last year, ^6*47.

— 8. Average price of wheat, at Sheffield, 60s. lid.

— 12. Sheffield Union : Paupers in the house, 429 ; week's pay-

ments to casual poor, £160.

— 9. Decease of Mr. Zechariah Belcher, of Bright St., aged 76.

— 12. Able-bodied men chargeable to the township of Sheffield :

Spring knife cutlers, 91 ; table knife bafters, 37 ; forgers, 11.. 48. File cutters, 20; forgers, 4.. 24. Pen blade grinders, 12; forgers, 7- .19. Scissor grinders, 6; strikers, 5; forgers, 3; filers, 2.. 16. Scale cutters, 14; pressers, 2. .16. Scale and spring makers, 9. Razor smiths, 3 ; blade grinders, 3 ; maker, ]..7. Fork grinders, 5; maker, 1.. 6. Comb makers, 5. Edge tool hardners, 4. Castors, 3. Saw makers, 3. Whitesmiths, 3. Fender smiths, spectacle frame makers, scissor borers, silver hafting cutlers, silver- smiths, and white metal smiths, of each 2. Brace bit makers, brace bit grinders, turners, ivory cutters, stove grate filters, stove grate grinders, German silver buffers, spoon makers, die dressers, button turners, saw handle makers, teapot handle makers, carver fork guarders, and nail cutters, of each 1. . 14. Labourers, 8. Join- ers, slaters, grocers, and coopers, of each!.. 4.-

Total, 292.

— 13. M. Deneux killed on the North Midland, near Bull

Bridge, by an accident caused by the breaking of an axle. A Mr. Wright, of London, died a few days afterwards, from the effects of the same accident.

— 16. Revising Barristers' Court, at Sheffield: New claims by

Liberals, 199 ; Tories struck off, 60 ; total, 259. New Claims by Tories, 88; Liberals struck off, 161; total, 249. Balance in favour of the Liberals, 10.

— 18. Decease of Mr. Joseph Elliott, aged 83, of the late firm

of Blagden, Hodgson, and Co., silver platers.

— 19. Decease of Mr. John Richardson, aged 91, formerly Mas-

ter of the Park Free School, and Pavmaster Sergeant of the Sheffield Volunteers.

. Close of the Mechanics' Exhibition, having been visited

by 61,631 persons.

— 21. Decease of Mr. Thomas Goulden, gent., Hoyle street,

aged 58.

— 22, Special Sessions at Wakefield : Many petitions presented

346 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1840. against the adoption of the Constabulary Force Bills, in the West Riding. Resolutions of Lord Wharncliffe. to apply the bills to the populous and manufacturing parts of the Riding, carried, and a Committee appointed to consider the extent and boundaries of the police division. 5ep^24.Decease of Mr. Antipas Stevens, aged 63, of the firm of George Drabble and Co.

— 28. An excursion train, of about 70 carriages, with 5 engines,

and several thousand passengers, went to Leeds, and returned in safety.

— 30. Opening of the organ of St. Philip's Church, with Cathe-

dral services. Oct. 3. Decease of the Rev. Francis Parker, perpetual curate of Dore, aged 79.

— 3. Workmen of Messrs. Joseph Rodgers and Sons: 521 men

having been in their employ from 2 to 55 years, making a total of 4600 years.

— 5. Ecclesall Union : Paupers in the houses, 252 ; week's

outpayments, £82.

— 6. Average price of wheat, in Sheflield, 64s. 1 id.

— 7. Meeting of Police Commissioners. Letter read from H.

Parker, Esq., pointing out the effect of the resolutions of the Magistrates, on the 22nd September, and recom- mending measures to obtain a Charter of Incorporation for Sheffield. Resolved to request the Master Cutler to call a public meeting.

— 9. Decease of Mr. Joseph Girdler, of Stand House, Park,

aged 68.

— 10. Town Trustees' Accounts published, for year ending 10th

May, 1840. Balance of last year's accounts, £2769. 19s. 2d; receipts of year, £3777. IBs, 9d.; total, £6545. 17s. lid. Payments of the year (including ^64183 to owners of property, for improvements,) ^£5675. Is. 4d. Balance in hand, £870. 16s. 7d.

— 10. Sheffield Union: Paupers in the house, 464; week's

casual pay, ^6152.

— 12. Mr. Acland, lecturer of the National Anti-Corn Law

League, commences a course of six lectures in Shef- field, each lecture followed by discussions with Chartist and Socialist opponents.

— 16. Decease of Mr. Thomas Woofinden, aged 77, formerly of

the Bull and Mouth Inn.

— 18. Decease, at Ashford, aged 74, of Mrs. Sterndale, formerly

of Sheffield, authoress of the " Panorama of Youth," "The Life of a Boy," and " Derbyshire Vignetie."

— 19. Decease of Mr. Wall Lynn, aged 52, manager of the Pond

street Brewery.

. Decease of Mr. John Gallimore, aged 73, formerly of the

firm of John and Josiah Gallimore, Bridge street.

— 21. Public Meeting, adjourned from the Town Hall to Para-

dise square ; resolved to petition for a Charter of In- corporation.

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1840.

Oc^21. Decease of Mr. Wm. Marshall, of the firm of Marshall and Roberts, accountants, aged 25 years.

— 23. Meeting of the ratepayers of Ecclesall refused to grant a

church rate. Earl Fitzwilliam had been invited to preside ; but the meeting called to the chair Mr. R. T. Taylor, of ShefiBeld Moor. Poll demanded.

— 24. An Anti-Corporation petition handed about for signature,

not authorized by any public meeting.

— 26. Decease of Mr. George Addey, Upperthorpe, aged 76.

— 27. Discussion on this and two following evenings, at the

Theatre, between Mr. Acland and Dr. Holland, on the Corn Laws.

. Close of the Poll for the Ecclesall Church rate : For the

rate, 94; against it, 639.

— .30. Decease of Mr. Joshua Chambers, draper, Market place,

aged 40.

— 31. Decease of Mr. George Morton, Castle street, aged 67. . Fine weather during the month. Crops secured in good

condition. Nov.ii. Commencement of the second discussion between Mr.

Acland and Dr. Holland, at Doncaster. — . Average price of wheat, at Sheffield, 65s. 9d.

— 6. Mr. Acland delivers a farewell address, on the Corn Laws,

to the people of Sheffield, in the Town Hall.

— 7. Sheffield Union : Paupers in the house, 438 ; week's pay-

ments to casual poor, £113.

— 9. Decease of John Shepherd, Esq., Western bank, aged 72. . Ecclesall Union : Paupers in the houses, 242 ; week's

outpayments, £70.

— 10. Decease of Mr. James Newton, Bailey street, aged 60. . Decease of Mr. Joseph Levick, aged 87.

. Decease, in London, of Mr. Samuel Walker, aged 44, of

the firm of Samuel Walker and Co., silver platers.

— 21. Birth of the Princess Royal.

— 24. A silver cup " Presented to Messrs. Joseph Rodgers and

Sons, by their workmen, as an humble testimonial of gra- titude and respect for their liberality in rewarding la- bour ; and for their enterprising spirit in raising the staple manufacture of Sheffield to its present high state of excellence."

— 27. Jelinger C. Symons, Esq., arrived in Sheffield, deputed

by the Government to examine the moral and physical condition of children employed in manufactures, not un- der the factory act.

— 29 Decease of Mr. John Alsop, Sheffield moor, aged 87. He

left £1400 in legacies to various religious and benevo- lent institutions. . Decease of Mr. Thos. Clifford, Palace Inn.

— 30. Decease of Mr. Wm.rChadburn, aged 54. Dec. 1. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 62s. 7d.

2. Decease, in. the Workhouse, of John Knott, author of the songs, "Tom Topsail," " Bill Block," &c.

348 Dec.3.

— 5.

- 7.

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 1840.

Second annual meeting of the Protestant Association ;

chief speaker, the Rev. R. J. M'Ghee. __ ^ ^ ^

Decease of Mr. Thos. Hague, brassfounder, West street,

Sheffield Union- paupers in the house, 429 ; week's pay- ments and casual poor, £95. ^ . , , • The Rev. J. M. Muir, of Spaldin?, Lincolnshire, accepts

the office of pastor of Queen street chapel. Ecclesall Union : paupers in houses, 222; week s outpay-

S^dal'sessions: the Magistrates adopt a police district, including Sheffield.

Peter Foden apprehended in the town on the 14th. Com- mitted to York on a bench warrant, not having answered to the indictment against him at the spring assizes, for conspiracy, sedition, and riot.

Decease of Mr. George Sharp, Waingate, aged 43.

Decease of Mr. Samuel Crookes, razor manufacturer,

Acfounu'of Savings Bank, for year ending 20th Nov., ■ '^1840: deposits during the year. ^32'647 ; P^^^^JlS, '; depositors, ^31.967 ; balance due, ^160,536. Numlu i of depositors, 5248, and 36 societies.

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Derby Mercury

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Derby Reporter

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Weekly

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1839. 1840.

... 108,. 500 .... 113,500

2,960 .... 3,326

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CONTINUATION

OF THE

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER,

FOR 1841.

Jan. 1. Literary and Philosophical Society: James Montgo- mery, Esq., elected president; Messrs. E. Smith S. Bailey, Dr. Knight, the Rev. H. H. Piper, vice-presi- dents ; Messrs. Koultbee and Lucas, secretaries.

— 2. Announced that the petition for the Incorporation of the

Town had received 12,000 signatures. . Dispensary Patients on the books, 986.

— 3. Violent storm of thunder passed over a great extent of

country.

— 6. Shfjffield average price of wheat, CSs. 3d.

— 9. Thomas Booth and John Gregory committed to York for

rattening in the Spring Grove Wheel. John Hammon button, an American, committed to York, charged with procuring to be forged, Mexican dollars.

. Sheffield Workhouse : paupers in house, 467 ; payments to

regular poor, £79. lis.; to casual poor, £105.

. Decease, at Machon Bank, of Mr. Robert Barber, a^ed 64

— 11. Meeting of Chartists, at the Town Hall, to petitfon for

the pardon of Frost, Williams, and Jones.

. B. R. Haydon, Esq., commences a course of lectures on

painting, before the Literary and Philosophical Societj-.

■ . Appeal ot the Socialists against the rating of the Hall of

Science, on the ground that it was a place of religious worship, tried at the Quarter Sessions. The ratin^- con- firmed. °

— 13. Wm. Davies sentenced to seven years' transportation, for

the robbery of the Shrewsburv^ Tavern.

— 16. Prospectus of a Railway, from Doncaster to the North

Midland, at Swinton: capital, £200,000: estimated net income, £20,241.

— 17. Decease of Mr. Montague Jessop, of the firm of Jessoi.

and Sons, steel merchants, aged 38.

— 18. Mr. H. G. Ward, M. P., delivered his'annual address to his

constituents, in the Town Hall. He was opposed by Mr

V.Z %7 A ^*''^'' ^°f ^^'■- ^'"- A ^"'^ °f thanks iQ T, ui- ;• '"'^ "^f ''^"'^'^ ^J' ^ "'^'■3' narrow majority-.

— 19. Public dinner to the borough members

— 20. Decease of Mr. Benjamin Damms, aged 84, formerly

manufacturerofplated wire, Norfolk street.

— 24. ^-^orge Belk killed by George Reaney, who was com-

n ^^ *"^^ ^°'' manslaughter.

— 29. Botanical Gardens: annual meeting: receipts of the year.

£848 ; expenditure, £922. Announced that his Grace

350 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGI8TKR.

1841.

ihe Duke of Norfolk designed to plant and throw open to tte public, a park of 40 or 50 acres. Feb. 1. John Clayton, one of the Chartist prisoners from Shef- field, died in Northallerton House of Correction, aged 55.

— 2. Average price of wheat at SheiSeld, 63s. 4d.

• — 4. Decease of Mr. John Waterfall, go-vernor of Scotland street gaol.

— 5. Sheffield Poorhouse : paupers in house, 503 ; weekly pay-

ments to ticket poor, £77. 14s. 6d, ^ to casual poor, £124. 4s.

— 6. Births and deaths registered 1st July to 31st December,

1840: males born, 782 : females, 798 males dead, 663 ; females, 555,

— 1.0. Rural Police: in Special Sessions, at Wakefield, the

Magistrates resolve, by a majoritj' of 27 to 21, to recom- mend the application of the Constabulary Force Acts to the whole Eidiug.

— 11. Decease of Mr. Robert Henderson, carver and gilder,

aged 63.

— 16. The Earl of Cardigan tried before the House of Peers, for

shooting at Captain Han-ey Tnckett, in a duel, but ac- quitted on a technicality.

— 17. Half-yearly meeting of Sheffield and Manchester Rail-

way: 219 shares having paid, on an average, £9. 14s. l^d. each, forfeited : receipts, £169,239 ; expended, .£173,522. The directors authorized to borrow £233,000.

— 21. Decease of Mr. William Taylor, aged 65, for twenty-one

years the landlord of the Commercial Inn.

— 23. Anti-Poor Law meeting called by the Tories, at the Town

Hall. The Chartists moved an amendment that thr petition be sent to Mr. Fielden, instead of Sir Francis Burdett, which was carried to the great embarrassment of the managers, who, at several previous public-house meetings, had passed resolutions to send the petition to- Sir Francis Burdett. They moved that " Old Glory's" name should stand with Mr. Fielden's, but it was nega- tived.

— 24. Meeting of delegates of the Trades' Unions, to vindicate

their right to combine, but to protest agaiust being sup- posed to approve such proceedings as had taken plact- at Ashton-under-Lyne, where a man had been murdered for violating the rules of the Sawyers' Union. JV&.26.The Cutlers' Company petition for a reduction of the duties on the produce of the Brazils.

— 26. Two manufacturers convicted of paying wages in stuff, and

fined.

. Average price of wheat, at Sheffield, 65s. lOd.

3/ar.2. Decease of Mr. W. Horrax, surveyor, Carver street,

aged 53.

— 3. Police Commissioners make a contract with the Old Gas.

Company, for three years, at 46s. 6d. per batwing burner, (a reduction of 7s.,) for 2200 hours ; the Commissioners to purchase the Company's lamps and appendages above ground, for £700.

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 351

1841.

Mar.3. Decease of Mr. Thomas Bell, Westfield Terrace, a retired ofl&cer of the excise, in his 79th year,

— 6. Sheffield Poorhouse : paupers in the house, 494 : week's

payments,— ticket poor, £78. 12s. 6d. ; casual poor, ^105. 15s. 6d.

— 8. York Assizes: Action of Gillott t). Habershon ; Verdict

for plaintiff, £357. 10s. lOd.

. Decease of Mr. Charles Hitchen, Coulston street, aged 78.

. Explosion in Sheffield Coal Company's pit, near the Soap

House. Four men and three boys were burnt,— Samuel White so severely, that he died during the day.

. Dispensary : 893 patients on the books.

— 10. The Eeclesall Guardians petition for a reduction of the

number of Assistant Poor-Law Commissioners, for the limitation of the commission to five years, and for other changes in the proposed new act.

— 11. The President steamer left New York, and was no more

heard of.

— 14. Decease at Endcliffe House, of Robert Rodgers, Esq., soli-

citor, in the 63rd year of his age.

— 15. James Dawson, John Morton, and Wm. Back, convicted

of manslaughter of Felix Galoghy, in a pitched battle, were fined Is. each.

. George Reaney found not guilty of the manslaughter of

George Belk.

— 16. Peter Reaney found guilty at the Assizes, of stabbing Wm.

White, at Sheffield. Two months' imprisonment. . Decease of Mr. John Gascoyne, sheriffs officer, Norfolk st.

— 17. Thomas Booth and John Gregory convicted of destroying

machinery in Spring Grove Wheel, near Oughtibridge.

Seven years' transportation. . Wm. Epworth and George Eastwood sentenced to two

months' imprisonment, for the manslaughter of Ann

Schorah, at Swinton. — . 18. John Hammon Sutton, charged with forging Mexican

dollars, at Sheffield, acquitted. — — . Decease of Mr. Matthew Habershon, of the Holmes, near

Masbro', aged 83.

— 19. John Mitchell found guilty of the murder of Mr. George

Blackburn, farmer, Bank Top, near Barnsley. Sen- tenced to death.

— . 20. Peter Foden, pleaded guilty of riot and seditious con- spiracy, at Sheffield. H aving been thi-ee months in prison, he was sentenced to imprisonment for one year and nine months more.

^— . Mr. John Kirtland, a commercial ti-aveller, from London, committed suicide at the George Inn, first taking lauda- num, and then cutting his throat.

— . 24. Her Majesty was pleased to confer the honour of knight- hood on Arnold James Knight, Esq., M.D., who was presented at her levee.

. Election of Guardians. - Sheffield Union : Messrs. John

Newton, John Owen, Jph. Woodcock, John Spencer, John Stevenson, Charles Elliott, Isaac Mitchell, and T. B,

352 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTEB.

1841.

Turix)n, for Sheffield ; Messrs. John Brown and Robert Waterhouse, for Brightside; Mr, John Gaunt, for Atter- cliffe ; and Mr. \Ym. Cadman, for Handsworth. Eccle- sall Union: Messrs. H. Wilson, Wm. Ellin, W. Pa?e, and W. Tyzack, Ecclesall; Mr. F. Marriott and Mr, Jos. Hawksley, Nether Hallam; \?r. John Hodgson, Upper Hallam; Mr. R. Booker and Mr. C. Green, Nor- ton; D'Evres Coke, Esq., Totley; Mr. John Hancock, Dore ; Mr. George Fox, Beauchief. 3/ar,26.Decease of Mr. S.W. Battle, veterinary surgeon, aged 27.

— 30. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 67s. 3d.

April 1. Cutlers' Company petition for a revision of the Import Duties.

— 3. The punishment of John Mitchell commuted to transporta-

tion for life. He had made a full confession.

— 7. Mr. John Marsden, of Wakefield, elected Riding Solici-

tor, vice Mr. Robert Rodgers, deceased.

— 8. Sheffield Waterworks: Dividend of ^7 per share.

— 8. P blication of Highway Accounts: £7,906 expended.

— 10. Sheffield Poorhouse: Inmates, 498; week's pavments to

regularpoor, £S0. 18s. 6d.; to casual poor, £130. lls.6d.

— 12. Temperance Festival, at the Music Hall and the Catholic

School.

. Decease at Clough House, of Bartholomew Hounsfield,

Esq., in his 67th year.

— 13. Special Sessions, at Wakefield: The Magistrates nega-

tived the report of the committee, as to the force neces- sary for the whole Riding, but the resolution of the 10th February, for applying the Constabulary Acts to the Riding remained unrescinded.

— 17. Meeting at the Cutlers' Hall: Resolved to petition for a

revision of the Commercial Tariff. It was stated, " that although the number of registered electors of the borough had progressively increased from the passing of the Reform Rill to 1838, the number in the register made out in 1837, being 4085, and that in the register, of 1838, 4559; yet since that time, the numbers have de- creased to 4451, in the register of 1839, and to 4347, in the present register of 1840."

— 17. Decease of Mr. Rowland Hibberd, of Handsworth Wood-

house, aged 58.

— 19. Lieut. Colonel Maunsell, and the Third Dragoons, left

Sheffield Barracks, for Nottingham.

— 21. Public dinner, given by the medical profession, to Sir

Arnold J. Knight, M.D. Dr. Corden Thompson, presi- dent; Dr. Favell, and Jas. Ray, Esq., vice presidents.

, Sheffield Barracks occupied by the 2nd Dragoons or

Queen's Bays, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Charlton.

. Decease of Mr. W. Kitchen, silver-plater, Gell street,

aged 50.

— 30. George Burkinshaw, late president of the Norfolk Sick

Society, meeting at the Royal Hotel, committed to York, charged with robbing the club box of £130.

SHEFFIELD LOCAL UEGISTEE. 353

1841.

AprilSO.lLoTd John Russell gave notice of a motion for the consi- deration of the Corn Laws ; and the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed to reduce the duties on foreign Sugar and Timber.

. Decease in Sheffield Workhouse, of Hannah Brammall,

aged 93.

May 1. Sheffield Poorhouse: Inmates, 575; weekly payments to regular poor, £78. 14s.; to casual poor, £151. lis. Id.

, B. J. U^ake, Esq., appointed Commissioner in fiats in

Bankruptcy, for this district.

— 4. Average price of wheat, in Sheffield, 67s. 6d.

— 10. Anti-Corn Law petitions, with 13,800 signatures, trans-

mitted for presentation.

— 12. Decease of Mr. Joseph Atkinson, of Hanover square,

aged 78.

— 15. Several of the Corn Mills of this neighbourhood are not

more than half employed, while some are almost wholly unemployed. In a time of good trade and abundant food, they have to work almost night and day, — Independent.

. Decease of Mr. George Wragg, aged 50, of the firm of

Wragg, Long, and Co.

— 18. Decease of Mr. Wm. Pearson, aged 26, cashier to the

Yorkshire District Bank, Sheffield.

— 19. Great open air Meeting, in Paradise square, held at a

few hours' notice, to address the Queen in favour of the abolition of all Monopolies. . Decease of Mr. Thomas Clayton Slater, joiners' tool manu- facturer, Rockingham street, aged 35.

— 21, Sir George Strickland announces his intention to retire

from the representation of the Riding, and Lord Milton complies with a requisition to become a candidate,

— 22. Sheffield and Wakefield Road:. Tolls so much reduced by

the operation of the railway, that the treasurer has ceased, from the commencement of the year, to pay in- terest to the bondholders. — Independent.

— 26. Private Meeting of the Tories to prepare for the Election :

reinforced by Dr. Holland, the Whig of January, and by Mr. Lomas, the Chartist of 1838.

. Mr. Wortley issues his address to the electors of the

Riding,

— 29, Decease of Mr, M, Shirtcliffe, table knife manufacturer,

Garden street, aged 52.

— 31. Meeting in Paradise square, called by the Chartists, who

challenged the Corn Law Repealers to meet them, alleging that the last meeting was not fairly called. The Repealers proposed an amendment to the Chartists' resolution, and both parties claimed a victory.

. Mr. E. B. Denison becomes a candidate for the Riding,

along with Mr. Wortley. June 1. Average price of wheat, at Sheffield, 64s. Sd,

. Excursion Train, by the North Midland, to Derby: 1000

passengers.

— 3. Joseph Bates and John Richardson, engine-man and

stoker, in the employ of the Sheffield and Rotherliam Railway Company, killed ; their engine being overturn-

354 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1841.

ed in consequence of the breaking of an axle of the ten- der, which was running before it Junei Sir Robert Peel's no-coniidence motion, carried by 312 to 311.

Decease at Chesteriield, of the Eev. James Boden, aged

84. From November, 1796, to April, 1839, he was pastor of the dissenting church and congregation of Queen street, Sheffield.

— 7. Decease of Mr. Jas. Bromley, shoemaker, Market place,

aged 55. . Decennial census : houses. population.

Inhabited. Uninhabtd. Biding. Males. Females. Total

Sheffield 14,101 .. 2209 .. 95 .. 33,574 .. 34,393 .. 67,967

Brightside 2,0frl .. 250 .. 13 .. 4,926 .. 5,163 .. 10,089

AttercUffe 880 .. 84 .. 3 .. 2,128 .. 2,028 .. 4,156

Ecclesall Bierlow 4,035 .. 493 .. 51 .. 9,829 .. 10,176 .. 20,005

NetlierHallam .. 1,416 .. 159 .. 26 .. 3,651 .. 3,621 .. 7.275

Upper Hallam .. 25 .. 23 .. 0 .. 631 .. 718 .. 1,399

22,753 3,223 192 54,792 56,099 110,891

— 8. Lord Morpeth addresses the electors.

— 9. Mr. Parker and Mr. Ward publish addresses to the

electors.

. David Urquhart issues an address to the electors of

Sheffield.

— 10. Mr. John Parker promoted to the Secretaryship of the

Admiralty.

— 13. Decease in London, of James Holworthy, Esq., of Hather-

sage.

— 14. Mr.'C. Athvood, of Newcastle, with Cardo and Warden,

two Chartists, arrive to the assistance Mr. Urquhart.

— 16. Mr. C. Attwood attempts to address a meeting in Para-

dise square, in favour of Mr. Urquhart, but is laughed ofiF the stage.

— 18. Decease of Gamaliel Milner, Esq., of Thurlstone, aged 61.

— 21. Mr. Ward addresses the people in the Old Haymarket,

and by adjopmment in Paradise square, where he en- counters and defeats Mr. Attwood, whom, with Mr. Urquhart, he had challenged to meet him.

Decease of Mr. Henry Hardy, surgeon, aged 35.

— 22 Mr. Parker and Mr. Ward address the public in the

New Haymarket

The address of Mr. Wm. Sheppard, a second Tory candi-

date for the borough, is published He had suddenly run away from Durham, where he had been a candidate along with Captain Fitzroy

— 23 Mr. Parker and I\Ir. Ward addressed a meeting at Atter

cliEFe, where Mr Ward was accosted by a Col. Pringl^ Taylor, Mr Attwood, and Mr. Westmacott. Col. Ta y lor delivered to Mr. Ward letters from Mr Urquhart on his own behalf, and that of Mr Sheppard, requiring ex- planations of some expressions which Mr Ward was misreported by the Patriot to have used on the previous evening Mr. Ward disavowed the report.

Parliament dissolved.

— 24. Mr. Urquhart and Mr. Sheppard, as candidates, address

a meeting at the Music Hall Mr. Wm. Barker, a

SHEFFIELD LOCAI, REGISTER. 355

1841.

moral-force Chartist, exposed the secret manoeuvres that

had been used to enlist the Chartists in support of the

Tory candidates. J une'2(}. Sheffield Poorhouse; Inmates, 437; weeks' payments to

regular poor, £80. l7s. ; ditto, to casual poor, £132. 12s. . Mr. VVortley and Mr. Denison address the inhabitants of

Sheffield.

— 28. Lords Morpeth and Milton visit Rotherham and Sheffield.

— 30. Borough Nomination.— Mr. Parker, proposed by Sir A.

J. Knight and Mr. John Sykes; Mr. "Ward, by Mr. W. Fisher and Wm. Ibhotson ; Mr. Urquhart, by Mr. H. Newbould and Mr. Walker, surgeon ; Mr. Sheppard, by Mr. Page and Mr. Wm. Beet; Mr. Richard Marsdeii (Chartist,) by Mr. Joseph Harrison and Mr. Otley. The show of hands was for Mr. Parker and Mr. Ward, The Tories demanded a poll, but Mr. Marsden retired. Blue placard published with a declaration, signed by eighteen of the clergy, that "the interests of religion were essentially involved in the issue of the election," and that they should "support Messrs. Urquhart and Sheppard." Ju/t/ 1. Polling day.— The result :—

Parker. Ward. Urquhart. Sheppard.

9 o'clock.. 337 331 121 117

10 705 GS4 2G4 244

11 104G 1010 351 325

12 127G 1239 401 370

1 1452 1404 437 402

2 1598 1659 464 428

3 1700 16G1 470 432

4 1853 1812 509 460

. Urquhart and Sheppard no more seen.

. Lord Howard, of Effingham, returned for Shaftesbury.

— 3. Sheffield Workhouse: Inmates, 439; weeks' payments to

regular poor, £83. 18s. Gd. ; to casual, £119. 16s. 6d.

. Decease, at Worksop, aged 75, of Mr. William Lowric,

many years secretary to the Sheffield Intirmary.

— 5. Mr. Buckingham delivers two lectures on Free Trade, at

the Music Hall. , West-Riding Nomination.— Lord Morpeth, proposed by

F. H. Fawkes, Esq., and Jos. Lees, Esq., of Delph ; Mr. Wortley, by Godfrey Wentworth, Esq., and John Brooke, Esq. ; Lord Milton, by Chas. Wood, Esq. M.P., and J. B. Garforth, Esq. ; Mr. Denison, by the Hon. E. Lascelles and John Rand, Esq. ; Mr. Pitkeithley, of Huddersfield, and George Julian Harney, proposed a> Chartist candidates. The show of hands in favour of Lords Morpeth and Milton.

— 5. Fifty lives (chiefly of children) lost at Rotherham, by the

overturning of a boat, in launching from the yard of Mr

G, W. Chambers.

— 6. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 67s. 7d.

— 7. Annual Meeting of Dispensary : Subscriptions increased,

from £4/5, in 1840, to £501. Patients on books, Julv b3

356 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1841.

1840, 496; admitted since, 2436: discharged, 2389; dead, 130 ; remaining, 413. Dr. Favell, Dr. Harwood, Mr. Walker, Mr. Gregory, and Mr. Wright, re-elected physicians and surgeons. Mr. Ray declining to stand again, was succeeded by Mr. Martin. July?! First day's Polling —

Morpeth. Milton. Wortley. Denison,

10 o'clock.. 116 116 188 179

11 350 355 351 331

12 686 591 439 412

1 678 686 560 524

2 722 730 574 .. .. 537

3 770 780 591 551

4 815 826 ..••• 612 567

— 9. Second day —

9 o'clock.. 841 853 622 576

10 903 914 ...... 649 600.

11 916 927 664 .. .. 611

12 954 965 677 622

1 979 990 687 632

2 1003 1014 701 644

3 1032 1041 711 650

4 1059 1064 722 656

Sheffield majority of Morpeth over Wortley 337

Do. do. do. Denison 403

Do. do. Milton over Wortley 342

Do. do. do. Denison 408

— 9. Decease of Miss Rawson, of Wardsend, aged 90. Her

legacies were as follows: Sheffield Infirmary, £500. Boys' Charity School, £100; Girls' do., £200; Lancaa' terian School, £100 ; National Schools, £100 ; Aged Fe. male Society, £100; FemaleBenevolent Society, £100' Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor, £100 ; Ecclesfield Parson Cross School, £100 ; Ecclesfield Old School, ^100; Ecclesfield Infant School, £200 ; Poor of Ecclesfield, interest of £500; Wadsley Old School, 5^50 ; Wadsley New Schools, £50 ; Wadsley Sick Club, £100 ; Wadsley Hospitals (additional endowment,) £300 ; Doncaster Deaf and Dumb Institution, £100.

— 12. Decease of Mr. N. Smith, of Stanton Broom, Glossop road,

aged 65.

. Declaration of the result of the Poll for the West Riding ;

W^ortley, 13,165; Denison, 12,780; Morpeth, 12,031 : Milton, 12,080 ; number of electors, 30,998,

^ 13. York Assizes : Joseph Turner and Wm. Housley, found guilty of burglary in the house of Mr. Dyson, Ecclesfield : 14 years' transportation. Wm. Smith and James Bailey, for burglary, in the house of Mr.W. Tingle, of Low Ash : Ten years' transportation.

— 14. George Burkinshaw acquitted, under the direction of the

Judge, of rob1)ing the Norfolk Sick Society's box.

— 19. Decease of Mr. John Parkin, of the Ship Hotel, Rother-

ham, aged 41.

— 23. Sheffield and Hallamshire Bank : dividend, 7^ per cent

— 26. Decease of Mr. George Naylor, Western Bank, aged 72.

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1841.

J«/y27.Daniel Kelly, of Bank street, charged with receiving sto- len goods, and held to bail to take his trial.

— 29. Foundation stone of new Catholic Chapel laid at Mashro' :

land given by B. Badger, Esq.

— 30. Decease of Mr. Thos. Powell, of the Haven, West street,

aged 42.

. Decease of Mr. John Parsons, of the Three Horse Shoes,

Norfolk street, aged 37.

Aug,2. Police Commissioners : Mr, J. N. Ballans, grocer ; Mr. John Pitt, Waingate ; Mr. Wm. Loekwood, Shrewsbury road ; Mr. \Vm. Atkinson, Wilkinson street ; Mr. J. F. Wright, surgeon ; and Mr. Harrison, architect, elected commissioners : vice Mr. T. Woofinden, deceased ; and Messrs. E. Foster, Joseph Gurney, T. Wilson, T. Por- ter, and J. Wild, vacated by non-attendance.

— 2. Decease of Mr. Abner Bunting, wine and spirit vaults,

Castle street, aged 27.

. Return match at cricket, in Harewood Park, between the

Sheffield and Harewood clubs : Sheffield, first innings, 113 ; second, 142. Harewood, first innings, 182 ; se- cond, 7Q, and six to go in.

— 3. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 72s. 8d.

— 4. Rotherham church rate, — £168. 10s., granted. . Darnall church and school opened.

— 6. Public dinner of the Tories at Rotherham, to celebrate the

return of Mr. Wortley and Mr. Denison. . Parliamentary Reform Association formed at Rotherham.

— 7. Postmasters : returns of salary, and compensation for loss

of perquisites : Sheffield salary, £250 ; compensation, if 266. Rotherham salary, £78 ; compensation, £7.

. Sheffield Poorhouse : inmates, 412 ; week's payments to

regular poor, £91. 5s. 6d. ; casual do., £114. 178.

. Land near Moorgate purchased for the Rotherham Ceme- tery.

. Re-opening of Rotherham Unitarian Chapel.

— 9. Decease of Mr. Joseph Senior, Hanover square, aged 75.

— 10. The Fork Grinders appeal to the public, on the ground of

their distressed condition, the fatal character of their trade, and the reduction of their wages 30, 40, or 50 per cent, below the statement of 1810.

. The Table Knife Grinders' Union of 800 men have paid,

since 1836, upwards of £11,000, to support their unem- ployed hands. — Fork Grinders' Appeal.

— 11. Sheffield Cemetery : dividend of 6s. per share.

— 14. Decease, at Stand House, Endcliffe, of Mr. Wm. Mid-

dleton, merchant, aged 51.

— 14. Births and deaths registered: Jan. 1 to June 30 — males

born, 910 ; females, 817. Males dead, 616 ; females, 558. . Bad harvest weather.

— 17. Temperance Soiree in Hyde Park, addressed by Mr.

Buckingham.

— 17. Anti-Corn-Law Conference, at Manchester, of ministeri

of religion. . Cutlers' Company chosen : Thos. Ellin, jun., Esq., mas-

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ter ; Messrs. George Wostenholine and Thomas Wilkin- son, wardens ; Messrs. W. Broadhurst, Joseph Mappin, "Wm. Steel, \Vm. Butcher, Francis Newton, Saml. Par- ker, searchers ; Messrs. James Hall, Wra. Hall, Joseph Elliott, "W. Newell, Thomas Loxley, John Hawksley, James Moorhouse, Samuel Smith, Thomas Shepherd, Joseph Hobson, Thomas Staniforth, T. J. Crawshaw, Samuel Scott Deakin, Joseph Levick, jun., Edward Greaves, John Eobert Spencer, Henrj- Mort, Thomas Moulson, George Johnson, Francis Fenney, T. B. Tur- ton, George Savage, Henry Colley, and John Caterer, assistants. /4t/g'18. Postmaster-General consents to appoint receiving-houses in Sheffield.

— 19. The new Parliament met : Rlr. Shaw Lefevre unanimous-

ly re-elected Speaker.

— 20. Decease of Mr. Abraham Horsfield, West street.

. Privy Council appoint Commissioners to scrutinise the pe- titions for and against the Charter.

— 21. Capt. Lake, barrack-master, promoted to the Mastership

of the Ordnance Depot and Barracks, Weedon, Nor- thamptonshire.

— 23. Sheffield and Manchester Railway : half-yearly meeting :

nine calls made ; expended, £251 ,526 ; 466 shares for- feited.

— 2 Jr. Meeting in Nether chapel, to receive the report of the

Revs. Thomas Smith, C. Larom, R. S. Bayley, J. H, Muir, H. G. Rhodes, and J. Davies, of the proceedings of the ministerial conference, at Manchester.

— 24, Decease, at Raleigh, North Carolina, of Mr. Joseph

Gales, aged 80. In 1787, Mr. Gales established the Sheffield Register, which, in 1794, had obtained a cir- culation of 2,025. In the June of that year, officeFs were sent to his house to apprehend him, but he made his es- cape, and after various concealments, got out of the country. After a short stay on the continent, he went to America; and having published for a short time the Independent Gazetteer, at Philadelphia, he emi- grated to North Carolina, and established the Raleigh Register, which he published for fortj- years.

— 25. Decease of Mr. Joseph Mappin, Leavy Greave, aged 75.

. Mr. "Wm. Sheppard, late candidate for the borough, bar- ing a second time challenged Captain Fitzroy, who re- fused to meet him, on the "ground that he had run away from the appointment of a former meeting, shakes his whip over Captain Fitzroy, in Pall mall, and bids him " consider himself horse-whipped." Captain Fitzroy knocks Mr. Sheppard down.

— 25, Thomas and William Booker, Bennison, and Pennthorpe,

sentenced to imprisonment for their share in the conspi- racy of January, 1S40, liberated by order of the Home Secretary.

— 25. Charles Thompson, secretary of the Sheffield and Man-

chester Railway, having been convicted, at Liverpool Assizes, of forgery, sentenced to transportation for life

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^M^.26. Half-yearly meeting of North Midland Company at Der- by : receipts, with balance of last half-year, ^125,869 ; expenditure, £78,044 ; profit, £47,825. Dividend of £2 on each £100 share, and £1 on each share of £50.

— 26. Feargus O'Connor liberated from York Castle, in conse-

quence of the state of his health.

. Lord Normanby advises the commutation of the sentence

of seven years' transportation, upon Thomas Booth and John Gregory, for rattening, in Spring Grove vrheel, to one year's imprisonment.

— 27. Ministers defeated on the address, by 360 to 269.

— 28. Announcement that the Vicar of Sheffield had been ap-

pointed, about a year ago, to a canonry in York Minster,

— 30. Lord Melbourne and Lord John Eussell announced to the

Lords and Commons the resignation of Ministers.

— 31. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 73s. 3d.

Sept.l. Captain Jebb, one of the Commissioners appointed by the Privy Council to scrutinize the petitions for and against a Charter, met the Committee on each side at the Town Hall, to communicate his instructions, and arrange for the commencement of the scrutiny.

. Police force for ensuing year : — Two inspectors, at 22s.

per week; four Serjeants, at 20s.; twenty policemen, at -yiL. 18s. ; forty-four watchmen, for 28| weeks, at 15s. ; thirty- '' "^ eight, for 23^ weeks, at 12s. ; these, with dresses, coats, &c. &c,, would make an outlay of £2955, that of the last year being £2984. 3, Cutlers' feast— Thomas Ellin, jun., Esq., Master; Earl Scarbrough, Earl Fitzwilliam, Earl Newburgh, Lord Eitzalan, M.P., and H. G. Ward, Esq., M.P., among the guests.

. Decease of James Drabble, Esq., late manager of the Shef- field Banking Company.

— 4. Rotherham : Population of the township, 5361 ; of the

Union, 28,669.

. Analysis of votes at the West Eiding election : —

Wortley. Denison. Morpeth. Milton.

Votes 13,165 12,780 12,031 12,080

£50 tenants . 3,627 3,556 1,871 1,804

9,538 9,224 10,160 10,216

, Announcement that the next presentation to the living of

Sheffield, lately advertised for sale, had been purchased by a few individuals, in order to secure the appointment of a successor of evangelical views.

— 6. Special prayer meetings'^ morning, noon, and evening, in

the Dissenting chapels, on account of the distress of the people, caused by the Food Monopoly.

— 8. New writs moved, in consequence of the acceptance of

office by Sir E.. Peel, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, and others.

— 9. Scrutiny of the Pro and Anti-Charter petitions commenced

before Capt. Jebb and Mr. Fanshawe.

. Adjourned half-yearly meeting of Sheffield and Eotherham

Railway : Passengers for the half-year, 213,794 ; ia-

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come, £10,093 ; expenditure, £4240 ; profit, £5852 ; dividend, on original shares, of £1 each; on new shares, of OS. 9d. each. Messrs. S. Jackson, G. W. Chambers, and "VY. Bradley, elected directors. 5e/>aO.Decease of Mr. Robert Heaton, of the Nag's Head Inn, aged 52.

— 11. Sheffield Poorhouse : Inmates, 397; week's payments to

regular poor, £86. 5s. 6d. ; to out-poor, £121. los. Gd.

. The Cactus Lanceana bloomed during the night, and faded

before morning, at the Botanical Gardens,— the first plant of this kind that has flowered in England.

. Many Sheffield mechanics emigrating.

— 12. Decease of Mr. Samuel Cocker, Hunter's House, aged 51. . Decease of Mr. John Armitage, aged 27.

— 14. Decease of Mr. Joseph Mappin, Broomgrove, aged 48.

— 15. Sheffield and Eotherham Railway : Call of £2. lOs. per

half-share, making £10.

. Revising Barristers' Court at Sheffield : New claims by

Reformers, 464 ; Tories struck off, 62 ; total, 526. New- claims by Tories, 218 ; Reformers struck off, 151 ; total, 369. Gain to the Reformers, 157.

— 16. Sir R. Peel took his seat, and announced that he should

postpone to the next session, his measures of a permanent character relative to the finances of the countrj-.

. New Gas Company : Half-year's dividend of 12s. per

share.

— 17. Decease of the Rev. John Strawe, Wesleyan minister in

the Sheffield East Circuit.

— 20. The first cab appears in the streets of Sheffield, plying for

hire.

— 28. Decease of Mr. Charles Rhodes, Workhouse croft, aged 78.

— 29. Feargus O'Connor pays his first visit to Sheffield after his

incarceration.

— 30. Conclusion of the scrutiny of the Pro and Anti-Charter

petitions.

. Joseph Turner and Wm. Housley, sentenced to 14 years'

ti'ansportation for a burglary, pardoned, there being rea- son to believe that the witness to their identity was mistaken.

. Decease of Mr. "Wm. B. Belk, druggist, Fargate, aged 29.

Oct. 2. Sheffield Poorhouse : Inmates, 422 ; week's payments to regular poor, £86. 10s. ; to casual poor, £126. 5s. 6d.

. North Midland Railway: Mr. Glyn resigned the chair- manship, to which Mr. Newton, of Derby, was elected.

. The Sheffield Pa/reoi, a paper commenced about the end

of 1838, as neutral in religion and politics, (but which soon became violently Tory,) having changed hands, the new proprietor announced its publication for Saturday, (this day,) instead of Tuesday. But it did not appear, for, having been printed on one side, the printer refused to work the other. The proprietor announced, in pla- cards, that the " Patriot had been smothered by an atro- cious conspiracy."

— 4. Mr. Haydon commences a second course of lectures on

painting before the Literary and Philosophical Society.

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Oct o. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, G3s. 8d.

. Lord Morpeth sailed in the Columbia for the United

States.

— 6. Police meeting: Two proprietors of cabs applied for per-

mission to ply for hire like the hackney coaches. Per- mitted to do so under the regulation of the surveyor. Before Christmas, the cabs became numerous.

— 7. Decease of Mr. Wm. Stacey, aged 77 years, formerly of

the firm of Chapman and Stacey, Westbar green.

— 8, Decease of Mr. James Wright, publican, aged 44.

— 9. The Patriot re-appeared, being a second edition of the

fVaketicld Herald, under the Sheffield name.

— 10. Decease of Mr. Thomas Jenkinson, aged 59, formerly of

the Cherry Tree hill bowling green.

— 11. Thomas Depledge murdered at Darfield, near Barnsley :

Wm. and Jfoseph Lodge committed on the verdict of the Coroner's inquest, and John Lodge, their nephew, after- wards committed by the Magistrates.

. Decease, at Wingfield Park, of German Wheatcroft, Esq.,

aged 68, of the firm of VVheatcroft and Sons, corn mer- chants and carriers.

. The body of Mr. William Broomhead, jnn., of Ridgeway,

found in a drain, near Arncott, in Oxfordshire. He was on a journey, and left Brill, on foot, on the 30th, on his way to Bicester. The waters being out, he is supposed to have been drowned accidentally. Three men and a boy, who first found the body, were afterwards committed on a charge of robbing it of a considerable sum of money and other things.

— - 18, James Bronterre O'Brien, in two lectures at the Circus,

explaned the objects of the Chartists to be — to divide the lands of the country in small portions among the people, at the death of the present owners, compensating their heirs ; and to pay oif the national debt by considering each year's interest as principal.

— 19. Shipwreck on Cape St. Antonio, Cuba, of the John Taylor

emigrant ship, from Liverpool to New Orleans, with about 200 emigrants, and near 60 of them from Sheffield. All saved but one young man.

— 23. Subscription for Mrs. and Miss Cluley, widow and daugh-

ter of the late Mr. Francis Cluley, who had been de- frauded of their property by Jeremiah Winks, one of the executors under Mr. Cluley's will.

— 25. Sheffield Sessions : Appeal of Mr. Wm. Parker, proprie-

tor of the Park Wheel, against being rated for the unoc- cupied hulls.— Rate confirmed, but a case granted on the facts.

. Revising Barristers' circuit completed at Rotherham: Gain

to Reformers at Rotherham, 65. General result, 990 gain to Orange on new claims ; loss on objections, 522 ; net gain, 468.

— 26. First announcement of the discovery of the forgery of

Exchequer bills, to an immense amount, by Beaumon

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1841.

Smith, an officer of the Exchequer Bill office, Ernest Rapallo and others. Oc<.27.Meeting at Wakefield voted an address to Lord Morpeth.

— 29. Joseph and Ann Heeley tried for the robbery of "William

Stead, of £125. Joseph Heeley acquitted. Ann Heeley guilty ; four months' imprisonment.

— 30. News arrived by the Acadia of the acquittal of M'Leod,

at Utica, New York, averting the danger of a rupture between the United States and England, and causing some improvement of trade.

— 30. Destruction by fire of the grand storehouse and small

armoury in the tower of London.

. Last publication of the Sheffield Patriot.

'Nov. 1.— Publication of Borough Register for 1841 — 2. Number

of electors reduced from 4347, in 1840—1, to 4203.- See

April 17. . Mechanics' Institute : Anniversary meeting ; resolved to

establish a general library.

— 2. Decease of Mr. Godfrey Machon, Brook place, aged 73. . Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 68s. lid.

— 3. Decease of George Mason, an officer of the police for 11

years.

— 5, Dr. Holland read a paper before the Literary and Philo-

sophical Society, attributing the increase of unoccu])ied houses to over-production, though it appeared from 1821 to 1831, the population had increased 40J per cent.; from 1831 to 1841, only 21 per cent,

. Silver cup presented to Mr. Riley Carr by his workmen,

as a " token of respect and gratitude."

— 6. Sheffield Poorhouse : Inmates, 453 ; week's payments to

regular poor, £85. 12s. ; to casual, £123. 5s. 6d.

• Captain Jebb's report of his scrutiny of the petitions for

and against a Charter. For: 12,227 petitioners, of whom 6949 were proved to be rated at £97,717. Against : 15,091 signatures, of whom 5605 were found to be rate- paj-ers, at £57,778. Expense of a Corporation, with police force for whole borough, £12,000 a year, — an in- crease upon the present expenditure (£3250, exclusive of lighting and cleansing) of £8750.

^ 7. Wm. Stringer stabbed in Red croft, by Henry Rodgers, who was committed for manslaughter,

— 9. Birth of the Prince of Wales.

— 11. The Spring Knife Cutlers appeal to the public for as-

sistance.

— 12. Officers of the Queen's Bays gave an amateur theatrical

performance for the benefit of the poor. The net pro- ceeds, £100, were distributed, through the medium of the Cutlers' Company, among 700 poor artizans.

. Several barbers summoned before the Magistrates for

shaving on Sunday, contrary to the wish of the majority of the trade to close entirely on that day. After a full hearing, Mr. Bagshawe said, the Magistrates were " de- sirous to secure the observance of the Lord's Day, but not its Pharisaical observance. He thought no great

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evil would be done if it were restricted to such an hour, that those who were shaved, and those employed in shaving them, might have time to prepare for the due attendance at Divine worship ; and to fix the hour of closing at nine, afforded sufficient time. The Bench would hold, therefore, that it was a work of necessitj- before nine o'clock, a.m., but not afterwards." A^of.13. Sudden decease, in London, of George Bennet, Esq., aged 68. Up to 1821, Mr. Bennet resided in Sheffield, de- voting his life to the promotion of religious, benevolent, and educational objects. He then, with the Rev. D. Tyerman, undertook the tour of the world, to visit the various stations of the London Missionary Society, and was absent eight years. After his return, in 1829, he resided chiefly in London.

— 14. Decease of Mr. W. Scott, Sheffield moor, com factor,

aged 67.

— 15. First general meeting of the Sheffield Society for the pro-

motion of Free Trade : All legislative protection for British produce or manufactures repudiated. Offley Shore, Esq., president ; Edward Smith and Thos. Dunn, Esqrs., vice-presidents.

— 16. Decease of Robert Ernest, M.D., in his 70th year, house

surgeon to the Infirmary from its opening in 1797.

— 17. Sheffield and Manchester Railway : Opening of eight

miles of the line from Manchester to Godley.

— 18. Thames tunnsl completed.

— 20. Accounts of Town Trustees published: Receipts, £1787 ;

expenditure, (including £1362 for property taken under the Improvement Act, and £525 for calls on Railway shares,) £2581.

— 20. Sheffield and Manchester Railway : Mr. Locke's report of

the work completed, and cost as compared with estimates, and probable cost of remaining works. Work executed (estimated by Mr. Vignoles at £248,600) cost £253,000. For entire line, Mr. Vignoles' estimate, £1,000,000; Mr. Locke's, £1,113,500.

. Savings' Bank : Sums deposited during year ended this

day, £32,825 ; paid out, £34,511. Balance invested and with the treasurer, ^162,335. Depositors, 5174; Charitable Societies, 11 ; Friendly Societies, 40.

— 24. Sudden death of the Earl of Harewood, Lord Lieutenant

of the West Riding, while returning home from hunting.

— 25. Sudden decease of Sir Francis Chantrey, at his house,

Belgrave place, London, aged 60.

— 28. Mary Nail murdered by Robert Nail, her husband, at

the house of Lucy Nail, his sister. Beehive lane, Glos- sop road, where they were sleeping together. Nail waa in bed with the dead body, when taken, several hours after the commission of the murder. At the request of the Jury, the Coroner made a representation to the Home Office on the frequency of stabbing.

— 30. Application to the Magistrates for a distress warrant

against the guardians of Sheffield, for refusing to pay

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1841. costs of defendant in a bastardy appeal, as ordered by Quarter Sessions. The guardians prayed for time, that they might take the case to the Court of Queen's Bench, but the Magistrates were of opinion that the costs should be paid, and the guardians complied.

Dec. 3. In the ease of Kirk v. Blurton and another, tried last York Assizes, with verdict for plaintiff, the Court of Exchequer decided, that a bill signed " J. Blurton and Co.," by Charles Habershon, a partner in the printing business carried on under the name of John Blurton, did not bind Blurton.

— 4. Fork Grinders : Erom 21 to 25 years of age, 28 ; 25 to

30, 28 ; 30 to 35, 8 ; 35 to 40, 14 ; 40 to 50, 16 ; 50 and upwards, 3.

. Sheffield Poorbouse: Inmates, 480; week's payments to

out-poor, £l\b. 4s. 6d.

. Sheffield Canal Company v. Sheffield and Rotherham

Railway : Master of the Rolls gave judgment in this suit • to compel the Railway Company to invest money to pro- duce £100 year, in payment to the Canal Company, towards the maintenance of the Wicker road, according to alleged agreement before the passing of the Railway bill. Lord Langdale decided that the agreement bad not been concluded, and dismissed the bill with costs.

. Edward Beaumont Smith pleaded guilty, in the Central

Criminal Court, of the forgery of Exchequer bills, and was sentenced to transportation for life. — Rapallo discbd.

— 5. The Rev. S. Bellamy assumes the pastorate of Garden

street Chapel, rece the Rev. Mr. Speakman.

— 6. Interment of Sir Francis Chantrey, at Norton, the place

of his birth. In his will. Sir Francis bequeathed £50 a year for the education of ten poor boys in Norton ; £10 a year each to five poor men and five poor women of the same parish; and £50 a year to the Vicar, in con- sideration of his tomb being kept in repair.

— 7. Weekly average of wheat at Sheffield, 66s. lid.

. Decease of Mr. Jas. Wright, surgeon, Dronfield, aged 57.

— 10. Lord Wharnclifife appointed Lord Lieutenant of the West

Riding, vice the Earl of Harewood, deceased.

— 11. Rotherham College: The professors authorised to grant

certificates to students for examination for degrees in the London University.

. Wilson Overend, Esq., added to the Commission of the

Peace for the West Riding.

— 27. Penknife grinders appeal to the public, asking for an ad-

vance to 15 or 20 per cent, less than the 1831 statement. State that they owe for rent, at one wheel, £250 ; at another, £300 ; at a third, £600 ; and at a fourth, £101 7.

— 29. Mr. Joseph Law elected House Surgeon of the Infirmary,

vice Dr. Ernest, deceased.

— 31. Sheffield and Rotherham Independent : Circulation and

advertisements:—

1838. 1839. 1840. 1841.

Stamps 74,140. .108,600. . 118,000 . . 121,000

Advertisements .. 2,738.. 2,960.- 3,326.. 3,465

[Presented GRATIS to the Subscribers to the Independent.]

CONTINUATION

OP THE

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER,

FOR 1843.

Jan. 1. The Fork Manufacturers state, that the scale-tang table two-prong fork» are reduced in price, since 1835, from 18s. to 10s. per gross ; and that oval-rimmed three- pronged table forks have fallen from 24g. to 163. per gross, in the same period.

. Operative Anti-Corn Law Conferencp held in Manchester.

— 3. E. Taylor, Esq., Gresham Professor, commences a course

of lectures before the Literary and Philosophical Societj, on English Vocal Harmony.

. George Thompson, Esq., lectures in Queen-street Chapel,

and on the 4th in the Music-Hail, on Free Trade. A petition agreed to, praying Parliament " to undertake without delay the revision of our Tariff, in order to ac- complish the entire repeal of the Corn and Provisiou Laws."

— 4. Average price of wheat, at Sheffield, GBs. 2d. 5. At Wakefield Sessions, Lord Wbarncliffe announced that,

having been placed by her Majesty at the head of the Magistracy of the Riding, and appointed to an office in the Government, he must resign the Chair of the Quar- ter Sessions, which he had held near thirty years. 7. Literary and Philosophical Society: Earl Fitzwilliam elected President; Edw. Smith, Esq., Dr. Harwood, James Montgomery, Esq., and the Rev. H. Farish, Vice-Presidents; Messrs. Boultbee and Lucas, Secre- taries.

. Henry Vaughan attempted to shoot Hannah, Sarah, and

Harriet Poole, three sisters, in their house, at Pye bank. They escaped from the house, but Sarah was slightly wounded by a bullet, in getting through a window. Vaughan then secured himself in the house, and, firing through the door, a bullet entered the trousers of Mr. John Palfreyman, but without wounding him. Vaughau then reloaded one of his pistols, and shot himself through the heart. ^

— 7. Sheffield Poorhouse : Inmates, 520; week's payment to

the casual poor, .-£142. lis. 6d.

— 8. Inquest on the body of H. Vaughan— Verdict, Felo de se.

— 9. Robbery of the house of James Montgomery, Esq., while

at evening service ; the servantleft bandaged in the cellar.

— 11. Decease, at Pitville Lawn, Cheltenham, of John Bailev,

Esq., formerly of Burngreave,

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JaK.ll. At Doncaster Sessions, the Eev. W. Alderson declined to take tbe chair in the Second Court, for <'it had long been his intention to retire when Lord Wharnclifie did ; and the changes of the law had become so numerous and perplexing, that provision should be made to have a legal gentleman in the chair."

— 12. Ralph Trotter acquitted, at Doncaster Sessions, on a

charge of embezzling the money of Mrs. Chambers, ofi the Crofts Brewery.

— -. Special General JJe'eting of the Sheffield and Manchester

Railway resolved to pay live per cent, interest ou all shares on ^shichthe calls were paid up.

— 15. Samuel Boot held to bail, to answer, at the Assizes, a

charge of burglary at the Cherry Tree Bowling Green.

— 17. Decease of Jonathan Walker, Esq., of Easingwold, for-

merly of Ferham.

— 18. Henry Baker committed to York, charged with breaking

into Messrs. Howard and Hawksworth's warehouse.

— 19. M. Lafontaine delivers his first lecture in Sheffield, on

Animal Magnetism. . Mr. J.Gleadallelected House Apothecary to the Dispensn ry.

— 20. The four branches of the Spring Knife Trade form a -Mu-

tual Aid Society.

— 21. Mr. Cresswell appointed one of the Judges of the Com t of

Common Pleas.

. Kenyon Stevens Parker, Esq , appointed Queen's Coun<=el.

. West-Riding Electors registered for 1S41-2, 33,911, an

increase of 2913.

— 22, Decease of Samuel Stones, aged 73, the first typefoun ler

who came to Sheffield.

— 23. Decease of Mr. John Higginbotham, of the Three Tnns,

Orchard street, aged 74.

— 24. Explosion of the boiler at Philadelphia "Works ; Joseph

Simpson killed.

25. Christening of the Prince of Wales. Public meeting, to

promote a subscription for the relief of the distress of the town. The principal resolutions having been carried, the promoters of the meeting retired, because an advo- cate of Universal Suffrage persisted in addre.osing the meeting. Another Chairman was elected, and a resola« tion in favour of Universal Suffrage was passed.

. Mr. Curtis, from Ohio, lectures ou the effect of the Cor-

Laws on our American trade.

. A gold snuff box presented to T. Ellin, jun., Esq., Mastei i

Cutler, by his workmen.

• - 26. General clo'^ing of shops this day, (for Tuesday,) on ac^ count of the Christening of the Prince of Wales.

. Decease of John Shaw, Esq., surgeon, Attercliffe, aged 81.

. An official communication from Lord Wharncliffe, Presi- dent of the Council, that the Privy Council would advise the Queen to grant a Charter of Incorporation to Shef- field, provided they had some tecurity thak .the Tow-

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. Council would petition for a Court of Quarter Sessions and a Recorder. Jan,26. Court of Requests : Commissioners elected to fill up vacan- cies—Messrs. Edw. Nanson, jun., Wm. Bradley, Edw. Vickers, Edw. Bingham, Roger Haynes, Geo. Wolsteu- holm, Wm. Cockayne, Jonathan Roebuck, Jonah Hawk- rigg, Francis CoUey, James Moorhouse, James Irving, Chas. Ridall, Wm. Warburton, Paul Smith, Andrew In- gleson, Charles Sheldon, and Thomas Moulson.

— 27. Presentation of a silver cup to Messrs. li. Groves and

Sons, saw manufacturers, by their workmen.

. Sheffield Gas Company : Half-yearly dividend, 25s. per sh.

. Decease of the Rev.T.Blackley, M. A., vicar of Rotherham.

— 28, Sheffield Banking Co.: Annual dividend of 8j per cent. . Botanical Gardens : Year's receipts, ,;6'1317 ; outlay,£1267.

— 29, Decease of Mr. John Rider, formerly of Whitley Hall,

Ecclesfield, in his 60th year,

— 30. Decease of Mr. John Haslehurst, iron merchant, aged 54. Feb. 1. Lafontaine's last exhibition of Animal Magnetism.

— — . Decease of B.J. Wake, Esq., solicitor, in his 64th year.

— 2. A meeting held to complete the business of the 25th Jan. , Last run of Colebrook harriers, before removal to Essex,

- -. Sheffield & Rotherham Bank : Annual dividend, 10 per ct.

— 3, The Corporation Committee, in reply to Lord VVharn-

cliffe's letter of Jan. 26, represent to the Privy Council that they could not pledge the future Town Council. . Opening of Parliament. The Queen recommends for con- sideration the state of the laws which affect the import of corn and other articles, the produce ot foreign countries.

— 4. New poor rate. Is. in the pound, instead of 9d.

— — . Dr. Holland read a paper before the Literary and Philoso- phical Society, on the Cutlery Manufacture, complaining of the frauds upon purchasers by cast metal goods. Mr, S. Bailey and Mr. E. Smith declared their dissent from Dr. Holland's conclusions.

— 5. Messrs. Joseph Rodgers and Sons manufacture a Norfolk

knife ; the handle, 14 inches long, of carved pearl, mounted in chased gold, with more than 100 blades and tools, on which are etched portraits and views, 7. Decease of Mr. John Newton, Westbar, aged 73. S. Meeting of Anti-Corn- Law Delegates, in London. 9. Sir R,. Peel proposes his new sliding scale. The measure denounced by Mr, Cobden, as " an insult to the suffer- ing people," and by the Anti-Corn-Law delegates as a denial of justice.

-. Anti-Corn-Law Bazaar, at Manchester, realized £10,000,

14. Distress Fund amounts to £1,400. Distributed chiefly in bread and potatoes.

-, Presentation of the Sheffield Anti-Corn-Law petition, with 15,912 signatures.

-, Dr. Cantor lectures on Animal Magnetism, before the Mechanics' Institution.

— 15. Average price of wheat, at Sheffield, 64s. 2d. c2

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■ 1842.

jFc6.15.Lord "WharndifFe explained to the Committee of Tncorpo' ration that he wished no more than that they should un" dertake to recommend the subject of Quarter Sessions to the consideration of the future Town Council, which they agreed to do.

18. Anti-Corn-Law and Universal Suffrage Meeting defeated

by the O'Connorite Chartists, who carried an amendment demanding the Charter, full and entire.

23. Sheffield and Manchester Railway : Expenditure on the

tunnel, up to the 19th, ,=i'60,560. Total expenditure, £331,584.

— 2-1. Mr. Parker and Mr. Ward voted for Mr. Villiers' motion,

in the minority of 90, for repeal of all duties on com.

27. Decease of Mr. J. Bolton, wine merchant, Market St. aged 54.

I— 25. Week's payment to the casual poor, Sheffield, £178.

28. At Oxford Assizes, the indictment against four men for

the murder ot Mr. W. Broorahead, juu., of Ridgway,

ignored by the Grand Jury. Mar. 4. Decease of Mr. John Peel,' High street, aged 77. 7, IS ew trial at York, in the case of Glare jj, Wentworth :

Verdict for the plaintiif. . Sheffield and Rotherham Railway Company : Dividend of

20s. per share, and 7s. each new share ; equal to S per ct,

— 11. Decease of Mr. \V. Wright, Yellow Lion, Haymarkct,

aged 55.

.. Sir R. Peel proposes his Income Tax and Reform of the

Tariff.

— 12. Decease of Mr. W. Pinder, saw manufacturer, aged 65.

Also, of Robert Rawson, governor of Holiis's Hospital.

— 14. Mr. Ward moved for a Committee to ascertain the alleged

special burdens borne by the land of the country, and also its exemptions. Lost by 230 to 115. Mr. Parker moved a clause to facilitate the introduction of corn from the United States : negatived.

Joseph and Wm. Lodge, convicted of the manslaughter of

Thomas Depledge, at Dar6eld. Transported for 15 years. John Lodge not guilty.

15. Average price of wheat, at Sheffield, 61s. 3d.

IG. Decease of Bernard Edward Howard, twelfth Duki of

Norfolk, born at Sheffield •21st Nov. 1765, and succ. to the title IGth Dec. 1815. Interred on the 24tii in the Fitzallan Collegiate Chapel, in Arundel chiir

— 17. Henry Rodgers found guilty at York, of the manshiu;,'liLi.r

of Wra. Stringer, 'i'ransnorted seven years. . Robert Nail found guilty of the murder of Mary, his wife.

Sentenced to death. . New Gas Co.: Dividend of 12s. per share, or 51 per cent.

— 18. Sheffield payments to casual poor, £\Qi for the week.

21. Henry Baker convicted, at York, of breaking into the

warehouse of Howard and Hawksworth. Teh yt;trn' transportation.

— 2^. Henry Boot charged with burglary at the Cherry Tree

Bowling green. Acquitted.

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 369

1842.

XJai-rla. Election of Guardians.— Sheffield Union : Siieffield— W.J. Beet, Samuel Staniforth, Charles Peace, Thomas Bur- dett Turton, John Stevenson, Isaac Mitchell, Charles Elliott, and Wm. Fawcett. Brightside -Eobt. Water- house, John Green. Attercliffe- John Gaunt. Hands- worth— VVm. Jelfcock -. Ecclesall Union : Ecclesall — Wm. Page, Wra. Tyzack, Ebenezer Marsden, John Priston Cutts. Nether Hallam — Joseph Hawki^ley, H. P. Harwood, M.D. Upper Hallam— Wm.Creswick. Norton —Joseph Green, Thomas Ward. Dore- Joseph Gillott. Totley— D'Ewes Coke. Beauchief-G. Fox.

. Decease of Matthias D'Amour, aged 93.

— 29. Several persons convicted under the act for protecting

registered designs, for imitating the designs of Messrs. Stuart, Smith, and Co.'s fenders.

— 30. Decease of Wm. Oxley, Esq., Park Gate House, Rother-

ham, aged 53.

— 31. Special Sessions at Waketield : Propose to hold interme-

diate sessions at Sheffield four times a year. Chairmen for Sheffield and Rotherham, Earl Fitzwilliam, the Hon. J. S. Wortley, W. J. Bagshawe, Esq., & J.Ingham, Esq.

■ . Decease at Sobrado, Rio de Janeiro, of George Brittain,

Esq., in his 60th year.

Jpril4. The Church Burgesses having offered £50 a year to- wards the salary of a chaplain to the Infirmary, resolved at a special meeting of Governors, that a chaplain be ap- pointed as soon as a salary of j£100 could be raised in- dependently of the funds of the charity.

. Pontefract Sessions : The Hon. E. Lascelles elected chair- man, vice Lord Wharncliffe. Report of the special ses- sions, March 31, as to intermediate sessions, adopted.

— 5. George Hancock committed to York, charged with setting

fire to the stack of Wm. Roberts, of Button hill.

. News from India of the destruction of the army of Cabool.

. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, Gls. 7d.

— 7. Decease of Mr. Edward Vv ard, of the firm of David Ward

and Sons, aged 29,

— 9. Robert Nail executed at York for the murder of his wife.

— 10. Decease at Grimesthorpe, of Mr. Robert Colver, aged 70. . Waterworks Company : Dividend of 7i per cent.

— 14. Decease of Mr. John Butcher, draper, aged 83.

— 16. Sheffield Highway Accounts : Expended £7534. — — . \Veekly payments to Sheffield casual poor, .£'274.

— 17. Decease of Mr. Crowther, of Owlerton, surgeon, aged 5.5.

— 18. Foundation laid of General Baptist Chapel, Eyre street. . Ecclesall Union Workhouse: payments to out poor, £106,

against .^'68 last year.

— 21. Ecclesfield: Rate to enlarg;e the church-yard refused.

— 23. Relief Fund Accounts : Received, £2096 ; expended,

£2056 ; balance to Bettering Society, £40.

— 2 J. Annual Police Meeting, Rotherham : Expenditure, £2IG

— 25. Disturbances among the nailers and colliers in Warwick-

shire and Staffordshire.

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1842.

^jan726.Decease of Mr. Thomas Ludlam, aged 38, many years.- bookkeeper at the Tontine coach-office.

— 30. New Sliding Scale came into operation.

May 2. Election of Secretary to the Infirmary: Mr. John Hardy, 151 ; Mr. Joseph Kirk, 131 ; Mr. Ebenezer Smith, 72 ; Mr. W. F. Hobson, 4.

Decease at Birmingham, of Mr. W. Hutton, aged 68, of

the firm of W. Hutton and Son.

— 4. Mr. Ward writes to the Chartist Committee in explana-

tion of the grounds of his vote in favour of hearing the Chartist petitioners by counsel at the bar.

— 5. Sheffield Library : Price of shares reduced from 6 to 6 gs.

— 6. Decease of Mr. R. "Woofinden, in his 73rd year.

— 7. Sheffield Poorhouse : Inmates, 580 ; week's payments to

casual poor, £333. Kccle.^all Workhouse: Inmates, 287; out payments, £124, against £76 last year.

— 9. Number of able-bodied poor receiving relief at Sheffield

Workhouse, increased since March, from 200 to 900.

. Williams's Patent Argand Furaaces for preventing smoke,

exhibited at Messrs. Sandford's U'orks, Rotherham.

— 10. Lectures on Warby R. E. R. Moore, Ksq., of Manchester.

Decease of Mr. Richard Atkinson, aged ';! .

— 11. Meeting of the Anti-Corn Law League, at Manchester:

" They had more money in hand than had been spent in any two years since the commencement of the straggle."

. Aged Female Society : Cases relieved in last year, .'364 ;

amount expended, £332.

— 12. Lecture by Mr. Moore on Temperance.

— 13. Lecture by Mr. Moore : The power of the people to carry

Reform by peaceable and moral means.

— 14. Trades' Unions : Payments by Table-knife Grinders'

Union to the unemployed from 13th November, 1830, to December, 183J, £13.32; 1832, £2572; 1833, £742; 1834, £653; 1835, £60; 1836, £40; 1837, ^2650; 1838, £2417; 1839, ^2279; 1840, ^3546; 1841, £3003 ; January to April, 1842, £1356; total, £20,630 ; besides about £15,000 during the last five years, paid by the saw, edgetool, file, Britannia metal, and silver plating trades.

— 16. Corner stone of Elsecar Church laid by Earl Fitzwilliam.

— 19. First Intermediate Sessions, under the new arrangement

held at Sheffield.

— 21. Decease of Mr. John Vickers, formerly Brittanni a metui

manufacturer. Garden street.

— 24. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 65s. Id.

— 25. Decease, at Matlock Bath, of Mr. John Newton, grocer.

flaymarket.

— 28. Formation of Sheffield Phrenological Societ}'.

. Deputation of Yorkshire Magistrates had an interview

with Sir James Graham to deprecate taking Yorkshire out of the Northern Circuit, and to urge the necessity for a third yearly gaol delivery.

— 29. Decease of Mr. J. M'Turk,'Burgesd St., in his 63rd year.

SHEFFIELD T.OCAL REGISTER. 371

1842.

JI/«j/30,Tlie Queen shot at by John Francis.

June I. Police meeting : Mr. Robert Sorby proposed a memorial to the Privy Council to postpone the Charter of Incor- poration on account of the distress of the town, stating that there were more than 1000 able-bodied men on the parish. The Chairman declined to put the motion.

— — . Queen's Bays left Sheffield : succeeded by two troops of the 1 1th Hussars, (Lord Cardigan's;) head quarters, Yort.

. The Saw Trade memorialise the Board of Trade, praying

for a duty on the exportation of steel and partly manu- factured goods. They state that the export of steel for saws averages 25 tons weekly. The memorial supported by the representatives of other trades. The Board of 'J'rade reply that the remedy proposed would restrict ra- ther than enlarge the trade.

— . — . Henry Wilson, chimney sweep, of Rotherham, sentenced last York Assizes to transportation for life, for burglary, at Brampton, pardoned, on proof of his innocence.

— 3. Sheffield Workhouse: inmates, 574 ; week's payments to

casual poor, £371.

— 5, Decease of H.Elgie, Esq., Western bank, in his 70th year-

— U. Ecclesall Union : paupers in workhouses, 308 ; payments

to out-poor, £128, against ^£73 last year.

— 7. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 6(3s. Id.

. Proclamation issued putting an end to the receipt of light

sovereigns for revenue, and causing great inconvenience throughout the country.

— 10. Decease of Mr. John Auckland, file manufacturer, aged 66. --11. Hot weather for 3 weeks : prospects of harvest improving.

— 16. The Earl of Radnor, in a motion on the distress of the

country, quoted the case of Shei'lield : paupers in the poorhouse, 1837,281 ; now, 600. Able poor receiving relief, none in 183G ; now more than 1000. Weekly pay- ments to casual poor, 1837, £13. ISs. ; now, £380. Out- payments to casual poor for year 1836-7, £715 ; 1841-2, ^'7315 ; and now going on at the rate of £15,000 a year. County rate, 1837, £1712 ; 1842, £2575.

— 17. Francis found guilty of shooting at the Queen, and sen-

tenced to death.

— 20. Revival of Chartist agitation by the O'Connor party.

— 21. Mr. Ward moves that, in all future electious, the votes

should be taken by Ballot. Negatived by 290 to 157.

. Yorkshire Amateur Music Meeting held in Sheffield.

• . Decease, in York Castle, of Samuel Holberry, who, in

1840, was sentenced to four years' imprisonment, for his share in the Chartist conspiracy to burn the town.

— 27. Public funeral of S. Holberry at the Sheffield Cemetery.

— 29. At Bradford Sessions, a silver mounted wand and teapot

presented by the bar to Mr. \V. Senior, cryer of the West- Riding Quarter Sessions,

— 30. Public meeting called by part of the overseers held in the

Town-hall, and, by adjournment, in Paradise square, to memorialise the Privy Council to postpone the Charter c3

372 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1842.

of Incorporation, on account of the distress of the town. Mr. Moss stated that the poor r;ite3 had increased from £15,51G in 1838 9, to £-2li,7\6 in 1341-2 ; and this year would be from £35,000 to £40,000. Mr. W. Fisher and Mr. T. Dunn moved an amendment, regretting the dis- tress of the town, but affirming the increased necessity for " a better and more efficient system of local govern- ment." H. Parker and \V. J. Bagshawe, Esqrs., stated the necessity for additional assistance in the administra- tion of justice. The amendment carried.

,hily\. Scarcity of change compels the overseers to issue orders for shillings and half-crowns, to pay the poor.

Chimney sweeping by children abolished by Act of Parlia- ment, passed 7th August, 1840,

— 2. Sentence of J. Francis commuted to transportation for life. 3. Attempt to shoot the Queen by John Wm. Bean, a hump- backed youth.

■ - 4. Mechanics' Library: income, £229 ; stock of books, 5628 ;

number of members, 643.

— 5. Re-assembling of the Anti-Corn Law Delegates in London. . Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 67s. 8d.

— 6. Indictment of the Dick Bank footpath, Attercliffe, tried at

Rotherham Sessions. The Jury found that the occupiers of land through which it passed were liable to repair it. Dispensary: income, £651 ; outlay, £628; patients, 2912.

— 7. Decease of W. Wilson, Esq., Hightield, in his 77th year.

— 9. A.nti-Corn Law Delegates had interview with Sir R. Peel. . Decease of S. Newbould, Esq., Bridge end, inhis9lst year.

■ Sheffield poorhouse: inmates, 463; payments to casual

poor, £441.

— 11. The coming into operation of the new Tarifif causes a great

increase of entries at the Customhouses.

— 11. Ecclesall Union: inmates of houses, 323; payments to

out-poor, iC\ 15, against £<6*j last year.

12. Lord Wharnclitte declares himself in favour of continuing

and extending the educational measures of the Whigs.

— 14. Duty on wheat falls to 8s.

— 15. Decease of Robert IJolborn, Brookhill, aged 88.

— 20. Lecture by the Rev, D. G, Goyder, M.A., of Glasgow,

before the Phrenological Society.

— 20. The Rev. R. S, Bayley reports publicly the proceedings

at the Anti-Corn Law^Conference. Returns from 2126 persons, shewed that the weekly wages of the working classes in Sheffield were .X.'6000 less than in 1838.

2 1. Mr. Ward seconds Mr. Duneombe's motion to address the

Queen to convene Parliament again before winter. Ne- gatived by 147 to 91.

22. Sheffield and Hallamshire Bank : dividend, 7^ per cent.

— 23. Police accounts published: receipts, £6987; cost of

cleansing, £1062; lighting, £2487; watching, £2849 ; salaries, £511 ; miscellaneous, £78.

— 25. The O'Connor Chartists elect J. G. IJarney and S. Parke»

to represent them at a Conference at Manchester.

SHBFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 3/3

1842.

./l«/^2G.Political Institute Chartists elect R. Otley for same purpose.

, Meeting of North Midland shareholders resident in Shef- field and the neighbourhood, to urge upon the Directors economy, and collect proxies in favour of the appoint- ment of a committee of inspection.

— 27. Public meeting to memorialise the Queen not to prorogue

Parliamentuntil the distress of the country had been con- sidered, defeated by amendment in favour of the Charter.

— 29. Decease of Mr. J. Woodhead, starch manfr., Rotherham.

— 30. Petitions in favour of the Corn Laws this session, signed

by 1399; against them, by 4,925,178.

Aug. I. Cricket match at Hyde Park between Nottingham and Shefiield. Nottingham, first innings, 150; second, 85: Shetifiield, first innings, 95; second, 49.

. Election of Po'ice Commissioners: I homas "Wild, Far- gate; James Wild, Queen street; Charles floole, Cas- tle street ; William Bland, Surrey street; Thomas Dunn, Coal Wharf; Albert Smith, Castle street ; Michael Hunter, Wicker; William Parker, Soho Works ; and I. P. Cutts, Division street.

— 2. Decease of Mr. George Fish, printer, aged 71.

— 4. The Rev. R. S. Bayley brings forward in the Circus hia

plan for the formation of a People's College. . Formation of the Shetifiield Complete SuS'rage Association.

— 5. Nottingham election : Walter, 1799 ; Sturge, 1718,

— 6. Averagepriceof wheat at Sheffield, 62s. 6d.

. Sheffield poorhouse : inmates, 513; week's payments to

casual poor, £492. Ecclesall Union : inmates of the houses, 350 ; out-payments, ^131, against £69 last year.

. Prospect of a good harvest causes temporary improvement

in the cotton trade.

— S. Commencement of a strike at Staley Bridge, which ex-

tended to Manchester, and all the small towns and vil- lages of Lancashire. Turnout commenced at Dudley, continued in Staifordshire. The colliers' strike near Glasgow.

. Return match between Sheffield and Nottingham played at

Nottingham. Sheffield, first innings, 123; second, 37: Nottingham, first innings, 132; second, 29, with nine wickets to go down.

Decease of Mr. Henry Moorhouse, late of the firm of

Smith, Moorhouse, and Smith, in his 59th year.

. First importation of live cattle.

. Decease of Mr. Thomas Flockton, Broomhill, aged 70.

— 9. Cemetery Company : Dividend of 5s. per share.

— 11. Sheffield and Rotherham Railway: Dividend reduced

from 8 to 7 per cent.

— 12. Decease of Mr. Thomas Hirst, surveyor, Fargate, aged 63. . Parliament prorogued.— Trades' delegates, assembled in

Manchester, recommend a cessation of work till the Charter become law.

— 13. The Lancashire turn-outs enter Yorkshire, and stop mills

at Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, &c.

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1842.

^j/^.13.The fine weather rendering a rise in our corn duties cer- tain, the 8s. duty was paid on about 2,000,000 quarters.

— 14. Troops sent down into Lancashire and Yorkshire.

— IJ. Meeting in Paradise square, on the subject of a strike :

Resolved to convene a meeting of trades' delegates.

- — ^. Destruction of property at Hanley and Burslem, in Staff.

. Decease of Mr. James Deakin, aged 61.

' — l(j. Feargus O'Connor and the Chartist delegates meet pri- vately in Manchester.

— 17. Address of the Executive Chartist Committee published;

the printer arrested. The military attacked at Elland.

. Fiist meeting of the Sheffield Complete Suffrage Union.

-. Sheffield and Manchester Railway Company obtain a loan

from Exchequer Bill Commissioners, of £50.000. .• The turn-outs reach Leeds, but are repulsed.

— 18. The Chartist delegates separated. The trades delegates

decreasing. A few mills commence work.

. Mr. Dawson's first Concert: Miss A. Kemble and others.

. George Hancock acquitted at York, charged with setting

fire to the stacks of Mr. Roberts, Button hill.

— 19. Tranquillity generally restored, but work not yet resumed. . Harney and Parkes, returned from Manchester, report the

proceedings there to a meeting -in Paradise square. A meeting to decide upon the strike announced for Monday.

— 20. The trades' delegates at ISIanchester ceased their sittings. . The secretaries of seven Grinders' Unions announce that

their trades have nothing to do with the proposed meeting.

— 22. Chartist meetings in London, Birmingham, &c., prevented.

Meeting in Paradise square. Proposed that a strike was the most rational mode of obtaining the Charter. J. G. Harney moved an amendment, censuring the Government, and sympathising with the turn-out, but pledging the meeting to increased exertions to gain the Charter. The amendment carried. Other Chartist meetings, which passed off quietly.

— 25. Half-yearly meeting of North Midland Company at Derby :

On the motion of Jlr. John Carr, of Sheffield, a com- mittee appointed to investigate its affairs.

. Bean found guilty of attempting to shoot at the Queen :

eighteen months' im})risonment.

. People's College opened by the Rev. R. S. Bayley; rooms

George street.

— 2G. Mr. Justice Maule refused the application of Mr. Wortley,

made yesterday, to remand the prisoners for the late riots, and leave them to be tried by Special Commission.

. .Mr. Dawson's second subscription Concert: Madame and

Signora E. Grisi, Sig. F. & Sig. Lablache, and others.

— 29. The Rev. Samuel Robinson Carver, incumbent of Stan-

nington, with Mrs. Carver, overturned in their carriage at Malin bridge. Mr. Carver died on the 3ist August, and Mrs. Carver on the 2nd September. The Queen left Windsor to visit Scotland.

— 30. Post bags sent toMa.sbro' by mail cart, instead of railway.

' SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 376

1842.

>^M^.30. Meeting to apply for a grant from the money raised by authority of the Queen's letter, for the relief of distressed manufacturers. In the parish, 25,000 inhabited houses ; 30,000 male adults. Adult males employed in manufac- tures, 25,000; women, and children above 12, 7000 ; four to five thousand men in full work, averaging 18s. a week, and about 1000 women and children, averaging 58. ' each ; 17,000 men, partially employed, at an average of

, 9s. a week; 4500 women and children, at 3s. ; 3000 men

\ unemployed (2000 on the parish,) and 1500 women and

I children. Out-poor for the quarter ending March, 1842,

4160 ; ending June, 7466 ; by the end of September, likely I to he doubled.

I — 31. Half-yearly meeting of Sheffield and Manchester Railway

I Company: Total expended, £404,656. 3032 yards of

the tunnel driven, leaving 2208. 1419 shares forfeited.

. Infirmary: The clergy appointed a Chaplain Committee,

to appoint a chaplain, and raise £150 a year for his salary, including ^£50 from the Church Burgesses.

. Scale of out-door relief in Sheffield Union reduced.

Scpt.l. Cutlers' Feast: Wm. Broadhurst, Esq., Master ; Messrs. T. Wilkinson and F. Newton, Wardens. Lord VVham- clifFe, Lord Milton, the Hon. J. S. Wortley, and the Hon. Gr. W. Fitzwilliam, the principal guests.

. Gold abundant in Bank of England ; loans at 3| per cent.

— - - Ground broken at Wardsend for the Sheffield and Man- chester Railway, the loan from the Exchequer Bill Commissioners having been obtained on the undertaking that employment should he found on the line for the able- bodied poor of Sheffield. — 3. Sheffield Poorhouse: Inmates, 535 ; week's payments to casual poor, £503. Ecclesall Union : Inmates of houses, 374, against 253 last year; out-payments, £132, against £68 last year.

— 5. Hy. Vincent lectures in the Circus on Complete Suffrage. . The parties convicted at York of the late riots sentenced —

one to ten years' transportation, and the rest to various terms of imprisonment, mostly from two to six months. The assizes lasted 18 days. 18? ordinary prisoners, and 190 rioters ; of the latter, 43 pleaded guilty ; 25 acquitted.

— — . Decease of Mr. George Rodgers, of the firm of Joseph Rodgers and Sons, aged 53.

. Decease of Samuel Laycock, Esq., Portobello, aged 58.

. The students of the People's College made an excursion

to Roche Abbey.

— 6. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 52s. 4d.

— 8. Public dinner, at Rotherham, to Robert Bentley, Esq.

— 10. The harvest far advanced, and in good condition. . Decease of Mr. John Abdy, of Ecelesiield, aged 43.

— 11. Decease of Mr. Benjamin Roberts, excise officer, aged 68.

— 12. Smith's wheel, Glossop road, in great part burned.

— -. Complete Suffrage Council, at Birmingham, convene a

Conference, to be held at Birmingham, 27th December.

376 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1842.

5(fp<.14.News from the United States, that a new tariff, almost prohibitory against our manufactures, had been passed, and that a treaty had been made with Lord Ashburton settling the boundary, the Caroline, the Creole, and the right of search questions.

. London Manufacturers' Relief Committee remit £500 for

the relief of the poor.

— 15. Revising Barristers' Court for the West Riding commenced

at Sheffield : New claims — Orange, 140 ; Blue, CA ; doubtful, 10. Struck off - Orange, 197; Blue, 65; doubtful, 40.

— 20. Joseph Sturge, of Birmingham, visits Sheffield, to promote

the Complete Suffrage movement.

-. John Hurst, Abraham Cook, and W. Gilpin, charged with

setting fire to Smith's wheel ; bailed till Assizes.

— 22. First nomination of constables under 5 and 6 Vict., c. 10:

Sheffield, 30; Ecclesall, 10 ; Brightside, 10 ; Bradfiejd, 15; Ecclesfield, l.""); Nether Hallam, 10; Upper Hal- lam, 5; Attercliffe-cum-Darnal, 10; Handsworth, 5.

— 29. Two wheat stacks burnt at Cherry tree hill, the property

of H. Newbould, Esq.

. Richard Otley and George Julian Harney arrested at the

same time as other Chartists, in different parts of the country, charged with conspiracy in their meeting at Manchester during the strike.

— 30, Samuel Parkes arrested on the same charge.

. New German League tariff passed, being the sixth hostile

tariff to England since November, 1841, namely, the Russian, the Portuguese, the French, the Belgian, the United States, and now the German.

Oct. 1. Sheffield Poorhouse : Inmates, 536 ; able poor, 1336 ; payments to casual poor, ^467.

— 3. Decease of Mr. John Chadburn, optician, aged 90.

— 4. Otley, Harney, Parkes, and many other of the principal

Chartists, examined at Manchester, on a charge of con- spiracy, and required to give bail to take their trial at the Special Assizes at Liverpool. Principal witness against them, Wm. Griffin, reporter of the Nor/hern S(ai\

— 6. Bettering Society: " Since the year 1837, there has been

manifestly a most disastrous turn in trade and manufac- tures here, not the consequence of a sudden shock, from violent and temporary derangement, traceable to obvious causes, severe and heavy for a while, as on former occa- sions, from which, if slowly, yet surely, amendment fol- lowed ; but a progressive decay, like the fatal and insi- dious symptoms of consumption in the human frame, tending towards inevitable destruction. The oldest in- habitant of Sheffield cannot remember a crisis of calamity «o general, and apparently so hopeless, as that which has come upon us. The labouring classes have been going down into abject destitution." — Report by Jamet Motttgotnery, Esq. i

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1842.

Aug.b. Infirmary meeting: The subscriptions which, in 1797, were £1017, fallen below £800, The House of Recovery completed, at a cost of £5984.

. Great fall in price of cattle.

, Consecration of St. Bede's (Catholic) Chapel, Masbro'.

— 6. Mr. R. R. R. Moore lectures on Peace.

. Renewed subscriptions for the restoration of York Minater,

— 7. Decease of Wm. Thorpe, aged 70, of hydrophobia.

— 8. The West Riding Art-Union proposed by Mr, Gilbert.

. . Decease of W. F. L. Scott, Esq., registrar of the West

Riding, in his 62nd year. . Ecclesall Union : Paupers in workhouses, 452, against

258 last year ; payments to out-poor, £121.

— 10. Mr. Moore lectures on Free Trade ; llth, on Temperance, . Salt beef and pork admitted under the new tariff.

— 11. Introductory lecture before the Phrenological Society, by

Dr. Corden Thompson. . A true bill found at Liverpool, against Otley, Harney,

Parkes, and other Chartists, charged with conspiracy :

Traversed to the next Assizes, and were bailed. - 12. Lord Morpeth lands at Bristol from New York, after a

year's absence.

. Mr. R. R. R. Moore lectures on Complete Suffrage.

; Decease at Masbro', of Mr. John Harrison, maltster and

corn factor. . Anti-Corn Law League call on the country for £50,000.

— 14. Fire at the Soho. Wheel.

. The Bank of Manchester closes with a loss of £800,887.

-- 15. Ezekiel Savage (before discharged,) and Thomas Collins, apprehended, charged with the murder of Mr. William Broomhead, jun., of Ridgway, on the 30th September, 1840, at Blackthorn, Oxfordshire.

-- 18 Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 50s. 3d.

— 20. Decease of the Rev. Nathaniel Philipps, D.D., of Moor

Lodge, in his 85th year. . Decease at Reading, of Mr.E.McCoy,formsrly of Sheffield.

— 21. M. J. West, Esq., "and M. B. Bere, Esq. appointed Com-

missioners of Bankruptcy for the Leeds District.

— 22. North Midland Railway : Report of the Committee ap-

pointed in August, recommendine a saving to the extent of .^-17,788, out of £40,610.

— 24. Close of Registration Circuit, at Rotherham : New

claims, orange, 42 ; blue, 47 ; doubtful, 0. Struck off, orange, II; "blue, 41; doubtful, 13. Total loss on the Circuit to the Reformers, 240.

— 25. Decease of Mr. Joseph Whitham, in his 76th year. . Bishop of Ripon confirms 364 males, and 700 females.

— 26. Public meeting to memorialise the Postmaster-General

against sending the mail bags to Masbro', by cart.

— 30. Decease of Mr. T. Hague, aged 7G, formerly a builder.

— 31. Decease of Mr. Thomas Bagshaw, Rotherham, in his 74th

year. He left to the Rotherham Dispensary, ^£100; Bible Society, £100; Wesleyan Sunday school, £100;

378 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1842.

Wesley an Benevolent Society, ^£100 ; Rotherham Wes- leyan Chapel, £200; the interest of £200 to 40 poor men and women ; and after some legacies to relatives, the residue to the Wesleyan Missionary Society and Theological Institution.

Oct.3\. Importations of cattle from Ireland decreased more than the amount of foreign importations.

Kov. 1. New Bankruptcy and Insolvent Acts came into operation.

. Constables sworn in by the Magistrates under the new Act.

. North Midland : Publication of Directors' reply to the

report of the Committee, assenting to reductions to the amount of £ 1 1 ,335.

, Decease of Robert Hancock, aged 76.

— 2. Statistics of prostitution, and its effects in producing crime,

discussed at the meeting of Police Commissioners.

— 4. Second application to the London Manufacturers' Relief

Committee, representing that the distress of the town was increased since the late grant. £250 granted.

— 5. The Sheffield his, for fifty-five years published on Tues-

day, changes to Saturday.

— 7. Mr. Dyson's Wheel, Abbeydale, blown up by gunpowder. . Mechanics' Institute : Library, 1650 volumes; members

and apprentices, 5;]9. . Theatre opened under the management of Mr. Ternan.

— 9. Decease of W. Stringfellow, Attercliffe, in his 70th year.

— 10. The Rev. Robert Moffatt, missionary from South Africa,

delivtrs a valedictory address in Nether Chapel, on th« eve of returning to Africa.

— 12. Ecclesall Bierlow Union: Inmates of the bouse, 407,

against 258 last year; payments to out poor, .^5131, against £78 last year.

— 14. The Rev. Mr. Stannus's first lecture on Ancient and Mo-

dern Oratory, before the Mechanics' Institution.

— 16. North Midland : Special meeting at Leeds adopted the re-

port of the Committee by a large majority.

— 17. Consols, 94^: Money abundant in London, and no demand

for it in trade.

— 19. Sheffield Poorhouse: Inmates, 615; able poor, 1083 ; pay-

menta to casual poor, .£420.

. Several members of the Trades' Unions appeal to the

trades to take measures to prevent the destruction of pro- perty. They state that ten trades, during 4| years, have paid to their unemployed hands, £29,356. II. John and George Thorpe and Wm. Hopkinson, charged on suspicion of bl 'wing up the Abbeydale Wheel. The Thorpes afterwards discharged; Hopkinson committed.

. Monument erected at the Cemetery by subscription, to the

memory of George Hennet, Esq.

— 21. Mr. Dawson's Concert: Principal performers, Madame

and Signer Ronconi, Miss Cubitt, Mr. John Parry, and M. Thalberg.

. Special mail brings news of peace with China, and final

operations in Alfghanistau.

SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEOISTER. 379

1842.

A'op.22.Electioti of Registrar of the West-Riding : T. B. Hodg-

son,-iri2; Hon. A. Lascelles, 1680. . Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 46s.

— 23. Anti-Cora Law Soiree at the Music Hall, attended by Mr.

Cobden, M.P.; Mr. John Bright, Rochdale; Mr. H. Ashworth, of Turton, near Bolton; and Mr. R. R. R. Moore, of Manchester. Subscription for the League.

— 24. The degree of Doctor of Divinity conferred by the Univer-

sity of Oxford, on the Rev. Thos. Sutton, .^.M., vicar.

. The O'Connor Chartists meet in Paradise square, and

elect delegates to the Complete Suffrage Conference.

— 26. Announcement that six of the Directors of the North Mid-

land retire to be replaced by the committee of investiga- tion, and that the other six Directors will resign at the annual meeting in February.

-» — . Discoveries iu Phreno-Magnetism, by Mr. Spencer T. Hall, governor of Hollis's Jlospital.

, Mr. Cobden answers the charges of the standard, as to

the misappropriation of the League Funds.

— 29. Decease of Mr. Charles Clegg, formerly trumpet major

to the Yeomanry Cavalry, and for 40 years in Parker,

Shore, and Co.'s bank.

. Decease of Mr. Edward Jervis, Snighill, aged 35.

Dec.l. Decease of Mr. J. Osborne, of Attercliffe, in his 69th year.

. Decease of Mr. Jon. Frith, Upperthorpe, aged 59.

. Directors of Sheffield and Rotherham Railway offer to

convey the mail between the Post Office and Masbro'

station, and provide a guard, at £1 per day.

— 3. Sheffield Union : inmates, Sheffield and Brightside, 770;

casual poor, Sheffield, 412 ; Brightside, 103 ; able poor, Sheffield, 1021 ; Brightside, 288.

. Mr. Spooner's stacks, Crookes, set on fire: third time

since Sept.

— 4. Decease of Mr. Wm. Revitt, Meadow gt, in hia 71 st year.

— 5. Mr. S. T. Hall lectures on Phreno-Magnetism.

— 6. Intermediate Sessions : Sarah Wagstaffe pleaded guilty of

robbing her employere, Messrs. Glossop and Nutt, and Mr. J. E. Middleton, to a large amount: one year's im- prisonment. Hannah Walker, servant of Messrs. Cowea and Dixon, pleaded guilty of having largely plundered them: nine months' imprisonment, and Mary Fareham an accomplice, found guilty, six months.

— 8. Meeting of Trades Delegates., who pass resolutions de-

nouncing any resort to outrage, by Trades Unions.

— 9. Council of the Grovernment School of Design grant, for

the establishment of a School at Sheffield, an outfit of £500 and ^'150 a year for three years.

— 10. Draft Charter for the Borough under consideration of the

Law Officers of the Crown. . Price of 41b.. loaf: best, 6d.; seconds, 5d. Average

price of wheat 47s. -, Ecclesall Union : inmates of houses, 409 ; out payments,

i^lSO, agains* £75 last year.

dSO tUBFFlSLV LOCAL REMSTEft.

1842. Z)^c. 11. Decease of Mr. John Booth, "Wadsley, aged 86. . Decease of Mr. W. Woodhead, of the King's Head.

— 12. The Rev. H. H. Piper lecture.s before the Mechanics' In-

stitute, on Greece.

. Fourth poor rate, at \e. 6d.; first, In May, at Is. ; second,

in August, l)f. 6d. ; third, in October, at Is. in the pound.

— 13. Jos. Coote, of White lane, Ecclestield, stabbed by Thos.

Twigg, butcher, in a drunken quarrel. Twigg com- mitted to York Castle for manslaughter.

— 17. West Riding Electors, 1842, 33,864. Increase in Ro-

therham, 40 ; decrease in Sheffield, 94.

— 19. Meeting called by Complete Suffrage Association to elect

delegates to the Conference at Birmingham, defeated by the O'Connorite Chartists.

— 20. Feargus O'Connor lectures at the Circus. J. G. Harney

denounces the Chartists of the Political Institute.

— 21. Mr. S. T. Hall lectures (Theatre) on Phreno-Magnetism. . The stacks of Robt. Cauwood, of The Wheel, Ecclesfield,

destroyed by fire.

— 24. Postmaster-General refuses the application to abandon the

mail cart to Masbro', for the rails.

. Sheffield & Manchester Railway further opened to Glossop.

. Strike of the engine drivers of the North Midland Railway

against a reduction of wages.

— 26. Monday observed as a general holiday, in consequence of

Christmas day falling on Sunday.

— 28. Decease, at Attercliffe, of Mr. Tlios. Wilde, aged 48.

— 29. Soiree of the People's College, at the Bath Saloon.

— 30. Mr. J. S. Buckingham's lectures on Free Trade.

— 31. Bernard and James Macline committed to York for the

manslaughter of Eliza Rooney. . Sheffield and Rotherham Independent : Circulation and

advertisements : —

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CIRCULATION OF SHEFFIELD NEWSPAPERS.

Number of Stamps issued to the Sheffield J^ewspapors.

(official return.)

iRAn 1B41 "^*°- *° "^""®> Weeklj

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CONTINUATION

OF THE

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER,

FOR 1843.

Jaw.2. Decease at Rotherham of Mr. John Hudson, College Inn.

— 4. Opening dinner of Prince of Wales Hotel, Masbro'.

— 5. Fatal accident on the North Midland, near Barnsley. Mr.

Robert Harvey, a commercial traveller, killed. Verdict of manslaughter against Jenkins, the engine driver.

Savings Bank : Received from Depositors in year endine

20 Nov., 1842, £32,581 ; paid to ditto, £37,747. Ba- lance due, £162,674.

. Registration, Sheffield district: Births and deaths regis- tered from commencement of the act, July, 1837. Births —year ending June, 1838, 3261; 1839, 3617; 184o' 3652; 1841,3307; 1842,3451; total, 17,288. Deaths, —year ending June, 1838, 2208 ; 1839, 2450 • 1840 2610; 1841,2392; 1842, 2-284; total, 11,944. '

. Sheffield Poorhouse : in-paupers, Sheffield and Brightside

762 ; payments to occasional poor, Sheffield, £403- Brightside, £101. Able poor, Shfld., 982 ; Brightsd., 292.

. Ecclesall Union : in the houses, 420, against 259 last year.

Payments to the out poor, £134, against £80 last year.

— 14. Mr. Parker and Mr. Ward, Members for the borough in

answer to an address from the Anti Corn-Law Commit- tee, declare their intention to continue to support the mo- tions of Mr. Villiers for entire and immediate repeal.

— 16. Announcement of the stoppage of Messrs. Parker, Shore

and Co.'s Bank. Meeting at the Cutlers' Hall, declara- tory of confidence in the remaining Banks. Much ex- citement and alarm, but no run upon the other Banks.

— 17. Report of the meeting of yesterday published hy Indepen-

dent Ejctraordinarif .

— 19. Decease in London, aged 43, of Thomas, eldest son of Mr

T. Smith Hodgson, of Sheffield.

— 20. Decease of Mr. W. Bennett, grocer, Church st., aged 35

— 21. The Wharncliffe contract on the Sheffield and Manchester

line, advertised for letting.

— 25. Meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Parker, Shore, and

Co., when Mr. A. Smith made a statement of the affairs of the Bank, founded on the balance sheet of Christmas 1841 : total engagements, £620,244, including, to the cre- dit of Mr. Parker, £37,279; of Mr O. Shore, £108,867- and of Mr. Brewin, £4812. Total assets, (besides led- ger of bad and doubtful debts, £165,192,) £499,715. Committee appointed to recommend suitable persons as assignees. Meeting adjourned to 9th February.

— 26. Sheffield Gas Company : 10 per cent, dividend.

— 27. Sheffield Banking Company : 8s per cent, dividend.

382 SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISTEK.

1843.

/a«.27.Master Cutler received a further grant of £500 from the

Mauufacturers' Relief Committee, in London. JFcJ.l. Sheffield and Rotherham Bank: dividend 7f per cent.

— 2. Decease of Mr. W, Blagden, lime merchant, aged 66.

4. Sheffield and Brightside in-paupers, 746 ; occasional poor, Sheffield, £3781 Britjhtside, £108 ; able poor, Sheffield, 1014; Brightside, 317.

. Ecclesall Union: in-paupers, 444, against 276 last year;

payments to out poor, £141, against £93 last year.

— 6. Opening of the Rotherham Temperance Institute : lec-

tures by E. Baines, jun., Esq. and Dr. Favel).

. Sheffield Mechanics' Institute : the Rev. B. T. Stannug

concluded his lectures on Ancient and Modern Orators.

— 8. Robbery of the Broom and Aldwark Toll-bars.

— 9. Adjourned meeting of Parker, Shore, and Co.'s creditors :

the Committee recommended as Assignees, — Messrs. Thomas Dunn, William Smith, (of Portobello,) and J. Towlerton Leather. Mr. A. Smith made a statement of engagements and assets, in which the engagements were reduced £78,000, and the assets £74,000, as compared with the former statement.

— 14. Meeting of creditors of Parker, Shore, and Co., called by

Mr. Broomhead, solicitor, held at the George Inn: a memorial voted, praying the Bankruptcy Court to post- pone the choice of Assignees.

— 15. First meeting under the fiat of bankruptcy against Parker,

Shore, and Co., before Mr. Commissioner West, at Leeds. Debts proved amounting to £119,000. Ad- journed to the 17th.

— 16. Decease of James Smilter, aged 59, town crier 20 years.

— 17. Adjourned meeting in Parker, Shore, and Co.'s bankrupt-

cy : after proof of debts, amounting altogether to£185,554, the gentlemen recommended by the Committee on the 9th February appointed Assignees.

— 20. Decease of Mr. John Booth, grocer, Westbar ; and on the

21st, of Mr. William Booth, his brother, aged 30.

— 21. Aaron Green and Henry Stones committed to Derby As-

sizes, for burglary with great personal violence, in the house of Thomas Biggin, Ashfurlong Cottage, near I ore, on the 6th February. Convicted at Derby, March 18 ; and judgment of death recorded. — Convicted at Derby, March 18, and judgment of death recorded.

— 22. Meeting of Trades Delegates, to consider a circular from

the Poor Law Guardians to the manufacturers, request- ing them to divide their work so as to employ as many hands as possible ; and where employment was refused by any man receiving or likely to apply for parochial re- lief, to report to the Board. Resolutions denouncing the circular passed, and the meeting adjourned to March 6.

— 23. John Parker, Esq., M.P., took his seat as Steward of the

Sheffield Court of Requests, vice Hugh Parker, Esq.

— 24. North Midland Railway meeting at Leeds : dividend of

.32s. 6d. per share. . Decease of Thos. Jackson, Esq., of Barbot Hall, aged 73.

— 25. Publication of the Report of J. C. Syraons, Esq., on the

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 383

1843. moral and physical condition of the children employed in the Trades of Sheffield. Feb.2l.'DT. Branson elected physician to the Infirmary: votes and proxies for Dr. Branson, 252 ; for Dr. Bartolome, 45.

. Decease of Thomas Marsdeu, the celebrated cricketer,

aged 38. He had scored in one inning 227, a number exceeded in only one case on record.

— 29. Sir James Graham developes his plan for the Education of

Children in the Factory Districts. Mwrch 1. Third meeting under Parker, Shore, and Co.'s bankrtcy.

— 2. Sheffield and Rotherham Railway: Dividend 6 per cent.

— 3. Decease of Mr. J. Butler, aged 57, of the firm of G. and

J. Butler, Trinity street.

— 4. Sheffield and Bri^htside in-paupers, 734 ; occasional poor,

Sheffield, £406 -^ Brightside, £113 ; able poor, Sheffield, 1129; Brightside, 329.

. Ecclesall Union: in-paupers, 415, against 262 last year;

payments to out-poor, ^'167, against £97 last year.

— 6. Meeting of Trades' Union Delegates, adjourned from 2'2nd

February, on the Guardians' circular. Announced that the circular had been writhdrawn.

— 7. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 47s. 9d.

— 9. Conclusion of the trial, at Lancaster, of Richard Otley,

Samuel Parkes, George Julian Harney, (of Sheffield,) Feargus O'Connor, and other Chartists, for conspiracy. The trial commenced on the 1st instant. The before named and others found Guilty on the fifth count.

— 11. Jenkins, engine driver, tried at York for the manslaughter

of Robert Harvey on the 5th January, and acqutted.

— 14. Anti-Corn Law League meet in Drury Lane Theatre. . Mr. H. G. Ward moved for a committee of the House of

Commons, to enquire into the alleged peculiar burdens on land. Lost by 232 to 1.33.

— 15. Final examination at Leeds, under Parker, Shore, and

Co.'s bankruptcy, adjourned to 3rd May.

— 16. TrialatYork, of Robt. Ridge, John Hancock, Geo. Storey,

and Wm. Hall, for the robbery of Broom hill toil-bar, on the 8th February. Ridge to be transported for 20, and Hall, Hancock, and Storey, for 15 years each.

. By a quarrel between the two Gas Companies, the price

of gas was reduced from 8s. 4d. to 4s. 2d. per 1000 feet.

— 22. Decease of Mr. Wm. Hoole, of White house, aged 79.

— 25. Election of Guardians for Sheffield Union: Wm. Brad- ley, 2050 ; John Spencer, 1793; Charles Peace, 1765; W. Fawcett, 1525 ; Henry Atkin, 1505 ; Robt. Water- house, 1383 ; Charles Milner, 1378 ; and Edwin Unwin, 1203, for Sheffield. John Green and Henry Cooper, Brightside, James Wall, Attercliffe. Edward Jeff- cock, Handsworth.

. Ecclesall Union : Ecclesall : Jsa. Eyre, 1723 ; Jas. Hall,

1547 ; Ebzr. Marsden, 1278 ; Richd. Bayley, 1277. Ne- ther Hallam : Joseph Bower, 447 ; and George Beeley, 333. Upper Hallam: John Marshall. Norton : Thos. Ward and John Walker. Totley : Thomas North, Beauchief : George Sampson.

384 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1843. Jifar.26. Decease of Mr. Geo. Elliott Parker, solicitor, aged 39. ~- 27. Meeting in Nether Chapel, to petition against Sir James

Graham's Factory Education Bill. April 1. Petition against all restrictions on the importation of

food received 16,450 signatures. . Ecclesall Union : In-paupers, 418, against 288 last year;

payment to out-poor, ^170, against £88 last year. . . Cutlers' Company memorialise Sir Robert Peel in favour

of colonization.

— 3, Election of Mr. H. Boultbee, Mr. Chesman, and Mr.

Porter, surgeons to the Infirmary.

— 4. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 47s. 7d.

— 5. Ordination of the Rev. E. Tasker, of Mount Zion Chapel.

— 6. Meeting to petition her Majesty, in Council, to appoint a

new district Court of Bankruptcy, to be held at Sheffield.

— 8. Sheffield and Brightside in-paupers, 688 ; occasional

poor, Sheffield, ^'399 ; Brightside, £112; able poor, Sheffield, 1114 ; Brightside, 337.

— 10. First annual meeting of the Free Trade Society,

— 11. Mr. Henry Vincent lectures on Complete Suffrage.

— 13. Decease of Mr. Thomas Champion, aged 70.

— 18. The students of the People's College present to their prin-

cipal, the Rev. R. S. Bayley, a gold watch at a public soiree in the Music Hall.

— 20. The Rev. John Burnett, John Bright, Esq., R. R. R.

Moore, Esq., and Rev. R. S. Bayley, addressed a Free Trade meeting at the Music Hall.

— 21. Death of the Duke of Sussex, aged 70.

— 24. Establishmemtof the Norton Farmers' Club.

— 25. Birth of Princess Alice Maude Mary. Baptised Jane 2.

— 30. Decease of Mr. Robert Dodge, of the firm of N. and R.

Dodge, aged 38. Mai/ 1. Lectures by Mr. Catlow, to explain by ordinary laws the phenomena of Mesmero-Phrenology.

— 3. Adjourned final examination, under Parker, Shore, and

Co.'s bankruptcy, further adjourned to 10th July, the ba- lance sheets being so voluminous, that the Official As- signee had not been able to examine them.

. Meeting in Paradise square, called by the able-bodied

paupers, who complained of the amount of labour re- quired of them by the Guardians, in consequence of which a number of men had ceased work. A committee appointed to wait upon the Guardians.

— 4. The committee met the Guardians ; scale of work reduced. . Richard Otley, Samuel Parkes, George Julian Harney,

with Feargus O'Connor, and other defendants, convicted at Lancaster, (9th March.) appeared in the Court of Queen's Bench. Objections to the convictions, and a rule «Mi obtained in arrest of judgment. Defendants entered into their recognizances to appear when calledjon.

— 5. Messrs. Rimingtons and Younge's, the last private bank-

ers in Sheffield, announce their retirement from their business in favour of the Sheffield and Retford Bank, from the 10th instant.

. West-Riding Art Union : The drawing, first prize, value

£80, gained by Mr. James Laycock, Bridge street.

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 385

1843, May 6. Decease of the Rev. Dr.Milner, of Thrybergh, aged 79.

— 8. Mr. Sheridan Knowles commenced a course of six lec-

tures on Dramatic Literature, before the Mechanics' Institution.

— 9. Anti-Corn Law Conference in London: Messrs. E. Smith

and R. Solly attend from Sheffield.

— 10. Mr. Ward having presented the Sheffield petition for the

repeal of the Com Laws, spoke at length in favour of Mr. Villiers' motion.

— 11. Lady Hewl^'s Charity: The Vice-Chancellor gives his

judgment in favour of appointing trustees, two from the Scotch Church, two from the Scotch Secession, and two from the Independents, excluding the Unitarians.

— 13. Sheffield and Brightsidein-paupers, 716 ; payments to oc-

casional poor, Sheffield, £361 ; Brightside, £99 ; able poor, Sheffield, 1045 ; Brightside, 324. . Ecclesall in-paupers, 414, against 295 last year; pay- ments to out poor, ^"15(1, against £\\] last year.

— 15. Meeting of the able-bodied poor of the Ecclesall Union,

complaining of the quality of the bread, and of bad treat- ment by the overlookers. A committee appointed.

. Meeting of the Roman Catholics of Sheffield, to petition

against the modified Factories' Education Bill.

— 18. Meeting of the Brightside ratepayers refuse to transfer to

the Union the workhouse of the township, for the purpose of an industrial school.

— 22. Meeting of Trades' Delegates pass resolutions in favour

of a union of all the trades of the town. ■ . Public practice of Mr.G. Saunders's classes of 400 singers.

— 23. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 47s. 8d.

— 26. Sheffield Union Bank formed, succeeding to the business

of the Sheffield branch of the York District Bank.

— 28. Decease of Mr. Geo. Horridge, St. James' row, aged 63.

— 30. Presentation of "West-Riding testimonial to Lord Morpeth,

at Stafford House.

— 31. Meeting in Paradise square to receive the report of the

Committee appointed 3rd May.

. Meeting of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway Com- pany, to put in form the provisions of their new act for an extension of time and capital, and for reducing the number of Directors.

. Decease of Verdon Brittain, Esq., aged 63, late of the

firm of Brittain, Wilkinson, and Brownell.

June 3. Sheffield and Brightside in-paupers, 700 ; payments to casual poor,— Sheffield. ^£293 ;3Brightside, £89. Num- ber of able poor: Sheffield, 662 ; Brightside, 255.

. Ecclesall in-paupers, 376, against 308 last year. Pay- ments to out-paupers, £144 against £128 last year.

— 6. Elsecar Church consecrated by the Archbishop of York.

. Isaac Leesley killed at Masbro' feast. Verdict of man- slaughter against Isaac Jackson, Edward Pierpoint and John Myers. Jackson and Pierpoint tried and acquitted, at York, July 18. Myers not in custody.

■. Decease of Mr. J. R. Glossop (Glossop and Nutt.)

— 10, Several debtors of Parker, Shore, and Co. claiming set-

job SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1843.

offa for notes held by them, snmmoned before the Bank- ruptcy Court, and examined as to their claims. Jwiel-2. Public meeting to petition for the rejection of Sir Jam Graham's modified Factories bill. Petition signed by 7000 persons, hut the signatures stopped by news of the abandonment of the clauses.

— 13. Average price of wheat at ShefReld, 48s. 6d.

— 15. Sir James Graham withdraws the Educational Clauses.

Mr. Ward speaks against the Irish Arms bill.

— 25. Decease of Mr. Robert Staniforth, Eyre street, aged 73.

— 29. Sold by auction, by Messrs. Bardwell, among the effects

of Wm. Wilson, Esq., of Fentonville, the manuscripts connected with our local history, collected by the late John Wilson, Esq., of Broomhead Hall. Bought by Mr. Thorpe, a London bookseller for 165 guineas. July 4. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 50s.

— 5. Soiree to Sir Arnold J. Knight, by the members of the

Mechanics' Institute and Mechanics' Library, on the oc- casion of his leaving Sheffield to settle in Liverpool.

. The town visited by a storm of hail (with thunder and

lightning) so violent, that it broke an incalculable num- ber of squares of glass. At the Botanical Gardens alone 5700 squares were broken. The storm burst with great violence upon the Music-Hall, driving in all the windows facing the south, and causing great alarm to the company within.

— 6. Decease at Broom place, of Mr. W. Hutchinson, aged 76.

— 8, Sheffield and Brightside iu-paupers, 642 ; payments to oc-

casional poor: Sheffield, Ji2o7 \ Brightside, £65 ; num- ber of able poor : Sheffield, 413 ; Brightside, 159.

— 10. Adjourned final examination of Parker, Shore, and Co.,

occupying two days. Passed the examination.

.Decease atRedcar, of T. Walker,Esq., late of Ravenfield park.

—— . Savage and Penn found guilty, at Oxford, of robbing the

body of the late Mr. W. Broomhead, jun., of Ridgway.

Savage two years, and Penn one year's imprisonment.

— 15, Ecclesall in-paupers, 380 against 330 last year ; payments

to out-poor, £112 against ^fc'135 last year.

— 17. Meeting at Cutlers' Hall petition Parliament to take mea-

sures to promote free commercial intercourse with France.

. Dividend of 5s. in the pound under Parker, Shore, & Co.'s

bankruptcy declared. Paid August 14.

— 20. Decease of Mr. SI. Smith, Master Cutler in 1839, aged 61.

— 21. Sheffield and Hallamshire Bank, 7^ per cent, dividend.

— 26. The medical profession present a massive silver salver to

Sir A. J. Knight, "who, after a professional residence of more than twenty-eight years in Sheffield, retired from an extensive practice, deservedly obtained and ho- nourably pursued."

. Farewell dinner to Sir A. J. Knight, under the presidency

of W. J. Bagshawe, Esq.

. An investigation at the Ecclesall Workhouse, before the

Hon. C. Clements, Assistant Commissioner, of the griev- ances complained of by the paupers. — — , "Wesleyan Conference commenced its sitting in Carver

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 387

1843. Street Chapel. The Rev. John Scott, president; the Rev. Dr. Newton, secretary. July 21. Correspondence between Mr. H. G. Ward, M.P., and the Rev. Mr.M'Ghee, on Lord "Wharncliffe, the Protest- ant Association, &c.

— 29, Police Accounts : Rates collected, £6070 ; cost of cleans-

ing, £1002; lighting, £2626; watching, £2745.

— 30. Decease of Mr. Ravell Linueker, of Norton, scythe manu-

facturer, aged 83. Aug. 2. Mr. Ward moves an address to the Queen for such a set- tlement of the Irish Church monopoly as to give satis- faction to the people.

— 4. Decease, at Bath, of Dame Helen Bagshawe, relict of the

late Sir W. C. Bagshawe, of the Oaks, aged 74.

— 5. Sheffield and Brightside in-paupers, 459 ; payments to

casual poor, Sheffield, £253 ; Brightside, £82 ; num- ber of able poor, Sheffield, 435; Brightside, 168.

. Ecclesall in-paupers, 364, against 350 last year ; payments

to out-poor, ^118, against £131 last year.

. Sheffield Union : Payments to occasional poor, as com- pared with corresponding week of last year : — Sheffield, £253, against £492 ; Brightside, £43, against ^64 ; Attercliffe, ^'20, against ^27; Handsworth, £9. 13s. 6d., against £Q. lOs. 6d.

•— 7. Decease, in London, of Mr. J. Sambourne, solicitor, aged 36.

— 8. Mr. Samuel Naylor and Mr. W. Sanderson convicted,

under the 59th Geo. III., c. 7, of marking " shear steel" or " cast steel" upon cast-iron blades. Penalties: Mr. Naylor, ^417. 10s.; Mr. Sanderson, .£1395.

— 9. Decease of Mr. Samuel Laycock, aged 30.

. North Midland Railway : Half-yearly dividend, 30s.

. Poor Law Commissioners communicate their judgment on

the evidence received by the Hon. C.Clements, 26th July.

— 11. Sheffield and Rotherm. Railway : Dividend fell to 5 per ct,

— 13. Opening of the new organ in Bradlield Church.

— 14. The falsely-marked cast-iron blades, forfeited on the 8th,

publicly destroyed in Paradise square.

— 15. Cutlers' Company elected : Mr. Thomas Wilkinson, mas-

ter; Messrs. Francis Newton, Wm. Butcher, wardens; Messrs. Henry Mort, Wm. Hall, Joseph Elliott, Thos. Moulson, Frederick Fenney, Thos. B. Turton, searchers ; Messrs. Wm. Broadhurst, Thomas Ellin, jun., James Moorhouse, Samuel Hadfield, Thomas Blake, Joseph Hobson, Thos. Shepherd, Thomas Staniforth, William Nowill, sen., Thos. Loxley, Samuel Scott Deakin, John Hawksley, George Wostenholm, Edw. Greaves, Henry Colley, John Ragg, John Spencer, jun., Charles Butler, Samuel Gardner, Isaac Greaves, John Wilkinson, M. Hunter, Wm. Nowill, jun., Geo. Deakin, juu., assistants.

-(4t<g'.15^verage price of wheat at Sheffield, 60s. 11.

. Marble Bust of J. Montgomery, Esq., executed by Mr. E.

Smith, presented by subscribers to Cutlers' Company.

— 16. Decease of Mr. H. Kelvey, late master of the Free Writ-

ing School, aged 50.

— 17. Decease of Mr, W. Cocking, timber merchant, aged 49.

388 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1843. Aug.2l. Medallion tablet of the late Sir Eras. Chantrey, by Hef- ferman, erected ia Norton Church.

— 29. Decease of Mr. Hinchliffe, bookseller, Rotherham.

— 31. Decease of Mr. Geo. Wm. Clark, surgeon, aged 38. Sept.l. Mr. A. Smith gives notice, that by virtue of her Majesty's

Royal Charter of Incorporation, dated Westminster, 24th Aug. 184^, he shall make and publish list of burgesses.

. Authority from the Archbishop of York for the use of the

East side of Rotherham Cemetery for interments accord- ing to the rites of the Church.

— 2. The Earl of Arundel and Surrey takes the teetotal pledge

at the hands of Eather Mathew, at a meeting in the Bunhill fields Burial ground.

. Sheffield and Brightside: in-paupers, 481 ; payments to

casual poor, — Sheffield, £225 ; Brightside, £76. Num- ber of able poor,— Sheffield, 393 ; Brightside, 146.

. Ecclesall: in-paupers, 371, against 374 last year; pay- ments to out-poor, ,;ei20, against £132 last year.

— 3. Decease of Mr. W. Eowler, aged 54.

— 7. Cutlers' Eeast : Principal guests, Earl Fitzwilliam, the

Hon. John S. Wortley, M.P., H. G. Knisht, Esq., M.P. . Decease, at Manchester, of Mr. Richard Greenwood, aged

72, formerly of the Daggers Inn. . The Hon. C. S. Wortley qualified as a Magistrate at the

Intermediate Sessions.

— 8. Trial and acquittal of Charles Habershon, on a charge of

obtaining the money of a suitor from the Court of Re- quests without authority.

— 9. Decease of Mr. P.allans, tea dealer, Angel street, aged 72.

— 12. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 53s. 4d.

— 13. Meeting at the Town Hall, when the Charter of Incor-

poration was read. Burgesses recommended to hold ward meetings preparatory to the elections of Nov. ] st.

— 15. Mr. Thomas Harrison convicted in a penalty of £10, for

having in his possession for sale, cast-iron blades marked "town-made," the same not having been made in or within twenty miles of London.

— 18. Meeting of tlie North Midland Company resolve upon

terms of amalgamation with the Midland Counties and Birmingham and Derby Railways. ' — 19. Meeting of proprietors of the North Midland, resident in this neighbourhood, resolve upon a subscription to present a piece of plate to John Carr, Esq., surgeon, for his exertions in originating the reforms which have raised the shares from £55 to £80.

— 20. Decease of Mr. John Binge, pawnbroker, aged 65.

— 26. Information against Mr. Jolm Pearce, manufacturer of

cutlery, for marking common steel blades " cast steel." Dismissed on proof that Mr. Pearce had discharged his workman from false marking.

— 27. Half-yearly meeting of Sheffield and Manchester Railway

resolved to issue quarter shares at par, guaranteeing 7i per cent, for ten years. These shares immediately sold at lOs. premium, and in a few days at 328. 6d.

— 28. Anti-Corn Law League report the expenditure of the

^50,000 subscription, and asking for £100,000.

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. dUif

1843.

Sept.28. Meeting of New Gas Company: Directors report thfiir negoeiations with the Old Company for an amalgamation. Ne'w Company's shares, 3200, £23. lOs. paid up; Old Company, 1600, ,^24 paid up. Old Company proposed that the United Company should contain 5600 £24 shares, 3200 belonging to the proprietors of the New Company, and 2400 to those of the Old, being a premium of 50 per cent. The New Company offered a premium of 25 per cent. This offer sanctioned by the meeting.

— 30. Explosion at Globe Works, an iron pipe, charged with

gunpowder, having been put through a window under the warehouse, and fired by a fuse. Oct. 2. Proclamation, ordering that after the 1 st January, 1844, light sovereigns should be cut, broken, or defaced.

— 4. Conclusion of West Riding revision : Sheffield Orange

gain, 107 ; Orange loss, 78 ; balance of gain, 29. Ag- gregate Orange gain, 249 ; Orange loss, 254 ; net loss, 5.

. Decease of Mrs. Gregory, the aged housekeeper at

Chatsworth House.

— 7. Sheffield and Brightside in-paupers, 523 ; payments to

occasional poor, Sheffield, ^183 ; Brightside, ^58 ; able poor, Sheffield, 275 ; Brightside, 112. . Ecclesall in-paupers, 327, against 452 last year; pay- ments to out-poor, £118, against £121 last year.

— 10. Revision of the Burgess list, by H. S. Stanhope, Esq.

— 12. Meeting at the Cutlers' Hall commenced a subscription t-

offer £1000 reward for the detection of the incendiary at Globe Works on the 30th September. Government offered £500. Reward of ^1000 offered 16th Oct.

— 14. Visit of Mr. Cobden, M.P., and Mr. Bright, M.P., to

Doncaster, supported by Earl Fitzwilliam, W. B. Wrightson, Esq., M.P., and J.W. Childers, Esq., M.P.

. The Government having forbidden, by proclamation, the

Repeal meetings, commence a prosecution against O'Connell and others for conspiracy.

16. Brightside and Park ward meetings held to select can- didates as councillors.

— 18. St. Peter's. St. Philip's, St. George's, Nether Hallam, and

Attercliffe ward meetings.

.. Second ascent of Mr. C. Brown, aeronaut, from a yard

near the New Gas Works.

— 19. Ecclesall ward meeting.

— 21. Mr. Patteson, the Free Trade candidate, defeats Mr.

Baring, the Government candidate for London, by 201. 22. Decease of Mr. Benjamin Roebuck Fenton, merchant.

— 23. Adjourned meeting of St. Peter's ward.

. Mr. S. T. Hall commences a course of lectures on Phemo-

Mesmerism, with new and surprising experiments.

— 25. Meeting at the Cutlers'Hall passed resolutions in favour of

a railway from the Sheffield and Manchester to the North Midland at Chesterfield, and appointed a Com- mittee. Capital, .;e250,000, in 10,000 shares.

. Decease of Mr. Joseph Wreaks, aged 73, having been

postmaster of Sheffield from ^November, 1826. Suc- ceeded by Miss Wreaks.

*WVI SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1843.

Oct.26. Anniversary meeting of Eeclesfield Ploughing Club. First prize, Mr. W. Stead, Owlerton ; 2nd, Mr. U. Greaves, Shiregreen ; 3rd, Mr. Joseph Nicholson, Shiregreen.

— 31. Mr. Henry Banks, late of the Attercliffe steam mill, ac-

cidentally drowned in the Canal, near Sheaf works. Nov.l. First Municipal Election in Sheffield. St. Peters' Ward : John Carr,294; Thomas Wiley, 261 ; William Jackson, 258 ; Ellas Lowe, 227 ; Charles Congreve, 182 ; Francis Colley, 155. St. Philip's Ward : Benjamin Yickers,163 ; W. Hoole, 156 ; T. B. Turton, 155 ; W. F. Dixon, 131 ; William Ibbotson, 124; G. P. Navlor,116. ParkWard: John Hall, 160 ; Thomas Dunn, 149 ; H. D. Wilkinson, 113; Thomas Jessop, 99 ; William Bradley, 88 ; John Pitt, 85. St. George's Ward : George Turton, 185 ; James Moorhouse, 180; Charles Pearce, 178; Joseph Hobson, 118; John Kagg, 114; George Holden, 90. Ecclesall Ward: S. Butcher, 239; John Marsh, 222; Peter Champion, 189; Robert Marsden, 183; George Dalton, 178 ; Isaac Schofield, 175. Brightside Ward: William Fisher, 136; Edward Smith, 116; William Vickers, 114. Nether Hallam Ward : Hugh Spooner, 154; Fisher Godwin, 139; William Taylor, 74. Upper Hallam Ward : John Woodcroft, 33 ; Joseph Stead, 33 ; G. H. Woollen, 26. Attercliffe Ward : George Hill, 99 ; Wm. Marriott, 82 ; Wm. Jeffcock, 80.

— 2. Mr. W. Fisher declines to serve as Town Councillor.

— 3. Decease of Joseph Bradley, Esq., aged 77, formerly Capt.

of the Royal Lancashire Militia.

— 9, First meeting of Town Council : Election of Aldermen : —

St. Peter's: Mr. John Carr, 25 ; Mr. Elias Lowe, 21. Park : Mr. John Hall, 28 ; Mr. Thomas Dunn, 34. St. George's : Mr. James Moorhouse, 27 ; Mr. Chas. Peace, 24. St. Philips : Mr. T. B. Turton, 24 ; Mr. W. Hoole, 19. Ecclesall : Mr. Samuel Butcher, 34 ; Mr. John Marsh, 32. Brightside: Mr. W. Vickers, 21. Upper Hallam : Mr. Woodcroft, 27. Nether Hallam : Mr. G. Turton, 16. Attercliffe : Mr. W. Jeffcock, 33; W. Jeffcock, Esq., Mayor ; Mr. E. Braraley, Town Clerk ; Mr. Ramsey, Sheffield and Rotherham Bank, temporary Treasurer. Mr. Edward Smith, (Bright.side Ward,) declined to take the declaration not to weaken the Church. Mr. W. Fisher, (Brightside Ward,) and Mr. W. F. Dixon, (St. Philip's Ward,) declined to serve. Elections to supply vacancies deferred for want of assessors.

— 8. The Old and New Gas Companies give notice of an appli-

cation to Parliament for an Act of Amalgamation.

— 11. Sheffield and Brightside: in-paupers, 507 ; payments to

occasional poor— Sheffield, ^'200; Brightside, £59 ; able poor, Sheffield, 337 ; Brightside, 108.

. Ecclesall: in-paupers, 331 against 407 last year ; payment

to out poor, £115, against £131 last year.

— 13. Termination of strike of the table blade forgers, which had

lasted 9 weeks, at the advance offered by the masters.

. James Montgomery, Esq., lectures before the Mechanics'

Institution, on the Poetry of Dryden and Pope.

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 3»1

1843.

Nov. 14. Meeting in Manchester, to commence the subscription of ^£100,000, for the Anti-Corn Law League. £12,606 subscribed on the spot.

. Investigation before the Hon. C. Clements, assistant Com- missioner, of charges preferred by Mr. J. S. Hawksworth, Overseer, against the Guardians. In conclusion, Mr. Hawksworth declared his charges had reference to former abuses, that he believed " the present management" "to be every thing that it should be ;" and he withdrew his statement that four Guardians had put themselves in nomination for re-election.

. Average price of "Wheat, at Sheffield, 52s. 5d.

— 15. Deputation from the Free Church of Scotland, address

meetings in Carver street, and (on the 16th,) in Nether Chapel, soliciting aid for the erection of Churches.

— 20. Sheridan Knowles commences a course of four lectures on

Oratory, at the Assembly Rooms.

— 23. Second meeting of Town Council : Quarterly meetings

tixed fur 2nd Wednesday in February, May, and Aug.— Watch, Finance, and General Purposes Committees appointed. Thanks voted to the Magistrates, and a com- mittee appointed to consider the administration of justice.

— 25. Sheffield Registration district : population, 85,076 ; rate

of mortality, 1840-2, 2.7 per cent., exceeding the average mortality of the Kingdom, by 0.5 per cent. Deaths registered 18o8, 2429; 1839, 2703; 1840,2410; 1841, 2231 ; 1842, 2182. Average deaths of five summei quarters, 530; Deaths of last summer quarter, .507. JVbt;.25.Decease of Mr. Maurice Pearson, of the Sheffield and Hallamshire Bank, aged 32.

— 29. Town Council vote addresses to the Queen and Prince

Albert, on their visit lo Chatsworth.

— 30. Final Examination of Messrs. Sayle and Booth, in Leeds

Bankruptcy Court'; amended balance sheet passed. Dec.\. Arrival of the Queen and Prince Albert, (passing through Chesterfield,) at Chatsworth

— 2. Town Trust Accounts, to 10th May, 1843.— Charge, (in-

cluding balance in hand, .;t'129,) £1954 ; Discharge, paid for property for improvements, £785 ; Balance in hand, £612; other Payments, £557.— Total, £1954.

. The gig mail to Masbro' relinquished, and the bags again

sent by Railway.

— 7. Walter Clark committed to York, for the manslaughter of

William Naylor. Bill ignored at the Winter Assizes, Dec. 23.

— 8. Decease, aged 109 years, of Mrs. Gray, of Bell's Gardens.

— 10. Decease, at Hastings, of T. Eaton, Esq., barrister at law. — 11. Old Gas Company special meeting on the terms of amal- gamation with the New Company : resolved to submit question unreservedly to the arbitration of W. J. Bag- shawe, Esq.

. Poor Law Commissioners express to the Guardians their

satisfaction that the supply of the house by the Guardians bad been of their own accord put an end to, and that if

392 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1843.

they had uuderstood Mr. Hawksworth's complaint they should not have instituted the special enquiry of Nov. 14.

Dec.13. Messrs. Hugh Parker, Offley Shore, John Brevrin, and John Rodgers, apply to the Bankruptcy Court at Leeds for their certificates. Opposed on behalf of several cre- ditors. The Commissioner said he vrould give judgment at a future day, but the bankrupts need not attend again.

. The Rev. R. S, Bayley and Mr. John Wm. Smith deputed

to represent the Congregational churches of Sheffield, attend a Conference in London, on general education.

— 16. Savings Bank: Receipts to 20th Nov., 1842, £162,674;

received up to 20th Nov., 1843, £40,036; total charge, £208,695. Paid out in the year, £41,428. Depositors, 5836 ; and 53 societies.

— 18. Special meeting of Nev? Gas Company : resolved to sub-

mit the dispute with the Old Company to the arbitration of W. J. Bagshawe, Esq., only on the terms previously discussed between the Directors of the two Companies, namely, that the Old Company should have not less than 2000 nor more than 2400 shares in the United Company.

. Decease of Mr. "W. Travis, aged 77 years.

. Average price of Wheat, at Sheffield, 52s. 5d.

— 20. Decease of Geo. Shepherd, Esq., of Moor Oaks, aged 81. —— . Mary Ann Joyce escapes, by extraordinary dexterity and

boldness, over the wall of the women's yard, at the Town Hall, but retaken the next day.

— 23. The first busy bull-week for several years.

— 25. Decease of Frederick Gordon, aged 68, the oldest printer in

Sheffield, and theCaxton of the Reform procession of 1832.

— 26. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 52s. 4d.

— 29. Meeting to promote the subscription for Mr. Oastler's li-

beration.

— 30. Sheffield and Rot her ham Independent : Circulation and

advertisements :

1838. 1840. 1841. 1842. 1843.

Stamps 74,140.. 118,000.. 121,000.. 123,500.. 133,600

Advertisements .. 2,738.. 3,326.. 3,465.. 3,752.. 4,195 Weekly Average, 1843 : Circulation, 2,562 ; Advertisements, 80.

CIRCULATION OF SHEFFIELD NEWSPAPERS (official return.)

Mercury. Irit

1840.

1841.

_.- Jan. to June, "*2- 1843.

[18,000

121,000

123,500

65,100

90,000

67,500

73,500

40,000

39,500

16,500

17,000

] 4,000

LEADER, PRINTER.

CONTINUATION

OF THE

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER,

1844.

Jan.l. Complete Suffrage Soiree, attended by Lawrence Hey- worth, Esq., of Liverpool ; Joseph Sturge, Esq., of Bir- miDgham ; and the Rev. T. Spencer, of .Bath.

— 2. Lecture by the Rev. T. Spencer, on Complete Suffrage •

Edward Smith, Esq., in the chair. '

— 5. Literary and Philosophical Society: Wm. Lucas, Esq.

elected President. ''

. A piece of iron piping, charged with gunpowder, similar

to that which had exploded on the premises at Globe Works, in September, 1843, found in the hardening shop of Mr. Kitchen, Union lane. The fuse had gone out.

— 6. Sheffield Poorhouse : In the house, 526 ; week's payments

to occasional poor, Sheffield, £143; ditto, Brightside £56; able poor, Sheffield, 195; ditto, Brightside, IO4'.

" . Ecclesall Union : in the house, 338, against 420 last year ;

payments to out-poor, .;fl05, against £134 last year.

— 7- Decease of Joseph Horn, Esq., Bndge street, aged 68.

— 8. Sheffield Gas Companies : The terms of the proposed

amalgamation of these Companies having been referred to W, J. Bagshawe, Esq., he awarded the Old Company 2200 shares in the United Company.

— 9. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 53s. lOd.

— 10. The Common Seal of the Borough, with the motto, " Deo

adjuvante labor pro/icit," adopted by the Town Council. The expense charged to the borough for obtaining the charter, £800, which made the estimate of expenditure of ihe borough fund for the first half-year, £1590. The Council adopted a list of names, to be recommended to Sir James Graham as borough Magistrates.

. Decease of Mr. Edward Eawson, aged 67, eighteen years

manager of the Sheffield Old Gas Works.

. Sheffield and Manchester shares quoted at 54^.

— 13. Sheffield Union : Table published, showing the weekly

out-relief, the number of able poor, and ^he Sheffield township paupers in the house in each week, from April 2 to Dec. 31, 1842 and '3. Out-relief, 2nd April, 1842 £229; reached ^503, Sept. 3, 1842; had declined to £144, 3]st Dec, 1843. Able poor, April 9, 1842, 607 • rose to 1310, Aug. 6, 1842; sunk to 194, 31st Dec.,' 1843. Sheffield in-paupers, April 2, 1842, 541 ; Nov 26, 1842, 619 ; had fallen to 329, 31st Dec, 1843.

— 18. Decease of Mr. G. Steer, (Steer Brothers,) aged 54.

— 19. Henry Jackson committed to York, on coroner's inquisi-

tion, charged with the manslaughter of Harriet Holmes

. An inquiry at the Sheffield Workhouse, before the Hon.

C. Clements, assistant Commissioner, and the Board of c-^"^'"'^'^^'^' '^^ *° *^® treatment of several pauper lunatics.

— 20. Sir James Graham declines to appoint Borough Magis-

trates, unless the Council will accept also a grant of a separate Court of Quarter Sessions.

— 23. H.G.Ward, Esq., M.P,, addressed his constituents

the Town Hall, "■

— 24. Meeting at 1

..■"^ of the

lu, oi^oLj., 1U.J7,, Huoressea nis constituents in Hall, and by adjournment, in Paradise square, the Cutlers' Hall, to promote a subscription in

e £100.000 fund. n.Vprl WfK.n :r^f.u„

394 SHEFFIELD LOCAt REGISTER.

1844. Anti-Corn-League ; attended by Mr. R. Cobden, M.P., Mr. John Bright, M.P., and Mr. H, G. Ward, M.P. Jan.lQ. Sheffield Banking Company : dividend of 8§ per cent.

— 27. EcclesallUnion : Out-relief, 1st April, 1842,^88; rose

to £170, April Ist, 1843 ; and had fallen to ^105, 30th Dec, 1843, Inmates of the house, 1st April, 1842,288 ; rose to 453, Oct. 14, 1842 ; reduced to 335, Dec.30, 1843.

^ 31 . Free Trade Banquet at Wakefield : Ld. Morpeth chairman.

, Botanical Gardens : Annual meeting ; receipts, £580; less

than expenditure by £600 ; liabilities, ^7084 ; 254 pro- prietors, of whom only half took tickets.

Feb.l. Decease of Mr. \Y. Eradshaw, Western Bank, aged 64.

— 3. Payments to occasional poor, Sheffield, £130 ; ditto,

Brightside, £47; number of able poor, Sheffield, 186; ditto, Brightside, 94. . Destructive tire on the premises of Mr. Tinker, Market st.

— 5. Decease of Mr. James Bramall, file manufacturer, aged 62.

— 7. Meeting to memorialise the Lord Chancellor in favour of a

Bankruptcy Court at Sheffield. . Sheffield and Eotherham Bank : Dividend of 7J per cent.

— 10. Sheffield Union : Township of Sheffield :—

In-maintenance. Out-relief. In-maintenance. Out-relief. 1842. 1843.

March£1439 11

3

£3851 0

6

£1297 0

7 £6426

3 7

I uue 1 1 49 0

4

6059 ,3

0

1403 5

5 6286

1 S

bept. 1122 8

9

7396 3

0

899 2

oi 4727

J6 9

Dec. 1311 0

11

6488 19

9

975 14

3' 4163

3 10

jPe/y.lO. Decease of R. Hibbard, Esq., M.A., of Lamb hill, aged 68.

. Sheffield and Ecclesall Gaols: Debts and liabilities, can- celled by imprisonment in last two years, £83,135.

■ 14. Town Council fixed 4th April, for the police force to come under the control of the Watch Committee. Eeturns of rating, Sheffield, £163,493, charged to the borough rate ^•988; Ecclesall, rating, £41,711, charged £252; Brightside, rating, £29,186, charged ^176 ; Upper Hallam, rating, £4722, charged £28 ; Nether Hallam, rating, £15,600, charged £94 ; Attercliffe, rating, £8276, charged £50 ; being a borough-rate of less than lid. in the pound for the. half-year, including the ex- pense of the Charter.

. Letter from Lord Whamcliffe laid before the Council, on

the subject of explosive engines, and referred to the Ge- neral Purposes Committee.

— 17. Decision of the Court of Common Pleas as to the suffi-

ciency of the occupation of rooms with steam or other power to confer the borough franchise.

— 18. Deceaseof Mr. B. Slater, clerk to the Guardians of the

Ecclesall Union, aged 36.

— 19. Botanical Gardens : The original Company dissolved, and

decided to sell the Gardens. During eight years, the expenditure had exceeded the income by ,£2100.

— 21. The Guardians of the Sheffield Union publish a statement

of the reasons which have caused the enlargement of the Workhouse premises, at an expense of ^£'6000.

— 24. H. G..Ward, Esq., M.P., in answer to a requisition, pub-

lishes his reasons for declining to support Mr. Sharman Crawford's scheme for obtaining a redress of grievances by the stoppage of supplies.

an TA.,1 f TM_ /- Ti„it _<• •V„..r„n- -^■■,^/^^ - -1 «f>

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 395

1844.

Feb.2Q. Mr. Joseph Pitman, brother of the inventor of Phonogra- phy, commences a course of lectures on that subject.

— 28. Sheffield and Kotherham Railway : Dividend of 4 per

cent, proposed by the Directors, and a discussion took place on the financial condition of the Company. An amendment in favour of 4^ per cent, carried.

. Decease of Mr. Benj. Cadman, Westbourne House, aged 86.

. Decease of Mr. G. G. Woollen, of Broomhall Mill, aged 50.

il/a;'.l. First election of auditors, revising assessors and Ward assessors under the Charter.

. Further inquiry at the Workhouse, by the Hon. C. Cle- ments, into the treatment of pauper lunatics.

Decease of Mr. W. Eodgers, Star Inn, aged 68 years.

. James Smith, Esq.,Deanston, one of the Health of Towns

Commissioners, visited Sheffield.

. Commencement of the day mail /Vow London, due 6 p.m.

— 4. Public meeting in favour of the proposed railway toChesterfld.

— 6. Meeting of Improvement Commissioners : Report on the

negotiations with the Gas Companies, and the price paid for lighting the public lamps, 1827 to 1844. Average cost, 37s. Id. for 2200 hours. The Gas Companies in- sisted on the liberty to charge 45s. for 2200 hours, consum- ing 4 cubic ft. per hour. The Committee recommend 42s.

— 7. The Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway ptoposed.

. Elections to supply vacancies in Town Council : St. Pe- ter's Ward, T. E. Mvcock and T. Birks. Park Ward, W. Steer and J. W. Hawksworth. St. Philip's Ward, H. E. Hoole, W. Thompson, and H. Crawshaw. St. George's Ward, Benj. Schofield, Joseph Turton, and S. Worth. Ecclesall V/ard, I. P. Cutts and Joseph Ste- venson. Brightside Ward, Charles Hawksworth, Jon. Roebuck, and M. Hunter. Attercliffe, John Shaw. Nether Hallam, Stephen Fox.

. Mr. Wm. Frith elected clerk of the Ecclesall Union, vice

the late Mr. B. Slater.

— 13. Town Council adopted reports defining the Town Clerk's

duties, and fixing the salary at £300 a year; also ap- pointing a night and day police force, at a cost, for the half-year, of £ 1761. The watchmen, 51 , with 8 superior officers; the day police, 12, with 4 superior officers. The price fixed in the bill of the United Gas Company to be 6s. 8d. per 1000 feet. Bye-laws passed, fixing fines for non-acceptance of office. An arrangement made with the Town Trustees, to rent at a nominal sum, and alter the prisons of the Town Hall, was confirmed.

— 15. Resolved to make an effort to raise a new Company, in £5

shares, to purchase the Botanical Gardens. Each share liable to a subscription of 10s. 6d. per annum.

— 16. Tin case, charged with gunpowder, with a lighted fuse,

thrown through the. bed-room window of George Gillott, file grinder, 197, Granville street. Gillott, with his wife and child, escaped from the room before the explosion,

' which shattered the house.

. Further enlargement of the Independent to 48 columns.

. The Barnsley Junction Railway Bill lost by non-compli- ance with the standing orders.

— 18. Meeting at Rotherham, to form a Pro-Corn-Law Society.

— 21. Chesterfield Railway bill lost by non-compliance with the

396 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1844. Mar. 21. Disturbance at the Tinsley Park Colliery. The colliers had turned out in many parts of the country ; and in this neighbourhood, they were preparing for a strike by short hours, to dimiuish the stocks of coal.

— 24. Decease of Jon. Marshall, Esq., Pyebank, aged 81.

. Decease of Mr. T. Shirley, grocer. Church street, aged 54.

. Election of Guardians: Sheffield Union: Afterc/lffe, Jaa.

Wall, Attercliffe. Brighfside Bierloiv, Thomas Nichol- son, Rock street, and William Eagg, Johnson street. Handsicort/i, Edward JefFcock, Handsworth. Sheffield, Joseph Turtou, St. George's terrace; Wm. Hoole, Claremont place, Glossop road ; Thomas Parkin, West- bar; Henry Atkin, Eyre street; Charles Milner, Far- gate ; Benjamin Vickers, Firs hill; Roger Broadhead, Brook hill; George Hawke Woollen, Church street. Ecclesall Union : Ecclesall Bierloiv, Richard Bayley, Ebenezer Marsden, Henry Jubb, Stephen Willis. Ne- ther Hallam, Henry Wilkinson, Joseph Bower. Upper Hal/a?)!, John Marshall. Norfon, John Walker, Wm. Wright. Dore, Wm. Taylor. Totley, Thomas North, Beauchief, George Sampson.

. Highway Surveyors : Ecclesall Bierlow, Messrs. Thoma-

Ellen, Jan., Bridgefield ; John Newbould, Sharrow head; J. H. Salisbury,' South street;^ John Al- gor, Eldon street; and ]\lr. Thomas Creswick, Ec-, clesall Grange, tipper Hallam, Messrs. Isaac Deakin, Ran moor ; and George Fox, Fullwood. Nether Hal- lam, Messrs. John Greaves and Richard Harrison. At- tercliffie, John Shaw, Attercliffe ; and James Charles- worth, Darnall. Brightside, Michael Hunter, Burn- greave road ; Wm. Ragg, Nursery street ; Wm. Lyon Bickley, Brightside ; John Barker, Grimesthorpe ; Ar- chibald Wilson, Crabtree.

. Rotherham Guardians, Messrs. Aldred and Hodgson.

Surveyors, Messrs. Joseph Hodgson, John Booth, John Dobb, and Thomas Stocks.

. Decease of Septimus Glade* Esq., of Attercliffe, aged 7o.

While the bell was tolling for his funeral, on the 29tb, his sister, aged 81, also died.

— 27. Botanical Gardens offered for sale by auction : highest bid,

^7000; reserve bid, £11,000. Total cost of the Gar- dens, near £20,000.

. Sheffield and Manchester Railway : Half-yearly meeting;

report that the part of the tunnel finished was 2015: unfinished, 3285; total length, 5300 yards.

— 30. Decease of Thomas Daniel, youngest son of the late Rct.

N. Philipps, D.D. Apl.\, Decease of Mr. A.Crawshaw, of Rotherham, aged Go.

— 2. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 59s.

— 5. Meeting of colliers at Hyde Park, to petition against the

Masters' and Servants' Bill; and the Sheffield delegate (George Moore) reported the proceedings of a meeting of delegates held at Glasgow, on the subject of a generjtl strike. It was arranged that, on the 8tb, the men should give in their demands to their employers. - 6. Sheffield Union: Week's occasional poor relief, Sheffield, £107; Brightside, £37. Number of able poor, Shef- field, 134 ; Brightside, 46.

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jipl. 6. Ecclesall Union : In the house, 265, against 424 last year. Outpayments, £100, agarnst £163 last year.

— 8. Meeting of Ecclesall ratepayers, wlien it was reported that

the late B. Slater's accounts exhibited a deficiency, due to Ecclesall and Nether and Upper Hallam, of £1 181. Committee appointed to investigate the suliject. : Waterworks meeting : Dividend of 7 per cent, per annum.

— 10. Town Council meeting : Resolved not to apply for separate

Court of Quarter Sessions. Heiurns of rateable property within the limits of the police boundary, and of the pro- portion each township was to pay to the watch-rate : -- Kated property. "Watch-rate.

Sheffield £153,780'.. £lb74 6 6

Ecclesall 15,814 .. 16116 6

Brightside 14,634 .. 149 15 6

Nether Hallam 2456 .. 25 3 G

— 11. Meeting of the subscribers to the purchase of the Botani-

cal Gardens : 837 shares were taken ; the Committee authorised to treat when 1200 shares were taken.

— 12. Decease of Mrs. Pegge Burnell, Beauchief Abbey, aged 66. — 13. Decease of Mr. Enoch Trickett, file manufacturer, aged 76.

. Decease of Mr. Major Morton, sculptor, aged 35.

— 16. Certificate granted to Messrs. Parker^ Shore, and Co., by

Leeds Court of Bankruptcy.

— 17. H. G. Vv'ard, Esq., M.P., addressed the meeting of the

Anti-Corn-Law League, in Covent Garden Theatre.

— 19. Decease of Mr. Frederick A. Fenton, merchant, aged 26.

— 22. Decease, at Eotherham, of Mr. Jon. Vfalker, ag'ed 84,

many years manager of Messrs. "Walkers' Iron Works.

— 23. Decease of Josiah Fairbank, Esq., aged 66.

— 25. Botanical Gardens : 1245 shares subscribed, and a sub-

committee instructed to treat for the purchase. . Eotherham police : ^200 asked for the rate of the year.

An amendment of £180 proposed, and a poll demanded. , Park Iron "Works sold by the assignees of Messrs. Booth

and Co., to the Brymbo Mining and Railway Company.

— 27. Sheffield and Manchester Railway : These shares, £82. 10s.

paid, risen in ten months from £32. 10s. to £82J-83.

— 29. Disturbances at the Intake Colliery, the turn-outs hooting

at and annoying the men engaged in their jdaces-

— 30. Meeting of Total Abstinence .Society: Reported that it

contained 2677 adult members ; 627 reclaimed drunkards ;

and 1122 juvenile members. — . Mr. Joseph Stead appointed by the Magistrates Surveyor

of Highways for Nether Hallam, in the room of Mr.

Isaac Deakin, chosen by the ratepayers. Jlfai/l. Improvement Commissioners' meeting: It was resolved

to lay a rate of 9d. in the pound per annum for cleansing

and lighting, — the average of the previous seven years.

— 8. Town Council : First reading of the code of bye-laws ; one

for the better observance of the Lord's day added.

. The opposition of the Highway Board to the United Gas

Company's bill withdrawn, the question having been re- ferred to Mr. E. Bramley, the Town Clerk, and the settle- ment proposed by him accepted.

— 9. Rotherham police rate poll : For £200, 233 ; against it, 24.

— 1). The colliers of the Sheffield Coal Company, upwards of 600,

cease work, having given a month's notice. During the

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1844.

some cases only 6d., and in others only Id. perman daily.

The men of other pits had turned out, and had their places

partially supplied by new hands. Some masters had

given the advance required hy the men. Mat/ 13. Meeting of the turn-out colliers in Paradise square. '. H. G. Ward, Esq., M.P., spoke in Parliament against the

ten-hour clause which Lord Ashley proposed tointrodace

into the Factories' Regulation Bill.

— 14. Decease of Mr. G.Newbould, St. George's terrace, aged 66.

— 16. Sheffield Library : Subscription increased from 21s. to 25s. . The Botanical Gardens bought by new company for £9000.

— 19. Decease of Mr. Charles Hazlehurst, aged 71, many years

of the Tankard and Punch Bowl, Broad street, Park.

— 21. Sheffield Highway accounts allowed, after a protracted op-

position by Mr. John Sykes : Eeceipts from collectors and constables ^6511. Amount expended, £7311.

— 22. Death of the Hon. Charles S. Wortley, youngest son of

Lord Wharncliffe, aged 34. . LeT:ter published by Alderman Dunn, relative to the turn- out of the colliers of the Sheffield Coal Company, stating the wages their men had earned — that they demanded advances of 50 to 60 per cent., and also that no man should be employed who did not belong to the union.

— 24. Decease of Mr. Aaron Hatfield, Endcliffe grange, aged 80. . Decease, at Malin bridge, of the Eev. Francis Newbery,

aged 53, Superintendent Minister of the Methodist New- Connexion.

— 27. Whit- Monday : First closing of shops on this holiday. . The colliers reply to Aid. Dunn's statement, and allege the

advance they ask to be about twenty per cent. June 1. Prospectus of the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway.

. Commencement of day mail (o London.

. The hay crops remarkably light, owing to the dryness of

the season, from an unusually protracted east wind.

— 3. The new trial in the case of Heath v. Unwin, in the Court

of Exchequer. The plaintiff claimed by patent the sole right to use the carburet of manganese in the manufacture of steel, and complained of the violation of his patent by the use of the elements forming the carburet. Verdict for the plaintiff on all the issues. . Decease of Mr. W. Hindley, aged 65, formerly of Snighill.

— 4. Decease of Mr. John Walker, of the firm of Truswell,

Walker, and Co., brewers.

— 5. Decease of Rev. G. Waterhouse, of Zion chapel, AtterclifiFe. . Mr. Samuel Rogers, of the Chard Union Workhouse,

elected Governor of the Sheffield Workhouse.

— . 6. Heath v. Unwin : Motion to enter verdict for defendant,

or for new trial. Rule w/« granted.

— 7. Decease of Mr. R. H. Newton, Change alley, aged 36.

— 11. H. G. Ward, Esq., M.P., moves for a committee to enquire

into the temporalities of the Irish Church.

. The Circus offered for sale by auction. The building cost

£6000 ; the chandelier £300, and the properties valued at ^'1000. Put up at £1600, but no bid.

— 12. Borough rate for the second half-year ^'968, or less than Id.

in the pound. The bye-laws considered in detail by the Town Council. . Sale of the property of Messrs. Parker and Shore. The

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1844. Mosbro' estate, of Mosbro' Hall and 60 acres, purchased for ^5500, by Mr. Charles Kotherham, of London. JMrtel9.The table-knife forgers convey through the town in proces- sion a load of bread, for the relief of the colliers on strike. Similar demonstrations were made by other trades for several succeeding weeks.

— 21. Meeting of manufacturers to petition against Mr. McKin-

non's Smoke consuming bill.

— 22. Prospectus of a new line of railway from London to York.

— 24. Special meeting of Town Council to petition against the

Smoke consuming bill of Mr. McKinnon. The bye-laws further considered, and the Sunday bye-law carried.

— 27. Sarah Kay, keeper of the Glossop road post-office receiving'

house, committed to York, charged with stealing letters and money. At the assizes, July 15, pleady guilty, and was sentenced to 14 years' transportation.

— 28. Decease of Mr. R. Marshall, Rockingham street, aged 33.

— 29, Sheffield Union. The amount of money levied during the

year ending March, 1844, was- In Attercliffe, ^2444. 7s. ; Brightside, ^5444. 16s. ; Handsworth, £999. 18s. ; and Sheffield, .£29,917. 10s. The following sums were also paid for relief for those parishes: — £1942. Is., ^'4398. 4s., £1068. 13s., and £26,319. 4s.

— 30. Decease of Benjamin Burbeary, Esq., solicitor, aged 57. . A stack of oats on the farm of Lord Wharnclifte, at

Wortiey, set on fire, but partially saved. J?^/_yl. Botanical Gardens: Eesolved that the Gardens should be

open on Sundays, from 1 p.m. to sun-set. . Decease, at Dore Moor, of John Sherwood, Esq., aged 42.

— 4. A number of men who had been brought to work at the

Soap house pit attacked by a mob, in the buildings at the pit, where they had been temporarily lodged, and severely injured. The military called out. William Mason, George Taylor, and Richard Winker, committed to York on the 6th, charged with being concerned in the riot and assault. Tried and convicted on the 19th, and on the 20th sentenced to be transported for fifteen years.

— 6. Sheffield Union : Occasional poor, Sheffield, £82 ; Bright-

side, £31. No. of able-poor, Sheffield, 47; Brightside, 34.

. Ecclesall Union : Inmates of the poorhouse, 279, against

381 last year. Out-poor, £75, against ^121 last year.

— 9. Average price of Wheat at Sheffield, 58s.

— 16. Half-year's dividend on the Midland £100 shares, 42s.

— 17. Sheffield Union Bank : Firstmeeting ; dividend of 6 per cent.

— 19. Second dividend of 2s. 6d. in the pound in the bankruptcy

of Parker, Shore, and Co. declared. . Sheffield and Hallamshire Bank : Dividend of 5 per cent.

— 22. Meeting of Ecclesall ratepayers to receive a report from

the Committee appointed 8th April, on the defalcations of the late Mr. B. Slater.

— 24. Special meeting of the Town Council completed the consi-

deration of the bye-laws. Ordered (unless disallowed by the Secretary of State) to take efi'ect on the 1st October.

. Midland Railway shares quoted at 101, the first time of

their being at par since the opening.

— 27. The Soap-house pit now entirely worked with new hands.

Twelve of the old hands resumed work at the Birley pit at the same terms and prices as before the turn-ou The

400 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1844. Handsworth Colliery of the Sheffield Coal Companv abandoned in consequence of a fault in the strata. July 27. Decease of Mr. Ebenezer Marsden, Greystones, aged 60.

— 29. Thomas Buncombe, Esq., M.P., and Feargus O'Connor,

enter the town in procession, and were received hy the trades and the Chartists. At a meeting at the Theatre in the evening, several addresses from the trades were pre- sented to Mr. Duncombe, thanking him for his opposi- tion to the Masters' and Servants' Bill, and his advocacy of the short time system. O'Connor pointed out Mr. Duncombe as the future leader of the Chartist cause.

— 30. The reported abundance of the crops produces a great fall

in price. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 54s. . Decease of^Ir.S.WarburtoUjHouseleyHall, near Ecclesfield.

— 31. The Poor Law Commissioners approve of the site and ar-

rangements for the proposed Industrial School, at Norwcod.

-4m^. 1 . Meeting called by the colliers and the trades, to memo- rialise the Queen to pardon the men sentenced to trans- portation for the riot and assault at the Soap-house pit.

. Decease of Mr.''T. Plimsoll, supervisor of excise, aged 5S.

— 3. Announcement that the parish of Sheffield was about to be

divided into 24 or 25 ecclesiastical districts, under the Act 6th and 7th Vict., c. 37—" An Act to make better provision for the spiritual care of populous parishes."

— 7. Further opening of the Sheffield and Alanchester E.ailway

from Glossop station to Woodhead.

— 8. Second annual examination of the People's College.

— 9. First general meeting of the United Gas Company.

— 10. Decease of Mr. W. Bagshaw, of Pitsmoor.

— 12. Sheffield Cemetery : Annual meeting ; 291 interments

during the year ; dividend, 5s. per share.

— 13. Cutlers' Company for the ensuing year: Master, Mr.

Francis Newton. Wardens, Messrs. Wm. Butcher and T. B. Turton. Searchers, Messrs. Henry Mort, Wm. Hall, Joseph Elliott, Thomas Moulson, Frederick Fenny, S. S. Deakin.

-^ 14. The Town Council adopt the proposed extension of the watching and lighting boundary.

. Sheffield and Rotherham Railway : Dividend of 4 per cent.

recommended. The shareholders appoint a committee of investigation, and declare a dividend of 4i per cent.

— 16. The prisoners confined in the Sheffield Gaol, by order of

the Court of Requests, (about 80,) discharged on peti- tion by order of the Court, under the Act for abolishing imprisonment for debts under £20. The seven prisoners of the Ecclesall Court discharged on the 19th.

— 24. Prospectus of Chesterfield Railway published, with the

addition of a line by Bawtry to Gainsborough. The measure promoted by the Leeds and Manchester Co.

— 25. Boiler of the Deep Pit No. 2 engine blown up with gun-

powder. "Wm. Bolton found at the Manor, and Thomas Crichlow at the house of his brother, in the Park, se- riously injured by the explosion.

— 28. The Directors of tlie Sheffield and Manchester line agree

to lease the proposed Sheffield&Lincolnshire/at4,per cent.

— . The Established Church Sunday schools, (2252 scholars and

468 teachers,) had a railway trip to York ; 84 carriages.

— 29. The Hon. C. Clements attends at the Ecclesall Work-

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1844.

Slater, Union clerk, and the manner in which other ojSi-

cers had done their duty. ^Mg'.Sl. Huddersfield and Sheffield line proposed ; from Hudders-

iield, to join the Sheffield and Manchester at Penistone. Sept. 2, 3, 4, and 5. Pleasure trains to Hull and York. On the 4th,

the children of the Wesleyan Sunday School Union went

to York ; on the 5th, those of the Sheffield Sunday School

Union to Hull.

— 4. Inquest atMasbro' on Wm. Wilkins, who, in riding on one

of the carriages on the 2nd, was thrown off by a sudden shock and killed : Accidental Death.

— 5. Cutlers' feast : Principal guests, Earl Fitzwilliam, the

Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Lord Milton, E. B. Denison, Esq., M.P.,and John Parker, Esq., M.P. Earl Fitzwil- liam and Mr. Denison spoke strongly on the interruption of trade by the trades' unions.

— 7. The return of able-bodied poor from this week to the end of

the year : Sheffield Union, none. Average price of wheat

at Sheffield, 49s. lOd.

. Decease of Mr. John Thompson, solicitor, aged 35.

. Pleasure train of more than 3000 persons to York.

10. Sheffield and Manchester shares reach 96.

— 11. Decease at the Infirmary, of Thomas Crichlow, (incus-

tody on a charge of blowing up the Deep Pit boiler,) iu consequence of the injuries he had received.

. Agreement to lease the Sheffield and Hotherham to the

Midland Company at 6 per cent, for ever.

. Decease of Mr. Burton, butcher. West street.

. The Town Council issue their order, authorising the Im- provement Commissioners to light within the new watch- ing district. Deputation to urge on the Lord Chancellor the claims of Sheffield to ha've a local Court of Bankruptcy.

— 12. Meeting of the shareholders of the Sheffield and Chester-

lield Railway : reported that the total receipts had been £8311, and the expenses £5514, leaving 18s. per share unspent. There had been borrowed £10,000, to make the deposit required by the standing orders of Parlia- ment. It was proposed that the shareholders should re- ceive back the 18s. per share, or be admitted into the Chesterfield, Sheffield, and Gainsborough, receiving'cre- dit for the whole amount of the deposit paid. After a sharp discussion, the accounts were approved and passed, and the undertaking was abandoned.

— 13. The bye-laws disallowed by the Secretary of State, who

required many alterations, & rejected the Sunday bye-law .

— 17.^Thomas Crichlow, apprehended in iManchester, charged

with being a party to the blowing up of the Deep Pit boiler, committed to York for trial.

— 18. Special meeting of Town Council : Town Clerk instructed

to furnish to the Secretary of State explanations as to the parts of the bye-laws objected to.

. Returns of the circulation of country banks: Sheffield and

Rotherham, ^52,496 ; Sheffield and Hallamsbire, £23,524 ; Sheffield Bank, ^35,843 ; Sheffield and Ret- ford, £18,744.

— 23. Lord Wharncliffe, in a speech at Barnsley, explains the

conduct of the Government in reference to popular edu- cation, and censures the clergy for misrepresenting them.

402 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1844. remainder of the line would be opened in the next spring and the tunnel in the summer.

Sept. 26. Meeting of the British Association at York.

. Sheffield and Rotherham Railway Company confirm the

agreement to lease the line to the Midland. — 27. Mr. Manners Sutton replies to various memorials in favour of the Sunday bye-law, that Sir James Graham consi- ders the statute-law sufficient.

Oct. I. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 49s. lOd.

. Various railways adopt the proposal of the Government to

carry third-class passengers at Id. per mile.

2. Forty-seventh anniversary of the Infirmary. Stock

amounting to £1U23, had been sold to reduce the debt to the bank, which still amounted to £1582. The subscrip- tions, which, 47 years ago, exceeded .^fc'lOOO, now £684.

— 3. Thomas North Stocks committed to York, charged v\ith

being an accessory after the fact to the explosion of the Deep Pit boiler, in assisting John Crichlow. . Proposal to form a continuation of the Sheffield and Ches- terfield, to join the London and York at Newark.

— 5. Sheffield Union: In the houses, 520; occasional poor,

Sheffield, ^'42; Brightside, £21); able poor, 7ione.

. Prospectus of another line of railway from London to York,

called the Direct Northern.

— 6. Decease of Wm. Smith, Esq , Wadsley House.

— 7. Meeting at Rotherham to consider the proposed railways

as affecting that town. Committee appointed to confer with the Midland Directors.

. Ecelesall Union : Number iu the house, 244, against 327

last year. Out payments, £66, against £1 18 last year.

— 8. Meeting of the Midland Railway Company ; authorised

the formation of various branch lines, and the raising of an additional capital of 2^ millions.

— 9. Dr. Thompson opens the third session of the Phrenological

Society with an introductory lecture on " The Funda- mental Principles of the Science of Phrenology."

— 9. Town Council amend the bj-e-laws, according to the wishes

of the Home Secretary, and fix the commencement of their operations for 1st Jan., 1845. Watch-rate of 6d. * in the pound for the year levied on the enlarged watch- ing district. The shares of the respective townships as follows : — Prochicing at 6d. in the Poimd.

Sheffield.... £157,791 ....£3944 15 0 Ecelesall . . 33,455 .... 836 7 6

Brightside.. 19,405 485 2 0

Neth.Hallam 9,902 247 U 0

Attercliffe .. 4,847 ... 121 3 0—5584 18 6

. Poor Law Commissioners declare the compounding with

owners for poor rates not legal.

— 10. The deputation appointed by the Town Council had an

interview with the Lord Chancellor, to urge the claims of Sheffield to a local Bankruptcy Court. . Annual dinner of the Licensed Victuallers' Society, at- tended by Mr. Hebble, of London, and deputations from Birmingham and Nottingham.

— 11. First half-yearly meeting of United Gas Company: Mr.

W. Wake elected secretary. A dividend of 13s. per share, and 4s. lOjd. on the | shares.

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1844.

Oc^.l 2. Continuation of the Sheffield and Lincolnshire line to Grea Grimsby proposed.

— 14. Sheffield Waterworks Company resolve to increase thei

capital, & construct additional reservoirs, to cost £10,0U0.

. General Tom Thumb, a remarkably small American child,

13 years old, exhibited in Sheffield.

— 16. Adjourned meeting at Eotherham, to consider the proposed

railways : passed resolutions in favour of a line from the Sheffield and Kotherham through the town to Bawtry.

— 17. Ecclesfield Ploughing Club: Annual meeting and dinner :

resolved to make it a Farmers' Club.

— 19. Accounts of the Town Council for the first half-year pub-

lished : Cost of Charter, £686; police force, ^1449; elections, £285 ; salaries, £225 ; miscellaneous, £443.

. "West-Riding revision; Orange gain, by new claims, 82;

loss on objections by the Tories, 42 ; balance of gain, 40.

. Annouucemeiit that the Midland and Manchester and Bir- mingham Companies had bargained to take a lease of the Sheffield and Manchester for 30 years, terminable at the end often or twenty years, at 5 per cent. ; the dividend to increase with the traffic.

— 23. Ploughing match and dinner of Norton Farmers' Club.

— 24. Decease of Mr. Thomas Roberts, of the firm of Crookes,

Roberts, and Co., aged 57 years.

— 25. A reply by the committee of the grinding branches to Earl

Fitzwilliam's speech at the Cutlers' feast, on trades' unions, transmitted to hisLordship. Acknowledged on 29th.

— 26. Prospectus of the Rotherham, Bawtry, and Gainsborough

Junction Railway.

. Prospectus of the Goole, Doncaster, and Sheffield and

Manchester.

— 29. Decease of James Levick, formerly an extensive ivory

dealer and dahlia grower.

— 30. Meeting to consider the railways affecting Sheffield : pro-

posed to condemn the leasing of the Sheffield and Man- chester. Amendment carried to adjourn till after 30th Nov Nov. 1. Municipal elections: St. Peter's ward: Henry Atkin,* 226; Wm. Fisher, jun, 212; Francis Colley, 139 ; Dr. Favell, 131. Two first elected. St. Phillip's ward: Wilson Overend, Esq., and G. P. Naylor. Park ward R. Roper, 144; and S. Roberts, jun., 86. St. George's ward : G. Wostenholm, 172 ; J. Kirkby, 155. Ecclesal ward : H. Wilkinson, 507; J. S. Nanson, 503 ; I. Scho- field, 154; George Tucker, 139. Two first elected. Brightside, M. Hunter. Upper Hallam : T.W. Rodgers Nether Hallam : Wm. Taylor. Attercliffe : John Shaw.

— 3. Decease of Mr.G.Gallimore, machine maker. Bridge street.

— 4. Leasing of the Sheffield and Manchester, as proposed by

the Directors, sanctioned by the shareholders, though a higher bid was made by the Manchester and Leeds.

— 6. The Canal Company obtain leave to file a supplemental

bill in the Chancery suit between them and the Sheffiehl and Rotherham Railway Company, respecting the maintC' nance of the Tinsley road.

— 8. The London and York Company resolve to make the lin"

from Bawtry to Sheffield, a branch of their line, leavin^i the Sheffield and Chesterfield again a separate line.

— 9. Decease of Mrs. Hofland, aged 74, a native of Sheffield, and a well kr^o.vn nnt.bnress.

404 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1844.

Nov.9, Alderman Dunn elected Mayor, by a majority over Aid. Butcher, of 25 to 20. The Council memorialise the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes, to permit appeals to be heard at Sheffield, instead of Eotherham.

— 11. Earl Fitzwilliam visits the People's College.

. Testimonial of respect presented to the Rev. John Black- burn, of Attercliffe, by the inhabitants of that township.

— 13. Meeting of manufacturers, for the formation of an associa-

tion to protect life and property. Discussion on the conduct of Trades' Unions.

— 14. First stone of St. George's Church Schools laid by Lord

WharnclifFe.

— 20. Meeting of delegates of the Trades' Unions, to defend

themselves against the attacks of the meeting of the 13rh.

— 21. Court of Exchequer heard the conclusion of the argument

on the rule for a new trial, in the case Heath v. Unwin, and took time to consider judgment.

— 22. Smith v. Barnes: defendant charged with counterfeiting

the corporate mark, XL all, by the mark, i xl all. It appeared the mark was granted in 1789, to the late Thomas Smith, for life ; that the act 59 Geo. Ill, did not apply to marks previously granted ; and the mark not having been regranted, Mr. Overend decided that that put an end to the case.

— 26. Warehouse of Messrs. Wilson, Hawksworth, & Moss, burnt.

— 29. Decease of Mr. George Linley, Coalpit lane, aged 65.

— 30. West-Riding elector^s, 34,406. The Sheffield district,

2,412 : to poll in the district, 2,446. Rotherham district,

70S : to poll in the district, 7S0. . Publication of Town Trust accounts, for year ending 10th

May. Paid for property for improvements, £2,297. Dec. 6. Wm. Bolton convicted at the Winter Assizes, of blowing

up the Deep-pit boiler, 18 months' imprisonment. John

Crichlow acquitted. No evidence offered against Stocks. 11. Town Council levy Borough rate for first half of the second

year, ^470, or less than |d. in the pound. Resolved to * commemorate the first Mayor of Sheffield,Wm. Jeffcock,

Esq., by a bust.

— 13. Prospectus of Sheffield and Rotherham Insurance Company

— 14. Sheftield Union: in the houses, 507; occasional poor,

Sheffield, .;6'39 ; Brightside, £19. Able poor, none.

— 16. Ecclesail Union : In-paupers, 203, against 341 last year.

Out-payments, £67, against .£'108 last year.

. Meetings attended by Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P., held at

Rotherham and Sheffield, to promote the plan of the League, of increasing the county votes, by inducing per- sons to purchase small freeholds.

Enquiry at the Workhouse by the Hon. C. Clements, into

certain charges prefered by Mr. John Smith Hawks- worth, against Mr. Crosland, clerk to the L^nion. Mr. Wilkins retained by Mr. Hawksworth. Fee, 30 guineas.

— 17. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 47s. lid.

30. Messrs. Brittain and Co.'s saw warehouse burnt.

. Sheffield and Rotherham Independent : —

1838. 1840. 1842. 1843. 1844.

Circulation ..74,140.. 118,000 ..123,50C .. 1.^3,600.. 138,393 A.ivertisements 2,738.. 3,326.. 3,752.. 4,195.. 5,044 Weekly Average, 1844 :— Circulation, 2,661 ; Advertisements, 97.

CONTINUATION

OF THE

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER,

1845.

Ja)i. 1. Decease of Mr. Isaac Grayson (Slack, Sellers, and Gray- son,) saw manuf-dcturer.

. Miss Martineau declares her cure of a dangerous disease

by mesmeric operations commenced by Mr. Spencer T. Hall, late of Sheffield.

— 2. Resnmed enquiry lasting two days, before the Hon. C. Cle-

ments, Assistant Poor Law Commissioner, into charges made against the Clerk of the Sheffield Union. °

. Wm. Wake, Esq., took his seat as deputy steward of the

Sheffield Court of Requests, vice M. Ellison, Esq., re- signed.

. Mr. John Jefferson accepts the pastorate of Zion Chapel,

Attercliffe. ^ '

— 4. In-paupers in Sheffield, 392; Brightside, 110. No able

poor. Payments to occasional poor: Sheffield, .^^38; Brightside, £21.

— 5. Decease, in London, aged 74, of James Waterhouse

Smith, Esq., formerly of Nether Hall, Hathersase.

— 7. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 47s.

— 8. Return of the Sheffield police force : One chief constable

and superintendent of cleansing and lighting, ^'315 per annum; two warrant officers, £100 do.; three inspec- tors, 25s. per week ; three sergeants, 21s. do. ; five pa- trol sergeants, 20s. do. ; 17 first class police constables, 18s. do. ; 17 second do, I7s. do.; .34 night watchmen 15s. do.; 30 do., 14s. do. . Committee Report to Town Council on the terms to be ex- pected from" the Water Company on condition of the Council's not opposing their application for a new Act.

— 9. Grand Ball for the benefit of Mechanics' Hall Buiidin'.r

Fund. °

— 11. Heath v. Unwin: Court of Exchequer gave judgment for

the defendant, thus reversing the decision of the Court below. . Decease, aged 72, of Samuel Wing, formerly file manu- facturer.

— 22. Treasurer of Anti-Corn Law League reported that he had

received towards the fund of .=£1 00,000, no less than £82,735, and had a balance in hand of £26,675.

— 25. The Poor Law Commissioners communicate to the Guar-

dians their judgment on the evidence taken before Mr. Clements, on the 16th December, and the 2nd and 3rd Ja- nuary, and their intention to remove the Clerk to the Guardians from his office.

— 27. Annual address of Mr. H. G. Ward, M.P., to his consti-

tuents.

— 28. Discussion at the Cutlers' Hall, between Mr. H. G. Ward

and the delegates of the Trades' Unions.

406 SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISTEK.

1845. Feb.\. Decease of Mr. John Heppenstall, draper, aged 66,

— 5. Meeting of the Free Trade Society — reported that ^1334

had been raised here towards the j£100,000 fund of the League, and that many persons had been induced to qualify as electors for the West-Riding by purchasing freeholds.

— 6. Decease of Marmaduke Middleton, Esq., of Hopton Hall,

aged 34.

— 7. Last half-yearly meeting of the Sheffield and Rotherham

Railway Company, the Midland Company having en- tered on the possession of the line on the 10th October.

— 10. George Thompson and R. R. R. Moore, Esq., address the

Free Traders of Sheffield on the proposed Bazaar in Co- vent Garden, in aid of the funds of the League.

— 12. Committee of the Town Council report the answer from the

Water Company to the terms proposed by the Committee, with their objections thereto, and the Council grant an interview to a deputation from owners of cottage pro- perty, to state the terms they desired to impose on the Water Company.

— 13. Decease, at Brighton, of Kenneth Alexander Howard.

Earl of Effingham, aged 77.

— 15. Ecclesiastical "Commissioners declare Brightside and

Grimesthorpe, Bridgehouses, Wicker, Neepsend and Pitsmoor, New Ecclesiastical districts, and the terms on which the presentation to the livings may be had.

— 18. After correspondence with the Poor Law Commissioners

respecting their judgment in the case of Mr. Crosland, the Union Clerk, the Guardians resolve — " That the refusal of the Commissioners to hear further evidence on behalf of Mr. Crosland, appears to this Board an act of great and lasting injustice towards him, and (un- der the circumstances of the case,) indefensible." Mr. Cro.sland resigns his office.

19, Order of the Commissioners for the removal of the Union

Clerk received by the Board of Guardians.

. Proposal to maintain East Parade News Room on the

proprietary principle, but abandoned for want of support.

— 21. Interment of the Earl of Effingham, at Rotherham.

— 25, Average price of wheat, at Sheffield, 46s. .5d.

— 27. Intermediate Sessions: Chairman congratulated the Grand

Jury on the considerably reduced number of prisoners.

3/ar.4.Commissioner West, in the Leeds Court of Bankruptcy, gave judgment, admitting the trustees of the estate of the late Samuel Shore, to prove as a debt against the estate of Parker, Shore, and Co., the sums advanced for the use of the Bank.

5. Meeting of owners of cottage property to require the Wa- ter Company to insert restraining clauses in their new till.

, Decease of Mr. Thomas Turner, merchant, aged 61. Also

of Mr. R. A. Smith, iron merchant.

Mr. Macready appears for five nights in Sheffield Theatre.

— 11. Board of Trade report against the London and York^

Sheffield and Lincolnshire, and the Rotherham, Bawtry

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1845.

and Gainsborough, and in favour of the Grimsby and

Sheffield and Swinton and Doncaster lines. Mir.ll. Committee on Standing Orders report in favour of the

Sheffield and Lincolnshire and Sheffield and Newark

bills. — 12. Sudden death of Mr. Wm. Kirlr, aged 43, second master

of the Sheffield Grammar School.

— 13. Election of Mr. John Watkinson as Clerk to the Sheffield

Guardians, vice Mr. Crosland. Committee of the Guar- dians report that they had found Mr. Crosland's ac- counts in a state " highly satisfactory, and they could not but regret that the Union had lost a punctual and intelligent officer."

• . Mr. Cobden's motion to enquire into the causes and extent

of the alleged agricultural distress, and the effects of legislative protection on landlords, tenants, and labour- ers. Mr. Sidney Herbert, for the Government, told the agriculturists not to come whining to that House for relief. Motion lost by 213 to 121.

. Mrs. Green, of "Whittington, murdered by her son-in-law,

Joseph flawksley, who on the 24th inst., committed sui- cide in Chesterfield gaol.

— 14. Thos. Marples, of Grenoside, sentenced at York Assizes

to seven days' imprisonment for the manslaughter of his father. . John Tawell, after three days' trial at Aylesbury, con- victed of the murder of Sarah Hart by poisoning with prussic acid.

— 19. Township of Sheffield divided into four districts for the

collection of poor rates — salary of each collector, £80.

— 21. Decease, at Carr Wood, aged 78, of Sarah, relict of Sa-

muel Smith.

— 24. Festival of th« Sheffield Choral Society— Mr. Braham

principal vocal performer. . Conference of trades' delegates in London.

— 2.'). Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 48s. 7d.

— 26. Decease of Mr. John Bolton, Market street, aged 27.

— 27. Meeting to consider the railways affecting Sheffield. Re-

solutions passed in favour of the Sheffield and Chester- field line, and of the London and York, with its Bawtry Branch.

. Meeting of ratepayers to elect new Highway Board. To

a list proposed by Aid. T. B. Turton, an amendment was moved by Mr. Moses Evers and carried — a poll de- manded. The poll lasted three days, when the gentle- men, in the original list, were elected by from 1445 to 1504 votes; there being, for the amendment, from 779 to 865 votes.

— 31. Meeting of subscribers to the News Eoom — fixed rate of

yearly subscription at 31s. 6d. Apl.2. M. Vieuxtemps, the new violinist, appears in Mr. Dawson's subscription concert.

— 3. Sir R. Peel's proposal for the endowment of Maynooth,

carried by 216 to 114,

408

SHFFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1845. ^;»777.Mr and Mrs, Charles Kean commenced an engagement of three n.ghts, at the Sheffield Theatre. S^gement ot

- S. Decease of Mr Samuel Peace, Gell street, aged 72.

- 9- «"ard,ans of the Poor-Sheffield Union, Mefsrs.W Jar

VIS, J. S. Hawksworth, W. Broadhurst, J. W. Dixon H. Crawshaw, A. Whitaker, John Roebuck, and R Broadhead, for Sheffield; Mr. J. Wall, A terclifff*

MrTjeff;o''v'^H^"^^"'^ 'I H""ter,Brightidefa:d Mr. E. Jeffcock, Handsworth. Ecclesall Union :-Geo. Sampson Beaucbef; W. Taylor, Dore ; H. Jubb, R

SoJl7' t'r.^T''"'/;!'^ ^^^'"^•^ ^^^-"^^ Barker, Ec- clesall ; J Blake and G. Hawksworth, Nether Ha lam- W. Wnght and J. Veale, Norton; S.' Pearson, To.ley- E. Wardlow, Upper Hallam. ' "^ '

-10. Lnited Gas Company.-Half-year's dividend, 14s. each n r: tt"'^°'^ ^^"^' ''"'^ ^^'- ^^- ^^'^'^ three-eighths share.

— 15. ^'gn^ay accounts passed. Rates collected, £6473 ; ex-

. Special m'eeting of the Sheffield and Manchester Company

Dr. Holland moved the rejection of the bill to carry out the leasing of the line to the Midland Company (which in November he had supported), on the ground of a change of circumstances. The bill was negatived.

— 17. Decease at Masbrough, of Samuel Clarke, Esq., aged 75

— 22. Average price of wheat, 47s. 2d. 1 j g " z-'- . Decease of Mr. J. Cadman, gent., aeed 67

— 23. Meeting to memorialise the Board of Trade against the

leasing of the Sheffield and Manchester to thi Midland Company.

— 24. Committee on the Barnsley Junction Bill declare the pre-

amble not proved. ^

— 26. Complaints made of excessive railway speculation.

-28. Decease of Mr. W. Yelland, of Ecclesfield, aged 69.

-29. Meeting of Dissenters, to send deputies to London, to op- pose the endowment of Maynooth College, on the ground of opposition to all State endowments of religion.

-30. Decease of Mr. George Loy, oeculist, Broad lane, aged 70.

— 31. James Simpson, Esq., delivered the first of two lectures on

improving the health and habits of the working classes. Mai/S. Decease of Mr. Qhomas Worrall, aged 41, of the firm of

Thomas Rawson and Co., Pond street Brewery. . Decease of Mr. S. Slack, of Norton, in his 63d vear. Clerk

to the Magistrates at Hemsworth and Eckington Petty

Sessions for more than 17 years.

— 5. United Gas Company announce a reduction of price to

large consumers. . Decease of iMr. Jonah Hawkrigg, Park, aged 59

— 6. Service of plate presented to Alderman Carr, by a number

of shareholders in the North Midland, for his exertions in promoting its improved management, in 1843

. Committee of the House of Commons decide in favour of

the Grimshy and Sheffield Railway Bill.

— 7. The Board of Trade report against the leasing of the Shef-

held and Manchester to the Midland Company.

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. Wi)

1845.

Maj/8. Opening in Covent Garden Theatre of the Great Bazaar of the Anti-Corn Law League.

— 12. Shops closed on Whit-Monday.

— 13. Decease of Mr. Benjamin Butcher, aged 43 years.

. The Central Committee of the West-Riding for the re- gistration of Liberal electors re-organised on the repre- sentative principle, and the support of the principles of Free Trade required in such as should be brought forward as candidates tor the Riding.

— 14. The Mayor reported to the To- Council that to forward

the application of the town for* G)cal Court of Baukrupety, he had been required to plefu,'^ himself that the town would provide a place for the gfttings of the Court.

— 15. Accounts of Botanical Gardens : Receipts on capital ac-

count, £6265; income, £714.

. Decease, at Edinburgh, of Mr.T. Haswell Miller, manager

of the ShetSeld, Rotherham, and Chesterfield Fire and Life Insurance Company.

— 16. Decease of Jlr. Thomas Beet, Trippet lane, aged 57.

— 20. AT7erage price of wheat at Sheffield, 47s. 3d.

— 29. Meeting of delegates of the trades unions resolve to sup-

port, by pecuniary means, the London committee to dis- charge the expenses of the Conference. /M«e3. Mr. Ward's motion for a committee to inquire into the alleged peculiar burdenson land, negatived by 182 to 109.

— 5. First annual meeting of Botanical Gardens : Motion to

close the Gardens entirely on the Sunday, lost by a great majority.

. Meeting of trades delegates call on the trades to unite for

their protection asainst the Manufacturers' and Trades- men's Protection Society.

— 6. Decease of Mr. W. Nowill, Meadow street, aged 30. . Special meeting of theSheftield and Manchester Company,

authorised Directors to create new stock, and adopt the Barnsley Junction line.

— 9. Committee of the House of Commons decided that the pre-

amble of the Sheffield and Chesterfield Bill was not proved.

. Waterworks' Company's Bill passed the Committee of the

House of Commons.

— 10. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 4Ss. 8d. . IJazaar to aid in repairing St. Philip's Church.

— 12. Chancery suit between the Sheffield and Rotherham Rail-

way Company and tlie Canal Company settled, the Railway Company agreeing to pay the sum claimed, with arrears, and £450 expenses.

— 18. Motion for the appointment of a Chaplain to the Workhouse,

rejected by the Guardians.

— 19. Masbro' Chapel reopened, after repairs, with anew organ.

— 20. Meeting at the Cutlers' Hall to express regret that the

Sheffield and Chesterfield Bill had been lost, and to memorialise the Duke of Norfolk to support a new ap- plication to Parliament. -—22. Farewell sermon of the Rev, John Davis, minister of Port- mahon (Baptist; Chapel.

410 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1846. J'M?ie24.Temperance festival at Eoche Abbey ; the weather verjr unfavourable, and two men killed on the road by being run over.

— 28. Mr. CommissionLn- Pofeler visited Sheffield, to make

arrangements for holding a Bantruptcy Court here, by order of the Lord Chancellor.

— 29. Rotherham College : 50th anniversary celebrated by ser-

vices occupying four days. £600 contributed for the aid of the College.

— 30. Members of the Ng^tingham Ancient Order of Odd-Fellows

visited Sheffie' ^, and having joined their Sheffield brethren in proj^ j .ion through the town, dined with them at the Victoria \„ote^, Fargate.

— 30. Mrs. Harriet Hounsfield, Occupation road, aged 70, ac-

cidentallv shot by her son. . Huddersfie'ld and Sheffield, and Grimsby and Sheffield

Kailway Bills received royal assent. Jidi/] . Acceleration of Mails : Departure of South Mail 8 30 p.m.,

instead of 8 ; and arriving at 3 40 a.m., instead of 5.25. . Glossop Branch of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway

opened.

— 2. Derby Sweeps declared illegal under the Lotteries Act,

and that an action does not lie to recover a bet of £10 and upwards.

— 3. Alexander Heathcote committed to York, on charge of

rattening at Castle Mills Wheel. . Damage done in various parts of the town by storm of

thunder and rain. — . 9. Meeting of Town Council. The Mayor vindicated his

right to oppose the injurious interference of the Sheffield

and Chesterfield Railway Company with the property of

himself and partners, and explained the circumstances

of their opposition.

10. Decease of Mr. Jonathan Beet, of Broad lane, aged 84.

14. Opening of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway, from

Sheffield to the eastern end of the tunnel.

— 16. Mr. Joseph Kirk elected secretary to the Infirmary: For

Mr. Kirk, 187; for Mr. Smales, 146. . In-paupers: Sheffield and Brightside, 326. Week's casual

relief: Sheffield, £3. lis.; Brightside, 15s.

. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 51s. 4d.

17. Decease of Charles Earl Grey, aged 81.

. Water works Company's Bill passed the Committee of the

House of Lords. Received Royal assent 31st July. 19. Alexander Heathcote, charged with rattening at Sheffield,

tried at York Assizes, and acquitted. 20. Decease, at the Lsle of Man, of Mr. Cocker, Endcliffe,

aged 33. 21. Meeting to receive the answer of the Duke of Norfolk, to

the memorial voted 20th June. A deputation appointed

to confer with his Grace on the subject.

— 24. Improvement Commissioners' accounts published : Income,

£4155. Expenditure, lighting and cleansing, £4005.

— 28. Second conference of Trades' Delegates in London, to re-

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1845.

ceive report of the Committee, appointed at last con- ference. J«/y28.Sheffie]d and Lincolnshire Railway Bill came before Com- mittee of House of Commons.

— 29. Unsettled weather producing great fears for the harvest.

Average price of wheat, 55s. lOd.

— 30. Annual meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical

Association held at Sheffield; Dr. Favell, president.

. Decease of Mr, Jonathan Rhodes, of Charnock Hall,

aged 72.

. The Vicar communicates to the Guardians of Sheffield, an

arrangement for some gratuitous religious services on the part of the clergy, for the inmates of the Workhouse, as a temporary arrangement, but says it is the bounden duty of the Guardians to " provide an adequate stipend for a chaplain."

^M^.l. Decease of Mr. W. Page, Western bank, aged 39.

— 4. Meeting convened to oppose the passing of the Sheffield

and Lincolnshire Railway Bill, broken up in confusion. . Feargus O'Connor addresses a meeting, at the Circus, in

favour of a scheme of subscription to. put the working

classes in possession of land. . The Committee of the House of Commons decide against

the branch of the London and York Railway from

Sheffield to Bawtry, and in favour of the Sheffield and

Lincolnshire line.

— 6, Meeting to commence a subscription in aid of the sufferers

by two extensive fires in Quebec.

— 7. Opening of Bazaar on behalf of the Mechanics' Institution. . Meeting of the inhabitants of Rotherham, to take steps for

the improvement of the Cattle market. . Speculation in railway shares very active— all shares ris- ing rapidly in price. Average price of wheat, 573. 6d. Sir J. Graham said, Ministers felt confident that no great increase in the price of corn would now take place. The season cold and wet.

— 9. The Queen prorogued Parliament in person, and afterwards

sailed from Woolwich to Germany.

— 11. Anniversary services of Nether Chapel. £300 subscribed

to reduce the debt. . Decease of Mr. John Hoyle, Netherthorpe place.

— 12. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 61s. Aggregate six

weeks average 55s. 3d.

— 13. W. Butcher, Esq., chosen Master Cutler elect. Wardens •

Alderman T. B. Turton, and Mr. H. Mort.

. Exhibition of French Manufactures, ai the School of

Design.

— 14. Decease of Mr. W. Marsh, of the Park, aged 71.

— 21. Meeting to form a Cotton Spinning Company in Sheffield

— 25. Decease, at Wortley, of the Ven.Archden. Corbett,aged 71.

— 27. First meeting of Grimsby and Sheffield Railway Company

at Sheffield; Lord Worsley, M. P., Chairman.

— 28. Marriage at Wentworth, of G. S. Foljambe, Esq., Osber-

ton Hall, to Lady Selina Milton, relict of the late Lord Milton.

412 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1845.

^^^■29. Ground broken for the Haddersfield and Sheffield Railway Company, at Penistone, by Lord WharnclifiFe.

Sej9#,2. Meeting of trades' delegates to consider the means of promoting the importation of Cannadian flour, by arrangements between the workmen and their employers.

— 3. Meeting at the Town Hall, to consider the necessity of a

carriage bridge over the Dun, at Bridgehouses.

. The Times begins to publish alarming articles on the

extent of railway speculation.

— 4. Cutlers' Feast -principal guests Lord Wharncliffe, Lord

Worsley, M.P., Hon. J. S. Wortley, M.P., Jno. Parker, Esq., M.P., H. G. Ward, Esq., M.P. . Bazaar on behalf of Attercliffe National Schools.

— 6. Prospectus of a second Cotton Mills Comptiny published.

Railway Shares generally rising rapidly in price. — 10. Floral and Horticultural Exhibitions at the Assembly Rooms.

— 11. Arrangements made for the amalgamation of the Sheffield

and Lincolnshire, and Grimsby and Sheffield lines with the Sheffield and Manchester.

— 13. Sheffield Union Accounts of quarter ending June 24 : In-

maintenance,£940; diminution, £108. Out relief, £3154; diminution, £9"]. Establishment charges, £G61 ; dimi- nution, £202.5. Total expenditure for relief, £4757 ; di- minution, £3)05.

. Decease of Mr. Nanson, of Highfield terrace, aged 79.

. Sheffield Union : In-paupers, 321 ; week's casual relief,

£5. 12>'. ; relief in labour, lis. lid. Ecclesall Union: Inmates, 160, against 258 last year. Out payments, £.52, against £71 last year,

— 14. St. Philip's Church re-opened, after being repaired and

beautified.

— 16. Revision of West-Riding lists of electors commenced at

Sheffield— Court decided in favour of votes created by the purchase of propertj- in shares. Gain to the Free Trade party, 56.

— 20. Railway prospectuses become so numerous as to compel

almost all newspapers to publish supplements for several weeks, and some of them two or three each week.

. After an interval of fine weather, an unfavourable change

took place this week.

— 27. Publication of accounts of the Borough for year ending 1st

September. Receipts on account of watch rate, £3846 ; on account of borough rate, £1067. Expenditure — police force, £4391; elections, £123; salaries, £300 miscellaneous, .£83.

— 30. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 64s. 2d.

Oct. 1." The first fortnight of the past month was very fine, and and a large breadth of wheat was secured in fair condi- tion ; subsequently, a great dtal of rain has fallen. There is much corn in the fields, and that recently se- cured can hardly be fit to thrash before spring." — Eiiirge.

. Decease of Earl Spencer, at "Wiseton Hall, aged ^3.

— 7. The contract for effecting a junction between the Sheffield

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 4]g

I 1845.

' fef fo!^ £l'5'7?.'" '"i i^'^'l*^ ""'^ Rotherham stations,

i ,, ,n TTi^/°'-^'2>76-2, and the works commenced.

Uct.9. Half yearly meeting of the United Gas Company-divi- dend 1/s. on the whole shares, and 6s. i^d. on the three- i eights.

1 — 11. Continuance of rainy weather.

: — 12. Decease of Sir GregoryAUnutt Lewin, recorder of Don- caster.

- 13. Opening of St George's Schools by Lord Wharncliffe and

tne Jiishop of Ripon. . West Eiding Registration— resalt of the year's revision- orange gain 2142; add gain on revisions, 1841 to 1844; 263; total, 2405. Mr. Wortley's majority over Lord Morpeth in 1841 was 1134, -15. Decease of Gamaliel Milner, Esq., of Thurlstone, aged 61.

- 16. Annual dinner of Licensed Victuallers' Association-sub-

scription commenced for an asylum for aged decayed members. ° ■'

. Bank of England raised rate of discount to 3 per cent. News of an extensive and spreading rot in the potato crop ot Ireland, and in most parts of England. Aver- age price of wheat at Sheffield, 64s. lOd. Panic in bad nne^ "^ affecting indiscriminately good and

— . Directors of the Sheffield and Manchester Company agreed to take an interest in the Wortley, Silkstone and uW held line, the Leeds and Manchester Company having adopted a line from Sheffield to Wakefield, and agreed to an amalgamation in the Sheffield and Huddersfield.

■ 19. Reports of dissension in the Government, and semi-official intimations that Government would meet the threatened famine in Ireland, and the bad quality of the harvest m Lngland, by opening the ports and a modification in the Lorn Laws. 20. The down mail train was run into near Barnsley station by a pilot engine. Mr. Commissioner Boteler, of the Leeds district Bankruptcy Court, and Sergeant Stubbs, of the Leeds police force, fatally injured. Wheatley, driver of the engine, committed to take his trial f6r manslauehter no T^ ' ^^ ^^^ Winter Assizes and acquitted.

28. Decease of Mr W. R. Bayliffe, of Rotherham, iron mer-

chant, aged 55.

29. Decease of Mr. Edw. Kay, aged 76

-30. Soiree of the Mechanics' Institution. Principal suests- The Mayors of Sheffield and Chesterfield, VV.V Bas- shawe, Esq B B. Pegge Burnell, Esq., Sir A. J. Knight, M.D., Josiah Conder, Esq., &c.

^ 31. Quality of new wheat causes the price to vary from 44s to 73s. per quarter.

i^oz;.!. Prospectus of New Water and Sewerage Company pub-

-. Municipal election :-St. Peter's Ward-W. Jackson 130; M. Bright, 112 ; W. Bradley, 87; W. Favell, L

V^' tTT l,Z^-^~^^.^^^^^ > '^- Blake, 20; Worth, li), H. D. Wilkinson, 2. Park Ward— T. Jessop, J49

414 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1845.

H. D. Wilkinson, 134; J.Wood, 129; Marshall, 19; Bradley, 1 ; Copeland, 1. Ecclesall Ward— I. Scho- field, 152 ; E. Uiiwin, 101 ; R. Solly, 37 ; W. Smith, 32. St. Philip's Ward— W. Thompson and H. Craw- shaw. Nether Hallam— Fisher Godwin. Upper Hal- lam— Georpe Tucker, 7 ; Kobt. Thompson, 4. Bright- side— Jon. Roebuck. Attercliffe— W. Marriott, 48 ; S. Jackson, 3. ^^"01^.2. Decease, at Plymouth, of Mr. Thos. Binney, merchant, Sheffield, aged 51. .

— Improvement Commissioners' Meeting — New regulations

for cabs and hackney coaches made by agreement with the proprietors.

— 7. Share market still declining.

— 10. Alderman Samuel Butcher elected Mayor unanimously.

The Town Council petitioned the Queen in Council to open the ports for the free admission of food.

— 15. The Duke of Norfolk gives notice of his intention to ap-

ply for an Act to improve the Sheffield markets ; and the Town Trustees for Acts to make a carriage bridge o^er the Dun atBridgehouses, and to widen and improve various streets. oi, m u •

— 17. Income Tax Commissioners hear appeals at Sheffield in-

stead of Rotherham.

18. Average price of Wheat at Sheffield, 61s. 6d.

22. Frequent meetings of the Cabinet, and reports that Sir R.

Peel desired to open the ports, but was overruled by his colleagues. _ c r> \, . Subscriptions to provide four illuminated dials for Rother- ham church.

. Lord John Russell, in a letter to the electors of London,

calls on them to " unite to put an end to a system [the Corn Laws] which has been proved to be the blight of commerce, the bane of agriculture, the source of bitter divisions among classes, the cause of penury, fever, mor- tality, and crime among the people." — 24. Messrs. Cobden and Bright visit Sheffield to urge Free Traders to qualify as freeholders to vote for the Riding.

. Lord Morpeth subscribes to the Anti-Corn Law League

to record his " conviction that the time is come for a final repeal of the Corn Laws, and his protest against^ the continued inaction of the state iu the present emer-. gency." | — 31. Plans of more than 600 railway projects deposited. I Dec.l. Annual meeting of Sheffield Mechanics' Institute. ] _ 3. Special meeting of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway assent to a variety of amalgamations, purchases, and ar- rangements with other companies. The Chairman re* ported that the Board were in negotiation with the Leeds • and Manchester, to settle their subjects of contention. 4. Public meeting to petition the Queen to convene Parlia- ment, with a view to the repeal of all laws that impose, duties on the importation of corn.

. The Thnes announces that the Government had resolved to

propose the repeal of the Corn Laws.

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1845. Dec.b. The Standard guardedly denies the statement of the Times.

— 10. Town Council memorialise the Queen in Council to extend

the jurisdiction of the Courts of Requests to actions for £20. Samuel Roberts, jun., Esq., elected Alderman for Brightside Ward, vice Mr. William Vickers, resigned.

. Sir Robert Peel and his co leagues resigned office. Lord

John Russell sent for by the Queen,

— 11. Rev. J. Burnett and Rev. J. P. Mursell address a meeting

at Townhead street Chapel, on the separation of Church and State.

— 13. Decease, suddenly, of George Knowles, Esq., of the firm

of Knowles and Brown, Rotherham.

— 17. West- Riding Meeting, held at Wakefield, unanimously

petition the Queen to convene Parliament, and recom- mend the immediate removal of all legislative restrictions on the free importation of corn.

— 18. Lord John Russell undertook to form a Government.

— 19. Sudden death of Lord Wharnclifl'e, from an effusion of blood on the brain, attributed to mental excitement, aris- ing from the Ministerial dissensions and resignation aged 69. ^ '

. Mr. James Wood elected member of the Town Council

for Park Ward, vice Mr. S. Roberts, jun. '

— 20. Lord John Russell resigned the task of forming a Govern-

ment, in consequence of Earl Grey's objection to the appointment of Lord Palmerston to the Foreign Office. Sir R. Peel recalled. Lord Stanley resigns office, and* is replaced by Mr. Gladstone.

— 22. Opening of the great Tunnel on the Sheffield and Man-

chester Railway. Length, 5300 yards— cost, £200,000.

— 23. Meeting in Manchester to support the Anti-Corn Law

League; £61,894 subscribed on the spot, towards the quarter of a million asked for by the League,

— 26. Decease of Thomas Ellin, Esq., Brincliffe Edge, aged 74. ■ . Requisition, signed by 8000 Electors of the West-Riding

presented to Lord Morpeth, to become a Candidate for the Seat vacant by Mr. Wortley's entering the House of Peers. Lord Morpeth complied, declaring it would be the "main object of his mission to insist upon an imme- diate and final Repeal of the Corn Laws."

THE CIRCULATION OF THE INDEPENDENT,

For 1845, Has exceeded by 22,835 that of tLe preceding year ; and the advertisements have increased in still greater pro- portion. The circulation for the last four years has been —

1842 126,091 average 2379

1843 133,372 „ 2562

1844... 138,394 „ 2661

1845 ]61,]29 „ 3098

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LEADEU, PRINTF.R, SHEFFIELD.

CONTINUATION

OF THE

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1846.

Jan. 1. Meeting to promote the election of Lord Morpeth for the West Riding, vice the Hon. J. S. Wortley, now Lord Whamcliflfe. — . Holiday kept by closing of die shops.

2. Literaiy and Philosophical Society — James Yates, Esq.,

F.R.S., elected president.

3. In answer to an inquiry as to the State endowment of the

Roman CatlioUc priests of Ireland, Lord Morpeth re- plied he was not prepared to sanction such a measure. — . Sheffield Union : In-paui^ers, 316; out-poor, ^265. Ec- clesall Union : in-paupers, 154; out-poor, ^56.

4. Decease of Mr. Thos. Foster, of Burgess-street, teacher of

music, aged 70.

6. Sheffield Market: average price of wheat, 59s. 6d.; ad-

vance of wheat, in six months 10s. per load.

7. Decease, aged 79, of the Rev. Francis Dixon, minister of

Lee-croft chapel from 1800 to 1836.

8. In answer to an application from the promoters of the

Sheffield aiad Chesterfield line to the Duke of Norfolk for his support to tlieir renewed application to Parlia- ment, Mr. Ellison replies tliathis Grace would support to the utmost the scheme of the Sheffield and Manchester and Lincolushhe Railways, but would not, unless com- pelled, enter into an active opposition to other projects 12. Meetmg of tlie officers of the West Yorkshire Yeomanry Cavalry voted an address of condolence to Lord Wliarn- cliffis, on die death of his fadier (their late colonel,) and expressed dieu- hope that he would take die command of die regmient. Resolved also to present to Lord Wharncliffe's family a portrait, by Grant, of the deceased nobleman.

14. Town Council vote an address of condolence to Lord

Wharncliife. It was presented on the 17di.

. West Riduig dinner of the League, at Leeds: Sheffield

subscription, £3,769. 12s., agamst £1,314. 19s. lid. for 1844.

15. Ball for die benefit of the Mechanics' Institution Buildin"

Fund. ° . Mr. Ward, M.P., delivers his annual address.

17. Savings' Bank : Deposits in year ending 20th November, 1845, £49,436 ; paid to depositors, £40,276 ; individual depositors, (6,916,) £186,852; charitable and friendlv societies, (08,) £10,679.

19. Contribution of £100 to die League Fund from die table- knife grinders.

-. Rev. J. Lord, of Boston, U.S., commences a course of lectures at the Mechanics' Institution, on the Monastic Institutions of the Middle Ages.

418 SHEIFIELD LOCAL BEGISTEE.

1846.

,Tan.22. Meeting of Parliomeut : Queen recommends free trade

measures. . Meeting at the Friends' Meeting House to petition against

the proposed enrohueut of the militia.

— 26. Commissioners of Lunacy visit Sheifiekl workhouse, and

report favourably of the wards for the insane. . Decease of Mr. W. Oldfield, of the Pheasant Imi, aged 4-3.

— 27. Presentation of a silver epergne to .1. Dixon, Esq., of Page

Hall, by his late workmen, on the 70th anniversary of his bu-thday.

. Sir R. Peel expoimds his plan for the repeal of the Com

Law in three years, and other commercial reforms.

— 28. Sheffield and Retford Bank suspends payment, consequent

on the stopjjage of the Leeds and West Ridhig Bank, on the 23rd.

— 29. Sir H. R. Bishop commences a course of lectures on tlie

Lyric Drama, before the Literary and Philosoiihical So- ciety. . Decease of Mr. Philip Unwin, of Orchard-place, aged Go.

— 30. Shef&eld Banking Company : Dividend of 10 per cent, on

paid up capital. Feb. 3. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 57s. 4d.

— 4. Meeting of tlie Sheffield and Rotherham Banking Com-

pany ; Dividend of 10 per cent. . Explosion on the premises of Mr. Siunuel Hancock, cut- lery manufacturer. Pea-croft.

— 5. Sheffield and Retford Bank : arrangements commenced to

wind up its afiairs.

. Decease of Mr. J. H. Abraham, F.L.S., of Milk-street Aca- demy, aged (58.

. Election of Lord Morpetli for the West Ridiug witliout op- position.

— 7. Independent : published at No. 2, Bank-street.

. Lord Wharnclifl'e declines to accept tlie colonelcy of the

West Yorksliire Yeomanry.

— 9. Decease of Heniy Gaily Knight, Esq., M.P., of Firbcck

Hall, aged 5!).

— l.'i. Mr. John Htanifortli appointed clerk to the Town Trustees,

vice Mr. .James \Micat, resigned.

. Grimsby, Sheffield, Potteries, and Grand Junction Rnil-

way: Project abandoned, tlie change in tlie share market having prevented the payment of the deposits ; com- pany dissolved 17lh April.

— 21. Decease of Mr. Luke Palfreyman, solicitor, aged 45.

— 27. Decease of Mr. David Davy, aged 77.

. Debate on going into committee on the Com Importation

Act, commenced Feb. 9th, temimated by a majority ofj 337 to 240, in favour of tlie motion. . j

Mar. 2. Mr. George Dawson, of Birmingham, commences a course of lectures before the Mechanics' Institution, on Uie, Writings of Thomas Carlyle.

. Decease, at Gate llelmsley, of Mr. David Haslehurst, aged;

73, formerly of Fargate, grocer.

8HEFFIELB LOCAL BEGISTER. 419

1846.

Mar3. Decease of Mr. J. Wragg, of Charles lane, file mauufac- turer.

— 7. The Bill for making a carriage bridge over tlie Dun at

Bridgehouses abandoned. . The Sheffield, Bakewell, and West Midland Company pe- tition against the Bill of the Manchester, Sheffield and Midland, on account of an alleged breach of agreement with them.

— 11. Joseph Hodkin and Joshua Eastwood sentenced to 15

years' transportation, for shooting at Thomas Greaves, of the Surrey Amis, Hollow Meadows, with intent to murder, on the 27th of Februaiy.

— 12. Isaac Martin for stealing, and John Martin for receiving

when stolen, a quantity of woollen cloth, the property of Messrs. Levy and Sons, of Slieffield, sentenced at York to 14 years' transportation. J. Taylor, for receiving part of the property, 18 montlis' imprisonment.

— 14. In addition to the districts of Attercliffe, DarnaJl, Bright-

side, Wicker, and Pitsmoor, the Ecclesiastical Commis- sioners declare the following ten : — Moorfields, acres 39, population, 6,202 ; Hollis croft, acres 29, population 5,850 ; Eldon street, acres 45, population 5,273 ; Carver street, acres 31, population 4,518; Dyer's hOl, acres 56, population 6,164 ; Heeley, population 2,185 ; Nether- thorpe, acres 42, population 5,429 ; Broomhall, acres 522, population 3,120; GDlcar, acres 68, population 3,447; Porter street, population 3,662. Furtlier dis- tricts jiroposed : — St. Peter's, acres 90, jiopulation 9,771 ; St. James's, acres 24, population 9,434 ; St. Paul's, po- pulation 6,323; St. John's, acres 1,333, population 6,090; St. Philip's, acres 834, population 8,040; St. George's, acres 119, population 7,366 ; Crookes, acres 788, population 3,030; St. Maiy's, jjopiilation 6,758; Ecclesall, acres 2,850, population 2,500; Fulwood, acres 6,521, population 1,401.

— 20. Decease, at Treeton Rectoiy, of the Eev. George Chandler,

aged 68, in tlie 37th year of his incumbency. He was rural dean, and one of the senior magistrates of the West Riding.

— 23. Committee of Highway Board report that 1,531 yards of

sewerage have been made and improved during the year.

. The Eev. J. G. Houusfield attempts to take forcible pos- session of Wadsley House, foi-merly his property.

. Opening of the Polytechnic exliibition of the Mechanics'

Institution.

— 24. Sheffield, Wortley, Silkstone, and Wakefield Railway : Re-

solution to dissolve the Company.

— 26. Sheffield Highway Board elected: — Benjamin Burdekiii,

Glossop road; John Fordliam, Castle street; James Taylor, 3, Burgess street; George Eadon, 15, Tudor place ; .John Swift, 59, Arundel street ; John Harrop, West street; William Fisher, jun., Belmonte, Park; Henry Atkin, 19, Eyre sti-eet ; Joseph Turton, Brook

420 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

184C. bill; Joshua Wigfull, Lead mill road; Anthony Ward, 21, St. Philip's terrace ; .Jeremiixh Sellars, 45, Sussex street; Chai-les Miluer, Fargate ; Jos. Horsfall, Campo lane; John Tinker, Market street; and John Copley, Carver street, JI/or.28.Petitions presented to Parliament, praying, that to avoid the pressure on the money market of making many new railways at once, the bills before Parliament might be deferred, or clauses introduced postponing the com- mencement of the works.

— 31. Potatoes: Regents, 10s. per twelve pecks.

April2. Decease of Mr. Thos. Shepherd, of Farm Bank, aged 61. . Explosion on the premises of Mr. Sanderson, fork manu- facturer. Carver street.

— 4. First publication of the Sheffield Times.

. The Sheffield Union : In paupers, 308 ; payments to out

poor, £-227. Ecclesall Union : in paupers, 146 ; pay- ments to out poor, £r)&.

. Guardians for the Sheffield Union: — Wilson Overend,

Esq., and the Eev. J. Hand, ex-officio ; Sheffield — Messrs. J. W. Dixon, W. Janis, J. S. Hawkswortli, H. Crawshaw, A. Whitaker, J. Roebuck, W. Atkinson, and T. Gatley ; Brightside — Messrs. Ragg and Himter ; AtterclifFe — Mr. B. Huntsman ; Handsworth — Mr. Jos. Hodkinson.

. Guardians for the Ecclesall Union: — ^W. J. Bagshawe,

Esq., B. B. Pegge Bumell, Esq., H. M. Greaves, Esq., ex officio ; Ecclesall — Messrs. R. Bayley, T R. Barker. H. rumiss,J. Fawcett; Nether Ilallam — Messsrs. John Blake and W. Thompson ; Upper Hallimi — Mr. E. Wiird- low; Norton — Messrs. James Veale and John Smith; Dore — Mr. Wm. Taylor; Totley — Mr. Geo. Mountford ; Beauchief — Mr. George Sampson.

— 6. Melting snow and heavy rain, producing a great flood,

that inundated the lower parts of the town.

— 7. W. Jackson, head keeper of Sir George Sitwell, severely

wounded by poachers.

. Decease of Mr. J. Cocker, Norton, of tlie firm of Cocker,

Grayson and Co., aged 58.

— 8. Town Council: Resolution passed in favour of providing

honest occupation for criminals discharged from prison.

— 9. Decease of Mr. Newton, gent., of Glossop road, aged 64. . Gas Company : Half year's dividend 18s. i)er share.

— 10. Decease of Mr. Joseph Benson, filesmiUi, aged 46. He

had distinguished himself by his able advocacy of tlie principles of free trade.

— 11. Explosion on the premises of Messrs. J. and W.Marshall,

of AUen street.

— 12. Decease, at Altrincham, of Mr. Benjamin Naylor, aged 84,

formerly of Sheffield.

— 14. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 61s. 3d. . Ball given by the Sheffield Club.

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTEB. 431

1846.

Jprll 17.Decease of Peter Atherton, scissor filer, aged 76, filer of the Victoria scissors presented to Her Majesty.

— 18. Sheffield Highway Accovmts : Bates collected £7,470 ; ex-

penditure £7,107. Two rates of 6d. in tlie pound levied during the year. . Electric telegrajjli from tlie south to the Masborougli sta- tion in operation.

— 21. Premises of Mr. Wilson, edge tool manufacturer. Wicker,

destroyed by an exi^losion : Reward of £800 for the de- tection of the jjerpetrators of tlie explosions of Feb. 4, April 2, 11, and 21. May l.lior A Milton accepts the command of the First West York Yeomanry Cavalry, vice the late Lord Whamcliffe. Major Elmsall appointed Lieut. Col. vice Lord Wham- cliffe, resigned, and Capt. Limiley, Major.

— 4. Preamble of tlie Grimsby and Sheffield Extensions de-

clared to be proved.

— 7. Sheffield Canal Company — dividend of £2 per share, tlie

first for several years.

— 8. Eobt. Macdonald and Edward Barnes held to bail, on a

charge of obtaining money as contributions to the Fitz- william Infant and Adult Sick and Fmieral Society, by which nearly 2000 poor persons had been defrauded.

. Bill proposed to amend the law of arson, in consequence

of die late incendiary exjjlosions in Sheffield.

— 12. James Yates, Esq., President of the Literaiy and Philo-

sophical Societv, entertains the members at Norton Hall.

— 13. General Purposes Committee, report to the Town Coun-

cil in favour of the Duke of Norfolk's New Market bill. . Decease of Mr. .Joseph Wright, farrier, Norfolk St., aged 67.

— 14. Decease of Mr. Edward Craske, of Crabtree, aged 85.

— 16. Fu-st meeting of the West Yorkshire Yeomanry at Doncas-

ter, under command of Lord Milton.

— 19. Sheffield, Barusley, Wakefield, Huddersfield, and Goole

Eailway — preamble jiroved before the Committee of the Commons. Barnsley Jimction and South Yorkshire preambles not proved.

— 20. Aged Female Society — subscriptions, £250 ; donations,

£225 ; distributed by visitors, £456.

. Decease of Mr. Thos. Hounsfield, Woodliill, aged 82.

. Committee of the House of Commons decided in favour of

the preamble of the Manchester, Sheffield and Midland

Railway.

. Sheffield Intermediate Sessions — only eight prisoners.

. Savings' Bank established at Rotherham.

— 22. Sheffield, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe Railway Company

resolve to wind up.

— 24. Thomas Longden, an assistant to Jos. Jaggar, gamekeeper,

in Sheffield Park, fired at and wounded by George Barker, who was convicted at York Assizes, (July 15,) and transported for 15 years.

— 28. Meeting at Rotherham resolve to establish public baths.

429 SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEOISTER.

1846. 3fay28. Second reading of tlie Com bill carried in the House of

Lords by 211 to ]64. . Jas. C. Simpson, clerk to many money clubs, secretly

sails for New York. Junel. Whit Monday — shops closed.

— 6. Rotherham Police — receipts of past year, j£215; expenses,

£-iO(i. Persons in custody, 259.

. Receipts of the MifUand Company, for Whitsun week,

£10,747; Sheffield and Manchester, passengers 101,oO;), receipts, £3,509.

— 8. The Lords' Committee decided in favour of the London

and York line.

— 10. Wilson Overend, Esq., suggested to the Town Council

that it was desirable to apply for a court of Quarter Sessions, on which Aid. Duun moved, tliat a represen- tation be made to the Lord Lieut, of the desirableness of increasing the number of West Riding Magistrates in this district, — carried by 24 to 5.

. Proprietaiy of the Sheffield and Manchester assent to

amalgamation with the Lincolnshire and Grimsby lines.

— 19. Mr. E. J. Cowley sailed for New York, being sent out by

the creditors in pursuit of J. C. Simpson.

— 20. Weather very hot — thermometer ranging from 80 to ^5 0

degrees.

— 21. Decease of Mr. George North, of Church street, butchei .

aged C3.

— 22. Decease of Mr. C. Harris, tailor, Norfolk street, aged 5:1. . Mr. B. R. Ilaydon, the celebrated artist, committed suicide.

— 25. Savings' Bank opened at Eckington.

. Third reading of the Com bill carried in the House of

Lords, and the Irish Arms bill rejected in the Commons by 293 to 119.

— 26. Explosive substances bill received die royal assent.

— 27. Sir R. Peel resigned.

— 29. Lord J. Russell instructed to forni a Government.

-— — . Decease of Mr. S. Ackroyd, foi-merly of the firm of Stuart,

Smith, and Co., Roseoe place. -. Manchester v. Sheffield. — Cricket Match at Hyde Park.

Sheffield, two innings, 173 ; Manchester, one innings,

210. . Sheffield Assay Office — Weight of Silver assayed anil

marked, 1844-'), 61,398 ounces; 1845-6 60,382 ounces.

The silver used by tlie Sheffield manufacturers pun r

than the law requires. July}. Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway bill passed the Lords'

Committee.. The Manchester, Midland, and Great

Grimsby rejected. . Decease of Mr. W. .Jessop, Western Bank, late of tlie firm

of Jessop, Owen, and .Jessoi). . Decease of Mr. John Marsh, aged 74, foi-merly of Shef- field Park.

— 2. The Anti-Corn Law League dissolved. £10,000 voted to

SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISTEB. 423^

1846.

Mr. George Wilson, the Chairman. Subscription com- menced to raise ^6] 00,000, to present to Mr. Cobclen.

July 3. Lord Morpeth appointed Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests.

. Mr. John Parker, M.P., appointed Secretary to the Treasury;

and Mr. H. G. Ward, M.P., Secretary to the Admkalty. The offices of the borough members not vacating their seats.

— 4. Richard Bayley, Esq. Castle Dyke; W. Jeflfcock, Esq

High Hazles; H. T. Skelton, Esq. Middlewood; V. Corbett, Esq. Wortley ; G. Hounsfield, Esq. the Clough; tlie Hon. and Eev. W. Howard, Whiston; Eev. A. Fullerton, Thiybergh ; and the Eev. H. Parting- ton, of Aldwark Hall, are placed on the commission of tlie peace. Mr. Bayley, Mr. Jeifcock, Mr. Howard and Mr. Fullerton qualified at Eotlierham Sessions, July 6.

— 6. Subscription commenced in acknowledgment of the ser-

vices of John Bright, Esq. M.P., in connexion with the Anti-Corn Law League.

— 8. Purse of nearly £bO presented to Mr. Thomas Booth

Britannia metal smith, in acknowledgment of his active exertions during many years, to advance the interests of the trade, and promote the welfare of the working clas- ses and tlie town generally.

— 9. Mr. Ward publishes an adch-ess to the electors and non-

electors on the occasion of his taking office.

— 11. Mr. A. F. Hammond obtains a prize worth £60; Mr. W.

Laycock one of £70, in the Scottish Art Union.

. Lately deceased, at Settle, Mr. Jolm Thomas, compiler of

tlie Sheffield Local Eegister up to 1832.

— 12. Decease of Mr. Thomas \Mieatcroft, of Grimestlioi-pe,

aged 73.

— 14. The Manchester, Sheffield and Midland Eailway bill, re-

jected by tlie Committee of the House of Lords — being thus lost for tlie thu-d time. The Sheffield Markets bOl, which had been delayed till this railway bill should be disposed of, was postponed on account of the late- ness of the session.

— 15. Decease of Benj. Sayle, Esq., for many years of Bright-

side, aged 76.

. Decease of Mr. Wm. Fairbank, of Nelson Place, aged 74.

. Mr. Parker, M.P., publishes an address to the electors

and inhabitants, on the occasion of his accepting office.

— 16. Saml. and George Crookes tried at York, for violent as-

sault onMr. AbraliamHowe,Broadfield, on tliel3thMay, and acquitted.

— 18. Lord Morpeth re-elected for the West Eiding without op-

position. . Sheffield Union — in-paupers, 324 ; week's pajonent to

out poor, £432. . Ecclesall Union — in-paupers, 142 ; weekly out payments,

£142.

— 21. Average price of Wheat at Sheffield, 47s. 4d.

i'ii SHEFFIELD LOCAt REUISTEK.

1846.

July21John En^and, Sarul. Myers, and Joseph Barras, con- victed at York of a rape, and Wm. Aizlewood of an assault, on Mai-ia Kaufinann, at the Ickles, on the 15th March. England, Myers, and Barras transported for life, and Aizlewood imprisoned for six montlis.

— 22. George Aizlewood, Joseph Hague, and Michael and Han-

nah Bradshaw, convicted of conspu-acy to defeat the above prosectition, by sending Maria Kanfmann out of tlie countiy. The men to be imprisoned for a month each, and all to enter into recognizances for good be- haviour. . John George Hounsfield, (clerk,) Wm. Balmforth, and John, Charles, and George Hall, convicted at York Assizes of riot and forcible entry at Wadsley House, on the 23d March. Mr. Hoimsfield to be imprisoned at Wakefield for nine months, and the other defendants for two months each.

— 23. John Hohnes, convicted of uttering a forged bUl of ex-

change, at Sheffield, on the 13 th Dec, to defraud Wm. Carlisle. To be transported for 10 yeai'S.

— 24. Preamble of the Sheffield, Eotlierham,Bamsley, Wakefield,

Huddersfield, and Goole Railway, declared proved by

the Lords' Committee. . Sheffield and Hallamsliire Bank — another call, raising

paid up capital to £'125,425. . Sheffield Union Bank. Thii-d annual meeting — dividend

6 per cent.

— 25. Eotherham Savings' Bank opened.

— 27. Advance of wages in the file trade.

— 25. Decease of Mr. Thos. Pearson, Hallcar terrace, aged 68. . Midland Company — half-yeaiiy chvidend, 3f per cent.

— 27. Sheffield Cemeteiy bill received tlie royal assent.

— 29. Manchester v. Sheffield : Eetum match at cricket, played

at Manchester. Manchester, 289 ; Sheffield, 182.

— 29. At Derby Assizes, Edw. Lees, John Mai-jiles, and Andrew

Cartledge, were charged witli shooting at and wounding Wm. Jackson, gamekeeper of Sir George Sitwell, at Eckingtou, on the 7th April. Lees and Marples to be transported for 15 years, and Cai-tledge acquitted.

— 30. Eodgers v. Nowill : Chancery suit to establish the exclu-

sive right of Messrs. Joseph Eodgers and Sons to strike the mark, " J. Eodgers & Sons," -with the Crown and V. E. above. Vice-Chancellor Wigram decides that un- less plaintiflfs in a year bring an action to estabUsh their right, tlie bUl shallbe dismissed with costs for the de fendants.

. Decease of Mr. John Spink, of Westbar, pawnbroker,

aged Gl.

• . In consequence of taking office, Mr. John Parker, M.P.,

resigns the Chairmanship of the Sheffield and Man- chester, and Mr. Ward retires from the direction of tlie Eastern Counties and Nortlieni and Eastern Companies.

SHEFFIELD lOCAt REGISTER. 425

1846.

Aug,\. Decease of Mr. Benj. Taylor, formerly of Wadsley Hall,

aged 79. , Mortality : Sheffield, population in 1841, 86,076 ; deaths

registered in the quarter ending June 30th, 1839, 652;

1840, 554; 1841,528; 1842, 485; 1843, 534; 1844,

464; 1845, 513; 1846, 852; quarter ending March

31st, 1846, 611.

— 2. Decease of Mr. Jolin Hagger, aged 67.

— 3. Election of Improvement Commissioners to supply the

places of Mr, J. H. Abraham, and Mr. Luke Palfrey- man, deceased, and Messrs. Hall, John Newbould, John Porter, E. B. Schofield, Stevenson, and S. Younge. The following eight were elected : — Messrs. George Eodgers, Eobert Simpson, James Thompson, E. Eoper, James Wood, James H. Greaves, Wm. Eeaney, and George Tuckei'.

■ Electric telegraph extended from Masbro' to Sheffield.

. Sheffield and Lincolnshire Eailway bill, and tlie New

street bill of the Town Trustees, receive the Eoyal as- sent. The latter bill gives powers for the Trustees un- der certain circiunstances to vacate then- offices.

— 7. Joseph Lord, currier, of Angel street, a bankrupt, com-

mitted to York by the Banki-uptcy Court, for not ac- coimting satisfactorily for tlie disposal of his jDroperty. He stated that his house had been robbed on the night of the 22nd June of i£234, but his statement was not be- lieved.

. The union of tlie file trade vote ^100 to the Infirmary,

and i£50 to die Dispensary.

. Eotherham lighting and cleansing : Amount collected in

the year, £241 ; expended, .£211.

— 10. Decease of Mr. Benjamin Shirley, late of the Commercial

Inn, aged 55.

— 12. Decease of Mr. S. Wilson, gentleman, Hanover buildings,

aged 72.

. Silver claret jug presented to Mr. Thomas Staniforth, of

Hackenthorpe, by the sickle makers and grinders, in his employ, as a testimonial of their esteem.

■ . Mr. Wm. Bland, one of the warrant officers of the borough,

under the charter, and for many yeai-s previously one of the acting constables, retned from office.

— 13. Decease of Eobert Plumer Wai-d, Esq., of Gilston Park

Herts, aged 81, fatlier of Mr. H. G. Ward, M.P.

— 15. EaQway biBs passed 1846, with a capital of £145,832,405,

and power to borrow £33,411,081. — — , Mr. E. J. Cowley returns from New York, whither he had followed James C. Simpson, having recovered a consi- derable Sinn of money, and made arrangements which issued in the recoveiy of a number of valuable pictures whicli Simpson had carried away.

— 17. Mechanics' Institution : Eesolved to appoint a managing

director.

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1846.

Avg.l9.She&e\d Dispensary: After several discussions, it was re- solved to place the midwifery cases under the care of the midwives, Mr. Beckett, tlie surgeon-accoucheur, being called in in cases of emergency.

. Sheffield School of Design : Mr. Young Mitchell, recently

appointed master.

. Cutlers' Company : Aid. T. B. Tm-ton chosen Master Cut- ler elect. Wardens, IJessrs. H. Mort and F. Fenny.

. Mr. Samuel Osborne Habershon, son of Mr. J. J. Haber-

shon, of The Holmes, near Eotherham, in the examina- tion for tlie degree of Bachelor of Medicine in tlie Uni- versity of London, gains exhibition and gold medal for anatomy and j^hysiology ; gold medal for chemistry ; and exhibition and gold medal for materia medica and pharmaceutical chemistry.

. Cemetei7 Company: First meeting under the new Act. In-

tei-ments since the opening of tiie Cemeteiy, 2004. Di- vidend of 6s. 6d. per share.

— 22. Decease of Mr. Joseph Hadfield, aged 65, of the firm of

Eobert Hadfield and Co., merchants.

— 28. Meetmg of Sheffield and Lincolnshh-e and Grimsby and

Sheffield Companies' Dii-ectors report that by virtue of the Amalgamation Act, these Companies, with tlie Grimsby Dock Company, wUl be united on the 1st of January with tlie Sheffield and Manchester Railway Company, under the name of the Manchester, Shef- field, and Lincolnshire.

. Decease of Mr. H. J. Frith, of Eose Hill, near Eawmarsh.

. Prorogation of Parliament.

— 29. Prize swords presented to Private Isaac Law, of troop A,

and Private Wm. Sands, of troop B, by Colonel Vis- count Milton, and tlie officers of the First W. Y. Y. Ca- valry, as tlie best swordsmen in their respective troops. A similar sword presented on the 28th, to Mr. John Busby, of Darfield, tlie best swordsman in Capt. tlie Hon. C. Fi'-zwUliam's troop.

— 31. Cricket match: Eleven of All England against 20 of

Sheffield. All England, 186; Sheffield, 187, and six wickets to go down.

Sept. 2. Soiree to celebrate tlie triumph of Com Law repeal, and dissolve tlie Free Trade Association. Present, Lord Mor- peth, M.P., Mr. John Parker, M.P., Mr. H. G. Ward, M.P., Colonel Thompson, Mr. K. E. R. Moore, &c. Half- holiday. Shops closed without distinction of party.

— — . Silver Cup presented to Wm. JefFcock, Esq., Captain of the B troop of tlie First W. Y. Y. Cavalry, by the non- commissioned officers and jirivates of the troop.

— 3. Cutlers' Feast: -Principal guests. Lord Morpeth, M.P.,

Lord Milton, M.P., Mr. John Parker, M.P., Lord Ed- ward Howard, the Hon. C. W. Fitzwilliam, Colonel P. Thompson, Sir A. J. Knight, Mr. E. R. E. Moore, &c.

— 4. A dessert ser\'ice presented to Colonel P. Thompson, (tlie

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1846.

father of Free Trade, and tlie author of the Com Law Catechism,) by a few of his Sheffiekl friends. Sept.6. Sheffield Union : In-paupers, 297 ; week's out payments, £200. Ecclesall Union, in-paupers, 152 ; out pay- ments, i£51.

— C. Decease of Mr. Charles West, of Wentworth, in conse-

quence of being accidentally shot on the first of Sept. by Mr. Kichard Massey, private secretary to Earl Fitz- william.

— 7. Mr. .John Taylor appointed managing director of the

Mechanics' Institution.

— 8. Average price of wheat, 49s. 6d ; prices rising. Spring

corn being deficient and potatoes having failed.

— 9. Council Hall. After several discussions, the Town Coun-

cil resolved not to purchase the Music Hall, but to take the Assembly Rooms on a lease for 7 years. The Coun- cil also resolved to suspend further proceedings with respect to an Improvement Act, as there was reason to believe that Government would propose a General Bill next Session.

— 10. John Platts committed to Derby, charged with the wilful

murder of George Collis, on tJie 7th Dec. at Chesi^erfield.

. Decease, at Worthing, of Mr. C. F. Favell, M.D.

. Decease of the Earl of Yarborough.

— 11. Mr. Lloyd Garrison, and Mr. Fred. Douglas, a negro es-

caped from slavery, address a meeting at the Friends' Meeting House, on American Slavery.

— 12. Six services of plate, manufactured by Messrs. Hawks-

worth, Eyre, and Co., to be presented by the Anti-Corn Law League to six members of the council, in acknow- ledgment of then- services.

— 14. Mr. Henry Vincent lectures on the Temperance Reforma-

tion at the Friends' Meeting House.

— 15. The Magistrates, in an appeal against the poor rate,

decide " That the actual rent is tlie criterion on which the rate should be made, unless it can be clearly shewn that it is too small."

— 17. Decease, at Lincoln, of tlie Rev. Francis Fisher, aged 35. . Decease, at Wentworth, of Mr. Thos. West, aged 80.

— 19. Increasing alarm as to the deficiency of food in England,

Ireland, and throughout the North of Europe.

— 20. Decease of William Blythe, elder son of the late Mr.

George Wells, solicitor, aged 17.

. Decease of Mr. Thos. Greaves, of the Surrey Arms, at

Hollow Meadows, who was shot in the face, in Feb. last, by Hodkin and Eastwood.

— 21. Mr. H. Vmcent lectures in the Theatre, on the probable

effects of the Free Trade measures on the state of parties, and of die country.

. Revising Barristers' Court, at Sheffield : Gain to the

liberals 139.

— 22. Meeting of the members of the Licensed Victuallers' So-

ciety to form an Association to provide an asylum, and

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1846.

odienvise assist the aged, necessitous, and desen-iug' members. Sept.22.0Tpenmg of the New Catholic Church at Mount St. Man's. Eckingtou.

— 25. Mr. H. Vincent lectures on Peace, at the Friends' Meet-

ing House.

— -26 Decease of Thomas Clarkson, of Plaj-ford Hall, Suffolk,

aged 86. Oct. 1. Drapers and Pawnbrokers begin to close tlieir shops at seven for the Winter.

— 3. Proposal to establish a Creditors' Protection Society-, for

opposing fraudulent bankrupts and insolvents. . Decease of Mr. George Smidi, of York House, aged 77.

— 4. Services connected with the opening of the Wesleyan Day

Schools, iu ShefBeld Park ; £-i-20 contributed.

— 5. Decease of Mr. Thos. Mottram, merchant, Park field,

aged 74.

— 6. The works of the Sheffield and Lincolnshu-e, from Shef-

field to Beigliton, let to Messrs. Miller and Blackie.

. Decease, at Pitsmoor, of Mr. Edward Greaves, of the firm

of W. Greaves and Sons, Sheaf Works. Legacies — In- finnary,£100. Dispensary, and Boys' and Girls' Chai-ity Schools, each £bO.

— 7. Infirmaiy meeting : income, £2,169 ; expenditure, £3,05s-

1801 : Subscribers, ^(U; amount, £1260; patients, ]0-j:i. 1846: ditto 425; ditto £10.38; ditto 3(137.

— . 8. Gas Company : Half-year's dividend, 18s. per share, on whole shares, and Os. 8d. on | shares.

— 10. One of the engines of tlie Castle Mills blown up with

gmipowder. William Ibbotson, the watchman of the mills, apprehended on suspicion, but dischai-ged on he 20th.

— 14. Town Council memorialise the Government to open die

ports by an order in Council.

. Dr. Bartolome elected physician to the Infirmary, i-ice Dr.

Favell, deceased.

— 15. First sod of tlie Sheffield and Lmcolnshire cut by tlie

Mayor of Sheffield, Saml. Butcher, Esq., at High Hazles.

. Annual festival of the Licensed Victuallers' Society, the

Master Cutler in the chair. Donations announced to- wards a Victuallers' Asylum of £163. 15s., and annual subscriptions to the amount of £31. 3s.

. Decease, at Rotherham, of Mr. Jacob Newton, brotlier of

the Rev. Dr. Newton.

— 16. Dr. Hodgson, of Liverpool, lectures before the Phreno-

logical Society. . Examination of Edw. Linley, bankrupt, adjourned sine die.

— 17. West-Riding Pailiamentary division. Liberal gain on

claims, 1364 ; do. on objections, 310 ; total gain of tlie year, 1683. Making the Liberal majority of the Wes- Riding, 4100.

. Decease of Mr. Joseph Warburton, aged 49, table-knife

manufacturer.

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18-16.

Oct.20. Decease of Henry Sorby, Esq., of Woodbum, aged 56.

. Decease, in the Isle of Wight, of Mr. Kobt Chapman, grocer,

Union street, aged 84.

— 21. Public meeting at the Cutlers' Hall to consider the pro-

priety of conferring with the Government on the subject of the outrage at the Castle Mills. Amendment carried, appointing a committee of masters and workmen to en- quire into the cause of tlie outrages, and take steps to produce a better state of feeling. .

. Decease of Mr. Samuel Ironside, aged 68.

. Meeting of the Bettering Society : Keceipts of the yeai\

^192 ; expenditure, .£174.

— 22. Eotherham Gas Company : Meeting to celebrate the ob-

taining of an act of incoi-poration, and to i^resent to Jno. Aldred, Esq., chairman of the Company since 1833, a service of plate, as a mark of esteem.

— 24. Publication of accounts of the borough. Amount of watch

rate collected, £4225 ; of borough rate, £1082. Ex- pense of police force, £4304 ; besides £1375 from fines and fees. Cost of elections, £146; salary, (Town Clerk,) £300 ; miscellaneous, £142.

. The straw, in one of the lock-ups, at the Town Hall, set

on fire by a prisoner, locked uj) for tie night.

— 27. Sarah Ann Hague, of Rotherham, convicted at Doncaster

Sessions, of inciting Ann Stothard to rob her father. — Four months' imprisonment.

— 28. Meeting of Trades' Delegates at the Cock, Hollis croft, re-

solve that it is necessary to establish a Protection Society for the defence of labour's rights, to which the trades should contribute a half-penny per head monthly.

. Meeting of the Midland Company resolve to create new

capital to the amount of £3,157,000, in £50 shares.

— 29. Meeting of Manchester, Shefiield, and Midland Company.

Cost of tlie applications to Parliament, 1846, £26,258 ; in 1845, £11,140; besides a claim of £4000, made . against tliem by the promotors of tlie Sheffield, Bake- well, and West Midland Company. £2. 10s. per share to be returned to the shareholders, who should not choose to concur in prosecuting the undertaking. New modes of carrying out the line recommended by Mr. Hawkshaw and Mr. Thompson, engineers. Directors authorised to renew their application.

. Meeting at the Town Hall, to promote attention to the

municipal registration.

— 30. Mr. Hem-y Wilkinson elected one of the Town Trustees,

vice Mr. Vincent Henry Eyre, resigned under the pro- ,j visions of the late act. . , Third dividend, (Is. 6d. in the pound,) under the bank- ruptcy of Parker, Shore, and Co., declared, making 9s. in the pound, and reserving £25,000 to meet the divi- dends on the proof of £66,000, by tlie representatives of the late Mr. Samuel Shore, concerning which a Chancery suit is pending.

430 SHEFFIELD LOCAL KEGISTER.

1846.

Ort.SO.Number of burgesses. The burgess list of 1843 contained 5584 names ; 1844, 6495 ; 1845, 8176 ; and 1846,11,511.

. The privilege of exchanging spoiled stamps at the Sheffield

Stamp-office, conceded to the application of the Town Comicil, supported by Mr. Parker, M.P.

Nov.l. Mr. Hargreaves appointed superintendent of the Sheffield station of the Sheffield and Manchester; and Mr. Binney, goods agent.

— 2. Municipal elections : — St. Peter's Ward — Mr. Wiley, 26-3 ;

Mr. Jolm Roebuck, 207; Mr. Edward Vickers, 131. St. Philip's Ward— Mr. H. E. Hoole, 121 ; Mr. B. Vickers, 54 ; Dr. Bartolome, 1 9. Park Ward — Mr. J. W. Hawksworth, 170 ; Mr. Jeremiah Sellars, 134 ; Mr. W. Bradley, 100; Mr. E.Bingham, 39. St. George's Wai-d — Mr. Joseph Turton, 37; Mr. Benjamin Scho- field, 38; Mr. S. Hadfield, 5; Mr. Jolm Spencer 7. Ecclesall Ward— Mr. 1. P. Cutts, 241 ; Mr. W. Atkin- son, 179 ; Mr. J. Stevenson, 102. Brightside Ward — Mr. Thomas Briggs, 119 ; Mr. Robert Waterhouse, 74; Mr. E. Vickers, 47. Upi^er Hallam Ward — Mr. James Dearman, 21 ; Mr. Thos. Gates, 6 ; Mr. Peter Frith, 4. Nether HaUam Ward — Mr. Matthews, 145 ; Mr. W. Sissous, 72 ; Mr. H. Spooner, 2. AtterclifFe Ward — Mr. C. Atkinson, 75 ; Mr. W. Parker, 2.

— — . Aid. Saml. Roberts having been named as a candidate fo the Mayoralty, announced his intention not to stai.d. Presented £100 each to tlie Dispensary, Boys' Charity School, and Aged Female Society.

. Annual meeting of Mechanics' Institute. Receipts from

ordinaiT sources, i£l80; exliibition, £450; expenses, £211 ; do. of exliibition, £375.

. The brewers resolve to advance tlie price of all malt liquor

3s. per barrel, and allow no discoimt. The high price of malt the cause.

— 3. Average ijrice of Wheat, 64s. 4d. Best household bread, 7d.

per four pounds ; seconds, 6d. ; brown, 5d.

. Decease of Mr. Rowbotham, Gell street.

. Mortality in Sheffield district : — Deaths registered in the

quarter ending September 30th. — Population, 1841,

85,076 ; 1838, 515 deaths ; 1839, 647 ; 1840, 574 ;

1841, 413; 1842, 501; 1843, 507; 1844, 493; 1845,

445; 1846, 1039.

— 4. First stone of Christ Church, Heeley, laid.

. Meeting of Rotherham ratepayers resolve that tlie Commis- sioners of Police be authorised to carrj" out the pro- visions of the act to remove nuisances. It was also re- solved to promote the fomiation of medical clubs for the working classes, as recommended by the Poor Law Commissioners.

— 7. Notice given of renewed application to Parliament for an

Act to enlarge and improve the Sheffield Markets.

— 9. Meeting of Town Council. Mr. H. Wilkinson and Aid.

Carr proposed for the Mayoralty. For Mr. Wilkinson,

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1846.

27; for Aid. Carr, 24. The uew Mayor amiounced a donation of £100 towards the establishment of an Infant School. Aldermen T. B. Turtou, (31,) J. Carr, (29,) E. Lowe, (28,) and G. Tiirton, (2-5,) re-elected. Aldn. H. Wnkinson, (33,) E. Vickers, (25,) and J. W. Hawks- worth, (25,) elected in tlie place of Messrs. S. Eoberts, jun., Wm. Hoole, and C. Peace. Nov, 9. Canal Company assent to an arrangement to sell the Canal to the Manchester, ShefBeld, and Lincolnshire RaQway Co., for a pei-jjetual annuity of 50s. per share.

— 12. Fii-st of several meetings of the licensed victuallers and

beerseUers, to resist the brewers' advance of Id. per gallon. On the 20 th, it appeai'ed tliat tlie effort was fu- tile, and it was given ui).

. Committee of masters and workmen, appointed Oct. 21,

commence a series of discussions as to the imputations upon Trades' Unions, as jn-omotive of outrages, and the causes of the late explosions.

— 13. Manchester, Midland, and Grimsby meeting, at Eother-

ham, — deposits, £42,927 ; expended, £27,851; liabili- ties, £8051 ; balance, £7024, or 4s. 6d. per share. Re- commended to apply for a line from Rotherham to Don- caster. On the 19th, the Company was dissolved.

. Decease of Mr. Richard Ashton, of the firm of Ashton,

Jackson, and Co., aged 30 yeai-s.

— 14. Sheffield, Rotlierham, Bamsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield,

and Goole Company, give notice of an application for a bill to alter their levels, and bring their line to a station at Castle folds, on the site of the Royal Hotel, &e.

— 18. Municipal elections, to supply vacancies : — For Ecclesall

Ward, in place of Aid. Wilkinson, Mr. Isaac Ironside, 397; Mr. C. Appleby having 317. Mr. Thomas Birks, for Park Ward, in place of Aid. J. W. Hawksworth.

— 21. The fourth application for a Ime from Sheffield to Ches-

terfield abandoned for this year.

. Town Trustees' accounts: — Receipts, £4031, including

£1120 due to the Bank ; expended, £951. Deposit on South Yorkshire, and calls on Sheffield and Manches- ter shares, £3080.

. After an effort to estal lish in the iovm a weekly half-holi- day, tlie difficulties met with caused it to be abandoned.

. Property in Norfolk row purchased to enlarge the site of

the Catholic Chapel, with a view to erect a large church. — 25. Decease of Mr, H. Cox, Norfolk street, aged 47.

Uec. 1. Rowland Hill, autlior of tlie penny postage, appointed se- cretary to the Postmaster-General.

. Mr. G. Dawson commences lectures before the Mechanics'

Institution, on the characteristics of the present age.

— 2. Proposal to appoint a chaplain of the Established Church

for tJie Sheffield Workhouse, without salaiy, rejected, the guardians being convinced that the religious interests of the imnates are duly attended to by the ministers of va- rious denominations

— 2. Decease of Mr. N. Shaw, aged 28, constable of Ecclesfield.

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1846.

Dec. 3. Proposal to let the Brightside Workhouse for a lunatic asylum, rejected by the ratepayers.

. Mr. H. C. Wright, from the United States, delivered tlie

first of two lectures on the imla\vfulness of defensive war.

. Memorial to the Rev. J as. Caughey, an eminent revivalist,

from the United States, in tlie Wesleyan connexion, ex- tensively signed by the members of the society and others.

. Decease of Mr. Thomas Weldon, Bramley Hall, near

Handswordi, aged 76.

— 3. Disputes about tlie Holmesfield school, after causing some

disturbances, and an action and indictment at Derby Assizes, settled by the award of the arbitrator, estab- lishing tlie right of the Rev. W. Pashley and his co- trustees, to appoint the schoolmaster.

Mr. Chas. Elam, (son of Mr. Elam, Wesley College,) in

the examination for honours, University of London, ob- tains scholarsliip and gold medal for physiology and comparative anatomy ; scholarshiii and gold medal, for surgery ; gold medal, for medicine ; & prize for midwifery.

. Borough Register : — In 1832, tlie nimibers were 3504 ;

1837, 40«o ; 1838, 4559 ; 1830, 4451 ; 1840, 4347 ; 1844, 4059; 1845, 4130; and 1846, 4934.

— 8. Decease, at Masbro', of Mr. W. Close, aged 76.

— 9. Town Council petition for a reduction of the duty on tea,

and appoint a Committee of Health.

— 10. Election of Town Trustee, to supply the place of Mr. Thos.

Pearson, resigned : — Mr. W. Butcher, 102 ; Mr. John Sykes, 75; Aid. Dunn, 19.

— 15. Oratorio by the Sheffield Sacred Harmonic Society.

— 18. First sod of the Whaley Bridge branch of the Sheffield and

Manchester, cut, near Hyde, by F. Dukiufield Astley, Es(j.

. Mr. Commissioner West decides that the official assignee

of a banki-upt's estate, receiving debts by instalments, for the benefit of the estate, is entitled to charge com- mission on each instalment as a separate debt. This would make a difference to Uie estate of Pai-ker, Sliore, and Co,, in favour of the assignee, on the amount re- ceived up to the time of the second dividend, of ^£2300 as compared with £900.

— 20. Sheffield and HaUamshii-e Sa\-ings' Bank, received from

depositors, year ending 20th Nov., X'49,078 ; paid to de- positors, Ji48,063. Balance due to 7236 depositors, £195,530; and to 76 societies, .i'8874; total, i'204,404.

— 29. Provisions in Sheffield markets, last market days in

1844. 1845. 1846.

Wheat, per 3 bushels. . 19s. 6d. . . 25s. Od. . . 28s. Od.

Oats, per quaiter 26s. Od. . . 29s. Od. . . 33s. Od.

, Barley, do 36s. Od. . . 35s. Od. , . 49s. Od.

Beef, per stone of 141b3. 7s. Od. . . 7s. Od. . . 7s. Od. Potatoes, per 3 bushels 5s. Od. . . 9s. Od. . . 16s. Od.

— 31. General Holiday at Rotherham.

. Independent : Circulation and advertisements : —

1844. 1845. 1846.

Circulation 138,394 161,129 174,40!)

Advertisements 5,044 5,967 6,15.3

CONTINUATION

OF THE

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1847.

Jan. 1. New Year's Day again kept as a public holiday.

. Mortality : Sheffield district, last quarter 1839, 769 ; 1840,

644 ; 1841, 644 ; 1842, 456 ; 1843, 546 ; 1844, 599 ; 1845,

527; 1846,805. . Junction tunnel between tlie Midland and the Sheffield and

Manchester stations opened.

— 2. Out-poor, Sheffield Union, £243 ; Ecclesall, £55.

— 3. Decease, aged 65, of Mr.. James Hall.

— 5. Average price of wheat at Slieffield, 67s. lOd.

. Sheffield and Eotherham Bank : Mr. W. Brown appointed ma- nager, vice Mr. Eichard Ramsey, resigned.

— 6. First meeting of the boai-d of dii-ectors of the Manchester and

Sheffield, Sheffield and Lincolnshire, and Sheffield and Grimsby Railway Companies, amalgamated as the Man- chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire. . Attempt to blow up Blackburn ^Vheel only partially successful.

— 8. Electric telegraph between Sheffield and Masbro' first put in

operation.

— 9. County Court at Sheffield to comprise the Superintendent-

Registrar's districts of Ecclesall Bierlow, Sheffield, and Wortley ; Eotherham Court, Rotherham.

— 10. Re-opening of the organ of St. Philip's Church.

. Rev. H. Denson Jones, B.A., chaplain of the Infirmary, ap- pointed perpetual curate of Heeley.

— 11. Limit of members of the Sheffield Club extended from 120

to 150. . Mr. John Eiley, tobacconist, Waingate, knocked down and

robbed on his way to his house. Occupation road. Died

on the 16th, from the injuries received. . Mr. Ward, M.P., arrived in town, and received a deputation

from the trades' imions. Mr. Parker, M.P., and Mr. Ward,

received a deputation from the Protestant Dissenters.

— 12. Meeting to re-orgauise Mechanics' Institution, so as to em-

brace an Athenaeum, and to promote the erection of a building, attended by Messrs. Parker and Ward. Sub- scriptions at the meeting, £1077.

— 13. Mr. Ward, M.P., addresses liis constituents at the Cutlers' Hall.

. Pictures of J. C. Simpson, which he had carried away to Ame- rica, and which were recovered by the mission of Mr. E. J. Cowley, to New York, sold by auction.

, Town Council authorised the employment of Messrs. Lee and

Haywood, to prepare a report on the sanatory state of the town.

— 14. Subscriptions commenced by the Friends for the relief of the

famine in Ireland. b

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1847.

Jan.14:. Bank of England raise rate of discount to 3§ per cent. News

of rise in tlie price of bread stuffs and cotton in the United

States, and exchanges in favour of the States. Predictions

that wheat would rise to 100s. per qr. Consols, 92g to 93.

— 16. Statement that the governorship of Ceylon had been offered

by Earl Grey, Colonial Secretary, to Mr. John Parker, M.P., but declined by him.

. Announcement of tlie death of Lord Barnai-d Fitzalan Howard,

tliird son of tlie Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, at Alexan- dria, on the 21st December.

— 19. Queen's speech, delivered tliis day, received by electric tele-

graph, and published about 8 p.m. at the Mercury office. Suspension of com and navigation laws, to facilitate im- portation of food, and the use of sugar in breweries and distilleries, recommended. Loss in the potato and oat crops, to Ireland alone, estimated at ^'16,000,000. . Decease at Tlirybergh, of Col. FuUerton, aged 68.

— 21. Bank of England raises rate of discounts to 4 per cent. Alarm

created by the hea^'y calls for railway construction and ad- verse exchanges.

— 22. Decease of Mr. Richard Ramsey, aged 57, late manager of tlis

Sheffield and Rotherham Bank. . Share Market : Loudon and North- Western, 191 to 193; Man- chester and Leeds, 107 to 109; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshu-e, 94 to 90.

— 24. Decease of Mr. Moses Evers, painter, aged 58.

— 26. Decease of Mr. W. Raven, watchmaker, Waingate.

— 28. Decease of the Rev. W. Stacey, vicar of Worksop, aged 89.

He had the living for 55 yeai-s.

. Meeting at the Town-Hall, to commence a subscription for the

mitigation of the Irish famine. It amounted to about £3680.

. Inquest on Mr. John Riley. The Jury, after several sittings,

returned a verdict of WUful Murder against some person or persons unknown. Wm. Challoner and James Bradley, ap- prehended on suspicion, had been dischai-ged by the Mu- gistrates.

— 29. Sheffield Banking Company's annual meeting, — dividend 12

per cent.

. New Roman Catholic church. Subscriptions amounting to

£'8000 announced, and resolution to proceed widi the building.

— 30. J. B. Aspinall, Esq., visits Sheffield, to collect evidence as :'o

the working of the Law of Marriage, pai-ticularly in render- ing null the marriage of a \vidower with the sister of his deceased wife.

. Successful operations at the Sheffield Infirmary, on patients

rendered insensible to pain by inhaling vapour of etlier.

. Decease, aged 06, of Mr. W. Groves, of the firm of Richard

Groves and Sons.

— 31. Decease of Mr. Edward Ingleby, Hanover squai-e, aged 05. Feb.'i. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 70s. 3d.

— 3. Sheffield and Rotherham Banking Company, — annual meeting,

10 per cent, dividend.

— 4. Decease at Marlbro', in Wiltshire, of Mr. Wm. Standficld, of

the firm of Standfield and Newbould.

SHEFFIELD LOCAL EEGISTEE. 435

1847. Feb. 5. Kev. E. Hall nominated by the clergy as chaplain to the In- firmary.

— 6. Lincolnshire wheat pui-chased for the French market at 72s.

— 8. Messrs. James Dixon and Sons, of Cornish place, arranged

with tlieir workmen to adopt tlie half day holiday, on Wed- nesday afternoons.

— 10. Works of the Sheffield and Lincolnshire, from Beighton to

Gainsborough, let, — £9000 within the Parliamentary esti- mates.

— 11. Destructive fire on the premises of Messrs. HorrabLa, of Red hill Works.

. Decease of Mr. W. Birtles, stone mason, aged 79.

— 15. BUI to relieve the Sheffield Canal Company of liability to re-

l^air Sheffield and Tinsley road, lost on second reading, by 43 to 38.

— 17. First general meeting of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin-

colnshire Company, at Manchester. In tlie appointment of directors, a list had been agreed ujion between the board and committees of shareholders formed at Manchester and Liverpool. Dividend 5 per cent.

— 18. Decease of Mr. Francis Marriott, aged 45.

— 24. Masters' and Workmen's Committee, ajipointed 21st October,

1846, after many meetings, closed tlieir sittings, by refer- ring it to the umpire, Mr. T. A. Wai'd, to decide whetlier they should recommend an application to Parliament for an enlargement of the act, 5 Geo. IV., c. 96. On 6th March, Mr. T. A. Ward communicated his decision that he could not recommend an application for the extension of that act, as the workmen were decidedly opposed to it.

— 27. Decease of Mr. John Woolhouse, Smith sti-eet, aged 72, —

tlie oldest grinder in Sheffield. Mar.l. Government loan of eight millions to provide for the famishing Irish, taken at 89§.

— 2. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 75s. 4d.

— 3. Prospectus of an Athenaeum, apart from the Athenaeum and

Mechanics' Institution.

— 5. Decease of Mr. Samuel Downend, aged 61, collector of as-

sessed taxes for 30 years, . Explosion at Oaks CoUiery, near Bamsley ; 73 lives lost.

— 6. Plan of a public building designed by Messrs. Flockton, Lee,

and Flockton, ijublished to furnish accommodation for pub- lic meetings and a variety of public purposes.

. Com purchased for France, at many markets on the eastern

coast.

— 9. Decease, at Highfield, of Mr. Samuel Collis Owtram, aged 78,

formerly of Bramley Hall, Eckington.

— 10. Silver inkstand presented to Mr. Joseph Hobson, of the firm

of Hobson and Son, scissor manufacturers, on the occasion of his retiring from business.

. Town Council resolved to petition Parliament in favour of a

national poor rate.

— 11. Grand Jury, at York Assizes, found a true bill against the

Sheffield Canal Company for non-repaii' of the Wicker road.

— 13. Decease, at Edinburgh, aged 72, of Mr. Chas. Barnes, of the

firm of Ashwortli and Barnes.

1\

436 SHEFFIELD LOCAl REGISTER.

1847. J/ar.l.3.Local Banks. — Sheffield and Retford. — (Ceased business.) — Established September, 1839; No. of partners, 85; paid-up capital, i'l.TjOOO ; price of shares, i£ll. 17s. Cd. ; paid-up per share, X'7. 10s. ; rate of dividend, 8 ; number of branches, 1 ; head oflBce, SbeflSeld ; branch, Eetford ; amount of issue, ^18,744. -S/i<:/^'e/</ rHiwi.— Established June, 1843; No. of partners, 75 ; paid up capital, ^£27,040 ; price of shares, £S. 10s. ; paid up per share, £'8. ; rate of dividend, 6 ; number of branches, 1 ; head office, Sheffield ; branch, Eet- ford ; amount of issue. Bank of England notes, £8122. Sheffield and Rotherham. — Established June, 1836; num- ber of partners, 240 ; paid up per share, £C : number of branches, 2 ; head office, Sheffield ; branches, Rotherham and Bakewell ; amount of issue, £o2,4!)C. Sheffield Bank- ing Company. — Established July 1, 1831 ; number of part- ners, 159 ; paid up capital, i'109,575 ; price of shares, £135 ; paid up per share, £75 ; rate of dividend, 10 ; num- ber of branches, 1 ; head office, Sheffield ; branch, Rother- ham ; amount of issue, £35,843. Sheffield and Hallam- shire. — Established May 20, 183C ; number of partners, 42C ; paid up capital, £125,425; price of shares, £'25 ; paid up per share, £25 ; rate of dividend, 5 ; where situate, Sheffield ; amount of issue, £23,524. — Banking Almanack.

— 14. Decease, at Newark, of Mr. Ebenezer Brookes, late of High-

field, aged 93.

— 15. Decease, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, of Mr. George Walker, aged

69, formerly of the firm of Lougden and Walker, Sheffield.

— 17. Directors of tlie Gas Company announce a reduction of price

to a scale varying from 4s. 7d. to 5s. lOd. per 1000 cubic feet.

— 18. Meeting of the inhabitants of Rotherham, resolved to petition

Parliament in favour of the Sheffield, Rotherham, and Don- caster railway. . Conierr.Ward, at Derby Assizes — verdict fortlie plaintiiF£2n().

— 20. John Platts found guilty, at Derby Assizes, of the murder of

Geo. CoUis, at Chesterfield. Executed 1st April.

— 23. Decease, at Skibbereen, aged 37, of Hugh, the youngest son of

Hugh Parker, Esq., late of Woodthorpe. Deceased ser%-ed in India in the 49th Regiment; in Ireland and Gibraltar, in the 23rd R. W. Fusileers ; and in Spain, as one of tlie aide- de-camps of Sir de Lacy Evans, and with the brevet rank of major in the Spanish service. In December, Major Par- ker entered tlie relief service in Ireland, and was appointed to superintend the Skibbereen station, where lie fell a victim to malignant fever.

— 23. Decease, at Watli, of Abraham Hanby, aged 80 ; many years a

saw manufacturer in Sheffield. . Contract for the Wicker viaduct of the Sheffield and Lincoln- shire, let to Miller and Blackie, to be completed April, 1848.

— 24. Decease of Mr. Farewell Harrison, of Hallam, aged 71. . Public fast and humiliation observed by order of the Govern- ment.

— 25. First stone of the new Roman Catholic Church of St. Marie,

laid by the Rev. Dr. Briggs, Vicar Apostolic in the nortlieni district.

SHEFFIELD LOCAL KEGISTEB. 437

1847.

Mar.2b. Farewell lecture of Frederick Douglas, who had escaped from American slavery, and having lectured in this country on the system, w£ts about to return to the United States.

. Sheffield Highway Board. — Wm. Fisher, jun., Henry Atkin,

Joshua WigfuU, Anthony Ward, Jer. Sellars, Chas. MUner, John Copley, John Harrop, Jolm Roberts, John Booth, M. Bright, George Hutton, Jas. Hoole, and John Newton.

— 20. Mr. Law re-elected house surgeon of the Infirmary.

— 27. Decease of Mr. Thomas Ball, Elephant Inn. Many years

coachman and guard of the Sheffield and Louth mail. . Sheffield Union: payments to out poor, j£250. Ecclesall

Union : out poor, £'120. . Mr. Eay, of London, elected organist of St. George's Church.

— 29. Decease of Mr. James Kent, aged 51, of the firm of Darwin

and Kent, Queen's Foundry.

. Mr. John Blackhurst, table-blade forger, who had distinguished

himself amongst his fellow workmen by his eloquence, left Sheffield for the United States.

— 30. Decease, at Liveiijool, aged 22, of Eobert, youngest son of Mr.

W. Fisher, merchant, Sheffield.

. Overseers: -SAe^'eZ^Z; Geo. Holden, John Lee, Edw. Hudson,

and Geo. Dawson. AttercUffe-cum-Darnall : James Foster and John Kitchen, Brightside Bierloiv : Francis Henry Chambers and Jas. Wall. Uj>per Hallam : Thos. Eussell and Wm. Stringer. Ecclesall Bierloiv: Wm. Briggs, Robt. Webster, Wm. Waterhouse Cutts, & Chas. Speight. Nether Hallam : Chas. Elliott, Samuel Peace, James Fish, and Jolm Blake. Rotherhani: Jno. Kerr and Jonas Moorhouse. Kimberivorth : Eichd. Ehodes and Geo. Brown.

— 31. After much previous agitation, a meeting was held in the Town

Hall, and by adjournment in Paradise square, to petition in favour of the minutes of the Committee of Coimcil on Education. Amendment moved by Mr. Edward Smith, de- claring that the measure was an endowment of all religions, that it would be unjust to those who objected to receive Government money for religion or education, that it was centralising, that it woukl increase the power of the Govern- ment and the clergy, and create servility in the people, &c., &c. After a discussion of about six hours, the meeting adopted the amendment, and a petition founded upon it by a large majority. AprilV. Sheffield Eegistration district — deaths in the first quarter 1839, G35 ; in 1840, 638; in 1841, G46; in 1842, 740; in 1843, ')S2 ; in 1844, 579 ; in 1845, 650; in 1846, 611 ; in 1847, 693.

— 5. Property and income tax — year's produce in Sheffield,

£14,525 ; Eotherham, £1220.

— 6. Decease ofW. Bennett Martin, Esq., ofWorsbro' Hall, aged 50.

— 7. Firstmeetingof the members of the Athenaeum, at their rooms,

in Norfolk street. . Decease, aged 80, of Mr. Anthony Branson, of Broad lane.

— 8. Bank of England raises rate of discount to 5 per cent. Great

pressure for money, and rapid rise in the price of grain. Continued decrease in the bullion and reserve of the Bank of England.

— 9. Guardians : Sheffield Union : Attercliffe : John Kitchen.

Briqhtside Bierloiv : Wm. Eagg, andWm. Barton. Hands- 3

438 SHEFFIELD LOCAI. REGISTEB.

1847.

worth: Wm. Habershon. Sheffield : Wm. Fisher, jun., Hy. Crawshaw, George Turton, Anthony \NTiitaker, Wm. JaiTis.j

Wm. Hoole, Thos. Gatley, Wm. A. Matthews Ecclesall'^

Union: Beauchief : George Sampson. Dore : Joseph; Hancock. Ecclesall Bierlow : Thos. Kawson Barker, hh Fumiss, Eobert Webster, Wm. Waterhouse Cutts. N:" Hallum: John Blake, Geo. Kouksley. Norton: Jai:, Veale, John Gillott. Totley : George Moiintford. T;; Hallam : Chas. Marsden.

^;?r/.10.Decease of Mr. Benjamin Trickett, of Lord Brook, near Br;ul field, aged 58.

. Very heavy Essex white wheat, sold for 115s. per qr. Avei

price at Sheffield, on the 11th, 90s. 7d.

. James Bradley and Wm.Challoner, who had been appreheutUa

in Januarj', for the murder of Mr. John Eiley, and dis- charged, were again apprehended. On tlie 11th, Geo. Brad- ley was also apprehended. On the 16th, Challoner was dis- , charged, and on the 19th, tlie Bradleys were committed to take their trial for the murder and robbery.

— 11. Decease, aged 57, of Mr. Wm. Stork, for 14 years secretarj' to

tlie Filesmiths' Union.

— 12. Meeting at Rotherham : amendment carried against themiuutes

of the Committee of Council on Education.

. The Eev. Joseph Wolff commenced a course of lectures before

the Literary and Philosophical Society, descriptive of his visit to Bokhara.

— 13. Sheffield Highway Accounts : collected, ^£7707 ; expended,

^£0390. Two sixpenny rates collected, making about X'bOOO; 25 miles of road repaired ; £900 saved by pitching Park road, which had been macadamised. . Decease of IMr. W. Machon, silver iilater, Norfolk St., aged 40,

— 14. Town Council petitioned in favour of tlie minutes of the Com-

mittee of Council on Education.

— 17. Decease of Mr. W. Parker, of Atterclifie, aged 80.

— 10. Dr. Nichol lectui'es before the Athenaeum and Mechanics' In-

stitution, on modem discoveries in astronomy. . Decease of Mr. Josepli Gamble, formerly an extensive carrier,

aged 57. • . Decease of Mr. Chas. Haberslion, formerly clerk of die Court

of Eequests. . Lord John Eussell presented the Sheffield petition in favour

of the minutes of tlie Committee of Council on Education,

signed by 5732 ; and on the 20th, Mr. Bright presented the

petition agreed to at the public meeting against tlie measure,

signed by 17,570.

— 20. The Rev. Jas. Appleton, M.A , of St. Neots, presented to the

vicarage of Worksop.

— 21. Rev. Geo. Harris, of Newcastle, lectures on capital punishments.

— 22. Decease, aged 50, of Francis Wright, Esq., of Revill Grange.

— 24. Consols 85} to 0 for money. First rate bUls 5 to 6 per cent.

discount.

— 20. In poor Sheffield Union, 543 against 321 last year; week's

payments to out poor, .£253. Ecclesall, in poor, 189 against 155 last year; payments to out jioor, ^£71.

SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISTER, 43'J

1847.

Aprl 26 The four dials of Eotberham Church clock illuminated with gas.

— 27. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 82s. 8d. Season cold and

late.

— 30. Continued monetary pressure. Consols 86J to f for money.

Exchequer biUs, 2s. to 6s. dis. May 3. Special meeting of the Town Council passed resolutions of confidence in Wilson Overend, Esq., as a Magistrate of the West- Hiding, in consequence of a public meeting having been called for a later hour of the day, to petition Parlia- ment for an enquiry into Mr. Overend's magisterial conduct. At the public meeting a petition was agreed to, representing that Mr. Overend had, in many cases, convicted workmen under the Combination Act, and nearly all his convictions, which had been appealed against, had been quashed. The petitioners prayed that the House of Commons would order a return of the number of convictions since 1842, specifying those quashed on appeal, and also for an enquiry into Mr. Overend's magisterial conduct. The petition, signed by 17,000 persons, was presented by Mr. Buncombe, on the 13th. The Town Trustees, Cutlers' Company, and Church Burgesses passed resolutions declaring their confidence in Mr. Overend.

— 4. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 87s. 3d. Great alarm,

owing to the certainty that the home and continental stocks of corn were very low, and the apprehension lest sufficient supplies should not be obtained from tlie Black Sea and the United States.

— 5. Inaugural lecture of the Athenaeum, by Mr. Charles Knight, of

London. Soiree on the following evening.

— 6. Consols 87i. Wheat 96s. per quarter.

. Sheffield,York, Leeds, Eipon, and Beverleyhaving competed for

the choice of the Royal Agricultural Society, for its exhibi- tion of 1848, York was selected.

— 7. Joseph Lord, committed to York nine months ago, for giving a

false account of the disposal of his property, having ap- pealed in vain to the higher Court, and to the Court of Ex- chequer, now applied again to the Bankrtiptcy Court, hav- ing filed a new balance sheet. The Court stiU considered his statement unsatisfactory, and recommitted him to York.

^ 12. Murder at Mirfleld, at mid-day, in his own house, of Mr. James Wraith, (aged 77,) his wife, and Caroline Ellis, his servarit. Michael M'Cabe and Patrick Eeid, two Irish, hawkers, apprehended on suspicion, and after many ex- aminations, committed on the 19th June for trial.

. General Purposes Committee report to tlie Town Council, tliat

it would not be advisable to treat with the Duke of Norfolk for the purchase of his manorial rights. An alteration suggested in the Mai-ketbill, to allow the sale of marketable articles in shops unconnected with houses, assented to by the agent of the Duke. Motion in the Council to erect a Museum of Art, under Mr. Ewart's bill, lost.

. The new County Court, at Sheffield, opened by William

Walker, Esq., the Judge ; Mr. W. Wake, and Mr. T.W. Eodgers, the deputy stewards of the late Sheffield and Ecclesall Courts, being appointed Clerks. b 3

440 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1847.

Mar/li. Return of the state of the Bank of England more favourable, and the monetary pressure temporarily diminished.

— 15. Decease at Genoa of Daniel O'Connell, aged 72.

— 17. In Mark lane, the whole supply cleared oif — best samples

English white wheat selling freely from 109s. to 110s. per qr. . Aged Female Society — receipts £iS7, expenditure X'30O.

— 18.' Average price of wheat at Sheffield, £'•"). 7s. 5d. ; oats, -lOs. ;

beans, 61s. id.; best household bread per 41bs., lid.; seconds, lOd. ; brown, 9d.

— 19. Sir. T. Duncombe's motion, for a return of convictions for

threatening and intimidation at Sheffield, in accordance with the petition presented on the 13th. The Government assented to the motion, Mr. Overend being desirous of the fullest enquiry. It was ordered that along with the return of convictions, tlie memorials presented in favour of Mr. Overend should also be printed. The return shewed ten convictions, including twenty-five persons ; one sentenced to two and the rest to three months' imprisonment ; one conviction was confirmed on appeal, and six out of the ten were quashed.

— 25. Average price of WTieat at Sheffield, 105s. 8d.

— 25. Yorkshire Union of Mechanics' Institutes held at Sheffield.

— 27. First sitting of the County Court, at Sheffield, to transact

business.

— 28. Fall in tlie com market, consequent on the change to fine

weather and the large importations. Fall in London on tlie 24tli, Os. to 7s. ; Wakefield, 28th, 10s. ; Consols, 87:^^ to f for money ; discounts more easy, at 5 to 5§ per cent.

. Susannah J agger, aged (JO, murdered on tlie Rotherham and

Rawmarsh turnpike road, near Aldwark bar, in the fore- noon, by Samuel Linley, in a fit of insanity, produced by drinking. He knocked her down and cut her throat, before tlie parties who saw it could get hold of him.

— 29. Sheffield Union — in-poor, 522 against 298 last year; out-

poor, £'316. EcclesaU, in-poor, 197 against 147 last year; out-payments, X'59. June 2. From the 1st to 15th May, wheat advanced 25s. per qr. This stopped exportation, and on tlie change to fine weather it fell fully two-thirds of the rise, though it is still dearer than at any period for nearly thirty years. — Sturge's Report. — Six weeks average, June 3 : 1023. wheat ; 56s. 6d. barley ; 36s. 3d. oats ; 73s. lOd. rye; 59s. lOd. beans ; 59s. 3d. peas.

— 3. Botanical Gardens — annual meeting — income, £786 ; expen-

diture, £'766.

— 5. Money easier, but Exchequer bills paying more than 4§ per

cent., not above par.

— 8. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 93s. 5d. Six weeks

average on the 10th, 99s. lOd.

— 9. Town Council. — Town Clerk laid do>vn tlie rule, that in busi-

ness which the Council must perform, members not voting must be taken to assent ; but where the matter is optional with tlie Council, neutrals are to be considered as dissent- ing. On tlie motion of Aid. Dunn, a bye-law was passed, inflicting a fine upon any member refusing to vote.

— 10. Mr. Saml. Roberts, jun., elected Town Trustee, vice Mr.

.lohu Rodgers, resigned.

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 441

1847.

I MaylO. Sheffield Markets' bill passed both Houses. Site of tlie new market, the Tontine Inn.

— 14. Athenaeum and Mechanics' Institution — ^plans of Mr. Geo.

Alexander, F.S.A., of London, for the new hall adopted.

— 15. Decease, aged 74, of Mr. Saml. Baker, of Howbrook, near

Wortley. Had been magistrates' clerk upwards of 30 years.

— 16. Decease of Mr. Wm. Skidmore, aged 82, formerly grocer,

Fargate.

— 17. Decease of Mr. Benj. Fenton, aged 63- Mr. Fenton had

made a fine collection of pictures and curiosities which, in accordance with his will, were sold by auction July 21.

. Decease of Mr. Wm. Batty, aged Gl. Had been constable of

Brightside Bierlow for twenty-two years.

— 18. Visitation of Archdeacon Creyke at Rotherham. Explained

to the clergy and churchwardens, how to get church rates for repair of chm-ches, according to the judgment of Lord Denman, in the Braintree case, though a majority of the parishioners might oppose them, and urged the duty of making rates.

— 19. Decease of John Frith, of Hathersage, aged 76 ; parish clerk

for forty-one years. . Many of the trades of the town had meetings, to hear explana- tions of the working and objects of the National Trades' Union, when several of them agreed to join.

— 20. Decease of the Eev. Edward Goodwin, aged 75. He suc-

ceeded his father, as one of the assistant ministers of the

pai-ish church, in 1817. r — 21. Joseph Rodgers and Sons v. Nowell and Sons, tried in the ■ Court of Common Pleas. Question: the right to strike the

I name Rodgers, with V. E. and crown. Verdict for the

* plamtiff; damages, 40s. Application of defendants for

new trial, Nov. 6, refused.

— 22. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 93s. 6d.. Bread per 41bs.

lOd. best ; 9d. seconds ; and 8d. brown. . Able-bodied pensioners assembled for drill.

— 25. Inspector Wakefield committed suicide by shooting himself

through the head. Domestic trouble was the cause assigned. He had been one of the most active members of the Shef- field police force for about eight years.

— 28. Sheffield v. Bradford and Dalton : Cricket match played at

Hyde Park. Sheffield, one innings, 154 ; Bradford and Dalton, two innings, 138. Return match at Bradford, July 12 : Bradford, 199 ; Sheffield 200, with 3 wickets to fall. . The Rev. Mr. Moseley, vicar of Rotherham, appointed chap- lain of the Rotherham Workhouse. Salary, ^£40 a-year.

— 29. Decease at Manchester, of the Rev. John Thoi-pe, son of the

late Rev. W. Thorpe, of Bristol, aged 50.

— 30. Sheffield v. Manchester : Cricket match at Manchester. Man-

chester, 240; Sheffield, 244, and four wickets to go down. . First stone of Trinity Church, Wicker district, laid. The

Church was founded by Misses Ann and Elizabeth Harrison. . Sheffield Fire Office — ten per cent, dividend. Mr. W. Brownell,

secretary for thirty-four years, resigned ; Mr. E. Jeffcock

appointed. . Decease at Leeds, of typhus fever, of the Rev. Joseph Curr,

aged 53, formerly of Sheffield.

4A2 8HEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1847.

July 1. Fete Champetre of the members of the Atlienaeum, at Whaia-

cliffe Lodge. . Sheffield Registration District: — Mortality of last quarter,

1839, Co'2 ; 18iO, 554 ; 1841, 528 ; 184'>, 485 ; 1843, 534 ;

1844,404; 1845,513; 1846,852; 1847,030.

— 2. London and North Western Shares, 182 to 184; Manchester

and Leeds, 102 to 104 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln- shire, 91 to 93 ; Midland, 130 to 132.

. Computation that the deficiency of the keep for stock is equal

to one year's consumption, and of cattle, fifteen months' consumption. Prices very high.

— . 3. A party of table-blade grinders held to bail, to appear at the Assizes, charged with a riot atSykes's wheel.

. Grand Duke Constantiue, of Kussia, and suite, visited Shef- field. Inspected the Cyclops works of Messrs. Johnson, Cammell, and Co., and the manufactory of Messrs. Joseph Rodgers and Sons,

— 5. Sheffield v. Burton-on-Trent : Cricket match at Hyde Park.

Burton-on-Trent, 215 ; Sheffield, 217, with six wickets to go down. Return match, July 19 : Sheffield, 170 ; Burton- on-Trent, 174.

. George Wilton Chambers, Esq., of the Clough, near Eotlier-

ham, qualified as amagisti-ate.

— 7. Farewell soiree, at the Music Hall, to the Rev. Jas. Caughey,

the American revivalist in the Wesleyan connexion. . Dispensary — annual meeting — patients, 2438; receipts and

exjjenditure, about .=£700. . Plan of proposed Licensed Victuallers' Asylum published.

— 13. Brilliant weather hastening on the harvest. Average price of

wheat at Sheffield, 71s. 7d. Bread per 41bs., best, 9d. ; seconds, 8d. ; brown, 7d.

— 14. Town Council meeting. — Borough fund for the half-year, £970,

thus assessed : Sheffield, £000 ; Ecclesall, £l54 ; Bright- side, £115; Upper Hallam, £17; Nether Hallam, £57; Attercliife, £31. The bye-law to fine members who refused to vote, was rescinded on the recommendation of Sir Geo. Grey.

. Indictment against tlie Canal Company, for not repairing i

the Sheffield and Tiusley road to a greater width than seven yards, tried at York. Special verdict, reserving the question of law for the liigher Court.

— 17. Alexander and Thomas Headicote and Henry Sykes, tried at

York, for rattening at the Union wheel. Sykes acquitted ; the Headicotes, three montlis' imprisonment.

— 18. Rev. Saml. Clarkson, of Spring hill college, becomes tln^

minister of Howard street Chapel.

— 20, Patrick Reid tried for the murder of James Wraith, M'Cabe

giving evidence — acquitted ; but detained till Winter Assize.

— 21. Court of Review decided that the receiver of the late Sauil.

Shore's estate, was entitled to prove, under the bankruptcy of Parker, Shore, and Co., for £05,000. 9s. lid.

— 22. James and George Bradley found not guilty of the murder of

Mr. Riley, but guilty of the robbery; fifteen yeais' transpor- tation.

— 23. Sheffield and Hallamshire Bank — eleventh aimual meeting —

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1847

dividend, 5 per cent. ; Slieffield union bank — fourth meet- ing— 6 per cent.

July23. Parliament prorogued, and dissolved on the 24tli.

. Samuel Linley tried for the murder of Susannah Jagger,

near Eotherham ; not guilty on the ground of insanity.

. Joseph Turner tried for forging a vn-it at Sheffield ; acquitted.

— 24. Town Trustees' accounts published ; receipts, £4824.

. Accounts for hghting and cleansing — rates, £4609 ; expen- diture—cleansing, £1109; lighting, £3007.

. Sheffield Union — iu-paupers, 473 against 327 last year; out- payments, £264. Ecclesall — ui-poor, 195 against 150 last year; out-payments, £54.

— 27. Grand Jury, at Derby Assizes, ignored the bill against Robert

Statham, butcher, Chesterfield, charged as an accomphee in the murder of George Collis. Anthony Launt tried as an accomplice in the murder and acquitted.

— 28. Sheffield Election — Nomination day. Mr. John Parker pro-

posed and seconded by Mr. Aid. Dunn and the Master Cutler ; Mr. Ward, by Mr. W. Fisher and Aid. Hall ; Mr. Thos. Clark, chai-tist, by Mr. Thos. Briggs and Mr. Isaac Ironside. The shew of hands declared iu favour of Mr. Clark and Mr. Ward. 29. Thepoll— Parker, 1125; Ward, 1110; Clark, 326.

-. Town Trustees — Mr. M. Ellison resigned. Mr. Thos. Porter 23 votes; Mr. Thos. Blake, 9. Mr. T. A. Ward, town collector for eighteen years, resigned. Mr. W. Butcher elected.

— . The Rev. Saml. Eamshaw, of Cambridge, the senior wrangler of his year, and first Smith's prizeman, a native of Shef- field, elected by the Church Burgesses one of the assistant ministers of the parish Church, vice the Rev. E. Goodwin, deceased.

— . Sheffield v. Manchester : Cricket match at Hyde Park. Shef- field one inning, 224; Manchester, two innings, 211.

— 30. Consols, SSf for money ; 88| for accoimt. Loans on securi-

ties, 6 per cent.

. Decease, aged 72, of Mr. Wm. Clarke, registrar of births and

deaths ; for many years one of the poor-rate collectors of Sheffield.

Aug. 2. Commencement of harvest in fine condition, the weather, since middle of May, having been remarkably favourable.

. Election of Improvement Commissioners : Messrs. I. Iron- side, T. Briggs, I. Schofield, Joseph Turner, S. Jackson, Lawton, R. Marsden, and R. Naylor elected.

— 3. James Yates, Esq., president of the Literary and Philosophical

Society, entertained the members at Norton Hall.

— 4. Meeting at Leeds of Liberal electors of the West Riding, re-

solved to nominate Mr. Cobden as a candidate against Mr. Denison, wlio had counted upon an unopposed re-electiou.

. The Hon. H. G. Cavendish and Mr. Evans re-elected for North

Derbyshire, without opposition.

. Upper Chapel, built in 1700, by the Presbyterians, under the

ministry of the Rev. Timothy Jollie, re-modelled. In 1715, the majority of the congregation declared in favour of Uni- tarian views, when the minority seceded, and built Nether Chapel. B 4

444 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1847.

Jiig.7. West Riding election : Lord Morpeth proposed and seconded by Mr. Wm. Milner, Nun Appleton, and Mr. Aid. T. Dunn ; Mr. E. B. Denison by the Hon. E.Lascelles and Mr. John Eaud ; Mr. Cobden, who was on his way to St. Petersburg,) by the Mayor of Leeds (Mr. T. Goodman,) and Mr. W. Kand. The show of hands for Lord Morpeth and Mr. Cobden. Mr. Lascelles, on behalf of Mr. Denison, de- clined to demand a poU. Immediately after the election, Mr. Denison received a letter from Earl Fitzwilliam, assur- ing him of his " cordial good wishes," and the " fullest possible support."

— 10. Commencement of a series of great failures in the com trade,

owing to the great fall in prices ; and followed by other faUures in the East India and West India trades.

— 10. Half-yearly meetmg of the Midland Company ; Dividend 7 per

cent, per annum.

— 11. Town Council meeting: Eesolution to enforce the law for the

sale of potatoes by weight.

. Mr. W. Lucas elected registrar of the north district, vice Mr.

W. Clarke, deceased.

— 1-2. Decease of Mr. Wm. Bingham, of Norton Woodseats. . Church rate meeting at Rotherham : Rate of X'2-56 granted.

— 13. Rotherham police meeting : Assessment, £288 ; expenditure,

£'•251.

— J 7. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, C8s. 7d. ; 41bs. bread,

best, 8d. ; seconds, 7d. ; brown, Cd.

— IH. Cutlers' Company: Mr. Henry Mort elected master for tlie

ensuing year ; Messrs. F. Fenny and H. Atkiu, wardens.

. Decease, aged 78, of Capt. Thos. Butler, of Brightside Bank.

. Decease, aged 80, of I^Fr. .Jonathan Woollen, of Crookes moor.

. Half-yearly meetmg of Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire

Company : Dividend ") per cent.

— 19. Meeting of Cemetery Comj^any : Interments during the year,

375 ; dividend, 10s. per share.

— 24. Reports of disease in the potato crop renewed.

— 25. Meeting of the Spring Knife trade to raise a subscription for

the Holytown miners. — A general meeting for the same pui-pose held in the Hall of Science, Sept. 0.

— 20. Members of Literary and Philosophical Society made im ex-

cursion to Roche Abbey.

Srpi.l. Sheffield Athenaeum and Mechanics' Institute: First stone laid by the Earl of Ai-undel and Surrey. In tlie eveuin;.', a soiree in the Music Hall; the Earl of Arundel and Surrey in the chair, supported by Lord Morpeth, Mr. John Parker, AI.P., Mr. John Abel Smith, M.P., Mr. James Heywood, M.P., Col. Thompson, M.P., Mr. George Thompson, M.P , Mr. E. Baines, jun., &c.

. Tlie weather, with very little exception, has been favourable

for the harvest, which, added to the numerous failures in the corn trade, has produced a reduction on wheat of 12s. to I'is. per qr. — Stiirtje's Report.

. Infirmary: Quarterly meeting. Some years ago, the institu- tion had funded property to the value of .£20,000. Suc- cessive sales, owing to a deficiency of income, had reduced it to il2,000, and there was now a debt to the bank ex- ceeding £2000.

SHEFFIELD LOCAL EEGISTEB. 440

1847. Se/j^.l. Improvement Commissioners: Lighting Committee report that the public lamps had been increased, since 1844, from 763 to 1030. Yearly cost, £4817.

— 2. School of Design: Annual meeting; Lord Morpeth in the chair, supported by the gentlemen named above and others.

-. Cutlers' Feast of H. Mort, Esq. : Principal guests. Earl Fitz- william, die Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Lord Morpeth, Lord Milton, Lord E. Howard, Mr. John Parker, M.P., Mr. H. G. Ward, M.P., Col. Thompson, M.P., Mr. James Hey- wood, M.P., Mr. J. A. Smith, M.P., Sir A. J. Knight, &c. 4. Sheffield Union : In-paupers, 504, against 340 last year ; out- poor, £249 : Ecclesall, in-paupers, 212, against 152 last year ; out-payments, £69.

-. Murder at Swiuton of Caleb Barker. A man named Garland had been apprehended at Sheffield for a burglary, and was suspected of the murder, but the Magistrates would not allow him to be taken before the Coroner's jxivj, who, on the 6th October, returned a verdict, attributing the failure of then- enquh-y to the interference of the Magistrates. Garland was committed for the burglary, there being no sufficient proof tliat he was the murderer. 6. Cricket Match at Hyde Park— 11 All England v. 18 Sheffield: All England, two innings, 135 ; Sheffield, 1st innings, 126 ; 2nd do., none out, 12 ; total, 138.

— 7. Average price of wheat, 55s. 9d. ; 41bs. bread, best, 6d. ; se-

conds, 5d.

— 11. Brewers announce that the reduced price of grain enabled

them to return to the old price of malt liquor, which, in consequence of the price of barley, was advanced last autumn 3s. per barrel.

. Thomas Morton injured in an affray with soldiers of the 40th

Eegiment, causing his death on the 30tli September. On the 2nd October, the Coroner's Juiy found a verdict of manslaughter against four soldiers. The Magistrates meantime were carrying on a separate enquiry, and on the 5th October committed two otlier soldiers, Pat Flannery, of the 40th Eegiment, and John Dal ton, of the 4th Dra- goons, for the manslaughter. These two were tried at the Winter Assizes, and acquitted. Agamst the others there was no prosecution.

— 14. Decease of Mr. Joseph Hobson, aged 75.

— 15. Forgery of notes of the Sheffield and Kotherham Bank dis-

covered. The forged notes put in circulation simultaneously in many of the surrounding towns. Forged Bank of Eng- land notes and of the Stourbridge Bank also discovered.

— 16, Decease, owing to an explosion in the Pilley lane pit, of Mr.

Joseph Beaumont, agent to Fields, Cooper, and Co., of Worsbro' Bridge Colliery.

. Destructive fire at the Pond street brewery, consuming the

malt store, part of the malting premises, and greatly da- maging the brewhouse.

— 17. Great alai-m caused by numerous failures of large mercantile

houses. Consols, 87i to % for money ; London and North Western shares, 158 to 162 ; Midland, 113 to 115; Man- chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 80 to 83.

iih SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1847.

<S'f;»/.22.Mr. J. T. Crawsbaw elected Registrar of the North District, vice Mr. W. Lucas, resigned.

— 23. Decease, aged 48, of Mr. Thomas Ellin, of the firm of Thos.

Ellin and Co.

— 29. Decease of Mr. Joseph Machon, sUver plater, aged 63.

— 30. Agitation at Manchester to check the excessive calls for the

making of railways, which made cajjital scarce for tlie or- dinary purposes of trade. Oct. I. Mortahty: Last quarter 1839, 047; 1840,674; 184L413;

1842, 601 ; 1843, 607 ; 1844, 493; 1845, 446 ; 1846, 1039;

and 1847, 661. . Messrs. Lee and Haywood's report on the Sanatory State of

Sheffield published. . Eevision of Burgess List. The names on the Burgess EoU

increased to 12,825. . Additional failures ; a panic in the commercial world ; Bank

of England refuses loans on Stock and Exchequer Bills

Consols, 85| money ; 85§ for account.

— 2. Decease, aged 73, of Mr. Wm. Froggatt, of Housley Hall.

The estate passes to tlie Hon. James S. Wortley, MJ"., by tlie bequest of a political ailmher.

— 4. Consols, 1^ per cent, difference between price for money and

for account of 14th October.

— 5. Clay wheel destroyed by au incendiarj* fire.

— 6. Fiftieth anniversary meeting of Infirmary : Resolved to appeal

to the public for an increase of funds.

— 8. Decease of Miss Wilson, postmistress of Rotherham for more

than 60 years, aged 86. . Gas Company : Dividend for half-year of 20s. per share.

— 9. Consols, 84| to 84 for money ; 84^ to i for account. Exclie-

quer Bills, 13s. to 8s. dis.

— 11. Return of Mr. Cobden to England, after more than twelve

montlis' absence on the Continent.

— 12. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 62s. Id. ; bread, 41bs.

best, 7d. ; seconds, Od. ; brown, 6d.

. Decease of Mr. Thomas Staniforth, of Hackeuthorpe, aged 62

. Decease of Mr. John Lupton, Greenhill Hall, aged 76.

— 13. Town Council adopt a memorial to tlie Home Secretary, for a

change in tlie system of fees at the County Court. Claim of the Peverel Court to jurisdiction in Sheffield, Rotherham, Ecclesfield,Wliiston, Haudswortli, and Treeton revived.

— 14. Decease, aged 67, of Mr. John Hanson, builder.

. From August 26 to 14th October, Consols fallen Oi ; Exche- quer Bills, 3s. prem. to 32s. dis.; London and North Western shares, 163§ to 140 ; Midhmd, 116^ to 102 ; Lan- cashire and Yorkshire (Miuichester and Leeds,) 96 to 79. Consols, for money, 80§ ; for account, 81^.

. Licensed Victuallers' Protection Society : Annual dinner ; tlie

Mayor in the chair.

— 16. Criminal statistics of the borough, compiled by the Chief

Constable : Persons in custody, 1845, 2221 males ; 335 females; 1846, 2514 males; 369 females.

Education of Prisoners. 1845. 1846.

Neither read nor write 932m. 203f. 1179m. 240f.

Read and write 1113m. 87f. 1223m 99f.

Reatl only 176m. 45f. 112m. 14f.

SHEFFIELD LOCAI EEGISTEB. 44?

1847.

Oet.22. Consols, 79| to | for money; 80§ to J for accoimt; Exche- quer Bills, 27s. to 32s. dis- Confidence completely de- stroyed; great imeasiness as to the position of the Bank of England; several banks suspended, and many great com- mercial houses.

23. Sheffield and Eotherham Bank issue a new note, more difficult to forge.

— 25. On the recommendation of the Government, the Bank of Eng- land resolved to grant accommodation at a minimum of 8 per cent., witliout regard to the restrictions of tlie Bank Act. This measure restored confidence, and tlie legal limits of the issues of the Bank were not overpassed.

-. A George Hudson, of Livei-pool, lays claim to the Dukedom of Devonshire, professmg to derive his claim from Mary, the only surviving child of a Duke of Devonshire, whom he calls " Eichard Garget, alias Cavendish, youngest son of the Duke of Norfolk."

27. Question of tlie working of women at file cutting settled by compromise.

— . Decease of Mr. Ebenezer Habershon, of Liverpool, aged 48, youngest son of the late Mr. M. Habershon, of the Holmes.

29, Consols Sl^ for account; 80J to 81 for Money.

30. Sheffield Union — in-paupers, 477^ against 337 last year; out- payments, £243 ; Ecclesall — in-paupers, 199, against 146 last year ; out-payments, £71.

Nov. 1. Municipal Elections — St. Peter's Ward: Geo. Dawson, 230 Jas. WooUey, 230 ; W. Fisher, jun., 222 ; H. Atkin, 218 St. Philip-s : G. A. Wood, 305 ; H. Payne, surgeon, 302 F. Hoole, 179 ; G. P. Naylor, 175. Park : T. R. Barker. 309 ; E. Eoper, 304 ; T. Tm-ner, 209 ; W. Cartledge, 199^ St. George's: W. Moulson, 269; W. Lawton, 257; H Payne, 214; C. Peace, 203; S. Mitchell, 137; W. D Wheeler, 128. Ecclesall : 1. Ironside, 592 ; R. Otley, 578 T. Gates, 506 ; R. Solly, 497. Brightside : A. Knowles 345 ; J. J. Eyre, 233 ; M. Hunter, 45. Nether Hallam J. Wigfall, 167; W. Sissons, 104. Upper Hallam: J. W Smith, 42 ; R. Thompson, 18. Attercliffe : J. Kitching 181 ; J. H. Appletou, 129.

Nov.2. Meeting on behalf of the Anti-State Church Society.

— 5. Death of the Archbishop of York, Edward Vernon Harcourt,

aged 90. Archbishop since 1807.

. Share Market — London and North Western, 150 to 153 ; Lan- cashire and Yorkshire, 71 to 73 ; Midland, 108 to 110.

. Consols for Money, 83 ; Account, 83|- to f ; Exchequer bills,

12 dis.

. Churchwardens of St. Philip's present an address to the Rev.

Mr. Livesey, thanking him for having laid aside the sur- l^lice, and resumed the academic gown in his pulpit minis- trations.

— 9. Town Council — Aid. E. Vickers and Mr. Isaac Ironside were

proposed as candidates for the mayoralty. Aid. Vickers elected by a large majority.

. Average of wheat at Sheffield, 62s. 4d. 41bs. bread, best, 7d.;

seconds, 6d. ; brown, 6d.

— 10. Workers' Educational Institute established at the Hall of

448 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1847.

A^ov.ll. Decease of the Eev. W. Bagshawe, M.A., of Banner Crosa, aged 84.

— 1-2. Decease of Mr. Benj. HoUins, biiilder, late of Sheffield.

— 1;3. Exchequer bills, having been as low as 35s. dis., reached par.

— 18. Meeting of Parliament.

— 20. County rate for Derbyshire revised. Increase from £912,374,

in 183(5, to £1,034,541. . Judges decide tliat the marriage of a widower with the sister

of his deceased wife is void.

. Savings' Bank: Deposits of the year, £49,540; payments to

depositors, £52,001.

— 22. Bank of England reduced the rate of discount to 7 per cent,

to 6 on the 2nd Dec, and to 5 on the 23rd Dec.

— 24. Writ of quo warranfo obtained in the Bail Court, calling on

Mr. Richard Otley to shew by what authority he claimed to be a Town Councillor for Ecclesall wai-d. Affidavits tliat Mr. Otley did not possess a legal qualification.

— 26. Railways — Parliament authorised tlie raising in 1844 of 18

millions; 1845, 69 millions; 1846, 124 millions; 1847, 38 millions.

— 29. Decease, aged 59, of Mr. Samuel Charles. He served in the

Royal Ai-tillery from 1806 to the close of the war ; and then was in the employ of Messrs. Jos. Rodgers and Sons for 25 years as a maker of fine cutlery. Dec. 1. Dr. Musgrave, Bishop of Hereford, elected Archbishop of York.

— 4. On this and two following days, three inches of rain fell — as

much as during the whole previous month.

— 6. Meeting to devise the best means of enabling Mr. Otley to

meet the quo warranto. Resolutions of confidence passed.

— 8. Town Council memorialise the Duke of Norfolk to put an

end to game iDreserving on his estates near die town. . Decease, at Hootou HaU, near Maltby, of Wm. Hoyle, Esq.

— 9. Decease, aged 67, of Mr. Wm. Brookes, of tlie firm of Wm.

Brookes and Sons.

. Decease, aged 59, of Mr. George Howson, of tlie firm of Thos.

Sansom and Sons.

— 10. Decease, aged 61, of Mr. Wm. Wilson, formerly of Pond st.

— 11. Severe Influenza very prevalent for several weeks.

— 14. Decease, aged 60, of Mr. John Fowler, Sheaf Foundry.

— 20. Patrick Reid and Michael M'Cabe tried for the murder, on the

12tli May, of Cai-oline Ellis, at Mu-field. On the 22nd, both found guilty and sentenced to death. It then appeared tliat Reid had confessed that he alone committed the three murders of Mr. and Mrs. Wraitli and Caroline Ellis.

— 21. Alex, and Thos. Heatlicote convicted of rattening at Kelham

Wheel, on the 29th Nov. Seven years' transportation.

— 23. Midland shares, 105 to 107 ; London and North Western, 145

to 147 ; Yorkshire and Lancashire, 72 to 74.

— 24. Tender for tlie mess-rooms and officers' quarters of the new

Barracks let to Messrs. Harrison and Hoyle, of Chester. Tenders from £17,000 to £24,000.

— 25. Decease, aged 77, of Mr. Benj. Rose, formerly of Angel street.

— 30. Decease, aged 52, of Mr. Philip Clayton.

ROBERT LEADER, JUN., PRINTER, BANK STREET, SHEFFIELD.

CONTINUATION

OF THK

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1848.

Jan. 1. Savings' Bank — received from depositors, £49,540; paid to depositors, it'-J;2,9(U ; balance invested, £207,093 ; number of depositors, 6989 ; societies depositing, 9o.

— 4. Average price of Wheat at Sheffield, 00s. 8d, ; best bread 7d.

per 41bs.

— 0. Forknuikers' union — Race v. Dakin — action in the County

Court on a promissory note, to recover money lent for the use of the trade. — Verdict for the plaiutiif.

— 8. Extraordinary mortality from typhus and influenza.

. Decease, at Woodlands, near Bury, aged 52, of John Faw-

cett, Esq., late of the firm of William Greaves and Sous, Sheaf Works.

. Sheffield Union : paupers in the house, 5C0, against 505

last year; out payments, A'285. Ecclesall Union: in the house, 2.21, against 159 last year; out-payments, £04, against £55 last year.

• — II. E. W. Emerson commences a course of lectures before the members of die Atheuoeum and Mechanics' Institute.

— 12. Town Council petitioned for the removal of the Jewish dis-

abilities, and the reduction of the duty on tea. In an- swer to a memorial to tlie Duke of Norfolk, praying that the game on his estates in the immediate neigh- bourhood of the tov.n, miglit be destroyed, Mr. Ellison stated that the game had been preserved at the instance of the tenantry, who had requested his Grace to sanction a continuance of tlie preservation, and he had complied with their request.

. Sudden decease of Mr. Jonathan Roebuck, aged 58, a mem- ber of the Town Council for BrigUtside Ward.

. Decease of Mr. Wm. Clifton, of the Spread Eagle.

— IG. George Marsden, blacksmith, of the Intake, found killed in

the Greenland hill pit.

— 18. Decease, aged 7 7, of Mr. Wm. Taylor, musician.

■ — 19. Election for Briglitside : Mr. Wm. Fisher, Jun., 410; Mr.

Wm. Cartledge, 200; majority, 156. . Sudden decease of Jolm Stanifortli, Esq., aged 54, law clerk

to the Church Burgesses, the Town Trustees, and the

Improvement Commissioners.

— 21. James Naijier, sharebroker, did not surrender in the Bank-

ruptcy Court, having absconded during December.

— 21. Medical Sanatory Association formed to co-operate witlx

the Healtli Committee of the Town Council.

— 22. Decease at Hooton Roberts, aged 78, of Joseph Hoyland,

quarter-master of the 2ud Sheffield troop of Yeomanry.

— 20. Presentation to Mr. 11. E. Hoole, of Green lane Works, of

his portrait by his workmen.

— 27. Public meeting, at the Friends' Meeting House, passed re-

solutions against the proposed increase of our military

450 SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISTEB.

1848.

estaWisliments and the calling out of the militia, — peti- tion signed by 13,900 persons.

JrtH.27. Meeting in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester: Mr. Cohden declai-edfor the reduction of our wai-like estublishnients.

.— . Mr. John J. Wheat elected law-clerk to tlie Church Bur- gesses, in place of the late Mr. Staniforth.

OR. Sheffield Banking Company divided lOj per cent.

•)'.). Decease of ^Ir. Johsi Jackson, of Canklow Mills, aged 58.

Feh.l. Decease of Miss Bailey, of Burngreave.

. Sentence on Michael M'Cabe, convicted of the Mirfield

niurdevs, commuted to transportation for life.

. Puhlic meeting to form a Health of Towns' Association.

^. A similar meeting held at Eotherham.

. Mr. James Sorby elected clerk to the Improvement Com- missioners, vice the late Mr. Staniforth.

3. Mr. Henry Vickers elected law- clerk to the Town Trustees,

in the room of the late Mr. Staniforth.

. Enquiry at the Council Hall, before the Admiralty Com- missioner, into the proposal of the Eiver Dun Company to extend their navigation to Sheffield.

8. Tnll of a moveable crane and part of the scaffolding of tlie

Wicker Viaduct ; four men killed.

n. Town Council memorialised the Home Secretary respect- ing the Peverel Court. Employment of the able-bodied poor at hand flour mills discussed.

. Committee appointed to watch the Canal Purchase Bill.

. . Jleeting at the Cutlers" Hall, in favour of the Anti-State

Church Association, addressed by Edward Miall, Esq., and the Rev. C. Stovel.

Decease, at the Workhouse, of Silly Luke.

— 12. Petition for the abolition of capitid punishment received

0500 signatures.

— IG. Half-yearly meeting of the ^lanchester, SheflBeld, and Lin-

colnshire Compavjv, held at Manchester. Dividend of live per cent.

— 18. Lord John Ihissell proposed an increase of the army and

navy estimates, the organization of the militia, and the increase of the income tax to five per cent. — '22. Breakijig out of the French revolution.

— 24. Memorial to the borough Blerabers to resist or to oppose

the increase of taxation, and of our warlike expenditure, signed by '.i20(j electors.

— 25. Decease, at Clough Bank, of y\r. W. Hall, aged CO.

— 28. Meeting of River Dun Company, at Sheffield, adopted a bill

to obtain an extension of their navigation to the town.

— 20. Opening of the Is'cw Holland branch of the Manchester,

Sheflicld and Lincolnshire to Grimsby. . Mr. Parker and Mr. Ward acknowledge the receipt of the

memorial, stating that the Ministry had abandoned the

proposed increase of the income tax. il/ar.l.John Driiry, the secretary, nnd Wm. Marsden, T. Bulloss,

and Wm. Hidl, members of the committee of the razor

grinders' nuion, committed to York, charged with having

employed .Mexander and Thomas lleatheote to destroy

the property of Peter firadshaw.

SHEFFIELD LOCAL EEGISTEB. 451

1848.

3far.S. Arrival of Louis Philippe in England.

— 5. Decease of Mr. John Hague, late of Malin Bridge, agedCG.

— 6. Decease of Mr. Jph. Eose, aged 77, late of Mosbro' Jloor.

— 8. Decease of Mr. John Brookliouse, of Fargate, aged 58. . Michael Ellison, Esq., conimunicnted to the Town Council,

that the Duke of Norfolk would alter the days for hold- ing the Sheffield fairs, as suggested by the Council, to the Tuesday and Wednesday in Whitsun week, and the last Tuesday and Wednesday in the month of November. TJie Town Council instructed the Mayor to recommend to the Guardians of tlie Poor the establishment of in- dustrial schools. A resolutiou passed by the Council approving the declaration of Lord John Eussell, that the Government would not interfere with the internal affairs of the people of France.

— 9. Decease of Mr. Joseph Beckett, secretary to the Union

Wheel Company.

— 10. Partial riots in London, Lancashire, and Scotland.

. The Guardians of Sheffield resolve to build an industrial

school for oOO children. . Meeting in Paradise square, to vote a congratulatory address

to the people of France, which Mr. Ironside undertook

to present in jievson.

— 13. Thomns Gough tried at Nottingham Assizes, for uttering a

forged note of the Sheffield and Kotherham Bank. — Not Guilty.

— 14. Average price of wh.eat at SheiSehl, -jAs. 5d. . Eevolution at Vienna.

— 15. Towii Council adopt a memorial to Lord Moi-peth, depre-

cating the centralizing powers of the Public Health bill.

— 18. Eevolution at Berlin, and Aiistrians driven out of Milan.

— 20. Meeting in Paradise square, to " take measures for im-

mediately obtaining the rights of the people so long withheld." A memorial to the Queen adopted, praying^ for the People's Charter.

— 22. John Chattsitou and ten others convicted at York Assizes^

of a riot at Syke's Wheel. To be imprisoned till the 25th, and enter into recognizances to keep the peace.

. Drury, Bulloss, Hall, and Marsden, committed on the 1st

of March, fuund guilty, and sentenced by Baron Eolfe to ten years' transportation. When the Assizes had termi- nated, it was discovered that the legal sentence was not more than seven years, and, some weeks after, the Go- vernment commuted the sentence to that term.

— 23. Decease of the Eev. Thomas Morgan, Primitive Methodist

Minister.

— 28. Eegistration fee for letters reduced to sixpence.

— 31. Mr. Heniy Vincent lectures on the History of Oliver

Cromwell. . Overseers : — Sheffield : Messrs. George Dawson, E. Hud- son, Wm. Ibbotson Horn, and Geo D. Wreaks. Ec- clesall Bierlow : Messrs. Chas. Speight, John Algor, Thos. Binney Loukes, and Aaron Allott. Brightside Bierlow : Messrs. Josepli Shaw and Thomas Jessop. Attercliffe : Messrs. John Cuunt and William Makin.

4-J'2 SHEFFIELD I-OCAf. BEGISTEB.

1848. Nether Hallam : Messrs. Hatfield, Atkiu, Copley, and Wild. Tapper Hallam : Mr. TIios. Russell and Mr. Joseph Chadwick. Haudsworth : Messrs. John Hibberd and James Foster. Ecclesfield : Messrs. Greaves, Par- kin, Denton, and Bedford, llotherbam : Messrs. W. D)-son and Jas. Goodwin.

.l/ar.Ol.Deatlis in the Sheffield registration district, for this quarter, 8y0 ; being 1J.0 above the highest number in any pre • vious year.

Aprilo. The Ramoneur Association coramences operations in Shelfield.

— 4. Sittings of the Chartist Convention in London — Project

for earning their petition to Parliament by a large pro- cession, prohibited by iiroclamation on the 0th.

— C. Crown and Government security bill proi^osed by Sir G.

Grey. . Decease of ]Mr. Jos. Ashberry. spring knife manufacturer.

— 10. Extraordinary measures for the defence of the city of

London, and great alarm tlu-oughout the country.

. Mr. S. Gregory elected surgeon to the Iniirmary — vice Mr.

Thomas resigned.

. Meeting at the Circus passed a resolution calling upon

the borough members to resign their seats. It was signed by 1000 electors.

' — 12. Town Council. Standing order adopted, giving power to the Mayor to take the sunse of the Council, without discussion, on the question whether any business, which he considered objectionable, should be proceeded with; a majoi-ity of three fourths being required to quash any motion in this manner. Mr.Briggs moved a memorial to the Queen to dismiss her ministers, and form a Go- ■vemment in favour of the People's Charter — negatived.

— 13. Half-yearly meeting of the Slieflield Gas Company — dis-

pute with the Highway Board as to the removal of pipes.

Dividends, 20s. per share. . Chartist's petition, which was said to have received

f), 700,000 signatures, found, on examination, to have

only l,!)7r),400, and many of these fictitious. Mr.

O'Connor abandoned bis motion founded upon the

petition.

13. Decease of Mr. Joshua Spooner, Hallam gate, aged 80.

— it. Inmates of Slieftield Workhouse increased from 004, on

tlie 1st April, to S23. File trade much depressed, and many of the members apply.

— \'>. Shelfield Highway accounts — rates collected, £5451 ; ex-

penditure, 7H27. . Disclosure that " the TIon.&Eev. B. C. F. Douglas," alias

" Fairfax," for a short time curate of Kawniarsh, had

disappeared after victimising many persons in the

neigiibourhood. . Guardians for the Sheffield Union : AtterclifTe— J. Kitch-

ing; Brightside — ^Nlv-ssrs. T. Blake and W. Barton;

Handsworth — M. Habershon ; Sheffield — Messrs. W. A.

Mathews, G. Tucker, J. Lcnnard, G. Turton, C. Peace,

W. F. Di.\()u, A. Booth, and W. Cartledge.

SHEFFIELD LOCAL EEGISTER. 453

.1848. ^pZ. 15. Guardians for the Ecclesall Bierlow Union: Ecclesall — IMessrs. T. E. Barker, 'William Butcher, J. Eyre, and C. Speight; Nether Hallam — Messrs. G. Eonksley and II. Jubh ; Upper Hallam — Mr. C. Marsden ; Norton — Messrs. T. B. Holy and J. Veale ; Core — Mr. 11. Un- ■win; Totley — Mr. J. Wood; Beauchief — Mr. G. Sampson.

— 17. Mr. Thos. Briggs nnd Mr. T. Clark appointed at a meet-

ing, in Paradise square, to attend tlie Chartist National Assembly in London.

— 18. Decease of Mr. H. V. Bartlett, dentist, aged 61.

— I'J. The filesmith's union resolved to maintain their hands who

had applied to the parish. During six months, they had paid to their unemployed workmen £4000. The edge- tool grinders take a farm at Wincohank to employ their surplus hands, in imitation of the Britannia metal smiths and file-hardeners.

— 21. Chartist meetings and lectures in Sheffield & Eotherhara.

— 22. Decease of Mr. Joseph Lee, formerly of Sharrow vale,

aged 53.

— 25. Decease of Mr. .John Needham, Bridge Inn, aged -35.

— 20. Mr. H. J. Hunter elected surgeon of the Dispensary, vice

Mr. S. Gregory. . Court Leet dinner.

— 27. Decease of Mr. W. E. Bayliffe, ironmonger, Eotherham. Mai/ 1. Presentation to Captain Vincent Corbett of a silver cup,

and to Lieut. John JeiFcock and Cornet Ellison of handsome swords, by the non-commissioned officers and privates of the A troop of the West-Eiding Yeomanry. ,

— 3. Decease, aged 04, of Mr. W. Earnshaw, draper, Eotherham.

— 4. Decease of Mr. Thos. Wliitehead, of Highfield.

— 8. First stone of the church at the Shefiield Cemetery laid by

the Eev. Dr. Sutton, the vicar.

— 10. Chartist meeting in Paradise square to consider how

£10,000 could be raised for the Chartist National As- sembly in Loudon.

. Mr. Thos. Gates admitted as a member of the Town

Council for Ecclesall Ward, by a mandamus from the Court of Queens Bench, Mr. Otley having been [un- seated by a writ of quo warranto for want of tlie legal qualiScation.

. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Maugham, of Angel street, killed by

being thrown from their gig.

— 11. Town Trustees' accounts — Income, £1906 ; property pur-

chased for improvements, £3848.

. Arrangements made for the purchase, by the Eiver Dun

Company, of the Sheffield Canal from the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Company.

— 13. Criminal statistics of the borough published for 1845, '6,

and '7. Taken into custody— 1845, 2556 ; 1840,2873; 1847, 2580.

— 14. Decease of Mr. J. Eobinson, surgeon, Eotherham, aged 76

— 15. Aged Female Society — Persons visited, 437 ; receipts,

£318; payments, £3l8. a 2

404 SHEIFIELD LOCAL EEGISTEB.

1848.

Mayll. First stone of the Lireused Victuallers' Asylum at Bright- side, luid by Kobert Bentley, Esq.

— IS. Sleeting of persons who Lsid signed the declaration in fa-

vour of the extension of the suffrage, vote by ballot, electoral districts, and shorter parliaments. The com- mittee instructed to write to the borough members to ascertain if they would support Mr. Hume's motion for parliamentary reform. The members replied on the 22d in the negative.

— 20. Inmates of Ecclesall Workhouse, 275, against 196 last

year; out paynrents, i'Cfi, against £'62 last year. ^- 21. The Unitarian cliapel, Norfolk street, re-opened after hav- ing been almost entirely rebiiilt.

— 20. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, ."Jls. 8d.

— 20. Decease of Mr. A. Eenton, Change alley, aged 42.

— 2!). Sudden decease of Jlr. W. F. Fairbank, aged 43.

— 30. Mr. Ironside gave an account of his mission to Paris to

present the address, of the lOtli of Mai-ch, to the Presi- dent of the National Assembly. June 3. Decease of Mr. G. T. Lief, Clmrch street, aged 6.").

— •). Botanical Gardens — annual meeting — Income, ^£795 ; ex-

penditure, X'798.

— 6. Apprehension of various leaders of the Chartists in dif-

ferent pr.rtsof the country on charges of conspiracy, &c. Many of them convicted on the evidence of confederates.

— 7. Answers of the borough members declining to comply

with tlie requisition transmitted 31st May, requesting their resignation.

— 7. Cricket: Sheffield r. JManchester— Sheffield, first innings,

8; second, 88; Manchester, first, 100; second, 87.

— 14. First stone of St. Jnde's churcli, Eldon street district, laid

by Geo. Younge, Esq.

— 19. Soiree of the first Co-operative Land and Building So-

ciety held at Upperthorpe on ground they had purchased, and divided into 32 allotments of one rood each.

. A petition from the electors of Sheffield in favour of a

very large extension of the suffrage, secret voting, the repeal of the septennial act, and a more equal appor- tionment of members to the population of the country, signed by 2200 electors. A number of family petitions ■were also sent.

— 20. Decease, aged 41 years, of Mr. Thos. Briggs, member of

the Town Council for Brightside ward, from disease of the brain brought on by political excitement and anxiety.

— 24. Project for erecting a new post-office at the liead of the

Shambles. Weekly average of letters delivered in Shef- field post office increased from 0848, in 18:}!), old rate of postage, to 33,73r) in 1847, penny postage. Post- office orders issued in 1827, £280. 7s. 4d. ; 1847, .i'52,190. 2s. 8d.; orders paid, 1827, i;012. 12s. 2d.; 1847, £09,842. 14s. r)d.

— 28. Brightside ward election— Mr. Geo. Wall, 310 ; Mr. W.

Cartledge, 221 ; majority, O.'i.

— 30. Sudden decease, in Loudon, from inhaling chloroform o

Mr. Walter S. Badger, of Kotberhom ,.aged 23

SHEFFIELD LOCAL KEGI3TER. 4^5

1848. Juhj '6. Cricket: Sheffield v. Nottingham — Nottingham, iirst m nings, 145; second, 52. Sheffield, first innings, 134 second, 04, with six wickets to go down.

— 5. Dispensary meeting — patients during the year, 0056,

nearly double former years. Receipts, £957.

— 0. Copy-right of the Sheffield Iris sold to Mr. W. Willott.

— «. Decease, aged 54, of Mr. John Stephenson, railway con-

tractor. He was the contractor for the Sheffield and Eotherham and great part of the Midland lines.

— 10. First stone of the farm buildings on a piece of land for

the employment of the able poor of the Sheffield Union, at Hollow Meadows, laid by Wilson Overend, Esq.

. Exhibition of the Royal Agricultural Show at York.

. Cricket : Sheffield v. Manchester — Sheffield, first innings.

144 ; second, 94. Manchester, first innings, 78 ; se- cond, 101, with four wickets to go down.

— 13. Decease of Mr. John Holland, Sheffield Park, aged 81.

— 19. Union Bank : Dividend, G per cent.

. Various disturbances on the moors, in consequence of

interference with the bilberry getters.

— 21. Indictment of the township of Brightside Bierlow on ac-

count of the Wicker road, tried at York. Decision that the township was liable to repair ; and jDending the de- cision of the indictment of the township against the Canal Company, it was arranged that some temporai-y repairs should be made. . ShelGeld and Hallamshire Bank : Dividend, 5 per cent.

— 24. Decease, at Park Grange, of Sanil. Roberts, Esq., aged 85.

— 31. Decease of JMr. A. F. Hammond, manager of the Sheffield

Banking Company, aged 37. Aiig.2. Decease of Mr. W. Marsden, late of Millsands, aged 70.

— 3. Decease of Edward Baines, Esq., of Leeds, aged 74.

— 8. Heeley Church consecrated by the Archbishop of York.

— 9. Town Council memorialised the Queen to grant a borougli

Commission of the Peace. . Half yearly meeting of the Sheffield, Manchester, and Lin- colnshire Company : Dividend 5 per cent.

— 12. Decease, at Chesterfield, of George Stephenson, Esq., the

eminent railway engineer, aged 07.

— 14. Chartist commotions in London, Lancashire, Bradford, &c. . Cricket: Sheffield i>. York— York, 1st in., 159, 2nd, 94;

Sheffield, only one hmings, 109.

. Alarm for the potato crop, which decayed to a great extent.

. Excursion of the Literary and Philosophical Society to

Castleton. . Writ of error granted in the case of Drury, Marsden, Hall,

and Bulloss.

— 10. Ecclesall Ward: Mr. S. Pearson, 712 ; Mr. S. S. Brittain,

619, — to supply the place of Mr. W. Atkinson.

— 17. Cricket: Nottingham ?;. Sheffield, return match: Notting-

ham, 1st in., 30 ; 2ud, 71— Sheffield, 1st, 111 ; 2nd, 81,

— 21," Decease, at Montaigne de la Cour, Belgium, of Mr. Wm.

Todd, aged 75. Mr. Todd commenced the Sheffield Mercury, in March, 1807; was appointed postmaster in 1815 ; and left the country in 1826,

45G SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1848. Aug.'li^. Death of Jlr. Joseph Hudson, parish clerk, aged o5, having

been parish clerk for 33 years. Succeeded by John Kirk. . Destruction by fire of the Ocean Monarch emigrant ship ;

219 persons saved, 177 lost ; in each class were several

persons from Sheffield.

— 26. Keport of a Committee of the Highway Board on the size,

number of interments, and want of drainage of the Sheffield grave-yards.

— 28. Cricket: IG of Sheffield r. 11 All England— Sheffield, 1st

in., 118 ; 2nd, 77— All England, Isl, ")8 ; 2nd, 82.

. Decease of Mr. Archibald Wilson, wood steward to tlie

Duke of Norfolk.

— oO. Decease of Mr.^Iaurice Bright, jeweller, Market pi., aged 51. Scpt.3. Decease, at Guernsey, aged OS, of the Kev. Benj. Hobson,

originally of Sheffield.

— 7. Cutlers' Feast : F. Feimey, Esq., Master Cutler : principal

guests, tlie Duke of Newcastle, the Earl of Yarborough, Lord Wharnclille, Lord V.. Howard, M.P., John Parker, Esq., M.P., H.O. Ward, Esq., M.P., Lord Clinton, &c.

. St. Peter's Ward : Dr. Cordeu ThomiJson elected, vice Mr.

M. Bright, deceased.

. School of Design : Annual meeting — Lord Vrhamcliffe

presided.

— 12. Decease of Mr. Wm. Cowley, aged 76.

— 13. Town Council : The Mayor announced that the Home

Secretary had communicated to him that the memorial in favour of a borough commission would be complied with. Kcsolution carried, requesting the overseers of the townships to consider the principle of rating, with a view to render it equal throughout the borough.

Decease of Mr. W. Burgin, late of the firm of W.& J. Burgin.

, Property for widening Snighill purchased by the Town

Trustees for i'3071.

— 15. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke of Wel-

lington, &c., arrived at Chatsworth, on a visit to the Duke of Devonshire.

— 21. Sudden death of Lord George Bentinck, M.P., aged 4fi.

— 20. Last publication of the SlicJ/ield Irix. It was commenced

by ]\[r. .lames Montgomery, in July, 17!)4, succeeding Ga.\ess ShcJJieltt liegisfer, -which had been commenced in 1787. . Decease of Mr. Thomas Ward, farmer, Sheffield Park.

— 27. Thomas Whitehead, a quack doctor, committed to York,

on a charge of manslunghter, in having caused the death of George Taylor by nialtreatmeiit. On the 18th December, he was found guilty, and sentenced to one year's imprisonment.

— 30. Fall of twenty one arches of the Bother viaduct of the

Manchester, Sheffield, &Lincolnsliire, killing three men.

— 30. The sentence of seven yeare' transportation, passed, at the

winter assizes, on Alexander and Thomas llealhcote, commuted to eighteen months' imprisonment. It was on their evidence that John Drury and others were con- victed at the Lent assizes.

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. io7

1848. Oct. 0. Average price of wlieat at SbefSelcl, ois. 7J. The seasoii unusually wet.

— 4. Fall of an arch in the Slieffield viaduct of the Manchester,

Sheffield, and Lincolnshire. . Mr. J. H. Barber appointed manager of the Sheffield Bank- ing Company, vice the late Mr. Hammond ; Mr.W. Wild succeeding Mr. Barber as sub-manngei\

— 7. Decease of the Earl of Carlisle, aged 7a.

— U. W. S. O'Brien found guilty of liigh treason in the Irish

insurrection, and sentenced to death.

— 13. Trinity Chiircli, Wicker, consecrated by Archbishop of York, . Gas Company : Hulf-year's dividend, UOs. per share.

— 14. New valuation for the county rate : Valuatii-n of Upper

Straflbrth and Tickliill raised from £004,724 to £'57.i,8C4. . Eemoval from Sheffield to Manchester of the office for the

Eastern section of the Manchester, Shef. & Lincolnshire. . Last publication of the Slieffield Mercury. It was first

publish.ed by Mr. W. Todd, in March, 1807 ; sold to

Mr. G. liidge in 18:26 ; now sold to Mr. W. Willott, and

extinguished.

— 10. Meeting to re-organise the People's College as a self-go-

verning and self-supporting institution.

— 17. The Hon. Charles W. W. Fitzwilliam invited by a meeting

of electors at Normanton, Lord Milton in the chair, to- become a candidate for the West-Riding, if in favour of free trade, economical reforo), a safe and gradual exten- sion of the suffrage, and opposed to any further endow- ment of religion by the state.

— 21. Borough Treasurer's Accounts: Keceipts, .£5114 ; cost of

police force, £4475 ; election expenses, ^220 ; salaries, £300: miscellaneous expenses, £-471.

— 24. The lion. C. W. Fitzwilliam issues his address, announc-

ing no political principles.

— 25. Special meeting of the Town Council : the Lord Chancel-

lor having applied for a list of persons eligible to be appointed borough magistrates, a list was given in by each member of the Council, from which the Mayor was instructed to select and send up a list to the Lord Chancellor.

— 30. Mr. Jonathan Wood, of Mill sands, killed by being throwtt

from his gig, at Bolsover hill. Nov.l. Municinal Elections : St. Peter's Ward — H. Atkin, 334 C. Peace, 324; W.Wilson, 97; H. Hills, lOG. St. Philip's Wai-d— N. R. Ilolman, 319 ; J. Dickinson," 299 ; J. H. Crawshaw, 251; J. Parkin, 233; J. J. Robinson, 20. Park Ward — George Walker and Joseph Woodcock, unopposed. St. George's Ward — E. Thompson, 313 ; S. Dewsnap, 312; S. Mitchell, 288 ; T. Lofthouse, 283. Ecelesall Ward— Isaac Schofield, 1240; Johu Belcher. 1105 ; S. S. Biittain, 1013 ; E. TJnwin, G4G. Brightside Ward — William Fisher, Jun., without oppo- sition. Upper Hallam Ward— G. Tucker, 55 ; T. W. Eodgers, 45; Geo. Buxton, 22. Nether Hallam-— T. Turner, 131; F. Godwin, 55. Atlercliffe — Samuel Jackson, without opposition.

458 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1848. Xov.S. Meeting of West-Eidiiig delegates at Wakefield: Resolved, that as Mr. Fitzwilliara's address did not recognise tlie principles of the Korninnton resolution of the 17th October, tlie meeting could not support him.

— 4. Meeting of Mi-. Fitzwilliam's friends at Normanton, where

he was informed- that his address was not satisfactory, and undertook to issue a more explicit declaration of his opinions.

— 7. Decease of Win. Batty, Esq., aged 87.

. Decease of ^fr. .John Smith, Knowle House, aged CO.

• — 8. Meeting of West Riding electors at Sheffield, declared its adhesion to the Normanton resolution of the 17th Oct., that Mr. Fitzwilliani was not entitled to their support; and appointed delegates to another meeting at Wake- field.

— 9. Thomas Rawson Barker, Esq., elected Mayor.

— 10. Second meeting of West-Eidiug electors at Wakefield, re-

solved that j\[r. Fitzwilliam's second address was un- satisfactory ; and a deputation appointed to inform him of the strong manifestation of opinion against his nomi- nation, and to suggest the propriety of his retiring in favour of a candidate who could avow the principles of the Normanton resolution.

— 17. Another meeting of delegates at Normanton, to whom it

was rei)orted that Jlr. Fitzwilliani had declined to re- tire, and it appeared that the meeting was not prepared to nominate another candidate.

— 20. Decease at Worksop, aged 02, of H. S. Wake, Esq.

— 21. Meeting of West-Riding electors in the Council Hall : ap-

pointed a deputation to attend a meeting of delegates at Normanton, on the '-i'intl, to promote the nomination of Mr. Roebuck in opposition to the Hon. C. Fitzwilliani.

— 21. The Hon. C. Fitzwilliam commences liis canvass at Leeds.

— 22. The Hon. C. Fitzwilliani withdraws, in consequence of the

hostility shewn to him at Leeds Meeting of delegates atNormantou, resolve by a majority of 17 to 11, to no- nate Sir Culling Eardley Eardley.

— 23. Sir C. E. Eardley issues his address, declaring for all the

principles of the Normanton resolution, andfor the ballot.

— 24. Decease at Oulton, aged 44, of Henry Bentley, Esq., bro-

tlier of R. Bentley, Esq., of Rotherham. ' Mr. Samuel Osborne HabcrshoJi obtains the degree of

B.M. in the London University ; a gold medal and university scholarship in physiology and comparative anatomy ; and a gold medal and equal scholarship, with honorary certificate, in surgery.

— 25. Meeting of Tories and Whigs at Normanton, request

Edmund Denison, Esq., to become a candidate.

— 20. Sir Culling E. Eardley commences his canvass at Leeds.

The shew of hands in his favour.

— 27. Rfr. Denison issues his address. The white flag adopted. . Sir C. E. Eardley visits Sheffield and Rotherham.

— 28. Decease of Mr .Jumes Wild, formerly merchant of Shef-

field, aged 87. . Mr. Denison commences his canvass at Leeds.

SHEFFIELE LOCAL REGISTER. 459

1848.

Nov.2d. Decease of Mr. Win. Saxton, bookseller, aged 53.

. Iniiuest held by T. Badger, Esq., to ascertain the cause of

a fire which toolc place ou the 15tli November, on the premises of Mr. W. Kenyou, tlie Greeu Man, New Church street. No sufficient evidence as to the origin of the fire, though the jury were of opinion that it was not accidental.

Dec. 1. Mr. Eoebuck declines to interfere in the West-Eiding contest.

— 2. Sir Culling E. Eardley and Mr. Denison meet at Halifax,

where Sir Culling catechises his opponent, and obtains the avowal, that though he had adopted the white flag, he had not changed any of his Tory opinions.

— 4. Meeting of the friends of Sir C. E. Eardley at Music Hall. . Mr. Denisoii's canvass suspended by illness.

— 7. Sir Culling E. Eardley's canvass suspended by illness.

— 8. Mr. Denison visits Sheffield.

. Decease, aged 53, of Mr. James Dearman, member of the

Town Council for Upper Hallam.

— 11. Nomination day. Shew of hands in favour of Sir C. E.

E ardley

— 13. The Mayor announces to the Town Council that he had

received the Borough Commission, which contained the following names : — Tlie Mayor for the time being ; Wm. .Tohn Bagshawe, Esq.; Wilson Overend, Esq.; Henry Marwood Greaves, Esq. ; Eichard Bayley, Esq.; Wm. Jeffcock, Esq. ; .Eev. W. Alderson ; Eev. J. Hand ; Thos. Dunn, Esq. ; Samuel Butcher, Esq. ; Henry Wilkinson, Esq.; Edvt'ard Vickers, Esq.; Sanniel Roberts, Esq.; Thos. Eawson Barker, Esq.; Thos. Blake, Esq.; Eobt. Sorby, Esq. ; John Bower Brown, Esq. ; Wm. F. Dixon, Esq.; Joseph Haywood, Esq. ; Charles Appleby, Esq.; George Tortus Naylor, Esq. ; John AVilson Jlawkswordi, Esq. ; Hy. Furuess Esq.; and John Jobson Smith, Esq.

— 14 and 15. Polling days. The following are the returns of

the two committees for Sheffield: —

First Day. Second Day.

Eardley's Com. Driiisou's Com. Eardley's Cnm. Denison's C. 9 o'clock E.— D.— . . E.— D.— . . E.731 D.G70 . , E.— D.—

10 57 1!) .. — — .. 751 ()90 .. 731689

11 310 241.. 26(5 249.. 805 714.. 783 713

12 413 446 .. 386 454 .. 844 766 . . — _

1 522 541 .. 499 542 .. 875 793 .. 850 792

2 582 .594 .. 555 581 .. 916 820 .. 892 819

3 666 026 .. 636 622 .. 972 843 .. 951 84iS

4 720 071.. 701609.. 980 857.. 977 871

Majority for Eardley 123 100

Dec. 16. Upper Hallam Ward. T. W. Eodgers, 72 ; A. C. Branson 40. Majority, 32. '

— 10. First train passed over the Wicker Viaduct of the Lincoln-

shire line to its junction with the Midland.

. Meeting of the Borough Magistrates elect Mr. Albert Smith

their clerk.

— 17. Sudden decease, aged 03, of Edward Humble, Esq., agent

for many years to Sir George Sitwell.

100 SHEFFIELD LOCAL HEGISXERj

1848.

2>tr.]8. Declarntion of poll at Wakefield : Majority.

. Voteisi. Denison. EanUey. Denisou. EarUlcy.

Aberford 946 COG G8 5:J8

Bamsley lo!>8 76G 533 •-ioS

Biistal 1504 458 715 .. 257

Bnulford ....3504 1304 1408 .. 104

Dent 402 105 108 57

Doncaster ....]^>l-i 1040 309 737

(jisbum 730 428 139 2M»

Halifax '22So 732 973 .. 241

Hebden Bridge 891 204 458 .. 254

HoluiUrlh.... 731 219 342 .. 123

Hiiddeisfield . .21)34 713 920 .. 207

Iveigbley ....1302 328 025 .. 297

Kiiaresboioughl357 892 151 741

Leeds 3310 1354 1080 2U

NewDelph.... 828 200 413 .. 207

Otley 1102 384 407 .. 23

Bateley Bridge 402 180 191 .. 5

Pontefraet .... 777 437 147 290

Bipou 500 383 07 310

Eotherhaiu.... 814 347 235 112

Settle 900 520 1^3 343

Selby 552 370 OG 310

Shefiield 2433 859 973 ... 114

Skiptou 1058 370 373 .. 3

Snaith 007 432 .25 407

Waketield ....2589 950 824 132

Total 35,280 14,743 11,795

Majority 2,948

— 18. Mr. Cobdeii publishes his plau for reducing the national

expenditure by A'lO.OOO.OOO. . Decease of Mr. Geo. Cadmaii, of Whitehouse laue, aged 00.

— 19. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 52s. Id.

— 20. Public dinner to the past Mayors of Sheffield, William

Jefi'cock, Esq., Thomas Dunn, Esq., Samuel Butcher, Esq., II. Wilkinson, Esq., and E. Vickers, Esq.

— 20. Decease at Rotherlunn, of John Eushforth, permanent ser-

geant of the Kotherham troop of Yeomanry.

— 23. Variety of facilities oife red for purchasing small freeholds. . Ecclesall Union : In-poor, 334, agahist 202 last year ;

out-payments, .L'81, against ^72 last year.

— 20. Hannah Betney found drowned in the canal, under suspi-

cious circumstances.

. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 51s. ; best bread, (!d.

per 41bs. ; second ditto, 5d.

— 27. Decease of the IJev. D. Clark, of Cliff House, Dronlield,

aged 'iO.

. Decease of Mr. Thomas Boot, late of Norton, aged 59.

. Annual soiree of the People's College.

— 30. Savings Bank : deceived of depositors, i'40,]37 ; paid to

depositors, X"59,700. Balance due 20th Nov., 1848 X* 199,5 14, against i;2( 17,201 last year. Depositors, 7251 ; societies depositing. 40.

[d Anr.p, pr.i.NTiB, snErriELD]

CONTINUATION

OF THE

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1849.

Jan. 2. Box of the Sheffield Bankiug Company, containing bills

of exchange, stolen from the Eotherham station. . Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 50s. 9d.

— 5. Literary and Philosophical Society: James Eay, Esq.,

president. . Midland shares, 85 to 87 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin- colnshire, 52 to 56; Sheffield Banking Company's shai-es, (85,) 113 to 115; Gas Company, 31^ to.31|; Water- works, 147i to 149. Consols, 89|.

— 6. Announcement that Mr. W. Lee, assistant surveyor of the

highways of Sheffield and Ecclesall, was appointed one of the Superintending Inspectors of the General Board of Health.

— 8. Widening of Snighill, by removal of old projecting pro-

perty, commenced. Similar improvements made by the Town Trustees in Trippet lane. Silver street laead. Coalpit lane, and Gibraltar street.

. New Society for the Registration of Liberal Electors for the

W^est-Eiding organised at Nnrmanton.

— 9. Meeting on the case of the Eev. J. Shore, a clergyman,

prosecuted for preaching as a Dissenter, after seceding from the church. '. Decease of Mr. Samuel Grayson, (Woolhouse and Gray- sou,) aged 60.

— 10. Town Council Meeting. Objections by the Medical Sana-

tory Association to the drainage of the churchyards.

— 11. Sheffield poor rates, 1842, 3s. 3d. in the pouud ; 1843,

6s. 3d. ; 1844, 43. 6d. ; 1845, 4s ; 1846, 33. ; 1847, 33. ; 1848, 3s.

— 13. Decease of Mr. John Broadhead, Hanover square, aged 65.

— 14. New General Baptist Church formed in Eldon street, by-

secession from the church in Eyre street.

— 15. Institution of the New Eeform Society, "to promote free-

trade, the ballot, extension of the suffrage, financial re- form, and to oppose the extension of religious endow- ments."

— 16. Magistrates decided that Sunday school roomsused during

the week as private school rooms, were liable to be rated.

— 23. Mr. Joseph Sturge and Mr. H. Vincent address a meeting

in favour of Mr.Cobden's proposal to settle international disputes by arbitration.

— 22. Walkley Land and Building Society. Shares of £120, to

be paid up in fourteen years, securing a rood of land, and a house of the annual value of .=£13. Previous so- cieties of the same kind at Hallcar and Upperthorpe.

— 24. Explosion at the Darley Main Colliery, 75 lives lost. An

investigation of the cause subsequently made by Go- vernment inspectors.

^62 SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

18i0.

JaM.25. Sbeffiekl Club ball.

Minutes of the Admiralty for reform of the dockyards (Mr,

H. G, \Yard, M.P., secretary) issued.

— 28. SbeflSeld Bankiug Company: Dividend, 12§ per cent. ■- Court of Queen's Bencli reversed the judgment passed upon

John Drury, Wm. Marsden, Thomas Bulloss, and Wm. Hall, of the razor grinders' union, who Avere convicted at York Assizes, March, 1848. Detained in custody on other indictments.

— 27. Ecclesali Union : Payments to out-poor, £12, against £58

last year.

^ Eeports originated by tlie Sheffield Tones, that the town

was in a state of decay, refuted by the Independent. ^ Union Bank: Siuplus fund added lo capital, raising each

^eS share to i^l2. . Property at comer of Exchange street and Castle folds

purcliased by tlis Duke of Norfolk for the purpose of the

new markets. The sum awarded by arbitration, £2400.

— 29. Decease of Mr. Samuel Howgate, steel merchant, aged 42.

— 31. Great banquet in the Free Trade Hall, at Manchester, to

celebrate the final repeal of the Corn Laws, and wel- come the first day of free trade. ^£6.2. Decease, at Peterboro', of Mr. H. Sanderson, surveyor, formerly of Sheffield.

— 7. ShefHeld and Hotlierham Banking Company — dividend six

per cent.

8. Enquiry, at the Council Hall, by authority of the Admiralty,

as to tiie circumstances of the Sheffield Canal, in re- ference to its transference to the Eiver Dun Company.

— 9. Proposal, by the Master Cutler, (Mr. F.Fenney,) to extend

tlie privileges and powers of the Cutlers' Company to other trades than those now included.

12. Opening of the Manchester, ShefiBeld, and Lincolnshire

Piailway from Sheffield to Beighton, the junction with the Midland.

— 14. Town Council — debates on Court of Hequests compensa-

tions— Tinsleyroad — Midland mail trains — Drainage of churchyards — Canal tolls — International arbitration — Case of Drury and others — and the window tax.

15. Mr. George Hudson, M.P., presides for the last time at a

meeting of the Midland Company.

— 17. Table blade grinders obtain an advance of wages.

. Town Trustees decline to grant the vacant ground at the

corner of Townhead street and Tenter street, and at the corner of Coalpit lane and Union street, as solicited by the clergymen of those districts, for the purpose of erect- ing churciies thereon.

■ Decease of the Eev. Charles Jos. Pratt, aged 38, senior

Eoman Catholic lu-iest, of Sheffield. Interred at Has- bro', on the 2:3rd.

. Decease of Mr. Jos. Barker, Snighill, aged 45.

— 19. Meeting to establish a Eeform Freehold Land Society, ad-

dressed by Mr. Jas. Taylor, Jun., and Mr.W. B. Smith, of Birmingham. Provisional committee appointed. —— 20. Decease, atBramhope Hall,of Mr. Jno.Newbould, formerly of Sharrow Head, aged 69.

SHEFFIELD LOCAL EEGISTEE. 46S

1849.* Feb.2l. Decease, at Northallerton, of the Eev. S. Jackaon, aged 4.8^

late uiinister of Mount Zion Chapel. . Meeting at Council Hall, in support of the Eagged School

opened by the Rev. John Manners, M.A.

— 24. Mr. Hudson charged, at the York, Newcastle, and BervdcE:

Eailway meeting, of having abused his trust, and a committee appointed, with which began a series of damning disclosures, and the downfall of the " railway king."

— 2G. Decease of George Morton, Infinnary road, aged 70, tha

oldest fender grinder in the trade.

— 28. Meeting of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Liucolnshire

Company — committee of investigation appointed. — — . Decease of Mr. Benj. Jos. Eaworth, Arundel street, aged2{?.

. Decease of Mr. Geo. Ince, Norfolk row, aged 31.

Mar.l. Messrs. John Aldred, J. Booth, (currier,) Joseph Badger,

and T. Wheatley, elected FeofTees of Eotherham. . The Wortley poor-law union divided into tlie unions of

Penistone and Wortley.

— 3. Decease of John Wilson, Esq., aged 77, of Oakholme^

— 8. Jenny Lind sings at the Music-Hall.

— 12. Drury, Bulloss, Marsdeu, and Hall again arraigned at

York, and a special plea put in, which was argued ou demurrer, and judgment postponed. — Bail for the pri- soners refused. — — , Decease of Mr. George Barnes, Sen., aged 56, of Beehive Works.

— 12. Election of Mr. Thos. Wiley, Old No. 12, Haymarket, as

Town Trustee, vice Mr. Wm.Battie, deceased.

— 14. Town Council meeting — Tinsleyroad — Financial Eeform —

Peveril Court.

— 17. Coal railway from Droufield to the Midland, at ^Vhitting-

tou, projected.

— 18. Decease of Mr. Eobert Eobijisou Brownell, of ClifTe field,

aged 52.

— 20. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 50s. Id.

— 24. Eeduction in price of meat, — beef, 3Jd. to 5§d., and choice

cuts at Cd. per lb. ; mutton (legs,) 5Jd. to 6d. ditto ; shoulders, 5d. do. ; veal, 4§d. to 5d. do.

— 26. Decease of Mr. William Swann, of Dykes Hall, aged 92.

— 27. Meeting in Council Hall to petition for Financial Eeform. ' Eeturn to House of Commons of compensation awarded to

officers of Courts of Bequests. To the officers of the Slieffield and Ecclesall Courts the award was, Mr. John Parker, M.P., steward, £1239 ; Mr. E. Barker, clerk, £106 ; Mr. D. Maude, steward, £259 ; Mr. W. Green- wood, sergeant, £110. Mr. Parker had voluntarily re- linquished his compensation, while holding his office under Government.

— 31. Overseers :— Sheffield : Messrs. W. I. Horn, G. Dawson,

E. Hudson, and G. D. Wreaks. Ecclesall Bierlow : Messrs. J. Algor, A. Allott, C. Speight, and T.B.Loukes. Nether Hallam : Messrs. J. Hatfield, J. Copley, J. Eoe- buck, and G. Eidge. Upper Hallam : Messrs. J. Chad- wick and W. Garrett. Norton : Messrs. Geo.Hodgkin- son and John Wainwright. Totley: Messrs. C. Alsop

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ancl John Wainwright. Dore : Messrs. S. Godbere and H. Elliott. Beauchief: — Messrs. Geo. Sampson and Paul Hopkinson. Brightside : Messrs. J. Brookes and J. Nansou. Atterdiffe : IVfessrs. J. Hall and S. Smith.

3far.31.Announcement that Mr. H. G. Ward, M.P. for Sheffield since 1S37, was about to resign his seat, on being ap- pointed Lord High Commissioner to the Ionian Islands.

Apl. 2. Opening of the news room, coffee room, and chess room of the Athenaeum and Mechanics' Institute, Surrey street. . Opening of the portion of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire line from Brigg to Gainsborough.

^— 4. New Eeform Society unanimously agree to recommend Mr. John Arthur Roebuck as a candidate to succeed Mr. Ward.

— 5. Great meeting of electors of the borough adopt Mr. Eoe-

buck as a candidate.

— C. Mr. Thomas Clark, the Chartist candidate for the borough,

in 1848, addressed a meeting at the Circus, and pro- posed a discussion with Mr. Roebuck on the suffrage, with a view to decide whether the Chartists should or should not oppose Mr. Roebuck's election.

— 7. Guardians for the Sheffield Union : — Attercliffe-cum-Dar-

nall: J. Kitcliing ; Brightside: R. Holman and T.

Turner; Hnndsworth : J. Hodgkinson ; Sheffield: W.

F. Dixon, A. Booth, J. Lennard,W. Cartledge.H. Hills,

J. S. Hawksworth, W. A. JIatthews, W. Charles, Jun. . Guardians for tlie Ecclesall Union : — Beauchief: George

Sampson. Dore : W. Taylor. Ecclesall Bierlow : T.

R. Barker, W. Butcher, G. Wostenholm, and H. Jubb.

Nether Hallain : W. Smith and J. Hatfield. Norton: E.

Booker and G. Rogers. Totley: G. Mouutford. Upper

Hallam: G. H. Woollen. ■ 1 . Mr. Roebuck's address, as a candidate, to the electors of

Sheffield.

— 10. Presentation of a dinner service of silver plate, value 200

guineas, " to Mr. Thomas Wiley, by his Friends and Fellow-Townsraen, as a mark of their sincere esteem and gratitude for the many ser^-ices, political, social, and benevolent, which he has rendered to the public during a period of twenty years."

— 11. West Riding Magistrates petition against the bill for chang-

ing the mnnngeinent of the turnpike roads. ' Town Council meeting : — Tinsley road — Churchyard drain-

age— Cost of assize prosecutions.

— 11. West-Riding banquet at Wakefield: — Mr. Cobden, Mr.

Bright, Colonel Thompson, Mr. Jas. G. Marshall, and other members of Parliament present.

— 12. Mr. Cobden addresses a Financial Reform meeting, at

Leeds.

— 13. Mr. T. Clark declares himself a candidate for the repre-

sentation of the borough. -^ 14. Accounts of Sheffield Highways published — receipts from rates, ^£7071 ; total receipts, ^£7538 ; expenditure,

— »• 16. Mr. Thos. Clark addressed a meeting in Paradise square, as candidate for the borough.

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Apl.l7 .'Ls.st arch of Rother viaduct keyed in.

— 18. Sudden death of Mr. Charles Appleby, J.P,, of Sheffield;

at Derby, on his way to a meeting of the Midland Co. — — . Mr. Hudson resigns the chairmanship of the Midland —

committee of investigation appointed. . Prince Albert lays the foundation stone of the entrance

gates of the great dock at Grimsby.

— 20. Midland shares, 74 to 76 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin-

colnshire, 35 to 38.

. The Eev. J. G. Hounsfield, after several remands, held to

bail to answer at Old Bailey sessions, on a charge of fraud. Tried 14th June and acquitted.

— 27. New writ for Sheffield issued, Mr. Ward having vacated his

seat. Mr. Ward issued his farewell address.

— 80. Mr. J. A. Koebuck addressed a large meeting in Paradise

square, and was adopted as a fit representative for Shef- field. Letter from Mr. Clark, decliniug to oppose. MayS. Mr. J. A. Roebuck elected member for Sheffield without opposition.

— 6. Town Trust accounts : — Receipts, including £1190 for

shares sold, £3313 ; payments, including £1098 railway- calls, £2934 ; expended in Gibraltar street. Coalpit lane, Snighill, and Trippet lane improvements, £4685.

— 8. Decease, in London, of Mr. Henry Doncaster, formerly of

Sheffield, aged 43.

— 9. Town Council meeting : — Lead pipes and water — Tinsley

road — Mr. Hume's motion — Remodelliiag police force.

— 14. Rules of the Reform Freehold Society adopted and pay>

ments commenced.

— 17. Norfolk street Athenaeum — proposal to raise £2000, In £5

shares, to purchase and alter premises for the occupa- tion of members. Not carried out.

— 18. Enquiry as to the value of the Tontine property, required

for the new market— claim £10,500; estimate of the valuers of the Duke of Norfolk, £6100 — award made in August, £7720, and £243 costs.

— 19. The file trade — number of hands at Sheffield, 2000

payments to the unemployed, from Sept. 1847, to May, 1849, £1 6,980. The largest number unemployed, 53o) now reduced to 330.

— 21. Town Council and Cutlers' Company vote addresses Jo

the Queen and Prince Albert, on an attempt to alarm her Majesty by firing a pistol at her in Hyde Park on the 19th.

— 22. Decease of Mr. John Saynor, Broomgrove Villa, aged 39. . Sheffield and Tinsley Road Bill passed Committee filijie

House of Commons.

— 26. Mains of Gas Company extended to Heeley. . r

— 30. Cricket— Kent v. Yorkshire— three days' match at Hyde

Park— Kent, 1st innings, 157; 2ud, 114: Yorkshire 1st, 95 ; 2nd, 110. '

June 1. Sheffield Waterworks — completion of the compensation reservoirs in the Rivelin Valley, empowering the Water Company to take aU the water of the Wymiug brook.

— 4. Sale of furniture, &c., at Renishaw hall — occupying 16

days.

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J^unei. Opening of the railway from Ambergate to Matlock and Rowsley.

— 5. Botanical Gardens — annual meeting. The income of ^751

had not been exceeded, while the Gardens had been much improved. Shares rising in price, and trausfer- rable tickets in great demand.

— C. Special meeting of Manchester, ShefSeld, and Lincolnshire

Company adopted the report made by the committee appointed in February. ■— 7. Decease of Mr. Alfred Staniforth, grocer, aged 33.

— 11. Cricket— Slieffield v. York— played at York— SheflBeld,

1st innings, 170; 2nd, 175; York, 1st, 120; 2nd, 74.

— 13. Bill to consolidate the 30 Acts of the Manchester, Sheffield,

and Lincolnshire Company, and increase the tolls, passes the Committee of the House of Commons. . Town Council — Watch and Health Committees — Tiusley Road Bill — Closing of Post-office on Sundays.

— 15. Dr. Musgrave, Archbishop of York, made his first visitation

at Sheffield. . Decease of Mr. Samuel Tinker, Wilkinson street, aged 75.

— 23. Decease, in London, of Mr. Henry Jessop, of New York, of

the firm of Win. Jessop and Sons, Sheffield.

— 24. Decease of Mr. John Thornely, of Dodworth green, aged T3,

the Tory caudidiite for Sheffield, in 1837.

— 27. Decease of Mr. John HeifFor, Paradise square, aged 69.

— 28. Decease of Mr. Robt. Farmer, High street, aged 39.

— 30. News Room, East Parade, commenced in 1810, in High

street, discontinued. . Decease, at Ramsey, Isle of Man, of Mr. John Greaves, formerly of the firm of Greaves and Newton. July 3. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 53s. 8d.

— 5. Sheffield and Tinsley Road — decision of the Judges on the

special case, that the Canal Company was liable to re; pair the road.

— 7. Mortality of the Unions of Sheffield and Ecclesall —

Sheffield, 1840, 3300. 1847, 2618. 1848, 2990. Ecclesall, .. 919. .. 791. .. 825. '~ 9. Cricket — Sheffield v. Yorkshire— played at Leeds — Shef- » field, 1st in., 130; 2nd, 93; Yorkshire, 1st, 140; 2nd,

78, with four wickets to go down. ^•i— 11. The line of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, '' from Beighton to Gainsborough, inspected by Captain ^ Wynne, preparatory to opening to the public on tlie 17th. . Town Council Meeting — Discussions on churchyard drain- age— Tinsley road — Costs of prosecutions, &c.

. Decease, in Madeira, of Henry Rimington, Esci.,Broomhead

Hall, aged 29.

— 12. In the case of Drury and others, the Judges disallowed the

plea of autrefois cotivict, but allowed the prisoners to plead over, which would give them the advantage of a new trial. By arrangement, however, the prisoners de- clined to avail themselves of this, leaving their case in the hands of the Court, the prosecutors agreeing that they shonld merely be required to enter into their own recognizances to appear for judgment when called upon. On the other iudictmeuts no evidence was offered. Th©

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lesnlt was their liberation, and they were received on their arrival at Sheffield the next day, with great re- joicings hy their friends. JuZy 14. Ecclesall Union payments to out-poor, i£74 against £81 last year.

— 16. First stone of Christ Church, Pitsmoor, laid.

— 21. Decease of Mi-. Joseph Swift, of the firm of Swift and Son,

aged 31.

— 22. Appearance of Cholera — decease of Mr. John Parkin, of

Belmonte, aged 68.

— 24. Decease of Mr. Samuel Crich, formerly of the Black Swan,

aged 47. I Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Acts Consolidation

and Amendment Bill passed Committee of the Lords.

— 25. Sheffield and Hallamshire Bank — dividend, 5 per cent. — — . Cricket — Yorkshire v. Lancashire, with Hunt, at Hyde

Park — Yorkshire, first innings, 169; second, 117, with five wickets to go down. Lancashire, first innings, 173; second, 112.

— 26. Decease, at Eotherham, of Mr. Jas. Bingham, aged 70.

— 27. Decease of Mr. Samuel Broomhead Ward, of Mount Plea-

sant, aged 79. ——, Decease, at Leamington, aged 86, of Mr. J. Bright, formerly of Sheffield.

— 28. Eoyal Assent to the Sheffield and Tinsley Eoad Bill, and

Bill to transfer the Sheffield Canal to ihe Eiver Dun Company.

— 31. Sale of the books, pictures, &c., at Renishaw hall. Sale

produced — furniture, about^3000; plate, £2000; hooks, pictures, wines, &c., £950.

. Mr. Ebenezer Elliott, the Corn Law Ehymer, planted in

the Botanical Gardens two Indian pines (Cedrus Deo- dora,) near two Chinesepines (Cryptomaria Japonica,) previously planted by Mr. James Montgomery.

Aug.l. Decease of Mr. Thomas Hancock, Arundel street, aged 59.

— 3. Cricket — Yorkshire v. Lancashire, at Manchester — Lan-

cashire, 1st innings, 87; second innings, 61. York- shire, 1st innings, 166, winning in one innings by 18 runs.

— 4. Ecclesall Union — payments to out-poor, £59 against £65

last year.

— 6. Cricket — Sheffield v. Yorkshire — Sheffield, Istinnings, 177;

second innings, 83. Yorkshire, 1st innings, 133 ; se- cond innings, 97.

. Decease of Mr. W. Parkin, late of West street, aged 66.

— — . T. E. Barker, Esq., Mayor; Alderman Hall, Messrs. John Lee, C. Marshall, Joseph Smitli, James Bertram, elected Improvement Commissioners.

■ Meeting in Paradise square to sympathise with the Hun-

garians.

— 7. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 64s. lid.

— 8. Town Council — County Courts — Peace Congress at Paris.

— 9. Excursion of the Literary and Philosophical Society to

Hardwick Hall.

— 15. Decease of Mr. Philip Marshall, Eyre street, aged 55.

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^i/^.16.Cutlers' Company: Henry Atkin, Esq., Oakfield, Master Cutler elect; Wardens, Messrs. S. S. Deakin and W. Webster.

— 22. Special meeting of the Midland Company to adopt the

report of the committee of investigation. ■ Meeting at the Music Hall to sympathise with the Eevs.

Jas. Everett, S. Dunn, and W. Griffith, Juu., on tlreir

expulsion by the Wesleynn Conference. — — , Increase of cholera — active precautiouaiy measures by the

Unions of Sheffield audEcclesall.

— 26. Decease, aged 66, in Change alley, of Mr. Thomas Deakin,

late of the firm of Jas. and Thos. Deakin. He left by will £3000, to be applied in founding an institution for single women of good character, members of the Church of England, or orthodox dissenters, on condition that an equal sum of money should be given by some other person or persons within two years of the time of hia decease.

— 27. Decease, at New York, of Mr. Heuiy Ibbotson, formerly of

Sheffield, aged 52.

— 27. Lecture, by Feargus O'Connor, on the war in Hungary.

— 31. Brewster sessions. Licenses of many houses against

which complaints had been made, refused or suspended.

. Decease of Mr. Michael Wing, of Steel bank, aged 60.

Sept.S Cricket: All England v. 10 of Sheffield, at Hyde park. All England — first innings, 92 ; second, Qb. Sheffield first innings, 89 ; second, 58.

^— 0. School of Design : annual meeting, the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, M.P., in the chair. Government grant in- creased from £2b0 to £600 a year, and additional masters appointed.

. Decease of Wm. Smith, Esq., Barnes Hall, aged 88.

— 6. Cutlers' Feast. Principal guests: The Duke of New-

castle, the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, M.P., Earl Fitz- william, Lords C. W. and W. P. Clinton, Mr. Parker, M.P., and Mr. Roebuck, M.P.

— 7. The Archbishop of York preached in St. Philip's Church,

for the benefit of the Infirmary. Collection, £92. 10s. ' Midland Company's half-yearly meeting. Mr, W. Smith,

barrister, of Sheffield, elected a director.

— 8. Decease of Mr. C. W. Beckitt, surgeon.

. Sudden and violent outbreak of cholera at Attercliffe.

— 11. Preparations commenced for the municipal elections.

— 12. Town Council: State of Canal — Water supply at Attercliffe.

— 15. Announcment that the highway boards of the townships of

Sheffield, Ecclesall, Nether Ilallam, and Brightside bad authorised Mr. Harrison and Mr. Holmes, assistant surveyors, to make plans and estimates for a system of drainage, for the benefit of all the townships.

— 19. Crowded meeting at the Music Hall to hear the Eevs. J.

Everett, S. Dunn, and W. Griffith, Jun.

— 25. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 48s. 3d.

— 26. Decease of Mr. Alfred Ward, of Gell street.

— 28. The Queen and Prince Albert, with the royal family, passed

over the Midland line, on their return from Scotland to London.

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Sej)i.2S'Daj of humiliation observed in Sheffield.

. Decease of Mr. Henry Bower, of the Wicker type foundry,

of cholera, the first of four in the same house.

— 29. Eevisionof West-Riding lists of voters at SheflSeld — gain to

the Reformers, 108. Their gain throughout the West- Riding, 2G6. Oct. 1. Athenaeum and Mechanics' Institution : Library of Jthe AthenaBum, and Library and Classes of the Mechanics' Institution, opened. . Cells under the Eotherham Court-house applied to the purposes of lock-ups, and superintendent's house com- menced.

— 2. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 47s. 2d.

— 5. Decease of Mr. Thomas Ibbotson, Philadelphia, aged 82.

— 7. Great flood in the valley of the Dun.

— 10. Town Council meeting: Offer of Water Company to sup-

ply Attercliffe — County Court fees — Supply of Water — The Brewster sessions — The Mayor's notice of the day of humiliation — Complaint from Attercliffe against the Sanatory Committee of the Guardians.

— 11. The Congregational Union of England and Wales com-

menced its autumnal sittings at Sheffield. . Gas Company — half-yearly dividend of 20s. a share — mar- ket price of shares, £34.

— 16. People's College — first anniversary of the People's College,

as a self-supporting and self-governing institution.

— 17. Special meeting of Town Council to memorialise the Se-

cretary of State on the County Court fees.

— 18. Festivities at the Oaks, on the coming of age of William

Leonard Gell Bagshawe, Esq., eldest son of Wm. J. Bagshawe, Esq. — - 20. The cholera reported to have disappeared. Weekly returns ceased.

— 21. Decease of Mr. Paul Bright, land valuer. Wicker.

. Decease of Mr. Josh. Chambers, of Bailey field, aged 94.

— 22. The Eight Hon. M. T. Baines, M.P., qualified at Doncas-

ter sessions as a magistrate of the West-Riding.

— 22. Complaints of the proceedings of the Sanatory Committee

of the Board of Guardians in enforcing summarily the removal of swine ; public meeting at the Town Hall.

— 23. Final closing of the Tontine Hotel, opened in 1785.

— 24. Special meeting of the Town Council — proposal to memo-

rialise Government to put a stop to the operations of the Post-office, on Sunday, negatived.

— — . Medical Officers of Ecclesall Union reported that they had attended, during the epidemic, 3053 cases of diarrhoea and cholera, among which there had been 18 deaths from cholera, and 3 from diarrhoea. Average cost of medical attendance and medicine, about 4s. each case.

. Deaths from cholera reported in the Sheffield Union: —

Under the medical officers, 56 ; in private practice, 17.

— 25. Interview of deputation of the Health Committee with the

directors of the Waterworks Company, who stated that they should shortly be prepared to furnish an abundant supply, to be on eight hours daily. '——. Meeting on behalf of the Ragged School — Earl Fitzwil- liam in the chair.

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Ocf. 25. Decease of Mr. Thomas Sawyer, aged 65.

— 26. Violent outbreak of cholera, at Masbro', traceable to a foul

drain.

— 27. Publication of borough accounts — receipts from rates,

£Q3Qi}; total receipts, £68-^0. Expenditure on police, besides £1567 fees, fines, &c., £444:3 ; elections, £206 ; salaries, £300; miscellaneous, £404. Police force, 1 superintendent, 1 warrant officer, and 120 other men of various grades.

— 28. Decease, of cholera, of Mr. John Holmes, surgeon, Eo-

therham, aged 32.

— 29. First stone of St. Jude's Church, Moorfields, laid.

— 30. Average price of wheat, at Sheffield, 43s. lid.

. Decease of Mr. Philip Andrew, of Fullwood, aged 75.

Nov. 1. Municipal elections. — St. Peter's (1420 burgesses on roll) — T. Wiley, 550, re-elected ; E. Solly, 408, vice John EoebucL-, 20] . St. Philip's (945)— H, E. Hoole, re- elected ; W. Groves, vice B. Vickers. Park (886)— T. Birks and J. Sellars, re-elected. St. George's (1160)— W. Brittain, {vice J. Turton,) 382; Crowther {vice B. Schofield) 368; F. Fenney, 283; S. Mitchell, 297. Ecclesall (2988) A. Booth {vice I. P. Cutts) 964; W. Harvey {vice S. Pearson) 946; S. Brittam, 031: J. W. Dixon, 568. Brightside (1291)— C. Sanderson, 334, vice G. Wall, ]12. Upper Hallam— T. Platts, 340, vice W. A. Matthews, 330. Attercliffe (586)- C. At- kinson, (re-elected,) 244; A. Cavalier, 40.

— 2. Evidence taken by Committee of Town Council as to the

complaints of sanatory proceedings at Attercliffe, pub- lished. An answer afterwards published by Mr. Wat- kinson. Union Clerk.

— 3. Plan for the main sewerage of Sheffield, Ecclesall, Nether

Hallam, and Brightside, published : estimate for the drainage £11,304, and for works to make it available as manure, £8070.

. A purple beech planted in the ground in front of tlie

Mount, by James Montpromery, Esq., who completed his 78th year on the 4th November.

— 4. Decease of Mr. W. Falding, of Burnt Cross, aged 70.

— C. Soiree of the Athenreum and Mechanics' Institute, Aid. T.

Dunn, in the chair; present, the Eail of Carlisle, Mr. Eoebuck, M.P. ; Mr. Jos. Heywood, M.P.; Sir A. J. Knight, the Eev. Joseph Hunter, &c.

— 8. Flowering, at Chatsworth, of the Victoria Eegia.

— 9. Midland shares, 47, 48 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin-

colnshire, 10, 20; London andNortli- Western, 113,114. Great distrust and depression in all railway property.

. Town Council meeting: T. Birks, Esq., unanimously

elected Mayor; Messrs. T. E. Barker, T. Wiley, the Mayor, C. Peace, T. Dunn, I. Schofield, and W. Jeff- cock, elected Aldermen — Messrs. Dunn and Jeffcock being re-elected. Discussions on the appointment of Committees — the Atterclifl'e enquiry — and the Watch rate.

— 12. Meeting at Town Hall, when Mr. Isaac Ironside complained

of various alleged breaches of engagements, which Lad prevented his election as an Alderman.

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1849.

Nov.liMeetmg at tlie Congregational Library, Londor!, to origi- nate a memorial fund as a mark of regard to the Eev. John Pye Smith, D.D., LL.D., F.S.S., F.G.S., a native of Shefiield.

. Decease of Mr. Henry Boultbee, surgeon, aged 48.

• . Mimicix^al elections — S. Peter's Ward, vice Aid. "Wiley and

C. Peace, E. Waterhonse and H. Hills. Park Ward — rice Aid. Barker and Birks.W. A. Matthews, 3-iO ; R, Tummon, 331 ; C'l Alcock, 133 ; and G. Eoherts, 125. Ecciesall— v/ce Aid. I. Schofield, A. Cavalier, 504; S. S. Brittain, 21; I. P. Cults, 3 ; Nelson, 1.

— 15. Thanksgiving day, appointed by royal proclamation, for the

cessation of the cliolera.

— 20. Average price of wlieat at SheiTield, 42s. 4d. Great com-

plaints cf agricultural disti'css.

— 23. Midland shares, 47f , 48§ ; Manchester, Slieffield, and Lin-

colnshire, 15§, 16f ; London and North Western, 112^, llo§; Consols, 9o§. Bank of England reduced rateof discount from 3 to 2§.

— 24. Window of Mr. Fleck's shop (druggist,) Masbro', blown

out by explosion of gas.

— 25. Decease of Mr. T. li. Clarke, of ClifFe House, Dronfield,

aged 30.

— 27. Winter fair — the last Tuesday of November having been

appointed instead of tije 2Sth November.

— 28. Head-quarters of the 3rd Dragoon Guards arrived at Shef-

field barracks. Courts martiallield on men charged with insubordination at Loughborough.

Dec. 1. Sheffield Banking Company announce the return to their shareholders of £10 per share of their paid-up capital, having more than they could profitably employ.

. The Eev. W. H. Stowell, of Eotherham College, receives

the diploma of D.D. from the University of Glasgow.

. Decease of Ebenezer Elliott, the Anti-Corn-Law Ehymer.

He was born at Masbro', on the 17th March, 1781. He became an inhabitant of Sheffield in 1831, and con- ducted an iron and steel business there successfully for twenty years. In the year 1841, he retired from busi- ness, and took up his abode at Houghton Common, near Barnsley. There he spent the latter days of a useful and a honourable life, and there he died. His last illne.ss was of a painful and lingering description; but was borne with that remarkable firmness of charac- ter which distinguished his conduct in his best days. No man possessed greater energy of mind, or more strong self-will. After a resolute though vain contest with his disease, he expired calmly, and without a struggle, in the presence of bis beloved family. Mr. Elliott was for many years an occasional correspondent of the Independent ; and we record his death with feel- ings of great regret. We were often favoured by his communications — in both prose and verse — whilst he resided in Sheffield ; and our poet's corner has even lately been graced by his original productions. Our personal acquaintance with him has been to us a source of much pleasure. — Independent.

— 2. Decease of Queen Dowager, widow of Wm. IV., aged 67,

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1849. Dec. 5. Average price of wheat at SheflSeld, dOs.

— 7. Cousola reached 97.

. Shefiiekl and Tinsley road — meethig of trustees to fix the

site of the bar — Midland Company agreed to pay £100 a-year towards the repair on condition of access to their station from the town free of toll. Accepted, and bar fixed beyond entrance to their coal station.

— 8. Decease, at Usears, Wortley, of Mr. W. W. Wiggleswortb,

surgeon, aged 37.

. Explosion of gas, at the vestry offices, Kelham street,

doing extensive injury to the property.

— 9. Decease of Mr. David Marshall, West street, aged 60.

— 12. Meeting of shareholders in the Manchester, Sheffield, and

Lincolnshire, to complain of the management of the Company, and promote an enquiry. — — . Town Council meeting — Debates on expenses of Parlia- mentary list of voters, and on enclosure of ground at Moorhead.

— 13. Officers of the 3rd Dragoons entered on the occupation of

their quarters at the New Barracks.

— 15. Meeting of the directors of the Manchester, Sheffield, and

Lincolnshire, with a number of the principal share- holders, to consult on the aflairs of the Company.

— . 18. Meeting at Leeds, attended by Mr. Cobdeu, M.P., who de- fied the efforts of Protectionists to restore Corn Laws.

. Meeting to originate a subscription, to place in the Cut- lers' Hall, a portrait of the liev. Joseph Hunter, F.A.S., the historian of Hallamshirc, and a native of Sheffield.

— 19. Eight members of the Table-blade Grinders' Union, tried

at York, for conspiracy and riot, to compel J. and W. Snape to contribute to the funds of the union ; after bearing evidence, on the suggestion of the Judge, the case was terminated by the defendants pleading Guilty and entering into their own recognizances to appear for judgment when called upon.

— ^^20. Ball for the benefit of the Infirmary.

— —. Election of Aid. T. E. Barker, as Town Trustee, vice Mr. Jos. Levick, resigned.

— 22. Norton Hall and other property of the late Samuel Shore,

Esq., advertised for sale under an order of Chancery. . Ecclesall Union : Payments to the out-poor, ^£57, against

.4*81 last year. Inmates reduced from 334 to 240. . Inmates of Sheffield Workhouse reduced from upwards of

800, last year, to 479.

— 24. Average price of wheat, at Sheffield, 42s. 4§d.

. Sheffield Ecform Freehold Society : First purchase of laud,

near 4§ acres, at Crookes, for .£700. . Strike of the guards and porters of the Midland Company

against a decrease of wages — settled on the 2Cth.

— 28. Midland shares, 44^ : Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-

shire shares, 12—14; London and North Western, 109 to 110; Consols, 90^ to |.

— 31. Extinction of ancient Pevcril Court, by Act of Parliament. . Decease of Samuel Iladfield, Esq., of the firm of Robert

Iladfield and Co., St. James' street.

LEADER, rniNTER, INDEPENDENT OFFICE, SHEFFIELD.

[Presented to the Subscribers to the Independent.'] C ONTIN UATION

OF THE

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1850.

Jan. 1. Temperance Soiree, attended by Mr. Jno. Cassell, Loudon,

and Mr. Lawrence Heywortb, M.P. . Announcement tliat the Eev. John Pye Smith, D.D., LL.IT.,

F.G.S., &c., of Homerton, (a native of Sheffield,) had

retired from the pastoral office which he had held nearly

60 years. ■. Lord Wharnclifie refuses to attend a protectionist meeting

at York.

— 2. Eev. T. Smith, A.M., announces his resignation of the clas-

sical tutorship of Rotherham College.

— 4, Gas Company announce reduction of price to Os. lljd.

uiinimuQi, and rts. 5d. maximum.

. Preliminary meeting to promote the erection of a new- Hotel in place of the Tontine.

. Preparations for erection of new Post-Office commenced.

. Literary and Philosophical Society. Wm. Jackson, Esq.,

president.

— 5. Wortley Union — erection of Union Workhouse, near Gre-

noside, announced. Maximum cost, ^3000.

. Eotherhara Savings' Bank — received duriiig year, £'1093 ;

paid out, £l2i2 ; balance in bank, itSoiA.'

— 7. Peoples' College opens day classes.

■ — S. Wm. Birtles, poor-rate collector, tried for embezzlement,

and acquitted. . Decease of Mr. Matthew Bishop, aged 62.

— 9. Town Council — a committee appointed on Magistrates'

clerk's office.

— 12. Thornev. Butcher — Injunction granted by the Vice-Cban-

cellor to restrain the use of a trade mark.

. Proceedings against Henry Bridges, for keeping an office

for sale of lottery tickets, for distribution of property.

— 13. Sunday Post-office labour restricted.

— 15. Three weeks' receipts at Savhigs' Bank, £3005.

— 17. Exhibition of 1851 — meeting to appoint local connnittee. . Decease of Mr. James Leigh Leek, aged 55, for some years

one of the proprietors of the Sheffield Iris.

— 18. Classes of the Mechanics' Institution opened in the new

building.

— . 19. Savings' Bank — receipts of year, £46,547 ; payments, £48,232 ; balance, £203,458.

• . Mr. George Hadheld, as representative of the late Samuel

Hadfield, presents to the Dispensary £100, the deceased having directed this to be done instead of distributing " the usual mourning compliments among sumving friends." E

474 8HEFPIELD LOCAL BEGISTEB.

1850. Ja«.19.Decense of Mr. Tbotnas E. Porter, nged "^-l.

— 20. Decease of Mr. John Bridgeford, nged 54. He had been

connected with the Sheffield Iris, ns foreman to Mr. Montgomery and Mr. Blackwell, and afterwards as pro- prietor, from about 1822 to 1848.

— 21. Decease, at Edinburgh, of Mr. John Mather, aged C8, for-

merly organist of the Parish Church.

— 22. E. Cobdeu, M.P., attends a meeting in Sheffield, in favour

of parliamentary and financial reform, and peace. . Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 41s. 3^d.

— 23. Public breakfast to Mr. Cobden, at the Cutlers' Hall.

— 24. Geo. Hudson, M.P., publishes his defence against charges

of railway fraud. . Judges in Court of Exchequer Chamber, decide that when a

majority of rate-payers refuse to make a church-rate, it

may be made by the clnn-chwardens, and a minority.

Barons Eolfe, Parke, and Chief Justice Wilde dissented. . Local Executive Committee, forExliibition,1851, appointed.

— 25. Mr. Macready's farewell, at Sheffield Theatre. . Sheffield Banking Company — dividend 10 per cent.

. Allotment among members of Sheffield Eeform Freehold

Laud Society, of 4^ acres of laud, at Crookes, in 0.5 lots, purchased for £700, each lot of the improved value of 40s. a year.

. John Aldred, Esq., elected Greave of Kotherham Feoffees.

— 26. Eeturn to Poor-law Board of state of trade iu Sheffield. 49

trades in the last week of 1848, had 97 able-bodied poor in Sheffield Union, and 74 inEcclesall Union. In same week of 1849, the numbers were respectively IG and C.

. Decease of Mr. Wm. Charles, (late W. Charles and Sons,)

aged G9.

— 31. Opening of Parliament — Queen's speech received by tele-

graph at 5.45 p.m.

. Decease of Mr. J. Bellamy, (J. Bellamy & Sons,) aged 74

Feb. 1. Decease of Mr. W. Warburton, (late Warburton and Cros-

land,) aged CO.

— 2. Announcement that in fulfilment of the wishes of the late

Mr. Samuel Hadfield, his brother Mr. George Hadfield, was prepared to settle ii'3000, to be disposed of after the manner of Hanbey's charity.

. Sheffield Union accounts from March 25 to Sept. 28, 1849,

shew a decrease in cost of in-maintenance, as compared with 1848, of £1103 ; and out relief, i;4777.

. Eev. J. Batey becomes minister of Eyre street Chapel.

. Decease, aged (iO, of Mr. Benjamin Drabble, (Drabble and

Sanderson.)

— 5. Violent hurricane.

— 8. Meeting of shareholders in the Manchester, Sheffield, and

Lincolnshire, to promote a modification in the board of directors. Aid. T. R. Barker and Mr. C. F. Younge nominated as candidates for the directorship.

— 9. Mr. Denison, M.P., at a meeting of the farmers of Don-

casjer, defends his vote against Sir J. Trollope's protec-

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1850.

tionist amendnient, advises the farmers tbere to con- sider free-trade a settled question, and assures them that tlie Protectionists could not form a government, and that the farmers do not bear an unfair share of the public burdens. Feh.ll. Mr. Eoebuck censures the mode of attack made upon Lord Torrington's government, in Ceylon, and is rebuked by Mr. Hume, as advocating tj'ranny.

— 12. Meeting to petition for the Hon. J. S. Wortley's bill to le-

galise marriage with a deceased wife's sister.

— 13. Town Council — Plans to improve sewerage pesented — oc-

cupation of cab stands, on Sundays — petition to extend powers of Museums of Art and Public Libraries act — clerkship to the Magistrates — petition for repeal of taxes on knowledge.

— 15. O'Connor v. Bradahaw, Kottinijham Journal — action for

libel — verdict for defendant. . Decease of the Fiev. F. Hall, vicar of Greasbro'.

— IG, Funeral at. Masbro' Chapel, of Mrs. Hy.^Yalker, of Clifton.

— 18. Meeting of members of the two Athenseums — committee

appointed to promote a union. . Silver cup presented to E. Bentley, Esq., of Eotherham,by

the workmen of the Eo'.herham Old Brewery. . Eev. J. Hunter complies with request to allow his portrait

to be painted, to be placed in Cutlers' Hall.

— 10. St. Peter's Ward Burgesses' Association formed.

— 21. Decease of Mr. W. Broomhead, Eidgeway, aged 74.

— 23. Eotherham Feoffees' accounts — income about £790.

— 25. Meeting to petition for repeal of paper, advertisement, and

newspaper stamp duties. ■■ Exchange Brewery required for the New INIarkets — amount

claimed, £10,333 ; awarded, £0500.

— 26. Average price of wheat, at Sheffield, 42s. 4jd.

— 27. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire committee of in-

vestigation appointed. Charges made against direc- tors and officers of the company. Meeting occupied two days. Aid. Barker and Mr. C. F. Younge appointed directors. . Sale of the Tontine Hotel, as building materials for removal,

— 28. Sheffield squadron of 1st West- Yorkshire Yeomanry gave

a bull for tlie benefit of the Infirmary.

. Meetin,' at Eotherham, to promote reform in management

of county expenses.

Mar. 1. Wesleyon Eeform — large meeting to receive the Eevs. J. Everett and S. Dunn.

. Share Market— London and North Western, lOlf, 102f;

Midland, 384, 39§; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln- shire, 12i, 13.

— 2. Decease at Masbro', of Mr. E. Beatson, aged 70.

— 4. Tithe Commissioner, .1. J. Eawlinson, Esq., visits Sheffield,

to ascertain the amount of tithe jjayable in Sheffield, and the rent charge in lieu to be fixed.

— 9. Earl Fitzwilliam — high steward to the town of Cambridge.

476 SHEFFIELD LOCAL KEGISTEB.

1850.

Mar.l2. York Assizes — Laycock (Emily Frances,) v. Pickslav, (Edwin John,) breach of promise of marriage — verdict for plaintiff — damages £4:00.

— 13. Town Council — report of committee on Magistrates' clerk's

fees, recommending a reduced table of fees, adopted^ afterwards approved by Home Secretary.

— IG. Nottingham Assizes — Laycock (Eliza,) v. Neale, (Charles,)

breach of promise of marriage — verdict for plaintiff — damages £;2oO. . Decease, at Worksop, of Henry Owen, Esq., aged 58.

— 18. Performance at Theatre, by officers of the Prince of Wales'

Dragoon Guards, for the benefit of the charities.

. York assizes — Mudford v. Sheliield Fire Office — verdict

for plaintifi' — damiiges £600.

— 21. Mayor of Sheffield attends the banqupt given by the Lord

Mayor of London, to Prince Albert and the provincial Mayors, in connexion with the Exhibition of 1861. . Decease of Mr. Thomas Marshall, Barker pool, aged 65.

— 2'i. Decease of Mr. Cornelius Hackett Purser, aged 53.

— 27. Eotherham Gas Company — 10 per cent, dividend — reduc-

tion of price, and addition to reserved fund. . Decease of Jonathan Alderson, Esq., Gannow hill.

— 28. Sword presented to Lieut. E. Jeffcock, by the members of

the B troop of the Sheffield squadron of Yeomanry Cavy.

— 31. Attempt to tlirow a can of gunpowder through the bed-room

window of Wm. Butcher, Esq., Glossop road. Wm. Bailey and Daniel Ensor committed to York, on the 0th April, charged with the oflence. Apl. 1. Decease of the Rev. Thos. Robinson, aged C4:, governor of the Shrewsbury Hospital.

— 2. Sheffield Union— Cost of able poor, ISiS, £2857; ditto in

18-lU, £1110.

— 3. Decease of the Rev. W. Harris, aged 40. He was elected in

May, 1829, one of the assistant chaplains of the Parish church, to succeed tiie Rev. M. Preston.

— 3. Easter Jury recommend improved arrangements to check

the sale of unwholesome meat.

— -1. Sheffield Highways— Mr. John Smith elected assistant

surveyor.

— .5. Decease of I^Ir. Thomas Frith, organist of St. Paul's and

St. Philip's, aged 41.

. Farewell amateur i^erformance of the officers of the Third

Dragoons, for the benefit of the Sheffield charities.

— C. Midland Company — Par value of stock, £0,857,660; mar-

ket value, £2,857,051. . Sheffield and Retford Bank.— Call on shareholders of £11

a share to defray the liabilities. . Decease of Thomas Sands, many years drill Serjeant of the

1st W.Y.Y.C. He was a Waterloo man. — — . Decease of Mr. E. Wilkinson, carrier, Rotherham, aged CC

— 8. Financial and Parliamentary reform — Meeting at Theatre,

addressed by Sir J. Walmsley, M.P., and Mr. G. Thomp- son, M.P.

SHEFFIELD LOCAL EEGISTEB. 47T

1850. Afl. 8. Water Company's dividend for year, 7§ per cent.

— 9. Eev. J, M. Calvert becomes minister of the Independent

chapel, DronSeld.

— 10. Town Council — petition for Parliamentary refonn — for the

extension of County Courts act — for reduction of stamp duties— for Mr. Fox's hill on education — and for per- mission to the ratepayers to transfer control of highways to the Council. Watch Committee instructed to take measures for the systematic inspection of meat. . Decease of Mr. Thomas Smith, solicitor, aged 63.

— 11. Gas Co. — dividend, 20s. per share, with reduction in price.

— 12. Decease of the Eev. Abraham Scott, of the Methodist New-

Connexion, aged 70. . Governmt. rent new Post-ofBce for 21 years, at £100 a year

— 13. Ecclesall Union — Expense of year ending March, J850,

£y001, a decrease of £674 on the expense of preceding year, tliough the cholera expenses were about £600.

. Sheffield Union — Cholera expenses of 18-19, reported to he

£2!5i)9. The expenses in 1832, £2900. The attacks of cholera unly reported in 1832, were 1347, — deaths, 402, or 32§ per cent. 1849, attacks of cholera and diarrhcea, 7294, deaths GO, or 1 per cent.

— 19. Navigation and canals of South Yorkshire coal district

anialgiiuiated with ihe South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole liailway Company. . Sheffield Highways— rates, £7093; expenditure, £6100.

— 23. Meeting of Ecclesall burgesses to hear Mr. I. Ironsideex-

plaui his reasons for refusing to vote. The meeting re- solved that Mr. I. Ironside had not proved non-voting to be right, desirable, or beneticial, and urged him to vote in future in the Town Council.

. National Reform Association Conference. — Aid. Scbofield

and Mr. C. Alcock, delegates for Sheffield.

— 24. Meeting to originate a monument to the memory of the

late Ebenezer Elliott.

— 25. Eotherhaui Pohce — receipts, £207; expenditure, £198;

404 persons in custody during the year.

. Eev. John Staceye, aj)pointed governor and chaj)lain of

Shrewsbury Hospital.

— 26. Election of Town Trustee, vice Idr. Samuel Hadfield, de-

ceased. Mr. Edw. Smith, 18C votes ; Mr. S. Mitchell, 80. 2Iayb. Decease of Mr. Geo. Eadon, Norfolk street, aged 89. . Outrages by the gutta percha club.

— 6. Decease of Joseph Valentine, tableknife cutler, aged 40.

He was an ariizan, but had acquired most of the modem European languages, the Chinese, and several of the dead languages.

— 7. Wath troop of Yeomanry present a sword to Lieut. Biram,

of Wentworth.

— 8. Town Council — Walk mill nuisance, — petition in favour of

arbitration — compensation for personal injury in captur- ing a thief. £ 2

478 SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGI8TEB.

1800.

Jlfoyll.Town Trust accounts — receipts from rents and dividend?, about ^2100. Expended inperuiaueut additions to the trust estates, £'740 ; balance carried to improvement account, £'32S.

— 12. Decease of Mr. Luke Ellison, formerly of Pinstone street,

aged 77.

— 13. The Rev. George Trevor elected assistant minister of the

Parish church, vice the Rev. W. Harris, deceased. The Vicar declines Mr. Trevor's services. . Meeting to petition Parliament for secular education, con- vened in Paradise square, but on account of the small- ness of the meeting, adjourned to the Council Hall.

— 15. Mr. Ironside, in answer to the resolution of 28th April, per-

sists in refusing to vote.

— 10. Serious misunderstanding between France and England

about English claims on Greece.

— 17. Sarah Marshall, Wm. Bradshaw, and Benj. Hudson, chosen

the lirst occupants of the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum.

— 19. Decease of Mr. H. Armitage, Mousehole forge, aged 40.

— 20. Cricket between Sheffield and Yorkshire, at Hyde Park —

Yorkshire, 1st innings, 87; 2ud, 113. Sheffield, 1st, U8; 2nd, OS.

— 24. Rotherham Church-rate vestry resolved to acknowledge

the exemption of Greasbro' from rating for tlie purposes of the Parisl» church.

— 20. The local clergy, to the number of 20, present a memorial

to the Vicur, sympathizing with him on the election of a chaplain to whom he had firmly and conscientiously objected.

. Mi. George HndBeld, in accordance with the wish of the

late Mr. S. Hadtield, settles £'3000 in trust, after the manner of Uanbey's charity, for persons excluded from Hanbey's by reason of their not being members of the Church of England.

. In the Bankruptcy Court, IMr. Commissioner West states

that he found a sum of £1000, with interest for some years, to be due to Mr. John Parker, M.P., out of Mr. Hugh Parker's private estate, all the otlier creditors of which had been paid in full ; but Mr. John Parker had declinetl to make a claim, giving up the sum to the creditors of the partnership estate.

— 27. Laycoek v. Pickslay : Rule nisi for new trial discharged.^

— 28. Decease of Robert Bentley, Esq., Rotherham, aged 50.

He had previously made the following donations: — Charities of Huddersfield and Lockwood, £1000; Licensed Victuallers' Asylum, £300; Sheffield Infirmary, £200; Sheffield Dispennry, £00; Poor of Rotherham, (through the feoffees,) £2000; Rotherham Dispensary, £400; Rotherham Wesloyan Benevolent Society, £100.

— 30. Decease in London, aged 70, of B. B. Pegge BurneU, Esq.,

of Beauchiefi' Abbey.

— 31. Tithe Commissioner awards £G n year to be paid to the

vicar, in lieu of all tithes payable in the orish; £4.103

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1850.

to be paid by the Duke of Norfolk, on account of ShefiSeld Park, and the rest by other owners who should not prove that they were tithe-free- June 3. Botanical Gardens — income, £825, which had been ex- ceeded by £13. Upwards of £500 raised in new shares to diminish the debt.

— 5. Mr. W. Marratt, of Doucaster, elected Coroner, vice Mr.

T. R. Mftudell, deceased.

— 10. Cricket at Hyde Park— 11 All England and 14 of York-

sliire. All Enghuid, 1st innings, 107; 2nd, 38; York- shire, 1st, 118; 2iid, 28.

— 12. Town Council — Vfalkmill nuisance — the Hadfield charity

— state of Town Hall cells.

— 14. Alderman Scholield charged before a meeting of Wesleyan

leaders and trustees with attending reform meetings. The accused declined to plead, and was expelled on the 22ud.

. In compliance with a resolution of the House of Commons,

the Government closes the post-oiSces on Sundays, from the 23rd of Juue.

— IG. Decease of ]Mr. James Ray, surgeon, aged 59.

— 18. The Orion Liverpool and Glasgow steamer ran upon the

rocks at Port Patrick.

— 19. Sheffield Union — Enquiry as to the defective state of drugs

supplied in the Dispensary. •

— 24. Decease of Mr. James Smith, aged 21, pupil of the late

Mr. Eay, from inhaling chloroform. . Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire — Report of Com- mittee of February ; report received, but with instruc- tions to proceed against certain gentlemen to recover the profit made by the Humber Ferries purchase.

— 27. Decease, at Holmestield Parsonage, aged 88, of the Eev.

W. Pashley, incumbent of Holmestield for 55 years.

•. . Consecration by Archbishop of York of new portion of

cemetery.

— 28. After a week's debate, majority in the House of Commons

of 310 to 264, on Mr. Roebuck's motion, approving the

foreign policy of the government.

. Decease of Mr. Tliomas Settle, of Leavy Greave, aged 74.

. First distribution of the Hadfield Cliarity, £105 having

been given for the purpose by Mr. George Hadfield.

— 29. Decease, atLeamiiigton,ofMr.S.Harwood, late of Sheffield. July 2. Decease of Sir Eobt. Peel, caused by a fall from his horse

on the 29th June.

. Sale of the Norton Hall, Heeley, and Totley and Dore

estates of Mr. Offley Shore.

. Decease of Mr. Robt. Bunting, Regent street, aged 73, (R.

Bunting and Sons.) . Average price of wheat at Sheffield 45s. G^d.

— 5. Share market: London and North Western, 108§, lOQi;

Midland, 34J, 35^ ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln- shire, 14§, 15.

— 8. Decease of the Duke of Cambridge; bom, 1774.

W^ SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISTEB.

1850.

July 10. Town Council — Haclfield Charity — Exliibition of 1851 —

Address to Lady Peel — Walk mill. . The night blowing ceieus flowers at the Botanical Gardens.

— 12. Sheflield Police Act: Rates collected, ,£4602; expenses,

i'5095.

, Wni. Bailey and Daniel Ensor found guilty at York of

throwing an explosive .substance at the bed-room win- dow of Mr. W. Butcher: seven years' transportation.

— 15. Hon. J as. Wortley carries his bill to legalise the uiarriaga

of a widower with the sister of his deceased wife through the House of Commons. It was dropped iu the House of Lords.

— 1". Trial at York of the libel cause, Eichardson v. Wodson,

involving tlie examination of Mr. Geo. Hudson as to his railway transactions.

— 18. Sheflield Union Banking Company: Dividend, G per cent.

— It). The secretary and several of the members of the edge-tool

grinders pleaded guilty at York of conspiracy, it being understood that they should be required only to enter into recognizances to appear for judgment when required.

. Sheifield and Hallanishire Bank : Five per cent, dividend ;

surplus fund, £17,823 ; capital paid up, i.'125,;350.

— 21. Decease of Mr. Eichard Surtees, of ^Vortley, aged 02, head

steward to Lord Wharnclitfe.

— 24. Mr. Roebuck, M.P., addressed his constituents at the Town

Hall.

— 25. Robbery of the safe of the filesmiths' union of £121 by

Sanil. Paley, a member of the committee. He was pur- sued to Hamburg., and part of the money recovered.

— 27. Violent attacks in the SheJ/iehi Times on the Vicar aud

clergy by the partisans of Mr. Trevor.

— 29. Richard Manks completed the task of walking 1000 miles

in 1000 consecutive hours, conmieuced June 17, at the Barrack Tavern Cricket Ground.

— 30. Blessing the bell of the new Catholic Church of St. Marie.

Avg.l. At Derby Assizes, Blurton v. Greaves — an action for per- sonal injury sustained by a collision on ihe road on March 12th. Verdict for theplaintift': Damages, £120.

. Contract for the iSew Market taken by Mr. Carlisle, the

builder of the Beighton viaduct. 5. Cricket at Hyde Park: Nino gentlemen, with Anderson

and Letby, v. 11 players. Players, 1st innings, 13C ;

2nd, 195 ; gentlemen, 1st innings, 01 ; 2nd 90. . Decease of IMr. Geo. Dealdn, of Spink House, aged 77.

— 7. Enquiry at Rotherham by Mr. W. Lee, C.E., under the

Public Health Act.

— 10. Paiker, Shore, and Co.'s Bank : Fourth dividend declared

of Is. in the pound, making 10s. 13. Royal assent to the Earl of Eflingham's Estate Act, en- abling him to improve his property in and about Ro- therham, and to let on building leases.

— 14. Town Council: Walk mill — Peace Congress — deficiency of

copper cohi — management of assize prosecutionu.

SHEFFIELD LOCAL EEGISTEB. 48l.

1850.

Aug. lb. Mr. Eobt. John Bentley elected feoffee of Eotlierham in place of the late Mr. Robt. Beutley.

. Consecration of Christ's Church, Pitsmoor, by the Arch- bishop of York.

. Cutlers' Company: S. Scott Deakin, Esq., Master-Elect

Messrs. W. Webster and M. Hunter, wardens.

— 10. Reduction of fares on the Slieffield and Eotherham line,

producing a great increase of traffic. . Hurricane of wind shaking out greatly the ripe corn.

— 2i. Park Wood Springs land and building society — 27 acres

near Neepsend purchased at £180 an acre, to divide into about 95 allotments.

. Visit of the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk to Sheffield from

Glossop Hall.

— 28. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire — Half-yearly meet-

ing— Mr. Morton's attacks upon the board found only six supporters.

— 30. Share market: London and Northwestern, lll^^, 112;

Midland, 33^, 33J ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin- colnshire, 14:§ to 1-i f .

— 31. The Sunday closing of the post-offices abolished, the of-

fices closing on Sunday mornings at 10 a.m., except for the despatch of marls.

Sept. 2. Decease, at Heeley, of Mr. Robt. Holland, aged 80.

. Cricket at Hyde Park : 11 All England v. 15 Sheffield.

Sheffield — first innings, 129 ; second, 104. All Eng- land— first innings, 100 ; second, 84.

— 5. Cutlers' Feast. Principal guests: Earl of Effingham,

Lord E. Howard, M.P., E. B. Denison, Esq., M.P.

— 8. Burgess list contains 10,936 voters, being an increase on

list 1819 of 371.

— 9. The Rev. James Bromley, expelled by the Wesleyan Con-

ference, addresses the Wesleyan reformers of Sheffield.

— 9. Decease of Mr. John Deakin, button manufacturer, aged 68,

— 11. St. Marie's Catholic Church opened with great pomp. . Town Council: Report from Mr. J. W. Smith, delegate to

the Peace Congress.

— 15. Decease of Mr. John Copeland, solicitor, aged 52.

— 17. Catholic and Apostolic Church, Victoria st : 1st stone laid. . West-Riding revision Claims of allottees of the Freehold

Land Society, at Crookes, established. Liberal gain at at Sheffield, 14; at Eotherham, 10.

— 18. Doncaster Races. St. Leger won by Voltigeur, who also

won the Cup on the 20th.

— 21. Fall of part of the grinding-wheel of Messrs. Walters and

Co., Globe works.

— 24. Hon. Jas. S. Wortley elected Recorder of London.

— 26. Rotherham church-rate meeting. Twopenny rate defeated

by shew of hands, but carried by a poll, the opponents not voting.

— 27. Accounts of Borough Treasurer. Collected by watch-rates,

£368] ; borough rate, £1290. Expenditure: Police, 6041, less £1945, in fees, fines, &c. ; elections, £202; salary, £300; miscellaneous, £323.

40H" BHEPFIELD LOCAL REGI8TEB.

1850.

£^^2)^.27. Yimlept personal attacks iuthe Sheffield Times, on the Trevor case — answered by Mr. Robt. Younge, in October.

— . 30. Decease Mr. G. Hawkswortb, High St., druggist, aged 08.

. Sheffield attorneys agree to a scale of charges, for jjractice

in the County Court.

Oct. 1. Ee-openiug of the Sheffield Sohool of Medicine. Introduc- tory lecture by Dr. ,J. C. Hall.

. Meeting to comply with the requirements of the will of

the Inte Mr. T. Deakin, wlio left ^3000 for a chai-itable institution, provided that within two years of his death an equal sum should be raised from other sources.

— 2. Fifty-third annual meeting of the Infirmary. Income

covering the expenditure. In-patients, 005 ; out-pa- tients, 3079. ■^ 6. The Rev. Dr. Stowell, of Rotherham College, accepts an invitation to succeed Dr. Harris, at Cheshuut College.

— 7. Botanical Gardens : Meeting of proprietors to consider a

proposition for making a bowling green in the gardens ; proposition negatived.

— 9. Town Council : Report of attendance of members — Re-

turns of summonses in hands of warrant officer — Gas and Water companies — Branch post-offices.

— 10. School of Design: Annual meeting attended by Earl Fitz-

william, John Parker, Esq., M.P., and C. Babbage, Esq. The Mayor's prize awarded to Hy. Archer, silver chaser.

. Licensed Victuallers' Protection Society : Annual dinner

attended by J. Parker, Esq., M.P., the Mayor, (T. Birks Esq.,) Aldermen Dunn, Barker, and Carr.

— 11. County Court : Practice by attorneys and agents. Judge

lays down the limits within which to confine agents. . Manchester, Slieffield, and Liucohishire Railway : Special

meeting. £6 preference shaves created. . Share market: London and North-Western, 115 — IIG ;

Midland, 44 — 45; Manchester, Slieffield, and Liucolii-

sliire, 10§— 19^.

— 12. Net Liberal gain in West-Riding revision, 851.

. Great Northern affords to Sheffield anew route to London.

— IL Sjiecial meeting of the Twelve Capital Burgesses, to con-

sider an information in Cliancery against the trust, filed by the Attorney-General, on the relation of Mr. Job. Wilson. The Court was asked to declare the trusts of the charter ; to ascertain the property of tlie trust ; to settle scheme for future nianagement ; and to authorise, if necessary, an application to Parliament.

— 15. Annual soiree of People's College. Wilson Overeud, Esq.,

chairman. Students, Gl30, an increase of 110 on the preceding year.

— 24. Soiree to Rev. Canon Trevor, at Music Hall, byliis friends. . Decease of Mr. John Nowill, aged 02, late Joliu Nowill and

Sons, Meadow street.

— 25 Great civic banquet at York, given by the provincial Mayors

to Prince Albert and the Lord Mayor of London.

. Mr. Herbert J. Walker elected liouse surgeon of Dispensary,

vice Mr. G. T. Nicholson, deceased.

SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISTEB. *bS

1850.

Oct.27. Violent. Eomisb controversy created by the constitution by tbe Pope, of a Catholic hierarchy in England.

— 30. Town Council : Eeport ou gas and water supply. Eeso-

lution to require the payment of the fines of Mr. Iron- side, for non-attendance at tbe Watch Committee.

. Exhibition of 1851 : Sheffield applicants for space, 292 ;

space required, 21G9 square feet floor room; 8147, counter room ; 3305, wall room ; total, 13,081 sq. ftet.

Nov.l. Municipal elections : St. Peter's ward, T. E. Mycock and Thos. Gates, vice G. Dawson and J. Woolley. St. Philip's ward, W. Fawcett, 304, and G. Shallcross, 359, vice G. Wood, 355, and H. Payne, 340. Park ward, S. Jessop, vice K. Roper ; and R. Tununon. St. George's ward,Wm. Moulson and W. Lawton. Ecclesall ward, G. Roberts, 988, vice T. Gates, and Isaac Ironside, 003, re-elected after an embittered contest on the non-voting question, in which G. L. Saunders polled 509. Brightside ward, C. Alcock, 487, vice A. Knowles, defeating H. Hinde, who polled 309. Upper Hallani, J. W. Smith re-elected. Nether Hallam, T. Wigfall re-elected. Attercliffe, Geo. Hill, vice John Kitcbing.

. Completion of the liydraulic cranes, &c., of the Manches- ter, Sheffield and Lincolnsliire, at New Holland.

— 6. Guardians of Sheffield Union resolve to manufacture gas.

— 8. John Robinson comn)itted to York, charged with criminal

assault on Miss Eliza Newton, Foxbill. Convicted at Winter Assizes, 17tb December, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment.

. Share market — London and North Western, 117, 117J;

Midland, 41^,41 J; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln- shire, 19J, igj.

— 9. Town Council: Alderman T. B. Turton elected Mayor by

27 votes against 21 for Alderman Carr. Watch rate and election of Committees.

— 11. Anti-State Church meeting, attended by the Rev. J. Gordon,

Coventry, and Mr. E. Miall.

— 13. Earl Fitzwilliam announces a reduction of his rents. . Notice of an application to Parliament for an Act to amend

the charter of the Twelve Capital Burgesses and Com- monalty. Proposal to reform the trust.

. Meeting at Nonnanton of delegates from the Yorkshire

boards of guardians, to promote reform in the manage- ment of the county expenditure.

— 14. Branch of the National Public School Association, for

Secular Instruction, founded at Sheffield.

— 15. Decease of Mr. Thomas Firth, aged 01, of the firm of

Thomas Firth and Sons.

— IG. Award of Mr. J. J. Rawlinson, tithe commissioner, that the

Duke of Norfolk is liable to pay tbe Vicar 30s. a year as a modus for one-third the small tithes of Sheffield Park, but for the other two-thirds there is no liability. Nov.lS. Meeting at Rotherham against the papal aggression.

— 22. County meeting at York against the papal bull of 24th Sept.

484 SHEFFIELD LOCAl EEGISTER.

1850.

— 23. Hollow Meadows farm — outlay of £4298, of which oulj-

£1571 was to the able poor and their families. The assets and receipts, taking the buildings, furniture, &c., at the sum they cost, £353o, showing a loss of £715.

. Thirty acres and a half of the Heeley property of Mr.

Shore, with buildings and wood valued at £600, pur- chased for the Eeforni Freehold Society for £4100.

— 24. Eev. D. Loxton becomes the p;\stor of Mount Ziou Chapel.

— 25. Rotherham Guardians niemoralise Sir G. Grey on the

subject of the county rate expenditure.

. Exhibition, 1851 — space allotted to Sheffield — counter and

floor space, 4000 square feet; wall space, 8000. To be thus divided, 50 square feet for raw material ; 1937 for machinery ; 2000 for manufactures ; and 13 for fine arts.

— 26. Conference of representatives of Freehold Land Societies

at Birmingham.

— 30. Heatli r. Unwin, in the Court of Common Pleas. Verdict

for the defendant, enabling the plaintiff to appeal to the Court of Error. Dec. 2. Mr. Eoebuck, M.P., addresses Lord John Eussell on the Eomish Controversy, accusing him of having fomented religious bigotry by his letter of Nov. 4.

— 8. Protestant meeting at Cutlers' Hall, to address" the Queen

and Archbishop of York on the papal aggression.

. The Earl of Carlisle lectures on America before the Leeds

Mechanics' Institution.

— 4. Deputations from bonrds of guardians have an interview

with Lord J. Russell, to urge the appointment of county hoards to manage the expenditure. . Decease of Mr. Henry Payne, aged 37 (Ward and Payne.)

— 9. Twelve Capital Burgesses rBl'iise to make any further pay-

ment of salary to the Rev. G. Trevor. Subscription made to enforce Mr. Trsvor's claim by law. On the 2Sth, Mr. T. Creswick and others ofl'ered to pny Mr. Trevor's salary by private subscription, pending the legal settle- ment of his claim.

— 11. Town Council — Surgeon to police force — Ward meetings

— Committee on new carriage bridge — Museums and public libraries — Committee on gas supply.

. Decease of Mr. Tliomas Pierson, (Wilson, Younge, and

Pierson, solicitors,) aized 50.

— 12. Letter of the Duke of Norfolk to Lord Beaumont, declaring

" that ulira-montane opinions (of papal authority) are totally incompatible with allegiance to our Sovereign, and with the Constitution."

— 19. Mr. Stirling Howard elected president of Sheffield Library,

vice Mr. T. Pierson, deceased.

— 20. Mr. Henry Fowler, C.E., sails for Bombay, having the first

contract of the great Indian Peninsular railway.

. Share market — London and North Western, 125^, 120^ ;

Midland, 47§, 48; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln- shire, 27§, 27^-.

LEADER, PBINTEB, INDEPENDESX OFFICE, SHEFFlEtD.

IPSESENTBD TO THE SvBSCSIBERS TO THE INDEPEKDENT.']

CONTINUATION

OF THE

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1851.

JANUARY.

New streets laid out in Kotherham, under the EarlofEflSng- ham's Estate Act.

Inmates of Sheffield Workhouse reduced to 365.

1. Fifteen famihes of Mormouites started from Sheffield, and others from Eotherhom and the neighbourhood, for the Salt Lake.

1. Claim of toll to tl)e Lord of the Manor for goods exposed for sale iu the streets at the fair, brought before the County Court. — Court without jurisdiction.

1. John Hyde, estate agent, committed for trial charged with obtaining money by false pretences. — Acquitted at Sessions.

1. Park Wood Spring Land and Building Society dinner, on the occasion of the purchase of '27a. 6p. of land, to be divided into 95 allotments, at a cost, including roads, &c., of X'03 each.

3. Decease of Mr. C. Hibble, the London agent of the Uniled Towns Licensed Victuallers' Association.

4. Ecclesnll Union — inmates 183, against 24:6 last year; out relief £i9, against £51 last year.

7. Average price of wheat at Siieffield, 433. 0|d.

7. Soiree of the Mechanics' Institution ; John Parker, Esq.,M.P,

7. John Harrison, clerk in Mr. Bentley's brewery, liotherham, found guilty, at sessions, of embezzlement. — Six months' imprmt.

8. First distribution of the late Mr. R Bentley's charity at Ro- therham ; £2500 invested to yield £100 a year, for distribution among six poor men and four poor women, in sums of £10 each.

8. Testimonial to the Rev. John Pye Smith, D.D., LL.D., F.R.S., &c., a native of SheflSeld, presented at a public breakfast fit the London Tavern.

8. Town Coiiiicil — committee appointed on Church Burgess Trust — resolution in favour of the application of the Museum and Lib. Act — committee to consider the erection of a municipal hall.

9. Decease of the Rev. T. Sutton, D.D., Vicar of SheflBeld, Canon of York, and Rural Dean. Born November, 1777, and presented to the living 30th March, 1805.

10. Local shares: Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 26J-, 27 ; Midland, 47i, 48^; Sheffield Banking Company, 107, 112 ; Sheffield and Rotherham Bank, 7^ 7^; Sheffield and Hallamshire, 27, 28; Union Bank, 11, 12; Gas Company, Sif, 33^; Water Works, 172, 7.

10. Meeting of Rev. Canon Trevor's friends voted an address to the Archbishop, to promote the admission of Mr. Trevor to the pulpit of the Parish church. The Archbishop promised to lay the memorial before the new Vicar.

12. Decease of the Duke of Newcastle; born January, 1785 ; became Duke, 1705.

17. The Rev. Thomas Sale, M.A., presented to the vicarage of Sheffield by the Rev, M. Preston, of Cheshunt, was inducted.

17. Decease of Mr. John Newton, grocer, Marketplace, aged 38.

480 SHEFFIELD LOCAL RBGISTEK.

1851.

1?^. Sheffield Savings' Bank accounts to 20tli NoveTObev: Bnliiucc, invested by 8209 private depositors and 77 societies, £iU,S')o. Deposits during yi-., .e;j4,30-2 ; pd. to depositrs., £48,010.

20. The new Vicar informs the Rev. Canon Trevor that he could not commence his ministry by reversing the decision of his predecessor.

21. Savings' Bank receipts since December 30, aEBOiO, against £0138 in 1850, and £5029 in 1849.

2i. Murder of Geo. Frith, of Berry Moor bottom, new Barns- ley. His brother, J. Fritli, committed for the murder, but acquitted.

29. Decease of Mr. Geo. Jervis, druggist, aged 04.

00. Decease of Mr. Jos. .J. Eyre, solicitor, aged 34.

30. Ward meetings on the subject of the Libraries and Mu- senms Act. Most of tlieni passed resolutions in favour of it, but against the erection of a municipal hall.

31. Sheffield Banking Company — dividend lOJ per cent.

31. Sheffield and Eetford Bank— winding up. Capital, £300,000 in 0000 shares. Only £45,000 called up. Failed in 1840, with £100,000 liabilities, reduced by December, 1850, to £31,877. Two calls, of £5 and £11 per share, and other assets, had reduced this to £5319, besides the cost of winding up. It«as expected that the calls would produce the further sum necessary to dis- charge the liabilities, and the IMnster in Chancery authorised com- promises to be made with various shareholders who were wholly unable to meet the calls.

FEBEUAEY.

1 . Decease of Mr. Juo. Fewsdale, of T. and J. Fewsdale, aged 44. 1. Publication, after a long interval, of weekly returns of the

Sheffield Union. Inmates 381, against 563 last year. Out relief £172, against £291 last year.

4. Meeting to petition for repeal of the law rendering invalid the marriage of a widower with the sister of his deceased wife.

5. Decease, at Guildford, Surrey, of the Eev. John Pye Smith, D.D., Sec, aged 70.

5. Sheffield and Eotherham Bank — dividend 5 per cent.

5. Town Council : The Town Clerk communicated the fact that, in accordance with a recent decision, the Council should have elected nine aldermen on the 9th November last, in place of Aid. H.Wilkinson, .J. Carr, T. R. Turton, E.Lowe, G. Turton, J. W. Hawljsworlh, and E. Vickers — resolved to apply for a writ of mandamus to autliorise the Council to make the election — Me- morial to Attorney-General as to Chancery suit pending respect- ing the Church Burgess Trust — borough rate — proposed munici- l^al hall abandoned — resolved to tuke votes of tlie bin-gesses on the Museum and Library Act — petition in favour of Mr. Hume's measure of parliamentary reform — Mr. Ironside's petition on the Papal aggression negatived — petitions to repeal taxes on know- ledge, for control of ratepayers over county expenditure, for repeal of window duty — return of persons excused rates last three years, being in receipt of parochial relief.

10. Midland Company, by a large majority, sanction a bill to legalise the £50 shares, and to purchase the Leeds and Bradford.

10. Meeting of Siieffield Exhibitors in the Great Exhibition, to make preliminary arrangements.

12. Hollow Meadows Farm — report of Farm Committee strongly •ondemning its management, Ibut approving of the ridding of waste land ps a InbQur test,

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 487

1851.

12. Recognition of the Eev. D. Loxton of Mount Zion chapel. 14. Decease of Mr. Jas. Lnycock, hair seating inanfr,, aged 37. 14. The Eev. John Blackburn, iM.A., of Atteicliffe, appointed to the canonry of Riccal), vacant by tlie deatli of the late Dr. Sutton. 16. Decease of Mr. Geo. Tucker, of Clarke house lane, aged 51.

10. Meeting at Eotherhani to negotiate with tlie Water Com- pany for an improved supply, or to originate a new company.

20. Lord John Eussell promised for next session a measure to extend the franchise.

22. Decease of Mr. Jas. Theaker, Loudon Cofl'ee House, aged 53.

24. Lord John Russell resigns office ; Lord Stanley sent for.

24. The Eev. Dr. Kerns lectures on " The authenticity of the Scriptures," at the Hall of Science, and defends it against the at- tacks of Mr. Ironside, Mr. Otley, and others.

26. Mr. W. Rooke Harrison elected for Upper Hallam Ward, vice the late Mr. Tucker.

MARCH.

1. The adoption of the Library and Museum Act negatived by the burgesses by 294 to 104. Mr. H. Payne, surgeon, elected an assessor for St. Philip's Ward, declined to serve, alleging that he was not qualified.

2. Decease of Mr. John Eowbotham, of Gell street, aged 51.

3. Warehouse of 'Walker, Wall, and Co., Exchange street, burnt. 3, Lord Stanley having failed to form a government, and Lord

John Eussell being unable to procure t!ie aid of the Peelites, the government resumed under the advice of the Duke of Wellington.

3. Decease of Mr. James Woodhouse, manufacturer, aged 05,

5. llotherham Cemetery Company — dividend of 2§ per cent.

5. Rotherham Water Company — dividend of 3 per cent., with an addition to reserve fund.

C. Decease of Mr. E. Truswell, oTTruswell and Co., brewers.

7. The Eev. J. Maclean lectures at the Town Hall, on Wesleynn Methodism, and was interrogated by the Wesleyan Eeformers.

7. Decease of Mr. Richd. Bramley, of Bridlington Quay, aged 78.

11. Mr. Austin, Assistant Commissioner, attends to receive evi- dence which had been tendered respecting tlie conduct of the Union Clerk as to the Hollow Meadows Farm. On the 12th May, the Poor Law Board gave judgment tliat wliile they " considered Mr. Watkinson fully acquitted of any fraudulent misapplication of any property belonging to the Guardians, they are of opinion that he has been guilty of much irregularity and laxity as regards his dealing in several instances with portions of that property, and they are under the necessity, therefore, of saying that his conduct iu the instance above referred to, appears to them to call for serious animadversion."

11. Meeting to nominate Guardians for the township of Sheffield.

11. Price of Wheat at Sheffield, 39s. D^d.

12. Decease of Mr. Thomas Peai-son, Surrey street, aged 83. 12. Town Council — New election of assessor ordered in place

of Mr. H. Payne ; petition to enable the Guardians to maintain schools for children of out poor ; vote of sympathy to Mrs. Tucker. 15. Decease of Mr. Win. Hoyland, Church street, aged 71.

15. Tillotson v. Aldam — Writ of enquiry to assess damages iu au action for assault; verdict for plaintiff, iJ^lOO.

16. Decease of Mr. Jon. Bennlslutw, of the firm of J. Beardshaw and Sons, Garden street, aged 71.

488 SHEFFIELD LOCAL KEGISTER.

1851.

17. Comiuencemeut of six nigbts' discussion at the Theatre, between Dr. Sleigh and Mr. Otley, on the nutlienticity of the Bible.

17. Decease of Mr. Chas. Brookfield, solicitor, aged 78.

18. At Leamington Priors, aged 6-1, Sanil. Newboiild, Esq. 18. Decease of Mr. John Curr, silversmith, aged 57.

20. Accidentally drowned in attempting to cross the Eother, at Bejghton, in his gig, Mr. Samuel Linley, aged 45, iraveller for Messrs. Porter and Prest.

20. Sheffield Union expenditure— 1841, £-21,466; 1842,^20,727; i843, .£42,576 ; 1844, i;33,707 ; 1845, A'27,361; 1846,^22,082; 1847, £21,301 ; 1818, £26,189 ; 1840, £37,220 ; 1850, £26,455.

24. Decease of Mr. John Booth, currier, Rotberham, aged 5-1.

27. Presentation of silver candelabrum to M. J. Ellison, Esq., "by his fellow-townsmen, admirers of cricket, for his persevering and generous exertions in promoting that manly and national game in the town of Sheffield."

28. Decease of Mr. Jph. Outram, Black Swan, Snighill, aged 51. 31. Meeting at Rotherham to form an association for the re- storation of Protection.

31. Ecclesall Highways— Election of Board— R. Otley, 182; G. Buxton, 183 ; H. Belcher, J. Diingworth, J. Hill, W. Furniss, T. B. Loukes, J. Nelson, J. Padley, G. Swiuden, 179 each. The other list had from 96 to 100 votes each.

31. Decease of Mr. J. Cooper, confectioner, High street, aged 73.

31. Decease of Mr. James Tibbetts, aged 40.

31. Census taken. — Shef. Union Population Returns, 1851.

TOWNSHIP.

II0USE3.

POPULATION.

i.

f

ii

Inha. bitod .

hbtd

2b -1 11

1P3

.>.7 n

A

173 127

Males

7l ,700 5,979 2,475 1,683

51^ 42,006

i.

Total. 1851.

'8342^: ]203ti 4871

103602 85074

Shefricld

Brightside ....

Attcrcliffo

Handsworth ..

IG.SHO 2.4!i7

6H6

16,676

2,4.^1!

98^

67ti

41,728 6,060 2,396

.51,765 43,008

~8J '

67,96- 10 089 4,156 2,862;

85,074

15,461

195)

715

402

Total

Populatn.,1841

21,011

2fi,70p 17,bie

1 8 8 18,528

Increase

The Sheffield Census was accompanied by some very defective returns of schools. I^cclesall Union.

In Norton, (hpre was a decrcaKc of 51, und ut Totley, 5 inbabilaDli', coir.> pnicd with the return in 1841.

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 489

1851.

RoTHEEHAM Union. Houses. 1851. 1841.

Inhtd. Unhtd. Bldng. TiFale. Female. Male. Female.

Eotherham 1273 18 0 3205 3111 2656 2705

Kimberworth 1397 52 04 3448 3448 2610 2447

25 other Townships 4002 144 39 10,002 9822 9129 8,979

APRIL.

3. The Eev. Canon Trevor applied to the Church Burgesses to obtain a mandamus against the Vicar, requiring him to admit Mr. Trevor to the due discharge of his oiEce. Tlie Burgesses declined.

5. Eotherham guardians elected witlioxit any contest.

5. Ecclesall Union : — Ecclesall — T. E. Barker, G. Buxton, S. Mitchell, T. N. Bardwell ; Nether Halliim— G. Eonksley, G, Hiiwksworth ; Upper Hallam — W. E. Harrison ; Bcauchief — G. Sampson ; Dore — W. Taylor ; Norton — G. Eogers, Eev. H. H. Pearson ; Totley — G. Mountford.

7. Water Works Company — 4 per cent, for half year ; increased rental, ^£358; increased cost of the daily supply, ^800 to ^900.

9. Town Council — gas fitters' memorial — Public Health Act — the Mandamus — Secuh^r Education.

11. Decease, in London, of Mr. Edward Hallam, aged 48, col- lector of highway rates.

12. District Savings' Banks opened in several parts of the town.

13. Decease of Mr. W. Wright, of Howard House, aged 64.

14. Sheffield Union :—Attereliffe, Eev. J. Blr.ckburn ; Bright- side, W. Groves, 600 ; T. Turner, 007 ; defeating W. Jarvis, 406; J. Wall, 396. Handsworth, J. Hodgkinson, 199; defeating W. Cadmnn, 150. Sheffield, C. Alcock, 5401 ; T. E. Mvcock, 5201; P. Ashberry, 4784; C. Peace, 4460; W. L. Humfrey, 3912; J. Woodcock, 3688; H. Crawshaw, 3621: A. Booth, 3504; defeating J. Woolley, J. G. Eobson, W. Crowther, G. Slack, J. Walker, W. Butcher, .J. S. rfawksworlh, J. Taylor, W. Eeuton.

15. IMandamus for the election of aldermen issued.

15. Explosion of gas from the overfilling of one of the gas- ometers in Shudehill.

15. Eeports of Mr. W. Lee, superintending inspector of the Genernl Board of Healtl), recommending the application of the act to Eotherham and Worksop.

23. The Eev. Canon Trevor offers his services to the Guardians as gratuitous Chaplain. The Guardians offered to place Mr. Trevor on the same footing as other ministers of religijn who visit the Workhouse, whereupon, in June, he appealed to the Poor-Law Board. In the correspondence, a fallacious return was made by the Union Clerk as to the religious state of the inmates, and that being disproved, the subject dro[;ped.

23. Decease of Mr. James Barton, West street, aged 68.

24. Election of Churchwardens — the Vicar read a letter written by his in-edecessor in 1819, to the effect that he had claimed the election of both churchwardens, but had agreed, saving the rights of his successor, to allow one to be elected by the parishioners. The Vioar stated that he should act in the same way.

25. Eotherham Vestry Meeting resolved that the owners of tenements of ;£6 a year and under, should be rated to the poor instead of the tenants.

28. Piiblic meeting to petition in favour of a defensive enact- ment against the Papal Aggression.

28. Exhibition Jurors for Sheffield— Cutlery, Mr. Aid. Peace ;

490 SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISTEE.

1851.

tilver-plaleil goods, Mr. Eobert Yoiinge ; iron and general herd ware, Mr. Sterling Howard.

MAY. 1. Opening of the Great Exhibition.

3. John Wilkinson, of Wilson's ynrd, Duke siveet, Park, killed by bis wife and her cousin, Wm. Battersby. Committed for trial for the murder, but found guilly of uin.nsloughter.

3. Water Company's shares sold by auction for £181 ; and Sheffield Banking Company's shares, £125. 10s.

5. Public meeting to promote a subscription for the assistance of the Hungarian refugees, resident in Sheffield.

8. A deputation of Mr. Canon Tievor's friends waited on the Vicar to request his assent to a plan for having Mr. Trevor licensed to a proprietary chapel, hereafter to become a district parish church. The Vicar, after consideration, declined to accede.

10. Sheffield Highways accoimts, — receipts, balance, ^'1133; rates, &c., £7029 ; expenditure, £G0G7.

10, Town Trust accounts — receipts, £2141. Balance of £713 carried to Street Improvement account.

10. The Queen visited tlie Sheilield department of the Exhibi- tion, Mr. PI. E. Hoole being required to attend her Majesty to afford explanations.

10. Earl Filzwilliam's rents adjusied to a new valuation on the basis of OS. lOil. ^ bshl. for wheat, a reduction of about 12 ^ cent.

12. Small meeting called by Messrs. Ironside, Booth, Lautoii, and others, resolved that " Messrs. C. Alcock, W. Groves, T. Iron- side, W. Harvey, T. E. Mycock, W. E. Harrison, and W. Crowthcr, be and are hereby elected aldermen of this borough ;" and by another resolution, the Town Council was called upon to perform " the ministerial act of confirming the decision of the meeting." After this sham, some of the parties dubbed themselves " the People's Aldermen."

12. Cricket— 11 All England v. 14 of Yorkshire, at Hyde Park. Yorkshire, 1st innings, 183 ; All England, 1st, 47; 2nd, 80.

14. Town Council— Messrs. T. B. Turton, J. W. Pye-Smith. E. Viokers, H. E. Hoole, W. Fawcctt, \V A. Slatthows, ami T. E. Jlycock elected aldermen. Committee appointed to con- sider the applying for a local act or the Public Health Act. Watch Committee to enquire as to the better means of extinguishing iirco.

18. Mount Tabor chapel opened by the Wcsleyan Reformers.

18. Geo. Eussell elected huntsman of the Hallamshire harriers, wife Geo. Sampson, deceased.

19. Decease, at Mallby, aged 82, of Eobt. Fisher, Esq., formerly of the firm of Eobt. and Wm. Fisher.

19. On the Midland Eaihvay, near Clay Cross, luggage train ran into passenger train. — Killed : Mr. John Blake, of tlie firm of Blake and Parkin, aged 34; John JNIeynell, Esq., of Tapton Grove, near Chesterfield. Injured : J.Irs. Meyncll, Mr. E. Broad- bent, Barrack Tavern ; Mr. Horncastle, Eoyal Oak, Pond street; Mr. Ashton, of Wheeldon street, .and other persons. Skclton, driver of the luggage train, committed for n);»nslaughtcr, but acquitted. Thompson, guard of the passenger train, prosecuted by the Com- pany, but acquiitjd. Compensation awarded to Mrs. Blake, at Derby Assizes, £4000 ; to Mr. Broadbcnt, by agreement, £450, and costs of preparing for action. Eule nisi for new trial in case of Mrs. Slaked

SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISTER. 491

]851.

20. Meeting of ratepayers of Kimberwortli memorialised the General Board of Health not to interfere with their highways.

20. Warehouse of ]\Ir. Mawer, cabinet maker, High street, Ko- therhnm, destroyed by fire.

21. First stone of ibe new Savings' Bank at Eotherham laid.

22. St. Peter's Ward: John Carr elected, ^-ice Aid. Mycock

Park Ward: D. Wood, I'jcc Aid. Matthews.— St. Philip's Ward: G. A. Wood, 411 ; J. Eobson, 408 ; defeating .J. W. Dixon, 230 ; and J. Worlley, 231 ; vice Aid. Hoole and Fawcett. — Upper Kal- ian), G. H. Parker, f)S ; defeating J. Taylor, 54; vice Aid. Pye Smith. — Mr. Parker declined to declare his qualification.

24. Criminal statistics of the borough shew an increase of minor offences, but a decrease of felonies and convictions. — Per- sons in custody, 1845, 255G ; 184G, 2873 ; 1847, 2680 ; 1848, 3000; 1849, 3098; 1850, 3187.— Felonies: 1845,346; 1849, 407 ; 1850, 285. Convictions in 1850, less by 87, or 26 per cent., than in 1849.

31. Waterworks Co. resolve to construct a new and larger reser- voir at P.edmires, and to obtain more extensive gathering grounds.

31. The Eev. J. Thomas, B.A., of Thetford, Norfolk, accepts the pastorate of Garden street Chapel.

31. Tlic Eev. Canon Trevor obtains, in the Bail Court, a rule nisi for a mandamus to the Eev. T. Sale, to admit tlie Eev. Geo. Trevor to the exercise of the duties of chaplain of the Parish Church. In June, .the rule was made absolute, but was net issued, and in December, Mr. Trevor announced that he should not proceed with it,

JUNE.

Decrease of 55,852 in the Wesleyan Society announced. — De- crease in Sheffield, 4734.

1. Decease of W. J. Bagshawe, Esq., of The Oaks, aged 58. In June, 1820, became a magistrate, and in June, 1832, auceeedod his father, Sir W. Bagshawe. Succeeded by his son, W. L. G. Bag- shawe, Esq., born Oct., 1828.

2. Upper Hallam Ward : Jas. Taylor, 98, against E. Eoper, Jun., 05, vice G. H. Parker, refused the declaration.

4. Storm of hail and snow on the Derbyshire hills.

4. The Eev. Mr. Morton, M.A., curate of St. James's, vice the Eev. Dr. Kerns. The Eev. F. Whilty, M.A., incumbent of Carver street district, vice the Eev. J. Sheldon, deceased.

5. Decease, aged 3S, of the Eev. J. F. Eobinson, M.A., late curate of Bradfield.

6. Decease of Mr. Wilford Mettam, aged 38, late of the firm of \W. Greaves and Sons, Sheaf Works.

9. Another explosion in Oaks Colliery, near Barusley — 3 killed. 11. Decease, aged 78, of Mr. John Spear, of Spear and Jackson, Etna Works.

13. Town Council — Upper Ilallam ek-ction— Mr. Ironside pro- tests against the election of aldermen — night watclsmen — the Gas Co. and the gas fitters — disbanding the army — tlie watch com- mittee and the magistrates.

14. Sheffield Union. — Inmates SOC against S7G las venr ; out poor, 3295, receiving £'289, against 3183, receiving ^'271 last year. Ecclesall Union. — Inmates, 184, against 189 last year- out-relief, £bO, against £'51 last year.

17. Decease, at Blackpool, Mr. Ed. Colley, of Hail and Collev, 17. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 42s. lOJ.

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21. Colliery explosions : — Deaths.

1812. May 25tb. Felling 92. .explosion.

1815. May 3rd. Heaton 75.. inundation

1815. June 18th. Newbottle 57 . . explosion.

1821 . Oct. 2;3id. Wallsend 52 . .

1823. Nov. 3rd. Plainpit, Eaiuton 59.. „

1835. June 10th. Wallsend 102 . .

1838. July Itb. Silkstone 26 . .inundation.

1839. Juue 2Sth. Soutli Hilder, South Shields. 51, .explosion. 1841. Nov. 22iul. Mount Osborne, Barnsley ..15.. „ 1812. Feb. 22nd. Hopwoods, Barnsley 3.. „

1843. March 10th. Do. Do 2.. „

1844. Sept. 28th. Haswell 95.. „

1845. Juue 11th. Oaks, near Barnsley 3.. „

1847. Jan. 29th. Darley Maine 6 . .

1847. March 5th. Oaks 73. . „

1847. Aug. 27th. Darley Maine 2 . . „

1849. Jan. 24th. Do. 75.. „

1851. June 9th. Oaks 3 . . „

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25. Sheffield Fire Office— dividend 10 per cent.

30. Meetings of the ratepayers of Ecclesall and Nether Hallam nppoict iNfr. Tlios. Smitli, vestry clerk.

30. Hanbey and Had field charities. — The distributors, after making the annual benefactions, dine together, in accordance with the wish of the late Mr. S. Hadfield. JULY.

2. Opening of the New Corn Exchange at Worksop.

2. The Earl of Arundel and Surrey resigns his seat for Arundel, differing from the Duke of Norfolk as to the Papal Aggression Bill. Afterwards returned for Limerick.

9. Town Council — Local Improvement Act — proposed carriage bridge over the Dun — Church Burgesses Committee — liberation of Kossuth — the parliamentary franchise — the national debt — the Pence Congress — weight of candles.

11. Decease of Mr. Thos. Eamse}', Crookes Moor, aged 80.

]]. Maude v. Sleigh — action tried in the County Court, by Henry Maude, reporter, to recover from Dr. Sleigh £bO. Plaintiff alleged that Dr. Sleigh had engaged him as reporter for a pro- jected Tory newsp.iper, whicli had fallen through. Defendant alleged that the engagement was conditional on the aijpearauce of the paper. — Judgment for the defendant.

16. Dinnorto the Local Commissioners, — Wilson Overend, Esq., and Mr. Aid. Dunn, by the Sheffield exhibitors.

17. llotherham church-rate meeting. Amendment for a rate of a farthing in the pound not put by the chairman, and the rale of 2.[d. declared to be carried. The meeting broke up in confusion.

18. Sheffield and Hallauishire Bank — dividend 5 per cent. ; surplus fund, ^20,429.

21. Competition between Gicat Northern and Midland and North Western Companies for Exhibition traffic to London — third class fares to London and back reduced to 10s.; on the 23rd to 5s.

21. Bill for winding up the Chartist Land Company passed.

21. Cricket — Surrey v. Yorkshire — Surrev, 1st innings, 164; 2nd, 93; Yorkbliirc, 1st, 95; 2nd, QO.

SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISTER. 493

1851.

22. Marriage of Lord E. Howard to the Hon. Miss Talbot.

23. Sheffield Union Bank — dividend 7§ per cent.

27. Decease of Mr. G. M. Jervis, solicitor, aged 33.

28. Eclipse of tbe sun — total, in aline across Europfc from tbe coast of Norway to tbe Caspian Sea. i

28. Cricket — Lancashire v. Yorkshire— Lancashire, 1st innings, 184; 2nd, 09 ; Yorkshire, 140; 2d, 114; several wickets to go down.

30. Decease of Hollis Solly, Esq., at Port Madoc, aged 73. AUGUST.

4. Cricket: Surrey f. Yorkshire, return match tit Kensington. Yorkshire, first innings, 71; second, 101. Surrey, first innings, 100; second, 13, without tlie loss of a wicket,

4. Testimonial presented to the Eev. W. Bruce, incumbent of the Wicker church, on his removal to St. James's, Bristol.

4 Messrs. S. ?.Iitchell, J. Kyalls, W. Jeffreys, C. Alcock, A. Booth, W. Groves, W. Crowther, C. Unwin, W. Harvey, elected Improvomcnt Commissioners.

T). Yorkr. Agricultural Society to hold next meeting at SheflSeld.

0. Decease of Mr. T. Stones, sec. saw-makers' union, aged 40. 8. The Eev. Canon Trevor obtains a decree in Chancery, re- quiring tbe Church Burgesses to pay his salary and costs.

11. Cullers' Company: Wm. Webster, Esq., master ; M. Hunter, Esq., and Mr. Aid. jratthews, wardens.

13. Tov.n Council : Extinguishing fires ; lodging-houses act ; finance; itinerant greengrocers; Peace Congress; Y'orkshire Agri- cultural Society; local improvement act ; tiie national^ debt.

19. £3000 raised by subscription to meet the requirements of tbe will of the late Mr. T. Deakin, who left =£3000 to aid in form- ing an institution for umarried women.

21. Cricket: Yorkshire and Lancashire, at Manchester. Lan- cashire, 1st, 71 ; 2ud, 123. Yorkshire. 1st, 155 ; 2nd, 44, with five wickets to go down.

25, Public meeting resolved to apply to Parliament for a local improvement act, and appointed a committee.

27. The Queen spent the night at Doncaster.

29. Meeting of the Local Commissioners and Exhibitors re- commend the application of the surplus funds of the Exhibition to establish a central college of arts and manufactures.

29. Committal of Thomas Linley for the manslaughter of Geo. Rastrick. Acquitted at the Winter Assizes.

30. The Duke of Norfolk seceded from the Roman Catholic Church, and joined the Church of England.

SEPTEMBER.

1. Cricket: All England v. Sheffield. Sheffield, first innings, 134 ; second, 105. All England, first innings, 263.

2. Decease of Mr. Geo. Turton, Towubead street, aged GO.

4. Cutlers' Feast : Principal guests — Lord WharnclifFe, the Hon. Mr. Wortley, Sir T. W. White, Bart., E. B. Denison, Esq., M.P., John Parker, Esq., M.P., and J. A. Roebuck, Esq., M.P.

4. Rd. Manks completed, at the Barrack Tavern, the task of walking 1000 quarter miles in 1000 quarter hoiu's, 1000 half miles in 10f)0 half hours, and 1000 miles in 1000 hours in succession.

5. Publication of Burgess list, containing 12,211 names — an increase upon 1851 of 1234.

7. Decease of the Rev. John Hanson, called " the Vicar of Loxley," aged 73.

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7. Decease of Mr. Saml. Marshall, of the Tower Mills, aged 60.

7. Decease of Mr. Simpson, aged 70, formerly grocer in Hartshd. 10. Town Council : Churchyards ; short weight candles ; local

improvement act committee ; Upper Hallam; the bridges; Kossuth.

14. Fire at the Black Horse, High street, Rotherhara. Mrs. Nicholson, the landlady, aged 82, burnt to death, and her grand- daughter, 2§ years old, killed by a fall.

15. Opening of the Victoria Station of the Manchester, Shef- field, and Lincolnshire.

17. Mr. H. Bloor elected registrar for Nether Hallam.

17. Annual meetings of the Sheffield Ragged School. Lord Wharncliile in the chair.

20. Sheffield Union : inmates, 321 against 352 last year; out- rclief to 3328, £288 against £320 to 3o4G last year. Ecclesall Union: inmates, 1C5 against 192 last year; out-relief, £50 against £48 last year.

22. Members of the Athenaeum and Mechanics' Institution re- solve to separate the two sections.

22. Decease of Mr. Paul Eodgers, aged 03. Though a self-edu- cated man, he was the author of various literary productions of much merit,and was highly esteemed by many persons of distinction.

24. Decease of Mr. C. Haslehurst, of Sheffield Park, aged 49.

2-4. Mr. Farnall, poor law inspector, states the average cost of the paupers of the Sheffield Union to be £4. 8s. 2-^-d. per year, while the average of the rest of his distiict was £3. 5s. 3Jd. The rate in Sheffield was Is. 5'}d., and in the rest of his distiuct Is. 0|d. in the pound.

26. Revision of the West-Riding lists at Sheffield — Sheffield gain to the liberal party, 52 ; gain on the whole Riding, 1135.

27. Circulation of the Independent ior 18^)0 shewn to be 207,000 — the first of the Sheffield and the third of the Yorkshire papers.

29. Cricket: Sheffield v. Dalton, at Manchester — Daltou, first, 101; second, 134. Sheffield, first, 102; second, 127.

30. School of Design — Annual meeting: the Earl of Yarbo- rough in tlie chair.

30. Decease of Mr. Ebenczer Birks, of Pond street, aged 80. 80. Meeting at the Cutlers' Hall resolved to form a New Gas Consumers' Company. Capital, £00,000 in 12,000 £5 shares.

OCTOBER. 1. Improvement Commissioners resolve to concur in the appli- cation for a local improvement act.

1. Revision of the burgess roll — Claims of burgesses to be en- rolled in each ward, in which they possessed qualifications, rejected.

2. Decease, at Tliurcroft Hall, Mr. .Tohn Crossley Wilson, eldest son of the late .lohn Wilson, ]''.sq., of Oakholme.

0. Aggregate meeting of the Wesleyan Mutual Aid Association held in Sheffield. Refused the Wesleyan chapels, the local preach- ers occupied the dissenting pulpits.

8. Town Council — Gas-rthe Exhibition surplus — petition for universal suffrage, iScc. — the Water Company and their new act — address to Kossutii.

8. No. of visitors at the Great Exhibition, 109,032.

9. Meeting of the Gas Company defy threatened opposition. 10 The Queen visits Manchester.

H. Close of the I'.xliibition which had been visited by more than 5^ millions of peonlc. and realised surplus receipts £850,000

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER. 495

1851. Council medal awarded to Messrs. Spear and Jackson. Prize medals and "honourable mentions" awarded to many others.

12. The Rev. Mr. Wilkinson, late secretary of the Irish Evan- gelical Society, enters tipon the incumbency of the Wicker church.

14. Decease of Aid. T. Wiley, aged 57, of Old No. 12, Haymarket.

21. Peoples' College annual soiree — the Hon. G. W. Fitzwilliam, M.P., in the chair.

22. Decease of Mr. Eoht. Rogers, of Norfolk row, aged 64.

22. Mr. Lee recommends the application of the Public Health Act to Rotherham and Kimberwortli.

23. Mr. Joseph Paxton, the designer of the Crystal Palace, knighted. ^5000 awarded to him.

23. Kossuth arrives at Southampton.

24. Town Council — Gas — Mr. Carr elected Alderman, vice the late Mr. Wiley.

27. Plans of Mr. S. Worth and Mr. S. F, Holmes for new car- riage bridge over the Dun adopted.

NOVEMBER.

I. Municipal Elactions : St. Peter's, H. Hills re-elected ; H. Hinde, vice H. Atkiu. St. Philip's, R, Holman, 340 (re-elected ;) G. S. Brittaiu, 339 (vice J. Dickenson;) J. Wortley, 218; J. W. Dixon, 213. Park: J. Woodcock, 425 (re-elected;) G, Bassett, 385 (vice G. Walker;) E. Elliott, 345 ; W. Howarth, 310. St. George's: E. Thompson, S. Dewsnap, re-elected. Ecclesall: J. Belcher, re-elected, C. Thomson, vice A.Cavalier. Brightside: G. L. Saunders, 513, vice W. Fisher, Junr., 452. fJpper Hallam : W. K. Harrison, re-elected. Nether Hallam : T. Turner, re-elected. Attercliffe : J. Foster, vice S. Jackson.

3. Tlie Athenaeum, formerly connected with the Mechanics' Institution, becomes the Lyceum Club.

3. St. Peter's ward: W.Fisher, Jun., 439, ( viceAld. Carr;) J. Wilson, 290.

4. Jas. Montgomery, Esq., on the event of his 80ili birth-day, plants an oak in front of the Infirmary.

7. F. O'Connor visits Sheffield, and is received by a meagre au- dience in the Hall of Science.

10. Town Council : Aid. Carr elected Mayor. Bridge commit- tee— lodging-houses — watch rate deferred to examine tlie cause of its inefficient collection — hour of meeting changed — letter car- riers' memorial — complaints of irregular voting.

10. Reform Freehold Land Society: Members, 258; shares, 423. The Heeley estate, in 171 lots, purchased by 87 members.

II. Kossuth at Manchester.

13. Celebration of opening of Rotherham Savings' Bank. Earl of Effingham, Earl Fitzwilliam, &e. present.

15. Notices of application to parliament for local improvement act, new bridges and streets act, and an extended gathering ground for the Water Company.

17. Church of England Instruction Society — annual meeting. Earl of Effingham in the chair.

24. Meeting of ratepayers of Rotherham repudiated a notice given to apply for a local improvement act on the 25th. Similar meeting ot Masbro'.

25. Death of Mr. W. Ducker, aged 79 ; for 52 years beadle of the Revolution Sick Society.

27. Decease of Mr. G. Fisher, George Inn, Marketplace, aged 55.

496 SHEFFIEID LOCAt REGISTER.

1851.

29. Samuel Paley, wlio bad robbed the box of tbe filesniiUis' union of ^'131, and escaped to Hamburg in July, 1850, having returned to Sheffield, was charged with neglect of family.

DECEMBEE. 2. Temperance soiree and ball in the New Market Hall.

2. Louis Napoleon subverts the French constitution.

3. Proposal to provide new premises for the School of Design. 3. Reform Conference at Manchester.

3. Local Improvement Bill rejected on various fallacious pre- texts by meeting in the Council Hall.

6. Explosion and loss of three lives in Woodthoi-pe Colliery. — Joseph Oldfiekl, the underground steward, committed for man- slaughter, but acquitted.

7. Decease of Mr. John Piagg, of W. and J. Kagg, Nursery st.

8. Decease of Mr. John Seward, Division street, oged 48.

8. Wesleynn Reform meeting — vote of sympathy with the pro- prietor of the TTesleyan Times, sentenced to imprisonment for libel.

8. Opening dinner of the Lyceum.

9. Lecture by E, Baiues, Esq., on the rival Manchester schemes of education.

10. Town Council. — C;u-d playing at Christmas — attendance of Watch Committee — letter carriers — voting in different wards at different elections — bye-laws of lodging-houses — improvement act — magistrates' clerk — the Caffre war.

13. Duke of Newcastle discourses to his tenantry on free trmlc, reduction of rents, improved farming, &c.

13. Decease of Mr. S. Cohen, rabbi of the Jewish synagogue.

15. Death of Mr. John Jones, Market place, aged 04.

Savings' Bank deposits to 20th Nov. shew " the largo increase over the previous year of £'15,009. 17s. 8d., the amount of deposits being— in 1850, £54,362. 8s. 8d. ; and in 1851, £70,O3-2. 6s. 4d. The number of depositors in 1850 was 8340 ; in 1851, 10,033 — showing an increase of 1687. As contrasted with the year 1849, the amount of deposits sliows a still further increase. In the year ending Nov. 20th, 1849, the total amount due to depositors was £2^3,118, 15s. 5d.; Nov. 20th, 1850, .i-2U>855. 18s. 3d.; and Nov., 1851, £237,985. 3s. 5d.; increase to Nov., 1850, £11,737. 28. lOd. ; to Nov., 1851, £23,129. 5s. 2d.

15. Sub?cribcr3 to the Elliott monument re.^olve to employ Mr. N. Burnard to sculpture a statue to be erected in the town. r; 15. Thos. Child, of the Flying Dtitchuinn beerhouse, Masbro', convicted by the magistrates in the penalty of £25 and costs, for obtaining a license by a false certificate — he not being the bona fuh' tenant of the house, but only the servant of a brewer.

20. Explosion at Warren Vale Colliery, Rawmarsh, 50 killed and 9 seriously injured.

24. Opening of the Norfolk Market.

20. Local Shares : — Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 32§..33i; Midland, [)G}..S7i; Sheffield Banking Company, 128.. 132; Sheffield and Rotherhara Bank, 7. 7^; Sheffield and Ilallamshire, 29.. 30; Union Bank, 14^.15^-; Gas, 29.. 30; Waterworks, 100.. 105.

27. Savings' Bank Accounts ; — Deposits for the year ending 20ih Nov.. £70,034 ; payments, £53,290. No. of depositors, 9951 ; societies deiiositing, 82. Balance in the bunk, .£237,985.

LBADEB, FBINTGR, INDEFENDENT OFFICE, SHEFFIELD,

TPRESENTED TO THE SUBSCRIBERS TO THE INDEPENDENT.']

CONTINUATION

OF THE

SHEFFIELD LOCAL REGISTER.

1852.

JANUAEY.

■2. Inquest on 52 men and boys killed by tbe Warren Vale «olliery explosion, Dec. 20. Verdict — Accidentally killed. £2400 raised for the relief of the bereaved families.

4. George and Elizabeth Hall, of Parkhill lane, found dead in their bed-room, sTiffocated by gases from an ignited ash-pit.

7. Decease of Dr. F. W. Osborne, of Cheney row, aged 37.

8. Ecclesall vestry agreed to stop up part of Mackenzie walk. 8. Meeting at Eotherham, to commence a subscription for the

Rawmarsh sufferers.

8. James Ellis, John Green, and Edward Marshall, appre- bended at Sheffield, for uttering forgeries on the Yorkshire Bank- ing Company. Committed for trial by the Leeds magistrates. The issue of the notes had been simultaneous in Sheffield, Brad- ford, Pontefract, &c. Found guilty at the Spring assizes. Ellis transported for life ; Green and Marshall 15 years each. Jones and Jackson confederates for 20 and 15 years respectively.

9. Savings' Bank — extended hours of business to accommodate increasing depositors.

12. Mechanics' Institution soiree attended by J. Parker, Esq., M.P., and J. A. Roebuck, Esq., M.P.

13. Mr. Roebuck addresses his constituents in the Council Hall — resolution of approval.

14. Town Council— Bridges over the Don — Magistrates' clerk's salary — coalpit explosions.

14. Wm. Overend, Esq., presents £50 to the Scbool of Design for a prize for the best design for an article of Sheffield manufac- ture, and the ladies' committee to present a testimonial to Mr. Montgomery, give £60 for an annual m^dnl and a free pupil.

15. Mr. Jas. Cumming, surgeon, Buxton, and his son drowned at Matlock bath when boating on the river.

15. Decease ofWm.Caley, son of Sir A. J. Knight, M.D., aged 26.

17. Education — of 80 men and boys iu Messrs. Jos. Rodgers and Son's wheel, two only cannot read and four cannot write. At Globe Works, of 269 workmen, 176 read and write, 47 read, and 46 do neither.

19. Omnibus commenced from die Royal Hotel to Heeley. Shortly followed by others to Attercliffe, the Barracks, the Bota- nical Gardens, and Broomhill.

19. Meeting at the Lecture Hall of the Mechanics' Institution addressed by Sir Joshua Walmsley, M.P., and Geo. Thompson, Esq., M.P., on Parliamentary Reform.

19. Anti-State Church meeting at Rolherham addressed by Mr. J. Kingsley, of London,

21. Annual meeting of the Athenaeum— total income, £691; expenditure, including removal, £996.

21. Meeting of Magistrates to consider the resolution of the Town Council in favour of paying their clerk by salary — resolve to pray the Secretary of State not to charge the tenure and condi- tions of the clerk's office. Secretrtvy of State replies, that he caa-

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not act without the recomineudation of the Magistrates. Mr. A. Smith had lield the office for 3"i years.

:21. Poor law auditor disallowed several items of the Sheffield guardians' accounts as illegal. Surcharges afterwards remitted.

2'-l. Meeting of Rotherham commissioners to consider the pro- visional order of the General Board of Health to apply the Public Health Act to Rotherham.

23. Feoffees of Rotherham publish accounts — receipts, £839; expenditure, £076.

23. Decease of Mr. Thos. Judd, of Castle street.

aO. Anti-State Church meeting in the Council Hall — deputa- tion: J. Kiugsley, Esq, M.A., of Loudon, and the Rev. J. R. Campbell, of Edinburgh.

20, 27 and 28. Garotte robberies in several places near the town.

28. Elihu Burrett addressed a meeting in Lyceum Hall on the Ocean Penny Postage.

30. Decease of Mr. John Potter, aged 55, late of Treeton.

3(1. Sheffield Banking Co. — div. of 12 p. et. and inc. of surp. fund .

30. Number of registered common lodging-houses in Sheffield, 215, with 488 bedrooms — accommodation for 1771 lodgers.

30. Rule nisi for criminal information against Mr. I. Ironside for a libel on Mr. Barwell, a director of the Midland Company. Rule made absolute in April — case set down for trial at Yorkshire Summer Assizes, but the vena changed to Middlesex. In Nov., the case was settled by the retractation and apology of Mr. Ironside.

31. Fire at Messrs. Marsdens, Bridge st. — damage A'lOOO.

FEBRUARY.

3. Meeting in Friends' Meeting House, resolutions j^assed de- nouncing the impolicy and injustice of the Cnffre war.

-L. Meeting at the Towu Hall resolved on forming a volunteer rifle corps, on the ground of the possibility of invasion by the French. The project was afterwards discouraged by the govern- ment and dropped.

4. Improvement Commissioners' meeting resolved to request the Watcli Committee to require a daily return of chimneys which emitted large quantities of smoke.

4:. Sheffield and Rotherham Bank dividend 5 per cent., and in- crease to the reserve fund.

5. Bursting of the Bilberry reservoir, at Holme, near Holmfirth, 100 lives lost. Veidiut of the coroner's jury, on the 27th, attached great blame to the commissioners and overlookers.

5. The Earl of Yarborough purchases a sideboard, by Mr. Hoyles, a pupil of the School of Design, for 200 guineas.

9. Meeting at the Council Hall, to invite Mr. Toulmin Smith to become a candidate for the Borough.

9. Conference of reformers of various degrees failed to agree on a basis for united action on parliamentary reform.

0. Reform Bill proposed by Lord .1. Russell would raise Shef- field constituency from 5352 to 11,380.

11. Towu Council: Magistrates' Clerk's salary — Watch Rate — Road in Upper Hallam — Hour of meeting — Lady's and Neepsend bridges — The Gas Consumers' CompHuy — The Town Council ;iiul the Magistrates — Cost of Sheffield Police Force A'iB. 8s. lOd. per man, against j£57. tis. in Manchester ; £(>0. (is. l.|d. in Leeds; X02. 10b. Id. iu Birmingham. Proportion of force to population III Birmingham, 1 in 710^; Manchester, 1 iu OMl^ ; Sheffield, 1 in lU(»i. Waicli Rates, 1847 to 1850, 77| per cent, collected.

SHEFFIEtD LOCAL REGISTER. 490

1852.

11. Explosion of gas at Messrs. Wnke's office, Castle street.

12. Decease of Mr. William Ellin, Brincliffe Eilge, aged 50.

13. The Rev. Canon Trevor, in a letter to the Evening Journal, a traetarian paper, advises the high church clergy, " Let ns keep together, and not try to go faster than onr people will go with us."

16. Mr. J. T. Smith addressed a meeting in explanation of his political principles, and is adopted as a candidate.

17. Decease, aged 37, of Mr. Robert Beatson, eldest son of the late John Beatson, Esq., of Rotherham.

20. Decease, in London, of H. P. Harwood, Esq., M.D., for- merly of Sheffield.

20. Defeat and resignation of Lord J. Russell's govemment on the Militia Bill, — succeeded by Lord Derby's government.

21. Rule for a new trial made absolute in the case of Blake v. the Midland Railway Company. Afterwards settled by compromise.

23. Meeting to promote a monument in the Parish church to the late vicar, Dr. Sutton.

25. Midland meeting, 2J per cent, dividend.

26. Staniland v. Willott — Lord Chancellor decides the appeal from Vice-Chancellor against the defendant, but allowing appeal.

26. Public meeting commenced subscription for the Holmfirth sufferers. 7122 persons, earning £.3748 per week, thrown out of employ. Sheffield subscribed £2572. Similar meeting at Ro- therham on the 25 th.

26. Public meeting to petition against the Militia Bill.

27. Decease, at Torquay, of T. M. Johnson, Esq., of the firm of Johnson, Cammell, and Co.

29. Decease of Mr. R. Fuchlin, of Glossop road, aged 42.

MARCH. 1. Public meeting to request the magistrates to re-consider their decision respecting their clerk's salary.

1. Public meeting to promote a working man's subscription for the sufferers by the Holmfirth catastrophe,

2. Re-constitution of the AutiCoin Law League, £27,520 subscribed. Subscription afterwards reached £80,000.

4. Free Trade meeting at Leeds, Mr. Cobden announces his readiness to stand again for the West Riding the free trade. 6. The Rev. Canon Trevor is appointed incumbent of Gillcarr.

9. Announcement that Messrs. J. Parker and Roebuck would again be candidates for Sheffield.

9 — 10. Mr. J. T. Smith delivered two lectures on the constitu- tion of England.

10. Town Council — Borough rate unnecessary ; County expen- diture ; Public Prosecutor; Improvement Bill committee dis charged; Free Trade; Taxes on Knowledge.

11. John Longley acquitted of uttering forged notes at Hudders- field, he having been at Sheffield at the time.

12. Lawrence Bertie committed to York for the manslaughter John Drake.

13. Decease of Mr. Ed, Marshall, of Fitzwilliam St., aged 68. 16. Meeting in the Council Hall to receive a deputation from

the amalgamated Society of Engineers.

16. Decease, at London, of Mr. J. E. Pearson, of Sheffield.

17. Mr. J. T. Smith issues his address to the electors.

18. Banquet given by Messrs. Hutchings, Brown, and Wright, contractors, in the Lock Pit, at Grimsby, to celebrate the opening of the Docks.

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1852.

10. Decease of Mr. Chailes C adman, aged 72.

23. Aunis Laycock or Smith and her infant daughter found jnnrdered at Smithies, near Barnsley. Open verdict.

25. Vestry meetings in Sheffield, Brightside, and Nether Hal- lam resolve to instruct the Highway Boards to permit the Gas Consumers' Company to lay their pipes in the highways.

25. Registrars notice great increase of births and marriages. Prevalence of small pox.

25. Decease of Mr. F. Fenney, aged 52.

26. Penalty of £20 recovered against Mr. James Crowther, ehemist, Roiherham, for practising as an apothecary without legal qualification.

27. Sheffield Union — Tn-paupers 353, agaftist 305 last year; out-relief, £257 against £267 last year. Farm men employed 33 against 21. Ecelesall Union — In-paupers 178, against 181 last year; out-relief £61, against £56 last year.

27. Decease of Mr. F. Woolhouse, Old Haymarket, aged 60.

29. Messrs. Hadfield and Toulmin Smith address a meeting in the Town Hall. Mr. Hadfield adopted as colleague of Mr. J. T. Smith.

, 29. Meeting of Messrs. Parker and Roebuck's friends. Mr. Hadfield's nomination having been promoted in opposition to Mr. Roebuck, the latter was invited to come down and address the electors. — Amendment to substitute Mr. Hadfield's name for Mr. Roebuck's, negatived.

30. Decease of .John Sanderson, Esq., of New Hall, aged 74.

APRIL.

2. Mr. Hadfield withdraws his name from the contest for the borough, on the requirement that he should do so or stand in conjunction with Mr. Toulmin Smith.

2. Magisti-ates appoint overseers independently of the recom- mendation of the vestries. Mr. I. Ironside discharges the over- seers from acting.

2, Decease, at Dumfries, of Mr. E. Harwood, formerly of Sheffield.

2. Alderman T. Birks elected town trustee. W. F. Dixon, Esq.^ had been requested to stand but withdrew.

3. Rotherham Guardians elected without a contest.

5. Meeting of Gas Consumers* Company. In six months, 1650 individuals and firms had become shareholders.

5. Preamble of Sheffield Bridges and Streets Bill proved.

6. Memorials of the Town Council to the Quarter Sessions for the widening of the Lady's bridge, and that debtors might be committed to Wakefield. Both applications were refused, but with consent to the sending of the debtors to Halifax gaol.

8. Messrs. Parker and Roebuck address a public meeting in Paradise square. Mr. Roebuck is approved by a large majority, Mr. Parker supported by a large minority.

10. Average price of Wheat at Sheffield, 45s. 3§d.

10. United Gas Company — Reduction of price since June, 1838. June, 1838, to March, 1848, 8s. 4d. max., and 6s. 8d. min. ; from the union to Dec. 31, 1844, Os. 8d. max., and 6s. min. ; from Dec. 31, min. reduced to 5s. ; from March, 1847, 5s. lOd. max., 4s. 7d. >nin. ; from March, 1850, 5s. 5d. and 33. ll^d. ; from March, 1851, 5s. and 3s. 4d. ; present reduction, 48. 7d. and 3s. Ijd. Half-year's dividend, 22s.

J 1. Decease of Mr. Hugh Mellor, surgeon, of Hillfoot, aged S9.

12. Water Company — 4 per cent, for half-year. Shares, 168 — 1T2.

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1-^. Ecclesall Union — Levy of rates, as compflred with March, 1851. Ecclesall, ^1700, against ^2000 lastyear; Nether Hallam, X'ToO against £800 ; Upper Hallam, £230 against £400 ; Norton, £280 against £450; Dore, £60 against £00,- Totley, £40 against £60; Beaucbief, £5 against £10. Election of Guartlians: — Beauchief, G. Sampson; Dore, Rev. J. T. Aklred ; Ecclesall, T. R. Barker, 2084 ; G. Buxton, 1680 ; R. Solly, 1591; S. Mit- chell, 1463 ; defeating G. Dixon, 1188 ; J. Knowles, 915. Nether Hallam, I. Bower, F. Goodwin; Norton, G. Rogers, A. Linley ; Totley, G. Mountford ; Upper Hallam, W. R. Harrison ; defeat- ing A. Unwin.

\! 12. Sheffield Union: — Attercliffe, C, Atkinson; Brightside, r Turner, W. Groves; Handsworth, J. Rhodes; Sheifield, G. L. Saunders, 2961; E. Bussey, 2923; W. Growther, 2908; W. J. Sparrow, 2670 ; J. Crosslaud, 2629; F. Kay, 2470; W. But- cher, 2021 ; T. G. Potter, 1976 ; defeating sixteen others.

14. Town Council — Lady's Bridge ; fires ; case of Mason, Tay- lor, and Winker; the Militia; the numbering of houses.

15. Decease of Mr. Robert Kay, of the Intake.

15. Wm. Overend, Esq., accepts a requisition to become a can- didate for the borougli.

19. Mr. Toulmiu Smith's committee having given up to Mr. Hadfield's friends that gentleman's agreement to withdraw from the contest, Mr. Toulmin Smith wrote, altogether repudiating the transaction — "ns it will be impossible otherwise to avoid being implicated impliedly in it — and as I will have no hand in any affair of bargain and sale of representation — I feel called upon to declare that nothing (under any conceivable form of circum- stances) shall now induce me to be even nominated at the forth- coming election for ShefReld."

20. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 42s. 3Jd.

21. Great Exhibition — Accounts of Local Committee : Sub- scriptions, £1041; paid to Royal Commissioners, £500; ex- penses, £494.

23. Application of United Gas Company for an injunction to restrain the Gas Consumers' Company from breaking up the streets to lay their pipes, adjourned to last day of the session.

24. Highway Accounts published. Receipts frouD rates, £5900 ; expen.,£6911; bal. from Inte board, £2095; to new board, £1273.

29. Holmfirth flood— Sheffield subscriptions, £1930; ditto, from working men's committee, £314 — £2244. Claims for loss, exclusive of £33,000 by the mortgngees of reservoirs, £07,224. MAY.

3. Ecclesall vestry meeting agrees to stop up part of Mill lane, Mackenzie walk, and a connecting footpath.

6. Meeting in Town Hall approves of Mr. Geo. Hadfield as candidate for the borough.

7. Mr. Raynor reports to the Improvement Commissioners the result of enquiries in Birmingham, as to the abatement of the smoke nuisance.

8. Town Trustees' Accounts — Receipts, £2289 ; disbursements £833 ; balance of £1456 carried to Streets improvement account ; received by sales of land, £1449; total expenditure on Streets improvement account, £2126.

8. Mr. Hadfield issues his address to the electors. 10. Meeting of Messrs. Parker and Roebuik's friends at the Council H

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1852. 10. Mr. Hadfield addressed a meeting in Ecclesall, and subse- quently ill Brightside, the Park, Attercliffe, and Nether Hallam.

12. Town Council — Botanical Gardens.

13. Mr. Eoehuck meets the dissenters at the Koyal Hotel, at noon, and addresses a public meeting in the Town Hall in the evening. The following week, Mr. Eoebuck addressed several district meetings.

13. Decease of Mr. Thomas Armitage, formerly of Mousehole forge, aged 65.

14. Local shares — Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 34J-, 344 ; Midland, 70^, T0| ; Sheffield Banking Company, 132 4 ; Sheffield and Rotherham Bank, 7, 7^; Sheffield and Hallamshire Bank, 32, 33 ; Sheffield Union Bank, 15, 16 ; United Gas, 30, 30§ ; Gas Consumers, f dis. ; Waterworks, 108, 172.

17. Mr. Roebuck addresses a meeting in Ecclesall, and subse- quently in St. Philip's, St. George's, Brightside, and the Park.

17.Mr.0verend addresses a meeting in Ecclesall, and on following days in the Council Hall, Brightside, St. George's, St. Philip's, &c.

17. Cricket— 11 of England v. 14 of Yorkshire— Yorkshire, 312 : England, 136, with seven wickets to go down. Drawn game.

19. Water Company's bill to obtain an increased supply, de- feated in parliament.

22. Testimonial presented to the Rev. Thomas Smith, A.M., having been classical tutor of Rotherham College for 33 years. In Nov. resigns pastorate of Nether Chapel.

22. Decease of Mr. Ebenezer Smith, aged 66.

24. Mr. Overend addresses meetings in the Park, Attercliffe, and Nether Hallam.

24. Application of the United Gas Company to Vice-Chancellor Turner, for an injunction to restrain the Gas Consumers' Com- pany from laying their pipes, refused with costs.

25. Farewell testimonial to the Rev. Canon Blackburn, by the children of Attercliffe schools, on his leaving Attercliffe. On 31st, the inhabitants presented to Mr. Blackburn an address, on resign- ing the perpetual curacy of Attercliffe, held for nearly 35 years.

27. Grimsby new dock opened.

JUNE.

2. Detection of Ernest Grapel, a German resident in Birming- bam, in issuing a forged draft at Sheffield, and committal to York. His forgeries were executed with water colours, and had been suc- oessfully issued in several places.

3. Meeting to consider a project for forming the Don Reservoir and Waterworks Company — project dropped.

.5. Decease of Mr. Edward Gillbee, of Western bank, aged 50. 7. Mr. Overend addresses a meeting in Paradise square.

7. Mr. Hadfield addresses meetings in Attercliffe, St. Philip's, Nether Hallam, St. Peter's, St. George's, and Ecclesall.

8. Accident on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway — two lives lost.

9. Town Council — Bridges' bill parliamentary expenses, £1771, liaving been increased X'500 by threatened opposition — Post- Office — Lodging houses.

9. Feargus O'Connor strikes several members in the House of Commons, is arrested, and sent to an asylum for lunatics.

16. Sheffield Savings' bank, general fund, £251,528 ; depositors since commencement, 1st March, 1819, 30,517 ; increase during the half year, £12,860; net increase of depositors, 673.

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18. Mr. Overend addresses a meeting in Ecclesall.

19. Prospectus of SheflSeld and Kotberham "Waterworks Com- pany announced — 3000 shares of ^30 each.

21. Heatli v Uuwin. The Court of Exchequer on writ of error to set aside the verdict for defendant, gave judgment for plaintiff.

24. Mr. R. Cobden and Mr. E. B. Denison offer themselves again to the electors of the West Biding, and Mr. John Parker and Mr. J. A. Eoebuck to the electors of Sheffield.

26. Sheffield and Ecclesall Unions. Salaries of officers. Shef- field, £1344; Ecclesall, £714.

27. Decease of Mr. Wm. Waterman, of the Wicker, aged 42.

28. Mr. J. Parker addresses a meeting in Paradise square, afterwards in Ecclesall, Upper and Neiher Hallam, Attercliffe, &c.

28. Mr. Hadfleld addresses ward meetings during the week. JULY.

1. Parliament dissolved. Mr. George Hadfield issues a second address to the electors.

2. Meeting of West Riding Eegistration Association at Norman- ton forms a committee to secure the return of Mr. Cobden.

6. Borough election. Nomination. Mr. John Parker proposed by Aid. Dunn and Aid. Pye-Smith; Mr. Roebuck by Mr. Wm. Fisher and Aid. Bnrker; Mr. G. Hadfield by Aid. Hoole and Aid. Sehofield ; Mr. W. Overend by Mr. W. F. Dixon and Mr. H. At kin. Show of hands for Mr. Roebuck and Mr. Hadfield.

7. Polling and declaration. Total number polled 4001 ; Roe- buck, 2092; Hadfield, 1853; Parker, 1580; Overend, 1180.

ANALYSIS OF POLL. Number

P EH O PR PH PO RH RO HOvoted.

Sheffield 125 42 327 298 540 59 227 704 13 74 2409

Ecclesall .... 31 15 87 163 175 20 94 236 6 32 159 Brightside.... 12 6 27 65 107 8 35 69 4 9 342 Neth. Hallam 9 2 43 43 45 12 15 63 5 13 255 Upp. Hallam 1 — 17 27 8 2 5 11 1 ]0 82 Atterclifte.... 3 1 4 14 24 1 19 19 1 6 93 Total ....181 66 505 610 899 102 395 1102 30 144 4034

14. Town Council. Bridges and streets. Enactment of bye-laws against the smoke nuisance, which were disallowed by the Sec, of State in Nov., after having extended the time for their consideration.

15. Proposed testimonial toJ. Parker,Esq., late M. P. for Sheffield.

15. Hand corn-mills at Sheffield workhouse, which had been used to employ the able-bodied, ordered to be sold.

16. Sheffield and Hallamshire Bank, £5 per cent, interest. . 17. West Riding. Messrs. Cobden and Denison elecied.

19. Duke of Norfolk v. Tennant. Action tried at York Assizes to dispossess the tenant of the Exciiange brewery, for infraction of lease. Agreement for the defendant to give up possession in four months, and receive £3000, each parly paying his own costs, and all proceedings at law or in equity to cease.

20. Sheffield v. Manchester, at Manchester. Sheffield 251, and five wickets to fall. Manchester, 249.

20. Decease of Mr. C. Picksley, of Endcliffe Cottage, aged 71.

24. Proposal to hold a national exhibition of metal work at Sheffield in 1853. Afterwards postponed.

24. Decease of Mr. A. Whitaker, of Fargate, aged 58.

26. Water Company make arrangements with the millowners to purchase works on the Eivelin, and give satisfactory water com- pensation to the millowners on the Loxley and Dun.

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26. Cricket: Sheffield v. Manchester return match — Sheffield, one innings, 229 ; Manchester, two innings, 207.

28. Meeting at Sheffield of Wesleyan ConfereDce— simultane- ous meetings of "the moderates," and followed hy delegate meet- ings of reformers.

29. Attorney-General v. Sheffield Gas Consumers' Company — judgment on the 3rd August, leaving the parties complaining to their legal remedy. Motion refused without costs. Case argued 6th August before the Lords Justices of Appeal, the question of costs reserved and liberty to plaintiffs to Indict, or bring an action.

30. Infirmary ball— realised £90.

31. Improvement Commissioners' rates, ^4832 ; street soil, £362 ; expenditure on cleansing, £1420 ; lighting, £3630 ; salaries, £268 ; miscellaneous, £51.

AUGUST.

2. And following days Yorkshire Agricultural and Horticultural Societies hold their exhibitions in Shfffield.

4. At Sharrow Lodge, Mr. Jas. Sorby, solicitor, aged 58,

4. Decease at Intake, of Mr. W. Newbould, 73.

6. Mr. Farnall, the poor law inspector, states to the Sheffield guardians that in Sheffield 3§ in the 100 were paupers; in Brad- ford, 2§ in the 100, Average cost of Sheffield paupers, 84s. 2§d. per ■head yearly, but in his whole district, 67s. 6Jd. ; relief last year, £16,000, or Is. 3id. in the £ ; expenses, £6758, or 6:|^d. in the £.

6. Eotherham Board of Health — persons elected to the Board of Health for the townships of Rotherham, Masbro', and Brins- worth — Rotherham, Messrs. R. J. Bentley, James Hodgson, John Kerr, Thomas Turner, Eastwoo'l, John Guest, and George Hay- wood. Kimberworth, Messrs. Micah Barber, George Brown, Jas. Yates, George Shaw, Wm. Beatsou, and John Spencer. Brins- worth, J. Haywood, Whenthill ; and J. Waring, Hawonh Hull.

10. Conservative dinner to Wm. Overend, Esq.

11. Town Council — smoke nuisance — bridges — debtors' prison.

11. First tneeting of Rotherham Board of Health.

12. Mr. W. Woodhead, solicitor, loses his hand by an accident with his gun on the moors.

13. Cutlers' Company — Election of officers: M. Hunter, Esq., Master-Elect ; Messrs. W. A. Matthews and T. Moulson, jun., wardens. Portrait of the Rev. Jos. Hunter, F.S.A., by Pickers- gill, R.A., painted by subscription, and presented to the Cutlers' Company to hang in their hall.

13. Decease of Mr. Geo. Drabble, Broomgrove terrace.

15. Upper chapel — the Rev. Thos. Hincks, late of Exeter, suc- ceeds the Rev. T. B. Stannus as minister.

15. Decease of Mr. Geo. Atkin, Barber nook, aged 76.

17. Decease of Mr. T. MoQuhae, Old Cock, Paradise sq., aged 55.

17. Death, at Stockton Herniitage,nr. York, of Mr. R. Thompson.

19. First stone of Rotherham Mechanics' Institution laid by the Hon. and Rev. W. Howard.

19. Alfred Waddington murders his illegitimate child by cut ting its head off, and attempts to murder its mother and anothe- woman. Found guilty of murder, and condemned 20th Dec.

21. Decease of Lieut. W. Atkin, H.P., 58th regiment, aged 03.

27. Brewster Sessions — 00 applications for new licenses, aboui double the usual number.

28. Proposal to erect St. Peter's National Schools for 450 boy and girls and 350 infants.

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1852. 30. Performance at tbe Music Hall of Mr. Charles Dickens and his amateur company, in aid of the Guild of Literature and Art.

30. Fouudation stone of the works of the Gas Consumers' Com- pany laid by the Mayor.

30. Meeting of South Yorkshire Company— reported that the Great Northern had repudiated their agreement to amalgamate. SEPTEMBEK.

1. Improvement Commissioners — election of clerk vice Mr. Jas. Sorby deceased — Mr. W. Smith, jun., 41 votes; Mr. Henry Vickers, 14; Mr. Kobt. Waterhouse, jun., 7.

2. First stone of St. Thomas' church, Brightside, laid by the Rev. Canon Blackburn.

2. Cutlers' feast — principal guests, Lord Milton, M.P., Lord E. Howard, M.P., Sir C. Wood, M.P., E. B. Denison, M.P,, G. Had- field, Esq., M.P., and the Rev. Jos. Hunter, F.S.A.

2. Murder, at Black bank, of Alexander Robison by Jas. Bar- bour. The prisoner was found guilty 22nd Dec, and condemned.

3. Magistrates grant a theatrical license to the Adelphi Concert Hall for three months.

6. Cricket— United 11 of England v. 15 of Sheffield. Sheffield, 147 ; England, 150, with 9 wickets to go down.

6. Burgess list contains 16485 names ; the increase being, St. Peter's, 831; Park, 1347; St. Philips, 1228; St. George's, 846.

8. Great Northern train ran off tlje Lincolnshire line near Woodhouse Junction. C. Tuckwood, tbe guard, and Samuel Wright, the driver killed.

8. Town Council — bridges — church burgess trust — drunken- ness— water company — direct taxation.

13. Fire at Messrs. Firth and Sons, Saville street.

14. Eate-payers of Rotherham devolve the watching and lighting of the town upon the Local Board of Health.

14. Death of the Duke of Wellington— born 1709.

14. Twenty-one stacks burned at Mr. John Hawke's, of Darnall.

15. Precautions taken by the Ecclesall Union against cholera.

16. Decease at Richmond of Mr. W. Townend Smilter, aged 53.

27. A second day mail to London.

28. Decease of P. P. Firth, Esq., Rosehill, Rotherham, aged 52. 30. Charitable Sick Society present to James Dixon, Esq., a

bible and stand, " as president of the financial committee of the society for 25 years."

30. Great floods in the north of Edinburgh.

30. West-Riding revision at Sheffield — Liberal gain 88. New claims by allottees at Shirebrook, 55. Statement that 1200 free- hold allotments had been purchased in the neighbourhood.

30. Decease of tbe Rev. W. Alderson, rector of Aston, aged 79. In the commission of the peace since 1817. OCTOBER.

1. Gas Consumers' Company commence laying their mains. Commotion on the 5th from the filling up of the trenches by the old company. Magistrates, through the Mayor, attempt in vain to mediate.

1. Meeting to promote erection of carriage bridge at Neepsend, and foot bridge at Ball street.

1. Decease of Mr. W. H. Garnett, late of Blake, Garnett and Co., aged 70.

2. United Gas Company announce a reduction on 31st March, 1853, to 3s. per 1000.

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4. Enrolmeut of volunteers in the militia.

4. Decease of Mr. W. Ibbotson, aged 62, late of Globe Works.

5. Sheffield vestry meeting adjourned from 20th Sept., to con- sider extensive scheme of drainage — opinion of Cotinsel against Us legality — resolved to empower the Highway Board to take such steps as they deem necessary for efficient drainage.

6. Meeting of Gas Consumers' Company — notion of amalga- mation repudiated.

9. Reported agreement to amalgamate the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire with' the London and North Western, or Great Northern.

13. United Gas Company's Meeting — dividend 22s. per share — policy of the directors supported.

13. Town Council — Water Company and fire plugs — bridges and streets — lodging houses — bridge rate made, and contract adopted — local debtors prison — drunkenness.

J3. Sheffield Guardiaus — dissensions at meetings — swill cart question — board room carpet, &c.

14. Order of the poor-law board as to relief opposed by guardi- ans of Sheffield, Rotherham, and many northern unions.

15. Decease at Hassop Hall of the Earl of Newburgh, horn 1794, succeeded his hrother in 1833.

16. Decease of Mr. W. Marshall, (Parkin & Marshall,) aged 45. 16. Accounts of borough treasurer — receipts from rates, &c.,

£4480; constables fees, &c., £2320; cost of police, £6215 ; elec- tions, £212; salaries, £300; raiscellaueous, £329; watchmen, 65; constables, 39; superior officers, 17, and superintendant, 1.

16. Men employed in laying pipes of Gas Consumers' Com- pany convicted by magistrates for injury to the highway. Appeal against convictions.

17. Decease of James Dixon, Esq., Page Hall, aged 76.

18. Decease of Mr. T. Laycock, Stand House, aged 57.

19. Decease of H. Wheat, Esq., Norwood Hall, aged 64.

19. Meeting of the School of Design — the Duke of Newcastle in the chair.

19. People's College — students, 553 ; average attendance, 115 ; 4th annual meeting — principles, self-government and self support.

22. At Doncaster Sessions — true bill found against directors of Gas Consumers' Company and their contractors — and against Brightside Highway Board for breaking up Neepsend laue.

23. Agreement to amalgamate York and North Midland, York, Newcastle and Berwick, and Leeds Northern.

28. Renewed disturbances between the two gas companies. 25. Decease of Mr. W. Honnsfield, Tinsley, aged 46.

25. Meeting to support Gas Consumers' Company.

27. Town Council — conduct of the gas companies — finance.

29. Fall of Savillest. viaduct, on Sheffield and Rotherham line.

NOVEMBER.

1. Municipal elections— St. Peter's, R. Sollv, DOl ; F. Hoole, 721; R. Waterhouse, 387. Ecclesall, Harvey, 737; Booth, 634; Sissons, 141. Brightside, Sanderson, 510; R. Jackson, 387. Nether Hallam, Platts, 320 ; Parkin, 140. Park, R. Elliott and W. Howarth. St. Philip's, W. Groves, G. H. Robson. Upper Hallam, T. Gatley. Attercliffe, C. Atkinson. St. George's, W. Crowther, W. Ibbitt.

2. Meeting to decide the Council to choose Mr. Alderman Scho- field as Mayor.

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1852. 2. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, i3s. 4d.

2. Great free-trade banquet at Manchester.

3. Midland Company agree to terms of amalgamation with the London and North Western.

4. Opening of the new parliament.

0. Fall of embankment on Sheffield and Manchester line, near the engine house — three men killed.

7. Fall of Moorfields church, through the giving way of the foundation of the tower.

8. Father Gavazzi commences a course of lectures on the papacy. 8. Holnifirth subscriptions — surplus subscriptions Bs. in the

pound, amounting to £948. 18s. lOd. returned — resolved tlmt sucU sums as should not be claimed by the subscribers by the 1st Dec, should be divided between the lutirmary, Dispensary, Ragged School, and Temperance Hall.

y. Town Council — election of Mayor — Alderman Matthews, 35 voles; Aid. Schofield, 17. Lodging houses — election of com- mittees— choice of presiding aldermen — poor-law board — highways.

J3. Sheffield Union — in-paupers, 356, against 338 last year. Out relief, ±'230; against i£270 last year. Men on farm, 17 ; against 15 last year. Ecclesall Union — in-poor, 192 ; against 167 last year. Outpayments, £i7 ; against £i6 last year.

13. Scheme proposed by the relator in the Chancery suit for a change in the church burgess trust.

15. Vestry meeting approves of erection of foot bridge in Ball street, and requests the highway board to contribute to it.

15. Brightside ward meeting abusing members for not voting for Aid. Schofield, who writes that his "mind is quite made up to retire,"having been "deceived and betrayed by imitation democrats."

16. Decease of Mr. George Gates, aged 03, author of works on •'Exchange and Interest"

18. Funeral, at St. Paul's Cathedral, of the Duke of Wellington.

19. Robbery at Briusworih bar, and deadly assault on Samuel Hansley, the keeper.

22. Decease, at Worksop, of Mr. R. Wm. Gaiusford, aged 79.

22. Meeting in Ecclesall ward to censure the members of the Council, who voted against electing Aid. Schofield as Mayor.

23. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 46s. 2d.

25. Decease of Mr. \V. Barton, late of the Wicker, aged 58.

26. Free-trade affirmed in the House of Commons by 468 to 63. 26. Rowley v. Rowley — judgment of divorce in the Ecclesiasti- cal Court at Yoik.

28. The Rev. S. Dunn becomes minister of Garden st. Chapel.

29. Decease of Mr. T. Parkin, of the firm of Birks & Parkin.

DECEMBER.

1. Toll ceased at Broomspring field bar.

4. Decease of the Rev. W. Burrows, aged 52, Methodist New Connexion Minister of Sheffield South Circuit.

6. Forcible resistance by the United Gas Company to the Gas Consumers' Company continued for several days. Various jro- oeedings before the magistrates.

6. Water Works Company agreed to plan for extension of works requiring a share capital of =£150,000 to be raised in .£50 shares.

7. Deceased, at Scarborough, of Mr. John K. Tillotson, aged 49.

8. Town Council. Erroneous returns of committee of elections. Presiding Aldermen. Smoke-preventive bye-laws disallowed. Scotland gaol. Scheme for Church Burgess Trust adopted.

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Highway Boards and Gas Companies. Amalgamation of railways. Sunday trains. Reform of Parliament.

8. Lord J.Russell at the soireeof theLeedsMechanics'Institution.

10. Magistrates refuse to renew the theatrical license to the Adelphi Concert Hall, or to grant one to the Surrey Music Hall.

11. Ch. Burgess Trust. Other schemes for this trust on behalf of the district churches, &e., laid before the Master in Chancery.

11. The Rev. C. Wilkinson appointed incumbent of Attercliffe, vice Rev. Canon Blackburn resigned. The Rev. Canon Trevor had warned the Archbishop against licensing any other than one of the chaplains of the parish church to the oflice.

12. Decease, aged 73, of the Rev. Joseph Gilbert, of Notting- ham, formerly of Nether chapel.

13. Magistrates urge the rival gas compauL'S to suspend opera- tions, and submit their case to arbitration. Gas Consumers' Com- pany refuse — United Gas Company assent.

13. International Postage Association formed.

14. The Earl of Carlisle lectures on the Poetry of Gray before the Sheffield Mechanics' Institute.

15. Meeting approved and resolved to support the establish- ment of a West Riding Penitentiary, with local houses of refuge.

15. Upper Hallam proposed carriage road from the Highland Laddie to Nether green.

10. Mr. Disraeli's budget lost by 305 to 286. Ministers resign. 17. Case against servant of the United Gas Co. for breaking pipes of the Consumers' Co. brought before the magistrates. Mr. W. Wake for the United Gas Co. avowed that the act had been com- mitted by his advice, in the assertion of a legal right. The ma- gistrates decided that the case was not within their jurisdiction. 22. Fire-damp explosion at Elsecar Colliery, Okilled & 11 injured. 22. Mr. W. W. Tiusley elected house surgeon of the Infirmary, vice Mr. Law, resigned.

22. Application to Vice-Chaneellor Turner for an injunction to restrain the Gas Consumers' Company from breaking up the streets along the frontages of private property without consent. of the owners. Hearing postponed.

24. Prospectus to form a public company of 1200 .£5 shares to erect a public room to hold 3000 persons.

25 and 27. Violent hurricanes, like those of Jan. Cth, 1839. 27. Lord Aberdeen announces the formation of his government. 31. Fall of rain in 1852 compared with average full from 1830 to 1851, and the wettest and dryest years in that period: — Wettpst. Dryest. Average.

1639. 1844. ISSti-lSai. I8.i2.

.Tantiary 2.675 2.8(i5 3.394 5.230

February 2.40(1 1.58it 2.775 5.630

March 3.240 3.725 2.923 1.110

April 1.530 .640 2.8.Vt ,270

May , 830 .595 2.819 1.685

June 5.225 2.415 3.519 5.235

July 9.085 S.^i5 4.390 2.275

August 5.705 3.820 3.681 2.400

September .... 6.115 4.635 3.332 5.245

October 3.420 3,480 4.230 3.725

November .... 6.200 3.185 3.871 8.045

December 2.830 .230 3.191 4.850

49.255 30.145 40.980 45.900

The wettest month in 17 years, July, 1839, — next, Nov., 1802

B. LEADEB, PRINTEB, INDEPENDENT OFFICE, SHEFFIELD

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SHEFFIELD LOCAL EEGISTER,

1853.

JANUARY.

1. Decease of Wm. Parker, Esq., Nelson place, aged 77.

1. Savings' Bank accounts to 20tli Nov. Received of deposi- "tors, £77,007 ; paid out to depositors, £G4,0G5. Total balances, d£257,857. Depositors, 11, 257 individuals and 70 societies.

1. Wages paid in anticipation of Christmas estimated at 70 per cent, more than in any previous year.

■ 4. Father Gavazzi commences his farewell lectures on the Popish system, the Jesuits, the Inquisition, &c.

5. Average price of corn at Sheffield, 48s. ll§d.

5. Meeting at the Uouucil Hall to promote the erection of a' large public hall by shares. Several thousand pounds subscribed, tut the scheme fell through.

5. Improvement Commissioners — Mr. Ironside moved a reso- lution in favour of the new, and censuring the old gas com]>any, allegiug that the commissioners were paying 10s. per lamp more tlian was reasonable.

C, Sudden death of T. Sands Branson, Esq., solicitor, aged 30.'

C. Inquest on ten colliers who perished at the explosion of Elsecar coUierj-, on the 22ud Dec. — Verdict — " Accidental death."

8. Execution, at York, of Alfred Waddington, for the murder of bis illegitimate child. Barbour respited to make enquiry into a pretended confession.

12. Town Council meeting : new gas company — Neepsend bridge — drunkenness — extension of watching district — Water company in parliament — magistrates' clerk's salary — bye-laws for smoke consumption, afterwards disallowed by Home Secretary.

13. Average quantity of water passing do*n the River Dun, at Sheffield, ascertained to be 1,041,100 gallons per minute.

13. The Attorney-General v. the Gas Consumers' Company — motion for an injunction before the Lords Justices of Appeal, ordered to stand over, and the cause to be heard with the motion.

14. Fal> 'of portion of the new Mechanics' Hall, at Rotherham. If). Execution of James Barbour, at York, for the murder of

Alexander Robison, after confessing his guilt.

17. Soiree of the congregation of the Upper Chapel, Norfolk street, to welcome the new minister, the Rev. T. Hincks, B.A.

17. Rodgers v. Nowell : Vice-Cbancellor Stuart refuses to commit one of defendants for breach of injunction of Dec, 1847,

19. Rev. R. S. Bayley lectures on Milton, Buuyan, De Foe, and Goldsmith.

19. Decease of Mr. B. Withers, aged 71.

20. Rate of discount raised from 2^ to 3 per cent.

21. Explosion at the New Cottam Pit, naarEckington; 7 killed.

22. Sheffield Union: inmates, 381, against 375 last year. Out- .relief, £224, to 28G1 persons, against £262, to 3204 persons, last

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1853. year. — Ecclesall Union : inmates, 180, against 174 last year. Out- relief, £b3, against ^51 last year. Average cost of in-paupers, in Sbeifield Union, £4. lis. 2Jd. per beail yearly ; average of the district being £r>. 8s. Ifd. Average cost of tbe out-poor, £L 3s. ll-gd. ; that of tbe district being £i. 2i. 7^d.

22. Meeting of Magistrates to consider tbe proposal of tbe Town Council to pay the Magistrates' Clerk by salaiy : Resolved unanimously, " that suflBcient reasons do not exist to induce the magistrates to certify their approval of the recommendation of tbe Town Council."

26. Soiree to tbe Rev. E. S. Bayley, by the students of the People's College.

28. SheflBeld Banking Company divide 12 per cent., and add to the surplus fund.

28. Decease of tbe Rev. Thomas Smith, A.M., minister of Nether Chapel from 1817 to 18')2, aged 07.

29. Addresses to tbe women of tbe United States extensively signed, remonstrating against slavery.

29. Marriage of Louis Napoleon to Mdlle. Montijo.

FEBRUARY. 1. Advance in tbe price of coal.

1. Hearing of the cause of tbe Attorney-General v. tbe Gas Con- sumers' Company before tbe Lords Justices of Appeal. No judg- ment, the Lords Justices not being agreed.

2. Improvement Commissioners' meeting: Mr. Ironside pro- poses a censure on those commissioners who liad protested against the resolution of the last meeting in favour of the New Gas Com- pany. Tbe subject deferred to tbe next meeting, with an order that notice of it should be given.

2. Wilson Overend, Esq. receives a commission as one of the deputy-lieutenants of the West'Eiding. 6. Unsuccessful insurrection at Milan.

8. Extension for six years of Heath's patent for the manufac- ture of steel;

9. Town Council — crowded streets — Neepsend bridge — Water Company — magistrates' clerk's salary — international penny post- age—county rates — duty on apprentiship indentures — long speeches and long sittings.

11. Attorney-General v. New Gas Company — re-hearlng before the Lord Chancellor and tbe Lords' Justices — judgment on the ICth for defendants.

13. Decease of Mr. H. Atkin, Eyre street, aged 48.

14. Decease of Rev. Mark Docker, aged 74, chaplain of the Sheffield Cemetery, and formerly minister of Garden at. Chapel.

17. Decease of Mr. Wm. Fenton, Clark street, aged 24.

18. United Gas Company convicted by the magistrates for tbe insuflScient repair of Westbar, after opening it.

21. Meeting at the Town-Hall to promote a subscription to pay tbe legal expenses of tbe New Gas Company.

22. Rodgers v. Nowill — Judgment of Vice-Cbancellor Stuart, on 17 th Jan. reversed by Lords' Justices of Appeal, who ordered that defendant should be committed, unless he made a satisfactory arrangement, and paid costs. On the first of March, defendant undertook to mark all his cutlery William Rodgers.

22. Decease at Hanstead, Herts., of Isaac Solly, Esq., aged 88, „„^:-_ f„,o.p„ of HolMs's Hoanital.

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1853. 26. Lord Aberdeen expresses his concurreuce iu the views of a deputation of the Peace Society.

26. Petition of the Town Conncil to be admitted to present a scheme for the administration of Church Burgesses' Trust dis- missed with, costs.

27. Doncaster Church totally destroyed by fire.

28. Prince Menschikoff arrived at Constantinople to make de- mands which issued in war between Russia and Turkey.

MARCH.

2. Improvement Commissioners meeting — Mr. Ironside's mo- tion of January, in favour of the New Gas Company, rescinded by a numerous meeting.

4. Decease of Mr. T. .Tackson, Pinstone street, aged 58.

9. Town Council — water company's bill — watch rate — church, burgesses trust — drunkenness — marriage law, &c.

9. First stone of the borough bridge laid by Mr. Aid. Carr.

11. Decease at Bognor, aged 56, of Sir Geo. Sitwell, Bart., of Eenishaw Hall.

11. Mr. Aid. Carr elected a Town Trustee, vice Mr. B. Withers, deceased.

14. Water Company's bill passed the committee of the Commons.

15. Directors of the Gas Consumers' Company, and members of the Brightside highway board found guilty, at York assizes, of obstructing Neepsend lane.

17. Decease of Mr. G. W. Freeman, official assignee of the Shef- field Court of Bankruptcy.

25. Decease, at Tapton, aged 95, of Mary, widow of the late Wm. Shore, Esq.

28. Contest for the election of highway surveyors for Sheffield. — Messrs. I. Ironside, J. Wilson, G. L. Saunders, S. Staniforth, C. Alcock, J. Nadiu, W. Downing, W. Appleyard, G. Holden, S. Bacou, J. Pearson, T. Peel, J. Wood, C. Dewsnap, G. S. Brittain, and M. Beal elected. Highway accounts —receipts — rates, £5828; materials, &c., £555 ; balance, £1273. Expenditure, £6105 ; balance, £1552, Accounts not laid before the magistrates on the ground tliat the vestry passed them.

29. Average price of wheat at Sheffield, 48s. 8|d.

30. Pipes of the Gas Consumers' Company broken when being laid in front of the property of Messrs. W. and B. Wake, in C&stU St., to dispute the right to lay them.

30. First election of four annuitants of the Deakin charity. APRIL.

1. United Gas Company reduce the price to 3s. per 1000.

3. Decease of Mr. James Roberts, (Roberts and Mettam,) Bar- ker pool, aged 52.

5. Dr. Jacob, principal of the Collegiate School, elected bead master of Christ's Hospital.

5. Indictment against the Sheffield and Brightside highway board, and officers of the Gas Consumers' Company ignored t^ Pontefract sessions.

6. Meeting of Gas Consumers' Company — dissensions as to the dismissal of the engineer, and a committee of enquiry proposed.

7. John Brewin, Esq. appointed official assignee of the Court i Bankruptcy, vice Mr. Freeman deceased.

13. Adjourned meeting of Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln- ebire Company — motion for committee of investigation negatived.

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1;1. Town Council — Water Company — LaJy's bridge — standing orders to limit motions on general questions — watch rate — India- — Sabbath observance — conviction of John Green — Church Bur- gess trust.

14. Decease of Mr. Benjamin Eawlins, late registrar of the west district, aged 69.

16. Election of guardians. — Sheffield Union — Those marked * were elected. — Attercliffp.cnm-Darnall : *J. Hewitt, 107; G.Hill, 87; C. Atkinson, 77. Brighlside Bierlow : *T. Turner, 554; *W. Jarvis, 551 ; W. I. Horn, 267; J. Wall, 232; J. S. Nanson, 220; M. Hunter, 47. Handsworlh : *J. Rhodes. Sheffield : *T. Birks, 5023; *Wm. Harvey, 3970; *T. E. Mycock, 3943; *E. Vickers» ;3678; *A.Booth, 3555; *J. Crossland, 2965 ; *T. Peel, 2562; *W. Butcher, 2455; H. Crawshaw, 2453; W. Crowther, 2424; Rev. T. Sale, 2250 ; J. Woodcock, 2247 ; H. Atkin, 197G; G. L. Saun- ders, 1919; G. Holden, 1881; W. .1. Beet, 1829 ; S. Mitchell, 1718; E. Bussey, 1633; T. Flint, 1610; F. Eay, 1606 ; T. B. Turton, 1230; C. Milner, 993 ; S. S. Brittain, 805 ; H. E. Hoole, 767 ; J. Swift, 710 ; W. V. Eadley, 521 ; J. Booth, 426 ; W. Stacey, 304; T. Beet, 277; E. Unwin]! 261. Ecclesall Union.— 5eaM- chieff : *G. Sampson. Dore : *Rev. J. T. F. Aldred. Ecclesall Bier- low: *T. R. Barker, 1839; *J. Sbarnian, 1475; *G. Buxton, 3392 ; *G. Bramall, 13G9; R. Solly, 1357; S. Mitchell, 1011; J. Weston, 850; S. Roberts, 815; T. Jessop, 570; S. Sampson, 543 ; B. J. Eyre, 309. Nether Hallam : 'G. Ronksley, 726; *F. Godwin, 519; I. Bower, 514; W. Stead, 281; W. R. Harrison, 211 (retired during the contest.) Norton : *G. Rogers, *A. Linley. Toilei/ : *G. Mountford. Upper Hallam : *W. R. Har- rison.

17. Decease of Mr. J. Johnson, bookseller, Fargate, aged 77.

18. Sudden death of Mr. John Bioadbent, aged 73, formerly of the Bull and Mouth, Waingate.

27. Mr. Jon. Barber elected one of the surgeons of the In6r- mai'y, vice Wilson Overend, Esq., resigned.

29. Local shares — Midland, 75^; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 30 ; Sheffield Banking Company, 13G ; Sheffield and Hallamshire Bank, 37 ; Sheffield and Rotherhnm, 10^ ; Shef- field Union, 22§; United Gas, 26; Gas Consumers', (£3) 2 dis.; Water Works, 152.

MAY.

I. Decease of Hannah Chambers, formerly of Boiley street, in lier 102nd year.

4. Mr. Hadfield's bill to make one probate of a will sufficient read a second time. Afterwards withdrawn on the assurance that government would deal with the subject.

9. Fall of snow for about 15 hours, unequalled since May, 1817. In July, the Bradfield Game Association resolved to defer the opening of the moors from 12th August till the 21st September, in consequence of many broods of young birds having been destroyed in the snow storm of 9th May.

II. Town Trust accounts — rents, £653; dividends, £1360; loan repaid and land sold, £1043 ; total receipts, £3070. Addi^ lions to estate, £250; carried to improvement account, £1513; other outlays, £1310. The mortgage debt of the trust, £8000, to- wards repayment of which £2000 has been invested.

12. Decease of Mr, John C.Earl, merchant, The Edge, aged 53.

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1863. 12. Decease at Brixton, Surrey, of Mr. Wm. Turton, (T. Tur- ton and Sons,) Sheaf Works.

14. Meeting to promote erection of new bridges across the Sheaf and Porter.

— . Town Council — Scotland st. Gaol — borough bridge — Neepa- end bridge — costs of Chancery proceedings as to Church Burgess trust — bankruptcy court — scheme for Church Burgess trust — re- gistration of deeds.

15. Decease of Mr. G. 0. Brown, Masbro', aged 41. ,

16. Messrs. Jos. Kodgers and Sons advance wages by renewing Id. in the Is. as file money. Advance of wages in building trades.

23. Meeting at Eotherham to petition in favour of the Sunday closing of public houses.

23. Sheffield Union in-paupers, 359, against 388 last year; out- relief to 2884 persons £231, against 3101 and £247 last year. Ecclesaiil Union in-paupers 163, against 177 ; to out-poor, £54, against £l7.

24. DeceaseofMr.B. Martin, late of Sheffield, merchant, aged 71.

25. First muster at Doncaster of Third West York Militia.

26. Decease of Mr. W. Worrall, (Worrall, Hallam, and Co., needle manufacturers,) aged 40.

28. The Rev. W. S. Grignon appointed principal of the Shef- field Collegiate School, vice the Rev. Dr. Jacob, resigned.

29. Suicide of Mr. Chas. Atkiu, (Broadhead & Atkin,) aged 44.

31. Formidable gas explosion in Spital hill, causing considera- ble damage to property, arising from a fractured pipe of the Gas Consumers' Company.

JUNE.

1. South mail leaves at 9.40 instead of 8.55 p.m.

1. Rise in prices of agricultural produce since 1852, Dorset butter, 80s. to lOOs. per cwt. ; Cork butter, 56s. to 92s. ; bacon, 52s. to 66s.,- inferior beasts, 34 per cent.; prime beasts, 27 per cwt. ; average rise in wheat, 9 per cent. ; on the best, 22 per cent.

1. Mr. Samuel Brewiu appointed Poor-Law auditor, vice Mr. John Brewin, appointed official assignee in bankruptcy.

1. Census return of proportion of scholars to population — day ■ scholars in 1818, 1 in 17.25 ; 1833, I in 11.27; 1851, 1 in 8.36.

Sunday do. 1 in 24.40; 1 in 9.28; 1 in 7.45.

The proportion in Sheffield, where the returns were very imper- fect, was 1 in 9.06.

2. Rate of discount raised from 3 to 3§ per cent. Agitation among labourers of various kinds for advance of wages.

4, Court of Queen's Bench confirms the conviction at York of members of tb.c Gas Consumers' Co. and the Brigutside highway board, fcT illegally breaking up the streets.

5. Committee of inveoLigation into the aifairs of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Co. appcilited.

8. Town Council — Neepsend bridge — borough bridge'^piu-chase of property — gaming — goverument education bill — Turkey — the spy system.

8. Subscription of £1200 raised in Sheffield and Rotherham in aid of the Commercial Travellers' Schools. First stone laid at Pinner, near London, 20th July.

9. Tea and cofl'ee services presented to Messrs. B. Staniforth and W. Reaney, by the Park Burgesses' Association, in acknow- ledgment of their public services. h 2

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14. Petitions against the Registration of Assurances Bill,

10. Monument erected by subscription in the chancel of tile Parish Church to the raemory of the Eev. Dr. Sutton, late Vicar.

17. Price of local shares — Midland, 72|; Manchester, SheflSeld, -and Lincolnshire, .30 ; Sheffield Banking Co., 137; ShefiBeld and Hotherham Bank, 10^; Sheffield and H.illaiushire Bank, 38; Union Bank, 23 ; United Gas, 27; Gas Consumers', 3 — 2 dis.; Waterworks, l.j].

18. Review of Third West York Militia at Doncaster. Men re- leased from duty on 21st.

21. Gas Consumers' Co. announce that they are ready to light ilie town.

24. Duke of Norfolk agrees to give up his action against Gas Consumers' Co. for laying mains without authority through or in •front of his property, on their undertaking not to do it again with- out the authority of parliament. •

25. Scheme considered by Town Trustees for relieving streets ■of excess of traffic, by a new street from Lady's Bridge to bottom

of Angel street, and thence to the corner of York st. and High st. 20. Decease at Manchester of Mr. John Taylor, formerly manag- ing director of the Sheffield Mechanics' Institution.

27. Mr. Charles Esam appointed secretary to the Sheffield Fire Office, vice Mr. E. Jeffcock, resigned.

— . Proposal to erect on the site of the Crookes moor work- house a vestry room and offices out of the poor rates. Approved ■fay a vestry meeting, but not carried out.

— . Eoyal assent to the Water Co.'s bill, enabling them to afford a greatly increased supply.

28. Sadden death of Mr. J. Bhirton, printer, aged 46. — . Complete removal of the Ecclesall market.

JULY.

1. Nether Hallam indicted at Rotherham Sessions for non-re- ■jair of Brookhill road.

4. Gas Consumers' Co. v. W. R. Harrison — Chancery suit to compel a shareholder to execute the deed of the company, dis- missed with costs, on the ground that the deed did not correspond Tvith the prospectus.

4. Norfolk Park — announcement that it is open to visitors dur- ing November, December, Januai-y, and February, from 8 a.m. to 0 p.m.; in March, April, September, and October, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. ; and rest of the year from 0 a.m. till !) p.m.

V. Parker testimonial — resolved to apply the fund to the esta- ■blishment loi" t*^" years of a biennial scholarship in the School of Design of ten guineas, and the residue in the purchase of a piece of plate, to be presented to Mr. John Parker.

7. Ecclesall Union— decrease of poor rates as compared witt 1842-3 :— Ecclesall, 1812-3. £:%u; 1852-3, ^41S4; Netbes^ Hallara, a3500— ^1633 ; Upper Hallam, £1044— £.519 ; Norton, ^1028— £004; Dore, £223— £125; Totley, £140— £70; Beau- chieff,£in8— £17.

11. Indictments at York against Ecclesall and Nether Hallam for non-repair of Fullwood road. Special case to be submitted to the Court of Queen's Bench; meantime the road to be repaired "by Nether Hallam, with a conditional indemnity from Ecclesall.

13. Town Council— wages of police force raised — bridges and streets — purchase of property— borough rate — to^vn trustees onA

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Xady's bridge — liackuey coaches — Crystal Palace and Sunday — the Old Barracks — training prevention act.

15. Sheffield and Hallainshire Bank divided 7§ per cent — sur- plus fund near ^2000.

17. Decease of Mr. W. Lucas, late of the Mills, aged 54.

18. The Mayor refutes the allegations of Lord Ashburton that Sheffield is losing ground in edge tools and cutlery,

IS. Advance of wages of the file grinders.

18. Mr. Wm. Pole Thornhill elected for North Derbyshire, vice Mr. Wm. Evans resigned. One day's polling: Thornhill, 1G57; T. W. Evans, 1171.

21. Union Banking Co. — dividend 8 per cent.

21. Mr. John White resigns the office of superintendent of the markets, having held it for 27 years — succeeded by Mr. Jos. Oates, Jun.

22. York Assizes — several actions of ejectment at York against Gas Consumers' Co. for laying pipes under the pavement in front of various properties. Verdicts for the plaintiffs in two cases— >in one, plaintiffs non-suited — in another, record withdrawn.

22. Foundation stone of a monument to the late Mr. Aid. Wiley laid at the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum, Grimesthorpe.

23. Considerable number of dogs destroyed with prussie acid, being found at large, contrary to the order of the Mayor.

23. Accounts of Improvement Commissioners — rates, £5171; making, with other receipts, £5520. Cost — streets cleansing, £1427 ; lighting, £3677 ; salaries, £270 ; miscellaneous, £67.

23. Attorney-General's scheme for Church Burgess Trust pub- lished.

2C. Shares in Gas Consumers' Company, £4 paid, sold by auc- tion at lOa. per share. ^^E^

26. File trade make a return from their funds to their members of 20s. per man and 6s. per boy, (as was done in 1852,) reserving a lai-ge fund in hand.

27. Silver tea and coffee service presented to Mr.' John'Eadon, by a number of his former pupils.

28. Weather wet and cold. Average price of wheat 51s. lOd. 30. Blackburn Valley line completed from the Sheffield and

Eotherham to Thorncliffe.

— . Advance of 5d. per ton on coal and Is. Od. on coke.

— , Cricket — Sheffield v. Leeds, Bradford, and York. Leeds, &e., 1st innings, 63; 2nd innings, 93. Sheffield, 1st innings, 93 ; 2nd innings, 65, with five wickets to fall. AUGUST.

1. Messrs. S.Bacon, E. Elliott, M. Beal, S. Dewsnap, W. Smith; and M. Smith, elected Improvement Commissioners, vice Messrs. H. Atkin, T. L<iycock, K, Staniforth, J. Broadbent, (deceased,) T. K. Barker and J. Bertram (seats vacated.)

2. The Rev. Jas. Eennie, M.A., ordained minister of Lee croft chapel.

3. W. A. Matthews, Esq., Mayor, chosen Master Cutler for the ensuing year; Mr. T. Moulson, Senior Warden jf and Mr. Samuel Jackson, Junior Warden.

4. Cricket match at Rotherham, between the United 11 of Eng- land and 22 of Rotherham and district. England, 1st innings, 32 ; 2nd innings, 43. Rotherham, 1st innings, 64; 2nd innings, a3, with 12 wickets to fall.

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4. Repeal of Advertisement and Newspaper Supplement duties.

4. The Eev. T. Sale, Yiear, appointed surrogate

0. Decease of Mr. Wm. Waketield, Gell street, aged 70.

10. Decease at Shireclifle Hall, of John Watson, Esq., aged 73. — . Town Council — Church Burgess Trust — bridge committee —

purchase of property, &c. White gloves presented to Town Clerk, there being no notice on the paper.

11. Review of steam fleet at Spithead.

17. Mr. Wm. Savil elected house surgeon of the Eotherham Dispensary.

17. Middleton Hall, the seat of LordDeuman, robbed in a mys- terious manner of a quantity of plate. It had been stolen by a travelling mason, who was taken with his booty at York.

18. Cricket: Manchester i-. Sheffield. Sheffield, 1st innings, 76 ; ■2nd innings, 40. Manchester, one innings, 167.

24. Indictment against Major Beresford and others for con- spiracy to bribe the electors of Derby removed to the Court of Queen's Bench.

— . Union clerk of Sheffield Union makes his report on the farm expex-iment, which was referred to the fai-m committee. No- thing further done in it during the year.

20. Brewster Sessions. 7j applications for new licenses, 25 granted, viz., Sheffield, 40, granted 9; Ecclesall, 11, granted 6; Brightside, 12, granted 4 ; Attercliffe, 4, granted 2; Nether Hal- lam, b, granted 4 ; Upper Hallam, 1, granted 0.

— . Heath v. Smith action for infringement of patent by the use of carburet of manganese in the manufacture of steel, at Liverpool Assizes. Verdict for the defendant. Rule «/«/ for new trial afterwards on groimd of misdirection.

— . Decease of Jas. Sanderson, Esq., Eudcliffe Grange, aged 70.

30. Brightside Highway board declines further intercourse with tlie Sheffield board wliile Mr. Ironside remains its chairman.

31. Accident on the Great Northern to the train by which the Eight Hon. Tbos. Challis, Lord Mayor of London, and J. A. Roe- buck, Esq., M. P., were coming to the Cutlers' Feast. The Lord Mayor was obliged to return to London.

— . Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway — half- yeaily meeting — large mnjority resolve to discontinue conveying the shareholders to the meetings at the expense of the company.

— . Cholera appears at Newcastle, Gateshead, &c., and snbse- sequently in London, Liverpool, &c. Sheffield remains healthy.

— . Adeljihi Theati-e oflered for sale bv auction, but not sold. SEPTEMBER'

l^Grand Duchess Maria of Russia visits Chatsworth.

1. Cutlers' Feast — Master Cutler (W. A. Matthews, Esq., the Mayor.) Principal guests — Lord Wharuclifte ; the Lord Mayor of York; Lord E. Howard, M.P.; J. A. Roebuck, Esq., M.P.; E. B. Denison, Esq., M.P. ; G. Hudlield, Esq., M.P. ; S. M. Peto, Esq., M.P. ; the Hon. F. Wortley; the Mayors of Leeds, Donens- ter, and Wakefield, &c. On the 3rd, the workmen of Spring and Sheaf Works, to the number of about HOO were entertained.

2. Rate of discount raised to 4 per cent. Harvest late, reports unfavourable. Rapid fall in funds and shares commenced.

5. Burgess list for 1H53-4 contains 10,830 names.

• >. JMeeting at tlie Town Hall passes resolutions condemnatory of the conduct of the Sheffield Highway Board as to the collectors'

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salaries, the payment of deputations to London, and the Chair- man's insulting letter to the Brightside board.

7. The IVTayor and Master Cutler (W. A. Matthews, Esq.) enter- tains the members of the Corporation at the Cutlers' Hall.

7. Contract by the Improvement Commissioners with the United Gas Company to light the street lamps for three years, at 40s.

14. Town Council — Board of Ordnance decline to give the old barracks to the Council — Mr. Ironside's correspondence with the bridge committee on surplus land — proposal to erect a Council Hall — Church Buigess trust — dry grinding, &c.

17. ShefBeld Union — in-poor, 32S, against 337 last year; ouf poor, 2748, received £231, against 2919, who received ^235 last year. Ecclesall in-poor, 155, against 172 last year; out payments, ^£50, against £50 last year.

28. Fall in stocks and shares continued till it amounted to a;' panic. Consols fell to OOtj ; Midlands, 58 ; Manchester, Shef- field, and Lincolnshire, 19 ; Sheffield Banking, 139 ; Sheffield and Sotherham, II; Sheffield and Hall am shire, 40 ; Sheffield Union, 24§; United Gas, 28; Gas Consumers', 3-2 dis. ; Waterworks, 150. Average price of wheat, 56s. 9d.

28. Nether Hallatn Ward — Mr. P. Ashberry elected by a ma- jority of 200 to 108 against Mr. S. Bacon, to supply the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. T. Platts. OCTOBER.

3. Meeting of the Nether Hallam ratepayers to consider the means of trying the right to the toll bar on the Wadsley and Lang- sett road. Question tried at Doncaster Sessions and decided against the ratepayers.

3. Public meeting declares in favoiir of Free Library and Mu- seum's Act, and requests Mr. Solly to renew his motion in the Town Council for its adoption.

5. Half-yearly meeting of Gas Consumers' Company, and spe- cial meeting to consider proposal for a committee of enquiry. An angry recriminatory meeting, which finally resolved to submit the report and accounts to Aid. Carr, and request him to report upon them. — No report made by Aid. Carr up to the end of the year.

8. Church rate contest at Eotherham — rate negatived by 1013 to 513. The sums required afterwards raised by voluntary sub- scription.

8. During the week several robberies effected or attempted in jewellers shops.

9. Decease of Mr. Joshua T. Gunn, wine merchant, aged 79. 10 and following days. Courts of Arbitration were held on the

claims of the owners of several lots of property required by the Corporation for the new streets. In all the cases the costs of en- quiry fell upon the Corporation.

12. Town Council — dry grinding — bridges and streets — council hall — enactment of smoke consuming bye-laws, (which were al- lowed by Secretary of State) — free library and museum.

— . Poor Law Inspector addresses the guardians of the Sheffield Union on the propriety of providing a new union workhouse.

13. United Gas Company — half-yearly meeting — dividend of 20s. declared, though from April to June the price had been 3g. per 1000. Had that been the price of the whole half-year there would have been no dividend.

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16. The Rev. H. Batchelor, late of Fetter lane Chapel, London, assumes the pastorate of Nether Chapel.

17. Opening of Rotherham Mechanics' Institute celebrated by a bazaar, an oratorio, a concert, and a soiree.

24. John Parker, Esq., late M.P. for Sheffield, sworn a mem- ber of her Majesty's Right Hon. Privy Council.

25. Mr. Cobden, M.P., presides at meeting of Barnsley Me; chanics' Institution.

26. Voting of burgesses on the adoption of Free Library and Museums Act: for, 837; against, 232.

— . Annualmeetiugof Peoples' College. Dr.L.jPlayfair presides.

27. Ratepayers of Rotherham electa Burial Board to provide for the closing of the churchyard.

— . School of Design — annual meeting — £3300 had been sub- scribed to erect a new school. Overend prize of £bO to Godfrey Sykes; Mayor's prize, 10 guineas, to Charles Green; Master Cutler's prize, £5, Jas. Gamble ; Montgomery prize to T. Gregory. 31. Town Council — dry grinding — council hall — new streets and Neepsend bridge — sanatory measures.

— . Theatre opened by Messrs. Coleman and Johnson.

NOVEMBER. 1. Municipal elections — St. Peter's, W. Fisher, jun., and T. Gates re-elected. Park, Sydney Jessop re-elected, and John Cross- land, vice R. Tummon. Brightside, C. Alcock re-elected Up- per Hallam, W. Booth, vice James Taylor. Attercliflfe, G. Hill re-elected. Ecclesall,H. Vickers, 1170; M. Beal, 1158 (elected;) I. Ironside, G08 ; J. Wood, 598. St. George's Ward, W. Moulson, 833 ; W. Lawton, 831 (re-elected ;) W. Skinner, 165 ; J. Webster, 444. St. Philip's, G. A. Wood, 460 (reelected;) Geo. Trickett, 382, vice G. Shallcross, 122. Nether Hallam, J. Crowley, 476 (elected;) C. G.Carlisle, 331.

3. Vocal Union, (formerly the Apollo Catch and Glee Society,^ gives its first concert.

9. Town Council — Mr. F. Hoole elected Mayor by 32 votes to Mr. W. Fisher, jun., 15. Messrs. T. R. Barker, J. Carr, T. Birks, C. Peace, T. Dunn, I. Schofield, and W. Jeffcock having com- pleted their term as aldermen, retired. The election fell on W. Fisher, 35 ; T. Dunn, 33 ; F. Hoole, 30 ; J. Carr, 29 ; H. Hinde, 24; R.Solly, 23; T. R. Barker, 18. Election of committees-r- complaint of the voting on Free Library and Museum, and a com- mittee appointed.

;^ 12. Gas Consumers' Co. give notice of application to parliament. 16. Mechanics' library soiree to celebrate its usefulness for 30 years. The Mayor in the chair. Present; Earl Fitzwilliam, the Rev. T. Sale, Wilson Overend, Esq., E. Smith, Esq., Messrs. AW. Dunn, Pye-Smith, &c.

16. Sheffield Guardians resolved, " That Mr. Watkinsou, the clerk of this union, having carelessly lost, or disengenuously kept back, a letter from the Chesterfield union, requesting this imion to relieve one of their aged paupers, thus involving grievous wrong by delay--and also by addressing language calculated to give great pain and distress; and having set this board at defiance, when an unanimous resolution was passed censuring such con- duct: resolved, that the chairman be requested to write a letter to the Poor Law Commissioners, to enquire whether this conduct on the part of tlie clerk has their sanction."

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1853.

17. St. Peter's ward — election of four Councillors, vice Aid. Fisher, Hoole, Solly, and Hiude. W. L. Humfrey, 11 68 ; I. Scho- field, 938; N. Moore, 879 ; C. E.Broadbent, 856 ; W. Smith, jun., 420; M. E. Hadfield, 412 ; J. Shortridge, 404.

17. Decease of Mr. Paul Ashley, late of Watson's walk, aged 48.

17. Special Sessions at Wakefield refuses to make a grant for widening the Lady's bridge.

22. Decease, at Hassop Hall, of Dorothy Countess of Newburgh.

24. Decease of Mr. Thos. Koebuck, Machon Bank, aged 35.

25. The directors of the Gas Consumers' Company and mem- bers of the Brightside Highway Board convicted at York of ille- gally opening the streets, sentenced by the Court of Queen's Bench to a nominal penalty on entering into recognizances not further to ofi'end.

28. Decease suddenly, in Eotherham church, of Mr. Cooper, of EflSngham Cottage, Masbro', aged 07.

DECEMBEE.

1. At Elsecar, Phebe Sadler, with her sou and daughter and a lodger, were all suffocated during the night by the effluvium which escaped from a furnace in the Iron Works into the house.

1. Brewers advance in the jirice of ale on account of the rise in the value of the materials.

2. Presentation of silver horn to David Sellars, huntsman to Sheffield harriers.

5. Dinner to the Mayor by the members of the legal profession.

7. Auxiliary to the 'Trade Protection Society formed to pay the costs of sending fraudulent debtors to prison.

— . Increased scarcity and advance in the price of coal.

— . The Union Clerk oi Shefiieid charged with violating the or- ders of the guardians in the case of the non-settled poor. Chair- man directed to apply to the Poor Law Board to make enquiry, and the books sealed up in the meantime.

— . Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire special meeting adopts the report of the committee of investigation.

8. Meeting to promote the closing of shops and markets at 11 on Saturday nights, which commenced on the 31st Dec.

9 and 12. Mr. J. B. Gough lectures in the Music Hall on total abstinence. On the 13th at Eotherham.

9. Decease of Mr. H. G. Long, merchant, aged 64.

10. Eowley v. Eowley. Judicial^committee of the Privy Council reverse judgment of the Consistory Court at York, and order the defendant, Mrs. Eowley, to return to hevhusband Mr. J. J. Eowley.

14. Town Council — Branch money order ofBces — representation of the borough — Library and Museum committee to carry out the act — Lady's bridge — probate and fire insurance duties — post-office arrangements — County Court prisoners.

16. — Lord Palmerston resigns the office of Home Secreta*y,but resumed it on the 24th. ^ '^^Sl

18. Decease of Mr. Henry Longden, Broom place, aged 71. i,

19. Church of England Instruction Society. Proposal to erect a building for its accommodation.

19. Eotherham Baths sold to Mr. James Hodgson, miller, for ^1375. Cost five years ago ^3000.

19. Decease of Mr. Saml. Frost, Crookes moor, aged 63.

21. Proprietary of the Eotherham Cemetery resolve to offer it to the Burial Board for ^62500.

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21. Decease, aged 54, of Eev. A. A. Barker, incumbent of Baslow.

22. Decease of Mr. Simeon Dewsnap, town councillor for St. George's Ward, aged 37.

2'2. Singleton and Co. v. the Corporation. Court of Arbitration as to price for Norrisfield Saw-mills. It was agreed that Single- ton and Co. should receive ^£8500, and remove their steam engine and machinery.

23. E. N. Philipps, Esq., of Broomhall, gazetted as a deputy- lieutenant of the city of London.

26. Splendid epergne and salver presented to W. A. Matthews, Esq., Mayor and Master Cutler, 1853, " by a few friends in testi- mony of his private worth and public spirit."

27, 28, and 29. Bazaar, for the alteration of Queen street Cha- pel, realised ^£'580.

28. Soiree of the Mechanics' Institute — Inaugural address by the new principal, Mr. J. W. Slater.

29, 30, and 31. Mr. Farnell, Poor Law Inspector, engaged ia enquiry as to the conduct of Mr. John Watkinson, clerk to the Sheffield Union.

29. Opening of Trinity schools, Wicker. ^^ 30. Mr. Isaac Ironside elected for St. George's ward, vice Mr. S Dewsnap, deceased

31. Price of local shares— Midland, 02^; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 2-2§; Sheffield Banking Company, 140 ; Shef- field and Eotherham Bank, 10| ; Sheffield and Hallamshire, 38§; Sheffield Union, 23 J; United Gas, 36 J; Gas Consumers, 1|; Water Works, 147. Wheat, 70s. per qr.

31. Savings' Bank accounts to Nov. Investments of tl e year, JE284,445; increase, £27,041. Eeceived from depositors, £91,338; increase, £14,431. Paid to depositors, £71,590 ; increase, £7523. Due to depositors, £285,292 ; increase, £27,435. Number of de- positors, 12,204; increase, 780.

31. The Eev. Jas. Breakey accepts the call of the Sheffield Pres- byterian church.

31. Presentation of plate to Mr. W. Thompson by the workmen of Messrs. Blake and Parkin, Meadow works.

31. Commencement of the Ball street foot-bridge.

31. Fall of rain in 1852 and '53, compared with average fall from 1836 to 1851, and the wettest and dryest years in that period : —

Wettest.

Dryest.

Average.

]S39.

J8t4.

1836—1861

1852.

1853.

.January . . .

2.07.5 .

. 2.305

.. 3. .394 .

. 5.233.

.4.395

February . . .

. 2.400 .

. 1..580

.. 2.775 .

. 5.630.

.1.315

March

3.240 .

. 3.725

.. 2.923 .

. 1.110.

.1.805

April

1.530 .

. .610

.. 2.854 .

. .270.

.2 050

May

.8:13 .

. .595

.. 2.819 .

. 1.8S5.

.1.645

June

5.225

. 2.415

.. 3.519 .

. 6.235.

.4.800

July

9.085

. 3.535

.. 4.390 .

. 2.275.

.4.330

August ...

5.705 .

. 3.820.

.. 3.681 .

. 2 400.

.3.165

September .

6.115 .

. 4.635

.. 3.832 .

. 5.245.

.2.970

October ...

3 420 .

. 3.4S0

.. 4236 .

. 3.725.

.5.555

November .

6.200 .

. 3.185

.. 3.871 .

. 8.046.

.2.430

December .

2.830 .

. .2^0

.. 3.194 .

. 4.850.

.1.270

49.255

30.145

40.980

45.900 35.790

lE-VDEH, PBINTEn, INDEPENDENT OFFICE, SHEFFIELD,

[Presented to the Subscribers to the Independent.']

OF THE

SHEFFIELD LOCAL EEGISTER,

1854.

JANUARY.

4. After intense cold, heavy fall of snow which blocked up the railways for some days, and greatly embarrassed the trade of the country. In the town, the omnibuses ceased to run and the cabs were worked with pairs of horses. Coals very scarce and dear. Many street lamps out in consequence of the frost.

5. Decease, aged 30, of Henry, (son of the Rev. Peter Wright,) late of New York.

6. Decease, aged 25, of Timothy, youngest son of the late E. Bentley, Esq., of Rotherham.

7. Advance of wages demanded in the file trade with indications of a contest between masters and workmen.

7. Nathl. R. Philipps, Esq., ofBroomhall (qualified at Ponte- fract sessions) and Jas. Wilson Rimiugtou Wilson, Esq., of Broom- Lead Hall, placed on the commission for the West-Riding.

7. Proposed bill of the Gas Consumers' Company (having failed to carry o'n without parliamentary powers) — capital ^60,000, .£49,900 subscribed for and more than half paid up, with power to raise £40,000 more, and power to borrow. Profits not to exceed 7J per cent, and maximum price of gas 3s. per 1000 cubic feet. Company not to amalgamate without consent of Town Council.

9. Meeting to urge war against Russia in aid of Turkey.

11. Town Council — special constables — the late Councillor S. Dewsnap — means to build Neepsend bridge — Borough and Free Library rate — memorial to abolish Poor Law Board — committee to enforce smoke bye-law — memorial on costs of bankruptcies — committee on working of County Court act — memorial to the members of Parliament attending the proposed Reform banquet on the 19th January — vote of thanks to Geo. Hadfield, Esq., M.P.

13. House of the Rev. J. J. Shrubsole destroyed by fire.

13. — Explosion of gas in the house of Mr. Barr, Collegiate crescent, Broomhall.

14. Meeting at Doncaster of guardians of Sheffield, Ecclesall, Eotherham, and other unions of the neighbourhood, — resolved that it was desirable to found industrial schools for pauper children.

14. Sheffield union — Inmates, 451, against 398 last year. Out relief, 2847 persons, £239, agahist 2940 persons, £225 last year. Ecclesall: Inmates, 180, against 187. Out poor, £62, against £52.

16. Meeting of owners of steam power to consider the expe- diency of raising their rents in consequence of the increased cost of coal and other material for working their engines.

17. Decease of Joseph Smith, musician, Dixon lane, aged 43.

17. Scheme to establish a Coal Consumers' Company.

18. Rotherham Board of Health — plans of water supply. 18. Dispensary — Mr. Sept. Arden elected house-surgeon,

18. Rapid melting of the snow and breaking up of ice — the val- leys flooded — great flood at Rotherham — greatest flood known at Doncaster for 60 years.

19. Geo. Hadfield, Esq., M.P., addresses his constituents.

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19. Reform banqnet at Mnsie IIcU attended by E. Cobden, Esq., M.P.; J. Bright, Esq., M.P.; Lord Goderieb, M.P.; Geo. Had- field, Esq., M.P. ; Jas. Kershaw, Esq., M.P. ; Jas. Pilkington, Esq., M.P. ; J. Cheethara, Esq., M.P. ; and L. Heyworth, Esq., M.P.

20. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire shares, 20§, 21§; Midland, CO, GOJ ; Sheffield Banking Company (To paid,) 136, 40; Sheffield and Rotherham Bank (8 paid,) 10^,11; Sheffield and Hallamshire Bank (2.5 paid.) 37, 38 ; Union Bank (12 paid,) 16^, 17i ; United Gas (24 paid,) 24^ 2o\ ; Gas Consum- ers' (5 paid,) 12, Ig; Waterworks (100 paid,) 145,140.

20. Decease of Mr. Ricbd. Yeomans, of Pitsmoor.

20. Dr. Ferguson Branson, of Sheffield, explains in the Journal of the Society of Arts, that soap may be used to engrave designs and produce casts for letter-press printing.

2-3. Decease of Mr. Jas Judd, (Willevs & JudJ,) Market place.

2-3. Heath v. Unwin — application of the plaintiff to set aside tbe verdict for the defendant at Liverpool assizes, with a view to a new trial, refused by the Court of Queen's Bench.

24. Rev. J. Breakey becomes minister of Presbyterian Church.

24. Resolution to establish a hide, skin, and fat market.

2-'3. Poor Law Board decide on ihs report of the examination, concluded 31st Dec, into the conduct of Mr. John Watkinson, the union clerk of Sheffield, that they cannot " without injustice to the public interest!^ consent to his longer retaining the office of clerk," and require him to resign the office. On the 30th, the Poor Law Board consent to re-open the enquiry ou the representation of Mr. Watkinson that his defeuce had not been heard.

26. Decease of Mr. Henry Fowler, C. E., aged 32.

26. Rotherham -Board of Health— tender for engines accepted.

27. Decease of Mr. Joseph Kirk, aged 58, many years one of the secretaries to the file trade.

27. Sheffield Banking Company— dividend of 15 per cent.

27. Meeting of owners of steam power — resolve to raise their rents 10 per cent., to cease furnishing coal to the hulls, &c.

28. United Gas Company petition against the bill of the Con- sumers' Company for non-compliance with standing orders.

29. Violent storm of wind, causing much damage. 31. Decease of Mr. Jas. Gregory, Highfield, aged 79. 81. Opening of Parliament — augmentation of military and naval j

forces required, the war between Russia and Turkey continuing. FEBEU.\RY.

The expediency of wearing beards and moustaches agitated.

1. Meeting in Paradise square to promote a subscription in. i of the Preston turn-outs and lock-outs.

1. Improvement Commissioners — report negativing the alleg deficiency in the supply of gas.

2. Re-opening of Queen street chapel, alteredand repaired.

2. Inaugural lecture of Rotherham Mechanics' Institution bj the Rev. James Aspinall, of Althorpe.

3. The dispute between the manufacturers and men in the fil trade settled by an advance of w:Ages, the gradual admission ofl 300 new apprentices, and some other matters.

4. The Russian ambassador takes leave of our court. C. Attempts to form a "municipal association," as successor toj

the defunct " central democratic association."

C. Gavnzzi lectures nt Rotherham on " the prpacy in England.'

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1854.

6. Examiner of standing orders decided that they had been complied with iu the Gas Consumers' Co.'s bill — read on the 7th.

7 and 8. Father Gavazzi lectures on America and England.

8. Town Council — bridges and streets committee, funds and expenses — reports on Poor Law Board and the County Court — watch rate of 6d. — Mr. W. Waterfall appointed borough treasurer, vice Mr. W. Brown — Free Library — Peace Society — standing or- ders as to memorials — licencing beerhouses — national police.

9 & 10. Ee-opeued enquiry, by Mr. Farnell, inspector, into case of Mr. Watkinson, union clerk. Mr. W. 0 verend for Mr.Watkinson.

11. Dr. Ferguson Branson communicates to the Journal of the Society of Arts his discovery of nature printing.

13. Lord J. Russell's new Reform bill. ^C rating franchise.

14. Public meeting at Town Hall, Mr. Aid. "Dunn in the chair, memorial to Poor Law Board against the Shelfield Union Clerk.

16. Mr. W. Ibbetsou Horn elected a church burgess, -vice Mr. Francis Huntsman resigned.

16. Inundation of Sheaf Works, owing to the escape of the water of the canal through an old coal working.

17. Mr. Roebuck, M.P., having been absent from the House of Commons during the session of 1853, from illness, spoke on the war. Lord John Russell, in reply, shewed that the per- sistence of the Czar in unjust demands made war inevitable, con- cluding " May God defend the right ! and for my part I shall wil- lingly share the burden and the responsibility."

18. Decease of Sarah, wife of Mr. John Harrop, builder. West street, in consequence of the inhalation of chloroform with a view to an operation for the removal of a tumour iu the breast.

19. Decease of Mr. Samuel Brittain, aged 74.

21. Meeting of occupiers of steam power recommend the owners to reduce the working hours rather than raise the rents, &c.

22. Rotherham Burial Board authorised to purchase the cemetery.

23. Average price of wheat 80s. Id.

27. Church Burgess Trust. — Final hearing before Master Tiu- ney of the new scheme for this trust.

27. Meeting at Town Hall to petition parliament in favour of Gas Consumers' Company, Petition signed by 18,000 persons.

28. Recognition of Rev. H. Batchelor, minister of Nether Chapel.

MARCH.

1. City of Glasgow steamer sailed from Liverpool for Phila- delphia, with 480 persons on board, and no more heard of. Among the passengers was Mr. Jas. Alfred Moulson, (Moulson Brothers.)

1. Interview between the owners and occupiers of steam power ending in the abandonment of any united action by the millowners, and leaving each to arrange with his own tenants. On the 6th, a meeting of the Steam Tenants' Union adopted a report to the effect that where overbands were charged no advance of rent was necessary, and pointing out that a large portion of the wheel room was unfit for such a pernicious occupation as grinding.

1. Rotherham Board of Health purchase water works for ^2400.

1. Final decision of the Poor Law Board on Mr. Watkinson's case, confirming the order for his resignation. Mr. Watkinson de- clining to say when he would resign, a resolution was passed re- quiring him to do so in a fortnight.

2. Gas C onsumers' Co. — Aid. Carr reports on the company's aflfairs. 6. Meeting to petitionfortotal closingof publichouses on Sunday.

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1854.

8. Eotherham Board of Health — Tenders for drainage, &c. works.

8. Sheffield United Cricket Club — Arrangements to form by- subscription a new ground near St. Mary's church.

8. Town Council — Petition in favour of Gas Consumers' Com- pany's bill, after a discussion on 5 and G Vic, c. 104, s. ^, pro- hibiting any member of a town council from voting or taking part in the discussion of matters in which he has pecuniary interest.

8. Sheffield Union — The Poor Law Board require Mr. Watkin- son to resign not later than the 12th of April, allowing him in the meantime to conduct the election of guardians. Mr. Watkinson gave notice of his resignation accordingly, but desired to retain the office of Superintendent Registrar. Registrar General decided the registrarship must go with the office of Union Clerk.

9. Temporary stoppage of the exportation of files under the idea that they were being supplied to Russia. Files permitted to be sent on bond being given for their landing at Amsterdam, and that they were for a friendly power.

9. Decease of Mr. Jas. Haywood, professional chemist, from iu- halingnitrous acid gas, caused by the accidental breakiugof a carboy.

9. Decease of Mr. C. Wardlow, steel manufacturer, aged 73.

11. Sailing of the Baltic fleet under Sir C. Napier, from Ports- mouth, led out by the Queen in the Fairy yacht.

13. George Curtis convicted at York for robbery, with violence, of Robert Hausley, of the Brinsworth bar, near Eotherham, Nov. 19, 1852. Sentence of death recorded.

15. York Assizes. — Cottingham v. Rowley. Action by wife's trustee against the husband. Verdict for plaintiff, ^096.

15. Sheffield Union — Report to the Poor Law Board on the retreat ward. Auditor's disallowance of the cost of printing the accounts of the Union set aside by the Poor Law Board, on the ground that it is lawful at reasonable cost to print the accounts.

IC and 17. Rhodes v. Rooke, will cause, tried at York Assizes. Verdict for plaintiff, and Mr. Justice Cresswell described the defence as [a disgraceful piece of fraud. In the Ecclesiastical Court, the defendants were condemned in costs.

16 and 17. Derby Assizes. — Taylor v. Nesfield — damages one farthing. Taylor v. Dove — verdict for the defendant for the as- sault, 403. — for malicious prosecution, ^80. Rule for new trial.

17. Strike among the guards and porters on the Midland line against an arrangement to pay them fortnightly instead of weekly.

18. Botanical Gardens — shares taken up — extinction of debt. 20. Subscriptions for the wives and children of soldiers on service. 22. Sheffield Union. — Mr. Joseph Spencer elected Union Clerk. 22. Dispensary. — Drs. Hall, Law, and Elam, elected physicians. 22. Eotherham Board of Health. — Jlessrs. Beatson and Brown

forKimberworth ; Messrs. Aldred and G. Haywood for Rotherham.

22. Edgetool and Wool Shear Grinders' Union present a gold watch, &c., to Mr. George Career, their secretary.

23. Decease, at Woodlands, Bury, of Mr. Wm. Brownell, aged 87, many years secretary of the Sheffield Fire Office.

24. Two troops of the Scotch Greys, (afterwards distinguished at Baloklava,) left Sheffield for Leeds.

25. Decease,'at Welbeck Abbey, of the Duke of Portland,'aged 85. Directed by will that his funeral should not cost more than £100.

27 and 29. Gas Consumers' Company's bill before the select committee. Mr. Jackson, M.P. for Newcastle-under-Lyne, sug-

SHEFFIELD tOCAL BEGISTEB. 525

1854. gested terms of amalgamation, which were readily accepted by hoth. The leading terms were, that the United Company should apply next session for an act to raise ^130,000 additional capital, with limitation of dividends to ten per cent., and the price to 4s.

28. Declaration of war against Russia.

28. Meeting at Town Hall — Petitions for ministerial reform bill.

28. Decease of Mr. E. Eaton, aged53, Wicker Steel andiron Worka.

30. Dinner at the Cutlers' Hall, of the Iron, Hardware and Metal Trades Pension Society. President, Lord E . Howard, M.P. APRIL.

I. Sheffield highways— Collected, ^7135 ; expended, .£8468.

I. Incendiary explosions in the houses of Chas. Reaney, scythe back maker, Abbeydale, and J.Fisher, scythe maker, of Pinglehead.

3. Magistrates at Pontefract Sessions reject proposals for a grant to widen Lady's bridge, and for a bill to enable the Eidiug to dis- pose of the property in bridges to parishes willing to repair them.

4. Monument to Sir Francis Chantrey erected on Norton green.

5. Kotherham Board of Health. — Report by Dr. Shearman oa the prevention of epidemics-— plans of Mr. Lee for water supply and drainage adopted. Water works to cost ^621,561; drainage, a£6583.

5, Consecration of Brightside church.

6. Meeting at the Council Hall disapproves of the amalgama- tion of the gas companies, and resolution to call a public meeting.

9. Decease of Mr. John Dixon, solicitor.

10. Meeting at Town Hall resolves to attempt to raise £15,000, by obtaining subscribers to the Gas Consumers' Company, at £4^ per share, to enable the company to jemsiin independent. The at- tempt was not seriously made, and signally failed.

II. Lord J. Russell abandons the Reform bill.

12. Town Council — opinion of Mr. Cowling, Q.C., that under 5 and 6 Vict., c. 104, s.2, members of gas companies, in questions relating to them before the Council, ought nut to speak, and the Mayor may refuse their votes — arching of Kelham Goit — Gas Companies' amalgamation — lodging houses — secular education.

12. Sheffield Union — Mr. John Watkinson resigns the seal and keys of office to Mr. Spencer, the new clerk. New guardians elected:— Sheffield— T. Birks, T. E. Mycock, T. Dunn, J. Cross- land, T. Peel, P. Asiiberry, H. Crawshaw, A. Booth. (Aid. Dunn declined to serve.) Attercliffe — Rev. W. L. Gibson. Brightside — W. Jarvis, T. Turner. Handsvrorth — J. Rhodes.

13. Meeting of United Gas Company — profit from the sale of gas, at 3s. per £1000, £668 ; and the total balance of the half- year, from every source of revenue, £1966. Report on the circum- stances and conditions of the i^roposed amalgamation, approved.

14. Mr. John Stables, late law clerk of the Manchestei-, Shef- field, and Lincolnshire Railway Company, apprehended at Bonn, on a charge of embezzling the property of the company — convicted at Liverpool assizes, 16th August, — 15 years' transportation.

15. Major Fawkes appointed distributor of stamps at Sheffield, vice Mr. John Brown, resigned.

17. Opening of Newhall cricket and pleasure grounds.

18. Assembling of Third West York Militia at Doncaster.

18. Stoppage of the exportation of files, steel, ii-on, &c., to the continent. Prohibition removed by Order in Council, 24th April.

18. First stone of the Wicker Congregational Church, Spital hill, laid by the Mayor (Aid. F. Hoole.) i 2

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1854.

19. Eotherham Board of Health resolve to erect two common- lodging houses for Rotherham and Masbro'.

20. Committee of the Town Council inform the gas companies that not being parties to the amalgamation, the Town Council will be at liberty to oppose or otherwise the bill of amalgamation, if necessary for the protection of the public interests. On the 25th, the United Gas Company replied that the directors con- sidered that the Town Council would be treated by Parliament £5 assenting to the arrangement. On 27th, committee again repudiate.

21. Mr. George Padley elected clerk and collector to the Ec- clesall highways, vice Mr. Jonathan Buxton, resigned.

24. Gas Consumers' Company, after a stormy meeting, agree, to amalgamation, only eight or ten voting against it.

26. Day of humiliation and prayer on account of the war. W 26. Decease, at Fir vale, aged 25, of Arthur, second son of Mr. Edward Smith.

30. Decease, at the Mount, of James Montgomery, aged 82. Came to Sheffield, April, 1792. His will, dated 1827, left legacies to the Moravian School at Fulneok, Moravian Missions, Boys*^ and Girls' Charity Schools, Bettering and Aged Female Societies, Boys' and Girls' Lancasterian Schools, and National Schools.

MAY. •' 1. Cricket— United 11 of England v. 15 of Sheffield, at Newhall — Sheffield, two innings, 108; England, one innings, 120.

3. Improvement Commissioners resolve that the proposal con- tained in the terms of amalgamation of the gas companies, that the public lamps should be charged at the same rate as to the private consumer, would enhance the cost of the street lamps, and that the Commissioners would oppose any bill containing such a provision.

4. Committee of the House of Commons on the gas bill ad- journed to the Bth, the United Company insisting upon having- charge of the bill of amalgamation next session. On the 8tb, terms were agreed upon, leaving the United Company to promote the bill in 1855, and binding them in a penalty of ^5000 not to abandon it unless the committee should reduce the capital, or the maximum price, or dividend, or should make other changes which the counsel drawing the bill might consider a sufficient reason.

0. Decease of Mr. J. Watts, f Watts & Stones,; brewer, aged 45.

9. 34th Foot marched for Portsmouth, ordered for special service.

10. Wm. Burkinshaw and Henry Smith apprehended in Man- chester for a garotte robbery at Sheffield ; attempted to murder P. Shandy, a Manchester policeman, in the railway carriage on the way to Sheffield, with a view to their escape. Burkinshaw found guilty at York summer assizes ; judgment of death recorded. Smith guilty of unlawfully wounding; six months' imprisonment.

10. Town Council — the late Mr. Montgomery — gas companies' amalgamation — report against carrying out the lodging houses act — ragged schools — closing public- houses on Sunday — Dissenters and the universities.

10. Decease of Mr. Wra. Chapman, engraver, aged 74.

11. Town Trust accounts — receipts, .£2114; expended in ad- ditions to permanent estate, ^£80 1 ; interest of loan, £'iS8 ; balanc» to improvements account, iJUU ; and the rest on various accounts.

11. Public funeral of the late Mr. Montgomery. 15. Jle-opening of lecture room of Mechanics' Institution, after decoration, with a lecture by Mr. Geo. Dawson, of Birmiagham.

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15. Insubordination of Third West York Militia, at Doncaster, in consequence of the extension, by ten days, of their period of training, and the postponement of the payment of their second in- Btalment of bounty money till the end of that period. The ring- leaders tried by court-martial, and sentenced to imprisonment.

15. Opening, to Dodworth, of the Barnsley branch of the Man- chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire.

26. Decease of Mr. T. Mearbeck, lead and glass merchant, aged 74,

17. Shef. sessions — Grand Jury made presentment of scrap shops. 21. Decease of Mr. W. Bluudell, aged 58, one of the relieving

officers of the Sheffield Union for 14 years.

23. Third West York Militia embodied. Ordered to garrison duty at Berwick, and afterwards at Dublin.

23. Decease of Mr. David Mitchell, aged 51.

24. Meeting to originate a monument to Mr. Montgomery,

24. Incendiary explosion in the bouse of Samuel Baxter, saw grinder, Norman Dale, Loxley.

25. Average price of wheat, 78s. 2d.

28. Decease, atBaslow,of Mr. J. Jeeves.lateof Shef,moor,aged79.

28. Decease of Mr. A. Ingleson, Lady's bridge, aged 76.

29. Portion of the arches over the Kelham goit fell in.

29. Sheffield Union — Guardians having been urged by the Poor Law Inspector to consider the propriety of erecting a new work- house, resolved that it was inexpedient at present.

30. Decease of Mr. James Hall, Brookhill, aged 83.

JUNE. 1. Eebuilding of St. Jude's Church, Moorfields, (the tower of which fell 7th November, 1852,) recommenced.

1. First stone of St. Matthew's Church, Carver street

2. Duke of Devonshire — slight attack of paralysis at Chatsworth.

3. School of Design — Spring Exhibition, Gore House, 13 medals and three money prizes awarded to students of this school.

4. M, Kossuth, ex-Governor of Hungary, visits Sheffield and addresses meetings in Paradise square and the Music Hall.

5. Elijah Parker, saw grinder, of Dore, maliciously shot.

8. Rotherham Union — lnvestigatio?i and dismissal of complaints against the governor and matron of the Workhouse.

8. Killed in the attack on Gamla Carleby, Gulf of Finland, Henry, son of J. C. Athorpe, Esq., of Dinnington Hall, aged 17, midshipman on board the Odin.

10. Opening of the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, by the Queen.

14. Town Council — Report that the common lodging houses are sufficient in capacity, and as good as the means of the persons using them can afford; cleaning and decoration of the hall; Green lane and Cornish street; the fallen arches; police bill; de- cimal coinage ; independence of Poland.

15. Gas Consumers' Company's Bill withdrawn, the arrange- ments with the United Company having been completed. Liabili- ties of the Consumers' Company estimated at £18,213. On the completion of the amalgamation, the shareholders of the new com- pany to receive £39,264 of stock, representing 9816 shares, at £i.

15. Luke Clarke, who made charges against Mr. J. A. Eoebuck, at the election of 1852, charged, at Westminster Police Court, with threatening to shoot Mr. Eoebuck and Sir G. Grey.

18. Decease of Mr. John Smith, aged 39, surveyor to the Shef- field Highway Board.

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26. Dou Pedro V., King of Portugal, and the Duke of Oporto, ^isit Sheffield.

29. Foimdatiou stone of St. Lute's church, Hollis croft district.; 29. Paris Exhibition, 1865 — committee for Sheffield goods.

JULY. 1. Price of gas raised from 3s. to is. per 1000.

3. C. Makin, late a stamper in Sheffield Post Office, committed on charge of stealing a money letter. Convicted — 4 yrs. penal serv.

4. Heath v. Unwiu, writ of error, argued in the House of Lords, by which the patentee sought to reverse the decision of the Court of Exchequer Chamber in favour of Mr. Unwin. Decision adjd.

5. Improvement Commissioners — opinion of Mr. A. S. Aspland, that only ratepayers within the old lighting and cleansing boun- dary, could vote in the election of commissioners.

7 and 20. Church-rate meetings at Droufield. Kate refused.

8. Discussion as to the alleged badness of the edgetools supplied to the army. New arrangements made for tendering for contracts.

8. Out-door preaching by the Vicar and other clergymen.

12. Town Council — the gas ^companies — Nuisances Removal Act — gold and silver manufacture — the Dore outrage — carts in the streets — lodging house accommodation — Neepsend and Borough bridges — reports ou falling of Kelham Goit arches — consolidation of rates — the Union farm — alliance of England and France.

15. Agreement between Town Council and landowners for the erection of Neepsend bridge, the landowuers contributing jGIOOO.

19. William Leonard Gill Bagshawe, Esq., of The Oaks and Wormhill Hall, aged 25, killed in an aiFray with poachers, at Wormhill. 24 and 25. Eight persons charged wiiu the offeucep examined at Bakewell, and seven of them committed to Derby assizes. Tried on the 29th, and acquitted.

19. Inquest on Joseph Crookes, killed at Owlerton feast, on 4th July. Verdict of wilful murder against J. Holroyd, C. Haynes, F. Knowles, G. Sykes, and Joseph Peach.

24. Town Council — rebuilding the arches of Kelham goit.

27. Cricket: All England 11 v. 20 of Eotherham (Howard) Club. Botherham, 142 ; England, 143, and seven wickets.

27. Average price of Wheat, 7]s. lOd. Harvest prospects good. AUGUST

1. Church Burgess Trust — New scheme approved by Vice-Chan- cellor Stuart. 5-7ths ecclesiastical, and 2-7ths secular purposes.

1. Exhibition of photographs and specimens of nature printing at the People's College.

2. Preference shareholders of tlie Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Company appoint a committee on question of arrears.

a. Botherham, consumption of smoke comes into operation.

3. Explosion in the house of Wm. Wass, file grinder, Allen st. , 7. Messrs. J. B. Roberts, J. Shaw, T. Chesman, J. Roebuck, S.

Parker, and E. Hobson elected Improvement Commissioners.

8 to 11. School of Design — Exhibition of prize drawings.

9. Town Council — Green lane — Paris Exhibition.

9. Cemetery — dividend of 10s. and return of .£2 jjer share capital.

12. Traffic arrangement announced between the London and Korth Western and the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, by which the former guarantees to the latter a minimum traffic pror gressively increasing for a terra of years. Approved by the share holders of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire oa the 19tht

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12. Apprehensions of scarcity of water — fall of rain during the year only 10 inches, instead of the average of 23 inches.

12. Workmen of H. Wilkinson, Esq., of Endcliffe Hall, present to him a silver tea and coffee service.

13. 14, 15. Lectures by Mr. Joseph Barker, against the authenti- city of the Bible. Answered on the 22nd and 23rd, by the Eev. J. F. Sergeant, in the Parish Church.

14. Decease, aged 64, of Mr. James Creswick, of the firm of Messrs. Thomas, James, & Nathaniel Creswick, silversmiths.

IG. Sheffield Guardians decline to convert the Hollow Meadows Farm into an industrial school, and resolve to employ the able- bodied in reclaiming waste land. The reclaimed land let in Sept.

16. Reform Freehold Society— Nether Edge estate allotted, 38 acres in 250 allotments.

16. Cutlers' Company — Mr. T. Moulson elected Master; Mr: F. T. Mappin, senior warden ; Mr. J. R. Spencer, junior warden.

16. Deputation of licensed victuallers had an interview with the BoJough Members to urge their objections to the new act limiting their hours of business on Sunday, and to the apprehended throw- ing open of the trade. Deputations of friendly societies make representations on the proposed bill for their regulation.

18. A few cases of cholera occur in Sheffield. Severe in London.

20. Decease, aged 01, of the Rev. Peter Wright, for more than 40 years minister of the Unitarian congregation at Stanuington.

21. Eckington Mechanics' Institution established.

21. Silver candelabra presented to the Right Hon. John Parker, at his residence, Darrington Hall, near Poutefract, inscribed, " To the Right Hon. John Parker, the first Member of Parliament for the Borough of Sheffield, in which capacity he served his consti- tuents and his country, ably, diligently, and faithfully, for 20 years, and honourably filled important offices under the govern- ment. This testimonial of gratitude and esteem, purchased by voluntary contributions, is presented by his townsmen and late constituents."

22. Mr. J. Watson elected assay master, vice Mr. L. C. Sayles. 4. Rotherham church rate meeting adjourned for a month with

a view to raise the funds needed by voluntary subscription. At the adjourned meeting, 21st September, £52 had been raised. Re- solved to levy a voluntary rate of 3d. in the pound for the remainder.

26. Statue of Ebenezer Elliott erected in the Marketplace.

28. Wheat falls Rs. or IDs. a quarter, influenced by the abundant crop and the fine weather.

28. Violent outbreak of cholera at Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire. Several visitors from Sheffield died.

80. Sheffield Union — Mr. Farnall reports to the guardians, " In the year ending Lady-day, 1853, the expenditure of the Sheffield Union was as follows :— In-door relief, £2423 ; out-door relief, ^613,188 ; and other items, (including £1390 salaries,) total, J19,916. Year ending Lady-day, 1854, expenditure £20,059, an excess of £143 over preceding year. The items were, in-door relief, £3066 ; out-door, £13,056 ; and £3957 for other expenses, including £1417 salaries. Besides this £20,000 in relief, there was paid from the poor rates £4438 for county rate ; law proceed- ings, £408 ; prooeedings before the magistrates, £734; vaccina- tion fees, £139; registration fees, £472; collectors' salaries and other items, making a total expenditure for last year of £28,000.

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In the first week in February, 1853, the number of poor on the books was 3372, which, taken as the average of the year, shewed that 3 2-lOths in every 100 of the population were receiving relief. The number receiving relief now was 3460, which was 370 in excess of the period last year. The average cost of each in-door pauper at Sheffield was 2s. 2id. per week, or £5. 15s. Id. a year. The out- door relief in Sheffield last year averaged £i. Os. id. per head, while that of the district was £3. 17s. Md. The nef rateable value of the property in the Sheffield Union was ^225,302. The relief given in 1853 was Is. Jtjd. in the pound, while the salaries of officers, &c., were Is. IJd. in the pound. SEPTEMBEK

1. Borough Treasurer's Accounts — Watch rates, £6303 ; borough rates, £2138; total receipts, £8527. Police force cost £5284, besides £1766 from constables' fees, &c.; elections, £210j town clerk, £300 ; miscellaneous, £365.

5. Burgess list for 1854 contains 16,974 names.

C>. Infirmary — Medical officers represent the insufficiency of tli.e number of beds. Year's expenditure exceeded income by £8SI. Subscriptions in 1799, £992 ; 1814, £1140; 1854, £1132. Inha- bited houses, 1841, 22,770; 1851, 27,099. Tninhabited houses, 1841,3239; 1851,270.

7. Cutlers' Feast — Master Cutler, Mr. T. Moulson. Principal guests — Earl Fitzwilliam, the Eight Hon. T. Sidney, Lord Mayor of London, Mr. J. A. Roebuck, M P., Mr. G. Hadfield, M.P., Mr. E. Monckton Milnes, M.P., &;c.

9. Opening of the Blackburn Valley branch of the South York- shire Railway and the Wharnclifle Silkstone Colliery.

13. Town Council — parliamentary papers — smoke consumption —law as to out-workers — the magistrates and the Adelphi Theatre.

14. United Cricket Club — £1500 subscribed by 174 share- holders. The new ground near St. Mary's Church in progress.

18. Mr. Jos. Badger, of Piotherham, resigns the office of De- puty Coroner. Succeeded by Mr. H. P. Badger.

18. Decease of Mr. Charles Fox, New Church street, aged 56.

19. Preference shareholders of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire agree to capitalise arrears in a 3J per cent, stock.

20. Decease, aged 32, of Mr. John Heppenstal],of Uppertliorpe. 20. Sketch model for the monument to Mr. Montgomery, by Mr.

Bell, sculptor, exhibited in the Cutlers' Hall, On 4th Oct. the report of the sub-committee recommending Mr. Bell's design to be executed at a cost of £3500, was unanimously adopted.

23. Fall of one of the wings of Tower ^Yheel, several men injured.

23. Several deaths from cholera during the week.

25. Eail Fitzwilliam narrowly escapes drowning, at Marske.

25 and 26. The Eev. Brewin Grant lectures at the Theatre Royal on " Secularism," and Mr. Joseph Barker's attacks on the Bible.

25. Meeting at the Town Hall to denounce the Government for not carrying on the war with sufficient energy.

28. Average price of wheat, 53s. 2d. OCTOBER.

Dalness of trade arising from the clieck to demand in the American and Australian markets.

2. Meeting of steam-engine proprietors, to consider means o! complying with the bye-law requiring the consumption of smoke.

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1854. d. Decease, aged 67, of Mr. James Wild, for more than 80 years one of the constables of Sheffield.

8. The Rev. J. B. Paton, M.A., assumes the i)astorship of the Wicfeer Congregational Church.

9. Foundation of Wesleyan Reformers' Chapel, Pyebank, laid.

11. Town Council — law as to out-workers — smoke consumption — bridges and streets — the Elliott monument.

12. United Gas Company's half-yearly meeting report that the profit on gas for the year ending oOth June, at 3s. per 1000, had not sufficed to pay 1 per cent, on the company's capital.

12. Tidings of tliO loss of the Arctic (New York and Liverpool) steamer off Cape Race, Newfoundland, on the 27th Sept., with 390 souls on board, of wboui only about 50 were saved. Among the lost were lur. Alderman Hiude (solicitor) and Mr. James Sykes, late of the Victoria Corn Mills, Sheffield. Not till the end of Nov. that definite tidings of the loss of Aid. Hinde were obtained.

16. Lyceum — various attempts to relieve the institution from its embarrassments having failed, resolved to realise its assets, and pay off the liabilities, making up the deliciency by subscription,

21. Long-continued drought compels Water Company to an- nounce that it will be necessary to limit the supply to oue day weekly. Many steam-engines working short time for want of water. Throughout the country great inconvenience from drought.

23. Rise in wheat IDs. per qr. during the week, and from 20s. to 2Cs. above the lowest price, notwithstanding the abundant har- vest— ascribed to the exhaustion of old stocks at home and abroad, to tire failure of crops in America, and to war in Black Sea.

25. Sixthannivy. of W.R Trade Protection Society at RoyalHotel.

29. Arthur Napoleon, the juvenile pianist, gives concens.

30. Town Council : out-workers — the watch rate — alterations of the Council Hall — the Bridges Committee.

30. Decease of Mr. Wm. Beatson, West hill, Masbro', aged 72. 30. Decease of Mr. Jos. Hnywood, of the Edge, aged 67. NOVEMBER.

1. Municipal elections— St. Peter's— C. E. Broadbent, 743; F. T. Mappin, 704; G. Holden, 570 ; W. Collier, 572. Park— W. Bradley, 897 ; J. Wood, 756 ; G. Bassett, 649. St. Philip's— C. Chambers, 393 ; G. S. Brittain, 30L; H. Crawshaw, 153 ; T. Peel, 2. St. George's— J. Askham,1004; J. Webster, 974; L Ironside, 444; S. Biggin, Jan., 380. Ecclesall— J. Knowles, 994 ; G. Wilkin, 994; W.Gill, 838; W. Downing, 724. Brightside— A. Chadburn, 600; G. L. Saunders, 425. Nether Hallam— T. Turner, 365; S. S. Brittain, 325. Upper Hallam— E. Unwin, 85; J. Wilson, 40. Attercliffe— J. Foster.

2. Patriotic Fund — Meeting to originate a local subscription in aid of the fund for the relief of the widows and orphans of the sol- diers and sailors who may perish in the war.

6. Decease of Mr. Thos. Wheatley, Rotherham, aged 09.

7. Decease, aged 47, of Mr. John Laycock, (S. Laycock & Sons.)

7. Annual Soiree of People's Coll. ; president, Mr. Wm. Overend.

8. Infirmary — meeting to originate subscription in aid of funds. 8. Working Men's Committee formed to aid the Patriotic Fund.

9. Town Council — Aid. W. Fisher elected Mayor — Aid. F. Hoole Mayor's deputy — election of committees.

11. Notice of application to parlt. to amalgamate gas companies. 14. Decease, at Alexandria, Egypt, of Rev. F. Owen, of Crookes.

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15. Magistrates at Wakefield resolve iu favour of refrintry.schools.

16. Average price of wlieat, 72s. Id.

18. Fulwood road — litigation between Ecclesall and Netber Hallam. Court of Queen's Bench fix liability to repair on the latter.

18. Notice from the Home Secretary of his intention to recom- mend the closing immediately, or at a fixed time, of St. Peter's, St. James', St. John's, St. Philip's, St. Mary's, and St. George's burial grounds, and of various chapel graveyards.

20 and 27. Mr. George Dawson, of Birmingham, lectures before the Mechanics' Institution.

20. Meeting to form a branch of the association for procuring a law to suppress the sale of intoxicating drinks.

20. Baptist church at Townhead st. chapel holds oOlh anniversary.

22. The Rt. Hon. J. Parker qualifies as a W. Eiding mngistrate. DECEMBER.

2. Convictions in penalties of ^10 of the proprietor of the Sur- rey Music Hall for performing plays.

4. Mrs. Jepson Rowley charged with perjury, but fully acquitted.

6. R. Monekton Milnes, Esq , M.P., lectures on " The moral uses of the study of history," before the People's College.

7 York Assizes — C. Haines, G. Knowles, and J. Holroyd, con- victed of the manslaughter of Jos. Crookes, at Owlerton, on the 4th July ; six years' penal servitude: Jos. Peech, not guilty.

8. The Earl of Carlisle reads his lecture on the poetry of Pope to the Rotherham Literary and Mechanics' Institution.

9. Decease of Mr. Wm. Cockayne, ^Yest bank, aged 80.

9. OflScers and servants of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin- colnshire Railway Company present to Mr. Rd. Peacock, late loco- motive superintdt., plate value XiOO, on leaving company's service.

13. Town Council — The Watch committee — assessment to the Watch rate — appointment of Bridges and Streets, Free Libraries, and Smoke committees — death of Aid. Hinde — the gas companies — public baths — churchyards.

15. Officers of Second West York Militia (head-quarters at Sheffield,) give amateur performance at Tlieatre-Royal.

16. Sheffield Union— In-poor, 547, against 403 last year; out- poor, 3382, receiving ^287, against 2779, receiving £227, last year. Ecclesall — in-poor, 215, agst J 57 ; out-poor, i£52, agst £b2.

27. Harriet Ardron shot by Daniel Hawksworth, at Thorpe. 29. Father Gavazzi lectures on Protestant supporters of Popery and Nunneries.

29. Decease of Mr. John Brown, solicitor. 31. Fall of rain in 1852, '53, and '54, compared with average from 1836 to 1851, and the wettest and dryest years in that period : 1>I39. ISU. 183C— 1851. 1852. 185.1. 1854.

Januaty . . . .2.075. . . .2..S05 3.394 5.233. . . .4.395. . . .2.915

Februsry . .2.400. . . .1.580 2.775 5.630. .. .1.315. . . .3.300

March 3.210. . . .3.725 2.923 1.110. . . .1.865. . . .1.225

April 1.530 640 2,854 270.... 2.050 820

May 833 595 2.819 1.885. . . .1.645. . . .2.955

June 5.225. . . .2.415 3.519 5.235. . . .4.800. . . .1.870

July 9.085. . . .3.535 4.890 2.275. . . .4.330. . . .2.830

August . . . .5,705. . . .3.820 3.681 2.400. . . .3.165. . . .1.550

September. .6.115. . . .4.635 3.332 5.245. . . .2,970. . . .2.010

October 3.420 3.480 4.236 3.725 5.556 2.170

November . .0.200. . . .3.185 3.871.

December. .2 830 2-30 3.194.

49.255 30.145 40.980 45,900 35.790 34.345

IPbes£nted to the Subscribers to the Isdependbnt.'] CONTINUATION

OF THE

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JANUARY. J. Sheffield Union, 1854 : Admitted, men, 1228; women, 1072; fhildreti, 943 ; born, 57 ; total, 3300. Discharged— Men, 1075 ; women, 912 ; children, 926 ; dead, 128 ; total, 3042. Deserted cases, 367, containing 841 persons : lunatics to Wakefield Asy- lom, 47 : vagrants applied for relief, 1842 ; relieved, 1299.

3. Improvement Commissioners resolve that the bill to amalga- mate the United Gas Company and the Gas Consumers' Com- pany does not afford sufficient protection to the public. At subse- quent meetings, a petition was agreed to, and instructions were given to oppose the bill. The result was a very partial concession of the claims of the Commissioners.

4. Decease of Mr. Thos. Bradbury. Arundel street, aged 69.

6. Sheffield Union— In-poor, 614, against 394 last year ; farm, 12, against 47; out-relief, 3462, ^283, against 2831, ^£229. Ec- clesall Union — Inmates, 232. against 165 ; out-poor, i'oS, against ^60.

7. Decease of Mr. H. Reckless, Handsworth Woodhouse, aged 44.

10. Town Council : Mendicancy — Town Hall ceils — baths and washhouses — Free Library — committee on gas bill — bridges and streets committee — smoke bye-laws — Mr. Ewart's bill extending Free Libraries act.

11. Average price of wheat, 748. 3d.

12. Decease of Mr. Joseph Wilks, late of Furnival road, iron- monger, aged 63.

17. Mr. Cobden addresses a meeting at Leeds against the war; answered by Mr. J. G Marshall and Mr. E. Baines. A resolution, declaring that the war was just and necessary and ought to be pro- secuted with the utmost vigour, was carried by a large majority.

24. Town Council : Power given to the committee on the gas bill to treat with the companies — lighting of the town — shooting in the suburbs — the smoke bye-laws — Free Library.

29. Mr. Roebuck's motion for a committee to enquire into the state of the army before Sebastopol carried by 305 to 148, causing the resignation of Lord Aberdeen's government.; Lord J. Russell had resigned in anticipation .of the motion.

29. Decease at Epsom, aged 68, of Mr. Joseph Levick, late of Sh arrow head.

31 and Feb. 1. Excited meetings at the Town Hall on the means of preventing Sunday traffic in intoxicating liquors. The chairman unable to decide on the show of hands. . ■,•

FEBRUARY. :, , , ,;

1. Plans (116j of the competitors for the erection of the new School of Design exhibited at the Council Uall. Plans of Ma.mvijsi:g and Mew, of London, selected. Weightman, Hadfield,;& GoWiei's placed second- i ■ i :

2. Decease, at Masbro' Hail,_,<)f. Mr. George Shaw, timber natr- chant, aged 46. k

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3. Decease of Hannah Hall, a niiserly j)etson, aged 66, leaving the fruits of her savings, from jgaOOO to ^£6000, to the Girls' Charity School.

3. Special effort to increase the funds of the Infirmary realises in donations £l6i'i^; new subscribers, £881.

6. Decease of Mr. Paul Beardshaw, Grimesthorpe, aged 80.

10. Rotherham Patriotic Fund amounts to £1600.

10. Accounts of the Feoffees of Rotherham — receipts, JE1063 ; payments, £55S.

13. First case under the bye-law requiring the consumption of smoke brought before the magistrates.

14. Town Codncil: Smoke bye-laws — arrangements with the gas companies.

14. Erection of an Exchange news room and telegraph oflSce commenced over the front of the Shambles, in the Old Haymarket,

14. Duke of Norfolk commences the erection of a new bridge over the Dun, at Royds Mill weir. Another bridge projected near the Walk Mill.

19. Meeting to petition for the entire closing of public-houses on the Sunday, adjourned to Paradise square on the 21st, when an amendment against any further interference or restriction was carried by an immense majority.

19. Ratepayers of Ecclesall resolve to erect a building for vestry meetings and other parochial business.

20. First stone of new chapel near the old barracks laid by the Wesleyan Reformers.

21. Decease at New York of Mr. John WhetttJey, of Botherham, aged 63. '

22. In consequence of Mr. Roebuck's persisting to nominate his committee on the state of the army in the Crimea, to which Lord Palmerston (now Premier, vice Lord Aberdeen) submitted, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. S. Herbert, and Sir J. Graham resigned.

22. R. N. Philipps, Esq., elected F. S. A.

23. Election of Feoffees of Rotherham, in the place of Messrs. John Booth, Wm. Glossop, and T. Wheatley. Henry Woodhead, 116; C. L. Coward, 116 ; B. Robinson, M.D., 90; J. Gilest, 40; B. Brooke, 27 ; R. Chrimes, 28 ; and J. Haywood, 13.

24. Breaking up of the frost, which had lasted 41 days, — the longest frost since that of 1814, which exceeded it by two days. The distress caused by its long duration produced bread riots in London, Liverpool, &c.

26. Death of Hannah Rollinson, from a fright received in a company of Latter-Day Saints, at a house in Campo lane. The result was the rumour of a ghost, causing great excitement for some dnys, in which much damage was done to the premises. It turned out that tricks had been played with a magic lantern. MARCH.

2. Account by telegraph of the death, this day, of Nicholas, Em- peror of Russia.

6. Meeting at the Town Hall, to petition for the entire prohibi- tion of the sale of intoxicating liquors, ends in the carrying of an amendment against any further restriction.

6. Decease, at Rotherham, of Mr. Thos. Law, draper, ag'ed 73.

8. Decease of Mr. Thos. Didsbnry, Rotherham, aged 48. -

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10. SheflSeld Patriotic fund amounts to ^4643.

12. Action at York Assizes, Gill v. Buxton, for a libel at the last Ecclesall ward election. Verdict for plaintiff, damages £100.

14. Town Council : Arrangements with the Gas Company — watch committee — amount of drunkenness — smoke bye-lavVs — bridges and streets — 'Town Clerk's, salary — succession to real property — newspaper stamp.

14. Flintoflf V. Harrison and Pawson, and Flintoff v; Greaves, actions for libels against Sheffield Times and Sheffield Examiner. Abandoned on verdicts of 40s. damages and apology.

16. Gas Companies Amalgamation bill passed through com- mittee of the House of Commons, opposed by the Town Council, (in consequence of the Consumers' Company not assenting to the arrangemeDt made with the United Gas Company,) by the Improve- ment Commissioners and by the Sheffield Highway Board, but with little result.

. 16. Daniel Hawkswbrth convicted at York Assizes, of the man-i slaughter of Harriet Ardron.^— Six months' imprisonment.

18. Decease of Mr. R. Dawson* of the firm of G. and R. Dawson, music warehouse, Norfolk street, aged 42.

26. F.lcited vestry meeting for election of highway board, &c. Sheffield vestry appointed a committee to consider the question of a burial board. Sheffield highway accounts — receipts, ^10,897, of which £8332 was from rates.

26. The Nasmyth hammer first applied in Sheffield to the forg- ing of large masses of metal, at Sheaf Works, by Messrs. T. Tnrton and Sons.

28. Copies of the specifications of patents, indices of patents, &o., presented to Free Library by Commissioners of Patents.

31. Sheffield Friendly Societies— Statement torapiled in answer toobarges of genera! insolvency of such societies : —

' ' ■ ■ fl"^ ■'E^' - gs l^.§ J.

NameofClul,: |l || ' | || feickPay. ' ||S |'

Old Union ;..t:..»'... W40 162 1460 010 l"ofuU;5half 8 0 1 e

^Tradesman 1760 320 4000 0 5 10 „ 5 „ 10 0 1 6

Masons' ,. 1767 430 2786 0 5 10 „ 5 „ 8 0 16

Charitable 1760 129 2205 0 10 10 „ 5' „ 8 0 18

Eevolution* 1798 198 7132 2 2 10 „ 5 „ 10 0 2 6

Princa of Wales* 1790- 90 2081 1 1 10 „ 5 „ 16 Q 1 6

Volunteers 1794 144 1750 0 5 10 „ 5 ., 10 0 1 6

KoyalJubilee* 1809 289 8158 2 2 10 „ 5 „ 17 0 1 6

Wesleyan 1813 219 4194 1 0 lo „ 5 „ 15 0 1 4

JResolution 1821 160 2100 .. 10 „ 5 „ 10 0 1 6

Church of England .. 1828 231 3603 2 2 10 ., 5 „ 10 0 1 6

Fitzwilliam 1822 105 2995 1 1 10 „ 6 ,. 10 0 1 4

EcclesaU New Friendly 1835 400 8458 0 5 10 „ 5 „ 10 0 1 8

Rawson's 1828 54 1682 2 2 12,; 6„ 10 10 1 8

Ecclesall Church of

England 1851 55 165 0 10 10 „ 5 „ 10 0 1 6

* These societies pay superannuation annuities. The figures are taken from 1854 statements, except where there is a note, (t) and then they are about the mark. In 1840, there -frere 56 clubs, 11,000 mem- bers, with about £70,000 invested; but now there must be in SheflBeld 100 clubs, 20,000 members, and upwards of £100,000 invested.

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1855. APRIL.

3. Order in Council to discontinue interments forthwith in the Parish Church and churchyard, St. James's Church and church- yard, St. George's Church and churchyard, Queen street Inde- pendent Chapel, Townhead street Baptist Chapel, in Portmahon Chapel, in the Unitarian Chapel, Norfolk street; in Nether Chapel, Norfolk street; in the Primitive Methodist Chapel, Coalpit lane ; in the Methodist Chapel, Carver street; in Brunswick Methodist Chapel, and in the burial grounds of all the above chapels; and from and after the 1st of January, 1856, in the Quaker's burial ground. Forthwith in St. Philip's Church, St. Mary's Church, St. John's Church, Attercliffe Church, Methodist Chapel, Attercliffe, and the Independent Chapel, Attercliffe. In St. Philip's, St. Mary's, and St. Joho's churchyards, and some other places, int«rments to cease after IstJan., 1866. This order vas subsequently rescinded as to St. John's and St. Mary's. In May, interments were ordered to be discontinued in St. Paul's churchyard. Last interment in the old Parish churchyard took place April 10.

7. The Rev. T. Hincks, B.A., of the Unitarian Chapel, elected minister of Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds, in place of Rct. C. Wicksteed.

10, Worksop Abbey Church bazaar, held for three days, and realised -£876.

11. Town Council — complaint of disorders caused by militia in the barracks — motion to increase the Town Clerk's salary de- feated by an amendment to appoint a committee — Mr. C. Atkin- son elected alderman, vice Mr. H. Hinde, who was lost in Sept. last in the wreck of the Arctic — result of the opposition to the gas bill — bridges and streets.

14. Guardians elected— Sheffield : P. Ashberry, M. E. Hadfield, J. Pitt, R. Younge, W. F. Dixon, Jun., H. Crawshaw, W. K. Peace, J. Crossland. Brightside : W. Jarvis, T. Turner. Attercliffe: the Rev. W. L. Gibson. Handsworth : J. Rhodes. Ecclesall : T. R. Barker, I. Schofield, G. Buxton, R. Solly. Nether Hallam : J. Copley, J. Bower. Totley : J. Roberts. Upper Hallam : J. Ben- nett. Norton : G. Rogers. Dore : Rev. J. T. F. Aldred. Beauchief : G. Sampson.

14. New averages taken to determine the contributions of the several parts of the Sheffield Union, reducing the proportions of Brightside and Attercliffe.

17. Ralph Carr charged with assaulting H. St. John Halford, Esq., and R. Drury charged with assaulting F. Westby Bagshawe, Esq. Carr fined f 5 by Wilson Overend and H. M. Greaves, Esqs. The charge against Drury withdrawn. The decision caused so much dissatisfaction, that the fine and costs were paid by subscrip- tion, and the Town Council memorialised the Lord Chancellor on the subject, but he replied he saw no reason to interfere.

i5. Thorneliffe, Chapeltown, and Ecclesfield district, reports « contribution of ^£2476 to the Patriotic Fund.

26. Droofield Church reopened after extensive repairs.

29. The Rev. A. Raleigh preaches his farewell sernlon as mi- nister of Masbro' Chapel, having accepted the pastorate of the late Dr. Wardlaw's church, in Glasgow.

30. First stone of the school and minister's house, in connexion with Loxley Chapel, laid by Alderman F. Hoole.

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1856.

MAY.

1. Decease of Lady Burgoyne, ouly daughter of the late Mr.

John BurtoD, High House, Owlertou, and widow of Major-General

Sir M. K. Burgoyne. Her Ladyship had extensive property in

Nether Hallam, &c.

I, Sudden death of Mr. John Harrop, huilder, aged 59.

4. Four silver-plated candelabra, 17 feet high, with arm8 spreading over a circumference of 20 feet, manufactured for the Pacha of Egypt, by Walker, Knowles, and Co.

4. A hoard of silver coins, from the reigns of Elizabeth to Wm. and Mary, discovered in pulling down an old bakehouse in Pin- fold street.

7. Decease of Mr. Luke Booth, Arundel street, aged 64.

8. Mr. George Thompson, late M.P,, lectures against the war.

9. Town Council — Town Clerk's salary, doubtful vote — bridges and streets — outvporkers' bill — case of Carr and Drury — on the llth the Town Clerk tenders his resignation.

10. Accounts of the Town Trustees — receipts, £2377; pay- ments, a£835 ; addition to permanent estates, ^£330; balance to street improvement accounts, £1112.

II. Spring to this dateremaikably cold and dry, when a sudden change took place to warm and moist weather, with returns of cold.

12. Violent highway robbery, in Wentworlh park, of C. Berry and R. Myers, conveying money to Milton and Elsecar Ironworks. James Darley and James Ashton committed to York for the rob- bery, where Ashton was sentenced to six and Darley to four years' penal servitude.

13. Decease of Mr. John Algor, Eldon street, aged 53.

25. First stone of Neepsend bridge laid. Decease of Mr. Wm. Swift, late of Angel street, hosier, aged 73. JUNE.

1. Acceleration of the- London mail — departure changed from 9.18 to 10.35.

2. Mr. Aid. Dunn, Mr. W. F. Dixon, Mr. J. BoTter Brown, and Mr. John J effcock, placed upon the West Kiding commission of the peace.

4. Lectures by Mr. Pallister, temperance advocate, against the Maine liquor law.

5. Consecration of St. Jude's Church, Moorfields.

6. Mr. Robert Younge, Chairman of the Sheffield Union, urges on the guardians the need of a new workhouse.

9. Accounts of Eotherham and Kimbeiwofth Board of Health published: receipts, loans, iGl8,500 ; rafea, &c., i£4380; total, i£22,880. Expended on permanent woiks, i' 1 6,771 ; other ex- pences, ^£5891.

9. The ShefiSeld newspapers publish without stamps, the repeal , bill having passed both Houses, though it had not received the royal assent.

11. Decease of Mr. James Wlieat, Norwood Hall, aged 76.

II. Meeting of the ratepayers of Biiglitside Bierlow to consider the proposal to appoint a burial board. A committee appointed. .

13. Enquiry into the conduct of Mr. Tasker, relieving oflficer of the Ecclesall union— resulted, in his removal.

13. Town Council — memorial to the Lord Chnncellor to enquire K 2

538 8HEITIELD LOCAL BKOISrEB"

1855. into the conduct of Mr. Wilson Overend and Mr. H. M. Greaves, as magistrates in the case of Halford v. Carr — Town Clerk's re- signation tendered —requested to continue at a salary of ^£400.

19. First publication of the Morning's News, daily. Discon- tinued in November.

20. Decease, at Watb, of Mr. Joseph Turton, aged 46, of the firm of TLos. Turton & Sons.

20. Public meeting to promote administrative reform.

23. Sheffield union — Inmates, 602, against 470 last year; at farm, 111, against 28 ; out-poor, 4850, £380, against 3041, £'255. Ecclesall union inmates, 307, against 185; out poor, £74, against £60.

25. The Rev. Canon Scully, on resigning his mission in Shef- fieH, receives a farewell address from the Roman Catholics.

26. Recognition of the Rev. F. H. Rustedt as minister of Gar- den street chapel.

28. Average price of wheat, 76s. 7d.

28. Decease of Mr. Thos. Osborne, Norton Woodseats, aged 82.

30. Repeal of the newspaper stamp takes effect.

30. Decease, in London, of Mr. James Silk Buckingham, aged 69, one of the first members of parliament for Sheffield. JULY.

4. Improvement Commissioners petition parliament in favour of the Public Health and Nuisances Removal bills, with some mo- difications.

4. Urquhartite meeting in Paradise square, under pretence of supporting Mr. Roebuck's motion to censure the government.

4. The Rev. T. Sale, M.A., vicar of Sheffield, appointed to an honorary canonry in York Cathedral, having shortly before been made rural dean.

5. Decease of Mr. Jph. Skidmore, formerly of the Park, aged 63.

6. J. Bower Brown, Esq., Woodthorpe Hall; W. F. Dixon, Esq., Page Hall ; and Sir I. Morley, Doncaster, qualified as West-Ri- ding magistrates.

7. Fiat in bankruptcy against Armitage, Frankisb, and Barker, of the Queen's Steel Works. This is the most extensive failure in Sheffield for many years.

8. Mr. W. W. Barker ejected from a pew in Dronfield Church during divine service, in consequence of a dispute as to its right- ful occupation.

9. Foundation of Temperance Hall in Townhead street laid.

9. Three days' match at cricket, between 11 of Sheffield and 16 of Bradford. Sheffield 1st, 161; 2nd, 72; Bradford 1st, 147; 2nd, 140.

9. Committee appointed at vestry meeting in March reported ia favour of a burial ground — directed to communicate with the other townships, and report further.

10. Foundation stone of Presbyterian Church, Hanover St., laid.

11. Decease of Mr. F. Machon, King street, aged 40.

H. Town Council— smoke consumption — Town Clerk accepts the resolution of June 13— project fornew streets — Post office salaries.

12. Opening of the Wicker Congregational Church. 14. Falling in of the Huthwaite tunnel, near Pen^stone.

14. Thomas jRck«on found guilty at York of the manslaughter

SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISTEB. 539

1855. of Private George Lewis, 7th Hussars, near the SheflBeld barracks, on the 4th July, sentenced to transportation for life.

17. Two youths killed in Soap-house pit by being thrown from a corve as it ascended the shaft.

17. Mr. Roebuck moved in the House of Commons a censure on the government for neglect of the army in the Crimea in the winter of 1854-5. The House voted July 19, on the previous question, " That Mr. Roebuck's motion be put from the chair" — ayes 182, noes 289.

17. Meeting of the pewholders of the parish church appoint a committee to consider the means of improving and making i) more capacious.

17. The site and buildings of the old barracks sold by auction, for £2850, to Mr. J. Stovin and Mr. W. Wreaks.

18. The Rev. S. Sunderland, vicar of Penistone, killed by the overturning of a coach at Rowsley Bridge.

18. Ordination of the Rev. John Brown Paton, M.A., minister of the Wicker Congregational Church.

26. Decease of Mr. Jas. Wood, (J. & B. Wood,) Park, aged 62.

31. Heath v. Unwin. — After 12 years of litigation, the patent of Heath for the use of manganese in the manufacture of steel was upset by a judgment of the House of Lords. AUGUST.

I. James Burke and Cormack Dunlevy committed to York by the coroner's jury for the murder of Wm. Beardshaw, policeman, in a night affray with an Irish mob. Tried Dec. 12. — Man- slaughter; Burke to be transported 15 years ; Dunlevy and others engaged in the riot, IB months' imprisonment with hard labour.

6. Further consideration of a burial board for Shefi&eld ad- journed for twelve months.

8. Town Council — post office clerks' salaries — Watch Com- mittee's proceedings — Free Library rules, &c.

II. Explosion of a steam boiler of Messrs. W. Parker & Co., Blonk Mills — four persons killed.

14. Decease of Mr. John Lofthouse, of Glossop road.

17. Meeting of the Cutlers' Company pass resolutions denounc- ing the imputations upon the Sheffield trade contained in a letter of the Master Cutler, (Mr. T. Moulson,) dated Paris, July 26.

17. Meeting of the friends of J. A. Roebuck, Esq., M.P., ori- ginate a testimonial to him for his public services.

18. Explosion of the boiler of Shortridge, Howell, and Jessop, of the Hartford Steel .Works — two lives lost.

IB. The Queen and Prince Albert, with the Prince of Wales and Princess Royal, sailed for Boulogne, on a visit to Louis Napoleon.

22. Miss Matilda Jane Naylor accidentally killed by inhaling chloroform for the toothache.

26. Meeting of steam engine proprietors to memorialise the Town Council on the working of the smoke bye-law.

27. Commencement of the great cricket match, Yorkshire v. Sussex, at Bramall lane Ground. Sussex, one innings, 292; Yorkshire, first, 103 ; second, 72.

27. Decease of Mr. Miles John Fawcett, Wicker, aged 47. 29. Mr. Farnall, poor law inspector, reports to the Sheffield guardians that their paupers were increased from 3520 last year

040 SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGI8TER.

1855.

to 52G0 ; the out relief increased from £2G7 weekly to ^369. " In February, 184G, there were on the books 1733 persons ; 1847, 2133 ; 1818, when bad trade was beginning, 23-22'; in 1849, when bad trade had reached the climax, 5148 ; 1850 4390; 1851,3957; 1852,3754; 1853,3372; 1854,3455; 1855' 4393; nnd now, in the midst of autumn, with the hftrvest iu the fields wanting labourers, the number is 5260 !"

29. Public meeting to promote the subscription for a testimo- nial to J. A. Eoebuck, Esq., M.P.

30. Decease of Feargus O'Connor, after a period of insanity. 30. Kotherhaoi Board of Health make trial of the engines ot

their new water works, and introduce water into their new mtuns. SEPTEMBEB.

6, Cutlers' Feast — Frederick Thorpe Mappin, Esq., Master; principal guests. Lord E. Howard, M.P., Lord Foley, Lord Den- man, Lord Mayor of London, (Sir F. G. Moon, Bart.,) Right Hon. James Stuart Wortley, M.P., Hon. E. Stuart Wortley, J. A. Roe- buck, Esq., M.P., Geo Hadfield, Esq., M.P., B. Oliviera, Esq., ALP., R. N. Pbilipps, Esq., Deputy Lieutenant of the City of London, &c., &c.

10. Casting of steel bells by Messrs. Naylor, Vickers, & Co.

10. News of the fall of Sebastopol (on the 8th) received with immense excitement and enthusiasm.

12. Town Council — West Riding Assizes — apprehensions for drunkenness — smoke bye-laws — projected street improvements — committals for non-payment of rates.

12. Rev. E. G. Kelly resigns the incumbency of St John's, for the living of Otterford, Somersetshire.

14. Decease, aged 77, of Mr. John Aldred, of Rotherhani.

15. Sheffield Union — In-paupers, 531, against 389 last year, farm, 14, against 20; out-poor, 4344, receiving ^348, against 3129; j£264 last year. Ecclesall Union — In-paupers, 261, against 178 last year; out-poor, £74, against j£54 last year.

15. Decease, at Havre, aged 77, of Mr. Edward J. Heseltiue, many years manager at Rotherham of the Sheffield and Rotherham Bank.

17. Three days' match at cricket commenced, between eleven of All England and twenty-two of the Rotlierham Howard Club. Howard Ist innings, 132 ; 2nd, 43. The Eleven, 1st, 70 ; 2nd, lOG.

26. Decease, at Gennevilliers, near Paris, of Mr. George Water- house, formerly of Sheffield, aged G4.

29. Last publication of the Sheffield Examiner. Commenced January, 1854, avowedly to be the organ of the conservative parly. OCTOBER.

1. General holiday, with a procession and illumination on a very extensive scale, for the fall of Sebastopol, on the8tl\ of September.

J. Harvest weather favourable, but yield deficient. Very con- flicting estimates as to the amount of the deficiency. Average of wheat, Sept. 27ih, 77s. 8d.

2. Queen's Steel Works, erected by Armituge, Frankish, and Barker, at the cost of (including the machinery) i'23,000, sold by auction under the bankruptcy, to Mr. John Brown, for £12,000.

3. Annual meeting of the School of Design. Ihe RightHon. John Parker, Cbairuiau.

SHEFMEtD lOCAL REGISTER. 54l

1855. V

3. Agitation in Leeds and Wakefield for the removal of the as- sizes for the WestRiding business to one of those towns. . 8, His R. H. Prince Albert becomes patron of the bazaar for the Building Fund of the School of Design, and expresses an interest in the object.

8. Decease of Mr. Samuel Tingle, steel refiner, aged 55.

8. Wm. Webster committed to York for the manslaughter of Richard Habersbon. Sentenced at Winter Assizes to seven days' imprisonment.

10. Town Council — The assize business — smoke bye-law — re- signation of Mr. Alderman Solly, in consequence of his leaving the country for a lengthened period.

10. Extensive fire of farming produce at Garter Hall.

16. This and following days several incendiary fires occurred iri the neighbourhood of Barnsley.

15. Re-opening of the SheflBeld Theatre, after an entire reno- vation of the interior, Mr. C. Dillon manager.

17. Winding up of Feargus O'Connor's land scheme. In Shef- field, 620 members had paid iC839; Rotherham, TOpaidiGSO?; Barnsley, 345 paid £557. Yorkshire had 5461 members, who paid «G1 1,287. The total sum was about £90,000, and the contri- butors 70,000.

18. Mr. F. Wever elected secretary of the Savings' Bank, vice Mr. Benjamin Schofield, resigned.

18. First half-yearly meeting of amalgamated gas companies.

20. Decease of Mr. Edward Butcher, High street, aged 48.

26. Deakin Institution — Allowance to annuitants increased from £15 to £20 a-year.

22. Decease, aged 54, of the Right Hon. John Stuart Wortley, second Lord Wharnclifife. Interred at Wortley, October 27.

22. Decease of Mr. J. P. Payne, of the Yews, surgeon.

24. First stone of the School of Design laid by Dr. F. Branson.

25. Meeting of the ratepayers of St. Philip's district on the question of providing a burial ground, adjourned for 12 months.

30. Decease of Mr. George Dawson, music seller, aged 67.

30. At Beyrout, Syria, decease of the Lady Euimeline Stuart Wortley, relict of the lat? Hon. Cbas. Stuart Wortley, and daugh- ter of the Duke of Rutland.

31. Special meeting of Town Council — reply to the memorial on behalf of George E. Brett— watch rate estimate. Addresses of condolence presented to the Dowager Lady Wharucliflfe from the Town Council and the Cutlers' Company.

31. The Rev. Canon Trevor, one of the chaplains of the Parish Church, whose services had been declined by the Vicar, returns to his incumbency at York, under an agreement by which he pays out of his salary of £400 a year, £105, for the salary of a curate to be nominated by the Vicar.

NOVEMBER.

1. Municipal elections: St. Peters — Mark Firth, vice N. Moore, and I. Schofield re-elected; St. Philip's— W. Groves and J. G, Robson re-elected ;. Park — M. K. Hadfield and John Roebuck, vice R. Elliott and J. Howarth ; St. George's — W. Sissons, 80';i, G; Skinner, 726, {viceVf. Crowther and W. Ibbitt,') J. H. Andrew, 717, C.Baine8,694; Eeclesall— Wm. Smith, Jun.* 1070, {vice A.

542 SHEFFIELD lOCAL BBOISTSB.

1855. Booth) W. Harvey, 1030 (re-elected), John Brown, 926, A. Shar- man, 850; Nether Hallam — P. Ashberry, re-elected ; Upper Hal- lam — T. Gatley, re-elected; Brigbtside — T. Marrian, vice Saml. Sanderson; AUercUffe — R. Marsdeu, re-elected.

7. Mr. E. Younge brings before the guardians of the Sheffield Union, at great length, the ease for the ereetiou of a new work- house.— The decision adjourned.

7. Botberham Board of Health memorialise the magistrates against adopting a rural police force ; Mr. Lee reported that the new. water works had cost £21,742, tiie estimate being £i2,205.

7 and 8. Uproarious meetings at the Town Hall, addressed by David Urquhart and others.

8. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire — special meeting sanctions the leasing of the Rochdale Canalt in conjunction with other companies.

9. Town Council — Aid. W. Fawcett unanimously elected Mayor — Dr. C. W. Bingley appointed to testthe gas — Committees elected.

11. Opening of the New Temperance Hall, Barker pool.

12, Decease of Mr. George Merrill, Harvest lane, aged 77.

12. Meeting, qf ratepayers to express to the guardians of the Sheffield Union, the sentiment of the town against the erection of a new workhouse.

13. Meeting of pewholders of the Parish Church to sanction plans for enlarging the church, by throwing the chancel into it, and for otherwise rendering it more commodious and beautiful.

13. Soiree of the fiotherham Mechanics' Institution, under the presidency of Earl Fitzwilliam,

14, The guardians, by a majority of 8 to 3, deolftre the present workhouse accommodation to be insufficient, and that a new house should be built. Also resolved, that £30,000 he expended in buy- ing 50 to QO acres of land, and erecting buildings suitable to ac- commoilate 1200 paupers.

15< Closing of the Paris EjtUibition. Grand Medal of Honour awarded to Sheffield, which was received by the Mayor (William Fawcett, Esq.,) from the hand of tbe Emperor, . . -Fob Wbouqht AND Unwbouqht SxEBt.— Mcdals of Honour to Spear and Jack- sou, T. Turton and Son, G. ^yosteuholm, and H. E. Hoole, Shef- field. Decoration of the Legion of Hououi to Mr. S. Jackson, (Spear and Jaokson.) Firsf-Ctass Medals. — J. Bedford, Cocker Brothers, J. Firth and Son, Hawcroft and Son, Ibbotson Brothers and Co., J. Kenyon and Co., Sheffield ; Kirby, Beard, and Co. ; J. Moss and Gamble Brothers, Naylor, Vickers, and Co., J. Nowill, Sorby and Son, Spencer & Son, T. Wilkinson & Son, J. Wilson

and Son, Slieffield Second-Class Medals. — R. Bagshaw, J.

Bedford, Sheffield ; Butterley, Hobson, and Co., Norton; Cocker and Son, Hiithersage; T. Garfitt and Co., E. Greaves, Hoole, Staniforth, and Co., J. Howarth, T. Jowitt, Saynor and Cooke, H.

Taylor, and T. Ward, Sheffield Honourable Mention.— G.

Beardshaw, D. Flather and Son, Fox and Co., A. Green", W, Jack- son and Co., J. S. Warner, B. & J. Wilcock, Sheffield.. . .Silveb- SMiTHs' Art.— First- Class Medal.— 3. Dixon and Son, Sheffield.. Second-Class Medals.— Sh&fi and Fisher, Sheffield; Waterhouse nuA Co., Uahlin.... Honourable Menlion.^S&uaoni and Daven- port, Sheffield. . .7,Hoqse Fubktturb and VECoaAtiov.^-Medal

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1855.

of Honour.— K. E. Hoole, Sheffield First-Class Artizans'

Medal. — Stevens, Sheffield... Qenebal Machinery.— T. Walker,

Sheffield, second-class medal Application of Heat, &c; —

Second Class Medal.— U. E. Hoole, Sheffield Honourable

M»HtiQH, — Thomas Walker, Sheffield. . ..Chemical Arts, &c. — W. Beatson, Eotherham.

16. Magistrates at sessions at Wakefield reject, by 43 to 33, the proposition to appoint a rural police force for the West Biding.

17. A second public meeting to memorialise the Poor-Law Board in opposition to the proposed new workhouse.

21. First stone of the Bagged School, in Pea croft, laid by Aid. E. Vickers.

22. Week's average price of wheat, 8O3. lOd.

22. Decease of Mr. Nathaniel Creswick, (T., J., & N. Creswick, silver platers,) Easthill House.

22. Opening of the new ground, Bramall lane, of the Sheffield United Cricket Club, celebrated by a dinner at the Adelphi hotel. President, M. J. Ellison, Egq.

24. The Bight Hon. M. T. Baines, M.P. for Leeds, appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with a seat in the Cabinet.

24. Contracts for Dronfield Gas Works let.

26. Mr. Thomas CoUinson elected clerk and collector of the Brightside Highway Board, vice Mr. Frank Wever, resigned. Mr. Robert Hadfield elected clerk and collector of the Attercliffe Highway Board, vice Mr. F. Wever, resigned. Mr. CoUinson and Mr. Hadfield were also elected poor rate collectors and assistant overseers.

27. First cheap concert for the season, under the management of the Sacred Harmonic Society.

29. Meeting of the pewholders of Eotherham Parish Church agreed to a voluntary assessment to provide a fund to repair the church and conduct Divine service.

30. Bust of the late James Montgomery, by Mr. Wm. Ellis, presented to the Infirmary by gentlemen who had purchased it.

DECEMBEB.

1. Appeal to the, public on behalf of Sheffield Scripture Readers' Society. ;

4. First public soiree of the Sheffield Young Men's Christian Association.

6. Decease, at Grimesthorpe, of Mr, Paul tieamshaw, aged 63.

6. Sheffield Intermediate Sessions — John Jackson, (65) pawn- broker, Doncaster, tried on indictment preferred by order of the Court on the 5th, for receiving a stolen ring — found guilty, sen- tenced to 12 months' imprisonment and hard labour. The trial much remarked upon, and efforts made by the pawnbrokers throughout the kingdom to obtain a further enquiry.

9. The Bev. E. S. Murphy, assistant chaplain for some years at the Parish Church, preaches his farewell sermon.

12. Town Council — French Medal of Honour — Free Library stock of books — ^^return for watch rate — rateable value of property in borough, £364,600 against £354,130, i.n 1854 ; in watch rate area, ^302,128 against £295,493— Smoke comn:.ittee— Health committee — Extension of gas mains — sale of liquors to children — committee on postal arrangements — John Frost.

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13. Meeting of ratepayers, called by overseers, passes resolu- tions against tbe proposed new workhouse.

lb. Armitoge, Frankish, and Barker apply to the Bankruptcy Court for certificates — second class certificates granted.

15. SheflSeld Union— In-paupers, 708, against 547 last year. Farm, 4 against 40 ; out-relief, 4492 persons, £359, against 4382, £287. Ecclesall Union— Inmates, 289, against 215; out-pay- ments, £78, against £52.

17. Mr. S. Butcher elected church burgess, vicf'Ht^ It. Ores- wick, deceased. ' ''^ f

19. Decease of Mr. James Smith Davy, aged 57.

20. Average price of wheat, 81s. 4d. per quarter.

21. Mr. Joseph Parker, clerk to Mr. James Wilkinson, agent at Sheffield of the Low Moor Iron Company, arrested at Liver- pool on a charge of embezzlement. Committed for trial, 29th.

22. Free Library — Announced that it would open for reference ist Februai-y.

22. Mr. Charles Dickens read his Christmas' Carol for the benefit of the Mechaiiies' Institution. Presentation to hiffi- of specimens of cutlery.

26. Majority of guardians of Sheffield Union sign their consent to an order of Poor Law Board for the erection of new workhouse, at a cost of £30,000, on 50 acres of land.

26 and following days, Fine Arts Exhibition of Rotherbam and Hasbro' Mechanics' Institute.

28. Presentation of silver plate value 200 guineas, to Mr* Geo. Wostenholm, of Washington Works, by his workmen.

28. Meeting of ratepayers of Rotherbam appoint a committee to investigate the expenditure of the Eotherham Board of Healtbi

28. Church of England Instruction Society — name changed to Church of England Educational Institute.

29. Announced acceptance by the Rev. Brooke Herford, of TOd- morden, of the pastorate of the Upper Chapel, Sheffield ; and by the Rev. J. M. Charlton, M.A., of Totteridge, Herts, of the Inde- pendent Chapel, Masbro'.

29. Gas explosion in the house of Mr. H. Webster, NOrthtira- berland road.

31. Savings' Bank— 1853. 1854. ' 1855.

Deposits £91,338 83,641 71,1.36

Withdrawals 71,-599 88,920 89,232

Deposits, 20th Nov., 1855, were £279,718. 81. Fall of rain in 1852, 1854, and 1855, compared with' average from 1836 to 1851, and the wettest and dryest years in that period.' 1839. 1844. 18."5C— 1861. 1853. 1854. 185S; t

January 2.675 2.305 .3.39-t. . .

February 2.400. ... .1.580, . . .2.775. ..

Mai-ch 3.240.... 3.725... .2.923...

April 1.530 640.... 2.854.'..

May 833 595.... 2.819...

June 5.225. . . .2.416. . . .3.519. . .

July 9.085. . . .3..135. . . .4.3'JO. . .

August 5.705 8.620 3.C81. . .

Saptember . . . .6.116. . . .4.686. . . .8.832. . .

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CONTINUATION

OF THE

SHEFFIELD LOCAL EEGISTER,

1856.

JANUARY.

1. Thos. Wilson, farmer, of Wickersley, convicted at Doncaster of stealiug from the Wood street Hotel ; a week's imprisonment.

1. Introduction of a patent process of engraving plate by Messrs. Skinner and Branson.

1. Atlas Steel and Spring Works. Mr. John Brown removes to- new works, (built by Armitage, Frankish, and Barker,) naming them the Atlas Steel and Spring Works.

2. Rotherbam Bonrd of Health— the investigation committee — attacks upon the clerk, &c.

3. Average price of wheat, 77s. 2d.

5. Sheffield Union—in paupers, 705 against 614 last year ; farm, 4 against 47 ; out-relief, 4704 persons £377, against 3462 persons, ^283. Ecclesall Union— inmates, 302 against 232 ; out- poor, .£83 against £53.

5. Shi-fiBeld police — reports upon the day and night force pub- lished—recommendation that the quality of the force be improved rather than the number Increased.

7. Sudden decease of Mr. Alfred Green, surgeon's instrument maker, aged 60.

9. Town Council — Health Committee, the state of dams and rivers — Neepsend bridge approaches — Mr. P. Beaumont appointed gas accounts' auditor — memorial on behalf of Mr. John Jackson, hastily convicted at Sheffield sessions, of receiving a stolen ring — County Court fees.

10. Mr. Denison, M.P., proposes to apply to parliament for a bill to establish a juvenile reformatory for the West Riding at the cost of ihe county rate.

11. Price of consols, 86^ i ; North Western, 93i ; Midland, 63 ; Great Northern, 88-

12. The Mnster Cutler (Mr. F. T. Mnppin,) replies in The Times to attacks on Sheffield manufactures.

13. Messrs. Barnes and Sons' warehouse robbed of goods to th« value of £120.

14. Exhibition of Works of Art belonging to the Queen and from Marlborough House, at the Mechanics' Hall.

14. Decease of Mr. John Henry Harder, aged 77. 16. Sheffield Savings' Bank rate of interest raised from £2. I83. 4d. to £3 per cent.

16. Rotherbam Board of Health — financial difficulties — the Boston reservoir.

17. News that Russia had unconditionally accepted the pre- liminaries of peace, suggested by Austria, with the sanction of England and France. Partial illuminations.

18. Consols, 89J, 90 ; North Western, 90i ; Midland, 66 ; Great Northern, 92. i.

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22. Young Men's Christian Association. The Mayor, (Mr. Fawcett,) president; Mr. A. Allott, treasurer; Mr. G. Stewart, sec.

23. Manchester, SheflSeld, and Lincolnshire — half-yearly meet- ing. 5s. per cent, paid on original stock. £10 preference shares converted into stock, the arrears of interest being capitalised.

24. Mr. Thomas Collinsou elected assistant overseer of Bright- side, vice Mr. Frank Wever.

24. Wilfred Deakin, aged 3, murdered by his uncle, James Hill. Prisoner acquitted at the assizes on the ground of insanity.

25. Sheffield Banking Company dividend of £12. 15s. per share — £75 paid up.

25. Decease of Mr. James Hall, aged 48, of the firm of Eyre, Ward, and Co.

26. Free pardon granted to Mr. John Jackson, of Doncaster, pawnbroker, Cconvicted at SheflSeld sessions, Dec. 6,) ou the ground that the prisoner had not sufiScient time and opportunity to pre- pare his defence.

26. Violent competition of the London and North Western, Manchester, ShefiBeld, and Lincolnshire, and the Midland rail- ways, with the Great Northern, for the through traffic to London, commenced. After several weeks the usual fares were resumed, the terms of arrangement being referred to Mr. Gladstone, M.P.

29. Soiree of the Congregation of the Unitarian Chapel to wel- come the Rev. Brooke Herford, their new minister, as successor to the Rev. T. Hincks.

30. Mr. John Hall elected house surgeon of the Infirmary, vice Mr. Tinsley, resigned.

31. Decease, aged 91, of Mr. Edward Lucas, of Dronfield.

FEBRUARY. 1. Free Public Library opened.

3. Decease of Mr. George Watson, Norfolk row, aged 80.

4. The Sheffield clergy petition parliament against the opening of the Crystal Palace, the British Museum, the National Gallery, &c., on the Sunday.

5. Opening of the Temperance Hall, Townhead street.

6. Pews in the Parish Church — Broomhead v. Oakes, the Judge of the County Court decided that no person could have such a title in a pew as would give him the right to let it and sue for the rent.

6. TheRt. Hon. M. Talbot Baines, M.P. for Leeds, having ac- cepted the Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster, with a seat in the Cabinet, was re-elected.

7. Rotherham new Water Works tested with satisfactory results.

7. Meeting at Doncaster of West Riding Magistrates, to express confidence in Mr. Wilson Overend, as Chairman of Quarter Ses- sions, and to request his continuance in the chair. The occasion was the pardon of Mr. John Jackson.

8. Thomas Needham committed to Derby on charge of attempt- itig to blow up the manufactory of Messrs. Ward and Canjm, Dronfield, on tlie 3rd January. Found guilty at Spring assizes — four years' penal servitude.

8. Decease, aged 51, of Mr. Geo. Henry Ilobson, of Butterley, Hobson, and Co.

b. Decease of Sir H. Hunloke, Bt., of Wingerworih Hall, aged 43

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8. Oxspring mill, near Penistone, destroyed by fire.

9. Announcement of Bessemer's patent for making malleable iron without puddling, which some months later caused great tem- porary excitement in the iron trade.

13. Town Council — Free Library — defect of sanatory powers — cost and approaches of Neepsend bridge — quality of gas — stipen- diary magistrate — Ecclesiastical Courts — peace negotiations — cosf of the war — government police bill — Liverpool town dues.

16. Suicide of John Sadleir, M.P. for Sligo, after committing frauds and forgeries lo a great amount.

17. The Rev. J. Moon Charlton, M.A., of Totteridge, assumes the pastorate of Masbro' chapel, vice the Rev. A. Raleigh.

18. Decease, at Arundel Castle, of Henry Charles, Duke of Nor- folk, aged 65 years.

25 and 26. Discussions of the Rev. J. Carveth with the Wesleyan. Reformers on the subject of their proposed amalgamation with the Wesleyan Association.

28. H. M. Greaves, Esq., elected a church burgess, vice Mr. John Porter, resigned.

MARCH.

1. Henry Eastwood committed to York for the manslaughter of Thomas Wood, at Hoyland. Acquitted. .

3. Lord Palmerston announces that preliminaries of peace have been agreed to at Paris.

3. Ratepayers of Ecclesall vestry meeting sanction the erection of offices for meetings and parish business.

3. Mr. Wilson Overend, Chairman of the Quarter Sessions, ad- dresses the Grand Jury in reference to the numerous and dar- ing robberies in the neighbourhood, and the need of an improved protective force.

5. Sheffield Union : authority to erect a new Workhouse re- ceived from the Poor Law Board, with diret^ions to select a site. The guardians resolved to do so, though it was complained that this was a violation of the pledge, made in November, to take no further steps for twelve months. The question whether Hands- worth was entitled to one or two guardians, settled by odrer of the Poor Law Board that there should be only one.

5. Canklow Mill burnt.

5. Sheffield and Hallamshire Bank make an allotment of new shares to increase the capital by £31,337, in consequence of the augmenting trade of the town.

5. The giiHrdians of Ecclesall elect their medical officers for life under the ord^r of the Poor Law Board, at the same time protest- ing against the order. On the ]2th inst., the Sheffield guardians took a similar course.

8. Lord Edward Howard, M.P., suceeedfng to the Glossop estate under the will of the late Duke of Norfolk, appoints Mr. Michael J. Ellisou bis agent.

10. York assizes: Wm. Bonson, John Row, and George Taylor, of Barnsley, convicted of burglary at the Rev. T. W. Simpson's, at Thurnscoe. Bon<!()n, 8 years ; Taylor and Row, 4 years, penal servitude. At the Summer assizes, Chas. Dunk for the same, 4 yrs.

10. Decease of D'Ewes Coke, Esq., of Totley, aged 82.

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12. Town Council : Police bill — salary of detectives — causes of crime — the Neepsend bridge — the free library — Mr. Cropper ap- pointed inspector of gas metres — addresses of condolence to the Dnke and Duchess Dowager of Norfolk.

14:. Joseph Parker, clerk to Mr. Jas. Wilkinson, of Sheffield, convicted at York of embezzlement; 18 months' imprisonment. > 15. Violent burglary at Mr. F. Birtles', Haudswortb. Edward Watson and M. A. Johnson convicted at York Summer assizes: 8 , years' penal servitude.

■■' 16. Birth of a sou and heir of Louis Napoleon. ,. 17. Meeting to oppose the building of a new workhouse.

19. Meeting of Rotherham ratepayers to receive a report of the committee of investigation as to the affairs of the Local Board of Health. The meeting was long and recriminatory, and the report was not adopted.

19. Warehouse of Messrs. Ward and Payne, West street, to a great extent destroyed by fire.

19. Meetings in wards to promote the election of guardians op- posed to the new workhouse.

19. Deceas?, aged ii, of Mr. Henry Grayson, (Slack, Sellars, and Grayson.)

22. Eotherham Board of Health election: For Botherham town- ship—Mr. Bentley, 371; J. Bennett (plumber,) 295; A. Hirst, 282; G.Haywood, 169. For Kimberworth township — W. Moor- house, 244.; T. Jarvis, 227.

22. Population table for 1852-5: The marked feature in these returns is the rapid increase of population from 1851 to 1855. In the ten previous years, the increase was 24,416. In the last four years and a half, the increase was 26.620. From 1841 to 1851, the houses increased by 1480. From July, 1851, to Dec, 1855, they increased 7381. Population, 1855— 161,927 ; houses, 35,029.

25. First stone laid of the Roman Cfltholic church of St. Vin- cent of Paul, in White croft. Opened Dec. 14ih.

25. Addresses of condolence from the Town Council and the Cutlers' Company presented to the Duke of Norfolk, at his resi- dence in Carlton terrace, London.

26. Sheffield guardians resolve to purchase land at Damall for the erection of a new Workhouse.

29. Sheffield Union: In-paupers, 623 against 672 last year. Out poor, 4982, £427, against 4357, £355 At farm, 3 against 81. Ecclesall Union: In-poor, 272 against 276; out poor, £95 against £90.

30. Treaty of peace signed at Paris. News received at Sheffield en the 3l3t with demoustrotions of joy. Funds in London rose i per cent.

31. Fall of rain In March -92.

APRIL. 1. Purchase of land for new workhouse approved by the Poor Law Board.

1. Stocksbridge Works, Deepcar, destroyed by fire.

2. Extensive fire in Wharncliffe Wood accidentally caused, there having been a long dry season.

2. Rotherham Board of Health ; Dissension between the new

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and old members — water supply, &c. Mr. Barras, clerk, resigns, but on the Srd whs re elected.

3. DeccHse of Mr. John Woodcroft, late of Bennet Grange.

3. Aver»ge price of wheat, 69s. lOd.

7. John Jefl'coek, Esq., of Cowley Manor, qualified as magis- trate at Ponl^fract sessions.

9. Town Council : Committee proceedings — postal communica- tion with Manchester — parliamentary reform.

10. United Gns CompHny; 9^ per cent, paid on the old com- pany's shiires ; 7 410ths per cent, on the Consumers' Company's shares. The latter afterwards raised to 8 per cent, by decision of the Vioe-Chancellor.

10. Conviction of Joseph Crossby, miller, Rotherham, for the adulteration of flour, confirmed on appeal at Pontefract sessions.

11. Sheffield Unions Opponents of the new Workhouse elected guardians by immense majorities. Sheffield — T. E. Mycock, 8308 ; Wm. Harvey, 8188; P. Ashberrv, 8149 ; Henry Crawshaw, 8144; A. Booth, 7943 ; Joel Kirby, 7652 ; James Meiling, 7635; Thos. Peel, 7756. The votes for the others were from 1772 to 1219. Brightside: James Jowitt, 1458 ; Wm. Lodge, 1418. Attercliflfe : George Holmes, 325. Handsworth : Mr. S. Mitchell, vice Mr. John Rhodes.

11. Decease, aged 40, of Mr. John Rodgers, of the firm of Joseph Rodgers and Sons.

14. Meeting of the Waterworks' Company — dividend 7 per cent.

14. Final meeting of the out-going guardians send to the Poor Law Board their formal consent to the order for the erection of a new workhouse on the site purchased by them. The new board met on Wednesday, and refused to confirm the minutes of the late board, or to instruct the solicitors as to the conveyance.

15. Violent burglary at Mr. Samuel Hodgkinson's, Beighton Fields. Thomas Jarvis tried for the offence, and acquitted.

16 Decease, suddenly, of Mr. Thomas Porter, grocer, aged 68.

16. John Smith and H. Holmes Vaughan, fork grinders, com- mitted to York on charge o"f rattening. Guiliy: one year.

23. Decease, aged 78, of Dowager Lady Wharncliffe, relict of James, first Lord Wharncliffe.

23. Queen reviews the fleet off Portsmouth.

23. The matter of the new workhouse referred by the Sheffield guardians to a cominitiee.

27. Decease of Mr. Wm. Younge, aged 79, of the late firm of Rimington and Younges, bankers.

29. Presentation of new colours to the 98ih Regiment at Shef- field Barracks by General Sir Harry Smith, G C.B.

30. Decease of Mr. J. Barker, Thatched House Tavern, aged 38.

MAY.

2. Opening of the new Ragged School — annual meeting. The Earl of Shaftesbury in the chair.

3. Fifth dividend of Is. under Parker, Shore, and Co.'s bank- ruptcy, making lis. in the pound paid.

8. Decease of Mr. John S. Nanson (Nanson and Co., brewers.^ 6, Election of Mr. Alderman Dnnn aa a town trustee ia the

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1856. place of Mr. Thomas Birks, resigned. Mr. Aid. TurtoD also no- minated, but withdrawn.

6. Peace proclaimed in the borough — a small procession.

6. Pin and wire manufactory of Mr. Tobias Child, of Hather- Ba^e, destroyed by an incendiary fire.

7. Public meeting at Rotberbam, to memorialise the magis- trates for an enquiry respecting the conviction of Mr. Crossby.

10. Town Trust accounts published — receipts, j£2366. Paid for atlditions to permanent estate, ^385 ; to public improvements, &e., £779.

14. Town Council — address to the Queen on the peace — Mr. Thomas Gates elected alderman, vice Mr. Richard Solly — discus- sion on peace rejoicings.

17. Decease of Mr. James Hodgson, of Rotberbam, aged 53.

21. Mr. John Brown, Atlas Works, elected town councillor for St. Peter's Ward, vice Aid. Gates.

27. After twelve days' trial in London, Wm. Palmer, of Rugeley, found guilty of poisoning John Parsons Cook with strychnine. Palmer was suspected of having also poisoned his wife, brother, and other persons. Executed at StaflFord, June 14.

28. First stone of new Church laid at Belfield.

29. Procession, illumination, and general feasting and rejoio- ing, to celebrate tlie return of peace. For several weeks before and after, similar rejoicings took place in the various towns and vil- lages of the neighbourhood.

29. Gold chain and badge of oflSce, purchased by subscription, presented to the Mayor of Sheffield. JUNE.

4. Meeting to promote a subscription in aid of the fund for a testimonial to Miss Florence Nightingale.

6. Dr. Sandwith, medical officer to Gen. Williams, lectures be- fore the Literary and Philosophical Society, on the fall of Kars.

6. Decease, aged 49, of Mr. John Simpson, Heeley.

11. Town Council — borough rate— free library — baths — ve- nile reformatories — the Mayor's chain.

14.'Garotte robbery of Mr. Horatio Greaves, near Upperthorpe.

21. Misses Elizabeth and Ann Shearwood, having been con- fined 14 years in the Queen's Bench prison, for contempt of Court of Chancery, released and returned to Sheffield.

23. Rothcrham Board of Health— special meeting — legal pro- ceedings by creditors, and recriminatory discussion. Many meet- ings of similar character at this pericd.

27. Meeting of Rotherham Board of Health, with deputation of steam engine proprietors, resolved to withdraw the summonses for rionconaumptiou of smoke, in the hope that a satisfactory plan might be adopted.

27. Church rate of 3d. in the pound granted at Rotherham,

27. Consols 95; Midlands, 82.i ; London and North Western, 104J i Slieffield Banking Company, 150 7; Sluffield and Rother- liam Bank, 13g, |; Sheffield and Hallamshire, 3GJ, 37i : Sbe^ field' Unibn, 20, 21;' United Gas A., 38J, 39^; Waterwo^'ks, 12aa31. ■ • JULY.

4. The Duke and Duchess* of Norfolk, with the Earl of Arundel

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1856. and Surrey, arrive on a visit to their Sheffield estate, and were the guests of M. Ellison, Esq., till the 21st.

7. J. B. Greenwood, Esq., of Dewsbury, lectures at the Council Hall, on Juvenile Reformatories.

9. Dr. S. 0. Habershon elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.

9. Poor-Law Board write to enquire what steps the Sheffield guardians were taking as to the conveyance of the land purchased by the late board for a new workhouse. Resolved that as the committee, appointed on the 23rd of April, had not reported, the board was not prepared to take any steps. On the I6tb, the Poor- Law Board urged the guardians to call on the committee to report. The letter referred to the committee.

9. Town Council — police arrangements — use of the free library.

14. Commencement of extensive alterations in the interior of the Parish Church.

15. Decease, at Mexbro', of Mr. Saml. Barker, aged 53.

16. Union Bank — div. 10 per cent.

18. Sheffield and Hall. Bank — dividend and bonus, 10 per cent.

19. After four days' trial, Wm. Dove found guilty at York, of poisoning his wife with strychnine. Executed August 9, having made a full confe.ssion.

19. Sheffield Union — In poor, 554, against 558; farm, 16, egaiust 74 ; out-poor, 4976, £397, against 4790, £374. Ecclesall — In-poor, 229, against 281 ; out-payments, £82, against £85.

22. Destructive fire on the premises of Mr. Cooper, druggist, Scotland street.

23. Noncommissioned officers of the 98th Regiment gave a dinner to those of the 4th Dragoon Guards on taking up their head-quarters in Sheffield, on their return from the Crimea.

20. Sheffield Union — Accounts for year ending 31st March. Inpaupers, -1413 ; increase, 643 in former year ; out-poor, 16,760, increase, 4157. Rates raised — Sheffield, £29,217; Brightside, £2486; Attercliffe, £1222; Handswortb, £1399.

28. Officers of the 4th Dragoon Guards returned from the Crimea entertained at a banquet at the Cutlers' Hall — present, the Earl of Cardigan, Lord WharnclifFe, Colonel Hodge, Lieut. Massey, &c. The men of the regiment feted at the Botanical Gardens on the 30ft\.

30. Meeting to oppose the policy of the Highway Board in pro- hibiting open channels across the footpaths. AUGUST.

1. Magistrates' meeting, at Wakefield, to take steps to carry out the new county police act.

2. Benj. Bnylis, late surveyor of the Corporation of Chester, and since of Rotherham, convicted, at Chester assizes, of embez- zlement. Twelve months' imprisonment.

2. Nearly two inches of rain fell within a few hours, causing very extensive and disastrous floods. At Middlewood, the water was 18 or 20 inches higher than in the great flood of 183-i.'

4. The Mayor, (Mr. W. Fawcett,) Mr. John Beckett, Mr. Aid. Atkinson,..and Mr. G. Hirst, elected Improvement Commissioners'.

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5. 6, »nd 7. Yorkshire Agricultural and Horticultural Shews held at Rotberham.

6. Improvement Commissioners negative a proposal to prohibit cabs occupying tbe stands on Sundays.

7. Thunderstorm of extraordinary violence and duration.

7. Mr. Matthew Osborne and Mr. Thos. Linley elected inmates of the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum.

8. Annual election of officers of Cutlers' Company; Mr. George Wostenholm, Esq., Master Cutler elect.

8. Gold medal awarded to Sheffield, at the Paris Exhibition of 1855, and presented to the Mayor by the Emperor, deposited with the Cullers' Company. A yacsimi/e of it placed iu the Sheffield court, at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham.

13. Town Council. — Proceedings of the Watch Committee — the highway board and the street channels — report on juvenile reforma- tories— committee on street improvements.

22. Decease of Mr. Henry Cocker, Hathersage, aged 70.

23. Rotherham Board of Health memorialise the West-Riding Magistrates not to supersede the present police force of the town.

25. Thos. Oscroft and Thos. Duty committed to York, for eb- bing the Gas Company's office. Convicted at the winter assizes. Duty four years penal servitude; Oscroft, twelve months' imprison- ment and hard labour.

30. Right of the Vicar of Sheffield to marry at the Parish urch persons resident in the other parochial districts, disputed. The Vicar acquiesces in the opinion of counsel, that persons ought to be married in the districts to which they belong. SEPTEMBER.

1. Committee appointed to take the preliminary steps for the formation of a reformatory, for the young criminals of this neigh- bourhood.

1. Termination of a strike of the miners of tbe Oaks Colliery, near Barnsley, which had lasted for three months, work being re- sumed under themanager to whom the men had objected.

2. Decease of Mr. Alexander Grant, of Masbro', aged 58.

3. The sum of 1100 guineas presented to J. A. Roebuck, Esq., M.P., "in recognition of his great national services, and in com- memoration of his worth as a liberal, patriotic, and distinguished statesman." Mr. Roebuck was also requested^ to sit for his por- trait, by Mr. Richard Smith.

3. Mr. Charles Rawson elected surveyor of the Rotherham Board of Health.

4. Cutlers' Feast. — Principal guests, the Duke of Newcastle, Lord G. Manners, M.P., Lord Denman, E. B. Denison, Esq., M.P., J. A. Roebuck, Esq., M.P., R. M. Milnes, Esq., M.P., B. Oliveira, Esq., M.P., Hon. G. M. Dallas, American minister; Baron Gudiu, of the French navy; the Hon. Jas. S. Wortley, &c.

5. Decease of Mr. Joshua Habersfaon, (Appleyard and Haber- shon, grocers,^ O.d HaymarkeU

8. A number of knives mauufactnred for Mr. Thos. Yoodan, presented to the men of tbe itb Dragoon Guards, at tbe Newball Oardens.

10. Towa Council.-' Photographs of the Paris Exhibitioa

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1856. handed over to the Free Library — Aid. Carr'stnotioQ for street im- provements lost by 2G 10 3 — smoke consumption.

11. Average price of wheat, 73s. 2d.

12. Kesolution. of the WestKiding Magistrates to provide a police for the Riding of 460 men.

15. A band provided by tlie Duke of Norfolk to play in the Norfolk park, gave their last performance for the season.

15. Soiree to celebrate the jubilee of Queen st. Sunday Schools.

17. Mr. Farnall, poor-law inspector, represents to the SheflSeld guardians that the pauperism here was greater and increasing more rapidly than in other places, the per centage of pauperism being 5 per cent., while in the rest of his district it vras only 3 per cent, of the population.

20. Call of 1 2s. 4d. per share made on the holders of the shares of the Gas Consumers' Company, to meet the deficiency of assets.

25. Average price of wheat, 64s. 5d.

25. Opening of new Congregational Church, Barnsley.

30. Fall of rain during the raontli, 3.71. OCTOBER.

1. Annual meeting of the iDfirinary — medical officers present a recommendation for the establishment of a Lock Hospital.

I. Revision of burgess roll— St. Peter's, 2252; St. Philip's, 1935; Park, 2199; St. Geprge's, 2274; Ecclesall, 4017; Bright- side, 1727; Upper Hallam, 229; Nether Hallam, 1843 ; Attercliflfe, 585 ; total, 17,061.

3. Edw. Smith, Esq., reads before the Literary and Philosophi- cal Society a paper on Bessemer's process to make malleable irMi without puddling, his judgment being unfavourable to the plan.

6. Decease, aged 82, of Mr. Joseph Carr, formerly Carr and Smith, drapers. Market street.

7. 8, and 10. Bazaar on bthalf of the building fund of the Shef- field School of Art realised near £2000.

8. Town Council — bridge rate — collector's salary — Free Library and the Paris photographs.

10. Presentation to the Rev. T. Sale, M.A., Vicar, of a request that he would take the necessary steps to obtain the degree of Doctor in Divinity of the University of Oxford, accompanied by a sum of £116, raised by subscription, to defray the necessary fees. In the course of a few weeks, the Vicar became Dr. Sale.

II. Accounts of the borough treasurer published — receipts from borough and watch rates, &c., £8266 ; cost of police force, £7630, less £2189 received for constables' allowances, police fines, &c.

15. Town Trust— Aid. F. Hoole elected, vice Mr. Thos. Porter, deceased. Aid. Hoole, 196 votes; Aid. Turlon, 159.

15. Decease, aged 86, of Mr. John Lockwood, late of Lockwood Brothers.

15. Fittings and apparatus of the Gymnasium, Glossop road. Bold by auction.

16. Gas Company pay 9 per cent per annum on old shares and 8 per cent, on new.

16. Mr. John Whitaker, of Thrybergh, near Rotherham, robbed of about £200, and so beaten that he died on the 18th. Large le- jfTjird offered in vain.

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1856. 17. Doucaster Sessions — Mr. Warhnrst, of Newhnll Hotel, ap- peals against the refusal of a license at the Sheffield Brewster Sessions. The Magistrates equally divided, and no decision given.

17. Great depression in the money market, owing to speculative operations on the continent. Consols, 91J, | ; Midlands, 75; London and North Westerns, 100.

18. Trial at Doncaster Sessions of an indictment against Mr. J. Bellamy Jepson, for stopping up Pear street. An arrangement made with the highway board.

21. Decease, at Conisbro', of Mr. Joshua Wigfull, aged 78, for- merly of the Pond Corn Mills.

24. Public meeting to revive the proposal of erecting a monu- ment to the memory of the late James Montgomery.

28. Daniel Hutton and John Littlewood committed to Derby, charged with burglary in the house of James Oates ; convicted at the Winter Assize— Hutton 20 years' transportation, Littlewood 4 years' penal servitude.

29. Town Council — common lodging houses — smoke bye- laws, &c.

29. Decease of John Lnroley Savile, eighth Earl of Scarbro' ; born 1788, succeeded to the title in 18-35. Title descends to Richard George Luraley, Esq., of Tickhill Castle.

30. Decease of Mr. Charles Hinde, Steel bank, aged 56.

30. Average price of wheat, 60s. 4d.

31. Fall of ruin in Ootober, 2-53. The wetness of the weather from Sept. 22 to Oct. 15, caused great part of the late corn to be spoiled.

31. Decease of Rev. H. Parish, M.A., incumbent of Ecclesall, and formerly of St. Mary's.

NOVEMBER.

1. Municipal elections — St. Peter's — John Brown re-elected ; R. Elliott, vice W. L. Humfrey. St. Philip's— G. A. Wood, George Trickett. St. George's — W. Crowther, A Beckett, vice W. Lawton, W. Moulson. Brightside — R. Jackson, vice C. Alcock. Nether Hallam — John Crowley re-elected. Aitercliffe — Geo. Beardshaw, ince G.Hill. Pflrk— J. Hall, jiin., 1041; B.J. Eyre, 1023 ; F. Hoyland, 415; G. L. Saunders, 323 ; S Jessop, J. Crossland re- tiring. Upppr Hiillam — Henry I. Dixon, 104 ; John Dswsnap, 18; W. Booth retiring. Ecclesall— A. Booth, 048; W. Collier, 640; vice H. Vickers, 536 ; M. Beal, 509.

1. Pecf'ase of Mr. David Wright, formerly optician, Campo lane.

1. Decease of Mr. Jaines Taylor, of Barker pool, aged 57

7. Wm. Reaney, of Bradway, and James Reddish, committed for the manslaughter of Wm. Reaney, of Abbey lane, on the 11th of Oct. Convicted at Winter Assizes, but sentence deferred, pending decision of a reserved point.

9. Town Council— Aid. J. W. Pye Smith elected Mayor by 30 votes, against Aid. H. K. Hoole 12. Aldermen — Messrs. Fawcett, (32 votes.) Mycock, (32.) Matthews, (27.) Turton, (23,) H. E. Hoole, (19.) reelected; E. Unwin, (20,) J. G. Robson, (20,) elected vice E. Vickers and J. W. Pye Smith — Mayor's banner — election of comniittces.

12. Mr. George Hadfield, M.P., addresses his onstituents; Mr.

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1856. Roebuck, M.P., attends tbe meetiug. Each receives a vote of confidence.

13. First annual soiree of Young Men's Christian Association.

13. Rate of discount raised from 6 and 7 per cent, to a uniform rate of 7.

14. Col. Cobbe appointed head of tbe npw West Riding police. 17. Mr. W. E. Laycock elected for Upper Hallam, vice Aid.

Unwin. Mr. M. Bea), by 606, against Mr. W. L. Humfrey, 241, for St Philip's, vice Aid. Robson.

17. Vestry meeting refuse to sanction tbe closing of Pear street, unless Mr. J. B. Jepsun should pay i£150 and all expenses.

19. Rotherham Board of Health — pressure of creditors — increas- ing difficulties.

20. Decease, aged 54, of Mr. Samuel Wells (S. Wells and Son,) Trafalgar Works.

DECEMBER. 1. Decease, in London, aged 69, of Mr. Nathaniel Greaves, for- merly of Sheffield,

1, Election of Physician to the Infirmary, vice Dr. Branson, re- signed. Dr. Elam, 319; Dr. Law, 230; Dr. Shearman, 112.

2. Sheffield sessions — Chairman complains of tbe ticket-ofleave system.

2. Opening of the Sheffield Exchange and News Room.

3. Wm. Maw found guilty, at Sheffield sessions, of stealing ^£90 from the Rodney Inn, Loxiey. 18 months' imprisonment.

3. Destructive fire at Messrs, Laycock's hair-seating manufac- tory, Portobello place.

4. Murder of Mr. Luke White and his wife, at Bolton-on- Dearne. A large reward oflFered for the detection of tbe murderer,

4. Farewell dinner to Sergeant Ashmore, of the Sheffield Squad- ron of First West York Yeomanry. 4. Price of wheat, 61s. lid.

4. Rate of discount reduced to 6^ per cent. ; and on the 18tb to 6 per cent.

5. Decease, aged 70, of Mr. Richard Booker, Garfield, Norton.

8. Col. Cobbe attends at Sheffield and Rotherham to confer with the Magistrates as to the new police arrangements. The people of Rotherham afterwards memorialise the Msgistrates, representing the impolicy of superseding all their old officers.

9. Burglary, with great violence, by a number of men at Mr. Wra. Bradley's, Manor Oaks. ^£250 reward offered. Six men ap- prehended, but four discharged. Daniel Dickenson and James Gleadhall examined on the 26th and 31st, and further remanded.

10. Town Council — cost of bridges and streets improvements — Watch committee and the detectives — Smoke bye-laws — Free Li- brary returns — Borough and watch rates — Memorial to tbe Queen to require the strict fulfilment by Russia of the Treaty of Peace.

10. Directors of Sheffield Banking Company resolve to add to the capital by creating 3000 new ^50 shares.

17. Rotherham Board of Health — Works, offices, &c., seized under two esecutions, at suit of the Earl of Effingham, and Mr. Simpson, contractor for pipes.

20. The Rev. £. Newman, curate of Ecclesall, presented to tb9

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1850.

incumbency by Dr. Sale. The Rev. C. Collier, M.A., appointed one of the curates of the Parish church.

19. — Mr. Farnnll, poor law inspector, announces his removal to the metropolitan district, to be succeeded at ShefBeld by Mr. Manwaring.

26. Decease of Mr. Samuel Peecb, veterinary surgeon, formerly of Sheffield, aged 74.

27. — Announcement that the works of the Rotherhnm Board of Health had been sold by the sheriff under executions for debt.

27. — J. Hannah executed at York for the murder of Jane Ban- ham, at Armley, near Leeds.

20, — Members of Wentworth Mechanics' Institute present testi- , monial to Mr. F. Moore, president, for his long and valuable ser- vices to the institution.

31. — Decease, aged .56, of Mr. Jonathan Brammall, of Wilkinson street.

31. — Watch Committee resolve to add thirty men to the police force, and increase the cost by about £1500 a year.

31. Fail of rain in 1852, 1855, and 1850, compared with average from 1836 to 1851, and the wettest and dryest years in that pe- riod : —

18.S9.

1844.

'36-'51

1852.

1855.

1856.

January ...

2.G75 .

. 2.305 .

. 3-.394 .

. 5.233

. 1 185

. . 635

February. . .

2.400 .

. 1.580 .

. 2.775 .

. 5.030

. 1.700

. . 600

March

8.240 .

. 3.725 .

. 2.923 .

. 1.110

. 2 210

.'■• .895

April .-

1.530 .

. .640 .

. 2.8.i4 .

. .270

. 1.820

.'■3.800

May

.833 .

. .505 .

. 2.810 .

. 1.885 .

. 2.310

. 3.915

June

5.225 .

. 2.415 .

. 3.519 .

. 0.235 .

. 3.160

. 2.430

July

. 0.085 .

. 3.535 .

. 4.390

. 2.275

. 4.025

. 3.210

August ...

. 6.705 .

. 3.820 .

. 3 CSl

. 2.4fi0

. 1.915

. 8. 755

September .

. 6.115 .

. 4.635 .

. 3 832 .

. 5.245

. .870

. 5.090

October . . .

. 8.420 .

. 3.480 .

. 4.236 .

. 3.725

. 6.400

. 3.276

November .

. C.200 .

. 3.185

. 8.871 .

. 8.045

. 1.045

. 2.000

December .

. 2.830 .

. .230 .

. 3.194

. 4.850

. 2 135

. 3.460

Total inches.

.49.255

.30.145

.40 980

.45.900 .

.28.773 .

.43 156

CIRCULATION OF THE INDEPENDENT.

During the last four years, the average circulation of the Indji- rsKBEKT has been as follows : —

1853 4988

1851 6193

1855 6908

1856 8510

Daring the latter part of 1866, the circulation has

AVERAGED MOBB THAN 9,000.

[Presented to the Subscribehs to the Independent.'] CONTINUATION OF THE

SHEFFIELD LOCAL KEGISTER, 1857.

JANUARY. 1. West Riding Rural Police at Rotherham ; J. Gillott, suprtdt I. Swinton and Mexbro' lighted with gas, at a cost of £4000.

1. Borough police augmented owing to numerous robberies.

2. Literary & Philosophical Society. Pt., E. F. Sanderson, Esq. 8. Sale by sherifT of property of Rotherham Board of Health.

3. Rotherham Savings' Bank— deposits, i;'13,953 ; incrs., £983. 3. ShefBeld Union — in paupers, 679 against 705 last year;

Farm, 10 Bgst4; out- relief, 4740 persons, £378 agst 4704 persons, £377. Ecclesall— inmates, 23(3 agst 302; out-poor, £77 agst £83.

3. Decease, at Philadelphia, U.S., of Mr. VVm. Hodgson, aged 80, formerly of Endeliffe Hall.

4. Decease, at Loxley of Thomas Aldam Payne, Esq., aged 69. b. John Ky. Jacques, of Wadsley Bridge, aged 3 years, mur- dered by his mother, Betsy Jacques, who committed suicide.

.5. Public meeting at Barnsley petitions against income tax.

6. Colonel Cobbe, Chief Constable of the West Riding, reports his scheme for the Rural Constabulary, which was adopted.

7. Rotherham Board of Health; the Police; Freeman's debt; Tomlinson and Harper — Guest and Chrimes ; sale of the works.

8. Average price of wheat, 58s. Id. per quarter.

9. Price of Consols, 93| ; North-Western, 106J ; Midland, 82^ ; Great Northern, 92; Manchester and Sheffield, 34i-

9. Lord Ribblesdale, of Gisburne Park, qualifies at Sheffield Sessions as a West Riding Magistrate.

11. Decease of W. Waller, Esq., Town Clerk, Chesterfield, 58.

12. Death of Armitage, cricketer, aged 32.

14. Sheffield Savings Bank: Deposits, £73,933, against £71,136 in the preceding year. Deposits in branch banks, £3452.

14. The Town Council— Mercantile law reform; the Mayor's gold chain; Ee-modelling of the Police force; Beerhouses, Bridges, and Streets; Free Library; Smoke Bye-Laws ; Finance; Gas Auditor — Mr. P. Beaumont re-appointed.

14. Public meeting in Town Hall for reduction of income tax.

15. Re-opening of the Parish Church after extensive alterations, involving a cost of £700. £200 also spent in improving the organ,

16. C. L. Coward, Esq., elected Greave of Rotherham FeofiFees. 16. Daniel Dickinson and James Gledall committed for trial,

for the Manor Oaks burglary.

19. Messrs. Brown, Haywood, and Kerr, address a statement of the position of the Rotherham Board of Health to the ratepayers.

19. Decease of the infant son and heir of Lord WharnclifFe.

21. Manchester, Sheffield, and Liacolnshire. Ooe per cent, div,

21. Rotherham Board of Health — Gas Company's mortgages; Bailiffs; Who moved the appointment of thfl Writ Committee? Had Mr. Baylis a Bonus ? New Members v. Old.

21. Decease of his Grace the Duke of Rutland, aged 78.

22. Hoole and Yeoraans v. Youdan —Action for £36 in the Bail Court. Defendant paid £15 into Court, and pleaded a set-oflf of £21. A juror withdrawn by agreement.

22. Sheffield School of Art — Annual meeting in the new School, which had been erected at a cost of £7100.

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22. Decease of Mr. Joseph Oakes, aged 60.

23. •The Rev. B. Grant, becomes minister of Lee croft Chapel.

26. Opening conversazione of the new School of Art, attended by J. A. Roebuck, Esq., MP.

28. Meeting of boot and shoe makers ; resolve to advance the price of shoes and boots from 15 to 25 per cent., in consequence of the augmented price of leather.

28. The Dispensary board approve of a project for adding wards to that institution, afterwards sanctioned by general meeting.

29. Queen v. Wake. — In the Court of Queen's Bench, a rule was granted to show cause why a quo warranto should not issue, calling upon Mr. Wm. Wake to show by what authority he held the office of Registrar of the County Court of Chesterfield. On the 14th November, the Court decided in favour of the defendant.

30. SheflSeld Banking Co. ; dividend of 12J per cent, declared. 30. Enquiry into the conduct of the Governor of Rotherham

Workhouse, for ill-treating two paupers, Elizabeth Smith and Elizabeth Roebuck. Charges were not proved.

30. Decease of John Cutis, Esq., of Chesterfield.

31. Decease of B. Birara, Esq., aged 53, manager of Earl Fitz- william's Yorkshire collieries.

FEBRUARY.

4. Sheffield and Rotherham Bank; dividend of £\ per share.

4. Rotherham Board of Health. — Deputation of ratepayers ; legal proceedings by Tomlinson & Harper; summary dismissal of the clerk (Mr. Barras,) and appointment of Mr. Wbitfield.

7. The Rev. W. S. Chapman, B A., of this town, accepts the pastorate of the Baptist Church, Araershflm, Bucks.

9. Parker, Shore, & Co.— Sixth div., of Is. ; making 12s. Cd.

10. Decease of John Porter, Esq , Spring Head House, aged 71.

11. Town Council ; the Free Library; the Smoke bye-laws; the Watch rate increased to Gd. ; the ticket oMeave system.

12. Opening of the Barnsley branch of the Manchester, Shef- field, and Lincolnshire Railway.

13. Reduction of the income tax from ICd. to 7d.

10, 18, and 20. Mr. Thackeray delivers his lectures on the four Georges, before the Literary and Philosophical Society.

18. Rotherham Board of Health — proposed public meeting ; the creditors and the clerk.

18. Decease of Miss Sarah Gales, aged 84, the last of the family with whom Mr. Montgomery lived from 1792 till his death, in 18.54.

19. Colliery explosion at Lund hill, nr. Barnsley ; 189 lives lost. 19. Dec. of Mr. W. Y. Turton, aged 32, of Thos. Turton & Sons.

21. Announcement that the Rev. J. Livesey had been succeeded in the chaplaincy of the Barracks by the Rev. J. Boudier.

22. Decease of the Earl of Harewood, aged 59, Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding, from an accident in huutiog during January.

23. Large public meeting resolves to erect a monument to the memory of those natives of Sheffield who fell in the Crimea.

25. Midland Railway : Dividend, 4^ per cent.

26. Public meeting at Rotherham calls upon the Board of Health to resign, and requires an audit of the accounts.

26. The Society of Friends in Sheffield petition Parliament " to clear the country of the guilt" of the bombardment of Canton.

27. South Yorkshire Railway : Dividend, 4 per cent.

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1857. MARCH. 2. Meeting in the Council Hall resolves to establish a Chamber of Commerce. E. Vickers, Esq , president.

2. The Hon. F. Stuart Wortley qualified, at Sheffield sessions, as a magistrate for the West Riding,

3. Defeat of the Government on the China debate by a majority of 16. 5tb, Lord Palraerston announced his appeal to the country.

4. Rotherham Board of Health— Tomlinson and Harper; au- diting accounts ; retirement of members ; reelection of chairman.

5. Subscriptions for the sufferers by the Lnnd-hill explosion. Meetings had previously been held in Barnsley and other places.

7. Mr. W. Overend issues his address to the electors.

8. Decease of Mr. John Turner, South ter., Rotherham, aged 85.

9. Meeting of Mr. Roebuck's friends in the Council Hall una- nimously resolves to support him, though regretting his vote on the China question.

10. Memorial to the Duke of Norfolk signed by many of the frequenters of the Corn Market, for the covering of that market.

11. Address presented to Lord Palmerston, expressive of confi- deuce in his government, signed by 1000 merchants, &c., at the Exchange. The Cutlers' Company also addressed him.

11. Messrs. Roebuck and HadfielJ address about 12,000 per- sons in Paradise square.

11. Town Council — Mr. Booth's motion on Canton postpone!.

11. York A.^sizos — Unwin (on behalf of the Trustees of the Theatre v. Coleman, for £115 for gas rent. Verdict for plflF., £100.

12. GreatNorthern Railway: Redpath frauds amount to£220,000. Balance of the half year, £248, P23 devoted to make up the loss.

12. Dr. Holland, inspector of the Board of Health — enquiry as to interments at St. .John's, Park. Complaint failed.

12. Messrs. Roebuck and Hadfield issue their addresses.

13. Amalgamationof committees of Messrs. Roebuck & Hadfield

13. Lord Milton appointed Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding.

14. Mr. John Bedford, Regent Works, receives the gold medal of the French National Academy of Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce, " for the excellent manufacture of his files."

14. Sheffield Union — in paupers, 020, against 000 last year; farm, 10, agt. 3 ; out-poor, 4605 persons, £3''3, agst. 5211 persons, £414.— Fcclesall: in, 244, agst. 278; out-poor, £74, agst. £83.

16. Mr. Wm. Overend addresses a large meeting in Paradise sq.

17. Public meeting " of teachers and friends of Sunday schools" resolves to erect a monument to the memory of Jas. Montgomery.

17. York Assizes — D. Dickiuoon, Wm. Gledall, and H. Marsden for the burglary at Manor Oaks, transportation for life.

18. Decease, at Wortley, of Mr. Wm. Hunt, late agent to Lord Wharncliffe. aged 49.

19. Mr. Roebuck and Mr. Hadfield commenced ward meetings. 19. Savings' Bank — Resolution to erect a new Bank in Norfolk st.

19. Average price of wheat, 55s. Od.

20. Decease of Mr. George Elam, Wesley College, aged 00.

20. Messrs. Roebuck and Hadfield address a crowded meeting in the Town Hall. Resolution in their favour carried unanimously.

20. Miss Nightingale elected a life governor of the Infirmary.

20. Price of Consols, 93^ ; North Western, 104| ; Midland, 811; Great Northern, 95.

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1857.

21. Rev. J, M. Charlton, M.A., of Masbro', accepts the theolo- gical tutorship of Western College, Plymouth.

21. Circulation of the Independent, to-day, 12,525.

21. Dissolution of Parliament. Writ received by the Mayor on on the 22ad, and proclamation made on the 23rd.

23. Decease, at Bristol, of the Rev. John James Montgomery, nephew of the late James Montgomery, Esq.

27. Decease of Mr, Thos. Turner, member of the Town Council for Nether Hallam, aged 51.

27. Borough Election — Nomination : — Mr. Roebuck, proposed by Aid. Dunn and Mr. R. Leader, Jun. ; Mr. Hadfield, proposed by Aid. H. E. Hoole and Mr. G. Wostenholm; Mr. Overend, pro- posed by Mr. W. F. Dixon and Mr. E. Vickers.

28. Polling; and 30ih, Declaration: — Number voting, 4949. Roebuck, 320Q ; Hadfield, 2871; Overend, 2059 Roebuck- plumpers, 84 ; splits with Hadfield, 2717 ; do. with Overend, 399 ; total, 3200. Hadfield— plumpers, 90; splits with Roebuck, 2717; do. with Overend, 64 ; total, 2871 , Overend— plumpers, 1596; splits with Roebuck, 399; do. with Hadfield, 64; total, 2509.

28. Rotberham Board of Health Election. — For Rotherham township— A. Hirst, 456; J.Jackson, 409; W. H. Barker, 401. For Kimberworth township — J. Warris, 536; J. Dobb, 481.

30. W. Riding Election— E.B. Denison, Esq., & Lord Godericb.

30. Election of Sheffield Highway Board.— F. Colley, G. L.

Saunders, Wm. Harvey, R. Heald, H. T. Lowe, Wro. Ibbitt, G.

Skinner, J. G. Robson,' Charles BHgshaw, G. A. Wood, H. Hills,

G. Trickett, T. N. Stocks, R. Jackson, B. Taylor, and Ed. Drabble.

APRIL.

2. Bank of England raises the rate of discount to 6 J per cent.

4. Sheffield highway accounts to 25th March, 1857 — Receipts, ^10,095-; expenditure, £9288 ; balance, £77 1.

6. N. Derbyshire— Hon. G. H. Cavendish & Mr. Thornhill elecd.

C. Dr. Holland elected for Nether Hallam vice T. Turner, dec.

6. Dinner of friends of Mr. W^. Overend, W. F. Dixon, Esq., chn.

6. Magistrates at Pontefract Sessions resolve to disallow coro- ners' fees for unnecessary inquests. Newhall license appeal — appli- cation refused on the ground that the Court had no jurisdiction.

6. Bank rate of discount raised to 7 per cent. Funds fell J.

7. The Hon. J. F. Stuart Wortley lectures before the Peoples' College, on New Zealand.

7. Accidental death, at Malta, of Lieut. Charles E. Jeffcock, of the 31 St Regiment, son of Wra. Jeffcock, Esq., High Hazles.

8. Town Council — Town Hall cells; Ecclesiastical Courts.

8. Death of Edward Pryor, policeman, from injuries received during the election. Verdict, inflammation of the brain, caused by being struck on the head with a stone, by whom thrown unknown.

9. Gas Company. 10 per cent, on old stock, and 8 on new.

14. Her Majesty's accouchement ; birth of a Princess.

15 Committee of the Sheffield guardians report that they find no necessity whatever for a new workhouse.

15. Rotherham Gas Company declare a dividend of 8 per cent.

16. Canon Sale and Canon Hey elected Proctors for the Arch- deaconry of York.

18.— Election of Guardians— <S/i^^e/(i ; T. Peel, Wm. Crow- ther, John Merrill, G. Holden, Wm. Nadin, G. Saville, Wm. Law, George Hattersley; Jtlercliffe : George Holmes; Beighlside Bier-

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]857. low • George Hirst ; Handsworlh : Samuel Mitchell. The oppo- nents of the proposal to erect a new workhouse were elected by

immense majorities Ecclesall Union.— Ecclesall Bierlow :

T. E. Barker, I. Schofiekl, George Buxton, John Brown ; Nether Hal/am : Isaac Bower, John Ronksley ; Upper Hallam : Joseph Bennett; Norton: James Bingham, Wm. Lister; Totley : J. Wheat; Beauchief : George Sampson; Bore: Rev. J. F. Aldred.

20. Annual meeting of the Water Works Company. 6 per cent.

23. Baring V. Gordon— crim. con. atEetford. Damages, ^3000.

25. Attempt to blow up the house of George Gillott, grinder, Bramber street. Geo. Royston committed for trial.

25. CrimeanMonumentCommitteeresolveto adrertise for designs.

30. New Parliament assembled.

30. Decease of H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester, aged 81. MAY.

1. Eyam Mining Co. Ore sold during the tenth year, £11,402.

1. Right Hon. J. Stuart Worlley resigns the Solicitor-General- ship, to which he was appointed in November, 1856.

2. Number of shoemakers at Rotherham -on strike, because of the employment of nou-uniorjist hands.

5, Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition opnd. by Prince Albert.

6. The Hon. N. Dow speaks in the Temp. Hall, oa the Maine law! 9. Town Trustees' accounts. Receipts, £2157. Additions to

tlie permanent estate, £366. Improvement account, £640.

12. Roih.B. of Health— Special meeting reTomlinson& Harper.

13. Opening of the Che-terfield Market Hall.

13. Town Council — th'? watch committee minutes; the Free Library, resignation of S.Bailey, Esq.; finance; projecting signs; Liverpool town dues; undedicated street nuisance; Crimeaa trophies; Jewish disabilities.

13. Dr. Shearman physician to Dispensary, vice Dr. Elam, res.

13. Two Riissinn guns presented by government to Sheffield.

18. Five medals (ihe greatest number allowed) gained by pu- pi;s of the SheffiJd School of Art at the Nittional Examination.

20. Silver snuff box and purse of sovereigns presented by the Norton Farmers' Club to Mr. George Rogers, their secretary.

20. Eotherhain Board of Health— the Yorkshire Tyre and Axle Company ; proceedings of creditors.

22. Verdict of coroner's jury in the case of the Lund-hill explo- sion, accidotl. death, after sitting 11 days & examining 60 witnesses.

24. Wreck of Lord Yarborough's yacht, off the coast of Norfolk.'

20. Robbery of nearly £300 worth of gold and silver plates from the warehouse of Messrs. Walker and H.ill.

27. Board of guardians appoint a deputation to wait upon the Poor Law Board for leave tore-sell the land purchased by late board.

29. Dec, in London, of Mr. J. Birch, artist. Late of Norton, 49.

30. Rule nisi granted at the suit of Tomlinson and Harper against the Rotheiham Board of Health, to shew cause why a mandamus should not issue to compel them to make a rate to dis- charge their claim. Rule made absolute on the I8i!i June for the full amount claimed, £1018, but suspended for a fortnight; and if at that time the plaintiff would accept £94, the amount due for costs and interest, further proceedings would be stepped.

31. Dec. of Mr. J. Sellars, coal agt. to Earl Fitzwilliam, aged 71.

JUNE. 2. Decease of Henry Broomhead, Esq., solicitor, aged 67.

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1857.

2. Several clergymen aud dissenting ministers preach in the fair. His Worship, the Mayor, (J. W. Pye Smith, Esq.,) being present.

3. Rotherham Board of Health — Re Tomlinson and Harper.

4. Opening of Rotherham new Grammar School.

10. Mrs. Boultbee, widow of the late Mr. BouUbee, surgeon, elected matron of the Infirmary, vice Mrs. Barker, resigned.

10. Mr. Ironside obtained a judgment in the County Court against several members of the Park Democratic Committee for £15. lOs. expenses incurred at the municipal election.

lit. Town Council — the Crimean trophies ; proposed alterations at the Town Hall; Neepsend briflge; extension of gas mains; finance ; of toll bars within the borough ; parliamentary reform.

12. The Archbishop of York delivers a charge at ShefiBeld.

13. Rev. J. Livesey conveys to Ecclesiastical Commissioners a' piece of land at Stacey's Spring Wood for a burial ground for St. Philip's district.

13. East and west windows of the Parish Church filled with stained glass at the expense of Dr. Sale and J. N. Mappin, Esq.

13. SheflSeld Union — in-paupers, 511 agst. 569 last year; out- por,4282 persons, £349 agst. 5081 persons, £410. Farm, 4 agst. 22. Ecclesall— in-paupers, 216 agst. 237 ; out-poor, £70 agst. £80.

16. Fire at Mr. Alhey's, cabinet mkr, Rotherham ; damage8,£200.

17. Rotherham Board of Health — Mr. Kerr's defence. 20. Average price of wheat, C3s. per quarter.

20. Post-office authorities, on request of the Chamber of Com- merce, agree to establish a day-mail between Sheffield and Loudon. 20. H. C. Sorby, Esq., elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. 20. J. Allport, Esq., gen. manager of Midland Railway, resigns.

20. Traffic arrangement between the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway and the Great Northern.

21. St. Philip's churr-hyard closed for burials. New burial ground near the club mill opened.

22. Cricket— 16 Sheffield v. 11 Nottingham. After three days' play, Nottingham won by 9 runs.

24. Centenary of Rotherham College celebrated.

27. Overland mail brings news of massacres at Meerut & Delhi.

27. Value of property in Sheffield, as shewn by the overseers' returns, in comparing tlie years 1848 and 1857: —

1848. 1857. Increase, per cent.

Sheffield £221,254 £259,598 £38,344 17

Brightside 43,040 77,397 34,367 79

Ecclesall 56,635 97,592 40,957 72

Nether Hallam.. 20,444 39,886 19,442 95

Attercliffe 10,542 19,139 1,597 81

Upper Hallam.. 7,270 2,170 1,900 26

365,185 502,782 143,597 40

29. Severe storm of thunder and lightning. JULY.

1. Rotherham Board of Health — new rate; smoke nuisance; Tomplinson and Harper's mandamus; the water supply ; York- shire Tyre and Axle Company's claim ; mortality of district.

1. Chinese implements and cutlery shown at the School of Art.

8. Town Council Meeting— Watch Committee; Bridge Com- mittee; Free Library; extension of gas mains; report of the Sheffield and Tinsley Road Trust; probates.

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1857.

8. Meetings of tbe shareholders of the Manchester, SheflSeld, and Lincolnshire Eailway and the Great Northern Railway, unani- mously adopt the arrangement entered into by the directors.

10. Last body recovered from Lund hill pit, making 182 bodies found, and leaving only seven unaccounted for.

10. Price of consols, 921; North- Western, 103^; Midland, 83f ; Great Northern, 99 ; Manchester and^SheffieJd, 43|.

14. Meeting of carpenters and joiners to obtain the same hours of labour as the other building trades.

15. Union Banking Company. Dividend, 10 per cent.

16. Prince Napoleon visited ShefBeld, and inspected the ma- nufactories of Jph. Rodgers and Son, and C. Cammell and Co.

16. Bank of England reduces the rate of discount from 6 to 5J.

17. SheflBeld & Hallamshire Banking Co. Dividend, 10 per cent.

18. Improvement Commissioners' accounts: receipts, £6631 ; ex- penditure, cleansing ±'1988 ; lighting, j£4104: ; miscellaneous,£l64.

18. Assizes: Middleton v. Wheatoroft; seduction; dam. i£120. 21. Rolls Court: Spear and Jackson v. Smith and Stray. In- junctions granted against imitations of the plaintiffs' labels.

21. Geo. Hardcastle robbed on the highway, near Wath, of ^635.

22. The family of the late Jas. Moutgomery, Esq., grant per- mission to the Sunday School Teachers' commiitee for the Mont- gomery Monument to erect it on the site of Mr. Montgomery's grave. The subscribers accept the offer on the 4th August.

22. Several beerhouse keepers fined by the magistrates. Chas. Greenwood, Split Crow, £'30; Josh. Crowder, The Crow, ^10 ; VVm. Charlton, Eagle Tavern, ^£5 ; and Edw. Bates, Three Log- gerheads, ^5.

22. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire : Explanations as to the reasons for breaking off with the London and North- Western, and agreement with the Great Northern. Dividend, 1 per cent.

22. ShefBeld Guardians : Messrs. Wilson and Younge, solici- tors, again urge the completion of tbe purchase of the land at Darnall. The board reply that they would communicate further on receiving the answer of the Poor Law Board to the deputation.

23. Savings' Bank meeting: Deposits, ^640,873 during the half-year ending May 20th ; total, jG286,9o5.

23. Death by drowning, at Llangollen, of Mr. H. T. Monk, late organist of St. Philip's church.

25. Wesleyan Conference : Ministers stationed at SheflSeld — West circuit, Revs. B. B Waddy, G. C. Harvard, G. T. Morrison, J. V. B. Shrewsbury, S. D. Waddy, and Hy. Cleverton, supernu- merary ; east circuit, Revs. Chas. Weslake, J. S. Jones, Luke Tyerman, R. Martin.

26. Attempt to blow up the sickle manufactory of Mr. Christo- her Rotherham, at Dronfield.

27. Brightside Bierlow vestry meeting voles .£150 towards widening Lady's bridge.

28. First annual show of the Sheffield South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire Poultry Association, continued for three days.

28. Decease of Hy. Broomhead, Esq., solicitor, aged 43.

29. Sheffield Guardians : Messrs. Wilson and Younge, on be- half of Mr. Brashaw, threaten proceedings if the purchase of the land is not at once completed. Eieferred to reply of last week.

29. E. W. Watkin, Esq., gen. manager of Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, and M.P. for Yarmouth, unseated on petition.

564 SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEGISTES.

1857. 31. Consols, 90i ; North Western, 103; Midland, 83^; Great Northern, 97^; Sheffield Banking Company, 169,70; Sheffield and Rotherham do., 1C|, f ; Sheffield and Hallamshire, 37f, 38j^ ; Union, 20, 21exdiv.; Gas Co., A, 434; Water Co., 120, 122. AUGUST. 1. The residence of John Eoberts, Esq., of Abbeydale, partially destroyed by fire ; damage estimated at JE1300,

I. Average price of wheat, 58s. 4d.

3. Rev. J. Caughey, the American revivalist, arrives in Sheffield.

5. Rotherham Board of Health — Appeal against a rate ; Smoke nuisance; Drainage ; Bramley Moor turnpike ; Tyre and Axle Go.

'^. The Cutlers' Company. — Master: Wm. Hutchinson; War- dens: Charles Hall and Charles Chambers.

10. The ratepayers of Ecelesall approve widening South street and Ecelesall road, at the " Horse dyke."

10. Cemetery Company's meeting — Dividend, 24:S. per share.

I I. Theatre Royal ; licensed to Messrs. Wolfenden & Melbourne.

11. Thomas Cotterill, chaser and modeller, Eyre street, and Thos. Brawn, manufacturer, of Birmingham, charged with stealing and receiving models and patterns belonging to Thos. Bradbury and Sons. Brawn discharged, and Cotterill committed for trial. Acquitted, on a technical objection, at the sessions.

12. Town Council — Probates and letters of administration Bill; increase of warrant officer's salary ; emoke ; toll bars; finance; free library ; the bridge committee and Messrs. Chambers.

12. Mr. Brashaw formally notifies to the guardians that he is prepared to complete the sale of the land at Darnall.

13. Serious floods all over the country. Accident caused by them on the Great Northern Railway, near Retford.

15. Arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk at the Farm, with' Earl of Arundel and Surrey, and three of their daughters.

19. Mr.J.H.W^aterhouse elected surgeon-accouchr. toDispensary.

19. Midland Railway — Div., £2. 2s. Cd. per cent, for half year.

19. Writ, at the suit of Mr. Brashaw, served on Sheffd. guardians.

19. Rotherham Board of Health— Mr. Whitfield v. Mr. Guest.

19. Fete at the Botanical Gardens, to welcome the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk. Among guests. Lord Geo. & Lady Manners, Lady Newport, Earl of Arundel, Sir A. J. Knight, Col. Hodge, &c.

21. Workhouse inspected by an officer from the Poor Law Board. Reported upon unfavourably.

27. Sheffield Brewster Sessions — New applications 51, of which 12 were granted. New Hall licensed.

28. South Yorkshire Railway meeting — Dividend, 2§ per cent.

29. Publication of the Election Auditor's accounts. Messrs. Roebuck & Hadfield's expenses, £1780; Mr. W. Overend's, £18-47.

29. Great Northern Ruilway — Tumultuous meeting. No div. SEPTEMBER.

1. License granted to Adel. Theatre, refused to Surrey Music Hall.

3. Sudden death of Mr. G. Crossland, late Union Clerk, aged 57.

3. Cutlers' Feast: The chief guests were — Lord Wharncliffe, Lord Goderich, M.P.,G. Hadfield, Esq , M.P., E. B. Denison.Esq., M.P., T. Haukey, Esq , M.P., &o., &c.

5. Average price of wheat, Cls. lOd.

5. Seventh Dragoon Guards reviewed at Sheffield Barracks by the Earl of Cardigan, preparatory to leaving for India.

C. Dec. of Mr. A. Smiib, librarian of the Mechanics' Library, 64.

SHEFFIELD LOCAL EEGI8TEK. 565

1857.

7. Suicide of two brothers, Wm. & H. Adams, of Devonshire st.

8. Decease of Mr. Peter Liuley, of Myrtle hill, aged 54.

!J. Special United Prayer Meeting, on account of the Indian mutiny, held under the presidency of the Mayor, in Council Hall.

0. Town Council — Juvenile Reformatoiy ; Liverpool Town Dues; Watch Committee; Quality of Gas; Free Library.

0. Decease of Mr. James Linueker, of the firm of J. and J. Linueker, Back Moor, Norton, aged 03.

1 1 and 12. Mr. W. H. Russell, Times' correspondent, delivers two lectures in the Theatre, on the Ruf sian War.

11. Special meeting of the Governors of the Dispensary, resolve to erect hospital wards in cunnexion with that charity, and ap- point a committee to take the necessary steps.

12. Mr. Newcombe, of the Great Western Railway, appointed general manager of the Midland, vice Mr. James Allport, resigned.

12. ShetBeld Union — in paupers, 566 against 519 last year ; farm, 9agst. 12; out paupers, 4080 persons, i'350, agst. 461)3 persons, £402. Eoclesall— in paupers, 243 agst. 241 ; out, £124 agst, £73.

14. Messrs. Harvey and Broadbent write to Lord Paumure offering to raise 500 volunteers for India. The offer was accepted by return of post. After some weeks, the attempt was abandoned.

15. Foundation stone of new Catholic Schools, in Suffolk road, aid by the Duchess of Norfolk.

17. Crimean Monumei-t designs — 1st prize awarded to "In Memoriam," by Mr. E. W. Wyon, of London; and the second to a Gothic design, " In Memoriam," contributed by Messrs. Weight- man, Hadfield, and Goldie. The committee adopted the latter.

18. Consols, 90; Great Northern, 95; North Western, 98; Midland, 80^; Manchester and Sheffield, 41A.

21. Special meeting of the Town Council to vote addresses to the Queen, Lord John Russell, and the Duke of Cambridge; re-

.lief of the sufferers by the Indian mutiny ; volunteer recruiting.

22. United prayer on acct. of the Indian mutinies, Rotherham.

23. Meeting of operatives to vote address to Lord J. Russell.

24. Serious and fatal accident on the Great Northern Railway ; four persons killed. Among the injured were Mr. Angus, Castle street, and Mr. and Mrs. Peace, Sheffield.

24. Lord John Russell arrived in Sheffield, accompanied by Lady John and several children; enthusiastic reception. 25. Pre - sided at the ann. meetg. of the Ragged Schools Left Sheffield, Sat.

28. Tbirty-fourth annual meeting of the Mechanics' Library.

30. Licensed Victuallers' Asylum. Income for the year, £143.

30. Pub. meeting— Subn. tor relief of sufferers by Indian mutiny.

30. Duke & Duchess of Norfolk left Sheffield for Alton Towers. OCTOBER.

2. Consols, 90|; Midland, 83^; Great Northern, 97^; North Western, 97^; Manchester and Sheffield, 41.

3. Average price of wheat, 588. 7d.

4. Decease, at Wentworfh, of the Right Hon. Earl Fitzwilliam, K.G., aged 71. His Lordship was interred at Marholra, North- amptonshire, on the 13th instant. Intended visit of the Queen to Wentworth prevented by the Earl's illness.

7. Day of Humiliation and Prayer.

8. Rotherham Board of Health — Yorkshire Tyre and Axle Co.'s claim ; Accusation against the surveyor.

8. Infirmary; proposal to increase the medical staff negatived.

d66 SHEFFIELD LOCAL BEQISTEB.

1857.

12. Rate of discount raised from 6 to 7 per cent; consols, 87f.

14. Burglary at the house of Mr. George Barnsley, Upperthorpe. Robert Baiuea and Charles Crossland tried at the Assizes; Cross- land acquitted; Baiues imprisoned one year.

16. Sudden death of Mr. John Jarkson, the Doncaster pawn broker, improperly convicied at SbeflBeld Sessions, Dec. 6, 185.5.

16. Town Council - special meeting resolves to recommend a half-holiday on the occasion of the visit of the Duke of Cambridge,

17. Close of the Art Treasures Exhibition at Manchester. 19. Rate of discount 8 per cent.; consols, 88. 19. Fall of new buildings in Furnace hill. 19. Treat to the workmen of Messrs. W. & P. E. Fisher, on the

50th anniversary of the marriage of Wm. Fisher, Esq.

19. Public meeting in the Town Hall passes resolution approv- ing of the Guardians' opposition to a new workhouse.

19. Vestry meetg. in Sheffield £300 towards widening Lady's bdg.

19. Special meeting of the Atbenseum, to consider the best wny of obtaining new premises. Resolved to form a proprietary, and that the directors get valuations, plans, and estimates, and report to an adjourned meeting. On the 3rd November, resolved to can- vass for shareholders, but the attempt postponed till revival of trade.

21. First stoue of the Crimean Monument laid by H.R H. the Duke of Cambridge. Procession through the town, addresses presented by the Corporation and the Cutlers' Company.

23. Fire at the gas works without much damage.

23. Doncaster Quarter Sessions. — Guest v. Rotherham Board of Health; appeal agst. a rate. Dismissed ou a technical objection.

23. Midland, 81J ; North-We.>;tern, 95^ ; Great Northern, dl\.

20. Newsof suspension of specie paymentsatNew York & Boston.

27. News of the fall of Delhi arrives in Sheffield.

28. The case of the Coroners v. the Finance Committee, argued at the adjourned Quarter Sessions at Waketield. Recommenda- tion of the Finance Committee approved.

28 Town Council— the Free Library; the Tiusley, Wadsley, and Langsett bars; the so-called Sheffield Foreign Affairs Com- mittee; the late Earl Fitzwilliam : address of condolence.

28. Meeting in Rotherham in aid of the Indian Relief Fund.

28. Sale by auction of portion of Mr. Aldam's stock of wines. See.

29. Town Council and Cutlers' Company present addresses of condolence to Earl Fiizwilliam.

29. Sheffield and Tinsley Road— Repairs let to Bower and Thurgoland for £800 ; Tolls let to the same parties for £1855. NOVEMBER.

2. Municipal Elections.— St. Peter's: C. E. Broadbent re- elected : T. Peel, vice F. T. Mappin. St. Philip's: G. S. Briltain reelected; C. Marshall, r/ce C. Chambers. St. George's : J. Ask- hani re-elected; W. S. Brittain, vice J. Webster. Ecclesall : H. Viokers, vice G. Wilkin ; J. Knowles reelected. Briphtside : C. Cammell, vice A. Chadburn. Nether Hallam : Dr. Holland re- elected. Attercliffe : S. S. Brittain, vice James Foster. Upper Hallam: W. E. Laycock re-elected. Park: Wna. Bradley re- elected ; T. Turner, vice John Wood.

4. Sheffield Guardians' meeting — Letter from the Poor-Law Board urging erection of a new workhouse ; Guardians referred the Board to resolution of 7th ult.

4. Rotherham Board of Health — Surveyor in hot water; Mr.

SHEFFIELB LOCAL EEQISTER. 567

1857. ■uesi's appeal; Tomlinson and Harper; state of the town; the board's pecuniary difficulties.

4. Suspension of Messrs. Naylor, Vickers, and Co. Creditors let on the 2-ith inst., when the liabilities were found to he £364/^87, and the assets, £589,934 ; leaving a surplus of i£-225,647. Arrangements for time to pay in full, with interest.

4. Decease of Mr. Geo. Parkin, aged 59, late of the firm of Padley, Parkin, and Staniforth.

5. Discount ^ per cent. Consols, 88J.

6. Burglary at the shop of Mr. Blackburn, hatter. Chapel walk. An iron safe, containing gas share certificates, money, watches, &c., carried away. John Martin committed for trial on the charge. Convicted at Sessions and sentenced to 7 years' penal servitude.

7. ShefiBeld Union — In paupers, 702, agstCll; farm, 35, agst

9. Out poor, 4288 persons, £336, agst 4478 persons, £369

Ecclesall— In paupers, 280, agst 212— Out-poor, £105, agst £88.

7. Decease of E. Sorby, Esq., Park Grange, aged 70. 7. Average price of wheat, 55s. 9d. 9. Discount, 10 per cent. Funds steady.

9. Town Council — Councillor B. Jackson elected Mayor, by 31 votes, Mr. Aid. Atkinson, 13; Smoke Bye-laws ; new workhouse.

11. Guardians refuse to receive a deputation from Tn. Council.

12. Attempt to shoot James Linley, saw grinder. Colliers' row. 12. Bank Charter Act suspended. Consols rose from 88| to 89J.

. 15. Fire at Hollingwood Colliery, Staveley; 12 men killed.

18. Rotherham Board of Health— The Yorkshire Tyre and Axle Co.; seizure of works ; surveyor ; new special district rale, &e.

18. Decease of Dr. R. G. Holland, London, formerly Sheffield.

19. Third annual soiree of Young Men's Christian Association.

20. Fall of buildings on Sheffield moor; one man injured. 20. R. N. Pljilipps, Esq., of Broom Hall, re-appointed by let- ters patent from the Queen, one of her Lieutenants of London.

20. Consols, 89|, 90; North Western, 93J, 4 ; Midland, 81^ ; Great Northern, 92, 3 ; Manchester and Sheffield, 35.

21. Suspension of Messrs. Solly Brothers, of Tipton, Stafford- shire, and Sheffield; liabilities £75,585 ; assets, £75,551. 2O3. in the pound ; payment to extend over some mouths.

21. The Lord Chancellor decides that the preference shareholders of the Great Northern should have their dividends in full.

21 . Sheffield Union— In-paupers, 813, agst 615 ; farm, 112, agst 8; out poor, agst 4969 persons, £398, agst 4522 persons, £378. Ecclesall— In paupers, £348, agst 214; out poor, £96 agst £78.

26. Robert Broadhead, overseer of Cawthorne, committed for frauds on Penistone Union. Found guilty at winter assizes and sentenced to one year's imprisonment.

27. Consols, 91, I ; Great Northern, 91 ; North Western, 9i\ Midland, 82^ ; Manchester and Sheffield, 35.

27. Decease, in London, of Mr. John Stevenson, of the firm of J. and J. Stevenson, aged 67.

28. Sheffield Union— In-paupers, 767, agst 637 ; farm, 208, agst

6; out-door, 5418 persons, £433, agst 4524 persons, £373

Ecclesall— In-paupers, 347, agst 215 ; out-poor, £109, agst £76.

DECEMBER. 2. Rthm.B. ofH. — pecuniary difficulties; election of surveyor. 4. Consols, 91i, |; Great Northern, 93, 4; Midland, 84, North Western, 94^, 5i.

5C8 SHEIFIELD LOCAL BEOISTEB.

1857.

4. Decease of Mr. F. Jloore, of Wentworth. \

5. Sheffield Union— In-paupers,81J=, agst 078; farm, 292, agst T; out poor, 6051 persons, i'iCl, against 4(J16 persons, ^£381 . . Ecolesall— In-paupers, 369, agst 205; out-poor, ^120, agst ^79.

5. Average price of wheat, 503. 9d.

6. Decease of H. Taylor Bulmer, Esq., aged 46 years.

6. Eeva. H. Batchelor, Brewin Grant, and R. C. Lumsden com- jnence Sunday afternoon lectures to the working classes.

7. Large public meeting resolves to petition parliament in favour of poor rate franchise, the ballot, &c.

7 and 10. Pupils of the School of Art examined and obtain 28 medals and 0 honourable mentions, a larger share of honour than was acquired by any other school this year.

9. Town Council — voting at municipal elections; Free Library and the Philosophical Society's Museum; Smoke bye-law; the Cduncil, guardians, and the new workhouse; rateable value of property; Currency laws; Railway Station at Neepsend.

11, Joseph Gutteridge acquitted on charge of forgery at ShefBeld.

11. Attempt to carry off safe from Roscoe pi., containing £1000.

12. Sheffield Union — lu-paupers, 823, agst 091 ; farm, 224, agst 6; out poor, 6054 persons, £480, agsi 4024 persons, £378. .. . EcclesflU — In-paupers, 302, agst 324; out-poor, £127, agst £77.

12. Value of property rateable. Watch Rate— 1856, £306,392 ; 1857, £378,806. Borough Rate— J 856, £311,037 ; 1867, £320,763.

12. Decease of Mr, Benjamin Schofield, Juu., of the firm of Peace, Schofield, and Co., Agenoria Steel Works, aged 27.

13. Opening of St. Stephen's Church, Netherihorpe District.

15. H. S. Bright cnvtd. at York, of forgery at Hull. 10 yrs. p. s.

16. Rotberham Board of Health— Pecuniary matters; The Gas Company ; Tyre and Axle Company's award, &o,

17. 18, 19. Sale of Earl Fitzwilliam's farming stock.

18. Infirmary. W. Fisber, Esq., moved a resolution that the drugs should be procured on the most favourable terms, they hav- ing been bought without regard to economy. Resolution carried.

IS. Consols, 92, 3-10; North Western, 99; Great Northern, 95§ ; Midland, 88§ ; Manchester and Sheffield, 39.

IM. Messrs. Ibbotson Brothers pay in full the creditors of Wm. and W. F. Ibbotson, who, some years ago, accepted a composition of 10s. in the pound.

19. Accounts of the Rotherbam Board of Health from March, 1850, to March, 1857— Receipts, £8053 ; expenditure, £7982.

19. Average price of wlieat, SOs. lid.

19. Traffic arrangement between Midland and Great Northern.

19. Sheffield Union — In-paupers, 801, agst 091 ; farm, 225, agst 6; out-poor, 7000 persons, £534, agst 4584 persons, £381.... Ecclesallln-paupers, 373, agst 232 ; out- poor, £130, agst £80.

24. Decease of S. Gardner, Esq., of Red hill, aged 77.

24. Rate of discount reduced to 8 per cent. Consols, 93, Great Northern, 90J, 7^ ; North Western, 9(i ; Midland, 8SJ.

26. Announcement that the publication of the Sheffield Free Press , commenced in 1851, was " suspended."

26. Death, 65, of Mr. George Dixon, late of Cowen & Dixon.

31. Fall of rain this year, 36,000. In 1839, 49,255; in 1855, 28,770. -

LEADEB, PBINTS^ lNlj£M;^n*NT OTHCE, SHEFFIELD.